Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 1999 "Bullfight Dance" ([-])
If you look at it from the perspective of love, the feeling of being watched by your lover all the time is sweet.

However, from a normal person's point of view, it doesn't feel good to be watched.

Georgiana found that Bonaparte seemed to know her every move. This was not the first time, nor would it be the last.

She sighed and continued to do her makeup in the mirror.

The main members of the Hanseatic League were almost all coastal cities, which were often robbed by pirates. All the port cities in Northern Europe joined the Hanseatic League, and Prussia also joined in succession.

Due to the long-term emphasis on the principle of "purchasing only from the cheapest areas", the Hanseatic League's local agriculture and handicrafts have not been developed. Not only has the alliance been disbanded, it has now become a grain exporting country.

The British Navy also needed food supplies in the Baltic Sea. After the bombardment of Copenhagen, many Danish sailors lost their ships. They came to France to ask for a living. At the same time, the Danish foreign minister also took refuge in France with his credentials.

When Britain tried to organize its own trade in the Baltic Sea, France was also thinking about actively preparing to control Denmark and reorganize the Hanseatic League against "neutral countries" such as the British Navy and Sweden.

Peace is good for business development, neither war nor internal turmoil is good for business development, the bankers of the Bank of France are not willing to lend money because of the constant change of regime, who knows how long Napoleon and his government can last .

However, the successive victories still put great pressure on Britain. In 1797, it was rumored that the French would soon land in Britain, so the Parliament urgently passed the "Bank Restriction Act" to stop the exchange of bank notes for gold.

It's an experiment to see what happens when you do this.However, everything was running normally, and there was no run, and within a day, 1140 merchants signed a statement of willingness to accept bank notes, and the restriction law that was supposed to be implemented for 6 weeks is still in effect.

Normal inflation can promote economic growth, but even if it is not paper money, importing a large amount of silver coins from the New World like Spain will cause inflation.

Currency shortages are almost without exception related to wars. The amount of precious metals contained in ancient coins is very characteristic of the times. For example, the Roman dinar had the highest silver content in the Augustan era. lower.

William Petty took back the old currency in 1662, and then recast the new currency, which increased the silver content at that time.At that time, during the Anglo-Dutch War, the Navigation Regulations promulgated by the United Kingdom in 1660 further squeezed the status of the Netherlands in international trade, and finally led to the alliance between the Netherlands and France.

Currency holders can reject currency that looks flawed or in poor condition, and who would accept a counterfeit currency with their eyes closed?

The livre of the old regime had no legal value at all, it was only the name of a kind of money, and did not represent how many riso and crowns, this relationship was completely arbitrary, it could be changed, and in fact it was changing, Unlike the British pound and the shilling, which are so regulated, they are "strong" and "weak" for a while, one livre is the same as gold of equal weight for a while, and only seven-eighths of it for a while. The calculated value of the franc exactly corresponds to the actual value in use.

In fact, Spain is also short of money, because the lack of money not only sells the religious properties with the permission of the Pope, but also sells the ceremonial supplies used in large-scale public ceremonies.

The problem is that no matter which country issues the hard currency, the holder of the coin can put the gold coin in the pot, dig a hole, bury it, and wait for thousands of years to dig it out. Come out, anyway, it will not be as easy to damp and rot as banknotes.

In this way, let alone inflation, it is good luck to be able to avoid deflation. There is an agronomist named Arthur Young on the dinner list tonight. He is the director of the British Agricultural Bureau. He advocates the horse-drawn plow. He had imported Dutch draft horses to farm in France, and he wanted to come over to exchange ideas.

French farmers were far less interested in horse-drawn plows than harvesters and threshers, preferring harvesters to mechanized farming.

But Arthur Young was not only a pioneer of the agricultural revolution, but also an agricultural economist and a supporter of the quantity theory of money. Anyway, he was a relatively important guest.

French bankers liked land-backed loans, but this gave rise to speculators called "the black bands," who specialized in buying large farms and selling them in small pieces. Farmers have to use mortgages to buy as much land as possible, which is what Leon Kuhl found when he visited.

Because farmers' savings are used to buy land instead of promoting agricultural modernization or improving soil, it enters a vicious circle.Some of their land is not fallow at all, these areas are mainly concentrated in Geneva and Burgundy, and the border between northeastern France and Belgium.

The farming area in Geneva itself overlaps with the grazing area. Georgiana has been to it. It is difficult to open up a piece of land in the mountainous area. Women carry their children up the mountain to take care of the cattle, while men farm at the foot of the mountain.

