It’s early November,
London is getting colder and colder, and the morning fog is so foggy that the patrol officers have to put on cloaks and patrol in the morning fog.
In this atmosphere, "Guns, Germs and Steel" is on the right track.
Because the "Daily Telegraph" sent Lu Shi a column only once a week, the "Daily Telegraph" only sent out one issue when the "Manchester Guardian" had already started publishing Chapter 10.
But even so, Lu Shi still stood out.
No longer just novel readers, more and more upper-class people began to discuss the name Lu.
…
Buckingham Palace.
Queen Victoria has just finished washing and is having morning tea.
There were light and agile footsteps outside the door.
A girl rushed into the room and said: "Grandma, today's Manchester Guardian is here, and there is Lu's article."
The queen chuckled,
"Okay, show me. I will use Mr. Lu's article to accompany the meal."
During this time, it was Margarita who had breakfast with the Queen.
Margarita stepped forward quickly and handed the newspaper to the Queen.
The queen looked at it and found that there was only one page, and the other pages had already been taken out.
"Is this what it's like today?"
Margarita nodded,
"right."
So the queen squinted her eyes and read.
Today's main title is a bit interesting, "The Vast Sky and the Skewed Axis",
The subtitle is much more direct, "Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents?" 》.
"Hmm, interesting."
The Queen studied it carefully.
As she gets older, it is often difficult for her to concentrate, and she tends to fall asleep no matter what she does.
But I don’t know why, but I always pay full attention when reading Lu Shi’s articles, as if I have returned to that young and studious age.
When she finished reading the last paragraph, the Queen was shocked to realize that more than an hour had passed.
The black tea in the cup has become completely cold.
The Queen couldn't help but praise: "It's really well written..."
As he said that, he turned to Margarita aside,
"This Chinese is really amazing."
Margarita smiled, picked up an empty porcelain cup, and filled it with hot tea.
She asked in a low voice: "Grandma, is the story of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire true? It is really a legend, more exciting than Homer's epic."
Margarita's eyes sparkled with yearning.
The queen couldn't help but feel distressed,
Margarita is good at everything, but her temper is too wild. Just like her mother, she always wants to achieve great things.
However, the Queen herself has no position to criticize others.
Since she took the throne, Britain has gone to war everywhere, and the wealth plundered has achieved great achievements that never set on the sun.
No one is wilder than the Queen.
It’s just that as she grows older, the Queen begins to develop in a conservative direction. Coupled with the continuous deepening of the constitutional monarchy, Buckingham Palace has begun to be marginalized, and the royal family has gradually become the mascot of the Commonwealth.
The real political core of London now lies in the Palace of Westminster, Whitehall, and Downing Street.
The Queen coughed lightly: "No matter how you look at it, that period of Spanish history should be true."
Margarita was stunned.
"You know?"
A smile appeared on the queen's face,
"No, although my history is good, there are too many details in the article written by Mr. Lu. How could I know it so clearly? I think that period of history is true because... haha... What do you think about Britain's foreign policy? How did you do it during the war?”
The queen said the most iron-blooded words in the kindest tone.
Margarita showed an expression of admiration,
But soon, she came back to her senses,
"Grandma just said that there are many details in Mr. Lu's article. How do you think he, a Chinese, understood the history of Spain?"
The queen shook her head,
"I don't know either."
The mysterious Chinese...
Margarita sighed silently, her thoughts gradually drifting away,
Mr. Lu is really a humble man, knowledgeable and talented. However, when his grandmother offered him an olive branch and asked him to be the tutor of the royal family, he refused outright. He seemed to have no idea about fame and fortune.
Moreover, it is not difficult to see from his performance in the salon that day that he is not without skills.
Why would such a person be willing to hide in the countryside?
Margarita was thinking about something, staring at the newspaper on the table unconsciously, her eyes slowly losing focus.
The Queen cleared her throat;
"Girl, pour me a cup of tea."
Margarita was in a daze and did not hear.
The Queen raised her voice: "Girl, pour me a cup of tea!"
…
"Pour me a cup of tea."
Far away in Sweden, in an office at the University of Gothenburg, Rudolf Chiron was instructing others to pour him tea.
As a result, the colleague next to him complained: "Rudolf, are you stupid reading the newspaper? I am not your wife."
Chiron then remembered that he was not at home.
He touched his nose in embarrassment and said, "Have you read the Manchester Guardian? I have to say that Britain is not all barbarians. There are a few capable people."
Colleagues are curious,
"Don't you always consider yourself a conservative? Why do you read the Manchester Guardian?"
Chiron was even more embarrassed.
In fact, he has always regarded liberal newspapers as toilet reading. He reads them when there is shit, but he doesn't read when there is no shit.
Therefore, reading "Guns, Germs, and Steel" was purely accidental.
But it was that one time that made him read it completely. After reading the first four chapters, he squatted in the pit for three hours. When he got up, his lower body was numb and he almost fell into the pit.
After that, he took a telegram to a friend in London and asked his friend to send newspapers regularly.
A colleague asked curiously: "Do you have any good articles?"
Chiron nodded,
He is a follower of Ratzel and believes that politics is highly bound to geography, or simply a spatial phenomenon inherent to the country.
Therefore, in his eyes, the country is equivalent to the territory and territory, and is a specific region with characteristics.
This is why Chiron became a conservative.
Unfortunately, his theory has no basic basis and has been criticized by many sociology scholars as a castle in the air.
However, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" uses rigorous arguments to provide sufficient basis, making Chiron's ideas no longer just fantasies, and have the possibility of implementation.
For example, the part that has been serialized now,
Two important premises for the origin of civilization are mentioned:
1. There are large domesticated animals that can provide milk, meat, fur, and even transportation and military;
2. There are crops that can be cultivated and can provide stable food.
Both are undoubtedly very regional.
Although Chiron would like to name his theory geopolitics in the future, which is a typical social discipline,
But he believes that the natural science content related to geography and ecology mentioned in "Guns, Germs and Steel" is the basis of politics.
Qilun closed the newspaper, and there was an emotion brewing in his heart.
He suddenly said: "No, I have to go to London."
Colleagues were stunned.
Someone asked: "Rudolf, are you really planning to surrender to the enemy?"
Chiron has been invited by many universities of the University of London Alliance to go to the UK to do political research and teach.
This is why colleagues joke about "turning over to the enemy."
Chiron shook his head,
"I just think my future is in London... No, I have to send a telegram to Xiao."
Colleagues looked at each other,
The future is in London?
Is this any different from surrendering to the enemy?
