Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2403 The Kingdom of the Lord of the Rings (1)

  At the beginning of the 17th century, the Portuguese ships were rarely equipped with cannons, and their ships were full of goods for making money. When the two armies faced each other, they indulged in hand-to-hand combat in the Middle Ages. The Dutch, on the other hand, avoided close combat as much as possible, preferring to fire from a suitable distance with cannons. There was no cargo stacked on the upper deck, and the cannons were operated by professional personnel.

   It is difficult to say which fighting method is more effective. At that time, Newton was not born, and there was no way to calculate the ballistics. The gunner who controlled the cannon fired almost by experience and luck. The Portuguese did not have enough weapons and equipment, and even if they had weapons, they were neglected and left to rust without maintenance.

These two fighting styles affected the other two countries, England and Spain. The British style of naval warfare was closer to the Dutch, while the Spaniards were closer to the Portuguese. Their ships were built like fortresses on the sea. There will be advantages.

The inland river is not like the sea, it can't open the distance, can't set up the formation, and the draft of the ship will also be affected. At this time, the advantages of the Spanish ships are reflected, not to mention that in addition to the ships, there are also bunkers, forts and the like on the land. fortifications.

  It is also all water. Salt water is much more corrosive to iron than fresh water. Even if iron is forged into steel, it is not resistant to corrosion. Therefore, it is necessary to apply anti-rust paint, or use copper like the prow of the "Alert". Fresh water is relatively easy, stainless steel is indeed corrosion resistant, but it is expensive to forge and cannot be built without cheap steel.

In the Middle Ages iron and steel were mainly used in weapons such as armor and swords. However, during the Thirty Years' War, where Gustav was in, those armor and swords have been gradually replaced by arquebuses, and line tactics have gradually become mainstream. .

  Compared with the British Industrial Revolution, Sweden's industry seems to be mediocre, not as bright as steam engines and textile industries, especially after the 18th century Sweden gradually weakened, but it is indeed an industrial powerhouse.

  There is a high latitude, and agriculture is subject to natural conditions. The battle axe used by Vikings is also a production tool for their logging in peacetime. Its usage rate and popularity far exceed that of expensive swords.

   But the sword is still the most worshiped weapon of the Vikings. It is much more difficult to make a sword than an axe, and the cost is higher. It is not available to ordinary people, not to mention that it is very troublesome to maintain. It is usually used by nobles.

A good Viking sword can be exchanged for a house and a small field. It was popularized from northern Europe to Europe in the Middle Ages. This kind of sword was made wide and thick, in order to increase the strength of the blade, so that the blade can be used in battle. It will not be broken due to bending. King Arthur's broken steel sword is taken from the ancient Celtic word "excalibur". The ancient Celts were a people who once lived in northern Europe. According to legend, they were the builders of Stonehenge. During Caesar's conquest of Gaul There had been battles against them, and in the end the Romans had taken most of Britain and Spain from them.

   When ancient Rome fell, the Celts occupied northwestern France, Ireland, Wales and parts of Scotland. In the Middle Ages, only a few settlements remained in Ireland, and in the era of the Vikings, their power was concentrated only in Dublin. Celtic legends record the story of the invasion of the Fumo clan. According to the legend, they are huge and ugly, bursting and cruel by nature, representing the power of evil. The Partlans fought them hard for **** of Ireland, eventually driving them to the North Sea.

  It was also around that time that an Irish tribe invaded southern Scotland and named the area after its own tribe's name "scoti", which was used in English hundreds of years later to represent the whole of Scotland.

  The Vikings have always believed that the sword is magical, and the sword has self-awareness, so the sword has always been called anthropomorphic. In Norse mythology, both the main **** Odin and Thor are the gods of forging, and even Loki, the **** of lies, is the **** of fire.

Tyr is the **** of war, and also the protector of oath and glory. When the gods wanted to lock the giant wolf Fenrir with magic chains, Tyr bound the magic wolf at the expense of his right hand. Since then, Tyr has become One-armed, except in Ragnarok, there is almost no description of him personally fighting, but he still carries a sword at all times. The ancients had the custom of making an oath on the sword, and some people engraved the "Tyr rune" on the hilt of the sword to pray for victory before the war.

  The Broken Steel Sword is also known as the Sword of Oath and Victory. As well as this sword are the Knights of the Round Table and Merlin.

After going through so many things, if Edgeworth hadn't mentioned the stories that circulated among Irish folks, she would have almost forgotten what "dream" she once had. She regarded Napoleon as King Arthur, and she was "Merlin".

  In mythology, when Ireland was in dire straits under the rule of the Fumo tribe, there was also a prayer for a hero to save them. But the Irish, at least the Archbishop of Troy, did not expect the French to come.

  The Irish feared the French Revolution, especially what they did to the church, and when they first heard that the French were going to invade by sea in 1794, it caused a lot of panic.

  Troy is another name that appears in mythology, which is not surprising at all. For example, there are many women named Helen, but not every one of them is as beautiful as the Helen who provoked the Trojan War.

   In many stories, the role of women is just a decoration, their only function is beauty. Edgeworth felt that girls also needed to read. When Maria was five years old, he rummaged through more than 40 children's books, but couldn't find one suitable for her, until he found Priestley's friend , a book by Dr. Akin's daughter Anna, who unfortunately was a Rousseauist and had a disastrous marriage to a Frenchman, which her brother blamed on her reading The New Eloy s".

