The current situation in Rome is indeed not very good. Although the super locust plague in Africa has been suppressed, the losses suffered during the raging locust plague are irreparable. The Roman Empire is actually short of food rations for millions of people this year.
Even though the unrest was suppressed and the situation was stabilized as much as possible with the iron fist unique to the feudal monarchy and the powerful military force, the substantive problem has not been solved. A lack of food is a lack of food. There is no ability to have five fish and two loaves.
, you will die without food!
Therefore, it is definitely not nonsense to say that the current Roman Empire has internal and external troubles, but even so, it is definitely not the reason for Cyprian to speak nonsense in the Roman Senate.
"Internal and external troubles?" Sergio, the acting patriarch of the Claudius family, glanced at Cyprian and said with a sneer, "What do you call foreign troubles? What are internal troubles?"
"Isn't Odin? Isn't he a barbarian who is short of food?" Cyprian retorted unceremoniously, "Maybe Odin really had nothing to do with the Roman Empire before, but now, the ideal land around the Mediterranean has been shattered.
Odin really wants to risk his life and rush into the essence area. Rome, which has lost the ability to efficiently regulate the essence of heaven and earth on a large scale, can still refine it in an instant?"
The nature of the Divine Guard is actually very clear to the three empires now. It is the physical essence of heaven and earth that embodies the elite talents. This thing is really fierce. It does not require eating, drinking, and diarrhea, and its combat effectiveness is reliable. If it reaches the third level,
The three major empires could not withstand the burning, killing, and looting of the elite areas of the great empires.
But its nature is destined to be instant refining when faced with some outrageous things. Even though this instant refining method requires a lot of prerequisites, construction has been carried out in the mainland of the three major empires.
Even if there is enough energy provided by an enemy like Kushan, there will be no problem in building such a thing directly in the place where Odin is raging in Northern Europe.
In fact, when the three empires joined forces to kill the locust plague in Africa, the last special methods used by Rome and the Han Dynasty were all things that could be refined into energy even with Odin in an instant.
According to the output at that time, the entire Nordic force was probably only able to resist the two bastards Sigurd and Beowulf. Anyone else who could not fully control their own power would be instantly reduced to nothingness and regarded as
Energy is charged into the circulation of the magic circle.
Therefore, the three major empires took the disaster in Northern Europe seriously in the early stage. Later, after realizing the nature of the divine guards, they actually didn't have much fear of Odin. There was nothing to be afraid of with the instant refining thing. At most, it was put into production.
It’s just a matter of competition. When necessary, just refine it directly!
But this was before the African Locust War was fought. After the African Locust War was over, most of the energy reserves of the Kushan Empire had been drained. The Roman Empire's ideal land around the Mediterranean had a lot of holes due to the extreme output. In a short period of time,
Unless there are big enemies like the Kushan Empire who are willing to invest such a large amount of energy, there is no way to activate the protection at the bottom of the Roman Empire.
In this way, the disaster in Northern Europe, which was no longer a disaster, became a disaster again. Even considering the current serious food shortage in the Roman Empire, if Odin seizes the opportunity and chooses to go south and get involved with the barbarians within the Roman Empire,
The Roman Empire was really going to suffer badly this time.
Therefore, from a purely logical point of view, Cyprian was actually not talking nonsense. He really considered the issue from the perspective of the Roman Empire. But this tone and look really made these high-level officials of the Roman Empire very unhappy.
——Damn it, a stinky beggar from out of town actually came to our Senate to cause trouble. He’s so smart!
Coupled with what Cyprian did, the top management of Rome now basically understands that the Tianzhou Kingdom's explosions cannot be easily passed by, and Cyprian is at least at the mastermind level.
However, due to the current identity of the other party, who is obviously a disgusting senator brought over by Yuan Tan, Duke of Eastern Europe, even if the senior officials of the Senate have some ideas, they cannot implement them at this time.
