Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2083 Trembling Music Score (1)

  When the musical prodigy Mozart was six or seven years old, he was already on a tour around Europe under the leadership of his father.

His father's wish was that he would become a violinist in order to find a position as a musician in the royal or archbishop's court orchestra, but Mozart showed an amazing talent in composition, writing in one breath at the age of 19 5 violin concertos.

Even world-renowned composers have instruments to get started with, and Georgiana just remembered that Paganini, who played "Devil's Trill", is still "alive", and if she wants, she can ask him to be her own Played live, provided he has not sold his soul to the devil.

She remembered that Severus "handled" the violin that had trapped six souls, and threw it into the deepest part of the "Well of Hell" in the Alps, where she had intended to send it to Hogwarts , that thing is too dangerous.

   She forgot to investigate who the trapped soul belonged to.

   When Marie Antoinette was 7 years old, it is said that she met 6 year old Mozart at the ball, and the Austrian court at that time should belong to Queen Maria Theresa.

   These things were originally so far away from her, she never thought that there would be such a day, someone would equate the banquet she held with the palace banquet.

  The advantage of having a female officer is that if Georgiana wants to listen to music, she can tell her, and then she will call the musicians to play for her.

  The piano was heavy and not available in the humble farmhouse, but the violin could be carried around, so Georgiana let the young musician play Mozart's solo violin, listening and reading.

   It is not impossible for Napoleon to pass the Dover Strait, but she must meet the conditions that the British told her at the banquet. She can only wait until he thinks about it.

   She estimated that he was now in a meeting with the generals. If he had an accident, how would the navy land in England or Ireland, the most important thing was who heir would be when he died.

   Kafka "once" wrote that the heart is a house with two bedrooms, one for pain and one for joy, and one cannot laugh too loudly, or it will wake up the pain in the next room.

  According to John Ray's book, the human heart grows in the center of the diaphragm, which is different from quadrupeds because we walk upright.

Mr. Stanley fished very little because he didn't use live earthworms. He knew that fish preferred a wiggling bait, but the sight of live earthworms struggling on the hook was so unbearable that he could not bear it. Any fish caught with this bait will be disgusting.

His father had a similar problem, but he was afraid of the screams of the lambs. When he was a child, he lived on a farm and later moved to the city with his parents, although the place was very noisy. Fortunately, The only thing is that he no longer has to listen to the screams of the lambs.

   It wasn't that he was kind enough not to kill, but a strange stress response that Mr. Stanley felt was hereditary.

According to the observations of the British envoys, they found that the Manchu nobles had many mixed blood, straight noses and brown hair, more like Greeks, and some of them had blue eyes, so they felt that the "Tatars" might be related to The Sogdians are related by blood.

  The Sogdians were originally an important ethnic group on the ancient Silk Road, but gradually disappeared with the weakening of the land Silk Road.

   They had indeed been active in the north of the Great Wall. An Lushan who started the An-Shi Rebellion was a Sogdian.

There was a "prince", or nobleman like Belle, whom Macartney tried to exchange while he was living in the Yuanmingyuan, with about half a pound of tea, a silk bag, and a few knickknacks, in exchange for Macartney's gold pocket watch.

If it was just an ordinary gold watch, Macartney might meet his request, but this watch has a special meaning to Macartney, so he did not agree, let alone as the servant of the prince who dressed him said. Kneeling on the ground like that, thanking this grace.

The embassy was on the Hindustan, which was responsible for delivering gifts to the emperor, so the court ordered it to be free from customs duties in the various ports, and Mr. Browne did not know this, or was it for Hindustan and other ships paid the duties, one of which was 30,000 ounces of silver. According to the imperial edict, the tax collector should return the money, but he only gave Mr. Brown 14,000, equivalent to only 11,000 ounces, claiming that this is the amount of royal duties.

   This matter can actually be solved by "saying hello" to the prince, but all the actions of the envoys are being monitored, not to mention that Macartney does not speak Mandarin and needs an interpreter, so this matter is not mentioned.

   One of them must be mentioned, that is, Heshen and Zhongtang. It is said that he was once responsible for the security of the palace like one of the people who monitored the envoys. There were two large mechanical clocks on the list of gifts carried by the envoys from the Netherlands last time. They used to be in the collection of the Zhenqi Museum. They were slightly damaged on the way from Guangzhou to BJ, so they had to be repaired. It is Heshen.

   So these two very beautiful clocks arrived at He Zhongtang's home and replaced them with two very ordinary clocks. The Dutch felt that he hoped to dedicate these two clocks to the emperor in his own name one day.

There is an idiom called "a thousand miles to send goose feathers, the gift is light and affectionate", the loss of tribute is a very serious sin, but in that idiom story, the tribute swan flew away, but the messenger was not punished, but left a paragraph. good story.

