Chapter 3170 The Floating Island (Part 2)

 When the Sun King was still a child, he was already proficient in all kinds of etiquette.

As a child, he had free access to the palace of the regent Queen Anne of Austria, but he did not enjoy a happy childhood like ordinary children, although he was born a real prince.

He has known the high-ranking officials in the country so well since he was a child that whenever they have any major life events, he will be at the scene. He has presided over weddings since he was 4 years old.

Since childhood, he has been the godfather to other noble children. At first, adults thought it was some kind of children's game he invented. But by the age of 5, he began to accept the oath of allegiance to him from the heirs of the highest-ranking officials.

Even for a child's game, this was too serious, and on May 18, 1643, he held his first "King's Service" in the chapel of Saint-Louis where the Crown of Thorns was stored.

At that time, the royal palace was still on the Île de la Cité, and Versailles was still his father's hunting palace. After he moved Fouquet, he began to prepare to build a new palace outside Paris. Many artists came after hearing the news.

The pattern of the sun has actually been used by many European monarchs since the 16th century, but it was not until Louis XIV that it became the central pattern of the king's emblem.

Among the many water conservancy projects in the Palace of Versailles, there is a fountain called "Thetis Cave". At night, Thetis would let Apollo, who had been driving the chariot for a day, rest here. The sculptures in the Apollo Fountain show The scene of the sun **** setting out in the early morning. Four horses pull the carriage that is mostly submerged in water. The splashing water around it seems to indicate that it is about to break out of the water and fly into the sky.

With such a beautiful palace, etiquette is inevitable. You can't just throw the leftover bones to the waiting hounds like the table manners in the Middle Ages.

People in the Middle Ages believed that eating was a public matter and that private food could not be enjoyed secretly but had to be eaten in the hall. The Great Hall of Hogwarts maintained medieval habits.

Wealthy owners and their spouses would sometimes retreat to private rooms to enjoy fine meals, and such privacy did not exist at Versailles.

The Hall of Mirrors connects the king's and queen's bedrooms, with a series of dormitories in the middle, almost all of which are semi-open. The Hall of Mirrors is the "main road" of Versailles, which means that you will pass by if you go to the toilet in your room. People see.

The king even ritualized getting up. Ordinary people got up. The king's getting up ceremony was like Apollo in the fountain about to drive his chariot. The originally dark sky suddenly "brightened". When Descartes died, There was still controversy between the heliocentric theory and the geocentric theory. Louis XIV was already in his teens at the time.

If you follow French cuisine, no, it’s court etiquette. After finishing the meal, it’s basically bedtime.

Napoleon hardly wastes time eating. When he eats, he devours it. He never listens to Josephine's instructions to eat slower and stay at the table longer.

But the "reception banquet" is another matter. In the past, when he came back from a victorious battle, the Directory would also hold a reception ceremony for him, although Georgiana's action was defined as a "little thing."

 This is also the end of this journey. Even if the atmosphere is warm and most senior officials maintain aristocratic etiquette, toasts are still unavoidable.

At this time, the role of the adjutant appeared. Bonaparte had almost no wine, and all the wine was drank by the adjutant. When he was almost finished eating, he stood up with the cup, gave a speech and drank the wine in one gulp.

 When he got up and left, if Georgiana was still here, it meant that the party was not over yet. If someone has something to report, they can leave the meeting early and just bow to her and say hello.

However, no matter how long the banquet was, it would come to an end. When Georgiana was led by the valet to her suite, Margaret was instructing the maid to light the fireplace. The blond French girl saw her appearance and ran away happily. Come and salute, although doing so is still against the rules of the palace.

When the queen got up, there were a lot of duchess surrounding her. They didn't need to move their feet, they just passed the clothes with their hands. Even if the queen had already taken off her clothes and was shivering with cold, they still had to wait for them to pass slowly. .

Can't we wait until the clothes are passed around before letting the queen take off her clothes? That's not okay, it's not in line with the rules, this is what the Sun King did to wake up.

After the Revolution, some red tape was abolished, but some etiquette was restored under the ruling government, such as getting up, but he only did it in the Tuileries Palace. When he returned to Malmaison, he and Josephine slept in the same house as a normal couple. On the same bed, they had separate rooms in the Tuileries.

Had it not been for seeing Marie Antoinette pointing to her bed and asking Josephine why she was sleeping on the bed, Josephine would not have left the Tuileries and would occasionally come to "catch an adulterer".

 Georgiana thought this was ridiculous.

Han Feizi once said that in a well-governed country, the best thing is to stop evil.

  Meaning, it is not about relying on people to do good deeds on their own initiative, but to create a situation where people dare not do bad things. It is very rare to rely solely on people to do good deeds on their own initiative.

Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian once established a charity warehouse. This is like the "donation" mentioned by Aristotle. Some "goodwill" must be given out first, and then it can be taken out when it is urgently needed.