Therefore, facing Cyprian's words, this group of people can only listen first. After all, no matter how malicious the suggestion is, as long as the other party's brain is not defective, there will at least be an inner logic.
Although the characteristics shown by Priam are not very clear, he is indeed considering the stability of the Roman Empire. But how can you put it? How can you believe the words coming from the mouth of such a wanted criminal?
"What? Does the Roman Empire still have the ability to create food out of thin air?" Cyprian said with a somewhat teasing tone.
"That's not true." Sergio was silent for a while and said, and then while others were shocked, Sergio continued to say, "We don't think much about what you did, Cyprian.
After all, by chance, you appeared in the Senate as the Duke of a border county in Eastern Europe and became a Roman senator, so we won't get too entangled in the past."
Cyprian looked at Sergio expressionlessly, thinking that he was just farting, while Xu You looked at the people in the Senate with interest. The thing that the Roman Senate has been discussing recently is
How to stabilize the internal situation, and as the well-known "Second Five", they sit in the Senate and listen, and even speak from time to time. This feeling is not bad.
More importantly, Xu You can have a clearer view of the Roman Empire by sitting in the Roman Senate, and everything discussed here recently has given Xu You a clearer understanding of the empire that has been suppressing their Zhongguo.
You know, very strong, very strong, but not invincible.
"Yosedai, bring that information over here." Sergio greeted his nephew who was working as a record-keeper here. Again, as a handyman can get to a place like this, it's basically equivalent to these.
There is a replacement for the position. Who let Eusedai also have the surname Claudius? There is really a position here that needs to be inherited. This is no joke.
"Cyprian, you are indeed a genius, but there are only three empires in the world, and you don't understand the true meaning of this sentence." Sergio said to Cyprian calmly, and then said "Cyprian"
The information Xidai brought was handed to Cyprian.
Cyprian didn't know why, but he just glanced at the Latin text on the information, his pupils suddenly shrank, and then he quickly started reading, reading, analyzing, and mastering. Cyprian picked up the water in his hand on the spot.
I tried the wooden cup.
A special secret technique was released from Cyprian's fingertips. Under the influence of the special magic circle of the ideal land around the Mediterranean, the wooden cup was decomposed on the spot. Then Cyprian reached out and tapped the residue, and then his expression
It has become much more solemn.
"This is a high-level secret technique - the art of food creation. Under the action of a special secret technique, wood and water can be converted into edible starch." Sergio said calmly, "So, you don't need to worry about the Roman Empire.
We are short of food. We just want to see who has this idea. As for the force to counter the rebellion, I think you have absolute confidence even if you are on the opposite side of us, right?"
There is no doubt that Cyprian is confident in the force of the Roman Empire. Even the powerful force of the Tianzhou Kingdom can be destroyed. There is no need to consider the issue of strength. To put it too much, except for the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty who are currently fighting each other,
Kushan and other things are not even rivals for Rome.
At the same time, when Sergio said these words, the senators staying in certain corners of the Senate could not help but have some strange expressions.
"Is it actually a secret technique for making edible starch from wood and water?" Xu You was shocked as he watched Sergio reach out and touch the product that Cyprian used a secret technique to make from a wooden cup and water.
After tasting it, my expression became a lot weirder.
It is not completely converted into starch, there is still a lot of wood residue in it, but if you really want to say this level, it is already a level that can kill people. If it is used to deal with barbarians, it is enough anyway, even on the second hand.
In the Han Dynasty more than ten years ago, this was considered life-saving food.
"It seems that the technology is not mature yet." Cyprien said while pinching the fine powder with his fingertips.
"We can't eat enough to kill people anymore. What's more, it's a problem for non-citizens to eat some starch with wood residue?" Sergio said very plainly and directly. The class is so obvious. The Roman Empire is an empire that is responsible for Roman citizens.
, as for non-citizens, it’s good enough to eat starch with wood residue. If you don’t die, you are a victory. What else do you want?
"What's more, technology? Humph, there are only three empires in this world, who are you talking to?" Sergio looked at Cyprian with an arrogant look.
