Chapter 1518 The Master of Training Your Dragon (9)

A French poet in the 13th century wrote such a pastoral poem:

Grandpa Fayel looked at his wheat and land in the early morning. It was so comfortable and pleasant to gaze at the tender green of the seedlings or the golden color of the wheat ears. The beautiful crops would make a beautiful tinkling sound.

After the harvest, it’s time to collect the annual rent tax.

The reason why Napoleon was so liked by the peasants was because he promised not to restore the feudal system and the tithe. Of course, it was impossible for him to collect rent in kind from the peasants, which was the pre-medieval tax system.

After harvesting, farmers would push the grain to the market to sell, and then the tax collectors would look at the coins in their hands.

Peasants in the Carolingian era had to pay a large amount of food to their lords, but not all food was stored in the warehouse, especially those perishable foods. Before the end of the Middle Ages, farmers stopped giving in kind and switched to paying money.

If the tax collector doesn't explain clearly what the tax deduction in kind is, the farmers will not pay it.

If it were changed to "collection", it would be another matter. The years before 1801 were good, with bumper harvests every year. This resulted in farmers having a lot of grain in their warehouses, but poor road conditions made it impossible to transport grain in some areas.

, over time it turns into old wheat and cannot be sold at a high price in the market.

Logically, when there is a famine in the country, food should not be exported. However, each region has its own special reasons. Exporting food can be exchanged for gold and silver coins. Human beings cannot return to the era of barter.

But this article is now banned. Napoleon did not ask the Legislative Yuan to amend the law to ban it, but asked the police to arrest them.

William Pitt the Younger once reminded Georgiana of "tableware" that British gold and silver are rarely used to make utensils, especially tableware, which is all made of porcelain. Louis XIV once melted down chandeliers in private homes and Versailles to obtain gold and silver.

Easing the financial problems caused by launching the war is also of no avail. Labor costs are required to make gold and silverware, and the money obtained after melting is much less than what was paid. If Georgiana had listened to the Prime Minister and followed the instructions, she would have suffered a big loss.

Yes, unless you have no choice but to do so.

There were only three articles in the Anglo-Portuguese Trade Treaty of 1703:

First, in the name of His Majesty the King of Portugal and his heirs, it is agreed that British cloth and other woolen goods shall be allowed to be imported into Portugal as usual until prohibited by law, subject to the conditions stated in the following article.

Secondly, that His Majesty the King of England, in his own name and that of his heirs, must hereafter and forever permit the importation of wines from Portugal into England, at all times, whether at war or at war, and regardless of the barrels in which they are imported into Portugal.

No barrel of one hundred and five gallons, barrels of fifty-two and a half gallons, or otherwise, shall be required, directly or indirectly, under the name of customs duty, or under any other name, to demand, directly or indirectly, more for such wines than the same quantity of French wines.

If the above-mentioned tariff reduction is violated in any way at any time in the future, it will be justifiable for His Majesty the King of Portugal to further ban the import of British woolen goods and other woolen products.

legal.

Third, the plenipotentiary ambassadors of the two countries agreed to obtain the ratification of the treaty from their respective kings and agreed to exchange ratification documents within two months.

Of these three treaties, to be precise, two of them determined the fate of Portugal and the fate of France's Bordeaux wine merchants. Before 1703, Britain and France were engaged in a war for hegemony. Portugal originally wanted to gain advantages for itself through this treaty, but it ended up taking the advantage.

A big loss. According to Adam Smith's description in The Wealth of Nations, this treaty was a masterpiece of British commercial policy. The gold Portugal received from Brazil every year was more than the amount used to mint coins and make utensils domestically. The remaining

There is no big loss if the gold is kept in a gold cabinet, but there is no good market in Portugal, so even if the export of gold is prohibited, some people will still smuggle the gold out and exchange it for goods that have a more favorable market in the country, or exchange it from the UK.

Goods from other European countries.

