Harry Potter’s Morning Light

Chapter 1528 The fatal gift

Except for Louis and Letizia, both men and women in the Bonaparte family like to attract bees and butterflies.

Georgiana sat on a chair in the study room of the Burgundy Mansion and looked at the fifty-year-old information in her hand, but could not read a single word. Lucien also had many mistresses, not to mention Joseph, and even the underage Gerero. This is also the case, I learned to live and drink at a young age.

Sometimes young people make choices without careful consideration due to lack of experience and reason. It is the responsibility of adults to correct them, rather than being influenced by their enthusiasm and falling into it.

Josephine's tolerance has its limits, and she will not endure it endlessly. Georgina was not approached by Napoleon on a whim, and Georgina was different from Giuseppina. Perhaps because of her natural simplicity, she would not do anything as ridiculous and confused as Ms. G.

 If Bonaparte is the Trojan prince, then Josephine, Georgiana and Georgina are the three graces before him, and he wants to give the golden apple, his heart, to one of the three.

 Josephine is Hera and Georgina is Venus, the goddess of love. Georgiana shamelessly has to play the role of Athena, the goddess of wisdom. She cannot lose her mind.

  To achieve long-term peace, we must first make this peace profitable, so that it is possible to defeat an equally profitable war. Fox presumably advocated trade liberalization just like Chaptard, so he wanted to meet with French Interior Minister Chaptard in this informal way.

 Coque Bell’s “equivalent exchange” approach is also unworkable. French products are all luxury goods, which some people are originally proud of. But if that is really done, France's civilian industry will be severely hit. The more French luxury goods are exported, the more cheap British cotton and woolen fabrics will be imported. It is impossible to reduce the price of luxury goods under any circumstances. Luxury goods are luxurious because they are expensive. What is the logic of cheap luxury goods?

Portugal also signed a peace treaty of "equal mutual trade" with the United Kingdom, and now it has become almost a colony of the United Kingdom. It is completely economically dependent on the United Kingdom. Once the United Kingdom stops importing Portuguese wine, Portugal's main industry will collapse, including Brazilian steel. Trade will open up new avenues of money. She read in a book written by an economist that the level of land rent is an indicator of the wealth and poverty of a country.

 No farmer wants high land rents. Land rents in Europe are generally depreciating now. However, under this overall trend, land rents in Britain and France are still much higher than in countries such as Poland.

Steel trade will increase Portugal’s land rent in the colonies. Will Portugal remember whose “favor” this is?

As long as the Methuen Treaty exists, it is impossible for French wines to obtain the same tariff preferences as Portugal, unless the United Kingdom opens a free trade port on the mainland, so that French wine merchants can use William Petty's method to The wine was transported to the free port and sold secretly, and then returned with barrels of water and released at sea, thus evading tariffs.

This is not smuggling, but a "reasonable" use of the loopholes of the free trade port. British businessmen are very good at exploiting these loopholes.

The same is true for Napoleon. He took advantage of the loopholes in the Sieyes Constitution, which stipulated that the First Consul was not allowed to lead troops but did not say that he was not allowed to accompany the army, so that he could lead troops to Italy again after the Brumaire Coup. And during the Directory period, he also took advantage of loopholes in the constitution. Instead of transporting the confiscated loot to the central treasury, the key was to transport the money to the central treasury. He replaced the Directory and became the one who pays the soldiers, and he took the lead himself. Of course the soldiers supported him. .

The International Law of Secrecy for Wizards also has loopholes. The law only stipulates that wizards are not allowed to harm Muggles at will, but it does not stipulate the punishment if Muggles harm wizards with witchcraft accusations. Albus's sister Ariana was harmed by Muggles. In order to avenge her, his father harmed the three Muggle teenagers. In the end, Percivaldo was imprisoned in Azkaban. Albus Dumbledore Having to give up his dreams to take care of his family, he then meets Grindelwald and then has a daydream romance.

 Paris is a romantic and passionate city, but the undercurrent of this passion is hidden under the glitz and glamour, making it difficult to detect.

The ministers objected to Georgiana being with their first consul because they hoped that he could remain rational and not make irrational judgments because of love and lust.

Caesar was not only a military strategist, he was also a sacrifice to the **** of love. In his era, the **** of love had replaced Zeus and became the main **** worshiped by the Romans.

The power of love is so great that it not only dazzles people, but also makes people choose to believe no matter what kind of lies they tell.

Until one day too many lies make love unbearable. How can a young, graceful and plump body not be alluring at all? Georgiana didn't mean to look down on Napoleoni, he was just a man, and he didn't like Georgina because she was young, he still had a normal man's aesthetics.

