Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 2025 Mischievous Wind (3)

Tinder boxes began to become popular in the 18th century. One side has a flint box and an iron block, and the other side contains a match and old linen. The flint and the iron block collide and start a fire. The old linen is on fire, the match is lit, and then candles and others are lit. For things that need to be lit, the lid on the other side of the box is used to extinguish the flames on the old cloth.

  This process is quite troublesome, but the match at the time was a sulfur match, and it couldn’t be as good as a phosphorous match in the future.

But the craftsmanship of making this kind of matches is very simple. The vendors can make them at home. They can use a hatchet to chop the cheap wood into small strips, then heat a penny of sulfur on the fire to make a liquid, and dip the match in it. used.

However, open flames are very common on the streets of London, whether it is a street lamp (you can use paper to draw the fire from a whale oil street lamp), or a homeless man who is grilling a fire on the side of the road, and even someone can borrow a fire when someone shines shoes. So Matches are not a necessity.

  Selling matches are often children, not necessarily little girls, but also little boys. When they grow up, the boys begin to run errands. There are boys waiting to pick up luggage for passengers who disembark at the station and wharf. At the same time, selling on the street is also an important job for boys. Six o'clock in the morning is the time when the last mail van leaves the post office. Before that, the newsboys must be there to exchange newspapers that the employer does not need.

The most convenient thing about living in the capital is the fast news. Many people don’t have the hobby of hoarding newspapers. After reading it, they change it to newsboys. The ability of the newspaperman to bargain with the newspaperboy. The newspaperboy takes the newspaper he reads and sends it to the post office in the early morning of the next day. These mail trucks usually go to the countryside. The price difference is the profit of the newsboy and his employer.

  Some boys do not have employers. They work for themselves and stand in front of offices, clubs, and especially inns, selling a variety of things. Or if they join the shoe shine association, it takes 1 penny to polish a pair of men's shoes and dust the trouser legs. Boys must honestly hand in income, which is about one-third of the total income. Boys who follow the rules will be transferred from the position with the least money. The most profitable location, such as a place like Regent Street. Usually shoe shiners would smoke while reading the newspaper, anyway, newsboys and match-sellers would never let a guest stand there empty-handed.

  "Who wants today's newspaper? News! News, please have a copy, sir."

  It costs six pence to buy a Times newspaper, 8 pounds a year, and 1 pound 6 shillings to rent a year. This is Stanley's description of life in London for Georgianna, as he lived when he was a child.

Life in Birmingham is another matter. When Wedgwood learned about the Portland vase auction, the vase had already been sold. He could only ask the owner of the vase to borrow it, and the owner of the vase agreed. His request, the next step was to find someone to bring it back from Etruscan.

  Wedgwood has a close relationship with artists, but the three most “favored” artists are Diana Boccle, John Flaxman and Hackwood. Among them, Diana Beauclerc is the eldest daughter of the second-generation Duke of Marlborough. She ended up in a disgraceful divorce from the long-term unfaithful Lord Bolingbrook, and she relied on painting to make money. Charles James Fox sent her words to Wedgwood, and Wedgwood praised her talents and connections. Her designs are children-oriented and mostly happy and innocent Bacchus boys.

John Flaxman is at the other end of the class. He has a congenital spinal deformity. A priest sympathizes with him and almost adopts him, pulling him into Wedgwood’s educated, radical, non-state church members. In the circle.

  Probably when Wedgwood got his reply, Flaxman had just got married and he hoped to take his new wife to Rome on a trip. The Duke’s daughter is also very interested in this errand. Wedgwood also stayed in Etruscans in 1777. She copied the classic style and tastes inappropriate, and she also wanted to try something other than boys. Field, go to the capital of the Renaissance. Another Hardwood is not interested in this competition, even if he is healthy and a man, he is best suited for long-distance travel.

  The Duke’s daughter can of course play at her own expense, but this is not what she is arguing for.

  Finally, Wedgwood funded Flaxman, let him take his wife to Rome on his honeymoon, and brought the Portland vase back to England.

  Diana was so great that he had given this opportunity to him.

  Flaxman’s style is elegant, simple, simple and elegant. It would be a good thing to travel to Renaissance Italy while studying, but he encountered an incident in the middle. He collected a set of "medieval" chess pieces.

  If Harry and Ron saw it, they would recognize that it was a set of wizard chess, but that set of chess pieces was made of ivory, and Flaxman was almost obsessed with it. Archaeology was already popular in Britain at that time, and Wedgwood personally visited Stonehenge, and he was also very interested in the set of chess pieces that Flaxman brought back.

  Flaxman intends to copy one set, while Wedgwood intends to use ceramic production instead of silver and ivory, but even this requires a set of 5 guineas.

  Georgina’s love of chess chess did not escape Leon’s observation. He gave her a set of Dieppe chess. After lunch, they played chess while basking in the sun.

  Western European chess does not have the Chu River and Han Jie, if it is Eastern Chess, it is even more interesting. He can imagine that the "Chu River and Han Jie" is a strait between Britain and the mainland, but she did not deliberately induce him.

  Those generals thought it was easy for Napoleon to achieve today's success, but they could also do it easily.

  They want to divide France into several pieces and govern one piece by themselves. If Napoleon really agrees with them to do that, then France is at risk of civil strife and division. These generals are living a very luxurious life in Paris, but it is impossible to get rid of them now, because there will be a fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh siege by the Anti-French Alliance.

