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昨天在JoP那脑洞到的超级爆笑的形容也发给Shader!我觉得你玩起来的菲利普应该是这个感觉👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyDo3h1Tu7c&list=RDSyDo3h1Tu7c&start_radio=1

而我玩的菲利普是这样的👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPA1Es1RuL4

就这都能赢,说明AI还是太菜了。但是想想能玩的让AI差点赢的我岂不是更菜:gng:但是我的菲利普要开始举着十字架疯狂挽尊了!美就是第一生产力!我这叫外强中干黄昏末日帝国西班牙体验限定卡!:angry_seagull:
5 月 18 日 下午 7:09 
Shader老师周一晚上好,新的一周也要开心,也感谢Shader老师带我打文明6
5 月 18 日 下午 6:13 
长周末快乐!
5 月 18 日 下午 6:10 
有烤箱但没有试过,下次买块好肉研究看看~ 吃饭时间总要比做饭的时间长吧,经常两个锅一起开快快煮熟就好了:LOLFlorence: 感觉吃过最美味的烤牛排还是用BBQ炉子烤的,不需要其他调料撒上胡椒就很好吃(擦嘴,最近把超市的鱼买了个遍,比煎牛排好处理多了lol
5 月 18 日 下午 12:32 
但搞笑的就是我玩的菲利普尼玛水平好像和AI一样。我服了,我都不知道这盘能不能赢。开了音乐审查了然而旅游业绩还是被彼得超了,科技飞天进程领先,但是我比辣酱早开始N个回合,他布达跑飞天产能比我快多了:awkwardsmile:砍二也开始飞天了,但最好笑的是现在匈牙利外交19/20,不是这世界还有王法吗!我难道真的要打出第一次输给AI的局了吗:awkwardsmile:算了就当人生多一份体验!强是一时的,美是永久的。工业会腐朽,帝国会覆灭,唯有艺术永流传(爱好海景艺术收藏的黄昏末日中空帝国西班牙国王菲利普二世如是说)
5 月 18 日 下午 12:32 
突然感觉彼得是在玩家手里是全能文明,AI彼得则是倾向很明确,有很明显的长短板。辣酱则刚好相反,按理说玩家玩它不会当成俄罗斯那种全能文明,但AI辣酱好像真的是你说的很全能啊!啥都能干,没有那种看这局的局势能猜到有匈牙利的特征!

所以彼得只要不当我近邻就没那么恶心,辣酱好像总能恶心到人:gng:AI玩他们一般的特征都是分数在中上几个里竞争,彼得总分会高一点,通常是靠某一项很高拉上去的分,本人有短板。辣酱一般总分没那么高,但他发展很均衡。AI大哥和AI若昂在我遇到的几次里好像都是分数偏低打不出来的。AI菲利普通常是前期高后继乏力,总分中游。
5 月 17 日 下午 11:31 
笑死进来就看到红色醒目的己所不欲勿施于人!
5 月 17 日 下午 11:29 
文明7后天更新“时间的考验”!一个文明玩到底改回来了!坐等shader的repo!
5 月 17 日 下午 8:47 
一边跳舞一边摇铃鼓芭蕾还真的有,艾丝美拉达变奏,很有名!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBUxkh1Oj1c

这个舞者Lopatkina之前我发过她的,世界大众里最有人气的一个天鹅湖主角,网络喊世界第一白天鹅。但她本人不太喜欢,说被框住了,哎就跟有的演员戏路窄了一样,芭蕾演员也是演员嘛!:gng:我最喜欢的芭蕾舞者之一,是马林斯基剧院的前首席,比我妈妈小几岁,2017年退役的。马林斯基就在圣彼得堡!所以我刚玩文明发现有莫斯科大剧院那会,我就想凭啥没有马林斯基啊!我首都都是圣彼得堡了,你就不能给个马林斯基吗!:angry_seagull:
5 月 17 日 下午 8:42 
今年被国内老师push了一把已经会了7个意大利转!希望我今年也能学会32挥鞭转!:angry_seagull:
5 月 17 日 下午 8:42 
中世纪多瑙河它的编曲就让我感觉很芭蕾,但同一个旋律的工业和原子能编曲又很蹦迪,远古时期又不是很能跳舞的那感觉,安静纯洁,这首曲子真是编的很强啊!

