Chapter 185: Sacks and cotton robes
The port of Le Havre is located in the north of France, at the mouth of the Seine River, bordering the English Channel, and is known for its important shipping status as the "outer port of Paris", which has a unique position in France.
It destroyed the port and destroyed the city in World War II, and the current World Heritage city was rebuilt on the basis of several buildings that survived the war.
Among them, the railway station of Rouen, which was built in 1847 to connect the industrial region of Rouen, an important industrial region of France, has long been extinguished by the flames of the Second World War.
However, the railway station in front of Gao Hongsheng is the same as the large workshop without two ends of the factory gate in later generations, which is the landmark building of Le Havre Port in that era.
There is no fence that separates the waiting room from the platform, and the whole station is like a big market, messy and noisy.
The best way to observe and understand a city is to run to the train station, where all the people of the city are on display, and where people from other cities meet.
Poor and filthy homeless people gather in crowded places, and although it is the outer port of Paris, it is also full of beggars, homeless people and maidens.
None of this is a problem, and even modern times cannot avoid these people coming and going in this bustling place, but how can the clothes of the people dressed as workers and the obviously agricultural workers look like that?
Linen, coarse linen fabrics, crisp and very uncomfortable fabrics turned out to be the material of their clothing.
You can describe their clothing materials as "sack sheets" of modern worsted, coarse linen for outerwear, and fine linen for worsted.
To put it simply, it is a well-woven sack garment, even if there are one or two pieces of cotton fabric, which simply subverted his perception of Europe at that time.
Linen is a good thing in modern times, and the price is much higher than ordinary cotton fabrics, but modern textile technology has long turned the coarse fibers of linen into fine fibers that are finer than cotton fabrics, which retains the crisp characteristics and breathability of linen, and also has the comfort of cotton cloth.
However, in the era of ** seven years, the processing of flax is not the technology of later generations, and the clothing woven by flax can be described as the sack pieces of later generations, and there is only one feature when worn on the body, which is crisp and piercing.
You must know that the Chinese people in the same period generally wore very ugly cotton cloth "wraps", clothes were coarse cloth, pants were cotton, and even shoes were cotton, not to mention that the home was still covered with cotton.
The contrast in this made Gao Hongsheng suddenly understand the difference between China and European countries.
China is not good-looking but comfortable, Europe is good-looking but uncomfortable.
At a time when the Chinese landlord class was creating the world's most perfect landlord class ruling system and its glorious continuation, the European landlord class was creating the "Dark Middle Ages".
The feudal era was a great progress relative to the slave system, but the feudal system in Europe basically continued the military and violent culture of the slave system, and became the naked jungle and the survival of the fittest.
In the eyes of Europeans, feudalism is not as good as slavery, and if you don't believe it, if you look at the "Renaissance", you will understand that it was ancient Greece and Rome that were revived.
The essence of the "Renaissance" is a protest against the feudal division of Europe and a yearning for unity and peace.
The history of Europe as a whole is a history of war. For more than a thousand years, starting from the so-called Middle Ages, wars in Europe surpassed those of China in the same period more than ten times in terms of frequency, intensity, and damage.
At the same time, the rule of European rulers over the people was almost the same as that of China, and one of the crimes of Joan of Arc was that she wore trousers, which was one of the crimes imposed on women in Europe at that time.
In order to make it easier to have children, women must always wear big dresses that are very stupid and obstructive.
This is both an "oracle" and a law.
It is also the reason why European women still love to wear skirts, and they are accustomed to tradition.
The landlords of Europe were far less "charitable" than the Chinese landlords of the same period.
It was not until the middle of the 16th century that such a law came out in Europe: the landlords could harvest the fields so that the poor could pick up the scattered grain, so "gleaning the ears of wheat" became a scene in Europe.
In the nineteenth century, the skills of agricultural production were still ancient, but there were no modern tractors, harvesters and other modern machinery, and the small peasant economy had been squeezed bankrupt by the capitalist agricultural production mode, and most of the peasants either became working class or reduced to agricultural workers.
In the end, whether the working people at the bottom at that time were happy in China or in Europe, Gao Hongsheng really can't say anything, China's exploiting class is dark, but the exploiting class in Europe is even darker.
The working people at the bottom of Europe wear "sacks", and the working people in China wear "cotton bags":
Working people in Europe eat red wheat and rotten potatoes: The working people in China eat red sorghum and broken sweet potatoes.
Working people in Europe live in shantytowns, and working people in China live in shantytowns.
But why do the same working people become ** when they go to another country? Where is the riding of the same working people in another country as they please?
Is it because the feudal civilization of Europe did not evolve into a feudal cultural tradition like China, and their ruling class inherited the culture of slavery, which made their rule full of fraud and the law of the jungle?
Could it be that they crossed directly over the feudal system and then directly into the bourgeoisie?
Without the Chinese Confucian golden mean, the result was more than a thousand years of division and turmoil in Europe, while the light of God was shining in their kingdom, and the Chinese religion of the same period had long since become a vassal of the rulers.
Gao Hongsheng really couldn't understand these profound questions, looking at those neatly dressed "sacks", he really didn't know what to say?
"Sir, sir." A weak voice called out to him, carefully tugging at the hem of his long tuxedo with its slender fingers.
It was a six- or seven-year-old child dressed in a delicate "sack piece", with golden hair, dark blue eyes, and a face as white and tender as cream.
Gao Hongsheng lowered his head to look at the child, pulled his thoughts back, smiled kindly at the child pulling the hem of his gorgeous suit, bent down and said in Chinese: "Sack, is there something wrong?" ”
It is impossible for that child to understand Gao Hongsheng's Chinese, but Gao Hongsheng still insists on greeting him in Chinese, because this child is his little follower.