Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1145 Diamond of Doom

  Many women believe that diamonds are necessary for courtship.

  Diamonds belonged to royals and nobles to show off their wealth and status for a long time after they were discovered.

  But after the discovery of diamond mines in South Africa in the late nineteenth century, this once-rare gem became less rare like silver. Coupled with the Russian diamond mines, these diamonds flow into the market, and the value of diamonds will be greatly discounted.

  Later, a British businessman thought of an idea to combine love and diamonds tightly. After all, diamond is the hardest substance known to mankind. It seems that this transparent stone, which is not much different from crystal at first glance, can witness the most steadfast and eternal love.

  This businessman spent a huge amount of advertising expenses and began to create the so-called diamond culture. In almost all wedding photos, the bride would have a happy smile on his face, and the diamond ring in his hand would blind the audience.

  Diamonds are forever, and one is always passed on. (Adiamondisforever)

  60% of women on this beautiful blue planet know this ad slogan.

  This is a big bargain for the wealthy. After all, the threshold for giving diamonds is much lower than for death.

  The world seems to have become like Socrates’ drunken words said, Eros prefers the handsome **** of wealth.

  In the Titanic movie, there is a blue diamond named Heart of the Sea, which is based on the blue diamond bought by French Louis XIV from India.

  When this diamond was first unearthed, it was a rough triangle and could not be the eyes of the goddess. Louis XIV asked the court jeweler to cut it and inlay it on a gold base as an ornament used by the king at the ceremony. At that time, it was called the French blue.

  Louis XV cut this diamond again and set it on his Golden Fleece Medal as a pendant. During the French Revolution, this diamond was stolen from the Royal Treasury, and appeared in the hands of a London jeweler twenty years later. At this time, the retrospective time limit stipulated by the law just passed, it is impossible for the algorithm country to recover it.

   Then, a series of well-known "dooms" occurred. People with "hope" either died early or went bankrupt, and almost no one died properly, so this diamond became a famous diamond of doom.

  But this is somewhat related to the far-fetched hype of the auction house. The more legendary, the easier it is to shoot high prices. Now it is displayed in museums to earn tickets. Every year, millions of people come to admire its beauty.

  The Yellow Diamond of the Conqueror is not so famous among ordinary people, but the owner who is cursed by it is not a wealthy businessman.

Its first owner was "Bold Charlie", Duke of Burgundy. This warlike Duke has been wearing this yellow diamond on the battlefield since the first day he got it, because he believed in the world at that time. The biggest yellow diamond in the world can bring him good luck.

  Later, the Duke personally fought in the Battle of Nancy, and unfortunately died in the battle. His body was mixed in the "corpse field".

  His gorgeous dress caught the attention of a farmer. The farmer got the priceless yellow diamond, but he thought it was glass and sold 2 gold coins to a Swiss.

  The Swiss was a Swiss mercenary who participated in the battle. He was more knowledgeable than a farmer and knew that this "stone" was very valuable, so he sold it to a Genoese.

  Bold Charlie uses the double rose cutting method when cutting the yellow conqueror diamond. The cutting process of modern diamonds is mainly to show the dazzling fire of the diamond, which will cause a lot of loss of diamonds in the cutting process.

  The classical cutting method cannot highlight the fire and brightness of the faceted stone, but it can preserve more rough stones.

The double rose cutting method was still relatively new in the 15th century. Genoese were born merchants. He saw the value of this yellow diamond at a glance, so he dedicated it to the Grand Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza , He became the second owner of the yellow diamond expeditionary.

  The Grand Duke of Milan was generous when he funded Leonardo da Vinci, but he was called the "Black Duke" by the aristocracy, and he was a well-known insidious figure in the Renaissance.

  It is said that in order to obtain the title, he imprisoned his 7-year-old nephew in a water prison.

  Bold Charlie once made such a verdict. A beautiful woman was taken by the lord of the city. She was unwilling to be the lord’s mistress to the death, so the lord killed the woman’s husband.

  The woman shouted grievances to Charlie passing by, hoping that Charlie would severely punish the city lord. Charlie’s decision was to force the woman to marry the city lord.

The city owner enjoyed the night happily, but the next day, Charlie took the woman to the dungeon, where her first husband was tortured to death. There was a coffin stopped there. The beauty opened the coffin and took a look inside. Pretending to be her second husband.

  It seemed to Charlie that everyone had a satisfactory result, and he made a wise decision.

Ludovico got the yellow diamond. I don’t know if it’s because of the **** smell of the diamond or it really has cursing power. Ludovico Sforza made an irrational judgment and introduced the French. Italy.

Although he achieved a temporary victory, the Grand Duke of Milan eventually fell into the trap of the French. In the end, like his nephew, he was imprisoned in a water prison until his death, and the yellow diamond also fell into the next. In the hands of a master.

  In the Renaissance, there were many wealthy people. They were too many, but few could squeeze into the upper class. Among them was a businessman named Jacob Fogel.

  Florence in the 15th century, the Medici family took three generations of hard work to own an important bank in Italy, and it took another five generations of talent to reach other places in Europe. Two generations of the Fogel family did it.

   When Hans Fogel died, Jacob Fogel was only 10 years old, and his mother took over the family affairs.

  As the third child in the family, he is destined not to inherit the family business like the eldest son. He lives in his parents' mansion, listening to the noise of the noisy street, smelling the stench from the open gutter, and studying hard to become a priest.

