"When! While! While! "From the high towers, the sound of a huge clock sounded, and the Thames was foggy, and London in 1786 had begun to have the title of foggy capital.

Of course, this ringing bell is not the famous Big Ben, as the Elizabeth Tower does not exist now, and it will not be built until Queen Victoria, the granddaughter of George III.

Ye Kai frowned and sniffled, the smell of feces wafted in through the window of the carriage, and he couldn't help but open the curtain and look outside.

The soot-strewn streets were filled with all sorts of people, from decently dressed gentlemen with canes and retinues, of course, to less decently dressed pedestrians, and quite a few ragged beggars.

The streets are lined with small vendors, clapping their hands or knocking on something and shouting loudly, the sound of tinkling can be heard far and wide.

A few red-clad lobster soldiers with flintlock pistols shouted trumpets from a distance, and in front of them were several horsemen on horses and silver-white helmets.

The soldiers were ordered to greet and protect Ye Kai, and the brightly colored uniforms they wore contrasted sharply with the garbage strewn across the streets and the stinky gutters dripping with Coke-colored liquid.

Today, the Royal Society of the United Kingdom is in Gresham College, where it is located, and Ye Kai has prepared an initiation ceremony, and the nearest way to Gresham College needs to pass through two huge slums, so George III specially sent a team of lobster soldiers for Ye Kai as an escort.

Because if there were no soldiers to escort it, it was unknown whether Ye Kai's carriage would be able to come out of the slums!

At this time, the slums of London were much more dangerous than the black communities you saw in later generations, even the slums of Brazil could not be compared!

London in 1786 was already a megacity, with a population of more than a million people.

But among the more than a million people, there is a clear distinction between the poor and the rich, and about 100,000 rich people live in well-ordered, elegant and gated communities, where you can hardly see crimes such as theft and robbery, but there are many commercial frauds and forged bills.

And the remaining million or so people live in several shady neighborhoods that are harsh, densely populated, and full of looting and murder.

Even the police in London, if they don't have no choice, they don't go to these slums, and even if they do, they will only go in full armor.

The carriage stopped, Ye Kai and they needed to wait for the soldiers to come before leaving, taking this opportunity, Ye Kai jumped out of the carriage and enjoyed the 'beautiful scenery' of the Thames.

It's a black river, it has a pungent smell, and the color of the water is not much different from soy sauce!

There are many chimneys on both sides of the river, and huge black smoke is constantly spewing thick black smoke into the sky, and I don't know how much sewage is discharged directly into the Thames without any treatment.

On the river, there are many sails, end to end, and countless boats of all kinds are crowded into the already small Thames, shouting and shouting.

On the water directly opposite Ye Kai, a half-sized man squatted on the bow of the boat, revealing his black buttocks crackling and excreting into the river.

Nima, compared to the River Thames, the Seine is simply beautiful and crystal clear!

However, this is also a reflection of the power gap between Britain and France, France can only say that there is a little industry, and Britain, it is no exaggeration to say, is now the only country in the world that has completed modern industrialization.

And with Ye Kai's personal feelings, although London is dirtier, messier, and smellier than Paris, London has a vitality that Paris lacks, it is not like Paris with a lifeless twilight, but full of a certain inexplicable vitality!

"Wang Defa!" One of the policemen who came with the soldier was furious, and he picked up a black object from the ground with a fragrant mouth, and threw it at the half-sized boy who was excreting with his buttocks exposed.

"Whew!" The half-grown boy let out a terrible scream, covered his ass and crawled into the small cabin, without even wiping his buttocks!

"Excuse me, are you His Excellency the Marquis of Saigon from Seris?" The junior officer at the head came over and gave a military salute and asked.

In fact, there is no need to ask at all, because there is only Ye Kai an Oriental in the entire riverside, and the onlookers of London have already surrounded the inner and outer three floors, and the surrounding area is densely packed.

"This is the mysterious Serris, he looks so strong!"

"It is said that the Seris are gentlemen, and their country existed thousands of years ago, and they all have silk clothes to wear and delicious food to eat!"

After Ye Kai nodded and admitted that he was the Marquis of Saigon, the crowd around him made a buzzing discussion, compared to the slightly self-contained French, the British touted ancient China more exaggerated!

