Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1693 The Secret Word of the Goddess (38)

  If you say that Paris before 1870 was the Paris of all French people, then Paris after 1870 was the Paris of provinces and even foreigners.

The 20 years from 1870 to 1890 was a period of economic depression. At that time, there was a state of almost stagnation in various parts of France. The active business atmosphere of the imperial era was no longer seen. People no longer expressed interest in opening new roads, except for exceptions. But the land price in Paris has been soaring.

In order to play the "urban symphony" in his heart, Osman adopted such a policy that all the old houses in the "lined" area must be demolished. It is impossible to directly order the original residents to move out, and they must be compensated. , So Osman hooked up with the bankers. The bankers paid compensation to those households. The government sent people out to forcibly move out those households who wanted to leave or not. The land that originally belonged to them was bought by the bank and built. A new high-end apartment in line with the image of Paris.

This kind of thing makes people feel sad. A worker with a monthly income of 1,300 francs and a monthly income of 14,000 francs also raise 5 children. There is of course a difference in the quality of life, but the difference in food and clothing can be tolerated. The biggest difference is housing. Both housing prices and rents have risen sharply with the development of the land. The bankers compensated the original homeowners for not enough money to buy back houses in the same area, and the native Parisians had to be squeezed into the suburbs.

  Huge municipal projects require a large number of migrant workers, but it is not them who live in high-end apartments, but people of higher social status. Two-thirds of the most beautiful areas in Paris are not locals.

During that time, many construction contractors emerged. They built the land in accordance with the architectural style of the Ottoman period. Ottoman buildings have very strict regulations on architectural elements, decoration style, block integrity, and even the details of balcony doors and windows. This made the grandeur of the Ottoman architecture quite successful. However, this style was criticized during the Ottoman period, and the golden age of Ottoman's ideas was after 1870. At that time, the municipal planning was relaxed, and this unified architectural style of the Empire era was further strengthened, and the initiative was in the hands of a few investors.

  In order to pursue benefits and interests, it is of course cost-effective for these people to save a design fee. Most people don’t look at the foundation of the house. In order to prove that the house they have built is strong and reliable, contractors in the 1870s often repaired the walls very thickly. This design made the apartment building lose its lightness, and it was somewhat uniform, looking thick and awkward. , But at that time, people from other provinces who brought their furniture to live in the city thought it was enough to buy a house in Paris.

  Buildings are getting taller and taller, and walls are getting thicker and thicker. The construction industry needs heavier investments until the fragile foundations of the hollowed-out underground in Paris cannot support the superstructure. This is not the same as the superstructure mentioned by Marx. It is an exact "superstructure". The sense of security and belonging brought by the thick walls can make people calm down and run a business-family. However, the flu of 1890 was once again Exposing the health problems of such large cities, a large number of residents lost their lives.

  This epidemic hit the old city the hardest, and these areas were also the areas with the highest death toll during the 1830 cholera pandemic. Cholera is caused by water problems. It was not accepted by the world until 1856. It is not the miasma that people generally thought before.

  Influenza is indeed spread through the air. Overly dense buildings will cause air to be blocked. Those who own real estate in Paris will only live here during the most beautiful seasons in Paris, and move to other cities or abroad every summer to enjoy the fresh air.

  People who can’t go if they live in the 21st century, they can pretend that they are on vacation on the temporarily piled beach in the city center. People in the 19th century have to go to the beach plaza to "holiday".

  Today Paris cannot see so many homeless people appearing on the streets in the 19th century, not because there are really no low-income people in France, and even housing cannot be afforded, but because France has a law. If a house is illegally occupied and the house is not the main residence of the owner, the owner of the house must report to the police within 48 hours. If this time limit is exceeded, the police have no right to expel the occupier even if the police report to the police and want to expel the owner. The landlord must go through the judicial process to fight the lawsuit. This judicial process usually takes two years and is very expensive, so the landlord usually does not go through this expensive and time-consuming judicial process.

  This law only applies to non-primary residences. After understanding this legal loophole, low-income people in Paris formed a gang, specifically looking for houses that had been vacant for a long time, because houses that had been vacant for a long time would certainly not be the main residence. After forming a gang, these people can take care of each other and share information. They know where there are vacancies for the first time. They step on places to find qualified houses, and then mark the doors or insert subway tickets in. In the crack of the door, so they have a place to live.

  Paris is a thread group played by cats. There is a mess on the ground and underground. Poor municipal planning makes the traffic crowded, so that the rich can't bear it, so I moved to the suburbs.

  She is the capital of France, and she also stands on the opposite side of France. From 1872 to 1911, the population of Paris increased by 66%, and at the same time it was an exodus from the countryside. During the occupation of Paris by the Paris Commune, people from other provinces doubted whether Paris had the ability to continue to lead France, and whether Paris would be independent as a city republic.

