Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1249 The Gleaner (middle)

  In the twenty-four solar terms in China, there is a awn seed solar term. This season is the mature season of winter wheat and the season of planting in summer.

However, there is no such solar term in France. The French usually sow in October of the previous year and harvest in July and August of the following year. They only ripen once a year. If the harvest fails this year, the whole country will fall into a shortage of food before the next harvest. Dilemma.

The wheat ears in the fields are not very full. Those who grow food know best that there will be no good harvest this year. There is a village near the monastery where Pomona lives. It is still rich and the residents have not changed much, but the road has already You can see people driving a carriage, taking their wives and children away from their hometowns and fleeing famine.

  The direction they are going is Paris. If there is a famine or war, the first thing ordinary people think of is to go to the capital. The king can leave other cities alone, and he cannot abandon the capital. And there are more job opportunities in Paris, as well as city defenses and strong walls. It is much safer than the countryside where bandits may be rampant at any time.

I heard from the "women knitting wool" gathered at the door of each house that their relatives working in Paris earn less than 2 francs less than 3 francs a month. The advantage is that the work is easier and you don't have to look like farming. the weather.

1 franc can be exchanged for 20 sou, 2 francs is 40 sou, if a pound of bread 7 sou, 40 sou can buy more than 5 pounds of bread, not enough for an adult to eat a month, this does not include other things such as rent and water It’s hard to survive on your own, let alone support your family.

  If the plague recurs in population gathering, it means disaster. Big cities are not necessarily better than the countryside, but those country folks also have their own sufferings, and they will not listen to them.

  This meant that Napoleon needed to store more than 1 million food in Paris. As for how much he needed to prepare, he needed to know after statistics.

   Even if the grain was collected, it could not be placed in the open air. It needed special storage. Fortunately, he listened to Pomona’s “prophecy” and established a bread guild and built many storage barns. But after doing this, some small bakeries went bankrupt.

Small bakery shops are inherently profitable. They are definitely not as good as those big bakery shops. The Matthew Effect mentioned that "the stronger the stronger, the weaker the weaker." The small bakery is just for subsistence and cannot make a fortune at all. It has decreased, but there are more and more people in the city, and everything is developing in the worst direction.

  Of course, this is not as cool as Hengdao Immediately. The problem is that the general should not only consider the formation of troops, but also the issue of supplies.

  Originally, Joseph was the best person to be responsible for negotiating with the church, but he seemed to be busy with other things, such as discussing his brother’s inheritance rights with outsiders. It can be said that Lucien returned home from Portugal at the right time.

  If there are bandits, just relying on the nuns in the monastery and a few peasants' grass rakes are not the opponents of those vicious gangsters.

  At this time, men who are troublesome have become important again.

Pomona never thought about writing to Severus. If Napoleon is the kind of person who can't rule out everything and distinguishes love from the world, Severus is the kind of person who can concentrate on and separate love from the world. A person who knows everything clearly.

  He concentrated on his work until he was living with Wormtail, a traitor who indirectly killed his beloved woman, and he never thought about killing him. Although Pomona didn't know what Severus had done and needed Napoleon to ask her to warn "that man" not to make trouble, Pomona estimated that Severus would ignore her at all.

  Even he will have a misunderstanding, thinking that Pomona is partial.

  Love is not a game, although it can also produce the same happy feeling as a game.

   People who shouldn’t provoke the hair will have to bear the consequences themselves. The school motto of “Do not disturb the sleeping dragon” originated from a few Muggle children, who provoke a sleeping dragon because of greed of novelty. Napoleon is like those Muggle kids, doesn't he have so many secret police and scavenger mercenaries? As long as they have the strength to catch that "evil dragon".

  She is just a woman, politics and war have nothing to do with her, and solve her own problems.

  There are still a few cows in the monastery. After she came to this place, she learned a new craft-milking milk. When she was carrying the milk bucket and returning to the monastery kitchen, the fool's guard came again.

  The clothes of the Guards were so conspicuous, she didn't want to be targeted by someone who wanted to.

   This time Pomona didn’t let him stand outside, led him into the kitchen, gave him a small stool to rest, and poured him a glass of water.

  She took the letter she had just received, and walked to the brightly lit window sill to read it.

  I’m so tired these days. It seems that I’m really old as Jenner said. All my beauty, intelligence and feelings will be gone. Only the fight will not stop. I have done a lot of wrong things in my life, some will not be ashamed of it, only the love for you makes me feel embarrassed.

  I already wrote a divorce statement when I was in Egypt. I didn’t send it out because I didn’t want to be a great person, so I pushed a woman who used to be great to me.

  I talked to Otense, I think you understand me, I will wait for her to remarry after she dies. I don’t want her to be unhappy.

  But I think even if I become a widower, you will not marry me. I'm fighting a futile battle. Not only did I discredit myself, but also you and my wife were met with gossip.

   is really funny.

  This time Napoleon didn't even write his signature, let alone ask her to reply.

   But thinking of the current situation in Paris, if he can't handle it, who can maintain the order of such a big city.

  She found paper and pen to keep accounts, and started writing letters by the kitchen window.

  You should talk to Lucien more, and he should not think that his future will be ruined by marrying a disreputable woman. It is very difficult for a woman to live with a child in such an era. Sometimes she needs to give up something. Too much attention to other people's evaluation and sight can easily make you fall into vanity.

Machiavelli once said that a monarch should be a patient listener of the truth, but he should not listen to everyone. He should keep a clear head. Each of his advisers has their own interests. If he himself does not know how to unify them, or how to correct and see through them, it is also not advisable.

  Do what you think is right. How is the design of the Paris water supply system you plan to repair now? Many people are gathering towards Paris, and they will contribute their strength to the completion of this project. I know some people, they have dignity and shame, they will not accept other people's relief, the work-for-relief approach may be more acceptable to them.

  Georgiana.

  After drying the letter, she folded it and put it in the envelope, but was not in a hurry to give it to the soldier.

  She gave him some bread and cheese to prevent him from going on the road hungry.

  While he was busy eating, Pomona picked a wheat ear from the field that was not full and put it in the envelope.

  Although autumn has not yet arrived, the signs of a famine in 1801 have already come.

  He should not be like Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, knowing nothing about the situation outside the palace, because Napoleon is not a hereditary monarch, not a bird in a golden cage, he is a lion in the wilderness.

  (End of this chapter)