Chapter 41 The Era Sets Sail

Author: Han Luo

Chapter 41 The Era Sets Sail

The city of Bam is Francite's magnificent jewels, and the downtrodden people are the master's rats occupying most of the jewels.

Most of this winter has passed, but the heavy snow still has no end in sight.

Since spring is to a certain extent a derivative of the rain and snow season, this bleak atmosphere makes it impossible for passers-by to look at the poor people who have died due to hunger and cold.

The royal family was preparing to go out to Mitra Street in the southwest of the city to see the construction of the Palace of Versailles - the king wanted to know whether the spire of the Apollo Palace was erected according to his own ideas.

The spire is a characteristic of Gothic architecture.

Because Europe has a temperate and cold temperate climate, the spire is good for lighting and wind protection.

In addition, Catholicism regards heaven as its ultimate pursuit and worships the sky most. The spire symbolizes the birth of heaven. King Charles used religious sentiments as an excuse to order the entire palace to adopt Gothic architecture.

The day before the king was about to go out, there were still large areas of mud on the streets, so the carriage was definitely not allowed to go out from the Rue de Gervais.

Fortunately, the musketeer captain came up with a clever plan to use bread to hire poor people who could not afford to eat to shovel snow. This could not only eliminate hunger, but also show the mercy of the royal family.

Unfortunately, they did not expect that too many people would come.

There are too many people who cannot afford to eat.

The bread prepared by the soldiers was quickly robbed by the poor. The remaining people saw that they had not been paid for their labor, so they complained and continued to move towards the area of ​​Crémieux.

The crowd grew larger and larger, and soon gathered at the entrance of the palace.

"We want bread and milk."

"We want bread and milk."

All the poor people shouted in overwhelming numbers.

People wore shabby clothes and scarves the color of rags, and some were even rags.

Some children squatted on the edge of the street, digging snow into their mouths.

A few grains of flour fell from the soldier's pocket, and those who saw them quickly picked them up.

At the same time, Voltaire, who was forced to be imprisoned in the Bastille, seemed to have discovered something. He looked into the distance from the narrow window. Unfortunately, it was too far away from Crémieux.

He could only hear a little noise, and the rest was only the biting cold air.

This is the young man's second prison sentence.

Voltaire sighed, wrapped himself in cashmere quilts, and contemplated his new work against the colorless wall.

He was dissatisfied with Francis' current situation, and he was unwilling to accept that he was just the son of a small businessman and could not make changes.

Most of the writer's understanding of society comes from myths and stories. He firmly believes that there are omnipotent laws in this world that can transform the society in which human beings live. However, he himself is bound by the traditional social culture, so that he is imprisoned.

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Voltaire thought a lot and criticized himself helplessly: "The plot of "Oedipus Rex" is impossible. This is a flaw in the subject. Some people say that this is not a problem with literature. As if when the story has a flaw

The author has no responsibility for correcting the subject matter."

"In fact, even if he wanted to change the direction of the plot, he would be limited by the times and mankind's respect for divine power, and would have to bow down."

"Oedipus King" is his previous work, which once caused a huge sensation among the upper class.

Voltaire's negation.

It means that some of this young man's ideas have undergone major changes.

Compared with the enthusiastic marching crowd, the meeting of King Frederick of Prussia with the gunnery division in Berlin was much more low-key, and not many people in the entire Parliament even knew about it.

Except for Marshal Blücher, the king's most loyal confidant knew about the new musket from the beginning.

"shooting."

The heroic soldier raised his gun and aimed intently.

After a burst of black smoke visible to the naked eye, there were several more visible marks on the silver breastplate a hundred yards away.

The yellow armor plates are constantly shaking on the shoulder buckles - judging from the style, this is the armor that belongs to the Prussian royal family. You can use such a helmet for testing.

It can be seen that Marshal Blücher is very confident in this new type of flintlock gun.

The structure of the flintlock gun is improved on the basis of the revolving musket. The spring steel wheel is removed and a flint is clamped on the jaw of the hammer.

There is an anvil next to the fire hole. When shooting, the trigger is pulled, and under the action of the spring, the flint is hit hard on the side of the fire door. Sparks appear, igniting the gunpowder and firing.

The current mainstream muskets in Europe are percussion flintlock bolts.

Not only is it structurally impossible to achieve a semi-cocking safety, but because the automatic plate cover and the hammer are separated, as long as the hammer is pushed forward to clear the movement path of the hammer, even when it is carried in the cocked state, the hammer will occasionally fail due to failure.

Produce sparks but not fire.

The L-shaped fire sickle that integrates the plate cover and the fire sickle can perfectly solve this problem.

Another breakthrough point is the rifling in the barrel, which can ensure shooting accuracy.

Marshal Blücher's boldness suited Frederick well. King Frederick, who came to power in his early years, had already passed the stage of sorting out internal conflicts. Now he is salivating over the country of his neighbor, and he desires it deeply in his heart.

Inherit the title of the Roman Empire.

He immediately ordered: "This musket, which is better than ordinary flintlock muskets, must be immediately armed with my army. If the Parliament has objections to how to dispose of the royal wealth, then this group of people can return to their farms."

It’s done.”

"yes."

"I need to send a letter to the Prime Minister of the Netherlands to discuss the trade policy for tomorrow spring. As for the letter from Estonia, I threw it into the stove for me. Those businessmen can't think of a far-sighted solution.

Great idea."

Estonia is facing its coldest winter on record.

The government is not the traditional indifferent style of the people. The MPs under the new ideas carried out very humane rescue work in the slums, opened almshouses to provide for homeless people, and called for the opening of monasteries.

Part of the area was given to the poor as a place to sleep.

Rich wives would spend part of their funds to buy some good-quality tea leaves to help some patients with chilblains drink a cup of tea in the cold.

The development of enclaves has made this country with a developed shipping industry very prosperous.

London newspapers described the implementation of the Poor Law in great detail. Since Estonia itself was rich in coal, most residents would not be too sad as long as they had a place to live.

Newt put down the newspaper in his hand and made final adjustments to the machine in front of him.

The machine is majestic, but its principle is surprisingly simple. First, it is filled with steam, then the steam inlet valve is closed, and cold water is sprayed outside the container to condense the steam in the container to form a vacuum.

Repeat this cycle and use two egg-shaped containers to work alternately to achieve continuous drainage.

"In this way, effective drainage can be achieved even if the mine is very deep."

The machine keeps turning, just like the gears called society that keep moving forward, and each part of it strengthens every other part.

Human progress is not only an interconnected whole, but also a self-reinforcing and self-accelerating whole.

In a certain basement, a master and a servant were having final communication. Before that, Ivan had already conducted an experiment on little Henry.

"Isn't it too risky?"

Ivan didn't take it seriously. He experimented more than twenty times with mice and once with little Henry.

He now feels that his destiny is with me, and no difficulty can stop him from stepping into the extraordinary.

Little Henry touched the little finger of his right hand, where the knife had just been cut.

It's restored now.

It feels different.

soul.

It's exactly what his master just said, but this feeling doesn't feel good.

Because when a living body uses [Soul Sap] to split a part of its soul, the split part of the body is completely out of control. This is why little Henry can't move the fingers of his right hand at all.

But Ivan has another opinion.

"You idiot, haven't you already felt the soul?"

The emergence of the soul.

It adds a convenient tool to explore the unknown.

"I just conducted an experiment on your body."

“Very successful.”

When he said this, Ivan began to calm down.

The candlelight cannot illuminate his front, but the shadow can turn his green coat into cyan.

"Anyway, I have to do it."

He gave the order: "You just need to provide a little help."
To be continued...