因为这种特质,辣酱在被我转化为文字里时,脑海里的image总是蹦蹦跳跳的。是天鹅湖第三幕里的奥黛尔,危险美丽,动作十分大开大合,张牙舞爪的,起起伏伏,齐格飞不拉一下就要飞出去了!远古时期的音乐就是奥杰塔,温柔安静,内敛细腻。虽然故事里齐格飞爱上的是奥杰塔,黑天鹅是反派,然而在芭蕾界里古往今来比较受欢迎和关注的始终都是奥黛尔,最有名的就是黑天鹅的32挥鞭转了!但我最喜欢的还是努里耶夫的那种解读,王子是主角,黑白天鹅都是同一个人的内心投射,奥杰塔和奥黛尔对齐格飞来说都同样迷人!
5 月 17 日 下午 8:33 
所以这个舞蹈里的这个动作就是这么快地两个脚来回交替,很难的!上课做到这个能把人脑烧死!:angry_seagull:

文字说起来可能很抽象,我是说中世纪的多瑙河给我的就是这个感觉。你提到的那个铃鼓就是重拍!base里每次打铃鼓的时候都是主旋律里的重拍。那么在芭蕾里它就是弱拍时收回来向下蓄力,重拍时向上整个人展开做动作!在这么快的一个旋律里要这么做,还看起来不能是BOOM的,必须要是延伸出去的,可以说是非常难,多萝西是真的厉害啊,法派芭蕾对脚下功夫极度重视!
5 月 17 日 下午 8:26 
这个舞的动作相当难了!芭蕾的原则就是起起落落,平着脚落在地上叫On the Ground,脚在空中叫On air,立脚尖叫pointe。它的科学原则就是,你一定是要地上蹲一下才有个力下次立起来,或是跳起来的嘛!就像我曾经提过的数学,它所有的一切都遵循一个底层公式。它一定是起起落落的,视觉上不可能一直on air也不会一直on the ground,肯定是交替的!

芭蕾的审美里有个原则,就是延伸。你的天和地不能是一下子BOOM上去又一下子BOOM下来的,向上要延伸到不能再延伸,向下要缓缓落下。这个就是需要极其用力的控制了!芭蕾看起来很噼里啪啦的就是没劲,但看起来轻如雪花的就是很有劲!

但拉丁不一样,拉丁就很BOOM了!所以课上看到拉丁转芭蕾的人真是超级明显啦!:gng:诶话说这点我写的彼得还真的在文里科普过了哦,笑死!:cool_seagull:
5 月 17 日 下午 8:12 
日本就是典型的跟中国比是底线高上限低,作为发达国家有更文明的底气在,你只要不把自己当日本人就会在那活的很舒服,不像老钟人有各种破事。但他们在意的很多东西在中国人看来是理解不能的,我感觉中国尤其是川渝跟日本比真的是很P人很随性了!

比如我在日本跳芭蕾是最卡点到的,在中国跳芭蕾是来最早的:happy_seagull:中国人的芭蕾教室来晚了就自己进来找地方,要接电话就出去打一下,甚至中途可以玩下手机回个消息。在日本人那这简直就是不能想象的事,甚至课前把手机带进去玩的人都是很少的。但我就是那个天天把手机带进去玩的:gng:我在中国跳舞也按照我习惯的那套活,卡点到,从不迟到,会把手机带进来,但上课时一点也不看23333

他们在性别问题上也基本就是这个态度,中国人比较随性的事在他们那难以想象:happy_seagull:
5 月 17 日 下午 7:33 
以及这个舞者叫多萝西,是POB的首席,马上退了今年!她24年来东京,我去看了她的曼侬。POB首席多宝的称呼就是这么来的:happy_seagull:
5 月 17 日 下午 7:32 
就是这个2:55之后的感觉!语言难以形容恨不得自己跳舞:gng:这个芭蕾舞剧叫葛蓓莉亚,这首曲子刚好,中间部分一个乐句的拍子都跟多瑙河一样长,节奏类似中世纪多瑙河2333

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msC07KYHD_E
5 月 17 日 下午 7:28 
玩菲利普玩困了都,太菜了根本不知道我在干嘛,甚至能玩的忘了我是西班牙:junoEeh:要么下次你玩个菲利普给我看看,我来当你的宗主国大哥伦比亚,指宗教主流国家:happy_seagull:
5 月 17 日 下午 5:12 
我感觉我也算是个latchkey kid,然后爹妈天天给买肯德基和麦当劳,所以我长大了最亲近肯德基和麦当劳,死也懒得做饭:happy_seagull:感觉中国8090s双职工独生子女一代latchkey kid特别多,人们觉得男的会做饭正常。

