Harry Potter Morning Light.

Chapter 3514 Green Hills (II)

During the Triwizard Tournament, Pomona made a French bouillabaisse to entertain the guests of Beauxbatons. In fact, she originally wanted to make a dish to entertain the Bulgarian athlete Viktor Krum. She heard that athletes have very high dietary requirements, especially since he is a professional seeker.

Quidditch players in the inter-school league don’t have to worry about these things, as they can enjoy the high-fat, high-calorie food prepared in the Hogwarts kitchen.

She found a wide variety of canned fish, with more than 700 varieties.

These canned foods do not use preservatives. The most common ones are vinegar, smoke and salt. There is also a can of tomato herring, the tomato juice of which can effectively remove the odor of the fish.

Draco had a "fresh memory" of smelling the canned Swedish herring. In the cafeteria at Durmstrang, many people opened the cans "as if it were normal", as if they could not smell the smell at all and ate them with relish.

This is a local lifestyle habit, just like blue cheese. People who like it think it tastes spicier and stronger than ordinary cheese.

Draco ran back from Durmstrang, and when he left, he took the house-elf Dobby with him. Dobby used Apparition several times to bring Draco back to Malfoy Manor, and then Draco was "beaten" by Lucius who rushed back after receiving the news.

Lucius would not do what Arthur did, and would not spank Fred over his knees in a fit of rage. Instead, he would simply hit Draco with his cane out of the blue. It might not have been very painful, but it was enough to scare Draco.

Narcissa would not write a Howler letter like Molly did, send it to school by owl, and teach Ron a lesson in the hall in front of the whole school, even though she knew that Draco and Harry had risked their lives to fly at high speed under the stands full of obstacles in order to chase the Golden Snitch, and had even been injured.

Draco was lucky, he only broke a few bones, and he could just drink some bone-growing spirit. But what if he broke his neck?
Draco lived in the school dormitory and could not go home, but Lucius had to go home every day. He bought the latest flying brooms for the whole team. Just to let his son join the team as early as Harry, Lucius forbade Draco to play Quidditch anymore.

Estonia has been ruled by the Russians since 1710, and Sweden has been fighting the Northern War with Tsarist Russia since 1700.

King Charles XII of Sweden was only 1697 years old when he ascended the throne in 15.

The ruler of Tsarist Russia at that time was Peter I. He traveled in Europe from 1697 to 1698. After returning to his country, in addition to recruiting European talents, he focused his attention mainly on the Ottoman Empire.

Peter I did not care when Sweden attacked Denmark at the beginning. As Denmark quickly surrendered, Sweden turned its attention to the Baltic Sea, and then attacked the main force of the Russian army that was besieging Navarre.

So ten days after Peter I and Turkey signed the treaty in Constantinople, Russia went to war with Sweden.

The sudden rise of Tsarist Russia shocked European countries and also affected the War of the Spanish Succession to a certain extent. In 1710, Peter I occupied the Estonian capital of Narva with his army. Feeling that the southern fleet would not be used in the northern war, the Tsar quickly formed a navy in the Baltic Sea. The new fleet conducted amphibious operations and naval warfare training, and then Sweden never recaptured Estonia.

In 1721, Sweden and Tsarist Russia signed the Treaty of Nystat, through which Russia officially acquired Nyvonia, Estonia and other places, and returned Finland to Sweden.

Tsarist Russia is not only about ballet, and Vienna is not only about music and waltz. Perhaps if the young Estonian noble had not returned to his fiefdom and continued to stay in Vienna, his marriage with the countess might have become different.

Anyway, after walking for nearly a day, they returned to Milan. This time they did not stay in the Sforza Castle, but in the "Oriental Villa", where Paulina had been waiting for her.

From this hilly villa you can see the countryside that spreads across the Milanese plain, which is just like a landscape painting.

"Where is Alessandro?" Georgiana looked around the villa but did not see the "second eldest son" of the Torlonia family.

"Is this the first thing you see me say?" Polina said angrily.

"You are beautiful again," Georgiana praised hypocritically, "like the morning dew on rose petals, like..."

"He's still in the Sforza Castle," Paulina interrupted coldly. "You can summon him if you want to see him."

Georgiana glanced at the sky. The sun had already set, leaving only a little rosy afterglow. Judging from Polina's dress, it seemed that there would be no ball tonight, so she found a room to accommodate the two distinguished guests who had come with her.

In Italy, there is a law called "Annual Provisions", which is a privilege enjoyed by cities. Food from rural areas must be supplied to cities first. This became the basis for Alessandro's father and two papal nobles to form a "delegation to provide supplies to Rome".

The poor harvest in 1798 was caused by both natural disasters and man-made calamities. The fact that it occurred outside the city during a war meant that farmland was bound to suffer, so the delegation had to first ensure the needs of the capital.

They adopted subcontracting and supply contracts, a strategy also used by the Union during the Civil War. At that time, the currency issued by Lincoln was green, so it was called "Lincoln Greenbacks", but it was not issued as indiscriminately as the Assignats. It would appreciate or depreciate with the outcome of the war.

Lincoln had always been reluctant to print more "greenbacks", but the authorized "greenbacks" were obviously not enough to pay for military expenses and supplies.

So the Quartermaster's office no longer paid contractors checks but instead issued "certificates of indebtedness," which contractors could use to obtain loans at unspecified dates in the future.

The non-specified term is related to the outcome of the war. If the Federation wins and the greenback appreciates, the contractor can make huge profits from the difference between the price of oats and the value of the note paid for purchasing oats. In this way, this contract can be circulated like a bill of exchange.

The contractors did not need to repay the loans because the IOU was issued by the Federal Quartermaster's Office and the federal government had to pay back the money. This eventually led to state-owned and private banks lending out amounts that exceeded the gold and silver they owned. One state-owned bank even lent $90 with a reserve balance of less than $50000.

This was certainly risky, so the next year the number of contractors willing to take the risk decreased and the price of supplies increased.

There is a situation in Ireland that if the price of potatoes goes up, more Irish people will be able to afford them, but if the price of potatoes goes down, more people will not be able to afford them.

In Italy, more and more people were hoarding wheat, and there was never enough bread in the city bakeries.

This culminated in the need to establish inventories and oversee the delegation of supplies to Rome in 1799, a year in which Italy had a good harvest.

In order to keep the war going, the federal quartermaster general thought of another way. He split the big contract into small enforceable contracts, each contract for 1000 bushels of supplies. He took these contracts to the New York Produce Exchange to sell them. In this way, not only big grain traders but also "captains" like Rhett Butler could get orders and drive their own ships or hire people to deliver supplies to military warehouses and fortresses, thus avoiding the monopoly of supplies by big grain traders.

At the same time, these "small contracts" will also flow into the market and be sold to flour mill operators or brokers. This kind of futures contract is not new. As long as the parties in the contract agree on the delivery time, specify the price and quantity of the goods, no one will ask about the intermediate process. According to the contract at hand, the bank will also lend money.

Georgiana did something similar in Belgium. The contract signed between Ghent and France to purchase sugar-making equipment was the proof. She borrowed 200 million francs from the bank and used the money to buy food.

Sharptal was not good at this, although he could figure out how to extract materials for making gunpowder from excrement, so Gabriel Ouffral was released.

While washing up, Georgiana suddenly remembered how Shaptall's trick was...

"Forget it, never mind." Without thinking too much, she just lay down on the bed.

She decided to talk about the big things tomorrow, so she fell asleep quickly.

(End of this chapter)