Chapter 701 The Emperor's Dessert

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

Bad Ischl station is still a little distance from Wolfgang, and by the stream is where Sissy escaped from home to fish.

Emperor Franz liked to eat a chestnut cake made by a shop called Zona in Bad Ischl. It is said that it is better than the one provided by the Central Cafe in Vienna. In order to eat this cake, he went to Woer Fugang.

When the train came into the station, it began to rain lightly by the lake. The swans that had been playing in the lake during the day had gone back, but a young flight attendant braved the rain to buy back the famous cake for Pomona.

Zuaner means magic in German. There are many wizards living in the mountains near Bad Ischl. This cake shop not only attracted the emperor, but even wizards with magic skills were overwhelmed by its delicious taste.

In fact, the flight attendant didn't need to do that, but Severus helped them a lot, and the supervisor told them to take good care of them before leaving, so it was a little troublesome, but it was a small favor that was not too troublesome. Helped to do it.

And so the so-called privilege was formed.

The raindrops fell on the speeding train, leaving a scratch on the window glass. Pomona was drinking the same brand of Yingde black tea as the Queen of England, while eating the freshly baked chestnut cake, reading Rousseau's "On The Origins of Human Inequality".

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

Among those who seek their own comfort and the respect of others, luxury inevitably arises, which soon develops to its culmination of socially induced misfortune. The rich have never given a piece of bread to the poor, but they feed the poor and deprive the poor of their wealth. Sooner or later, the population will be greatly reduced.

I am afraid that luxury as a means of treating poverty will produce more terrible disasters than the diseases it treats, or that luxury itself is the greatest disaster.

All citizens and laborers are oppressed and destroyed because of the slaves and the poor needed to maintain luxury.

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

Society and luxury brought the human sciences, mechanical technology, commerce, writing, and all the things that make industry flourish and nations rise and fall uselessly. The depravity of man is easy to see that agriculture, by its very nature, is the least profitable of all techniques, since it produces only the most recent commodities, and its prices are necessarily only suitable to the purchasing power of the poorest.

In the same way, we can infer from this: in general, the amount of profit from technology is inversely proportional to the size of its usefulness. The most useful techniques are thus the least valued, and we can learn from this how to think of the true value of industry and the actual effects of industrial progress.

This is the apparent cause of all the misery which at last befalls a prosperous country, where industry and technology are flourishing, and to maintain the luxury of the rich, the humble farmer is bound to be heavily taxed, doomed to starvation and poverty live a lifetime. So they left their native lands to make a living in the cities where they were supposed to provide for.

The more the prosperous cities attract the envy of the countrymen, the more we lament the countryside they abandon, the barren vast tracts of land, filled with the whole city of people reduced to beggars and robbers, destined to end their misery in squalid corners or on the gallows life.

In this way, while the country is becoming rich, it is also weakening, and the population has decreased sharply. Even the most powerful monarch, after striving to increase his power and then reduce his population, never sleeps before being swallowed up by a poor country. However, when poor countries conquer rich countries, they also continue to experience prosperity and depopulation, only to be destroyed by other poor countries.

In The Social Contract, Jean Rousseau regards the prosperity of population as a sign of whether a government is good or bad: what is the purpose of the government? It is for the survival and prosperity of its members. And what is the surest and surest sign of their existence and prosperity? That's their population. All things being equal, the government under which, without immigration, without naturalization, without colonial government, the number of citizens multiplied and increased most, is certainly the best, then The worst kind of government is that which dwindles and withers the people under it.

Pomona does not fully agree with Rousseau's argument. China during the Manchu Qing period was undoubtedly the most populous country in the world. The government under which the number of citizens multiplies and grows the most, but it is not a good government. If it is good, then there will be no historical events in which many countries carve up China.

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

Eastern philosophers believe that luxury is like a natural disaster, and Rousseau also thinks so. Before the outbreak of the French Revolution, farmers had already begun to abandon their land and live in cities. France also needed serfs to cultivate.

This kind of social structure is fine when the weather is good. When the weather turns bad and the sudden eruption of the Laki volcano reduces food production, famine occurs.

While the poor are hungry and raining heavily in squalid cities with nowhere to stay dry and warm, the aristocrats spend their money on cosmetics, jewelry and rococo flamboyance, always There will be people who are cynical to the point of violence.

A man without family encumbrances is a lone wolf who dares to do anything. In fact, the backbone of the French Revolution was the sans-culottes. The main constituents of the sans-culottes are small handicraftsmen, petty traders, shopkeepers and other working masses who are slightly better than the pure proletariat, those penniless who are engaged in the mining of arsenic, copper, lead, etc. which are harmful to health 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 chemical reactions needed to be mined, otherwise those gold-plated and silver-plated utensils could not be coated with attractive colors.

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

"Can anyone tell us how the barbarians who once ravaged Europe, Asia, and Africa came into being?" Severus suddenly appeared behind her, looking at the page in her hand and muttering "Their huge population is due to industrial And the development of art, wise laws, 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 don’t come home because of fighting for property. Killing and killing everything, but multiplying to such an extent?"

Severus shook his head helplessly, "Every time I think what he said made sense, he would say stupid things again. Those barbarians would fight each other to fight for the Khan's position."

"Do you want to eat?" Pomona forked a piece of chestnut cake and put it near his mouth. He opened his mouth wide and ate it in one bite.

"Well, it's really good." He nodded in satisfaction, and then went back to his desk to continue looking at the documents.

Pomona calmed down completely, including her restless body just now.

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 those children who were bitten and brainwashed by them have grown up, and they are In a social class with extreme thinking and starvation at the same time.

Jean Rousseau's idea was to let those peasants return to the countryside and continue to support the city, but the bourgeoisie used his ideas to intensify conflicts and emotions, and let the people overthrow Louis XVI, but did not let those poor people return to the countryside, but stayed in the city in the factory.

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

The sans-culottes wanted to limit the bourgeoisie and crack down on speculators economically, but the Girondists firmly opposed the imposition of a ceiling price for grain. According to Murphy's law, if there are two or more ways to do something, and If one of these choices is going to lead to disaster, someone has to make that choice. The bottom line is this: If there is a chance that things will go wrong, no matter how small the chances are, it will happen.

What werewolves want, humans can't give them. Pink Toad's werewolf rules didn't solve any problems, but created more troubles. Werewolves and humans continued to fight. What should Teddy Lupine do in the future?

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

He is the child of a werewolf, and this alone will cause people to stare at him strangely.

"Honey, can you have someone give Harry Potter a copy of this chestnut cake?" she said sweetly. "Teddy often eats at his house, and he will eat it too."

"I think you should study how this cake is made, and you can make it for them yourself in the future. This kind of food usually won't pass the Auror's inspection and appear on their table." Severus said coldly "The people who test the poison will eat it up."

Pomona shrugged helplessly. Did he want her to be an insightful woman or was he going to make her a "sweetheart" who could only cook delicious food?

This guy is so hard to get rid of.