Great time travel

Chapter 58, Hogwarts School of Divinity
Late Autumn 1348, River Thames, Oxford
Oxford University, a world-renowned institution of higher learning, is located in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, and has the reputation of "the cradle of geniuses and prime ministers".

Founded in 1167, the school is the oldest university in the English-speaking world.Before the 12th century, there were no universities in Britain, and people went to France and other European countries to study. In 1167, the King of England at that time had a conflict with the King of France. In a fit of anger, the King of England recalled the British scholars who had been studying at the University of Paris and forbade them to go to the University of Paris again.These scholars returned from Paris and gathered in Oxford to engage in the teaching and research of scholastic philosophy. At the end of the 12th century, these scholars in Oxford began to plan a joint school. In 1201, Oxford University had its first chancellor.

In its long history, Oxford University has trained six British kings, 26 British prime ministers (including Gladstone, Attlee, Mrs. Thatcher and Tony Blair), many foreign heads of government (such as former U.S. President Bill Clinton), forty Nobel Prize winners, and a large number of famous scientists, such as economist Adam Smith, philosopher Francis Bacon, poet Shelley, author Graham Greene, chemist Robert Boyle, astronomer Edmundo Halley, etc. have made significant contributions to the development and progress of human civilization.So after the decline of the British Empire, the British generally regard Oxford as a tradition, a symbol, a nostalgia and a pursuit, where they can recall the good old days and relive the glory of the past—in modern Britain There is a folk proverb: "Walking through Oxford is like entering history".

However, in this world changed by the traversers, the glory of Oxford University has come to an end before it really started.

——As the horrific Black Death landed on the British Isle, the invisible god of death also swept across Oxford. The teachers and students of the whole school soon died in hundreds, and the quiet campus was full of corpses. Bones and rotting corpses... When Doraemon rushed over with four elementary school students, only less than a hundred survivors were found in the entire Oxford University City, and more than half of the survivors had become lunatics. ...

So far, the history of Oxford University, a century-old school, has come to an abrupt end. Seeing that the teachers and students of Oxford University have basically died, and the rest are two or three big cats and kittens, which is not good at all. Doraemon A Meng requisitioned their leftover school building with peace of mind, and made some renovations as needed, and then hung up the signboard of "Hogwarts School of Theology" under the tricks of Wang Qiu and Ma Tong.

——That's right, it's Hogwarts School of Divinity, not Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!
No way, at this moment, after all, it is still the Middle Ages with a strong religious atmosphere, and the dawn of the Renaissance and humanism is only slightly revealed.If the sign of "Magic Academy" is directly displayed, I am afraid that the guys from the Inquisition will jump their feet. Although the current Inquisition may also die in the plague, there are not many people left, but the wizards use the living to boil The evil image of medicine has, after all, been deeply rooted in the hearts of the European folk.

Therefore, even if you are an "angel", you don't have to worry about the embarrassment of the church at all. Even if it's just for the most basic image building, the traversers feel that it is better not to use the name of magic under the repeated emphasis of Knight Levi. No, it is more appropriate to use the word "magic art" instead.

——In this era, magic doesn’t mean magic, romance and handsomeness, but absolute political incorrectness and ideological error!

So, Ms. Ma Tong reluctantly put away the "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry" sign and changed it to "Hogwarts School of Divinity".

In fact, at the very beginning, the traversers even wanted to find a place with beautiful scenery in the northern Scottish Highlands, with mountains on their backs and lakes, as described in the children's storybook "Harry Potter", to copy A Hogwarts school in a "Harry Potter" story.

But the problem is that despite the horror of the Black Death, whether it is the captured King David II of Scotland or the lords and nobles on the Scottish Highlands, they are willing to donate any castle under their names as a means of cultivating The base of the "healer", in order to expel the deadly haze of death as soon as possible.If this planned Hogwarts College can be established on its own territory, then the Scots must also be able to get better treatment. Traditional hatred is also less important.

