Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2235 Flower War (one hundred and forty-four)

The vast majority of the collections in the library came from the Bruges Public Library. The Austrians took everything they could take away when they evacuated. It was not good to leave empty shelves, so the local officials chose from other places. The place moved some books to refill.

  After a brief visit, Georgiana and Gregoire left the library and took a walk in the promenade with countless plaster statues and sculptures.

  This summer palace once served as the headquarters of the Austrian East India Company, but it closed down after only 10 years of operation, and the works of art considered valuable by the Austrians were removed, leaving only them. During the earlier reign of Charles VI of Austria, because the emperor attached importance to the navy, encouraged sailing activities and overseas business, the Thor Gardens, located southwest of the Palace of Jupiter, used to be the seat of the offices of the Austrian Maritime Department, and they also withdrawn from there. gone.

   In fact, Ostend and Canton had good business for a time, which made Ostend East India Company stock rise and Amsterdam East India Company stock fall. But it is on the same dimension as London, and there is only a strait between the two, so both the British and the Dutch see Ostend as a huge threat.

   There was a proverb at that time: destroythiscockatricewhilstyoung. It means strangling the strange snake while it is young.

Although Bruges in history arose because of the Hanseatic League, Ostend only rose together as a port with military strategic value, but today's Ostend is due to the decline of East India trade and the Hanseatic League. Influence faintly surpassed Bruges.

Ostend is a very good deep-water port. It can usually park a large ship with a draft of 4 meters. If it encounters high tide, it can park a 7-meter-level ship. However, because the Ostend and Bruges canals have not been cleaned all the year round, the draft is too high. The impassability of deep ships also indirectly contributed to the decline of Bruges.

   The French East India Company was dissolved in 1769 and the territories were incorporated into the crown. Napoleon also measured the ancient Suez Canal when he was in Egypt. If it can be completed, it will also be a huge change for the world situation. Even without rebuilding the French East India Company, the Canal Company was enough.

Since it is a canal company, the holy water river in front of the house must be cleaned up. Although there is a lake in Ostend, it is not as high as Hongze Lake. The accumulated lake water cannot wash away the silt, so it can only be Use manual.

This is the approximate news that Gregoire heard. In fact, the Ostend Company still has some properties in Bangladesh, just like this empty summer palace. The summer palace is characterized by refreshing colors, not as bright as the Winter Palace. , which makes the summer palace in winter feel like an ice cellar as a whole, and if everything goes well with Napoleon's vision, it will become very lively in the future.

Gregoire gave Georgiana a small gift, a bird call box, which works similar to a music box, except that when opened, instead of music, it imitates the song of a songbird, and it echoes in the empty corridor. , which makes one feel lovable.

  Bruges's large and small, wide and narrow canals are mostly man-made, such as the Musician's Canal, the Green Canal, and the Baker's Canal. Although the busy scene in the past is not there, the swans can swim on the river.

   But the Holy Water Canal (dijver) was formed "naturally", that is, the canal leading to the natural waterway Holy Water River formed by heavy rain after the legendary Bruges was built.

On the side of the Holy Water Canal is the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Bruges, which also contains works by Michelangelo, but the most attractive thing for Georgiana is the Holy Blood Basilica. According to legend, during the Second Crusade, Count of Flanders Al Henry of Saas brought back a vial of Jesus' blood from the Holy Land and enshrined it in a private chapel next to the earl's private palace.

   There are many similar "sacred objects", such as the Shroud of Turin, and Venice used the skeleton of a saint, which seems to be more credible than a bottle of blood or a shroud from nowhere.

   There is also the Augustine Canal in the city, and he can be said to be the "father of purgatory", precisely because of his oversight of the text of St. Paul, adding two clear points. First, the fire of sin is carried out between the death of the body and the resurrection of the body, which is called "hoctemporisintervallo" in Latin. Second, to define human attitudes that lead either to eternal punishment or to benefit from the fire of sin, the criterion is the attributes of the foundation upon which each person builds his own life, the only foundation of salvation is Christ, if one prefers the pleasures of the flesh Exceeding the salvation will lead to eternal punishment, and if on the contrary, some over-sacrifice these pleasures instead of using them as a foundation in Christ, will be saved by the fire of fiery.

