Viscount Ferdinand suddenly felt a little homesick, he missed his home in Paris very much, and even more missed the beautiful city of Paris, the Arc de Triomphe, the Seine, Notre Dame Cathedral...... If I had to look for one of Ferdinand's proudest miracles, it would be the underground water system in Paris. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Where is the conscience of a city? underground, in the unseen, and Paris is the country that attaches the most importance to sewerage in Europe.

The promoter of the major municipal renovation of Paris, especially the sewer system project, is the now reigning Napoleon III, no matter how bad the reputation of this emperor is, at least Ferdinand admires the construction of Paris.

It was precisely because of Napoleon III's great renovation that Paris became the cleanest city in Europe at that time, and there was no one of the cleanest.

All the streets are paved with stone, gas lamps are interspersed with plane trees, the Seine flows more and more clearly in the center of the city, bridges connect the banks of the river, and countless carvings are scattered in the middle of the city.

No dirty water, garbage, odor...... The aristocratic district is as beautiful as a heavenly garden, and even the environment of the slum is comparable to that of the middle class in other countries.

All of this is important, and Ferdinand knows very well that it is all a symbol of a country's soft power, and that good things can attract the attention of the whole world, thus giving Paris a kind of cultural leadership.

Don't look at Britain as an empire on which the sun never sets, but if you want to talk about the cultural power of Europe, there is only France, only Paris.

Moreover, the urban transformation of Paris also has very practical benefits, since the change of the urban environment, there has not been a single outbreak of plague in Paris in the past ten years, and there are only typhoid fever and colds in the changing weather.

Today, the answer was finally obtained, and the highly educated Ferdinand finally understood through Dr. Barker's popular science that the delicate relationship between hygiene and plague was so useful to bacteriology, which turned out to be a marginal discipline.

Drawing inferences from one example, smart people will naturally understand something from the other party's words, and Ferdinand suddenly thought of some of the previous Empire's intelligence investigations on the Ryukyus.

According to the information, the urban infrastructure of the Ryukyus is no less than that of Paris, and although the scale is not as large as that of Paris, it is said that the overall level of sanitation of the city is even better than that of Paris.

And today, the medical team led by Dr. Buck shocked him even more, and from the skillful skills of these Chinese, he knew that at least in the study of bacteriology, the Chinese are no less than European.

This is a very worrying thing, which shows that Xiao Letian has consciously improved the country's soft power, and tried to use this influence to attract more attention, and use this difference in civilization to influence the people's hearts.

Terrible opponent! Today, the medical team casually missed a hand, and Ferdinand already felt a strong pressure, because he was a nobleman, and he was naturally sensitive to this invisible force.

Suddenly, Viscount Ferdinand raised his hand to stop Dr. Barker's words, "Hmm...... Dear Mr. Barker, I have generally heard what you are saying, but I have a question, have the sanitary and epidemic prevention measures you mentioned also spread in the city of Naha in the Ryukyus?"

Buck didn't know that this was a temptation, but said proudly, "Of course, of course, such health regulations are strictly followed, and you must know that many regulations exist in the form of laws in Chinese cities!"

"The extensive sewer system ensures that the sewage does not flow at all, and in some neighborhoods, seawater is used to clean the toilets......

"People have long been forced to develop the habit of drinking boiled water, and in that city, there are not many bars but tea houses, and anyone can buy very cheap hot tea anytime and anywhere, and there will be no epidemic of drinking water infectious diseases at all......

"Garbage is to be recycled and sorted out in a centralized manner, there are red armbands organized by the government on the street, they are specifically picketed spitting, littering and other illegal acts, the high fine is enough to make a middle-class businessman feel pain, and in serious cases, he will even be sentenced to hard labor!"

"Not to mention that Chinese medicine pays great attention to the relationship between climate and the body, generally speaking, the weather changes drastically, Chinese medicine can always prescribe maintenance prescriptions, the local government will give out some Chinese medicine soup boiled with mung beans for free in summer to prevent heat stroke, and there are also some warm decoctions in winter to prevent typhoid fever ......"

The more Buck spoke, the more proud he became, but the more Ferdinand listened, the more horrified he became, because he knew very well that the power of soft power such as culture is difficult to defeat, you can defeat the enemy's army with guns, but the enemy's world-leading soft power cannot be erased through war.

Because human beings always have an instinctive desire to pursue the happiest happiness! Just like England is already an empire on which the sun never sets, but no matter how arrogant the British aristocracy is, when it comes to food, wine, and the most popular clothing, they have to bow their heads to Paris.

And Paris is also making a lot of money in Europe through the final pricing power of these luxury industries, which in itself is France's soft power.

To take the simplest example, wine originated in ancient Greece and Rome, and was brought to all of Europe by the Romans, but in the end, the top wine regions were all in France.

A wine culture that dominates the world has established a deep-rooted authority in the hearts of global drinkers. With this sense of authority, the French have the power to price wine.

It's terrible that when a country has absolute pricing power over a certain commodity, then it has more profits than a monopoly.

Ferdinand couldn't guess what kind of actions the Chinese people had, but he knew very well in his heart that Xiao Lotian must be making some kind of breakthrough, terrible, really terrible.

"No, I must submit a report to His Majesty the Emperor, the threat of this group of Chinese is too great, we must eradicate it as soon as possible, otherwise Western civilization will continue to expand in Asia, and these Chinese must be stopped!"

Thinking of this, Ferdinand nodded, "Thank you, thank you Dr. Buck for your efforts for the people here, I have already written down your plan, since your fleet still has to pass through the Suez Canal, I will not leave you to the banquet, I hope we can meet in Paris one day!"

Buck was stunned, he heard the perfunctory words of Ferdinand, and the most important thing was that the viscount did not use a pen to record it at all, and his anti-plague tips were very detailed and impossible to memorize clearly.

"Honorable Consul...... Please pay attention, or at least a third of the people in this port will be infected with dysentery in ten days!That's a thousand lives......" The impatient Buck actually grabbed Ferdinand's sleeve as soon as he reached out.

Ferdinand, who frowned, shook off Barker's hand, looked at the white gloves he was wearing, and thought about the examination they had just done on the corpse, and felt a wave of nausea in his heart.

"Damn, how can you touch me with a glove that touched a corpse!" After speaking, he took out his handkerchief and wiped it desperately.

Note: Today seems to be Valentine's Day!