In Sissi's eyes, her husband has become a war maniac, and he spends his days pondering the research and development of weapons, and his office is full of small models and drawings of various metals and acetate materials. One day in July, I finally seized a chance to go out for a walk together, because this was the day when the prototype of the new car of the Oxfordshire Automobile Factory was completed, and the engineers in Oxford informed them that they could go for a test drive, the new car, this is Sissi's favorite.

So, the young couple first drove their smart from Buckinghamshire to Oxfordshire, dozens of kilometers away, and then unveiled a shiny new 20-horsepower car, a four-door car, with a chess pattern on the body, black and white, beautiful and interesting. I don't know if I like the new and hate the old, or this design really attracts girls, Princess Sissi likes this product quite much, and she can't let go of stroking and stroking, this patting and that knocking.

"Is there a fixed name, this car?" Sissi asked the Engineer and Downing.

The engineers looked at the boss.

Tang Ning smiled and said, "It's decided, it's called mini." ”

What a well-behaved name, the icing on the cake for the well-behaved car. 20 horsepower is too different from 10 horsepower, not only can it carry two more people, but it can also reach a speed of 60 kilometers with two more people. At such a fast speed, it is no longer possible for amateur drivers to drive at will, and they must go through training and tests before they can drive away.

Downing has asked the Prime Minister to set up a cabinet-level transport ministry to build an increasingly important transport network, improve the transport environment, and enhance transport safety. Cabinet ministers are considering this construction, it turns out that the speed of the smart is not fast, the transport capacity is not strong, once the car at 60 kilometers per hour appears, it is necessary to set some traffic rules, otherwise there will be a lot of traffic accidents.

The most important traffic rule may be the rule of going left or right, and Downing has a desire to use a rule all over the world, so that when driving in a foreign country there is no need to get used to it, which is a great thing for humans to save the cost of learning, of course, this process is not easy. It is difficult for even the car king to achieve this wish, which involves the traditional habits of various countries, the cost of conversion, and the issue of face.

However, you have to try it anyway. Downing said to Marx that violence is the last resort, and to Bismarck that war is the last resort, and now, it is his turn to practice the art of negotiation himself, and it is impossible to force others to use any traffic rules by force, and if you want to pressure others to submit to their will, the whole world will think that you are wrong and that you are arrogant.

The lady of the female car fan hurriedly test-drove the mini, and for a while she didn't realize that the attention of the prince who is the public in the world had drifted to the horizon. Downing was so relieved by her driving skills that he fastened his seatbelt, which was specially designed to "celebrate" the mini's speeds of more than 60 km/h, and followed her out into the countryside around the empty town of Oxford. The smart of the bodyguards and assistants couldn't keep up with the mini and were thrown away.

When the assistants caught up, they immediately presented the military intelligence telegram they had just received: "Naobu I: The Russian Navy in Alaska refuses to cooperate with the change of guard, saying that it will first negotiate with the East India Company on the war situation in Afghanistan." ”

As the de facto ruler of the East India Company, Downing did not know much about the situation in Afghanistan bordering India, and it seemed that Russia wanted to invade Afghanistan, but was thwarted by the British ** team a year ago, and there were people from the East India Company in the British army. He was now suddenly the actual speaker of Indian affairs, and Russia's attitude toward Alaska changed.

At this time, British India completely included the entire territory of Pakistan, bordering nearly half of the border with Afghanistan. The northern and Central Asian countries of Afghanistan have fallen into the clutches of the Russians, and the Persian Empire (Iran) in the west has also become the sphere of influence of the Russians, and they have been instructed by Russia to invade Afghanistan as the main force.

Downing became wary of the word Afghanistan, a mountainous country known as the "graveyard of empires", where local forces were engaged in guerrilla warfare, and it was extremely difficult for any powerful country to rule effectively.

After some thought, it seems that Marx and Engels, who have a better understanding of the situation in the Middle East because of the "Red Sea Empire", asked them to consult on how to wrestle with the Russians here.

It just so happened that Sissi didn't know anyone in London, and she was as lonely as snow, so she asked the two of them to bring their families and have a barbecue party together. It was quite easy for Downing to summon the two of them, for he had already gifted each of them a smart, and in two hours they could be from London to Oxfordshire. The best thing about following the Grand Duke is that you are fully equipped! The 500 pounds a year smart is not something that ordinary people can afford, and now smart is definitely a symbol of the "big capitalists", and the demeanor of the two proletarian leaders who drive smart is often ridiculed as the big money in the proletariat. Fortunately, Engels was originally a capitalist, but Marx was usually reluctant to drive out, and of course he had no choice when he wanted to go so far to Oxford.

They met at Adow, a well-preserved pasture by the River Thames, which is upstream, unpolluted, green and beautiful, and is the prototype of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Madame Sissi, along with Marx's Madame Jenny and Engels' girlfriend Marie, were engaged in barbecue work and they could easily buy beef from the nearby pastures. The men first talked about the development of the automobile industry.

The emergence of mini has made the car a means of transportation quite perfect, with the Southeast Asian rubber forest can produce sufficient rubber, the accessories manufacturers are more and more abundant, the technology is more and more mature, the first thing after the advent of the mini is to reduce the smart to 400 pounds, and the price reduction will continue every year.

