Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 3035 queen’s pleasure (fourteen)

  Take the Hogwarts Express, on the road from King's Cross Station to Scotland, in addition to noisy travel companions, pets running around, flight attendants pushing candy carts, and beautiful scenery outside the window.

  However, the vast majority of students will not go to see it, and even if they do, they will not pay close attention to how many bridges and mountains they have crossed along the way, especially after entering the Scottish Highlands.

  Tunnels and bridges are unavoidable when crossing mountainous terrain. The engineering volume is more than double the ratio of plains. Sometimes even a small gully will increase the difficulty of construction. Even if the engineering crews don't have to be in the same rush as the Trans-America railroad, there are costs involved.

In the collection of stories of the poet Beedle, there is a story about three brothers. Death is waiting on the other side of the turbulent river. Some travelers don’t know the depth of the river and think they can walk across it. go elsewhere.

   After all, not everyone has the ability to use magic to build bridges like the three brothers.

   "Why don't the locals build bridges? If bridges are built, how convenient are they to walk?"

   Once a new Muggleborn asked Pomona that he had just arrived in this completely strange world, and Pomona told him this wizard fairy tale as a bedtime story.

  She didn't know how to describe such a complex problem to a child.

  A lively party can bring joy, but after the lively party is over, the appearance of empty buildings and messy places presents loneliness.

  Peace does not mean loneliness, but it is not easy to find someone who can accompany you and give you peace. On the contrary, you can feel "quiet" when you are alone.

  Hogwarts is located in the mountains. Although it is not isolated from the crowd, it is far away from the bustling city. You will get tired of the lake and mountains after a long time.

   Adults can't bear this kind of unchanging "peace", how to explain peace to a child who is proud of inviting "many" friends to his birthday party?

  There's nothing to do in the country anyway, why not go to London?

By the 17th century, three-quarters of the nobles had permanent estates in London. Then with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, crowded cities, noisy machines, poor sanitation, and the most serious air pollution problems shrouded the "fog city" The fog in London is no longer the fog blowing from the North Sea, but more the exhaust gas from the factories. The nobles first moved to West London collectively, where the air is better, and then simply moved back to the countryside to find a peaceful life.

  Many people lived a seasonal life like migratory birds. Every social season, they would leave their country manors and come to social places. At this time, the bad road conditions made it difficult for them to travel, and the train was not popular at that time.

  Not only for their own smooth travel, but also for the convenience of transporting the products of the farm and the minerals of the mine, the nobles began to build roads, and the parliament also issued a decree at this time to charge road fees.

   Road funding is not through stocks like canals and railroads, but under road trusts. Peabody started a trust company to open real estate in London, but this road trust is not like it, it is not even a company.

The first is the ancient primogeniture system of nobles. Not every noble will exhaust their family property because of their extravagant life. Sometimes they also need investment. If he wants to sell land, he can’t buy it privately. It must be approved by the parliament. , After going through complicated applications and approvals, a large sum of money can be used to sell them in "private law".

The usual practice is a long-term lease. The lease contract is usually 31 years, or it can be signed for 99 years. The rent is paid at one time. The deacon is responsible for assisting in the completion of the contract. At the same time, they are also responsible for preventing the land owner from listening to some "low-risk, High return" investment, mortgage your own land.

The Highway Trust does not obtain returns from the "trust" itself, but after the road is repaired, the high-quality road condition improves the local competitiveness. The members it absorbs are also private, mainly gentlemen, nobles, and farmers. Most of the owners, almost all landowners, maintain the trust from land proceeds.

Many aristocratic families have butlers. The "steward" is mainly responsible for the internal affairs of the manor, and the deacon is responsible for the "outside" fixed assets, and sometimes helps the owner make some decisions. Even the deacon himself is the elder of the manor owner. Nominated to take charge of this matter.

   "Queen" was considered to be the consort of the king in the past. In 1388, in addition to the Hundred Years War between England and France, Britain was also experiencing the War of the Red and White Roses. The king at that time was Richard II, but the real power was controlled by his uncle John of Gaunt.

  He is like a leaf in the wind, although he wears a crown, he is blown to and fro by the forces that come and go.

His first wife was Anne of Bohemia, the daughter of Charles IV of the Holy Roman Empire. She did not follow him around like the queen of the Black Prince Edward III, but with Richard II Rule the complex court together.

   The kinship between servant and master is false, even though they live in the same house.

But many people like the feeling of being surrounded by servants. In the files read by Pomona, a juror in Buckinghamshire reported that one of his servants, Gerald, did not even know the real name of the other party. He is a foreigner, but in fact "Gerald" is a wizard who escaped before he was tortured to extract a confession, and the Wizarding Council brought him back for further interrogation.

  "Master" rarely understands "servant". The mysterious person always asks his followers to call him "Master", regardless of whether the other party is a pure-blood noble or not.

People are complicated, they are not summoned by the "Flying Curse". Servants often master many secrets of their masters. They have eyes, thoughts, joy, pain, and unreliable mouths, and they can tell everything they know without torture. Speak up and get a gift.

  Pomona wondered how Albus would react to knowing that Severus had said those words in his own image.

   Last time, "servant" Snape told the Dark Lord the news he heard from the Pig's Head Bar, which indirectly led to Lily Potter's death.

  They were well hidden, if someone hadn't been a whistleblower, but Pomona still couldn't believe that it was Sirius Black who had sentenced them.

  Hagrid didn't go back to his hut. He might have gone to the Pig's Head Pub for a drink. Anyway, there was no one in his hut. Pomona walked out of the Forbidden Forest alone.

She looked at Hogwarts Castle, which seemed to be shining under the moonlight. In the Tudor dynasty, Henry VIII promulgated the "Supreme Act". If the king is the "head", then all classes form the "body" of the country, and the head has All the glory and riches that this crown brings. It's just that women were generally considered the embodiment of original sin at that time, and they tended to solve problems with instinct rather than rational thinking ability. Mary didn't think she was qualified to inherit the title of "Supreme".

  For this reason, Mary I began to mix the titles of "queen" and "king", transferring the "virtue" of male rulers to female rulers.

At the coronation ceremony, Mary called herself "the wife of the country", and the country is the "head". As a wife, she should obey the "husband" of the country, so in addition to the crown, Mary I also got a ring, this ring Not to be kissed like the pope's ring, but a sign of a contract.

  Later, Elizabeth I copied Mary I's coronation ceremony and also married herself to the country.

  She chose the son born to Mary of Scotland to become the king of England. With a father like Henry VIII, who would look forward to marriage? What's more, in addition to the risk of having children, after Mary of Scotland married her second husband, he felt that he should become a king. With that energy, wouldn't it be good to do some "problems that need to be solved with rational thinking ability"?

   No matter how unrepairable and muddy the "King's Way" may be, it is still a way.

  Pomona brought up her witch robe, her boots were covered with mud, and the leather shoes on the feet of Dolores, who also walked in the Forbidden Forest for a while, were still clean.

  She laughed inexplicably, put down her skirt, and stepped on the thick lawn with brisk steps, as if stepping on a red carpet.

  (end of this chapter)