Into Unscientific Chapter 232

  Although it doesn't matter whether it is England or Scotland.

  These two countries, both of which belong to the British system, are actually well aware of the reasons for the attack on the Danfries outpost.

   But after all, this matter involved a border dispute, and there were many direct members and even speakers of some large chambers of commerce who died in this riot.

   Therefore no prior communication is required.

  Scotland and England sent their own investigation teams at the same time.

  England was represented by Henry John Temple, then Minister of External Affairs and the twenty-eighth Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

  Although he is also a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge University, later generations generally believe that this person is talented enough to be selected as one of the top ten diplomats in human history.

  But Xu Yun didn't have a good impression of him.

   There is no other reason.

   Gein was the main maker of the British aggressive policy towards China during the Two Crows.

  Although Henry John Temple never went on the battlefield in person, in a sense, his hands were no less sinful than Grant.

Again.

  Xu Yun has no idea of ​​continuing his life in the current decadent country, but this does not mean that he should show good looks to those foreigners who participated in the aggression, and it is even less likely that he will have any feeling of 'grateful'.

Of course.

  Whether friendly or hateful, Xu Yun now has no chance to meet Henry John Temple:

  As early as the day after activating the mission, Thomson called Xu Yun and Mai Mai, and left the Danfries outpost in a carriage.

   According to Thomson's words.

  The political game of the black hands behind the scenes can be entrusted to Henry John Temple.

   These academics got involved in it rashly, and they probably don't know how they died in the end.

  So after leaving the correspondence address with Gibson Lindsay and Ten Hag Rangnick.

  The three happily went to the UK.

  The town of Danfries belongs to the border area between the Soviet Union and Britain. After passing through Danfries, the former convenience is the Carlisle area of ​​England.

Of course.

   Compared with Carlisle, Newcastle, which is on the same level as it, should be a little more famous.

  Carlisle is followed by Leeds, and after Leeds are several big cities such as Sheffield and Birmingham.

  Xu Yun and the others walked peacefully for three and a half days without encountering any accidents.

  Finally in the morning of the fourth day.

   A group of people arrived in London, the capital of England and the core city of European politics and economy.

   Over the years, with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and the prosperity of commercial trade, the population of London has also been increasing.

  Now the population of London has exceeded one million, and there is a prosperous scene everywhere, and the residents are happy and happy!

  Outside the city entry checkpoint.

  Xu Yun sat in the front room of the carriage, stretching their necks with Mai Mai to look forward.

  The towering chimneys that are faintly visible in the sight are endlessly emitting black smoke, and the thick fog is so thick that people can't see the buildings further away.

  The coughing sounds at the checkpoint station kept coming and going.

  Here, people are clearly divided into two groups:

   Sitting in a gorgeous carriage, the nobleman who can't see the face but can imagine the picture—or the upper class.

as well as

  A civilian with a sallow complexion and a haggard appearance, both male and female, who look much older than their actual age.

   In the farther corner of the city, you can still see children in ragged clothes, the **** of the station sister, and a large number of drunkards holding a wine bottle in their hands and lying against the wall with their feet stretched out.

   For these people.

   It seems that only by drinking non-stop all day can the smog that invades the body be dispelled.

   This is a cool city from head to toe.

  The tall buildings and roaring machines all show the prosperity of the core of Europe all the time.

  But the incense generated by this heyday did not spread to all living beings, but floated to a higher cloud.

   Heaven and earth.

   These are two completely different worlds.

  Xu Yun looked up at the sky, and then at an old man not far away whose face was covered with mud.

   Can't help but sigh deeply.

  Since defeating the French Empire led by Napoleon in 1815, Britain has become the strongest hegemon in Europe in one fell swoop.

   title

  The empire on which the sun never sets.

  But hidden under this prosperity are the blood and tears of countless British civilians.

   This matter actually dates back to the end of the 18th century.

  At that time, with the development of the industrial revolution, the amount of coal burned in London began to increase sharply, and almost every industry used a huge amount of coal.

  For example, countless new factories need to burn coal, and trains also need to burn coal.

  So ever since.

  A large amount of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide are emitted into the atmosphere.

   In the absence of any airflow disturbance, these gases and water mist condense together and mix to form a yellow-brown smoke.

   This is an extremely harmful gas, similar in nature to the smog of later generations, but much more toxic than the smog.

   What is worse than the smog is the living conditions of the civilians at this time.

