Chapter 1406 wildlife

After a brief period of warmth, severe cold enveloped Lyon again.

The snow has not yet melted, and although it is not so cold that dripping water turns to ice, it is still cold enough that people would rather stay in a warm room.

This kind of weather is very common in Scotland, not to mention that horse riding is also a good sport, so she did not wear a plain skirt and stay indoors with a fireplace like Mrs. Recamier, but put on men's clothes and dark clothes.

Wearing a gray cloak with gold trim, he rode around on horseback in the wilderness of Lyon with Major General Louis de Narbonne Lara.

The cavalry following them from a distance was a group of Mamluk cavalry. They were originally the Syrian Guards and Mamluk guards captured by Kleber when he besieged the city of Acre. They were captured by May on July 7, 1800.

Nu was reorganized into the "Mamluk Republic" and sent to Marseilles in 1801. A 250-man Mamluk cavalry squadron was commanded by General Rapp. On January 7, 1802, it was reduced to only 150 men.

The Mamluks led by General Rapp were returned to the regular army, and the 100 men laid off were led by Major General Lara to protect Georgiana's safety. In Napoleon's mocking terms, Georgiana was now a centurion.

It is not difficult for her to raise 100 private soldiers. The military salary can be temporarily sponsored by Bonnefort Company. Napoleon's inauguration ceremony is more like a vacation. He is not worried about the situation in Paris at all, as if he is letting the people of Paris get used to his absence.

Always maintain an orderly life.

His inauguration ceremony was also child's play. Thirty commissioners headed by Francesco Melzi Darier nominated Napoleon as the supreme administrator of the Italian Republic to the commissioners present, lest anyone be reckless.

Objection, as soon as they finished speaking, the gavel was knocked down.

At the celebration ceremony that night, he gathered the important people among the committee members at the honorary seat and outlined his grand idea while eating. He wanted to build the ancient Roman aqueduct in Paris. Of course, the cost would still be borne by the Italians and donated.

Paying one-tenth of their income is almost like a tithe.

There is a Wolf Canyon at the foot of Mount Fourvière. It is said that it was named after wolves in the past. It is now a residential area and a small section of the ancient Roman aqueduct remains there.

When the barbarians invaded, Lyon's four ancient Roman aqueducts were destroyed, causing the locals to abandon the old city of Lyon. Later, the Rhône-Saône channel was built, and the old city had a water source, and Lyon began to prosper again.

The city's architecture also changed from Roman style to Florentine style.

The Roman water diversion aqueduct was an important part of Commodus' Romanization of Gaul. The aqueduct not only provided water supply, but also provided water power. The water mill replaced manpower and stored power.

This is not necessarily a good thing. In the Carolingian era, territories usually had water mills. Peasants were not very willing to grind wheat because the lords always took advantage, but the lords could not force them to use the mills, so the peasants still used manpower and energy to grind wheat.

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Napoleon wanted to collect a milling tax. He couldn't collect the flour that farmers ground at home, but he could collect it from water mills. Those shops in the Paris wheat market were his targets.

Human power can grind as much flour as possible, animal power also needs to provide fodder, and livestock must be raised. Georgiana's orchid private seal was confiscated, and Napoleon gave her an alfalfa private seal.

The benefits of artificial pasture are obvious. British enclosures have already emerged. Not only has the yield per mu increased by one-third, but raising sheep has also made wool and mutton profitable. There are currently very few French people who can afford meat.

The leather used to make boots also relies on imports, but the "sacred wheat fields" cannot be turned into pastures at will. The French love speculation as much as the British love adventure, and the French bankers who refuse to go to local branches to open branches.

Different, large and small banks opened by British businessmen were everywhere. The power of the industrial revolution was not only the steam engine, but also these banks that provided loans to factories, which solved the problem of difficulty in financing for entrepreneurs at the beginning of industrialization.

But when one bank fails, several banks related to it will also fail. The textile industry that looks promising today may be replaced by the steel industry tomorrow. When steel looks good, the war starts, and the military industry rises again.

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Not everyone expects peace, especially the military factories that produce cannons, firearms and other munitions. Without war, where would their products be sold?

There are wolves in the mountain forests near Lyon, and their cries can be heard in broad daylight. This may be unimaginable in the 21st century.

There are also scenery here that "future people" cannot see. On the snowy wasteland, you can still see some ruins of ancient Roman aqueducts. Those ruins still look majestic even today. It is conceivable that it was complete at the time, and

How shocking it would be to be able to operate.

