Chapter 426

The weather in Constantinople has finally cooled down. In the square in the city center, a makeshift execution platform is waiting for the execution.

Scro is sitting in a prison car waiting for the death penalty. There are already many people on both sides of the street yelling at him. He is numb.

He was originally going to be hanged, but the emperor was particularly generous and changed it to beheading.

He would not say anything like a heroic man in twenty years, but just slowly walked towards his end.

"Your Majesty, the traitor has been executed."

"Well"

Mircea has no tolerance for the rebels. Don't even think about recruiting and negotiating. He thought he was kind enough to Venice, but in return he got their ingratitude.

In order to remember this lesson, Mircea will have someone write an article to record this incident, and let the world see how ungrateful these people are and how they are ungracious to the emperor.

"I thought I was kind to every subject, but I didn't expect that there would always be people who would challenge the emperor's order."

These few months have been really torture. Mircea doesn't want to leave any traces in Venice anymore. Destroy it.

The emperor now particularly likes to listen to books from the East, but those histories are too boring, but different historical interpretations are interesting. For example, a book called "Shishuo Xinyu" in which the talented scholar wrote a poem in seven steps and the story of two cowards who fled by boat are very eye-catching.

The translation movement in universities and libraries has increased a lot of knowledge. Scholars are amazed at the advanced technology and theories of the East, and it is difficult to understand the historical figures in it.

"I tell you, this country called Song is sorry for its ministers. It was about to turn the tables, but the monarch insisted on asking for peace. No one would do that."

"Not only that, it often pays money to other countries, and it pays after winning the war. I have never seen such a strange thing."

Scholars are surprised by this Song country. On the one hand, its economy, science and culture have reached their peak, and on the other hand, it has been defeated repeatedly in foreign wars and paid a large amount of compensation. It's okay to lose, but the problem is that they still pay after winning. Are their monarchs cowards per capita?

"But their ministers are good. One of them is a prime minister who has made great contributions to the country."

"No, I remember that it was this prime minister who pushed the precarious kingdom into the abyss."

Another scholar refuted this view. He felt that trade needed to develop on its own. The government's policy was to protect normal trading activities from criminal harm, and at the same time to ensure that it would not compete with the people for profits. Only in this way can the growth of national wealth be promoted.

"When did you come up with this view? The country should invest resources in production and extract more taxes from high-profit industries. Merchants should not be allowed to be powerful. This is the long-term way for the empire."

The movement led by this prime minister has caused scholars to fall into disagreements. After all, the books that can be referenced are very controversial and difficult to guarantee correctness. However, the policies implemented have made them look at them with new eyes. Whether it is water conservancy construction or official loans, they all have the color of protecting agricultural farmers and suppressing mergers. This is also what they advocate.

Because there are too many imported books, learning oriental languages ​​has become a trend among university students. The salary of translators given by the library is very generous. While translating, you can also learn knowledge. There are usually many people applying for such positions.

Of course, the history here is the most controversial, especially the history of the Song Dynasty. Different people have different ideas about the national reform led by the prime minister and the two-party struggles in the following decades. And it has also spread to the university, and the discussion here has become one of the most important issues.

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After several months of sailing, Mason finally returned to Constantinople. This time he specially inspected the route from Andreiburg to Constantinople and formulated the safest route from it.

Zanzibar to Andreiburg is the most important route in the south, and Sofia is an important node connecting the north-south route. Therefore, large-scale immigration and construction are needed to turn it into a permanent base.

"My lord, there is news from Formosa that we were attacked by local people there and 10 people died."

Formosa is one of the fastest-growing colonies of Rome. Many local people have converted to Orthodoxy, and rely on their geographical location for transit trade. In addition, the land is fertile and the forest is undeveloped, which attracts many people to settle here. In the local capital, there are already 2,000 aborigines, 600 Seres, and 200 Romans.

The arrival of the Seres brought advanced production technology to Formosa. The authorities estimated that they reclaimed land and planted sugarcane, and exempted some taxes. And spent a lot of money to import cattle from other places to develop production. The Seres also built water wheels and other facilities to irrigate farmland.

The senior officials were surprised at the other party's super high talent for farming, so they took care of them. And the Roman merchant ships explored along the coastline many times, and finally drew a rough map of the island.

The entire Formosa is large in area, but the population is small. There are no towns and ports in the local area. It seems that they are all in the mountains. And there are abundant forests here, and there are sika deer. Deerskin is the biggest export to Japan, because local warriors like to use deerskin to make armor.

Formosa began to export deerskin and other agricultural products in exchange for daily necessities, and some aborigines also saw their things, so they took out their own things to trade, and over time a kind of foreign goods market appeared.

A large number of unknown areas are waiting for them to explore, and every exploration and investment can get a return of ten or even a hundred times. At the same time, pagans can be suppressed.

There was already a Crescent Moon religion in the north of Srivijaya, and Rome began to expel these religions after entering Southeast Asia. As the power of the Arabs weakened, the Crescent Moon religion gradually narrowed its scope. In the north, Parameswara and his ministers in Malacca converted to Orthodoxy, and relied on the trade wealth brought by Roman merchants to organize an army to attack the Ayutthaya Kingdom to the north. Some natives also converted to Orthodoxy and sent their children to local church schools.

Due to the expansion of trade, the Romans entered islands such as Java and Kalimantan for the first time. The local indigenous people were still in the semi-civilized or city-state era. Roman merchants took over their foreign trade and successfully contacted Majapahit, and Rome had one more trading partner.

When Mason was in Sofia, he learned about the current expansion of Rome, which was generally good. It was just that the local assimilation and immigration were still not ideal. They wanted to gain benefits, not charity. Don't force them to turn colonial resettlement into colonial exploitation; they don't want to put down rebellions everywhere.