Chapter 746
Every New Year's Eve, the Golden Hall in Vienna, Austria will hold a New Year's Concert, which is a grand event where celebrities from all over the world gather. Anyone who can be invited will feel very honored, except for the Venetians.
The Golden Hall was built by T. von Hansen in 1867 and completed in 1869. It is an Italian Renaissance building. The outer wall is yellow and red, and there are many statues of the goddess of music erected on the roof. It is quaint, chic and magnificent, but the question is, how could it be possible to build such a luxurious concert hall in two years?
Those statues and paintings were all handmade. Napoleon removed all the works of art that could be removed during his 11 years of occupation of Venice. When it was the turn of the Austrians, there was nothing to loot.
Under the pretext of building a railway station, they demolished a palace and a synagogue. The building materials were not wasted, and all were shipped to Austria. When Venice and Veneto finally could choose their destiny in 1866, they chose to join In 1867, the Austrians started construction on the newly established independent kingdom of Italy. Two years later, there was this music hall full of "Italian Renaissance style".
If the French are still a little more civilized, the Austrians are here to enjoy "happy hour" and they have invented a cocktail called prosecco mixed with witch liqueur. He was so drunk during the day that he could not find his way back to the barracks in the maze of Venetian streets, and later invented a system for numbering the streets.
For the convenience of transportation, they dredged and expanded another Grand Canal, and dug deep the entrance of the lagoon to facilitate the passage of ships, all of which used Venetian labor.
Destroying his own home and building roads for the robbers so that he could transport his belongings away, the puppet regime's practice aroused dissatisfaction with a young lawyer named Daniel Martin. In 1848, he proposed reform of the puppet regime, but the result was Was thrown into prison, which began the prelude to the Italian War of Independence, the Venetians first launched a 17-month popular uprising.
After the siege, the Austrians took advantage of the famine and cholera in the city and bombarded the city for another 24 days, firing 23,000 shells, until Martin was willing to give up the reform and promised not to retaliate for the bombardment.
Shakespeare set the story of Romeo and Juliet in Verona. It is said that a real story similar to Romeo and Juliet happened in Verona in the 13th century.
The same story happened in Venice. An Austrian boy fell in love with a Venetian girl, and the people of Venice beat the boy to death.
After these two rounds of looting, the former queen of the Adriatic Sea was left with only a dressing gown and a crown to hide her shame. Many Venetians went to Milan and Rome.
The city is indeed disappearing soon, but not because of the sinking of the city, but because the former family businesses have basically left because of the rising rent.
Stores selling luxury goods started to sell cheap goods. Tourists are very smart. The price of the same thing on Venice Island is so much higher than that on the mainland. Why buy it in Venice?
Then there was the mayor's plan to turn Plague Island into a resort because of his own cleverness.
The roof of the Tao Niu Palace was not made of glass at the beginning, but it became what it is now after it was removed. As for which French or Austrian castles those gilded ceilings are decorated with, it is unknown.
There should be many sculptures on the outer wall, but they are gone, just like the Parthenon. Even the archaeological club can't restore it completely. At present, it can only use wooden boards to cover up its ugliness.
Turning this palace into a museum is the dream of club members. They dig around and put those archaeological finds in those rooms. They spent a lot of thought and money to connect water and electricity to this palace. Their office is on the third floor , a room facing east.
"It's much better than I thought." Pomona said looking at the murals on the roof, which showed the scene of Jesus being born in a manger and Mary bathing him, which was not comparable to Raphael's Madonna in the Chair, It has no artistic value, so it escaped a bullet.
"I thought the office would be more modern."
"Isn't that modern?" Severus said, staring at the equipment on his desk, "What is this?"
"You don't even know a computer? What century do you live in?" Gianluca came out carrying a plate with a bottle of wine and glasses on it.
"What do you think?" The black wizard said with an elegant smile.
"Why is there a computer?" Monica asked.
"Prevent theft, and check the information." Gianluca said, "We are assisting the Maritime Museum to salvage the ship sunk by Napoleon."
"Is there so much information on the Internet?"
"No, sometimes we have to go to other libraries to check." Gianluca put the plate on a large wooden table, and then pushed his glasses.
"Are there any records of the Knights Templar?" Pomona said, looking at the table.
The room was empty, except for the large wooden table, like the one used by King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
"The Templars?" Gianluca asked. "What are you looking for?"
"Why is this wine chilled?" Monica picked up the bottle and asked.
"I like it that way," Gianluca said dumbfounded.
"What wine?" asked Pomona.
"Raboso." Monica gave the wine to Pomona.
"Do you believe the story of the Templars transferring wealth through the Venetians?" Severus asked suddenly.
"What difference does it make if I believe it or not?" Gianluca asked.
"Because we want to take the business from the Swiss bank," Alessandro said. "You're a Venetian, aren't you?"
"Seven people died." Monica looked at Gianluca and said, "They don't have a single woman. Do you know why there is a statue of a female guerrilla?"
"It's the Seven Martyrs," Alessandro explained to Pomona. "It's made of bronze."
"Hmph, seven again." Severus sneered.
"Are you Masonic?" Gianluca said, looking around at them, pushing his glasses.
"Neither of us." Pomona pointed at herself and Severus.
"No."
"Yes."
Monica and Alessandro spoke at the same time.
"There is no need to lie at this time, we need clues now." Monica said.
"Switzerland helped Liechtenstein, the richest royal family in Europe. If there is evidence that we helped the Templars, then we have done a righteous deed." Alessandro said, "Next, as long as the Vatican is willing to transfer money to our bank Venice will once again be the pearl of the Adriatic.”
"You're crazy," Gianluca said.
"Don't forget the customers in the East," Pomona said. "There are also a lot of rich people in China and Japan."
"I remember that every odd year, Venice will hold double exhibitions and film festivals." Severus said slowly, "You have never had a problem with China."
"Marco Polo," Pomona said, "there is still a statue of him in Hangzhou."
"And Russia," Severus said. "You sail to all the trade partners that are unacceptable to the Western world, just as you continued to sail when the Pope banned trade with Russia."
"Venice is sinking," said Monica "Do you want to watch it sink!"
"To be, not to be." Pomona smiled gleefully. "What a problem."
"You have no control over the Mediterranean Sea or the Suez Canal," Severus said.
"Control of land..." Gianluca said.
"I don't think that's something you should be thinking about." Severus interrupted him. "Is your family rich?"
Gianluca didn't answer him.
"It's a big game, does your family want to be the second Dandolo family?" Severus asked.
"I want to start by looking for the Knights Templar." Gianluca stretched his fingers, sat down in front of the computer and started working.
"It's much more fun than dancing." Monica said with a smile, "It turns out that conspiracy is so fun."
Pomona took a sip of Raposo. This kind of wine is so strong that most people can't get used to it, but those who like it can't stop it.
Bitter and rough, very much like Severus Snape, a man who would not give in easily, and a slippery worldly man, she had really strange tastes.
