Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1178 Ghosts, Gods, and Gods (6)

  She has a nice face, a slender figure, an elegant manner, mastering the magic of lotus flowers, and the charm of a woman in love is full.

  ——The Mausoleum of Nefer Hotep in "Lover with the Charm of Water"

  In the 464 years from the 18th Dynasty to the 19th Dynasty, Egypt gradually became the world's first great empire.

  Only 70 Israelis migrated to Egypt at the beginning. After hundreds of years, the descendants of Israel prospered, more than the population of Egypt, which made the Pharaoh feel a secret worry.

  He was worried that one day, the Israelis would unite with the enemies of Egypt to attack the Egyptians and then rule the land. So Pharaoh asked the Israelites to do the hardest and most tiring work, so that they would have no experience to reproduce.

  Later Pharaoh ordered the midwife to drown all Hebrew boys. At this time, a desperate mother gave birth to a boy. She really couldn't bear to drown the child. She had to take a rush box, painted it with stone paint and asphalt, put the child in the box, and then pushed the box to the reeds. In the middle, let the children drift down the Nile River.

  Except for the days of flooding, the Nile River is usually very calm and very suitable for boating.

  It comes from other animals like hippos and crocodiles in the river. The little baby boy’s older sister was really worried about his younger brother’s drifting in such a dangerous river, so she kept following along, wanting to see what his younger brother’s fate would be.

  This lucky boy escaped the huge mouth of the crocodile all the way, the fight with the hippo, and the collision of the big boat, and finally came to the place where the Egyptian princess had a bath.

  She ordered the maid to open the box and found that it was a Hebrew boy.

  Children’s crying is very annoying, but they are very cute when they laugh. The baby who had been sleeping in the basket smiled as soon as he saw the Egyptian princess, and moved the princess’s compassion. So she decided to adopt the child and named him Moses, which means "a child caught from the water." ".

  This baby boy grew up to be the prophet Moses in Exodus who led the Israelites to flee ancient Egypt.

  It’s not surprising that women regents were in ancient Egypt. Even several times of crisis in Egypt were because women assisted the pharaoh to turn the tide.

  In addition to Jakhhotep, in the early days of the establishment of the Eighteenth Dynasty, there was also a woman who also took credit. She is the wife of the "Son of the Moon God", the great queen Yahmos Nefertari, whose name means "the daughter of the goddess, beautiful as she is". She would not only pay tribute to Jakhhotep, but also provide allegiance to the Pharaoh in a special way.

  In the war with the Hyksos, King Yahmos I promised a lot of rights to the great nobles everywhere, in order to return their support for the Thebes regime. Not only that, he also used the earth to grant and rich gifts to keep the great nobles center, colleagues in Daxing temples all over the country, Amon quickly expanded in upper and lower Egypt, Amon became a servant of the gods, and even the queen had to succumb to it. After the great sacrifice, he became the "second servant of the gods."

The queen asked the pharaoh to allow her to set up a new institution, and all the people living in it were "the wife of Amon"-the priestess. Her request was approved by the pharaoh. The relevant decree was carved in the Karnak Temple. On the stone pillar.

  In this way, the pharaoh masters military power and political power to ensure the smooth operation of the living world; one of the duties of the great queen is to ensure that the sacrificial ceremony can be completed smoothly, avoiding the bad luck of future generations and Egypt.

  Pharaoh and his wife both lived a long life, enjoyed each other and raised many children together.

However, the pharaoh finally walked in front of the queen. Amenhotep I, who should succeed to the throne, was too young, so Jachmos-Nefertali began to reign like Princess Jakhhotep and became a regent. "The hostess of upper and lower Egypt", concurrently serving as Prime Minister and Chief of Architecture, ensures the continuation of power.

  Whether it is Princess Jachhotep or Queen Yachmos-Nefertari, their thoughts are deeply integrated into the new dynasty. The future queens of the new kingdom all follow their example.

