Harry Potter’s Morning Light

Chapter 2375: truebelievers (below)

Chapter 2375 True Believers (Part 2)

Old items that were originally in the warehouse were taken out and placed in the yard.

Georgiana has roughly sorted it out. For Dutch people, even one or two paintings will be placed in the kitchen. After years of smoky fire, even if they were once treasures, they can no longer see their original appearance. It needs to be done. recovery.

In addition, there are some furniture, some of which contain expensive silk fabrics and spices. Even after so many years, you can see their luxury in the past. However, with the passage of time, many of them have faded or even corroded, and they have almost disappeared. No matter how valuable, it was a pity to lose them like this, so they were put aside and placed with the scrolls they found.

In fact, the Dutch did not volunteer to be "sea coachmen". Many of those scrolls were written in Portuguese. In the fifteenth century, the Portuguese and Spaniards started a great voyage. During this time, there was no trace of the Dutch. . Fishing was the mainstay of the Netherlands at the time, and herring provided a livelihood for one-fifth of the Dutch population. But herring is a natural resource, and the creator did not give the Dutch exclusive rights. Other peoples living in the North Sea have organized fleets to catch herring. In order to compete for fishing grounds, the Dutch and the Scots have fought three wars.

Dutch fishermen have to go hundreds of kilometers away to the sea off Denmark. The fish season is usually summer. Herrings are not like sardines that can be brought back to the port alive with catfish. So the Dutch started a kipper business, which is to use salt to catch fish. fish marinated.

Salt was a commodity that could be used as a currency in the Middle Ages. Because of salt and salted fish, the Dutch began to transport and wholesale. With the construction of seawalls, the port became a trade distribution center, bank, insurance, Payment and so on began one after another. In a sense, the trade of the Netherlands is somewhat similar to that of Italy, except that Italy is engaged in the spice trade, and the routes are mainly concentrated in the Mediterranean Sea, while the Dutch trade is in northern Europe, and the transportation is not large. Outstanding bulk cargo.

The independence of Portugal in the 12th century was under the mediation of the Pope, and Castile recognized Portugal as an independent kingdom.

At that time, Spain was divided into Aragon and Castile. It was not until Queen Isabella of Castile married King Ferdinand of Aragon that the two countries were unified into one country. The two gave birth to a daughter, Juana, the mother of Charles V.

In the 15th century, the Spanish Restoration Movement drove away the Arabs who occupied the place, and the Ottoman Empire blocked the way to the east, interrupting Portugal's spice and silk trade. For this reason, Portugal launched a large voyage to find new trade routes. During this period the Portuguese also obeyed the Pope's orders and fought against the Ottoman Empire.

Relatively speaking, the north is relatively calm, and the commercial prosperity of the Netherlands is much stronger than that of Portugal. After Pope Alexander VI drew the meridian, the Portuguese came to the Netherlands to exchange for precious metals in Central Europe, and silver mines in Peru. It was not discovered until the 16th century.

At that time the Hanseatic League was still prosperous, the Italians had been trying to get their hands on the Baltic trade, they still had the alums of Asia Minor, what did the Portuguese have?

So the Portuguese became the agent of the Dutch to trade in the East India. It was the Portuguese who were bumping on the sea. The spices brought by the Portuguese from India were brought to the Netherlands, and then shipped by the Dutch wholesalers to the commercial cities in northern Europe.

This situation continued until the outbreak of the Eighty Years' War. Due to the problem of alum, the trade center was moved from Bruges to Antwerp. During the war, Antwerp's estuary was blocked, and many merchants ran from the south to the north.

Portugal is located on the edge of Europe. Even if Europe is in the religious reform, it has not affected them. The money they make through the spice trade is mainly used for the "jihad" in North Africa.

At that time, almost all merchant ships were armed, one was to defend against pirates, and the other was to become pirates. Most of the pirates are for the sake of making money and do not intend to kill the crew members, otherwise they will attract the regular army to recover, and the merchant ships robbed by the pirates will rob other merchant ships in order to make up for their losses.

Charles V's father Felipe was the son of Maximian I of the Habsburg family and Mary of Burgundy. Since Juana's brothers and sisters died early, Charles V became German, Hungarian, Czech , the Duchy of Burgundy, Spain, the co-lords of parts of Italy, and with the exception of France and Portugal, have almost unified Europe.

During the Renaissance, Italy was the most prosperous region, and Germany, where the princes were numerous, was very poor. With the addition of the Reformation, Charles V gave the title of German Emperor to his younger brother and became the king of Spain, Italy and Burgundy. Archduke.

François I was the first Renaissance French monarch. Charles VIII of France left no descendants and was succeeded by Louis of Orleans, and because the French royal family followed the "Salic Succession Law", the female line had no right of inheritance. François, who was only four years old at the time, became the presumptive heir.

Later, François I was captured by Charles V and signed a treaty in Madrid, stipulating that Charles V of Burgundy and France gave up Italian territory, which was equivalent to giving up the most prosperous areas in Europe. Francois I immediately denied the treaty, Germany and France almost went to war for a time, because the Treaty of Madame Cambrai maintained peace, Francois I formed an alliance with the Ottoman Empire, and Charles V fought with the Ottomans constantly, and the Siege of Vienna took back the Danube.

