Chapter 1553 Beautiful City

  Do you like your daily work?

Even if it’s a job that looks good in the eyes of others, or a job that was chosen because of interest at the beginning, it will be boring to do the same thing day after day, such as cleaning the glass. Or the butcher.

  Wipe the glass every day and slaughter the animals every day. One day I will want to change jobs.

  Soldiers are the same. The battlefield is their working place. The working conditions are very bad, not to mention the danger to their lives. Even if the war can bring them rich spoils, some people still choose to desert or escape military service.

   Perhaps the people who hate war most are those who are most familiar with war, not pacifists. As for those who are warlike...

  However, after leaving the battlefield, the skills they learned are of no use in a peaceful environment, just like housewives who cannot adapt to survival once they leave the family and return to society.

  These people will live in confusion and poverty. They will live on the streets, and there will be no shelter from the wind and rain above their heads.

  This may be different from what Mrs. Destal expected, a world ruled by rich and educated people. After all, not everyone in this world is rich and educated. Cooking belongs to the power of the rich. The poor pay more attention to how to get those foods rather than making them delicious. Even animals that die of illness will be eaten by people. Some diseases are transmitted from animals in this way. People, and then spread from person to person, and then expand, and eventually become a plague.

  When there are more deaths, doctors will become numb to death. Although they do not have guns, they have scalpels. They know how to solve their lives quickly, and there is absolutely no hope of being saved.

  In Dante’s hell, there are trees transformed by suicides. These people were not all driven to desperation by gambling debts before their lives. They may have done things that many people think are great.

   Soldiers need a reason to fight. They are not machines, they have emotions. They also long for their souls to go to heaven and be saved. Gentle comfort will discourage them at critical moments, whether it comes from religion or a female nurse.

Movable type printing has indeed increased the speed of printing, but it has also brought rumors and false news. In Venice in the 16th century, we often saw such a situation. When a ship full of exquisite goods and the latest news appeared in Venice in the 16th century. At the port of Venice, the reporter immediately asked the captain and sailor about the latest news. Then he would write down the news he heard and paste the manuscript on the wall. People did not believe in the information printed in printed fonts, but gathered together to read the manuscript. There are two reasons for this.

One is that the manuscript copy is fast, and the person who collects the information can post it on the wall after it is written. It does not require typesetting or verification, and the speed is faster than the printed matter. Second, because it has not been reviewed and modified, no one will use ink to write the article. The middle and large sections of the text have been scribbled.

  When Napoleon passed through Venice, he did not leave a piece of armor. Manuscripts and printed materials were all searched, including 5,000 ancient books with the seal of the "Venice Government".

Among them, the most beautifully decorated and the most magnificent is "Grimani Prayer". This book has more than 800 pages and more than 50 exquisite miniature paintings. It originally belonged to a bishop and was later used by a Venetian Owned by the nobles, it was later in the San Marco Library, and its status in the printing world was comparable to the Sistine Chapel. Giorgioanna lived in the Paris library for a while and read this book. Of course she couldn't read a word, and she didn't know Hebrew.

Moreover, the staff in the library don’t value this book so much. They are more enthusiastic about discussing the first edition of "The Golden Ratio" by Leonardo Da Vinci. The illustrations inside except for the famous "Witt "Ruwei Man", and other whimsical ideas of Da Vinci.

  This book was found by Napoleon’s soldiers in a Venetian cemetery. The managers of the cemetery were often priests. When the soldiers went to look for the priest who guarded the cemetery, they would have disappeared long ago.

  Speaking of Leonardo da Vinci, people fall into an irrational madness, but even this book is not the core collection of the San Marco Library.

Whether the Crusades stole Greek books from the Arabs is no longer valid. Anyway, the core collections of the San Marco Library are in Greek, and they are not listed as banned books. Borrowers want to read them at will. It is to be able to understand Greek.

  So Giorgioanna found the feeling of seeing hieroglyphs in the Louvre, but had no idea what they wrote.

  After asking someone for advice, she learned that these books included law, classical anthologies, medicine, and geography, but did not have military affairs. I don’t know if Napoleon deliberately did it or not in the original collection. However, it can be seen from the information left in the manuscript that military books were a big business in the 16th century. Printers from all walks of life rushed to get a share of the pie, but no one became the leader in this field.

The donor of the core collection of the San Marco Library is a Greek. Greece has always been not as militant as Rome. Since then, Venice has had the Greek Brotherhood, and then started the Greek printing industry. At that time, Europeans were eager to learn more. The knowledge of ancient Greece and Rome, and Venice is the center of knowledge dissemination. Eastern and Western civilizations meet here. The printer who printed the "Golden Ratio" also printed the "Quran."

Not only that, Venice also has bookstores marked with prophetic witches. This place is full of "heretics", but the power of the church is very weak in this secular world, far less than other places in Europe. The bishop of Venice is appointed by the governor, and Venice There is also a strong navy as a backing.

Successful people among the vendors will open shops all over Europe, selling goods and printed materials from Venice. There is a painting of "The Last Judgment", the Spanish King Carlos III and the devil are put together. This may be the earliest caricature. .

  In addition to these printed materials, there are a large number of books on alchemy and magic. These books are true or false, and they have been taken away by the Brotherhood.

  The "Free Masons Union" built a stone building outside of Paris. It was not for parties, but for storing things. There are many divided small rooms in this castle, and each small room has a letter on it. The intruder has to play a game called "Bad Wall Game". You will go in through an entrance and spell one you guessed it. Words, enter these small rooms and press the button. A letter can appear multiple times in a word. If you guess it correctly, the secret door to the secret room will open. If the guess is wrong, the mechanism will be touched, the two walls will slowly close together, and finally the intruder will be pressed into a "biscuit."

  It is a group of monks who maintain the castle, but they are not monks. You will know this with your hands. The insider revealed that they were wearing black hooded robes, and they would cover their eyes with their hoods even when they were eating. They were quiet and silent when they ate, and the dishes were very rich. The only privilege of the dean was drinking and drinking. Used to entertain guests.

   "At first I thought they were dumb." The insider revealed, "Because they communicate in sign language, I later found out that they could talk."

  "Is their sign language used by ordinary deaf-mute people?" the curious reporter asked.

   "No, it's the internal language used by monks in the monastery." The insider said, "Do you want to break through?"

  The reporter shook his head.

   Although she does not understand Greek, she still knows how to fight death.

   "It's hard to imagine, someone lives like that." The reporter said incredibly.

   "Maybe it's because the Bible doesn't allow them to laugh." The insider teased, "That place is like a monastery."

  The reporter remembered that Reading planned to restore the monastery, and even the church in France was almost gone, let alone the monastery.

  "Are they female admirers?" the reporter asked curiously.

  "What do you think?" the insider asked rhetorically.

  The reporter curled his lips and stopped asking such silly questions.

  (End of this chapter)