Harry Potter Morning Light

Adam Smith once wrote in "On the Suppression of Agriculture in the Old State of Europe after the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire": Since the Germanic and Scythian nations harassed the western part of the Roman Empire, Europe has undergone major changes. The plundering of the inhabitants forced the interruption of trade between the city and the countryside. The cities were empty and the countryside was uncultivated. Europe, which was once extremely rich under the rule of the Western Roman Empire, became poor and barbaric.

In ancient Rome, land was only used as a means of sustaining life and enjoyment, such as growing wheat and grapes to make bread or wine. The Romans did not distinguish between men and women, and their children would be given a piece of land. "Wealth" at that time referred to slaves, gold and silver, and livestock, and the magnificent Rome was built by slaves.

Rome was an agricultural people, and herding was a nomadic people. Because there were no horses, the Roman cavalry did not have as many infantry, and the infantry were mainly homeowners. They followed the commander to go out to fight, and like the heroes who attacked Troy, they plundered the nationals of the defeated country into slaves. Go, decorate their mansions and courtyards, many works of art in ancient Rome are Greek-style, and even Roman mythology only changed the names of Greek gods.

However, when the land is no longer a means of maintaining life, but also a means of power, it seems more appropriate to pass it on to one person in its entirety, and the law of primogeniture came into being.

This did not appear suddenly, but a rather slow process. In the turbulent Middle Ages, the energy of the big landowners was spent on defending or expanding their territories, while the cultivation and improvement of the land Neglect of care. When they entered the peaceful years, when they had time and energy to cultivate and improve the land, they lost their minds. If he was a quick-witted and good businessman, he would use his annual savings to buy new properties instead of Improve the original land. After all, there was still a lot of uncultivated land at that time, so most of the big landlords were not big improvers.

The Netherlands is low-lying and has many swamps, but as long as the water is pumped away, it can be turned into farmland, which is also a way to improve the land. Compared with landlords, farmers are much slower to improve land, because for farmers, most of the land harvest has to be used to pay land rent. Through the enclosure movement in the UK, the implementation of rotation farming was based on the fact that the income of raising sheep was higher than that of farming. land, inadvertently improved the land.

The earliest grains were forbidden to be exported unless they were chartered, and the policies of ancient Europe towards landowners and farmers were not conducive to land cultivation and improvement.

Adam Smith mentioned the bounty in "The Wealth of Nations". Encouraging food exports is also to avoid domestic food surplus and cause food prices to fall. Georgiana is worried about the 1.2 billion "permanent warehouse". Only when this level is reached, when there is another famine in France, the permanent warehouse can play a role in regulating prices and avoid the soaring food prices during the French Revolution. This is also Napoleon's "every Frenchman has a chicken in his pot", but after the farmers' income increases, they have the money to improve the land, or to buy land. The soldiers of the French Republic are actually similar to the soldiers of the Roman Republic. Most of them are farmers, and most of them have their own land.

However, the soldiers at the end of the 18th century were different from those in ancient Rome. As Adam Smith said, the key to victory or defeat was not so much proficiency and skill in using weapons as discipline, order and obedience to orders. She didn’t know how long it took to train a soldier in ancient wars. Anyway, French recruits went to the front line in three days. I heard that the scholars and college students who went with the army in Cairo completed the training in only 3 minutes, and then went to the roof to meet the veterans. They fought side by side.

When disaster looms, the emotion that arises in our hearts is called "fear", and most of us feel that we can conquer this perception with reason.

The more rational we are, the more we can perceive the strength of danger. The nature of the beast is to avoid danger, rather than take the initiative to fight it. Therefore, conquering fear requires a kind of passion. The sound of charging horns and the sound of war drums can ignite this passion, making people fearless and weakening the perception of danger and pain.

Georgiana didn't understand what made the French cross the Alps hungry. Later, Lyon told her that it was the sound of war drums. They played the war drums every time they encountered a difficult place to cross, and they were no longer afraid of avalanches.

Her new clothes are white, as white as snow, and as crystal as snow, and if you look closely at the snow, you can see that they sparkle in the sun, like stars in the night sky.

