Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1364 Pious Cruelty

  The British Corn Law is to restrict grain imports, so as to protect British farmers and landlords from competition with cheaper grain imported from foreign countries.

  In addition to the Baltic Sea and Poland’s Danzig, the United States is also a food importer to the United Kingdom.

   While France is deeply affected by the high prices of grains. Although the agricultural company that Lyon's official Lange was looking forward to was not established, the Paris Agricultural Association does exist. This is a profitable business for everyone.

  Some people want the French to starve to death. Another problem is the way of checkout. Napoleon wants coins to flow into France, while the United Kingdom wants France to settle in silver francs.

France also uses the double standard system of gold and silver. A silver franc is four and one-half of a gram of pure silver. The legally stipulated ratio of gold to silver is 1 to 15, which is not as high as the British "odds". Of course, speculators prefer to go. Trading in London.

  But Ufrall has packaged all the cargo of Mexican silver. He can use not only British cruisers, but also American ships to ship silver coins to Europe. Although Napoleon’s pardon imposed sanctions on cotton, coffee, and indigo, and silver and grains are not within the sanctions, American ships can still call at French ports.

Uvral established a trading company in New York for this purpose. It is not a vain South China Sea company. Unless President Jefferson issues an embargo, Uvral has the patent right for American trade, and Charles IV assumes all risks and Expenses, each ship can load one-third of Ufraar's cargo.

  The blank trade pass he obtained from Spain could initially be sold to a U.S. firm, and Napoleon had to sign an agreement with Laboucher for this.

  The content of the agreement Giorgioanna doesn’t know, she only knows that Uvral is at ease in Spain, just like another regent. Ufral took advantage of the loopholes in the rules. If France had the right to dominate the sea, it would not have required Britain and the United States to intervene in transporting coins.

The French navy is the same as the British army. The key is that Napoleon could not find a general. Just when he was furious, Lucien and Polina came to join in the fun again. On Halloween, November 1, Georgiana and Otense I was demonstrating to children how to vaccinate cowpox in a primary school in Paris. At that time, many reporters came. There were a lot of candies and ribbons in the classroom. Later Lucien and Polina came and they performed in the classroom wearing pink tights. Mazuka dance in Poland.

  The dance looked a bit like ballet in Georgian, but the 30-year-old Napoleon didn’t think it was embarrassing. He almost expelled Lucien from France.

  Georgiana can only be fortunate that reporters in this era do not have cameras, otherwise the picture of Lucien wearing a pink tights will be seen by the public, and he will never have a relationship with the "throne" for the rest of his life.

  In fact, it caused some kind of "trauma" to her, because she witnessed it with her own eyes, not just like Napoleon, but only heard that she was in a trance for several days.

  Until "Your Majesty" finally decided on the hunting location, it was in the Montmorency Forest in the Oise Valley. It is said that there are many wild boars in the forest.

  Wild boars do not hibernate like bears. The acorns and fruits in the forest were enough for them to eat, but humans entered their territory because of the famine, which caused them to run out of food.

  So these wild boars left the forest and ran to the farmers’ fields, dug up the potatoes that were about to mature, and the villagers asked the county guard to send people to exterminate the wild boars.

  Wild boars are not foxes. They are the most dangerous animals in the forest. Georgiana is a little worried that the bourgeois youths in the cities will be able to deal with them. Napoleon has already taken a group of people to hunt.

He likes the big scene no matter what he does. The king hunts not only hunting, but also a full set of ceremonial guards and clothing. Although many nobles are allowed to go to the hunting grounds, not everyone can participate in the hunting. You must wear formal clothes to become a hunting team. the member of.

Last time in Rambouillet, although the generals could also hunt, hunting without Napoleon was meaningless. This time just gave them a chance to show their strength, which led to the practice of helping farmers to encircle and suppress wild boars. scale.

  Mura was sent to the Sisal Republic, otherwise the person who usually accompanies Napoleon on horseback must be him. Now Davout and the commander of the 15th and 17th military districts of Paris, Mortier, Rana of the Guards has been sent to Antwerp to replace the smuggling mayor. His wife, like Louise and Polina, did not follow him to work, she still stayed with Georgiana.

