Chapter 34: The Great Reading
At first, Anna was a little shy in the face of the crowd of soldiers below, and refused to give a speech to the soldiers about Gawain's shackles, even though she was now the mistress of Seleucia (recognized), and could be Caesar or even the empress in the future (if the road ahead had not been stumbled), but she was still shy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
What's more, through the tall fence of the two-story pergola, even if Anna stood on tiptoe, she couldn't see the cavalry and flags below, which undoubtedly made her even more nervous, so she kept breaking free from Gawain's invitation and refused.
But when Gawain "swished" and gently lifted the little princess up, that is, after Anna was "lifted high", she immediately became well-behaved, which is a very subtle rule, especially after men are much taller than women, using this method has been tried and tested.
Crossing the fence, Anna's eyes were stunned and excited by the grandeur of the spectacle: the cavalrymen who were loyal to her, their men and horses in armor neatly arranged in the center, holding the idols of various patrons, behind them were the Gimagis Brigade on the left, they held the Silver Spike Battle Banner, and on the right were the garrison soldiers with the Red Hand Banner, spears and spears; On the far flanks were companies of Red Hand Cavalry—thousands of soldiers chanting so that Anna's blood began to churn, and the roar of "Hallelujah, long live the purple princess" vibrated her eardrums.
It's a great feeling of King's Landing!
"Silence, the princess will make a speech as a support to His Royal Highness the Grand Duke!" Judge Giovanni stood majestically at the front of the pergola, shouted the order, and then his speech was like a gust of cold wind, which suddenly "froze" the array of soldiers who were originally in the heat wave, and everyone stopped making a sound in unison, and cast their warm eyes on the core of the focus: Princess Anna, who was supported by Gawain in the back, with the golden crown of the Seven Ridges.
"Anna, look at this group of people, they are all warriors who are willing to fight for you on the battlefield, whether they are on a war horse or on their feet, whether they hold a halberd or carry a quiver." Golvento's forehead was sweating, but he still stuck to Anna's side to remind him.
So Anna bit her lip, and then condensed her breath, like an archer ready to shoot with a bow, and with all her strength, she shouted two sentences to the thousands of military horses present, as a supplementary summary of Gawain's speech just now:
"The army is disciplined and invincible!"
All the cavalry and infantry under him raised their weapons and flags after a second, and shouted in unison, "The army is disciplined, and the battle is invincible!" ”
In the second sentence, because her heart was quiet, Anna shouted more clearly and loudly: "Practice hard, and go up every day!" ”
"Practice hard and make progress every day!"
"Bang bang." Chiser and Cabeamia bitterly noticed that the heartless blonde widow was actually smiling under the umbrella, obviously moved by Anna's words, and actually applauded.
"He who doesn't have to think about anything is truly blessed by the Lord." The female consul held her cheek awkwardly with her golden hand, feeling unworthy of the guilt she had just had.
Then the most elite and prominent cavalrymen were selected on the field, and they rode in unison with their spears stretched out in unison, and then drove their horses forward at the same time, and in the thunderous cheers of the spectators, pierced the lassos on the wooden stakes seventy feet away, and those who were stabbed were to be richly rewarded, as a substitute for the bloody contests that had just arisen in the land of the Franks and Normans.
Gawain, on the other hand, rode a horse and accompanied Anna on her shoulders, followed by the shoulders and umbrellas of the widow and the Chiser woman, and behind her was the consul on a horse, and then Agnes and Hetomia on a mule, and in short, all the ladies were gathered, and with the guards, they began to inspect the Alalmanburg, which had begun to rebuild.
When they walked out of the West Gate, about 600 hired soldiers and immigrants had already started to build a dam to intercept the seawater on the land bridge that was originally more than 1,000 feet long between the sea and the swamp, and they had begun to build a dam to intercept the seawater, "The sea water contains a lot of salt, and it will pour back into the swamp to form a large amount of saline land, which will endanger the size and yield of the fields of Alallman." Pointing to this scene, the consul spoke to Gawain.
"Hmm, is that exactly what the Emperor of Romania gave us?" Gawain said sarcastically, letting the holy sister secretly beside him.
Because on the land bridge, the laborers used the same method of the emperor's previous embankment: along the direction of the land bridge to the sea, they first piled up rows of baskets filled with reeds and seaweeds diagonally, and the plants in them quickly tightened and solidified after absorbing water, and were tightly intertwined with each other to resist the greater impact of the sea wind and rain, and then people filled the gaps between them with burning earth or gravel, raised and widened the embankment, and then piled up these baskets on the periphery, and the cycle began again, slowly encroaching on the sea, seizing the land, and conquering nature.
On this side of the land bridge embankment, in the swamp on this side of the land bridge, Gawain's army had previously spilled the water of the Alarman River from the sluice gates because of the need to fight the emperor's army, spreading it a lot. Now, then, in order to turn it into fertile land, it will be very necessary to re-pump and drain the water.
The strategy of drainage, first proposed by a pirate named from Antwerp (who was under the command of Winmoha), and which intrigued Gawain, was "windmill drainage".
But Gawain soon vetoed this measure: the coast of Seleucia is not very deep, so the sea breeze from the direction of Cyprus is not sufficient, and the fact that it is located on the gentle coast of the Mediterranean Sea does not have the same strong winds from the North Sea as the low-lying countries of Flanders, and even less windy than the headlands of the Moria Peninsula, to put it bluntly, the summer is dry, the winter is warm and rainy, and the climate is unusually peaceful, and it is not feasible to use a single column windmill to drain the water.
But the pirate stubbornly insisted that there were ships sailing throughout the Holy Sea and the Sea of Cyprus.
Gawain replied that it was natural, but that the Mediterranean was full of galleys, not only by sails, but in many cases by oars.
So the pirate said, "As long as there is wind, we don't need the single-column windmills of my homeland, but the sails of the holy sea, which I have seen in Moria, Crete, and Eupia."
"Can Seleucia be used too?"
"Of course, Your Highness the Grand Duke, the coast of Seleucia can use this sail windmill, and the high ground on both sides of the Mut valley can be built with Persian windmills, and I guarantee that they will be put to good use." The pirate swore by it.
"Very well, I will reward you with eighty full gold coins, and you can consult this matter with the Archon of the Golden Hand and the Deputy Director of the Ordnance Department (Agnes)." Gawain saw that he was very confident and infected, after all, he came from the era of scientific advancement, and he was certainly happy to be able to use ancient mechanics to solve production problems. (To be continued.) )