Chapter 627 Intermediary of Power

  Steam and gas were the driving force when London first emerged. In 1824, a bricklayer in England invented cement, and then London used this new building material to build a huge network of urban sewers. By the beginning of the 19th century, London became the first city to use gas lighting.

  The various achievements of the Industrial Revolution directly changed the face of London on a large scale. Asphalt roads replaced the gravel roads in the past, allowing heavy carriages to pull goods from London to the surrounding harbours faster. The rise of factories also led to the rapid concentration of rural populations in large cities such as London, Edinburgh, and Manchester. The clustering of people has also changed the face of cities.

  However, after more than one hundred years, the underground pipe network constructed by cement began to have problems. "There are often leakage accidents". The explosion scenes are often horrible. For the safety of the citizens, the municipal department often overhauls them.

  At first, people were afraid of the light of gas lamps. The ladies were disgusted by the skin condition being seen too clearly and the complexion looked bad, and there was a danger of explosion if used indoors.

  Compared with oil lamps, when using gas lamps, the walls and ceiling are also more likely to be soiled, so they are quite unpopular. For these reasons, the first places to use gas lamps were shops, theaters, and streetlights. It was not long before they expanded to the public areas of the home, such as the hallway, living room, and dining room, and finally the bedroom.

  Soho District is one of the first areas to popularize gas, but there are not many gas lamps here, and the whole street is full of red lanterns during the Spring Festival.

Compared with supermarkets, Westerners are more interested in the mysterious oriental goods sold in grocery stores, especially spices, which are always related to religion and certain mysterious rituals. Some divination shops also open their stores in Chinatown. .

  With the opening of the Suez Canal and the appearance of planes, the former bustling Liverpool has become increasingly deserted.

  Even in London's Chinatown, many restaurants do not open at all in the morning, and do not open until noon.

The eating habits of the Chinese are very different from those of the British. The Chinese breakfast is only eaten by the Chinese who live in Chinatown. The shops in Chinatown ultimately make money during the holidays. The business of tourists from mainland China who travel to the UK is checked by the British police. Gas leaks are used as an excuse to encircle Chinatown. If the shops cannot do business, the prepared ingredients will be wasted.

  The gangs are often very closely related to the judicial system. The lawyers bail more gang members, and they will get acquainted as soon as they come and go.

  There will be many gang members participating in this operation, but at this time, Mr. Wen who was in charge of the connection died.

  When the atmosphere develops negatively, people’s information will also be shaken, people will give up rational cognition, and then produce irrational behavior.

  It is not violent insults that make people powerless, but silent distinctions.

In the chaos, there are always people who will profit from the chaos. During the inauguration of Sterling, the dragon's blood was sold at a high price. The form of benefits is not limited to money. Now Pomona has no evidence that Wen Jingchang is a horse. Killing, on the contrary, will arouse the feelings of rejection among the residents of Chinatown. It would be a bad situation if the situation was the same as it was during the siege of San Francisco.

  When everything is fine, everything looks good, and various problems will surface as soon as the wind direction changes, just like the colorful foam on the sea surface is blown away, revealing the black water underneath.

  Originally, she opened the presidential suite in W Hotel on a whim. Hermione had suffered a lot. She hoped that Hermione could relax a little bit. Now this room with a conference room can be used as a temporary headquarters.

  Anyway, Severus was very rude and expropriated. Aaron Rosier came shortly after he left, and when Hermione woke up, she saw a group of Slytherins walking outside the bedroom.

  As losers, these once clear-cut pure-bloods are still polite to this famous "mudblood", but this kind of etiquette reveals a distant distance.

  The people of the Order of the Phoenix like to hug, and the people in the entire Anti-Dark Magic Alliance are very warm and friendly. When they meet these pure-blooded nobles, they have a warm face and a cold butt, and they simply love to ignore them.

  Hermione left without staying for long, and Pomona did not keep her, and even Pomona herself could not get along with them.

  Money can never be omnipotent. In the face of power, money is as thin as a soap bubble. Power can only be obtained by bleeding, and privilege can only be obtained by continuous bleeding.

  Marriage is not only to get children "continuously bleeding", but also a political transaction in ancient times.

  Queen Victoria let the blood curse spread throughout the European royal family, and the tsar's indirect death because of this curse was derived from this "deal."

The royal families of China, Japan, and Thailand have never been married to the royal families of Europe. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Qin and Jin were married. In the Han Dynasty, although there were marriages, Wang Zhaojun was not surnamed Liu at all. She was not qualified to complete the mission of "marriage", Emperor Wu of Han During the period, the relationship between Princess Jieyou and King Wusun was a political marriage.

In the second year of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu suffered a severe drought. There was no aquatic grass on the grassland for grazing, so the Xiongnu went south to plunder. This time they robbed not the Han, but the Wusun Kingdom in the northwest. King Wusun took the opportunity to ask for help from the Han Dynasty, so the Han Dynasty got the opportunity to attack.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once sent Li Guangli to send troops to Dawan. Li Guangli was the eldest brother of Emperor Wu’s favorite wife Li and his favorite Li Yannian. Zhang Sai was an envoy to the Western Regions and communicated between the Han and the Western Regions. At that time, there were dozens of small countries in the Western Regions and were exploited by the Huns. After Zhang Qian gained access to the Western Regions, they knew that there was a Han Empire in the East. Not only did they have a vast territory, a strong country, but also a high level of culture, they were very wealthy. They came to the Han Dynasty to worship, pay tribute to the places, respect the Han Dynasty, and voluntarily depend on it. To get rid of the servitude of the Huns.

