In the corner café, Darwin and Arthur sat in the corner talking, with several textbooks from Darwin's lectures at the University of Edinburgh in front of them.

Darwin poured out his lifelong knowledge of pharmacology, while Arthur listened quietly, occasionally picking up a pen and jotting down some of the more important points of knowledge on the manuscript paper.

Whenever Darwin said something crucial, Arthur would raise his hand and ask a few questions.

"So the most widely used narcotic drug at the moment is opium tincture? And it's so easy to buy? ”

"Even if you have a fever, a cold, a headache, and brain fever, the doctor will prescribe this medicine?"

"What? Insomnia also prescribes this? ”

"Side effects are addictive? Well, I know that. ”

"You're going to treat patients with phlebotomy, which I've seen in the clinic."

"It sounds like it doesn't seem so disgusting to suck blood from leeches, at least the patient doesn't feel pain."

As the minutes ticked by, Darwin glanced at the full page of notes Arthur had taken, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Arthur, I think this stuff I said today should be enough for you to digest it for a while."

Arthur nodded, put the note in his bag, and took a sip from his teacup.

"It's been a hard day, Charles."

With that, Arthur glanced at Elder who was sitting next to him holding a newspaper and reading it intently.

"But," he asked, "...... Held, what are you doing with you today? Didn't you tell me that you've been working your drawing skills lately? ”

Unexpectedly, Elder was reading the newspaper with great enthusiasm, and he shook his hand and said, "Wait until I finish this paragraph." I really didn't expect other newspapers to look so good. This one-penny street tabloid will always be more powerful than a regular newspaper that costs fourpence. ”

When Arthur heard this, he couldn't help but speak: "Even if you like to read this kind of newspaper, can you not tell the price in front of me?"

Everyone knows that a newspaper charges a stamp duty of threepence, so anything that sells for less than threepence is an illegal publication that has not been taxed.

Elder is still wearing a police uniform, at least wait until I take it off, right? ”

But Elder didn't care if Arthur was wearing a uniform or not, he angrily grabbed Arthur's arm and pulled him over, and pointed to a passage in the newspaper to Arthur.

"Look at this paragraph, it spews the blood of the dogs scolded by the council, and says that this group of donkeys finally knows to stop crowing."

Arthur glanced at it, and most of the newspaper content was about the recent outbreak of the 'Swain riots' in rural areas.

The high basic cost of living brought about by the Grain Act, coupled with the agricultural crisis that had erupted in recent years, led the hired farmers to gather and attack the landlords' estates and burn down their granaries at night, along with their threshing machines.

This phenomenon is particularly acute in Hampshire, Wiltshire and Kent, where there have been several cases of landlords and priests being set on fire by angry peasants in the newspapers in recent days.

Incidents like this have happened so many times in Britain that they have developed a standard riot process, and they are not confined to agriculture.

The most famous of these was the Luddite Movement that broke out in 1811.

At that time, Nottinghamshire's hosiery merchants disregarded the rules of the industry and drove down the price of socks by producing a low-quality stocking, which severely affected the normal income of handmade hosiery workers.

So some weavers secretly organized themselves to destroy the merchants' hosiery machines and destroy their wool and hosiery factories under the name of the fictitious "General Luther", and immediately hanged the factory owners if they were found.

The Nottingham fire soon spread throughout England, and riots of all kinds were everywhere in just one year.

In order to suppress the workers' revolt, the British authorities even had to recall a part of the army units that were participating in the Napoleonic Wars in the Iberian Peninsula.

At the height of the Luddite movement, the British Army remained at home to deal with the insurrectionary workers even more than against Napoleon.

Later, in order to deal with the Luddite movement, the British government also urgently passed two bills, namely the Destruction of Machines Restricted Destruction Act and the Malicious Destruction Act of 1812.

But it is clear that the rising rioters are not going to care so much.

Because the Luddite movement was almost always initiated spontaneously by workers everywhere, there was no unified organization, and the British authorities suppressed it again and again, and this intermittent disturbance continued until the 20s of the 19th century, and there were still riots under the banner of 'General Lourdes'.

Although the Swain riot did not carry the banner of 'General Ludd', they only changed the banner to 'Captain Swain', and the methods of the riot were of course still old-fashioned.

However, the Tories cabinet headed by the Duke of Wellington was unusually quiet about the 'Swayn riot', although they still sent military police to restore order in the riot area.

But at the same time, they have also uncharacteristically stated that they will not send army troops to suppress as long as the situation does not continue to expand.

And in the days that followed, things became more and more magical.

Almost at the same time as the Swayn riots, Lord Suffield delivered a speech in the House of Lords on the advancement of the 'establishment of a land sharing system'.

He proposed that 50 acres of land should be set aside in various dioceses of the country as land and rented to landless hired farmers at low prices, stressing that this would not only effectively reduce poverty and increase the employment rate of agricultural workers, but also ease the conflict between hired farmers and landed farmers.

It is true that Lord Suffield had made similar suggestions many times before, but this one was a success.

The Speaker of the House of Lords was not sparing even words of praise for Lord Suffield's vision as an outstanding, brilliant and creative proposal.

He also said that although he had heard the proposal from Mr. Lord many times, each one of them was fresh in his memory.

Just eight days after Lord Suffield's speech in the House of Lords, Briscoe, a member of the House of Commons, also expressed his support for Lord Suffield's initiative in the House of Commons, and intended to put forward a feasible bill on the relevant issues.

For the first time since Arthur came to this country, he felt that the House of Commons of Great Britain was such a powerful institution.

The Tories Party, which has always been known for its conservatives, suddenly made a 180-degree turn, which caught the Whigs, who had long been preparing to impeach the cabinet, off guard.

With the nodding of both parties at the same time, the implementation of the land sharing system has almost become an irreversible foregone conclusion.

The specific time of promulgation is only a matter of the time of the legislation.

This is the first time since the end of the Napoleonic Wars that the House of Commons has seen such a harmonious scene.

Elder clutched his stomach and clapped his hands and laughed, which had almost contracted his joke for the day.

"As the newspapers say, the donkeys really don't bark."

As for Arthur, he touched his chin as if he saw something in it.

Suddenly, he understood something, and Arthur smiled and took the newspaper from Held's hand.

He muttered, "It seems that sometimes, when the whip is used well, it can still make them pull the grinding disc." ”