"It's really not a problem." Cyprian was silent for a while, no longer obsessed with this technique. Since Sergio can come up with this technique and let Cyprian learn and use it on the spot, it's already
This is enough to illustrate the maturity of this technology.
"Then let's move on to the next topic." Seeing that Cyprian stopped talking, Sergio looked at Pompianus and said, and Pompianus also looked at his representative with a ghostly expression.
Patriarch, do you still have such outrageous secret skills at home? Damn it, why didn’t I know about it!
The meeting of the Senate was held all morning, and it was an eye-opener for Xu You and others. When the meeting ended, this group of people, as the power of the Dukes of the Eastern European border counties, collectively booked a bathhouse to play. There was no way, it was such a custom in Rome.
, Xu You had to do as the Romans do, even if he was a little unhappy about it.
"What's going on with the grain-making technique?" After the meeting ended, the real powerful senior officials in the Roman Senate held a small meeting in another place. After all, small meetings were held to deal with major matters and they were resolved quickly.
"Yes, is there such a secret skill in the family? I have never heard of it. If there is such a secret skill, why do we give so many benefits to the Yuan family and are we looking for trouble?" Ulbian was very unhappy.
He looked at Sergio and asked, Ulbian also tasted the starch produced by the secret technique that Cyprian learned and mastered on the spot. It was just like what Sergio said, there was wood residue.
What's wrong? Just tell me if it's starch and whether it can prevent people from starving to death.
There is no doubt that Cyprian, who learned and mastered this secret technique on the spot, took the wooden cup issued by the Senate and directly made something that could be used as barbarian rations. Why did the Roman Empire need to be ceded to the Yuan family?
Benefit?
"This is too wild, directly using wood to make starch, who researched this? This is too outrageous." Herodian also looked at Sergio with a look of surprise.
"We didn't make it, we asked the Kushan Empire for it, and this thing is not as good as you think. Cyprian learned and used it on the spot. That's because in the Senate, plus Cyprian's
The qualifications are indeed extraordinary, otherwise it would be impossible to achieve." Sergio said angrily, "This is Papinyan's plan to stabilize the country."
Wood itself can be converted into starch, sucrose, and glucose under certain conditions. In fact, in reality, an enzyme in termites can do this, and the concentrated hydrochloric acid method in chemistry can also do this.
Things, and methods such as hydrolysis can also achieve this effect.
In essence, this secret technique of the Kushan Empire only speeds up the transformation process, and there are still some problems that cannot be transformed during the process.
As for the origin of this secret technique, it was actually a study carried out by some Kushan researchers who saw Dalit Dawn members chewing wood to obtain nutrients and even strengthen themselves. They felt it was very strange and specially conducted research. Although the direction of the research has appeared some
Question, but the researchers here in Kushan have indeed developed a special secret technique for converting wood into starch.
It’s just that this secret technique consumes a lot of energy and is also very difficult to master. Even if Cyprian mastered it quickly after reading it once, the problem is that at Cyprian’s level, even in the history of the world
They can all be counted.
Of course, most Roman senators don't know how outrageous Cyprian's true level is, but as the head of the Claudius family like Sergio, he must deal with the possibility of threatening the existence of the Roman Empire.
There are people conducting detection and management, so even if Sergio does not find out the true level of Cyprian, he will have a relatively accurate judgment.
The ability to determine qualifications, for the level of the empire, if you want it, you can get it on the spot as long as you are willing to invest. What's more, the Roman Empire is not a vegetarian. At most, it was not worth it before, but it is worth it this time.
Therefore, the old judge Papinian asked Sergio to borrow Cyprian's hand to perform a play for the senators in the Senate. A drama called Arrogance. The Roman Empire could get enough food and grass, but
I want to see how many people still disobey the Roman Empire's management.
