Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 1582 Life and Death Sniper ([-])
On the list of entourage, Georgiana added Stephen's name.

In addition to art and music without borders, capitalists also have no borders. The current situation is very complicated, and bankers dare not invest at will. Compared with investing in DuPont's gunpowder factory and French agriculture, it is relatively safe. Bankers They are willing to invest money.

Investing in French handicrafts is very risky, because they will face competition from British goods. If only from the perspective of profits and tariffs, reducing tariffs can increase imports, and achieve the goal of small profits but quick turnover through price reductions, which is beneficial in the short term.

But political economy has politics in addition to economics. As a ruler, Napoleoni must also consider political issues and long-term interests. After all, France is not a military government. Beet sugar is an industry that can change the world pattern. Knowing how to adapt is just like asking French farmers to grow sugar beets to fail to promote it, and asking French sailors to aim at the hull of the ship instead of the rigging will not work, even if the British say it is useless.

This is as difficult as it is for someone who is used to using his right hand to train him to use his left hand. Stephen said that he is not afraid of leaking secrets, but it can appear that he is very knowledgeable.

If you say that the French are inflexible, it is not right. Reselling is very easy, and money is easy to earn. The key is the process. Cloth looms, thousands of cotton yarn workers, engineers, steel mills, steel workers, processing industries, and so on.

The slaves in Santo Domingo only think about freedom, but without Santo Domingo, the UK can go to Cuba for development. Coupled with the sugar from the Antilles, the British sugar merchants have pricing power.Fortunately, the French are not as crazy about sugar as the British. The key point is that Santo Domingo is the key to the Gulf of Mexico. The British restricting American trade in the West Indies is also part of the blockade. Coupled with British control of Cuba, if they remained in the alliance they would have imposed an island chain blockade on the Americans in the Gulf of Mexico.

Napoleon’s considerations are of course different from those of ordinary people, but businessmen also have practical problems for businessmen. This is a trade war. Often trade wars are carried out through high tariff barriers and non-tariff barriers. This kind of game is very complicated. In comparison, The British demand for Porto wine from Portugal is higher than cotton products. Napoleon closed all ports in Portugal, including Porto, so Porto wine has to be shipped to Lisbon Freeport. Why waste such cost and time?Can't we directly open the port of Porto and ship on the spot?
The reconstruction of Lisbon needs money, which is also a way for the central government to suck blood. The Porto people feel that it is unfair, do they want to fight for independence?

Some French people like it, some people don't like it, especially those Portuguese who were robbed of their gold and wealth. Napoleon's original plan was to split Portugal into the north and the south, and give them to an Italian king and a Spanish king, including Lisbon. The central region of Portugal was left to the royal family of Bragança.

Talleyrand is covered in dirty water, so he is not afraid of being accused of corruption. If the xyz incident can be barely understood as a political orientation, France is going to wage a quasi-war with the United States, and what he did after the Battle of Orange Grove However, it is completely traitorous. Who told him to rekindle his old relationship with the wife of the Portuguese minister?
The vast majority of ministers' wives would not engage in this kind of "diplomacy", which led to their collective refusal to go to Talleyrand's house for Christmas gatherings.And from a certain point of view, Napoleon hated Talleyrand. The foreign minister's reputation was too bad, which really hindered France's diplomatic image.

Georgiana had to accept the gift from Monroe. At present, the United States is still "good friends" with France. Although they have been sanctioned, other things that are not within the scope of sanctions, such as food and fur, can continue to trade, and there is a common enemy, Bai Bury Pirates.

She accepted other people's gifts not only in the eyes of some people as bribery, but also meant to help others. The time when Monroe gave the gift happened to be that they were going to go to the north for inspection. Belgium was originally Austria, because the peace treaty was ceded to France, if France builds a sugar factory, then Austria, which has no tropical colonies, will covet it, and so coincidentally, William Pitt Jr. hopes that France will return Belgium to Austria, and Britain still occupies Malta, and the Mediterranean people also To eat sugar.

