Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 2235 Flower Controversy (140)

Most of the collections in the library come from the Bruges Public Library. The Austrians took everything they could with them when they evacuated. It is not good to leave empty bookshelves, so the local officials took it from other places. The place moved some books to make up for it.

After a brief visit, Georgiana and Gregoire left the library and took a walk in the promenade where countless plaster statues and sculptures were arranged.

This summer palace once served as the headquarters of the Austrian East India Company, but it closed down after only 10 years of operation. All the works of art considered valuable by the Austrians were removed, leaving only them.During the reign of Charles VI of Austria earlier, because the emperor attached great importance to the navy, encouraged sailing activities and overseas business, the Thor Garden, located in the southwest of the Jupiter Palace, used to be the seat of the Austrian Maritime Department Office, and they also withdrew from there. gone.

In fact, the business in Ostende and Guangzhou was once very good, which made the stocks of the East India Company in Ostende rise, and the stocks of the East India Company in Amsterdam fell.But it is in the same dimension as London, and separated only by a strait, so both the British and the Dutch regard Ostende as a huge threat.

There was a proverb at that time: destroy this cockatrice while young.It means to strangle this strange snake when it is young.

Although Bruges rose in history because of the Hanseatic League, Ostende only rose together as a port with military strategic value, but today Ostende is due to the decline of the East India trade and the Hanseatic League. The influence faintly exceeds that of Bruges.

Ostend is a very good deep-water port. It can usually berth a large ship with a draft of 4 meters. If it encounters a high tide, it can berth a ship with a draft of 7 meters. Deep ships were impassable, which indirectly contributed to the decline of Bruges.

The French East India Company was disbanded in 1769, and the territory was incorporated into the royal family.When Napoleon was in Egypt, he also surveyed the ancient Suez Canal. If it can be built, it will also be a huge change for the world situation.Even if the French East India Company is not rebuilt, the Canal Company is enough.

Since it is a canal company, the holy water river in front of our house must be cleaned up. Although there is a lake in Ostende, it is not as high as Hongze Lake. The accumulated lake water cannot wash away the silt, so we can only Manually.

This is the general news that Grégoire heard. In fact, the Ostende Company still has some properties in Bangladesh, just like this empty summer palace. The summer palace is characterized by refreshing colors, not as colorful as the winter palace. , which makes the Summer Palace in winter feel like an icehouse as a whole. If Napoleon's vision goes well, it will become very lively in the future.

Grégoire gave Georgiana a small gift, a bird calling box. Its working principle was similar to that of a music box, except that instead of music, it would imitate the sound of songbirds when it was opened, and it echoed in the empty corridor. , which makes people feel lovable.

Most of the large and small, wide and narrow canals in Bruges are man-made, such as the Musician's Canal, the Green Canal, and the Baker's Canal. Although the busy scene in the past is gone, the swans can swim on the river.

But the holy water canal (dijver) was formed "naturally", that is, the canal leading to the natural waterway holy water river that was formed due to heavy rain after Bruges was built.

Next to the Holy Water Canal is the Cathedral of Our Lady in Bruges, which also has works by Michelangelo, but the most attractive thing to Georgiana is the Holy Blood Temple. According to legend, during the Second Crusade, Earl of Flanders Henry of Sass brought back a vial of Jesus' blood from the Holy Land and enshrined it in a private chapel next to the earl's private palace.

There are many similar "sacred objects", such as the shroud of Turin, and the bones of saints were used in Venice, which seems to be more reliable than a bottle of blood or a shroud from nowhere.

There is also the Augustinian Canal in the city, who can be said to be the "Father of Purgatory" precisely because of his drastic commentary on St. Paul's text, adding two clear points.First, the purging fire takes place between the death of the body and the resurrection of the body, known in Latin as the "hoctemporis intervallo".Second, to define human attitudes that lead either to eternal punishment or to benefit from the purging fire, the criterion is the attribute of the foundation upon which each man builds his life, the only foundation of salvation is Christ, if carnal pleasures are preferred If the excess is exceeded, there will be eternal damnation, and if, on the contrary, some excessive sacrifice of these pleasures, without taking their place in the ground of Christ, will be saved by the purging fire.

