Hogwarts Gymnastics Professor

Chapter 216 Quick Response

Some people always underestimate the reaction speed of those in power when they face the possibility of overthrowing their own rule. In fact, when the rulers face the threat of overthrowing themselves, their reaction speed and breadth are often countless times faster than people expected.

After the outbreak of the French Revolution, in January and October 1793, the king and queen were sent to the guillotine successively, and the Bourbon dynasty fell.

At this time, it happened to be the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty in China.Although China is thousands of miles away from Europe, and the Qing Dynasty gave people the impression of "closing the country", the tsunami of revolution still stirred up waves in China.

French missionary Jiang Youren, a Jesuit priest who is proficient in machinery and mathematics, has been serving in the Qianlong Emperor's palace since he came to China in 1745.

Jiang Youren helped Emperor Qianlong design and manufacture many great water methods including the famous Western Building in the Old Summer Palace and the twelve zodiac great water methods.Emperor Qianlong talked with him many times about many countries in Europe.

Most of them are about Russia and France, because the Qing Dynasty and Russia had fights and territorial disputes.

Even later, King Louis XV of France sent two Chinese-Americans, Gao Leisi and Yang Dewang, who had lived in France for decades, as envoys to visit the Qing Dynasty to meet Emperor Qianlong.

Emperor Qianlong also had plans to send envoys to France for a state visit.

The plan went to the point where the envoy representative, Qian Deming, a French Jesuit missionary who served in the court of Emperor Qianlong, had been selected.

Qian Deming wrote in the letter: "Emperor Qianlong has a plan to send envoys to France to see Louis XVI, and Deming will accompany him. The French royal family seems to be looking forward to the envoys."

But the mission failed, because at this time, the French Revolution broke out, and the head of King Louis XVI of France was chopped off by the painless guillotine he invented.

Many history buffs believe that this opportunity made China's Qing Dynasty lose its last chance to keep up with the fast pace of modern Europe.

Emperor Qianlong hated this democratic and republican idea from France.He learned of the French Revolution, and saw it as a scourge.

At that time, the idea of ​​"closing the country" was very popular in the Qing Dynasty. The French revolution broke out, and the head of the country was separated.

For this reason, Qianlong's attitude towards the Macartney mission in France's neighboring country, Britain, was very bad, so that many unnecessary conflicts occurred on many small matters.And rejected all requests from the British mission.

Qianlong believed that one of the reasons for the French Revolution was that the government was too indulgent and insufficient in controlling the "unruly people" and "stubborn people".It is believed that "troublemakers" should be "strictly dealt with severely, so as to punish fierce and stubborn people, and not neglect them."

Moreover, "a single spark can start a prairie fire. The cause of an incident, the accumulation of small things into big things", must be resolutely suppressed at the "beginning of the turbulent public sentiment", and nip it in the bud.

In the second year after Louis XVI lost his head, in 1794, Shaanxi and Sichuan discovered the secret spread of the White Lotus Sect.Stimulated by the French Revolution, Qianlong issued an order to "capture all the criminals involved in the case, and don't let one slip through the net. If they can't be searched and found, they will not be discovered. Only the supervisor should ask."

Thus, a shocking manhunt began.Several provinces and counties in Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Henan, and Gansu started a house-to-house investigation and killing of the White Lotus Sect.

A great revolution in France can affect many political decisions of a certain dynasty in the closed country of China as far away as East Asia. This is the ability of the ruling class to respond quickly to various things that can lead to the loss of its status as a ruler.

Aurors from various countries in the European continent have already begun to gather in France, as if any law on the passage between countries in the European magic circle does not exist.

They did not go through the magic customs, but came to the French magic world through various methods that were considered illegal in the magic world.

Some people crossed the national border and came to France by taking Muggle vehicles, some by Apparition, some by Portkeys, and some simply by using broomsticks and flying carpets at high altitude.

They came from all corners of the country, but for the same goal, they began to gather around the outskirts of Capet Castle. They knew that although ordinary wizards gathered, they were weak after all.

The French guerrillas and the striking Aurors, who occupy the largest pure-blood family in France, are the main forces of this revolution. It can even be said that there are so many wizards in the French magic world who dare to stand up against the Ministry of Magic. Their courage A large part of it comes with the partisans who have taken Capey Manor and the Aurors who have gone on strike.

These Aurors from all over the world even carry some Muggle weapons, including but not limited to guns and artillery.

It is a violation of the International Wizarding Secrecy Act that these things appear in any place in the magical world except the UK, but now they are used in a grand manner.

For this matter, Lockhart just felt that it was unexpected but reasonable.

After all, many pure-blood families in the wizarding world are originally nobles from the Muggle world, and they have kinship with many people in the European Muggle world, so it is normal to get some Muggle weapons when it is a last resort.

In most European countries, the Ministry of Magic is theoretically a subsidiary institution of the country's government, but with a relatively high degree of freedom and professionalism. Therefore, it is normal to get some weapons from the Muggle world.

Furthermore, the Red Ghost Society and the British Council of Wizards made the Science and Education Channel on Magic TV several times to publicize the rapid development of the Muggle world in recent years. It is normal for some wizards to be inspired and start using Muggle wizards.

Lockhart, the Aurors who are responsible for maintaining the legal dignity of the magic world, but now blatantly violating all kinds of laws in the magic world, can't help but think of a sentence - anti-Muggle is work, learning Muggle is life.

More and more Aurors gathered on the outskirts of Capet Castle, and began to launch wave after wave of attacks on the French guerrilla fighters occupying Capet Castle.

Meanwhile, the striking Aurors of the French Ministry of Magic are also facing a shortage of supplies.

Inside the British Wizarding Council, Lockhart is holding a meeting, and they want to determine the next step to be implemented in the European continent.

The current plan for the next step mainly has two directions for implementation. One is that the Red Specter will directly intervene to help the French guerrillas, and the other is to take advantage of the emptiness inside the Ministry of Magic of other countries to start forming guerrillas from all over Europe.

(End of this chapter)