Chapter 403: The Woman Who Was So Happy That She Wanted to Cry

As soon as Tang Yan heard that he was going to sleep again, he was so frightened that he almost cried: "No, no, no, no, I'm not tired, I'm not tired, just according to what you said, let's go to Manchester...... Manchester ...... in the United Kingdom I want to go, I like to go, I like to travel the world with you, okay......"

Speaking of the back, Tang Yan almost cried.

But she didn't dare to cry, as soon as she cried, Ye Chao said again that she should take a break, this is rest, it is so miserable to go to the battlefield. If there is a choice, Tang Yan would rather find a little sister in the red light district than stay by Ye Chao's side to accompany her to travel around the world.

Every night, she feels more miserable than the comfort woman in the island country. Ye Chao is a man, more powerful than other people's thousands of troops, he never stops, which time Tang Yan was not so cool that the Yellow River flooded, and he fainted directly before he could sleep......

It's so miserable, what would she rather do than be Ye Chao's woman.

Speaking of which, it was really tearful eyes, I knew that today, I wouldn't have said anything so neatly at the beginning. If you want to rectify, let Tang Ying do the whole by himself......

It's really abuse......

"Okay, my sweet little smoke said to go to Manchester, then, let's go to Manchester...... Let's go. ”

So, Ye Chao took Tang Yan to Manchester, England.

Tang Yan is not too unfamiliar with this city, because there is also her Tang family's industry here.

Manchester is the second most prosperous city in the United Kingdom, with a population of 510,000. The world's first industrialized city, the metropolitan municipality and unitary management area of Greater Manchester in the northwest region of England, an important transportation hub and commercial, financial, industrial and cultural center of the United Kingdom.

Manchester has developed into an international city with more than 700 industries including heavy machinery, weaving, oil refining, glass, plastics and food processing, centred on electronics, chemicals and printing.

As a pioneer of free trade, economic liberalisation and co-operative movements, the city of Manchester has a strong influence on the British economy.

Manchester joins the towns of Trafford, Tamside, Salford and Stockport to form the Manchester region. From an industrial city to a bustling city that never sleeps featuring finance, education, tourism, commerce and manufacturing, Manchester is a major industrial center and commodity distribution center in England, and is the largest financial center city in the United Kingdom except London.

It is the center of the cotton textile industry in the United Kingdom, an important transportation hub and commercial, financial and cultural center, located in the center of the metropolitan agglomeration in the northwest of England, the plain of the northwest of England, and the Pennines in the east.

Manchester is the birthplace of the cotton textile industry and the world's first industrialised city. More than 200 years ago, the world's earliest modern cotton textile industry was born here, which opened the prelude to the industrial revolution.

Manchester also became the forerunner of a new generation of big industrial cities with the advent of the cotton spinning industry.

Manchester is a great example of urban regeneration, and one can see the history of British industry from here.

Today, it is full of electronics, with electronics, chemicals and printing as its centre, with more than 700 industries such as heavy machinery, weaving, oil refining, glass, plastics and food processing, and is not only the political and cultural centre of the North West of England, but also a centre of business and employment.

Manchester is no longer what it used to be.

The poverty and misery of Dickens's time have long been lost in the memory of history, and the darkness and demise of the indie punk bands of the '80s have gone with the sad and pessimistic voice of Joydivision.

Over the past 15 years, the city has developed a "champagne for breakfast" sensibility and a hedonistic to the point of frivolity.

Manchester was the pioneer of the Industrial Revolution. Today, it has long since moved away from the years of "steam and sweat", and has stepped into the youth of fashionable clothes and partying everywhere for fun.

Of course, Manchester isn't all about shouting, foaming football matches and the raucous hangouts of the best people, it's also home to great museums, great food and great shopping.

Wander through the trendy bars and boutiques of the bohemian North End, cruise through the elegant, equanimistic Catherfield district for a while, and then get a glimpse of Gay Village's "speak up, don't be afraid" attitude.

