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By the time he left Manchester on 25 November 1842, social order had been fully restored in the industrial city. But the militia, police and British Army garrisons in Manchester are still under martial law, and the streets are full of soldiers in red uniforms and rifles. All forms of assemblies, marches and strikes are prohibited. All newspapers are subject to censorship by the authorities, and no content related to the "People's Charter," "universal suffrage," or "democracy" is allowed.

The inside of the train station was also very orderly, and there were many British cavalry patrolling the square outside. After finding a seat in the spacious and bright waiting room, Will. Hemming told Zhu Jishi that those were officers and soldiers of the Royal Scots-of-Marcus Dragoons, one of the elite units of the British Army, and that he had wanted to buy a major position in the regiment.

"Purchase...... Purchase?! Zhu Jishi was stunned and stunned, "There is such a thing as buying officials here in the UK?" ”

One of the next to me was named Kospel. William's blonde young man shook his head when he heard this, looked at Zhu Jishi and said, "Jason, you shouldn't even know about buying officials, right?" Isn't there a buying official in Russia and Germany? ”

Zhu Jishi smiled awkwardly at the young man, "Kospel, I really haven't heard of this. ”

This young man was a friend of Engels, a guy who always had a straight face and rarely saw a smile. However, he was a top student in the finance department of Cambridge University, the second son of the owner of a trading house engaged in the cotton and wool business, and had a well-paid job at the Manchester branch of the Bank of Bahrain. Zhu Jishi guessed that his old-fashioned temper must be very suitable for bank work, and he did not know whether his four major patents, such as morphine hydrochloride, diethyl X morphine, berberine hydrochloride, and vulcanized rubber, could be used in his eyes -- it turned out that he was the source of a large sum of money as Engels said.

After seeing the bacteria that Zhu Jishi had colored with Gram staining (in this time and space) in a "charity hospital" in Manchester, Engels recommended to Zhu Jishi his friend who worked at the Bank of Bahrain. Cospel. After listening to several patents introduced by Zhu Jishi, William said that he could go to London and witness those magical inventions with his own eyes. If it's really that good, Kospel. William's Bahrain bank can accept mortgages on patents or buy out some of them.

"In the UK, a certain rank of military officers and civil servants can indeed be purchased, but not everyone is eligible to buy, only those who meet certain conditions can buy the corresponding official position." Cospel. William explained to Zhu Jishi in an extremely smooth tone about the purchase of officials, he took a puff of a fine cigar and pointed at Will. Hamming. "For example, if Mr. Hemming is not dismissed from the Army, with his qualifications as a graduate of the Royal Military Academy, after a short period of service in the Army, the rank of colonel and below can be bought. For example, the Duke of Wellington, who defeated the Napoleonic Emperor at Waterloo, bought a lieutenant colonel at the age of 25. ”

What the! The Duke of Wellington was actually born in a donation class!?

Will. Hemming spread his hands and smiled: "The rules of Britain are like this, not only the Duke of Wellington has bought an official, but my Irish fellow Hugh. Marshal Goff, the same one who defeated China a while ago, also bought an officer, but his family was relatively poor, so he worked in the British Army for twelve years to save enough money to buy a major. ”

A donation class, no, a group of officers from the donation class, with more than 10,000 "double spearmen" who used opium as military supplies, actually defeated the dignified Qing Dynasty, this ...... The history of this plane is probably different from the original plane, right?

At this moment, several people suddenly walked in front of Zhu Jishi and the others, it seemed that a family, there was a pair of middle-aged men and women with sympathetic suffering and numb expressions on their faces, their clothes were quite shabby, with many patches, and they were also dirty, and they did not wear shoes, but held a rag on their feet. There were five other children, two boys and three girls, the eldest of whom looked less than ten years old, short and too small to work as a child laborer, and a little boy, who was at most three years old, was held in his mother's arms, his eyes closed, and he did not move, apparently sick.

These people stood silently in front of Zhu Jishi and the others, without saying a word. In fact, on his way to work at Omen Hospital, he would see such people standing together with his family on the streets of London's industrial and workers' clusters...... They're asking for food!

In the first half of the 19th century, in the center of the glorious empire, there were people who had no way to fill their bellies and had to go to the battlefield with their whole families to ask for food! I am afraid that such a thing is impossible for any ordinary person in later generations to imagine. In fact, in the most powerful and wealthy country on Shijie, many people starve to death every day! If it's winter, people will freeze to death. Because in several parks in London, there are countless homeless people sleeping on the streets. If Zhu Jishi hadn't saved Qiu Fatzi by chance after crossing over, and got the help of Isabel, it was very likely that he would be one of them!

Moreover, Zhu Jishi knew that these begging people and homeless people sleeping on the streets were not lazy, the British were not a nation known for their laziness, and it was still the first half of the 19th century under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and there was no social welfare to support lazy people.

But Britain is now going through a very serious economic crisis, with overproduction in industry, poor agricultural harvests, so workers are losing their jobs and food prices are rising sharply - strangely enough, it is only cereals that are rising, while the prices of beef and mutton are falling. But for the working people at the bottom who feed on grain, this is undoubtedly the worst situation. For workers who earn only one or three shillings a week (20 to 60 shillings) a week, that income is barely enough to cover the rent and food expenses of a family, and it is difficult to save any money, and if they lose their jobs, the fate of the whole family sleeping on the street and starving.

"Take it." Probably thinking that he was almost one of the people who were hungry and cold, Zhu Jishi took out a silver coin of one shilling and handed it to the mother holding the child.

"Xiexie you, may God bless you." Mother bowed gratefully to Zhu Jishi.

"Get out! Get out! The family's act of asking for food soon attracted the police who were on duty in the station, waving batons and coming up to chase people.

The man pleaded, "Sir, we really need help!" ”

The police remained unmoved, "Can't be here!" Go to Little Ireland for food! As he spoke, he beat and scolded the family and drove the family out of the waiting hall of the train station.

"Little Ireland is the worst working district in Manchester, full of poor people from the Irish countryside, and there is no one to be found there!" Will. Heming, who was an Irishman, looked at the poor English who had been kicked out, and sighed, "Jason, that shilling of yours will keep the family from starvation and cold for the next few days, and it will also make the woman stand on the street a few days later and sell herself." He suddenly turned his head, looked at Zhu Jishi seriously, and said, "Do you now know that those workers are going to join the Chartist struggle?" ”

"What does this universal suffrage have to do with democracy? That kind of system will only disrupt society, and what economic development needs most is stability. "Cospel. William took over the topic, and his views were obviously the same as Zhu Jishi's.

Then he coldly uttered a very cold-blooded but indeed logical sentence: "The income of workers is also determined by supply and demand. And the demand for the worker, like the demand for any other commodity, regulates the production of the worker, regulates the number of people produced, and if production proceeds too slowly, demand speeds it up, and if production goes too fast, demand slows it down. This is exactly the same as for any other commodity. If there are not enough workers, their prices rise, and they live better, and more people marry, and the birth rate gradually increases, and the children they feed are more and more until there are enough workers; If there are too many workers, prices fall, unemployment, poverty, hunger and the diseases that arise from it, and diseases wipe out the surplus! ”