Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 1843 The Witch Association ([-])

The ancestor of the Malfoy family, Armand Malfoy, came to England with the conqueror "William I". The King William in 1098 was the second son of William the Conqueror, William II. He was known for his cold-blooded and violent personality.

His father, William the Conqueror, was the first Norman king of England, so Malfoy, who looks very Anglo-Saxon, is actually a Norman. In addition, they have intermarried with Anglo-Saxons for many years, so they are now It's Anglo-Norman.

If you look closely at Malfoy Manor, you can see the Anglo-Norman style, the so-called Norman Roman architecture, even the Vikings were influenced by Roman culture.But if you ask Lucius Malfoy whether he misses Odin more or Jupiter more, he actually doesn't care at all.At the meeting at Malfoy Manor, Voldemort once mocked the relationship between the Malfoy family and the Tonks, because Nymphadora Tonks married a werewolf, and Andromeda Black gave the Muggle-born Ty Germany.

This scene of being in front of everyone, in your house, laughing at your wife, and you can't talk back or fight back makes Lucius completely lose the dignity of being the head of the family.That period was the darkest moment in Lucius' life. Although the Aurors came to his house for "evidence" after the war and forced their family to use Muggle electrical appliances, it felt equally bad, but the latter was just annoying, while the former is doubly humiliating.Even though Voldemort sent dementors to rescue Lucius from Azkaban, it is difficult to compare whether Azkaban or Malfoy Manor under Voldemort's control is more comfortable.

The roses in the garden withered, the peacocks pacing in the courtyard were eaten by someone, and the whole manor decayed at a speed visible to the eyes and fell into ruins, although those Romanesque buildings were not like the real Rome, Only some ruins of the magnificent buildings of the past are left, which are protected in the form of "relics" and exhibited to the world.

Theodosius divided the Roman Empire between his two sons, just like William the Conqueror divided the land into two parts for his sons to inherit. The same thing happened in Zhao during the Warring States Period. King Zhao Wuling, who was riding and shooting in Hufu, gave him two sons, one was the son Zhang born to the daughter of a Korean father-in-law who was a political marriage partner, and the son Zhao Wanghe was born to his beloved Wu Wa.Wu Wa is a commoner woman who brought a lot of happiness to King Zhao Wuling. In addition, King Zhao He himself is also smart. When King Zhao Wuling made Zhao He the new king, he was the seat of his own son and himself in charge of domestic and foreign politics and military affairs respectively. Constructing dual politics, and because he himself wants to lead the army to fight, in order to avoid the cruel cases of ascending the throne in a coup like the previous generations of monarchs, King Zhao Wuling hopes to smoothly transition the power to his successor in his lifetime.

He made two mistakes. The first was breaking the covenant of "taking concubines as wives". The Korean clan was a political marriage. King Zhao Wuling's abolition of the Korean wife was tantamount to ending this marriage relationship. The second was "orderly seniority". In ancient times, people invented the primogeniture system to avoid usurping the throne and coup d'état.More importantly, perhaps because he felt sorry for Gongzizhang, he planned to divide Zhao Guo into two and let Gongzizhang inherit half of Zhao Guo.

Confused like this, King Wuling of Zhao was imprisoned in the sand dunes and starved to death like Duke Huan of Qi in the end.Not only a tyrant, but a foolish king is also the target of the subjects to overthrow. What's more, King Zhao Wuling encountered great resistance when he promoted Hufu riding and shooting. At that time, Zhao Guo was influenced by rituals and music. Zhao Guo's nobles did not support Hu Fu's riding and shooting.Internal resistance is sometimes more difficult to deal with than external enemies. After Shang Yang's reform, when Qin Xiaogong, who supported his reform, died, Qin's clansman broke Shang Yang's car.

Napoleon himself said the exact words: A man is more willing to fight for his interests than for power.

Will he abdicate for a woman?This statement may only be believed by young people like Alejandro.

However, in the historical 1802, Napoleon had passed a new constitution and became the first ruler of France for life. This status was only one step away from becoming king.In that world, however, he did not, and his term was still ten years, a little longer than the four-year term of the US president and two consecutive terms.

There are many differences between a monarchy and a republic, but the most obvious is the issue of tenure and rotation.At the end of the Roman Republic, there was a consul named Tiberius Gracchus, and he also had a brother named Guyo Gracchus. Like many traditional Roman nobles, the two brothers started from the grassroots clergy It started, but the clergy at this time were not like the pastors and priests later, but the diviners of the sacrificial group.