  It is a pity that the pharaoh Amenhotep I, who finally grew up, had no “male” heirs, but there were many daughters, and his position as a pharaoh was inherited by the military leader Thutmose.

  He married Princess Amos, daughter of Amenhotep I, but gave birth to only one daughter. This girl is the Egyptian princess Hatshepsut, the adoptive mother of the legendary prophet Moses.

  Thutmose II was born to Thutmose I and a concubine. He was not only of humble background, not of complete royal blood, but also frail and sickly. In order to legalize his rule, he married his half-sister.

  The Egyptian princess grew up smart, courageous and strong. She often took pride in being the only orthodox heir to the pharaoh. Unfortunately, this family seemed to have been cursed in some way, and she only gave birth to a beautiful and charming daughter.

  A few years later, Thutmose II died of illness. At this time, Hatshepsut's foundation was unstable. She arranged for a 10-year-old boy born to Thutmose II and his concubine to marry her daughter. The boy became Thutmose III, and the princess took full charge of state affairs as the regent.

  Egypt was very prosperous and wealthy during her reign. Hatshepsut used his wealth to build temples on a large scale, including the Temple of Thebes Karnak.

  As Thutmose III grew up slowly, he was unwilling to be a puppet again, so Hatsheshout dared to exile him to remote places under Thutmose III's official adulthood.

  She hoped that her daughter Nefruri would succeed to the throne, but Nefruri had no intention of this. She devoted herself to religious food and stayed away from the world.

The   Pyramid was the main building in the Middle Kingdom period. In the new dynasty, the great sacrifice of Amun and the Prime Minister Harp-Seneb, as the master of the mystery of the Nine Pillars of Egypt, he had a great say in the earth.

  It was also during this time that the embryonic form of the Valley of the Kings began to appear, and the person who presided over the construction of these glorious buildings was named Senmut.

  He was a high priest of Amon and also an architect, but he was an officer in the army at first, and later became the "only friend" of the female pharaoh.

  There is also a man named Xue Huaiyi in the East, who presided over the construction of Wu Zetian’s Heaven and Mingtang.

  Men are promoted by women, and they will inevitably be "looked differently". Whether Senmut is really knowledgeable and talented, understands the secrets of Zhushen, and is enough to become a princess's tutor, or other reasons cannot be verified.

In the 22nd year of Hatshepsut’s reign, Thutmose III returned to the throne through the power of sacrifice. The female pharaoh, the high priest, and her daughter did not know what to do. During the reign of Thutmose III, there will be a large number of The traces of Hatshepsut have been erased, and there is no female pharaoh corpse among the royal mummies on the west bank of the Nile. The whereabouts of the female pharaoh's body has become a historical unsolved case.

  Thousands of years later, a group of "explorers" from Europe came to the Valley of the Kings. After thousands of years of looting by tomb robbers, except for Tutankhamun’s tomb, almost all of the pharaoh’s tombs were looted. The mummies of the pharaohs and queens were concentrated in a small cave, including Seti I and Ramses. S. II, and so on famous pharaohs.

  It is mentioned in the Bible that Pharaoh hunted Moses and Hebrews. If Moses’ adoptive mother was the princess Hatshepsut of Egypt’s eighteenth dynasty, then it is impossible for them to be hunted down by Pharaoh Ramses II of the nineteenth dynasty. There was a difference of more than 200 years, unless Moses’ The life span was extremely long, but Moses was 120 years old when he died, and he wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. When he left Egypt, Moses was about 80 years old.

  Legends are legends after all, just like some people believe that the ten plagues of Egypt are true, they are unfounded, unless older documents and other circumstantial evidence can be found. This is the biggest difference between archaeology and tomb robbery.

  Napoleon also came to the Valley of the Kings during his expedition to Egypt. His purpose was not just for the cultural relics of Egypt, but for the survey team to survey the map and plan of the Valley of the Kings.