After spending so much time here, you can't help but be struck by the confidence exuded by this regenerated city.

The vitality of this cotton-based city is due to her willingness to seize opportunities and encourage people to start their own businesses and innovate. The 1996 bombings devastated Manchester city centre, but residents quickly recovered from their horror and seized the opportunity to rebuild the centre with new public spaces and whimsical yet functional, modern buildings.

Manchester was ranked 30th in the world in the 2015QS Best Cities to Study in the rankings[3], and ranked first in the UK and 51st in the world in the 2013 Global Liveability Survey.

Manchester is also the second largest economy in the UK, with the largest financial and professional services sector in the UK, the second largest creative digital and media sector in Europe, and the largest clinical and academic research institute in Europe.

It is also home to the UK's largest commercial real estate market outside of London and the largest private business community, and is set to become one of the world's top 20 digital cities by 2020.

Manchester is inextricably linked to the Industrial Revolution, but it exists much older than the spinning machine and the Jenny machine (the early spinning machine). The city of Mancunium was built on the basis of a fortress built by General Agricola in 79 AD and was a very important town in Roman times.

The city of Manchouni gradually expanded to its present size along Atling St., connecting London with Chester in the north. Little is known about Manchester's medieval history, partly due to the city's historical records destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666.

In the 14th century, Flanders' wool and linen weavers settled here, inaugurating the earliest textile traditions, and the town laid a good foundation for processing cotton from the American colonies in the 18th century.

Manchester has easy access canals, abundant water and coal supplies, and a cultural tradition of progress and innovation (exemplified by the invention of the steam spinning machine by Richard Ackright). Manchester gave birth to a new textile industry and pioneered the Industrial Revolution.

Manchester has a long history, with the Romans building a fortress here as early as 79 AD to control access from the foothills of the Pennines to the seaside. Flemish weavers who moved here in the 14th century founded the flax and woollen spinning industry, laying the first cornerstone for Manchester's development.

It arose in the thirteenth century and developed rapidly after the Industrial Revolution. In the middle of the 16th century, it developed into a thriving textile city, producing woollen wool, felt hats and cheesecloth, which were even exported overseas. For forty years after 1780, it owned a quarter of the country's cotton textile industry and was also the center of trade in raw cotton and cotton yarn.

The eastern part is dominated by textiles, clothing, printing and dyeing, and the western part is dominated by electrical machinery and general machinery. Food processing, chemistry and oil refining are also important. In 1830, the Liverpool-Manchester railway was built. The city was reached by sea vessels via the Manchester Canal (opened in 1894) and was the most important port after London and Liverpool.

Manchester's real rise has been since the Industrial Revolution.

In 1764, Hargreaves, a Lancashire weaver, invented the Jenny spinning machine, beginning the Industrial Revolution that began with the textile machine. In the 80s of the 18th century, the first cotton mill was born in Manchester.

In 1789, the steam engine began to replace water power and equip the textile mills, and from then on the cotton spinning industry developed more rapidly. By 1830, there were 99 cotton mills in Manchester. The well-developed cotton textile industry here left a deep impression on Bin Chun, the first official sent by the Qing government to Europe to investigate.

In his Notes on the Journey (1866), he wrote: "The people of this place are 500,000. The market is thriving, and it is the second port in the United Kingdom. Chinese, Indian, and American cotton are all gathered here. The woven cloth is sold in all directions...... Go to the weaving shop (referring to the factory). The building is five-layered, with hundreds of rooms up and down. There were 3,000 craftsmen, more women than men.

This is where the cotton bales begin.

From the bullet to spinning, weaving, and dyeing, all using the fire wheel method...... Cotton is divided into three ways, the original mud and sand are mixed, and after playing six or seven times, it is as white as snow and softer than cotton.

It is also spun in wheels, and it is made of fine rolls and filaments. Whenever seven or eight passes, they are spun hundreds of them with small wheels. Instantly into a shaft, thinner than a hair. The dyeing area is on the lower level, and all kinds of colors are available. When the immersion is less, it is a bright color. There are 10,000 looms, and the shuttle is non-stop.

