Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 2033 Alliance Festival ([-])
Once upon a time there was a king of Thule, who lived faithfully all his life,
There is only one golden wine glass, which is a gift from his lover on his deathbed.

He regards the golden cup as the most precious treasure, and always drinks wine from it at the banquet;

Whenever he drank it down, he couldn't help crying.

Seeing that he was about to die, the king counted how many cities he had;
He gave the whole city to the prince, leaving only the gold cup to anyone.

A palace towers by the sea, and there is a high platform for sacrifices in the palace,
The king made a big banquet on the stage and entertained the knights around him.

Then the old drunkard stood up and drank the last of the flame of life,

Then he threw the holy goblet into the raging tide.

He watched the goblet fall, and saw it sink into the depths of the sea.

Then he closed his eyelids and never touched a drop of that nectar again.

———Goethe "King Thule"

Georgiana has a hard time explaining to someone that reading books is a relaxing thing, or that she's beginning to understand why Arianna and Aberforth need Albus, and he chooses to find the Deathly Hallows with Grindelwald .

He was able to step out of that suffocating feeling momentarily with a surreal relief.

She/he can't do anything, so he can only escape, even if he looks extremely irresponsible in the eyes of other relatives.

After leaving the restaurant, they left the town in a carriage and continued north until they came to a small village hidden in the forest.

It is close to the sea and has a sandy beach suitable for landing, which is very suitable for hiding smugglers.

Even if the Manchu Qing continued the Ming Dynasty's sea ban and closed the country, there would still be smugglers who would traffic foreign goods to the inland.

The mainland blockade probably means the same thing as the sea ban, but it's not about preventing pirates.

In the village there is a small church with an abbey, which is of Norman style, and its patron saint is St. Edith, the princess Edith, daughter of the martyred King Edgar of England.

When he succeeded to the throne, Viking pirates were in trouble. If the strait today blocked the route of the French, it also blocked the British from suppressing pirates 800 years ago. The Normans were entrenched in Normandy based on the strait, ready to attack at any time. looting.

Their primary target is the monastery, which contains not only food, wine, and ritual objects such as gold cups, but also women.

They refer to nuns. Not long after Christianity was introduced into Britain, women were extremely enthusiastic about monasticism. During this period, many royal and aristocratic women were admitted to the monastery, and they left their pious footprints at home and abroad, because Britain did not have enough Many noble ladies had to go to Frank or Gaul to practice their monastic life.

In the second half of the 8th century, Viking pirates began to act, and many monasteries fell because of this, and the situation of nuns became different from before.

Before the Vikings invaded, people usually distinguished nuns according to their virginity. Later, all women who devoted themselves to religion were called nuns.Not only virgins but also widows could become members of the royal convent, where they practiced in their own homes or in informal societies.

Generally speaking, the royal nunnery has a large scale due to its strong economic foundation, and its status is much higher than other nuns, but they are usually the primary target of pirates. In the era of St. Edith, few princesses went to monasticism.

Princess Monasticism is different from ordinary women. She was educated in the monastery and could write biographies and chronicles by herself. She left a lot of historical materials for future generations to study the history of that period, although she herself died at a young age. up.

The biographies of Saint Edward all regard him as a martyr. The Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican churches all recognize his sainthood, and his remains are stored and enshrined by an Orthodox church.

But the historical data about his birth are not comprehensive. In the biography of 1080, Edward's mother was a nun of Wilton Abbey, who gave birth to Edward the Martyr because he was seduced by Edgar.

This is a double insult to the former royal family and the church, when the ruler of England has become William the Conqueror, that is, he took Lucius Malfoy's ancestors, a group of Normans, to rule England.

At that time, Britain was composed of large and small Anglo-Saxon tribes. As time went by, some large tribes gradually annexed the surrounding small countries, and finally formed the Seven Kingdoms era represented by seven major countries.

The Anglo-Saxon era ended with William, Duke of Normandy, capturing King Harold at Hesting.In the history written by St. Edith, Edgar's mother was Ethelfried, who was Edgar's "lawful wife", so that Edward was not an "illegitimate child".

"You really picked a 'good place,'" Georgiana said wryly, but no one seemed to know what she was talking about.

After they got out of the car, they walked into a courtyard. In the courtyard, there was an altar on the stone steps. There was a bronze sculpture on the stone steps. A nun and an angel were lying on the ground from left to right.