However, charity warehouses later changed from voluntary to compulsory. Free warehouses are usually stored in state and county warehouses. People in cities benefit first, while farmers in rural areas have to transport grain from far away and wait until disaster relief is needed. They are just as troublesome there, which is restricted by ancient transportation methods.

 It was originally a voluntary and conscious thing, but if you were unwilling to do it because of the trouble, then it became a compulsory "tax collection".

Georgiana's proposal in Brussels to use beer taxes to raise war orphans also had problems during its implementation, causing a large-scale protest. Logically speaking, the "parade" representing victory should be joyful and smooth. Napoleon also encountered By the time of an assassination, he would have been furious.

Robespierre once made a speech, "We want to replace selfishness with virtue in this country, let integrity become the core of honor, replace habits with principles, etiquette with obligations, the tyranny of fashion with the power of reason, and the tyranny of fashion with the power of reason. Replace the contempt of the unfortunate with the contempt of evil, the arrogance with pride, the vanity with great souls, the intrigues with good deeds, the wisdom with talent, the truth with talent, the mediocrity of the great with the greatness of the common man, all the virtues of the republic. All evil deeds, and all foolish actions under monarchy. If in peacetime, the driving force of government is virtue, then in revolutionary times, the driving force of government is terror and virtue. Virtue without terror is weakness, and terror is swiftness, severity, and firmness. justice, therefore it is the product of virtue, manifesting itself in the form of terror.”

For this "idea", he began a reign of terror and created a situation where anyone who committed an offense would be guillotined.

She didn't know how Han Fei planned to promote his idea. Li Si killed his fellow disciple, and then the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty died.

 At the end of the Sui Dynasty, people revolted due to famine. When the Li and Tang dynasties took over the world, it is said that many granaries were still full.

Quiner also thought that his theory could solve the problem of peasant poverty, but what were the consequences in the end?

Severus asked her if she had ever wanted to accomplish something, not for anything else but to prove that she could do it.

 Now she feels that she is really worthless.

 A breath smelling of alcohol appeared behind her, and then a pair of hands hugged her from behind.

She didn't need to look back to know who it was, the strong scent of perfume was too familiar to her.

 In fact, she is essentially no different from those female stars, and is even worse than them.

 At least they can get beautiful jewelry. Grassini filled her neck and wrists with diamonds, but what did she get? “Where will I live when I go back?” she asked again.

 “Don’t go back,” he said as if possessed by a ghost.

 Her breath touched her ears, which made her feel itchy.

 If she wasn't even beautiful, she would be really unattractive and more like a daydream.

 “You really don’t want to go back?” Maybe it was because she didn’t reply, so he asked.

 “I’m not well-dressed?” she asked weakly.

"How could it be?" He turned her around and held her shoulders with both hands. "You are beautiful."

 The smile on his face is genuine.

“Then why didn’t you react at all just now?” she said accusingly.

“Didn’t I say it? Your raid was successful!” He covered his heart and said, “The God of Love shot my heart with an arrow.”

She really didn't expect that what he meant by "raid".

 “Didn’t you say I wanted to reward you? The reward is coming.” He said with a weird smile.

 She thought for a long time but didn't understand what he meant.

 Then he leaned close to her ear and whispered.

 She pushed him away in anger and almost slapped him.

This anger was real, he should have sensed it, and the playful smile on his face slowly disappeared.

 “Don’t you think this is a reward?” he asked indifferently.

“That was before.” She said with suppressed anger. “I am not your ballerina.”

 He smiled sarcastically.

 “Do you really think that or are you making excuses for yourself?”

Once again she didn't understand what he meant.

 “Let’s take a look at this.” He said lazily, picked up a pile of information from the table next to him, and handed it to her.

 “What is this?” she said cautiously, without touching it.

 “What have the British done recently?” He put the information back on the table.

 “Why do you mention the British?” she asked inexplicably.

 “Aren’t you thinking about him?” He picked up a glass of wine and smelled the smell in the glass.

 “I didn’t!” she retorted immediately.

 “Let’s continue chatting after reading this.” He said in a commanding tone.

 She glanced at the information and then at the uncompromising Napoleon.

Even if it is a dream, it is too crazy.

 “Have you ever been to a place called Whitechapel?” he said suddenly.

 “You ask this…”

 “To go or not to go!” He suddenly raised his voice.

“I have been there.” She said immediately, “I have traveled there.”

 He obviously didn't believe what she said.

But how could she introduce the serial killers of the late 19th century to the French people of the early 19th century?

"There is an area called Spitalfields in that area. After the Edict of Nantes was repealed, many Huguenot silk craftsmen settled there." He was like a storyteller and planned to tell her the content of the information. .

 “I can read it myself!” she said irritably, picking up the information.

 He quietly walked aside and waited.

 The only sounds in the bedroom were the sound of pages being turned over and the crackling of firewood in the stove.

 (End of this chapter)