In the past, Portugal made so much money that it monopolized the spice trade. At that time, Portugal gave priority to using matchlock guns and primitive grenades in naval battles. At that time, grenades had limited lethality. This made the Portuguese navy rely on Gained an advantage when boarding a ship.

This is also the characteristic of Portuguese swordsmanship. German swordsmanship generally uses long swords, and sometimes requires two hands to hold swords. Figel is a woman, although she is stronger than most women.Foil fencing using small swords was popular in Napoleon's army, which was not suitable for her, because her strength was not enough, and foil fencing was almost like real dancing for her.

The Portuguese are good at swift swords. There are not many gaps on the deck. Compared with rounded swords and chopping, thin stab swords are more suitable. If I want to use a metaphor, it is wearing a mask and likes to draw "z" , Zorro who robs the rich and helps the poor, the area where Zorro is active is South America.

There are many similarities between Spanish and Portuguese swordsmanship. They both belong to the Iberian Peninsula. They can also use the swift sword to solve the contradictions in the streets and alleys. The Spanish call the swift sword "la verdadera destreza", which means the supreme art. The Spanish swift sword is based on the circle It is based on the shape, which is full of complex geometric lines. Every movement requires delicate calculations. At the same time, it is necessary to understand medicine and understand what is fatal or cause great damage. It is not so much courage and courage. The competition of skills is more like a math competition of intelligence.

As for how Figer could tell that the Masonic member she was fighting with was Portuguese rather than Spanish, Georgiana was not sure. For example, she couldn't tell the difference between the Spanish Swift Sword and the Italian Swift Sword. Same, she is a complete layman.

Georgiana has a feature that can’t be said to be an advantage, that is, she asked questions when she didn’t understand. Originally, Talleyrand and Napoleon thought that Portugal had no wealth to be squeezed, and even part of the land in the north was bought by the British. , but they all forgot the teaching property.

It seems easy to persuade the Portuguese to sell their religious properties for the sake of national revival, but unfortunately, France’s reputation is terrible, and an industry cannot appear out of thin air. It must be developed and designed according to local conditions, not like Cinderella’s sisters. Amputated his toes in order to wear ill-fitting shoes.

There must have been a lot of blood, but Cinderella looked at the pair of blood-stained crystal shoes that smelled of rust and put them on, because it was her last chance.

Georgiana didn't know what to do, and she was going to ask someone who knew how, so she sent Matilda to bring her the most gorgeous black mink cloak that was delivered today, and she was going to wear it to meet Nathan. Polyone.

A normal woman will wear nice clothes to meet the person she likes, even if she gets into trouble because of this, the man will forgive her.

Sometimes it pays to be a fool.

It is written in the book "Leviathan" that in any country, if the people disobey and are not coordinated, not only will they not be able to prosper, but they will soon disintegrate and destroy the country, just like Pelias Like foolish daughters, they hacked their aging father to pieces and boiled them in a cauldron, so that he didn't become a young man.

British goods are cheap and good, and poor people with modest incomes will buy them, but if left unchecked...

As for the smuggling of Murat and his wife Caroline, Caroline's son Achille could not be Napoleon's heir, Georgiana thought she might not have imagined that she would be very jealous of the boy born to Hortense.

This is why Georgiana thinks that women should not interfere in politics, but war drives men crazy, and only a few people can stay awake. Occupying Valais will make the soldiers feel proud, but France has lost diplomatically.

If those warriors could understand, Marmont would not form a party to deal with Georgiana.

He has no personal interests, and the quality of the newly cast cannons is much better than before. The key is that force cannot solve all problems.

No wonder Jefferson said he believed in the rational Napoleon. If men are too emotional and impulsive, who knows what they will do.

　Never thought that one day the island chain could be used to block the United States
this dream is so beautiful

　
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