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March 15, 1843.

Two black carriages, dragged by tall horses, headed straight for Windsor Castle in Berkshire, southeast England. These two carriages came all the way out of the city of London, and the places they passed were full of European pastoral style. The smooth hard pavement is lined with tender green lawns, on which herds of cattle and sheep roam leisurely. In the distance, there are beautiful houses, churches, quiet towns, and manor villas belonging to the rich and noble.

In short, it is a picturesque landscape, not unlike the European scenery 170 years later in Zhu Jishi's memory, and it is like two different shijie from the working quarters of Manchester in London, the latter seems to be more like an Indian slum in Zhu Jishi.

Zhu Jishi was thinking about his own thoughts in one of the carriages at this time.

His carriage was borrowed from Countess Isabel, and Zhu Jishi's own carriage was left in Manchester, and in the carriage leading the way sat Sir Reed. This knight still doesn't seem to like Zhu Jishi very much, and when they met in Manchester that day, they said a few cold words, if it weren't for the round on both sides of Isabel, they might have quarreled.

Nevertheless, Sir Reed brought the goodwill of the Royal Society of Medicine, whose charges had been dropped, and an invitation was sent to Chu to speak at the meeting of the Institute of Physicians in May, which was no honour for Chu Chi-shi. Because the third week of March was the time for the annual election meeting of the Royal Society, if nothing else, Zhu Jishi was successfully elected as a member of the Royal Society. Later in June, the French Academy of Sciences will also meet to elect academicians, and nine times out of ten it will also elect Zhu Jishi as an academician.

Therefore, the British Medical Association should be proud to invite Zhu Jishi to give a speech. However, the invitation of Prince Albert brought by Sir Reed at the same time made Zhu Jishi not wait to ignore it.

If you still want to mix in the UK, it is best to have a good relationship with this one, otherwise you can really only roll up and leave France to mix in the market.

As for the relationship between this person and the First Opium War, and the Second Opium War later, he can only close his eyes and don't see it, anyway, Zhu Jishi now does not recognize the Qing Dynasty as representing China......

But when he thought of the Great Qing Kingdom that was still half-asleep and half-awake, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Although Engels' analysis on that day fell short in history, it was not completely unreasonable. The Great Qing Kingdom actually took a good deck of cards, and the temporary backwardness is really nothing, and in fact, the backwardness is not much. The Second Industrial Revolution is twenty or thirty years later, what is there in the current British Empire? Build galleons, build steam engines, hundreds of miles of railroads, a whole bunch of sweatshops, and that's it. The muskets they used in the First Opium War, according to Will. Hemming's statement is just an old gun from more than a hundred years ago, which can be made in most blacksmith shops in Europe!

As for the cannon, it's not much different from the 18th century, it's just a metal cylinder that fires iron bumps and shotguns, and it's basically the product of a manual workshop, and the jishu is not secret, so it's very easy to learn.

Moreover, Europe is now sitting in the crater of the revolution, where the working people have been seduced by the theory of democratic constitutionalism, and instead of looking for problems in themselves, they blame the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie for their suffering. So chaos is certain, the problem is big chaos and small chaos. Even if Zhu Jishi does not remember what happened in Europe during this time in history, he can only look at the fact that the British working class is now marching in the streets every once in a while, and the inflammatory articles in the radical newspapers, that the situation will certainly not be peaceful in the next few years.

In his memory, the Second Opium War seemed to have to wait until more than a dozen years later, in 1856, and he didn't know if it broke out in 1857, presumably because of the tensions here in Europe. If the Qing Dynasty can seize this rare "period of historical opportunity", even if it carries out an incomplete reform like the Ottoman Empire or some Indian princely states, first confines the reform to the military field, educates a group of new-style officers, and trains 100,000 European-style troops, I am afraid it will be enough to resist the aggression of Britain and France. Even Russia could not afford to defeat a 100,000-strong European army in the Far East before the Trans-Siberian Railway was built......

Well, when you're busy for a while, you'd better hurry up and get a few more books on Western politics, geography, military, economics, law, and humanities and history, and then find a way to get these books to be distributed in the East.

I don't know how much effort the carriage ran away, the speed of the car suddenly slowed down, Zuihou stopped completely, and then there was the sweet voice of Countess Isabel, "Jason, we have arrived." ”

Zhu Jishi pushed the car door and got out of the carriage first, and like a real gentleman, he stood at the door of the car and helped the countess's jade hand to hold the beauty down - the countess was not on Prince Albert's summons list, but she could accompany Zhu Jishi into Windsor Castle, and by the way, she instructed him on some English court etiquette, which was really cumbersome to say, when to speak, when to pretend to be dumb, to whom to bow and to whom to kneel on one knee, fortunately there was no big bow and nine bows.

Sir Reed had already stepped out of the carriage, glanced back at Zhu Jishi and Isabel, coughed lightly, and walked towards Norman Gate first.

However, Zhu Jishi didn't care, just looked up at this luxurious huge castle, in terms of the degree of luxury, this British royal residence is better than the garden of the Qing Dynasty emperor, but the area is not so large, and the cost is much less. The castle underwent a major expansion between 1824 and 1830, costing £300,000 in total, while Buckingham Palace, the other official residence of the British royal family, cost about £453,000, or more than a million taels of silver. I really don't know how the construction funds of those gardens in the Qing Dynasty were spent, which were millions of taels or tens of millions of taels?

As soon as the three of them walked into the Norman Gate, they saw a strong Scottish man in a skirt walking out of the open gate, and looked at Sir Reed and greeted: "Baron, you can be regarded as coming, His Royal Highness is a little anxious!" ”

Sir Reed did not dare to slack off, and immediately introduced to the Scotsman: "This is Mr. Zhu, and this is Madame de Neave next to him (her countess is not recognized)...... This is Mr. Brown, the butler of Windsor Castle. ”

Brown glanced at Zhu Jishi and Isabel, and said lightly: "The summons will be held in the audience hall, Sir Reed and Mr. Zhu, please come with me." Madame Deneuve, please wait a moment, someone will take you to the lounge. ”