这点是我后来在日本才意识到的,因为在和日本人聊到我爹妈时他们居然还需要特别强调,特地介绍说“中国曾经都是双职工家庭,所以中国男人也都要会做饭”。对他们来说好像家里爸爸爱做饭是个特地需要强调的事:happy_seagull:难怪宝可梦里有小刚这样的萌属性,小时候我看宝可梦看到小霞说“做饭是男人的活”我觉得对啊对啊就是啊!我家都是我爸和我爷爷做饭,我哥也做饭,其实我妈我奶奶我姐也做饭,全家只有我家务废物且懒:gng:
5 月 17 日 下午 4:56 
哦耶!!我最爱的大哥档完整版!OVER!END!今天真开心!:cool_seagull:
5 月 17 日 下午 4:55 
Matthias looked up at the spaceship gradually disappearing into the cosmos for a very long time.

His scientific progress was pressing closely behind Bolívar’s, and he had already begun the Mars Colony project. After Bolívar’s Spaceport sank beneath the sea, people had almost thought Matthias would be the first to fly into space.

After all, he was always reaching toward the night sky.

But Bolívar still left first.

Matthias seemed lost in thought.

Nader Shah looked at Matthias and asked:

“When will you fly into space too, Matthias Corvinus?”

END
5 月 17 日 下午 4:55 
That day, Gran Colombia’s spaceship still left the earth. President Simón Bolívar piloted the ship and flew toward the universe. The citizens of Gran Colombia held a parade and a festival in the town square, they had a long night, sang and danced in the civic plaza of the capital.

Every civilization watched that flame rise from the sea toward the sky.

Bolívar was not strong enough to fight a tsunami. He could only smile, pick up his guitar, and continue plowing the sea. From other cities, other harbors, and other roads, he still sent himself toward the stars.

He broke free from the chains of servitude to the earth, from the physical bonds of gravity, and rushed toward liberty, soaring through the universe.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:53 
And yet Bolívar only laughed at himself, then stood up again.

Bogotá’s Spaceport had sunk into the ocean, but Gran Colombia was not Bogotá alone. Cuenca, Panama, Quito, Caracas, Guayaquil—as well as the railways, harbors, coffee, trade routes, and one coastal city after another—all continued to operate.

He mobilized the production of his other cities and lifted the dream that had fallen into the sea back toward the sky.

While busy building, he smiled and said, “Of all the roads you take, safety comes first. Build without regulation, and your capital weeps in two lines!”

He shared his experience with the other civilizations:

“Do not build important districts on floodplains or low-lying coastal capes!”
5 月 17 日 下午 4:51 
Only then did Nader Shah remember that Bolívar had indeed been preparing to reach the stars recently. Yet his Bogotá had been built on a cape, romantic as a poem dedicated to the sea.

Then the sea had risen.

The Spaceport that carried Gran Colombia’s dream of spaceflight had been sunk to the bottom by a tsunami. So the sea was not only the foundation upon which Bolívar survived; it could also turn back and hurt him. It sounded like a malicious joke played by fate.

So even the powerful ally of weak civilizations was, before nature, such a weak civilization himself. He could influence humanity through diplomacy, yet he could still be swallowed by the sea.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:51 
Matthias froze. “What?”

“My Spaceport in Bogotá was just flooded by seawater,” Bolívar said. “The citizens of my capital went under the sea before they ever reached the sky. If you want to be my father, it isn’t unreasonable for you to contribute some aerospace reconstruction funds, is it?”

Bolívar continued holding out his hand, his smile as open as the sea wind.

“Isn’t the Corvinus family very rich?”

Watching this scene, Nader Shah suddenly realized that there was indeed a reason Simón Bolívar could be friends with Matthias Corvinus.

Both of them were rather shameless.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:50 
After saying this, he immediately turned around. His beautiful blue eyes blinked at Peter, and his tone suddenly softened like wind by the Danube.

“Peter, don’t listen to his nonsense. I would never be Philip’s husband.”

Peter looked at him and nodded, apparently not feeling that this required any explanation.

Matthias immediately became cheerful again and turned back toward Bolívar.

“However, Bolívar, you may be my son.”

