Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 1679 The Secret Words of the Goddess (24)
The East, where gold and spices have been everywhere for thousands of years, once fascinated Westerners and attracted countless "conquistadors" who wanted to set foot on that mysterious land.

There was Alexander of Greece first, and Caesar later. Westerners never felt guilty about being a robber. Instead, rulers like Louis XVI who won battles and did not benefit from it were called problems.

Rome's symbol is a wolf, as does Siena, which is said to have been founded by the son of Remus, one of the twins raised by a she-wolf.

Without the oppression of Florence, it is difficult to imagine whether Siena would have the current scale, or whether the ruler of the city would be as corrupt and depraved as other Roman nobles.

In Siena there is the Piazza del Campo, which is scalloped and composed of nine triangles, representing the nine members who drove the noble rulers out of Siena.

Also in 1260, when Siena and Florence were engaged in a war of 2 to 3 people, on the land of Egypt, the Mamluks repelled the Mongol army at Ainjarut.

Mamluks sit on the rich land of Egypt, and have the strength to defeat the Mongols but do not expand. This is not because the nobles are greedy for ease.

The land and sea Silk Road can bring a lot of commercial taxes. After the four khanates established their affiliation in the Yuan Dynasty, the trade route was transferred from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf. Mamluks had to increase agricultural taxes and domestic commercial taxes, which also led to The merchants in Egypt escaped, and the burden on farmers continued to increase, and the struggle within the Mamluk dynasty also arose as a result.

Relying solely on agricultural taxes, it is difficult to organize external expansion, but it is not impossible. The key is that the Mamluk dynasty was marginalized by civilization. Even if it wants to expand, it cannot declare war on all countries in the world at once. There will always be allies and positions.

The closed environment and unfriendly taxation system for businessmen almost stopped the development of the Mamluk dynasty in the next 200 years. When the Renaissance was in full swing in the Mediterranean, Egypt was lifeless, and only the nobles would occasionally know something outside through businessmen News, at this time Europe and the Ottoman Empire have entered the era of hot weapons, so in 1514, when the Mamluks, who continued to use the Mongolian cavalry and shooting method, encountered the Ottoman army, they had almost no power to fight back. One is the problem of weapons. , Second, the Mamluks could not adapt to the new fighting methods of the Ottoman Empire.But the muskets of the 16th century were not enough to become the protagonists of the war, mainly because of the internal problems of the Mamluks. Before the war, the Ottoman Empire sent people to lobby the governor of Aleppo and let him defect.

Whether it was Wu Sangui who let the Qing soldiers enter the pass, or Sforza who let the French intervene in the Italian war, no matter how strong a fortress was, the damage caused by the disintegration from the inside was far faster and faster than an attack from the outside.

Since then, Egypt has become part of the Ottoman Empire, and the title of the highest official has become Pasha, who is still appointed by the Ottoman Empire.

Egypt ruled by the Ottoman Empire was still closed, so that when Napoleon led the army to land in Alexandria, he thought he had gone to the wrong place. The gap between those magnificent cities in legends and reality was too great, especially those from the wealthy Italy. Come, someone actually committed suicide because he couldn't bear the hardship.

Although somewhat unexpected, Napoleon still had to act quickly as always. Besides, the British fleet cut off his retreat. If he didn't want to be forced to surrender because of the end of the road, the only way to go was to develop and build Egypt.Under his administration, Cairo gradually became more French, the lives of the people improved, and the order of the streets changed.

But not everyone welcomes his reforms.

There were many artists and scientists in Napoleon's expeditionary force, and they moved a lot of good things from Egypt.

Experts often take away exquisite products. There was once a masterpiece of Caravaggio's masterpiece, The Veil of Destiny. A buyer paid a lot of money to ask the Italian Mafia to remove it from the frame of the church. As a result, the Mafia member took the painting with a dagger. Draw it down, and send it to the buyer in any roll.

When the buyer saw the famous painting, tears flowed down his face, and in the words Conseil conveyed to him, "it...it has no use at all".

