Chapter 2083 Trembling Music Score (1)

When the music prodigy Mozart was six or seven years old, he had already started touring around Europe under the guidance of his father.

His father's wish was for him to become a violinist so that he could find a position as a musician in the royal family or the archbishop's court orchestra. However, Mozart showed amazing talent in composition, and at the age of 19 he wrote "

5 violin concertos.

Even world-famous composers have basic instruments. Georgiana then remembered that Paganini, who played "The Devil's Trill", was still "alive". If she wanted, she could have him found for her.

Play live, provided he has not sold his soul to the devil.

She remembered that Severus "disposed" of the violin that trapped six souls and threw it into the deepest part of the "Well of Hell" in the Alps, where she originally planned to send it to Hogwarts.

, that thing is too dangerous.

She forgot to investigate who the trapped soul belonged to.

When Marie Antoinette was 7 years old, she is said to have met 6-year-old Mozart at a ball. At that time, the Austrian court should belong to Empress Maria Theresa.

These things were so far away from her, and she never imagined that one day, someone would equate the banquet she held with a palace banquet.

The advantage of having a lady-in-waiting is that if Georgiana wants to listen to music, she can give her instructions and she will summon the musicians to play for her.

The piano was bulky and not available in the humble farmhouse, but the violin was portable, so Georgiana let the young musician play Mozart's violin solos while she listened and read.

It was not impossible for Napoleon to pass through the Strait of Dover, but he had to meet the conditions the British told her at the banquet. She could only wait until he thought about it clearly.

She estimated that he was currently in a meeting with the generals. If something happened to him, how would the navy land in England or Ireland? The most important thing was who would be his successor if he died.

Kafka "once" wrote that the heart is a house with two bedrooms, one for pain and one for joy. One cannot laugh too loud, otherwise it will wake up the pain in the next room.

According to John Ray's book, the human heart is in the center of the diaphragm. This is different from quadrupeds because we walk upright.

Mr. Stanley catches very little in sea fishing because he does not use live earthworms. He knows that fish prefer wriggling baits, but the sight of live earthworms struggling on the hooks makes him unbearable, so that

Any fish caught using this bait will feel disgusted.

His father also had a similar problem, but he was afraid of the screams of lambs. When he was a child, he lived on a farm, and later moved to the city with his parents. Although the place where he lived was very noisy, luckily

What's great is that he no longer has to listen to the screams of lambs.

This is not because he is kind enough not to kill, but a strange stress reaction, which Mr. Stanley thinks is hereditary.

According to the observations of the British mission, they found that there were many mixed-race Manchu nobles with straight hooked noses and brown hair, more like Greeks, and some of them had blue eyes. Therefore, they felt that "Tatars" might be related to

The Sogdians are related by blood.

The Sogdians were originally an important ethnic group on the ancient Silk Road, but they gradually disappeared with the decline of the overland Silk Road.

They indeed had activities north of the Great Wall, and An Lushan, who initiated the Anshi Rebellion, was a Sogdian.

There was a "prince", or a nobleman like Baile, who tried to exchange with Macartney while he was living in the Old Summer Palace, using about half a pound of tea, a silk bag, and some knickknacks in exchange for

Macartney's gold pocket watch.

If it was just an ordinary gold watch, Macartney might have satisfied his request, but this watch had special meaning to Macartney, so he did not agree, let alone what the servant of the prince in the dress said.

I knelt on the ground and thanked you for this grace.

The mission was traveling on the Hindustan. This ship was responsible for transporting gifts to the emperor, so the imperial court ordered that the goods it carried at various ports be exempt from customs duties. Mr. Browne did not know this, but he was

The Hindustan and other ships paid the customs duty, one of which was 30,000 ounces of silver. According to the imperial edict, the tax collector should return the money, but he only gave Mr. Brown 14,000, equivalent to only 11,000 ounces, claiming that this

is the royal tariff amount.

This matter could actually be solved by "saying hello" to the prince, but all the actions of the envoy were monitored, not to mention that Macartney did not speak Mandarin and needed an interpreter, so the matter was not mentioned.

One of them must be mentioned, that is He Shen and Zhongtang. It is said that he was once responsible for protecting the safety of the palace like one of those who monitored the envoys. The last time the Dutch envoys carried two large gifts on the list,

The mechanical clocks, which used to be in the collection of the Zhenqi Museum, were slightly damaged while being transported from Guangzhou to BJ, so they had to be repaired. The person responsible for this was He Shen.

So these two very exquisite clocks arrived at He Zhongtang's home and were replaced with two very ordinary clocks. The Dutch thought that he hoped to dedicate these two clocks to the emperor in his own name one day.

There is an idiom that goes, "Sending goose feathers thousands of miles away is a light gift but heavy sentiments." Losing a tribute is a very serious crime. However, in that idiom story, the tribute swan flew away, but the messenger was not punished. Instead, he was left with a

Good story.