He smiled sweetly.

“Come on. Call me Father, or dad, or whatever.”

Bolívar glanced at him and held out his hand.

“If I call you Father, will you give me pocket money?”
5 月 17 日 下午 4:49 
Philip’s expression changed instantly.

“Who wants Matthias as my husband?”

He paused, as if suddenly realizing that the sentence itself was already terrible, and immediately corrected himself.

“No, who wants you as my son? Don’t try to force some family connection here! Creole child, why are you clinging to the orthodox great Spanish Empire?”

Nader Shah silently set down his coffee cup. He felt that he understood every single word. But he was not at all sure whether he should understand what those words meant when combined together.

Matthias had been sitting nearby. Hearing this, he finally laughed out loud.

“Oh my, who wants to be Philip’s husband?”

He spoke slowly and lightly, as if the idea itself were an insult to his aesthetics.

“Whoever spends their life with Philip would be terribly miserable.”
5 月 17 日 下午 4:48 
One day, while Nader Shah was drinking coffee in Bogotá, he heard Philip II and Simón Bolívar arguing again.

They did not seem to be arguing about something that had happened in this world. Nader Shah listened for a while before realizing that they were talking about some parallel worldline he knew absolutely nothing about.

“Do you remember that time?” Philip said angrily. “Matthias attacked you and took your capital. I crossed the sea on campaign, liberated your Bogotá, and even gave you gold and strategic resources. And what happened? You were still closer to Matthias!”

Bolívar burst out laughing.

“Well, there’s nothing to be done!” he said. “Sometimes it’s like raising a child. You treat him so well, but he still ends up closer to your husband who hits him, scolds him, and makes him cry!”
5 月 17 日 下午 4:47 
It had to be said: when it came to telling jokes, Philip truly was not the natural talent these two were.

But Philip remembered that he should choose someone else.

So, that day in Sparta—

“Gorgo.”

“What?”

“Eat My Big Thick Hot Churros!”

Philip handed an entire basket of churros to Gorgo.

As a woman, Gorgo found this joke extremely offensive when directed at her from a man.

Thus, that day, Philip received a joyful Spartan beating.

“Philip, you bastard! You dare say filthy things to me? Then Eat My Big Thick Cold Spear!”

In the end, amid Philip’s apologies, everyone happily ate the churros.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:46 
Peter merely smiled and let it pass. He did not believe Philip’s missionary efforts could ever surpass his Eastern Orthodoxy anyway.

But Matthias, for once, offered a kind and serious reminder.

“Philip… when you make that sort of suggestive pun to Peter, I do feel a little unhappy.”

“I know, I know.” Philip smiled a little awkwardly and wisely stopped there. “I just occasionally want to try telling jokes like you all do.”

“Then choose someone else. You shouldn’t say that to Peter,” Bolívar kindly interjected, as if helping Philip understand what boundaries meant.

Then he looked at Matthias, smiling with the malicious joy of someone enjoying the spectacle, and told an even more hellish joke.

“After all, Matthias only wants Peter to eat his.”

“Mine is not chocolate,” Matthias corrected him very seriously. “Mine is cream.”

Everyone else choked at once and was nearly killed by their coffee.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:45 
Even the most serious Philip began to set down his cross, pick up churros, and invent some clumsy jokes he had just thought of. It was just that, in the field of jokes, he was still a newly born civilization. He did not have Bolívar’s or Matthias’s natural talent for humor, nor was he skilled in literary metaphor like Peter.

That day, Philip took his chocolate churros and distributed them everywhere, handing them out to everyone while proudly announcing the new name he had chosen for his religion.

“Eat My Big Thick Hot Churros! Accept the judgment of Churros!”

He deliberately took the largest churro, dipped it in the most steaming hot chocolate, and handed it to Peter, as if specifically expressing his dissatisfaction with Peter for converting his religion.

“You too shall Eat My Big Thick Hot Churros, Peter!”
5 月 17 日 下午 4:44 
The three of them left the Persian court laughing and joking. Matthias took a piece of lavash with him before leaving. Peter took the remaining faloodeh. Bolívar left behind a bag of coffee beans, saying it was to thank Persia for its hospitality.

That day, Nader Shah locked himself inside the palace. The more he thought about it, the funnier Bolívar’s cold joke became. Even the “Irrigation” he had thought of himself now seemed funny.

