Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 3027 queen’s pleasure (6)

  The sky is getting dark, and the corridors are full of people, some are worrying about the upcoming exams, and some are discussing where to go during the summer vacation.

  Pomona's eyes quickly swept across the carefree faces of the students.

  In fact, besides investing in real estate, Malfoy has other ways to recover the losses caused by the abolition of the Corn Laws. When Queen Victoria and Prince Albert toured Scotland in 1842, the railway was not yet open to traffic. Compared with railways, urban housing costs were high, the cycle was long, and profits were low, making it difficult to attract commercial investment. In 1851, the investor of Crystal Palace was the owner of a railway company. It's just that the wizarding world planned to introduce the Muggle Railway to pick up Hogwarts students, but Malfoy, like other pure-bloods, chose to oppose it.

   "You don't know about 'Bloody Mary'?" While passing by a small group, Pomona heard a girl say in a high-pitched voice, as if people who didn't know about the game "Bloody Mary" came from another world.

   "So what? It's not like you didn't know about the Shrieking Shack before." The mocked person retorted.

  Pomona shook his head. Every summer vacation, "explorers" love to go to such places to "exercise" their guts.

  In fact, shortly after Malfoy sold Wilt's land to Muggles to build manors, those manors began to be "haunted", and most of the people moved away. Except for one family, the male owner of that family is a lover of "spiritual" events. He often invites friends to the manor to play. Later, it is said that a tragedy happened, and then the manor was completely abandoned.

  Times have changed, and the sold land was bought back by the Malfoy family, and the Malfoy family has several more real estate companies and land in London.

   Shortly after the victory of the parliamentary reform in 1832, the Municipal Self-Government Organs Act was passed in 1835, and Birmingham, Manchester, etc. became municipalities, and they could form their own elected parliaments.

  At that time, the purpose of cities was not to promote human civilization, or even to make people live comfortably, especially in industrial cities. Their purpose was to create more wealth. Emerging industrialists used their own entrepreneurial experience to think that struggle would lead to success, and they should not enjoy themselves until they succeeded.

   At that time, there was no need to worry about the lack of people. In addition to a large number of landless laborers, there were also Irish people, who crowded the streets, large and small.

  However, as Marx mentioned in Das Kapital, the original labor law was that Edward III hired labor at a "reasonable" price in order to protect the interests of employers, and defined wages and working days, because the Black Death caused a large number of deaths.

  If a disease like cholera breaks out in one place, people will choose to leave and migrate to other cities. What's more, employers are not only factories, but also households who hire helpers and cooks. Infectious diseases will spread from the bottom to the employers' homes. Various laws have been promulgated successively to regulate the appearance, internal facilities, wall thickness, street thickness, drainage and sewage discharge of newly built houses.

  Severus’ house in Spider’s End was built according to this standard, but it was a tied house. The house belonged to the factory owner, and the workers could live for free while they were employed. Later, Severus’ grandfather bought the property rights of the house. The boss at that time was on the verge of bankruptcy, so he sold these houses to the workers.

   During this period, philanthropy played a particularly important role in housing issues, and funds raised through charitable donations were used to build "model homes" for workers.

  This kind of model residence not only solves the housing problem. First, the local government has to sell the land to the model residence company at a "low price" to build "charity" houses. Second, to open this kind of model residence company requires a "royal charter", not a charter from the parliament. The government grants these "model residence" companies the status of a chartered legal person.

  Another thing happened in 1858, that is, the East India Company was lifted from administrative power. Since Elizabeth I, Britain has given the work of overseas colonization to companies that granted charters. After the Glorious Revolution, the Hudson’s Bay Company obtained a parliamentary charter in 1690. This company was the earliest developer of Anglo-America.

  The United States provided Britain with cheap grain and cotton, but India was the diamond in the crown. Although the Suez Canal was not opened at that time, ships did not need to detour to India but went to the Cape of Good Hope, because Palmerston proposed the Suez Railway Construction plan. Digging canals is expensive, and there is a height difference between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, and railways do not have these constraints.

  In short, it is difficult to finance the construction of housing. Malfoy is flying around in the living rooms of various ladies like a butterfly wearing a flower. His family has produced handsome men throughout the generations. A gentleman like him who is polite, kind, and serves public affairs is very popular.

  Malthusism was already very popular at that time. Human beings have two basic desires. The growth of resources will inevitably lead to population growth. Therefore, population growth must be limited to achieve a balance between materials and population.

  But when the bigwigs worry about these theories, they may forget one issue—to popularize contraceptive knowledge to the public—so that they can worry less about "how to eliminate the poor."

   Lucius Malfoy and Narcissa Malfoy got married so early, and their child is actually the same age as Harry Potter.

  Maybe Lily is the same as Molly, if she is still alive.

  People always love to pursue what they don't have, but ignore what they already have until they lose it.

  By 1861, Queen Victoria lost her husband and mother successively, and the busy work overwhelmed Prince Albert's health, which included plans to build new poor housing.

  He died of typhoid fever. There was no possible disease in his living environment and surrounding people, and it is unlikely that there were lice in the palace.

  The gap between the queen and her mother has also been eliminated, but Queen Victoria chose to be widowed instead of remarrying like her mother. During this period, the silk merchants in Lyon encountered difficulties due to sales problems, and a large number of British orders helped them meet their urgent needs. People at that time could easily buy mourning clothes.

   Since there was no need to please Prince Albert anymore, the Queen dressed more loosely, even without tights, which did not cause a "trend" at the time, just as not everyone was as sad about Prince Albert's death as the Queen thought.

  Paris is still the capital of fashion. At that time, the Paris Opera House had already broken ground, and the whole of Paris seemed to be caught in the transformation of Ottoman.

   10 years will change many things, maybe nothing, after Prince Albert passed away, the queen has kept his room as it was when he was alive, as if he never left.

  Pomona heard a cry, and when she looked around, she found that she was near Myrtle's bathroom again.

   She doesn't know if "Bloody Mary" is alive or not, but there is really a ghost in this bathroom.

  She didn't care about it at first, but just as she turned around, she was bumped by a Ravenclaw who appeared out of nowhere. The girl gave her a flustered look, and then ran away without looking back.

  Pomona didn't tell her "don't run wild in the hallway."

  She inexplicably remembered decades ago, when the headmaster was forced to resign because of the death of a Muggle-born girl, and that girl was also a Ravenclaw...

  Pomona turned her head back and walked towards the abandoned bathroom. She wanted to see why Myrtle was crying again this time.

  (end of this chapter)