Chapter 2371 The Shadow of the King (middle)

  Although Viennese waltzes became popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and many composers wrote about them, the music played by Dubault was not the kind of decoration that could be used as a backdrop.

   Everyone took a drink and stood around him, and Georgiana also took a drink and stood in a corner with Bonaparte.

   She could feel someone judging her with the back of her head.

   Well, dumping tea and coffee is a joke. The Americans just felt that the French were no longer a threat after the Seven Years War, so they were unwilling to pay taxes to England.

   She watched Dilbo play, imagined the scene when Frederick the Great listened to Dirpo in Sanssouci Palace, and she didn't feel like she was comparing everything in front of her.

  The alliance between the French and the Ottoman Empire has been around since François I. At that time, it was also called "the union of the lily and the crescent". Other countries prefer to call it the blasphemous alliance. The first was that François was defeated and captured at the Battle of Pavia, and Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire opened very harsh conditions.

Francois agreed, and then quickly backtracked. The relationship between the two countries quickly became tense. Charles V clamored for a duel with Francois I. Francois did not answer, and then he was between the kingdoms of knights. Discredited.

   Through the "Lady of Cambrai Treaty" signed by Margaret of Austria, France and the Holy Roman Empire were reconciled, and then Francois I allied with the Ottoman Empire.

   After the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire in 1453 and Constantinople renamed Istanbul, Hungary became a front line against the Ottomans. Vienna will be besieged when Hungary can no longer hold it. In 1529, the Ottoman Empire first tried to capture Vienna, sending 100,000 troops, and then in 1683, during the reign of Leopold I, just over 30 years During the war, the Ottomans did not follow the rules of "rest and recuperation" and wanted to "take advantage of the situation", but they were unsuccessful. After the Ottoman army withdrew, the prisoners and the women and children who came to Vienna with the army were treated as slaves. sold.

   Although Bonaparte said it lightly, she was not very convinced that his 80,000 Italian legionnaires would be able to take Vienna.

In trade with the Ottoman Empire, it is not the coffee beans that matter, but the Levant taler, the taler with the head of Maria Theresa, if the newly made Bud Moon Franc wants to replace it, or the Levant taler Tertal does not need to be converted into Turkish currency and needs to sign a treaty, which is a "currency treaty".

In the 20th century, before the US dollar, the pound also played the role of the world currency, but the pound at that time used coins made of precious metals, and because of its high quality, a large amount of precious metals were outflowed, especially silver. In 1717, Newton established the gold standard, and silver became the coins.

  Coins are not like paper money. Find a place, dig a pit, put the coins in a jar, and then cover them with soil. They can be used for hundreds of years. Those German princes have a lot of money in the small court vaults.

   There are other people who hide money like this, so that no matter how many new coins are minted, there will still be deflation. During the New Deal period, Roosevelt talked through the fireplace and asked the American people to deposit their paper money in a bank with good credit, which saved the deflation during the Great Depression.

  Georgiana spread the news, and asked the middle class of Annecy to take out their coins and exchange them for the right of way of the newly built track, where they were already close to Germany. If according to the "Treaty of Westminster" signed by Frederick the Great, any foreign power is not allowed to take the land of the moral will, Ney's bringing troops into Switzerland is already illegal, if Frederick the Great is still there, Possibly united with Great Britain to declare war on France in the name of default.

  Only profitable places will set up checkpoints to collect taxes, and who will build toll booths in unmanned areas where no one goes.

  If Bonaparte so provoked the relationship between Prussia and Austria, Austria would not necessarily be fooled, but now that their patriotic enthusiasm is ignited, no one knows what they will do.

  The French have to establish their own good credit before they can get rid of their dependence on the Dutch credit. She believes that Bonaparte will not tell her about Utrecht for no reason. In the 16th century, most of the American silver coins were minted in the Netherlands under Spanish rule. Does this mean that a new mint will be built in Utrecht?

   She didn't dare to ask, and she was afraid that she would guess and spread false news, so her credit would be lowered in the future.

   And Georgiana is not sure if she wants to take advantage of this opportunity to operate foreign exchange, in case she ruins her agent like Josephine.

   Hufflepuff was notoriously "honest", and she couldn't do this kind of speculative business, and she didn't want to.

   She used to live peacefully with "old school" people like Augusta, which shows that she is also old school, although she is much younger than the Longbottoms.

Just when she picked up the wine glass and took a sip, she saw a person out of the corner of her eye, it was the rich widow who had a relationship with her, Bols, one of the partners of the Belgian Industrial Promotion Bank. Mrs. Key, the old lady is toasting her.

  Women age faster, but live longer than men. Many wealthy couples in the Netherlands, their husbands die, leaving behind a lot of inheritance and widows, they rarely choose to remarry.

  The Dutch tend to find a local woman to marry, and the woman's relationship can allow him to integrate into the local circle. There are also some people who marry young wives after successful careers, and then there are some young, beautiful, rich, "innocent and lovely" widows.

Even they were reluctant to put money into the so-called Belgian Industrial Promotion Bank, which shows how bad the reputation of Napoleon or the French is, but Mrs. Bolski put money in and decided that day what to do with the assassin who killed Napoleon. She also attended the meeting.

  Georgianna took a sip of wine, she didn't dare to see Bonaparte's expression.

   She was too calm, which might arouse his suspicions, and he has made a few strange remarks recently, like… suspecting that she was involved in the plan to assassinate him.

   He specifically asked her why she didn't climb the tower that day, and she did feel that it was too tiring for an 80-year-old man to climb that high in such a full dress.

  Who made her disappear for one night inexplicably that day?

   She needs some normal people's reactions after encountering an assassination, such as fear, fear. He is not standing here because he is idle, but he is deliberately accompanying her, but is it too late for her to show it now?

One of the characteristics of a    antisocial personality is indifference, suspicion, and lack of empathy, and her greatest strength is empathy.

  When she isolates her own sympathy, becomes indifferent, and indifferent to the suffering of others, is that still herself?

   Although she knows many ways of poisoning and knows many poisonous plants, she doesn't plan to use it.

  Mrs. Zabini got richer with each marriage, and women like her were nicknamed "Black Widows."

As a woman, you will always be bound by many morals. If a Venetian man gambles and owes a lot of debt, and wears a mask and continues to appear in public after dark, women will be crucified, and there will be other people. Teach them to be religious and pray to Maria that the plague will end soon.

   She put her head on Bonaparte's shoulder.

   She cast a creaking spell on herself, which would make her ticklish and laugh, but as long as she held it back, she would tremble all over, almost like being afraid.

   Later, she found out that it was really unnecessary. Just this feeling of wanting to laugh and cry was tormenting her to the point of madness, and there was no need to pretend.

   The woman she admires most is Molly. No matter what she becomes, Arthur still calls her "Little Trembling".

   Didn't their marriage fulfill that oath? No matter poor or rich, beautiful or tarnished, success or adversity, love him, respect her, and accept him (her).

  In the past, it was the limitation of the times that you had to listen to live chamber music performances. If in the 20th century, she could find a place to lie down and drink juice while listening to records or radio, that would be a real enjoyment. The way she looked now reminded her of Ross on the Titanic, and the suffocation made Ross run astern and almost jump into the icy sea.

   But there she met Jack, under a starry sky.

   "You're shaking," she heard the person beside her say.

   "It'll be fine in a while." She said softly, "Don't tell anyone else."

   He did not answer.

   So she just leaned against him, and listened to the piece until Dubault played the last note, and she lifted the spell and applauded with the others.

   As if everything was business as usual.

   (end of this chapter)