Summoning Total War

Chapter 32 Establishing a New Year!

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The trouble caused by heavy snow is far more than this.

Because on the third day, Murphy received a not-so-good news from the logging yard to the north.

It was about the afternoon before yesterday when a group of loggers saw huge footprints in the nearby forest. According to their description, Murphy was very suspicious that they were footprints left by ogres.

Because if he remembered correctly, a clan of ogres had migrated in the nearby mountains.

When I went to the elven ruins to search for ebony, I saw huge footprints in a canyon and a force of jackals that had been eaten. At the time Murphy thought they had moved to the other side. However, it seems that this ogre clan is still active near the territory. And because of the heavy snow blocking the mountain, it returned to the vicinity of Athens.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Murphy immediately canceled the logging yard.

These ogres in the Karazhan Mountains are not too big or a trouble, but now Murphy has no time to clean them up, so they can only stay there for the time being.

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On the fifth day after the heavy snow fell, Murphy finally received a fairly good news.

After contacting the barbarians living in the northwestern part of the southern plain, the foreign official Tobayes successfully established a trade relationship with them. And bought a batch of grain with funds slightly higher than the market price. This batch of grain is enough to support the winter wheat harvest in the Athenian Territory until June next year.

This is undoubtedly good news!

In the letter, the foreign official Tobayes also said that Utors, the Psyrian mercenary leader Murphy rescued, turned out to be the heir of a barbarian tribe. He helped a lot when he reached a trade cooperation with the barbarians. Busy.

This made Murphy couldn't help but think of the Psiyah he saved by himself.

Compared with the noble council, these barbaric humans, who are very low in status and excluded from the periphery of the human city-state, make him feel good.

Leaving aside other things, just mentioning that in the Battle of the Canyon, Utors led a group of mercenaries to help himself by the Psayas, which proved that he was a very knowledgeable person. This time he went to the barbarians to buy food, and he helped a lot. Murphy has to admit that these barbarians, who don't have much culture, don't even know a few words, are really affectionate.

He now thought that if he could, he might try to form an alliance with those barbarians.

In comparison, they are much more reliable than those noble councils in human city-states.

Because the quantity of grain is relatively large, and the season has entered winter.

It is obviously impossible to ship it back now.

It is estimated that the food will not be shipped back until early January next year, when the snow melts and the road is clear. The food in the territory can still last for a month or two, and Murphy is not too anxious to create a **** at a time. However, Foreign Minister Tobayes estimated that he would stay there for the New Year. He will stay there until next year and open the net, and then he will return with food. In these few days, Murphy will send an army to send the money to buy food and **** the food back all the way.

One thing that must be mentioned here is that a batch of yù rice shochu, which is researched by university scholars in the territory, has been produced.

The degree is slightly higher than the first batch, about forty-five degrees.

Because Murphy gave Prifei a taste of the slave merchant, saying that such a degree is completely within the tolerance of the aborigines. And there is a similar spirit in the orc empire. However, their spirits are not made with yù rice, but with a special kind of fruit called the flame fruit, which Murphy estimates should be a kind of inherently higher alcoholic fruit.

This kind of spirit brewed by the orcs is called fire wine, because the fruit is produced in the winter spring canyon area in the north, also called winter spring fire wine.

It is an expensive spirit with a value equal to the same volume of gold!

Since ordinary humans can adapt to these yù rice shochu at a temperature of about 45 degrees, those barbarians living in the northwest need not worry.

Shochu is very strong, and the inside of the stomach is as warm as a fire after drinking it.

It is definitely a good thing for heating in cold winter.

In such a primitive world without much enjoyment, spirits are undoubtedly one of the main entertainments for men.

Murphy's current plan is to first bring out a group of people who sent the money in the past. The current decision is to take the slave merchant Prifei together. He is very experienced in this area and can handle it.

As for the price, Murphy plans to set a little higher.

The amount of one-time sale is not too big, so I plan to take a look at the market's reaction before considering it.

All shochu production is in the inner city of Athens, and Murphy had already implemented a total blockade when the distillation technology was being developed.

