Godly Fisherman

Xiao Peng carried an earthenware bottle in his hand. The shape was very simple. It had a small mouth with a big belly and two handles at the mouth. This kind of pottery is very common on the coast of the Mediterranean. But the one that Xiao Peng held in his hand was obviously old, and it was covered with seaweed and mussels.

Xiao Peng smiled and said: "There is a shipwreck below, and there are many such amphora on the ship. These are the bottles used by merchant ships in the Mediterranean to transport wine, olive oil, fish sauce, etc. in ancient times, but The Oceanus cylinder is out of oxygen. So we are back. Maybe there is a baby below."

After hearing Xiao Peng's words, Julia and Annie looked at each other and laughed together.

Xiao Peng puzzled: "What are you laughing at?"

Julia said: "This is the Mediterranean Sea. You can find such pots next to any island."

"Is it that exaggeration?" Xiao Peng widened his eyes.

Annie smiled and said: "Mr. Xiao, you still don't understand our Greece, come, I will show you something."

"What?" Xiao Peng puzzled.

Annie took out a purse from her pocket. After opening it, it was a picture. It was not so much a picture as a picture of an oil painting. It was a portrait of an old man with a white beard.

"This is my great, great, great, great-grandfather." Annie said with a smug look: "He turned out to be a very famous pirate in the Mediterranean. Later, the Turkmen navy was wiped out."

Xiao Peng was dumbfounded when he heard this. What's so proud of Nima? It feels like someone in China took out a photo: "This is my grandfather Zeng, who used to be a bandit in the Northeast, but was later annihilated by our party..."

Seeing Xiao Peng's expression, Julia smiled and said, "Xiao, don't be surprised. In Greece, there are ancestors who were pirates are respected."

"Uh." Xiao Peng was taken aback after hearing this, "Is that OK?"

Julia shrugged and said, "It’s not weird, okay? The Greek peninsula is barren and food is scarce. If you simply rely on the development of agriculture, you can’t fill your stomach. The ocean is an important guarantee for the survival of the Greeks. So Greece has been in ancient times. It is rich in pirates. Let’s put it this way. A long time ago, pirates were just like farmers and fishermen as a profession. And after these pirates went to sea, they contributed much more than the harvest of farmers and fishermen. So in ancient Greece, they were encouraged When people go to be pirates, they will receive official awards when they come back."

Xiao Peng nodded after hearing this. What she said is reasonable. This is the history of the development of maritime countries. These piracy activities will receive official awards that year. These pirates will bring the more advanced culture back to China. China is a traditional agriculture. Countries cannot understand these acts of piracy, but for maritime countries, piracy is an economic pillar that promotes national development and a messenger of advanced culture, so it is not surprising that it is respected.

And considering that Greece has been under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, these pirates also have the status of a ‘rebel’, which is more respectable and understandable.

Annie said: "We Greece is one of the three maritime nations in Europe."

"The three major maritime nations?" Xiao Peng asked curiously.

Annie nodded: "Yes. The Scandinavians, and the Britons who live on the island like the Japanese, and we Greeks. The most powerful thing here is our Greeks, the first in Europe to begin colonization. It’s us Greeks. In the entire Eastern Mediterranean, either Egyptians or us Greeks. Just like Achilles and Odysseus recorded in the "Homer Epic", they are actually pirates."

Xiao Peng blinked. Are Achilles all pirates?

Achilles is so famous that this character from "Homer's Epic" became more and more popular and became the son of the sea **** Thetis and the hero Peleus.

According to legend, his mother learned from the goddess of fate that Achilles would eventually die in battle, so she pinched his ankle and soaked him in divine water, letting him fade away from the mortal body, and the result was soaking. When his father found out, the act of burning his son was interrupted. So Achilles was invulnerable except her mother pinching his ankle. Later, when he participated in the Trojan War, he killed Hector, the first warrior of Troy. But in the end, Paris shot an arrow in the ankle and died.