  This is his disguise, his purpose is to survey how highly enforceable the Suez Canal is. As early as the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt, the pharaohs tried to dig through the Suez Canal and transport spices directly from the source to Egypt, with the intention of avoiding middlemen, obtaining myrrh, gum, resin, and incense wood to make mummies and gaining profitable trade. .

  The ancient Egyptians linked the Great Bitter Lake with the Nile River, so that ships coming from the Red Sea could only enter the Nile Delta and into the Mediterranean Sea. At the same time, the ancient Egyptians also built an irrigation canal, so that it can also be used for water transportation during the flood season.

  Aristotle in his own work concluded that the canal cannot succeed because the sea level is higher than the land. Once the canal is dug, sea water will flow back into the land, and it will become a country wherever it goes.

   Later scholars also believed that the ancient Egyptians tried to dig a canal, only to give up halfway because of difficulties. Napoleon brought the scholars to confirm whether this can be done or not. If it is possible, then ships to the Mediterranean will not need to go to the Cape of Good Hope and pass directly through the Suez Canal, a West African port operated by the British. It will all be useless.

  I also don’t know if the news was leaked, or the British guessed Napoleon’s intentions, or the actual measurement results went wrong. In short, the final survey report showed that the Suez Canal could not be repaired and the sea level drop was too large.

   Coincidentally, news of the defeat of the French Navy came at this time. Napoleon also turned and left Egypt and went back to France to fight for power.

  Many irrigation projects were built during the French rule in Egypt. In addition to the Egyptian climate, the grains that were originally ripened once a year became two or even three crops a year.

  In addition, Egypt also has more places to grow crops such as coffee and cotton. Pasha Muhammad Ali's rule in Egypt can be roughly divided into two periods.

  He is an Albanian and was engaged in the tobacco business in his early years. Enlisted in the army in 1798 and participated in the wars against Napoleon's invasion of Egypt twice. Later, he took advantage of the Egyptian power vacuum to gain the support of the local people. In 1805, he was elected as the governor of Egypt, surrendering to the Ottoman Empire in name, and in fact an independent regime. Although the French defeated the Mamluk cavalry, they did not clear the Mamluk nobles. In 1811, the last batch of Mamluks was invited by Pasha to participate in the celebration, and they were ambushed and assassinated. 24 Bayi and their The deputy fell in a pool of blood.

During the Mamluk rule, they believed that agriculture should be expanded for export. Mamluk needed money to launch a civil war with each other to seize control. Because of the American Civil War, the Egyptians made a lot of money through the cotton trade, but as other countries continued Peace is restored, the countries where coffee and other commodity crops are produced have increased, and Mamluk’s income has begun to decrease. The urgent need for money allowed Mamluk to use many methods, including "heavy taxes" on workers, illegal and legal confiscations, and the army no longer protects local businessmen and handicrafts because they must obey and squeeze all the value of civilians. Dried Bayes.

  Muhammad Ali and his supporters are mercantilists, while Ali hopes to introduce industry from a raw material exporting country to become self-sufficient in order to prevent gold and silver from flowing overseas.

  At that time, there was no concept of cultural relics protection. In addition, foreigners enjoyed privileges. The tax on cultural relics export was not as much as the money saved by demolishing the temple and building a factory.

The first step of Ali Pasha’s industrialization was to make guns and guns, and to imitate imported gun parts. The second step was to establish a textile factory, using Egyptian cotton and linen to make expensive fabrics, plus silk and goats from Kashmir. Increase wool production.

Marx once praised Ali as "the only person who can replace the'exquisite headscarf' with a real mind". Ali has many sons. Among them, he is most satisfied and proud of Ibrahim Pasha. He was killed when he was sixteen. He was sent to the Ottoman Empire as a hostage. After defeating the British Major General, Ibrahim was allowed to return to Egypt.