The Romans believed in prophets, and prophets had high prestige among the people, and the orators in the square were liars anyway.Later Caesar and Octavian also held this position, which represents supreme glory.The chief elder quickly took a fancy to Gracchus and betrothed his daughter to him.

Not long after, Rome and Carthage went to war, and because of his father-in-law's promotion, Gracchus soon became a treasurer and followed the Roman consul on an expedition to Spain.

That may be the first time he left Rome, so he was stunned by the sights along the way.Along the way, he found that the agriculture was in decline, and there were dilapidated villages everywhere. The peasants went bankrupt one after another due to years of wars and extremely low food prices. However, the nobles in Rome took this opportunity to annex the peasants' land in a large scale.

The soldiers of the Roman Legion were peasants, that is, farmers. They had to prepare their own weapons and equipment to participate in the war. Joining the army was both an honor and an obligation.

Losing their land, farmers not only lost their homes and became refugees, but also became slaves to rich merchants because of their debts. As a result, Rome's tax base and military resources were damaged together.

Soldier, what are you fighting for?

A farmer can't give any exciting answers, but he can fight for his property and homeland. Just imagine a picture like this, a Roman soldier is fighting on the front line, and his family is insolvent. He and the house have been reduced to the property of wealthy businessmen, so he has no mood to continue fighting.

Roman law gave men the right to marry, which was one of the reasons why soldiers fought, and the law shared their benefits.

Carthage was actually on par with Rome, but the wealthy people in the city clenched their pockets. When they felt that Rome was no longer a threat, and Hannibal became more and more authoritarian, the Senate from the beginning He supported the war, and later it was possible to fight and make peace, and finally supported the general Scipio to replace Hannibal as the commander of Carthage.

Carthage must be destroyed. Perhaps what happened in Carthage told by his father coincided with Rome. Gracchus decided to reform Rome's economic system. After returning from the war, Gracchus participated in the election of tribunes After taking office, he immediately drafted a land bill with some like-minded elders and nobles, the content of which was to limit and distribute land.

If the risks are shared equally, then a big risk is a small risk if it is shared equally in the hands of everyone, so that a country's ability to resist attacks will become stronger.On the contrary, if the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few people, the ability of most people to take risks will be weakened. Although Carthage, which is a merchant, can provide taxes comparable to Rome, it is unwilling to share its power and interests. For ordinary people, there is no willingness to share losses equally. As a country as a whole, Carthage is not as good as Rome. The victory of the Punic War largely depends on Hannibal and his excellent diplomatic strategy.

During Gracchi’s time, Rome was already the overlord of the Mediterranean, and Gracchus himself was also a civil servant. He decided to adopt a relatively moderate reform method to divide wealth. The public land occupied by each citizen’s household could not exceed a certain limit, and the excess land would be paid by the state. , state-owned and then redistributed to poor peasants.

Containing mergers, revitalizing agriculture, and consolidating the country, Gracchus' reforms were supported by a large number of ordinary people.After winning with the support of a large number of voters, Gracchus delivered his victory speech: The beasts in the mountains and the birds in the forest still have nests to live in, but the Roman citizens who fought and died for their country had nothing but air and sunshine, no houses, no land , wandering around with his wife and children.When the generals call upon their soldiers to keep the temples and the tombs of their ancestors safe from the enemy, they are deceiving them, knowing that many Romans had no altars to worship their fathers, no tombs of their ancestors, while they lived in luxury for others , others get rich and fight to the death, they are called the rulers of the world, but they don't even have a small piece of land.

These lands cannot be transferred or merged, and can only be inherited. This policy land bill seriously hurt the interests of the elders, nobles, and big landowners, and was strongly opposed as soon as it was introduced.They used what they had done to the Carthaginians and Hannibal to spread a lot of negative news about Tiberius, but they soon found that this strategy did not work.Roman citizens didn't care about Gracchus' personal morality at all, as long as he was helping their interests, they would support him.

So the Senate decided to change it.

It didn't take long for a good friend of Gracchus to be assassinated. Roman citizens soon realized that the possibility of Gracchu's assassination was rising, so a large number of people spontaneously organized and waited around his residence day and night.

