Chapter 2235 Flower dispute (one hundred and forty-four)

The vast majority of the collections in the library came from the Bruges Public Library. When the Austrians evacuated, they took away everything they could take away. It didn't look good to leave the empty bookshelves, so local officials took them from other places.

Some books were moved to the place to replenish the number.

After a brief visit, Georgiana and Grégoire left the library and walked in the corridor decorated with countless plaster statues and sculptures.

This summer palace once served as the headquarters of the Austrian East India Company, but it closed down after only operating for 10 years. The artworks considered valuable by the Austrians were removed, leaving only them. Earlier

During the previous reign of Charles VI of Austria, because the emperor attached great importance to the navy and encouraged navigation activities and overseas business, the Tor Garden located southwest of the Jupiter Palace used to be the location of the Austrian Maritime Department Office, and they were also removed from there.

In fact, business in Oostende and Guangzhou was once very good, which caused the stock price of the East India Company in Oostende to rise and the stock price of the East India Company in Amsterdam to fall. However, it is on the same dimension as London, and there is only one gap between them.

It opened a strait, so both the British and the Dutch regarded Oostende as a huge threat.

There was a proverb at that time: destroy this cockatrice whilst young. It means to strangle this strange snake while it is still young.

Although Bruges historically rose because of the Hanseatic League, and Oostende only rose as a port with military and strategic value, today's Oostende has declined due to the East India trade and the Hanseatic League.

Its influence vaguely exceeds that of Bruges.

Oostende is a very good deep-water port. It can usually berth large ships with a draft of 4 meters. If there is a high tide, it can berth ships with a 7-meter level. However, the Oostende and Bruges canals have not been cleared all year round, so the draft is too high.

Deep ships were unable to pass, which indirectly caused the decline of Bruges.

The French East India Company was disbanded in 1769, and the territory was annexed to the royal family. Napoleon also measured the ancient Suez Canal when he was in Egypt. If it could be built, it would be a huge change in the world situation. Even if France is not rebuilt

The East India Company and the Canal Company were enough.

Since it is a canal company, the holy water river at our doorstep must be cleaned. Although there is a lake in Oostende, it is not as high as Hongze Lake. The accumulated lake water cannot wash away the silt, so we can only

Use manual labor.

This is the general news that Grégoire has heard. In fact, the Oostende Company still has some properties in Bangladesh, such as this empty summer palace. The characteristic of the summer palace is that its colors are refreshing and not as colorful as the winter palace.

, which makes the summer palace in winter feel like an ice cellar. If Napoleon's idea goes well, it will become very lively in the future.

Grégoire gave Georgiana a small gift, a bird song box. It works similarly to a music box, except that when opened it does not emit music, but imitates the calls of songbirds, which echoes in the empty corridor.

, giving people a feeling of endearment.

Most of the large and small, wide and narrow canals in Bruges were built manually, such as the Musician's Canal, the Green Canal, and the Baker's Canal. Although the busy scene in the past is no longer there, swans can still swim on the river.

But the Holy Water Canal (dijver) was formed "naturally", that is, it is said that the canal leading to the Holy Water River, a natural waterway, was formed due to heavy rain after the completion of Bruges.

Next to the Holy Water Canal is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Bruges, which also contains works by Michelangelo, but what attracts Georgiana most is the Basilica of the Holy Blood. According to legend, during the Second Crusade, Count Al of Flanders

Henry of Saas brought back a vial of Jesus' blood from the Holy Land and enshrined it in a private chapel next to the count's private palace.

There are many similar "holy objects", such as the Shroud of Turin, and Venice used the bones of saints, which seems to be more credible than a bottle of blood or a shroud that comes from nowhere.

There is also the Augustine Canal in the city. He can be said to be the "Father of Purgatory" precisely because he annotated St. Paul's text and added two clear ideas. First, the fire of purgatory occurs between physical death and physical resurrection.

It progresses between intervals, which is called "hoctemporis intervallo" in Latin. Secondly, it defines human attitudes, which lead either to eternal punishment or to benefit from the fire of sin. The criterion is the attribute on which each person builds his or her own life.

