448. Chapter 448: Scotland

The Bank of Scotland must have had a close relationship with Downing since its partnership with the East India Company, and now, under the dual impetus of Queen Victoria and the Scottish bankers, Scotland is on the verge of a referendum to join the United Nations before Ireland, which is at war with the Windsor consortium.

The Scots are the natives of the British Isles, they are Celts, and they are a completely different people from the main ethnic group of England today. The Scots, who had long been disobedient, finally found an opportunity to turn against the English, and with the support of the Windsor consortium, they had enough confidence and strength to achieve this wish.

Before the referendum, the supercarrier battle group of the United **** with about 10,000 aircraft of various types marched from the European continent to two important towns in Scotland: Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Since Vice Chairman Lin's most important thing is the American battlefield, only 10,000 troops were dispatched here in Scotland, which was just on par with the British Royal Air Force, just to cheer up the Scottish referendum, and did not intend to take the opportunity to defeat the British.

Vice Chairman Lin believes that the British mainland is now surrounded by regiments, and it is difficult to do anything under the lack of resources, even if it is 10,000 against 10,000, it will win, unlike the Americans, the manufacturing base can rely on rich oil, minerals and other resources to continuously manufacture military aircraft.

So, although North and South America combined are only 1. 50,000 planes, but Deputy Lin plans to use the scale of 100,000 planes to deal with them.

After the Great Air War of Prussia, the disastrous defeat of the Entente had made the British government think that the war could not be won, so it could only give in, but the terms of the United Nations demanding global military domination were too harsh, so the British still could not accept it.

The British economy is now very embarrassed, and almost every citizen who joins the United Nations has an unemployment allowance of two euros a month, which has made the Scottish referendum almost suspenseful, and the two sides are at war in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Vice Chairman Lin was still busy fighting, but Boss Tang took his wife and daughter to the northernmost primeval forest of Scotland for a vacation. They were accompanied by Queen Victoria and his wife and Linfield's eldest brother Maxwell.

Maxwell, the unlucky kid, built a linear accelerator in Tianjin, which was originally used to create new elements and use carbon particle rays to treat cancer, turned out to be used on himself, because he was diagnosed with stomach cancer, which was the same as his father's cancer, which was an authentic genetic factor, so he was very depressed.

Prince Albert, who also had stomach cancer, recovered very well after the world's first autologous transplant and is still alive and well, reassuring Maxwell: "It's a big deal to remove the whole stomach like I did, and then wait for my stomach to grow back in the test tube." ”

These comforts are really useful, and this living success story and live account is more useful than any scientific reasoning.

In fact, Downing is traveling with Maxwell and the queen this time, and England can't go back for the time being, so come to the north of Scotland, which is not under the control of the British army, to look at his hometown from afar.

Hearing Prince Arabat introducing his experience, Tang Ning smiled and said, "Albert's experience is outdated, it took you more than a year to cultivate your stomach, and now we have the technology to do it in a month." ”

Prince Albert said enviously: "Really? That's great, it seems that you can do a transplant directly, I'm really envious, but I've been living with an empty stomach for more than a year in fear, eating more than a dozen meals a day, it's too miserable. ”

At this time, Downing's daughter Erin came back to the camp, she was thirteen years old, and she was called a water spirit, which happened to be the same age when Downing met her mother, which shows that he has known Sissi for a whole generation, from two strangers to a solid family, relatives, it's really amazing to think about.

Erin said crisply in English: "The mommy with the black-throated loon egg still hasn't come back, it's been three days, we think that if it goes on like this, the egg will never hatch again, Daddy, why don't we adopt it?" When she came to England, she also spoke English as the locals.

Tang Ning was full of happiness when he saw his daughter, and said casually: "Okay, I want to ask the ornithologist more under what conditions can it hatch, the temperature is not necessarily the same as an egg, the adult wingspan of the black-throated loon is more than one meter, but it is a lot." ”

With him constantly taking his daughter on wild trips, Erin really became a little naturalist, and she looked happy when she traveled in the wilderness.

Erin said proudly, "Just now there was a skunk who wanted to eat the little gray rabbit, and I beat it away with a stone!" ”

Tang Ning laughed: "This is not good, skunks also need to eat to fill their stomachs, and you are destroying the laws of nature by doing this." ”

Queen Victoria laughed, "Yes, just like we humans have to eat meat." ”

Sissi also came back at this time and quipped, "Isn't Tang Ning called a great god who can do anything?" I wonder if there is any way to stop slaughtering poultry and livestock? ”

Tang Ning closed his eyes and thought about it, and said, "It's really ......."

