Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms

The current situation in Rome is indeed not very good. Although the African super locust plague has been suppressed, the losses during the locust plague are irreversible. The Roman Empire is actually short of food for millions of people this year.

Even though the feudal monarchy's unique iron fist and tyrannical military force have suppressed the unrest and stabilized the situation as much as possible, the substantive problem has not been solved. Lack of food is lack of food. Without the ability of five fish and two loaves, you will die without food!

Therefore, it is definitely not nonsense to say that the current Roman Empire is facing internal and external troubles, but even so, it is definitely not a reason for Cyprian to speak out 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 mean by external troubles? What are internal troubles?"

"Isn't it Odin? Isn't it the barbarian who lacks that mouthful of food?" Cyprian retorted bluntly, "Maybe Odin really had no way to deal with the Roman Empire before, but now, the utopia around the Mediterranean has been broken. If Odin really wants to rush into the essence area at all costs, Rome, which has lost the ability to regulate the essence of heaven and earth on a large scale and efficiently, can it refine it instantly?"

The essence of the divine guards is actually very clear to the three empires now. It is the physical essence of heaven and earth embodied by elite talents. This thing is really powerful, does not need to eat, drink, defecate, and urinate, and its combat effectiveness is also reliable. If it rushes to the essence area of ​​the three empires, burning, killing and looting, the three empires will not be able to withstand it.

But its nature is destined to be instantly refined when facing some outrageous things. Even though this kind of instant refining method requires more preconditions, the three empires have been building it in their homeland. Even if there is a sucker like Kushan to provide enough energy, it is no problem to directly build such a thing in the place where Odin is rampant in Northern Europe.

In fact, when the three empires joined forces to kill the locust plague in Africa, the special means used by Rome and the Han Dynasty at the end were all things that could refine Odin into energy in an instant.

According to the output at that time, the only two idiots who could resist the entire Nordic forces were Sigurd and Beowulf. As long as the others could not fully control their own power, they would be instantly turned into nothingness and charged into the cycle of the magic circle as energy.

Therefore, the three empires took the Nordic disaster seriously in the early stage. After realizing the nature of the divine guard, they were not afraid of Odin. What was there to be afraid of when refining something in an instant? It was just a question of input-output ratio. When it was really necessary, they would refine it directly!

But this was before the fight against the African locusts. After the fight against the African locusts, the energy reserves of the Kushan Empire were mostly exhausted. The Roman Empire's Mediterranean utopia had a lot of breaches due to the extreme output. In a short period of time, unless there were big enemies like the Kushan Empire willing to invest such a large amount of energy, the Roman Empire's bottom-line defense could not be opened at all.

In this way, the Nordic disaster, which was no longer a disaster, became a disaster again. Even considering the current serious food shortage in the Roman Empire, if Odin took the opportunity to choose to go south and mix with the barbarians in the Roman Empire, the Roman Empire would really suffer this time.

Therefore, from a logical point of view, Cyprian was not talking nonsense. He really considered the issue from the standpoint of the Roman Empire. However, this tone and expression really made the high-ranking officials of the Roman Empire very unhappy. Damn it, a beggar from another place actually came to our Senate to make trouble. He was really brave!

In addition, the Roman high-ranking officials were basically clear about what Cyprian had done. The explosion of the Tianzhou Kingdom was not something that could be easily ignored. Cyprian was at least the mastermind.

However, due to the other party's current identity, it was obviously a disgusting elder brought here by Yuan Tan, the Duke of the Eastern European Border County. Even if the high-ranking officials of the Senate had some ideas, they could not implement them at this time.

Therefore, facing Cyprian's verbal attacks, this group of people could only listen first. After all, no matter how malicious the proposal is, as long as the other party's brain is not problematic, there will at least be an internal logic. Although the characteristics shown by Cyprian at present are not very clear, he is indeed considering the stability of the Roman Empire. But how can we say it? How can we believe the words coming out of the mouth of such a wanted criminal?

"Why? Does the Roman Empire still have the ability to produce food out of thin air?" Cyprian said with a somewhat teasing tone.

"Not really." Sergio said after a moment of silence, and then while the others were shocked, Sergio continued, "We don't want to pursue what you did in the past, Cyprian. After all, by chance, you appeared in the Senate as the Duke of the Eastern European Border County and became a Roman senator, so we won't dwell too much on the past."

Cyprian looked at Sergio expressionlessly, thinking that the other party was talking nonsense, while Xu You looked at the people in the Senate with interest. Recently, the Roman Senate has been discussing how to stabilize the internal situation, and they, as well-known traitors, sit in the Senate and listen, and even speak from time to time. This feeling is not bad.

More importantly, Xu You can see the Roman Empire more clearly when he sits in the Roman Senate, and everything discussed here recently has given Xu You a clearer understanding of this empire that has been suppressing their Zhongguo. It is very strong, very strong, but not invincible.

"Euside, bring that information here." Sergio called out to his nephew who was working as a recorder here. As I said before, if a chores can get to this place, it is basically equivalent to the backup personnel of these positions. Who let Euside's surname Claudius? People here really have a position to inherit. This is not a joke.