But the trouble is that Wang Qiu and Ma Tong used Doraemon's "Random Door" to search all over Scotland in this era, but they couldn't find any castle that could accommodate thousands of people for a long time. It is suitable for transformation into a college, and the traffic conditions are also so sad that it makes people cry.With Scotland's backward productivity and pathetic transportation and logistics capabilities, it is really difficult to maintain a relatively high standard of life for so many teachers and students for a long time (no matter in the East or the West, educated people have more status, and students are also cultured people, so the cost of food and clothing should not be too bad.)
——Scotland these days is really too backward. It is said that it has become a feudal kingdom. In fact, it has only evolved from tribal alliances for only a few hundred years, and obviously there are still many ignorant traces of the primitive era.Anyone who has watched "Braveheart" will probably have a vague feeling that compared with the English conquerors with bright armor, those Scottish rebels in tattered clothes and colorful tattoos are simply like a group of barbarians .

And the fact is the same. Even in the previous classical empire era, because it was located north of the Great Wall of Britain and outside the borders of the Roman Empire, Scotland did not enjoy the blessings of ancient Roman civilization like England, and it always stayed in the tribal era, weak The fire of civilization is dying in the wilderness.When it came to the Dark Ages of the Middle Ages, it became even more frustrating.Medieval Italians viewed Scots in much the same way that modern Europeans viewed black African natives—it’s okay to be rude and uneducated. If the price is extremely low, farmers do not have much surplus food to sell, so naturally they cannot support too many off-production population.

In this era, Scotland as a whole had only a few hundred thousand people, and food was often not self-sufficient.If you randomly find a castle in the Scottish Highlands to expand, and then let a large number of off-duty teachers and students settle in there, I'm afraid it will immediately eat up the nearby backcountry!
Um?Import all food, cloth, fuel and other daily necessities from the outside world, as well as stationery and other teaching equipment, without relying on the production of surrounding areas?If you have money, you can, but where are the supporting roads and ports?And if this is done, the cost of living at Hogwarts will become very high, even unbearable for most people—just as the Internet fee in some African countries in later generations is as high as ten dollars per hour.

Moreover, before the Industrial Revolution, for most Europeans, the Kingdom of England, located in the southern part of the British Isle, was already a remote rural place.As for the Kingdom of Scotland in the northern part of the British Isle, it is a rural place among rural places, and there are no eye-catching specialties such as gold, silver and amber. Basically, it can be said that it is a remote and wild frontier that absolutely no one wants to go.If the Hogwarts school is built in such a remote place, it is almost equivalent to building a key college in Tibet in modern China: except for the ascetics, probably no one will come!

In addition, due to the low cultural level of the Scots in this era, it may not be possible to find a literate person in a town, and it is also very difficult to recruit local students-how can you learn spells if you don't even know words?But if the teachers and students are all foreigners, then the relationship with the locals will become extremely alienated, and they will easily be misunderstood as "invaders", causing all kinds of unimaginable conflicts... Don't underestimate the xenophobic sentiment of the Scots, now distance from that William.The era when Wallace shouted "freedom" to raise troops is less than 100 years away!
To sum up, in the spirit of science and responsibility, Wang Qiu and Ma Tong finally gave up their plan to build a school in the Scottish Highlands, and instead directly used the school site left over from Oxford University City to replace it with Hogwarts School. Brands matter - compared with the cold Scottish Highlands, the conditions in the Oxford Valley are much stronger: adjacent to the fertile London plains, there is absolutely no need to worry about food problems; the Thames River passes through the city, and the transportation is also very convenient.In the Middle Ages, those tens of tons of wooden sea ships in Europe could even travel from the Thames Estuary to Oxford without changing land routes.

