12 March, London, King's Cross Station

The "China Alien Organization Tour Group", which has been streamlined a lot because of the loss of family members, and only has more than 20 people left, arrives at the train station, which has become famous for "Harry Potter", and prepares to board the bus to Glasgow, Scotland's largest city.

This train station, which is described a lot by Aunt Rowling in the "Harry Potter" series of novels, looks very nostalgic at a glance, and makes people feel a kind of antiquity in the era of the industrial revolution - in short, it is very old and old.

In the eyes of those who pursue petty bourgeoisie, this may be very romantic. But in the eyes of others, it is a complete "stagnation of development".

Out of curiosity, Wang Qiu and the others really went to look for the famous "Nine and Three-Quarters Platform", and then only saw a bronze plaque embedded in the wall between the entrances of the two platforms: "If you think you have a wizard's head, you can try to hit it with it." ”

- Well, this English joke feels really cold enough......

Like all other train stations in Shijie, London's King's Cross train station is bustling with people and is very noisy. In Wang Qiu's eyes, this place is similar to the previous shopping in London, the legendary "blonde Yanma" is also extremely rare, and the vast majority of white women are either obese or shriveled; Those black girls still have a few very beautiful savage babes, but unfortunately most of their faces and bodies are covered with tattoos; There are also many Arab women wearing veils and headscarves in and out of the way, and it is almost impossible to figure out what this place is.

The train I took this time was not a high-speed train. It's not fast, but it's more suitable for browsing the scenery along the way, and it has a laid-back taste. As the train gradually moves away from the city. The scenery outside the window slowly changed - the buildings and people began to become scarce, the reinforced concrete buildings became wooden houses and brick houses, and the view gradually widened. As far as the eye can see, there are neat fields and green pastures, as well as red cattle and snow-white sheep, which are grazing quietly on the hedged meadows.

Such an idyllic pastoral scene. made Wang Qiu feel relaxed for a while, and others took photos one after another.

-- Compared to London, which has long been occupied by people of color, these quiet and simple English countryside. It's the real British style.

Although the real Britain was highly industrialized and urbanized as early as the 19th century, it was the countryside and villages of England that were the birthplace of traditional British culture. Britain in traditional culture is green. Remote and self-contained. Natural and ancient, but at the same time self-contained - all kinds of ancient elegance can be found in the manors of the English countryside, lonely little castles on barren hilltops, women sipping tea in front of old churches, cobbled streets, gargoyle eaves, ancient ruins from the Roman Empire. Sandalwood-colored beer sold in a long-established bar......

In the minds of English gentlemen, I am afraid that the barns, country churches and farmhouses of old England are all about. It is the true traditional style of the motherland. And the metropolises, which have been entrenched by immigrants, are in the eyes of the traditional English hacienda owners as "an offensive gray fog under a blue sky".

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However, even in the midst of this idyllic landscape, a closer look reveals many inconsistencies – depressed and dilapidated factories, lifeless barren villages and towns, abandoned fields overgrown with thistles and weeds: the decline in agricultural subsidies due to the prolonged economic recession, and the influx of overseas produce into the markets of the United States, Argentina and other places, have made life in the British countryside less nourishing today.

“…… The scenery is beautiful, but it feels like it's empty. Along the way, you can't even see a few township enterprises! In China, it's either a scenic tourist area or a backwooded area...... Is it possible to make a good living in the English countryside by farming and herding sheep? ”

Look out the window at the English countryside. Wang Qiu munched on greasy fries as he commented on his experience in China.

On the small table in front of him, there is a foreign fast food of fries, hamburger and cola, which tastes similar to the domestic McDonald's, but there are obvious differences in shape and weight - Chinese fries are long and thin, while British fries are thick and short, and they are basically not eaten with tomato sauce; Chinese burgers are generally palm-sized, while British burgers are larger and can be sized on smaller plates.

In addition to the above three things, the fast food box also comes with an English-style boiled bean, but the taste is so bad that no one wants to eat it.

Generally speaking, in the expensive Britain, if you are reluctant to spend a lot of money on a big meal, then only this kind of foreign fast food, or British characteristics of "fish and chips", is barely cheap and can satisfy hunger, so the "Chinese strange ability organization tour group" has been eating this thing in recent days.

And although Wang Qiu has now greatly expanded through cross-time and space trade, he still doesn't want to behave too differently around his colleagues, so he has to eat these junk foods together...... From time to time, I just sneak through the wormhole and travel to Cleopatra's palace to get some roast beef, chicken soup, fresh fruits and vegetables, etc......