The angel held a rose in her hand, and the nun held a book in her hand. Georgiana suddenly remembered that the place where St. Edith was monastery happened to be Wilton, which is the legendary Edgar A place to seduce nuns.

She glanced at Bonaparte, who seemed not in the mood to chat with her, so they followed the two "messengers" into a small door by the side of the small courtyard. There was a long and narrow corridor through the small door, and at the end of the corridor was a In the small chapel, candles were lit inside, dyeing the room a solemn yellow.

If indulgences were the catalyst for Luther's Reformation, then the parish steward's sale of orphans to factories under the guise of helping the poor would be a Protestant scandal.

If it is a fallacy to say that buying more indulgences can offset one's sins and go to heaven after death, then can sending orphans to factories as apprentices really learn skills?
Those victims not only did not receive any education, including religious education, but also did not receive any professional knowledge needed to earn a living. When they left the factory, their mental, moral and physical conditions were not good. If they entered the factory as children, they would be ignorant and If they are pure, then they will be ignorant and corrupt when they leave. They will know nothing except years of labor tied to machinery. More importantly, they are adults. The factory owners cannot use their minors as an excuse to exploit them. Sufficient wages are required to continue working.

These people are useless when they grow up, and it is impossible for child laborers who have grown up to join the army. First of all, to be a soldier must be in good health. Their lungs have been destroyed by cotton, their limbs are bent due to lack of exercise, and their faces are gray and swollen.Generally they can only go to slums or something like that, but who knows how they earn their living?Not only do they have no competitiveness in this era of advocating competition, but they are also deprived of the opportunity to cultivate and increase their competitiveness.

William Pitt Jr. hoped that the orphans could support themselves and reduce the burden on society. However, now he has to recruit cavalry to patrol, which has incurred more social costs, and Birmingham also caused violent riots because of the "Police Act".

These factory owners set themselves and the government on the opposite side. The purpose of promoting the economy is to generate jobs and sacrifice morality under the premise of stability. If mechanization makes society unstable and immoral, then the government will ban it, such as Prevent the popularization of hydraulic looms.

This is a shackle for factory owners who are eager to expand. They want to break free, just as some people need financing for expansion and find that the "Bubble Act" is in the way. Even if there are other system replacements, they will Canceled it.

Unrestrained and free-wheeling factory owners have absolute power, even surpassing the supervision of the state, and their ambitions will not stop there. Their next goal is political power.

Marx said that as long as capital has 10% profit, it will be used everywhere; if it has 100% profit, it will not hesitate to catch the risk of the law; if it has 300% profit, it will make people willing to commit crimes and even hang their heads. .

Maybe they won't eat their own children like Saturn, but those children who grow up are like Goya's Saturn, their time is eaten by an invisible big mouth.

Adam Smith felt that market regulation was an invisible hand. The French Revolution tested it out, and bread, a necessity, would only keep rising until it became unrealistic.And there is no bottom line for price cuts. As long as it can kill the opponent, it will be given away for free for a period of time, or even paid to see who has the wealth and wealth to persist until the end. Suffering from the monopoly.

What's more, the price of cotton products is 10 times the price of its raw materials, or even higher.

Once a policy unfavorable to them is adopted, the factory owners will organize riots just like the factory owners in Manchester.

She appreciates Wordsworth's words that monstrous floods are accumulated through years of ignorance and ignorance.

The arrival of the flood is unstoppable by manpower, and it is useless to pray to God and worship Buddha, because there will be no "miracles" at all.

Never was the son of Cronus bestowed upon mortals a day without pain, and riches come and go, and so do sorrows and joys, and the wheel of time rolls to everyone, even to the stars in its orbit.

Stars die one day too, and the dust from their explosions forms new stars, as well as the building blocks of the human body.

The Greek playwright Sophocles who wrote this poem once wrote in his Oedipus: Stop mourning, for these cannot be changed.

He offers no escapism other than enduring pain with unshakable strength and accepting death with equanimity.

The joy and happiness of human beings are like a forest. It is beautiful from a distance, but if you go inside, the beauty disappears and you can never find it again.

When Bonaparte entered the chapel, Georgiana chose not to follow.

She waited quietly with the others, as if waiting for the Doomsday Book.

Despair and hope coexist, she can't describe that feeling, only those who have experienced it can understand, although most people don't want to experience this kind of experience.

(End of this chapter)