  Davout succeeded Rana and became the commander of the Guards. His wife was Leclerc’s sister Aime Leclerc. She was left in Paris, accompanied by Josephine and Polina.

  Most women are not interested in hunting. Georgiana also brought a lot of books in the carriage, but she didn't want to stay in Paris anymore.

  Caprara came to her again later. In addition to the family crest, nobles usually have their own personal seal. For example, Queen Anne of the Gorse Dynasty uses rosemary as his personal seal.

  The "White Deer Chapter" of the Gorse Dynasty is very famous. A pure white deer wears a golden crown around its neck. It looks magnificent, fragile, slender and soft.

   Legend has it that this white deer is related to a man named Hearn. He has extraordinary hunting skills, so he was quickly favored by Richard II. It is said that every time Richard goes hunting, he will pick Hearn.

  There was a hunt later. Richard II encountered a white deer. He led people to try to catch the prey several times, but he was not a good hunter. Every time the white deer escaped without danger.

  So the white deer became Richard II's obsession, so that when he met the white deer again, he actually only chased it and separated from the crowd.

The fleeing deer stopped and aimed its horns at Richard II. Richard II aimed at it with a bow, but it missed the shot. Seeing that the king was about to be killed by the White Deer, he En immediately rushed over, blocking this for the king with his body.

  The king was saved, but Hearn was dead. It was useless for the king to ask for help because he could not heal such wounds with the medical skills of the time.

  Just as Hearn was waiting to die, a man in black appeared. He said that he could treat Hearn's injury, but asked him to give him the most precious thing. Hearn, who was in danger, agreed to his request.

   Soon, Hearn’s wound healed, and the mysterious man disappeared. Hearn got up again without much thought and returned to Richard II’s team.

  At first everyone felt very grateful, but Hearn soon noticed something was wrong.

  He hunted with Richard II several times, but did not shoot any prey. He seemed to have lost the ability to hunt.

  Gradually Hearn was no longer summoned by Richard, and his qualifications to accompany the king were replaced by other hunters.

  The king cannot tolerate useless people, and what use is a hunter who cannot hunt?

  Hearn found that he was marginalized and fell into despair. In a moonlight and gloomy night, Hearn once again entered the forest that gave him everything and lost everything.

Resentment and unwillingness allowed Hearn’s ghost to stay in this world. It became a ghost every night, riding a black horse, wearing antlers, and hunting in the forest, but this time he was no longer hunting animals. But those passers-by who unfortunately walked into the forest.

  He sighed while hunting, "My king forgets me"!

After Richard II heard about it, in order to appease Hearn’s soul and to show that he had not forgotten him, he made the White Deer into a royal seal, worn on him day and night, and then Hearn’s ghost died down. Up.

   And this white deer with a crown and throat gradually changed from a private seal to a clan emblem, becoming a symbol of the gorse dynasty.

  Henry IV once banned the White Deer badge, but there are still many White Deer badges used by the collector to acquire Richard II, even including the Grand Duke of Burgundy "Good Man Philip", who collected a "Diamond Fawn".

The feast held in Rambouillet on July 14 was regarded as a pheasant feast by Giorgioanna, but more people associate it with the feast held by Louis XVI in October. It is said that the king's family once planned to escape. To Rambouillet, but they have never had a chance.

  Uflal is Napoleon’s Lafayette, who is as good at solving problems as creating problems.

  Tainer once said that man is a kind of beast. He is naturally carnivorous, and he gets excited when he sees blood.

This sounds harsh but it is true. When the men go hunting, the women stay in the tents set up outside the forest. The wives of the generals are waiting. They go around George like Josephine. Anna said nice things.

  Although this caused her to have no time to read, she collected a useful message. The generals wanted to buy a Christmas gift for Napoleon, but they didn’t know what Napoleon liked.

  Some of the generals are rewarded by Napoleon. He has gems, BMWs, famous swords, and famous paintings. The ordinary things are no longer in his eyes.

  It takes time to prepare precious things. Not everything is the same as "The Girl with a Pearl Earring", which is displayed in a museum and just takes it off the wall.

