Chapter 1224 Parisian Women (11)

After turning a corner, the black dog that led Severus disappeared.

Strange to say, the palace was heavily guarded outside, but there were no guards inside. It was as if the black dog was very familiar with the situation inside and avoided those people.

At this moment, a door suddenly opened, and several staff officers walked out. Severus quickly hid in a corner where they could not see.

After the counselors had gone away, he came to the door again and used the Alaho Cave spell to open the door. There was no one in the room, but the candles were all lit.

Both reading and needlework require light. The Egyptians' houses had no roofs, and the moonlight was the brightest during the full moon, which was very suitable for needlework.

There are gorgeous oil paintings on the roofs of the French people. The moonlight cannot come in and can only be illuminated by candlelight. Naturally, these soldiers did not light so many candles just to do needlework. Several long dining tables are filled with paper documents. Look,

It looks messy.

Severus frowned. He walked to one of the tables and stopped. There were two documents on the table, one was written in English and the other was written in French. The ink on the French document had not yet dried.

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What the two Americans just said "only the United Kingdom is left" refers to the fact that the main fighting force in the anti-French alliance is only the United Kingdom. There are also some armed neutral countries that are still on the side of the United Kingdom. Severus

The document I took was the charter issued by Britain to Denmark, an armed neutral country.

In the 18th century, the United States was still an agricultural country. In addition to food, cotton was also its main export product.

The cotton grown in the United States is not Egyptian cotton, but sea island cotton from the Bahamas. This cotton, like Egyptian cotton, is also long-staple cotton. The biggest difference between the two types of cotton is that after being made into yarn, Egyptian cotton is stronger than sea island cotton.

It is softer and has a silky luster, while Sea Island cotton does not have that strength and is suitable for use in cheap civilian products.

France does not grow cotton in mainland France, and all materials for the cotton textile industry are imported. This indirectly causes the price of French cotton products to be much higher than that of British products, and the quality is not as good as British products. If there is "fair competition", France's

Cotton products cannot compete with British products.

In addition to the United States, India also produces cotton, but if India's cotton yarn is shipped from the Cape of Good Hope, the cost will be high. The best way is to dig the Suez Canal.

At present, this canal is just a hypothesis, which cannot be seen or touched. In comparison, it is much simpler to ban British goods from entering France. This creates a contradiction. France needs overseas cotton for cotton spinning, otherwise domestic textiles

The factory will stop production due to lack of raw materials.

If raw materials are allowed to be imported, other British goods will also be liberalized, and French goods will face the crisis of not being sold.

A budget-conscious housewife will of course buy cheap and good fabrics to make clothes for her family. Who would buy expensive and bad fabrics?

Such low prices for British goods are obtained by squeezing blood and sweat. First, slavery is used in the cultivation of raw materials. Second, workers' wages have dropped again and again. Child labor, women and bankrupt farmers are used in large numbers. Needless to say, the working environment is poor.

Yes, even wages are sometimes not paid by the capitalists on time and in amount, and workers often go on strike.

But if there is a comparison, British workers will have a psychological balance. Look at the French, they often cannot afford bread. At least the British have poor tax. Even if prices soar, the poor tax is calculated based on the price of bread. "The fewer people, the better."

"Eating", coupled with newspaper propaganda, this is the reason why the British working class is relatively stable.

Due to the War of Independence, the relationship between the United States and Britain and France was very bad. In 1798, during the Directory, President Adams sent a special envoy to France to sign a treaty for some naval frictions in the Atlantic. However, the foreign minister of the Directory told the Americans that he must be bribed

The Americans who had just founded the country were still some idealists. They felt that this was unacceptable and an insult to the United States, so the United States and France severed diplomatic relations.

The Directory retaliated by prohibiting armed neutrals from carrying British and American goods. All ships found to contain British and American goods would be regarded as legal capture, which is to say legal robbery.

There was no official way to go. Many law-abiding factories stopped producing textile machines due to lack of raw materials. The textile machines were less than half-operated and a large number of workers were unemployed. Some factories that were not very law-abiding obtained raw materials through smuggling. The Directory not only defeated the war, but also made people lose their jobs.

The domestic economy was in a mess. People who were unemployed, had no income and were constantly facing starvation without food became less abiding by the order. The royalists gave money, food and guns. Seeing that the domestic situation began to become unpredictable again, Napoleon sat down.

