Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2397 Water of Freedom (Part 1)

  Because of the administration of the Marquis of Pombal, many Portuguese felt that they could no longer survive on the mainland, so they crossed the sea to Brazil, where they began to settle.

The reason for the statistics of the slave trade from 1757 to 1777 is also because this period was the peak period of Pombal reform and immigration. Mararion was originally the most backward and lazy undeveloped area in the Portuguese maritime empire, but only 21 years later. It became the most dynamic and prosperous place, and from there it was grown, and the rice spread all over South America was enough for the whole country of Portugal. There are also rice processing plants in the area, and the huge Portuguese merchant fleet transports rice back to Europe, and this fleet also transports European goods back to Brazil. They are active on the coasts of Brazil, Europe and the Indian Ocean, making Portugal a sea again. Powerful country.

   Yet Portugal could not deny British ships access to their ports, and this was not something that Godoy or Napoleon ordered to prohibit.

  The sails of the navy are all made of cotton, and although these cotton textile owners can refuse to pay taxes, they can donate money to repair warships, which is the same as the new French warship "Commercial de Paris". In their eyes, the country is important because it can ensure the production and construction of cotton textile factories by taking a series of measures, the most important of which is the extremely low price of raw cotton.

   Now that raw materials are rising every day, if you want to save costs, you can only use cheap child labor, and the new factory law tries to protect their interests. Metternich thought that Napoleon was angry that Austria sold him a bad horse. In fact, he was forming a second anti-British alliance. The first anti-British alliance could be understood as the American Revolutionary War, and Austria did not know whether to choose Neutral, the result could not satisfy Bonaparte anyway.

   Now sugar and silk can be freely exchanged. Compared with England, France has a much larger population and market. People who have been hungry for a long time can at least feel a little happiness when they can eat sweet cane sugar.

  Remus insists that after something bad happens or is attacked by a dementor, it's better to eat something sweet.

   She was also going to find something sweet to eat, and when she wiped away her tears, she left the room and found Bonaparte waiting for her outside.

   She didn't know what to say for a while, so she stood there and didn't speak.

   "I heard them talk about the general situation, and asked them to write a report to me." He said after a long time, "You don't like diamonds, some people do."

   "This will lead to a bad atmosphere..."

   "In the past, the diamonds of the French royal family were also used as collateral, and they could be rescued at a critical moment." Before she could finish speaking, he interrupted her, "Not to mention I got those diamonds back."

   She wanted to raise her hand and slap him.

   "Yes, I didn't take it, I took it back." He smiled and said, as if seeing through her thoughts, "Grassini never thought they were dirty."

  Georgianna smiled.

   "What are you laughing at?" he said coldly.

   She was so tired that she said, "Can I borrow your shoulder to lean on."

   He didn't move.

   So she walked over and put her head on his shoulder.

"Hamilton is very shrewd." She closed her eyes and said in a hoarse voice. "He has issued a lot of bonds in Europe, but he does not allow individuals to hold 1,000 shares, and the subscriber needs to pay 25% of the stock price in gold, whichever it is. No one can hold that much gold, not even the King of Portugal, who has a gold mine, but everyone has a little gold in their hands."

   He didn't say what she said was inconsistent, so she went on.

   "But a carat of diamonds is worth much more than gold. Do you know how much the difference between the loan and the price you bought it when you mortgaged it?"

   He took her head off his shoulders, and then he kissed her, reminding her of the heavy rain, when they were outside the Church of Our Lady of the Victory.

   It was the bride and groom who kissed in the church, they were not, but he was happy and said "I love you" to God.

At that time, she remembered the story that Sharptard told. It was also a rainy day. Bonaparte was still studying in the military academy. At that time, he was debating with a classmate. On the way back to the dormitory, he encountered a heavy rain, and he hid under a tree to avoid the rain. , while someone driving a two-wheeled carriage passed in front of him.

   That man happened to meet in the previous debate. He was driving a two-wheeled carriage, and he did not intend to take Bonaparte for a while, leaving him to hide under a dangerous tree. Later, if the man wanted to be promoted, no matter how many people said good things, it was of no use. Bonaparte just did not promote him.

   "It would be nice if you had always been a cadet." She said softly, "Why choose this cursed profession?"

   "Why have you been refusing to graduate?" he asked rhetorically.

"what?"

   He did not answer.

   "Did a lot of people pursue you at school?" he asked after a while.

   "No." She thought for a moment and said, "But I have a few friends of the opposite sex."

   "What about the same sex?"

   "Unless I make myself ugly on purpose, I have a same-sex friend who is pretty and is isolated."

   "She's more beautiful than you?"

   "No, she's just an ordinary human girl." Georgiana paused. "She's Lily with red hair."

   Bonaparte scoffed.

"what?"

   "He gave up on you for that woman?"

   "He didn't abandon me!" she quibble.

   Bonaparte didn't say, "If he didn't abandon you, why didn't he come to you".

   "Some things must be lost to know their value." He said after a moment, "but not everything can be lost and found."

   She doesn't like the metaphor, but she doesn't say silly things like "I'm not a thing" either.

   "I'm tired, Leon." She was so tired, she said, "Take me back to the room."

   He actually did that.

   When her feet were off the ground, she suddenly remembered the "last time", when she seemed to have just left St. Mungo's.

When she was in Venice, she "bought" some antique furniture from an antique dealer. They used to belong to a textile family. Their family was not bad, but fate seemed to curse them. She really shouldn't put those The furniture is placed in the suitcase.

   There is also a greenhouse in that suitcase, which was given to her by Severus. The greenhouse was originally placed in Malfoy Manor, the camp where werewolves once stationed. At that time, she was naive enough to think that it could purify this dark power.

  Draco's curse on and off the necklace, as terrifying as it may seem, is not as unsolvable as the curse on Albus's hands.

More often, people always want what they don't have. Those who have never thought about "loss" will not understand it. It is precisely because they know "loss" that in order to avoid more losses, Albus chooses to stand. On the opposite side of Grindelwald.

  Once the once steadfast, bright and beautiful "future" disappears, the "now" cannot last. When the Hebrews were enslaved in Egypt, although life was hard, they had nothing to do with food and clothing, and they quarreled with each other all day long. Later, Moses told them that there was a promised land that united them, but when they wandered in the desert for a long time, they began to miss the comfortable life in Egypt.

  Egypt was not the Garden of Eden, but even in the Garden of Eden, the rules had to be followed, and the forbidden fruit was not allowed. Adam and Eve did not listen, and were then expelled from Eden.

   The Garden of Eden sometimes resembles a tropical rainforest, but there are no snakes in the Garden of Eden, the only one that was changed by Satan.

   But in her eyes, snakes do not represent evil, but also alchemy and medicine.

   After putting her on the bed, he did not leave in a hurry, but sat beside the bed and held her hand, as if she was a dying person.

   She almost said "Last Wish".

   But she just looked into his eyes and said nothing.

   Now she doesn't want to be alone, it doesn't matter whether God or the devil is by her side at the moment.

   (end of this chapter)