Chapter 1169 The Elf of Louvre (6)

This was no ordinary hunger, it felt like I had stuffed all the emptiness in the universe into my stomach.

"No, I can't bear it anymore!" said my partner.

Be it God or John Lennon, they are all dead. Anyway, we are going to do evil.

We hold kitchen knives and walk to the bakery

——Haruki Murakami

In 1795, when ordinary French people were still panicking in the shadow of the Reign of Terror, fearing that someone more cruel than Robespierre would come to power, and the National Convention was debating over the French republic and the new constitution,

Napoleon Bonaparte, who was only 26 years old, was wandering the streets of Paris, dejected by his broken love.

According to the description of the Marquise Abrantes, he was too ugly at that time. He was unkempt, his hair was messy, and his face was not powdered properly, which made people look uncomfortable. When he walked into the courtyard of the Ping An Hotel where he lived,

, wearing an old round hat on his head, only showing his eyes and a pair of slouching dog ears, and wearing an old-fashioned long coat. His long, black hands were not wearing gloves, because he often said they were a waste of money. On his feet

His boots were sloppy and unwaxed, his figure was thin and his complexion was sallow, and he looked sickly. No matter how he looked, he didn't look like a big shot.

Paris is known as the city of romance. Although Napoleon was a Corsican, his attitude towards love was the same as that of the French. He was resolute and extremely romantic. This kind of romance does not mean just picking up a bouquet when passing by a flower shop on an ordinary day.

Giving it to your wife or lover when you go home doesn't mean "I'm willing to do anything for you", or it means spending money to make a show.

No one wants to be down and out, wandering the streets like a stray dog, even if the street is in Paris.

Perseverance is sometimes good and sometimes bad, Pomona knows this very well. The saddest thing when a person is down is not having no money, but holding on to a job with no future. Soldiers are not valued in peaceful times.

What's more, compulsory education was not universal in Napoleon's time. Artillery was not only a physical job, but also a technical job that required understanding of mathematics and geometry. It was not until after the French Revolution that free education became popular in France. Even if Napoleon was talented, he still had

People appreciate him, but they also face the problem of insufficient military resources.

It was Napoleon who made France, and France made Napoleon. Rousseau's book listed the benefits of a centralized system. The centralized government established after Napoleon launched a coup in 1799 was in line with the characteristics of unity and efficiency, and he borrowed this concept

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Napoleon used a lot of Rousseau style in his letters, especially in his love letters to Josephine.

On the European Express, although she read Rousseau's "On the Origin of Human Inequality" just for fun, this is the situation that the British Ministry of Magic is encountering now: if there is such a person, he originally wanted to avoid some

If there is trouble, he uses violence to suppress some people, and by doing so, he will inevitably get himself into endless trouble, even more trouble than he wanted to avoid in the first place.

The anti-werewolf law is such a law. Shakespeare once described it in a sonnet: Tender love can restore your strength. Don't be told that your blade is not as fast as your appetite. Appetite is only temporarily satisfied after today's meal.

Tomorrow it will be the same gluttony as before.

Even people who are originally kind and obey the order will turn to evil because of hunger. There are very few people like Remus Lupin who can still not lose themselves in poverty. Voltaire once commented that Parisians only need to

"Comedy, opera and white bread", but bread also played a dark role during the Revolution.

Grain harvest failure is only one aspect. After all, natural disasters are difficult for humans to resist. This is also where agricultural civilization is more advanced than nomadic civilization. With a stable food supply, you don’t have to live for water and grass for food, and you have more time to study other countries.

s things.

Things got worse because the king re-employed a group of Physiocrats scholars who believed that the country's wealth came entirely from the value of land development, and agricultural products were priced very high, leaving many low-income city residents without money to buy bread. In 1775

From late April to May of this year, there were more than 300 riots over bread and grain-plundering disputes in the Paris Basin.

The mob broke into Versailles, then spread to Paris, and eventually spread to the countryside. This was also related to the French people's eating habits. They refused to eat any non-cereal food. Bread accounted for 80% of a working-class family's income. In 1775

One of them is called the Flour War. Due to a series of problems caused by food, social conflicts have become increasingly acute. The seeds of revolution have been planted long before the revolution broke out. Bread was used by the rebels as an ideological weapon to incite the citizens.

The problem of werewolves is more difficult to solve. What they want to eat is human flesh. Grains will always be grown, but human flesh cannot be cut from living people. Severus will only fight when he goes back. "Mr. Fawn" is not actually warlike.

He was tired of dealing with those problems. In a sense, he was like Anthony who was greedy for enjoyment. After arriving in Egypt, he did not want to return to Rome to continue his intrigues with the Senate.