  According to the statistics in the book "London People's Life and Labor".

  In this day and age.

  30.7% of people in London live below the poverty line, living without food and clothing.

   Today, more than 5,000 London civilians die from respiratory diseases every year.

   Over 3,000 civilians died on the job - this is the number of deaths while on the job, excluding those who died after returning home.

  More than 7,000 civilians died of famine.

   Among them, the former includes some nobles, while 99% of the latter two are civilians.

  Elizabeth Gaskell wrote a work called "The South and the North" in 1885, which described the life of the British bottom civilians. (If you are interested, you can go directly to the British drama South and North).

  In addition to the love story between the hero and the heroine.

  You can see the bottom layer depicted inside, there is really no guarantee.

  At that time, even children had to go to work, and if they didn't come for a day, they would lose their jobs immediately.

   It is difficult to raise wages!

  It is still difficult to improve the working environment!

  For example, the heroine's friend died of pneumoconiosis because of inhaling too much cotton wool.

  There are too many people in it, just to be able to live and to be able to give their children a bite of bread.

   In sharp contrast to the life of the people at the bottom, it is the aristocratic life in London.

   These nobles drank red wine and ate beef every day, recited 242 details that should be paid attention to at the banquet, and considered whether to spend dozens of pounds to buy jewelry tomorrow

   in 1850.

  The prosperity brought about by the industrial revolution has nothing to do with the people at the bottom who are just trying to survive.

   The phrase "in the initial stage of capital, every pore is dripping with blood" is the best comment on this era.

   Just when Xu Yun was feeling heavy, a weak voice suddenly came from his ear:

   "Sir, give me something to eat."

  Xu Yun turned his head and found a seven or eight-year-old girl standing beside him.

  The little girl's face was pitch black, her eyes were bright, her clothes were ragged, and her hair was stained with mud and weeds.

  Obviously a standard Caucasian ancestry, but his face at this time was an extremely unhealthy sallow.

  Seeing this, Xu Yun couldn't help feeling relieved.

  Although he has never had a good impression of foreigners, and he is not a saint himself, the Huadun Biosciences founded by later generations is even out of his mind to fight with Europe, America, Japan and South Korea.

   But this hostility does not include the current situation.

  Anyone with basic sympathy will inevitably feel a little pity when encountering this situation.

   Then he thought for a moment.

  Turning around, he took a few potatoes from the carriage, and Xiaomai also tacitly took out a few loaves of bread, and put them on the front of the car together.

  Xu Yun packed these things in a small cloth bag, handed them to the little girl, and said:

   "Hold it, hold it tight, don't be snatched away, if you're very hungry, don't eat too fast, it's not good for your stomach."

   Gollum—

  The little girl swallowed her saliva, took the cloth bag, bowed, and quickly ran back into the crowd.

  Xu Yunjian said that he and Mai Mai looked at each other, and both sighed.

   As a result, before they could continue to sigh, Thomson, who had been watching with cold eyes, suddenly spoke:

   "Two gentlemen, don't you feel very touched after showing your love?"

  The foolish boy Xiaomai didn't notice the sarcasm in Thomson's tone, and nodded vigorously:

   "Yes, Mr. Thomson, this little girl is too poor."

  Hearing what he said, the corners of Thomson's mouth curled up slightly:

   "Poor? Look at your pockets before you talk."

  Wheat was taken aback when he heard this, and immediately looked at his waist.

   After a while.

  He suddenly let out an ah, and quickly touched his waist with his hands:

   "Hey, where is the cigarette bag in my pocket?"

  See this scenario.

  Xu Yun also gradually realized something, and quickly pressed the palm of his left hand on his waist.

fine.

  The kidney is still there.

   But the two gold nuggets he was going to break into change were missing.

   Then he looked at Thomson and asked thoughtfully:

   "Mr. Thomson, is that kid a thief?"

  Thomson sighed, nodded heavily, and said:

   "Yes, it should be a pickpocket group active in this area. I think the things she stole are not very valuable, so I didn't remind you about it."

   "Sometimes it's a good thing to lose a little money. It's better to have a longer memory than to be unable to recover from losses in the future, or even lose your life."

  Xu Yun opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something.

   But in the end still did not speak.

   Who would have thought that that miserable-looking little girl was actually a pickpocket?

   and can steal things without himself or Xiaomai finding out

   Not to mention how superb her skills are, at least it is impossible to be a quick-learning ability in a day or two.

