Chapter 733 The smashed egg

In Venice, restaurants of good quality and reasonably priced are harder to find than in other parts of Italy.

The closer restaurants are to popular attractions, the more expensive they are. This is a common rule all over the world. Venetian locals basically cook and eat at home.

If you really want to go out for a meal, you will go near the Jewish Quarter or near the St. Barnabas Church in Dorsoduro. The price is usually around 20 to 30 euros. You can find it on the street after 8:30 pm.

Basically, you have to be prepared to be slaughtered when you eat.

The main island has a large flow of people and it is easier to do business. Islands like Burano, which are far away from the main island and are basically only visited by photography enthusiasts, have more expensive meals than the main island. After all, it is not easy to catch a fish.

, is there any reason to let it go?

"Give to God what is God's, and to Caesar what is Caesar's." The Republic of Venice is a city-state where art and trade are higher than faith. The wonderful thing about the Renaissance is that it looks at the world from the perspective of imperfect and impure people, rather than from the perspective of imperfect people.

Like a god, he stands on the moral high ground and looks down on the world.

Venetians usually do business, go to the theater, go to church on Sundays, and rest during rest time. They will not work hard to make money. They will use cunning wisdom to make the most money in the shortest time, and will not use small profits but quick turnover.

To attract customers, be flexible if you don’t want to be ripped off.

During the Fourth Crusade, those country bumpkin knights just didn’t know the price, so they were tricked by the Venetians who quoted a sky-high budget. In the end, they were used as gunmen to rob Constantinople because of their debts.

If they had read more books, they would have known that Roman law stipulates that when a debtor is unable to repay his debt, the creditor has the right to sell the debtor as a slave. Do Venetian merchants dare to sell the crusaders who fought for God as slaves? They also

To whom are these slaves sold?

According to the Code of Justinian, creditors are not allowed to pursue debts before the debts are due. This debt repayment time can be negotiated. The Germans are still paying war reparations from World War I and World War II.

The Count of Champagne can negotiate a time and interest rate with Dandolo. Anyway, it is the Holy See who repays the money. Because Venice lost its Eastern trade during the Crusades, it has to rely on national debt to restore the sluggish economy. There are always people in the Republic who cannot stand the temptation of high interest and choose

Those who delayed repaying the money robbed Constantinople, the bridgehead against Eastern invaders.

Otherwise, just as Severus said, directly identify the Venetian as Judas the seller, remove the saint's bones from St. Mark's Basilica, and then divide the precious trophies displayed inside, and everyone will get rich.

The Venetians are different from people in other parts of Italy. They are extremely cunning. They let the Crusaders attack Constantinople, hired pirates to deal with them, and hid behind the scenes as the mastermind.

In the Middle Ages, Venetian merchants could be said to be the most profiteers among profiteers, and even the Jews had to submit to them.

In 1308, Venice sent 6,000 mercenaries to participate in the war in Ferrara, and did not hesitate to offend the Pope. The Pope had to use the church's ultimate method-excommunication, but the Venetians still would rather go to hell than Ferrara.

Finally, the Pope called on all Europe to form a coalition and defeated the Venetian defenders by force.

In 1343, Venice hired more than 27,000 mercenaries to go to war with Hungary to compete for Hungarian cities. This was equivalent to hiring mercenaries equivalent to all its young and middle-aged men. However, not many Venetian men went to war. At that time, the Governor of Venice

Who is it? Andrea Dandolo, another profiteer from the Dandolo family.

If a person is slaughtered after eating, it proves that he is a sheep. The price of freedom is vigilance. The character of the Venetians is really bad, but Florence, which is more humane than them, is over. If it were not for Napoleon, the Republic of Venice would continue.

exist.

People in other places will sit for a while when going to bars, but Venetian people basically drink standing up, and then leave after drinking, without staying too long. As for why this is like this, the devil knows, this is their habit.

When the plague broke out, the villages that sacrificed themselves like the Hometown of Sages to prevent the entire northern England from falling into the plague were only a handful in the entire history of human civilization. We cannot use the standards of saints to demand everyone. Whenever a major disaster occurs, refugees

There will always be malignant infectious diseases that are more difficult to control than wars, earthquakes, and famines.

