Chapter 119: New China
"Tony, today I found a very good book, I know that you are very familiar with the people in the printing house, can you ask them to help me print a few more, I want to give it away!" On this day, Chen Yuanqi suddenly came to the office and said to Monet.
"What a book, it excites you like this!" Monet joked with a smile, and snatched the book from Chen Yuanqi's hand as he spoke.
But just looking at the first page, he was stunned, because the name of the book is "New China", and the preface says that the general content of the book is that the author "dreams of a new China after a hundred years" is no longer bullied by the powers, and has jumped to the top of the world, and then look at the specific content, Monet even felt as if he had met a "traveler with him", because what was written in it was too much like China a hundred years later.
For example, the "Beijing-Shanghai Railway" in the first round. (The contents in parentheses below in this chapter are excerpts from the original text of New China to distinguish them.) )
(I asked, "Is there a train between Beijing and Shanghai?") ”
The lady replied, "It's been a long time." Since the foreign debts were paid off, the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway was jointly run by the government and business, so this road was connected to Jinghan and became the Beijing-Shanghai Railway. ”)
Because the book "New China" was written in 1910, 58 years later, that is, in 1968, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was opened to traffic, and the Beijing-Shanghai Railway was officially completed.
Another example is the second time (the steel made by the steelmaking factory is harder and more durable than that produced by the famous British and German factories.) )
86 years later, that is, in 1996, China's steel output exceeded 100 million tons, and since then it has maintained the world's first, and even has "the world's first steel output is China, the second is Hebei, and the third is Tangshan." "Such a joke.
The subway in the third round (the subway was hollowed out of the ground, tunnels were built, railroad tracks were placed, and electric lights were lit day and night, and the train flew in endlessly. The tram walked in the tunnel, and there were two ways: one was to avoid collision with pedestrians and vehicles, and the other was to avoid avoiding people and could drive fast. )
Fifty-nine years later, in 1968, China's first subway opened.
(The World Exposition was held because there was nowhere to build a venue in Shanghai, so a house was built in Pudong.) At that time, because of the inconvenience of Shanghainese, a bridge was specially built. )
100 years later, in 2010, the Shanghai World Expo opened. In 1971, the first Huangpu River Bridge was opened to traffic.
The fourth made in China (now, the goods shipped from our factory, is there still a problem!) At this moment, no matter which country in the world, almost everything used is not Chinese. Silk tea, porcelain, embroidery, lacquerware and other specialties of our country, not to mention. )
Now China's manufacturing industry is the absolute world's first in terms of total output value!
The fifth round of equality between men and women (this time, don't say that the accounts here are all women, even the accounts of each line and store are also women.) Because of the woman's calm and careful heart, there is no mistake in handling the account, and it is many times better than the man. In addition, most of the doctors in primary schools and public hospitals are also women. For women iron children and sick children more than men. )
Needless to say, female accountants, female doctors, and female teachers, in 1954, "equality between men and women" was written into the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, truly realizing equality between men and women.
The eleventh round of foreign investment (Youqin said: "Tonight, the Association of Banks proposed, is this the matter?") Yongtang said: "Yes." Hua Jun, the leader of the bank, told me privately the day before yesterday that he wanted to ship his money abroad to do something! ”)
103 years later, that is, in 2013, China proposed the "Belt and Road" initiative; In 2015, the AIIB was established.
To be honest, if it weren't for the author's name "Lu Shimo" (pen name "Lu Yunxiang"), Monet had never heard of it, and he would really think that he had met a traveler......
Just when Monet's mind was full of cranky thoughts, Chen Yuanqi said on the side: "Speaking of which, this book is actually quite like the book "Little Tom Roaming the Future" you wrote before, but this book is written about my motherland after all, and I really hope that the motherland can one day be like what is written in this book!" ”
Monet patted him on the shoulder and said with great certainty: "Don't worry, it will be!" ”
"Tony, how do I feel that you are an American who has more confidence in your country than I do?" Chen Yuanqi asked with some puzzlement.
"Because I've done the math, it's true!" Monet said casually.
"Then why don't you write a book like this?" But as soon as the words came out, Chen Yuanqi reacted: "Well, it is estimated that even if you write such a book, you will not let you sell it, after all, there is still the "Chinese Exclusion Act". By the way, Tony, then you can't get a problem with a printing house to print this book, right? ”
"Don't worry, as long as it's not for sale, and it doesn't print too much, no one should care!" Monet reassured that in fact, even if there was no request from Chen Yuanqi, if he was allowed to see this book, he would make a few copies in private and give them to people such as Chen Yuanqi and Tang Yibo.
Then Monet said: "After a while, if I have time, I must go to China to have a look, and I hope to find this Mr. Lu and have a good chat with him face to face!" ”
"Then you must call me then, I want to go too!" Chen Yuanqi hurriedly applied.
Monet nodded and agreed: "Don't worry, I will definitely take you with me then!" ”
Just as Monet was chatting with Chen Yuanqi, Officer Vickery of the London Police Department took a colleague of his to find the suspect of "Jack the Ripper", Aaron Kosmisky, and said to him with a serious face: "Mr. Kosmisky, we suspect that you are the Jack the Ripper!" ”
"Officer, why do you doubt me?" Kosmsky argued.
"Because you usually hate Woman X, and you have a tendency to be violent and hurtful, especially when you didn't have an alibi in the nights of the crime!"
"I sleep at home alone, how can anyone prove it?" Kosmsky retorted.
Officer Vickery pretended to think for a moment, then said, "Well, as long as you can do one thing, we can drop our suspicion of you!" ”
"Oh? What's the matter? Kosmsky hurriedly asked.
"It's simple, just go out into the street and shout three times: Jack the Ripper is a vile and shameless thief, a liar, a murderer! That's it, isn't it easy? Vickery replied with a pretended lightheartedness.
PS: Actually, there are a lot of things in this book that can correspond to the current one-to-one, I won't list them one by one, interested friends can find it.
By the way, this Mr. Lu is definitely not a time-traveler, because he said that he has read a large number of popular science books from all over the world, so the new technologies in the book are all deduced by him according to the new technologies and scientific ideas that appeared in the West at that time.