"Cyprian, you are indeed a genius, but there are only three empires in this world. You don't understand the true meaning of this sentence." Sergio said to Cyprian calmly, and then handed Cyprian the information brought by Euside.

Cyprian didn't understand, but just glanced at the Latin on the information, his pupils shrank suddenly, and then he quickly read it, read, analyzed, and mastered it. Cyprian picked up the wooden cup of water at hand and tried it on the spot.

A special secret technique was released from Cyprian's fingertips. Under the influence of the special magic circle of the Mediterranean Utopia, the wooden cup was decomposed on the spot. Then Cyprian reached out and touched the residue, and then his expression became much more solemn.

"This is a high-level secret technique - grain making technique. Under the action of special secret techniques, wood and water can be converted into edible starch." Sergio said calmly, "So, you don't need to worry about the lack of food in the Roman Empire. We just want to see who has this idea. As for the force to suppress the rebellion, I think you have absolute confidence even if you are standing on the opposite side of us, right."

There is no doubt that Cyprian is confident in the force of the Roman Empire. The powerful force that can even blow up the Tianzhou Kingdom does not need to consider the issue of strength. To put it bluntly, except for the Han Dynasty and Kushan who are fighting each other now, other things are not even opponents for Rome.

At the same time, when Sergio said this, the elders in certain corners of the Senate could not help but show some strange colors.

"Is it the secret technique of turning wood and water into edible starch?" Xu You was shocked as Sergio reached out to touch the product made by Cyprian using the secret technique with a wooden cup and water. After tasting it, his expression became much weirder.

It was not completely converted into starch. There were still a lot of wood residues inside. But if you really want to say it, it was already at a level that would not kill people. It was enough to deal with the barbarians. Even in the Han Dynasty more than 20 years ago, it was life-saving food.

"The technology doesn't seem to be mature yet." Cyprian pinched the fine powder with his fingertips and said.

"It's already not deadly, not to mention that it's a problem for non-citizens to eat some starch with wood residues?" Sergio said very calmly and directly. The class is so obvious. The Roman Empire is an empire responsible for Roman citizens. As for non-citizens, it's good to have starch with wood residues. Not dying is 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 said to Cyprian with an arrogant look on his face.

"It's not really a problem." Cyprian was silent for a while and stopped dwelling on this technology. Since Sergio could take out this technology and let Cyprian learn and use it on the spot, it was enough to show the maturity of this technology.

"Then let's move on to the next topic." Seeing that Cyprian was no longer talking, Sergio looked at Pompianus and said, and Pompianus also looked at his acting head with a ghost expression. There is such an outrageous secret technique in the family? Damn, why didn't I know!

The meeting of the Senate lasted for a whole morning, and Xu You and others were also eye-opening. When the meeting was adjourned, this group of people, as the power of the Duke of the Eastern European Border County, collectively booked a bathhouse to play. There was no way, this was the custom in Rome. Even if Xu You was a little reluctant, he had to follow the local customs.

"What's the grain-making technique?" After the meeting, the real powerful senior officials in the Roman Senate held a small meeting in another place. After all, big things should be handled in small meetings, and quick battles should be resolved.

"Yes, is there such a secret technique in the family? I haven't heard of it. If there is such a secret technique, why should we give so many benefits to the Yuan family? Are we looking for trouble?" Ulpian looked at Sergio unhappily and asked. Cyprian learned and mastered the secret technique on the spot. Ulpian also tasted the starch produced. Just like what Sergio said, what's wrong with wood residue? Just tell me if it is starch and whether it can prevent people from starving to death.

There is no doubt that Cyprian, who learned and mastered the secret technique on the spot, took the wooden cup distributed by the Senate and directly made something that could be used as rations for barbarians. Why should the Roman Empire cede benefits to the Yuan family?

"This is too wild. Who invented this idea of ​​making starch directly from wood? This is too against the will of heaven." Herodian also looked at Sergio with a look of surprise.

"We didn't invent it. We asked the Kushan Empire for it. And it's not as good as you think. Cyprian learned it and used it on the spot. That's because he was in the Senate and Cyprian's qualifications were indeed extraordinary. Otherwise, it would never have been possible." Sergio said unhappily, "This is Papinian's plan to stabilize the country."

Wood 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. There are also methods such as hydrolysis that can achieve this effect.

In essence, this secret technique of the Kushan Empire is just equivalent to speeding up the process of transformation, and there are still some problems that cannot be transformed during the process.

As for the origin of this secret technique, it is actually because some Kushan researchers saw that the members of the Dalit Dawn gnawed wood to obtain nutrition and even strengthen themselves, which was very strange, so they conducted special research. Although there were some problems in the direction of the research, the researchers on the Kushan side did come up with a special secret technique to convert wood into starch.

However, this secret technique consumes a lot of energy and is also very difficult to master. Don’t think that Cyprian mastered it quickly after reading it once. The problem is that Cyprian’s level is counted even in world history.

