Chapter 2376 stupefy (Part 1)

Georgiana had read such a book, which told the fantasy story of a boy nicknamed "π" and a Bengal tiger drifting in the sea.

"π" is an ancient Greek letter, representing pi, which is an infinite non-repeating decimal, which was proved by both Eastern and ancient Greek mathematicians in the 3rd century BC. However, some people believe that the ancient Indians had already achieved it in 800 BC, and it was recorded in the Indian religious masterpiece "Baidao Brahma".

A British writer believes that the Egyptians discovered when they built the Khufu Pyramid that the ratio of the perimeter to the height of the pyramid is exactly twice the ratio of pi.

The Arabic numerals that are widely used today are actually not invented by the Arabs. They were first invented by the Indians. Arab scholars are happy to learn these advanced knowledge, and businessmen are also happy to do business in this way. Later, the Arabs will This kind of number was introduced to Spain, and then spread to other European countries by the pope. In the 13th century, even ordinary Europeans began to use "Arabic numerals".

Parvati and Padma both like divination, but only Hermione Granger is interested in arithmetic and divination in their dormitory. Sister Patil and Lavender prefer Trelawney and Faerun the centaur Ze's course.

There are many European men who marry local women in India to integrate into the local society and facilitate the promotion of local business. The objects of their marriage are usually the upper class. At first they obeyed their husbands like traditional women, and then they gradually began to "get it" and began to intervene in their husbands' accounting business.

Only a few of these East India Company employees expected to get rich with dead wages, and most of them also engaged in a large number of transactions in private to earn extra money. The other is to find ways to exploit loopholes, no matter how strict the regulations are, they will stop them. As long as they report their expenses in other names, such as tigers, banquets, etc., they can avoid the regulations and embezzle public funds.

The situation is so serious that the company's total revenue has dropped sharply, and the company's excessive expropriation of India has triggered an uprising, and in order to suppress the uprising, it has to continue to increase expenses. London also began to doubt whether these people were for personal interests or for the interests of the company, especially after the outbreak of the American Revolution, William Pitt Jr. carried out rectification of the East India Company.

Georgiana once joked with Pitt that he was like a "housekeeper", a nickname he accepted with a smile. This kind of butler doesn't just wear a tuxedo, but also includes his "nosy" who annoys other servants while his own home is stolen by servants.

These account books in the hands of the "little wives" will become evidence in court, but monogamy is practiced in Europe, and some men still have wives in Europe, and they don't know what their husbands do abroad.

The usual result is that the man divorces his European wife and marries a woman he met at work. Think of Henry VIII's efforts to get a divorce, which is much easier in England than in France. However, there was no written law on divorce in the 18th century, and the national law recognized the dissolution of the church and the divorce of the Congressional Independence Act. These two divorce methods are complicated and expensive, and legal divorce is out of reach for most people.

At this time, separation can be filed, usually by the man, and the amount of alimony must be stated in the separation lawsuit. In most cases, the woman will be dissatisfied with the amount of alimony. For the separated wife at that time, there were almost no employment opportunities, so getting living expenses was the wife's only means of survival.

Usually the children will follow the party with more property, but there are also a few judges who award the children to the wife, and the husband has to pay the maintenance of the children. In the late 17th century, the poor could still pay legal fees. A century later, servants, sailors, etc. almost no longer litigate for divorce. Divorce lawsuits are generally middle and upper class. After all, in addition to paying court fees, there are lawyers’ commissions .

And that's just the beginning of the trouble.

The remarriage of "innocent" husbands is allowed after the dissolution of the original marriage, and the remarriage of adulterous wives is prohibited, and the provision of alimony will be stopped if they remarry. The judge awarded the children to European wives on the basis that after awarding the husband, the children will have a foreign "stepmother", who is not suitable for raising children that conform to European moral values. But there are also special cases, when the European wife will lose the child. A woman once complained in the newspaper, "I can't imagine anything in human life that is more embarrassing than my unreasonable husband completely taking my child." people suffer".

This has aroused general sympathy in public opinion, so what should we do? Kill your wife? It's too risky. Fortunately, Britain has a pawn system. Selling the wife can solve the problem.

Before the divorce system was established, selling wives was a means for husbands to break away from their wives. In some cases, it appeared to be a public auction, but in fact the buyer was the woman's lover who had been arranged in advance, so that high litigation costs could be avoided.

There are also buyers who are the woman's brother, mother or even brother-in-law, but this is suitable for farmers, and the middle class still needs to be decent. In order not to expose the privacy of the family, separation by agreement is becoming more and more common.

Divorce means that the woman will lose her child. She is also worried that her stepmother will abuse her child. She will not agree to the divorce. On the other side is the foreign wife who is chasing the man to complete the marriage procedures as soon as possible. She still has evidence of the man's corruption and smuggling. This situation has become a "lesson" for the company to educate its overseas employees not to get too close to the "locals". The Dutch East India Company also produced a divorce drama called "The Bitter Union". Van Nienrood waged a fifteen-year tug-of-war to defend his property rights.

Did you think that was the end of it? No, there is also the issue of children's inheritance rights. Pomona once met a young man named Iris. His father fell in love with Mrs. Zabini. He only gave Iris and his mother a villa and a pitiful living allowance, and the rest All to Mrs. Zabini.

After he died, Blaise Zabini would inherit everything that belonged to Iris in the future. In order to get revenge, Iris joined a new pure-blood organization, and he wanted to send Blaise to... a place she couldn't remember the name of. , It is said that the Quidditch there is very powerful.

This is the meaning of the existence of the family meeting. The man has brothers and uncles, and the woman can appoint them as the guardians of the children. The blood relatives, in-laws or friends who are summoned must attend in person. They must carry out activities for the benefit of the minor children. Unless the guardian has a public position, military service, or is over sixty-five years old, or is seriously ill, he can refuse.

When the husband and wife remarry with children from a previous marriage, only an amount equivalent to the share of the property due to the least of the legitimate children shall be given to the new spouse, and in no case shall such gift exceed one-fourth of his property First, this makes it difficult for husbands to deprive their first-married children of inheritance rights to a certain extent, so as to favor remarried wives.

The Patil sisters both worked at the British Museum, and many of the antiques Muggles looted from around the world were cursed. With the "interest" of men in India in this day and age, Padma would be dangerous, even if she were a witch.

Just when she was hesitating, Bonaparte appeared aggressively. He glanced at Padma who had "become a living person", and then at Georgiana, as if waiting for her explanation.

Why wasn't there a Bludger hiding in those boxes and hitting her in the head all at once?