Why so many people!?

Lu Shi handed the driver the fare, and then jumped out of the carriage with Natsume Soseki.

The crowd in front of me was like a mire, moving forward, but unusually slowly, looking down from the sky, like chewing gum stuck to the ground that had not yet completely dried up.

Lu Shi shouted: "Let go!" ”

While shouting, he squeezed into the crowd and stepped on the uppers of a dozen shoes at the same time.

The British gentlemen and ladies around them couldn't help but curse when they saw that Lu Shi and Natsume Soseki were East Asians, and words such as "rude" and "barbaric" kept coming.

Lu Shiquan has not heard of it,

Finally, he and Natsume Soseki arrived in front of the theater gate.

The doorman naturally knows the two,

"It's Mr. Lu and Mr. Natsume, please!"

So, in the attention of the British outside, Lu Shi and Natsume Soseki entered the Lyceum Theater.

The layout here is completely different from the first time I came, with gas lamps lit on both sides of the corridor, and the huge portraits on the walls on both sides are reflected brightly.

Henry Owen,

Gogland,

Salvini,

Stanislavsky,

……

A group of performance masters are painted to life.

Walk further ahead and come to the gate that leads to the interior of the theater.

Lu Shi pushed the door in.

At this time, the final arrangements were being made on the stage, and the field workers were busy and sweating.

Natsume Soseki patted Lu Shi's shoulder,

"There!"

Following his gaze, Lu Shi saw George Bernard Shaw smoking a pipe,

George Bernard Shaw was having a good conversation with a lady at this time, probably the aforementioned Ellen Terry.

Lu Shi was secretly speechless,

"Tsk...... Old is not ashamed. ”

He walked briskly.

George Bernard Shaw heard footsteps and turned his head,

"Lu, are you here?"

Lu Shi didn't wait for George Bernard Shaw's introduction, took the initiative to greet Terry, and then asked in a low voice, "Mr. Superintendent, what's going on outside?" When I look at the size of the queue, I feel like there must be more than 1,500 people in the audience today. ”

Terry smiled, "Does Mr. Lu have any misunderstanding about the Lyceum Theater?" ”

Lu Shi was stunned,

"Misunderstanding?"

Terry smiled even more and said, "After Sir Owen took over as manager, almost every show was full, and the scalpers were selling 'flying tickets' outside the cinema, and the ticket prices doubled, and the demand still outstripped. ”

As he spoke, Terry pointed at Lawton,

"Charles Lawton, Mr. Lu must already know him. Don't look at him like that, but he was highly praised by Sir Owen, and when he praised Charles, he called him 'the greatest young actor of all time'. ”

Terry means that the actors of the Lanxin Theater are all famous characters and are very popular.

Therefore, many of those people outside are trying their luck and waiting for scalpers.

George Bernard Shaw said to Terry, "The Lyceum Theatre is not only Charles and Henry, but also you, my beautiful Ellen. ”

Terry masks his lips,

"Xiao, you're really good at talking."

The two of them looked at each other, and their eyes looked like they were about to draw.

Vomit!

Lu Shi quickly staggered his gaze.

It was a long time before George Bernard Shaw said, "Moreover, it is a new ...... who is on stage today."

Before he finished speaking, he heard the door of the theater burst open.

A cacophony of chatter erupted.

I saw the crowd rushing in, and even a few ladies broke their heels.

In 1900, tickets were sold according to the division of the area, so people would come to line up as early as possible to find the best spot in their chosen area.

Of course, the better the viewing area, the higher the ticket price.

George Bernard Shaw nodded to Terry,

"You go first."

Terry bowed to Lu Shi and George Bernard Shaw, and then walked backstage,

In Yes! Prime Minister, she plays Dorothy Wayne Wright, a supporting female character and Jim's political adviser.

George Bernard Shaw led Lu Shi and Natsume Soseki to the second floor,

"Let's get back to what we just said."

Lu Shi said: "You said that what is on the stage today is a new play, and with the blessing of Lyceum Theater and Sir Owen, people are very curious. ”

George Bernard Shaw shook his head,

"It's more than that. Think about it, what's the name of your play? ”

Lu Shi was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized,

The 1900 plays, all with ordinary names, are "Mrs. Warren's Profession", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "Mrs. Windermere's Fan......

It's just a bunch of indestructible stuff.

But Lu Shi wrote "Yes! Prime Minister", made everything change,

This name is concise and to the point, but also directly points out the "prime minister", the head of the cabinet, which is very eye-catching.

It's similar to the previous book review in the Manchester Guardian.

George Bernard Shaw said: "So, it is natural that there are many audiences. ”

With that, the three of them had already entered the private room.

Not long after they were seated, the drama officially began.

As the plot unfolds, a group of actors appear in turn.

Charles Lawton as Jim Haacker,

Henry Owen as Humphrey Appleby,

Inokenti Holman as Bernard Wooley,

……

In the original play, Jim first visited the Department of Defense, asking questions about nuclear weapons, and then used this inspection as an excuse to lead to follow-up matters.

But in 1900 Britain did not even have a Ministry of Defense, let alone nuclear weapons.

Lu Shi changed it into a battleship.

Soon, the first paragraph in the script appeared, and it was also the first paragraph that Lu Shi told to George Bernard Shaw.

——

Humphrey: Berner, what do you think is the purpose of the British government's defence policy?

Bernard: Defending Britain, of course.

Humphrey: No, Berner, the purpose of defence policy is to make people "believe" that the government is defending Britain.

Bernard: People? Who? German?

Humphrey: Not German! It's British! The Germans, of course, knew that Britain was not protected.

——

As soon as this joke came out, there was an eerie silence in the theater at first,

Then the hall burst into laughter.

In fact, the current British Empire is undoubtedly the strongest on the surface of the earth, and its military strength is the highest in the world, and there is no such thing as "Britain is not protected".

However, the liberal media propagated day by day:

Bloodstained! Battle of Mount Tarana, the British army was annihilated, with a loss of 465 people! 》

"Hindering International View, Great Britain Centrifuge, Dutch, Belgian, German, French, American...... More civilizations are fighting alongside the Boers"

Are howitzers a supply for someone else? The Battle of Ladysmith cost us 10 cannons》

……

Tell a lie a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand times, and someone will believe it eventually.

What's more, this is not a lie, it is a fact,

It's just part of the fact, or part of the fact.

As a result, the citizens of London generally sprouted white left, forgetting that their privileged life had been robbed from backward countries, and they all wanted to put on their clothes again, and evolved from barbarians who burned and plundered to reasonable civilized people.

This perception gives the satire the soil to grow.

And the land time was very smart, and the battleship was chosen as the entry point,

The battleship is a symbol of the "Giant Ship Cannon Doctrine", which was born in the era of sails and began to change in 1860.

However, the battleship was broken between 1870 ~ 1890, and it was only revived in 1890.

You know, the period from 1890 to 1900 was only ten years, and the views of the citizens of London were still stuck in the past-

Battleships are giant fools built with taxpayers' money.

This view was not eradicated until World War I.

The audience laughed so much that laughter seemed to be able to tear down the roof,

The actors on stage even had to pause their performances and wait for the laughter to pass before the rest of the theater could be heard.

George Bernard Shaw's face was full of excitement,

"Lu, we become ...... No, it should be you, you succeeded! ”

Lu Shi nodded,

He looked at the audience who couldn't stop laughing because of the battleship jokes, and sighed silently,

armament is wasted,

Armament is slack......