At the party, Mr. Brown couldn't help but boast about his experience in obtaining the two rolls of "tribute" silk. Among the many people in the palace, there was a group called "eunuchs". These people were responsible for taking care of the emperor's concubines. They had

There were many opportunities to slander the "master", and missionaries discovered early on that they had to give gifts to these people who were especially close to the emperor. Sometimes they were expensive and evil gifts. It happened that the clocks, snuff boxes and other gadgets carried by the missionaries were stolen.

The eunuch took a fancy to it.

Mr. Brown wanted to recover his loss, so he gave his pocket watch to an "eunuch". The eunuch exchanged two rolls of silk with him, but he did not buy it from the palace warehouse, but asked Mr. Brown to

Get it from Suzhou Weaving.

No one wants this kind of "shroud", and it takes up space if left there. It will be difficult for Mr. Brown to see him again after he brings it back to Europe. At the same time, the "eunuch" also hopes that Mr. Brown can transport some more mechanical clocks there. Maybe he also wants to learn how to

The nave is dedicated to the emperor in his own name.

Could these two pieces of silk be sold for 20,000 ounces of silver?

If the new franc contains 4.5 grams of silver, 20,000 ounces of silver can be minted for 140,000 francs. At the price of 18 sous for a pound of bread, 140,000 pounds of francs can buy 150,000 pounds of bread. Based on the average consumption of a person of 3.3 metric tons.

A load of grain is enough to feed more than 2,000 people for a year.

Unless Georgiana was crazy, she would spend money to buy it and then wear it everywhere to show off.

As for Miss Rocoul wearing it, it is a costume, and other leading actresses can wear it in the future, and it is an investment from the theater. Maybe she will use it when she sings Turandot in the future.

As for the exquisite silver fan she was holding in her hand, Mr. Brown told another touching story. The mass production of large-scale machinery like Birmingham cannot compare with the meticulously crafted handmade items, especially the

The monks in the temple usually have nothing to do, unlike craftsmen who have to complete the tasks assigned by the boss, so the handicrafts made by the monks have a "Zen heart".

There is also a hollow ball on this fan, which she can add spices to. This small ball is carved from ivory and can not only rotate in all directions, but also has fine carvings.

Chang'e is the moon goddess in the East. Solar and lunar eclipses are originally very simple celestial phenomena. However, when this phenomenon occurred in the land of the Qing Dynasty, residents would beat gongs and drums to drive away the eclipsing "dragon" or tengu.

Walk.

A solar eclipse also occurred on January 21, 1795. It happened to be the first day of the first lunar month that year, which was the first day of the New Year. It was originally a festival to be celebrated grandly.

In fact, each province had already calculated the solar eclipse based on the national calendar and posted notices to inform the people. However, there were not many literate people at that time, so the people had no idea what was happening.

A solar eclipse on the first day of the first lunar month was considered a bad omen. The emperor would not go to court for three days, and the court would be in mourning during the entire period. When people saw officials in mourning, they thought the emperor had died. After all, Qianlong was already 85 at that time.

Qianlong was the longest-reigning emperor after Kangxi. Because of the solar eclipse, he postponed his birthday to January 22.

He had many wives and concubines who gave birth to many children for him, but there were only 6 surviving sons. Sons must give gifts to their father on his birthday. According to etiquette, Qianlong also wanted to give his sons a red envelope, but it was his turn to be fifteen.

When I visited my elder brother, I still didn’t see the red envelope given by Qianlong.

There were many people in the courtyard at that time, but no one dared to speak. It was as quiet as a tomb.

After a long time, Qianlong suddenly laughed, "What do you want the money for?" Then he asked the fifteenth elder brother to withdraw.

At that time, everyone in the fifteenth brother was in a trance and was helped away by a eunuch. The eyes of these people looking at him were full of awe and expectation.

Many people didn't understand it at first, but later everyone understood that Qianlong abdicated and became the Supreme Emperor, and the throne was passed to his fifteenth elder brother, Emperor Jiaqing.

Currently, Britain and France can trade freely in sugar and silk, but after Belgium implements beet sugar production, the demand for British sugar will not be that great, and she may encounter obstacles.

The beet sugar factory and demonstration farm were in Rambouillet, and Napoleon had brought Spanish sheep to Normandy.

Bankers who were unwilling to lend money to factory owners were willing to lend money to farmers. The farmers used their land as collateral and the farmers borrowed the money to buy lambs, thus entering the pockets of the Lord Rambouillet.

Napoleon could keep the money for himself or turn it over to the state treasury, because the model farm was established during the French Revolution and was a state-owned asset.

If he takes the lead in harming the public and enriching his own private life, he will definitely be effective.

In fact, the East India Company also prepared a lot of cuckoo clocks. Even if common people could not afford the kind of clocks used by the royal family, they could still have cuckoo clocks.

Georgiana glanced at the young man playing the violin. He was very dedicated and good at playing, but with just one word from her, he would change from an artist to a "tramping entertainer".

So she can't just have her own preferences. Queen Catherine loves to drink beer, but she doesn't drink beer from her hometown in Germany. Instead, she deliberately buys British beer. This is also a "demonstration".

She glanced at the wheat watch on her wrist, and then took out the clock that Cassandra gave her that ran backwards. She didn't need two watches.

Which one goes and which one stays?
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