Chapter 311: Face is the most important
Face is extremely important when you come out to hang out.
As soon as Garcia got off the carriage, the dress made of only five colors of silk and the nearly one pound of gold jewelry were immediately outshone by the colorful silk dress and three pounds of gold jewelry next to her. , the head could not help but lowered a little.
The eldest sister comes from the southern part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the wealth of her territory is far beyond that of Garcia.
Frederick didn't care about this and focused on his wife's castle.
He had been to this island once a few years ago, when the castle was being renovated and Mafia and her two children lived in a villa in an orchard outside the city. Today was the first time he walked here.
This castle has a long history. It is said that it used to be the palace of the emperor of the Pulan Empire. The entire main building is a four-story castle in the shape of a zigzag. There are round towers at the four corners and long corridors extending out on both sides. Circle a lawn almost the size of two football fields.
There are rumors in the world that this huge lawn was prepared for Richard Nall to practice martial arts. Katie said that when she was a child, she was taken to the middle when she made a mistake. If she could run out, she would pretend that nothing happened, but there was nothing missing He was caught and beaten by his mother.
When he walked into the castle and saw the decoration inside, Frederick instantly felt that his castle was a warehouse.
The Kingdom of Sardinia is world-famous for its art, and it is naturally affected here.
The pillars in the foyer are all covered with a decorative layer of snow-white gypsum, and gold foil is covered with leafy and intertwined column tops. It looks like a gold flower basket is placed on the top.
The walls between the pillars have complex gold leaf acanthus patterns, and large religious-themed oil paintings hang on them. Frederick even discovered that his father’s oil painting was hanging on the first one on the right hand side of the entrance. Location.
The top of the foyer leads straight to the sky. The top is a glass dome, surrounded by one hundred and eight angels of different shapes. The hair and wings of these angels are also made of gold foil.
Frederick looked at the relatively narrow doorways around the foyer. If the enemy came in and the door was blocked, God knows what would be thrown down from above.
He was acting like a country bumpkin who had just entered the city. He kept looking around. There were people who looked like him around him.
The corridor leading to the living room is also full of oil paintings, and the themes here are mainly famous figures and historical events.
Frederick saw an oil painting in which the master was kneeling on one knee at the end of the bridge, with his head lowered, humbly listening to the teachings of an old nun wearing a white robe. He saw that the signature was Katie in 22 Painted when I was 19 years old.
As soon as you walked into the living room, you could see an oil painting more than two meters high and nearly six meters long hanging on the wall opposite the door. Many guests stopped to watch, and some began to explain the story in the oil painting. .
Garcia quickened her pace and walked over, but Frederick could only reluctantly follow.
From an artistic and technical point of view, this oil painting that Psyche painted to earn some pocket money is of extremely high value.
This oil painting pioneered hyperrealism. The facial features and expressions of every character in the painting can be clearly seen, and you can even see the tails of war horses flying when they are running.
If you look at it from a historical perspective... Frederick felt that he would not dare to attack a hundred thousand winged cavalry with only 800 cavalry like in the painting.
But the interpreter felt that the people and things depicted in the oil painting were real, and told in an enthusiastic voice how Frederick chopped it off from beginning to end.
The guests here are all gangsters, and fighting and killing are commonplace, but the number rarely exceeds a hundred people.
A big man with a scar on his nose sighed: "That's one hundred thousand people. Even if it's one hundred thousand oranges, it will take a long time to peel them!"
The gangsters next to him kept nodding.
Another big man who lost one ear sighed: "It would be great if my father was like Duke Wesson." Frederick smiled on the side and could only smile.
At this time, a soprano singing sounded in the living room, and the guests suddenly became commotion.
There was no band or singer in the reception room, but a servant turned on a radio-like machine by the door to play music.
It would be okay if it was just a song on the radio. Garcia was stunned for a while and said in disbelief: "It's impossible. There's no way Mafia invited Princess Lola here!"
She was just like everyone else. When I gathered around the machine, I found that it was different from the radio. There was a dark disk rotating on the top. There was a rod on top of the disk, and a very thin light shone from the bottom of the cylinder with a hammer-like top. On a black disc.
Frederick was also very surprised. He had not paid attention to the research on the phonograph in the past two years and did not find it appearing now.
The phonograph is a project of the Royal Mages of the Rhine League. This thing has been researched since 1026. Frederick promised 10,000 gold florins back then, but the answer was always "soon".
Frederick remembered that the principle of the gramophone had already been finalized. The royal mages took reference from radios and communicators. When recording, they first converted the sound signals into magic powers of varying strength to control the knife head on the translucent Sly. A record made of glue has extremely narrow grooves burned into it, and the playback time element passes through these grooves and is then converted into sound.
However, it was extremely difficult to turn the principles on paper into a machine that could be sold later. The processing precision requirements were too high. The craftsmen of the Rhine League could not do it. It was also difficult for Weisen to achieve it at the time. The materials for the records were also very troublesome, so all the energy was spent on it. This is up.
Frederick observed carefully and found something under the shelf where the gramophone was placed that did not seem to match the gramophone. That thing was a rocker that started the walking tractor.
He thought about it and understood that the rotation of the record was powered by the clockwork, and the rocker was used to wind up the clockwork.
“It’s amazing!” Garcia sighed, “How come Duke Wesson’s men are always able to make amazing things that people don’t expect?”
A middle-aged man next to her knew her. Boss Nian then said: "That's Duke Wesson who has created countless miracles. He can also make people fly and hear another person's voice hundreds of kilometers away. What's so strange about making such a machine?" ”
Frederick was thinking that this gramophone appeared here, and the person who recorded the record was obviously of high status. Firstly, he should be someone invited by the royal mages. Secondly, this machine can be mass-produced, so he sent one for advertising. Thirdly, The lady here wants to show off in front of these guests.
Face is the most important thing in the world. Even if the floor is paved with gold, it is not as good as this gramophone that even money cannot buy.
This record finished playing in 4 minutes, just as the first single ended, and the servant immediately changed to the second one.
This record made Frederick's mouth twitch. It was the chorus "The People of the Rhine Will Never Be Defeated". This time it was really a cultural export.
The vast majority of the audience did not understand the lyrics of this foreign song, but it did not prevent them from hearing it with excitement and recalling their own years of killing people.
Frederick was thinking about the issue of cultural output with the help of gramophone, when he was suddenly pulled into a corner by Garcia.
Garcia whispered: "Mafia is here!"
The mistress was coming, and Frederick immediately arranged his clothes and hair.
It was just what happened next that made him want to cover his face. It seemed that Wesson State’s cultural export was too powerful.
The servant next to the gramophone put on a new record. Amidst the music of "The Brave Seven Dragons", Mafia, the leader of the Black Claw, the largest gang in the southern Kingdom of Sardinia, slowly walked into the meeting. The living room looks the same as when there was a meeting in Wilson State.
(End of this chapter)