Chapter 3256 Till Death Do We Rest (Part 1)

After returning to the study, the cigarette Cambaceres placed on the table had been extinguished. Although it did not ignite anything, it still left a black mark on the small coffee table.

Georgiana took it in her hand.

Today's men's cigarettes are very different from what she saw in the 20th century. They are not made of paper, but are wrapped in tobacco leaves. They look like small cigars.

Bonaparte had always taken snuff and occasionally smoked a pipe. Judging from the history of smoking, soldiers are undoubtedly the main consumers of tobacco. Not only the British Mediterranean fleet, but also Vauban's "Iron Belt" fortress also stocked a lot of tobacco.

To do away with tobacco would be to do away with an important etiquette. In the Alps, Severus handed a local farmer a cigarette and the two of them started chatting. She had never known he smoked.

Of course, it may also be because they were all in school at the time. Old Slug would wear a smoking shirt to Potions class, but would not smoke in front of the students unless it was at a Slug Club party.

In fact, it's not that she hasn't been "taken care of". When they traveled to Ireland, she only needed silly fun, and Severus arranged the rest.

Because she was happy, she didn't need to smoke to relieve herself from her worries, although she didn't share Albus's sweet tooth.

The deluminator looked like a lighter from World War I. Albus didn't see any smoking habits, but he heard that Grindelwald was a heavy smoker.

Smoking is harmful to health, but even putting skulls and skulls on cigarette packages still won't stop people from buying them.

During the Great Depression, legislation was passed to ban alcohol, which led to the prevalence of moonshine. Georgiana's idea of ​​exporting wine as medicine was somewhat similar to it, but she really hoped to put some quinine in the wine. Herbs like these can have some curative effect, not to mention wine can also prevent sepsis.

Many people have romantic fantasies about sailing, and the outer packaging of Weasley's "Daydream" products even uses pirates as packaging.

There is a well-known cigarette brand, Pomona smoked his first cigarette, and there is a legend about the origin of its name.

Man always remember love because of romance only.

When she first came into this world, Bonaparte was enthusiastic and impulsive, as if he was only in his twenties.

There was a time when he was very addicted to love, as if he had been hungry for a long time, maybe because he was "full", he became a lot more stable, but he was still a little reckless in doing things, and he even took her to see the Crown of Thorns .

On the carriage ride there, they talked about governance issues in Italy, taxes, and the monopoly of Marseille soap.

Georgiana was imprisoned several times, once in a castle in the Forest of Vincennes, and by the time he came to pick her up, he had already completed the nationalization of the tobacco company.

Even though the French East India Company collapsed, it reopened in 1785 with royal funding, and indeed made huge profits at first.

But after the Revolution began, the National Assembly abolished this monopoly in the name of freedom.

However, the French East India Company has been developing and growing for a long time. After the fall of the monarchy in 1792, the National Government originally planned to tax the East India Company. However, due to the activities of the East India Company, the Legislative Assembly did not even pass a tax proposal. This tax evasion was condoned by Lente ministers, who believed that flourishing foreign trade was essential to the French republic they envisioned.

With the fall of the Girondins, the East India Company was no longer protected. The National Assembly charged the company with profiteering, seized its warehouses and forced it to liquidate its accounts. A group of speculators bought up all the falling stocks in the hope that The stock rose because members of the National Convention, who also owned shares, issued a decree before the company went out of business and was liquidated.

News of the king's execution quickly spread throughout Europe. Pitt declared that the king's execution was "the worst and most brutal act in human history." Then he proposed a war proposal against France in Parliament and passed it.

Danton's wife Gabrielle was proposed to in Italy. When Danton came to the Dutch front as a special envoy, she was seriously ill. When Danton came back from Belgium and promoted the merger of Belgium and France, he returned to Paris. What greeted him was A cold, empty house.

Gabriel died during his absence and the children were sent to their grandmother. Danton went straight to the cemetery and dug out Gabriel's coffin. He knocked on the lid of the coffin and saw his wife "sleeping underground."

He found a sculptor and asked him to go to the cemetery and make a bust according to her face. After returning home, Danton received a letter from Robespierre, in which Robespierre wrote: At this moment, I love you more than ever, and I will love you until death.

It was Danton who proposed that "France's borders are defined by nature" and are bounded by four cardinal points: the Atlantic Ocean in the north, the Alps in the south, the Pyrenees in the west, and the Rhine River in the east.

"Take it."

Georgiana lowered her head and placed a lit cigarette in front of her.

She looked at Julian Uffral, and he looked at her with extremely tender eyes, like a mistress.