The historical significance of Muhammad Ali is that he was the first ruler in the Middle East who realized the significance of Western technology and effectively used Western technology to serve his goals, while the war led by Ibrahim was ancient. The Asian characteristics of Mohammed Ali, when Muhammad Ali went to Arabia to launch a war against Al Saud. Ibrahim stayed to lead Upper Egypt and continued to fight against Mamluk’s remaining forces.

Ibrahim wanted to Egyptianize the army and promote the Egyptians to be high-ranking officers. He often said that the scorching sun in Egypt roasted him into an Egyptian. If his father was independent from the Ottoman Empire from the brokerage and the military, he often said that he was roasted into an Egyptian by the scorching sun. While still maintaining cultural ties, Ibrahim wanted to be completely independent. During his reign, all the high-ranking officials were replaced by Egyptians, leaving only the high-ranking officials to remain Ottomans.

Ibrahim is a capable and full of energy. Ali Pasha had dysentery and his family doctor was planning to treat him, but Ali caused serious brain damage due to a dose of silver nitrate, which made him fall into a state of consciousness. , Sometimes in a state of madness, Ibrahim replaced him as Pasha without knowing it.

  Unfortunately, Ibrahim was infected with tuberculosis, before his father died. Others in the family are either mediocre or incompetent, or they are still young. Napoleon said that imagination rules the world. Egypt’s misfortune lies in the fact that none of Muhammad Ali’s successors has half his imagination, let alone political skills.

Abbas is a great name, but Abbas Pasha wanted to return to the embrace of the Ottoman Empire. He believed that industrialization was just a waste of financial resources and focused on squeezing more income from agriculture. The British tried to persuade him. Instead of building the canal, build a Suez railway.

  He drastically cut the military expenses of the army and the navy because he thought the army and the navy were useless. As a result, he provoked the army and was assassinated by his close guard in 1854. His rule was succeeded by Muhammad Ali’s son Said.

  Said is a big fat man, his father constantly forced him to lose weight, which made his childhood very difficult. Ali hates obesity. He sends letters to this son every week, asking him to lose weight, and feels unhappy about his loose body fat. He is forced to diet and exercise to reduce weight.

  Said, who served in the Navy, was often asked to climb up and down the mast, run back and forth on the palace stairs, or run along the walls of Alexandria.

This obese, insecure, and never succeeded in losing weight and had a child with the French consul Ferdinand de Resebe became a close friend of his teacher and friend. According to rumors, Ferdinand often secretly feeds Said to Italy. surface.

At this time, it has been 50 years since Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt. At that time, the prospector who said that the Suez Canal could not be repaired was dead. The French again raised plans to build the Suez Canal. Said was easily caught by his friend. Persuaded.

  This canal caused the death of 10,000 Egyptian workers and the loss of labor of 60,000 Egyptians. The Suez Canal can be said to be full of Egyptian bones, but this is not the worst.

   Said’s successor should have been his nephew Ahmed, who was Ibrahim’s eldest son. While Britain and France are gambling on the Suez Canal, they are also fighting for the right to operate the railway. Ahmed originally wanted to join a group of princes on a swing bridge and participate in the opening ceremony of a new railway across the Nile, but Someone "forgot" to close the bridge and the entire train rushed into the Nile. All the crown prince and flight attendants on the train were killed, except for the youngest son of Muhammad Ali, Prince Halim.

He was sitting by the seat near the window and swam out of the train to escape. Ahmed’s brother Ismail was the only prince who did not participate in the celebration. It is said that it was because he was unwell, even in other surviving homes. People suspected that he had intervened, but there was no evidence to confirm this suspicion, so in the end Ismail became the Pasha of Egypt.

In 1869, the Suez Canal was completed and passed on the most grand occasion. All celebrities in Europe participated, including Queen Eugenie, the Crown Prince of Prussia and the nobles. Ismail imagined himself as the hospital of this royal elite club, giving himself and the country. His best effort to put on a luxurious pomp, not only installed street lights in the city, but also asked Verdi and ancient Egyptian scholars to write an opera based on ancient Egypt.