  If the Paris Commune succeeds in resisting the attacks of the "Versailles", then Paris may become the same urban republic as Siena, and the capitals that advocate democracy and equality will give birth to urban self-government in history.

  Furthermore, France is not so keen on the republic except for Paris. Paris is a place suitable for eating, drinking and having fun, and a place suitable for shopping and meeting friends. This is an "ideal country", but not Plato's ideal country, but an ideal country for consumption. Similarly, it is not a gathering place for wealth. Frugality is not promoted here, and it is difficult to earn enough wealth to meet one's material needs by working honestly.

There is a group of people who don’t even live in human-inhabited houses, but live underground like mice. This is unimaginable for people who spend a lot of money in restaurants near Place Vendôme, but in fact it is There is such a group of people who are familiar with the intricate structure of the underground. They may suddenly come out from a manhole cover and grab the wallet of the walking person. Some people even dig a tunnel directly to someone's home and hide that person in the cellar. The good wine is stolen.

The file management of the Paris Police Department contains this kind of information. Compared with the loss of money and money, it is actually more fortunate that they did not cause any harm to the owner of the house. The disappearance of a person in such a big city is a trivial matter. DeVeau took a fancy to a house in Paris, walked in, lived in it after killing the owner, and transported his body away in a gorgeous hearse.

Even if so many people and the police saw it on the street, they wouldn’t suspect that it was a murder case. Just like Victor Hugo saw a gorgeous hearse on December 5, 1870, he didn’t. Knowing who was dead, even after knowing that Dumas died, he suspected that it was Dumas's family who was doing the funeral. Alexandre Dumas was not in Paris at all, even if it was a funeral, the gorgeous coffin was empty. In 1926 Grindelwald repeated this trick again, and it can still be done.

  Sometimes "to hide from the sky" is not only a strategy, but also requires creativity and courage. Homeless people in these cities often have a car, which can not only carry luggage, but also avoid the police. How can a person with a car be a proletarian in the perception of ordinary people?

  When Ottoman planned, he hoped to connect all the railway stations, but the railway speculators did not care so much. When there were problems with ground traffic, they dig underground subways.

Sometimes the aging water pipes will leak. The seepage will continue to corrode the underground stone layer and make it fragile. When the thin surface layer is unable to support it, it will collapse. In fact, more than 20% of Paris citizens live and watch. In the seemingly safe danger zone, many good looking houses in the city center are empty for this reason.

  The homeless took a fancy to these empty houses and lived in. There is no zero risk, but they can’t do anything if they don’t live in this kind of house. The rents in Paris are so high that they will sleep on the streets if they don’t live in. Theoretically, the wealthy groups in the center of Paris have gone on vacation. In fact, there are still a lot of people in the center of the city. So this underground flood will cause other geological disasters. I don’t know if Haji will take this responsibility anyway. After giving it to Severus, he took Felix away from the "land of right and wrong."

A hacker friend Gianluca knew also drove his small broken car around in the streets, but his car was loaded with his equipment. He was very familiar with those urban homeless people, and through this relationship Gianluca I found news about the former beach plaza and the current Paris hospital.

This area was once a swamp like the Palace of Versailles. Before the coronation ceremony in 1804, Napoleon I filled this muddy area with 57 carts of sand from the Seine River. At that time, the wages for a night was 4 francs, which was unprecedented. High price.

At that time, it was generally believed that Napoleon Bonaparte did this to build momentum for his coronation ceremony, so that more people can watch the ceremony up close. No one knows the actual situation, just like no one knows what he did in Egypt. .

  Napoleon’s sculpture on the bronze pillars of Place Vendôme was once thrown into the Seine River. Later, it was dug out from the river and placed in the Invalides.

  The people overthrew the Vendôme Column in 1870, why not destroy Napoleon’s tomb as it did during the French Revolution? The royal tomb of the Dutch church was destroyed. If they had dug out his body from the stone coffin, they would burn the province with the Tuileries with fire.

  "Are you sure that Alessandro is missing?" Gianluca asked tiredly.

   "I'm not sure." Severus sighed, "Maybe he managed to escape."

   "Monica will kill me." Gianluca said, "I asked them to help you."

  Severus did not speak. This was the second person to disappear under his care.

   "There is a way to determine whether he is dead or alive." Severus said after a moment, "As long as the target is still alive, the compound decoction will not lose its effect."

   "What do you want to do?" Gianluca said.

   "Tell me where your friend is." Severus whispered, "All in all, I gave it tonight first."

  (End of this chapter)