Chapter 3043 hue and cry (eight)

"Please find it a new home."

So says a cardboard box in the courtyard, with a sleek cat inside.

Pomona looked at the cat very anxiously. Many pets will be abandoned every time when graduation is near. Although the cat's fur shows that it was well taken care of, it is no longer needed.

It's a school rule that every student has to buy a pet to use in Transfiguration class.

Some people may not want to keep pets at first, but because of this rule, they will keep the pets if they get along with each other for many years, but most of the pets will still be discarded.

Pomona thinks that this rule can be changed. If it is only for the animals used in class, there are many abandoned pets in the school, so there is no need to buy new ones.

She left the cat alone and walked through the Transfiguration courtyard, intending to come back and take it away when she was done.

The Arahho Cave Curse was only taught in the second grade, and Derek in the first grade couldn't. That spell is very convenient for thieves. When the Black Death broke out, many noble families were also harvested by the scythe of death. Thieves ran to their homes and took away valuables.

At the baptism of wealthy families in the 14th century, the guests would give their babies spoons decorated with 12 saints. According to the financial resources of the family, there were gold spoons, silver spoons, and copper spoons. The more expensive the material, the more noble it was.

The other thing is clothes. Even nobles in the UK rarely wear silk that was transported along the overland Silk Road, and even jazz can only wear fur.

With the death of a large number of people, there are more animals such as sheep, cattle, and horses. They wander around because no one takes care of them. Horses that can only be bought for 40 shillings before the outbreak of the plague can be bought for 6 shillings after the outbreak of the plague. It was woolen fabrics that became extremely expensive, especially the luxurious woolen textiles of Florence.

After the wages of workers are raised, the first thing they do is to improve the quality of life. Everyone wears the best fabrics they can afford.

Wool grows on sheep and will not be automatically spun into threads. There are also processes such as weaving, dyeing, polishing, and embroidery, all of which require manual processing. Skilled workers are dead, and it takes time to train newly-trained craftsmen, while social demand continues to increase, which has led to an increase in the price of textile industrial products, although it is not comparable to expensive silk.

In the 1290s, Philip IV of France obtained rich Champagne, Poitou, Toulouse and other regions because he married Juana, Queen of Navarre, so he could produce gold florin with a high face value, plus Francois After the German-Spanish War broke out, merchants went to Bruges to speculate in wool, and a large amount of silver came to Britain.

At that time, the pound was still silver, and there were pennies. In short, the wool trade was related to silver and pennies. King Edward would use taxes and Italian loans to fight the war.

The final result is that big merchants use relatively stable gold florins, while wages paid to workers are silver pennies.

At that time, the French princes who had the right to mint coins had already reduced the silver content of silver coins, and the British still kept it at about 92%, which was more reliable than the inferior coins minted by the princes.

In addition to buying clothes, wages have risen, but also good food. So many cattle and sheep are so cheap, of course they are bought and eaten.

In addition to eating meat, spices were also added. Spices used to be eaten only by nobles, which led to the spice trade, but at that time only the "Spice Road" in the Mediterranean was the only one that transported spices. "Access" has always been a problem in the feudal system. It is not only the western world that has the right of passage. It is recorded in Sun Tzu's Art of War that the Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period wanted to crusade against a country called Guo. Annexed both countries by trickery.

Not only the lords collect tolls, but even the Vilans in the manor also charge fees, so that neighbors can pass through their own land, and a feudal order is formed in this way.

Along the way, the price of spices became extremely high, which indirectly led to the Portuguese looking for new routes from the sea to India to find spices, especially after Constantinople was captured by the Ottoman Empire, the spice road was cut off.

Wages rose, people's living standards improved, and prices began to rise, and then workers soon discovered that their wages could not keep up with the rise in prices, and the pennies they received were still depreciating. In 1349, the exchange rate between florins and pennies was still 1:240, in 1378 it was 1:1000.

At this time, the King of France was not idle either. He not only disbanded the Knights Templar, but also kidnapped the Pope to Avignon.

The death of priests and laymen did not cause a crisis of faith. In fact, this problem existed before the outbreak of the plague. The pope was too involved in secular affairs, and he was more concerned about financial and political interests. He flaunted his supreme power. Boniface King Si VIII not only used the church's public funds to buy the land of the Cologne family, but even said that he would demote Philip IV as a groom.

The body of a mortal is rotten. Among the frescoes in Florence, there is a depiction of San Antonino. He was a monk who took care of the sick during the Black Death. His body did not rot after death.

The monastery accepts the sick when the family is neglecting them, and that is enough for the helpless.

They found peace in the prayers of the priests, in addition to the cries of the dying, which replaced the sound of the chant and echoed through the church. It is natural to run away in fear at this time, and ordinary people run too, if they can find a place of peace, whether it is their own or that of their neighbours.

It's the most relaxing time for those without kids, and wine sells well, so why not get drunk during a party?

Machiavelli wrote that Florence lost 90,000 people in the plague. Other records record a total of 80,000 people in Florence. Machiavelli once served in the Republic of Florence. It is difficult to say whether this data is true or false.

Officials either died or fled, and the administration was too busy disposing of the bodies and isolating the sick to have the power to count the exact number of deaths.

Those who bury the corpse will not let anything go, they are like crows and wolves that appear near the corpse pit. If they see that the clothes on the dead body are not bad, they will take them off, wash them and sell them.

Whether it is bubonic plague or pneumonic plague, this kind of clothing will cause problems for healthy people, and the best way is to burn it.

But textiles are too expensive, and second-hand clothes like this will always be bought.

She never thought that keeping pets can cultivate people's love and sense of responsibility. St. Augustine said that the so-called "self-evident" is the knowledge we are born with. Once we know its name, we can be recognized immediately.

Like a memory lying in the subconscious, when someone mentions the word cake, they immediately understand what it is.

James helped Lupine not only through the painful transformation period, chasing and running around the school with him, but also preventing a murder from happening.

Nobody told him to do it, he just did it in his own way.

He didn't run away when danger came, although he knew he couldn't stop the Dark Lord and protect his family.

Family is also a word, but it arouses different desires than cake.

The Mirror of Erised mirrored the deepest desires of the human heart, but Pomona didn't want to look at it just yet.

She knocked on the door of Minerva's office, but no one said "please come in", she pushed the door open and found no one inside.

Just as she was about to leave, Minerva came down the stairs, a parchment in her hand.

"Oh, Pomona, what can you do?" Minerva asked.

"That's this year's freshman list?" Pomona asked looking at the parchment.

"Is this what you came for?" Minerva said, putting away the scroll.

"No, I have a question," Pomona said.

Minerva listened quietly.

"Oliver Hornby's nephew is at school?" asked Pomona.