Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 1293 Gossip
During an afternoon nap, Napoleon once told Georgiana that he had climbed a mountain in Pakistan called Tabor, which looked like a sugar cube and controlled a part of Pakistan. The guide told him that this is the new The place where the devil once took Jesus Christ in the story of the covenant.

The devil told Jesus that if Jesus would worship him, he would give him the whole country that he could see from the mountain.

Of course Jesus did not listen to the devil, and Napoleon also did not believe that the mountain was the place mentioned in the fairy tale.Until one day, when his square formation met the Turkish cavalry again, in the melee, a 300-man cavalry raided the Turkish barracks, ransacked it, took the prisoners, and then set fire to the tent.

The scene of the continuous tents burning looked terrible, which made the Turks very frightened. Several groups of Turkish cavalry approached the phalanx, and when they reached the range of the muskets, they were shot back by shotguns, so they retreated.The enemy was terrified, and some fled to Nablus, and some fled to the Jordan River. They lost many people in the attack, and even more in the retreat. The heavy rain caused the Jordan River to surge, and thousands of people drowned in the river.

Kleber lost about 300 people, and Napoleon lost only three or four people. Such damage sounds unbelievable. The soldiers quietly talked about him, saying that he was blessed by God and could survive with the commander-in-chief.

People in the 18th century seemed to be infected with a strange disease. People had an endless interest in all kinds of gossip and casual anecdotes.The French needed information as much as they needed bread every day. The official newspaper was controlled by Napoleon, and its content could not satisfy the curiosity of the public at all.People exchange gossip in coffee houses, taverns, outside salons, gardens in the palace, Tuileries Park, Luxembourg Gardens, etc. The hottest gossip recently spread is "vaccination". Grab and inoculate those women who look pure, lovely and charming, but are actually very scheming and have countless servants under their skirts.

They broke into the women's homes, places of work, places of entertainment and shopping, and whether they were on the street or not, they tore off the sleeves of their clothes and vaccinated their arms.

Often among these people, there are one or two soldiers who have had smallpox and their faces are full of holes, smiling at those "good girls" with fair and smooth skin.Regardless of how they were screaming and rolling in fright, they couldn't stand the strength of the male soldiers' hands, and their arms turned red after the vaccination, just like the sailor's arms after being exposed to the sun.

So the word "red arms" has gradually become a very bad word. If you say it to a real serious girl, she will be very angry and turn her face.In the marriage advertisements in newspapers, men and women will also specifically point out that they can marry people with high morals.

The personal life of the first ruling Napoleon Bonaparte is also a topic of discussion. Many people remember the protruding cheekbones and gloomy face during the Brumaire coup, like a general wearing an ancient Roman mask, with clouds as many The way the servants looked as they crossed the street.

Now his complexion is much better, serene and gentle, his face is stretched, his activities have not decreased, but he has become orderly.

He arrives at the office at eight o'clock at the latest to work, with only a slight interruption at lunch, but he doesn't eat alone.His food list has almost been made public, no different from ordinary people, and even a little less.In this time of famine, it's much more comfortable to meet a leader who shares adversity rather than a delicious meal alone.

The dinner at Rambouillet has also become a hot topic. Almost all the ingredients can be bought in the market at a very low price. The French are very curious about food. The chefs who participated in the banquet had a gourmet meal on the Champ de Mars Festival, so that people who do not have a lot of money but want to have fun have a place to go.

There is still cheap bread on the market, not white bread, but the kind of black bread eaten in the army. I used to feel shameful buying this kind of bread.But after calculating their own income, some people bought and ate it, not to mention that when the first governor was young, his mother Letizia specially asked him to eat black bread. He said that he would serve as a soldier in the future, and he would eat it when he was a soldier. Black bread.

Although this kind of life is bitter, the hopeful life is much better than the feeling of seeing the sun when the Bourbon royal family was in power before, and there are fewer beggars on the street than before. It is said that they are going to dig a canal to solve the problem of Paris. Water supply problem.If someone distributes pamphlets on the street, no one will take the initiative to pick up Louis XVI's redress.

The Bastille can lock people up with a small note, and there is the system of selling officials and nobles by the mistresses of Louis XV. The tighter the king's finances, the more new positions will be created. After buying these official positions, there will be tax exemption or privilege.These people did not buy offices and titles to gain power, but pretended to be doing things, but in fact they were doing nothing. The state machinery was somehow idling, and the Bourbons had an incredible number of offices.

