Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2324 peternnnchen (six)

  Mechelen is a small city with a population of less than 100,000 people. The market is far less big than the Paris lobby, and perhaps because there are fewer people, it looks much cleaner, at least the ground is not particularly dirty.

   There are still fresh fruits and vegetables in the morning. In the afternoon, there are basically only the leaves left by others to pick. There are many fish stalls selling fish, and there are some pork in the vegetable market. "Vienna Schnitzel" doesn't necessarily have to be fried chicken. You can also fry other foods in the same way, but the chicken is relatively soft and doesn't need to be hammered like beef and pork. After the steak is relaxed, it is coated with egg liquid, flour and bread crumbs, usually with a sweet and sour sauce, such as ketchup or something. It’s just that pork is very expensive in the Low Countries. On the contrary, beef that is very expensive in France is very cheap here. Vegetarian cattle raised in Denmark are slaughtered and processed after being fattened in the Netherlands. Much cheaper.

   Then there is the Wiener burrito, which can be rolled in anything, Georgiana chose minced meat and cheese, and Mechelen has a lot of dairy products shipped from the Netherlands. When buying cheese, the local aunt told her that she could use cheese to make cakes, and then soak them in beef soup, which Austrians used to eat.

  This is actually a Georgian dish, somewhat similar to mutton steamed buns, but mutton steamed buns are broken up and soaked in mutton soup, and the buns themselves have no flavor. So under the warm introduction of the aunt, Georgiana bought a little more cheese, and then a hawker came with a bundle of fresh kale. He came a little late today, and the dishes were not sold out, so Georgiana bought all his vegetables. .

Later, more and more people gathered around her, all vying for her to buy their things. This is different from France. Even if the hawkers in France know who she is, they will not treat her "special". Treat ordinary customers as indifferent.

   Before she was overwhelmed by the crowd, she returned to the opposite palace. There were guards here, and the hawkers did not dare to come, but she still shouted "Come again tomorrow" across the street.

When she got back to the kitchen, she found that her vegetable basket was heavy. When she opened it, she saw a lot of things she didn't pay for. It was estimated that someone had just stuffed it in while she was not paying attention. If it was enough for two people. Eat for several days.

   The things in this basket are actually not valuable, but if you expand it to tens of thousands of times, millions of times, ten million times, and billions of times, it will be different.

Many banks in this era were also related to industries. For example, many bankers in Lyon were engaged in the cloth business, bankers in Nantes were engaged in shipbuilding, Hope Bank monopolized the exclusive agency of Russian sugar, and the East India Company in England also once monopolized For the agency of tea, even if the West India Company could not monopolize the sugar and coffee trade in France, it could survive only on Mocha coffee. Moreover, the port of Mocha is located in the Gulf of Aden, Yemen. If coffee beans are transported from Mocha, the There are two ways for ship transportation. One is to go south, bypass the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, and then bypass West Africa to Europe.

   Another is to enter the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aden to Suez. Either dig through the Suez Canal to take the waterway, or transfer the goods to the Mediterranean Sea after unloading in Suez. When the canal was repaired and tolls could be collected, the Egyptians also broke out a revolution in order to take back the ownership of the Suez Canal. There is also a strait at the junction of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, called the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. Once the Suez Canal is opened, the place that no one goes to will become a strategic location, and regional conflicts will arise in order to compete for it.

   The Dutch nickname "Sea Coachman", but their naval strength is not bad. A pirate figure with a missing leg, replaced by a wooden leg, a hook in place of the missing arm, and one eye covered with a blindfold resembles Peter Stevie Sant.

  Tobacco advertising was banned in many parts of the 20th century, but there is no law against it yet. Stuyvesant is reminiscent of the Dutch Golden Age, and the North American colonies, not the United States of America.

  The Leviathan is a giant beast in the sea, and now that Georgiana has seen its true face, even that is amazing.

It is certainly a benefit to obtain commodities from their own colonies at almost free prices, but they can also form alliances through commodity exchanges. When visiting the Louvre in the 20th century, Pomona saw that the ancient Egyptian princesses in the showcase had many people from Greece. glass jewelry.

   This has nothing to do with natural diamonds. When Mycenae prevented the Allied forces from besieging Troy, why didn't the allies of Troy attack Mycenae while the rear of Mycenae was empty? In this way, let alone ten years of besieging the city, it would be good to be able to surround the city for one year.

  Andromack will not become a slave because of this, not only loses his favorite child, but also smiles at his enemies.

   Even if the news is blocked, the news will not reach Egypt for a while, and after ten years of siege, there will be no news at all. If the Trojan War happened around 1200 BC, then the Egyptian pharaoh at that time was Ramses II, would he let this rare opportunity pass?

  The image of the Egyptian **** of love Hathor is shaped according to Ramses II's favorite queen, Nefertari. She is not the **** of love like Venus who got the golden apple.

  Nefertari and Ramses II participated in the Battle of Kadesh for Syria. The Pharaoh dispatched chariots and infantry. At that time, the role of the navy was more used to transport the army. In order to get the wind to set sail, the heroes wanted to kill Agamemnon's daughter to sacrifice to the gods, but was stopped by the goddess of hunting, and Agamemnon's wife also hated her husband because of this, and killed him with her lover after he triumphed. he.

  The same is true when returning home, because there is no wind and the heroes cannot return to their hometowns. At this time, the ghost of the dead Achilles appeared, and he appointed Polyxena as a sacrifice.

Polyxena was the last girl of the Trojan royal family. She was still a young girl at the time. Helen pretended to tell Andromek that the son of Achilles wanted to marry Polyxena, and Polyxena was right. Helen's brows were cold, and Andromack even scolded Helen. Helen had to tell the truth. The Greeks hoped that Polyxena would be sacrificed and sacrificed in front of Achilles' tomb.

  Polyxena laughed now.

  Why is she smiling? Is it because she worships Achilles and is willing to be his sacrifice, or is it because the princess would rather die than be a slave?

  After the death of Princess Troy, the wind picked up, and the Greeks set sail with a ship full of spoils, but sank in a storm or attack by a sea monster, and the treasure sank into the sea.

   There may be a salvage team a few years later, similar to the Titanic plot, they have no interest in the wreck and the people on board, they just want the heart of the ocean, but accidentally get a "worthless" love story.

  Why Achilles can return to the world, but you don't, Hector, is it because you are a mortal, not a demigod?

   She sighed and sorted out the ingredients in the kitchen. Although she should be socializing with ladies in the living room at the moment, rather than this place, she believes that there are many people who are willing to do it for her, such as Madame de Voude.

  Because she is not someone from the flashy world after all, this is actually quite good.

   (end of this chapter)