At the party, Mr. Brown could not help but exaggerate about his experience of obtaining the two rolls of "tribute" silk. Among the many types of people in the palace, there was a group called "eunuchs" who were responsible for looking after the emperor's concubines. With many opportunities to slander the "master", the missionaries discovered early on that it was necessary from time to time to give gifts to those who were especially close to the emperor. Sometimes expensive and evil gifts, it happened that the missionaries carried clocks, snuff boxes and other contraptions that were spotted by eunuchs.

Mr. Brown wanted to recover his loss, so he used his pocket watch to give to a "eunuch", and the **** exchanged two rolls of silk with him, but he did not come from the treasury in the palace, but let Mr. Brown Pick it up from Suzhou Weaving.

No one wants this kind of "shroud", and it will take up space to stay there. Mr. Brown will be hard to see after he brings it back to Europe. At the same time, the "eunuch" also hopes that Mr. Brown can transport some mechanical clocks there. Maybe he also wants to learn peace Zhongtang, dedicated to the emperor in his own name.

   Can these two silks sell for 20,000 ounces of silver?

If the new franc contains 4.5 grams of silver, 20,000 ounces of silver can cast 140,000 francs. At the price of 18 sous per pound of bread, 140,000 pounds of francs can buy 150,000 pounds of bread. According to an average consumption of 3.3 grams per person Carrying food is enough for more than 2,000 people a year.

   Unless Georgiana is crazy, she will pay for it, and then wear it out and show it off.

   As for Miss Rocourt wearing it, it is a costume, and other leading actresses can also wear it in the future, and it is an investment of the theater, maybe she will use it when she sings Turandot in the future.

   As for the fine silver fan she was holding, Mr. Brown told another moving story. The bulk products produced by such machines in Birmingham cannot be compared with the handmade orders, especially the monks in the temple. The handicrafts made have a "Zen heart".

   There is also a hollow ball on this fan, she can add spices to it, this small ball is carved from ivory, it can not only rotate in all directions, but also has fine carvings.

Chang'e is the goddess of the moon in the East. Solar eclipses and lunar eclipses were originally very simple celestial phenomena, but when this phenomenon occurred in the land of the Qing Dynasty, the residents would beat gongs and drums to drive away the "dragons" or tengu that eclipsed the sun. go.

  There was also a solar eclipse on January 21, 1795, which happened to be the first day of the first lunar month, the first day of the new year, which was supposed to be a grand celebration.

   In fact, the provinces had already calculated the solar eclipse according to the national calendar, and posted a list to inform the people, but there were not many literate people at that time, so the people did not know what happened.

  The occurrence of a solar eclipse on the first day of the first lunar month is considered a bad omen. The emperor will not go to court for three days. During the whole period, the court will be in mourning. People see officials in mourning and think that the emperor has died. After all, Qianlong was 85 at that time.

  Qianlong is the longest reigning emperor after Kangxi. Because of the solar eclipse, he postponed his birthday to January 22nd.

He had many wives and concubines and gave birth to many children for him, but only 6 sons survived. The son must give his father a gift for his birthday. According to the etiquette, Qianlong also gave his sons a red envelope, but it was the fifteenth turn. When my elder brother was young, he had not seen the red envelope given by Qianlong for a long time.

   There were many people in the courtyard at that time, but no one dared to speak, it was as quiet as a grave.

   After a long time, Qianlong suddenly burst out laughing, "What do you want the money for?" Then he asked the fifteenth brother to retire.

   At that time, the fifteen elder brothers were all in a trance and were helped away by a eunuch. These people looked at him with awe and expectation.

   At first, many people did not understand, but later everyone understood that Qianlong abdicated and became the Supreme Emperor, and the throne passed to the fifteenth elder brother - Emperor Jiaqing.

   Currently the UK and France can trade sugar and silk freely, but after the introduction of beet sugar in Belgium, the demand for sugar in the UK is not so great, she may encounter obstacles.

  The sugar beet factory and demonstration farm are in Rambouillet, and Napoleon has already brought Spanish sheep to Normandy.

  The bankers who were reluctant to lend to the factory owners were very willing to lend to the peasants. The peasants used the land as collateral, and the peasants borrowed the money to buy lambs, which went into the pockets of the lords of Rambouillet.

   Napoleon could take this money as his own or hand it over to the treasury, because the demonstration farm was established during the French Revolution and is a state-owned asset.

  If he takes the lead in harming the public and private, he will definitely be effective.

   In fact, the East India Company also prepared a lot of cuckoo clocks. Even if the commoners cannot afford the kind of clocks used by the royal family, they can still have cuckoo clocks.

  Georgianna glanced at the young man who played the violin. He was very devoted and very good at playing, but with just one word from her, he would change from an artist to a "wandering entertainer".

   So she can't have her own preferences. Queen Catherine loves to drink beer, but she doesn't drink German beer, but deliberately buys British beer, which is also a "demonstration".

   She glanced at the Wheat Watch on her wrist and took out the backwards clock that Cassandra gave her. She didn't need two watches.

  Which to go and which to stay?

   (end of this chapter)