That day, the King of Persia rolled around laughing in the garden.

Bolívar really was somewhat special.

Wherever he appeared, things that had been drawn tight like swords would always be transformed, for a while, into something that could be set down around a dining table, coffee, and jokes. The world was full of strange jokes, and every civilization had declared friendship with every other.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:44 
Peter was silent for one second, then was the first to laugh.

Nader Shah was shocked to discover that Peter could laugh.

Bolívar held it in for two seconds, then finally failed, laughing so hard he nearly folded himself over the table. Matthias began laughing too, and the more he laughed, the happier he became, pounding the table with his fist.

“Yes, yes, exactly, I’m eating for two,” he said while laughing. “So I’m very weak. See? You have to go easy on me.”

Nader Shah looked at the three of them and suddenly felt that they resembled three fools.

The three most powerful empires on this continent were laughing like newly born civilizations that had just researched Irrigation, all because of a biologically impossible wordplay joke.

And when that thought occurred to him, he suddenly realized that the word “Irrigation” was terrible too.

Then he discovered that he was truly no longer clean.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:43 
Whenever Bolívar happened to be having lunch at the Persian palace as well, the atmosphere always became somewhat more relaxed.

“It seems the dietary diplomacy of weak civilizations has been quite successful,” Matthias said cheerfully while eating lavash.

“You are not a weak civilization,” Nader Shah said.

“I am weak when I eat.”

“You eat more than the two of them combined!”

“Precisely because I'm weak, I need to eat more.”

Nader Shah looked at the plates piled up in front of him and began calculating what he should ask Hungary for in their next trade deal in order to break even.

Bolívar was drinking coffee. Hearing this, he suddenly laughed.

“There are two of them, after all. He needs to eat for two.”
5 月 17 日 下午 4:42 
The broader Nader Shah’s horizons became, the broader his mind became as well. What had once counted as mental pollution no longer seemed like pollution to him.

He understood why Bolívar was always speaking of “generous souls,” and why he was so magnanimous and open. If Bolívar had been born, from the beginning, as a leader in an impoverished land trapped between stronger powers, would he still have been like this?

Bolívar’s answer to this was still a hearty laugh.

“Plowing a road through the sea is very hard work. It feels like Reír Llorando—laughing while crying would not be an exaggeration. Everyone is a slave to their own desires, always seeing only what they want to see. Sometimes, when you try to break the chains of servitude, you realize the one who chained you has long since gone, and the key has been clenched in your own hand all along.”
5 月 17 日 下午 4:41 
More importantly, as his culture increased, he began to understand the languages of other civilizations. The cultural atmospheres once hidden behind language barriers were now so clear. He learned that Hej Dunáról fúj a szél, that song which sounded so bright and lovely, like a light breeze, was in fact originally… a bawdy song.

Only in those past worlds beneath water he was not involved, when Matthias sang this song to Peter, he had deleted that verse, leaving only the opening and closing stanzas. Desire, almost arriving yet not quite arriving, was hidden within wind and snow. All that remained were the poor, freezing and starving by the Danube. The guy by the river played his flute, waiting for reunion in the next world beneath water.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:41 
He had already evolved to the point where, when Matthias smiled ambiguously and said he had “gone to St. Petersburg and spent the whole night clubbing and dancing disco,” Nader Shah would merely roll his eyes and, without so much as a change in expression or heartbeat, nod and praise him:

“How wonderful for you.”
5 月 17 日 下午 4:39 
Bolívar brought a new trade route to Persia.

Horse caravans carried coffee beans, sugar, and certain tropical fruits Nader Shah did not wish to admit he rather liked, traveling all the way from Bogotá across the ocean to the Persian court.

At least to this extent, when Bolívar said he was an ally of weak civilizations, he could indeed be considered a man of his word. No one in the world was currently declaring war, and Bolívar had in fact provided him with considerable resources and financial support. He was even reluctant to admit that the three neighbors he hated most, while constantly getting on his nerves, had also helped supplement the science, culture, and economy Persia had long lost to surprise wars from powerful neighbors.

Fine. Fine. Let Matthias and Peter eat whatever they wanted here.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:39 
When Bolívar visited Persia again, he sat in the Persian palace and looked toward flourishing Gran Colombia across the sea. From this side of the ocean, he surveyed his own territory, watching the sails docked in the harbor, the ships that had sailed little by little from Bogotá’s port.

