Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 722 Goodwell

  Two years after the International Federation of Wizards opened in Sardinia in 1292, there was another Ayas war between Genoa and Venice.

  Starting from the Pope’s prohibition of trade with the *** area, from 1290 to 1345 the Black Sea market became the world’s warehouse.

  With the decline of the Crusade movement, other Crusader towns on the east coast of the Mediterranean have been lost one after another. Venice, which made its fortune by the Crusades, faced a crisis, so Venice began to compete with Genoa around the Black Sea.

  Although Venice is a city of water, they are extremely short of fresh water for drinking. Before the pipes are repaired, the locals use wells for drinking water and collect water on rainy days.

  There are two bronze water storage wells in the Doge’s Mansion, which are said to have the best water quality in Venice.

Venice does not have a large population, no natural resources, no rich products, and even at the feet of the Venetians, there is no solid land. What Venice has only the boundless and moody sea, and generations of Venetian merchants who have committed dangers at sea .

  The Genoese attacked Venice back then, using siege tactics. Venice's own food was all solved by shipping, but Danshui was still self-sufficient.

  In another country, Dawan, when the Han army besieged it, they cut off the water source in the city. Even if the city had enough food, the nobles in Dawan cut off the king’s head and gave it to the generals of the Han Dynasty.

  Dawan gradually prospered and prospered under the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire and the rule of Bactria. It wasn't until 160 BC that it was separated from the Greek world by the influence of Dayue's migration and began to decline.

Li Guangli, a weak country, has been fighting for two years. This is not because the weak Dawan is stronger than the Han army, but the road from Chang'an to Dawan is too far away. It is impossible to overcome without supply and support by human will. of.

  When manpower is always exhausted, it is not that everything is what you want to achieve. Expeditions must be adequately prepared. Soldiers and horses do not move food and grass first, but ordinary people often do not notice this.

   Putting horseshoes on horses will not change the speed at which the Han dynasty army’s horses are consumed. Starting from horse administration, it can achieve the purpose of saving military expenditures and not destroying the domestic economy during wars.

  Those horses were killed and eaten. They are not tanks made of steel. They can be used as food for soldiers to eat. This is also the reason why nomads are more suitable for expansion than farming peoples. The nomads’ arsenal, cattle and sheep, will run by themselves, although it will slow down the speed, and it is more convenient to transport than heavy wheat and millet.

  Li Guangli failed in his first attack on Dawan because he did not discuss with the small countries in the Western Regions in advance. In the second attack, he sent someone to communicate with him and "borrowed the way" before the small countries opened the door to greet him.

  During the Second World War, the Italians seemed to have nothing useful except for the invention of freeze-dried food.

  If the defense of Stalingrad, German supplies keep up, the German soldiers will not be so miserable.

Morale is very important. The cold winter in Russia makes people desperate. Both Napoleon and the Germans were defeated here. The soldiers' will was polished and there was no way to ignite fighting spirit. Hitler did not retreat when it was time to retreat. If people’s confidence is gone, no matter how instigating his speech is, he can’t motivate morale. Stalingrad has become a turning point in World War II. If they can learn from the Qin Dynasty and fight against Chu, they can take this opportunity to recover. The battle is another way of me.

  The style of the Italians has always been this way. Although the great Rome is in their country, they have become shrewd businessmen, "Send you to death, I will pay you", and solve the problems that can be solved with money as much as possible.

  Venice used the navy as a logistics force for the Crusaders, and then used debts to let the Crusaders looting Constantinople. Is it a problem for the Venetians to send troops to make up so many people? They built so many ships in accordance with the contract, but the king and the pope who should have responded with a single call could not call so many people. This is the problem of insufficient organization of the Crusades. The responsibility lies with the Crusades. Of course, the Venetians can be threatened.

  Western European country bumpkins were deprived of the ability to think by the church foolish education. They were used as gunshots by the shrewd and cunning Venetian merchants. They were able to stage a wave of what is called "IQ tax."

  The Germans are smarter than them, and they were also cheated by the Italians. At the last moment, the Italians turned their backs. Ah, the spirit of the contract, where is the contract? Torn up by the Italians long ago, I don't know where it turned into ashes.

Italians are like corrupt quartermasters. They can engage in logistics. They can be greedy for a small amount of money without delay, and make a fortune in war. It is impossible for them to kill people by themselves. They are the kind of incapable. A person who kills with his own hands.

But they also had a last battle. Salt water won’t freeze, only fresh water. The Second Venice-Genoa War started in Constantinople. This battle was not so much an organized naval battle as it was a random battle. The chaotic and opportunistic pirate raids have affected all areas where the two countries competed commercially, from North Africa to the Black Sea. Both sides attack the opponent's commercial assets.