There are great differences between southern France and northerners. The south is influenced by Italy, while the north is influenced by Germanic culture. To this day, northerners call uncultivated land "trieux", a Germanic name.

Northern France, like the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, implements a three-year crop rotation system. In the south, the three-year crop rotation system is very rare and almost does not exist at all.

The law in the north was deeply influenced by barbarian law, while the law in the south was Roman law. Even the four jurists who wrote the Civil Code were divided into north and south. Portalis and Marville came from the southern region where written law came from. Preamena

From the common law area north of the Loire River, Tronchet is from the common law area of ​​Paris.

Judicial duels existed in barbarian codes and were rarely mentioned in Roman law.

It was indeed a bit ridiculous to make the duel look like a joke, but neither Rainier nor Destin had any deep hatred, they just couldn't find a way to get off the stage.

As soon as you hear the name Destein, you can tell that it comes from the German-speaking area. He probably came to France from Austria with Kleber.

His superior was dead, and how he would survive in the French officialdom was still a problem. In addition, he was even more anxious after losing the war.

Rainier has the same surname as the famous satirical poet during the reign of Henri III of France. He would obey orders no matter how ridiculous they were. Jacques Menou had experienced the Portuguese riots before. At that time, he was in charge of the Paris guard. Four people participated in the riots.

Ten thousand people, but the National Convention troops in his hands were only 5,000, and the army troops were far away from Paris, so when the rebels negotiated with him, he chose to have the troops withdraw to the barracks.

The more than 10,000 people who also stayed in Egypt could no longer fight a good fight to make a comeback. France took advantage of the loopholes in the peace treaty and "surrendered gracefully". This was an anticlimactic outcome, of course not as good as the Italian one.

When the generals of the French Expeditionary Force entered Bey's house and looked at the pyramids through the light of three hundred Egyptian warships, no one noticed that Bey's home was very European, which meant that Bey had contacts with Europe.

The Pavia riot was actually not as scary as the legend said, but the wider the rumor spread, the more terrifying effect was amplified. Only God knows what kind of legend Bey heard about Napoleon from European businessmen.

Anyway, the French had heard Turkish prisoners describe that Napoleon would use an invisible rope to control everyone to act according to his ideas.

The ancient Roman legions were thousands of years ago. Napoleon Bonaparte cannot be seen as "equal" from the perspective of modern people. To compare him with figures such as Alexander, Caesar, and Hannibal, it may be necessary to

Including Attila, he was frightened and ran away when he encountered the "Scourge of God" guard general of the Papal State.

Some flatterers compared Napoleon to Genghis Khan, but he said that Genghis Khan's expansion seemed to be scattered, but in fact it was purposeful and carefully planned, and that he was not as good as Genghis Khan.

It would be great if we could really cut off the supply line and defeat the Egyptian expeditionary force. And how could the sandstorm be such a coincidence? It just happened?

What Georgiana was talking about that day was more of a "delusion" than "tactics of war." Within two days, Napoleon gave Georgiana 100 soldiers. He didn't laugh at her as a "rooster". She thought her age was enough.

The young man who was her son just wanted to teach her a lesson.

"Love" is like beauty, it will disappear with the passage of time, so Josephine said that marriage is only real if you have children.

He didn't come to see her these days, but Georgiana surprisingly felt very calm.

This may be because she looked at the magnificent scenery and the letter she received recently.

Gaudin Poitevin's friend, the forger who was good at imitating Marie Antoinette's notes, was transferred to the post office after that incident. He was actually an agriculturist and knew that potatoes have red and yellow skins.

.Yellow-skinned potatoes come from England, while red-skinned potatoes come from Germany and Prussia.

Planting two types of potatoes will eliminate the need for late blight. If the British saw this and brought this technology to Ireland, the Great Famine in Ireland could be avoided.

She loved that trip to Ireland, even though she was just in a blissful daze the whole time.

"I know who I am, do you know who you are?" she whispered in English.

"What?" Major General Lara asked in French.

"I want to go over there and have a look." Georgiana pointed at the aqueduct with her riding crop and said, "Next time, remember to call someone from the Academy of Sciences. I won't do any survey."

"You don't have to worry about this, we have already mapped it." Lara said with a smile, "You just need to enjoy the beautiful scenery."

Georgiana pulled the reins and let the horse gallop through the snow.

In fact, she now wants to play dog ​​sledding.

It's a pity that there are no sleds in Lyon, and there are no silly dogs like huskies. There are countless wolves.

She wants to get the power in the ring as soon as possible. If she thinks so, the risk is still worth it.
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