Chapter 777 The Emperor and the King

There is such a game, a group of people line up in a long line, the first person in the line sees a word, he has to use actions to express the word, but cannot say the word, and then passes it on one by one, and the last person passes it on according to the word.

Use your actions to guess the content of the note.

Nine times out of ten, the guess will be wrong, but the whole process is about having as much fun as possible. This is often a game during ice-breaking activities.

Rumors are like this. They always start to spread somewhere, and then people start spreading them according to their own understanding. By the end, the things they said have changed beyond recognition.

Emperors in the Middle Ages often renamed themselves. Charles IV, who abolished the pope's power to choose the emperor, was a German from the Holy Roman Empire, not the "Beautiful Charles" of France. He came from the Luxembourg family. He may have succeeded Mark of the Roman Empire.

Aurelius Antony, after Constantine VII of the Byzantine Empire, was the most famous scholar-emperor in Europe. This made him particularly prominent among the many German kings who were desperate for military service in the Middle Ages.

Charles the Beautiful died in 1328 and was unable to promulgate the "Golden Edict" in 1356. This stipulated that the emperor should be composed of the seven most powerful electors at the time, the holy electors: Mainz, Cologne, and Trier.

Three archbishops; secular electors: King of Bohemia, Count of Rhine-Palatinate, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg and Margrave of Brandenburg, elected in Frankfurt. The election meeting was convened and chaired by the Archbishop of Mainz

; The coronation of the emperor was held in Aachen; the king of the Roman people was the Holy Roman Emperor and no longer needed the anointing and coronation of the Roman Pope.

Sometimes when we solve a problem, more problems will arise. The more complex the problem we solve, the more difficult the problems will be.

During his reign, the German Emperor Charles IV relied on financial bribery, marriages, promises, and alliances to achieve his goals. He also launched several wars during his reign, but they were all small-scale, more like purging bandits.

This is different from France, which was caught in the Hundred Years' War.

The Black Death spread in countries along the Mediterranean Sea. People blamed the plague on the Jews who murdered Jesus, so a wave of persecution of Jews swept across Europe. About 100,000 Jews died. Charles IV turned a deaf ear to this atrocity, and instead

Many benefits were obtained from the confiscation of Jewish property.

However, the Golden Edict legally determined the separate system of the German princes and was the legal basis for the princes to implement a monarchy system. It further weakened the imperial power and intensified the political division of Germany.

On the way to Venice by train, they passed through many countries. A city can also be a country. For example, the Vatican is now smaller than Rome. However, the Pope in the Vatican has hundreds of millions of believers, which is larger than Italy.

The total population combined is large. If power comes from how many people obey their orders, then who has greater power, the Vatican or the Italian government in Rome?

Can the Pope convince the Italian government to abandon the Sant'Angelo Canal?

The Italian Port Authority is under the jurisdiction of the state, not the Venetian government. They only care about how much taxes Venice pays.

Venetians refuse tourists to enter the city because they believe that giant cruise ships will damage the island's environment and the huge displacement will impact the foundation of Venice.

The Port Authority's solution is to build a new canal, which is as "genius" as the British used water pumps to solve the flooding problem in Venice.

Now Venice's jurisdiction has been greatly reduced compared to the Republic era. It can only control the main island and hundreds of islands, and has no way to control the coast.

The silt deposited in the lagoon was not suitable for large-draft ships. In order to load cargo, or in other words, they demolished the palaces in Venice and decorated their own palaces, they dug deep canals to facilitate larger ships entering Venice. .

There used to be a large monastery on the island of Certosa, which was completely demolished by Prince Charles of Prussia and rebuilt at his summer residence in Berlin.

Belief, morality, and law had no restrictions at all in the eyes of these invaders. Driven by the former Italian sailing champion, Certosa was revitalized. As for the demolished monastery, the Venetians no longer planned to take it. They built an identical one on the original site to provide a place for sailing enthusiasts and various educational undertakings.

