Chapter 2051 Drink of Victory (1)

During the Thirty Years' War, something like this happened to Gustavus II of Sweden.

At the beginning of the war, the Elector of Saxony, Johann Georg I, supported the Habsburg family and the Catholic Church, but his own princely state was almost unaffected by the war. However, after Sweden participated in the exhibition, he allied with Sweden and supported Protestantism, so the war started.

Burned to Saxony.

At that time, the number of people killed by the enemy was not as good as those who died of illness. Even if the corpses were buried, the decomposed corpses would pollute the groundwater, thus polluting the well water.

A typical European medieval village often had a public well. You can imagine what would happen to people in the village if they drank the water from this well.

Brewing beer attaches great importance to the water source. Any impurity will bring obvious and easily detectable odor to the beer. And very clean vessels are used when brewing, so compared to raw water, beer is harmless

drinks.

Strategists of that era would plan the amount of beer reserves when deploying for war. When soldiers arrived in an area, they would only let their horses drink water, and they would go to local breweries and warehouses to drink beer to quench their thirst. If there was no beer, they would go to farms and

They searched the building until the beer was gone before they went to drink water.

Among the many misfortunes that war brings, if it is just taking away property, that would be considered a good thing, especially when the streets are filled with drunken soldiers.

However, when Gustav's Swedish army crossed Crostie in Saxony, the local residents faced a surprising force. The Nordics were generally tall and majestic. The key was that they obeyed discipline and did not rob or seize.

Pleading for food from the residents was paid with jingling gold coins.

There were still unharvested grains in the local fields, which was the hope of the local residents to survive the winter. When the Catholic Allies retreated, they took away all the grains, including the grains that had just been harvested and had not yet been threshed. In fact, they could have burned those grains.

Ripe ears of wheat, but if they do this, all the farmers will starve to death. In order not to starve to death, they have no choice but to flee their homes. This is the scorched earth warfare method.

Gustav's army did not harvest the grain left in the fields themselves. Instead, they spent money to buy the grain and hired farmers and grain trucks.

Unless the farmers agree, who knows if these Swedes will suddenly turn their backs.

Even though they agreed, they were frightened. One morning, a team transporting grain on a country road encountered a lone knight. They were extremely nervous because the knight spotted them and walked towards them.

People in a peaceful state will be very surprised. In old photos, you will see a heavily armed guard guarding thousands of prisoners.

Even though the grain transport team was at the entrance of their farm and the knight was just one person, the people in the grain transport team were still afraid that the knight would kill them. When the red-faced knight reined in the horse with white smoke coming from its nostrils and stopped in front of these people,

The farmers were also looking at him up and down. He was a nobleman, wearing court clothes, and the horses were of noble breed.

The young knight opened the question by asking "Does beer usually be brewed in this house?"

"Yes." The farmer did not dare to lie and replied repeatedly.

"Are you the owner of the house?"

"Yes." The farmer agreed again in a low voice.

"Do you have any beer now?"

The farmer felt that his heart was about to jump out of his throat. Saying no now would only make things worse, so he carefully answered, "Only a small amount. It is the beer I reserved to celebrate the harvest."

"Great! The King of Sweden will be here soon. Please give us some thirsty drinks. We have drank everything along the way. Now I ask you in the name of the King to use the best beer jug ​​to fill it.

Fill it with craft beer and place it on the side of the country road to pay tribute to the noble monarch."

After saying that, the knight turned and left. The farmer filled a jug of beer and placed it on the roadside as he said, just asking them to leave as soon as possible.

It didn't take long for the king's army to arrive. The dusty infantry was followed by half a team of dragoons, and then came the cavalry team holding blue and yellow flags. None of them touched the flagon.

When Gustav passed by, he reined in his horse, bent down, picked up the jug from the ground, and drank the beer in one gulp.

"It tastes good!" Gustave drank the beer and wiped his beard. "It's so comfortable. Who brewed this wine?"

The peasant who was hiding was brought to the king, and Gustav returned the flagon to him.

"God will definitely bless you, please accept this." After saying this, Gustav took off the sapphire ring on his hand, threw it into the empty wine bottle, made a clanging sound, and then led the army to

Gone to dust.

The farmer heard the sound of the cannon at noon, and in the afternoon news of victory came. It was Gustav's Swedish army that won. The source of the clear water used by the farmer to make wine was the well, so it was named "Swedish Spring".

The wine they make is also famous.

The farmer became the owner of a winery, and the trademark for his wine was a ring, which was said to be an "authentic replica" of the ring given by Gustav.

Georgiana turned her attention from the fire opal ring to the banquet venue that was already taking shape. She took money from the owners of the opera house, but the reason she gave was to prevent the Grassini incident from happening again and allowed her to perform on stage.