Another one is the theory of "Millennium Bliss", that is, the doomsday theory that will be spread wildly every millennium or at the turn of the century. It existed through Judaism in the 2nd century, and it was still in Greek at that time. The name is mainly based on a passage from St. John's "Apocalypse":
And I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge, the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God; and those who had not worshiped the beast, nor Those who worshiped the image of the beast, and did not receive his mark on their foreheads or hands, lived and reigned with Christ for 1000 years.This is the first resurrection.The rest of the dead didn't come to life until those 1000 years were up.Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection.The second death will do nothing to these people; they will be priests of God and Christ and reign with him for 1000 years.

Opponents of the millennial beatification attempt to exclude this passage from the canon because there is no reference in the ancient Bible that the souls of people who died before the resurrection would be stored in a place called "the underworld" (sheol).This may have originated from the ancient Egyptians. After they died, they went to the underworld to accept the trial of Hades, which is also the famous heart-weighing ceremony. If the heart of the deceased is heavier than a feather, it will be eaten.

The concept of hell and the underworld described by Dante is easy to confuse. The world of the dead is shrouded in endless darkness, while hell has light, just like the beam of light that passes from the mouth of the well to the bottom of the well.

After the sack of Rome, Pope Clement VII fled to Orvieto. In order to ensure the water source, he dug a well on the mountain and named it St. Patrick's Well.Instead of putting buckets down, this well has a spiral staircase, and people can lead mules down to get water.

Napoleon has been unable to find anyone to pay for the dredging of the canal, even the Jews who promised to give them land. Georgiana imagined that it would be great if the church was willing to pay the money, but it is impossible to expect the church to pay for the dredging of the canal every year. Belgium is a non-sovereign and non-independent region. It is often ceded to sovereign countries such as Austria and France as a subsidiary of a treaty. Because it often changes its owner, no one will do this kind of thing that is difficult for oneself and benefits for others.

If there is no mountain, people can build a mountain, such as building a reservoir with the silt from dredging the canal, so that the sand in the river can be washed away through the gate.

But the question is where does the water come from?Unless there is another heavy rain to raise the water level in the reservoir, just like using a basin to catch water, otherwise this kind of flat river cannot store water.

In the story of Noah's Ark, the "end of the world" is due to the great flood. The "Ark" is like a box with a cover on it so that rainwater will not pour into the cabin like the boat Nick used to sit on.

They drifted on the sea for 220 days before the flood began to subside, and it took another 40 days for the top of Mount Ararat to appear. At this time, Noah released a crow, but it did not find a place to live. Seven days later, Noah The dove was released, and this time it brought back an olive branch. Only then did Noah know that the earth was alive again.

Georgiana's castle in Calais hasn't been named yet. Normally, she should choose something cute, such as a rose, or a white dove, which symbolizes peace.

But as long as you imagine that Lestrange, Malfoy, and the Judgment and Prisoner are also there, it's better not to tarnish the name of the white dove.

It's not good to call it "Crow Castle" directly. In the 72 Pillars of Solomon, there is a devil named Stolas. It often appears in the image of a big raven. When it appears in human form, it will teach people astronomy and art , and identifying herbs and gemstones.

So the castle got a new name, and she sincerely hoped that Strasberg would not become like Nurmengard, and that she herself would not become Grindelwald, ending up in the same prison where he once held dissenters .

What Storras is doing doesn't look like a "demon" in any way, but it is indeed demonology, and Georgiana is not yet sure whether to discuss this with Gregoire.

But now, she has a "shadow" to deal with. Napoleon became suspicious when Luderer became ill, and she didn't want others to be like him.

So after parting with Gregoire, she took the bird calling box and went to the Hall of the Goddess of Victory under the guidance of her attendants.

(End of this chapter)