Chapter 63 New Year Celebration

As the New Year comes, the whole of Athens is in laughter and joy.

The grand celebration made all the indigenous people who came to Athens feel the joy and prosperity, the gorgeous architectural sculptures, the delicate flowers on both sides of the road, the silver fountains shining in the square, and countless laughter-like Athenian citizens. The children run happily with snacks, and from time to time, bursts of cheerful laughter echoed in everyone's ears. The indigenous people who came to Athens were already shocked and had nothing to say. They walked along the streets with the flow of people, feeling the prosperity of the city, which was not found in the increasingly decadent aristocratic parliament.

The conservative noble parliament would not allow such large-scale celebrations, their rule was ancient and barbaric.

This New Year celebration was not only the arrival of the high-level officials of Lady Elizabeth's territory, but also the arrival of many nobles of the small and small nobles around Athens Murphy sent invitations. The nobles of the Athenian Principality Alliance basically arrived, and even some small nobles and merchants who had not received the invitation came to participate in this grand celebration. The news that the two ** teachers in the Athenian Academy have been in charge have spread throughout the human city-state. After the elemental tide, many indigenous children have awakened their arcane talents, and many nobles also hope that their children can receive higher education in the Athenian Academy.

Some scholars who have talents but are not appreciated by the noble parliament also came to Athens in large numbers and became guest officials in noble families. At most, they could only get a pretty good income and a relatively leisurely job. However, if they came to Athens, they had more places to show their talents, whether they were able to get an errand in the ruling hall, they were still recognized and hired as teachers by the Athens Academy.

They can all have a better future.

At the same time, after Murphy helped the half-elves defeat the Lizardmen, many mercenary groups of all sizes rushed to Athens. In other parts of the human city-state, although they were mercenaries, they were low-ranking people, just poor people, and they were not even considered free people. They were unwilling to hand over the money they had earned with their lives to the nobles' parliament in exchange for a free people who were of little use.

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

Then he strives to become a regular soldier, gain the recognition of Athenian citizens, and eventually becomes a formal soldier in Athens.

In the past six months, many indigenous mercenaries and other survivors of the Orc War have gradually gained recognition in Athens. As long as they serve in Athens for more than half a year and receive joint elections from three Athenian citizens, they can become regular troops in reserve, with a higher status than ordinary militias. At the same time, they can obtain a salary of three silver coins per month and receive five acres of inferior arable land.

If they can join the regular army with their own abilities, they can even obtain the status of third-class citizens and be allocated to fifteen acres of medium-sized arable land. Such wealth is equivalent to the wealth of the people in other parts of the human city-state. If they can become centurions and subordinate officers one step closer to becoming a land and wealth owned by many knights.

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

Unfortunately, Athens has too strict requirements for the army and must be innocent. At most, only 30% of the indigenous mercenaries who come here will be selected, but even so, many people still attract them.

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Governor's Office.

Murphy held a grand banquet to entertain the Aboriginal nobles. The already palace-scale Governor's House made many Aboriginal nobles widen their eyes. Obviously, they couldn't believe that it was only half a year and it became so magnificent. However, 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 in the lower classes are working hard and striving to gain a higher status, and everyone's face is shining with light.

That light is called hope

This Athenian Governor, with a better and more reasonable system, gave everyone in the territory hope. This hope stimulated Athens' productivity and made Athens' wealth expand at a rapid speed. The effect of a wise leader was extremely amazing, which can be seen from the time when Middle-earth entered the New China in the previous life. Murphy even remembered one thing that his father said at that time, that was to dig a reservoir. The county party secretary came to the reservoir for inspection and said only one sentence: "There is nothing to say, let's work."

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

When my father said this, he seemed to have aspirations for that era, but then he kept shaking his head and sighing.

Perhaps this spirit will eventually be corroded by material desires, becoming like the Middle Earth when Murphy arrived in his previous life, but at least at this moment, this gathering power is brilliant and brilliant.

Middle-earth has spent decades catching up with the gap in Europe for hundreds of years, and Athens is also seizing the opportunity to catch up with those more civilized and better races.

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

After the grand banquet, many citizens came to the ****, and the indigenous people from other places followed curiously. With a sharp roar, a loud bang appeared in the sky. Then the fireworks bloomed in the night sky. The unprecedented beautiful scene made many people stare at it. The indigenous nobles had never seen such a grand and gorgeous scene in their lives, and they were already shocked and speechless.

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

A burst of cheers resounded

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

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

Perhaps only the heroes of that era can do this, right?

As the fireworks ended, the citizens of Athens looked at the back of the platform with unsatisfactory hoped that such a dazzling firework would appear, but after discovering that it had indeed been set off, they could not help but leave with a loss. Below is the time for a free party. There is a lot of free food in the square, and there are many performances of jugglers. The girls dance around the bonfire, and young men shuttled through the crowd, looking for a beautiful encounter that might exist tonight. Some of the indigenous people who were qualified to enter the inner city to attend the celebration were lingering and watching around with the crowd.

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

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

Mrs. Elizabeth was wearing a luxurious ladies' dress. She looked extremely graceful tonight. She held Murphy's arm intimately, responding to the cheers of the crowd around her, with a sweet smile, and exhaling as if she was, "I like it."

Murphy has been idle these days, so he simply took two masters to study how to make fireworks. Alchemy contains gunpowder formula. Although he does not intend to continue to follow the path of mechanical civilization in his previous life, some things can still be learned from. He plans to prepare a grand fireworks performance at the New Year celebration to open the eyes of everyone in this world, and at the same time serve as a New Year gift to Mrs. Elizabeth.

Although relying on alchemy can lead civilization to the mechanical civilization of the previous life, Murphy was not prepared to do so. Instead, he planned to continue the civilization trajectory of this world and use arcane as the core of the world to establish a new civilization.

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

In my previous life, how serious the pollution caused by mechanical civilization was, how many creatures gradually became extinct, what critical point did the earth's climate reach? Even humans themselves were already standing on the edge of the cliff. As a modern earthling, Murphy knew very well that whether it was the hollow of the ozone layer, the melting of glaciers caused by the greenhouse effect, or the large amount of chemicals pollute the entire nature, or even the birth of nuclear weapons that could destroy humans themselves.

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

The overflowing material desires corrode people's hearts, and the declining morality gradually collapses. Even if it does not leave the so-called 2012 before the Earth, human beings can feel the approaching destruction, the deteriorating environment, the leakage of nuclear radiation, the increasingly abnormal climate, the melting glaciers in the next few decades, etc., and so on, the wars caused for energy again and again. If Middle-earth fights with the West in the future due to energy competition, then World War III is actually not far away from everyone.

Murphy remembered that when he was a child, the water in the well in his hometown was sweet, but now it was bitter. The smell that was contaminated by chemicals could not be eliminated.

How many years have it been?

How many years has it been? Ten years?

Maybe not yet

The water in the pressurized well has become undrinkable? The clear river has become dirty? Can't you see swimming fish in the stream again?

Murphy didn't want to and dare to drag the world into mechanical civilization.

Because he could not change the series of evil consequences caused by future mechanical civilization, that kind of destructive disaster could not be repaired even by gods. Going towards destruction in a short period of glory is something he could not face. The destruction of species under the irresistible external force is not a kind of sorrow. The real sorrow is that he pushes himself into destruction.

Some things are enough to face once.

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