Another is the saying of the "millennium bliss", that is, the doomsday theory that will spread wildly every millennium or the turn of the century. It existed through Judaism around the 2nd century, and it was still used in Greek at that time. This doctrine. It is named after a passage from St. John's Book of Revelation:

I saw again some thrones, and some sat on them, and gave them the power of judgment, and they were the souls of those who were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God; and those who did not worship the beast, nor did they Those who worshiped the image of the beast, and did not receive its seal on their foreheads or on their hands, came alive and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. This is the first resurrection. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were up. Blessed and holy are those who are partakers of the first resurrection. The second death will do nothing for these people; they will be priests of God and Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.

   Opponents of the Millennium Bliss try to exclude this passage from the canon, because there is no relevant content in the ancient Bible, and the souls of people who died before the resurrection will be stored in a place called "Sheol" (sheol). This may originate from the ancient Egyptians, who went to the underworld after death to accept the judgment of Hades, which is known as the heart ceremony. If the heart of the deceased is heavier than a feather, it will be eaten.

  The concept of **** and underworld described by Dante is easy to confuse. The world of the dead is shrouded in endless darkness, while **** is bright, just like the beam of light from the top of the well to the bottom of the well.

  After the catastrophe of Rome, Pope Clement VII fled to Orvieto. In order to ensure the water source, a well was dug in the mountain and named it St. Patrick's Well. Instead of putting down buckets, this well has a spiral staircase, and people can lead a mule down to get water.

Napoleon has never been able to find anyone to pay to dredge the canal, even the Jews who promised to give them land. Georgiana imagined that it would be great if the church was willing to pay this money, but it is impossible to expect the church to pay for it every year. Belgium is a non-sovereign and non-independent region. It is often ceded to sovereign countries such as Austria and France as a subsidiary of treaties. Because it often changes owners, no one can do such things that they are laborious and others enjoy the benefits.

  There is no mountain, people can build a mountain, for example, build a reservoir with the silt that dredges the canal, so that the sand in the river can be washed away through the sluice gate.

   But the question is where does the water come from? Unless there is another heavy rain, the water level in the reservoir can be raised.

  In the story of Noah's Ark, "the end of the world" is due to the great flood. The "ark" is like a box with a lid on it, so that the rainwater will not pour into the cabin like Nick's boat.

They floated at sea for 220 days before the flood began to subside, and it took another 40 days for the top of Mount Ararat to emerge. At this time, Noah released a crow, but it did not find a place to live. Seven days later Noah The dove was released, and this time it brought back an olive branch, and Noah knew that the earth was alive again.

  Georgianna's castle in Calais has not been named yet. Normally, she should take a cute name, such as rose or something, or a white dove, which symbolizes peace.

   But as long as you imagine Lestrange, Malfoy, and the Trial and Imprisonment of the Purifiers are also there, let's not sully the name of the White Dove.

It is not good to call it "Crow Castle" directly. Among the seventy-two pillars of Solomon, there is a devil named Stolas, who often appears in the image of a big crow. , art, and identifying herbs and gemstones.

So the castle had a new name, and she sincerely hoped that Stollsburg wouldn't become like Nurmengard, and she herself wouldn't become Grindelwald, ending up in the same prison where he once held his opponents .

What   Stolas is doing doesn't look like a "demon" by any means, but it does belong to demonology, and Georgiana isn't sure if she should discuss this with Gregova.

   But now, she has a "shadow" to deal with. When Napoleon fell ill, Ledrel became suspicious. She didn't want others to be like him.

  So after parting with Gregova, she took the bird call box and went to the Hall of the Goddess of Victory under the guidance of the attendant.

   (end of this chapter)