  Genoa looted Gania on Crete; Venice burned Genoese ships in Famagusta and Tunisia.

  In Constantinople, the Genoese threw the city officials of Venice out of the window and massacred the merchants of Venice. A contemporary recorded: “Everyone had to dig huge trenches everywhere to bury the dead.”

  When the news came back to Venice, people shouted: "Fight to the end!"

  The government of Venice dispatched Ruggiero. Morosini set out, nicknamed "Cruel Claw", and led a fleet to attack Galata, a colony of Genoa.

  The inhabitants of Galata hid behind the walls of Constantinople in fear, dragging the Byzantines into the war. A Venetian fleet sailed into the Black Sea and ransacked Kaffa, but due to staying for too long, it was trapped by the snow and ice. Taking this opportunity, the Genoese sent a small fleet to the lagoon of Venice.

  This war has surpassed tactical reason, and both parties have suffered huge losses. The Pope tried to intervene in the arbitration, but the two parties had lost their minds and rejected the Pope.

  The Venetians who had nowhere to retreat at that time were most afraid of massacre. This may be the reason why the Venetians chose not to resist surrendering to Napoleon.

  The governor of Venice from 1289 to 1311 was Pietro Gradaniger, who took over the position of Dandolo. The only thing you can do when Venice is under siege is to wait for the weather to warm up, the ice to thaw, and the navy that looted Galata to come back to rescue.

  But this purpose cannot be known by the Genoese. Once they know the purpose of the Venetians, they will abandon the siege plan and directly implement the siege.

  So he sent an envoy, willing to give all his wealth in exchange for peace, but the Genoese's goal was also clear, that is, they hope that this commercial opponent will disappear completely. The Genoese rejected this agreement.

  Then waiting again, the governor sent a secret messenger to contact the navy floating outside. The man took advantage of the darkness, escaped the blockade of the Genoese Navy, and then hid his identity all the way to find the Black Sea Fleet.

He and "Cruel Claw" made a plan, and returned to Venice with the news. On the day agreed, all the soldiers in the governor's territory pretended to be abandoned to break through the siege. The Genoese intercepted him, and they all Forget the famous Venetian navy, thinking they are still being frozen in ice.

  When the Genoese fell into the frenzy of capturing the Governor of Venice alive, the Venetian navy provided timely support. The front and back flanking was a fatal blow to the Genoese, and they inevitably lost the war.

  In 1295, Genoa sent 165 galleys and 35,000 people. This is a magnificent show that has no practical significance. It was not until 300 years later that such a majestic naval power would appear again in the Mediterranean, but the Venetians chose to avoid its edge, so this huge fleet had to go home.

  The two sides sent spies to each other to spy on the location of each other's fleet, but it was not until 1298 that the two sides finally met on the Adriatic island of Korcula. 170 galleys participated in this battle, the largest naval battle ever fought by the two republics.

  This time Genoa won the victory of Venice, only 12 of the 95 galleys survived, and 5,000 people were captured. Andrea, commander of the Venetian navy. Unwilling to be captured and humiliated, Dandolo paraded in Genoa with shackles and chains, so he rammed into the gunwale of a Genoese ship and died on the spot.

  Many Genoese died in battle on the island of Korčula, so the triumphant naval commander Lamba. When Doria set foot on the coast of Genoa, he was greeted by silence. There was no cheering crowd, no church bells, and people just mourned the death of their relatives.

  In this war, there was a wealthy businessman who equipped a galley at his own expense. The Venetian ridiculed him as "a million", the teller of a million stories. After being captured, as a rich man, he was comfortably settled down and became good friends with another Romance writer Pisa who was also a prisoner of war.

  They told stories and recorded stories in prison, so the adventurer "Mark Polo" who married a Chinese princess was born.

  One year after the Battle of Korčula, the two sides reluctantly came to the negotiating table. The "Milan Peace Treaty" of 1299 did not solve any problems. The Black Sea issue is still unresolved.

  The search for food and raw materials along the Black Sea coast, and the problems of trade routes in Central Asia, have made informal wars more intense. The Venetians worked tirelessly to build their own stronghold; the Genoese worked hard to squeeze it away. With diplomacy and patience, Venice gradually established its own stronghold.

  Venice is committed to increasing the pressure on the northern shore of the Black Sea. Justinian traveled through the winter grasslands and arrived at the Mongolian court in Sarai, one of the capitals of the Golden Horde, to see the Khan of the Golden Horde.