But he didn't say any more than he said it halfway, and Erin asked him to continue, so he said slowly: "Just now we were reassuring Mr. Maxwell not to worry about his condition, the worst-case scenario is to do a stomach transplant, do you know how far the latest human organ cultivation technology can be achieved at Windsor Hospital?"

Originally, healthy stomach cells could only be used to grow slowly along a predetermined stomach-like model, so the culture was very slow, so we improved the process and used a large number of cultured cells, and finally gathered these cells in various culture media and assembled them with very fine nozzles.

As long as enough cells are cultured, we are now able to print the oxyntic cells of the entire stomach in about 24 hours, close to the composition of the native stomach. Of course, it takes more time to grow enough stomach cells, but it's much faster than just watching them grow slowly.

For example, if we can divide the cells into 10 flasks, it will be 10 times faster than the original method, and 100 times faster in 100 flasks.

Erin, can you now imagine what we can do to replace the traditional slaughtering industry? ”

Erin happily kissed Downing on the cheek and said, "Daddy is really Almighty!" Use a sprinkler to assemble the cells that make up the meat! Being able to produce countless pieces of meat in a factory and then assemble them into pieces of meat, right? ”

Downing: "Yes, mostly muscle cells. But...... You have to add something else, otherwise it won't be delicious. ”

Erin: "Then let's do it so that humans don't slaughter animals anymore." ”

Downing: "This ...... In the future, it will definitely replace the vast majority of slaughter in this way, but not yet, it is developing too fast, and people are not used to it. Slaughter is a natural and traditional habit of human beings. It would be unliberating to take away even this power. ”

In the era in which Downing lived, 99% of the slaughterhouse industry had been replaced by meat factories, and there were still many people who preferred the traditional animal husbandry industry, not to mention that now, this kind of thing cannot be rushed, and there is no need, Downing's liberalism is to try not to interfere with the freedom of others, including the freedom to slaughter livestock, of course.

What's more, Downing preferred the cost-saving methods of production, which were the case with ant farming and insect farming, where the collection of wild termites in Brazil's Cerrado wilderness alone could supply all the world's chicken feed protein.

The anthills of the Great Cerrado Wilderness are a gift from nature, and there is no need to start anew. Downing said to Erin, "Do you know how many insects there are in the world? Guess. Of course, no one can have a real number jΓΉ, just an approximation. Let's put it this way, guess how many insects there are for each person in the world. ”

Erin looked at the pesky mosquitoes flying around and said, "There should be a lot, ten thousand?" ”

Tang Ning smiled: "Hehe, according to the rough estimate of our biologists, every person on the earth corresponds to 1 billion to 10 billion insects. ”

All those present exclaimed, "So many! ”

Downing: "Actually, insects are really delicious. Lobsters are generally recognized as a delicacy, and they are the same arthropods as ants and grasshoppers, and have a common ancestor. We can think of ants as shrimp on the ground, and grasshoppers as shrimp flying in the sky.

If you want to reduce slaughter, then call on everyone to eat insects, and ensure that everyone can't eat anything. These guys can produce two pounds of meat from one pound of plants! ”

Erin thought about the appearance of the grasshopper and said, "Still...... It's better to eat protein after a 'transfer' of poultry through guΓ²......"

Everyone laughed.

Erin, who was teased, angrily slapped a bunch of mosquitoes to death, saying: "The most annoying thing in the wild is mosquitoes, Daddy will catch them all and eat them!" ”

Tang Ning immediately responded: "No problem! I remember, I used to find someone to develop this kind of tool, I haven't come out to play it for a long time, I forgot it, you wait, I'll let them send it over. ”

The team that developed the tool was as far away as San Francisco, 7,800 kilometers from Scotland, but Downing willfully dispatched a strategic transport plane with a rocket engine that could reach a speed of 3,000 kilometers at that time, and it took more than two hours to reach their camp.

The queen and they only knew for the first time that Tang Ning had such an exaggerated plane, and they chuckled in their hearts, a little lucky, fortunately they are with Boss Tang now.

It turned out that it was a few laser generators, and the power did not need to be too large, just to fight mosquitoes, but the highlight was that it could quickly adjust the direction of the shot, so it could fight mosquitoes at high speed. No matter how fast mosquitoes fly, they can't fly faster than the speed of light, and those few "mosquito net lasers" can actually fly at 1 per minute. The speed of 380,000 mosquitoes eliminated within the range, and everyone was stunned.

Because there is a cushion under the laser, the corpses of mosquitoes are accumulated in piles, and after turning off the laser, little Irene excitedly rushed up and picked up a handful of mosquitoes in the palm of her hand, without any disgust, worthy of being a little female naturalist, mosquitoes are also a kind of creature in her eyes.

"Ho-ho! That's amazing! Erin laughed so hard that she lost her little ladylike look