Whether it is Paris, London, Munich, or Moscow, as long as people in the capital will inevitably discuss politics, the king’s sale of official positions is fine. Beginning with Henry IV, he also sold the hereditary rights of certain official positions. In order to avoid the supervision of the three-level parliament, these Political functions were transferred to the Supreme Court, with the result that there was a serious judiciary confusion.

The justices appointed by Bonaparte were also bad, the Supreme Court became a place for public "entertainment" when operas were so censored and there was nothing good to watch, the mayor of Antwerp was caught for smuggling, because the Senate intervened , he was released from the Criminal Court and later transferred to the Special Court for trial.

The judges of the special court are all soldiers, and the defendant can choose defense lawyers, and it is not mandatory for lawyers to be present.The vast majority of ordinary people don’t like the lawyers in power of the Directory government. Even if they become officials, they still “take money to do things” as they did when they were lawyers. The mayor of Antwerp is determined to hire lawyers, but his case is With all the stolen goods, the possibility of overturning the case is very small, and no lawyer is willing to accept it.

In the past, the theatergoers, no, the audience felt that those military judges were hideous, and they were lackeys of the dictator. When the "vaccination" incident happened, they suddenly felt that they were also pitiful people, who were bullied by women and had no strength to fight back.

In the end, it is up to women to deal with women, and the foreign woman who helped them was the one that Napoleon Bonaparte snatched away from other people's arms during the uproar a while ago.

At first, people thought she was a voluptuous and plump Cleopatra. Many people saw her at the mineral water point of the icehouse that day. She was very short, and the short Bonaparte looked tall and mighty beside her.

She is pretty, and her figure is not outstanding. The key is that her voice is very sweet, and she doesn't feel angry even when she speaks loudly.

She was not as profligate as Marie Antoinette, and she was not seen driving on the streets of Paris in an open carriage with the First Consul. She did not fight for all the occasions where the First Lady was in the limelight, unlike the Bourbons. The mistresses dressed themselves up in order to make themselves the focus of the ball.

She is low-key and has almost no sense of presence. Even the clothes are made of woolen, which is the uniform material worn by soldiers. It was prepared for her by the costume administrator of the first ruling. She can wear whatever she wants, only one emerald The olive leaf brooch was bound to be worn.

People who were simply chasing fashion also bought the same olive leaf brooch to wear. Later, gossip said that this jewelry originated from the notice posted when the French army entered the Papal State: The French army will abide by its own principles and protect religion. To protect the people, the French army holds a sword in one hand, which is a reliable guarantee of victory, and an olive branch in the other hand, which is a symbol of peace and a certificate of protection.

Gradually some people understood why His Excellency Bonaparte would have the audacity to take away love.

The civil law stipulates that unmarried women must find a guardian. This law is implemented very quickly, and it is almost difficult to see a woman who is alone in the whole social season.

They were either on the arm of their father or their brother, and young people who wanted to get close had to go through their guardians first.

Georgiana's guardians have changed a few, Edward Jenner, the great benevolent Leon Kull, the patriotic scientist Sharptar, and recently her guardian has changed again, and it is the Pope's special envoy Caprara.

It is said that after he was kidnapped, he lost his memory due to a concussion. He didn't remember what the kidnapper looked like, and he didn't know where he was being held. He was really an old fool.

No one said that the Americans did it, but everyone knows how high the French tariffs on the United States are. French ports are not closed to American merchant ships, but the United States may have to pay for the goods shipped to France.

France has colonies in the Americas, and Britain also has colonies in the Americas. The French Revolution is inextricably linked to the American War of Independence. France suffered a disastrous defeat in the Seven Years War. In order to improve its reputation, it supported American independence and damaged the reputation of Britain.

Now that Britain and France have stopped fighting and instead focus on actual interests, Britain and France are now going to unite to tear up the "Paris Peace Treaty", refuse to recognize the independence of the United States, and want to regain the lost colonies?

The old system and the great revolution, the new political party will of course negate all the erroneous policies of the previous government.

Although it's a bit unbelievable, it's not illogical, it's just that the person who came up with this idea is a bit scary.

There is no coffee to drink, and those who chat can drink black tea with added sugar instead.

I just don’t know how many days this tea can last, and what will happen to that Miss Georgiana when Britain and France are hostile again. It would be a pity if she died because of the hostility between the two countries.

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