Chapter 3027 queen’s pleasure (6)

It was getting dark, and the corridors were full of people. Some were worried about the upcoming exams, while others were gathering together to discuss where to go during the summer vacation.

Pomona's eyes quickly swept over the students' carefree faces.

In fact, besides investing in real estate, Malfoy had other ways to recover the losses caused by the abolition of the Corn Laws. In 1842, when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert toured Scotland, the railway had not yet been opened to traffic. Compared with the railway, the cost of urban housing was

High, long cycle, low profit, it is difficult to attract commercial investment, and the investor in the Crystal Palace in 1851 was the owner of a railway company. However, the wizarding world planned to introduce Muggle railways to transport students from Hogwarts, Malfoy and others

Purists also chose to oppose it.

"You don't know 'Bloody Mary'?" Pomona heard a girl say in a high-pitched voice while passing by a small group, as if people who didn't know the game "Bloody Mary" were from another world.

"So what? You didn't know about the Screaming Shack before." The person being laughed at retorted.

Pomona shook his head. Every summer vacation, "explorers" would love to go to such places to "exercise" their courage.

In fact, not long after Malfoy sold Wilt's land to Muggles to build manors, those manors began to be "haunted" and most of the people moved away. Except for one family, the male owner of that family was "supernatural"

A lover of events, he often invited friends to play in the manor. Later, it was said that a tragedy occurred and the manor was completely abandoned.

As time passed, the transferred land was bought back by the Malfoy family, and the Malfoy family also acquired several real estate companies and land in London.

Shortly after winning the victory over parliamentary reform in 1832, the Municipal Self-Government Act was passed in 1835. Birmingham, Manchester, etc. became autonomous municipalities and they could form their own elected parliaments.

At that time, the purpose of cities was not to promote human civilization, or even to make people live comfortably, especially in industrial cities. Their purpose was to create more wealth. The emerging industrialists used their entrepreneurship to "measure others by themselves"

Experience believes that hard work will lead to success, but you should not enjoy yourself before success.

At that time, there was no need to worry about the shortage of people. In addition to a large number of landless laborers, there were also Irish people who crowded the streets.

However, as Marx mentioned in Capital, the original labor law was created by Edward III in order to protect the interests of employers, hire labor at "reasonable" prices, and define wages and working days, because the Black Death caused a large number of

population died.

If a disease such as cholera breaks out in a place, people will choose to leave and migrate to other cities. What's more, employers are not just factories, but also families who hire helpers and cooks. The infectious disease will spread from the bottom to the homes of the employers.

In the past, various laws have been promulgated one after another stipulating the appearance, internal facilities, wall thickness, street thickness, drainage, sewage, etc. of newly built houses.

Severus's house in Spider End Lane was built according to this standard, but it was a tied house. The house belonged to the factory owner, and the workers could live there for free while they were employed. Later, Severus' grandfather

After buying the property rights of the houses, the boss at the time was on the verge of bankruptcy, so he sold the houses to the workers.

During this period, philanthropic forces played a particularly important role in housing issues, and funds raised through charitable donations were used to build "model housing" for workers to live in.

This kind of model housing not only solves the housing problem, firstly, the local government must sell the land to the model housing company at a "low price" to build "charitable" houses. Secondly, to open this kind of model housing company requires a "royal charter".

Rather than a charter from Parliament, the government gave these "model housing" companies the status of chartered legal entities.

Another thing happened in 1858, that is, the East India Company was relieved of its administrative power. Starting from Elizabeth I, Britain gave overseas colonial work to the company that had been granted a charter. After the Glorious Revolution, in 1690 Hudson

The Bay Company received a charter from Parliament and was the earliest developer of Anglo-America.

The United States provided Britain with cheap grain and cotton, but India was the diamond in the crown. Although the Suez Canal was not opened at the time, ships did not need to detour to India but to the Cape of Good Hope because Palmerston proposed the Suez Railway construction plan.

It is expensive to dig a canal, and there is a height difference between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. Railways do not have these constraints.

In short, it is difficult to finance the construction of housing. Malfoy is flying around every lady's living room like a butterfly in a flower. Their family has produced handsome men in every generation. Gentlemen like him who are polite, good-natured and serve public institutions are very popular.

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Malthusianism was already very popular at that time. Human beings have two basic desires. The growth of resources will inevitably bring about the growth of population, so population growth must be limited to achieve a balance between materials and population.

But when the big shots were worrying about these theories, they may have forgotten one issue - popularizing the knowledge of contraception to the public - so that they could worry less about "how to eliminate poverty".

Lucius Malfoy and Narcissa Malfoy got married so young that their children are actually the same age as Harry Potter.

Maybe Lily would be like Molly, if she were still alive.

People always love to pursue what they don't have, but ignore what they already have until they lose it.

By 1861, Queen Victoria had lost her husband and mother, and Prince Albert's health was overwhelmed by her busy work, which included plans to build new housing for the poor.

He died of typhoid fever. There was no possibility of such diseases in his living environment or the people around him, and it was unlikely that there were lice in the palace.

The gap between the Queen and her mother has also been eliminated, but Queen Victoria chose to be a widow instead of remarrying like her mother. During this period, the silk merchants in Lyon encountered difficulties due to sales problems, and a large number of British orders helped them meet their urgent needs. At that time, the silk merchants in Lyon encountered difficulties due to sales problems.

People can easily buy mourning clothes.

Since she no longer needed to please Prince Albert, the Queen wore looser clothes and even did not wear tights. This did not cause a "trend" at the time, just as not everyone and the Queen thought that Prince Albert's

Sad to die.

Paris was still the capital of fashion. At that time, the Paris Opera House had already broken ground, and the whole of Paris seemed to be immersed in Haussmann's transformation.

Ten years will change a lot of things, maybe nothing. After Prince Albert's death, the Queen has kept his room as it was when he was alive, as if he had never left.

Pomona heard a cry, and when she looked around, she found that she was near Myrtle's bathroom again.

She didn't know if the "Bloody Mary" worked, but there was a real ghost in this bathroom.

She didn't care at first, but as soon as she turned around, she was bumped into by a Ravenclaw who appeared out of nowhere. The girl gave her a panicked look, and then ran away without looking back.

Pomona didn't tell her "stop running down the hallway."

She recalled inexplicably a few decades ago, when the principal was forced to resign because a Muggle girl died. That girl was also a Ravenclaw...

Pomona turned back and walked towards the abandoned bathroom. She wanted to see why Myrtle was crying again this time.
Chapter completed!