Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2277 The Winter Banquet of the Sea God (19)

When Paris was still known as the Rome of Gaul, Mechelen was just a town where the Romans lived. The Romans preferred to use land instead of water, and the road from Lyon to the Rhine did not pass through Mechel. Lun.

   By the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 4th century, and the invasion of "barbarians", Mechelen became the settlement of Germanic tribes. The centralized system that Mr. Martin mentioned during the meal was proposed by a German historian. The heartland network system established by the Romans in Germany was largely based on the principle of transportation. The barbarian invasions interrupted transportation, the Roman cities were almost destroyed, the country was impoverished, and it was unable to rebuild the infrastructure damaged in the war. In those places where the conflict was less severe, the Roman network built according to the original traffic principle survived, even if most of the Roman towns were destroyed, at least the location markers and names were retained, and then the location of future towns was determined.

   Ulm, for example, was already one of the most powerful towns in the records of the ancient Roman historian Tacitus. It is a huge warehouse and a distribution center for materials. It has become very important for Napoleon's army, which does not carry much baggage and relies on war to support war.

  The French army of the Sun King Louis XIV had to allocate supplies from within, so William III attacked Maastricht.

   Even if the army has withdrawn, as long as the king has not given up his plan to continue to attack the Netherlands, Maastricht will come in handy again. So after retaking Maastricht, as long as the French remained there, peace had not really come for William III, and he had to be ready for war at any time.

   Accordion music came from the camp as they strolled along the Seine. This instrument is first of all reminiscent of the Germans, although its origin is not Germany. A group of missionaries brought the "sheng" back from the "Oriental", and people used its reeds to make a "concerta", which is not like the one in Georgiana's memory, which has black and white keys, and has a small size. much smaller. To its accompaniment, workers danced around the bonfire, and it turned out that the site was not without women.

   "Can you dance?" Georgiana asked him.

   "Of course, don't forget that I taught you." Bonaparte said proudly.

  Georgiana remembered the words of Saint Merry, how bad her dancing skills were, and she was taught by Bonaparte, who was recognized as not being able to dance.

   "I'm not talking about court dance, like this!" she said, as he demonstrated the dance moves from the "third class party".

   "You said this is dancing?" He said looking at her "dancing posture".

   "You don't even know what a real party is." She teased.

   "What else would you do besides this? Let me guess..."

   "I can dance tango." Before he could "guess", Georgiana interrupted his thoughts.

"what?"

   "A sailor's dance, come, I'll teach you." She grabbed his hand, half-forced to "teach him" this dance step that may not have been invented yet.

In fact, tango was originally a duel between jealous men, and later it became a co-ed dance, so it was not surprising that she wore men's clothing to dance this dance, but it was Bonaparte, who was at her mercy, she found it very interesting Now, before he could figure out the situation, let him turn twice like the female dancer.

   "Hahaha." She laughed.

  No one will believe what happened just now. This dream is so interesting.

   He knew that he had been tricked, but he was not angry. He looked at the campfire not far away and said, "Did you see it? If there is a fire at night, the scout can calculate how many people there are based on the number of fires."

   She didn't say how he thought about war all the time.

   Many people who participated in the war had a hard time returning to a peaceful life. They became homeless in Paris, or left their bodies mutilated to sew uniforms in the Invalides.

  The military uniform has its unique charm, and many people are reluctant to take it off after wearing it. No matter what the author of the fable about the bee says, "Honor is a monster that is chasing the wind and making up out of thin air, a moral code made up by moralists and politicians that has nothing to do with religion", people have a sense of honor. Soldiers are even worse, and some people even don't want to die in order to protect their honor.

  The people who died in duels in the past were not all to show off, or as Voltaire said, to flatter women, but the Spanish used bullfighting. Bulls are actually colorblind, they can't tell what red is. The red cloth used in bullfights is actually for the audience to see. Red represents enthusiasm, but also blood, violence and jealousy. The ground of the bullring is covered with yellow sand. Coupled with the gorgeous dress of the bullfighter, the performance looks even more dazzling.

