Great time travel

Chapter 167, The Queen of the Wind

So, in the remaining hours of the day's journey, Ambassador Toynbee introduced many things that happened in recent years to Queen Elizabeth.Of course, the most talked about is the unprecedented catastrophe and purgatory that the British mainland has encountered in the past few years.

——The overwhelming atomic bomb explosions in the early days of World War III not only turned cities on the British island into radiation ghostlands one after another, but also completely destroyed the industrial and agricultural infrastructure of the entire UK.When the flames of war in Europe were temporarily extinguished and the nuclear explosion and bombing came to an end, the surviving British found sadly that they no longer had electricity, running water, and railway transportation, and their living conditions returned to before the industrial revolution.

What's more, due to the cessation of shipping during the war, since the end of 30.00, no Canadian wheat, Argentine beef, and American egg powder have been imported into Britain.The food self-sufficiency rate of Britain itself before the war was only about [-]%.With the collapse of various infrastructures, the remaining British farmers not only lost chemical fertilizers, agricultural machinery, irrigation facilities and professional seeds, but even most of the mules and horses that pulled the plow were requisitioned by the government and the army, which led to the loss of agricultural products. No matter how you look at it, the further plunge in production is already the rhythm of a large number of people starving to death.

In fact, as early as Queen Elizabeth left Britain to surrender to the Soviet Union, the soldiers and civilians on the island had already begun to fight each other for living supplies... What made it worse was that due to the "massage" of the Icelandic crust due to repeated nuclear strikes , triggering a major eruption of a volcano in Iceland.The huge amount of volcanic ash entering the atmosphere brought two "years without summer" to the world, and caused devastating damage to the agricultural and food production of almost all countries in the world.The British Isles, which are across the sea from Iceland, were naturally not spared—thus, the British who survived the nuclear explosion and riots finally picked up a hoe and sowed seeds in the ground, but what followed was the climate There was a sudden change, and almost no crops were harvested for two consecutive years.All kinds of fighting and bloody conflicts among the hungry people further wasted the only food reserves and increased the number of deaths.As a result, by the time the weather gradually returned to normal this year, the farmers on the British Isles would have starved to death and frozen to death.

Even if some people have not frozen to death and starved to death, they have eaten up all the edible things around them, including seeds, in the previous two disaster years. Even if they want to plant seeds in the spring of this year, there will be nothing left There were no seeds to sow, and no animals to pull the plow.

During this period, those British cities that survived the Soviet nuclear attack also went to strangers one after another because of the lack of food.For example, Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, which escaped the nuclear explosion, was destroyed a year after the outbreak of World War III.According to the results of the post-war landing reconnaissance by the Soviet Marine Corps, the current Edinburgh is empty and completely abandoned.However, some evidence of cannibals eating people in the city was found, which is chilling.

——Obviously, these "cannibals" in Edinburgh used to be civilized people, and they were all forced to break through the lower limit by the pressure of survival...

All in all, the current UK has almost regressed back to the time of King Arthur more than 1000 years ago, the same darkness and turmoil, the same barrenness and scarcity, but there are no wise kings and knights, nor fairies and wizards, only radiation and bandits... Those once glorious cities, even if they haven't turned into radioactive wasteland, are already full of ruins and charred bomb craters.Even the manors in the countryside have mostly been looted.Many counties have become completely no man's land, and many survivors hide in dangerous caves, forts, isolated islands and hidden forests, almost becoming barbarians.

According to Toynbee's rough guess, there are only 200 million people left on the island of Great Britain today, which is even less than in Roman times...

The hard-hearted Soviets turned a blind eye to all these horrific scenes. Just to ensure the safety of passage through the Strait of Dover, they set up an outpost on the Isle of Wight on the other side of Portsmouth Harbor, and then watched the Great Britain fall step by step. into the hell of famine and death.

As a result, by the end of the Third World War, the island of Great Britain was already on the verge of death, and it could no longer be rescued.

What's more, the Soviet Union, the future world leader, seems to have no intention of curing diseases and saving lives...

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"...God! The great British Empire... has become like this? It is infinitely more cruel than the Irish Revolution in the last century and the Black Death in the Middle Ages! I seem to see the history of the collapse of the ancient Roman Empire repeating itself..."

Queen Elizabeth rubbed her forehead and moaned with a broken face, "...doesn't anyone care about and pity the people of this island country?"

"...Your Majesty, have you forgotten? What is the biggest event of our time? It is a world war! The eyes of the Soviets, Americans, Japanese, and most people in the world are all paying attention to all fronts around the world The military action that decided the fate of the world. All other events paled in comparison to this war, including, of course, the collapse of civilization and the humanitarian catastrophe that took place on the British Isle..."

"...In other words, everyone is busy killing people, and no one cares about saving people? Even if you want to save...you have to save your own people first?"

"...almost... Your ancestor Queen Victoria did not have mercy on the Irish starving people, nor on the Indian textile workers in Bengal (because of the industrial revolution and the unfair tariff system, the Indian cotton spinning industry was completely bankrupt in the Victorian era, 1000 Tens of thousands of Bengali craftsmen and their families starved to death). How can General Secretary Stalin today have any kindness towards the Anglo-Saxons on the British Isles?"