Adam Smith believed that the value of fruit and wine shipped from Portugal to England almost offset the value of British goods sent to Portugal. He completely forgot that the fifty thousand pounds of gold imported into Britain every week by postal means that this trade

The funds for the activities were provided by Portugal itself. In addition, the British merchants also obtained the privileges of the Portuguese King through non-treaty provisions. When the Portuguese King realized that he had suffered a loss in this treaty, he lost favor with the British merchants, and some privileges were revoked.

Withdrawn, but by this time it was a little too late. Portugal was known as the "Vegetable Garden of Europe" in the 20th century, and the cost of living was cheaper than in other EU countries. 100 euros can be used as 122 euros there.

The same is true in Spain. Vernon and Petunia once took Harry and Dally to Spain for vacation. It turns out that the protective spell Lily used on Harry did not necessarily require him to stay in the house in Xiaojinhui District.

Just stay by Petunia's side. It's fine if he hides in the Leaky Cauldron, which has a lot of hidden spells.

That idiot Severus signed an unbreakable oath with Bellatrix and Narcissa Malfoy. There were three clauses in it. Among them, his oath to protect Draco forever bound him "for life."

, he must fulfill his oath as long as he is alive, otherwise they would still be living in seclusion now.

She missed him very much. One morning when she woke up, she found him lying next to her and looking at her, as if he was afraid that she would disappear.

She was reminded of the Portuguese Anthosaurus for some reason, which also had a pair of black eyes and light green scales.

Fate is unfair, Severus has known it for a long time.

They are also dragons. The Welsh dragon that was tamed by Georgiana now has a comfortable home, and the skins of some dragons have become materials for wizards to make clothes, boots, gloves, and shields. Georgiana remembers that Slughorn had a

Dragon leather briefcase with gold buckle.

If the French Ministry of Magic could monopolize this trade, then French pure-blood wizards would not need to raise their own dragons unless they needed fresh dragon blood.

Sometimes trade can really make people cold-blooded, but humans are omnivores and need to eat animal protein.

When Columbus first arrived in the Caribbean islands, he quickly realized that it was not the India in Marco Polo's travels. Not only because the people there did not wear clothes, but also because there was a lack of meat on the island. There was a kind of food on the island that the locals called

Cory's pika, they are the largest viviparous quadruped in Santo Domingo.

Hence, the Caribbean people of Martinique have customs that can be described as anecdotes.

It is already cruel to kill a young bull and raise a large cow so that it can continue to conceive and give birth to babies and produce milk.

She cried again thinking of this.

Sometimes she really wished that Napoleoni was not so honest. He argued that she would not be as sad as she was now if he had not secretly gone to see Giuseppina.

She is not only stupid but stupid, this is the first time she has cried in the past few days.

After crying, her eyes were red and swollen, but she still wanted to cry.

But can tears solve the problem?

She longed for love, and God seemed to have given her a gift, making her a Veela hybrid who was born with beauty. However, it was as if she was cursed and could not get a family.

There is something like a travel book on her desk, which is about what a French exile saw and heard in the United States. Compared with the English-speaking area, the treatment of slaves in the French-speaking area of ​​the United States is much better. They are not only allowed to do nothing.

For skilled manual labor, they could also work as carpenters, masons, simple blacksmiths and butchers. New Orleans also taught slaves how to read, and a few slaves even successfully became tutors.

She often heard that teachers are engineers of the soul, or "noble, worthy of respect."

In the past, the Roman slave owners were taught by Greek slaves, and Henry Petty's tutor Dumont has now become his entourage.

Students are not allowed to be whipped in school. It is annoying enough that the old bat punishes students with voluntary labor, so even if she sometimes wants to use violence against them, she can only endure it on the spot, and then turn her grief and anger into motivation, and she goes to farm

.

It happened that her magic was restored and she could use magic to plant the land, so she left the tower and went to prepare the land and prepare it for planting in October.

Although the performance of human manure is average due to weather conditions, the experimental fields in the south performed well. The yield per mu was nearly twice that before fertilization. In the future, the soil will be improved and more fertile, and the yield per mu will be higher.

This is her "great cause". It's so dirty. Which student would be willing to learn it?

I copied the content of the peace treaty from "The Wealth of Nations". When Wellington came to Bordeaux, the local wine farmers regarded him as a liberator.
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