Chapter 3035 queen’s spleasure (fourteen)

Taking the Hogwarts Express from King's Cross Station to Scotland, in addition to noisy traveling companions, pets running around, stewards pushing candy carts, there are also beautiful scenery outside the window.

However, most students will not look at it, and even if they do, they will not pay careful attention to how many bridges they encounter and how many mountains they climb along the way, especially after entering the Scottish Highlands.

 When crossing mountainous terrain, it is inevitable to dig tunnels and build bridges. The amount of work is more than double that of plains. Sometimes even a small gully will increase the difficulty of construction. Even if the engineering team doesn't have to rush as fast as the Trans-America Railroad, there will still be costs.

In the collection of stories about Beedle the Poet, there is a story about three brothers. Death is waiting on the other side of a rushing river. Some travelers don’t know the depth of the river and think they can walk across it. Others feel something is wrong and turn around and take a detour. Go somewhere else.

  After all, not everyone has the ability to use magic to build bridges like the three brothers.

“Why don’t the local people build the bridge? If the bridge is built, how convenient will it be for them to walk by themselves?”

 Once a Muggle freshman asked Pomona that he had just arrived in this completely strange world. Pomona told him this wizarding fairy tale as a bedtime story.

 She didn't know how to describe such a complex issue to a child.

A lively party can bring joy, but after the lively party, the empty building and messy place show loneliness.

 Peace does not mean loneliness, but it is not easy to find someone who can accompany you and give you peace. On the contrary, you can feel "quiet" when you are alone.

Hogwarts is located in a deep mountain. Although it is not isolated from other people, it is far away from the bustling city. After looking at the lakes and mountains for a long time, you will feel tired.

Even adults can't stand this kind of constant "tranquility". How do they explain tranquility to a child who is proud of inviting "many" friends to his birthday party?

Since there is nothing to do in the country, why not go to London?

By the 17th century, three-quarters of the nobility had permanent real estate in London. Then with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, crowded cities, noisy machines, poor hygiene, and the most serious air pollution problems shrouded the "Fog City" The fog in London is no longer the fog blowing from the North Sea, but more the exhaust gas from factories. The aristocrats first moved collectively to West London, where the air was better, and later they simply moved back to the countryside in search of a peaceful life.

 Many people lived a seasonal life like migratory birds. They would leave their country estates and come to social places every social season. The poor road conditions at this time made their travel difficult, and trains were not yet popular at that time.

 In order to facilitate their own travel and to facilitate the transportation of farm products and minerals from mines, the nobles began to build roads. At this time, the Parliament also issued a decree to charge roads.

 Roads were not financed through shares, as with canals and railways, but under road trusts. Peabody opened a trust company to develop real estate in London, but this road trust was different from it. It was not even a company.

The first is the ancient primogeniture system of the nobility. Not every noble will exhaust his family property because of his luxurious life. Sometimes they also need investment. If he wants to sell land, he cannot buy or sell it privately and must obtain the consent of the parliament. , after going through complex applications and approvals, you have to pay a large sum of money before you can sell it using "private law".

The usual method is long-term leasing. The lease contract is usually 31 years, but it can also be signed for 99 years. The deacons have the responsibility to assist in completing the contract. At the same time, they also have the responsibility to prevent the owner of the land from listening to some "low-risk, low-risk, High return” investment, mortgage your own land.

The Highway Trust does not obtain returns from the "trust" itself, but after repairing the roads, high-quality road conditions will improve the competitiveness of the local area. The members it attracts are also non-public, mainly gentlemen, nobles, and farmers. Later, some manufacturers The owners are almost all landowners, and most of the funds to maintain the trust come from land profits.

Many aristocratic families have butlers. The "butler" is mainly responsible for the internal affairs of the manor, while the deacon is responsible for the "outside" fixed assets, and sometimes helps the owner make some decisions. The deacon himself is even the elder of the manor owner, and he is trusted by internal personnel. He was elected to take charge of this matter.

“Queen” was considered the consort of the king in the past. In addition to the Hundred Years War between England and France, Britain was also experiencing the War of the Red and White Roses in 1388. The king at that time was Richard II, but the real power was controlled by his uncle John of Gaunt.

He is like a leaf in the wind. Although he wears a crown, he is blown back and forth by the forces that come and go.

His first wife was Anne of Bohemia, the daughter of Charles IV of the Holy Roman Empire. She did not follow him around like the queen of Edward III, the Black Prince, but was married to Richard II. Rule a complex court together.

 The kinship between servant and master is false, even though they live in the same house.

But many people like the feeling of being surrounded by servants. In the files Pomona read, there was a juror in Buckinghamshire who reported that one of his servants, Gerald, did not even know his real name and thought he was a servant. He is a foreigner, but in fact "Gerald" is a wizard. He escaped before he was tortured and the Wizards Council captured him for further interrogation.

"Master" rarely understands "servant". The mysterious man always lets his followers call him "master", regardless of whether he is a pure-blood noble or not.

People are complex, and they are not objects summoned by the "Flying Curse". Servants often have many secrets of their masters. They have eyes, thoughts, joy, pain, and their unreliable mouths will tell everything they know without even being tortured. Speak up in exchange for a gift.

Pomona wondered how Albus would react to the fact that Severus had said those words in his own image.

The last time "servant" Snape told the Dark Lord about the news he heard from the Hog's Head Bar, which indirectly led to the death of Lily Potter.

They were well hidden, if not for someone who tipped them off, but Pomona still found it hard to believe that it was Sirius Black who had sentenced them.

Hagrid did not return to his hut. He might have gone to the Hog's Head Bar for a drink. Anyway, there was no one in his hut. Pomona walked out of the Forbidden Forest alone.

She looked at Hogwarts Castle, which seemed to be glowing in the moonlight. In the Tudor Dynasty, Henry VIII promulgated the "Act of Supremacy". If the king is the "head", then each class constitutes the "body" of the country, and the head owns All the glory and wealth that comes with this crown. However, at that time, women were generally considered to be the embodiment of original sin and were prone to solving problems with instinct rather than rational thinking. Mary did not think she was qualified to inherit the title of "Supreme".

 For this reason, Mary I began to use the terms "queen" and "king" interchangeably, transferring the "virtue" of male rulers to female rulers.

At the coronation ceremony, Mary called herself the "wife of the country", and the country was the "head". As a wife, she should obey the "husband" of the country. Therefore, in addition to the crown, Mary I also received a ring. This ring It is not meant to be kissed like the Pope's ring, but it is a symbol of the covenant.

 Later, Elizabeth I copied the coronation ceremony of Mary I and also married herself to the country.

 She chose the son born to Mary of Scots to become the King of England. With a father like Henry VIII, who would still be looking forward to marriage? What's more, in addition to the risk of having children, after Mary of Scots married her second husband, she felt that she should become a king. If she had the energy, wouldn't it be good to do "problems that require rational thinking to be solved"?

No matter how unmaintainable or muddy the "King's Road" may be, it is still a road.

Pomona lifted up her witch robe, and her boots were covered with mud. The leather shoes on the feet of "Dolores" who had also walked in the Forbidden Forest for a while were still clean.

She laughed inexplicably, put down her skirt, and walked briskly on the thick lawn, as if she were stepping on a red carpet.

 (End of this chapter)