Chapter 3 The Mysterious Tripod (Part 2)
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Inside each dock is actually a semi-open house structure, connected in sequence. The ship is only specially used, with a numbered trough for entry and exit and personnel to board and repair. The entire channel and human-shaped passage are supported by column markings. The column has twelve Roman rulers and the lowest is seven Roman rulers, with a slope-shaped section. Each dock is assigned a special shipbuilder (director) and a large number of shipmakers. After receiving the task, the shipbuilder must go to the Fleet Foundation under Li Bida to withdraw a sum of funds for construction. At the entrance of the front door channel, a bronze monument is erected, with the names of the shipbuilders and shipmakers engraved on them in turn, and pay salaries as evidence. Of course, there are also cases of accountability.
As for the paddlers, they did not participate in the construction of ships. They lived in centralized areas on the island of Qi'o, supplying food, vegetables and entertainment activities, and had independent temple buildings. Li Bida exempted these people from taxes on the condition that they served the Cyrene's fleet.
The island of Qi'o, which is woven in the sea and smoke, is wrapped in ships carrying stone and wood. This is a huge public project. Li Bida will not hope to hire people to complete it. Therefore, except for the manpower that must be cultivated, the rest of the men in Cyrani went to build this naval fortress and renovate the city of Barka at the cost of wheat and wine. As for the fortress of Barka revival there, Li Bida intends to demolish most of the walls of the other four cities in order not to give the unscrupulous people the opportunity to revolt again.
Around the autumn, a thousand colonists from Italy arrived at the harbour on comfortable ships provided by Cyrant. At this time, the surface works of the island of Chiao had just been completed. As soon as they boarded the land, they were guided by enthusiastic locals to the city of Timgard and entered the neat houses, with the gymnasium, amphitheater, and temples all available. The Egyptian-style obelisk in the square was engraved with the name of Amborodes, the "father of the city" and when they entered the local Curia Conference through asset registration and lottery, they found that more than half of the seats were occupied by local "rich people", but the colonists did not care at all, because they had a natural advantage over these indigenous people when they returned to Roman politics in the future.
During the days when the colonists arrived, Li Bida happened to come into contact with an amazing treasure. This was found by Hebrida and his soldiers in the former site of the council lobby. It is said that this bronze tripod was built by ancient Greek heroes when they were preparing to expedition to the Black Sea. However, because they encountered the north wind when they set sail, they drifted for nine days and nine nights and actually arrived at the coast of Cyrenega, Libya (please allow Li Bida to have a look of Hyogo North). Then when they got ashore, these people were prophesied by God. As long as they owned this tripod, they could build a total of 100 Greek cities in Cyrenega. So the locals secretly hid the tripod and passed it to this day. It seemed to be a national treasure of the Cyrenega Kingdom.
But when Li Bida saw his true face, he couldn't help laughing, and then he was ecstatic. The tripod was not a single thing, but a complete set of distillation equipment. Later, Hebrida next to him shouted, "Only Judea's alchemist can control this thing in the world."
"What are the purposes of these alchemists?" Li Bida asked curiously.
"I heard that a sorcerer wrote some books, claiming that the sea water is all made of mercury, and then he could turn this mercury into gold through this tripod, even if the entire ocean could produce gold, it was also the basis for supporting the establishment of a hundred cities." Petternius said next to him.
Li Bida shook his head. It was too difficult to find the correct words of these warlocks, but the "tripod" equipment in front of him was really complete in the classical era. There were three-arm flasks, sand bath utensils, water bath utensils, and distillation heads. It was completely a type of technology tree without any correctness. So he coughed twice and said to Hebrida and Sabokemus, "Immediately renovated the former site of the council lobby to Cyrene's library. Don't care about collecting books. First, from Rhode Island, Alexander and Miley all recruited alchemists to come, and the price and salary are easy to discuss."
"Do you want to turn the sea into gold? I think the Cyrene area has only the specialty of seawater." Anthony next to him joked, and Libida smiled, of course not! After a detailed investigation, he found that the Cyrene Kingdom had a precious wealth, which was ignored by many people, that is the excellent madder. In the cognition of civilized people at that time, this madder was just a herb to treat diseases. However, when Libida passed by the Kingdom of Samones, he discovered that local women would have the honor of "hybridization" for the glory of "hybridization".
Mash this plant and apply purple-red to clothes to show off. The implication is that this is a dye that can replace the expensive Phoenician purple (produced by shellfish). In addition, silk transported from the Cyris Empire, due to the barriers to technical confidentiality, most of the time when they arrived in Rome was plain, and the ladies were still very happy to wear it. As long as they could plant this precious crop unique to Cyrene on a large scale and undertake the printing and dyeing of silk, it would be a much larger "treasure" than directly occupying several gold mines!
Then they stepped out of the former site of the synagogue. At this time, the lead-colored clouds gathered in the sky. An unknown tornado came with cold raindrops. The soldiers and residents on the street were evading in the temples or under the open arcades beside the street. Li Bida felt that his heart was beating randomly. He turned his head and saw familiar figures with a short head quickly passing through the rain curtain and standing outside twenty Roman rulers away from him, holding an exquisite box in his hand.
"Habaruka! Why are you here, your family?" Li Bida asked in surprise and uneasy.
The other party replied that the family was very good, but... he immediately took out the letter from the box, "It happened a month ago. After I got the news from Kelly, I immediately rushed here with my boat and feet."
Li Bida roughly guessed what the letter was referring to, and hurriedly spread it out in the rain. There were only a few words written by the Lord Pi, and it was a little crooked and not like the tuna before. His handwriting was so clear and neat when he was young, just like his thinking, and the content on it was easy to identify, "Carabis, Marcos's adopted son, sorry, I think I still need a child who puts a wax mask on my bed."
The recipient rolled the letter paper up uneasy and tremblingly, slowly put it back into Habaruca's box, then turned around and wiped the rain, and said to Sabo and Petternius, "I want to go back to Rome, now."
"But you are still exiled, and going back is extremely unwise." Sabo said worriedly. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!