Therefore, after reluctantly nibbling something without knowing the taste, Wang Qiu put his main energy on watching the scenery and chatting.

“…… It's called deindustrialization! These losers have long been too lazy to engage in industry on their own! ”

An old man who belonged to the Chinese Alien Assault Demolition Team sighed and said to Wang Qiu, "...... Deindustrialization is not a joke. Britain used to be full of soot, and the fog in London could choke people to death. Now the weishenme environment is so good? Because the factories are gone! Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, we Chinese have been working hard incessantly, and we have also taken the crooked road of large-scale steel smelting, bent on building our own industry. The British are good. He has gradually degraded himself from an industrial country to an agricultural country - the environment has improved, but can the fresh air be eaten?

I remember when Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and this John Bull still had a little bit of the backbone of the British Empire. Although the lessons are not touched by the powers, they can still fight Argentina. But now, Britain has almost dismantled its own shipbuilding industry, aircraft carriers can only be used in partnership with the French, nuclear weapons are entrusted to the Americans, and they are bent on environmental protection and finance, and use the imperial government that ruled the earth to manage a small island country...... In the United States, there are also Shijie brands such as Coke, Microsoft, and Viagra; The Germans also had precision machinery; Japan also has an anime and game industry, pornography, and AKB idol groups. But what about the British? Except for a few luxury brands that don't care much about ordinary people. What's left? ”

“…… It is said that there are a lot of high-tech ......," Wang Qiu pursed his lips, "...... He often boasted that he was ahead of China for many years......"

“…… Talk nonsense! The British may have been qualified to say that in the last century, but now...... Hey. High-tech is something that cannot be made behind closed doors, but can only be made through continuous exploration and practice...... Countries that can't even launch rockets are generally not able to engage in space research. The same thing. If even the factory is gone. How else do you get information and research jishu? It's just a castle in the sky!

Even if the developed countries in the West have some jishu accumulation in deindustrialization, it is not that the jishu data is locked in a safe and can sit forever and enjoy the dividends - today's scientific jishu is updated so quickly, no matter how advanced the jishu is, it will be eliminated in twenty years at most. ”

The old man explained to Wang Qiu with some disdain, "...... Without a factory, and to maintain the jishu advantage, they can't just research and not produce. Throw money at the research department for nothing. In this case, the capitalists will lose their pants! Then it's better to engage in finance and futures! ”

-- Greed is the driving force behind the development of capitalism. Finance, on the other hand, is a booster for the development of capitalism. But as soon as the capitalists turn their pursuit of profit to purely financial fiction rather than physical objects, then this deformed greedy demand becomes a construction team that digs their graves.

Death in a slow way is terrifying, and sometimes you know that something will go wrong, but you still can't change it, and this feeling of powerlessness is really ...... Alas, this is how the British Empire fell step by step. The U.S. financial industry can cheat all shijie out of money, while the British financial industry does not have the U.S. military as a backstage.

Although Britain was initially deindustrialized, some people saw that such a "financial poison" that indulged in detachment from the entity and "making money with money" may be lucrative in the short term, but in the long run it is tantamount to chronic suicide......

But the trouble is that drug addiction is addictive -- those capitalists who seek long-term interests and do not engage in financial speculation will be eaten by other capitalists because of the lack of short-term profits. The so-called "capitalists will sell the rope that hangs themselves" means this: if you sell the rope, you will not die immediately; And even if you don't sell rope, everyone else will sell rope as well, and you're going to die now...... It can't be helped, it's called class limitation.

――Before the knife actually reaches your neck, anyone will probably have some luck mentality.

In Wang Qiu's view, the two island countries located in the east and west of the Eurasian continent, whether it is Japan, the hegemon of the East, or Britain, the hegemon of the West, are all too deficient to have kidneys. Among them, Japan, a defeated country, still had a few decades of economic take-off after World War II, and even triumphantly shouted "Japan can say no" at one point. And the fortunes of the victorious Britain, which was even more tragic, embarked on a never-ending downward slope since the end of World War II...... After enjoying the wealth accumulated by the great ancestors of yesteryear after conquering the Seven Seas, it's time to return to the remote island nation as it was.

In this way, everyone looked at the scenery and chatted all the way. But after a long time, it will eventually feel a little boring. So, Political Commissar Kong Huan took out his laptop and gave Wang Qiu's sister and brother a special program of "Into Science" that they had just produced.

Then, Wang Qiu was deeply shocked by the level of propaganda of China's supernatural "burial organs".

“…… Originally...... This vampire night attack...... How can you say that?! (To be continued......)