London, England, the most prosperous city in the entire Kingdom of England.

At the beginning of the lanterns, the street lamps lit up. The main business district of London's Chinatown, Juelu Street, is completely covered in lights, and at night, the large Chinese ancient style architecture and the dazzling Chinese red make it seem to be surrounded by a hazy and mysterious color, which makes people yearn for it.

In the middle of the last century, a number of labourers and sailors from southeastern China settled in London's shipyard area. By the time of the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, more and more Chinese appeared in Europe, and the emergence of some wealthy children of the Eight Banners made the Chinese color in London more and more at the same time, Chinese restaurants also landed in Europe.

With the growth of Chen Han and the increasingly close exchanges between the East and the West, China's image and influence are getting bigger and bigger in Europe, and more and more Chinese have begun to pour into Europe. Especially after the French Revolution, many Chinese who had originally settled on the European continent came to London. There are many high-end Chinese restaurants in the area of Juelu Street, because the influence of Chinese culture on Europeans is increasing little by little, and the service objects of Chinese restaurants have gradually changed from the original Chinese to a combination of Chinese and Western.

At the same time, the Chinese also have a clear definition in Europe, which is completely different from the flag people. Some Chinese who came to Europe before the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty also cut off their braids and 'abandoned the darkness and turned to the light'. Whether there is the original flag man in this place, then the benevolent will see the benevolent and the wise will see the wise. In addition, some wealthy Chinese owners continued to buy shops from other ethnic groups in the local area, and many Chinese companies and commercial houses that came to Europe for development also regarded Juelu Street as a foothold. However, there is still a big gap between the Chinese and the flag people, and the place where the flag people gather is called "Qiying", and the place where the Chinese gather is called "Chinatown". However, London's Chinatown has not yet been formally administratively bounded.

Chen Han's European office and embassy personnel in London have close ties with Chinatown, and the Eight Banners Socialist Party has close ties with Qiying. It is very difficult to reconcile the contradictions between these two sides.

However, this contradiction does not affect the fact that this city has become the city that never sleeps in London.

The area of about one square kilometer centered on this street is lined with large and small Chinese restaurants, Chinese commercial banks, Chinese banks, Chinese department stores, Chinese medicine pharmacies, medical halls, etc., as well as a large number of women's branches, including MM from all over the world, plus a large number of tobacco houses.

Yes, smoke house.

In Europe, and especially in the UK, opioids are the panacea of Western medicine. Before the name of Chinese herbal medicine became famous in the Western world, opioids were the holy medicine of Western medicine. Dissolve opioids in alcohol, and then add something else to your liking to prevent poisoning from an overdose of opioids – an overdose is of course dead, and that is the panacea of the Western world. This is also the mainstream use of opioids in the UK today. Even now, in a large number of British working-class families, opium tincture is still a common medicine at home, whether it is fever, cold, headache, brain fever, vomiting and diarrhea, insomnia and dreams, all rely on it. And giving it to babies is the most common practice. Because the working class is relatively poor, and there is no formal medical treatment, they are forced to make a living and dare not miss work, so they usually diagnose themselves themselves, and of course the diagnosis is - no matter what the disease, just take some opioid tincture.

The arrival of the Chinese, as well as the arrival of a considerable number of Eight Banners, has brought new changes to the opium market in the UK. Opium smoking, compared to taking opium tincture, is completely detached from medical value and purely spiritual enjoyment, so it is somewhat immoral. For upper-middle-class people in the UK, "eating tobacco" in a tobacco house is quite unsightly.

But, here's a but—people are curious and rebellious, and the less you let it go, the more fun it is!

Up to now, this area has developed into a prosperous area integrating eating, drinking, shopping, business, finance and other factors.

Frustrated people can relieve the depression in their hearts here, proud people can show their interest here, Chinese living in Britain can find a little shadow of their hometown here, even if it is very hazy, couples who pursue trendy can experience the romance of exotic customs here, and even those with average income can find their own fun in the wandering warblers and tobacco houses here.

Especially now, as the Chinese New Year approaches, the whole Chinatown is lit up with red and green, and there are still public acrobatics, circuses and entertainment performances from time to time.

Chen Han is about to come to the throne, and it is like an overwhelming hand, enveloping all the places where Chinese people live in the world.

Every Chinese is remembering their departing old emperor, the hero who saved China from the ignorant rule of the Manchus, the great emperor who made China mighty again, and millions of Chinese regard their emperor as the supreme god and Buddha in their hearts.