Although this Achilles is in

There are not many appearances in Greek mythology. In fact, he died after experiencing two Trojan Wars. But now, his status is similar to that of another Greek hero, Hercules. Anyway, the cow is not good, and there is even a word called ‘Achilles’ Heel’ which means the only weakness or incurable disease. Unexpectedly, Annie said that Achilles was also a pirate?

Annie nodded and said: "Mr. Xiao, I didn't lie to you. Don't forget that the big island I grew up to is where the legendary Odysseus the wise lived. We have to study local history since we were young. Let's talk about the Trojan War. Well, on the surface it is for a woman named Helen, but in the final analysis, it is for money. Helen is just an excuse. The most important reason is: the Trojans blocked the Greeks’ money. Can this not cause public outrage? So everyone drove the warship and sailed for the city of Troy. According to the "Homer Epic", when Achilles arrived in Troy, he said triumphantly: "On the voyage, I captured 12 capitals. After reaching the land, I looted another city, plundered a large amount of spoils and transported them back to Agamemnon, son of Atreus.’ Isn’t this a pirate? It’s not his crime Record'?"

Xiao Peng shrugged: "It seems I'm looking for a chance to read Homer's Epic carefully."

Annie smiled and said: "In order to let more Greeks go to sea as pirates, there is a lot of space in "Homer" to describe these things, that is, the siege to kill people and set fire to kidnap slaves. You can think of "Homer" as one piece. Look at a crime record novel."

Xiao Peng smiled: "Such things should be hidden and tucked away. Your ancestors are really interesting. Are they really big books?"

Annie nodded: "Yes, in fact, the pirates back then can’t be regarded as pure pirates. They lay down their weapons as good people, and when they took up weapons, they were thugs. They usually also do business and dump goods from Greece to Egypt, Asia Minor, and then take the The goods shipped back, so many islands in the Aegean Sea were the transit point of the year. Just like the most powerful Cretans of the year, they made a fortune with the help of pirates and maritime merchants. At that time, the Cretans were just like now The Stars and Stripes, an entire international policeman, became the teachers of city-states such as Mycenae, and the Egyptians who were still in the New Kingdom jointly fought off the Heksos. Even the pirates of the Eastern Mediterranean were suppressed by them. Afterwards, the civilization of Crete was destroyed, the Mycenaean people rose, and then Greek pirates rose."

After hearing this, Xiao Peng patted his hands: "I understand now, the feeling here was a place similar to a transfer station back then, and these amphorae were the goods of the year?"

Annie said: "There are no 100,000 or 80,000 shipwrecks like this in the entire Mediterranean. These amphora may have the value of studying history, but the collection value is not much."

Xiao Peng was disappointed after hearing this: "It turned out to be the case. I saw traces of bones in the sunken ship, and thought it was a wrecked ship carrying a baby."

Annie explained: "The pirates at that time were still in the slave business. Don't you know if you watched Mr. Xiao's "Dreamland" by Plato?"

Xiao Peng replied: "I have really read this book, but there is a problem in it. There are still slaves in his'Utopia'."

Annie smiled and said: "In ancient Greek law, everyone has human rights, personal freedom, life and health, and the right to pursue happiness, but these rights only belong to ancient Greek citizens and not slaves. To be precise Only male adult citizens of the country have these rights, women and foreigners do not. Slaves are goods, and pirates in those days would plunder slaves, which is a good'commodity' for them. Moreover, pirates still rely on colonization. To make a fortune, in Homer’s Epic, Odysseus’s Kingdom of Idaka was actually built by him with looted property. In the Trojan War, Achilles and Agamemnon were for one There was a conflict between the captured women. You can understand it as a conflict between the pirates to divide the spoils."

Xiao Peng whistled: "Your explanation gave me a new understanding of ancient Greek history."