  I waited for about two hours when I arrived at the camping site. The hunting men came back and brought back 3 wild boars and some other animals. After the three wild boars were opened, they were put on the fire by the chef for barbecue.

  Because I came to the British guests and put onions when grilling pork, the lively French began to sing "The Onion Song".

  I like fried onions, I like fresh onions.

  I love fried onions, we love onions, we love onions.

  Comrades advance, comrades advance.

go ahead! go ahead! go ahead!

  Pick up the pot and cook oil, fry an onion,

  After eating the onion, it is like a lion.

go ahead! go ahead! go ahead!

  Don't let Austrian countries eat onions, don't let evil dogs eat onions.

  We love onions, we love onions.

  Comrades advance, comrades advance.

go ahead! go ahead! go ahead!

  Napolione indulged them and chatted with Sir Oakland, the British minister to France who had just been sent, while Thomas Granit sat in the merchant class and chatted with friends, as if they didn't know each other.

  Sometimes you have to lament the acting skills of men.

  Normal king hunting still has a lot of etiquette. The problem is that they are not kings and nobles, and some etiquette are avoided. On the contrary, the honor guards when out of the city are very pompous.

  She discovered another hobby of soldiers besides being decent, that is "freedom".

In the city, they have to obey the education of civilized people. There are intellectuals everywhere in the salon. Their eating at the moment is absolutely not in line with table etiquette. Their wives may be used to it, and they are divided into male and female guests sitting together. These "comrades in arms" You can get together to drink and mess around.

  Does Merlin also feel when she meets with King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table?

  Georgiana couldn't help asking herself, but in the end there was no answer.

  She can’t blend into it anyway.

  She told the women privately that they shouldn’t let them go hunting in the forest in the afternoon. The fangs of wild boars are as sharp as antlers. Don’t die in this place unexplainably.

  But how many husbands do they have who can control their drunkenness?

  The standards of these generals’ wives are almost uniform—young and beautiful, and several of them are actors. It’s almost impossible to expect them to surrender to this group of beasts that have seen blood.

  So all Georgiana can do is not let the "king" go out hunting, no one dares to move if he doesn't move.

  However, her worries finally fell through, and the feast lasted for four hours. In the old days, dinner started at 4 o'clock, and it took a few hours to finish the full process of French cuisine. After the Great Revolution, it became a dinner at 7 o'clock in the evening, and usually ended at 9 o'clock.

  There is a proverb that describes the French dining habits, lunch with friends, dinner should pay attention to etiquette, afternoon tea is for children, supper belongs to the lover.

  It's time for them to end their lunch and dinner is a bit early. When they feel hungry, it might be time for supper.

  There are many bushes in the Montmorency Forest. It is estimated that they also know that it is not safe, so no one clamored to hunt at night, so they went back to their tents to rest early.

  Napolioni played the scene for a day, and when he returned to the tent, he was lying on the camp bed. He looked exhausted.

   "Come here." He called her like a pet.

  Georgiana didn't play her temper, she lay down beside him docilely, resting his arm.

   "Why are other people not as obedient as you?" He said emotionally.

   "I'm not obedient." She said coldly, "I just think you have no patience to coax me now."

   "I want to read some interesting books."

   "I'll get it for you."

   "I can't wait for Christmas." He said impatiently, "Give it to me now."

   "If I give it to you now, what about the book you gave me?"

   "I have found it."

"so fast?"

   "Cicero's "On Divination", I didn't expect it to be so coincidental." He kissed her on the cheek. "What did you find for me?"

   "I found that no book is completely suitable for you." She reluctantly said, "Do you need virtue?"

   "It depends on what kind of virtue you are referring to?"

  "Cicero said that people with virtue have friendship. I think Louis XVI has virtue. He hunted and wanted to compensate the peasants for the damage to his crops, but he was also decapitated."

  He looked at her blankly.

  "When dealing with cunning people, if you are too virtuous, you will be bullied by them, and they will not stop emptying your pockets just because you are a good person."

   "I want to rest, stop talking about those people." Napolioni interrupted her, "Say something that makes me feel relaxed."

