Rebirth of the Viking King

Chapter 635 58

The bathhouse facility is no stranger to the Vikings who came from Hanshui Village.

Although the bitterly cold Scandinavia has low temperatures all year round, there are quite a few hot springs hidden underground. After the death of the old village chief "Mangus Starago", the first job Loki completed when he took power was to dig up the castle's underground palace, introduce hot spring water into it, and build a bath hidden in the castle.

Whenever they return from plundering or hunting, they take off their dirty clothes and jump into the hot hot spring water to take a bath. This is simply the happiest moment for the tribesmen after a tiring day.

The bath in the minds of Sartre and Grauer was a hot water bath in which they took off their clothes and jumped into it. They never imagined that in the Roman city, there was a bath that was even bigger than the palace.

What's even more exaggerated is that this building is open to all citizens free of charge.

Thirteen hundred years ago, Romulus, the founding emperor of Rome, already knew the power that the word "trade" would have. As the kingdom expands, the wealth accumulation rate of some citizens is destined to be beyond the reach of others. Over time, their lifestyles will be greatly different.

There will be an insurmountable class gap between nobles and common people. In the eyes of outsiders, they are even like two creatures living in the same world.

But this is the only way for the kingdom to develop.

Romulus could think of no way to change the situation.

Based on this important consideration, he summoned the most skilled architects in the kingdom to build the Great Bath Palace, a great building large enough for all the people in the city to enter and bathe together.

Only in the Bath Palace, everyone is naked and bathes together.

This is the only place in the Roman city-state where class can be completely abandoned. It allows everyone to put aside their status and have a casual conversation under the blanket of thick steam.

The two doors were pushed open, and thick white steam rushed towards them like a wall of air. All the rooms in the Bath Palace have been shrouded in thick white water vapor. Bursts of conversation and laughter reached my ears through the marble walls.

The city was already shrouded in twilight, and as soon as he passed the second pool after entering the bathing palace, Gulaul could hardly see his fingers in front of him.

He could only vaguely feel that he was in a huge hall. In the pool in the distance, nearly a hundred people were sitting or standing, enjoying the burning heat of the high-temperature steam.

Looking back, the other companions who came in with him had disappeared.

In hesitation, Gulaul identified the direction of progress through the dim candlelight on the wall.

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The "Great Bath Palace" is a huge building with a magnificent scale.

The one built in Rome 1,300 years ago covers an area of ​​5,000 square meters.

When the East and West Rome split, the Western Roman Empire was renamed Byzantium and its capital was Constantinople, which became the new commercial center of the Western Continent.

The newly built Grand Bath Palace is not only larger in area, but also three stories high. The bachelor who is still studying uses the principle of steam expansion and rising to transport hot water to higher floors, so that some more private spaces on the top floor can also have hot water supply.

There are no less than 70 pools of different styles throughout the Bath Palace, allowing all citizens who enter to explore them to their heart's content.

The white mist and the constant whispers coming from the empty walls made the sense of direction in the Grand Bath Palace extremely blurry. The ubiquitous water vapor also acts as a natural barrier.

Step by step towards the higher levels, Grauer saw the more personal side of Roman citizens.

Are there naked men and women hiding in the corner or by the bathtub having the most primitive intimate conversations of mankind? It is not uncommon for men to embrace each other and women to embrace each other.

This is a phenomenon that would not occur at all in Slavic or Viking societies.

The barrenness of the land and the sparse population make every cold land lord need his subjects to give birth to as many children as possible. In the ice fields and frozen soil, it is absolutely not allowed for same-sex couples to live together as partners.

In the eyes of the Slavic lords, this was a heinous disease. If it was not discovered, they would be immediately tied to the lord and beheaded in front of all the residents.

Mortals who died from this "disease" could not even be laid to rest. Their bodies had to be baptized by fire to ensure that no trace of the virus remained in the world.

But this is obviously not a serious problem in Rome.

In this country, which was the first country to implement the concepts of "democracy" and "republic", every member of Parliament, tribune, and peace officer are freely elected by the citizens within their jurisdiction. In order to maintain the votes they can get, every member of Parliament needs to do their best to meet the needs of citizens.

Any artificial suppression of citizens is likely to cause members to lose many votes and will most likely be replaced by competitors in future elections. The Byzantine Kingdom has become a paradise in the eyes of the residents of the West Road, because in this country, mortals can also control the fate of the upper class to a certain extent.

Although a single vote may seem insignificant, when gathered together, it can make a difference.

Although Gulaur still looks like a young man in his twenties, his real age is close to 40. In this not too short life, he worked as a slave, worked as a general, died in battle in Paris, and then lived in the underworld for a not too short period of time.

He saw the invincible undead sword cultivator, the desolate beast hundreds of meters high, the 12 lizard-men sect leaders, and the Egyptian Hades Osiris.

He deeply understands that not everything in the world can operate according to the inherent thinking in his mind.

Therefore, he calmly stepped over the pairs of men hugging each other and walked deeper into the bathing palace.

Entering the third layer, the steam is obviously thinner than the first two layers, and the temperature is slightly colder. Apparently not many people gathered in the bath palace on the third floor. When you put your palms deep into the bath, you can feel that the water temperature is much colder than the first two floors.

Just stay here, at least there are fewer people.

Taking off his clothes one by one, Gulaur was about to jump into the pool when a big hand suddenly stretched out from the darkness behind him.

In the thick white fog, a spark suddenly lit up between the two of them.

Gulaul saw a very unfamiliar face.