Annie shrugged: "This is not a secret to the Greeks, it is something that everyone knows. Later, Greece was divided into three after being defeated by Alexander, and they themselves engaged in internal fighting on the Aegean Sea. The ancient Romans and the Parthians were destroyed. The Mediterranean became the era of the Romans, but after the rise of the Ottoman Empire, the Greeks

I can't live anymore. So I started to wander in the Mediterranean again. My once, great, great-grandfather was a pirate of that era, and at the same time stood up against the rule of the Ottoman Empire! It is the hero of our nation and the pride of our family. "

Xiao Peng held out his thumb, what else could he say? It can only be said that the national conditions are different. In China, no one will say that they are the descendants of the great pirate Zhang Baozi and are full of pride.

"Oh, Bai got excited, I thought I had made a fortune. Feelings are of no use." Xiao Peng sighed.

Emilia smiled and said: "Look at the look of you, a financial fan. You can see the shape of this jar and you will know that it is definitely not worth money. Isn't it still **** if it is left for a thousand years?"

Xiao Peng curled his lips and said, "I am a money fan and I am proud."

Julia said: "Hurry up and throw this broken can into the sea and soil the deck. My ship is a specially customized solid wood fore deck."

"Isn't it just a deck?" Xiao Peng lifted the handle of the amphora to throw it back into the sea. As a result, the handle of the amphora had been soaked in the sea for too long, so Xiao Peng broke the handle directly, and the body of the amphora was smashed on the deck.

"Yeah!" Emilia was startled, and when she saw the contents of the jar, Emilia smiled: "My dear, is this a snack?"

Xiao Peng laughed too, there was a big octopus hidden in this jar.

It is easy to find octopuses in any bottles or cans found in the sea. Xiao Peng just forgot about this.

"Fresh Atlantic Long Wrist Ibis, we will eat it today."

Emilia smiled and said: "Julia, look at Xiao Peng's net bag. This is obviously taking Oceanus to dive under the sea, but first thought about eating. Where did Xiao Peng go in his mind? The first thing that comes to mind is eating."

Xiao Peng shook his head: "You are wrong. It's not that where I went, the first thing I thought of was eating, but Huaxia was a nation that existed for food. Once China was extremely poor, and people were hungry every day. Struggle, China’s five thousand years of history, to put it bluntly, is a history of fighting famine. That is to say, because of this, the Huaxia people are very serious about eating. As the saying goes, there is food in their pockets, and they do things. Don't panic, let's talk about other things after we finish eating."

"Then what are you waiting for?" Emilia said suddenly.

Xiao Peng was stunned: "What am I waiting for? What do you mean?"

Emilia made a gesture of "please": "The kitchen is beckoning to you!"

Xiao Peng: "...Didn't you say you are cooking?"

Emilia stretched out four fingers: "First, we are not as delicious as you cook! Second, we were all sunscreen just now, and it was hard to apply it! Third, this is for Your chance to express yourself in front of your son."

Xiao Peng waited for a long time: "What about the fourth?"

Emilia gave him a white look: "So, do you need to talk? Of course it's because we don't cook as delicious as you, or else we can get you?"

Xiao Peng covered his face: "It's also my fault that the emotional cooking is delicious."

"Okay, don't complain, others want such an opportunity and still don't have it!" Emilia pushed Xiao Peng into the cabin.

"Octopus! Octopus!" Xiao Peng grabbed the Atlantic long-wrist ibis and other seafood: "I'll cook as soon as I cook. What's your hurry!"

"Why don't you worry? Waiting to eat your craft!" Emilia made a cat stroked beard: "Meow, meow, the little cat is hungry."

Xiao Peng sighed and said to Oceanus, "Ocean, look at your father and me. This is the negative teaching material for you. Don't learn to cook. You do it once in front of your future girlfriend. As long as she has the right appetite, it means you have to do it for a lifetime!"

Emilia blinked after hearing this: "What? Are you still unwilling to cook?"

Xiao Peng shook his head desperately: "It's a great honor. Wait for a few VIPs. The chef will come as soon as he goes.

Oceanus on the side was speechless: My father, you have to ruin your image.

(Lao Yang has been warned again, he has to be busy revising the content these days, you know... Don’t know what to say, three changes in the past two days, long live the understanding)