Two or three sheets per machine are handled by one person. From the time the kapok is out of the bag to the textile dyeing, it does not exceed the sundial carving, and it is also fast?" His account vividly reproduces the pomp and circumstance of the cotton spinning industry here more than 100 years ago.

At that time, Manchester had developed from an old market town to one of the largest cities in Britain and the world's capital of the cotton industry.

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Manchester's industry has been affected by the Great Recession, and Manchester's heavy industrial facilities were severely bombed and damaged by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

After the war, Manchester's industry began to decline, but Manchester's status as a major city remained the same.

The landscape of Manchester has changed dramatically over the past decade, with many buildings built before the 1960s being demolished and replaced with new ones, and old factories converted into residential apartments.

Manchester is located in the middle of a basin, bordered by the Benning Wilderness to the north and east, and the Cheshire Plains to the south. The city center is located on the east bank of the River Irell and near the confluence of two other rivers, the River Medlock and the River Irk.

The River Mersey also passes through the southern part of the city. The inner city is mostly made up of buildings, and from the top floors of many tall buildings you can see a vast wilderness. In addition, Manchester has a well-developed waterway and is close to the Port of Liverpool and coal mines.

Manchester is a traditional industrial powerhouse in the UK. Over the past half-century, Manchester has undergone the most painful industrial restructuring since the Industrial Revolution. Between 1961 and 1983, Manchester's total population was only three or four hundred thousand, with more than 150,000 manufacturing workers laid off.

At the same time, the rise and development of the service industry has laid the foundation for the smooth transformation of the manufacturing industry and urban rejuvenation. For more than half a century after the Second World War, Manchester's local economy has been transforming from an industrial economy to a service-based economy.

With fewer jobs in the manufacturing sector and more jobs in the service sector, the city is becoming the centre of business, finance, insurance and transport in the North West of the UK.

In the 50s of the 19th century, it still maintained its position as the second largest financial center in the United Kingdom, and by this time, the signs of a development towards the service sector in the Manchester region were already emerging.

Manchester's decades of industrial structure changes directly reflect the evolution trajectory from a focus on manufacturing to a further rationalization of the industrial structure.

Although the proportion of manufacturing in Manchester has remained slightly higher than that of similar cities in recent years, there has been a significant change. In the early 60s of the 20th century, the manufacturing industry accounted for about 70% of the city's total economic output, and now it accounts for only about 20%, and the traditional steel, textile and shipping sectors have declined, and today's leading industrial sectors are financial services and business services.

By 1992, 84.2 per cent of all employed people were employed in the service sector and only 11.1 per cent were employed in the manufacturing sector. Manchester is the home of the world's industrial revolution, and the textile industry was once relatively developed.

At the beginning of the 20th century, as countries around the world began to process cotton and produce cotton textiles on their own, the British textile industry began to decline, and Manchester developed a new industry, becoming a modern city with more than 700 industries such as heavy machinery, weaving, oil refining, glass, plastics and food processing, centered on electronics, chemicals and printing.

Manchester's factories have been transformed from labour-intensive to capital-intensive (high-tech) to meet the challenge of a large number of high-quality and low-cost imported goods, and the representative industries include machinery manufacturing, chemicals, food processing, plastics, electronics, communication equipment, aviation, etc.

Manchester is the political and cultural centre of the North West of England, as well as the centre of business and employment. The downtown area is 20 million square feet, of which 7.6 million square feet are commercial and there are 1,610 large and small malls and shops.

There are also about 100 American companies and 27 German companies, as well as large companies from France, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan, Italy, etc.

Over the next decade, Manchester has continued to innovate, taking the financial services and business services industries as the pioneers, and the creative industries as an alternative starting point, and gradually formulating a development blueprint to win the right to speak in the future and core competitiveness.

