Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2446 "Sheep" and "Wolf" (seven)

  The one who came to deliver the letter was Napoleon's adjutant, the chief surveying engineer Simon Bernard. After delivering the letter, he went to Welford, a suburb north of Brussels, where the railway from Mechelen was built.

Since the 12th century, Wellford has been an important strategic location. The Duke of Brabant and the Duke of Greenbergen have long competed here. The Earl of Flanders also once fought here with Margaery, the daughter of the Duke of Brabant. Special wedding.

At that time, it was during the Hundred Years War between England and France. The Duke's daughter Margaret and Edward III's son had a marriage contract, but because of the Brabant Succession War, the Duke had only three daughters, Joanna, Margaret and Maria, when Joanna succeeded to the dukeship, Margaret's husband, the Count of Flanders, raised troops to occupy the Duchy of Brabant and its capital, Bruel. It was also at this time that Welford built walls and bunkers, surrounded the city, and acquired the sovereignty of Brabant and Mechelen in the name of his wife.

   From the day the city was founded, Villefort was a military fortress, and it also served as a state prison, but it was also located on the banks of the Seine, at the intersection of the Brussels-Scheldt Canal, a city of crafts and commerce. Due to the booming cloth industry and trade, the transportation of the Seine in Welford became increasingly important and became an important inland port, and later Charles V ordered the construction of a canal linking the Scheldt with Brussels. After the opening of the canal Soon several marinas were built in the centre of Brussels.

   In the 14th century, the good duke of Burgundy, Philip, made a plan for the canalization of the Seine, but it was not until Mary of Burgundy was in power that Brussels was allowed to dig a new canal.

Brussels is downstream of Mechelen and Welford, so all boats going to Brussels will be charged a toll when they pass through these two cities. Once the canal linking Brussels and the Scheldt is built, Mechelen and Welford will be No toll tax can be collected.

Mechelen protested directly, while Wilford expressed concern that it would affect the flow of water. It was delayed until Charles V ordered the construction of the canal. In fact, the canal had already been dug to Wilford before the order. How Herron and Wilford protested. Also because of the canal's role in connecting Brussels and Antwerp, it has become a battlefield many times.

  This canal not only plays an economic role, but also has a flood control function. Whether it is a flood overflow of the Seine or the Scheldt, it can play an overflow role. It passes through a valley and can be used as a flood discharge area.

The French moved the lace textile, paint, furniture and other handicraft industries in the city of Velford to Metz, retaining the gunpowder, iron foundry, coke factory, etc. Wellford itself will be a fortress, and there is also the largest prison in the south of the Netherlands. , the Dutch call it "suchthuis", which means punishment. It was once the ducal castle belonging to Joanna of Brabant, later a checkpoint, controlling Brussels and Leuven, and since 1408 a state prison, where people were burned at the stake after inquisition until 1774 Nian was nearly abandoned due to disrepair.

After the rise of Enlightenment thought in the 18th century, people began to have different views on prisons, especially those with light punishment. People preferred re-education to correct rather than torture and corporal punishment. This re-education included forced labor. After all, "lazy" was regarded as a Root of all evil.

  In 1766, according to Maria Theresa's request, it was built as a "model prison" and a "improvement institution" was set up. Bowens said the use of prisoners as weavers is nothing new in Belgium, where many construction sites get cheap labor.

In 1774 Maria Theresa decided to completely remodel the dilapidated prison, so a design competition was held, the new prison took into account the problems of ventilation and separation of male and female prisoners, and then the century-old dilapidated castle was completely demolished , the dismantled material was used as the foundation for the new prison, which took three years to build, and in 1779 about 270 prisoners were placed in it.

However, despite being called the "new" prison, the prison actually felt very gloomy, with poor lighting, limited views, and ventilation problems. The designers and builders were accused of fraud and quickly lost. The post of court architect. During the French Revolution it was used as an Austrian military hospital and a shelter for the homeless, in 1794 it became a French military hospital where petty criminals were released and transferred, and in 1798 it was used again as a prison, that It was overcrowded from the beginning.

   From the spring of 1802, typhoid fever broke out in this prison, and the death toll increased sharply, which the Commission of Inquiry believed was caused by the humid air. The French demanded that prisoners be buried in a centralized manner, not in the cemetery of ordinary citizens.

