Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1679 The secret words of the goddess (twenty-four)

  For thousands of years, the East, which has been filled with gold and spices, once made Westerners dream of it, and attracted countless "conquerors" who wanted to set foot on that mysterious land.

  First there was Alexander of Greece, and then Caesar. Westerners never felt guilty about being a robber. On the contrary, rulers like Louis XVI who won the war without gaining advantage were called problematic.

  The symbol of Rome is a wolf, and Siena also has it. Legend has it that the son of Remus, one of the twins raised by a she-wolf, founded the city.

  Without the oppression of Florence, it is hard to imagine whether Siena would have its current scale, or whether the ruler of the city would be as corrupt and depraved as other Roman nobles.

  There is a rural square in Siena. It is scallop-shaped and consists of nine triangles, representing the nine members who drove the noble rulers out of Siena.

   Also in 1260, when Siena and Florence were in a war of 20,000 to 30,000, on Egyptian soil, Mamluk repelled the Mongol army in Ain Zalut.

  Mamluk sits on the rich land of Egypt, and has the strength to defeat the Mongols but does not expand. This is not because the nobles are greedy for comfort.

The land and maritime Silk Roads can bring a lot of commercial taxes. After the four khanates determined the affiliation of the Yuan Dynasty, the trade route moved from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf. Mamluks had to increase agricultural taxes and domestic commercial taxes, which also led to the transfer of trade routes from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf. After the merchants in Egypt fled, the burden on the peasants continued to increase, and the internal struggle of the Mamluk dynasty also started.

  Relying only on agricultural taxes, it is difficult to organize external expansion, but it is not impossible. The key is that the Mamluk dynasty was marginalized by civilization. Even if it wants to expand, it cannot declare war on all countries in the world. There will always be allies and positions.

The closed environment and the merchant-unfriendly tax system made the Mamluk dynasty almost ceased development for the next two hundred years. When the Renaissance was in full swing in the Mediterranean, Egypt was lifeless, and only the nobles occasionally knew something through the merchants. According to news from the outside, Europe and the Ottoman Empire have entered the age of hot weapons. Therefore, in 1514, Mamluk, who continued to use Mongolian horse-shooting warfare, encountered the Ottoman army when they encountered the Ottoman army. The second problem is that Mamluks could not adapt to the new combat methods of the Ottoman Empire. However, the 16th century muskets were not enough to be the protagonist of the war. The main reason was the internal problems of Mamluk. Before the war started, the Ottoman Empire sent people to lobby the governor of Aleppo and let him turn back.

  Whether it was Wu Sangui, who let the Qing soldiers enter the barrier, or Sforza who let the French intervene in the Italian war, the damage caused by the collapse of a strong fortress from the inside was much faster and faster than an attack from the outside.

  Since then, Egypt has become a part of the Ottoman Empire, and the title of the highest official is Pasha, who is still appointed by the Ottoman Empire.

Egypt under the Ottoman Empire was still closed, so that when Napoleon led the army to land in Alexandria, he thought he had gone in the wrong place. The legendary and magnificent cities were too far apart from reality, especially those from the wealthy Italy. Someone who came here actually committed suicide because they couldn't bear the hardship.

  Although it was a little unexpected, Napoleon had to act quickly as always. Besides, the British fleet cut his back. If he didn't want to be forced to surrender because of the end of the road, he could only take the development and construction of Egypt. Under his governance, Cairo gradually gained a French atmosphere, people's lives have improved, and the street order has changed.

  But not everyone welcomes his reforms.

  There are many artists and scientists in Napoleon’s expeditionary army, and they can carry a lot of good things from Egypt.

Experts often take away the fine products. There was once a veil of the fate of Caravaggio's masterpiece. A buyer spent a lot of money on the Italian mafia and removed it from the frame of the church. As a result, the mafia member used a dagger. Scratch it down and send it to the buyer in a random volume.

  The buyer saw the famous painting, and tears flowed down at the time. In the original words conveyed by Gong Saiyi, "it...it is completely useless."