She took the cigarette he lit for her, and Chateaubriand also lit it for her. If you want to smoke, you must hold it in your mouth, especially this kind of non-flammable tobacco.

She looked at Julian, put the cigarette to her lips, and blew the smoke into his face.

He smiled that silly smile again.

Romance is sometimes a fantasy, and fantasy can bring pleasure, even if it is surreal.

It is more perfect than reality, and it also causes people to become disillusioned when they see reality, which weakens the sense of pleasure.

Just like the accessory breasts and neck lines on the Venus de Milo sculpture.

Although Renaissance art imitated Greece, it did not have these "flawed beauties".

She walked behind the desk and looked at Julian while smoking. Julian looked at her with a smile on her face, as if she was enjoying some kind of bliss in her head.

She would not disturb him at this time and let him realize some reality, because it was impossible for her to return his love. And Julian is not that keen on marriage. Even if the end of the world is coming, he doesn't want to find a random person of the opposite sex to pair up with him and board Noah's Ark.

In the story of the Titanic, Carl picked up a child in order to survive and told the flight attendant that he was the child's father. The flight attendant broke the rule of "women and children go first" for him and let him get on the lifeboat.

Before that, Carl planned to use money to "build a good relationship" and ask the crew to leave a place for him and Rose, and then took advantage of the chaos to chase Jack with a gun.

Whether it was a British warship chasing a civilian ship flying the tricolor flag onto the neutral island of Trinidad, or chasing French fishing boats and arresting them as if they were warships, it was like Carl out of control. .

In short, Trinidad now belongs to the United Kingdom. When negotiating the Peace of Amiens, the United Kingdom also planned to exchange it for Tobago, St. Louis, Demerara, Essequibo and Belvise, of which St. Louis was not St. Louis, where the Missouri and Mississippi rivers meet, is located in Guyana, along with several other cities.

According to what Cambaceres just said, if the Missouri River is used as the boundary, then St. Louis, where it meets the Mississippi River, will become very "busy."

How is it possible to exchange one Trinidad for so many cities, especially Demerara, Essequibo and Belvise? They all belong to the German Holy Roman Empire, or the Austrian West India Company. If England Return them all to Austria like Belgium, and that would be a true angel on earth. But they turned these ports into free ports, which is equivalent to putting them into their own pockets in disguise.

Winning the war was only the beginning of a more arduous task. In the battle for the Spanish throne that allowed Britain to obtain Gibraltar, Britain even lost, while France, which won, received no substantial benefits.

To make full use of the peace treaty, Georgiana was like Chacon. Just thinking about how to build the Lisbon Free Port, she forgot the nature of the free port.

William Petty hypothesized that people transported wine into a free port, stored it there and sold it secretly, then filled the barrels with sewage, loaded the barrels on a ship, sailed into the sea, opened the barrels and dumped them. This way the alcohol tax can be avoided.

Change to tobacco, sell the tobacco leaves and replace them with any rotten leaves, find an uninhabited island and burn the leaves.

The sales volume of cigarettes in France cannot be supplied by Portuguese hands. Of course, Cambaceres would never know it unless he told Georgiana.

Cotton speculators didn't know how big the cotton belt was before. The information on that map has probably spread to the financial world. If you just grow sea-island cotton, you don't need such a large land area.

This may affect investor confidence, or it may not. The market is unpredictable. French government bonds have so much higher interest rates than British government bonds, but they still don’t sell as well as British government bonds. After all, France’s credit rating is like that.

Even if Monroe negotiated and obtained the land purchase rights for the entire Louisiana state, how would they pay for the 80 million francs and what would be the mortgage to the Anglo-Dutch banking group?

The simplest way is to use tobacco like the British king in the past who gave the right to sell wool to Italian bankers and obtained loans from them for military expenses of the Hundred Years War.

However, she still hopes that Americans can come up with more creative solutions, especially now that it involves the issue of passes, which did not exist in the era of Edward III.

Things that come too easily are often not cherished, and they are cherished just because they are not available.

She tore the string of garnet beads around her neck and the beads fell to the floor.

"What's wrong with you?" Julian asked.

"I find red and green look ugly, so I called the jewelry designer. I want a new necklace." Georgiana said expressionlessly.

Julian went out and she was alone in the study.

Later, Dandong was not immersed in the pain of losing his wife. Is a man's love intense and short-lived, like gorgeous fireworks, or slow and firm, hidden under a cold expression?

She smiled weakly, what does all this have to do with her?

She looked at the blue sky outside the window, feeling peaceful inside.

It's good weather again today.