  The Guards were loyal to Napoleon, but many of the Roman Guards participated in the coup, not to mention that Siers was still in the Senate, and there were those Jacobins.

  After Napoleon retired, even if it was the new first ruling elected by the people, it was not enough to surrender these people by writing poetry, and it was not possible to "feel as weak as a maiden". If Napoleon is Caesar, then his successor will be Octavian, if not...

  England is also quite "lively" now. Just as John Adams said, a war can unite internally, and the threat of France's landing in Britain eliminates internal differences. Now that there is peace, internal contradictions have reappeared.

The British airport system is derived from the common law tradition. It can be traced back to the Anglo-Saxons in the Germanic tribes to the "tything system" (tything). Simply put, it is a system of even sitting. The Normans will form every ten households. One "Taixing", ten "Taixing" constitute one "hundred households", and several "hundred households" constitute one county. In a "Taixing" ten households, all free men from 12 to 60 years old will be the heads of the household. The heads of the ten households take turns in charge, and one of them makes mistakes and ten households are implicated.

The head of the household and the head of household are responsible for patrolling at night, maintaining local security, and guarding against the intrusion of strangers and wanderers. The unit is often divided by the parish. Later, with the expansion of urbanization, population migration and movement broke the original ten-household joint defense. With the guarantee system, some heads of households hire people to patrol nights and arrest criminals instead of themselves.

  At first, this system was only implemented in London, and then it spread to cities like Birmingham with a large population of foreigners. Each diocese elects a police officer. This job is usually not paid, and it actually acts as a volunteer police officer. Serving as a sheriff is too expensive, and some people would rather pay a fine than take on the job.

Although night watchers have a certain income, the head of the household who hires them also knows that they are often the old and weak among the poor. One can reduce the burden on the parish, and second, they can spend less money, but these night watchers basically cannot catch thieves. In order to improve the quality of law enforcement, the "Police Act" was created, requiring the diocese to set up small cavalry teams to patrol chaotic areas to deal with the British Jacobins.

  Because there was no professional police at the time, sometimes the suppression had to rely on a professional army. For soldiers, being a policeman after retiring is also a way out. The question is, wasn’t Birmingham rioting because of this?

  France adopts a centralized system. The police are paid by government finances, but that little money is enough to stuff their teeth. It is common for police to go to casinos to blackmail.

  Fuchie retired, and his intelligence network was left and was divided up, and Georgianna also bought some 600,000 francs, although she did not come forward.

  She couldn’t buy that much, even if she could afford the millions of francs, did the French allow a British female spy to buy all of the French underground intelligence network?

In fact, from another perspective, William Pitt’s marriage proposal can be understood as a spy he sent out. This is the prime minister’s strategy, so she still hopes to return to the UK, and she can even be an Aberdeen who is not interested in women. The countess.

At the same time, Bonaparte could also deceive others. He was using her to make the British treat him negligent, just like he did in Dijon during his second crossing of the Alps, making a group of beggars and the old and weak dressed as the main reviewers. .

The disorder and rampant crime in the city eagerly called for reform. Robert Peel the elder believed that the "Factory Act" should be changed to strengthen children’s religious education. Robert Peel Jr. established Scotland Yard and became the first modern policeman in England. But Robert Peel Jr. is still a student at Oxford University, and his father hasn't bought him a seat in parliament.

The factory law is directly related to the core competitiveness of the British textile industry—good quality and low price. After France increased tariffs, British goods lost their price advantage, and they could not be 15% cheaper than French goods after the agreement was signed in 1786. NS.

  French factories are closed, workers are unemployed, and food is soaring. What the people want is not charity, but solving problems. Louis XVI did not solve it. Instead, it increased taxes and compensated for the huge military expenditures of the War of Independence and the abuse of paper vouchers. The Pope could order those priests who refused to take oaths to swear to the Constitution. He could forgive them after the limelight passed "after". of.

  Then the gunpowder keg filled with gunpowder is ignited by the match.

  In fact, the match can be extinguished. Unfortunately, Marie Antoinette’s prestige is gone. She was framed as extravagant by the necklace incident and Dubariff’s man-made rumors. In the end, she was given the title of “deficit queen”.

  The necklace was ordered by Louis XV and was going to be given to Madame Dubari. And the artist raised by Mrs. Dubari did not see anyone risking to save Teresa as much as Talian did.

  Georgiana rescued the desperate lives of those engineers in poverty. One day she is in trouble, will they save her?

  She doesn’t know the answer either.

  The only thing she can do is try not to be a "sleeping beauty" like Madame Dubari. How could Madame Tussaud use her face as a model?

   Even more bizarre is that Madame Tussauds actually collects the heads cut off on the guillotine to make death masks...

   "It's your turn." Bonaparte reminded her, "What do you think?"

  She smiled brightly at him and moved the chess piece.

  He looked at the chess move and sneered "Knight?"

   "I can general in three steps." Georgiana said, "How are you going to drive my knight away?"

   Bonaparte thought for a while and moved the castle.

   "Why don't you use the bishop?" Georgiana asked.

   "You'll find out later." He pretended to be profound and said, "Have you ever played Senet?"

  She was in a daze. The last time she played that kind of chess was in the Louvre. It was Severus who played that kind of chess, and it was the first time he played that kind of chess.

   "Next time, let's make some kind of chess pieces and play." Bonaparte said, "It's very simple, I'll teach you."

  (End of this chapter)