  It is a frightening thing to see the Mongolian overlord: It is sadly recorded in the State Archives of Venice that few people volunteered to undertake this mission. Khan believes in *** religion, Ibn. Batuta called him "Honorable Sultan, Muhammad Mohamed Bekhan": "He is extremely powerful, majestic, and high-status. He is the victor who defeats the enemy of God... He has a vast land and a great city... ...(He meets the guests) In a magnificently decorated pavilion called the Golden Temple... It is built of wood covered with gold leaf. In the center of the pavilion is a silver-plated chair. The legs of the chair are made of sterling silver. The feet are inlaid with precious stones. The sultan sits on this throne."

  After bowing in front of Khan, Justinian made his request. The purpose of his trip was to request the Khan's permission to establish a trading colony in Tana on the coast of Azov, and to grant some commercial privileges to the colony.

The Sea of ​​Azov is a small and shallow tributary at the northeastern corner of the Black Sea. It is shaped like a miniature replica of the Black Sea. Tana’s geographical location is very advantageous. It is located in the heart of the Western Khanate of Mongolia and can easily go north. Go to Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, or take the route of the Volga and Don rivers, and it is also the end point of the Silk Road across Asia.

  Genoa also occupies a site in Tana, but only uses it as an auxiliary facility for the powerful business center Kafa. Genoa never wants to see the Venetians establish a stronghold here.

  The rivalry between Genoa and Venice lasted until 1453, when the Ottoman Empire captured Constantinople, and Genoa's commercial colony on the Black Sea coast was lost. After the opening of the new shipping route, its Mediterranean trade activities began to slump, and commercial capital turned to loan shark activities.

  At the same time, Venice also entered the drunken gold fandom of the Renaissance, lingering for three hundred years and then being destroyed by Napoleon.

  Napoleon came from an unfamiliar background. He used force to break the solidification of the class and changed the traditional life in Venice that had lasted for more than a thousand years.

  The example of the French reign of terrorism in the country after the Great Revolution seemed to be right in front of them. The nobles who did not want to die chose not to resist and prayed to the emperor for "compassion."

  It is precisely because of this that the former magnificent Doge’s Palace has not been devastated. It still retains the glory of its heyday, but the two wells that are said to be the best in Venice are no one to drink.

  They have become two decorations, just like the lion’s mouth that was reported by the council.

  The mode of colonial operation in Venice has also become the pioneer of sea power countries such as Portugal, Britain, and the Netherlands, which proves that non-land power powers can also dominate the world through maritime trade and foreign colonization.

  The governor of Venice does not need the pope to be crowned, but is crowned by the senators. At the end of the reign, all power is concentrated in the hands of ten senators.

They are all old people. Although they are experienced, they are not as energetic as the young emperor. Venice has a reporting system. The parliament supervises the citizen's report letter. They put the letter into the mouth of the lion, and then the letter is taken out through the double secret door. .

  That is not a mailbox for customer complaints. The cases inside need to be investigated. This has become a tool for the veterans to influence the appointment and removal of the governor.

  Napoleon later smashed the stone lion sculpture above, leaving only an opening and a line of ambiguous Latin.

  Napoleon once said a famous saying: There is a sleeping lion in the east.

  Many people think that it refers to China, but the symbol of China is the dragon.

  The more people are afraid of something, the more they want to destroy it. The Republic of Venice has been forgotten. Its symbol is a flying lion. Genoa has already returned to France, and Venice is just to the east.

  The story about Venice Although the local people’s commentary is very interesting, Pomona wants to listen to the opinions of the "prince".

  So she hid the letter written with her next trip, written with the invisible potion, in the secret double-layer mailbox.

  There are many double-safe locks in the Doge’s Palace, which require two keys to open, and the two keys are in the hands of different people.

  But for wizards, such anti-theft measures are useless.

  All you need is an "Araho Cave", including the door of the underground safe of the Bank of America can be easily opened by them.

In order to prevent her secret from being opened by unrelated Muggles, she also used the Muggle expulsion spell, which is actually unnecessary, because all the visitors are marveling at the gorgeous murals, and no one pays attention to the "sleeping lion". .

This secret box reminded her of the space behind Albus’s portrait. It contained a controversial sword, a prophetic crystal ball, and a dozen letters signed with Deathly Hallows, the one who loved to peek at other people’s letters. Double agents will love it.

  Magic is like perfume, always leaving a trace.

  She feels that she is a bit addicted to playing this game.

  As long as she has money, she is a free woman. She does not need to return to the nasty person in order to find a place to stay. She can find accommodation in all the hotels in Venice.

   "Are you ready?" Monica asked.

   "It's almost there." Before leaving, Pomona thought for a while, and used blindfolding methods to restore the lion's mouth statue that was destroyed by Napoleon.

  Then left the parliament with two young Venetians.

  What does a meeting place do so luxuriously? Where can we not make decisions?

  She sighed, like an assassin, did not pass the main entrance, turned the wall and left the Doge's Palace.

  (End of this chapter)