Chapter 1857 giant slayer(1)

Many people have fantasized about Cleopatra's appearance and what kind of woman could charm Caesar.

Even if she is not as stunningly beautiful as Elizabeth Taylor and has a pair of violet eyes, she should at least be bulging forward and backward, similar to Marianne, the goddess of liberty with a Gallic chicken on her head.

According to Bonaparte's usual "taste", his favorite type should be blond, slim, and with flaming red lips like the Medici Venus.

Apart from being a little shorter than he was, Georgiana was none of those things, and according to his correspondence with the Prince of Wales, he described her as a "bold little man" without any mention of how sweet she was.

,gentle.

She usually lives in seclusion and is very conscious of being suspected of being a spy. Anyone who has seen a "real person" has not felt the "witch's magic". On the contrary, the ministers of her faction all wear an emerald olive branch brooch on their chests.

, it is said that it was based on the peace proclamation issued by the French army when they were in Italy, with a sword of victory in one hand and an olive branch in the other. It now has political significance like the beard of men in the army or the badge on their hat, and it is no longer just an accessory.

Many of the merchants who donated money to build the Saint-Martin Canal are from Lyon, and everyone knows how much Lyon is favored. Shipping costs are largely related to insurance, and insurance is related to safety, such as war, piracy, etc., world peace,

If there are fewer pirates, the cost of insurance will be reduced, and thus the freight will be reduced. When the freight is low, there will be fewer people engaged in transportation.

This is a very simple truth. Who is willing to work without getting paid, and the risks are still so high? Even if there are no pirates and bandits, the unpredictable weather at sea and the long journey across mountains and rivers are still prohibitive for many people.

There are also human-eating monsters such as mermaids and giants. Of course, high risks are expected in the hope of high returns, but the owners are trying to squeeze the freight in order to expand profits, because they feel that transportation has no technical content and can be done by individuals.

The most important thing about commodities is circulation, which is not only physical goods, but also information. Even in years of famine, not every place has a bad harvest. In some provinces, food prices are cheap, and in some provinces, food prices are expensive. According to the laws of the free market

, cheap goods will be shipped to places with high prices for sale driven by profit, which can play a role in stabilizing prices.

This is the theory, but opaque information will also cause consumers to make wrong judgments. Grain merchants with large amounts of grain in their hands will still sell at high prices. Collusion between interest groups will make them advance and retreat together. It will not be like a free market economy because of

Price reduction due to competition.

This can be regarded as a traditional feature. For example, in the Montpellier financial and textile industry circles where Interior Minister Chaptard's wife belongs, a poor boy can marry a rich girl because he has a patent in his hand, which ended the monopoly of Turkish red cloth.

For the upper class in Europe and even the United States, they are more willing to believe the inside information of the small circle than to believe the rumors of the lower class. Public knowledge cannot create wealth. Everyone knows that the earth is round, but in that I know the earth is round

, you don’t know the age, new routes can create profits, after Waterloo, Nathan Rothschild’s operations on the exchange were also based on information differences, he knew who really won, others did not know, saw Nathan selling

British government bonds also followed suit, and when the price of government bonds dropped, Nathan would sell them all. If he could not control his emotions at that time and shouted "France wins", then he would not be the one making money.

This is a special skill of the disciple of the Chief Mage of the Wizengamot. No matter what situation he encounters, he will always maintain a clear mind, even if his husband announces a divorce when they are about to risk their lives on an adventure.

Maybe the French First Consul, who was so powerful and occupied half of Europe, didn't have the power to declare her marriage invalid, but Severus could. The fortress disintegrated faster from within. After so many years, Snotlout's problem

Still nothing changed.

Controlling your emotions is like controlling the horse in your heart. This is difficult to do, so it requires a lot of practice. No one is born with good riding skills, even nomads who grew up on horses

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Frivolousness belongs to young people. There are very few monsters like Georgiana who still maintain their youthful appearance. Unless they are the kind who have gone through many twists and turns, it is difficult for them to not be as ignorant as Pauline once they gain power.

She was Bonaparte's tool for revenge against Josephine, and she was also expected to have a child. However, Pauline, the tailor's daughter, did not give birth to a child, and she could not integrate into the upper class like Josephine.

After weighing the pros and cons, Bonaparte did not need Josephine to come forward and dealt with Cleopatra, who had once been driving with him on the streets of Cairo. Many girls could not stand the temptation and wanted to be famous.

He walked through the streets greeted by everyone, even though Bonaparte was not handsome and was very short.