When Gracchus' land reform entered the Senate's agenda again, hundreds of people formed a human wall to escort Gracchus to the Senate.

The thugs and refugees hired by the Senate held weapons in ambush on the only way Gracchus must pass. When Gracchus and a group of people entered the passage of the Senate, the thugs swarmed out, and the two sides fell into a scuffle.

I don’t know whether Gracchus felt that there was danger, someone was sniping his head with a bow or arrow, or he wanted people to think calmly. He pointed his finger at his head, and then someone shouted in the chaos, “Gragu wants to wear a crown.” , he is a dictator", and soon someone entered the senate to report, so the senators came out aggressively with guards.

Everyone cursed and swore to bring down the dictator, and the senator's house slaves joined the mob in a bloody battle with Gracchus' supporters, and Tiberius Gracchus fell in a pool of blood in the chaos.

When all those who supported Gracchus were dead, the senator's servants found the body of the consul from the pile of dead bodies, dragged him through the streets, and then threw his body into the Tiber River.

Such a horrific scene made the Roman citizen and Tiberius’ younger brother Gaio angry. He vowed to inherit his brother’s behest and continue the land reform, but the tribunes are not hereditary, and he must pass the election. Trying to stop him from running.

After a series of battles of wits and courage, Guyogragu became a tribune. His reforms were more extensive, and in the end he died like his elder brother when he was suppressed by the Senate. Little Gragu was beheaded. The bodies of supporters were thrown into the Tiber River, so that the river was dyed red.

After the reforms of the Gracchi brothers failed, Rome's institutional greed intensified. The rich seized the land of the poor through various debt traps, and the situation of farmers was even more miserable than in the past.When the greed in human nature is released, it will become a terrible monster. The Roman Republic lost its last chance to reform. The dignitaries shouted for democracy, but lost the last chance to defend democracy, and the death knell sounded accordingly. , the bloody century-old civil war began, and it was precisely because of the civil war that Caesar, as a military leader, went to dictatorship, and Octavian even went to monarchy.

Rome was not built in a day, nor was it destroyed in a day. Maybe the land is not the last straw that crushes the camel's back, but it keeps adding straw to the camel's body.

When there is no external pressure, the internal contradiction will become the main contradiction.Reagan's greatest achievement was the destruction of the Soviet Union, which was also the most proud masterpiece of the United States. He often regarded himself as "standing on the correct side of history".

They often say that looking back at the facts of history, you will find that victory always belongs to the right way.The idea of ​​destiny in this makes those who support this argument believe that this is guided by God, or a secular force towards moral promotion and improvement.

This theory of destiny not only provides a moral endorsement for the "right side" and "wrong side" of history, but also supports the claim that the United States is great because it is kind.Because only when people feel that they are acting for God, they are being justified, and they can do everything with confidence.

Global commerce and new information can weaken dictators, reduce their support, and gradually move towards liberal democracy, but history does not develop in the way they expected.Neoliberal markets and the Anglo-Saxon model are concentrating wealth among the rich, and the number of middle class = Roman peasants is shrinking.

Liberals firmly believe that they are on the right side of history, but the "right side" should be to eliminate internal contradictions.The United States was never really united, at first it was a Confederate government, the words mean a league rather than a united states, but the Constitutional Convention dropped the Confederate project and replaced it with "Federalism".The central government has enough power, but it cannot have too much power. There has never been a person like a king in the United States. Reagan said that the government is the servant of the people. This is what they are most proud of. The "democratic system" with centralized power It's just a word game.

No matter how ingenious the United States Constitution may be in the abstract, it cannot hide its ambiguities, which are gaps if it is compared to a beaver dam, and the Declaration of Independence blurs and deletes slavery problems, which led to the civil war between the North and the South 70 years after the Constitution was promulgated.

Guaranteeing a strong social order while ensuring individual freedom and democracy is a problem that needs to be discussed in detail and explained clearly.The Bible gives man the power to rule the world, not on an equal footing with the gods of nature.

When children and women form a team of pilgrims, they spontaneously form ranks, just like centurions and thousand commanders in the army. Only with ranks can they be effectively managed.Even when they landed in Normandy, the United States adopted a hierarchical system. They had to ensure that the news would not be leaked to the Germans and let soldiers land on the beach as soon as possible.

They are children, but they are also human beings, and they are the products of morality. They don't need the oracle to give oracle, and they don't need the legislator to establish the government. They can create all the rules spontaneously, and they are rational enough to create a culture that allows them to coexist rule.