   "What do you think is the difference between a Spanish bullfight and an ancient Roman bullfight?" She thought about it and asked, "Is the bull more dangerous or the lion more dangerous?"

   He looked at her unexpectedly.

   "You know that I live in the house of Margaret of Austria, who once married Juan of Spain and bore him a daughter."

   "Are you going to give me a baby like her?" he said immediately.

   "...I want to say that she is not only the aunt of Charles V, I think I have found a new role model to learn from. Even if you can't be as good at playing the flute as Frederick II, don't learn everything from him."

   "You're teaching me?" he asked with a smile.

  Who dares to teach you a lesson?

   "Where do we meet?" she asked again.

   "Why do you ask that?" he asked.

   "We're going back to France." There are so many people trying to teach you a lesson, she said to herself, "Then we're going to split up."

   "I didn't tell you how I arranged it." He said blankly.

   She thought of Augereau, who had been asked to retire on his own accord.

   "I'll slow down and delay your trip." She said immediately "Besides, I think it's more useful to go to Brussels."

   "You can also wear men's clothing and see if you can keep up."

"When William III was on the front line, there was a banker who was in charge of paying the army. William III ordered him to go back, but the banker didn't leave, when a shell fell and almost hit him." George Anna said, "I just don't want to cause trouble for you."

   He laughed sarcastically.

She didn't know what to say. No one paid for the Ostend canal, but the Mechelen railway attracted a lot of bankers, not only from England and France, but also from Switzerland and Hamburg. Now, according to Edgeworth, the scene was chaotic at one point.

  Belgium itself is a European crossroads, Mechelen is the center of the crossroads, and there is currently a postal line to Innsbruck.

She and Severus passed by that place when they took the "international train" at King's Cross Station before. She was very impressed that the train station was not a station, but a pub called Edelweiss, and they didn't get off at that time. , she soaked in the bathtub while drinking champagne while looking out the car window, what she saw was a row of rainbow-colored houses.

  Travel magazine says Innsbruck is a ski resort and it was built in 1500, which is exactly when François I and Charles V reigned, or when Margaret of Austria was alive.

In addition to raising these two, she did one more thing, which was to sign the "Contract of Madame Cambrai", after the Battle of Pavia in 1525, when François I was captured, he was imprisoned in the tower of Madrid In January of the following year, Francois I signed a peace treaty, ceding the French territories in Italy, Flanders, Artois, Tournai and France to Charles V, and betrothed his sister to him. But François I broke the contract immediately after his release, and two princes were left as hostages.

In order to avoid the outbreak of war and to accumulate resentment, the mother of François I and the aunt of Charles V, Margaret of Austria signed the Treaty of Cambrai, the two sides made concessions, François gave up Italy, The dominion of Flanders and Artois, Charles does not make more demands on the Burgundy region, and the ransom can be returned to the two princes.

  If Georgiana is Margaret of Austria, who is Louis of France?

"I've been to Bern and that place feels like order, but it's so quiet, it makes me feel suffocated, and Severus and I went to the Bear Garden and the Rose Garden, there was no one there, even the bears hibernated now." She complained, "It's just the two of us who foolishly listened to travel magazines and went to 'travel'."

   "Are you mad at me?"

   "Apart from the scenery of lakes and mountains, there is nothing fun at all. There is a bikini girl in the ski resort. Can you imagine skiing like that?" She said proudly, "I dare say he must have peeked."

   He didn't seem to want to continue listening to her crazy talk, and turned around to leave.

   "There's something I haven't done with him, do you want to try it?" asked Georgiana.

   He stopped.

She took out her wand, and the men's clothes on her body quickly turned into a bright red skirt. This is the must-have magic of every "fairy godmother". will be restored.

   "I can dance flamenco, but I only dance in front of the mirror, and no one has seen it except myself." She said, "Maybe I can't dance well, you are not allowed to laugh at me."

