Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first?-Chapter 499 - 11: Thracian War

"Firstly, from the content of the suicide note, it’s clear the professor had made some controversial remarks in public,"

"Secondly, since the suicide note was forged by the murderer, it’s likely that these remarks were the cause of the professor’s death, prompting the murderer to impersonate him in order to negate the adverse effects of his previous statements."

"Since the remarks were made in public and had quite serious negative effects, the most likely possibility is..."

"They were reported in the newspapers?" Mia asked.

"Exactly." Miel said.

Then, the two girls started searching for newspapers again. Unfortunately, although the professor’s study was filled with numerous books, they found no newspapers.

"How can this be?"

"Could it be..."

"This professor..."

"He doesn’t read newspapers!"

"Now that you mention it, paper media is quite troublesome," Miel said, "Once you’ve finished reading, you can only throw them away, or else they just take up space."

"You mean he uses electronic media?" Mia said thoughtfully.

After they shifted their search target from newspapers to screens, Mia finally found a Pad in a drawer.

"It needs a password," Mia said.

"Try fingerprint unlock." Miel lifted the corpse’s left index finger and pressed it on the Pad’s button, successfully unlocking it.

"Hmm, no need to search hard, the professor has saved all the articles concerning his own statements," Mia said with a grin, as she opened the "Published" personal collection folder and started reading the document:

"...among them, the most serious issue is the titans of trusts monopolizing market segments. Due to the application of the Matthew effect in the economic market, the ’survival of the fittest’ remains valid. However, it is important not to overlook the fact that it is the less competitive small and medium-sized enterprises on the Italian peninsula that provide over 80% of employment. If the titans of trusts are allowed to continue their unrestrained asset acquisitions or mergers of small and medium-sized businesses, it will inevitably lead to a significant reduction in the labor market and a rise in unemployment rates."

"Why can’t I understand a thing when I recognize every word?" Mia looked confused and was at a loss, "Miel, can you understand this?"

"Hmm." Miel did not answer but simply used her finger to scroll down on the screen:

"...Currently, the Lysine family has completed its absolute monopoly over advanced manufacturing, and is attempting to deepen its expansion and control both upstream and downstream. Its upstream consists of numerous component suppliers, with nearly no competition in acquisition plans in that area, while downstream lies a proliferation of market channels and distribution agents, inevitably leading to conflict with the Medici Family,"

"As an established financial titan, the Medici Family has been dedicated to controlling the circulation of market goods. Their goal is to realize Giovanni’s proposed ’everything as a position’ ideal financial concept, allowing all spot commodities to be perfectly interchangeable with options or futures. However, the rampant strides of the Lysine family in the circulation market have aroused the Medici’s heightened vigilance and hostility."

"The War of Tora in the year 239 of the Sixth Epoch was undoubtedly caused by the fierce conflict between two corporate giants. The Lixini Family acquired 827 small and medium-sized enterprises within a month, and were directly accused by the Medici Family as ’barbarians of the capital market,’ which sparked an all-out asset defense war."

"Despite the war’s eventual resolution with a temporary truce through negotiation, the process led to countless small and medium-sized enterprises going bankrupt and tens of millions of workers losing their jobs. It was as if giants and rhinos were wrestling, but in doing so, they crushed numerous ants, earthworms, and beetles around them. Therefore, I call upon the Church Court to intervene as soon as possible, to curb the expansion and struggles of the Tora titans, or else..."

"I don’t understand much," Miel turned off the display and said to those around, "but this professor, he must have been killed by someone sent by a Tora giant, right?"

Applause echoed in the study as the man in the black robe clapped, his tone quite playful, "I’m curious, how is it that you, at such a young age, can understand the contents above?"

"There are some parts I don’t quite understand," Miel said, "but I noticed that at the end of the article, he called for restraint upon the Tora giants, so naturally, the most likely assassin would be someone sent by Tora."

"Trust, the highest level of monopoly commercial organization." The man in the black robe explained indifferently, "For example, the Lysine Group, where your sister Nora comes from, is one of the famous Trusts on this continent."

"How powerful is the Lixini Family? They control the world’s most advanced industrial manufacturing technology and all high-precision manufacturers on the Italian peninsula. Any industrial product with a minimum level of technology that you can come across cannot be dissociated from the Lysine Group."

"So what?" Miel asked, "Was this professor killed by the Lixini Family?"

"Who knows?" The man in the black robe replied nonchalantly, "It might have been someone sent by the Medici Family. Or, perhaps, it could have been the Church Court."

"The Church Court?" Miel was surprised.

"Miel, do you know who the world’s largest Trust giant is?" The man in the black robe laughed heartily, "It’s the Church Court!"

"If it weren’t for the lack of unity within the Church Court itself, with the cardinal layer completely divided by the major houses, the Church Court led by Innocent would have already ruled the world."

"I thought the Church Court was just a theocratic institution," Miel murmured.

"Religion is merely the guise that the Church Court wears on the outside," the man in the black robe sneered, "The essence of the Church Court is an academic order and a violent political organization, a conglomerate representing the interests of the Italian houses."

"Through establishing dioceses, the Church Court dumps goods and services produced by Trust giants into various countries on the continent, thereby plundering wealth; through preaching doctrines, they plunder talent from the countries and attract them back to Italy; by means of the Temple Knights, they crush and exterminate any organization or government that dares to resist the Church Court."

"Technology and violence, religion and propaganda—these are respectively the ’Secular Sword’ and ’Spiritual Sword’ of the Church Court. They use these two swords to pierce back and forth through the bodies of the world’s nations, causing them to bleed, weaken, and suffer from the pain of resource and talent drain."

"Remember, from the First Epoch to the Fourth Epoch: from the city-states of Ancient Sirius, to the Ancient Solomon Republic, and then to the Solomon Empire, excluding the destruction brought by the Magic Tide, the overall technological level of the continent was constantly rising, and the movement of talent, resources, and capital between different regions was also strengthening. In the long run, achieving ’unification’ over this continent was not an impossible dream.

"However, with the emergence of the Church Court at the end of the Fourth Epoch, no country outside the Italian peninsula has been able to achieve complete re-industrialization throughout the Fifth and even until now in the Sixth Epoch. The only somewhat hopeful Holy Solomon Empire, whether in terms of goods or technology, is strictly restricted by the Church Court. This is the uttermost standard of Trusts, monopolizing the development and future of all nations worldwide!" 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

"And a country without a future can neither become prosperous nor provide a better life for its people. This continent will forever remain divided and unable to unite, and the people outside Italy will only continue to be exploited in their ignorance by the Church Court, from their birth until their death, just like a shoal of salmon being fished, without any chance to control their own fate!"

"So, the Church Court has done so many evil deeds," Miel said tentatively.

"You don’t need to test me," the man in the black robe said coldly, "When you reach the final barrier..."

"...You will understand everything."