In the Luxembourg-Prussia standoff, the pick-up truck towed by Smart has taken shape, and the era of freight is coming. One of the major advantages of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is that the energy required comes from wind power, which can be said to be quite cheap and clean. The increasing popularity of wind power generation systems is really Downing's favorite thing to see, and if this development continues, the oil economy will really be replaced by his wind economy, and technology will be pushed by him with a lot of power.

Because of the great invention of the hydrogen fuel cell, even people like Marne, who were originally very optimistic about the capitalist factory model, have been shaken a little, and it seems that the greatest benefit to workers is not the public ownership system, but the scientific and technological inventions. And the important process of scientific and technological invention was so vividly interpreted by Downing that it was difficult for them to imagine an era of energy revolution in which a regime established by the proletariat could be compared to that led by big capital and big industrialists like Downing.

Next, Engels, the leader of the Labour Party, went on to talk about the troublesome things of lately, the small shopkeepers, represented by the owners of the bakeries, who were unwilling to implement the eight-hour working day, believing that it hurt their interests. Bakeries find it difficult to hire dedicated staff for shifts in the evenings, and their margins are already low. In the House of Commons debate, Labour's strongest argument for the advocates of small shopkeepers is that the eight-hour week is not only to the interests of shopkeepers, but also to the interests of customers. If the law imposes an eight-hour working day, a large amount of market demand will be suppressed, and economic damage will be imminent.

Downing thought for a moment and said, "There are two solutions to this matter. ”

There are not only solutions, but also two, and Marne listens to them.

Downing: "First, the government has cut taxes for small businesses, so that a large number of small business owners can afford to work night shifts. Second, an unattended vending machine was invented, which was funded by the union to encourage small shopkeepers to use them at night, and to transfer the bread that could not be sold during the day to the vending machine, so that the owner would not have a conflict with the eight-hour working day. ”

The brains of the great inventors are different from others, and the first plan is estimated to be contested for a long time, and once it comes to taxation and tax cuts, Congress will talk nonsense endlessly, this vending machine qì ...... What is it?

For the Cambridge Lucas mathematics professor who invented the mechanical machine computer, the invention of a coin payment vending machine is really too pediatric, which does not require him to do it himself, his students are familiar with a lot of automatic machinery, and they can become an invention engineer if they just pick up one of them, just because the current human resources are not so expensive, there is no huge demand for vending machines, so no one thought of it. When Engels heard that even the eight-hour working day could be partially offset by technology after its implementation, Engels couldn't help but feel that this plan had exploded. It's really a change in technology.

To be honest, the fact that no one sells bread and other necessities at night has a big impact on the quality of human nightlife, and the Labor Party's push to use night vending machines in the consumer goods industry really provides a classic solution for the consumer goods industry around the world.

In order to make the service of the vending machine as close to a real person as possible, it would be wonderful if you could put some effort into payment and remediation. The easiest way is to use a simple metal card to replenish the product number, so that customers can use the metal number to exchange change when the store is operating normally, so that the price of the vending machine can be set more reasonably without affecting its popularity.

In this way, there will be a lot of "24-hour" shops, which will greatly improve the quality of human life. It would be a great achievement for the Labour Party to go all out to promote the spread of vending machines to all corners of the city, and it would do a great deal to raise the prestige of the weak Labour Party.

In fact, Downing dislikes artificially limiting working hours, and it is more reasonable not to set an eight-hour work system, but to add wages that are enough to make employers reluctant to let employees work overtime after eight hours. And wouldn't it be better for unions to draw up a ranking of overtime intensity to identify industries that tend to disrupt the eight-hour workday, in the hope of making a more reasonable bill, or using vending machines, a government-subsidized technology, to support legislation without compromising market freedom?

The most productive and interesting discussion of the day was the proposal to include the vending machine in the eight-hour workday, but it will not be easy to unify the rules of the road around the world. （http：／/.）。 Downing asked Marne if he knew why Britain was on the left, while Europe and the United States were on the right.

The old horse was so knowledgeable that he actually knew the history of driving on the left, and said: "Ancient Egypt, ancient Greece and ancient Rome had a rule that horse-drawn carriages should drive on the left, which is related to the habit of using the right hand. When two people on the opposite side are on the left, the right hand, which most people are accustomed to, can be freed up to make friendly gestures, exchange items, or engage in combat. Over time, everyone has formed the habit of leaning on the left.

This habit was challenged in the United States, because of the heavy use of large freight carriages with many pairs of horses, the coachman naturally sat on the left side of the whip when holding his right hand, and in order to better see the other party's wheels when the car was wrong, it became the most natural choice to walk on the right. By the late 18th century, the colonies of the continental United States had developed the habit of leaning to the right, and a number of states had enacted legislation.

On the one hand, the British were more conservative and kept the habit of leaning to the left, so they were still the same because of the developed maritime trade, the lack of land transportation, and later the invention of railways. ”

Interestingly, it seems that the British Empire is lagging behind in this regard, and even the colonies with it are also lagging behind.

Engels also added a theory: "Legend has it that when the armies of Napoleon the Great entered the conquered areas, they were on the right, and the soldiers' right-handed weapons were hidden away from the pedestrians on the opposite side to assuage the fears of the people of the conquered areas." When the army came, the people on the opposite side could only avoid it to the right, because Napoleon the Great had conquered almost all of Europe, so the whole of Europe was now accustomed to the right. ”

Wonderful, Napoleon the Great is really a genius.