The Bordeaux region grows grapes on the plains, and wine is the second largest industry in France after the textile industry, but just like wheat has become a speculative commodity, many wine growers are also speculators.

A good vintage is like a gamble, with randomness in light, rainfall and fermentation.Occasional fortunes will offset any pain and allow them to start over, and few smallholder farmers make a good living off the grapes they grow, but they are favored owners of premium brands.

They will take no pleasure in raising the cider of Brittany, but it will not take two or three years for the cider to compete with it.

Rouen and Amiens are the regions that import the most Dutch dairy products in France, but importing too many foreign livestock will cause protests from local livestock owners.

Georgiana was thinking while wearing earrings. During Roosevelt’s New Deal, in order to solve the problem of deflation, a fireside conversation was held, and Americans who kept their money at home were persuaded to put their money in trustworthy banks.

She thinks that the Bank of France should also have this kind of privilege, and only allow trustworthy banks to engage in land mortgage loans, and it is not like "gangsters" who use land mortgages to buy more land. Doing so will sooner or later become land speculation. Create a new crisis.

"Oh!" Georgiana was taken aback by Alice, "Why are you here?"

"Which necklace are you wearing tonight, madam?" Alice asked.

Georgiana did not look at the jewel-box in her hand, but looked into Alice's eyes through the mirror.

"Have you decided who to dance with tonight?"

"Alice is at your command." Alice said softly, with a docile look of letting others deal with her life and death.

"Let me ask you a question, have you ever learned to be a housekeeper?" Georgiana asked.

"A little bit." Alice said softly.

"What do you know?"

"Be sympathetic to the tenant farmers, and don't let them feel that we have treated them badly..."

"What!" cried Georgiana, unable to restrain herself.

Alice seemed terrified.

"There are still sharecroppers on your farm?" Georgiana asked calmly.

"It's not just my family, it's all over Normandy." Alice said cautiously, "but grandpa's management method is different from other farms. He has to sign a contract with the tenants, and rent them the farm tools and animals, and they hand them over after the autumn harvest. rent."

"That's not a sharecropper," Georgiana said.

"What she said is true, ma'am," Leyla added, "my family is a sharecropper."

"Do you know the difference between sharecropping and rent-to-rent?"

Alice and Leila looked at each other and shook their heads.

"The tenancy system is a new thing." Matilda said something fair. "I used to have a friend who rented the land in the country to others and then lived in Paris. Compared with the French, the Spaniards, the Italians and Poles with lower commissions."

"It's Irish on our side," Alice said to Matilda.

Matilda, who was about to talk, stopped talking after seeing Leila's gesture.

Georgiana's face was ugly, and she actually forgot this key point.

People with small assets will hire cheaper foreigners to work for them, while French natives without land cannot find jobs in the countryside, so they have to leave the countryside and go to cities or factories, hoping to absorb industry through agriculture The unemployed population in the transition process seems to be stuck.

"Is she going back to the country, your friend?" Georgiana asked Matilda.

"They go back in the summer for vacation and usually live in the city," Matilda said.

Georgiana sighed.

She is very worried now, not to mention that they have done bad things with good intentions, just like the economist who proposed free trade in grain.

The smartest kids move a lot, and the dumbest kids can't move at all.Draco said Hermione was a Mudblood, and Hermione punched Draco. Neville and other Hufflepuff children were bullied by Draco, and it was rare for them to fight back.

Later, it was Hannah Albert and the others who cast a transfiguration spell on Draco, turning him into a slug to meet Narcissa Malfoy.

Where did she get such patience?It's all done, the old bat couldn't control his temper when he met Neville, and later Neville was so scolded by him that he didn't even dare to go to Potions class.

Of course, there was also Lupine's misleading, which turned Neville's Boggart into Snape's female costume. He hated it for a year. Neville was in the fourth grade and asked him to dissect the same body as his pet Leif. Horned toads, and a whole barrel.

If this is all an experiment, then the living "people" she sees in front of her eyes are not really alive or really dead, because they are just some parameters.

She didn't know why she came here, maybe because she remembered Harry's third year, there was the Azkaban jailbreaker Sirius Black and the Time Turner, and the prop Time Turner related to the time travel experiment .

Why did she think of this?

She was so confused that she thought about it and had an answer.

The headquarters of the International Federation of Wizards is in Geneva, and she met a staff member of the International Federation of Wizards on the train.

If the purgers who were active in Brittany were caught, they could be sent to Geneva, the court of the International Federation of Wizards for trial, and it would not be surprising that there would be British wizard judges for trial at that time.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

"I finally didn't screw up everything."

She murmured, hoping she was not mistaken.

(End of this chapter)