  Think here.

  The title of a work suddenly popped up in Xu Yun's mind:

   "Oliver Twist".

  After Oliver, the protagonist in this work, arrived in London, he strayed into the den of thieves organized by Fagin. Among them, there were no less than a dozen young children who were trained to be pickpockets.

   "Oliver Twist" was written in 1838. The social background is not too different from today's, and there is a lot of information in it for reference.

  So in this day and age, child pickpockets are actually a very common 'tool'.

  “Nowadays, with the development of industry, many children in London become orphans every year, which makes it more difficult to distinguish those child pickpockets.”

  Thomson looked at the direction where the little girl disappeared, and shook his head with emotion:

  "The money stolen by these child pickpockets is basically handed over to the gang leader, and they can't actually get much."

   "Like the bag of food that you and Maxwell gave her, three or four potatoes plus the same amount of bread, right? Half a piece of bread and one potato are too much for her."

   After finishing speaking, he let out a long sigh, patted the face of Mai Mai, who had a "deep routine in the city", pointed to the checkpoint and said:

   "Okay, it's time for us to enter the city, let's hurry up and get down to business."

  Although the town of Cambridge, where Cambridge University is located, is not in the city of London, London is a big city that must pass through to go to the town of Cambridge.

   After passing through the north of London, the distance from Cambridge is only less than 60 miles.

  That's why Thomson chose to enter the city today.

  At the same time, he entered London with another purpose, that is.

  He is going to part with Xu Yun here.

   After all, according to what Xu Yun said before.

  He disembarked from the port of Aberdeen in Scotland, ready to go to London to visit relatives, and then seek a way out.

  It's a pity that he met a black-hearted coachman and he was left halfway, so there is a follow-up story.

  Now that they are passing through London, there is no need to take Xu Yun to Cambridge University.

   Fifteen minutes later.

   Thomson and his party passed the checkpoint and entered the city of London.

   "Luo Feng."

  After entering the city, Thomson looked around and asked Xu Yun:

   "Where does that relative of yours live? Maxwell and I will take you there."

   "Knowing the specific address, it will be convenient for us to write letters in the future."

  Xu Yun heard the words and made a false search, and said:

   "I think it's at 13 Bessim Street, Islington."

   "Bessim Street?"

   Thomson was taken aback for a moment, his eyes immediately widened a little, and then he said:

   "Luo Feng, didn't your relatives leave any other spare addresses?"

  Xu Yun looked at him pretendingly blankly, and asked knowingly:

   "Of course not, Mr. Thomson, what's the matter?"

  Thomson frowned when he saw that, he thought about it and said:

   "Luo Feng, I'm afraid you don't know. A cholera outbreak broke out in London two years ago. The Islington area was the hardest hit area, so many buildings were pulled down and abandoned at that time."

   "Besham Street is in the very center of the Islington area, where the residents have either moved or have been."

   Hear this statement.

  Xu Yun quickly put on an ignorant appearance again, like a sea king pretending to be innocent:

"Oh no?"

   While making this expression, he also scored himself in his heart:

90 marks!

  In 1848, there was a cholera outbreak in London, which killed more than 52,000 people. It was also the worst cholera in British history.

   Among them, Islington and Camden are the hardest-hit areas of cholera, with a death rate of 68%.

  Xu Yun's main focus in this life is biology, so he naturally remembers the time and the most central location of such a big event.

  Although the current timeline has changed, the cause of the cholera outbreak has nothing to do with scientific theories.

  Therefore, Xu Yun guessed with more than 80% certainty that this cholera also happened in the dungeon.

Of course,

  If the cholera did not break out because of the flapping of butterfly wings, Xu Yun would have other ways to make his 'relatives' disappear.

  The line of sight returns to reality.

  Xu Yun stared at Thomson for a few seconds, then he put on a hesitant expression and said:

   "Mr. Thomson, the address I got was left by my aunt in a letter seven years ago. There is no other backup address."

   "Now that things have happened like this, I don't think it's possible to find them."

   After he finished speaking, he paused and continued:

   "However, Mr. Thomson, my original plan was to stay and work in London after meeting them, and then use the wages I earned to pay for tuition to go to university."

   "I originally planned to apply for the University College London as an auditor, but now that I know you and Mr. Maxwell, I would like to ask."

  “I don't know if I have a chance to study in Cambridge?”

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