  When he was 14 years old, he was sent by his mother to Venice to study finance. Five years later, he became a partner of a company. Later, after the three brothers worked together to grow together, the Fogels became one of the largest chaebols in Europe.

  He twice bought the emperor throne of the Holy Roman Empire for the electors he supported. After entering the aristocratic circle, the Medici family transferred many properties in order to wash away the merchant spirit, many of which were taken over by Jacob.

   Jacob took advantage of this relationship to catch up with Pope Julius II, the **** of war. He paid for the Pope to hire Swiss mercenaries and gave the yellow diamond to the Pope.

   Julius II almost couldn’t wait to set this diamond in his triple crown.

  When Julius II was a little messenger, he had seen the Grand Duke of Burgundy wear this yellow diamond on his chest.

  Bold Charlie has countless gems, but his favorite is this one.

  Charlie consciously is a romantic knight, and his strength is indeed somewhat level.

"The samurai pope" is said to be able to fight when he was a cardinal. The Pope Caesar Borgia of the Borgia family wanted to pave the way for his son, so he sent an assassin to assassinate all the red shirts who threatened his son. bishop.

   Julius II was also among them, but the Borgias even sent several assassins to their deaths. The assassins said that assassinating the cardinal was an impossible task.

  Finally, Julius II held on until the death of Pope Borgia, and finally ascended to the throne of St. Peter.

Under his supervision, Michelangelo completed the Sistine Zenith painting. In addition, he led the sweep of Italy, which was almost unified because of him, but as he grew older, his ambitions could only be seen by him. Think about it when I look at the Sistine Chapel.

  When Julius II was alive, Michelangelo did not paint the final judgment. At that time, many people thought that the pope who shouted and killed could not go to heaven. At the beginning, Michelangelo was commissioned by Julius II to repair his tomb. This tomb is located in the south of the cross wing of the St. Paul's Chain Church. . The famous sculpture "Prophet Moses" is part of the tomb of Julius II.

Michelangelo went to paint the zenith painting. The tomb of Julius II could not be built. Later, it could not be completed due to various reasons. Only three statues were completed in 40 years, except for Moses. , The two slaves were transported to the Louvre, and the other five unfinished slave sculptures were forever embedded in the stone, as if because of Michelangelo’s death, they became eternal slaves.

  After the death of the Pope, the diamond passed to his nephew, the Lowell family.

  This was originally a very prosperous family, but since getting the yellow diamond, the family members have died in accidents. In the end, this prosperous family will be extinct after three generations.

The last female of the Rowell family, Victoria, took this yellow diamond to marry the Medici family. Doom came once again. She was once laughed at by other nobles because of the low bloodliness and the Medici family who gave birth to children like mice. Endless.

  After the death of the last member of the Medici family, Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici, this yellow conqueror fell into the hands of the Habsburg family together with Florence.

  The famous yellow diamond in the aristocratic circle dared not touch the reckless Germans. It was placed in a showcase that was said to have performed magic. For two hundred years, even a maid who was cleaning it was rarely approached.

  During this time, no one in the Habsburg family died violently, but many people were "obsessed" and went crazy, and there was also a "witch hunt" in Germany.

  This situation continued until Sissi’s husband, the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I, ascended the throne.

  Franz loved Cici so much that despite the opposition of courtiers, he gave her this yellow diamond to wear.

  So the Habsburg family also set foot on the same bad luck as the Rowell family and the Medici family. The only crown prince committed suicide at the age of 30, and Princess Sissi also died in an assassination.

  Just as Franz was in the grief of bereavement of his son and wife, the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Grand Duke Ferdinand was assassinated and killed by a Serbian youth in Sarajevo. The First World War broke out with this.

Later, Franz’s grandnephew, Charles, the last emperor of the Habsburg family, came to Switzerland with his wife, children, and royal jewels, but soon the **** yellow diamond disappeared, and no one knew it. whereabouts.

  Some people say that it is the end of fate with the Habsburg family, looking for the next victim.

  Some people also said that it fell into the hands of Adolf Hitler, but because there was no photo evidence, it was regarded as a gossip.

  Some people say that it was stolen by a close friend and servant trusted by the royal family.

  Among these suspects, one of the suspects lives next door and is recuperating.

   "Why didn't Dad tell me this?" Draco asked excitedly.

  Felix, who was eating pineapple yogurt cookies, opened his mouth wide, and didn't know that the biscuits in his mouth fell on the ground.

"That's because all the dead are Muggles. We wizards are implicated only because of the ban on the yellow diamond. As long as we don't worry about that, bad luck will not be our turn." Severus calmly Say.

"Why would anyone want that diamond?" Pomona said in pain. She hadn't seen the eyes of the basilisk. Everyone had died. It was said that it was a huge yellow eye, just like the "conqueror." "Yellow Diamond.

   "There are many lunatics in this world, each with its own madness." Severus took a sip of wine and vomited it to the ground like gargle with it.

  "Do you want to keep them, or wait for them to recover and send them away?" Pomona asked.

   "Of course it is to let them go." Severus slapped the table firmly. "You have to be nosy and wait for your own affairs to be dealt with."

   "How are you, Fiona?" Pomona asked.

  The Muggle woman's face was pale, I don't know if she was shocked or frightened.

The Conqueror Yellow Diamond doesn’t really have this diamond. Those who are interested can use Kangkang’s Renaissance sculptures and pictures of Princess Sissi. There seems to be a copy. Which hero has the courage to try it? (*＾3＾)

  (End of this chapter)