The ship returned from Egypt.

The British would issue licenses to ships from armed neutral countries, so that these smuggling ships would not have to worry about being seized when encountering British and American warships. Napoleon became less strict on smuggling after becoming the First Consul in the Brumaire Coup.

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One is because most of the French navy was destroyed, and the other is because the domestic economy does not allow the blockade to continue like this.

Not all parts for making warships are produced in France. It requires a lot of top-quality wood and gunpowder. The British restricted the export of saltpeter from India. The French could only give local saltpeter workers special privileges, allowing them to break into private property to dig soil containing saltpeter.

.Whether the Americans dug it out of the ground in the New World or obtained saltpeter from India through bribery or other methods, this legal license is now on the desk of the French staff and has been translated into French.

Of course the British hated the independent Americans, but in 1801 Britain and France were at war, and British factories needed American cotton to operate. They had no choice but to appease the Americans who were seriously injured in the French trade blockade, allow the Americans to load goods in neutral countries, and then

As a neutral country asset, it was sold to France via a "circular route".

Americans are like women who appear intimately with their British husband in public and secretly hold hands with their French lover in private. They are making money on both ends.

Thanks to their ability to make money, they were able to spend 80 million francs to buy Louisiana in 1803, just over 20 years after the founding of the country.

Severus looked at this "military secret" with a smile, as if imagining how the British in the first year of the 19th century would feel if they knew that their allies were actually such people?

But this smile soon disappeared from his face.

He folded the "military secret" and put it into his coat pocket. Then he raised his wand, knocked over one of the candlesticks, and deliberately let the flames fall on the papers.

However, as soon as he had done all this, the door behind him was kicked open, and a group of soldiers in blue uniforms blocked the door in three rows, holding muskets loaded with ammunition and bayonets.

"Fire!" shouted a man, and even if Severus didn't understand French he knew what the word meant.

The moment the soldier shouted the command, the gun rang out, and dozens of bullets were fired towards the wizard. The room was suddenly filled with the smell of gunpowder.

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Pomona took a brush and rubbed Napoleon's back vigorously.

He is a donkey anyway, it doesn't matter how hard he brushes.

"If you work as a bather in Alexandria, you will definitely be fired." Napoleon said, "Why do you only have so much strength?"

"Do you dare to take off my shackles?" Pomona threatened.

"Have you ever had a Turkish bath?" asked Napoleon.

"No!"

"I like Turkish baths. Egyptians like to talk in them. I have a general whose wife used to be a back rub in the bathhouse." Napoleon said, "She is an Egyptian woman. After she got married, she continued to go to Rosetta's bathhouse.

As she walked around, all the women there fawned over her and asked what it was like to live with the French. She said he made her sit at the head of the table and gave her the best food, which he would give her when she sat down.

These words of pulling up the chair, constantly tending to her, and trying to fulfill all her wishes soon spread through the bathhouses in Rosetta, and all the women in the city ran to Cairo, demanding that Egyptian men treat them according to French customs.

I haven't received any news from France since I left Paris, and I heard that the French navy was completely defeated, so I thought of treating Egypt as a French colony. I wrote a letter asking Josephine to come, but she refused to come, but there were other things to do.

But the family members of the personnel and a singing and dancing troupe came. Most of these people were women, as well as doctors and pharmacists. We spread modern medicine locally and exempted Attar land tax. The life of the Egyptians has greatly improved.

, they were very fond of the French, and everything was fine at first, but one morning I crossed the Nile River to inspect the Giza Arsenal, and when I came back at nine o'clock in the morning, there was a riot in Cairo."

Pomona stopped brushing her back.

"All major traffic routes were cut off, and there were sentries at every fork of the road. They built earthen walls and roadblocks. The women on the balconies were so frightened that they howled. The great shaykhs tried their best to enlighten the people and tell them to do this.

However, the people did not listen at all. Instead, they threatened the Grand Sheikhs to join the riot. General Dupuy was a brave and excellent officer, but he had a very impatient personality. When he saw the riot taking place, he immediately ordered the law

The army entered a state of combat. When I entered the city, gunfire was already loud. Rumors were spread everywhere in the city that the Sultan of Kabir had been killed. The French had taken off their masks and were massacring orthodox believers. The only French army who followed me to Egypt was

Thirty-five thousand people, excluding injuries and battle losses, are far from the opponent of the entire population of Cairo. We cannot have a full-scale conflict with the Cairo people. I immediately ordered people to find out what caused the citizens to suddenly rebel. It turned out to be

There are rumors in the city that Dezerza of Damascus and Jerusalem is leading an army to Cairo. The whole city of Cairo is divided into fifty districts, each district is surrounded by walls, and the opening and closing of the gate is the power of each district leader.

