Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 1869 giant slayer (thirteen)
"Have you figured out a way?" Alejandro asked bored while sitting in the public garden.

"There are cameras everywhere in the military camp, if you want to be caught and jailed." Gianluca said impatiently on the other end of the phone.

Alejandro rolled his eyes, looking around bored.

Napoleon's escape from Elba was based on timing, knowing that the guard was going to see his mistress...

"Am I going to put on a disguise?" Alejandro asked.

"Where do you get uniforms?" Gianluca asked.

"I'll figure it out on my own, you go ahead," said Alejandro, and left the park bench.

The last time he got someone else’s clothes, he took them to dry on the clothesline. Paris is not like the streets of Venice, where clotheslines are full of clothes. The appearance of the city should be rectified.

"Where do you live?" Frank asked Alejandro.

"He lives with me now," Gaitano said.

"What languages ​​do you speak besides Italian?" Frank asked.

"English." Alejandro said in English.

Frank froze for a moment, then he was relieved, "Do you want to go somewhere else?"

"Where?" Alejandro asked.

"If you can speak French, you can go to France."

"I can also go to France, there are always people who can speak English in France," Alejandro said.

"The Italian consulate in France needs an English-speaking interpreter, where would you go?" Frank said.

Alejandro didn't answer.

"Don't dare?" Alvin asked.

"I've heard that France is dangerous," said Alejandro. "There are frequent civic movements there."

The two middle-aged men laughed together.

"It's better now than it was before," Frank said. "You know what it was like?"

Alejandro continued to remain silent.

"On October 1789, 10, women and workers flocked to the Palace of Versailles. They were so hungry that they would do anything as long as they were given bread. From the first day when the Randall regiment was stationed in Versailles, girls took the initiative to get close to the officers and soldiers. At first, the recruits thought it was a happy thing to go to Paris." Frank looked out the window and said, "Later, some people in white clothes gradually gathered outside the palace. Women, at first the nucleus of women gathered outside was fishmongers, beggars and women without shoes, later some laundresses appeared, probably outside the National Assembly as they handed over their changes of laundry to their lovers Meet on the bench, it was a public meeting place, they elected some women representatives, asked to talk to the king, but not all the women gathered outside to make trouble, they pretended to be women, and their beards were not clean, because they knew , the guards will not be rough on women, they rushed through the gate and tried to steal the 5 franc cash voucher, and then a priest saw it, and they planned to hang him. It was said at the time that the women were going to rob Later, they didn’t want the money. What they wanted was bread, so they burned those cash coupons. In fact, what was burned were documents. Those cash coupons disappeared, and the monk was saved by a real woman. It's just an episode in the big drama that the people are putting on."

Frank took a puff on his cigarette and continued, "Someone tried to maintain a little order in the chaotic crowd, but the rioting crowd was like a ferocious monster. Everyone in the crowd did whatever they wanted. The Royal Palace belongs to the Duke of Orleans. Yes, there used to be a place for pleasure-seeking, and there were many attractive women gathered. They spotted the soldiers and took them away like soliciting customers on the street. Gold and silver coins were thrown around, and at night people started saying, if I could get close to that stupid bitch, I'd cut her neck off on the spot, do you know who that bitch is?"

Alejandro was silent for a while. "Marie Antoinette."

"In one night, she went from 'long live queen' to 'slut', they're going to dig out her heart, fry her liver, wake up the bloodthirsty desire and make the people who keep order sober Yes, the members of the National Self-Defense Force even said, "You should kill all the Guards, dig out their hearts and eat breakfast." At that time, about 5000 people gathered outside the gate, but beside them, there were thousands of bandits in the night. Under the shroud, they mixed into Versailles. The local people had already blocked the road with vehicles and sundries, and all the exits were blocked. The king himself, his family members, and ministers all became prisoners, but the king was still thinking of the good. He even forbade his own guards to shoot, and entrusted Lafayette with the sentry outside the castle. It was about five o'clock in the morning, and Lafayette couldn't hold it anymore. He rested for an hour, and at this moment the people outside Started to storm the palace, they shot at the guards, and cut off the heads of two guards, they cursed the queen and smashed open the gates, the queen fled to the king in petticoats, we... the courtiers tried Building defenses with furniture, but it was useless, I can't describe to you the shocking scene, the only thing that could be guarded as a dangerous place at that time was a spiral staircase, those young people who thought it was a good thing to come to Paris were caught and beaten by the people, the people Trample them to the ground, and those creatures we tentatively call human beings stepped on them and climbed up, and at the rear, a door was opened, and there were other entrances besides the spiral staircase. The king was still unwilling to shoot at this time, Just when we decided to fight to the death, Lafayette came, and the excited crowd changed their attitude. In this state of restless nervousness, men, especially women, will go from one extreme to the other. Only when the thugs found themselves pointing their guns at a panicked woman and child, Lafayette helped the Queen up, kissed the back of her hand, and then said to the people, 'The Queen will love and love her people', At this time, the people began to be moved again, with tears in their eyes. They helped up the downed guards, and the grenadiers brought by Lafayette put their hats on them. Everything was so beautiful. At this time The hooligans gathered in the marble courtyard shouted 'The King returns to Paris'. The king immediately obeyed the order. He was going to take the queen's son and daughter to the balcony. Someone reminded him not to take the children, and then the king and his wife walked to the balcony. At this time, there was only joy, the king opened the storehouse, and let these hungry people have a full meal. At the same time, the king's family was preparing to leave. On the grain carts and cannon carts, the leader is a man with a spear, and two human heads are pierced on their tops. When the procession reaches Paris, people shout "all bishops are hanged on the street lamps" , the number of clergy in the three estates is actually the smallest, and there is not a single day when the Parisian clergy do not accept insults and receive terrible threats. Paris is becoming a theater for all kinds of atrocities. Parisians now often see the English woman Appearing in the vegetable market, haggling with fish and rice, sometimes we think that if Queen Mary was like her back then, people would not be regarded as stupid girls. ' said Frank in a low voice.