Sometimes the girl who holds the wedding regards herself as the protagonist, but forgets about her husband. Photographers and painters will observe the expressions of the newlyweds. Many times the husband's face is actually very impatient. He has not invested in this role at all, just like

Completing a task.

Some boys were nervous, fearing that they would mess up the wedding. They had to read over and over again the vows they were going to make and the speeches they would make at the wedding banquet. By the time the whole process was over, he was covered in sweat. Oh, it’s finally over.

Got it!

Oaths can be said beautifully, but these people who can say beautiful "scene words" are secretly hurting those who believe that those words will come true. Women don't believe that men's oaths are useful.

What's the use of an oath? Or a marriage contract is useful. It is protected by law. The new civil law does not allow divorce. Women like Madame de Staël are making endless noises about this, but for people like Josephine, it is a

Guarantee. As long as there is no divorce, no matter how many women Bonaparte has outside and how beautiful those women are, they will always be fleeting meteors and will disappear soon, unless she dies.

Most of the time, it is the husband who kills his wife. If Bonaparte caught the adulterer on the spot, it would be legal for Josephine and her young lover to be killed. The problem is that Bonaparte was in Egypt when he heard the news. What if he

Everyone could understand why I chose to divorce at that time.

But he forgave Josephine. For the sake of their two children, Eugène and Hortense had paid too much.

What the French army did in Pavia was distorted by rumors and caused great panic. However, in addition to the initial chaos, Bonaparte shot several troublemaking Frenchmen to death because of strict military discipline.

The damage was limited, mainly due to money issues.

What he did in Egypt was inhumane and the killing of prisoners was very disgraceful. This is where the British newspapers attacked him.

However, compared with what Queen Catherine did, what Bonaparte did was a measure taken when food was in short supply. It was not considered a choice but an uncompromising choice.

A 5% reduction in grain production would starve to death for 5% of the population. Based on the population base in France at that time, approximately 1.2 million people would starve to death. In this way, grain prices would not rise without limit, because everyone would have enough to eat.

Of course it is inhumane to do this. If everyone saves a little and is half full, then they can all get through the difficulties. But the feeling of hunger is not that good. This kind of hunger is different from self-starvation due to dieting and weight loss. It is caused by external factors and hunger.

People are angry people, which is another original sin of man.

Without property inequality, society cannot exist, and without religion, property inequality cannot be maintained. When a person is starving to death, but there is another person next to him who is so full that he is vomiting, he cannot tolerate this.

There is no difference, unless there is an authority saying to him: This is the will of God, there must be poor people and rich people in this world; but, in the next life and in eternity, the distinction between rich and poor will be completely different.

After the Girondins abolished the price ceiling, people's pain came not only from the shortage of food, but also from the "market law" of the highest price of materials. When stores have stocks, rich people only need to go to the store to buy.

However, in the past, rich people, owners or wealthy people only had to pay bundles of coupons and take out their private gold louis to buy food. They could even spend money to have a big meal and enjoy high-end luxury food.

Red wine and exquisite cuisine, while a large number of Parisian lower class people are struggling to make ends meet.

They sent kings and nobles to the guillotine and soon became beggars because they killed their boss's boss, so the factory could no longer pay wages to the workers.

The new regime took over those industries, but expected the market economy to solve those problems on its own, or provide superficial charity. Many people starved to suicide.

A mother with her child tied her child to her waist and jumped into the Seine together because she was not given bread. Several women who were about to give birth demanded that they give birth immediately in order to kill their unborn children.

Because of poverty and despair, people will do very irrational things. What is the solution? Confiscate the church's assets.

Not much is really distributed to the poor, and most of it is divided up by the upper class. A large number of people become weak due to reduced food intake, and even cannot work, especially women, who eat garbage, rotten vegetables, and butcher shops.

He feeds on the blood in the house, but the man dares not go home because there is a wife and child at home who are about to starve to death, and he has no food in his hand.

The National Convention collapsed, and the hungry people shouted for revenge and sent the Girondins to the guillotine.

In fact, the Jacobins were not necessarily good people. They participated in many radical movements. They absorbed a large number of people from the bottom of society. These people are different from "sans-culottes" like the owners of small hotels and butcher shops. First of all, they are

The low-class husband who gloats when his employer loses money is followed by the junk dealer, the second-rate dealer, the little cook who sells roasted meat and lentils under a parasol in the cemetery of the innocent, and the domestic servant who thinks he can now give orders to his master.

