Chapter 701 The Emperor’s Dessert

  Compared with the famous tourist city of Hallstatt, St. Wolfgang is not well-known. It is not as noisy and crowded as Hallstatt, but this place is where Sissi and Franz meet.

  Bad Ischl station is still a little away from Wolfgang, and by the creek is where Sissi escaped from her home to fish.

Emperor Franz likes to eat chestnut cake made by a shop called Zona in Bad Ischl. Legend has it that it is more delicious than the one offered by the central cafe in Vienna. In order to eat this bite of cake, he went to Wall. Fugang.

  When the train entered the station, it started to rain lightly by the lake. The swans that had played in the lake during the day all returned, but a young flight attendant braved the rain and bought back the famous cake for Pomona.

  Zuaner means magic in German. There are many wizards living in the forest near Bad Ischl. This cake shop not only attracted the emperor, but even magical wizards were impressed by its deliciousness.

Actually, the flight attendant didn't need to do that, but Severus helped them a lot. The supervisor told them to take good care of them when they left. So, this is a bit troublesome, but there are people who are not very troublesome. Help do it.

  And the so-called privilege was formed.

Raindrops fell on the speeding train, leaving a scratch on the windowpane. Pomona was drinking English-German black tea of ​​the same brand as the Queen of England, while eating chestnut cakes that had just been baked, and reading Rousseau’s "On The origin of human inequality.

  She has read this book a long time ago, but now she has nothing to do, so she takes reading as a pastime:

   Among people who pursue personal well-being and respect by others, luxury inevitably arises, and soon the disaster caused by society will develop to the extreme. The rich have never given the poor a piece of bread, but they make an excuse to feed the poor and deprive the poor of their wealth. Sooner or later, the population will be greatly reduced.

  Luxury, as a means of treating poverty, may produce disasters that are more terrible than the diseases it is intended to treat, or luxury itself is the biggest disaster among them.

  Because of the slaves and poor people needed to maintain luxury, all citizens and laborers have been oppressed and destroyed.

  Luxury is like the hot monsoon, which brings overwhelming locusts to trees and plants, and eats up food that is beneficial to animals. Famine and death will spread everywhere with the hot wind.

  Society and luxury life brought the humanities, mechanical technology, commerce, writing, and all things that made the prosperity of industry and the rise and fall of the country useless. It is not difficult to recognize the fall of mankind. From the nature of agriculture, it is the least profitable of all technologies, because agriculture only produces the most recent daily necessities, and its price must only be suitable for the purchasing power of the poorest people.

  Similarly, we can infer from this: Under normal circumstances, the amount of technology gains is inversely proportional to its usefulness. Therefore, the most useful technology is the least valued. From this we can know how to view the real value of industry and the actual impact of industrial progress.

This is the obvious reason for all the misfortunes that will eventually bring to a prosperous country. Industry and technology continue to flourish. To maintain the extravagant lives of the rich, the humble farmers are bound to bear heavy taxes and are destined to survive hunger and poverty. Live a lifetime. So they left their homeland to earn a living in the city, where they should have been supported.

The more the prosperous city attracts the envy of the country people, the more we lament the villages they abandoned, the barren tracts of land, and the whole city. People become beggars and robbers, destined to end their misery in dirty corners or on the gallows. Life.

  In this way, the country is becoming prosperous and weakening at the same time, and its population is shrinking sharply. Even the most powerful monarch, after trying to increase his national power and then reduce the population, still sleeps and wants to be annexed by poor countries. However, after the poor countries conquered the rich countries, they continued to experience prosperity and population decline, before being destroyed by other poor countries.

  In "Social Contract Theory", let Rousseau regard the prosperity of the population as a sign of judging the quality of a government: What is the purpose of establishing a government? It is for the survival and prosperity of its members. And what is the most accurate and reliable sign of their survival and prosperity? That is their population. Assuming that everything is equal, a government that does not rely on immigrants, naturalization, or colonialism, and the number of citizens multiplies and grows the most under its rule, it is undoubtedly the best government. A government that has dwindled and withered under it is the worst government.

Pomona didn’t fully agree with Rousseau’s argument. China during the Manchu Qing Dynasty was undoubtedly the world’s most populous country. The Manchu Qing was a country that did not rely on immigration, naturalization, or colonial government. Under its rule, the government has the largest number of citizens multiplying and growing, but it is not a good government. If it is good, then there will be no historical event in which many countries divide China.