Toynbee sighed and replied, "...Two years ago, after I learned of the tragedies that were happening in the UK through some channels, I immediately tried my best to send letters and letters everywhere, and finally got the Soviet People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs. Molotov's interview. As a result, this Mr. Molotov first expressed his deep sympathy for the suffering British people. Second, he claimed that all countries in Europe are currently struggling with a terrible famine, and the Soviet Union On the other hand, the amount of relief materials that can be provided is limited, so it is impossible to embezzle the living materials that should have been allocated to the people of the country and allies to relieve the people of the enemy country who are still resisting the Red Army. Who made Prime Minister Churchill insist on refusing to surrender unconditionally at that time? ?
Although these words sounded like excuses, I still tried to send a telegram to Prime Minister Churchill through the Soviets in my own name, persuading him to stop the useless resistance as soon as possible for the lives of tens of millions of British people. Let the Anglo-Saxon peoples of Great Britain go to ruin.As a result... as you can guess, until the end of the war, Prime Minister Churchill did not reply to this telegram..."

"...Oh! Damn Churchill! Hypocritical Molotov!" Queen Elizabeth exclaimed excitedly, "...doesn't recognize that Britain has withdrawn from the war? Didn't I openly surrender to Stalin as the monarch of the United Kingdom? Scepter and crown? What else do they want?"

"...This...with all due respect, from the perspective of the liberal camp in the recent world war, or in other words, according to the US government's propaganda position during the war, I am afraid that you, who bowed your knees and surrendered, have given up the crown, which is tantamount to abdicating. And your sister Margaret is the real queen."

Toynbee said with a wry smile, "...To use an inappropriate analogy, in the eyes of Stalin, your Majesty, who voluntarily surrendered to the Soviet Union but was deposed by his own government, is probably equivalent to flying to the UK alone nine years ago. Hess, deputy head of Nazi Germany who was seeking peace but was taken as a prisoner of war...Since the opposing camp does not recognize that Britain has surrendered, and you actually cannot continue to effectively rule Britain when you surrender, the Soviets do not recognize Britain. It is a matter of course that you have withdrawn from the war—you had no way to order all the soldiers and civilians of Britain to lay down their arms at that time..."

"...That is to say...you also think that my choice at the time was correct, but I just don't have the ability to carry it out, right?"

Queen Elizabeth said sullenly, "...Mr. Toynbee, although it is definitely too late to ask this question now, I still want to know if my voluntary surrender at that time, or even a rebellious blow, could really make Britain Withdrew from the war and received aid and support from the Soviet Union to a certain extent, will the future and destiny of the United Kingdom become a little bit better?"

"...Let's put it this way, Your Majesty, if you say that the British Empire when you surrendered your crown was like a dilapidated ship whose decks have been flooded by the sea, the sides have been cracked, the keel has been broken, and the masts have collapsed. The sailors have begun to flee... but as long as they get rid of the entanglement of the sea in time and find a sandbar to wash aground, then at least they can use the remaining hull timbers to piece together a new boat and go to sea again."

Toynbee spread out his hands and replied, "...Because of missing this last chance, the current British Empire...is equivalent to the entire ship sinking into the bottom of the sea, and it was smashed to pieces, and it can't even be salvaged. Wake up, those of us who survived are just drifting on the sea with a few broken planks... How far we can drift in the future, and whether we will be bitten to death by sharks, we can only pray for God's blessing... ..."

Queen Elizabeth couldn't help being silent for a long time when she heard the words, and finally she could only let out a soft sigh: "...May God bless Britain..."

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That evening, the team of exiles only traveled about twenty kilometers and camped overnight in a small village called Pulborough.

In the twilight of the evening, the silent village was full of dark shadows, without a trace of lights or people, only the collapsed charred ruins, and the rancid smell in the air, which made everyone frown.Taking a closer look, the village was littered with dead bodies everywhere. At the entrance of the village, there was a mutilated corpse lying in a ditch with all the clothes stripped clean. It was being bitten by a group of wild dogs. They were all pulled out... It seems that when everyone didn't know, there was a bloody conflict between refugee groups in this place.

Although the pungent corpse smell is disgusting, it may be more dangerous if camped in the wilderness and forest.In desperation, everyone had no choice but to throw these corpses into a wooden house, pour gasoline on it and burn them on fire.Then they didn’t dare to live in the surviving houses anymore, but lit a few bonfires in the small square of the village for cooking and heating. After dinner, everyone either slept in the car or wrapped themselves around the fire. Sleep on the spot with blankets.

Queen Elizabeth slept very badly that night. She was awakened by nightmares several times. When she opened her eyes, she saw the dark trees casting shadows on the ground. When blown by the night wind, she turned into a devil with claws and claws, and then turned into terror together with the night and rushed towards her Come... Let her have an illusion in a trance, as if she is not traveling on the land of her motherland, but exploring in a wild and exotic land far away from civilization, and monsters or indigenous people may attack at any time...

So, on the second day, Queen Elizabeth unsurprisingly had two dark circles on her face.

Next, this noble team of exiles trekked for two days in the almost uninhabited land of southern England, saw countless burned, abandoned and forgotten villages and towns, and finally arrived at the destination of the trip Destination, Windsor Castle in Windsor, Berkshire.

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PS: I was warned again and asked the author not to talk about state affairs. In order to prevent this book from being dropped by eunuchs, I had no choice but to stop complaining at the end of the book.