Those bureaucrats working in the Port Authority should have gone to college. For them, the meaning of studying is for their own promotion and accumulation of wealth. Such people are egoists.

They like to wear Italian handmade leather shoes, Swiss watches, and British suits, so they appear more refined than ordinary people, so they are refined egoists.

Professor Oparo wants to fight against the intellectual elite of these port authorities to protect the Venetian Lagoon and prevent them from passing through the Sant'Angelo Canal Project.

He must have regretted teaching them.

There is an island next to Revignore called Sant'Erasmo, which is known as the back garden of Venice. Many Venetian families park their boats on the beach here.

This was once a villa area for Venetian nobles, but now there are many farmlands. The vegetable market of Ponte Ritoire and the "Local Eat" restaurant all purchase their goods from here.

It does not mean that food that is organic is really organic. There are very few truly organic foods. It is easy to find a 35 euro bottle of extra virgin olive oil in the supermarket, but that is packaged by the olive oil processor after buying the brand. It is not a special grade, just like the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Real extra virgin olive oil is handmade and sold by the ounce. The price is astonishingly high. It can be said to be liquid gold.

Venice does not produce this, and olives are not grown. No matter how high the profit is, there is no way to produce such high-quality olives. They do not do this business. There are many orchards on Erasmus, growing grapes, peaches, tomatoes, etc.

Erasmus was not a Christian saint, he was a humanistic pioneer during the Renaissance. Engels once said that he was "the greatest and most progressive reform that mankind has ever experienced."

In his Ode to Fools he once wrote: Such people who devote themselves to the study of wisdom are always unlucky, especially in the field of having children, because God wants to ensure that the devil of wisdom is not spread throughout the world.

All mankind.

Erasmus's new translation of the New Testament not only became the theoretical cornerstone of the later religious reform, but also caused the Bible to be questioned by religious insiders for the first time. It was of revolutionary significance at the time, and Erasmus was therefore considered

Known as "the first giant of the Netherlands", "the dean of humanism", and "the monument of the European Renaissance".

He was a Dutchman, but he was canonized in Venice, and his holy behavior was different from that of St. Anthony and St. Francis. He questioned the Bible and sought wisdom and enlightenment from ancient Greek and Roman documents.

When he was seventeen years old, both of Erasmus' parents died in the Black Death. After his guardian embezzled his property, he encouraged him to enter a monastery in Stre. Twenty-one-year-old Erasmus just

When he entered school, his Latin literacy was already better than that of his teachers. One teacher even commented: "If you write in such elegant language next time, please add annotations."

Erasmus hated the life in the monastery. He believed that this isolated life restricted the development of wisdom, but he found great spiritual relief in the ancient Greek works banned by the church. He wrote: "

Although these are written by pagans to pagans, they are full of justice, holiness and truth. My heart cannot help but cry: 'Holy Socrates, pray for me!'"

During this time, Erasmus fell in love with a monk named Servatius Roger.

In monasteries, prisons, and military worlds that are purely male, this kind of homosexual phenomenon sometimes occurs, and repressed emotions need to be vented, but not everyone is good at it. Roger was indifferent to his warm call. Later, he

He went to Paris, where he met two British aristocratic children, one was Thomas Gray, who was mediocre in talent but handsome and muscular, and the other was the intelligent Sir Montejo IV. They both had a crush on Ira

Small was very enthusiastic, which even aroused the jealousy of Gray's Scottish manservant, who made things difficult for him everywhere.

What should a loyal servant do when he discovers that his master is favored by a learned teacher?

Finally, at the invitation of Sir Montejo IV, Erasmus visited England for the first time.

In 1509, Erasmus left Italy again for England. When he crossed the Alps, he came up with the idea of ​​​​composing "Ode to Fools".

Fools live in a world of self-illusion and find happiness in the compliments of those around them. Such fools exist in all walks of life, but are more prominent in art and academia, because self-righteousness gives them great psychological satisfaction.

