Chapter 2245 Fierce Fire Frenzy (5)

In Brussels, Belgium, there is a bronze statue of a little boy peeing. His name is Yu Lian. There are many legends about Yu Lian. The most famous one is that when the enemy attacked Brussels, they encountered resistance from the local people and the enemy retreated.

The gunpowder fuse was lit in an attempt to reduce the entire city to ashes. A little boy saw this, and in a hurry, he peed on the fuse. The safety of the entire city and its people was guaranteed.

From then on, Yu Lian became a little hero in Brussels, and later became a hero in the whole of Belgium. This bronze statue is also a fountain. It usually sprays water, but on certain festivals, it sprays beer or red wine, and people still compete for it.

Then drink...

It is better to rely on others than to rely on yourself. Since no one can invest in dredging the canal, then only the local residents of Oostende and Bruges raise funds themselves. Each glass of beer is equivalent to donating half a penny to dredge the canal. Of course, you can

I chose not to drink. However, we can see from local paintings that many painters go to pubs to find inspiration, and pubs are also important local social places.

The British also wanted to get involved in Belgium's beer business, but the big brewers in London preferred to sell beer directly to Belgium, rather than go through the unnecessary trouble of shipping the materials for brewing beer to Belgium like France did.

There is an alliance of 11 brewers in London. They almost monopolize the beer market in London and several major cities. There are also some private breweries in the countryside, but most of them are only for local people to drink. They are completely unable to compete with these 11 brewers.

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Financing, expanding production, mechanization, high efficiency, and maximizing profits. However, Belgians treat beer just like they treat chocolate. There is a specialized profession called chocolate artist. This is no longer an industry, but an art, not just about taste.

, even the packaging and molds should be pleasing to the eye.

If you buy British beer, of course the coins will be earned by the British, and the French will deduct a little tariff at the customs, but what do the Belgians get from it?

If you buy your own beer, you can use the taxes to dredge canals and build roads. The price may be more expensive than British beer, and customers can choose by themselves.

Shipping can benefit from this. French farmers have a market for their food and can expand production. The sweets produced after growing sugar beets in Belgium can be shipped to France, and the residue left after the sugar beets are made into sugar can be used as animal feed. This creates a two-way cycle.

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The Treaty of Methuen seemed to benefit Portugal. In fact, in this trade, the Portuguese provided working capital, that is, the silver they obtained from South America. Infrastructure construction was needed to start the project, whether it was repairing factories or roads.

The French have the final say. They will probably designate the way to buy national debt so that the wealthy people who exchanged it at a low price from the Austrians can buy some. This system is probably like this. The fortress newly built by Napoleon is both a place for troops and a customs. Of course, France

People will not use tax money to build a "tax palace" like Dublin, and the construction of a fortress may cause less protest.

The Anglo-Irish Union Act is a monster hovering over Dublin. If it goes ahead, Dublin will be torn to pieces and become a decayed, poor, broken provincial capital, even if Bisford builds a new Customs House.

, it’s just a ruin that is strong on the outside and incapable of doing things on the inside.

Basically, those who can become members of the Irish Parliament will be wealthy people. When they go to London to become members, they will move the wealthy people away. They will give up their existing properties, causing housing and land prices to fall, and then living around their consumption.

People, carriage builders, furniture makers, and grocers will all lose their jobs, and Dublin will become a desert. However, the sugar merchants, printing and dyeing factory owners, and hardware craftsmen who stayed in Ireland will lose their jobs just because of the increase in import taxes after the war in the 1890s.

With the protection it came from, it gained a slight advantage in the Irish market in competition with British goods.

But those who opposed the Union were a ragtag group from the beginning. The first people to launch the initiative to prosecute the Union came from the lawyers, and at least half of the anti-Union manuals came from them. There were also some people who participated in the suppression of the rebellion, and the patriotic Whigs.

Man, during the first few weeks of the Act of Union, there was a lot of shouting going on in Parliament.

The Catholic clergy did a lot of comfort work, and Governor Cornwallis also firmly believed in the neutral role of Catholics in the center. However, the opposition party in the city hall was extremely resolute. However, their protests and the fact that Protestants occupied the main seats in 1792 gave them a boost.