He also doesn't have the loyalty of Bella's group who have lived in Azkaban for more than ten years under the guard of dementors. He can really stay indifferent if he doesn't want to interfere. Anyway, he uses the werewolf to let Si

The purpose of turning over Lytlin and the Death Eaters with the Dark Mark on their arms has been achieved.

Werewolves don't suffer either. The new leader can eradicate dissidents through humans. They made it very clear in the broadcast room that day that without werewolves, the Ministry of Magic would do something like "every bird is gone and the bow is hidden". Severus and the others are

The werewolves will not be eradicated, so people who want to live a peaceful life will never have peace.

France does not have this problem. They do not have anti-werewolf laws. Although wolfsbane potion is expensive, you can always buy it as long as you have money. As long as the werewolves drink the potion, even if they appear in public as werewolves, no one will find it weird.

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Their problems are even more troublesome. The gap between rich and poor is only one aspect. Grindelwald incited a group of ancient pure-blood nobles. After his failure, these ancient pure-blood nobles were replaced by new nobles who defeated them.

.Just like Josephine's first husband, who beheaded the nobles of the old era and was beheaded by the new rich. Gong Saiyi was the descendant of the Leroy family, the ancient French pure-blood family that followed Grindelwald.

His full name is Goncey Charles de Leroy. His name is longer than Albus's and more convoluted. Pomona didn't remember it during the meal. Anyway, his name is

The previous territory was located in Burgundy, with vineyards, castles and wineries, but now for his generation only an apartment on Montgil Street remains.

It is a duplex. There is a small spiral iron staircase in the living room leading upstairs. The walls are covered with books. It seems that this living room also has the function of a study. There is a very luxurious picture next to the window with the best light.

The desk looked out of place in this civilian apartment, and there were papers everywhere on the sofa. Gong Saiyi didn't pay attention to them, as if he didn't intend to clear a place for guests to sit.

He took the broken topaz ball, went to the back of the big desk, and took out an instrument from a gilded wooden box.

It seemed to be used to study optics. It had a prism and a set of interchangeable lenses. After Gongsei calibrated the set of equipment and the topaz ball, he then used fluorescent light to shine on it.

"Come and take a look." Gong Saiyi said. "It might be clearer when the sky gets darker, but I don't think you will wait foolishly, right?"

Pomona and Severus went over to take a look together, and saw a clear pattern on the walnut table. A glass ball had a pair of angel wings growing on it, which looked very much like the Golden Snitch.

"What is this?" Pomona asked.

"Every alchemist has his own symbol. This is Edward Kelly's." Gongsei said, "What you got is the real thing, but I don't know whether it is the one Kelly dedicated to Rudolf II."

Clear."

"What do you want?" Severus asked.

"Do you know why Muggles like Egyptian civilization so much?" Gong Saiyi asked.

"I'm waiting for your explanation." Severus said with a smile.

"People during the Renaissance began to revive classical knowledge. Many scholars believed that much of this knowledge came from Egypt. However, the hieroglyphics had been lost by that time, and no one could understand what the words on those manuscripts meant. Among them

Including alchemists, the largest alchemical research center is now located in Egypt, and most believe that it is the 'labyrinth' of Nunn described by Herodotus, which is greater than the pyramids."

"Maze?" Pomona couldn't help but ask.

"The Alchemy Research Center was built on the ruins of ancient Egypt, but Edward Kelly believed that the labyrinth was not the real Labyrinth of Nunn. Maybe, I mean maybe, his research information was hidden in the glass ball, that is,

What he believed to be the location of the Labyrinth of Nuln."

"What's in there?" Severus asked calmly.

"I don't know." Gongsei said, "A British Muggle claimed that he found the maze, but there were only some fragments and ruins left of it. Except for a lake, there was nothing to prove that it was Nunn.

In Egyptian mythology, Nun means the Sea of ​​Chaos. The Egyptians believe that the first waterfall of the White Nile is the source of the Nile. The Sea of ​​Chaos is the place where the sun god Ra was born. Later, Ra created both air and moisture.

A child, but they were separated in the sea of ​​chaos, and the tears left by Ra turned into people."

"So, that place is related to the secret of God's creation of man?" Severus asked slowly.

"I don't know, are you interested?" Gong Saiyi asked tiredly.

"You seem to know a lot about Egypt," Severus said.

"Influenced by my great-grandfather, he liked to go to Egypt for vacation and occasionally bought some Egyptian cultural relics back."

"Do you know hieroglyphics?"

"know a little."

"That's a coincidence." Severus smiled and said, "Are you free tonight? Your Excellency, Count Leroy."
Chapter completed!