For this reason, the traversers also specially used Doraemon's 22nd century automatic engineering robot, introduced the Thames River water, and dug a "black lake" at the school gate - but the big octopus really didn't dare to put it in: what if What if the monster really overturned the ship and ate people?
In fact, after learning about the "angels" school building plan, the Governor of Venice, the Pope, and the Queen of Naples all scrambled to initiate invitations, wanting to get the school on their territory, but they were rejected in the end. ——Hogg It would be so strange if Woz College wasn't located in the UK!

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"...Your Majesty the Pope, Your Majesty the King, Mr. Governor, and two Your Majesties, please look here. This is the Black Lake we dug for Hogwarts School. With this lake, the ferry can enter Oxford directly from the River Thames Inside the district, there is a space for parking boats near the school. If you change to a rowing boat, you can also directly enter the various colleges along the artificial river in the urban area, just like the layout of the water city of Venice..."

Standing on a flat-bottomed boat, slowly sailing into Oxford, which has just completed the "urban rectification project", came to an open water with rippling blue waves, and pointed to the huge statue of a lucky cat on a small island in the middle of the lake. Wang Qiu He introduced to Pope Clement VI, Queen Joanna of Naples, Queen Joan of England, King David of Scotland, Governor of Venice Andre and other distinguished guests that "...students from all over Europe can take a boat from other countries. The port reaches Oxford directly, and merchants can also sell what the college needs from the waterway... Now, the Black Death in Oxford has just subsided, and the original more than 3 citizens died, and those who fled to the countryside Most of the refugees haven’t come back yet, so the city looks deserted and unpopular. But it doesn’t matter, I believe that after the establishment of the school, the city will definitely prosper soon..."

Of course, it would be fine to dig a black lake as an artificial port for Hogwarts school, but if you want to build an artificial mountain in the flat Oxford Valley, it seems too inexplicable, and you are simply asking for trouble.Therefore, this Hogwarts school still uses the layout of Oxford University. Since it was originally a college established spontaneously by scholars, Oxford University did not plan a unified campus when it was founded. At that time, students and teachers were rented in the city. Lectures in different places.Later, for the convenience of management, the independent colleges were adopted to jointly run schools, forming Oxford University, and this tradition has been maintained until modern times: Oxford College and its institutions are scattered throughout the city of Oxford.Each college consists of 300-500 teachers and students as a collective, engaged in teaching and research in different disciplines.The buildings of the university are basically self-contained by each college.

To put it simply, Oxford University first had various colleges, and then they united to form a university. In fact, many small companies joined forces to form a large company, and in theory they could withdraw their shares at any time and split them out. It really happened once in Oxford. Teachers and students of several colleges had conflicts and quit collectively, and another Cambridge University was set up—instead of establishing a university first and then dividing it into colleges like China.

There are many medieval architectural gems in Oxford's colleges, clustered around the city centre.For example, the Saxon tower of St. Michael's Church, the Norman bunker and the ruins of the city wall, etc., give people a sense of historical depth everywhere.The ancient streets are lined with European-style courtyards, and each courtyard is a college. Since academics were the patent of the church at that time, the colleges were designed with monastery-style buildings. The common impression when you first arrived in Oxford was that each college They are all like those dilapidated ancient temples in various parts of China, which give people a feeling of loneliness and desolation as soon as they enter the door.Because each college looks like a medieval monastery, and most colleges have colleges within colleges.Some more sophisticated colleges even have rivers, lakes, flowers, grass, insects, fish, birds, and animals.Most of the college buildings are antique medieval towers, so Oxford is also known as "Tower City".

Let’s use this analogy. If Oxford is compared to Suzhou City, then Oxford University is equivalent to Suzhou gardens scattered all over the urban area of ​​Suzhou. Corner... The disadvantage is that the colleges are separated from each other in space and cannot be planned in a unified manner. The advantage is that with the continuous development of Oxford University, Oxford City has been completely swallowed up by universities and has become a veritable university town.

