Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2376 Stupefy (Part 1)

  Georgianna has read such a book, which tells the story of a boy nicknamed "π" and a Bengal tiger drifting on the sea.

  "π" is an ancient Greek letter, representing pi, which is an infinite non-repeating decimal, which has been proved by mathematicians in both the East and ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. But some people think that the ancient Indians had already realized it in 800 BC, and it was recorded in the Indian religious masterpiece "Hundred Paths of Brahman".

  An English writer believes that the Egyptians had discovered when they built the Pyramid of Khufu, and the ratio of the circumference and height of the pyramid is exactly twice the circumference of pi.

The Arabic numerals, which are widely used today, are not actually invented by the Arabs. They were first invented by the Indians. Arab scholars are willing to learn these advanced knowledge, and businessmen are also willing to do business in this way. Later, the Arabs will This number was introduced into Spain, and then spread to other European countries by the Pope. By the 13th century, even ordinary Europeans began to use "Arabic numerals".

Parvati and Padma are both fond of divination, but only Hermione Granger is interested in numeracy in their dorm room, while the Petil sisters and Lavender prefer Trelawney and centaurs Phelan Ze's course.

  There are many European men who marry local women in India, integrate into the local society, and facilitate the implementation of local businesses. The objects of their marriages are generally upper-class people. At first they were submissive to their husbands like traditional women, and then they gradually began to "understand" and began to intervene in their husband's accounting business.

   Few of these East India Company employees aspired to get rich on dead wages, and the vast majority were privately engaged in a large number of trades to earn extra money. The other is to find ways to exploit loopholes, no matter how strict the regulations are to stop them. As long as they report their expenses in other names, such as tigers, banquets, etc., they can avoid the regulations and embezzle public funds.

   The situation was so serious that the company's total revenue plummeted, and the company's tyrannical expropriation in India triggered an uprising, and in order to suppress the uprising, it continued to increase spending. London also began to wonder whether these people were doing it for personal or corporate interests, especially after the American Revolution broke out and William Pitt Jr. overhauled the East India Company.

  Georgianna joked with Pete that he was like a "housekeeper", and he accepted the "nickname" with a smile. This kind of housekeeper is not just wearing a tuxedo, but also his "nosy" who annoys other servants, while his own home is stolen by servants.

  These ledgers in the hands of the "little wife" will become evidence in court, but Europe is monogamous, and some men have wives in Europe, and they have no idea what their husbands have done abroad.

   The usual result is that the man will divorce his European wife and marry a woman he met at work. Considering the efforts Henry VIII put into getting divorced, it is much easier to get divorced in England than in France. However, in the 18th century, there was no written law for divorce, and the national law recognized the dissolution of the church and the divorce by the independent act of Congress. These two divorce methods are complicated and expensive, and legal divorce is out of reach for most people.

   At this time, separation can be filed, usually by the man, and the amount of alimony should be stated in the separation lawsuit. In most cases, the woman will be dissatisfied with the amount of alimony. There were few employment opportunities for the estranged wife at the time, so getting a living allowance was the wife's only means of survival.

   Usually, the children will follow the party with more property, but there are also a few judges who award the children to the wife, and the husband has to pay child support. In the late 17th century, the poor could still pay for litigation. A century later, servants, crew members, etc. almost no longer litigated for divorce. Divorce lawsuits were generally made by the middle and upper classes. After all, in addition to paying court fees, there were also lawyers’ commissions. .

   And this is just the beginning of the trouble.

   Allow "innocent" husbands to remarry after the dissolution of the original marriage, prohibit the remarriage of adulterous wives, and stop the provision of alimony if they remarry. The judge's decision to award the children to European wives is also based on the fact that after awarding the husband, the children will have a foreign "stepmother", which is not suitable for raising children who conform to European moral values. But there are special circumstances, when European wives will lose their children, a woman once complained in the newspaper "I can't imagine anything in human life that can be more depressing than my unkind husband completely taking away my children. human suffering".

   This has aroused the general sympathy of public opinion, so what should we do? Kill your wife? Too risky. Fortunately, there is a system of pawning in the UK. Selling the wife will solve the problem.

  Before the divorce system was established, selling a wife was a means for husband and wife to break away from the relationship. In some cases, it was a public auction on the surface, but in fact the buyer was the lover of the woman who had arranged in advance, so that high litigation costs could be avoided.

   There are also buyers who are the woman’s brother, mother, or even brother-in-law, but this is suitable for farmers, and the middle class still needs to be decent. In order not to expose privacy and family shame, agreement separation is becoming more and more common.

  Divorce means that the woman will lose her child. She is also worried that her stepmother will abuse her child. She will not agree to the divorce. On the other side is a foreign wife who is chasing the man to complete the marriage procedures as soon as possible. She also has evidence of the man's corruption and smuggling. This situation has become a "lesson" for the company to educate its employees abroad, not to get too close to the "locals". The Dutch East India Company also released a divorce drama called "The Bitter Bond", which tells the story of how a woman struggles with her husband, an adventurer who spied on her property, in the Dutch colony in the 17th century. Van Nienrudd fought a tug-of-war for fifteen years to defend his property rights.

   Do you think this is the end? No, there is also the issue of inheritance rights for children. Pomona had met a young man named Iris before. His father fell in love with Mrs. Zabini. He only gave Iris and his mother a villa and a pitiful living allowance, and the rest. all to Mrs. Zabini.

After he died, Bryce Zabini would inherit everything that belonged to Iris in the future. In order to get revenge, Iris joined the new pure blood organization, and he sent Bryce to... a place she can't remember the name, It is said that the Quidditch there is very good.

   This is the meaning of the family meeting. The man has brothers and uncles, and the woman can designate them as guardians of the children. The summoned blood relatives, in-laws or friends must attend in person, and they must carry out activities for the benefit of the minor children. Unless the guardian has public office, military service, or is over 65 years old, and is seriously ill, he can refuse.

When the spouses remarry with children from a previous marriage, the new spouse shall only be gifted to the new spouse in an amount equal to the income of the least wealthy of the children born in wedlock, and in no case shall such gift exceed one-fourth of his property First, to a certain extent, it makes it difficult for husbands to deprive their first-married children of the inheritance rights to favor remarried wives.

  The Petil sisters all work at the British Museum, and many of the antiques that Muggles loot from around the world are cursed. With men's "interest" in India in this day and age, Padma would be dangerous, even if she were a witch.

   Just when she was hesitating, Bonaparte appeared aggressively. He glanced at Padma, who had "changed the living", and at Georgiana, as if waiting for her explanation.

  Why isn't there a Bludger hidden in these boxes and hit her in the head all at once?

   (end of this chapter)