It was like driving a rake into the sea. Like Moses parting the Red Sea, opening a path for himself.

The sea wind stirred his hair. He gazed tenderly at the road by which he had come and said:

“All who have served the Revolution have plowed the sea.”

Nader Shah reacted as if a censored keyword had been triggered.

“Plowing is forbidden here, thank you very much.”
5 月 17 日 下午 4:38 
So in that instant, he could not help asking, “You’re leaving just like that?”

Matthias looked back and once again revealed that gentle, beautiful, infuriating smile.

“Yes,” he said. “After all, I‘m a weak civilization. Frail and delicate. The wind could blow me over. I cannot withstand the wind, so I won’t keep standing here wasting time with you today.”

He waved lightly.

“I’ll visit again another day.”

Nader Shah felt that the phrase “another day” was more terrifying than a declaration of war.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:37 
Nader Shah stood where he was, watching them leave, and for a moment he was actually unused to it. Perhaps after being tormented by Hungary for so long, when a person was repeatedly attacked by a disaster, they would feel an absurd emptiness when the disaster suddenly retreated.

What he wanted to admit even less was that Peter’s words had unintentionally revealed something: Matthias was indeed still the Raven King.

Even in the most intimate place, somewhere no one else could see, he remained a damned warmonger civilization, obsessed with Domination Victory. Only the battlefield had changed.

This made Nader Shah feel disgusted. It also made him feel relieved.

Because if Matthias were only irritating to people other than Peter, that would have been far too unfair.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:37 
Matthias was quiet for two seconds. Then he released Nader Shah, and the smile returned to his face. He took Peter’s hand.

“Then let’s hurry back to Buda,” he said, his voice softening. “We can sit down and rest for a while. I just happen to have some coffee from Bolívar, and bananas for you. We can enjoy them together.”

At this point, he paused and turned to glance at Nader Shah.

“This time, I mean Gran Colombian bananas. Literally.”

Nader Shah did not want to speak. After bonus resource wheat, it seemed bonus resource bananas had now acquired a new meaning as well. He had been violently mentally polluted. His entire person would never be clean again.

Matthias had already taken Peter and begun walking toward Buda. As they walked, he smiled and said softly, “You could have told me earlier.”

Peter replied, “Before you used that metaphor, I had not noticed.”
5 月 17 日 下午 4:36 
Nader Shah felt his soul leave his body in that instant.

Why could Russia say this sort of thing with such a composed expression and such a steady tone—details that he absolutely did not want to know?

He had merely wanted to express his dislike of Matthias. He did not want to know anything about the agricultural exchange between Russia and Hungary.

He felt that from now on, whenever he saw Persian workers building farm improvements, harvesting wheat, constructing plantations, or planting woods, he would no longer be able to look at them directly. When he sent Governor Magnus on a tour of each city to plow fields in turn, he would no longer be able to produce a single pure association.

He suddenly remembered that ever since Peter had evaluated his clothing last time, he really had begun studying his own outfits and color coordination. The first thing he did every morning now was look in the mirror.

This was cultural domination.

Peter had no idea why he was terrifying.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:35 
Matthias’s sword tip moved even closer.

Nader Shah continued, spreading his hands. “Unless what you meant wasn’t agriculture? Then which kind of plowing did you mean? So hard to guess.”

For once, Matthias had fallen into a disadvantage in a verbal duel. It was nearly the best day of Nader Shah’s life.

But then Peter spoke.

“That is not the case.” Peter’s tone was very calm. He looked at Matthias, as though discussing an agricultural improvement project and evaluating the literary quality of a metaphor at the same time. “You plowed too aggressively last night. The soil will be damaged.”

Both Nader Shah and Matthias froze.

Peter added, “Also, sowing should not be too dense. Plantations should be distributed more evenly, and with greater scientific consideration. You planted too many woods at once; the production overflowed.”
5 月 17 日 下午 4:34 
Perhaps it was because he finally understood that in this world, as long as Bolívar existed, someone would more or less have his back. Perhaps Bolívar’s presence had given him courage. Perhaps he had simply been tormented by these people for too long, and had finally learned the kind of joking style Bolívar liked.

In any case, when facing someone you detested, you should say things directly.

So he kept his eyes open, shook his head innocently, and let the great feather that Peter had once criticized for stealing the visual focus sway back and forth in front of Matthias.