——After seeing the landscape of Oxford University with his own eyes, Wang Qiu finally understood why the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Witchcraft in "Harry Potter" was built like a military fortress, with high walls and towers everywhere. There are also arrow holes and trenches.After arriving here, he discovered that Oxford University in the Middle Ages and Cambridge University not far away sometimes really have to fight offensive and defensive battles!For example, Oxford University was besieged by local citizens decades ago, and hundreds of college students were shot dead by Oxford citizens with bows and arrows because they did not pay back their credit in pubs and brothels...

Therefore, Hogwarts turned the school into a fortress and divided it into four colleges in one school, which is also in line with the common sense of medieval universities.

Closer to home, for this copycat version of "Hogwarts School of Divinity" that occupied the old Oxford school site, the traversers naturally divided it into four branches: Gryffindor College with a lion as its symbol, and Eagle College with an eagle as its symbol. Ravenclaw House as a symbol, Hufflepuff House with a badger as a symbol, Slytherin House with a snake as a symbol, and Hogwarts as a symbol of a big fat cat... This It's not that the traversers like Wang Qiu and Ma Tong blindly copy the settings of "Harry Potter" and cause trouble for themselves, but out of some practical considerations:

The first is to divide the colleges according to the gender of the students. Ravenclaw College and Hufflepuff College only admit girls, while Gryffindor College and Slytherin College only admit boys. A shocking fact: any university these days accepts only boys, and it continued to do so well into the eighteenth century!If it is said that women are allowed to enter school, it can be said that "after the great plague, there is an extreme shortage of manpower in all countries, and the number of men is not enough", "women are more suitable for taking care of patients", and cite those nuns who played cameo nurses during the plague and war in the Middle Ages, taking care of them. The case of the sick and wounded to explain the words.Then let boys and girls go to class together, I am afraid that even the "angel" can't stand the order.

(In the UK, the earliest girls' schools appeared in the early nineteenth century, and they were poor colleges attached to the monastery. Noble girls' schools did not exist until the middle of the nineteenth century. The time for coeducational schools was almost in the twentieth century, and earlier The aristocratic ladies of the era were either illiterate or could only hire tutors.)
The second is to divide the colleges according to the teaching language. Hufflepuff College and Slytherin College use Italian to teach, and mainly recruit students from various Italian city-states and kingdoms.Gryffindor College and Ravenclaw College teach classes in French, mainly enrolling students from France and England-at this moment, England is still a remote town of France in terms of legal theory, and has not been completely separated to form a nation. nation.And most of the British aristocratic families also originated in France, so all British gentlemen and ladies with a certain status can basically speak French, even as a daily language, England’s official documents are also drafted in French, only the uneducated inferiors People only speak English...

In short, this copycat version of "Hogwarts School of Theology", which was rebuilt from Oxford University, roughly presents the following camp divisions:
Gryffindor House - British and French men;
Ravenclaw House - English and French women;
Hufflepuff House - Italian women;

Slytherin house - Italian man.

The above arrangement fully reflects the political reality that the college is mainly composed of Italians, British and French.

Of course, Hufflepuff and Slytherin are still above ground, not stuffed into a cellar like in Harry Potter.

As for why the four colleges were given such names, the traversers explained that they were the names of the archangels, and the Europeans in the Middle Ages were relieved.

In addition to the four colleges mentioned above, considering the appalling literacy rate in medieval Europe, the traversers also set up a literacy class in Oxford for those illiterate students to study. The few guys who survived in the middle school were responsible for teaching newcomers to read - but in this way, it was almost equivalent to turning Oxford University into a Hogwarts preschool class, which was really high-end and high-grade to the extreme!

However, it is easy to enroll students and the teaching venue is not difficult, but it is not so easy to train teachers. For the time being, they can only be cameos by time travelers, because only they can use the so-called "magic"-although these so-called spells, It's just something that Doraemon wrote indiscriminately in that [Encyclopedia of Magic], but the question is, how could medieval Europeans understand Japanese?

