nbsp; Chapter 119

That's right, it's a hot air balloon, a modern hot air balloon that heats the air with propane, which is Gao Hongsheng's life-saving thing.

The hot air balloon of this era is still using light crude oil as the fire source, and I don't know how many times behind Gao Hongsheng's huge hot air balloon, not to mention the difference in the fabric of the hot air balloon.

Two huge hot air balloons were bolted to the bow and stern of the ship, and they continued to rise and fall to the screams of the people in the pod, bringing the hearts of all the people on board up and down.

If you don't have the capital to save your life, you let Gao Hongsheng follow them on an adventure, it's like trying to murder him.

Although there are unpredictable risks after a hot air balloon flies, it is better than sinking into the sea with the ship.

But now this life-saving guy is regarded as a big toy by people, and has become the only pleasure of Gao Hongsheng's boring sea voyage.

A week later, after the beauties had nothing to vomit and had just adapted to life at sea, the Crescent arrived at the then largest metropolis in the Far East, "Shangxing".

But this city is really very disappointed and even a little pessimistic for Gao Hongsheng.

Those drifting in the Huangpu River were all broken wooden boats, and the swarthy boat gangs seemed to have been exposed to a blazing barbecue, and the tilted masts and clumsy rocking oars made Gao Hongsheng very surprised how they faced the baptism of wind and waves.

There was no well-paved road in the city at that time, and the streets were paved with a mixture of gravel and clay, and the road builders first smashed the gravel on the ground, then filled the gaps in the stones with thin mud, and when they were dry, they were using stones to smooth the road. (That's how the surface light is estimated.)

But as soon as it rains heavily, haha, the dirt between the cracks in the stones disappears with the water, and the result is that there is no way to resurface it again, so that the contractors can repair the road again, and of course there are many benefits.

Well! Let's see if we've found the roots.

At that time, we began to build the "Zipper Road", but after more than 100 years, it seems that our intelligence has not improved much, and the "Zipper Road" is still switching every day.

These are all tolerable, but Gao Hongsheng and their arrival happened to be just before autumn, and the result was the sanitary situation at that time in Shangxing, which can be described as hell.

The water network is dense, and in the ditches and ditches, there are countless domestic garbage of Shangxing people floating, which has become a base for mosquitoes and flies to breed and breed, which can no longer be described as gathering in groups, it should be said that mosquitoes are gathering into thunder.

That's right, it was a gathering of mosquitoes into thunder, a swarm of mosquitoes that gathered into a group, making a roar like a dive bomber, and attacked our traverser Gao Hongshengsheng.

Omnipotent, arbitrary, Gao Hongsheng, a traverser who has never seen the world with his eyes, was directly beaten by the overwhelming flies and mosquitoes, and his body was covered with bruises.

A group of big men in the north, it can be said that they survived in the sea of corpses and blood, but after one night, they complained one by one with a big red bag full of heads, faces, and bodies, and even Feng Laosi's legs were bitten in a whole circle, and he couldn't walk on the ground.

And because of their conservatism, the beauties were wrapped like zongzi one by one, and they escaped this catastrophe without dying, and they almost didn't laugh Gao Hongsheng to death.

The most unfortunate thing is that Hong Jincai, who has never fallen, on the first day of arriving in Shangxing, took the opportunity to go out to buy and went out to eat a hearty meal without permission, and vomited and diarrhea that night, and almost died on the toilet without grievance.

If Gao Hongsheng hadn't looked good and hurriedly used the modern "two pieces" to save the emergency, it is estimated that Hong Jincai would probably become the first supporting role to die.

The most hateful thing turned out to be Gao Hongsheng and them, who stayed in the old-style inn in the French Concession.

The main reason is that Gao Hongsheng thinks that the French should be more romantic than the British.

He wanted to experience the romance of the French, and because his first stop was Paris, France, he wanted to get acquainted with the French first.

The result was tragic, those inns did not provide the most basic toilets of that era, night pots, and even did not have a cover, it was directly a bare bed, not to mention the bathtub in Suzhou at that time.

This kind of fantastical and unbelievable thing happened in that place, which is known as the "first metropolis in the Far East".

What do you think Gao Hongsheng feels like after comparing it with the metropolis in the modern world in his heart?

It was the feeling of falling from heaven to hell, and it was a real hell.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for Hong Jincai to go shopping, and the result was that they had a group of six or seven people, and they had collective food poisoning, so they couldn't explain to Shangxing.

One of the most ridiculous things is that Gao Hongsheng listened to the hotel owner's talk about mosquitoes and flies to Shangxing people.

At that time, some foreign missionaries took up the role of imparting hygiene knowledge, and they put up large colorful posters in public places, and in order to highlight the danger of flies, the flies on them were particularly large.

The picture depicts in detail how the flies crawl through the garbage heap and then fly onto the food that people eat, stain the food with filth and filth, and then put it in the mouth, and as a result, a missionary tells the owner of the shop that he once heard a woman in the countryside of Shanghai talking loudly in front of the poster: "No wonder foreigners are afraid of flies, it turns out that foreign flies grow so big!" Our flies are much smaller and nothing dangerous. ”

Poverty, disease, and ignorance flourished for almost a full century from the middle of the nineteenth century to the twentieth century.

It's not an adventurer's paradise in the mouths of those people today.

In the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, the real situation there was a dirty, poor, ignorant, violent, deceitful, drug-ridden, filthy metropolis.

It's not those unscrupulous people, whose mouths and pens are comparable to heaven, where there is a lot of gold, adventurer's paradise, a metropolis like New York.

And this filthy metropolis is not just the squalor that appears in front of people's eyes on the surface, but behind the scenes, there are even more terrible things happening.

At noon on the day after they arrived, when he was struggling with the big red bumps all over his body, a little minion brought a very unfortunate news, one of them disappeared.

Just got up early in the morning, because Gao Hongsheng was bitten by mosquitoes, and their whole body was full of big bags, and they were all itching and painful, so they sent that kid to the doctor to see if there was a way to heal them.

But who would have thought that the people were sent out early in the morning, but they didn't come back at noon, and the people were gone.

At that time, Shangxing was the most rampant place for the West to kidnap Chinese piglets.

(I don't know how many people will be scolded in the following chapters, but this is the case, and it is all based on the personal records of the missionaries of the time.) Scold it, scold it, I can't hear it, and I don't have time to see it, I code something by myself, although it's scribbled, but I also have to try to restore the original way the world is. It was not good here, and London and Paris at that time were not so good there. ）

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