Chapter 2024 Naughty Wind (2)

There is a very eye-catching feature in the portrait of Louis XIV, the Sun King. Because of his height, he needed to wear high heels, and the heels were painted red. Until the Revolution, wearing red heels was the privilege of the French aristocracy, so except for "no culottes"

"Han" and "pied plat" are also titles that represent humble origins.

Even if there are no stockings and high boots, some people still want to paint their heels red. Religion links the idea of ​​equality with heaven, allowing the rich to be killed by the poor. But the government sentences criminals to death.

The priest pardoned them and went to heaven. The same act was put on a person, and one result was the guillotine, and the other was forgiveness. In Bonaparte's words, the public operation of these two powers is completely different. Since these two powers can

If they collide with each other, then the conflict between them can be foreseen. If they do not leave clear boundaries to track in advance, and clearly indicate what the secular should do, there is no way to prevent the church from encroaching on the country. In the final analysis, religion wants to own everything.

The First Consul did not want a dominant religion, nor did he want a new religion. In other words, he supported the establishment of the Ministry of Magic to restrain the behavior of wizards and prevent them from promoting "superstition" everywhere.

It was also because of this that he forcibly closed the Godly Fraternity. Georgiana recalled what Grindelwald had done in France before, and he also spread an idea-wizards were righteous people who were preventing Muggles from destroying the world. They did not

It’s no longer just a mob protesting for their own interests.

She thought about how to prevent the "future" Grindelwald from taking advantage of such loopholes, but the result of her thinking was unsolvable, just like a Voldemort would be born in a Muggle orphanage one day.

If the church is allowed to regain its victory over secular dominance, it will also be detrimental to witches, although witch hunts like those in the Middle Ages are no longer possible.

Science is subverting people's understanding of the world at a speed beyond human imagination. Georgiana originally thought that she was already "avant-garde", but the discovery of the Moonlight Society was amazing. Tom Wedgwood, who suffers from depression, has already

I conducted a silver salt photosensitivity experiment and wrote a related paper for publication.

According to Stanley, many girls like this tall, handsome and talented young man. People nowadays like this kind of "British temperament" with a touch of melancholy and nobility.

But he still wanted to laugh happily. He learned from a friend that David discovered nitrous oxide. They said that this gas must come from heaven, can bring wonderful happiness, and seems to be harmless to the body.

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But Erasmus Darwin thought it might be possible. In the next few years, Tom and his friend who also suffered from depression were treated with opium and nitrous oxide respectively. The final result was as Darwin predicted.

Yes, that "heavenly gas" caused lasting and irreversible damage to Tom's friends, and indirectly caused harm to the people of Moonlight Society.

Curiosity is a common characteristic of the people of Yueguang Society. Many of them conducted gas experiments driven by curiosity. In the end, they came to the conclusion that this emotion of happiness and kindness was caused by the chemical reaction of the body, not created by God.

David was a shrewd careerist. He left the Moonlight Society as quickly as possible and joined the newly established Royal Academy in London.

Napoleon did not like Wordsworth very much, not only because Georgiana paid too much attention to him, but also because the poet Wordsworth had a sailor brother who became Tom Wedgwood after David left.

"Exploring a new supplier. Tom and Wordsworth met in Paris, but his brother did not provide "gas of heaven", but a plant-based product, which he claimed was "forget-me-not"

Indian plants.

There is also a description of forgetwort in Homer's epic poem. However, Tom, who started to try "forgetwort", lost weight sharply and was completely unable to quit it. Without "forgetwort", this young man with depression felt that his life

No fun at all.

He is only in his 30s, but it seems that he will not live much longer. Erasmus Darwin has no idea what to do about it. The problems that the new generation of Yueguang Society people have to face are different from those of the older generation. They need to explore alone in the unknown world.

, this is a problem that many geniuses will encounter.

Throughout the ages, the church seems to have played the role of a villain in preventing progressive ideas, allowing those "heretics" to believe in miracles created by the bones of saints, ominous bird flights, fortune tellers, dream interpreters, witchcraft, and vampires, which they consider to be all kinds of things.