After all, ever since the Duke of Eastern Europe appointed Cyprian to the Senate, Cyprian's unruly behavior made all the senators realize that this man was here to cause trouble, and the young and energetic Cyprian
It is impossible to make peace with the Claudius family, the core force of the Roman Empire, so the thing created by Cyprian will definitely not be a deliberate cooperation.
"There are some real traitors in the Senate." Sergio said slowly, "The resurgence of barbarian unrest is driven by some people in the Senate.
They have different ideas, but generally they are dissatisfied with us."
The Claudius family is so huge that its mere existence has squeezed the living space of other senators. Even if there is a shortage of food, turmoil should not start at this time, because the food last year has not been enough until now.
It's not over yet, not to mention that with the Mediterranean Sea at its back, if the Roman barbarians were out of food, they could supplement it with some fish and meat to last for a while.
Theoretically speaking, the chaos in the Roman Empire due to lack of food should only start now. In fact, the chaos in the Roman Empire began with the first round of locust plagues. You must know that during the first round of locust plagues, the Roman Empire
However, disaster relief is still being carried out to some extent.
Under such circumstances, the senior officials of the Senate actually knew whether there was any driving force behind the rapid outbreak of turmoil. However, at that time, Sergio and others did not really consider that the enemy was in the Senate.
Later, this possibility became more and more obvious, and that's why Pabinian came up with his suggestion.
"Cyprian is impossible to cooperate with us. He is eager to demolish our Rome, so it is very important for him to use this authentic secret technique to directly convert wooden cups into starch. This is the best explanation for the problem.
"Sergio said with a deep expression.
"Leave the secret skill to me and let me try it." Ulbian said to Sergio, and Sergio did not refuse. After Ulbian took it, he looked at it twice quickly, and then
After closing his eyes and thinking for a moment, he raised his hand and cast it. The wooden plate in front of him was directly transformed into starch mixed with wood residue.
"In that case, there is nothing wrong with this secret technique." Pompianus pinched some fine powder and felt it. There was fine starch and rough wood residue. "It is indeed a food-making technique."
"Nonsense, it's fake. It must be exposed. Of course it's true." Sergio sneered and said, "Actually, this grain-making technique can really convert wood into starch, but the energy consumption is very high.
Your current level is the result of trying to balance energy consumption and output as much as possible. The energy consumption may still be exaggeratedly high. Even if we were not in the center of the ideal land around the Mediterranean, this secret technique would not be able to be used.
."
"Oh, Kushan relies on supermodel Yunqi, I understand." Ulbian teased.
"In short, the secret technique is real. Those senators who have different intentions will compare it repeatedly and will definitely confirm this in the end. In this way, the problem becomes that the arrogant Claudius family wants to see how much garbage there is.
I want to go against them." Sergio said with a sneer.
"This is indeed a way to solve the problem. At least after seeing this operation, even the elders who have dissatisfaction will have to consider how to deal with this matter." Herodian nodded.
The food-making technique can't actually produce much food due to energy consumption issues, but others don't know this. The only thing they can be sure of is that the acting patriarch of the Claudius family took out this thing, which is completely impossible.
Cyprian, who made peace with the Claudius family, learned and mastered this secret technique on the spot, and then used a wooden cup to create starch.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s wood residue or not. Sergio’s words are for everyone to hear. It sounds outrageous for the arrogant Claudius family to make such a speech, but if you think about it carefully, it is really based on reality.
, but there is no problem.
"This operation can be regarded as reducing the intensity of civil unrest to a certain extent. Our food reserves are insufficient. If losses are caused by unrest again, the trouble will only be greater. So now, we should first stabilize those who have different intentions and make them think that we
This is done on purpose, even if there is food." Sergio warned these core members of the family.
"I will remember to urge you for food and grass. I will urge you when the treasury is empty." Pompianus said, and Sergio did not refute after hearing this. In fact, when the treasury was empty, Claudius
I'm afraid there won't be much food and grass left in the Us family's reserves, but the show still has to be performed.
"Give some extra money to citizens." Ulbian half-closed his eyes, like a fox.