Soldiers holding weapons can run away if they see it from a distance. As for the invisible devil, there is no way to escape. Only when it happens on your body can you know that you have been tricked.

Torcello Island was once prosperous, and you can see many houses on the island, but now most of them are empty.

Bright colors are the iconic feature of the Venetian School, but this is not the case with the island of Torcello. If the main island is like a promiscuous woman dressed up in colorful clothes, this place is like the monotonous countryside that she was eager to leave when she was a girl.

A beloved woman can not only make men fall in love and have sex with each other, but also make knights disarm and return to their fields, turning swords into plowshares.

This place is very suitable for people who have experienced a turbulent life to find peace.

Just like the song Alessandro sang, when he saw a woman, he thought of a yard with a well, and a few children running around laughing and screaming. This island is very suitable for this style of family.

It's a pity that this island is not suitable for growing wheat, so you can't experience the feeling of wheat awns passing through your palms. However, there is a winery on the island, a Michelin restaurant, and more than a dozen households. There are no restaurants to provide food for tourists.

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They hold on to something that outsiders don't understand and don't have time to think about.

The Talmud says: Men earn money, but women have the right to spend money. Women have more opportunities to dig into their pockets than men.

It is not easy to be a housewife who is not dazzled by the luxurious and hedonistic life and keeps a clear head. You also have to distinguish right from wrong when everyone else is saying what they say.

When Justinian was about to run away, Theodora stopped him.

When Louis XVI planned to leave Paris, Mary did not stop him from staying to complete the constitutional monarchy.

Theodore of the Laskaris family, the king of the Nicene Empire and another son-in-law of Emperor Alexius III, was elected emperor by the people at Hagia Sophia when the city was destroyed, and then hurriedly traveled by sea

Withdrew from Constantinople, leaving his people to mourn under the iron heel of the Crusaders.

Others can escape, but the emperor must stay.

Being an emperor's woman does not mean that you can buy whatever you want with the money in the treasury.

Venice also has a shipyard, not a shipyard that manufactures gondolas, but an arsenal that manufactures warships. That place gave Venice its hegemony across the Mediterranean.

Dante once wrote this in his Inferno:

Just like in winter, in the Venetian arsenal, people are boiling sticky asphalt, some are building new ships, some are building oars, and the thick asphalt boils down, sticking to every part of the embankment wall.

While craftsmen in most parts of Europe were still working in small handicraft workshops, the Venice Arsenal had already gathered a workforce of more than a thousand people, realizing division of labor and cooperation, just like the arsenal industry of the Qin Dynasty.

After Venice seized a large amount of wealth from Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade, the picture of its maritime commercial empire became increasingly clear, and its arsenal began to expand in the late 13th century.

Napoleon also commandeered the Venetian navy after entering Venice.

Who dares to attack a neutral country like him?

Columbus discovered the New World in 1492. After returning from the sea, he became a hero in the eyes of the Spanish people, but he was also jealous of some people. At a banquet, he was ridiculed. Columbus asked who could stand an egg on its side, but no one could do it.

Columbus tapped one end of the egg on the table, cracking a little of the shell, and the egg stood firmly on the table.

Maybe Venice is not a leaky boat, but an egg with a slightly broken shell. Can a broken egg still hatch a chick?

"It's so boring here. Let's go clubbing at night." Monica held Pomona's arm and said, "But only young people are allowed in there."

"How old do you think I am?"

Monica looked back at Alessandro and Severus who were following them with serious expressions, "Your husband doesn't look young."

"Hahaha." Pomona smiled dryly.

"You take me to the party, and I'll take you to the party, but I heard there's a vampire in the bar."

"This is your purpose, right? Let me help you confirm whether that legend is true?"

"Is there really a devil on that Devil's Bridge?" Monica asked.

Pomona's smile disappeared.

"really have?"

"I don't know." Pomona said, "Why its contract is to carry a newly deceased child to him every seven years."

A human being can live up to about 100 years, and that girl is at least 20 years old. She will only have 10 children if she lives to be 90 years old.

"Maybe she made a deal with the devil and she got eternal life." Monica said nonsense, and then she shocked herself, "Oh, Mamma Mia, this is really terrible."

"Bah!" Pomona spat like a country woman.

Unlucky, really unlucky!
Chapter completed!