“I said farming. Agriculture. Didn’t you say you went to plow the fields? Since you’re so weak, how can you plow, right? Plowing and sowing are both physical labor. A weak civilization like you shouldn’t be doing that kind of work. Why are you so angry?”
5 月 17 日 下午 4:33 
Nader Shah finally snapped.

He felt that if a civilization had already developed to the stage where it could understand this sort of thing, and yet still remained silent, then that civilization’s development had been utterly meaningless.

So he said, “You say every day that you are a weak civilization. So where exactly are you weak? Surely you don’t mean you’re weak when plowing and sowing?”

The air went silent. The smile vanished from Matthias’s face.

The next instant, a sword was already pressed against Nader Shah’s throat.

“Say that again,” Matthias said.

Yet Nader Shah discovered that this time, he was not afraid.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:32 
Finally, one day, Matthias and Peter returned together from the direction of Russia.

Peter still looked like the snowfield itself. His long black coat hung down, his face expressionless, as if he had just walked out of an endless winter night. Matthias, on the other hand, looked refreshed, even so beautiful that Nader Shah found it irritating.

“Morning,” Matthias said.

Nader Shah immediately had a bad feeling. Sure enough, Matthias smiled. His tone was as light as wind blowing from the Danube.

“Russia is short on food. The tundra is too barren and needs farmland to be cultivated. So last night, I went to St. Petersburg…”

He paused. A bright, wicked glint flashed through his blue eyes.

“…and plowed the fields all night. Plowed quite a lot of wheat.”

Nader Shah closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Matthias added one more sentence.

“And sowed seeds, too.”
5 月 17 日 下午 4:31 
“Morning.”

Nader Shah said nothing.

“Last night I went to St. Petersburg and spent the whole night clubbing and dancing DIsco,” Matthias said.

Nader Shah was silent for a long time, then decided to pretend he had not understood.

The second time, Matthias passed by again.

“Last night I went to St. Petersburg and spent the whole night cooking.”

Nader Shah looked at him and once again decided to pretend he had not understood.

The third time, Matthias said, “Last night I went to St. Petersburg and fought a city-state defense war all night.”

This time, Nader Shah began to feel that he should no longer pretend not to understand. Because he had discovered that pretending not to understand would not make Hungary stop talking. On the contrary, next time Hungary would simply come up with an even worse way to say it.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:31 
As expected, anyone capable of becoming the strongest leader in this world was absolutely no easy man to deal with, no matter how much he claimed to fight for peace and freedom.

But even more terrifying was Matthias, who no longer even bothered to pretend. He would now come to Mashhad every day and actively broadcast the news.

For a long time afterward, Nader Shah was forced to endure a new Persian border disaster.

That disaster was called Matthias Corvinus passing by the Persian border every morning on his way back from St. Petersburg to Buda.

The first time, his cloak was still dusted with northern snow, and his laurel wreath sat slightly crooked. He was in such a good mood that it was annoying. When he saw Nader Shah, he smiled and greeted him.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:30 
Nader Shah had originally thought that Simón Bolívar, President of Gran Colombia, would at least be somewhat more normal than Hungary and Russia.

But by the time his diplomatic visibility had risen enough for him to understand what Bolívar had meant by all those【beep—】s, the more he thought back to Bolívar’s line—“Hungary’s Hussars and Russia’s Cossacks fought fiercely in the little woods by the Danube all night”—the more he felt that it could not withstand close examination.

All right, all right. He already knew that Simón Bolívar could see everything from the observatory in Bogotá. But how exactly did Bolívar know they had fought all night?

What, had they been fighting in the trees all night while he watched from the harbor all night?

Terrifying.
5 月 17 日 下午 4:29 
“For example, Matthias,” Peter said, as if offering a completely objective example. “The colors of his clothing are very simple. His clothes are cool-toned, while his hair is warm-toned. Therefore, every time he appears in the whole white permafrost, the first things I notice are his blond hair and blue eyes, and his laurel, shining even on the most snowy days.”

Matthias lowered his head onto the dining table and covered his face with both hands, his shoulders trembling, unable to hold back his ecstatic laughter. For the moment, he set down the lavash and leaned a little closer to Peter.

Then he lifted one hand to raise his cloak, blocking both of their faces from Nader Shah’s view.

A moment later, the cloak fell. They returned to normal and continued eating.

Nader Shah very much wished that both Russia and Hungary would get out of the Persian palace.