I was a god in the 18th century

Chapter 433: Discovering a New Base Camp

In the third week after arriving in London, Xia Qingdai and Owen received an invitation from the court, inviting them to attend the spring court ball to be held in a few days.

Xia Qingdai decided to squeeze out time to attend the event despite her busy schedule. After all, the palace ball was rare, because she had already planned to go on a diplomatic mission to the Qing Dynasty this year.

The British royal family may have learned from the French royal family's lesson and is not very keen on holding luxurious balls. This time, the ball is definitely not just a simple spring social ball.

In addition to royal nobles, many government officials will also participate.

This is a rare opportunity to witness history, and Xia Qingdai must catch it and join in the fun.

According to history, by August this year, France will be in complete chaos. France's former King Louis XVI will be arrested and eventually sent to the guillotine. This incident will have far-reaching impacts throughout Europe and even the world. After the news spread, the royal families of various countries were in danger and their hedonism was restrained a lot.

After that, Europe fell into chaos and war, and luxurious court balls would probably not appear again for a year or two.

Xia Qingdai remembered reading that period of history. The reason for the trial of Louis XVI was that the revolutionaries believed that the ruler could not be innocent and that any king was a betrayer and usurper. In order to consolidate the foundation of the newly born republic, Louis XVI, who represented the royal power, had to die.

The death of Louis XVI marked the end of the French monarchy, and also gave the United States the opportunity to default on a huge debt - because the debt was an independent matter at the time, and the United States borrowed from the Louis Dynasty. Since the Louis Dynasty was destroyed, there was naturally no need to repay it.

The United States said it did not recognize the new French government's right to succession to the French royal family.

As a spectator, Xia Qingdai was indifferent to the quarrels among the great powers and had no intention of changing history.

But if she had enough free time, she would be willing to give some financial support to the newly established French Republic so that they could go to the United States to collect the debt. Unfortunately, she was too busy and did not have the time to go to France to appear in the spirit.

The British royal court, which had always been the mortal enemy of the French royal court, was also not happy about the death of Louis XVI. The first country in world history to chop off the head of a king was Britain.

As a monarch of a kingdom with such a history, it is inevitable that they will feel sad for their own kind and grief for the loss of the rabbit. And it is not just the royal family that is dissatisfied, the British people also generally express disgust at this.

Historically, the British government reacted the fastest. As soon as the news of Louis XVI's accident reached London, Parliament issued an ultimatum to French ambassador Talleyrand, ordering him to leave Britain unconditionally within a week.

British Prime Minister Pitt, who is in the same boat with the current British royal family, publicly mourned the fate of Louis XVI in the House of Commons, calling the incident an atrocity against religion, justice and humanity, and calling France a country that disregards the law.

Of course, all this has not happened yet. It is the calm period before the storm, so Xia Qingdai decided to cherish every opportunity to attend a palace ball.

In order to get as many credits as possible in her freshman year, Xia Qingdai grabbed elective courses, including not only the ballroom dancing class that would give her good points, but also a course on the national conditions of Spanish-speaking countries.

Attending a court ball can also be considered immersive learning.

In the new semester, Xia Qingdai was quite busy. Because Mr. Liang felt that her theoretical knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine was improving rapidly, he decided to let her speed up and start copying prescriptions from her teacher on weekends. Even if Mr. Liang himself was not free on some weekends, he would let Xia Qingdai go to the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangda University to study with the senior brother who had become the director. If even the senior brother was not free, then she would go to the Chinese Medicine Hospital to study with other senior brothers and sisters in the classroom, so that she would not be idle.

As a result, Xia Qingdai could appear less and less in the 18th century, which meant that she could squeeze out some free time every night. This was thanks to the fact that her body evolved and her need for sleep decreased, and she squeezed out some leisure time from sleep.

This London court ball, like other balls, was scheduled at night, which corresponds to the modern daytime, and it was not the weekend, which happened to be the time when Xia Qingdai had classes.

It was unfortunate in terms of timing, but Xia Qingdai, who had not participated in any Eighteenth Century activities for a long time, tried every means to attend.

Classes can be made up, but court dances are not common under special circumstances. Xia Qingdai resolutely claimed to be sick and skipped classes for the day.

Unlike the relatively secluded life in Fucui Villa, there are quite a few people in London who are eyeing Xia Qingdai's villa.

Xia Qingdai's elusive behavior is very suspicious.

But because of the experience of last year's tracking and sneak attack, which caused the wrath of the Owen family's patron god, Thunder. Even if someone had doubts about Xia Qingdai's whereabouts, they didn't dare to follow too closely, because they were really scared.

The bloody rain on the hills outside London still makes the Royal Guards feel frightened when they recall it.

But here, when Xia Qingdai traveled between two time and space, she did more on the surface than in Fucui Villa. In such a big city like London, it was easy to hide.

She now has a little favorable impression of the city of London.

The city villa she bought from a British nobleman gave her the illusion of being at home. After six months, she discovered that a large number of her followers had quietly developed here.

Needless to say, those former Blackface gang members who completely surrendered to Owen and acted as his black gloves. There are also many people who have suffered from the flood in London. I wonder if this can be considered Stockholm syndrome?
In short, in London, Xia Qingdai could replenish her faith power just like she did in Fucui Villa. This made Xia Qingdai very happy, and she even asked Owen to give away the "divine things" she had fed him several times.

She is different from some of the gods that Westerners pray to every day. As a "Chinese God", she must know how to show her powers.

Because the Chinese people believe that "spiritual beings come first", idle gods cannot be included in the list of gods. Even if you are the daughter of the Jade Emperor, you have to weave clouds and mist and be the patron saint of textile workers.

After several distributions of giant potato chips, unimaginably large fish fillets, and dried shrimps, more and more people in London began to secretly believe in the true God.

The people in the parish were certainly not completely ignorant of the missionary activities in their own territory, but unlike other pagans, it was ultimately human desire that was at work.

But the true god with the Eastern God Loong as his mount is a real evil god. Even the king surrendered to the Owen family and conferred two earl titles in a row. How could ordinary bishops and priests dare to provoke him?

Therefore, in London, although the Owen family was not as all-powerful as they were in Fucui Villa, they were definitely aloof from the rest of the world. Other nobles dared to talk behind their backs, but they were very polite to each other in person. Owen had a little face wherever he went.