Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2134 Flower War (forty-two)

   Eighteenth-century missionaries described this distant eastern empire beautifully, how patient and courteous their rulers were, and how simple and kind the commoners were.

   But in the eyes of the rulers of the Qing Empire, braids represent submission, and all those who do not wear braids will be suspected of treason. Pirates also sometimes force civilians to join them. As we all know, no matter which country punishes pirates severely, caught pirates will not only be hanged, but also displayed to the public. It sounded like a foul-smelling wind chime.

The members of the Timothy Society were as careful as the European Freemasons to hide their rebellious ideas, but the pirates were not. They showed no mercy to the soldiers, sailors and civilians who were loyal to the Qing Dynasty. Look for opportunities to station in villages and islands along the coast. They even issued a pass to the villages and towns that paid tribute, and with this document, even if they encountered pirates, they could pass smoothly. This is the opposite of Europe. If there is no so-called license, the cargo of the ship that encounters the privateer belongs to those licensed pirates. With the license, they cannot capture the ship's materials unless the ship Met a real pirate.

   When dealing with rebels, the imperial court absolutely punished them severely, and it was precisely because of this that when Qianlong ordered the extermination of the gangster, the government recklessly used torture.

The censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were extremely angry at the abuse of torture. However, the magistrates acted arbitrarily and had no fear. The magistrates themselves or their masters could even take the opportunity to extort money. The more suspects in the case, the more profitable they would be. He tried his best to fan the flames and arbitrarily arrested innocent people on "unwarranted" charges. In order to avoid jail time, innocent people paid bribes in private is completely helpless.

  The demand of the common people for "good officials" is like the desire of the villagers who have been plagued by evil dragons for knights, so the common people of Guangzhou are very satisfied with a Manchu admiral who does not "fish" them. There is a saying that even says, "I would rather be a dog of peace than a person in a troubled world". They are the practitioners of this principle, and political unrest is in their eyes the same disaster as natural disasters such as floods, and they will be apprehensive if anyone dares to disrupt the peaceful life they enjoy.

   A European should not interfere in their affairs, Nick can stay alone in this cave, not in that camp, and there is a certain freedom because he is European.

   At this point, he began to understand why the admiral turned so pale after receiving that note, as if he had received a glass of poisonous wine from the emperor.

   Just as he was walking around the cave like a trapped beast, he found a case of rum in the depths of the cave, which was actually half empty, as if the last "guest" had drank it.

  Nick rummaged through the box, hoping to find gunpowder or something, but there was nothing in it, save for those few bottles of rum that he had never drunk.

  The wind blowing from the sea will be wetter, it carries a lot of water vapor to form cumulonimbus clouds, while the wind blowing from inland is drier, and sometimes it carries a lot of sand, forming a dust storm.

  Nick remembered the sailboat model his father made when he was young. The model was inside the bottle. It was obviously much larger than the mouth of the bottle. He never knew how to do it when he was a child.

Nick touched his body for a long time, and finally found a small piece of charcoal. He tore off the label of the rum. The white paper on the back was just enough to write on. With this wine bottle and this piece of paper, he could make one. drifting bottle.

  If you are lucky, it will be caught by fishermen along the coast and given to the people in the government, so they can catch these pirates and rescue Nick by the way.

   The key is not the content of the call for help, but how to express the orientation of the island.

  Nick looked at the shadow left by the boulder at the door. He remembered that it was noon when the tall man killed chickens and drank blood, that is, the point where the sun was directly shining, but the bowl left a long shadow. The day before was Mazu's birthday, March 23 of the Chinese calendar. Can he calculate the latitude and longitude of the island based on these conditions?

  Nick looked at the wall of the cave, there was nothing painted on it, so he took a stone and used it as chalk to write formulas on it.

   He prayed that there were no people on this island who knew this, otherwise they would know what he was going to do when they read what he wrote.

   "Robinson didn't count the latitude and longitude." Bonaparte said proudly, "If he knew where he was, he would know how to call for help, and he didn't need to wait 28 years on that desert island."

   "Is this possible?" Georgiana said a little unconvinced. Can the latitude and longitude be calculated from the shadow of a watch and a wooden stick?

   "It won't be very precise, especially that the island is not far from Guangzhou." Bonaparte said enthusiastically, "But he can estimate the approximate range, and the distance traveled by human-powered paddles is limited."

   "Don't forget there are ocean currents," Georgiana reminded dryly.

   "That's why his captors used a oars by hand instead of a sail, because it was a headwind," Bonaparte said. "On the surface the wind is more affected than the current."

  Georgianna turned the book to the cave just now, and she found that there were indeed many murals on the wall behind the immortal officials.

   "It was his imagination." Bonaparte said as if he knew what she was thinking. "It is better to chat with the sages than to watch the scene in the camp."

   She has no confidence in Nick's self-rescue method. An error of 10 meters in the meridian can affect the entire measurement data and must be all over again, not to mention the distance. If he really uses this method to get out of trouble, then she plans to read this book as a novel.

  Nick had been writing and drawing on the wall for a long time. When he felt that his eyes could not see anything, it was already dark.

   I don't know if it was because of fear, or the screams from the camp next door came with the wind, which made it even more creepy in this case.

   At this time, the woman who had brought him food at noon came again, and she placed the basket with the food at a distance from the entrance of the cave as she did during the day, and then walked away.

   "I need a lamp!" Nick said in English to the woman's back, but she walked away quickly as if she didn't hear him.

   "I need a lamp!" Nick repeated in Mandarin, but the woman had disappeared into the night.

  Nick didn't check what he wanted to eat in the evening at all, he opened the bottle of rum, sat on the stone bed and drank, while on the wall opposite him were some seemingly meaningless formulas and numbers.

  If he has family in this country and doesn't go back all day and night, I am afraid some people will be worried and report to the officials.

  It is a pity that he is only one person, and no one will know even if he is missing.

  Humans live in groups because they are afraid of being alone, but are we really not alone in the group?

  Nick stood up again, picked up the "chalk" again and continued to write and draw on the wall, but this time he was not writing a formula.

   He painted a beautiful Guanyin, but she also looked like the Sistine Madonna, maybe he subconsciously wished he could sleep peacefully under her care.

The book doesn't say what Guanyin looks like. Maybe it's his mother, first love, or sister. Of course, it could also be the daughter of the Admiral, the lady who was blinded by cataracts because of Nick and the priest's surgery. And see the light again.

  It is said that chicks have memories and will remember the first creature they see, regardless of whether it is their parent or not, they will regard it as a parent bird, even if the other is the natural enemy of the chick.

   This kind of scene is magical and difficult for humans to explain.

   Who is better than Li Bai's childhood sweethearts and the two little ones without guessing?

   may be like the formula on the wall, it is unsolvable.

   (end of this chapter)