So he doesn't worry about technology leakage.

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At the end of December, the breath of the new year comes.

Murphy called the high priest to discuss an important matter early this morning.

The two had been discussing from morning to noon, before they discussed the whole story clearly, and some detailed issues and possible impacts were also sorted out.

"Have you really decided to make this day the New Year and the birthday of Athena, the goddess of wisdom?" The high priest's face seemed to be radiant, her eyes flashed tightly on Murphy's face, and she said.

"Yes." Murphy nodded, and said solemnly: "The Athenians must have a grand festival."

"In addition to the harvest festival, we also need a festival to mark the coming of the new year! Although the aborigines of this world will celebrate the New Year on this day, no one has really made this day a major holiday! "

The high priest couldn't help showing a hint of joy, and said earnestly: "The goddess will definitely give you a gift!"

The gift of the goddess?

Murphy smiled faintly, but didn't care too much.

In fact, he was planning to include the New Year as one of the major festivals in the territory as early as the harvest festival.

The second era of this world began when the ancient elves planted the second tree of life. Although many intelligent races celebrate the New Year on this day as usual, no one has made it an important holiday in the true sense.

What Murphy has to do is to make a New Year's Day!

On the earth, the New Year originated in ancient Egypt. Time created gods around 50,000 BC. From long-term observations, the ancient Egyptians found that the time of the Nile flooding was regular, and they used this time to create gods. Each time it was recorded on a bamboo pole, from which it was learned that the time between the two floods was about 365 days. Therefore, the ancient Egyptians set this day as the beginning of the year. This is the earliest origin of "New Year's Day".

History moves forward.

In 46 BC, the Roman emperor Caesar set this day as the beginning of the Western New Year, in order to bless the double-faced **** "janus", the door **** in Roman mythology.

Then, it was the rise of the cross religion after the Milan pardon.

When the cross religion usurped the luck of the entire West and held it firmly in his hands, the Pope set the Western New Year as December 25, which is also Christmas.

As a result, New Year's Day faded and even disappeared, and Christmas became the symbol of the Western New Year.

Later, in order to resist the religious invasion, take care of people of other faiths, and downplay the religious atmosphere of the cross religion, all countries have changed the concept of Christmas.

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This world needs a new year.

After the suspension of the Olympic Games, Athens also needs an important festival that represents the beginning of the new year.

So after thinking about it for a long time, Murphy decided to make it all by himself.

And give this power to Athena, the goddess of wisdom!

January 1.

Grand celebrations will be held throughout Athens to celebrate the coming of the New Year, the hope of a bumper harvest next year, and a better future!

At the same time, the temple of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, will dominate this celebration.

On this day, everyone will have a three-day holiday! (The future will be seven days.)

On this day, everyone should go to the temple and ask for the blessing of the goddess.

On this day, all citizens of Athens will participate in a huge festival to pray for a better next year.

On this day, even the most stingy slave owner should give his slave a few loaves of bread.

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Naturally, such an important festival cannot be perfected all at once.

All Murphy had to do was to set up such a system. In the future, in what direction will it take to develop and how to gradually improve it, naturally there will be time to create gods and history to arrange.

A civilization, a nation, festivals and celebrations are definitely one of the hallmarks of xìng.

Murphy must lay the foundation for everything in the future now!

And his name will continue to be passed down with the formulation of this festival.

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Athena, the goddess of wisdom, is the current king of the gods of the Olympus system. If this day is to be used as a festival, then the only one capable of doing it is her.

Because she holds the power of the king of gods!

Because she is the master of the Olympus **** system!

Murphy's decision meant to recognize the authority of the goddess of wisdom, Athena, and handed her a friendly olive branch.

Murphy thought about this decision for a long time, and finally finally made it.

Looking at the high priest smiling in front of him, an uncontrollable thought suddenly surged in Murphy's heart, but he tried to suppress it again.

Everything has just begun!

He buried the thoughts in his mind in his heart, and then went to the high priest and slowly said: "I need the goddess to perform miracles on that day!"

miracle!

A miracle can set the foundation for all this!