Chapter 1848 Witches and Demons Association (24)

Port wine is a fortified wine, just like the Madeira wine drank by witches at the Coven. The difference is that port wine is added with brandy, while Madeira wine is added with high-purity alcohol.

Is there a difference between alcohol and brandy?

The military is a purely male world. For these men who may die at any time, there is no difference between alcohol and brandy. Wine tasting is a matter for senior officers.

Alcohol is made from starchy materials such as corn, wheat, and potatoes. The ethanol in brandy is fermented from the sugar in fruits. When the brandy is added to Port wine, which is also made from grapes, it increases the flavor of the wine and becomes

Port wine with natural sweetness and fruity aroma.

Madeira wine is also known as the "Wine of Immortality". This wine is "lifeless" and can be stored in a normal environment for hundreds of years like a corpse soaked in formalin without the need for constant temperature and humidity.

Cellar preservation. Yeast will be killed in high-purity alcohol. Port wine is added before the fermentation of grape juice is completed. Yeast represents "sin" in the Bible. The bread in the Holy Communion is usually unleavened.

But the Orthodox Church actually uses leavened bread because they believe that leavened bread represents the Holy Spirit, and Western churches refuse to recite "spiritual texts" during mass.

Although with the fall of Constantinople, Orthodox Christians took root in Russia, and some immigrated to the United States.

When the Salem Witch Incident occurred, the new Governor of Massachusetts and Incris Mather had just obtained a charter from England. At that time, the people of Massachusetts drove away the former Governor Andros, but order was not restored. They needed a new one.

of the Governor.

The new governor, Mr. Phipps, was not a believer. He was not baptized at all. Later, the priest baptized him as an adult, which was not allowed by the Orthodox Church.

When there was no such thing as a new charter, Massachusetts elected its own officials without specific religious requirements. This was also later included in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Congress was prohibited from enacting any law establishing a state religion.

hinder freedom of belief.

The Boston Tea Party was also related to the charter of the East India Company. The East India Company not only facilitated the British Parliament to rule India, but also paid 10% of all British tax revenue. The expansion of the British navy also benefited from this

Financial resources, in order to allow it to continue operating, it was given many facilities, including monopoly rights.

A charter is such a thing. In the past, when Spain was strong, it also signed a trade contract license, but it is not blank. Portugal obtained a Spanish slave trade license before it could transport slaves to South America to mine gold and silver mines. The South China Sea Company

Without this certificate, you cannot trade in South America.

Spain is not as good as before, and their navy is not the "Invincible Fleet", but England, the maritime overlord, still wants to join forces with them. Napoleon's famous battle, the Battle of Toulon, started with the British and Spanish forces entering the port of Toulon.

Helping the royal party, in 1801 Spain and Napoleon attacked Portugal again.

There are pro-British and pro-French factions in the Spanish court, and both sides are fighting. There is also a pro-French faction in the Portuguese court. Godoy actually allowed Gabriel Houvral to issue blank charters so casually, and he doesn’t know how much he received.

benefit.

Sometimes such wonders will happen on the earth. Before the signing of the Treaty of Amiens, Napoleon's warships on the expedition to Saint-Domingue had already set sail. At that time, they were to be blocked by British warships.

A warship that cannot fire cannons is just a decoration. Who but pirates would dare to intercept Spanish transport ships?

The Treaty of Methuen stipulated that British merchants were not allowed to enter Brazil directly. William Pitt Jr. felt that Trinidad had more economic value than Malta. He acquiesced to Uffral's rules of the game because he wanted to take Mexico's silver.

Shipped to Europe, almost all the military expenses of the anti-French war were paid by England. Other countries provided people, and England needed to "replenish blood."

But the charter is for Britain to control the trade of other neutral countries. Without this certificate, the navy can turn into pirates, plunder merchant ships, and deny Spain's trade contract license?

Unless England takes off its mask and directly uses warships to attack Spanish gold ships, all European countries will be tortured by Spain's blank charter. If they want to be held accountable, Napoleon must be blamed. How did you let this disaster go?

In another period, such as during a war, this thing would not be so powerful. War is bound to have hostility. When the British were hostile to the Americans, they robbed American cargo ships.

Portugal's wheat production was very low and it needed American grain ships, so the idea of ​​freedom from North America was introduced.

World peace is different from wartime, and William Pitt, Jr. of the East India Company is also avoiding the important and trivial matters. Is it possible that he wants to investigate the corruption problem in the Royal Navy?

He and Nelson were allies, and the corruption problem in the lumber mill that supplied the navy had been reported. Fortunately, he was not the prime minister on duty. This kind of thing was as far away as signing a "declaration of national subjugation."

During the French Revolution, the British fleet was unable to sail near Amsterdam due to ice on the sea. At the same time, the French cavalry rode across the ice to accept the surrender of this navy.

The occurrence of this scene was a coincidence, but Bonaparte planned to recreate it artificially. He mobilized all the saltpeter and planned to dump it into the cold sea water to immobilize the British warships and capture Nelson alive.

This can be regarded as a kind of climate weapon. The sea water does not freeze because there is salt. There are freshwater rivers flowing into the sea near Amsterdam, which causes the sea surface to freeze.

Only if we can try it will we know that the French navy has been timid since the Battle of Aboukir in Egypt. If Nelson was afraid of Bonaparte and did not dare to fight, then the British navy will also become like that in the future.

The Prince of Wales also considered that if Nelson was really captured alive, the British people would also lose confidence in the navy. In this case, the Prince of Wales had a secret meeting with Napoleon, when Bonaparte went to review the Western Corps.

Bonaparte did not inherit any "legacy" from the Directory. The efficient new administrative system gave France a new lease of life.

