Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 40 Dr. Jones
  With the social changes brought about by the emergence of the steam engine, Longton has expanded its urban area several times in less than a hundred years.

A considerable part of these newly expanded urban areas were built spontaneously by new citizens who were transformed from farmers who lost their land. They lacked effective municipal planning and also lacked supporting living facilities.

Dirty and chaotic, this is the first impression given by these new urban areas.

After all, the expansion of Langton's municipal departments has not kept pace with the development of the city. Ensuring environmental sanitation and social security in the aristocratic and wealthy areas is already a task that requires their full efforts.

As for these civilian areas? It is all they can do to set up a management department in a city district, set up a water supply point for each street, and arrange for horse-drawn carriages to transport accumulated garbage and excrement instead of piling them on the streets.

And this was because the nobles felt that Langton City, as the capital of the empire, would be detrimental to the image of the empire if the outer cities were filled with sewage and excrement, so they allocated a special sum of money.

However, with the development of Longton, some old towns that have been established for a long time have undergone some changes.

After all, those who caught up with the changing times in the early days have reaped the dividends of the changing times and made some money in their pockets. They are planning to renovate their own stores and factories around them, improve the business environment, attract more customers, and improve their lives at the same time. The conditions are also what they should be.

Therefore, these places are relatively less dirty. There are brick sidewalks on both sides of the streets, and the roads are also paved with gravel, so they won't look like muddy ponds when it rains.

The houses on the streets have also been replaced by solid houses made of bricks and stones, instead of the leaky piles of rocks in the past, or even worse wooden shacks.

Even the sanitation of the streets is cleaned by dedicated personnel hired by the merchants. It looks quite like a wealthy area.

However, the background is insufficient. The windows of the buildings on both sides of the street are still wooden fences, not the glass windows of real wealthy areas. The difference between the two is enough to distinguish these areas called new towns from the real Langton wealthy areas. What a difference there is between the human areas.

Let alone compare it with the truly wealthy aristocratic district of Langton.

But even so, for the small businessmen living here and the middle-income people with decent formal jobs, this place has distinguished them from the "lower people" in the civilian areas, allowing them to call themselves so-called middle class.

They began to imitate the consumption and life of the upper class, gritting their teeth and buying expensive fashionable clothes and luxury goods that they may need to save for a year to afford. They imitated the aristocratic lifestyle, euphemistically known as "Life mood", thinking that one has stepped into the threshold of upper class society.

However, in fact, for the real upper class, they are not worth mentioning at all, or the upper class does not accept them.

Their so-called "sentiment of life" is nothing but self-entertainment.

The reason is also very simple. For the really rich and noble people, they never feel how great they are just because of a piece of clothing.

Clothes become fashionable because they wear them, not because they wear them.

Moreover, for the so-called middle class, luxuries that require saving for a year to afford are just daily consumption for the aristocrats. You can’t say that a person who can buy one piece of clothing a year has the same consumption level as a person who can buy a hundred items a month, right?

Although for the nobles and wealthy businessmen, it is only in the past few decades that they have lived a truly luxurious life, it does not prevent them from looking down on the so-called middle class who, to put it bluntly, are crowned by monkeys.

But its existence is reasonable, and the middle class and new urban areas will not disappear because the nobles and rich look down upon them.

On the contrary, they have gradually increased in Langton City and even have the tendency to form a new class.

So much so that when James helped Perficott meet with the exploration team, they chose a cafe in the new city instead of the more respectable wealthy area or the aristocratic area that was more in line with Perficott's status.

However, Purficott didn't care about this. Although she was from a noble family, she was not particular about these so-called extravagances.

Although for the sake of comfort, all her underwear is made of luxurious oriental silks, and the clothes she often wears are also luxurious materials such as velvet and high-count wool. When traveling, she has Langton's unique alchemy carriage.

But if you just look at Perfectcott's style, you really can't feel the luxury.

Although the walking stick she carries is inlaid with the Philosopher's Stone, the pocket watch hanging on her chest can buy a street in the new city.

"Salute to you, the Honorable Lady Brandlis." A well-dressed middle-aged gentleman with glasses and a bookish look on his face greeted Purficott.

Purficott also nodded to him in a friendly manner and called his name accurately: "Hello Dr. Henry Jones, I have read your research article on Eastern civilization, and I have to say that it is extremely wonderful. There are some minor mistakes though.”

Having said this, Purficott showed a smile on his face and said meaningfully to Dr. Jones: "I don't think you have ever been to the Eastern countries in person. The contents described in the article all come from those who said they have been." An adventurer from the East?”

"Ah, I have indeed never been to the East. Is it so obvious?" Dr. Jones raised his eyebrows in embarrassment, but still had a smile on his face.

This was not Purficott exposing his shortcomings, but just a means of chatting to get closer.

"It's very simple. When you visit other people's homes in Eastern countries, there is usually no hostess to entertain you. Being able to let you see the female family members at home is called 'family-friendly' in the East." Purficott He smiled and pointed out some minor loopholes in Dr. Jones's article, and then said: "Of course, there are special circumstances, but under normal circumstances, it is still difficult to meet other people's women.

In particular, it is rare for someone like Victor to have dinner with the other party's family members. If I remember correctly, according to the customs of Eastern countries, female family members are not allowed to serve at the table unless the relationship between you and the host's family is close enough. Moreover, it is a private visit and not a formal guest. "

"Is that so? It seems that the next time I write an article, I really need to conduct a field trip." Dr. Jones was very generous, and then talked about the focus of the meeting: "I wonder if Her Majesty the Baroness is willing to sponsor ?"

(End of this chapter)