Chapter 2025 Naughty Wind (3)

Tinder boxes began to become popular in the 18th century. One side contains a flint box and an iron block, and the other side contains matches and old linen. The flint and iron block collide and catch fire. The old linen cloth catches fire, the match is ignited, and then candles and other items are lit.

Something needs to be lit, and the lid on the other side of the box is used to extinguish the flames on the old cloth.

This process was quite troublesome, but the matches at that time were sulfur matches, which did not light as easily as the later phosphorus matches.

But the process of making such matches is very simple. Vendors can make them at home. They use a hatchet to split the cheap wood into small strips, then heat a penny of sulfur over the fire into a liquid, and dip the match in it.

used.

However, open flames are very common on the streets of London, whether they are street lamps (you can use paper to start fires from whale oil street lamps), homeless people warming themselves on the roadside, or even someone borrowing a fire while shining their shoes, so

Matches are not necessary.

The people selling matches are usually children, not necessarily little girls, but also little boys. When they grow up, the boys start to do errands. There are people waiting to get off the train at the station and pier.

Boys carry passengers' luggage, and street peddling is also an important job for boys. Six o'clock in the morning is the time when the last mail train leaves the post office. Before then, the newsboys must stay there to exchange newspapers that their employers do not need.

The most convenient thing about living in the capital is the fast news. Many people don’t have the hobby of hoarding newspapers. After reading them, they exchange them with the newsboy. For example, exchanging the finished Times for the Post usually costs a small amount of money. It depends on the exchange.

The newspaperman and the newsboy have the bargaining skills. The newsboy takes the finished newspaper and sends it to the post office early the next morning. These mail trucks usually go to the countryside. It is not uncommon for country people to receive news a day or two late. Among them

The difference is the profit of the newsboy and his employer.

Some boys have no employer, they work for themselves, selling various things at the door of offices, clubs and especially inns. Or they join the shoe shine association, which costs 1 penny to shine a pair of men's shoes and dust trouser legs. Boys must be honest.

Turning over the income, which is about one-third of the total income, the well-behaved boys will move from the least profitable position to the most profitable position, such as Regent Street. Usually the shoe shiner will smoke while reading the newspaper

, anyway, the newsboys and match sellers will never let a customer stand there with empty hands.

"Who wants today's newspaper? News! News, have a copy, sir."

It costs six pence to buy a copy of The Times, 8 pounds a year, and 1 pound 6 shillings to rent it for a year. This is how Stanley described life in London to Georgiana, and it was how he lived when he was a child.

Life in Birmingham was another story. When Wedgwood learned about the auction of the Portland vase, the vase had already been sold. He could only borrow it from the owner of the vase, and the owner agreed.

His next request was to find someone to bring it back from Etruria.

Wedgwood has a close relationship with artists, but the three most "favored" artists are Diana Beauclair, John Flaxman and Hackwood. Among them, Diana Beauclair is the second Duke of Marlborough.

The eldest daughter of Charles James Fox, whose marriage to the chronically unfaithful Lord Bolingbroke ended in a disgraceful divorce, she earned money from her paintings. Charles James Fox sent her words to Wedgwood, who responded to her

Much admired for her talent and connections, her designs featured children, mostly happy and innocent Dionysian boys.

John Flaxman was at the other end of the class. He was born with a spinal deformity. A priest took pity on him and almost adopted him, drawing him into the educated, radical, nonconformist community of Wedgwood.

in the circle.

About the time Wedgwood received his reply, Flaxman had just gotten married, and he hoped to take his new wife on a trip to Rome. The Duke's daughter was also interested in this errand, and Wedgwood was probably there in 1777.

Having lived in Etruria, copying classical styles does not suit current tastes, and she also wants to try other fields besides boys and go to the Renaissance capital. The other Hardwood is not interested in this competition.

Even if he is in good health and is a male, he is most suitable for long-distance travel.

Of course the Duke's daughter can go and play at her own expense, but that's not what she's fighting for.

In the end, Wedgwood funded Flaxman, allowing him to take his wife to Rome for their honeymoon and bring the Portland Vase back to England.

Diana was generous enough to allow him this opportunity.

Flaxman's style is elegant and simple, simple and elegant. It would have been a good idea to travel to Renaissance Italy while studying, but he encountered something along the way. He collected a set of "medieval" chess pieces.

If Harry and Ron had seen it, they would have recognized it as a wizarding chess set, except that the chess pieces were made of ivory. Flaxman was almost obsessed with it. Archeology was already popular in Britain at that time.

Wedgwood also went to inspect Stonehenge himself, and he was also very interested in the set of chess pieces brought back by Flaxman.

Flaxman planned to make a copy, and Wedgwood planned to use ceramics instead of silver and ivory, but even this would cost 5 guineas a set.

Georgiana's love for ivory chess did not escape Leon's observation. He gave her a Dieppe chess set, and after lunch they played chess while basking in the sun.

Western European chess does not have the Chu-He-Han boundary. It would be more interesting if it were Eastern chess. He could imagine that the "Chu-Han boundary" was the strait between Britain and the mainland, but she did not deliberately induce him.

Those generals thought it would be easy for Napoleon to achieve today's success, but it would also be easy for them.

They want to divide France into several parts and govern one by themselves. If Napoleon really agrees to do this, France will be at risk of civil strife and division. These generals are living a very luxurious life in Paris, but now get rid of them

No, because there will be a fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh siege by the Anti-French Alliance in the future.