In "The Iliad", Helen was still weaving when Paris was about to go to war. This fabric was not for her to wear, but as a sacrifice to the goddess Athena, just like Hector's mother It was made in the Temple of Athena, and there were twelve other calves. Maybe all the noble women went there, but Helen didn't go, because she was the chief culprit that caused the war.

Athena is the protector of Troy. It is said in poems that she has beautiful hair. The women of Troy dedicated her a colorful Phoenician dress, which was brought home by Paris.

Helen expected that the goddess would not like it, so she instructed the female slaves to weave new skirts and pray for Paris and Troy. The newly made dress was embroidered with flowers, shining like a star.

Many skirts in ancient Greece had to drag the floor. Georgiana was afraid of stirring herself when she was dancing. After leaving a lot of debris, Bertin collected them and sprinkled them on the merino wool fabric.

Wool is like that, it picks up crumbs and dirt, and Pomona used to get dirty. Now these gem crumbs are sprinkled on the wool, under the refraction of the light to give off the effect of starlight, covered with a layer of transparent tulle, with flowers embroidered on it, Bertin also said to add a layer of feathers, which was rejected by Georgiana up.

There are still some adjustments to this newly made skirt. In fact, Athena did not want this skirt. If she accepted the gift from Troy, how could she help the Greeks come up with a Trojan horse trick, and turn the rattan into a snake? Laocoon, who came to warn Troy, died.

The most important thing is that Paris did not give the golden apple to Athena. Since she is not the most beautiful goddess, what is the use of wearing a beautiful dress?

The dress that the goddess doesn't want Georgiana "waste use", like those diamond chips, the chips are not diamond chips, they have no use in the first place. This road just looks luxurious, and the debris is not glued firmly, and some diamond fragments will be sprinkled along the way.

Beauty is like a kind of magic, what you want, you can get it easily, and it is difficult for women to resist not using it.

In fact, it doesn’t matter if she wears jeans and a T-shirt. It’s rare that she wants to be “perfect” once, but the “troublemaker” comes. It’s the one who thinks that “the palace is the manufacturing place of evil, the source of corruption, and the lair of tyrants.” Father Gregoire.

He rushed into Georgiana's suite with a look on his face, her door was open anyway, but what if he came in while she was changing?

He was stunned when he saw Georgiana, and she was annoyed at his recklessness, and wanted to swear with her waist.

"You're so rude," she accused. "Shouldn't you knock to enter a lady's room?"

Grégoire quickly came back to his senses, but he seemed to have forgotten what he wanted to say, and stood there without moving.

Bertin and her seamstresses all laughed. Now Grégoire's sanity should have returned. It seemed that he was thinking hard about how to "educate" her.

"Have you read The Fable of the Bees?" Georgiana asked before he could hit her with a quip. "It was written by a Dutchman, and it was through his influence that Adam Smith had liberalism." economics."

"So you also want 'freedom'?" Grégoire said sullenly.

"You priests like to think, maybe it is because you are too obsessed with this way and forget one thing."

"What's the matter?" Gregoire asked after waiting for a while, but Georgiana didn't see what she was going to say.

"You live in this world, and do you have the duty of a citizen?" Georgiana replied, "Sparseness would be called stinginess. Think of that Venetian merchant Charlotte."

Grégoire was not in a hurry to say that she was sophistry, which made it impossible for her to continue the eloquent and eloquent remarks that could drown him.

This made her even angrier.

"It didn't cost us much, you see." Bertin dabbed a bit of diamond dust from his dress on his finger. "It's just crumbs that no one wanted."

Grégoire looked surprised.

"Jealousy is the most unpredictable and troublesome thing. It is composed of love, hope and many emotions. Even goddesses are not immune, let alone women?" Georgiana said helplessly, "Thank you for your reminder, Father, but I need a dress for my 'battle'."

"What?" Gregoire frowned.

So Georgiana had to tell him the story of the women of Troy and Helen offering beautiful skirts to Athena as sacrifices.

"This is the skirt I plan to press at the bottom of the box. Are you men so stingy?"

Grégoire held back for a long time without saying a word, and finally found an excuse to "flee away".

Bertin couldn't stand upright from laughing, and the seamstresses laughed from ear to ear. When they had laughed enough, Georgiana asked them to help her change the skirt into a simpler one.

After all, there is still class in the afternoon, so it's not good to offend the "teacher" too much.