"Ah, Freya, you brought me bread again."

"In the cold cage, that is the only warmth that God has given me, just like the body temperature of your skin, lingering with a faint refreshing fragrance."

"That temperature is so fascinating to me!"

"I have no choice but to fall in love with you, my Freya! O devout Christians fall in love with the Warden's daughter. Today's disaster may be God's punishment for me!"

"I shouldn't love you!"

"This love has no source, no reason. Your father raised you with the silver coins of Judas. Why can he raise a kind and beautiful girl like you!"

"Why can't I feel resentment in my heart?"

"Why am I clearly covered in bruises, but I just want to praise God's kindness, praise He created you with miracles and lit up the end of my life?"

"That's...love?!"

"No, you just greedy for her." Carmen sat in the VIP box in the theater with a decent attitude, posing with the sweetest smile and making the most realistic evaluation.

Fortunately, there were only two people who could hear Manager Xavier’s live ping opera, Sharon and Farramin.

Today is the opening ceremony of the Miami Civic Theatre. As the investor of the theater, Carmen represented the General Association Asset Management Company to participate in the ribbon cutting and was invited to watch the Civic Theatre Group carefully rehearsed the opening drama for two months, "God and the Iron Window and St. Valentine".

This is a grand event that belongs to the entire Miami.

On the river beach to the west, the brave garrison was sacrificing their lives to resist the Indian attack, and the rumbling cannons were like muffled thunder and day and night.

The theater was able to open as scheduled at such a period, or on the St. Valentine's Day in 1786, staged a love story of St. Valentine, which has extraordinary significance to all Christians. There is no doubt that the whole town has made efforts to do this.

It is like a heart-warming agent to call the whole of Miami, those strong and sticky lines, and every twist symbolizes the unparalleled confidence in victory among Miami people!

Tickets for the opening show were sold out a week ago.

The actor's short play was staged in two at the University of Miami, three at the Garden Market, and one additional at the river beach in the war zone.

It is artificially given special meaning.

The soldiers' family members are waiting for their lovers who have experienced the war, the workers' wives and children bless the hard-working families, and the people who are far away from the battlefield are grateful to the warriors on the front line, wish for the final victory, and look forward to the day when the colorful flowers are floating all over the sky.

But no matter how important this ceremony was to Miami, Carmen still felt disgusted from the bottom of his heart.

Today is her 26-year-old Valentine's Day. On such a solemn day, she has to watch her ancestors 1,500 years ago sprinkle dog food in public...

Really, really, really unhappy!

Carmen Xavier was filled with resentment, and the scent of vinegar overwhelmed the smell of gunpowder that faintly drifted in the air. He swallowed her restraint and rationality in big mouthfuls.

"Farramin."

"Yes, ma'am. I'm here, ma'am."

"Go to find the manager of the troupe, donate 800 pounds to the troupe in the name of the asset management company, and donate 214 pounds each in the name of me and the president."

Faramin took out his notebook and wrote down: "Do you need a message?"

"Give me a message..." Carmen lit his lips and thought for a moment, "Just say I like the scene where the last person who loves each other is eternal. It symbolizes a spirit that guides Miami people to give everything to our town at this special time. I like it very much."

Faramin paused: "Uh...ma's, but the third act has just come to the scene. St. Valentine is still in the warden's prison, and she is still far from going to the execution ground..."

"He always goes to the execution ground." Carmen played with his drama viewing mirror indifferently, "By the way, was he beheaded? Or was he hanging? Maybe it was stolen?"

"I'm sorry that history does not record Valentine's death, and I heard that in order to boost morale in the city, the screenwriter rewritten the ending of Valentine. God sent angels to the execution ground, the warden was influenced, the evil nobles were burned to death, Valentine and Freya's lovers finally got married, probably that's it."

Click!

The handle of the watching mirror is folded...

Carmen squinted his eyes and smiled gently: "Ah... Is it a happy ending? The donation will be cut in half."

"ha?"

"The asset management company donated 400 pounds, and I and the president donated 100 pounds each. What are you saying..." Carmen threw away the playwatch mirror, picked up the teacup to cover his mouth and nose, "Let their screenwriters read Shakespeare well and continue to work hard."

“Uh…yes.”

...

Siege of Miami.

This war must have never happened in the history of Lorraine's previous life.

Because in that history, the founder of Miami, Richard Fitzpatrick, did not buy the land in the Miami estuary from the Seminoles until 1830.

Until then, white people were never just trivial passers-by to this area, and Indians, or South Florida Indian Seminoles were the well-deserved historical starring here.

The Seminoles thrived on this land, living peacefully with the Spanish who lived in pioneering towns until the Americans stretched out their tentacles.

In 1818, during the First Seminole War, the US Expeditionary Force drove the Seminoles to South Florida, but the tenacious natives also cost the United States a huge price.

In 1835, during the Second Seminole War, the whites provoked conflicts within the Seminoles. This huge civil war that lasted for seven years almost cut off the bloodline of this Indian nation.

In 1855, in the Third Seminole War, the declining Seminoles were finally no longer the opponents of the whites. They were massacred and hunted, leaving only sporadic bloodlines to escape into the Daze in central South Florida, and completely lost the status and identity of the starring actor in the stage of Florida.

Lorraine knew nothing about this remote history.

