British writer

Chapter 27 Communication

Time came to the first ten days of November,

London is gradually getting colder, and the rime is thick in the morning, so the patrolmen have to put on capes and patrol in the morning fog.

In such an atmosphere, "Guns, Germs and Steel" is on the right track.

Because the "Daily Telegraph" sent a column to Lu Shi, the frequency was only once a week, so when the "Manchester Guardian" had already started publishing the tenth chapter, the "Daily Telegraph" only sent out one issue.

But even so, Lu Shi still stood out.

No longer only novel readers, more and more high-level people began to discuss the name of Lu.

...

Buckingham Palace.

Queen Victoria has just finished her bath and is having her morning tea,

There was the sound of light and agile footsteps outside the door.

A teenage girl rushed into the room and said: "Grandmother, today's Manchester Guardian is here, and there is Lu's article."

The Queen laughed,

"Okay, show me. I'll use Mr. Lu's articles to accompany the meal."

During this time, Margarita accompanied the Queen for breakfast.

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 is today?"

Margarita nodded,

"right."

So the Queen squinted and read.

Today's main title is a bit interesting, "The Vast Sky and the Skewed Axis\

,"The subtitle is much more straightforward, "Why Did Food Production Spread Differently on Different Continents?" ".

"Hmm, interesting."

The Queen studied it carefully.

As she is getting older, it is often difficult to concentrate, and she tends to fall asleep when doing anything.

But I don't know why, when I read Lu Shi's articles, I can always concentrate on it, as if I have returned to the age when I was young and eager to learn.

When she finished reading the last paragraph, the Queen realized that more than an hour had passed.

The black tea in the cup was completely cold.

The queen couldn't help but praise: "It's really well written..."

Then, turning to Margarita,

"This Chinese is indeed amazing."

Margarita smiled, picked up an empty china cup, and refilled 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, and it is more exciting than Homer's Epic."

Margarita's eyes shone with longing.

The Queen couldn't help being distressed,

Margarita is good at everything, but she is too wild, and like her mother, she always wants to achieve great things.

However, the queen herself has no position to say that others,

Since she came to the throne, Britain has gone to war everywhere, and the plundered wealth has made a great cause that the sun never sets,

No one is wilder than the Queen.

But as she grows older, the queen begins to develop in a conservative direction, coupled with the 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 froze,

"You know?"

A smile appeared on the queen's face,

"No, my history is good, but there are too many details in Mr. Lu's articles, how can I know so clearly? I think that period of history is true because...hehe...you think the British What do you do during a war?"

The queen uttered the most iron-blooded words in the most kind tone.

Margarita showed an expression of admiration,

But soon, she recovered,

"Grandmother said just now that Mr. Lu's article contains many details. How did you say that he, a Chinese, figured out the history of Spain?"

the queen shook her head,

"I don't know either."

Mysterious Chinese...

Margarita sighed silently, her thoughts gradually drifted away,

Mr. Lu is really a humble person, knowledgeable and talented, but when his grandmother offered him an olive branch to be the tutor of the royal family, he bluntly refused, as if he had 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 wrists,

Why is such a person willing to hide in the countryside?

Margarita was thinking about something, unconsciously staring at the newspaper on the table, her eyes slowly losing focus.

The queen cleared her throat,

"Girl, pour me a cup of tea."

Margarita did not hear because she was in a daze.

The queen raised her volume: "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 Chillen was instructing others to pour tea for him.

As a result, the colleague next to him complained: "Rudolph, are you stupid for reading newspapers? I'm not your wife."

Only then did Qi Lun realize that he was not at home.

He rubbed 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 of them who are good."

Colleagues are curious,

"Haven't you always considered yourself a Conservative? Why do you read The Manchester Guardian?"

Chiron was even more embarrassed.

In fact, he has always used liberal newspapers as toilet reading materials, reading when there is shit, and not reading when there is no shit,

Therefore, it is purely accidental to be able to read "Guns, Germs and Steel".

But just once, he 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 sent a telegram to his friends in London, asking them to send newspapers regularly.

The colleague asked curiously: "Is there a good article?"

Chiron nodded,

He is a follower of Razel, who believes that politics and geography are highly bound together, or simply a spatial phenomenon inherent in a country.

Therefore, in his eyes, a country is equivalent to a country and a territory, and it is a specific region with characteristics.

This is why Chiron became a conservative.

It is a pity that his theory has no basis and has been criticized by many sociology scholars as a castle in the air.

But "Guns, Germs, and Steel" has provided sufficient evidence with rigorous arguments, so that Chiron's ideas are no longer fantasy, and have the possibility of landing.

For example, the part that has been serialized now,

It mentions two important premises for the origin of civilization:

1. There are large domesticable animals that can provide milk, meat, fur, and even transportation and military;

Second, there are cultivateable crops that can provide stable food.

Both are undoubtedly highly regional.

Although Chiron would like to name his theory geopolitics in the future, it is a typical social discipline,

But he believes that the content of natural science related to geography and ecology mentioned in "Guns, Germs and Steel" is the basis of politics.

Qi Lun closed the newspaper, feeling an emotion brewing in his heart,

Suddenly he said, "No, I must go to London."

Colleagues were stunned.

Someone asked: "Rudolph, you are not really going to join the enemy, are you?"

Chiron was once invited by many universities of the University of London Union to do political research and give lectures in the UK.