Chapter 1456 "Doll"

There was an emperor in Roman history. His name was Caracalla. This was actually not his real name. "Caracalla" was the name of a Gallic cloak with a turban. His name was Lucius Septimi.

Bassius was renamed Marcus Aulessius Antoninus by his father when he was 7 years old. His father hoped that by changing his name, his son would not be regarded as a provincial citizen because of his origin.

And the status of knight affects the inheritance of the throne.

According to the records of Machiavelli, the author of The Prince, Caracalla's tyranny was shocking. He actually executed most of the Roman residents and massacred all the residents of Alexandria. As a result, he was hated by the whole world, so much so that he finally

He was also killed by a centurion who had a grudge against him for killing his brother.

But such a selfish and cruel monarch once issued an edict:

God controls the laws of events and everything. As the emperor of Rome, I was protected by God and escaped the fate of my fate. I will lead the people of Rome and lead Rome to prosperity in gratitude to the greatness of the immortal god. Therefore.

I grant Roman citizenship to all free people in Rome to demonstrate the greatness of Roman citizens. But those despicable people do not deserve this right. My subjects and I should share blessings and share hardships. From then on, people on the land of Rome

Everyone enjoys Roman citizenship. At all times and in all countries, only Rome has prevailed so far.

Dionysius pointed out in "Ancient History of Rome" that Caracalla's policy was mainly to promote the increase of tax revenue. He granted Roman citizenship to everyone in Rome, ostensibly to grant them honors, but actually to increase his own

income, since foreigners did not pay most taxes.

In ancient times, population was a resource. During Caracalla's reign, the number of legionnaires doubled compared to that of his father's reign. What supported his Panda military expenses was his subsequent expansion of citizen taxes.

Slaves do not need to pay taxes, free people do. Free people have their own property, such as cattle, sheep, horses, farm tools, houses, etc. Slaves have nothing. To engage in agricultural production, farmers themselves have to invest costs, 20 francs a year.

The price of a quintal is easy to calculate. There are no serfs or slaves in countries such as Britain and France. However, slavery still exists in the United States and Russia, which makes their production costs much cheaper than the grain grown by British farmers.

If large quantities of foreign grains are imported, British farmers will go bankrupt, which will make British food security completely dependent on foreign countries. Therefore, the Corn Laws not only safeguard the interests of the landed aristocracy.

The poor grain harvest in the Baltic Sea caused the price of British grain to rise. Because of the "Bread and Blood" movement, foreign grains were unable to enter the British market, resulting in British grain prices unable to fall. However, the British had a "poor tax", which meant that even if

The British poor cannot afford bread and can still receive government relief, but the food they can receive has been reduced.

This is in line with what Adam Smith mentioned in "The Wealth of Nations": when food prices rise, people at the bottom will reduce their expenditure on food.

The traditional British dish is fish and chips. It is not as difficult for the British to switch from eating bread to eating potatoes as it is for the French. Since Ireland has taken it back, it will not let that land idle.

Potatoes were grown throughout history.

However, although eating potatoes alone can solve the problem of hunger, it will cause malnutrition. At this time, meat is relatively expensive in the UK. The British poor can live under malnutrition while receiving relief funds, so that even if the price of grains is higher than that of France, British farmers

It couldn't be sold, so exporting became a way for British farmers to gain wealth.

The price of water transportation for heavy goods such as grain is cheaper than land transportation, but it also has costs. After the weather warmed up and the canal began to return to normal, two million quintals of grain from Spain began to be shipped, and the first batch of grain arrived in Paris.

There are 19,000 tons, and rising and low water conditions also restrict water transportation.

The land route is better than the waterway that parallels it. Although the cost of animal power will be higher than that of steam locomotives, British steam engines will not be exported at will.

The French took the British as their teachers, so they could secretly study in British factories. After the signing of the Treaty of Amiens, the people of the two countries communicated with each other, and French industrial spies took advantage of this opportunity to send out.

Fewer people make it easier to eat, while more people make it easier to work. Not only the Bruges Canal in Belgium needs to be dredged, but the Somme River channel from Amiens to the sea outlet also needs to be dredged. The large amount of silt carried by the river and seawater has

Continuous accumulation at the mouth of the wide Somme has had a serious impact on the commerce of Saint-Valery over the years.

This plan calls for digging a canal along a straight line, leading to the Port of Saint-Valery. A lock will be erected on the canal to remove sediment. In addition, a towpath will be built, and horses will be used to pull the tow. The starting and ending points of the towpath are at

The St. Valery River in Amiens is estimated to generate 900,000 livres, which is a small amount compared with the 30 million francs of the St. Martin Canal.

This is why Napoleon could not find anyone to fund the dredging of the canal from Bruges to the sea. The French put French interests first, and they did not realize that Belgium was already French land.

What's more, if a country like Belgium, a place with four wars, cleared out the canal port of Bruges today and changed hands tomorrow, then the money would be in vain. The last time Austria issued a public bond in Belgium, the Austrians lost the bond.

It became waste paper. The Belgians had no idea that they could be exchanged at a reasonable price. Talleyrand was ridiculed when he purchased these bonds in large quantities in Belgium. Those who sold them to him later found out and regretted it.

