Chapter 2815 Red Hunger (Seventeen)

Tyner wrote in "The Old Regime" that "the people are like a man trudging in a pond. The water has reached his mouth. If he encounters a slight depression in the mud or a little wave in the water, he will lose his footing.

Drown, then suffocate.”

The natural succession process of water bodies is roughly like this. As the land rises, there is less and less active water in the pond. Floating plants and submerged plants first occupy the edges of the pond. Their photosynthesis can provide oxygen for fish.

After the aquatic plants die, they will remain silent at the bottom of the pond. The water will become nutrient-rich and algae will begin to grow. Fish and other aquatic organisms in the water will suffocate due to lack of oxygen and sink to the bottom of the water. The depth of the water will become shallower and shallower, forming

Smelly swamp.

At this time, emergent plants appeared, such as water lilies, rushes, reeds, etc., which would grow on the shore and block the silt, forming land.

Some plants, such as waterweeds, absorb large amounts of water, drying up swamps and creating areas where wet wood can grow.

If human interference occurs at this time and water is continued to be pumped, a real land will be formed and wheat and other crops will be grown.

Reclamation is a very hard work, and it may take several generations. It is difficult to say whether the water body in Hogwarts is naturally formed or man-made, because there are ruin-like buildings at the bottom of the Black Lake. If it had been here before

It is a village. Later, due to the dam blocking, the villages upstream of the dam will be submerged. At the same time, the downstream will form a valley due to the reduced water flow.

When life becomes unbearable and they don’t want to fall prey to bandits, farmers will choose to revolt. However, it is difficult for peasant uprisings in Europe to reach the scale of East Asia.

Some farmers were unlucky and met a lord who was excessively demanding, but some farmers were lucky and met a lord who was kind, wise, or managed well.

Public pasture is a place that often causes disputes. In addition, there are issues such as water source ownership, reservations, aqueducts, water distribution, etc., which all need to be presided over by the lord. For example, Ford Swamp, there are many small river-like tributaries interspersed in the swamp.

There is a boat for sailing, but there are monsters in the water, causing the boat to sink easily.

The best way is to switch to a big ship, but the big ship has a deep draft and the small river cannot carry it at all. So some people proposed to simply build a dam to drain the swamp and cultivate crops. Another group of people gave up because the waterway was very profitable.

, maintaining the livelihood of many families.

Land tax has a land tax collection method, and toll tax has a toll tax collection method. Assuming that Hogwarts Castle is indeed the territory of Salazar Slytherin as legend has it, as a lord, he needs to mediate disputes, but in

He left Hogwarts after the school was founded.

If a peasant uprising occurs in a region and the local lords are unable to suppress it, the surrounding lords who have not had an uprising can send troops to suppress it. After the incident, rewards will be given based on merit, and the original lord's land will be rewarded by the king and merged into the territory of other lords, or according to the

Through marriage, you can obtain the inheritance rights of that land.

Louis XIV's system destroyed this ancient structure, and there was only one steward in the territory. Assuming that the young master did not care about these things, the castle in his hometown collapsed and money was needed to repair it. This would result in less money being sent to Versailles. And this collapse

It's not something a lord can resist. The cardinal wants to demolish the lord's stud farm.

So a century after Louis XIV's system was implemented, Brittany was full of abandoned and collapsed castles and land that was once fertile land but later became wasteland. This was not caused by barrenness.

A person has too little and others take away too much. If it is still as written in the Bible, "To everyone who has, give him twice as much, so that he may have excess; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away."

.At this time, people's minds will change. Once this vague thought forms and boils in people's minds, it will be like a reservoir that bursts its banks.

In fact, someone actually dug the dam during the French Revolution. A landowner received the report at 11 o'clock in the middle of the night and immediately rushed to the scene with all his guests and servants. If it had been half an hour later, the flood would have swallowed up the residents in the valley.

The first thing they did when they arrived was to shoot.

There are only 500 militants digging the dikes in total, and there are tens of thousands of residents in the valley. If they have targets to target, why do they wait so late at night for all the villagers to release water after all innocent people have evacuated during the day?

Digging a dam while sleeping at home?

Even if there are not these thugs, there are still homeless people who rob homes. Even if there is no relationship based on renting land, small landholders can choose a lord and establish a relationship with a certain personal nature based on the responsibility of public security guarantee. The surrender will be to the surrendered.

The one who surrenders salutes, and the one who is surrendered guarantees the safety of the one who surrenders.

But all this meant leaving Versailles, where no one would talk about the suffering of the people.

Until one day, those ragged people broke into the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. They used hammers and other tools in their hands to destroy the mirrors, furniture, chandeliers, and everything that could be destroyed in the Hall of Mirrors. The glass was shattered.

The sound was very pleasant, but the once splendid palace was reduced to half ruins. It would have to wait more than a hundred years before it was rebuilt, but by then the mirrors in the Hall of Mirrors were no longer luxury items made with Venetian mirror-making techniques.

But its situation is still better than those castles that were burned in the fire. Irondale's location can be said to be the "key" to Hogwart Valley. On the other side of the blacksmith village, there are the ruins of a castle. Rudy investigated

I ignored it for so many days.

When Barnaby and the three of them took Vera for a walk, they were taken there by Vera. Although the buildings on the ground were almost destroyed, there were still traces of artificial pruning underground. They found a sculpture in the tunnel.

Through the secret passage behind the sculpture, they discovered the "Troll Barracks". The trolls no longer just wore helmets, but also full sets of magic armor, which made them look like tanks.

They slipped back before the trolls discovered it, and reported it to Pomona, who took them to find Felivi.

Feliwei also got some clues from studying the helmet. This helmet was cast with a copying spell, and a new one would be copied every once in a while.

"You mean, when the goblins rebelled, some humans joined the goblins' camp?" Pomona asked.

"I don't know, but I think it's best to keep this matter quiet and continue to investigate it secretly," Felivi said.

"Should we tell Dumbledore?" Professor Carter asked.

"We need more evidence. How is your investigation going?" Felicity asked three sixth-grade students.

"I plan to go there in the spring after the snow melts. The swamp is very dangerous now," Liz said.

"I'll go with you," Carter said.

"Didn't you hear what she said?" Pomona said, looking at Carter.

"I know, anyway, riding on a broomstick." Carter said nonchalantly, "Didn't Quidditch first start on the swamp?"

Pomona was very angry, but said nothing because everyone thought he was right.

In fact, in addition to the ruins of Irondale Castle, there are several castles around Hogwarts. They are all in strategic locations and choke the choke points.

Assuming that Bloody Baron was once the guard of one of the castles, and his lord was Salazar Slytherin, then he was most likely a knight with the title of baron, responsible for guarding this territory.

Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff and Godric Gryffindor are friends of the lord. The lord's knight falls in love with the daughter of the lord's friend. Is there hope for such a love?

"Should we tell Severus?" Pomona asked everyone.

"Oh, he is not responsible for the security outside the castle, he is responsible for the inside." Rudy said.

Pomona looked at him.

Snape would definitely be angry if he didn't do such fun things with him.

"Okay, I get it," Pomona said.

Others looked at her defensively, as if they were worried that she would reveal the secret.

"Do you need me to swear?" Pomona asked everyone.

"No, no need." Carter smiled and said, "We believe you."

Pomona smiled at him, "I believe you too."

"Okay, now I need an invisibility cloak." Rudy rubbed his hands and said, "Where can I get one?"

"Borrow it from Death," Barnaby said suddenly.

The scene was suddenly very quiet, but Liz started laughing, as if he had just told a funny joke.
Chapter completed!