  Unfortunately, the costumes were not completed in time. On the opening night, "Jester" was played instead of "Aida".

  Ismail intended to use bribes to allow the Ottomans to declare Egypt’s independence, but he did not succeed. He still tried to get them to recognize him as Khediff. This word is the ruler in Persian, and his grandfather used this title informally.

  They allowed Ismail to change the inheritance law to the eldest son inheritance system in exchange for the doubling of Egypt’s tribute to the Ottoman Empire.

When the Suez Canal was built, Egypt used a lot of money, but if it is managed properly, it is not bad. The problem is that Ismail is still carrying out a lot of useless reforms in the country. He built three railways to cover the delta area and transport cotton to it. The port or the transportation of grain from the Upper Egypt area sounds fine at first glance.

The construction of the Grand Canal reduced the agricultural population of Egypt by 160,000. To restore the population and develop agriculture, the French built some irrigation projects, but they were still too small compared to Ismail's grand plan. . It may be because Ismail had heard more about Napoleon I’s fame and did not know the real situation of Napoleon III. Ismail tried his best to please Napoleon III. He not only gave a golden dagger of Pharaoh Camos to Napoleon III, a capitalist. Mummies can be squeezed out of oil, not to mention living people. The Suez Canal Company claimed that the Egyptian government owed them debts and handed over the right of arbitration for compensation for the Suez Canal land to Napoleon III.

Napoleon III arbitrated the Suez Canal Company and Egypt’s financial dispute in the same way. There was a desert before the Suez Canal was dug. The price of the desert was estimated at the time of arbitration. The Suez Canal was estimated at the "future" price, that is, Said that the Egyptian government must not only pay the land to the Suez Canal Company, but also dig a ditch to bring the fresh water of the Nile to the new city by the canal. This river will irrigate the desert and turn it into a "future" cultivable. The arable land and the water in the canals have to be sold to the Egyptian government by the Canal Company.

  Ismail agreed, on the condition that the central city of the Suez Canal area was named after him, and that city was later called Ismailia.

At that time, the price of cotton skyrocketed because of the American Civil War, and he needed French technical support for digging irrigation projects, forcing him to constantly borrow money from European banks. At the beginning, his cotton sales did make money, but the end of the American Civil War was like a stepping on cotton prices. Slammed the brakes and plunged.

  In the second year, a rinderpest killed all the animals in the country and had to import new animals from abroad.

The country’s labor force is already small. With infrastructure such as roads and railways, no one grows export commodities such as cotton and coffee. This slows down the export of raw materials. In the end, he found that he could not meet the foreign debt owed by Egypt. So he turned to Europe for help. The debtor countries formed an alliance, supervised by an Englishman and a Frenchman, and supervised Egypt’s fiscal revenue and expenditure. The supervisor was appointed by Ismail, and he could also be dismissed.

  He gave a foreign country a chance to interfere in his own internal affairs reasonably and legally. These European ministers tried to cut financial funds and fired their officers. As a result, the soldiers led by these soldiers were mutinous, and the two foreign regulators were thrown out of Egypt.

  This gave Ismail an excuse to dissolve the cabinet to show that only he can control the country.

According to Arab custom, women must wear a veil on their faces. The "veiled protectorate" refers to the century ruler of Egypt. Consultants are placed in various confidential departments to provide advice to Egyptian ministers. They hid behind the Egyptian minister and ruled Egypt.

  But the hearts of these consultants are toward their own country, and they will naturally not remind Ismail that his subjects and soldiers have already planned to change their courts.

In the last years of Ismail’s rule, many wealthy landlords have been trying to establish a constitutional state to protect them from tyrannical rulers. Many of these landlords have the titles of Ottoman and Pasha in Egypt. And is a member of Freemasonry. The war with Ethiopia has plunged Egypt into a debt quagmire, and European powers often use this as a reason to force Ismail to make concessions.

