Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2252 Fierce Frenzy (Twelve)

   For peasants living in the Middle Ages, there was nothing more important than market day.

   If French peasants go for a glass of wine after selling their wares, Belgian peasants have a glass of beer. There is a brewery opposite the Vineyard Beguinage. In Dutch, "havlemaan" means half moon. It produces a fruity beer, known as a pink beer champagne. Popular with women.

   Both wine and beer have relatively high requirements on water quality. It is precisely because of this that when people feel that the water quality is unsafe, they will use wine and beer instead of water.

  The water of the Lake of Love is very clear, not only as a scenic spot, but also as a water intake point for monasteries and wineries. Out of contempt for kingship and the dismantling of the building materials of St. Donatine's Church, the newly built French manor is Gothic Revivalism, and not Versailles' Neoclassical, at a glance the castle and the medieval style of cloth. The small town of Rouge is almost integrated.

  From the establishment of the city in the 13th century to the present, even at its most prosperous time, it has not exceeded the atmosphere enclosed by the city walls. The location of the Lake of Love is just at the south exit. After going out from that gate, there is a canal connecting Bruges and Ghent. When they entered the city, they passed the northern gate, and they came to the station after passing through the whole city.

The response at the    welcoming ceremony was no more enthusiastic than Ostend's, but the bells of the bell tower masked the lack of cheers. Although maintaining the original appearance is very important to the humanities, she feels that it is time to introduce something new, after all, they are no longer living in the Middle Ages.

  For example, the concert hall and the opera house, of course, will not be built on the Castle Square, but if they are built on the outskirts of the city, how can people who live in the city center come?

   When you come to Bruges, you have to buy lace, which is also used by the French royal family, but Georgiana does not plan to use it as an embellishment on her skirt.

As the Dutch writer wrote, what makes people feel happy is often "sin", she found some beautiful girls, and gathered the local ladies for a "pajama party", and they were all given to stunned.

   Some may condemn this underwear, but others are curious about it. The magicians who came along made Bruges as lively as a market day. In order to welcome Napoleon, the municipal department also temporarily set up a market day. The constant renovations made this quiet town overwhelmed, as if there were festivals every day.

   It is best to have a commercial street near the Opera House, and the cost of building it is also deducted from the tax. You can rest assured that the French will not give it a penny.

  Since Bruges is a commercial city, it should look like a commercial city, but only if the canals are dredged.

   She originally thought it was enough to dig it out, but later learned through the introduction of local officials that if the water level is sufficient and the water level rises, large boats can pass through, but this involves some "historical problems".

The canal between Ghent and Bruges connects the two natural rivers hogekale and zuidleie. In the 13th century, Bruges dug the zuidleie's river to ensure water supply to the city, but in this way, the river of Hogekale was blocked and there was no water. Flow to Ghent. Despite this, Bruges' water supply was still insufficient, and in the 14th century Bruges planned to build a canal to connect with the tributaries of Lys.

  The Ghent people soon realized that if the canal was built, the entire trade of South Flanders and the seaport of Aditya would be diverted to Bruges, so the Ghent troops expelled the workers who built the canal. The construction of the canal was one of the reasons for the Ghent uprising in the 14th century. The counts who ruled Bruges had to suspend the canal plan, and the Ghents even built a transverse dam on the hopekale, so that the canal would not be running. Horse racing is fine.

In the 16th century, the Spanish Habsburg family and Luxembourg, together with the purchase of the suzerainty of Friesland by Charles V, formed the Spanish Netherlands together. Communicate between Ghent and Bruges, but this time it is Bruges' turn to be reluctant.

During the reign of the Habsburg dynasty, a centralized government was established, and the Supreme Council was established in Mechelen, which is also the highest authority of the Habsburg family in the Netherlands. , Finance Committee and Privy Council, this institution has not changed much since then, and continued until 1788.

Even if the Ghent and Bruges canals were full of water, in the mid-17th century, Spain recognized the closure of the Scheldt by the Netherlands through the Peace of Westphalia and the Treaty of Münster. Fortunately, Scheldt The source of the river is in France, but this also means that the Ostend-Bruges-Ghent Canal is not only a shipping, but also the border of the Dutch Republic. The Netherlands has no Alps, Pyrenees, These "natural boundaries" of the Rhine, more than 20 fortresses were built on the canal embankments from Bruges to Ghent.

   As long as Ghent's Hengba sluice is closed, this "moat" will disappear. As for why the fort between Bruges and Ostend was abandoned like this, Bruges actually has a prison, and it was a famous prison in the Middle Ages. When the witch hunt was rampant, it was overcrowded, and these fortresses became temporary. prison.