, which can cause traffic to be cut off at any time. I reached an agreement with Sadasheikh and he agreed to demolish part of the wall. When the engineers started the demolition work, they encountered resistance from the people. The owners of the real estate thought that their interests had been harmed, and

Some people with malicious intentions are spreading rumors, saying that the French are planning to levy a special tax and ask them to pay a lot of money. People in Cairo are very cheerful and enthusiastic, and they like to chat. The rumors spread very quickly. We demolished a mosque and then

A cannon fort was built on the ruins. At this time, the residents became even more uneasy. Why did the French point the cannon at them? Aren't we friends? I immediately had someone write a notice in Arabic and the Turks to clarify the facts.

Arming was only a military regulation, but the rebel leader used this to convince the people that we were timid, which made the people even more arrogant and unreasonable. I had no choice but to order the cannon to be fired. After the cannon was fired, the rebels sent sharpshooters to the roof of the mosque, intending to shoot

Our artillery was killed, but it failed because of insufficient range. Later, General Dormartin ordered bayonets to be fixed. The rebels were repulsed. The cavalry began to attack and captured some prisoners. The local Syrians who supported us, Cput

Someone acted as our guide and led us to the rebel command post. The fighting ended at 7pm. The police chief arrested 80 senior officials who participated in the defense meeting. Some rebels left Cairo at night and crossed the desert.

Suez. It all started because of rumors and suspicions. The Egyptians who originally liked us no longer like us so much after experiencing this riot. The soldiers were also curious why I didn't execute the leader of the rebels. The French

The blood shed during the rebellion should be repaid by them. At this time, I was actually happy that Josephine did not come to Egypt like the family members of those office workers. Although they were all fine, they were just frightened. I did not want to leave a reputation for violence, but I wanted to deal with some

People need to use heavy codes, and being polite and kind to them is ineffective. I didn't deal with those old Sheikhs who incited rebellion because they were old, couldn't mount a horse, and couldn't use a sword. Everything they did was just to protect their own interests. They

It is easier to deal with than a young leader with dreams. Since last year, I have asked people to contact the Pope. Without property inequality, there will be no society. Without religion, social inequality cannot be maintained. When a person is starving to death

If there is another person next to him who eats until he wants to vomit it out, he cannot tolerate this difference unless a priest tells him that this is the will of God. There must be poor and rich people in this world, but in the next life

The distinction between rich and poor will be completely different from that in eternal life. You did not embezzle other people's property while you were alive, and you will not go to hell or suffer in the execution ground of the underworld after death. However, those cardinals who stayed in France are not so similar to the people.

As they say, you British bribed them to provide support to the royalists. I asked the Pope to remove the bishops, but he did not obey my order. He was waiting for the outcome of my war in Italy. If I lost

If I won, he would continue to support the royalists. If I won, he would give in. I later asked Murat to attack Taranto, which was an important port city. Hannibal had also attacked there before, although the French navy

We suffered heavy losses and were unable to repel the British warships at sea, but your ships cannot reach the shore. No matter how good the warships are, they are only sampans on the sea. From the sole of Italy's boot, we can still escape the British naval blockade and go to Egypt."

"Why are you telling me this? Isn't this a military secret?" Pomona asked.

"Egypt's fate has been decided. You won." Napoleon looked back at her with bright eyes. "The warship I sent out to pick up the children was delayed. Egypt was occupied by the British. The fleet was secretly sent from

When Bulletus set sail, the cavalry and artillery led by Murat attracted the attention of most people. It would hardly encounter an attack, but Guntom was afraid of losing the entire fleet like last time, so he sailed the ship into

Toulon, destiny is sometimes strange, predictable, and may change at any time. You once predicted that we could only take back those children by negotiating peace with Britain. I wanted to prove you wrong, but my plan did not succeed.

You told me again that the peace talks require the pope's presence, but he keeps delaying it, and my patience is running out."

He raised his wet hand from the bathtub and grabbed her arm.
To be continued...