Manchester is the largest financial center city in the United Kingdom outside London, and its financial/professional services include banking and fund management, insurance, legal and auditing, management consulting, construction work and real estate, which are at the forefront of many economic activities, and the sector is the most typical sector of the service-oriented economy with its frequent large-scale mergers and acquisitions, and is expected to contribute 10.6 billion pounds to the economy by 2011.

Manchester is a major industrial center and commodity distribution center in England, coupled with the legendary "Manchester" with an intrinsic temperament and a civilized world business reputation, 60 domestic and foreign commercial banks, 50 accounting firms, 12 venture capital institutional organizations, numerous law firms with international reputation and countless independent financial exchanges, making the city occupy an important position in the international financial industry.

Kings Street is home to the stock market and the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the earliest and most thriving branch of the Bank of England, the local offices of the settlement bank, the headquarters of the cooperative bank and the headquarters or branches of more than 150 insurance companies. Manchester's revenue comes mainly from taxes and subsidies from the central government.

In 2003, financial and professional services contributed £9.1 billion to Greater Manchester's economy, making it the largest contributor, accounting for about 62% of the financial services industry in the North West. In 2004, there were 218,000 people employed in the industry, accounting for about 59% of the total number of people employed in the industry in Northwest China.

Between 1998 and 2003, Manchester's financial/professional services employment grew at an average annual rate of about 4.4 per cent, significantly higher than the UK average of 2.6 per cent over the same period. In 2005, the financial services industry in Greater Manchester had a transaction volume of £17 billion, mostly concentrated in the banking and insurance sectors, which can be seen from the financial giants clustered here.

Indeed, the core sector of Manchester's financial services industry is banking, with more than 60 banks having offices in the city, more than 40 of which are overseas.

In terms of salaries paid in the financial services sector, the salaries of those employed in Manchester are slightly less than the average in the City of London, but the cost of living is also lower than that of London, which also reflects one of Manchester's competitiveness as a regional financial centre.

The creative media industry or new media industry is a collective name for a series of emerging media sectors with personal creativity or technology as the core, mining and using intellectual property rights, and having the potential to generate wealth and employment.

The role of the creative industries in the UK economy has long been recognized over the past decade, and Manchester, as the economic powerhouse of the North West of the UK, has a keen insight into the creative industries as a new sector of the economy during the economic transition.

Today, Manchester is home to some of the UK's leading institutions in higher education, culture and media production, driving the creative economy. Manchester's local TV station Granada and its many independent media production companies, as well as the BBC's relocation of some of its operations to the Manchester region, have enriched Manchester's creative scene.

In 2003, Greater Manchester's creative industries contributed £2.7 billion, accounting for 63 per cent of the North West's total. Between 1998 and 2003, the industry grew by about 3.8 per cent, surpassing the 3.2 per cent in the North West and the 3.5 per cent in the UK as a whole.

In 2004, the total number of employed people was about 77,100, accounting for 60% of the total employed population in this industry in Northwest China.

It should be noted that despite the growing prominence of the creative media sector, as well as the employment situation and economic boost, Manchester's local contribution to the GDP is still somewhat overshadowed by the creative metropolis of London and less than the share of the creative sector in the UK's GDP.

The role of the communication service industry in the urban economy is reflected in two levels, one is to generate urban employment opportunities and stimulate economic growth in an important sector, and the other is to be a modern service industry sector, which is a key sector to enhance the labor productivity and competitiveness of industrial activities.

Manchester's communications services include software services, information technology consulting, telecommunications and computer-related electronic components services, as well as other ancillary services (including strategic consulting, project management, system design, e-commerce services, technical support, outsourcing services, etc.).

With the globalization situation approaching step by step, Manchester's information service industry has also grown substantially under the impetus of technological forces, with an average annual growth rate of 10.4%, the output value in 2007 was about 2.17 billion pounds, and it is expected to achieve an output value of 2.8 billion pounds in 2011.