Before the French came, those sculptures were placed in the desert in the wind and sun. Sometimes people did not build houses with stone materials, and robbed them from ancient temples. There were also tombs from ancient times. The things left by the ancient Egyptian civilization are actually Not much anymore, only the pyramids and sphinx sculptures still support the facade of the ancient civilization.

  Archaeology is not the same as tomb robbers. Archaeologists don’t use explosives for convenience, but tomb robbers use that thing, even if his title is archaeologist.

  For example, the wall that Severus exploded. The archaeologists would beat it carefully to see if they could find the gaps between the bricks. They would take it off a little bit carefully, and it would be restored in the future.

  Severus blasted a hole directly, looking like Umbridge bombarded the House of Request with a blast curse, but fortunately, he still had a sense of action and didn't destroy the contents together.

In the niche was an Egyptian-style obsidian statue. It was not Anubis or Horus, but a short man with a beard. His legs were short and he looked funny, with a smile on his face, as if Happy all day long.

   "That is the Egyptian **** of bass, the **** who protects weddings, music, and dance." Gonsey said to Severus, then raised his wand, but the stone sculpture remained motionless.

  "Lumos" Gong Saiyi quickly used a fluorescent flash. Fortunately, the spell was still useful, and the end of the wand shone brightly.

   "I don't know where he went." Severus said, "How many sculptures do you think he has that can make people lose magic?"

   "I don't know." Gong Saiyi pointed his wand to his wallet "The clip flies."

  A long clip that looked like garden shears flew into his hand.

  "It's better not to touch it with your hands." Gon Saiyi said, stretching the long rod of the clip as if it could extend indefinitely.

  It didn’t take long for it to meet the sculpture of God Beth. The clip grabbed the sculpture by itself, and then lifted it up. It turned out that the sculpture was just a box with red grease in it, which looked like dried blood.

  Gonsey carefully sniffed "What do you smell?"

  Severus looked at the grease and said nothing.

   "I heard... The Sage's Stone is red." Gong Saiyi said softly, "Does it look like it?"

   "I remember that Schaeffler was good at refining fat. Is this his masterpiece?"

"how could I know?"

   "Take some," Severus said, taking a silver box from the deformed lizard skin pocket and handing it to Gonsai.

  "Don't take it all away?" Gong Saiyi asked.

   "We still have to save some for future generations." Severus said with a malicious smile.

   "What are you thinking about?" Gong Saiyi frowned.

   "I have a hunch." Severus looked at Gonsai, "Someone will make up for the things we took."

"what?"

"I heard at the party before that the Foundation had stolen some items. After I took them away, they used those items to make up for it, waiting for the next person to solve the puzzle, or the next one who lost precious things. People."

  "Why do you have this inference?"

"The signal next to the library came after the appearance of the Aurora, and then on December 5th, people died. It was like a pharaoh's curse. Some people were afraid of being cursed, so they returned the treasures they took back as they were. We can't break this magic circle. Once destroyed, there will be consequences that we can't imagine, so there will be people who are as unlucky as me."

  "Then why didn't they stop you?" Gonsai asked.

   "Fate." Severus said, "I killed a man because of work... She was responsible for protecting the Muggle Prime Minister."

   "You mean..."

"It was 1801, and Napoleon Bonaparte in history shouldn't have died that year. A British captain planned to bombard his carriage with large artillery, but she later blocked it with an earthen wall." Severus said. "She's like that dwarf's bodyguard."

   "I don't understand, why would an English witch protect the emperor of France?" Gonsey asked.

"Why do you think wizards want to protect Muggle rulers?" Severus asked, "If Muggles perish due to cannibalism, it will save us a lot of things. We talked about it in previous meetings. Guarana knows about dragon pox, will they use this infectious disease to eliminate us?"

  Gon Saiyi did not answer, his face was very solemn.

"They did it to the natives who threatened them." Severus said calmly. "So I think we should strictly abide by the international secrecy laws. Muggles should not be allowed to know too many secrets of wizards, and Muggles don't need it. The protection of wizards."

   "I don't want to repeat what happened during the French Revolution." Gonsey said, "How long will this turmoil last?"

   "I don't know." Severus said, "I am not a prophet."

  (End of this chapter)