Stupidity, ignorance and gullibility always go hand in hand, misleading and enslaving mankind.

Georgiana more agrees with Newton's approach, which is to understand God by understanding God's creation, whether it exists or does not exist.

This was one of her directions, and it was also a concept shared by her and Bonaparte.

Those things that make people happy are often not good, but it is also painful to stay awake like Albus. People protect Hogwarts because they love it. It can bring happiness to children.

The Weasley brothers blew it up when Umbridge came to rule the school, until Dumbledore returned to the school as headmaster.

They don't just want to blow up the education bill hanging on the wall, they also want to get rid of the shackles that have been imposed on them.

The old aristocrats may not be used to what "concession to the sentiments of the people" means. Madame Dubarry once ordered her slaves to leave the National Council, and she was accustomed to this lifestyle of ignoring the sentiments of the slaves.

In the Directory era, it was true that people followed the will of the people and did not impose taxes. The excessive extortion, suffering, plunder, and poverty of the old system caused deep-rooted anger. Any government that imposes taxes out of sympathy or at least prudence will bring about strong backlash.

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So the Directory government borrowed money from bankers to survive, which also led to another problem. The bankers controlled the government. No matter how Napoleon could win the war, he was not invincible, not to mention that the Directory government wanted to take advantage of him while he was in Egypt.

Establish your prestige by winning battles.

Napoleon did not follow the formula of blind democracy. If he did not sell Louisiana to increase the revenue of the treasury, he would have to increase the revenue from other places. As for the orphanage and the establishment of a management committee by the Protestant Church, she could not interfere.

William Pitt Jr. was dismissed from office for meddling in Catholic affairs in Ireland. Although the British residents in France lived in military camps outside the city and were restricted to a certain extent, their lives were much better than those French prisoners of war in British prisons.

British prisoners also felt that France's treatment of prisoners was more humane.

Women really can't get involved in this kind of thing. Learning and exploring are also a kind of fun. She can usually play more with the children.

There is a slogan on the wall of Birmingham Library - No Philosophers, Only the Eternal Church and King.

However, by April 1791, it was no longer popular for people to wear boots with buckles and replaced them with lace boots. Birmingham's trade was affected to a certain extent. Parliament passed the Police Act, and citizens complained that

The squabbles over rising parish rates and paying for the Police Bill all mixed together into a "Presbyterian conspiracy" to wrest control of Birmingham.

As midsummer arrived, events in France stirred conservative panic, and Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette escaped from the Tuileries Palace and were later captured, marking the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille.

On that day, a dinner will be held in Birmingham to celebrate the "Friends of Liberty." The dinner will be announced in the Gazette, and then the names of all the invitees will be printed in a half-penny booklet.

However, the copy of the pamphlet that I actually got proclaimed "celebrating the freedom of the Gauls" and condemned the corruption of Parliament, Pitt's hypocrisy, and royal luxury. "The peace of slavery makes tyrants more careful than the war of freedom." Dinner

It was postponed for a while, but the landlord of the Royal Hotel kept persuading the banquet to go ahead.

Later, these people got drunk and the banquet broke up at five o'clock, but the guests did not leave. The anti-Jacobins were holding a meeting, and the drunkards threw mud and stones at them randomly.

About three hours later a larger and more determined group of thugs arrived at the Royal Hotel. The dinner was long over. They were so angry that they broke all the windows and turned directly to Priestley's new hall in the bright moonlight.

The British gentlemen at that time advocated "retro" sports, and many people participated in the archery club, including some ladies. When the riots occurred, the Birmingham authorities did not care because most of the gentlemen were holding an archery competition in Staffordshire.

When they returned, all the doors and windows in Birmingham had the words "Eternal Church and King" written on them.

The mob had a hit list, and although this list was constantly being revised and added, it included seven heretics, who were wealthy manufacturers of the Moonlight Society and their friends.

Bolton had a cannon mounted on the doorstep of Soho and called on his workers not to join the "mob court", and he no longer cared that his home was being smashed, looted and burned.

