Harry Potter Morning Light

In Brussels, Belgium, there is a bronze statue of a urinating boy named Yu Lian. There are many legends about Yu Lian, the most famous of which is that when the enemy attacked Brussels, the local people resisted, and the enemy ignited the gunpowder fuse when they retreated, trying to turn the whole city into ashes. A little boy saw it, Quickly and wisely, he pissed on the fuse, and the safety of the entire city and its people was guaranteed.

From then on, Yu Lian became a little hero in Brussels, and later became a hero in the whole of Belgium. This bronze statue is also a fountain. It usually sprays water, but on certain festivals it will spray beer or red wine. People are still scrambling to drink...

Relying on others is worse than relying on yourself. Since no one can invest in dredging the canal, only the local residents of Ostend and Bruges can raise funds themselves. Every glass of beer is equivalent to donating half a penny for dredging the canal. Choose not to drink. However, it can be seen from the local paintings that many painters will go to the tavern to find inspiration, and the tavern is also an important social place in the local area.

The British also want to get involved in the Belgian beer business, but the big brewers in London prefer to sell beer directly to Belgium instead of transporting the materials for brewing beer to Belgium like France.

There are 11 beer merchants in London, which almost monopolize the beer market in London and several major cities. There are also some private beer workshops in the countryside, but most of them are only for local people to drink, and they cannot compete with these 11 brewers. .

Financing, expanding production, mechanization, high efficiency, and maximizing profits. However, Belgians treat beer like they treat chocolate. There is a special profession called chocolate artist. This is no longer an industry, but an art. Not only the taste, but also the packaging and molds must be pleasing to the eye.

If you buy British beer, the coins are of course earned by the British, and the French deduct a little customs duty, but what do the Belgians get out of it?

If you buy your own beer, you can use the tax to dredge canals and build roads. The price may be more expensive than British beer, and customers can choose by themselves.

Shipping can benefit from this, French farmers can expand production because of the marketable grain, Belgian sweets produced after planting sugar beets can be shipped to France, and the residue left after sugar beet production can be used as animal feed, thus forming a two-way cycle .

The "Methuen Treaty" seems to benefit Portugal. In fact, in this trade, the Portuguese provided liquidity, which is the silver they got from South America. Starting projects required infrastructure, whether it was repairing factories or roads. It is the French who have the final say, and they will probably let those rich people who exchanged them from the Austrians buy some by specifying the way to buy national bonds. People will not use tax money to build a "tax palace" like Dublin, and the protests caused by the construction of the fortress may be smaller.

The Anglo-Irish Union Act is a monster hovering over Dublin, if it goes ahead Dublin will be torn to shreds and become a decaying, impoverished, broken provincial capital, even if Bisford builds a new customs house , is just a ruin that is strong on the outside and capable on the inside.

Those who can become members of the Irish Parliament are basically rich people. When they go to London to become members, they will move the rich away. They will give up their existing properties, causing house prices and land prices to fall, and then live around their consumption. People in Ireland, carriage builders, furniture makers, and grocers will lose their jobs, and Dublin will become a desert by then, while the sugar merchants, printing and dyeing factory owners, and metalsmiths who remain in Ireland will only be affected by the post-war import tax rise in the 1790s. protection from the United States and gained a slight advantage in the Irish market in competition with British goods.

But those who opposed the coalition were a rabble from the very beginning. The first initiative to prosecute the coalition came from the legal profession, and at least half of the anti-coalition manuals came from them. There were also those involved in the suppression of the rebellion, and there were patriotic Whigs, who filled Parliament with shouts during the first weeks of the Act of Union.

The Catholic priests have done a lot of appeasement work, and Governor Cornwallis also firmly believes in the neutral role of Catholicism in the middle, but the opposition party in the city hall is extremely firm. However, their protests were different from the situation in which Protestants occupied the majority of seats in 1792 and raised their arms. The 1793 Emancipation Act allowed the city hall and trade unions to accept Catholics. They also adopted a moderate attitude because of the relationship between the archbishop. It went into effect on January 1. The Catholics' hopes of full emancipation after union were shattered within a few weeks, as George III clearly opposed this, and Pitt resigned immediately under pressure, followed by Cornwallis and the First Minister. But the Archbishop of Troy was not attacked because of the outcome of the matter, and remained in Dublin to preside over affairs.