Lyon, the second largest city in France, has frequent people-to-people exchanges with Paris. Even passenger transport is profitable enough, let alone when the canal is impassable.

If the operation and construction rights of the railway are transferred, it won't matter if it loses money. If it makes money, Napoleon will be criticized as a traitor who betrayed the national interests. This is the public opinion.

If you want French bankers to pay, you must give them full confidence. Louis XVI sent troops to North America to assist the United States in completing the War of Independence. Bonaparte not only lost the previous expeditionary force, but also the Swiss and Polish troops.

Soldiers were dispatched, and by accident the small island five thousand miles away turned out to be "Waterloo".

Sometimes war is inhumane. Even the mercenaries from living hell are unwilling to go. Who else would be brave enough to go?

During the ten years of the French Revolution, many people died, and most of them were men in their prime. This resulted in more women than men in rural France. Polygamy was not a permanent solution, nor was it allowed by the Christian world. That’s why Charles was born.

Garnier's policy of granting pensions to widows and orphans of the National Guard.

When a man fights in the field without worries, he can concentrate on his work, and he will have no regrets even if he sleeps on the battlefield one day.

Napoleon himself enlisted in the army not to save the country like the French, but to realize his own ambitions. However, he had been infected in such an environment for a long time, and he could no longer tell which country he was from.

Even Georgiana herself is not as familiar with Britain as she is with the mountains and rivers of France. She doesn't know how many railways there are in Britain, nor the iron bridges on the rivers. Then she can't help but use the title "we" to refer to herself and

French.

What is a foreigner? What is a native?

Marie Antoinette pinned her hopes on the Austrian army and used foreign troops to suppress the French civilians. She was an Austrian woman.

But the French love Louis XIV, the great Louis XIV, the carefree Louis XV, and the tragic Louis XVI. Each of them has endless stories to tell.

However, without Louis XI, the subsequent Louises would have had no time to be great, carefree, or miserable.

France, which was handed over to Louis XI, experienced a weak country and poor people after the Hundred Years War with Britain. Although France had restored most of its territory by the generation of Louis XI's father, Charles VII, Yingjun's scorched-earth policy during the war made France

The French people's livelihood is in decline and the economic system has completely collapsed.

Without people's livelihood, there would be no taxation. The French royal family was really poor at that time.

So much so that when Louis XI married Princess Margaret of Scotland, he had no money to hold a formal wedding.

The princess's relatives who came from afar were driven away in disguise after watching the ceremony in the church. There was not even a dinner party, let alone the days and nights of carnival when the Duke of Burgundy got married.

Margaret from Scotland was a typical medieval princess, pious, beautiful and kind-hearted. She had never read any useful books except the Bible and some love poems. Therefore, the French nobles called Margaret "the little doll".

Not only because of her small stature, but also because of her delicate appearance, his attitude toward her was as casual and disrespectful as treating a rag doll.

Georgiana was also very small, and when others spoke to her, she was direct and disrespectful. Madame Tallien sometimes teased her, but so far no man except Napoleon Bonaparte had dared to tease her.

After the count got up and left, Georgiana asked Julian Houvral to stay. In order to avoid leaking the news, Georgiana asked Matilda to withdraw as well. She wanted to talk about the lottery with the professor who was good at inciting people.

matter, but he didn't seem to want to talk to her about it at all.

He first chatted with her about literature and asked her if she had read Montesquieu's Persian Letters. After learning that she had read it, he actually called her "the immortal Anaïs". She waved it to him in anger.

A slap in the face.

As a result, he laughed even more happily after being beaten.

Who is the immortal Anaïs? She is one of the wives of the Persian Ibrahim. According to local tradition, she and Ibrahim's other 11 beautiful wives were locked in the house and were not allowed to go out at will.

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But she longed for freedom. She said to Ibrahim, if I have to die to break up with you, then death will be a happy thing for me.

So Ibrahim fulfilled her wish and stabbed the woman in the chest.

Then, she went to heaven like a decent woman before her death, enjoying a happy life with new ideas every day. The highlight was that two beautiful men served her, undressed her, bathed her, and applied fragrance to her.

The fragrance, holding her in his arms, let her enjoy crazy happiness.

Georgiana was still angry when she thought about it now. She regretted not burning Julian to death with dragon's breath.

In this case she felt it necessary to tell Bonaparte that he would either transfer Julian Houvral to another place or chop off his head.

So after disguising herself and putting on a hooded cloak, she asked Phyllis to prepare an inconspicuous carriage back to Paris.

Lawless speculators, bold hypocrites!

But this kind of person is still much better than the ultra-conservative banker in Paris.

She looked at the passing scenery outside the car window, and accidentally a little girl appeared in front of her. She was being led by her well-dressed parents, holding a ceramic doll from the Sèvres Ceramics Factory, and she was also looking at her carriage on the roadside.

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Their eyes met briefly, and Georgiana didn't look back until she was out of her sight.

The girl looked to be almost 11 years old, and it was time for her second stage of education.

But she soon smiled bitterly. Girls in the 18th century were not qualified to receive the second stage of education.

If she hadn't read so many books, she might not be insulted today, so ignorance is a blessing.
Chapter completed!