Chapter 1695 The Goddess’s Secret Word (Forty)

In the European medieval castle era, solid city walls were indispensable. Most of the ancient European castle ruins that exist to this day are made of stones, and it is rare to see city walls rammed with earth.

Mud city walls are not uncommon in Asia, especially in areas where stone materials are scarce. Unless no cost is considered as the Egyptians did when building the pyramids, it is too expensive to transport stone materials from a distance.

This will definitely consume manpower, material and financial resources, but people living in the city without city walls will not feel safe. However, at that time, only important cities such as Jerusalem and Constantinople would build full-stone city walls.

The prosperity of Paris constantly attracted new threats, such as Viking pirates and Eastern pagans. During the period of King Philip August, France needed to expand its troops to defend against the Arabs, and it also needed to strengthen the city defenses. It was unrealistic to use all stones.

, people at that time came up with a compromise, mixing gravel and bricks into the city wall, and applying a layer of stone on the outside. No one knows whether it is actually strong or not, but at least it seemed that the city wall was very strong.

The Louvre is not a palace displaying works of art, but part of the city's defense system. In addition, there are pastures, farmland and vegetable gardens to ensure that the city can still maintain food supply when it is besieged.

If the mud is too thin, it will not be able to stick the bricks when applied to the wall; if the bricks are not fired properly, it will not be possible to build a strong city wall.

Napoleon himself was originally an Italian, but after he abdicated, when he was imprisoned on the Island of Elba, he said that Italy was lazy and weak when chatting with British visitors, and the French, at least in the Napoleonic era, were not the same as them.

the same.

Anyone can go to the front, except Victor Hugo. He has to do what only Victor Hugo can do.

Napoleon was already on the front line. Napoleon Bonaparte was as thin as a cat in boots and physically inferior to other soldiers in the legion. However, the soldiers were willing to risk their lives to protect Napoleon's safety.

He found a sense of belonging in France, especially in the French army. It was like love. One-sided dedication has no feeling. It requires two people to hit it off. Women let him down, but the army did not. He did not treat veterans with dignity.

They used them as tools. The reason why he was buried in Les Invalides was because he often visited the soldiers living in Les Invalides, and his stepson Eugene was still taking care of the veterans after he abdicated and was imprisoned.

He defined his attributes as a soldier, so he understood soldiers and what they needed. After Napoleon came to the throne, he began to carry out construction, including building a defensive wall. This wall also played a role during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.

In 1874, this city wall was not only not demolished, but was reinforced. It was not until 1919 after the First World War that the city wall had lost its role in the face of modern war weapons, and people partially demolished this city wall.

The city wall not only became the final dividing line between the urban area and the suburbs of Paris, but also served as a distribution center for antiques, poor people and homeless people.

Being poor means petty theft is inevitable. You can steal something and sell it for money, but rich people don't need it. But sometimes the difference between a thief and a big thief is not so clear. For example, if a thief is brave enough, he can steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre.

The big thief is always thinking about how to take away a few words from the poor man's pocket. Even if he has a golden mountain, he still wants to steal it under the guise of legality.

The reconstruction of the Haussmann era was essentially no different from the British enclosure movement, except that the British enclosures occupied large areas of land in the countryside. Those builders and banks who built high-end apartments selected the most beautiful areas in Paris, one by one.

It’s just about quality.

When the house got bigger, each room would have its own function, such as a study, a reception room and a bedroom. After the enclosure, the British aristocratic houses were much bigger, with cloakrooms and game rooms, while Parisians at that time generally only had one bedroom.

It has the functions of a study, a cloakroom, and a restaurant. Some poor families also have a kitchen and a toilet. Even Londoners in high-end apartments have difficulty adapting to the crowded living environment in Paris.

Although Malfoy is a disguised pure-blood and Anglo-Saxon, his living habits are no different from those of the ancient pure-blood family. The Malfoy family does not buy property in Paris. They have wineries in the wine-producing areas of the French countryside.