This riot caused fatal damage to the Moonlight Society, not only the loss of property, but also everything they believed in - "reason", "science", "freedom", "experimentation", a joint attack on science and revolution.

This marked the beginning of the British people's distrust of intellectuals, Dr. Pritchetley was expelled, and the Moonlight Society was almost destroyed.

The gentlemen summoned volunteer cavalry to claim their homeland, and the king sent dragoons to suppress it. Someone stuck a dagger on the table of Parliament, saying that this was the weapon used in the riot.

Beginning in 1787, Bolton used his stamping machine to create "Wilkinson coins", which were similar to pennies, except that the portrait on the coin was replaced by Wilkinson's, and the reverse was replaced by a woman

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Although these tokens were not in circulation and were merely decorative works of art, Bolton produced 5 tons. Because it was only half the weight of Williams tokens, merchants were only willing to treat these silver coins as half pennies.

Someone took the initiative, other entrepreneurs followed suit, and soon the privately minted coins had eclipsed sovereign currencies and were circulating even as far away as London.

The chips in the casino also have a similar function. Although they need to be exchanged for sovereign currency, you can also buy things in nearby stores with the casino chips. However, the casino must be careful about fake chips.

Nine out of ten speculators are addicted to gambling. They win quickly and lose quickly. They also use the woman's dowry to pay off gambling debts. France's new civil code stipulates that the woman's dowry cannot be used to pay off the husband's debts. In this way

Even if her husband goes bankrupt, she and her children can still make ends meet.

This is a law suitable for a stable society, but it is difficult to implement.

Bok Bogin would not pawn more Galleons to Merope just because she looked pitiful. There were so many Galleons in Harry's vault. They were essentially put in a jar with some people and dug a hole to bury them.

There is no difference in the amount of gold coins, so Muggles always encounter a situation of insufficient currency when using coins.

A person who has nothing should feel very lucky when he suddenly discovers that his father has left such a large fortune. Who doesn’t dream about having rich parents who have been separated for many years?

Georgiana would not be so stupid that Napoleon collected taxes just to do good things. Both the army and the gendarmes needed to be paid, so he gave those generals an annuity of one million francs a year.

I heard that in midsummer of 1783, the year Anne died, a bolide streaked across the night sky and Bolton observed it.

That year, Birmingham launched the "Balloon Postman" experiment. They had extracted hydrogen, which was lighter than air, from iron and water. Darwin originally planned that it would land in Soho Gardens, but the "naughty wind" pushed it to Sri Lanka.

Member for Stafford's home.

This is actually very simple, it is the electrolysis reaction of water, and water does not react directly with iron.

The Collège de France was also conducting flight experiments at the time, which was cutting-edge technology. At that time, in order to conduct manned experiments, the Collège de France tied four or five prisoners to balloons and planned to let them fly across the strait.

The principle of this kind of hydrogen balloon is different from that of a hot-air balloon. Georgiana did not mention it, but she planned to bring the Swiss inventor Ami Algonde back to France. He opened a lantern company in Geneva, but due to lack of funds, he quickly

Bankrupt, he lived in poverty.

He participated in the balloon piloting experiment, despite the fog and rain that day, and he left Birmingham because of the riots.

The so-called broker is like this. He has a lot of resources and is in urgent need of a buyer. The machine he sells may be worthless or even bring disaster, but it may also bring unexpected uses.

Compared with coal gas, hydrogen is less polluting. If Algonde can find a more scientific and cheap way to produce hydrogen, then there will be more street lights in Paris.

Jack the Ripper itself appeared on dark streets. Light will improve public security, but some people hate street lights and will smash them deliberately.

Napoleon himself was not as spendthrift as Louis XV, and Georgiana was not as fond of luxury goods as Madame Pompidou, but if they died, there would probably be a flood.

I'm afraid they can't wait until they die. Who will take over in 10 years?

Why are you thinking so much? It's just a dream. She cried for so long yesterday. Can't you just make her happy for a day?
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