"Deliberately creating conflicts, and also showing that we do have food and grass, is it consistent with our performance in the Senate this time?" Sergio said with some embarrassment.
Sergio was afraid that he had not grasped the degree well, causing the barbarians to become excited and the whole group exploded. Even if the Roman Eagle Banner Corps had all of them in hand, it would not be easy to suppress them.
What's more, if it really gets to that point, other senators will definitely use public opinion to let the Claudius family release grain, or else use grain making technology to create a huge amount of starch containing wood residue to maintain the stability of the Roman Empire, but these two
They are all dioramas in themselves. Once exposed, it will really explode!
"You must have a few candidates." Ulbian looked at Sergio and said, it's not like he doesn't know all the elders who have different intentions.
"It's still a bit dangerous. I can't control this level. What's happening in Central Asia tells me that all those who think they can control the hungry people have been eaten by the hungry people." Sergio was silent for a while and rejected Urbian.
The other party's proposal was very good, but the current situation of the Roman Empire dictated that stability must be demanded now, and it was impossible to take risks in this matter.
"Then let's say goodbye. Let's maintain the status quo first, and the information you should release has also been released. Generally speaking, based on the performance of the Claudius family, others can still trust it." Pompianus thought for a moment.
, I also feel that it is too risky to engage in these things at this time.
"Then let's do it." Seeing that several people present did not support it, Ulbian reluctantly gave up his radical idea, "Speaking of which, who is taking the lead in optimizing the grain creation technique on our side now?"
"It won't come out in a short time. The conclusion given by the Kushan Empire is that we are a bit behind them in terms of secret skills." Sergio sighed and said, "But now no one knows the real situation. To this extent
It’s enough.”
On the other side, Xu You and others who came back from the bathhouse immediately asked Cyprian to use the grain-making technique again after returning to the Eastern European Border Duke's office in Rome.
After repeatedly using the grain creation technique more than a dozen times to create a lot of starch rich in wood residue, Xu You asked Cyprian to stop, and then found professionals to analyze the starches using special methods. Finally, it was determined that these starches
Except that there are more impurities, it is no different from the starch obtained normally. It is just real starch.
In this way, the question turns to what Sergio said before. It doesn't matter whether it contains wood residue or not. What is important is that it is indeed starch, something that can make people full!
"The Roman Empire actually had such a method." Xu You looked at these steamed buns made with the starch produced by Cyprian. He picked up one and took a bite. It stung his mouth a bit and tasted terrible.
It still hurts my throat a bit when I swallow it, but since this is a steamed bun that can fill my stomach, it's okay.
"Now here comes a new question. The Roman Empire had this kind of method. Why did they incorporate Duke Zhong Guo into the Roman Empire and become the Duke of the border counties?" Sima Yi took a bite of this starch steamed bun rich in wood residue and asked with difficulty.
After swallowing it, he put the starchy bun aside, and then watched Xu You eat the whole bun with an expressionless face.
"This is also my doubt. The only explanation currently is that this secret technique appeared after we were roped in to farm." Xu You sighed and said, "But this is not important anymore. The important thing is that this secret technique has changed a lot of things.
The Claudius family is indeed extremely arrogant."
"Ciprian, what do you think?" Sima Yi looked at Cyprian and asked.
"I'm just wondering why the other party wants me to see this secret technique?" Cyprian frowned, "Ordinarily, this thing should not appear in my hands anyway, this is not the Claudius family
The question of arrogance or not is more realistic. Why can I come into contact with this secret technique? Apart from anything else, this secret technique is definitely no more than any special great secret technique. It is already a national level thing.
Come on, where am I in Roma and how can I get this kind of thing?"
Sima Yi raised his eyebrows and looked at Cyprian with a look of surprise. What the people in the game saw were completely different from what the outsiders saw. Therefore, when the people in the game told the outsiders certain information,
, outsiders can even get far more than insiders.