After all, France has always been the center of European culture and art, and it still retains a bit of reserve, while England, they have never had much to do with culture and art.

Even if there is a navy that spans the world now, no European country has ever regarded England as the center of Europe, and England in this era is not even a nouveau riche, they can only be regarded as a powerful brother Chen Kai who has just gotten rid of the dilemma of starvation!

"Mr. Zinedin, Mr. Zinedin, I am willing to pay thirty pounds, please help me predict whether I will make a fortune when I go to India?"

A tall and lanky English businessman, waving his cane in his hand, jumped and shouted!

"Wow!" The surrounding crowd erupted in exclamation, thirty pounds was not a small amount at this time, and now the pound was directly linked to gold.

A very skilled and highly skilled worker cannot earn more than thirty pounds a year for hard work, let alone ordinary people, many people cannot earn in a lifetime.

"Yes! As long as you exercise your body, I prophesy that you will become a rich merchant in India, but I do not need your thirty pounds, sir, and I think you can feast on the people here with this money! ”

Ye Kai showed a smile and said, he was not wrong, a British businessman goes to India now, as long as he is accustomed to the temperate maritime climate, he will not be killed by the heat of India in the forties, and he will generally mix it up.

"Why? Mr! That's thirty pounds! The merchant nodded at the guards, and then approached Ye Kai, who was about to get into the carriage, and asked.

He didn't feel distressed about giving Ye Kai thirty pounds, but if he wanted to use it to entertain the poor people on the roadside, the merchant was reluctant.

"Look over there!" Ye Kai pointed to the crowd, "If you don't follow what I say, I guess you can do without India!" ”

The merchant followed Ye Kai's fingers and looked over, his two servants were already squeezed around, and many ill-intentioned people in the crowd were staring at him.

The merchant shuddered, showing his wealth in this kind of mixed dock, but it was very dangerous, he was just stunned by the surprise of seeing Ye Kai, and the merchant who reacted bowed to Ye Kai, and then shouted to the crowd: "Then I will listen to the Marquis, everyone, please follow me to Madame Anne's bakery, everyone has a share!" ”

Mrs. Anne's bakery, located on the street near several upscale neighborhoods, where the merchants are safe.

The crowd thanked Ye Kai and the merchant loudly, and the merchant left noisily, and the guard officer glanced at Ye Kai in surprise, and made a gesture to Ye Kai to please get in the car.

"Mr. Seris, Lord Marquis Zinedin, please save my mother, please!"

Before he could get into the carriage, a man who was quite athletic and looked decently dressed suddenly rushed from the side of the road.

"Shet!" The officer scolded angrily, three lobster soldiers rushed over to protect Ye Kai, and the other few stabbed the man with flintlock pistols with bayonets, not with the butt of the gun, but directly stabbed without hesitation.

The stout man roared and dodged left and right, his fists fast and fierce, and in a few strokes he knocked down several guards with his bare hands, and the annoyed officer drew his handcuffs from his waist and was about to shoot.

"Mr. Lieutenant, I'm not a bandit, I'm also a soldier, I just want the Marquis to give me a little medicine, my mother has tuberculosis, she is really miserable!"

As soon as the officer took out his gun, the man hurriedly raised his hands and knelt on the ground, and a few lobster soldiers who had lost face went up to punch and kick, and the man endured the pain and curled up without saying a word.

"Mr. Lieutenant, I don't think he's a bad guy, stop!" Ye Kai sighed, waved his hand and shouted.

"Sir, you know, I have rules for giving medicine, and my Far Eastern Legion has been recruited!"

Ye Kai didn't lie, he did complete the recruitment, and now there are a lot of people, and he can't afford to raise any more! Nine hundred livres a year, and he was not prepared to recruit the English among his mercenaries.

"Sir, you will need me, even if I don't enter your army, I can sail for you, I can also provide you with escort, I can do anything!" The man with blood from his mouth and nose hurriedly sat up and pleaded.

Sailing? Ye Xingxin moved, "Are you a retired soldier of the Royal Navy?" ”

"Yes! Mr! The man nodded busily.

"Okay!" Ye Kai also nodded and threw a small porcelain bottle to the man.

"Here is a small bottle of medicine, leave your address, I will send someone to find you when I am free tomorrow!"