If Christ, the only foundation of salvation, prefers the pleasures of the flesh to charity, he will fall into eternal damnation; if on the contrary, some excessive sacrifice of these pleasures, instead of substituting them for Christ as the foundation, will pass through the fire of sin.

be saved.

Another one is the theory of "millennium beatitude", which is an apocalyptic theory that goes viral every millennium or at the turn of the century. It existed through Judaism in about the 2nd century, and it was still in Greek at that time. This doctrine

The name mainly relies on a passage from St. John's Revelation:

And I saw thrones, with men sitting on them, and authority was given to them to judge: the souls of those who had been beheaded for bearing witness to Jesus, and for the word of God; and those who had not worshiped the beast, nor had they

Those who worshiped the image of the beast and did not receive his mark on their foreheads or on their hands became alive and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. This was the first resurrection. The rest of the dead did not live.

Until the end of the thousand years. Blessed and holy are those who partake of the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them; they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him.

A thousand years.

Opponents of the Millennium Beatitude theory try to exclude this passage from the canon because there is no relevant content in the ancient Bible. The souls of people who died before resurrection will be stored in a place called "Sheol".

This may originate from the ancient Egyptians, who went to the underworld after death to accept the judgment of Hades, which is the famous heart-weighing ceremony. If the heart of the deceased is heavier than a feather, it will be eaten.

The concepts of hell and Hades described by Dante are easy to confuse. The world of the dead is shrouded in endless darkness, while hell is bright, just like the beam of light that spreads from the mouth of the well to the bottom of the well.

After the Sack of Rome, Pope Clement VII fled to Orvieto. In order to ensure the water supply, he dug a well on the mountain and named it St. Patrick's Well. This well did not lower the bucket but built a spiral.

There are shaped stairs, and people can lead their mules down to get water.

Napoleon could not find anyone to pay for dredging the canal, even the Jews who promised to give them land. Georgiana was so whimsical that it would be great if the church was willing to pay for it, but it was not possible to expect the church to pay for dredging every year.

Belgium is a non-sovereign and non-independent region. It is often ceded to Austria, France and other sovereign countries as a tributary of treaties. Because it often changes its owners, no one can do this kind of thing that is difficult for oneself and benefits for others.

If there is no mountain, people can build a mountain, for example, use the silt from dredging canals to build a reservoir, so that the sand in the river can be washed away through the gate.

But the question is where does the water come from? Unless there is another heavy rain to raise the water level in the reservoir, just like using a basin to collect water, otherwise such a flat place cannot store water.

In the story of Noah's Ark, the "end of the world" is caused by a great flood. The "Ark" is like a box with a lid on it so that rainwater will not pour into the cabin like the boat Nick was on.

They drifted on the sea for 220 days before the flood began to recede, and it took another 40 days before the top of Mount Ararat was revealed. At this time, Noah released a crow, but it did not find a place to rest. Seven days later, Noah

The dove was released, and this time it brought back an olive branch. Only then did Noah know that the earth was full of life again.

Georgiana's castle in Calais has not yet been named. Normally she would have given it something cute, such as a rose or a white dove, which symbolizes peace.

But just imagine Lestrange, Malfoy, and the trial, where the Purifiers are imprisoned, and don't tarnish the name White Dove.

It doesn’t sound right to just call it “Raven Castle”. Among Solomon’s seventy-two pillars, there is a devil named Stolas. He often appears in the form of a big raven. When he appears in human form, he teaches people astronomy.

, art, and identifying herbs and gemstones.

So the castle got a new name, and she sincerely hoped that Strasbourg would not become like Nurmengard, and that she herself would not become Grindelwald and end up in the same prison where he once held his opponents.

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What Storas did did not seem "demonic" in any way, but it did belong to demonology, and Georgiana was not sure whether she should discuss this with Grégoire.

But now, she had a "shadow" to deal with. Napoleon became suspicious when Ludreher became ill, and she didn't want others to be like him.

So after parting with Grégoire, she took the bird's call box and went to the Hall of the Goddess of Victory under the guidance of her attendants.
Chapter completed!