Americans know very well that comprehensive democracy is not only weak and incompetent, but also unwise and inefficient. In the past, Lord Protector Cromwell had set it up to let the two parties in Parliament quarrel with each other. While they were busy quarreling, Cromwell

Will can achieve dictatorship.

The way to restrict democracy is federalism. It prevents complete democracy anywhere and does not form centralized power. However, it solves difficult problems and creates new ones at the same time.

No one can listen. It is correct for the minority to obey the majority. They will not admit the existence of majority tyranny, which is also authoritarian and oppressive.

The story of Socrates is very famous, as well as Columbus, Galileo and others. These are all minorities, and sometimes it is only a few people who master the truth.

Kings are lonely sometimes, and they have to face many people who don't understand them.

There was a Catholic widow beside the Prince of Wales. In order to marry her, he bribed a priest to hold a religious ceremony, and a Protestant and a Catholic got married.

This may be the beginning. The religious agreement also allowed Protestants and Catholics to marry. Bonaparte also met an English woman. Although she claimed to be a witch, more people regarded her as a Protestant.

The constitutional monarchy puts the king in shackles. The Prince of Wales does not even have the right to marry the woman he likes, but this is a right that ordinary people can enjoy.

Bonaparte was also not free. He could not exile whoever he wanted like a king like Louis XV. He needed to use his own assassination as an excuse to exile the Jacobins.

Everyone needs to wear a personality mask in front of others to please others. As the master, the Prince of Wales has to rule according to the direction of public opinion, while Bonaparte has to show himself as a commander-in-chief.

What he actually wanted was a peaceful life. Of course, no one believed what he said. If he was really a peace-loving person, he would not have sent Queen Catherine away during the Campo-Formio Negotiations.

The cup for Count Cobenz was dropped.

In fact, Napoleon's brother Lucien, who claimed to be Brutus, also threw a glass during an informal meeting when Georgiana was craving beef and she also wanted fish.

Although there was a famine, she could eat whatever she wanted, as long as she used a little privilege, just like the other king's mistresses.

Out of respect for the lady and the people who sacrificed for a peaceful and beautiful life, this experiment was canceled and everyone returned to their daily masked lives.

Everyone will define Elysium and Paradise. Bonaparte built a greenhouse with an iron frame structure in the Little Trianon, which was full of plants, but they were not all expensive flowers for appreciation.

These plants have practical value, and Georgiana sometimes explains them to the servants like a teacher. It is said that that was her former profession, as if she really wants to teach them something.

It was like a Garden of Eden, and the building next to it was her favorite Church of Our Lady of Ancon in Venice. It was repaired by engineers in a short period of time, and sculptures and furniture were constantly being added to decorate and beautify it. It seemed that nature and God were living in harmony here.

Hogwarts must be a fascinating place, but it's a pity that as a Muggle, he can't go there.

A long time ago, in a place far, far away, there lived a foolish king. He thought that only he should be allowed to have the power of magic.

Therefore, the king ordered the leader of his army to form a witch-hunting team and assigned them a group of ferocious black hunting dogs. At the same time, he also issued an announcement in towns and villages across the country: "The king is recruiting a magic teacher."

None of the real wizards dared to apply for jobs, and they all avoided the witch-hunting squad. However, a cunning charlatan with no magic skills saw an opportunity to make a fortune. He came to the palace and claimed to be a witch hunter.

A highly skilled wizard, the charlatan performed a few simple tricks, and the foolish king was convinced that he indeed knew magic, and immediately appointed him as the chief magician and the king's personal magic master.

The charlatan asked the king to give him a large bag of gold, which he used to buy wands and other magical necessities. He also asked for several large rubies, saying that they would be used to complete the healing spell; and one or two silver goblets, saying

To preserve and brew potions. All these things the foolish king provided to him.

But what the king didn't know was that there was a real witch in his courtyard. Her name was Babidi. She was a washerwoman who was responsible for washing the sheets and quilts in the palace until they were soft, white, and fragrant.

Some magic historians have suggested that Beedle based Babbitt on the image of the famous French magician Lisette de Lapin. Lisette was imprisoned in Paris in 1422 for engaging in witchcraft activities.

Sentence. To the great surprise of the Muggle guards, Lisette disappeared from the cell the night before she was to be executed. Later, the Muggle guards were accused of helping the witch escape and were tried. Although

There is no evidence that Lisette was an Animagus and squeezed through the bars of her cell window, but then a white rabbit was seen crossing the English Channel in a cauldron with a sail.

The rabbit later became a confidant in the court of King Henry VI.

If that's true, then England didn't just take a half-Veela from France, but a legendary witch as well.

The feelings of gain and loss are very different. A zero-sum game means that under strict competition, one party's gain must mean the other party's loss. The sum of the gains and losses of all parties in the game is always "zero". There is no possibility of cooperation between the two parties.

Possibly. It can also be said that one's own happiness is based on the pain of others.

A happy ending is possible through effective cooperation. But moving from a zero-sum game to a win-win situation requires all parties to have the spirit and courage of sincere cooperation, not to be clever in cooperation, not to always try to take advantage of others, and to abide by the game.

Rules, otherwise a win-win situation will not be possible, and the collaborators will ultimately suffer.

There was a man who often had dreams full of myths and epics, but when he woke up, he was alone.

As a person who loves to be clean, he shaves every day and always does it himself. No one is worthy of putting his hand on his cheek. Only when he can't move will he make up his mind to let others do it.

He shaves.

How could a man like him allow a woman to slap him?

It was such a ridiculous dream, so ridiculous that the dreamer must be a lunatic.
Chapter completed!