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Although in ancient Rome, scholars such as Cicero attributed both the Anglo-Saxons and Gauls to barbarians, there were still differences between the two peoples.

The Anglo-Saxons are natural gamblers. They don't think about what they will do if they lose, but instinctively think "What if they win?".

Even if they have absolutely no chips in their hands, they will still continue to gamble, but at this time they will tear through the pretense of civilization and use any insidious and cruel methods. Anyway, they will bite the enemy until the end to see who wins first.

die.

The Gauls were arrogant by nature. They did not engage in agricultural production, looked down on farmers, and advocated force. Some soldiers were unable to continue to live the rural and isolated life after they were discharged from the army. Even if they were lucky enough to survive plagues and wars, civilians'

Life will also knock them down. Death on the battlefield may be a better destination, at least not living on the streets.

If the Paris Commune declared the establishment of an urban republic, even if the "Versailles elements" did not block the roads, they would not be able to obtain supplies from the countryside and suburbs. France would not allow division, and hunger would make some hot-headed people sober up.

Hugo wrote in his diary: An egg costs two francs and seventy centimes, elephant meat costs 40 francs per pound, and a bag of onions costs 800 francs. It only costs 700 francs to repair all the broken glass in the Luohan Pavilion.

People will starve to death, and this is war.

Will you become the next person to starve to death? This is human nature.

After eating human flesh, your face will definitely look rosier than those who are starving. People who are besieged in the city will look down on that kind of person. But if you can't find suitable food at that time, should you eat it or not?

There are many people who cannot adapt from peace to wartime. Other EU member states have handed over their armies to the United States and mercenaries. The French army has two components. One is the Foreign Legion, which is France’s main battle force and often performs operations.

Some arduous tasks. The other is the domestic army. Before World War II, the biggest advantage was that it could mobilize an overwhelming number of troops. However, they surrendered as soon as the Maginot Line was broken, which cost a lot of money.

The fortifications that were built are now used as a mushroom cultivation base. If it weren't for the expense of blowing it up, many people would want to demolish it.

Since the restoration of the Bourbons, they have resurrected their previous reliance on mercenaries. The new monarchy that relied on the arms of others will eventually be controlled by those mercenaries. The Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, Heraclius, was also a mercenary.

Origin, self-examination is that Dinny I intended to regain Western Rome, and after the Eastern Roman Empire was severely weakened by plague and citizen riots, the mercenary dinar system has been integrated into the system of the Eastern Roman Empire. Heraclius was easy

He won the crown, but what he faced was a mess. Later, he borrowed the military system of the Eastern Empire and established military commanders similar to Jiedushi, which restored the stability of the empire in a short period of time.

However, this stability was temporary. At that time, the Tang Empire mutinied due to the Youzhou Jiedushi. The emperor left Chang'an in a hurry and fled to the Bashu region. On the way, he passed Maweipo. The soldiers forced the emperor to kill his beloved concubine Yang.

Yuhuan, they thought that as long as this woman died, their once wise "Jade Dragon Son" who led them out of Wu Zetian's dark rule would come back.

In history, women are inevitably used as scapegoats, but the reason why they end up in such a situation has one thing in common. Whether it is Marie Antoinette or Yang Yuhuan, they will be related to pride and extravagance, and then "deficit" and "disaster"

Crimes such as "Chao Gang" will be pinned on their heads.

It is useless for contemporary people to sympathize with them. This is a crime that has been confirmed. Reversing their conviction will cause countless troubles and make some people who originally thought that the storm has passed start to be frightened again and then do irrational things. Only the past will become history.

Only when all the relevant parties are dead will someone look for it in the pile of old papers.

Louis XVI spent so much money and people to help the United States become independent, but in the end he ruined his own country. There is no trace left in history. Americans do not regard him as the founding father. It is mentioned in American textbooks.

It is already known that the founding father of the United States is George Washington.

