Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 1543 The Turning Compass

On Halloween, November 1755, 11, a major earthquake struck Lisbon, Portugal.

According to statistics afterwards, the death toll in the Lisbon earthquake was about [-] to [-]. It is said that there is such a big difference in the data because the fire and tsunami that occurred after the earthquake almost burned the whole of Lisbon. One of the reasons for the decline from times.

The impact of the Lisbon earthquake went far beyond the rebuilding of the city, with some malicious theological accusations erupting as victims of the disaster scoured the rubble for relics, crucifixes and Madonnas.

Priests are preaching a whole bunch of overblown sin scares to their parishioners, and the church is wondering why the earthquake happened on Halloween.

Priests enjoyed the privilege of not being searched by customs, and no customs officer would lift up the priest's robes to see what they were wearing underneath.It just so happened that these priests hid the gold under their robes, so that it reached the scale of theft. For a while, the clergy were even exiled from the mines in Brazil, and the gold was smuggled to all parts of the United States.

At that time, Portugal still had the Inquisition, and even after the disaster that almost destroyed Lisbon, people were more worried about the escape of the prisoners in the Inquisition during the disaster.

Until the death of João I in 1777, the rebuilding of the city was still not over, and João I's famous minister, the Marquis of Pombal, also lost his status, and a large number of simple huts were in the open space near the seven hills surrounding Lisbon Swarming, this is where refugees lived while nobles, clergymen restored their stone dwellings.

The Marquis of Pombal was a famous Portuguese reformer, the king's chief minister, and even the actual ruler of Portugal.

The Port wine trade policy he invented captured market share for Portuguese vintners, and Port became a social drink in Oxford and Cambridge staff lounges.At the same time, in order to solve Portugal's over-reliance on Spanish and Russian steel products, he tried to build a steel factory in Angola. The name of the factory, Basque, was named after his country villa.

However, with the succession of Maria I, the Marquis of Pombal was driven back to the fief, and the managers of the steel plant were sent to Africa, where they died one after another because they could not adapt to the African weather.

So even though this scheme was more successful than the one curbed by the Inquisition in the 17th century, it did not change the fact that Portugal was still too single for the international trade of wine.

Portugal is a seriously underdeveloped place. There are no decent roads in the countryside, and mules are used as transport animals. Coimbes did not have reliable traffic to Lisbon until 1798.

There are many ox carts in the north, but the road from Porto to Braga is very muddy, and it takes 5 days to cover the 40 miles with wheeled vehicles. The Marquis of Pombal tried to build a short canal for his vineyards, but was rejected. Allegations of misappropriation of 600 million public funds have led to the shelve of plans to dig a canal, and the best wines of the Douro are still transported by unimproved waterways.

Adam Smith mentioned in "The Wealth of Nations" that France's exchange of wine for ironware in England cannot be regarded as an unfavorable trade, because we all know that the number of tools is limited by practical uses, including money.

The number of pots is used to make food. It is completely unnecessary and ridiculous to increase the pots unnecessary. If the food increases, the pots will also increase.The quantity of gold and silver in any country is limited by the actual use of the domestic metal, and the quantity of coin by the value of the commodities in circulation in the country.

Unlike paper money, however, iron can be melted down to make barrels and shells.

Georgiana "goes mad," and woe to those who cling to her, such as Leon Kuhl and Gaston Martin.

Sometimes even if you want to stay out of it, there are still people who will hold you back.

Napoleoni said that if he died that day, he would put his body on the bed for eight days, so that others would think he was still alive. At that time, Sebastian would use tricks to get rid of those who plotted wrongdoing.

Georgiana wondered when she would get a little clean.

She looked at the scenery outside Miss Luo's villa in the desert.In fact, she can understand that Napoleon sometimes has to use unscrupulous means in order to survive, which is why she agrees with the family style where the male leads the outside and the female leads the inside.

She is not the kind of person who can kill, and sometimes she is too kind and innocent. If she hadn't experienced so much, she would be a woman who couldn't be conservative.

She planned to return the collection of the Louvre to Italy for free, but Bonaparte asked her, did Severus teach her?

He did teach it, it was in the labyrinth, he took risks and worked hard to get some treasures, Georgiana hoped to share some of the spoils with Lydia and the others in exchange for peace.

There are many such examples in history. For example, during the Han Dynasty, the Han people paid tribute to the Xiongnu in exchange for peace, or merchants paid "tolls" to pirates. These can be regarded as signs of weakness.

The reason why women's ruling is not accepted by men is because of this. There are only a handful of queens like Catherine. After Maria I succeeded to the throne, she was passionate about religion and charity. She founded the Lisbon Nursery ), which takes care of homeless orphans and provides them with basic education in addition to providing them with food and clothing.Because of this religious and philanthropic zeal of the Queen, she was awarded a "Pious Woman".

The Portuguese royal family had a close relationship with the church and was bent on England. They became resistance to bourgeois French reforms.

Unless the king of Portugal is willing to be a constitutional monarchy, the priests are also willing to give up some of their privileges.

All my life I long to be well collected, properly placed, and carefully preserved.Don't be surprised, don't suffer, don't wander around, don't have branches to cling to.

Josephine is actually more practical than Georgiana. She understands that in such troubled times, a man who knows how to survive and who can protect her is much more reliable than knowledgeable and enthusiastic men.

She has two children to raise, and she is in that kind of predicament, what else can she do otherwise?

Sometimes people must sacrifice their morality and standpoint in order to survive, and the saints are all dead.

When Mary I was in her own religious fantasies, others were reading Adam Smith and Montesquieu. Before the Battle of Orange Grove, some people were talking about selling the assets of the king and the church. Start again Industrialization reformed.

The way to make money is not only trade, but also engineering repairs. Portugal has plans to get rid of a single trade. Steel factories are also ready-made. France provides consultants, bridge and road experts, and Portugal also provides engineering teams. Intellectual property rights are also charged. .

The middle class in Porto actually wants to catch up with foreigners by eating, no wonder there are pigs running around in the streets.

The smooth succession of Maria I was also related to the church. The Marquis of Pombal drove away the court confessor, and when the Vatican sent envoys to protest, he threatened to sever all relations with the Vatican.

Portugal expelled priests earlier than France. At the same time, he was a slave trader, but he prohibited the continued oppression of Jews in his own country, and stipulated that Protestants and Catholics had the same rights. Such radical reforms led to him being deprived of most of his positions. He was sent to the court of the Inquisition.

Even if it was a dream, Napoleon appreciated her, and she wanted to go back in order to repay this love.

Georgiana put away the newspaper and got out of the easy chair.

Animals have a keen sense to avoid disasters such as earthquakes, but humans have lost it. Why?

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