The Sensory Animals of Ston Hill

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The following may contain a little spoiler, and it is long, please read it carefully.

1. Your Majesty is quite handsome, with pale complexion, thin body, long and narrow eyes, sometimes gloomy and sometimes laughing, curly hair, he is a sickly handsome man.Let's get straight to the point:

2. The background of the time is the late period of the French Revolution. The story begins in 1828, and now it is 1829.Many readers feel that His Majesty's rule is not reliable, and some readers said that when they think of Queen Mary, their intuition is very good. This article is about the French Revolution, but it is placed in a fictional country, so there will be many differences.I said before that I didn’t have any evidence, but I was actually guilty. I was afraid that some students who are particularly proficient in history would say that in such and such a social environment, such and such things would not happen... But now I feel that I can still try and strive for logic. It works.

Grace is not modeled after Mary Antoinette, who is clearly above average in terms of intelligence and sanity.But these two people have one thing in common, they are both involved in big events with a dazed face, and are forced to participate in the historical process.

The reason why I wrote about this event is that this revolution is too complicated and worth thinking about. Every revolution or change that happened in the world later can see its shadow from this great revolution and find something worthy of reference.And this event is worth writing about because people still cannot make a conclusion for him today, because its influence on the world has not been eliminated.

When I first wrote this article, I was simply interested in this period of history, wondering why the Western ideology is so different from ours, and it is so difficult to understand each other.Later, the epidemic happened, and many things that happened in the world really affected our lives. I suddenly had greater ambitions for this article: I want to use this article to prove that our current social system is the best for us. system.

Of course, the author's level is limited, so I may not be able to really demonstrate clearly, and I still want to put the fun of the story before the seriousness, so when I finish writing it at the end, it may be just a love story that many people have participated in. ~Everything is still uncertain until the end~ But no matter how it is written, I still firmly believe that our system is the best for us at present, and this is serious.Montesquieu said that a good system must adapt to changes with the times (I can’t remember the original words, but that’s probably what it means), and only we have achieved this.

3. Your Majesty is the "King", not the "Emperor".There used to be emperors in Europe. The era of the ancient Roman Empire ended a long time ago. The later emperor of the Holy Roman Empire was just a gimmick, and then the emperor Napoleon had real power, but he also fell early.European countries can be compared to the vassal states of our Zhou Dynasty, and may even be worse.Emphasizing this is mainly to let everyone feel the "centralization" of Europe, otherwise it may be easy to substitute for the feeling of our ancient emperors.It is impossible for a commoner queen like Wei Zifu to appear in Europe. The king's mistress, high-ranking servant, and personal bodyguard must all be nobles.Everyone should have felt it after reading the text, the king doesn't just do whatever he wants.But it is not the law that restricts the king (as mentioned in the duel chapter, the king is above the law), but the nobles and the church, and these things will be integrated into the plot.

4. Regarding the church, it was mentioned earlier that they have mass and bishops can be high officials, so it can be seen that their state religion is Catholicism and the church is very powerful.The influential people in the church are basically of noble origin.The Catholic Church does not allow divorce, so mistress mistresses prevail.The king's mistress is considered a position, with an annuity, and Grace is about to get rich.

5. About the nobility.Europe attaches great importance to blood, and there is no mobility between classes.Voltaire thought that China's monarchy was good, because we have imperial examinations, which allow carp to leap over the dragon's gate, and allow poor families to produce noble children, so that the common people have something to look forward to.But they can't, no matter how rich the Stone family is, they are not nobles, and they can't become real nobles by buying titles (even the earl is downstream of the noble discrimination chain).The Ston brothers and Grace are in the same class, and they have the same low treatment in front of the policy-paying high taxes and making it difficult to be an official.

The earl is a nobleman, but an inferior nobleman.Grace's current father mentioned a few words when he appeared on the stage. The Marquis of Nacolon was born in a traditional aristocratic family, with a full-screen ancestral shadow.The Earl of Arundel's title is based on himself, and he has real talents (his suggestion to His Majesty to protect the country's industry was a few years before the theory of infant industry protection was actually formed), but he was discriminated against. He is probably a newcomer among the new nobles noble.

The nobles of the marquis who were acquired by their ancestors in the Crusades were called "sword nobles". They were honored by fighting for the king, so the army was also in the hands of such people.

When I wrote about military academies, I mentioned that the vast majority of military academies are of noble origin, even though many of them have declined.The Ston brothers were able to enter, thanks to Napoleon once reshuffled the cards in Europe, changing many customary rules, but after all, there was no real revolution in Grace’s country, so it was in a state of mixed old and new. (It can also be seen from their clothes that they have both a retro and conservative side and a new and simple side)

6. An important manifestation of social conflicts is "taxation", which has been mentioned several times in the article, such as candle tax, royalties, window tax, etc.Nobles don't have to pay taxes, so Mrs. Stone chose to marry the earl and keep the property.Another reason for choosing to marry an earl is that only nobles can have fiefdoms (fiefdoms, land, all feudalism is based on land). Although all fiefdoms theoretically belong to the king, the power of the king does not actually extend to the grassroots, so the real The power of the great aristocracy is no small matter.

The Ston family is not aristocratic, and their "ownership" of these lands is not secure. In my setting, I took advantage of loopholes in the inheritance law and land law, because there are many bankrupt nobles, but they are actually not legal. It is easy to be rectified (at the beginning, it was not based on research, mainly because the property law made up a lot of things that intensified contradictions, in order to make big events happen faster, and complete the reform while Grace was still young, and enjoy a few more years Fu. But it is not a complete nonsense, and it can be seen that the private property of civilians was not respected at that time.)

There is another point about the lack of textual research, which is the anesthetic that Grace poured into the housekeeper's tea (the article hinted that it was ordered by the doctor in charge of the earl, if you don't see it, I will add something more).There were no good anesthetics in Europe at that time, and the surgery was done directly from the pain or knocked out with a stick.But in fact, our Mafeisan and the like have appeared in Europe. The fake death medicine in Romeo and Juliet is considered to be this kind, but it didn’t become popular later on.

7. They are now at a backward stage in the industrial revolution, and the colonies are becoming independent, which is also mentioned in the article, and you may have felt it.

That's all for now.

If Grace is compared to the national fortune of France, the Earl is a great revolution in a narrow sense, which brought about great progress and change to Grace, and also brought great destruction and harm.The elder brother is Grace's enlightenment, the beginning of all progress, and the first ray of light that clears away the darkness.

Looking at people like Voltaire and Rousseau from the perspective of modern people, they may feel that their theories are naive and impractical, and make fun of their literati passion.But I think that it was not that they participated in politics rashly as literati, but that the people at that time lacked political wisdom and political experience, so they could only rely on these people to cross the river by feeling the stones and pave the way for the society.Without them, maybe the whole world will sink in the black river of ignorance for a few more years.

My brother is not perfect either, he is too contradictory: he loves literature, poetry and romantic history, but he became a soldier; he loves Voltaire who fired at the church, but he prays for atonement every night; he appreciates Schiller's moral foundation The theory of beauty, but it violates human relations...

He suffered from conflicts and could not do his best, but he was the one who led Grace to take the first step, and then Grace took every step independently.

As a reader expressed in a long comment, Grace's bravery comes from love, especially the love of her brother.

Both William and Allen are wondering where the future is going.Grace didn't know where the direction was, but he had set off bravely.

Volume [-] Hope and Destruction