  But at the same time, what he said is not entirely wrong, because now the gap between rich and poor in the West is getting bigger and bigger, which has caused a decrease in the population. The decrease in Muggle population and the sparse population caused by the low fertility of wizards are two concepts.

  Eastern philosophers believe that luxury is like a natural disaster. Rousseau also believes that before the outbreak of the French Revolution, farmers had already abandoned their land and lived in the cities. France also needed serfs to cultivate.

  This kind of social structure has no problems when the weather is good, the weather gets worse, and the sudden eruption of Laki volcano caused a reduction in food production, and a famine occurred.

When the poor were hungry and rained heavily in the dirty city, and there was no place to be dry and warm, sheltered from wind and rain, the nobles spent their money on cosmetics, jewellery and gorgeous Rococo style. There will be people who are cynical to the point of using violence.

  A man who has no family burden is a lone wolf. He dared to do anything. In fact, the key force in the French Revolution was the man without trousers. The main ingredients of the sans-trousers are small handicraftsmen, small traders, small shop owners and other working people. They are slightly better than the pure proletariat. Those who are penniless have to engage in mining arsenic, copper, lead, etc. which are harmful to health. Work, and I don’t have such a healthy body to engage in such things as armed revolution.

  Many of the utensils used by the nobles were stained with human blood, and the materials needed for the chemical reaction had to be mined, otherwise the gold-plated and silver-plated utensils could not be plated with charming colors.

  The disorder of society has caused confusion between right and wrong, abstinence has become a crime, wealth is also the first consideration. Social Darwinism is very cruel, but people often act in accordance with the rules of social Darwin.

"Who can tell us how the barbarians who have ravaged Europe, Asia, and Africa came into being?" Severus suddenly appeared behind her, looking at the page in her hand and saying, "Their huge population is due to industry And the development of art, the law of wisdom, or their outstanding political system? I hope people of insight can tell us why these sturdy peoples have no knowledge, no science, no education, no rules, but they didn’t come home because of the struggle for property. The carnage has been exhausted, but instead it has multiplied to such a degree?"

  Severus shook his head helplessly, "Every time I think he makes a little sense, he makes silly words again. In order to fight for the position of Khan, the barbarians have to kill each other."

   "Are you eating?" Pomona forkped a piece of chestnut cake and put it next to his mouth. He opened his mouth wide and ate it in one bite.

   "Well, it's really good." He nodded in satisfaction, then returned to his desk to continue reading the documents.

  Pomona completely calmed down, including her restless body.

The number of those werewolves reached its peak during the Second Wizarding War. With the restoration of social order, they dare not bite people as unscrupulously as before, but the children who were bitten by them and brainwashed have grown up, and they are now. In a social class that has extreme thoughts and is starving at the same time.

Rousseau’s idea was to let the peasants return to the countryside and continue to provide for the cities, but the bourgeoisie used his ideas to inflame conflicts and emotions and let the people overthrow Louis XVI, but instead of letting the poor people return to the countryside, they stay in the cities. In the factory.

  Food does not come out of thin air. The soaring price of this kind of daily necessities attracts speculators, and the price rises even faster.

The trousers are economically demanding to restrict assets and crack down on speculators, but the Girondists are firmly opposed to imposing a maximum price on food. According to Murphy’s law, if there are two or more ways to do something, and One of the choices will lead to disaster, and someone must make this choice. The basic content is: if something has the possibility of going bad, no matter how small the possibility is, it will always happen.

  What the werewolves want, humans cannot give them. The Pink Toad’s Werewolf Code has not solved any problems, but it has caused more troubles. The werewolves and humans continue to fight, what should Teddy Lupin do in the future?

  Even if there is no relationship with Remus, he is very likely to be a descendant of Helga Hef Puff. He is not as high-profile as the Smith family, but because he has a famous father, he will inevitably be noticed.

  He is the child of a werewolf, and this alone will be stared at with strange eyes.

   "My dear, can you let someone give this chestnut cake to Harry Potter?" she said sweetly, "Teddy often eats at his house, and he will eat it too."

"I think you should still study how this cake is made, and you can cook it for them in the future. This kind of food will generally not pass the Auror's inspection and appear on their table." Severus said coldly. "Those who test the poison will eat it up."

  Pomona shrugs helplessly. Does he want her to be an insightful woman or intend to make her a "sweetheart" who can only make food?

  This guy is really hard to pass.

  (End of this chapter)