But what is ridiculous is that the two sections of history eventually flowed into a similar riverbed. The Miami Siege, directed by him, actually headed to a development path similar to the bloody Second Seminole War, that is, white people become supporting roles, and civil war is the fundamental.

On January 26, the Florida native tribe and the Seminole Achaka tribe launched an offensive on the Miami regiment's defense line, and the Miami siege began.

In the days that followed, the Indian natives led by the Achaka tribe and the Miami garrison of Spain fought fiercely on this narrow battlefield less than one kilometer wide.

The Spaniards had the advantage of firepower and fortifications, while the Indians overwhelmed the number of people.

The scale of the war gradually expanded. After continuous setbacks, the number of participants of the Indigenous coalition increased from the initial 10,000 to more than 30,000. The Miami Line Corps, which temporarily strengthened the firepower, was also transferred from the rear to the front line, doubled the number of participants in Spain.

However, even though the frontlines are in full swing, Miami Town under the crisis has always maintained a considerable degree of order.

Prices have not risen and the supply of goods is sufficient. The port area has always maintained operation, and less than half of the construction sites that can be seen everywhere have been forced to shut down.

This kind of thing is simply incredible.

As we all know, the rapid development of Miami Town is based on adequate labor.

The Indian Indigenous tribes on the peninsula are the core suppliers of labor on the construction site. On the eve of the siege, the number of natives employed in Miami happened to reach its historical peak, and the number of people logged on the Drake Chamber of Commerce's roster of employees alone was as large as 47,000.

After the three major departments showed hostility, the Drake Chamber of Commerce set up isolation around the Indian shed on the grounds of town safety, and sent a total of 15,000 employees from three participating tribes out of the jurisdiction of Miami according to the roster.

After the war officially began, more than 4,000 people chose to suspend labor contracts out of their own wishes.

But more people still chose to stay, amid the rumbling cannons, and the white people's vigilance and defense, continued their work step by step.

This means that even during the Indians besieged Miami town, nearly 30,000 Indians still received Miami salary, ate Miami rations, and built Miami towns.

Are they enemies or friends?

If they commit crimes suddenly, can those thin and hard isolation, and those security guards who guard the isolation really play a role in a cage?

People are suspicious.

Suspicion of the Indians continued to ferment with the war and finally reached its peak on February 22.

On February 22, the young patriarch of the Achaka tribe, Yixinqi, led the carefully selected warriors of three tribes, to bypass the river beach defense line at night, entered from the vast and sparsely populated Tianyuan District, and created a massacre of pioneers in the Hegu Village near the battlefield. In the early morning of the next day, he attacked and surrounded the battle headquarters set up by Mayor Dipuyani behind the third defense line.

The Spaniard was caught off guard, the first line of defense was declared lost in panic, and the garrison of the brigade was intercepted into three sections, relying on the second, third and headquarters defense lines to support it.

The panic on the front line quickly spread to towns, and citizens rushed to Biscay Bay with their families. Due to the lack of cross-sea ferry, it quickly evolved into a surround of Indian artificial sheds.

The Drake Union's hard quarantine and security team set up in advance prevented the situation from deteriorating in an uncontrollable direction.

The encirclement did not develop into a conflict. After seven hours of stalemate, the heads of the Hundred and Merchant Association, led by Lorraine, joined hands with several luxuriously dressed Indian elderly people to deliver public speeches at the Miami Town Council.

"Equality and freedom are unique to Florida," Lorraine said.

"In Fort Moses, Spain, Indians and the African Trail Blazers who came from the ocean had fought side by side under the guidance of freedom."

"In Miami, the British joined in, the French, Dutch, Portuguese, Norway, Finland, Russia, Egypt, and the distant Arabs and the more distant Qing people joined in one after another."

"For the first time, human beings have truly united on both sides of the beautiful Bay of Biscay. For a better life, race, blood, skin color and history are no longer the reasons for estrangement."

"This is our paradise! It is a beacon of freedom and democracy! It is a new place that all mankind should yearn for!"

"But someone has blasphemed her for her own selfish desire."

"Achaka, Mayinqi, and Kuelici, they were our good friends and neighbors. Not long ago, their young people were sweating with us on the land of Miami. The council hall behind us was the shared masterpiece of the Achaka construction team and the Drake Chamber of Commerce design team."

"But they became prisoners of greed."

"The 72 dead bodies in Hegu Village are accusing their crimes, and 227 fighting martyrs on the riverbank defense line are spitting on their evil spirits!"

"They turned themselves into enemies of Miami and into threats to civilization and freedom of all humanity!"

"We have a heavy responsibility!"

"Fight! Miami's enemies want Miami to defeat themselves, and the flames of hatred can only be extinguished with hot blood."

"We must let these greedy evildoers who succumb to desire know their faults, let the gods in heaven see our determination, and let the whole world hear the cry of Miami."

"We are qualified to shout! Because equality is the unique charm of Florida, Miami is the only paradise of freedom. In order to protect these beauty, we will fight without hesitation!"

In front of the echo wall of the parliament square, Lorraine took a big step forward.

"For Miami, the Drake Chamber of Commerce will fight at all costs!"

Behind him, Tim Gillen, president of the Gillen Chamber of Commerce, stood up.
To be continued...