Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2492 "Poison"

   Until the 16th century, Venice was the only diamond trading center in Europe. During the Italian Renaissance, the way people poisoned also changed rapidly, spies from the Republic of Venice would put broken diamonds into wine glasses, victims would die within a week of internal bleeding, and doctors would not dissect the body without dissecting the body. I don't know how to poison it.

   With the trade between Venice and Bruges, Bruges gradually became the center of cutting, but because of the problem of the alum of the papacy, Antwerp replaced Bruges as the commercial capital, and Antwerp also became the center of diamond cutting and trading.

   This situation continued until Columbus discovered the New World, because diamonds in Europe were mainly from Golconda, India, and the Indian and Asian plates in the Himalayas collided violently, resulting in diamond deposits. When the Portuguese brought diamonds from Brazil back to Europe, people didn't believe they were diamonds at first, so they had to mix Brazilian diamonds with Golconda diamonds until people really started accepting that outside of India The place also produces diamonds.

   The commercial center was moved from Bruges to Antwerp due to alum problems, but the ensuing Eighty Years War saw Antwerp sacked and the diamantaires move to Amsterdam. With the Thirty Years' War and William III of Orange, London finally became the centre of the international gem trade.

  Peruzzi Bank once monopolized the sale of British wool in exchange for providing loans to the British King during the Hundred Years War. However, when the king broke the contract, a large number of banks collapsed, but their banks in Amsterdam survived, and in the 17th century they were also engaged in the diamond trade, and even Vincenzo Peruzzi invented the triple polyhedron carving process.

   At this time, the engraving has approached fire, rather than the rose engraving method, which preserves the original size of the diamond as much as possible. While in Mechelen, the president of the Peruzzi Bank had signed a contract with Georgiana, who was entrusted by Napoleon to be the manager of the assets in Belgium.

   It was also the relationship that led many to think that Banco Peruzzi was the default stock sales agent for the Mechelen-Brussels railway.

After the American Revolution, England also faced the same war deficit as France. William Pitt Jr., who had just come to power, thought of many ways to increase fiscal revenue, including charging a "brick tax", which means that every brick of a house must be taxed. People thought of a way to make the bricks bigger, so that they can pay less tax.

   Of course, the government also took corresponding measures to deal with it later, which did not bring a good official voice to William Pitt Jr., but made people ridiculed and ridiculed until he reformed the tea trade.

  There is a key figure in this reform, Francis Baring and Richard Channing, among them Francis Baring is not only a director of the East India Company, but also the president of Baring Bank.

After the reform, the sales of tea in the UK have doubled, the handling fee has tripled, smuggling has basically disappeared, and the number of registered tax-paying tea merchants has increased by 60%. people questioned.

  Louis XV was defeated in North America due to Prussia's containment during the Seven Years' War, ceding almost all of the colonies, and in addition to these losses there was a severe deficit, which led the king to intend reforms.

   At this time, there was a key department - the High Court of Paris. In the feudal era, the power of the king was limited to Paris for a time, and there was no actual control over the outer provinces. But by the time of Louis XV, the control of the Paris High Court had already surpassed the greater Paris area.

  Louis XV carried out the Mope reform. In the past, the judges of the high court were hereditary, and the king had no right to appoint. Even the king's decree needed to be registered with the judge before it could take effect. The French Revolution implemented the separation of powers, that is, the executive and legislative powers were separated from the high court. And Napoleon carried out a campaign against domestic bandits, and he interviewed all the judges appointed by the special court, which means that he obtained the right to appoint judges that Louis XV did not fully obtain, and Georgiana would not be a ballet dancer. Just move such a big fight.

   After the necklace incident was exposed, everyone actually believed that Jeanne was guilty, and it was nothing more than a question of how to sentence her and recover her illegal gains. Why let the king come forward to adjudicate? Even the queen's subsequent appearance in public was full of boos.

   The queen was accused of abusing her power, but France was still a centralized monarchy at that time. In fact, when Frederick the Great dealt with the Arnold Mill case, he did not follow procedural justice, but the people felt that justice was enough.

   How should Georgiana "act" in someone else's script? Is it to hold back and let Mademoiselle Campini continue to appear coquettish on this occasion, with her grace and big eyes for a new affair?

   She didn't know how she gave other people this illusion. She clearly told Charlotte to show her fist. How could anyone think she was joking?

  The mother and daughter are actually hard-working people. Like the "witches" in the witch hunting movement, they are all vulnerable groups. But it is precisely because life is hard that we need to be more vigilant. If the one who met Miss Campini in Milan was the second lieutenant of the artillery who was down in the streets of Paris, instead of the Italian conquistador, would there still be "this play" to watch?

  Theodora also had a daughter. She was a comedian at that time. She knew that she could not give the child a good future, so she sent her daughter back to the arms of the Lord before she knew the pain.

   Most people think that there is something wrong with such a woman, just like Kiara's nanny, she also killed Kiara's younger siblings for this reason.

  Georgianna is holding a glass bottle at the moment, which is full of sparkling diamond fragments, she really wants to try it, if swallowing it, will it really have the effect as in the legend.

  Although there may be emesis in this era, emesis can only spit out the stomach contents. It was easy for her to get it, and she had a lot of it on her clothes.

  There is only one reason why she didn't do that, she didn't want to admit defeat, and because the moon hasn't arrived yet, she still wants to wait a little longer.

   There are many mistakes, and you can't make them once.

   She wants to go home, but her home is gone, where will she go?

   "Ma'am... Shall we go back?" Figel asked outside the door.

   "No, we're staying in a hotel today." Georgiana said in the door, looking at the bottle of powder.

  No one answered outside the door.

   She let out a long sigh of relief, picked up the feather and started writing.

   Saying goodbye without saying goodbye. She has done this once, and she is not afraid to do it again, but where would she go if she wanted to run?

  Can't stay in Europe, and possibly North America... He told her that if the situation is not right, go to a magic school in Brazil, which is located in the rainforest and is good at plants and herbs.

  To go to South America, she has to take a boat from Portugal or Spain. Perhaps, she should take this opportunity to meet friends there.

   She put away the unfinished letter and left the lounge.

   (end of this chapter)