Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 2004 hiddenpath

  As night fell, the lights were on in the house. Although it was not summer, the windows were opened to let in the cool wind, but there were still bugs flying around the lights in the closed doors and windows.

  After entering her bedroom, Bonaparte was not in a hurry to prepare for bed, but spread out the map under the light.

"You told me that you found a new center point from the unequal triangle, and then formed a new equilateral triangle." Bonaparte stared at Georgiana and said, "I have always thought about the obvious. I forgot about the other A possibility."

   "What?" Georgiana asked.

  "Transfer the central industry from the textile industry to other industries." Bonaparte said.

   "It's not that easy, Leon." Georgiana said sadly.

   "So what about this?" Bonaparte took a money order and put it on the table.

  Georgiana looked at him in confusion.

"The issuance of a bill of exchange is actually to send a sum of money from one commercial port to another commercial port or the place of a trade fair in another currency. The bill sent from Lyon to Antwerp is sent in the franc of the exchange currency of Lyon and arrives in Antwerp. Later, according to the Dutch guilder, sometimes we encountered the situation that the money order could not be withdrawn. We encountered this when we were marching. If you want to exchange the unexpired money order in advance, you will have to pay an interest. This fee is called discount. The most important thing for merchants to do business is to recover the payment, and the most important thing for merchants is reputation. The advantage of a money order is that it can fly in the air, and merchants can make cash flow without carrying heavy currencies. During the Renaissance, Piacenza and St. George Piacenza, the commercial center of Europe, is 10 fares away from Milan. The trade fair here was established by Genoese people. At that time, they completely relied on Spanish silver transportation. Because of religious wars, the passage between Spain and the North Sea was cut off. They No longer able to obtain silver from the Atlantic, but to bypass the Mediterranean, the Genoese were able to seize the king’s large sums of silver, which circulated throughout Europe, especially in the Netherlands, which rebelled against Spain."

  Georgiana opened her eyes wide.

"After the Religious War ended, the Thirty Years' War began again. Since 1630, the one who transported silver for the King of Spain became English, and after the Thirty Years War, he became Dutch again. Have you found a pattern?" Bo Asked Nabar.

"knowledge."

   "What is it?"

  "The sea coachman...the Dutch navy and his trade arose in the 17th century." Georgiana said.

"Not only that, you have to know that if Spain loses contact with her overseas colonies, then Spain will no longer need to compete with Britain for maritime hegemony. France will become Spain’s land competitor. At that time, money orders and currency exchanges were formed. A triangle, Antwerp, Campo and Piacenza, this network covers the whole of France as well as Northern and Eastern Europe."

  "After Spain, France is their next goal?" Georgiana asked.

"Compared with the huge potential wealth owned by the country, the wealth of the Medici family is insignificant. Don't forget, what did the Medici family do to start their business." Bonaparte looked at her and said, "Interest-bearing loans are all It is considered usury, so the church prohibits accepting money orders, but the church’s proceeds are scattered all over Europe, so they also have the same problems as businessmen. They need an agency."

   "So they found the Medici family." Georgiana said cheerfully.

   Bonaparte sighed, "Why is the way to make you happy is so weird?"

  She was taken aback.

   "Come here." He waved to her and sat on the chair by himself.

  She twisted and walked over, standing in front of him, he took her by the hand and let her sit on her lap.

   "Are you upset just now?"

  Georgiana stared at him blankly for a while, feeling that he was in a good mood now and was in a mood to coax her, so she deliberately turned her head in another direction.

   "France is not a woman's control, unless I die." He squeezed her hand and said, "When you become the Queen Regent, you will be able to control France with your English husband?"

   "Why do you think that?" she said angrily.

   "It's not that I think, it's that everyone else thinks that way."

  She gritted her teeth.

  "Why didn't you hit me?" He smiled in disguise with schaden pleasure.

  She punched his chest with her fist.

  He smiled and put a bottle of gallery wine on the table, and then poured it directly into the teacup.

"Whether they like it or not, the church has washed away their sins for their usury, but they have one advantage. They do have a sum of money transferred from one place to another, and commercial ports with trade often send out something that is not worthy of the truth. A bill of exchange, that is to say, there is no cash and physical transaction, so the bill of exchange gradually changed its nature, and to issue a bill of exchange is not something that one person can sign at will. At least four people are required. The best compliment for a businessman is to understand the money order business. A money order issued by a commercial port, because of the merchant’s good reputation, is treated as the next payment without exchange, paid to other commercial ports, and transferred in several commercial ports. After a lap, the original bill of exchange returned to the original owner. The church believed that the round-trip travel of this bill of exchange was a'chain contract', which violated the spirit of the contract and prohibited it, but it was too late, not only in Italy, but also in Lyon. Appeared, and the exchange mechanism was able to operate only because the draft was monopolized by a few people at that time. These Italian banker groups formed a network of relations covering almost the entire Latin Europe. They carried out business with merchants and monarchs who needed to be exchanged, and these bankers Almost all the city where he is in participated in the Renaissance." He handed a glass of wine to Georgiana, holding another glass himself.

   "Cheers." He touched her "wine glass".

  Georgina did not let him drink her glass of wine, but fed him with the wine in her hand.

   "If the discount rate increases, someone will lose money on a sale." She said softly, "But he can resell the bill of exchange, just like someone resells the bill of exchange that is not worthy of the name, right?"

   "The risk is high." Bonaparte drank all the wine she fed him and said, "But there are still people who will buy it."

   "Money laundering?" Georgiana asked.

   Bonaparte smiled, “It’s not that everyone’s money is reasonable and legal.”

   "You can't think that it's reasonable and legal to mean that the money is not sinful." Georgiana said.

   "What else can I do." He pinched her waist with those beautiful hands and "whipped oil". "You say a way."

"I'm beginning to understand why Hermes is the protector of commerce." Georgiana took the money order on the table, folded it into a bird, and then used magic to make it fly. "Sure enough, it was flying. Fly away."

  He watched the bird flying in the house, then glanced at the woman in his arms, with a strange expression.

   "Nothing else?" Georgiana stretched out her index finger and pointed to his limp belly. "That's the oil in your belly."

"Businessmen may not meet each other, but bills meet at trade fairs every year. Bills of exchange are cashed four times a year. A large number of bills of exchange will be collected from all sides. These bills of exchange are only offsets. After clearing it up, you don’t need to use penny cash. This kind of trade fair was held in Lyon before the 17th century. If there is still debt that has not been settled, it can be moved to the next trade fair to solve it, but the discount rate will be calculated according to the local market price. ."

  She tilted her head, "Do you want to move this kind of trade fair back to Lyon?"

   "I can not reduce tariffs, provided that London's money order exchange business is transferred to Paris."

  "Do you think that is possible?" She patted his brain door, breaking his wishful thinking, "Exchange must require cash reserves. Do you want the Bank of England to ship their gold reserves to you?"

  "Can London and Paris take turns to hold trade fairs." He picked her up and walked to the bed.

   "Go to sleep, my elf at midnight." He put her on the bed and said softly, then turned back to the table, continued to look at the map and began to imagine.

  She turned her back, too lazy to care about this delusionalist.

  How can this kind of thing be realized? It's really whimsical.

  (End of this chapter)