In the midst of the bustling crowd of the bustling streets, two unobtrusive faces of the East wandered aimlessly along the crowd, the older of them about twenty-five or sixteen, and the younger one who looked to be in his early twenties.

But these two people are not ordinary tourists or staff, they are teachers at a nearby Chinese school. The older one is called Li Shou, and the younger one is called Zhang Wei, who is just twenty-one years old this year. But I have already obtained the graduation certificate of the School of Education of Guozijian University.

With the increase in the number of Chinese in Europe, it is imperative to establish Chinese schools, after all, the social environment has a strong assimilation force. China today is not the sick man of East Asia after the Opium War, and those Chinese living abroad will of course teach their sons Chinese and make them proud of their home country. But if there are no local Chinese schools, these children can only go to local schools and receive pure Western education if they want to receive education, which will inevitably lead to assimilation. Chen Ming is a banana that no one wants to see. The Chinese School in London was officially established 25 years ago, and so far there are a total of seven, one high school, two junior high schools, and four primary schools.

Under the dual leadership of the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Education and the British Privy Council Education Committee, the reason for this is that 80% of the teachers in these seven schools are provided by the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Education, and the Chinese government will allocate funds to these seven schools every year.

In addition, the current educational environment in the UK is very backward. There is no compulsory education in Britain today, and half a century ago, the adult literacy rate in Britain was only 15%, and the improvement of people's literacy skills mainly depends on charity school activities and Sunday school activities carried out by civil and faith groups or individuals. Many children from economically well-off families even have a bad situation where they want to go to school but can't.

There are no school-going and illiterate children everywhere in London. Chen Han's move, specifically Chen Ming's move, is to establish China's tall national image in front of Europeans, but also to let those Chinese who are young or have lived overseas since their birth to firmly remember their own culture, civilization, their own language, and remember that they are Chinese!

Today, there are more than 30,000 Chinese in London, more than 4,000 school-age children, and the school-age enrolment rate is as high as more than 90% for boys and girls, and 100% for children under the age of 12, which is a very remarkable number.

Of course, this is also related to the compulsory education advocated by Chen Han, and the country's compulsory education is also responsible for the graduation of primary school. Now is not the 21st century, Chen Han can't afford the cost of junior high school students across the country, and if you want to go to junior high school, in addition to being admitted, you must have enough financial affordability. Not to mention high school, they are eligible to apply for universities in China. It's not easy, but it's better than the UK.

In the British parliament over the years, there have been people clamoring for the expansion of the number of universities, but in the whole of the United Kingdom, in the whole of England, there are still only two universities, Oxford and Cambridge, which is also drunk.

However, in line with the development of the times, although the number of universities in the UK is small, the development of vocational colleges has been very rapid in recent years. After all, the development of society needs a large number of practical talents, and vocational colleges are professional institutions that cultivate practical talents.

Li Shou and Zhang Wei are teachers at Chinatown High School, one teaching math and the other history.

Li Shou has been in the UK for more than four years, and he will be able to return to China in the second half of next year, while Zhang Wei still needs to stay here for a few more years.

But if you want to become a master, you have to endure hardships among hardships. The job title is not so easy to evaluate, and the household registration in big cities is not so easy to fall down. These require Li Shou and Zhang Wei to dedicate five years of time, and they can't be perfunctory, and the superintendents sent by Chen Han will report their work to the Ministry of Culture and Education every semester.

As people from ordinary backgrounds and majoring in education, Li Shou and Zhang Wei were able to win the opportunity to come to the UK.

"This Juelu Street is getting more and more lively day by day, and this scene is not much worse than the capital."

Zhang Wei was carrying a bag of groceries in his left hand and a meat bun in his right hand, eating while walking, his mouth full of oil. It's one thing to eat in a restaurant on Tse-Lok Street, but he prefers to rely on roadside snacks to solve his hunger problem.

"It's the size of a palm." Li Shou held a newspaper in his hand, the supplement of the "Times", which was about the Warsaw train station assassination that shocked Europe not long ago.

Li Shou, who has spent four Spring Festivals in the UK, and Li Shou, who will be able to return to China in the second half of next year, does not pay attention to the current excitement at all. Ten Juelu streets can't compare to one Qinhuai River! When the Chinese New Year is going to be there next year, he will be able to go directly to the Qinhuai River. After graduating from Hanlin Academy, he came to England to teach for five years, and it was unreasonable for the Ministry of Culture and Education not to assign him to Nanjing.