Before the French came, those sculptures were placed in the desert to be exposed to the wind and the sun. Occasionally, some people did not have stones to build houses, and they were stolen from ancient temples, and there were also tombs from ancient times. The things left by ancient Egyptian civilization are actually There are not many left, only the pyramids and Sphinx sculptures still support the facade of the ancient civilization.

Archaeology is different from tomb robbery. Archaeologists don't use explosives for convenience and trouble, but tomb robbers use that thing, even if his title is an archaeologist.

For example, the wall that Severus blew up, the archaeologists would knock carefully to see if they could find the gaps between the bricks, take it down little by little, and restore it to its original state later.

Severus blasted a hole directly, which looked like Umbridge bombarded the Room of Requirement with the Explosion Curse, but fortunately he did it wisely and didn't destroy the contents inside.

In the alcove is an Egyptian-style obsidian statue, not Anubis or Horus, but a dwarf with a beard, short legs, very funny looking, with a smile on his face, as if Happy all day.

"That's the Egyptian god Bes, the god who protects weddings, music, and dances," Gonseil said to Severus, and raised his wand, but the stone figure didn't move.

"Lumos" Gonseil hastily used a Lumos, but fortunately the spell still worked, and the end of his wand shone brightly.

"I don't know where he went," Severus said. "How many disenchanted statues do you think he still has?"

"I don't know." Conseil pointed his wand at his purse. "The clip is flying."

A long clip that looked like garden shears flew into his hand.

"It's best not to touch it with your hands," said Conseil, stretching the long stem of the clip as if it could be extended infinitely.

It didn't take long for it to touch the sculpture of God Bess. The clip grabbed the sculpture by itself and lifted it up. It turned out that the sculpture was just a box cover, and the box contained red grease, which looked like dried blood.

Conseil took a good sniff. "What do you smell?"

Severus looked at the grease without saying a word.

"I heard...the Philosopher's Stone is red." Goncey said softly, "Does it look like it?"

"I remember that Schaeffler was good at refining oil. Is this his masterpiece?"

"how could I know?"

"Take some." Severus said, taking a silver box from his shapeshifting lizard pocket and handing it to Conseil.

"Not all?" asked Conseil.

"Let's save some for later generations." Severus said with a malicious smile.

"What are you thinking?" Conseil frowned.

"I have a hunch." Severus looked at Goncey. "What we took away will be replaced later."

"what?"

"I heard at the party before that some items were stolen by the foundation. After I took these items away, they used those items to make up for them, waiting for the next person to solve the puzzle, or the next one to lose precious things people."

"How did you come to this inference?"

"The signal next to the library was after the aurora appeared, and then people died on December 12. It was like a curse from the pharaoh. Some people were afraid of being cursed, so they returned the treasures they took away. We can't break this magic circle. Once it is destroyed, there will be consequences that we can't imagine, so there will be guys as unlucky as me."

"Then why didn't they stop you?" asked Conseil.

"Fate," Severus said. "I killed a man on the job...she was in charge of protecting the Muggle Prime Minister."

"You mean..."

"It was 1801. The historical Napoleon Bonaparte should not have died that year. There was a British captain who was going to bombard his carriage with cannons, but she blocked it with an earthen wall," Severus said. "She's like the shorty's bodyguard."

"I don't understand why an English witch should protect the Emperor of France?" asked Conseil.

"Why do you think wizards protect Muggle rulers?" Severus asked, "If Muggles perish because of cannibalism, it can save us a lot of trouble. We talked about it at the meeting before. Gua knows about dragon pox, will they use this infectious disease to wipe us out?"

Conseil did not answer, his face was serious.

"They did it before, to the natives who threatened them." Severus said calmly, "So I think we should strictly abide by the International Statute of Secrecy, and not let Muggles know too many wizard's secrets, and Muggles don't need Wizard's protection."

"I don't want a repeat of what happened during the French Revolution," said Gonceil. "How long will this disturbance last?"

"I don't know," Severus said, "I'm not a prophet."

(End of this chapter)