Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2263 The Winter Banquet of the Sea God (5)

  Many people die in shipwrecks every year, and only a few are lucky enough to be washed up on the beach by the waves.

   But that doesn't mean the story is over, Dumas' father was captured by the enemy and put in prison, and William Petty went to a monastery, where he was educated and later became British Chancellor of the Exchequer.

   But there are also people who have returned to their original lives. Odysseus is lucky enough to escape from the stormy sea and returned to his hometown, but he still has some things to do before he is reunited with his family. Odysseus had only one son, and if Odysseus returned a little later, the suitors were preparing to kill him.

   In this era, the absence of a man in the family is not enough to describe it as "a sad thing". Although the people at the banquet were whispering, Georgiana decided to believe him, because he himself said that he would be mourning for Leclerc.

As for the other protagonist of this "scandal", Georgiana doesn't intend to embarrass her either. Scylla did nothing wrong, but refused the fisherman's love. It was the witch who poisoned her bath water and turned her into a monster. .

   Disfigure the "rival in love", thinking that his lover will change his mind. This is what women often do irrationally, not to mention that Kiara herself is under a lot of pressure. Male painters like female models very much, but they are not so friendly to fellow female painters, especially since Chiara used cheating to make herself "informal", and they also "discuss" this stunner.

Now Georgiana begins to understand why Josephine formed the "Wall of Man" to isolate Bonaparte from the other women. She, like Odysseus, covered her ears with beeswax, and then she asked the band to change the music, After playing some cheerful and danceable tunes, they left the main venue after the opening dance, and it was time for the young people's activities.

Rana had prepared for them a lounge, or a courtyard, with a fountain fish pond, and a small table and chairs beside the pond, and Margaret served them drinks, which were placed in front of Georgiana. It was still tea, but Bonaparte had hot cocoa in front of him.

   She wasn't so surprised when he even drank whiskey, and then he drank it as if nothing had happened.

  "What?" Maybe her gaze was too aggressive, he looked at her and said.

   "Nothing." She pretended to say nothing.

   It may be because the weather is too cold, drink a cup of hot cocoa to replenish energy.

   she thought to herself, trying to digest the "facts" she just saw.

   "We're leaving tomorrow, what else do you want to buy?" he said lightly.

   It looks like a loser who has done something wrong and wants to make up for it in other ways.

"unnecessary."

   "Including diamonds?"

   "You know I don't like jewelry."

   "This is not included." He took her hand with the fire opal ring. "How about making a phoenix for warmth?"

   She took her hand back.

   "Under international secrecy laws, I cannot use magic in the presence of Muggles."

   He laughed.

   "What's so funny?" she asked rhetorically.

   "Someone was guessing just now, what magic did you witch use to punish them." He smiled and said, "People here believe that the marks left by the inoculation are the mark of the curse."

   "You let this rumor continue to spread, how to promote it in the future." She complained.

   "Rotterdam has already started the vaccination, and the Dutch promoted it earlier than us, so you don't have to worry about it." Bonaparte said lightly, "Joseph believes that kindness will win the love of the people. You do better than him."

   She was praised?

   "Sometimes I wish you were a man..."

   "I can do my job well as a woman," she said somewhat forcefully.

   He stopped talking.

   After a moment, he turned his gaze to the fish pond.

   "You know why the former mayor of Antwerp was escorted to Paris for trial," he asked.

   "Because he smuggled," Georgiana replied.

"In 1779, there was a miller in Prussia named Arnold who refused to pay the lease fee to the lord Count Schmeto because the local district commissioner Gersdorf developed a carp pond that cut off the water and allowed the mill's The waterwheel could not turn, thus depriving him of his livelihood, leaving him unable to pay the rent, and after a local court ruled to repossess his mill, Arnold and his wife sought help from the king himself, who at the time was Frederick II of Prussia, He quickly issued that order to suspend the execution of Arnold's sentence, but the judiciary of Kunstlin's government insisted on upholding the original sentence. to the Berlin High Court."

  Georgianna was a little shocked.

"But the Berlin High Court upheld Arnold's verdict, and Frederick ordered the arrest of the three judges in charge of the case and their imprisonment for a year, in addition to the demolition of the fish ponds in Gersdorf and the rebuilding of the water-operated Arnold's mill. , Arnold was compensated for all his losses, the incident humiliated the upper echelons of Prussia and the political world, but the public was so excited that the king explained his actions in a national publication, he stated that his purpose was to ensure that everyone , regardless of high or low, rich or poor, under just laws, timely justice can be achieved.”

   "But . . . the Prussians are not Austrians," said Georgiana.

"Who will rule is not the point, the important thing is that the peasants believe that a wise monarch can do justice for them. This time I dealt with the mayor of Antwerp as well as Frederick, but I encountered resistance from the Senate and he was acquitted. released."

   "It's not you, Lyon, it's the High Court, they're interfering with the High Court's decision," Georgiana said.

"Tell me, you believe Josephine, she approached that kid in order to eavesdrop on whether the parliament had a plot against me." He gritted his teeth, and after a while he said, "In the past, Venice tried to bribe the parliament to prevent I keep going."

   "I know about that, you told me about it," said Georgiana.

   "Fortunately I intercepted those letters," said Bonaparte. "That's what I want you to do too."

"What's up?"

   "Post."

  Georgianna would have preferred telegraph, but there was no Worth code.

"Simonville, with the consent of the Dutch Directorate, was about to draft a constitution so that the power would be in the hands of those who could be trusted, but Augereau stopped him," Bonaparte said. "He dissolved both houses of the Netherlands, and also Let the constitution go to a referendum."

"what?"

"I remember you mentioned that if it wasn't for William III's rejection of the wizards' requests, you wouldn't have an international secrecy law. When he was the king of England, William III was still the grand ruler of the Netherlands. Do you know what that means? "

  Georgianna looked at him in shock.

"John de Witt sounds like a French name, but he is actually Dutch, and after the First Anglo-Dutch War he signed a secret agreement with Cromwell called the De-listing Clause ", to ensure that the Netherlands will not let the Prince of Orange be elected as the ruling and supreme commander, because Prince William III's mother was the daughter of Charles I, and Cromwell happened to overthrow Charles and execute his enemy."

   "I...I don't know what to do." Georgiana said nervously.

   "I heard you say that British children go to school by owl delivery, but as Hecapa sings, 'I don't believe in virgins.'" He smiled and said, "Do as I told you before."

   She thought about "How much will the Antwerp port construction cost."

   "400 million, not including the fleet."

   "If there is corruption..."

   "That's not what you should be worried about." He interrupted her "Just make sure the letter is delivered smoothly."

  Georgianna didn't ask about opening the envelopes, it's immoral to open other people's letters privately.

   "Need me repeat?"

   "I know how to do it," she said tamely.

   Now he smiled and reached out to hold her hand. "Think about what to buy. We won't pass through a bustling city like Antwerp on the return trip, and we won't be able to buy anything we want."

   (end of this chapter)