After Li Shou replied, he lowered his head and continued to read the newspaper. This is the latest report on the attack on the Warsaw train station. It is really unimaginable that Talleyrand died in Warsaw like this. This is the Prime Minister of France?

And now the identity of the Assassin has been confirmed, a Warsaw city government clerk, from a Polish aristocratic family......

Li Shou sighed psychologically.

With such a good background, a decent job, and a beautiful wife, he went to the desperate road of assassination without hesitation......

Li Shou did not feel sorry for the Assassins, but felt fluctuated and shaken in his heart for the determination of the Poles to resist the rule of Tsarist Russia and fight for independence and freedom. At the same time, he also paid attention to the series of effects after this assassination case......

Zhang Wei didn't have much emotion, although he was very fond of the assassin's sense of style, close at hand, and everyone was in the enemy country! Within an inch, I am invincible!

Just like the words in the Chinese history books that describe the assassins, the comet strikes the moon, and the white rainbow pierces the sun, with a bleak and resolute and fearless feeling.

This is a true warrior. They are not ruthless, but affectionate, affectionate, affectionate, and benevolent.

However, Zhang Wei's focus was only on the Assassins, rather than Li Shou's zealous attention to the subsequent changes in the situation and the influence of the European continent. Although it was Zhang Wei who taught history instead of Li Shou, Li Shou taught mathematics.

"You haven't seen enough, have you? Since the day before yesterday, the newspaper has been full of news of Talleyrand's assassination. Although this is a big event, it's a bit of a fuss to keep stirring up so many times. ”

Zhang Wei was looking forward to the news from China during this time, but unfortunately he had already come to Europe, otherwise he would have been able to witness the heroic posture of the soldiers of the Wehrmacht in the process of the military parade again. Moreover, this military parade also included troops from vassal states, which was the first time in more than 40 years that Chen Han had done so.

And Zhang Wei still has one thing in his heart, the exam. In six days, on the 22nd day of the lunar month, the first batch of students since his graduation will usher in the crucial final exam. Parents of students in this era, no one dares not to take the scores in their eyes.

Hearing Zhang Wei complain a few words, Li Shou also put away the newspaper. Anyway, he finished reading it.

Li Shou didn't need to look at Zhang Wei to know what he was thinking now, they would never dare to enter the smoke house, once they entered the smoke house, as long as they were discovered, they would be finished, the news was reported to the Ministry of Culture and Education, and even the teacher's qualification would be cancelled. Even opium tincture is shunned like a poisonous snake by them.

However, in addition to banks and commercial banks, shops and Chinese restaurants everywhere, there is also a fun women's branch on Juelu Street, especially those high-end women's branches, which provide one-stop service for eating, drinking and playing.

Li Shou has a wife, and his wife is in the school family home in London, but Zhang Wei doesn't. Zhang Wei's daughter-in-law is still serving her in-laws in her hometown. At the age of early twenties, how can a strong and healthy man not think about hehe?

Even if Zhang Wei is thin-skinned, he will not be thin in this matter. And Zhang Wei and Li Shou's income is not low, especially Zhang Wei, in addition to teaching and educating people in schools, he also accepts invitations from other British education organizations, and Chinese history is very popular in Britain. Even if he is not very old and the amount is not too high, he can speak fluent English, which also brings Zhang Wei a lot of income. Under the 'pavilion', that's a piece of cake.

The restaurant was still ahead, and the two people with a lot of income were disdainful of the warblers standing on the side of the street. The goal is to 'Istanbul', where the wall of lights is glorious. This Ottoman-style women's branch is more attractive to Zhang and Li from China than the classical Chinese architecture of pavilions and ponds.

Of course, the owner of this restaurant is also Chinese.

The two of them rushed to their destination, and saw from a distance that the lights were transparent in the lobby of the Yueming Building, which was separated by three facades on the left and right sides of 'Istanbul', and there was a crowd of people in front of the door, but some people were crying and some people were shouting, and it turned out to be an extremely chaotic look.

"What's going on?"

Zhang Wei and Li Shou glanced at each other and hurriedly rushed over, and a moment later they got a piece of news that shocked them.

"Lord Mayor of London, assassinated at a dinner invited by a friend! The murderer has not yet been caught. ”

The place to eat is the Yueming Building.

Hearing the news, Zhang and Li really didn't speak for a long time.

If the attack on the Warsaw train station was far away, the current assassination was very close to them.

Assassins, assassins are rampant......

Both the East and the West spent the second half of the lunar month in the Chinese lunar calendar, and both sides were tormented by the cunning assassins.