The pope, cardinals and bishops are representatives of such fools. These people do not have strong religious beliefs and have already violated the simple principles that Jesus asked the apostles to adhere to. They are "extremely narcissistic and complacent about this kind of happiness."

.They take great pains to be meticulous in religious etiquette, "how many knots should be tied, how to tie shoelaces; what color the robe components should be, what materials should be used; what length and width should be the belt."

On Judgment Day, their defenses will certainly sound exciting: some will boast about how they cut off their desire for meat by eating only fish; others will claim that they spend their days mainly singing hymns; others will claim that they spend most of their days singing hymns;

One will boast that he has never touched a penny in decades, only while wearing thick gloves.

These clergymen will certainly not be forgiven by Jesus after they die, but they are frightening when they are alive, because they hold a lot of privacy of the parishioners in their hands, and they always reveal it to each other when they are drunk.

George Soros said that only when the tide goes out can you tell who is swimming naked, and it is also when you are in trouble that you can see the true love.

The person who can only share wealth and wealth, but not adversity, may be as brilliant as a rainbow, but when you need him or her, you will find that it is just a visible and intangible phantom.

Erasmus's book was listed as a forbidden book by the Catholic Church, burned and banned from reading. However, some people still circulated it in private, maybe it was a manuscript, maybe it was published by the underground printing press. Venice is a free city, not only

The Jews printed books here, and even these "heretics" had to print them.

As a homosexual, he criticized the church for not preaching love, but violence. “Their only weapon should be the Holy Spirit, but while they were wielding it wildly, they issued a large number of prohibitions, condemning this person and warning that person at every turn.

, and excommunicate people. In addition, like angry bulls, they wage war against those who oppose them.”

Not all seafood in Venice is wild, some are farmed, and can be found around these two islands.

Americans introduced Asian carp to the Great Lakes to pollute the water, and now they are overrun.

There are now more foreign people of color in France than natives, and the initial purpose of politicians was to address low-end labor demand.

"Invasive creatures" are not necessarily Asian carps, they may also be people. Venice is made up of immigrants who gathered to escape the war. They have experienced a lot together. Many people who could only live with rich people left and went to Milan.

These places were developed, and the Venetians left behind were loyal to the city.

Maybe without tourists, they would have to start living a self-sufficient farming life again, but they are originally a fishing village, not to mention there are so many beautiful buildings and paintings to accompany them, they do not feel that their life is very backward and primitive.

Thanks to the bridge built by Mussolini, they have fresh water from the land. They also built a large parking lot. Tourists can also drive to Venice. Why do they have to take a giant ship to destroy the already fragile lagoon?

What about the environment?

Cruise ships emit sulfuric acid, that's not vinegar, and it's no joke if someone rains it down on your head.

Now Venice has enemies everywhere, including the cruise companies that take tourists to the Venice Carnival. It's a pity that the Venetians have no sovereignty because Rome's attitude is to let Venice continue to develop tourism.

Getting them to agree to start banking in Venice is simply impossible. After all, this is the 21st century, so why do they still have 15th-century ideas?

This is a large-scale human experiment, similar to the Marina Human Experiment. Marina Abramović anesthetized herself, and the city of Venice could not speak, so people could only do whatever they wanted.

Should he stand up and make a call for justice, or should he watch her sink gradually with the heart of a bystander?

An old gay wizard once said: What determines a person's destiny is not his ability, but his choice.

Albus must have regretted teaching Voldemort, even though he didn't really teach Tom anything.

Knowledge, like capital, is neutral, but if knowledge is in the hands of the devil, it will create endless disasters.

I don’t know if those upper-class people sitting in the Golden Hall of Vienna, listening to symphonies and enjoying “civilization” know how the gorgeous ceilings above their heads came to be.

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Why is there blood dripping from it?

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be red paint, so he began to applaud the Radesky March happily again.
Chapter completed!