Despite the heavy setback on land, Suleiman gained dominion in the Mediterranean, while Barbarossa Hayreddin, under the authority of the Ottoman Sultan, destroyed the fortresses of Spanish and Italian ports and weakened the Spanish Habsburg rule. .

After the last attempt to defeat the Protestant princes in 1555 failed, Charles V began to fade out of the government. He handed over his own Spain and the Low Countries to his son Philip II, who continued Spain and France after Philip II succeeded to the throne. war.

At this time, Charles V arranged a marriage and let his daughter Juana marry Prince Joao Manuel, the grandson of King Joao III of Portugal. The Portuguese king was generally frail, and the prince and Juana only had one son alive. Come down, this is Sebastian. It may be because he was regarded as the hope of Portugal's resurgence since he was a child. He has exercised in various harsh environments and climates since he was a child, and even drove a small boat to sea in a storm. After he came to power in 1568, he carried out a series of reforms in the country. Although the maritime trade from East India to Lisbon was still in the hands of the Portuguese, the cargo volume and trade value of this route were declining day by day. This is because the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, The trade routes of Egypt and Italy were active again.

In view of the fact that the royal family began to sell some merchants the privilege of going to the East Indies, many Portuguese will attack North Africa to get more trade lines and gold on the agenda.

Sebastian was convinced that he would become a commander of the infidels and that it was worthwhile to glorify God on the battlefield, so he led 20,000 people against Morocco in 1578. At this time, he was not married, nor left any children, and he died in battle while crossing the Mahazan River alone, at the age of 24.

The Portuguese nobles who accompanied him on the expedition after his death were captured. The Portuguese have always been reluctant to rule them by Spain. This time they waited for the family to pay the ransom. Philip II of Spain paid the money and expressed respect for the independence of Portugal. It will not interfere with Portugal's ocean trade. In 1580, Philip II of Spain also took the crown of Portugal.

At this time, it was also the most intense time of the Dutch Revolution. The seven northern provinces declared their independence and became the Netherlands later. Therefore, in 1591, Portugal, as the territory of Philip of Spain, cut off commercial exchanges with the Netherlands and handed over the spice business to the Netherlands. Burgers further north.

In this way, the Netherlands joined the great voyage and began to run to Southeast Asia and India by itself. In 1602, the Dutch East India Company was established and became a "sea coachman".

It is true that you will die when you go out to sea, even if you don’t die, you will die early, but if you don’t go out to sea, you can only continue to be a fisherman, which is unbearable no matter what.

There is a phrase in English called "godutch", which means not to go to Holland, but to make aa, which was the last solution she could think of before she lost her mind.

She knew what Bonaparte wanted to do. Just like the metaphor of the discoverer of game theory, it would be wise not to invite everyone to the most beautiful girl, but to invite her female companion, so that everyone can dance.

But at the dance of the Triwizard Tournament, everyone invited Fleur, and even Ron wanted to try his luck.

While chatting just now, Mrs. Bolski talked about her husband's business in India. Enterprises always want to manage the expenses of employees, but in fact it is always difficult to do so. If you want to keep the company in a monopoly position, you need to win over local officials to obtain local concessions.

There is a city called Chennai in Bangladesh. The local representative even has to report the tiger's feeding fee to the public account. This tiger was not raised by the local representative, but by a general under the sultan of Mysore. Developed and constructed by an Indian company, it was captured by the French for a period of time, and later fell into the hands of the Sultan of Mysore. The benefits of raising a tiger and reselling the local dyed cloth are not worth mentioning.

There are also colorful sari, and Alexander of Macedonia could not use force to change the custom of women wearing sari.

Mrs. Bolski was very young at the time, and she was beautiful in sari. Her aging and the twins drank the age-enhancing agent, trying to hide the age line. Participating in the Triwizard Tournament is different. It is reversible. The effect of the potion is temporary. It's back to normal.

It's time...

"Help!"

Before she could finish her emotion, she heard a faint voice.

She listened carefully for a while, and heard a knocking sound. She carefully searched the boxes one by one, and finally found the origin of the sound.

It was a very ordinary box, very big, very similar to the kind used by magicians to change the living.

"Help!"

This time she heard clearly, it was a girl's voice.

She took her wand out of her bracelet and unlocked the chest.

First a piece of red sari popped with a bang, and then she saw a pretty girl stand up from the box.

It reminded her of the first time Cleopatra met Caesar, she was said to be hiding in the carpet, and her appearance must have made Caesar shine.

"Where is this?" the young man asked after looking around for four weeks.

"Belgium, near Brussels." Georgiana replied "How did you get Padma here?"

"Who are you and how do you know me?" asked Padma Patil.

That's because I taught you two sisters for six years.

Pomona thought, but didn't say it, at least they were more recognizable than the Weasley twins.

"I have the same problem, how do you know her?"