Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2419 royalcircus (two)

  Georgianna noticed that Richard Edgeworth wore a blue sash.

   Many people will wear it when attending formal occasions. Perhaps her eyes stayed a little longer, and Edgeworth couldn't help but look down.

   "Is there a problem?" Edgeworth asked, trying to silk check the sash for stains.

   "I heard... the Orange Belt Party." Georgiana said cautiously.

   Edgeworth's fingers were removed from the Gartland sash.

   "This time Ireland and England merged, they made a lot of effort." Georgiana said.

   "But I'm not." Edgeworth laughed. "I don't know William III of Orange."

  Georgianna didn't answer, and Rupe said the same thing yesterday in the pool room.

"There is also a statue of King William in the college green space, and since 1740 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, there has been a parade on King William's birthday every year, including 1779." Edgeworth said "but that was out. Some riots, some people hang some signs from the statues, some people carry weapons."

   "1779?" Padma asked.

"The Irish also joined the American Revolutionary War, Miss Patil, and that parade was held by the Irish Volunteers who were going to North America," said Edgeworth, who was politely approaching Padma, "after the war was over. They have returned to Ireland and have become an important force in protecting Dublin and complementing the police force."

   In 1689, the British Parliament announced that James II would renounce the throne, but James II went to Ireland to seek supporters. In 1690, William III, who married Mary II and won the British crown, led 35,000 Dutch Blue Guards to land in Ireland and defeated James II's army, causing James II to go into exile in France again. 1740 happened to be the 50th anniversary of the battle.

The way London restricts the export of Irish wool is to promulgate the "Wool Act", which is not only for Ireland, but also the North American colonies. However, for North America, there is also a "Navigation Regulations", all goods exported from North America are included. To get to British ports, there is also the abolition of taxes on British woolen exports to the colonies, so that British woollens can compete with the colonies at lower prices.

  The enactment of this Act had two consequences. First, there were fewer people raising sheep in Ireland. Second, the Atlantic trade from Ireland to North America was almost completely stopped, leaving only the trade routes to Philadelphia and the Caribbean. Irish sugar mills process Caribbean sugar into fine sugar for re-export trade.

   Compared to the weavers, the sugar industry has a much smaller working population, and when English sugar destroyed the Irish sugar industry, it didn't cause much reaction. Since the accession of William and Mary II of Orange, the Irish people's demand has been "free trade". Supporters of this faction believe that the prohibition of Irish trade has created special benefits for the United Kingdom, especially the southwest of the United Kingdom. However, this prohibition and prohibition Yorkshire trade is just as pointless. However, by the time of the merger in 1785, part of the Irish did not want "free trade" anymore.

  Irish people who want free trade saw that Britain opened their ports, and it was the British restrictions on Ireland that led to the poverty of Ireland. There were also flax merchants, and England had long been favouring Ireland in the flax trade. But for the muslin merchants, it was a disaster. Originally, the most consumed fabric in Ireland was silk. After the tariffs were removed, the cheap muslin surpassed it, which also led to the closure of Irish cotton factories.

   But the Irish couldn't refuse the bill given to them by the British Parliament, and couldn't put it aside like the Witchcraft Act, so informal resistance was used. For example, the importers and tailors are painted with tar, feathers, or the uniforms of the Irish Volunteers are all Irish fabrics.

   In 1795, the mounted police and uniformed patrol officers were abolished, because the police were often surrounded by layers on the street, and it was necessary to use the army to rescue them. The Irish Volunteer Army, which was born in Dublin, was supported by the guilds, and since the Hanoverian dynasty, Ireland has established a representative parliament based on the guilds, in which the weavers' guild supported a volunteer army.

The students recruited from the King's Medical College became frightened after being surrounded several times. The number of police dropped sharply. The police station was considered a "cumbersome and useless" institution. Some political prisoners were released in the spring of this year.

   These are actually not the point.

Large industries are based on cities, Edgeworth bought a small town and named it after his own surname, and he advocated the promotion of the telegraph, for those country people, "If you want people to live and work in peace, the most trustworthy thing is Bayonet", Edgeworth also had a Protestant cavalry to maintain law and order, and still received a death warning on the way home from the newlyweds.

  The army has taken on too many functions of the city police, and it is easy to form a situation like the Cromwell period. The volunteer army of the Law Society has openly "rebelled" and opposed the merger of England and Ireland, contrary to the position of the lawyers. The advantage of the reform is that it can remove the functions of the army city police, but this will strengthen the power of the local council.

  After the union of England and Ireland, the judicial autonomy that Ireland had acquired for participating in the American Revolution was withdrawn, and the shipping restrictions imposed on Ireland by "free trade" were cancelled. When they heard the news on Christmas Day 1779, the citizens cheered and lit up everywhere.

   Of course, free trade must have preferential tariffs. It is better to cancel the checkpoint, but the Irish asked to postpone the reduction of tariffs. Edgeworth's friend Wedgwood had organized in 1785 all the industrialists in Scotland and England to discuss this matter. The politicians could not ignore their interests. They drafted a number of pamphlets and distributed them throughout the country. It was also written by James Watt, the most influential of which was the printing industry.

   Among the old books of the 16th century, Georgiana saw a book that England could not be dyed bright red, which also led to the entry of Indian red cotton cloth into the United Kingdom despite various restrictions.

  Ireland's hourly wages are lower, and the UK's textile industry cannot always sell below cost to gain a price advantage.

   Dyeing workers threatened to strike and demanded that all clauses be stopped. But others feel that a larger market can be obtained. For calico manufacturers in a period of expansion, access to cheap raw materials and an open market is the primary goal.

  When Ireland could not get the benefits from "free trade", the demands were completely reversed and became demands for the integrity of legislative sovereignty, and England also got the nicknames "brutal stepmother" and "jealous sister".

  The Anglo-Irish merger in 1801 offered a promise of seats, but the king refused, and William Pitt, Jr., who had made the promise, resigned as if it could be written off.

   "I, I don't understand." Padma stammered and asked, "Is there such a big difference between dyed and undyed fabrics?"

"Take your blue dress as an example. If you buy American indigo with a 400% tariff, it will be very expensive, but if a neutral country buys it and only pays a 4% tariff, there are huge profits." Georgiana said, "Everyone wants to do this business, and there will be price competition, and huge profits will become small profits, but the price of white cotton is the same, he can sell it to anyone, and the sales volume is also larger because of the expansion of the market. ."

  Padma suddenly realized.

   "Which faction is Wedgwood from?" Georgiana asked Edgeworth, a former member of the Moonlight Club and a friend of Wedgwood.

   Edgeworth didn't answer, he looked out the window.

   "We're here," he said.

   As soon as he finished speaking, the carriage stopped. Georgiana also looked out the window and found Saint Tyrel standing on the steps.

   "What is this place?" Padma asked.

   "Royal Institute of Natural Sciences." Edgeworth put on his hat. "The world needs a little reason, ladies."

   After saying that, he opened the door.

   (end of this chapter)