It's early November,

London was getting colder, and the morning fog was thick, forcing the patrolmen to put on their capes and patrol the morning fog.

In this atmosphere, "Guns, Germs and Steel" is on the right track.

Because the Telegraph sent a column to Lu Shi only once a week, the Daily Telegraph only sent out an issue when the Manchester Guardian had already begun to publish Chapter 10.

But even so, Lu Shi still came to prominence.

It's no longer just fiction readers, more and more people in the upper echelons are starting to talk about the name Lu.

……

Buckingham Palace.

Queen Victoria had just finished washing up and was having morning tea,

There was the sound of brisk footsteps outside the door.

A young girl rushed into the room and said, "Grandmother, the Manchester Guardian is here today, and Lu's article." ”

The queen smiled,

"Okay, show me. I used Mr. Lu's article to accompany the meal. ”

During this time, Margarita accompanied the queen to breakfast.

Margarita stepped forward briskly and handed the newspaper to the queen,

The queen looked at it, and found that there was only one, and the other pages had already been taken out.

"Is this what it is today?"

Margarita nodded,

"Yes."

So, the queen squinted and read.

Today's main title is a bit interesting, "The Vast Sky and the Skewed Axis",

The subtitle is much more straightforward, "Why Does Food Production Spread at Different Rates on Different Continents?" 》。

"Well, interesting."

The Queen studied carefully.

As she gets older, it is often difficult to concentrate, and she is easy to doze off when she does.

I don't know why, when I read Lu Shi's articles, I can always pay full attention, as if I have returned to that young and studious age.

When she finished reading the last paragraph, the queen was shocked to realize that more than an hour had passed.

The black tea in the cup is already cold.

The queen couldn't help but praise the festival: "It's really well written......"

As he spoke, he turned to Margarita on the side,

"This Chinese is truly magical."

Margarita smiled, picked up an empty porcelain cup, and poured hot tea again.

She asked in a low voice, "Grandmother, is the story of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire true?" It's a legend, even more exciting than Homer's epic. ”

Margarita's eyes sparkled with yearning.

The queen couldn't help but be distressed,

Margarita is good at everything, but her temperament is too wild, and like her mother, she always wants to achieve great things.

However, the queen herself has no position to say that people,

Since she succeeded to the throne, Britain has been at war everywhere, and the plundered wealth has achieved the great cause of the sun never setting.

No one is wilder than the Queen.

It's just that as she grows older, the queen begins to develop in the direction of conservatism, coupled with the continuous deepening of the constitutional monarchy, Buckingham Palace has begun to be marginalized, and the royal family has gradually become the mascot of the British Commonwealth.

The real political heart of London is now at the Palace of Westminster, Whitehall, and Downing Street.

The queen coughed lightly: "No matter how you look at it, that period of Spanish history should be true." ”

Margarita was stunned,

"You know?"

A smile appeared on the Queen's face,

"No, although my history is good, there are too many details in Mr. Lu's article, how can I know so clearly? I think that history is true because...... Hehe...... What do you think Britain did when it was in a foreign war? ”

The queen said the most iron-blooded words in the most benevolent tone.

Margarita showed a look of adoration,

But soon, she came back to her senses,

"My grandmother just said that there are many details in Mr. Lu's article, how did you say that he was a Chinese to figure out the history of Spain?"

The queen shook her head,

"I don't know."

Mysterious Chinese......

Margarita sighed silently, her thoughts drifting away,

Mr. Lu is really a humble person, well-read and talented, but when his grandmother threw an olive branch to him to be the tutor of the royal family, he bluntly refused, and seemed to have no idea about fame and fortune.

And, from his performance at the salon that day, it is not difficult to see that he is not without wrists,

Why are such people willing to hide in the countryside?

Margarita thought about her thoughts, staring unconsciously at the newspaper on the table, her eyes slowly losing focus.

The queen cleared her throat,

"Girl, pour me a cup of tea."

Margarita was in a daze and didn't hear it.

The queen raised her voice: "Girl, pour me a cup of tea!" ”

……

"Pour me a cup of tea."

Far away in Sweden, in an office at the University of Gothenburg, Rudolf Cheren is instructing someone to pour tea for him.

As a result, the colleague next to him complained: "Rudolph, are you stupid to read the newspaper?" I'm not your daughter-in-law. ”

Cheren then remembered that he was not at home.

He rubbed his nose awkwardly and said, "Have you read the Manchester Guardian?" I have to say that Britain is not all barbarians, there are so many levels. ”

Colleagues are curious,

"Haven't you always considered yourself a conservative? Why read the Manchester Guardian? ”

Cheren was even more embarrassed.

In fact, he has always used liberal newspapers as toilet reading, reading with, and not reading without,

So, it was purely by chance that I was able to read "Guns, Germs, and Steel".

But that was the only time that he read it completely, and after reading the first four chapters he squatted in the pit for a full three hours, and when he got up, his lower body was numb, and he almost fell into the pit.

After that, he took a telegram and sent it to a friend in London, who sent the newspaper regularly.

The colleague was curious: "Have a nice article?" ”

Cheren nodded,

He was a follower of Ratzel and believed that politics was highly bound to geography, or simply a spatial phenomenon inherent in the state.

Therefore, in his eyes, a country is equivalent to a territory and a territory, and it is a specific region with characteristics.

This is also the reason why Cheren became a conservative.

Unfortunately, his theory has no basis and has been criticized by many sociologists as a castle in the air.

But "Guns, Germs and Steel" gives enough basis with rigorous arguments, so that Chelon's ideas are no longer utopian, and have the possibility of landing.

For example, the part that has now been serialized,

It mentions two important premises for the origin of civilization:

1. There are large domesticable animals that can provide milk, meat, fur, and even transportation and military;

2. There are cultivable crops that can provide stable food.

Both of these are undoubtedly very territorial.

Although Cheren wanted to name his doctrine geopolitics in the future, which is a typical social discipline,

However, he believes that the content of the natural sciences about geography and ecology mentioned in "Guns, Germs and Steel" is the basis of politics.

Cheren closed the newspaper, and there was an emotion brewing in his heart,

Suddenly, he said, "No, I have to go to London." ”

Colleagues were dumbfounded.

Someone asked: "Rudolph, you are not really going to go to the enemy, are you?" ”

Cheren has been invited by many universities in the University of London to do political research and teach in the United Kingdom.

This is also the reason why colleagues joke about the phrase "defection to the enemy".

Cheren shook his head,

"I just feel like my future is in London...... No, I'll have to send a telegram to Xiao. ”

Colleagues looked at each other,

The future is in London?

Is this any different from defecting to the enemy?