Summoning Total War

Chapter 63 New Year Celebration

With the arrival of the New Year, the whole of Athens is filled with joy and laughter.

The grand celebration made all the natives who came to Athens feel the joy and prosperity, with gorgeous architectural sculptures, delicate flowers blooming on both sides of the road, silver fountains in the square, and countless smiling Athenian citizens, children holding Snacks ran happily, and bursts of cheerful laughter echoed in everyone's ears from time to time. The aborigines who came to Athens were already shocked and speechless. They walked along the streets with the crowd and felt the prosperous atmosphere of the city, which was missing from the increasingly decadent aristocratic parliament.

The conservative aristocratic parliament would not allow such a large-scale celebration. Their rule was ancient and barbaric.

For this New Year's celebration, not only the high-ranking officials of Lady Elizabeth's territory, the fief knights, but also Murphy, the many nobles and nobles around Athens, sent out invitations. Basically all the nobility, large and small, from the Alliance of the Principality of Athens arrived, and even some small nobles and big businessmen who had not received the invitation also came to participate in this grand celebration. The news that the Academy of Athens has two magicians has spread throughout the human city-state. After the tide of elements, many aboriginal children have awakened their arcane talents. Many nobles also hope that their children can go to the Academy of Athens. Receive a higher standard of education.

And some scholars who had talents but were not appreciated by the noble council also came to Athens in large numbers and became guests of noble families. At most, they could only get a relatively good income and a relatively leisurely job. But if they come to Athens, they have more places to show their talents, whether it is getting a job in the ruling office, or gaining recognition and being hired as a teacher by the Academy of Athens.

They can all have a better future.

At the same time, after Murphy assisted the half-elves in defeating the lizardmen, many large and small mercenary groups rushed to Athens. In other places in human city-states, although they are mercenaries, their status is low, they are just poor people, not even free people. They were also unwilling to hand over the money they had worked so hard to earn with their lives to the Parliament of Nobles in exchange for a free citizen status that was of little use.

Therefore, many mercenary teams chose to come to Athens, hoping to pass the test of the Athenian army and be recruited as foreign mercenaries.

Then strive to become a regular soldier, gain recognition from the citizens of Athens, and eventually become an official soldier in Athens.

In more than half a year, many aboriginal mercenaries and mercenaries who survived the Orc War have gradually gained recognition in Athens. As long as they have served in Athens for more than half a year and are jointly recommended by three Athenian citizens, then They can be converted into reserve regular troops, with a higher status than ordinary militiamen. At the same time, they can receive a monthly salary of three silver coins and five acres of low-grade farmland.

If they can join the regular army based on their own abilities, they can even obtain the status of third-class citizens and be assigned fifteen acres of medium-sized cultivated land. Such wealth is already equivalent to the wealthy people in other parts of human city-states. If he could take one step closer to becoming a centurion, a junior officer, his land and wealth would even be comparable to that of many knights.

This is undoubtedly a better future for those mercenary teams who are bleeding on the edge of the knife all day long.

Unfortunately, Athens has too strict requirements for the army, and they must have clean identities. At most, only 30% of the indigenous mercenaries who come here will be selected, but even so, many people flock to it.

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Governor's Palace.

Murphy held a grand banquet to entertain the aboriginal nobles who came. The Governor's Mansion, which was already the size of a palace, made many aboriginal nobles stare with their eyes wide open. Apparently they couldn't believe that in just over half a year, this place had become like this. It was magnificent, but they had to admit that the rise of Athens exceeded everyone's expectations. Everything they saw along the way made them feel the vitality of the city.

The poor people at the lower levels are working hard and striving to obtain a higher status, and everyone's face is shining with light.

That light is called hope

The governor of Athens used a better and more reasonable system to give everyone in the territory hope. This hope stimulated Athens' productivity and caused Athens' wealth to expand at a rapid rate. The effect of a wise leader is extremely astonishing. This can be seen from the period when China entered New China in the previous life. Murphy even remembers one thing his parents said at the time, which was to dig a reservoir. The county party secretary came to inspect the reservoir and only said one sentence: "There is nothing to say, let's get to work."

Then the county party secretary directly picked up the shovel and joined the labor queue.

When the fathers said this, they seemed to still have a longing for that era, but then they kept shaking their heads and sighing.

Perhaps this spirit will eventually be corroded by material desires and become like Middle-earth when Murphy arrived in the previous life, but at least at this moment, this condensed power is glorious and brilliant.