Similarly, the United States has messed up the Mediterranean and the Middle East into what they are now, and refugees will not swim across the Atlantic to them. What the Abbasid Empire failed to accomplish in the past has now been accomplished.

Perhaps Catholicism is still the largest religion in France in terms of numbers, but these followers of Mohammed are more pious.

Refusing to believe in God is a Western value. People with faith are ignorant. Let people with faith give up their faith and live the same "unruly" life as Westerners. Some people can't do it. There are too many people who force others to accept their own beliefs.

opinion, thinking that one is right.

It does not feel good to try to change things out of wishful thinking and get rejected, but imagine who would feel happy if their home was blown up by a missile?

During the Black Death epidemic, Nicola Malfoy opened an inn and reportedly killed many Muggle guests, but Nicola Malfoy was not punished in any way.

The Wizards' Council is not an inquisition, and it cannot rely on rumors and conjectures to convict without evidence.

Muggle citizens, who are dangerous to witches and wizards, are not a threat to wizards, but that depends on the situation. Duke Vincent de Tefler-Peak was neglectful and unwary, which made the United States

The purgers who came were caught and almost beheaded on the guillotine.

The "gang" can avoid fighting alone and have someone to look after each other. Severus and Lucius, who drank Polyjuice Potion and disguised himself as Alejandro, smoked while waiting for others in the Chapel of the Atonement.

Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI were buried here. It was built on the orders of Louis XVIII. The king and queen were beheaded and their bodies were thrown into mass graves. In 1802, this land

It was bought by a royalist judge. He marked the place where the king and queen were buried, and set up a fence and two willow and cypress trees around it. After the restoration of Louis XVIII, the bones of the two were dug out.

At that time, the two people had turned into bones, and Marie Antoinette's body was identified from the garter belt and lower jaw in the bones.

Their bones were moved to St. Ned's Cathedral. These two people were relatively well. People at that time had the habit of painting with strange materials, such as using powder ground from mummies, or painting with corpse oil. Jews had the habit of painting with corpses.

For the custom of applying sesame oil, some people specially dug up the graves of these Jews and sold the oil to painters.

Louis XIV's body was well preserved and did not exude the terrible smell like Louis XV. His heart was taken out and sold to the painter. The painter used Louis XIV's heart to smear it on the canvas, and it still remains today.

The painting is still in the Palace of Versailles.

The strange thing about Napoleon is not only that his body has not decayed for 20 years, but also his strange living habits during his lifetime. People have to sleep, and he regained his energy after taking a bath. He also has a super memory, which lasted for more than ten years.

He still remembered the name of a soldier who gave him a piece of cake while fighting in Italy, and he even called him by his name accurately.

He looks more like a monster than a superman.

The key is that there was nothing strange about him when he was young. He ate, drank, and slept like normal people.

Either he had an adventure or he was possessed by the devil.

The two were chatting when they saw a beam of light approaching from a distance, and soon a minivan stopped in front of them.

The car was not turned off, and a young man with glasses as thick as the bottom of a beer bottle and a plaid shirt stuck his head out of the car window and looked at the two well-dressed people.

"The eagle spreads its wings," said the young man.

"Sing in triumph." Severus said with a smirk.

"Where are the documents?" the young man asked.

"What document?" Lucius asked subconsciously.

The young man immediately became alert.

"I'm just telling you, there won't be any words written down." Severus continued, "Whether it's paper or digital."

"How can I trust you?" the young man asked.

"How about this?" Severus said, raising his wand and levitating a trash can.

The young man didn't look very surprised.

"This is magic." Lucius said displeased.

"Come on, I'm not a girl, magic is just magic, no magic!" the young man said.

Lucius turned his head and whispered in Severus's ear, "Can I teach him a lesson?"

"How about a stinging charm?" Severus said.

"That's a curse only used by children." Lucius complained.

"Believe me, this is not a child's curse for Muggles." Severus said with a smile, and then he turned and walked aside. Not long after, he heard a shrill scream.
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