There are not many actresses who can sing. This is under the control of Saint-Méry, and Georgiana will not take care of it. Anyway, if this dinner party is on the front page of The Times and the French Gazette, the cost paid by the bosses will be recovered. Who is that?

If you are rich enough to use the front page of a newspaper to advertise an opera house? Unless there is an accident like the falling chandelier of the Paris Opera House.

There was already a telegraph system at this time, although it was very crude. The British applied the telegraph system to horse racing and sent news from the racecourse to London. Now this telegraph system is fully utilized by these people. At first, Saint-Méry looked for circuses everywhere.

Later, various people came to Saint-Méry with their letters of introduction. It was also like this that Georgiana realized how many "sideshows" people could watch in the 19th century, such as hypnotism, animal magnetism, magic lamps, and escape shows.

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Georgiana originally planned to open a horse racing betting game on the beach, but the "program" was canceled because Napoleoni was only allowed to play "pure games" and was not allowed to gamble.

Napoleon was most often ridiculed by the Third Consul not only for his accent, but also for his age. Most "old guys" thought he was a "boy."

William Pitt Jr. encountered a similar situation before. After all, he was only 24 years old when he became Prime Minister.

Many young people are like this when they first come into contact with society. Employers want them to be skilled workers right out of school.

In fact, Georgiana learned something from Wedgwood. He hired the Duke's daughter as a designer, even though the appliances she designed were almost in the shape of chubby children or angels.

The key is connections. Wedgwood wants to sell his products to the upper class, and the porcelain of the upper class has been "shared" by many manufacturers. If he wants to gain market, he must find another way. The Duke's daughter will at least introduce herself to her friends.

Designed products, or just give them a few, which can expand your influence little by little.

You know a lot of people and broaden the boss's channels. The boss thinks this is okay and he will hire you even if you have no sales experience.

Don't think that you are fighting alone. It is impossible for one person to fight against the whole world.

If women want to gain a greater advantage than men, it is lower wages. This is the case in the textile industry. Male weavers are not competitive at all because their wages are higher than those of female and child workers.

The so-called vicious competition is like this. Even if you may not necessarily get more benefits, it is enough to drive the other party out of the competition.

Under this premise, women do not need to demand equal pay for equal work with men. As for what happens when men lose their jobs? Men with families and children will have some scruples and will not be as generous as those who do not have a family. This is why the establishment of

Family was the primary goal of every country in ancient times.

Even real estate and the American Dream are so popular because people need to start a family. People no longer have the need to start a family. Do they still need to buy such a big house? He is not afraid of crying in such a big house. He is the only one.

echo?

The first industrial revolution allowed the British to achieve brilliant achievements, but the British failed to catch up with the second industrial revolution. The thinking of the old industrialists cannot keep up with the new era, and young people have the thinking and acceptance of young people.

Strength and adaptability. Unfortunately, there was no Moonlight Society in England at that time, and British education also lagged behind Germany.

The universal education system had already been implemented in the era of Frederick the Great, and in Prussia it became compulsory education for all.

For Georgiana, eliminating ignorance is more important than studying and making a fortune. At the very least, she must avoid the kind of panic in Italy where someone used the weeping Madonna statue to create panic.

This greatly shook the morale of the military and the people. Fortunately, there were French academicians at the time who cracked their tactics, otherwise the consequences would have been disastrous.

She wanted to write a report on issues of military discipline and popular science education, which should include the story of Gustav. Scholars and soldiers used to go to Egypt together. Although there were differences at the beginning, they later became happy to cooperate.

These things were supposed to be done by French women. Why would she, a British woman, do that? What benefit would it bring to the British if France became a strong military?

Oh, she was so angry.

She stamped her feet fiercely on the soft grass.

"Who messed with you again?"

She turned back and stared at the person who spoke.

"Why are you here?" she asked Napoleon's aide-de-camp Polifonta.

"There is someone, please make arrangements." He handed her a fragrant letter, "Miss Rokul is going to perform on the night of the banquet."

"What does she do?"

"In the future, she will replace Grassini and sing French operas in Italy." Polifonta replied, "You met last time in Lyon."

She recalled such a person.

"She was in Merope with Talma," Polifonta said.

"Isn't she in Italy? Why is she here?"

"Are you well-informed?" Polyfonta shrugged irresponsibly, and then planned to turn around and leave.

"Wait a minute, who gave this note?"

"You can tell by looking at the handwriting," Polifonta said and left, as if he was very busy.

Georgiana opened the note and soon discovered the iconic "n" in Napoleon's signature. However, when she opened the note more, she found that the content inside was completely different from what Polifonta had just said.

She glanced at Polyfonta's hurried away figure and suddenly became even more angry.

She burned the paper to ashes with a flame, so that even if Polyfonta peeked at the contents, there would be no evidence.
Chapter completed!