From the 1770s onwards, Dublin was building cathedrals, and there was a surge in wealthy Catholic professionals. The volunteers of the Association of Urban and Country Irishmen amassed a strong military force, and a considerable number of them fought in the American war. They had gone to the United States to "protect" the local Irish, and they believed in the American way. Anyway, Ireland is now a place without cavalry guards, and it does not feel safe anyway, and the town of Edgeworth with cavalry guards has not found peace. Ritual received a fatal warning on his way home.

This is also related to his support for the Anglo-Irish alliance. He voted for it. Dublin’s maritime defense is very weak. In 1791, it was said that the French were going to invade Ireland. It can also at least stop the French invasion.

However, the practice of the British governor after the merger was to build twenty-six small forts, called "round stone towers", each of which could hold two cannons, most of which were distributed on the headlands on the border between Balbriggan and Wicklow, while The Navy only shows up when it's time to resupply.

The practical value of this project is very small, and there are many landing points throughout Greater Dublin, so it is suspected of misusing resources. However, this is the first move to defend the city after the union. At least it is located on the natural main road leading to various places in Ireland, and it is the place where the military, manpower, and material resources are most concentrated.

The British re-named the horse-drawn road with railroad tracks, thinking it was a "mine road", while the real railway was pulled by a steam engine, and used large sleepers and rails, from Mechelen to Brussels The road in front of me can only be regarded as a mine road. In the Middle Ages, Ghent was a big city no less than Paris, and it was also the prosperous period of Bruges. A canal was dug on both sides to connect it, and Ghent was a place where many canals and natural rivers converged, occupying the city. Almost the entire Belgian water transportation system has been paralyzed. If the "mine road" from Mechelen to Brussels is added, even Brussels will face a crisis.

Napoleon was an expert at taking fortresses, but did he know how to build fortifications?

This is beyond a woman's control, and now she is making clothes for Xiao Lian.

During the period of Louis XV, the French occupied Belgium. In order to please the king, the defenders removed the sculpture of Lian Lian and sent it to Paris. However, Louis XV returned it the same way, reprimanded the general, and made a set of exquisite clothes. Wear it to him to express your apology. Since then, countries all over the world have followed suit by sending clothes to Yu Lian to express their friendship.

But the first one to make clothes for him was not Louis XV, but the governor of the Netherlands.

She didn't want the original "Girl with a Pearl Earring", how much the Dutch should hate her.

As for the style of clothes for the little boy, it was really a headache. After returning from the beach, she discussed with Bertin all afternoon, and finally decided to make a hunting suit for him. In fact, the business of Birmingham's boot buckles was affected by the French. The French Revolution had an impact on the whole of Europe, even if their troops did not set foot on the land of Britain and Ireland. The army walks on two legs, boots wear out quickly, and the use of laces instead of buckles saves costs, which has changed the style of men's clothing to a certain extent.

The bronze statue is not a living little boy, and his legs are welded to the base. It takes another way to make his shoes, but the clothes are easy to solve.

They thought of several ways, but none seemed to work. Just when she was about to give up and change a different style of clothes, she suddenly found a person standing at the door, it was Bonaparte with a smile on his face.

He kept watching her quietly, and she didn't know when he came. Bertin put down the little clothes he had made, and left the suite quietly with the seamstresses.

As they passed Bonaparte, they saluted with royal courtesy, and closed the door behind them.

She felt that he might have misunderstood something, but she really didn't know what to say at this time.

He walked over in silence, took the finished little clothes in his hands, and stroked them gently with his fingers.

"For Delmid?" he said in a particularly gentle voice.

Can she say no at this time?

"Yes." She trembled.

He turned to look at her.

"Doing needlework under an oil lamp will damage your eyes. Do it tomorrow in the daytime."

She nodded meekly, and he took her hand and left the living room.