The situation was different. The Emancipation Act of 1793 allowed the city hall and trade unions to accept Catholics, and they adopted a moderate attitude because of the archbishop's relationship. In the end, the Act of Union came into effect on January 1, 1801. And what the Catholics expected was

Expectations for full liberation after union were shattered within a few weeks, as George III clearly opposed this, and Pitt resigned immediately under pressure, followed closely by Cornwallis and the First Minister. But the Archbishop of Troy did not care about the outcome of the matter.

In case of any attack, he remained in Dublin to preside over affairs.

Since the 1870s, churches have been built in Dublin, and the number of wealthy Catholic professionals has also increased. Irish Association volunteers in the city and country have accumulated a strong military force, and a large number of them participated in the American war. They once

Go to the United States to "protect" the local Irish. They believe in the American methods. Anyway, Ireland is now a place where there is no cavalry escort, and you don't feel safe anyway, and the town of Edgeworth has a cavalry escort.

Instead of finding peace, Richard Edgeworth received a fatal warning on his way home from the wedding ceremony.

This was also related to his support for the Anglo-Irish Alliance. He voted in favor. Dublin's maritime defense was very weak. In 1791, it was rumored that the French were going to invade Ireland. Although it was finally confirmed to be a rumor, he felt that after the merger, even if the Royal Navy did not protect it,

It can at least prevent the French from invading.

However, what the British governor did after the merger was to build twenty-six small forts, called "round stone towers". Each fort could hold two cannons, most of which were distributed on the headlands on the border of Balbriggan and Wicklow.

The navy will only show up for supplies.

The practical value of this project is very small. There are many landing points throughout Greater Dublin, so there is a suspicion of abuse of resources. However, this is the first measure for urban defense after the Union. At least it is located on Ireland's natural arterial route to various places.

The place where military, human and material resources are most concentrated.

The British renamed the horse-drawn road with rails as a "mine road", but the real railway was pulled by steam engines and used large sleepers and rails to build it from Mechelen to Brussels.

The road can only be regarded as a mining road. In the Middle Ages, Ghent was a big city no less than Paris, and it was also the prosperous period of Bruges. A canal was dug to connect the two sides, and Ghent has many canals. Naturally,

Occupying the city where the rivers meet, almost the entire Belgian water transportation system has been paralyzed. If the "mine road" from Mechelen to Brussels is added, even Brussels will face a crisis.

Napoleon was an expert at conquering fortresses, but did he know how to build fortifications?

This is beyond the control of a woman. Now she is making clothes for Xiao Lian.

During the Louis XV period, the French occupied Belgium. In order to please the king, the defenders took down the sculpture of William and sent it to Paris. However, Louis XV returned it the same way, reprimanded the general, and even made a set of exquisite clothes.

She gave him clothes to express her apology. From then on, countries all over the world followed suit and sent clothes to Yu Lian to express their friendship.

However, the first person to make clothes for him was not Louis XV, but the Dutch Governor.

She didn't want the original "Girl with a Pearl Earring", how much the Dutch would hate her.

As for what style of clothes to give the little boy, it was really a headache. After returning from the beach, she and Bertin discussed it all afternoon, and finally decided to make him a hunting suit. In fact, the Birmingham boot buckle business was affected by France.

The French Revolution had an impact on the whole of Europe, even if their troops did not set foot on the soil of Britain and Ireland. The army walked on two legs, and their boots wore out quickly. They used shoelaces instead of buckles to save costs.

, which changed the style of men's clothing to a certain extent.

The bronze statue is not a living little boy. The legs are welded to the base. Making shoes for him requires another method. Clothes are an easy solution.

They tried several methods but nothing seemed to work. Just when she was about to give up and change her clothes, she suddenly found a person standing at the door, it was Bonaparte with a smile on his face.

He had been watching her quietly. She didn't know when he came. Bertin put down the small clothes he had made and quietly left the suite with the seamstresses.

As they passed Bonaparte, they saluted with the courtesy of a king, and then closed the door.

She felt that he might have misunderstood something, but she really didn't know what to say at this time.

He walked over silently, took the finished clothes in his hand, and rubbed them gently with his fingers.

"For Delmid?" he said in a particularly gentle voice.

Can she say no now?

"Yes." she said tremblingly.

He turned to look at her.

"Sewing under an oil lamp will damage your eyes. Let's do it during the day tomorrow."

She nodded meekly, and then he took her hand and left the living room.
Chapter completed!