   "Why are you jumping for me?" he said, staring into her eyes.

   "I told you before that I'm a woman in a red dress." She took the silver fan out of her bracelet and stood awkwardly.

   "You call this dancing?" he scoffed.

   "Shut up." She wrinkled her nose in embarrassment.

   It was him laughing, and she was so upset that it was a bad idea.

   "I'm not dancing anymore!" She stomped her feet in anger, and turned around to leave.

   "Are you a bear? Don't walk with your back hunched." He said behind her "raise your head."

   She looked at him angrily.

   "Raise your hands," he ordered.

   "I told you I won't dance anymore." She said indifferently, "Let's talk about it next time."

   "What if I gave you a reason you couldn't refuse?"

   She laughed.

  An Italian who actually spoke the classic lines of "The Godfather".

   "What reason?" she said with a smile.

   "You know Augereau is the number one swordsman in France, and I want to take him as my teacher." Bonaparte said, "So I can duel that guy."

   She restrained her smile.

   "Are you crazy?" she yelled.

   He laughed complacently.

   "Augereau also thought it was funny, he hasn't dueled a wizard yet."

   She was relieved, she thought it was Bonaparte who came on by herself, but in the end she found someone to fight in her place.

"Have you heard of Thucydides' Trap?" Just as she was assessing the strength of the two, Bonaparte suddenly said, "Due to the growing power of Greece, this power has caused panic in Sparta, making the Peloponne The Nissar War is inevitable. A new rising power will inevitably challenge the existing power, and the existing power must also respond to this threat, which will eventually lead to war and conflict. When Britain rises, it will inevitably challenge the old power, Spain. Like a new lion challenging an old lion."

   "You think Spain is getting old?" asked Georgiana.

   "Not as young as I am." He said confidently "I am your lion, is this enough reason for you to perform for me?"

   "Our conversation was like a third-rate teenage novel." She was so disgusted that she stuck her tongue out.

   "I'm also a third-rate writer," he said with a smile.

When he said that, she was even less in the mood to dance, but then the workers who were dancing around the bonfire found them, probably because Georgiana was wearing a red dress, the color was so dazzling even in the dark, and they wanted to invite her past.

  "I'm not going, everyone will be uncomfortable when I'm there, stars need lights."

   She was very worried, she thought of the fairy tale King Ludwig, who also drowned by the pool while walking.

   What's more, there is a Seine River, what if a river monster drags him into the water?

   In the end, she still held his hand and came to the fire. Others obviously knew who he was, and stood up in surprise.

"Sit down." She ordered arrogantly, snatched the glass from someone's hand, and drank the beer inside to strengthen her courage. With the hot breath, she began to dance the french that she had never danced in front of others. Lamenco.

  She circled the flame twice before the accordion accompanies her. In order to get close to get warm, the circle surrounded by people is very small. When dancing, she was very worried that the corners of her skirt would be ignited by the fire.

   So she secretly used the Freezing Fire Charm, so that even if she was licked by the tongue of fire, she would not feel the pain.

   Legend has it that there was a witch who could see the "future" through the flames, but if she looked closely, she would find that the air movement above the flames distorted the scenery, like a mirage.

   So is she really seeing the future, or is it a phantom?

  If she dies, is it in the arms of the **** she worships, or is it harvested by demons?

  Suntarreptitiivexatidoemonemulto. There's a **** of madness in the magicians.

  Estenergumenusqueendoemonpossidetunus. Whoever is with a devil becomes an enchanter himself.

  Whoever wrote this must be a genius, because he was so right.

   She was so happy that she finished dancing this song, then she fell into his arms pantingly, held his head and gave him a kiss, and the others immediately booed.

   After the kiss was over, he glanced at everyone, everyone was quiet again, and then he dragged her hand into the darkness, until the bright red dress disappeared into the white mist.

   (end of this chapter)