"Why do I feel that you guys always like to come up with weird things? And each one is scarier than the other."
"This is not something we 'like' to do. The foundation of Rome is 'knowledge'. Rome divided itself into six areas to explore knowledge in six fields, but these are the results of knowledge - of course, knowledge also has its Price. There are only 10 million people in Rome. We have no way to build the Kingdom of Heaven within the Great Wall like Cathay. We can only find ways to control as much 'knowledge' as possible with as little manpower as possible. Such a problem has only been solved recently. It's gradually revealed. Look at that alarm clock."
She pointed at the national gift:
"It actually has very terrifying power, but it has been stored in the warehouse for more than ten years without any incident and does not need to be taken care of at all. Because the ethical locks compiled by the Muse Palace are very tight, these things Vulkan The engine is limited by its own performance. Once it starts running, it will limit itself due to overcooling. Even if it is running at low power, it will automatically stop because there is no one to wind it up. Generally, nothing will happen to him."
"What about those Dragon Tooth Soldiers from before?"
"Dragon Tooth Soldiers didn't run around before - until Thebes appeared. You can see that we were not so cautious in using the Dragon Tooth Soldiers before. Didn't we pick up Dragon Teeth when we went to Lake Nemi? Well, it doesn’t matter if you just throw it away. But since Thebes appeared, the Dragon Tooth Soldiers will find a way to go to Thebes as soon as they get out of control."
"Thebes, when did it appear?"
"I don't know either. Because we don't know where Thebes is and we don't have any reliable information, we don't know the specific point in time. We can only lock in a time period - probably no more than 50 years."
[I also really want to know where Thebes is, so I made a deal with those dragon tooth soldiers before. But they disappeared after that. The traces of Amon Zeus are really elusive. 】
"By the way, why is your population so small? That you actually rely on mitosis to grow your population?"
“What does mitosis mean?”
"If you cut it off, it's still connected. Isn't that just mitosis? The Ripper hasn't been caught yet because he didn't commit the crime."
"Well, you want to know why? I guess it's because of the spirit world. Since the Romans began to indulge in the spirit world, as they stayed at night longer and longer, the fertility rate has gradually declined. This even It has nothing to do with mysterious factors, it’s simply because there are fewer reproductive behaviors. After all, you can eat ice cream at night without getting fat, and it’s even less likely to give birth to children.”
"Is it because of this? How is it similar to what happened in the past?"
"You mean, lead candy? Indeed."
Lead sugar, the poison that marked Rome's first decline. Although the decline of Rome at that time was largely due to external factors, the widespread symptoms of lead poisoning among Romans was also an important factor.
Lead is an easily shaped and stable material. The Romans used lead in a variety of places, but there was no big problem with using lead to make water pipes. Because the Romans had no way to purify water at that time, the calcium carbonate deposited in the water pipes could be regarded as a coating.
But the Romans preferred to use the same durable lead pots to hold wine, and they even liked the lead-added flavor. Ingesting such a large amount of lead caused the Romans, especially the drunken Roman senators, to be in a superimposed state of lead poisoning and alcohol poisoning, which seriously affected their reproductive ability.
If you think about it carefully, there seems to be no difference between Rome now and Rome back then.
"Ah ha ha. Ah ha ha ha." Phaethon covered his forehead, "It seems to be the same."
"Didn't the Romans themselves find out?"
"Someone had already discovered it at that time. However, this issue is more complicated. Latin and Greek Romans had different views on this issue. In fact, many doctors in Greece have always proposed the toxic effects of lead - because This is very obvious. The Greeks also put a lot of barbarian hard labor into the lead mines every year. These hard laborers died one after another like consumables. Anyone who takes a look will know that lead must be poisonous."
"Then why didn't the Greeks warn them?"
"Because lead is one of the pillar industries in Greece, and the lead industry is also an extremely important industry in the entire empire. It is precisely because there is profit that the Greek side doesn't take it seriously. It's so similar, so similar. The Oracle, the Palace of the Muses and the Senate are all on the Greek side, and they still do exactly the same things as before. The history of the Romans is constantly repeating the tragedies of the past. I am afraid that the current decline has long been It must have been expected by knowledgeable people. But fortunately."
She breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, we learned a history lesson this time, and this time it declined in a planned and batched manner, just like trees in autumn resist the harsh winter by falling leaves. Rome should be able to deal with its own problems, It won’t cause much trouble to China.”
"Needless to say, it's no trouble. You've already paid."
According to the last deal he negotiated with Victoria, Ming would help Rome in its decline, but it was two separate deals with Pure Land.
The Romans were responsible for establishing the Pure Land and helping the people of the Ming Dynasty enter it, while the Ming Dynasty used spiritual stones to reincarnate them at the appropriate time. This was a deal between the two parties.
Another deal is that Ming helped Rome retreat, and the reward was another half of the world. Taken together, it is reasonable. Of course, neither party would want to do the deal if they could. The Romans also wanted to live well under the sun, but the Ming Dynasty had been too lazy to take care of such distant territory since ancient times, and the administrative costs were too high. It's just that the situation forces me to bear with it like this.
"Okay." Shangluo looked at his watch, "I won't interrupt your work. I'll see you when I go back to Alexandria to open the lock - Oh, by the way, I haven't asked yet, are you going?"
Shangluo still doesn't know whether Phaethon is willing to go back at this time. Because she had said before that now is not the time to go back. Her hair and her lost strength made her reluctant to face the past.
"I'd better go back. I still have something I haven't picked up."
"Oh? Do you need my help to get it?"
"It's not anything specific. The character card I played for Heroes Parade is still there. I want to switch to Sinian to play. It will take several months to process it by mail. I might as well go back and do the line work at the Alexander branch. Everything is done. Do you want to go today?"
"Tomorrow, I'll go after school at noon tomorrow."
(End of chapter)