However, the most common people in this mud are from the "foam and mud" class. They include villains in various trades, bohemian lifestyles, slovenly laborers and thieves wandering among the crowd. Most of these people are in Salbetril.

He spent time in a detention center, lived a disorderly life after being released, and then made Bistel Hospital his final destination.

"Come from Salbeteril, go to the Bistel Hospital" is the motto of these people in life. Their lives are without restraint and regularity. No matter they have 50 livres or only 5, they will always have nothing.

There was no money left and all was spent. It was this group of people who captured the Bastille and launched the August Incident.

No one will lend them money. They have no feelings for their mothers-in-law, and they often leave their children at home and go to the Tuileries Palace or the Jacobin Club alone to participate in activities. In their view, they are participating in political activities.

, it is more comfortable to get paid by applauding people in parliament.

After breaking up with his first love, Eugénie, "Christine" lived in poverty in Paris for a while, and then hung out with these people.

On September 2, 1792, in Chalons-sur-Marne, the eighty-year-old Father Chanlaire had just completed his routine daily Bible class in Mail.

He rushed home with his prayer book under his arm. On the way he met some Paris volunteers; the latter felt that he looked too pious and might be dissatisfied with the revolution in his heart, so they asked him to shout loudly: "Long live liberty!". The old priest was hard of hearing.

He didn't hear, so he didn't respond. They grabbed his ears; because he was too old and couldn't walk as fast as they did, his ears were torn during the tug. These people were very excited when they saw blood, so they simply

He cut off the priest's ears and nose with a knife and took him to the door of the city hall. The notary who was in charge of patrolling the city hall at that time was frightened and ran away as soon as he saw such a horrific scene.

Several other National Guard soldiers on duty immediately closed the iron gate of the city hall. So these Paris volunteers pushed the poor priest toward the regional government and provincial government in order to "shock the nobles."

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On the way, they kept beating the old man. The old man couldn't stand the abuse and finally fell to the ground. So they immediately cut off his head, cut the remaining body into eight pieces, and used the priest's head with

Spears were raised and paraded in the streets.

On August 10, 1791, Bonaparte saw a group of rioters passing by on Xiaoying Street. They also had a spear in their hands with a human head on it.

Those people saw that Bonaparte might be a gentleman, so they asked him to shout "Long live the nation". Bonaparte was young, so he heard it, so he immediately shouted "Long live the nation", and those people let him go.

The scene was not like that during the witch hunt. At the Witch Trial Court in Salem, the judge asked Bishop, "You don't know what a witch is, so how do you know you are not a witch?" At that time, it was still a word game, although the answer

Bishop will die if he doesn't come up, but it's still a civilized state.

Order is fragile. The universe is full of disorder. It is not easy to find order in chaos and disorder. Man created God and threw to it all the problems that he cannot solve. People have to understand it.

It is also a process of exploration, just like every time you take a little wealth from a safe, if you know too much, you will be crushed to death by the gold mountain.

Maybe people can't tell a witch who is deliberately disguised, but they can tell a devout old priest. Father Chaneler is an example, isn't he?

The feeling of being recognized from the crowd at a glance is not always wonderful. For example, Louis XVI escaped in disguise. Some people thought they were disguised, but they didn't know how outstanding they were.

Severus was too tall to disguise himself as a malnourished commoner. Although he could use disguise to change his appearance or drink Polyjuice Potion, he could also choose to disguise himself as a noble or an American.

And because he has a "queen's accent" that is suitable for reading Shakespeare's sonnets, he cannot pretend to be a lower class person. Pretending to be a learned British aristocrat is his best choice.

Scholars are another profession that can flourish in Europe besides artists. They can easily enter the upper class and even be recruited by kings. Napoleon recruited Edward Jenner and took the lead in promoting cowpox in France.

This man not only caused ten thousand people to die, but also allowed ten thousand people to live.

His bath water shouldn't be clear, it should be blood red.

Originally, this kind of person should have a beard all over his face and look extremely majestic or fierce, but he is like an aristocrat of the old times, with his beard cleanly shaved and the most polite and elegant smile.

Devils are charming and they will tempt people to fall. Even angels will fall.

Normal people long to go to heaven. Who would think hell is more suitable for them?

With the real Alejandro, Severus and Lucius returned to the mine party venue next to the Montsuri Reservoir. At this time, the sunny boy in sportswear had already put on a customized suit, but he looked

Feeling depressed.

His sister must not believe that he is like a different person after not seeing him for a few hours. What on earth made him become like this?
Chapter completed!