  "About Egypt?"

   "You can speak freely." He said connivingly, as if the person who restricted freedom of speech was not alone.

  "Do you know that Orion’s ‘belt’ corresponds to the Pyramid." Georgiana said, "Oriental people believe in the unity of nature and man, and the buildings on the ground must correspond to the stars in the sky."

   "Which pyramid?" he asked.

"I don't remember." She replied. This is what she read in a magazine. "The Egyptians value Sirius very much. When Sirius rises, the Nile will overflow, but in some cultures, Sirius means War. I used to have a friend who was named after Sirius, and he was more handsome than Thomas Granit."

  He stopped talking.

   "Since I came back from watching the Orion meteor shower that day, something is wrong with you. I invite you to the observatory. If you don't, you can just speak up if you have something to say."

  "What Christmas gift are you going to give him?" he said coldly.

"this one?"

   "That was his conspiracy."

   "I plan to send some paintings to the Prince of Wales. Is that also a conspiracy?"

   "What do you send him to paint for?"

  "Reminds him of his'Lovely Wife' in Italy."

  Napolioni sneered.

  "I'm helping you take revenge, the Prince of Wales is the future King of England..."

   "He is asking me, will Caprara dare to let him be your guardian after he is gone." Napolioni interrupted her.

   "He is stimulating you."

   "If other women are useful, I don't need you to go out in person."

   "I didn't do anything."

"Enough to eat, I don’t want you to just think about eating like a country woman." He grabbed her hand. "An ideal country does not engage in war unless it is to maintain its own honor or safety. What do you think of it? Honor?"

   "You said that I can't think of sleeping in another room, you said so righteously..."

   "He asked me too, what is honor to me?" Napolioni interrupted her again. "His attitude and tone are nothing like someone who has been in politics for decades."

   "You are not too old."

  "He is not the same as the diplomats sent by Addington. Those envoys are arrogant and rude, and they just want to take advantage of the land, but he thinks about other interests."

   "He is very difficult to deal with?"

   "I think he will let us fight Spain."

   "You are an ally now." Although not in the future, she said in her heart.

   "It's good for me to die early for someone like him." Napolioni said swearingly.

   "If he dies, you will have to deal with the incompetent, and you will miss him again."

   "Don't talk about that." He hugged her and kissed her. "Say some love to me, Cecilia."

   "Do you think he can't hear me talking about love to him?"

  He smiled triumphantly.

   "He is so jealous of me."

   "If you are jealous, you must be dealt with!"

   "I know, there are many people who want me to die early, but the bullet does not recognize me."

  She beat him hard.

"This is not what I said. It was the battle of Marengo. Desai told me before he died." He narrowed his smile. "The battle was very urgent and everyone was in a hurry, but I dismounted and sat on the grass to accompany him. The last ride."

  She did not speak.

   "I just want to be with you now, no one else." He said softly, "Tell me how much you love me."

   "I don't want to say this."

   "Then what do you want to say?"

  "Please be gentle." She begged.

  He stared at her silently.

   "You know it's useless to intercede."

   "That's better than lying." She said sadly.

   "You make me feel like a scum." Napolioni said coldly, "He has agreed to a divorce."

   "That was his impulse."

   "He didn't do anything impulsively. Do you know how difficult it is for me to take Ulm back now? He thought he was a child, so he would regret it if he wanted to."

  She started crying again.

   "You can't just be soft to him." He lowered his voice, "How about you be soft to me?"

"what do you want me to do?"

   "I will do whatever I ask you to do."

  She looked at him calmly, ready to see what tricks he played.

   "Kneel down," he ordered.

  She immediately slapped her face.

   "You hit me so smoothly, why don't other people hit me." He said coldly, "Or you can't bear to hit that little boy."

   "What you told me, you would rather be beaten than listen to what I said." She whispered, "I won't beat you in the future."

   "Then I have become like him, who feels masculine when beaten by a woman." He said sarcastically.

   "What on earth do you want to do?"

  He blew out the candle directly.

  Obviously, he no longer wants to read.

  (End of this chapter)