"Sergio is using Cyprian's tricks." Xu You turned his head and looked at Sima Yi and said. Sima Yi nodded, he thought so too.
"Cyprien's ability to use this secret technique should be a very important factor." Sima Yi looked at Xu You seriously and said, "Cyprien will explain this secret technique, even if there are special prohibitions on this secret technique.
I think with your ability you should be able to bypass it."
Cyprian was silent for a while, and began to explore the forbidden logic of this secret technique. He soon found out some traces, and then began to show it to Sima Yi. After Sima Yi looked at it for a long time, he finally determined that based on these parts alone, it would be difficult for him to
Learn this secret.
"This secret technique is very difficult, more difficult than anything I have learned before." Sima Yi frowned, "This seems to be one factor. Cyprien can learn and use it on the spot, which is another factor. See
There are quite a lot of calculations here, but they are not against us."
When it comes to conspiracy, Cyprian is not as good as Sima Yi. With such incomplete information, what Cyprian can figure out and what Sima Yi can figure out are completely different things. At least at the moment, Cyprian still has
When he was in the fog, Sima Yi was basically sure that Cyprian had been used as a tool by the Claudius family.
Fortunately, Cyprian is not the opponent's target. In this case...
"There are people with different intentions in the Senate." Xu You, who was playing with a round chalcedony the size of a pigeon egg, gave his own judgment, "Zhongda, I leave it to you to contact him."
Sima Yi was very helpless when he heard this, but he did not refuse. After all, Xu You was the person in charge among this group of people, and the others, whether it was him or Cyprian, were actually just deputies.
"Do you want an honest relationship, or?" Sima Yi looked at Xu You and asked, although both are possible, they represent different attitudes and approaches.
"The aboveboard connection was made clear to Rome a long time ago. We are not here to join Rome, but to overthrow Rome. So why should we hide this connection?" Xu You said casually.
Sima Yi nodded after hearing this, and left quickly with his people. The next thing he had to do was to find these people with second thoughts and draw them into the camp of the Duke of Eastern Europe. In this way, even if these people did something and capsized, they would still be safe.
Such a gold medal to avoid death.
After all, Yuan Tan, the Duke of Eastern Europe in Rome, is openly anti-Rome, and everyone in Rome should know it. Therefore, is it a problem for some guys who have taken refuge in the Duke of Eastern Europe to do something anti-Rome? We must be tolerant, at least at this time we need to be tolerant.
.
Wouldn't this be a death-free gold medal?
No matter how rubbish the senators of the Roman Senate are, they are still one of the top figures among hundreds of thousands. They may be stupid because of their butt problems, but they are definitely not completely brainless. Therefore, when they make a wrong move and are completely ruined,
Receiving a death-free gold medal from the Duke of Eastern Europe is a matter of mutual benefit.
"Cyprian, do you have any idea of wanting to visit the Han Dynasty?" Xu You asked after watching Sima Yi leave, looking at Cyprian who was frowning and thinking.
"Go to the Han Dynasty to see?" Cyprian was slightly startled when he heard this, "That's fine. I have traveled to many places in the Roman Empire, and even the Senate has seen it. On the contrary, it is another powerful empire. I really
I’ve never seen it before, but if I have the chance to go, as long as it’s not too busy, I’d like to see it.”
"At the beginning of next year, it will be the third five-year plan of the Han Dynasty. The Yuan family needs to send powerful people to the Han Dynasty. Currently, the lord, princess, and concubines cannot leave the fief. And I need to stay in Rome, and I can only do it with Youruo.
I'm leading the team, so I asked you if you want to go." Xu You didn't hide anything and told the truth.
"At the beginning of next year, if there is enough time, I can go with you then." Cyprian thought for a moment to make sure that he had time, and said enthusiastically.
After all, it was the Han Empire that stood as proudly on top of the world as Rome. Cyprian would naturally not refuse the opportunity to participate in such a high-level meeting of the empire.
I'll divide it into chapters myself. Anyway, I tried my best. Sigh.