   And compared to the Ostend-Bruges Canal, where the water flow is variable, the Blankenbergsfate River flow is smaller, but more stable. Similarly, although the "mine road" is not as good as the steam engine-driven train railway, it is much more stable than the canal. The "mine road" in Mechelen has been built. If the effect is good, there are still cities willing to build it.

No one knows whether   Bruges will replace Mechelen as the highest French parliament in Belgium, and no one knows what Bonaparte is thinking.

The Habsburgs, like the British, dredged the canals so that ocean-going ships could enter, but he turned the port of Antwerp into a port where ships with too deep drafts were not allowed to enter, and the only way to enter the Belgian canal system was by flat-bottomed boats. .

  Ghent also has shuttle boats and passenger boats, which are also flat-bottomed. This time they set off from Bruges to Ghent. Fortunately, Matilda was not seasick this time, probably because the wind and waves of the inland river were smaller than the sea, and she still had the strength to watch the scenery along the coast with Alice on the boat.

It is obvious that this area is going to be much more prosperous. There will be a market near every fortress. If there is a market, there will be villages and towns. The second floor of the houses built along the river is full of people. They seem to know in advance that the fleet will pass by. , have stood at the window cheering.

   Bonaparte, waving to the people along the coast, spoke to the Minister of the Navy, who was only free to accompany her at lunchtime.

His appetite has improved a lot. It may be because he ate beef, or it may be because he is inland. Anyway, the sea is not suitable for him. The comfortable boat for others is a kind of torture to him. The last time he went to Egypt He got seasick. This time, he didn't get seasick. He might have gotten sick. He resisted and didn't show it.

   On the way, they rested in Aalter, where the cross dam built by the Ghent people in the 14th century was there, and it virtually became a bridge and a traffic artery. It disappeared in the 17th century, and the locks disappeared along with it. At the same time, in order to facilitate the navigation of ocean-going ships, there was no bridge on the canal. The bridge was built to limit the height, so that residents on both sides of the river would have to take ferries to cross the river. .

That is the limitation of that era. Bridges may not necessarily be built as fixed bridges, but can also be built as open suspension bridges, just like a castle with a moat. Usually, the door is lowered to be the road, but it can be put away in wartime. This will not affect the shipping of the canal, and the residents on both sides can also It's convenient, but the canal was widened in the 17th century, and it was a bit difficult to build.

   is still much narrower than the Thames.

  There is no need to build it as grand as the Tower Bridge in London, and it has two floors. She remembered that the Tower Bridge used a steam engine. When the power went out in London, the bridge deck was pulled up by the transmission system for display.

   There are some traditions that need to be preserved, but it is not the Middle Ages anymore.

  Georgianna looked at another boat not far away, and Gregova was also watching the scenery on the deck. It was too far away, she couldn't see his expression, and she also didn't understand what this "civil priest" was thinking.

   The emperor of the Holy Roman Empire is going to Rome to be crowned, instead of the pope going to Vienna to crown the emperor, what good does it do for him to oppose the monarchy?

Governing a group of ignorant people would be much easier, but Bonaparte wanted to make the French peasant see his power under the kerosene lamp - the civil code, know how to live, how to run and maintain his power, or he printed it what to do?

   Not to mention how many people are literate, it is very difficult for the farmers who are full of minds to go to the market to sit down and listen to the lectures. This requires opening a lot of schools, especially primary education. In this era, not all children, but also adults, go to primary schools, but this area has been controlled by the church.

Educating children is also a minority of women involved, in this new century, the traces of the Middle Ages are disappearing, modern civilization is growing, the storm of revolution is blowing on the ancient Holy Roman Empire, the double-headed eagle shield on those fortresses They were all taken down and replaced by the tricolor flag of the French Republic fluttering in the wind.

   "So, what's wrong with you, Tom." she asked the void, not all orphanage children were as extreme as Tom Riddle, and the orphanage steward who took care of them didn't abuse them.

At least they didn't go into child labor like the kids of this era, she knew it couldn't be compared, but Muggles have definitely become different, and pureblood wizards seem to be still living in the Middle Ages, the Muggle on Carrow The research classes were all about indoctrination, and thankfully that's all over.

But it seems that it is not completely over. If Harry is really not the seventh Horcrux and she is not crazy, the experience of Voldemort possessing her is real, not her imagination, then he may make a comeback, Without the "little tricks" of Albus, and without the spy Severus, how would he win this time?

   (end of this chapter)