The Guards were loyal to Napoleon, but many of the Roman Guards participated in the coup, not to mention that Sieyes was still in the Senate and the Jacobins.

Once Napoleon retires, even if the new first consul is elected by the people, he can't subdue these people by writing poems, nor can he be "as weak as a sissy". If Napoleon is Caesar, then his successor must be

Octavian, if you can't do it...

England is also quite "lively" now. As John Adams said, a war can bring unity within the country. The threat of French landing in England has eliminated internal differences. Now that there is peace, internal contradictions have reappeared.

The British airport system originated from the tradition of common law. It can be traced back to the Anglo-Saxon Germanic tribes to the "tything system". Simply put, it is a joint sitting system. The Normans divided every ten households into

A "Tai Xing" and ten "Tai Xing" constitute a "Hundred Households", and several "Hundred Houses" form a county. Within the ten households of a "Tai Xing", all free men aged 12 to 60 years old will be the heads of households.

Ten household heads take turns to take charge, and if one of them makes a mistake, ten households will be implicated.

Household heads and household heads were responsible for patrolling at night, maintaining local security, and guarding against intrusion by strangers and wanderers. Units were often divided into parishes. Later, with the expansion of urbanization, population migration and mobility broke the original ten-household joint defense.

Under the joint guarantee system, some household heads hire people to patrol the night and catch criminals on their behalf.

This system was only implemented in London at first, and later spread to cities like Birmingham with a large immigrant population. Each parish elects a police officer, who does not receive salary for high workload, and actually acts as a vigilante. He serves as a peace officer.

The cost is so high that some people would rather pay a fine than take on the work.

Although night watchmen have a certain income, the head of the household who hires them also knows how to select people, who are often old and weak from the poor. Firstly, they can reduce the burden on the parish, and secondly, they can also spend less money. However, these night watchmen basically cannot catch thieves.

, the quality of law enforcement personnel who actually maintained law and order declined rapidly. In order to improve the quality of law enforcement, the "Police Act" was introduced, which required parishes to establish small cavalry units to patrol chaotic areas and deal with the British Jacobins.

Since there were no professional police at the time, sometimes suppression had to rely on the professional army. For soldiers, becoming a police officer after retirement was also a way out. The question is, didn't Birmingham riot because of this?

France adopts a centralized system, and police salaries are funded by the government, but that little money is enough to put a hole in your teeth. It is common for police to go to casinos to extort money.

Fouche withdrew, leaving his intelligence network to be divided up. Georgiana also paid 600,000 francs to buy some, although she did not do it herself.

She couldn't buy that much. Even if she could afford the millions of francs, would the French allow a British female spy to buy the entire French underground intelligence network?

In fact, if you think about it from another angle, William Pitt's proposal can be understood as her being a spy sent out by him. This is the Prime Minister's plan, so she still has hope of returning to England, and she can even pretend to be an Aberdeen who is not interested in women.

The Count's Wife.

At the same time, Bonaparte could also deceive others. He was using her to make the British neglect him, just like he did in Dijon when he crossed the Alps for the second time, letting a group of beggars and old people dress up as the main force to review

.

The disorder and rampant crime in the city urgently called for reform. Robert Peel Sr. believed in setting up the Factory Act and strengthening children's religious education. Robert Peel Jr. established Scotland Yard and became the first modern police force in England.

But Robert Peel Jr. is still a student at Oxford University, and his father has not yet bought him a parliamentary seat.

The Factory Act is directly related to the core competitiveness of the British textile industry - high quality and low price. After France increased tariffs, British goods lost their price advantage, and they could not be 15% cheaper than French goods as they were after the 1786 agreement was signed.

Already.

Factories in France were closed, workers were unemployed, and food prices were skyrocketing. What the people wanted was not charity, but a solution to the problem. Instead of solving the problem, Louis XVI increased taxes to compensate for the huge military expenditures in the War of Independence. Paper coupons were issued indiscriminately. The Pope could order those

The priests who refused to take the oath of oath to the Constitution said that he could forgive them "later" after the storm had passed.

Then the gunpowder barrel filled with gunpowder was ignited by the match.

In fact, the match could be extinguished, but Marie Antoinette's prestige was lost. She was falsely accused of luxury by the necklace incident and Madame Dubarry's rumors, and was finally given the title of "Deficit Queen".

That necklace was ordered by Louis XV and was intended to be given to Madame Du Barry. And none of the artists raised by Madame Dubary took the same risk to save Theresa as Tallian did to save her.

Georgiana rescued those impoverished engineers from a life of despair. One day she was in trouble, would they save her?

She doesn't know the answer either.

The only thing she can do is try not to be a "Sleeping Beauty" like Madame Du Barry. Why would Madame Tussaud use her face as a model?

What’s even weirder is that Madame Tussaud actually collects the heads chopped off by the guillotine to make death masks...

"It's your turn." Bonaparte reminded her, "What are you thinking about?"

She smiled brightly at him and moved the chess piece.

He looked at the move and sneered, "Knight?"

"I will be the general in three steps." Georgiana said. "How are you going to drive away my knights?"

Bonaparte thought for a moment and moved the castle.

"Why not a bishop?" asked Georgiana.

"You'll find out later." He pretended to be sophisticated and said, "Have you ever played Senet?"

She was in a daze. The last time she played that kind of chess was in the Louvre. The player was Severus. It was also his first time playing that kind of chess.

"Next time, let's make some chess pieces like that and play them." Bonaparte said, "It's very simple. I'll teach you."
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