Of course, most Roman elders don’t know how outrageous Cyprian’s true level is, but Sergio, the helmsman of the Claudius family, must detect and manage people who may threaten the existence of the Roman Empire, so even if Sergio doesn’t find out the truth about Cyprian’s true level, there will be a relatively accurate judgment.

The ability to determine qualifications, for an empire of this level, 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 pushover. At most, it was not worth it before, but it is worth it this time.

Therefore, the old judge Papinian asked Sergio to use Cyprian's hand to play a play for the senators in the Senate. A play called the arrogant Roman Empire can get enough food and grass, just to see how many people will not obey the management of the Roman Empire.

After all, since the Duke of Eastern Europe appointed Cyprian to come to the Senate, Cyprian's rebelliousness made all the senators in the Senate realize that this person is here to spoil the stage, and the young and vigorous Cyprian is impossible to make peace with the Claudius family, the core power of the Roman Empire, so the things made by Cyprian will definitely not be deliberately coordinated.

"There are some real traitors in the Senate." Sergio said slowly, "The revived barbarian unrest is driven by some people in the Senate. These people have different ideas, but generally they are dissatisfied with us."

The Claudius family is too large, so large that its existence alone has squeezed the living space of other senators. Even if there is a shortage of food, the unrest should not have started at this time, because last year's food has not been used up yet, not to mention that the Roman barbarians are backed by the Mediterranean Sea. When they are out of food, they can supplement some fish and meat to last for a while.

Theoretically speaking, if the Roman Empire really wants to have unrest due to food shortage, it should have started now. In fact, the unrest in the Roman Empire started from the first round of locust plague. You must know that during the first round of locust plague, the Roman Empire still carried out disaster relief to a certain extent.

In this situation, the top leaders of the Senate knew whether there was any driving force behind the rapid outbreak of unrest. However, Sergio and others had not considered the possibility of the enemy being in the Senate at that time. It was only later that this possibility became more obvious, which led to Papinian's suggestion.

"Cyprian will never cooperate with us. He is eager to destroy our Roman stage, so it is very important for him to use this true and accurate secret technique to directly transform the wooden cup into starch, which can best illustrate the problem." Sergio said with a deep expression.

"Leave the secret technique to me, let me try it." Ulpian said to Sergio, and Sergio did not refuse. After Ulpian took it, he quickly read it twice, then closed his eyes and thought for a while, raised his hand and performed it, and 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 grain-making technique."

"Nonsense, if it is fake, it will be exposed. Of course it is real." Sergio sneered, "In fact, this grain-making technique can really convert wood into starch, but the energy consumption is very high. Your current level is the result of my best efforts to balance energy consumption and output. The energy consumption may still be exaggeratedly high. If we were not in the central area of ​​the Mediterranean Utopia, this secret technique would not be able to be performed."

"Oh, Kushan relies on supermodel clouds, I understand." Ulpian teased.

"In short, the secret technique is real. Those elders who have changed their minds 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 many garbage wants to go against them." Sergio sneered.

"This is indeed a way to solve the problem. At least after seeing this operation, even if there are disloyal elders, they will have to consider how to deal with this matter." Herodian nodded.

The grain-making technique can't actually produce much grain due to energy consumption, 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, and Cyprian, who was completely unable to make peace with the Claudius family, learned and mastered this secret technique on the spot, and then used the wooden cup to make starch.

It doesn't matter whether it is wood residue or not. Sergio's words were said to everyone. It sounds outrageous for the arrogant Claudius family to make such a statement, but if you think about it carefully, if you really combine it with reality, there is nothing wrong.

"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 stabilize those who have different intentions and make them think that we This is done on purpose, even if there is food,” Sergio warned the 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 was not sure about the degree of control, which would cause the barbarians to get excited and explode. 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 a good one, 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 while , 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?"

"We won't be able to 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 no one knows the real situation now. 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, there is no problem.

"Now here comes a new question. If the Roman Empire had such means, why would 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 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 expressionlessly.

"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 that is not important anymore. What is important 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, "Normally 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. This is already a national level thing. Damn, where am I in Rome, 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 you can get around it with your ability."

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. Cyprian 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 it was cloudy and foggy, Sima Yi was basically certain 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 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 he 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 has been told 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 the ship, there would still be some. 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. So, is it a problem for some guys who have taken refuge in the Duke of Eastern Europe to do something anti-Rome? You have to be tolerant, at least at this time.

Isn't this a gold medal to avoid death?

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 definitely a matter of mutual benefit.

"Cyprien, 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 okay. I have traveled to many places in the Roman Empire, even the Senate, but it is another powerful empire. I really I’ve never seen it before, but if I have the chance to go, I’d like to see it as long as it’s not too busy.”

"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. At present, the lord, princess, and concubines cannot leave the fief. And I need to stay in Rome, and I can only be supported by Youruo. I'm leading the team, so I'm asking 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 proudly on top of the world like Rome. Cyprien would naturally not refuse the opportunity to participate in such a top-level meeting of the empire.

Let me divide it into chapters myself. Anyway, I tried my best. Sigh.