King's Landing in France

Chapter 201 Roman Orthodox Italy

The Italians were discussing An Ning's record, and An Ning came out from the headquarters.

Sequoia's Milanese watched the general's stable boy named Julian lead the general's horse.The bearded man joked, "This stable boy is very suitable for Buzz. I don't know if Your Excellency the General wants an Italian stable boy."

Someone immediately spoke up: "Buzz wants to be the general's stable boy, so he has to change his name. I heard that the stable boy changed his name to Julian, which is the name of a Roman emperor."

Italy also has Rome, so Italians regard themselves as Roman orthodoxy in their hearts, especially anti-Austrian revolutionaries, who use Roman orthodoxy to mock the Holy Roman Empire.

Voltaire's famous quote is very famous in Italy ruled by Shinra: "The Holy Roman Empire is neither holy nor Roman, nor is it an empire."

The general mounted his horse and waved to the Italians as he passed.

A bold Italian shouted: "Your Excellency, where are you going? You are in such a hurry!"

The general said with a smile: "It is said that the Austrians ran away with their tails between their legs. I will go ahead to see the situation."

The Italians commented after hearing the words: "Run away?"

"Didn't you say that there is the main force of the Austrians in the direction of Trent? It won't come down?"

"Really, if I knew that the Austrians would slip away, I wouldn't be in such a hurry to avoid missing the opportunity."

Unexpectedly, this mumbling was heard by His Excellency the General. He looked at the Italian who spoke: "Although the Austrians ran away, everything we did before was not in vain. We now have a very large initiative on the scene. Thanks for your hard work, you have continued to trek in the snow for a few days."

After speaking, the general turned his horse's head and trotted all the way towards the ramp from the terrace to the Adige Valley.

The general's direct line officer corps followed in mighty fashion.Among them were two people who did not wear military uniforms.

"Look," the bearded man lowered his voice, "and brought two jesters with him to the battlefield."

Buzz looked strange: "The jester?"

"That's right, they are also called bards. They are those two who are not wearing military uniforms. One is a painter and the other is a musician. Your Excellency the General takes them around all day long."

Buzz: "Why is it called a jester?"

"Haven't you seen a comedy? It was played in the small open-air theater in Milan at night. Every king has two non-executive characters who are responsible for flattering people. Those who are responsible for amusing the master are called jesters."

To say that Italy is indeed a land of art, bearded uncles in trousers can chat with you about drama like those nobles in chaps.

But Buzz is even more miserable. He is too young and has not seen these things at all.

He can only use the wings of his imagination.

"Fool." Baz muttered, the general was in a bad mood, and the two jesters were trying to make the general happy.

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On An Ning's side, he was wondering why the Austrians were suddenly so happy, when he suddenly saw the Italian from Sequoia carrying a strange musical instrument on his back.

The army's military band mainly consists of drums and various horns. Some countries use bagpipes and flutes, but as far as An Ning knows, there is no military band that plays plucked string instruments.

So An Ning slowed down the horse and asked the Italian, "What kind of piano is this?"

The Italian replied with a Venetian accent: "This is the mandolin, my precious general."

The soldier next to him shouted: "It's his wife!"

Then everyone laughed.

Only then did An Ning realize that there is indeed a traditional musical instrument in Italy called the mandolin, which looks like a rounded lute.

The last time An Ning saw this instrument was in Nicolas Cage's war film "Captain Colin's Mandolin", which vividly showed how talented Italians were in World War II.

But An Ning liked that movie quite a bit, because the movie was very Italian. During the war, the Italian soldiers cared about eating and drinking well, and falling in love with local girls. Regardless of whether they could fight or not, just say it was romantic or not.

An Ning stopped his horse, stretched out his hand to the redwood Italian soldiers to pass the mandolin, fiddled with it, and dialed a few notes.

The Italian asked, "General, do you want to learn how to play?"

An Ning shook her head: "No, I now have fifty thousand or more Austrians to worry about. They were about to fall into our pockets, but they ran away this morning without looking back."

"You must have scared them away," said the Italian with the mandolin, plucking several chords at once.

An Ning waved her hand, and urged the horse to go forward to the Adige Valley.

As he was walking, he asked Beethoven who was going with him: "Are you familiar with Italian folk songs?"

Beethoven: "Is it a folk song played with mandolin? Although I have never played this instrument, as long as I know one of all the string instruments, the others can be understood by analogy. If you want to use mandolin in your music, I'm going to learn it."

An Ning looked at Beethoven and thought to himself that he is indeed a music saint. You are proficient in musical instruments by category.

He suppressed his desire to complain about the damned genius, and went on to say what he had just thought: "We have Italian troops under our command now, we should write some songs suitable for them, I think the key of local folk songs will degrade them The difficulty of acceptance. Sometimes folk songs have a unique charm, and they are especially suitable for publicity."

Then An Ning began to hum the melody of "Goodbye, Friend". This song was originally a song of Italian guerrillas. In the Yugoslav movie "Bridge", it seems that an Italian guerrilla Zavadoni sang it at the beginning. .

Beethoven listened carefully to the melody and said with a smile, "It's very nice. I don't know what the lyrics are?"

The lyrics that An Ning knew were re-written by Yugoslavia and then re-polished by domestic translators, so he hesitated for a while, but still did not grab the "invention rights" of other people's original lyrics.

The Italian guerrillas still sang this song and hanged Mussolini, this cannot be changed.

So An Ning chose a safe way to say it: "I didn't hear it very clearly, but I heard the phrase 'Bella Chao'."

Beethoven, a German, frowned: "Bella Chao? Uh, it sounds like goodbye in Italian. That's how the beautiful local ladies in the Milan salon I attended recently sent me away."

An Ning raised her eyebrows: "Why did you also go to the beautiful lady's salon?"

Beethoven shrugged: "I'm a musician."

What is this answer?
Are musicians bound to attend beauty salons?

At this time Napoleon interjected: "I actually tried to write some tunes, Ludwig, do you have time to help me take a look?"

An Ning looked at the most capable officer under her command, and frowned slightly at his neglect of duty.

In another time and space, Napoleon liked to write bad novels by himself, or love stories.

This time and space is good, I changed the composition.

No, he seems to have written novels too!You have a lot of hobbies, take it!
Beethoven looked embarrassed: "Okay, I'll take a look sometime."

At this time, the painter David interjected: "Your Excellency, let's put aside the matter of Italian music for the time being. What happened to the Austrians? They just ran away?"

An Ning glanced at David, he had already noticed that painters and musicians were secretly competing to see who could dedicate their talents to the great general (the brackets they thought).

Just talking about music all the time, the painter felt left out.

An Ning: "This is what we are going to find out. I want to take a look at the traces left by the Austrians, and maybe I can find some clues."

(End of this chapter)