Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 318 News of meetings and competitions
During this exchange, Liang En became acquainted with these scholars, and passed the rest of the day by the way. Shortly after breakfast the next day, the meeting officially started.

At this meeting, Liang En naturally brought a paper of his own, the content of which was mainly about the situation in the western section of the Maritime Silk Road.

After all, the Maritime Silk Road began to rise in the Tang Dynasty, and the same era in Europe was the era when the Vikings were active. Therefore, Liang En was naturally able to write an article based on the series of knowledge about the Vikings he had previously mastered. Very valuable paper.

The effect of the thesis is even better than Liang En’s previous conjecture. A series of cultural relics related to East Asia and Southeast Asia found in Viking burials and ruins fully illustrate the extension of the Maritime Silk Road.

"This is a creative paper, because before that, the research on China's side mainly focused on the eastern section of the Maritime Silk Road, that is, from China to the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and East Africa."

"From the perspective of Mr. Liang's thesis, we can now learn more about the distribution of goods at the western end of the Maritime Silk Road by studying the trade routes of the ancient Vikings."

The host of the meeting spoke highly of Liang En's paper, because it filled a part of the original research gap on the Maritime Silk Road.

Although it is said that the main trades with China on the Maritime Silk Road were Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East or Persia, but this does not mean that no one has gone further.

For example, the white porcelain box buried in the cemetery of the female Viking warrior that Liang En dug near his home before can explain the problem very well. The fact that the small box appeared in remote Ireland means that this trade route is better than everyone knows. extended farther.

For this reason, Liang En's topic quickly became one of the key topics in the next group discussion. In the process, his full familiarity with the ancient Viking trade routes allowed him to gradually His own knowledge convinced those scholars.

In fact, at the beginning, even though Liang En had a good academic record, some scholars did not approve of him very much, after all, he was still too young.

But with everyone's discussion, after those questions about the Vikings were answered, everyone began to ignore his age and recognize his academic level.

"What did you do today?" Liang En asked Joan of Arc after the discussion was over and returned to the room. Because they had nothing to do these few days, Joan of Arc and Fan Meng naturally had plenty of free time.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Fan Meng has been running around the urban area and Hewan Village these days to deal with matters related to the new family tree. After all, he still has a task to bring back the family tree related to their branch.

Back then, their family who went to Nanyang escaped from Indonesia and dispersed to many countries. There were many people and the division was very scattered, so it obviously took a while to deal with matters related to genealogy.

For Liang En, this time Fan Meng came here not for work, but to deal with his own affairs, and even pay all the expenses by himself, so it is his freedom to go wherever he goes, and there is no need to act collectively all the time.

"Two days ago in a nearby club, I met a small team that participated in full-armed combat. There were only two or three people. I think they really like this kind of fighting, so I have been teaching them for the past few days." Joan of Arc replied .

Full-armor combat means that contestants wear armor and equipment restored according to historical facts, carry corresponding blunt weapons, and control the weight of blunt weapons (such as hammers) within one kilogram. Stabbing is prohibited, and one-on-one or multiple pairs Lots of fighting games.

Although this fighting technique has lost its value in actual combat today, it is still welcomed by many people as a sport, and there are even some international competitions held.

Although this sport originated in Eastern Europe is indeed more prone to injuries, but because of the strict regulations, there have been no very serious injuries or deaths, so the safety is not much lower than boxing or fighting games.

"How do you think my compatriots are at this level?" Liang En quickly figured out what Joan of Arc had done because of his understanding of such things, and then asked.

"At least from my point of view, they have good physical fitness, and have received corresponding training. More importantly, they are also very strong-willed. Wait for the elite."

Joan of Arc's evaluation of this group of lovers is not low, especially as a general who came down from the cold weapon era, in this regard, the level of people can be said to be one of the best in this era.

"However, from their actions, it can be seen that they are not so adapted to fighting in armor, so I mainly teach them how to fight while ensuring safety and obeying the rules."

In the era of Joan of Arc, games similar to this kind of full-armor combat were extremely common, and it was even a kind of necessary training for soldiers back then.

Although there are some differences in the rules of the two eras, for someone like Joan who has experienced a lot of battlefields, he can quickly adjust himself and sum up a set of tricks suitable for modern game rules.

"How did you communicate with them without knowing Chinese?" Liang En asked curiously. "Do they speak English well?"

"Their English level can only be considered average, but daily communication is sufficient. As for some professional questions, they can be expressed through body language, so it is not a communication barrier." Joan of Arc commented.

"By the way, they also invited me to participate in this year's International Medieval Fighting Federation competition, which is now one of the most famous full-armed fighting competitions in the world. I checked, and this year's competition will be held in Edinburgh in July, which is quite a distance from our home. It’s near, you can go and see it then.”

"Actually, if you want to participate, you can also participate. After all, this is a very interesting thing, and I will accompany you to participate." Liang En nodded and said, "But before that, we may need some equipment."

"It's already May, so is there enough time to build a set of armor?" Joan of Arc looked at Liang En and asked. "It was true that my armor was made in 5 days, but that was only possible with extra money and being a master armor maker."

"Don't worry, it's the industrial age now, and armor production is much faster than yours." Liang En said with a confident smile, "So you can ask those professionals these few days and then place an order, I guess one or two We'll get the stuff in a week."

So in the early morning of the next day, Joan went to the previous club as usual to train those full-armor fighting enthusiasts, and inquired about armor making by the way.

Liang En took a plane with those who were determined to go to sea to an island reef in the South China Sea, and then arrived at the pier. At this time, there was already a white ship on the pier, which seemed to have a displacement of about [-] tons. Waiting for them.

After boarding the boat, Liang En discovered that the boat had everything from salvage tools to a professional salvage team. Obviously, this was a salvage job that had been arranged long ago, and Liang En and the others just happened to meet it.

(End of this chapter)