 He fell in love with a woman, no matter her real age or what she was wearing.

The first half of the date by the canal was going well. She actually hoped that he could stay like that forever. Although he was younger than her, she didn't mind having more unrelated brothers.

 Why can’t time stop at that moment?

She let out a long sigh, let herself slump in the chair, and stared at the ceiling inlaid with carved wooden boards as if she was out of body.

 Not long after, she heard the sound of hurried footsteps.

“Madam, please come and take a look!” A maid stood at the door and said to her.

 “What happened?” asked Georgiana.

“We found an altar,” the maid said. “The workers don’t dare to move it now.”

Georgiana stood up and followed the maid to the mansion next to the tower.

 The place where the altar was found was in a military camp under construction. The Mamluks were also watching. When they saw Georgiana appearing, they all made way.

The room that was originally used as the green room has a magic circle carved on the floor. Sunlight shines in through the window and can be seen without turning on a lamp.

She looked at the magic circle on the ground. There was no sheep's head or inverted five-pointed star. It didn't look like it was used for Satan worship rituals.

 “Why is there an altar here?” Georgiana asked everyone.

 No one answered her.

 They are all foreigners, and some even come from distant Egypt. How can they understand the history of this land?

 At this moment, a Mamluk suddenly knelt at her feet.

 “Please give me strength, princess.” The Mamluk knelt on the ground and looked up at Georgiana, saying in French with a foreign accent.

She was a little shocked, and then other Mamluks also knelt on the ground.

 “Please give me strength,” the Mamluks said in unison.

 At this time, Belle was the only one standing.

“You shouldn’t want power that’s not yours,” Georgiana snapped.

　　Belle immediately translated this sentence into Arabic.

“We want strength to protect you,” the Mamluk leader said in French.

 “What’s your name?” Georgiana asked the man.

“You can call me Shadi,” said the Mamluk. “Or you can give me a name.”

Georgiana finally understood what her name was.

Josephine’s real name was not Josephine, but Rose, but Napoleon kept calling her that, and everyone thought she was Josephine.

 “What does your name mean?” asked Georgiana.

 “Happy,” said the serious Mamluk.

Georgiana looked at the altar and walked around it.

It is very complicated. The magic circle is depicted on the white marble with gold lines. It looks very gorgeous, but does not feel the evil power.

“Seal this place so that no one can come near it.” She said to the Mamluks, “Wait until I find out what is going on.”

 “As you are commanded,” Shadi said, and the other Mamluks responded.

“Get up,” Georgiana said to Shady. “A free man shouldn’t kneel.”

 Shadi did not stand up.

 She leaned into his ear and whispered, "Maybe what you want is a curse."

“Do you think Adam and Eve regretted eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden?” Shadi asked.

 “You idiot.” she said impatiently.

Shadi smiled, "I heard that the ancient Germans believed that 'gift' has a double meaning. On the one hand, it is a gift, and on the other hand, it is poison. The gold of the Rhine will kill the person who wins it, and it will be used as a sacred gift." Heroes who drink from the cup will die; they are not going to Valhalla."

 “How do you know this?”

 “This is the knowledge we pass down orally, like those stories about the constellations.”

 Georgiana looked at Shadi interestingly.

It seems that what is spread by word of mouth is not just rumors.

"Since you are asking for death," she whispered, "you will get what you want, get up."

Shadi was not ecstatic, he was so calm that he stood up.

 After he stood up, other Mamluks also stood up one after another.

She once heard Frank Longbottom say, don't waste your "gift".

Most non-linguists would probably not think of gifts as being associated with poison.

Like the poisoned apple, Snow White didn't think about it when she took it from the witch. If there hadn't been a "prince" passing by, her death would have been in vain. In comparison, she pitied the witch queen even more. After Snow White gained power, she asked her stepmother to put on red-hot iron shoes and let the queen "dance" to the end. die.

 Georgiana didn't say anything, she turned and walked away.

What a pity, she is not a kind woman, but an evil witch, so she is jealous of women who can remain innocent and get love.

  She hates Snow White, no matter how beautiful she is.

How would others react if she branded that world-beautiful face with a branding iron? Without her beautiful face, will the "prince" still love her?

She walked out of the room and looked up at the blue sky. She suddenly wanted to transform her Animagus into a swan and fly away from the stinking city, but covered the smell with perfume, and find a quiet lake that was so quiet. Look at your reflection in the lake.

How happy that would be.

 (End of this chapter)