Behind the job growth, the main driver of the city's information services industry is the 'Manchester Knowledge City' strategy, which seeks to transform Manchester into a hub for knowledge-based industries, taking advantage of the convergence of academic activities and research results.

Manchester is tightly laid out, making it ideal for walking tours. But you can also take the free bus and explore the city centre. However, you must first understand the scope of the public transport system and the charging standards, as it is too complex to imagine.

City buses run around Piccadilly Gardens, trains run around the inner city, and there are stops and drop-offs in Victoria, Salford, Dingsgate, Oxford Street and Piccadilly Gardens. Trams also cross the city, connecting Victoria, Piccadilly and Catherfield, via Moseley Street and then to the suburbs of Altrincham and Bury.

Walk out of Piccadilly Station and you'll find the number 1 and 3 of the free buses to the city

Line. All buses start at the Piccadilly Garden in the city centre.

If you take the free bus and go around the city, you won't miss the Albert Square, named after Queen Victoria's husband, St. Peter's Square with its "Circular Library", the former Free Exchange (now a hotel), the former Central Station (now the G-MEX Exhibition and Event Centre), the Town Hall, Manchester Church, and more.

Many of them are classic Victorian neo-Gothic architecture.

Another interesting bus tour is the Manchester Rock Tour, which can be booked at the St Peter's Square Tourist Centre. In such a drive, you can go from the "Happy Club" band in the 70s, "Smith", "New Order", "Stone Rose" and "Happy Monday" in the 80s, all the way through the growth process of the "Pick-up" and "Oasis" bands in the 90s.

And Manchester has been writing world-class pop music history.

Manchester is the second most prosperous city in the UK, after London. It is home to some of the most influential orchestras, theatres, museums and other cultural and entertainment facilities in the North West of England.

Music and theatre can even challenge London's West End, with the Hallé Orchestra, founded by Charles Halley in 1858, enjoying a reputation among world orchestras, as well as the BBC Regional Symphony Orchestra and the Regional Ballet.

Laurie is a large arts complex located on Salfurt Quay. Inside there are two theatres, galleries and shops, bars and restaurants with sea views. The "Corner House" has long been known as the "center of art film and visual arts in Manchester City", and it is backed by many foundations and organizations, and is characterized by absolutely good taste.

Pubs are a second home for the British, and in Manchester, because of the development of the music industry, many pubs have a variety of live bands, and there are many alternative warehouse-style pubs around the "gay village" on Canal Street (C****Street). These are the places where the "4-hour partygoers" enjoy the last wonderful time of the day.

Manchester has developed a 'champagne for breakfast' sensibility, a youthful junior, dressed up and partying everywhere.

Wander through the city's "party-goers" and you may find football, music, art, industry, lifestyle, or even shopping.

Manchester is a region with a mix of ethnic diversity. You can find dishes from all over the world.

In Manchester, 'local tastes' represent any style of cuisine you love, including famous British chefs Gary Rhodes and Paul Heathcote, as well as a variety of foods with a modern twist and creativity.

In addition, the real traditional fish, potato chips and pea puree are also worth trying, as well as lakeside lamb and corned beef, potatoes and herbs, chowder and more.

There is also a very delicious cake called "Wet Nellie", which is worth trying. Faulkener Street is the largest Chinatown in the UK, and Chinatown is full of restaurants and supermarkets where you can eat delicious Chinese food.

Manchester has a very long tradition of winemaking, and there are several traditional home-based winemaking workshops. Traditional taverns are great places to eat inexpensively, where you might be able to sample local thaites or hydes beers.

Specialties include Dover flounder, grilled steak, beef patties, fried fish and fried fries.

Manchester's prosperity is due to its well-developed tourism and business system, but that doesn't mean expensive prices!

In Manchester, you'll find a lot of £1 shops, and almost all of them have items around £1, so it's very affordable. At the Arndale Centre in the central city, you can have a great shopping party. Visitors can find a variety of European brands here, as well as home furnishings, gifts, flowers, birds, insects and fish.