It took China several decades to catch up with Europe, which had a gap of hundreds of years. Athens was also seizing the opportunity to catch up with those more civilized and superior races.

Maybe the starting point is different, but everyone is racing against time

After the grand banquet, many citizens consciously came to the ****, and aboriginal people from other places followed curiously. With a scream and a loud bang, a flower appeared in the sky. Brilliant fireworks bloomed in the night sky one after another. The unprecedented beautiful scene made many people stare with wide eyes. The aboriginal nobles had never seen such a grand and gorgeous fireworks in their lives. The scene was so shocking that I was speechless.

When the fireworks ended, Murphy took Mrs. Elizabeth's little hand and came to the high platform of the ***. He did not speak, but just waved to the Athenian citizens gathered in the square.

Waves of cheers resounded

The cheers that gathered into a wave like a tsunami made all the aboriginal nobles lose their minds. They had never thought that a lord would be so loved by the people.

Amidst the thundering cheers, they couldn't help but think of the legendary era of ancient heroes.

Perhaps only the heroes of that era could do this?

When the fireworks came to an end, the citizens of Athens looked behind the high platform with unsatisfied eyes, hoping that there would be another bright firework. However, after discovering that the fireworks had indeed ended, they couldn't help but leave feeling a little disappointed. Next is the free party time. There is a lot of free food in the square, and there are many performances by jugglers. Girls dance around the bonfire, and young guys shuttle among the crowd, looking for a wonderful encounter that may exist tonight. Some aboriginal people who were eligible to enter the inner city to participate in the celebration lingered and watched with the crowd.

"Do you like my gift?" Murphy and Mrs. Elizabeth walked hand in hand in the square, waving to the crowds around them from time to time.

Today is the New Year celebration, and as governor of Athens he will enjoy it with the people.

Lady Elizabeth was wearing a luxurious lady's dress. She looked extremely graceful and gorgeous tonight. She held Murphy's arm affectionately and responded to the cheers of the crowd around her. She smiled sweetly and exhaled: "I like it."

Murphy had nothing to do these days, so he simply took two alchemists to study how to make fireworks. There is a recipe for gunpowder in alchemy. Although he does not intend to continue on the path of mechanical civilization in his previous life, some things can still be learned. . He plans to prepare a grand fireworks show at the New Year's celebration, which will open the eyes of everyone in the world and serve as a New Year's gift to Lady Elizabeth.

Although relying on alchemy can lead civilization to the mechanical civilization of the previous life, Murphy is not prepared to do so. Instead, he intends to continue the trajectory of civilization in this world and build a new civilization with arcana as the core of the world.

At the very least, arcane civilization will not destroy nature unscrupulously and drag all races in the world into the abyss of destruction.

How serious was the pollution caused by mechanical civilization in the past life, how many creatures gradually became extinct, what kind of critical point has the earth's climate reached, and even humans themselves are already standing on the edge of the cliff. As a modern earthling, Murphy knows very well in his heart that whether it is the hole in the ozone layer, the melting of glaciers caused by the greenhouse effect, or the large amount of chemicals polluting the entire nature, or even the birth of nuclear weapons that can destroy human beings themselves.

Throughout modern history, although mechanical civilization has given birth to explosive breakthroughs in productivity, it itself is a deformed civilization.

Rampant material desires corrode people's hearts, and corrupt morality gradually destroys order. Even before leaving the so-called 2012 before leaving the earth, humans themselves can still feel the approach of destruction, the deteriorating environment, the leakage of nuclear radiation, and the increasingly abnormal climate. In the coming years, Ten years from now, melting glaciers, etc., will lead to wars for energy. If China and the West have a war in the future because of the competition for energy, then the Third World War is actually not far away from everyone.

Murphy remembered that the water in the well in his hometown was sweet when he was a child, but now it is bitter, and the smell of being contaminated by chemicals cannot be eliminated no matter what.

How many years?

How many years has it been? ten years?

Maybe not yet

The water in the pressurized well has become undrinkable? The clear river has turned into a filthy mess? No more fish swimming in the stream?

Murphy does not want or dare to drag the world into mechanical civilization.

Because he has no way to change the series of evil consequences caused by future mechanical civilization, the kind of devastating disaster that even the gods cannot repair. Going to destruction in the short-lived glory is something he cannot face. The extinction of a species due to irresistible external forces is not a kind of sadness. The real sadness is that he pushes himself into destruction.

Some things, facing them once is enough.

Chapter 63 New Year Celebration

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