  In 104 BC, Li Guang led an expedition to Dawan with 6,000 lead cavalry and tens of thousands of infantry. After exiting Yumen Pass and entering the Western Regions, some small countries passing by, seeing the arrival of Han soldiers, all closed the city gates tightly and did not give them food. The Han army lacked food and grass, so they attacked the city along the way. If you capture it, you can get food and grass for the soldiers and horses to eat; if you can't capture it, you can keep moving for a few days. Along the way, many people died of starvation. When they arrived at Yucheng in Dawan, there were only a few thousand soldiers left, and all of them were extremely hungry, exhausted, and all were yellow and thin, and exhausted.

   Soldiers and horses did not move, food and grass went first, and there was not much food in the northwest desert. Wusun and the Han dynasty formed an alliance to attack the Xiongnu not only to provide intelligence, but also to contact the small Western countries to open the city gates to provide food and supplies to the Han army.

  Princess Jieyou's grandfather, Liu Wu, was once the king of Chu who dominated one side. In the spring of the third year of Emperor Jing, Liu Wu's army participated in the "Seven Kingdoms Rebellion" of the kings of the same surname. Since then, the princess and her family have been susceptible and rejected for a long time, and have fallen into irreversible suffering.

When the daughter of Jiangdu King Liu Jian, the criminal minister, died of depression due to marrying Wusun King, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in order to consolidate the alliance with Wusun, made Liu Jieyou, who was the criminal minister, a princess in 101 BC and married Wusunkun. Mo Zhisun Cenzhuo is Mrs. Right.

During the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, the nobles of Han Chang'an came out. The so-called nobles were such a group of people. They usually enjoyed various privileges. When it was time to go to the battlefield, they must be dressed in battle. During the First World War, the British aristocrats actively participated in the exhibition. The Southern Army was as naive. The children of these noble families have a good growth environment from childhood, can accept horse riding and various paramilitary activities from childhood, and can be admitted to military academies according to their own consciousness.

  After entering France, they thought it would be a war between gentlemen. Later, they found out that it was really going to kill people on the battlefield. They regretted it was too late. They thought they could use their horses and whip and crush their opponents just like their ancestors. The reality is an endless trench warfare. They were caught off guard, let alone how civilians who had never received military training reacted.

Recruits are dying fast. In the second year, Britain continues to conscript, civilians are on the battlefield, and the nobles are also on the battlefield. The bullet does not recognize him as a noble. In order to inspire the fighting spirit of the soldiers, these noble officers had to bite the bullet. Rush to the front.

In the great battles of Verdun and the Somme, the German machine guns gave full play to their immense power. In these two battles, the British nobles in World War I were basically killed by nearly 20%, more than civilian soldiers. The rate is even greater.

  A statistics after the First World War found that Britain sent a total of 6 million men of the right age to join the war. The death rate reached 12.5%, while the death rate of nobles at that time was half. Although many people in modern times want to model many schools into aristocratic schools, they also hope that their children will become aristocrats, and the schools attended by real aristocrats are paramilitary.

The aristocracy does not represent money, and those who bravely go to the battlefield in times of national crisis, Justin’s grandfather is also afraid of death, but as a noble, he must go to the front line. Dunkirk retreated and participated in the Normandy landing. Participated, and then the German broke his leg and he was finally able to retire.

  European tradition is generally that nobles are officers, and generally few soldiers. This tradition was not broken until World War II.

   Those who rush to the forefront will die quickly, and once the nobles are so desperate, then once ordinary people see this situation, there is no reason not to do so. Ordinary civilians have nothing. When will they wait until they shed blood in exchange for power at this time?

  Among the 5,675 “combat students” at Eton College, with the children of nobles as the core, the casualty rate was as high as 45%, far exceeding the participation rate and casualty rate of any other social group.

  Among the 558 noble families with more than 3,000 acres, one in ten heirs died in battle.

  There is an old Chinese saying: Soldiers never tire of fraud.

A duel was originally a gambling on life and death. Of course, it was different from Quidditch. It had to follow the "rules of the game." Draco attacked Harry in the duel club. He was a disreputable noble, but he was a living noble. What kind of gentleman?

  The presidential suite is very spacious and has a good view, but it also feels suffocating after it is crowded with people.

  Under the cover of high-grade perfume, there is an unpleasant smell, like some kind of smelly animal.

  She involuntarily followed Narcissa's appearance, covering her nose with her handkerchief.

Malfoy didn’t want to bleed, they should have retired from the privileged class, but for some people, money is as important as life. The Malfoy family’s money is actually bleeding in another way, just that kind of blood and red blood. It's not the same, it's shiny golden, and silver-white unicorn blood, although it's different in color, it's the same after drinking it, and it's cursed.

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