Chapter 3044 hue and cry (9)

By the time Pomona returned to the cardboard box, the cat in need of a new home was gone.

She looked around but saw no sign of it.

She thought about it, and thought it might be that it went back to find its owner. As long as the owner did not leave the school, the cat could still find it, even though its sense of smell was not as sensitive as that of a dog.

So she sat down on the porch next to the box, not sure if she was going to wait for it to come back, or if she wanted to just sit there for a while.

In fact, there are still many people who have a shepherd dog. With its help, the shepherd can easily herd. One person can herd thousands of sheep without requiring a lot of manpower like growing wheat.

Wheat was the staple food of the Romans. It is a dryland crop that is not suitable for the humid environment in Britain. Instead, Poland, Prussia, and Hungary are more suitable.

Eastern Europe was also attacked by the Black Death, but the feudal lords quickly used force to order the farmers to start farming immediately. They could not escape like the farmers in Western Europe. No matter how hard the epidemic has hit the urban population, there will always be an influx of rural people to fill the gap. On the contrary, in rural areas, if you want to retain people, you must increase your wages. The salary of a grass mower has increased from 5p to 10p.

The cargo ships of the Hanseatic League transported grain from the Hungarian plains to all parts of Europe. Except for the famine in the first few years due to the sudden decline in population and the rise in grain prices, the prices of agricultural products have always been low, and even reached a historical low in 1377.

Low food prices, high labor costs, and large areas of barren farmland have led landowners to transform, and animal husbandry can replace planting for profit.

Cowhide can be used to make leather, but it is a one-time use. Wool grows every year. Gradually, there is a famous British saying-the touch of gold is sheep's hooves.

At that time, Flanders was the main place for British wool, and it began to decline in the 15th century. In Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, it is recorded that Edward the Black Prince's ban on wool led to a shortage of raw materials in the Flanders textile industry. This is one aspect, and another reason is the lack of market. Flanders produced mass-market slubs that were unfashionable and rough. The "mass" disappeared, and those who survived suddenly gained wealth, and they preferred silk and high-end woolen fabrics.

During the period of Justinian, the West obtained the silk manufacturing process. At this time, southern Italy and parts of Spain began to breed silkworms and weave silk.

The result of the hedonism and recklessness of the consequences is that babies are born and abandoned by parents who want to stay single forever. When there is a lack of labor and beggars are driven to work, these children will not be left to fend for themselves like the Romans' foundling grounds.

Justinian also encountered the plague, but before that, the Nika riot broke out, and the subjects protested the tax. These heavy taxes are used to repair public buildings such as racetracks, and people's lives are diversified, as if they have returned to the Roman era.

During the riots, people dragged out a nobleman who they felt was entitled to the throne and crowned him.

In 1381, an uprising broke out in England. This time, it was because the king had levied poll tax three times since 1377. If there were fewer people, the tax base would be shaken.

The king is going to start a war again, and the end result is that the people are overwhelmed, especially the relatively wealthy eastern part of England. Since the Norman conquest in 1066, Britain has entered a period of relatively peaceful development. Even in the 30 years of the War of the Roses, it was not a continuous war, but a few big wars.

The greatest disaster was the plague, and East Anglia suffered particularly heavy losses, and even Cambridge was affected.

People at that time had different opinions. Some people thought that this disaster was a punishment from God, and people should stay and repent.

Some people also advocate running to "safe areas" such as mountains. As long as it is not so crowded, the infection will not break out.

At that time, there was a bishop who originally planned to run away, but later he heard that there were no priests to preside over Mass and other ceremonies, so he went to Cambridge University to establish Trinity College.

Wolf wants to eat sheep out of instinct. To a shepherd, sheep are not just wealth. He also has to graze for the lord. If the lord's sheep are killed, it is not as simple as losing money.

In order to protect the sheep, there was a campaign to fight wolves in the 13th century, and wolves were almost extinct in Western Europe. And after humans suffered heavy deaths due to the plague, the wolves began to recover, and even appeared on the outskirts of the city.

Compared with rural fences, the high walls of the city can bring a sense of security, but there is also the danger of plague in the city, but there is also a rich cultural life and carnival there.

Sometimes people suffer so much that they neither seek peace nor seek pleasure to fight, but pray to death to take them away. Church bells are often rang without the consent of the clergy. As for who is greeted, it may be the god of death who came and disappeared without a trace, or it may be a Mongolian riding a horse.

At that time, marriage was considered an adult. Many people married early, married at the age of 14, and changed to a wizarding school, that is, in the third and fourth grades. An "adult" needs a guardian to sign when going to Hogsmeade.

As I get older, it seems that the more freedom I get, I don't need to abide by the school rules that I have to go back to the lounge at 9 o'clock, and I can even...

"What are you doing here?"

Pomona looked up at the speaker.

"Looking for a new home?" Snape asked, looking at the cardboard box at her feet.

"I'm looking for abandoned cats," said Pomona grimly.

"Sit here and look?" He asked her provocatively.

She didn't want to talk to him, stood up, and looked for the cat behind the bushes where they could hide.

He didn't intend to help at all, he just stood there and looked at her.

"What are you looking at?" she said grumpily.

"When I'm not in school next semester, protect yourself." He put his hands behind his waist, propped up his cloak, and said imposingly.

"You don't need to remind me." Pomona said coldly, found a stick, and pulled the bushes casually.

"If you're really smart, you don't need me to remind you." He said dryly. "I'm not in school next semester. What's the use of fighting for that position?"

She froze for a moment, but before she could figure it out, a black shadow landed on her shoulder, and she only had time to see that it was a long strip.

"Hold on!" said Snape, drawing his wand out.

"What is it?" Pomona stood where he was, not daring to move.

He pointed his wand at her.

For a moment, she felt her breath freeze, and then he began to chant the incantation.

"All petrified."

Two seconds later, he came over and took off what was on her shoulders. It was a snake, and judging from the shape of its head, it was poisonous.

"You can move now." He said with a smile.

Pomona tried to move, but found that he was not petrified, and subconsciously patted his shoulder where the snake had been.

"You don't like snakes?" He fiddled with the petrified snake in his hand.

"Not as much as you like," Pomona said, trying to leave, but he blocked her way with his hand up.

"Get out of the way!" she said fiercely.

"Why are you talking to your savior like that." He threatened.

"Help?" she asked in surprise.

"It's a poisonous snake, should we put it here or find a new home for it?" he said, looking at the snake.

"Of course it's somewhere else, it's full of students," Pomona said anxiously.

"Not to kill it?" Snape asked, looking at her with dark eyes.

"Why kill it?" Pomona asked.

He didn't speak, as if she was asking an obvious question.

"You can't kill it just because it poses a threat to people." Pomona looked at the poisonous snake's head and said, "otherwise, what is the difference with those people from the Ministry of Magic?"

"Let's go." He said as if ordering.

"where to?"

"Let it go."

"I wish you could go," Pomona said. "I'm going to make dinner."

She wanted to slip away after she finished speaking, but he quickly grabbed the collar and dragged her away.

"Let go!" She said anxiously, "It will be seen!"

But he was unimpressed, and Pomona looked around, probably because no one was in the courtyard at dinner time, but it was too much of an eyesore.

"Let go!" Pomona warned, "I'm the dean!"

"Are you going to worry about your image now?" he sarcastically.

She got angry and wanted to give him Avada Kedavra.

Fortunately, he loosened her collar before she actually did it, and held her hand instead.

His strength was great, as if he couldn't refuse, and wouldn't let her break free, but he didn't pinch her.

Then they shuffled away from the Transfiguration courtyard.