They are not children who listen to the magic flute and follow blindly like mice, but have the ability to solve social cooperation problems and spontaneously form order in the process of interacting with others in pursuit of the same goal-pilgrimage.

If the goal of "Soviet Union" is lost, some people will be left behind. Letting them fall behind is not the solution. What is more important is the new goal?
Some people like to act on the stage, while others like to be silent audiences off the stage. Lu Xun said that once a person understands it, he will become silent.

Albert Camus once said that almost all the evils in the world are caused by ignorance. If there is a lack of understanding, kindness can cause as much harm as malice.

Hermione Granger hopes to engage in the cause of house elf liberation. She is very kind, but the elves around her don't understand her.

The emancipation of slaves during Napoleon's reign would have moved many people's interests, even if it was historically correct.

The example of the Gracchi brothers proves that even doing the right thing can lead to death. This is Rome.

Religious tradition is the main source of the sanctity of laws in many countries in the world, but religious fanaticism is also a source of world disorder. It is written in "The Witch's Hammer" that not believing in witchcraft is the greatest heresy.

Although reason tells people that this is a joke, it is said that many famous people attended the Black Mass during the time of Louis XIV. Although Louis forbade others to sue people he liked and tore up some files, one of his mistresses, De Monte Madame Spoon fell out of favor as a result, and the King married the pious Madame Maintenon in secret the following year after Maria Theresa's death.

Some people don't believe in feng shui and numerology, and some people believe that, even in order to bury their parents in the ideal place, the two brothers will fight.

A man is more willing to fight for his interests than for power.

At the same time, Napoleon also said in the Memoirs of St. Hena Island that the Jesuits are the most dangerous of all societies. It causes more harm than other societies. The teachings of the Jesuits mean that their supreme commander is the leader of all the monarchs in the world. monarch.

He is still the wise king. Belisarius, who had suppressed the Nika uprising, was finally confiscated of all his property, but Justinian did not sentence him to death.

Josephine hoped that Napoleon would bring back the Bourbon royal family, perhaps because she was still an old nobleman and hadn't fully adapted to who she married.

It is not impossible for him to abdicate and pass the position to his brothers, such as Joseph Bonaparte or Lucien, but the premise of doing so is to proclaim the emperor and the king and restore hereditary inheritance, otherwise it would be unconstitutional for him to do so.

Louis XVI just did not agree to a constitutional monarchy, and later Charles X.

There is a saying in the Gospel of Luke, treat others as you would like them to treat you.

No one wants to be a slave or be locked in a cage. For the thirteen North American states in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, slaves were a kind of wealth, just like the "Prohibition". Undoubtedly a shock.

Because of a woman, the short-term truce peace brought about by the Amiens Treaty seems to be becoming long-term.

In order to deal with Napoleon Bonaparte, the United Kingdom gave many countries the machine tools and engineers needed for the "Industrial Revolution" through technology export, and these countries all used imperial units.Just like supporting Duncan, it was not until Louis XVIII and the Duke of Orleans became king that Britain sent a large number of engineers to help France upgrade its technology.

Is this a good thing?
Sometimes when we try hard to accomplish something, it’s better to “intentionally insert a willow”, the more we want to stay in a certain place, the harder it is to stay.

After playing chess, people can’t help replaying the game, thinking about what went wrong, and they can switch to another way of playing chess, but maybe Bonaparte in the “previous life” has already figured out the optimal solution, and other answers are not necessarily the best. of.

History has always been written by the victors. Tiberius, Nero, Claudius, and Caligula are listed as the four tyrants of Rome. If he is really a tyrant, why do so many people form a human wall to escort him? ?
Those Roman citizens who lost everything and protected Tiberius may be veterans. When the guards guarding the Senate waved their weapons at them, did they think about their future?
Perhaps it was in anticipation of this that the senators used their domestic slaves and mobs.Machiavelli said that the army and the people are opposites, and it is easier for "outsiders" to do it than their own people. Perhaps this is the reason why an idle Italian artillery was used during the Portuguese Moon Riot.

Marrying Josephine made him wash away his foreign identity. He couldn't get a divorce, and he was ambiguous with a man who couldn't get a divorce. Isn't it stupid if he doesn't even want his own husband?What a fucking idiot.

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