Fortunately, the traversers can also mark the corresponding Roman alphabets one by one on those Japanese "spells", and then directly take out the combination of these Roman alphabets and write them into a booklet, forcing students from various European countries in the Middle Ages to memorize them by rote If it really doesn't work, just like the magicians in those cartoons, just take the "spell manual" and cast spells - anyway, there are only more than 30 spells in total, and it doesn't require the caster to have any special talents. How awkward, as long as you read and read fluently, you will be able to release fireballs, lightning and healing.

What's more, in view of the imminent threat of the plague, Hogwarts School of Theology is currently only holding short training courses.

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"...Because the current European countries are still under the threat of the outbreak of the plague, in order to allow more Christians to enjoy the salvation of the Lord during their lifetime, instead of being deprived of their souls by the god of death, we plan to cultivate a group of Christians as quickly as possible. The batch of therapists, the schooling period is arranged for three days, as long as they have mastered [Complete Healing] and [Group Healing], they will be able to graduate and go to various places to treat diseases and save lives, and the learning of other spells can be delayed."

While explaining to the honored guests, Wang Qiu took out a stack of small cards decorated with cartoon images of cat heads and cat paw prints. The words [Complete Healing] and [Group Healing] translated into Roman accents were printed on the front and back respectively. Hand out one of the Japanese spells to each of them, "...and there is no need to prepare textbooks, just give each student a card of this kind, let them recite the above spell fluently, and then they will be able to cast a healing spell." The Holy Light of God... In line with the principle of teaching without discrimination, we have basically recruited all the literate people we can collect, and we have gathered more than 1000 people in total. After they go to various places, we will pass on the spell to those around us For others, the plague sweeping across Europe will soon subside..."

"...Oh, thank God, thank you angels for your generosity, so that the humble and pious mortals can stay away from the torment of illness..."

Pope Clement VI took the spell card with great excitement, and was so excited that he burst into tears, "...But, what about the remaining spells? For example, the big move you used to summon the sky to burn London? There is still a wave of your hand Will the spell that blows up a street be taught to us?"

He looked at Wang Qiu eagerly with anticipation on his face, while the rest of the kings, queens and governors also quietly pricked up their ears.

"...Of course, Mr. Pope, the purpose of our establishment of this school is to spread the power of God across the earth, so that more kind people can bathe in the gift of the Lord (in fact, it is mainly for scoring and fun)... So, this time, the thirty spells allowed by the gods to be imparted, we will unreservedly hand over to any pious person, and you can arrange anyone who meets the standards to come to Hogwarts to learn 'divine arts'... However, In my opinion, on some key issues, rather than relying on others blindly, it is better to hold the power in your own hands..."

Wang Qiu said with a calm smile, and at the same time handed a few cat-shaped student badges to the distinguished guests, "... I wonder if your Majesties are interested in becoming Hogwarts' first student after attending the opening ceremony. First class of formal students, how about listening to our magic course?"

In this regard, the King of Scotland, the Queen of England, the Governor of Venice, the Queen of Naples and His Majesty the Pope naturally all readily agreed...

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Immediately afterwards, after three days of intensive study, more than 1000 "quick version healers" who had memorized spells in the dark, were finally able to barely read the healing spells that were very weird to them, and cast holy healing spells with their own hands. Shubaiguang...then carefully carrying the healing spell card "Given by the Angel", he left Hogwarts and embarked on the great road of eradicating the plague and saving the world—about half of them signed with the Venetian Chamber of Commerce. With a lifetime contract, they are regarded as wage earners of Venetian merchants; the remaining two-thirds are members of the church...

In addition, before the end of the crash course, Doraemon gave each of these therapists a pet cat, ordering it to be carefully raised, so as to educate those foolish people who are hostile to cats, and it is necessary to let every saved cat Christians all deeply understand that cats are sacred animals favored by God!
At the same time, the first batch of regular students of the "Hogwarts School of Theology" officially started after the crash course, taught by the "angels" in person, and began to practice those spells with even more powerful effects. Other spells that are more "esoteric"...