"It may have been taught by the English royal family. The queen of Denmark once took the prince to wander the streets." Alvin said, "but the locals think she is unruly."

"Distributing food is like a street bullfight. If it weren't for the guild, some small bakeries would not dare to open at all. Bonaparte forced down the price of bread, and some small bakeries in Paris were heavily in debt. Lend money to them with 1% interest. As for the provinces, the same policy cannot continue. Fortunately, the army used the excuse of eliminating homeless people to arrest people everywhere. When the king mobilized the army, the citizens of Paris felt that the king was targeting them. Yes, although his purpose is to maintain order, not to suppress their protests for legitimate demands." Frank knocked the ash in his pipe into the ashtray, "Bonaparte knows how to deal with those who want to take the opportunity to make trouble, Only by putting them under the supervision of the spears will they put away their crazy ideas, Versailles is still too close to Paris, so he wants to move the capital to Lyon."

Both Alejandro and Gaitano were shocked.

"In January, he established the Southern Alps Republic, do you know about that?" Frank asked.

"Yes," Gaitano said.

"It's a good excuse to rule Italy for convenience, but it will touch the interests of many people. In the past, when the king built the thoroughfare, he used Paris as the center. If the capital was changed to Lyon, the traffic routes would have to be re-planned. His There is a minister under him named Gaston Martin, who also organized fundraising for the construction of the Saint-Martin Canal. He is not only interested in the Seny Mountain Road, but also in the commercial road leading to Strasbourg. Instead of the woman, he sent to Hungary People buy horses, since Cardinal Richelieu destroyed the stud farms of the nobles, there are no good horses in France, can you imagine what would happen if the horses were sold to the French?" Frank said.

"Nightmare," Gaitano trembled.

"That's right, Vienna felt the same way, so he ordered the bad horses to be sold to him, but the woman was not blamed by anyone. She slaughtered those bad horses and made them into canned horse meat. The British don't like canned food, but they don't Affecting their canning business, there are many rabbits in Australia, and canning rabbit meat can be eaten by people in famine, provided that the rodents do not carry plague.” Frank lowered his voice and said, “I heard that the French People are so hungry that they eat rats in the gutters, they are lucky that there is no plague outbreak."

"The Black Death also broke out in Venice. I heard that it ended through women praying to Mary." Alvin said, "Piety will bring God's blessing."

"It's going to be bad news for you once England is allied with France," Frank said. "You're going to have a harder time getting rid of Bonaparte than you are now. The enlightenment project was a human disaster because they tried to use ' The law of rationality replaces the tradition of religion, which destroys the connections and social virtues that human society has built up over hundreds of years, such as honesty, trust, tolerance, and restraint. People put self-interest above moral obligations, and this is 'Rationality' as they say."

Alejandro looked at Gaitano, his expression heavy.

"Don't forget what the 'fraternal' French have done to you, I have heard that Bonaparte adorned his women with precious stones from the cross, and that he rode in a carriage drawn by eight horses, only fools To think of him as the liberator of Italy, to indulge in his lies without opening his eyes to see the truth, and to cry 'Italy is over' until the dreams are shattered."

"Do you know the intelligence of the Americans?" Gaitano asked.

"Don't count on them." Frank said with a sneer, "Their army has neither the British aristocratic class to take the lead, nor the republican military merit system. The problem of promoting officers through recognition of military exploits is a congenital defect of the Continental Army. John Adams thought hiding it was the cure for it."

"The closer the fester is to the heart, the more dangerous it is. Washington commanded an army of short-lived militiamen and incompetent officers who could not do enough to deal with the Indians," Irving said.

"Where are the Russians?" Gaitano asked.

"This is not what people of your level should know." Frank said coldly, "You just need to follow the order."

Gritting his teeth, Alejandro also remembered the pain Austria had inflicted on Venice.

At this moment, he suddenly found a dry cleaning shop that was still in operation, and a person in casual clothes took the uniform from the proprietress.

Just as he was about to go there, there was a clattering sound from the square, and a black carriage stopped in the middle of the square.

It stood there motionless, looking eerie and unpredictable.

There is a problem, how to stuff an elephant into the refrigerator.

The answer is to open the refrigerator, stuff the elephant in, and close the door.

It's simple, isn't it?

But the volume of the refrigerator can't hold an elephant.

So when Alejandro saw a giant leg step out of the carriage, he felt like he was in a dream.

Also at this moment, two durahans appeared at the giant's feet with elegant steps like cavalrymen receiving a review, looking like two hounds.

The giant was about three storeys tall, and residents who were walking their dogs screamed in horror when they spotted the behemoth.

"This is not a hallucination." Alejandro looked at the little giant and murmured, "This is a nightmare."

"What happened?" Gianluca asked on the phone.

"You won't believe it," Alejandro said into the microphone. "I'll call you later, the battery is almost dead."

"Wait...hey~"

Gianluca's voice stopped abruptly.

As people in the square began to panic, Alejandro rushed to the dry cleaners and found among the laundry a French army uniform that suited his figure.

Its style is very different from the French uniforms of the Napoleon era, and there is even a leather apron. Who would wear this to fight?

(End of this chapter)