When Ismail was the governor, the national debt was only 3 million. When the European "general", Ismail owed a national debt of up to 1 billion pounds, which is Ismail's ever-higher interest borrowing to repay The debt, the situation caused by the profit, the creditors began to worry. The International Court of Justice ruled that Ismail could no longer borrow. He had to sell his shares in the Suez Canal. As a result, the British first borrowed 3.97 million pounds from the Rothschild family to buy 44% of the shares in the canal, thus controlling the entire canal. The Suez Canal.

  Not only that, the United Kingdom has replaced France as a “veil protector”. The regulatory agency that was supposed to be a mere pretentious agency ousted the title of Ismail Khadif. No one in Egypt regrets this.

After he was deposed, his son Taufik Pasha succeeded to the throne. This child was weaker than his father and was more obedient to the British. At that time, the Egyptian army was no longer loyal to Pasha, Khadif, and even the Egyptians, except for the army. Four local Egyptian colonels, the rest are all Turkic Circassians.

  When the mutiny occurred, Khediff asked the British or the Ottomans to send troops to suppress it, while pretending to agree to the requests of the people and soldiers, formulating a constitution, changing the form of government, and expanding the size of the army to the 18,000 people required by the London jump.

France and the United Kingdom now had an excuse to send troops to Egypt. The British army landed in Alexandria, another army landed along the Suez Canal and landed in Ismailia, entangled the Egyptian army, the Egyptian army was defeated, and then the British It became Egypt's true protectorate, even the veil was not needed.

"During that war, the Egyptians saw people in short skirts appearing in the British tents. They thought it was the British who brought the women and decided to kidnap them at night to destroy the morale of the British army. Those wearing short skirts were from the Scottish Gordon Highland Corps. When the Egyptians planned to kidnap those'women', they encountered fierce resistance. They were still surprised when they returned to the tent. British women are so powerful, men. How fierce the battle will be. The commander left the battlefield before the end of the battle, took the train back to Cairo, and then surrendered." Gonsey told a long story in a funny tone, and then asked, "I heard about the British The magic school is in Scotland, where is your husband’s skirt?"

   "Hahaha." Pomona laughed, and she couldn't think of any smart words to say at this time.

  "You have to be more careful in a moment. The Egyptians will kidnap women and destroy morale, and the ghosts may also be the same." Gonsey said again, "If Mr. Smith brings back the Pharaoh's lion amulet, please wear it."

   "Is this your gentlemanly demeanor?" Pomona asked indifferently.

   "I like'Knight's Honor' better, although many people privately call chivalry the rules for fools." Gong Saiyi smiled, his blue eyes looked at her affectionately, "It is my duty to protect women."

   "You know I am married, right?" Pomona asked.

   "This does not prevent you from finding a lover from another place."

   "No." Pomona immediately refused, "He will kill you."

   "Mr. Smith is a duel master?" Gonsai asked.

   "That's right."

  Gon Saiyi gave a weird smile again.

   "Are you talking about me?"

"No, you have to ask someone with a story. You don't look like a person with a story." Gong Saiyi took another sip of wine. "Muggles are not as stupid as we thought. I can't believe that my grandpa was so easily caught." He incited him, thinking that wizards could rule the whole world."

   "Why did you mention Napoleon?" Pomona asked, "Is it because of feelings?"

   "I saw him, he was in the penis." Gonsai frowned. "This is a weird thing."

  　 Well, this chapter has a lot of information, and there are three chapters in one chapter.

  　　 A well-known cultural relic dealer, Giovanni Battista Belzoni claimed to be building hydraulic machinery and irrigating the fields

  　　 After the failure of the irrigation machinery, Belzoni lost his financial resources. He suddenly remembered the bust of Mennong Temple, and then he began to robber the tomb.

  (End of this chapter)