Abelard and Eloise are to the French what Romeo and Juliet are to the English, but unlike Romeo and Juliet, the story takes place between two feuding families in Italy, Abelard and Eloise. Eloise's story is a medieval teacher-student romance, and Eloise was pregnant when Eloise's uncle knew of the two's relationship and ordered them to break up.

  Abelard sends Eloise back to his home in Brittany, where he stays in Paris to face the wrath of Eloise's uncle. In order to restore the woman's reputation, Eloise's uncle agreed to the marriage of the two, and when their son was born, the two held a secret wedding. But this did not satisfy the uncle. The uncle spoke ill of Eloise, and sometimes punched and kicked. Out of protection, Abelard decided to send Eloise to the monastery, but his uncle thought it was Abelard. To completely abandon Eloise, he tortured Abelard inhumanely.

Eloise, who was sent to the monastery, also suffered from spiritual torment. She converted to God, but not because of her love for God. After 15 years, Abelard did not write a letter or visit Elo. is.

Fortunately, both of them have complete and independent personalities and souls. Even though they were severely tortured, they still did not fall down. Araber resumed teaching after recovering, and Eloise became a woman of high status in the church. One of the abbots, both won respect for their extensive knowledge.

   Later, they began to communicate again, but Arab's letter was full of philosophical and ethical discussions, almost avoiding the previous feelings, ignoring the love in Eloise's letter, and appearing as a condescending leader.

This is also where Edgeworth reminded Georgiana that she did not actually ask Padma if she was willing to go to London to investigate and arranged for her without authorization. Even though they used to be a teacher-student relationship, now Padma has graduated. Georgiana should be treated "equally" as an adult.

   As a father, how do you feel when you see that your daughter is more successful than you? In particular, he was married four times, had a bride a year younger than his daughter, had a bad telegraph career, and received a death warning for his political affiliation.

   Edgeworth was also a Rousseauist before, and he even educated his first son in the way of Emile. But after seeing the French Revolution with his own eyes, he chose to support Ireland's annexation to the United Kingdom, thinking that at least the British navy could protect Ireland.

  Rousseau's thought is a question of authority. If Georgiana intends to cultivate a free, equal and independent natural person, don't use "I am her teacher" to respond to other people's doubts.

   Later, Edgeworth used "You look young" to overthrow the authority she was trying to erect. She held back her breath and did not argue with him.

   There was a young Rousseauist at the same time as Edgeworth, but he did not choose to reconcile science and industry like Edgeworth. He advocates nature, Rousseau's naturalism is "attribute to nature", nature has a beautiful and magical side, but also a brutal and chaotic side, Edgeworth's friends became more and more radical, and finally became the opposition of the rise of industry By.

   But despite their different ideas, they were still friends, and the two searched for a way to live in harmony, and in the end they chose farming.

  The story says that devils and wizards will turn dung into food to trick people into eating, so people in the Middle Ages stopped fertilizing.

It was not until the Renaissance in the late Middle Ages that people began to simply fertilize, which did not include human dung, and the dung piled up outside Paris. It was not until the authority of the French Revolution Church was overthrown that people "began" to accept that dung could be used for fertilization. , its main function is to extract materials for making gunpowder.

   Now that Georgiana's identity as a witch has been "exposed", it may be said that the witch turned the feces into food for them to eat.

  When people get together, when they don't know what is right, they will act according to other people's opinions, and they will follow what others do.

  Some people will deliberately cater to those people to gain their approval. When Muggles were worried because of natural disasters reducing production, some people said that they were specially fighting against bad wizards who destroyed crops. Even the werewolf joins in the fun, saying that he is the dog of God, specializing in biting wizards.

   "Sometimes little girls have unrealistic fantasies that they really have magic powers."

   "How can Georgiana be a prophet, she's just talking nonsense."

   Edgeworth answers every time someone asks a question.

   Edgeworth doesn't believe in magic, even though he lives in Ireland, a land full of ghosts, fairies, and vampires.

  Compared to using Swedish steel for the locks of the locks, Edgeworth recommends using these high-quality steels for the linking parts of the locks. In fact, in addition to being a chain for binding slaves, it is more often used as a door pin.

   The first grade "Elementary Spells" recorded the unlocking spell "alohomora". In fact, as long as the lock is opened, it doesn't matter whether the chain is broken or not, and the sword does not need to risk being broken to forcefully split the chain.

   But "alohomora" only works on low-level locks and spells. The more advanced it is, the harder it is to unlock. Georgiana used Animagus to break free from the chains on her feet. There are many people who deform privately, but can't change back to human form. Every time Animagus is actually dangerous.

   But now she wanted to try it, so after Edgeworth was gone, she opened the window, the fresh air was cold but refreshing, and she couldn't wait to see what it was like to fly high.

   Then she thought of swans in ballet, where dancers imitate swan wings with their hands, which is anatomically impossible.

   But that still doesn't stop people from imitating and imagining.

  As a large bird, the swan needs to run before it can fly, but the purpose of doing so is to generate airflow, similar to an airplane, that is to say, she needs wind.

   Before starting the run, she cast a spell on the window, and the wind from the outside blew in towards the house.

   She rushed forward against the wind and jumped up suddenly when she reached the edge of the windowsill...

Two seconds later, no sound was heard, and a few seconds later, a snow-white feather blew in along the wind and landed on the ground. The only sound in the quiet room was the crackling of wood burning in the stove, and the curtains followed. The wind fluttered gently, like the hem of a dress, circling with the dance steps.

   (end of this chapter)