  Females are not the same as males, and this metaphor may not be appropriate, but if a female baboon in a group is good at socializing, her cubs will have a much higher chance of survival and be happier. As a woman, Georgiana was not supposed to think about these eerie things.

Before Pomona heard that Europe was going to fall into chaos, she was still in a panic and wanted to stop everything from happening. For this reason, Severus also had a conflict with her. He used a very risky method to get her to give up her original plan. Intend.

She regretted telling Edgeworth about letting the Irish build prisons. After the riots of 1798, many Irish were still being held on abandoned ships, but what Edgeworth said next shocked her even more. . Typhoid fever is an infectious disease that, if not well controlled, can cause a wider range of deaths. What's more, the current punishment and discipline is obviously not enough, and it is impossible to continue to detain prisoners in it.

  The Territory Prison has no privacy, but it has ventilation and lighting, so Edgeworth's reaction was not as intense as she had imagined.

  It may be due to different times. Edgeworth believes that prisoners are held in different cells and lack information exchange with each other. They can only see the guards, and the guards can see everyone. In addition to the shutters, they did not know whether the guards were lazy, so they restrained their behavior all the time.

   Two arrested prisoners, the police know that the two are guilty, and if they do not accuse each other if they cannot communicate, both will be acquitted due to uncertain evidence. If one confesses and the other does not, the confessor will be released immediately for meritorious deeds, and the person who fails to confess will be imprisoned for ten years. If both of them expose each other at the same time, both will be sentenced to eight years due to solid evidence.

  People think that the optimal solution will be chosen, that is, neither will confess. John Nash once said that if everyone invited the prettiest girl, then the girl's friends would not want to be the substitutes. In the end, only one person won and everyone else lost. Conversely, if everyone invited the girl's Friends, everyone has a dance partner.

   But "experimental results" prove that there is a gap between reality and imagination.

There is a small island. This happened once. A group of defected British navy came to the island. There was no shortage of food on the island. At first, the rebels could work together to deal with the natives on the island, and wait until the last native was wiped out. They killed each other in order to fight for better land, resources, etc., until there were only two people left. At this time, they swore in the name of God that they would never hurt each other, but one person suffered from asthma and lacked necessary medical treatment. died.

  When passing American merchant ships found the island, the only men left were teaching the children of the island to read, and all the adult men, native and British, were dead.

Georgiana never dreamed that she would one day become the "demon head" who built the state prison. Last night Langhenhofen proposed to use the postal fee to build the road. Now the 200,000 francs given by Bonaparte can be used for other purposes. , such as building a prison or something, but she decided to leave the choice to the people of Brussels or the parliament for discussion.

The staff and funds are all in place. Materials can be imported from abroad or produced by ourselves. Originally, there was a quarry outside Brussels, but after years of mining, it is almost gone. After all, Brussels is a place where wars often occur, and buildings are repaired and destroyed. , destroyed and repaired, so only architects like Henry-Alex Monte used new building materials such as cement and steel.

   The previous fortifications were bastions, an architectural form that has become rare in the 21st century, as most of the city walls have been demolished. It existed in the 19th century, but Napoleon proved that with high mobility, all static defenses were useless.

   But now it was his turn to build fortifications, and he was actually defending himself while other nations began to learn his form of warfare.

   Napoleon said that there is nothing impossible in his dictionary.

   Possibly he did deal with the tax collector of Valenciennes overnight, and gave her the papers, and then he could return to Paris along the avenue. After all, dealing with the Louisiana takeover is more difficult than the Belgian defense, but he may also take advantage of the pressure on Hamburg to disintegrate the Prussian-led North German neutrality alliance.

Due to Prussia's previous twisted and complicated diplomacy, it was difficult for them to establish solid alliances with other countries. The British gave Saxony the technology of the loom, but they controlled the raw materials of the cotton textile industry. This relationship is more binding than any covenant. .

   "So, he really went to Maastricht?" Edgeworth asked.

   "Don't ask me, I don't know." Georgiana shook her head.

   At this moment, the carriage stopped, and they came to the Imperial College of Arts and Sciences. The principal personally led the students to wait at the door.

   "Tell Lupe what we just said," Georgiana said, and then the door was opened, and music played around, and she got out of the carriage, supported by a Brussels MP.

   (end of this chapter)