Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

Fei Dinanzijue suddenly started to miss home. He missed his home in Paris a lot, but he also missed that beautiful city in Paris. If he had to find a miracle that Ferdinand was most proud of, then his first choice would be the underground water system in Paris.

Where is the conscience of a city? Underground, out of sight, and Paris is the most important country in Europe for sewer construction.

No matter how bad this emperor's reputation was, at least in the construction of Paris, Ferdinand had a lot of respect for him.

It was because of the great transformation made by Napoleon III that Paris had become the cleanest city in Europe at that time.

All the streets were lined with flagstones, gas lamps hung in rows among the parasol trees, and the waters of the Seine became clearer and clearer in the center of the city. Bridges connected the two sides of the river, and carvings were scattered throughout the city.

No dirty water, garbage, stink... The noble district was as beautiful as a garden in the sky. Even the environment of the slums was comparable to the living quarters of the middle class of other countries.

Ferdinand was very clear that all of this was a symbol of the soft power of a nation. Something beautiful could attract the attention of the entire world, allowing Paris to have a kind of cultural leading effect.

Although Britain is British Empire, but in terms of European cultural power, only France, only Paris.

There were also practical benefits from the great city transformation. Ever since the city's environment had changed, there had not been a single plague in Paris in the past ten years. There was only the changing cold from typhoid fever.

who had received a high education finally understood the subtle relationship between hygiene and plague through Doctor Ba Ke's science. It turned out that the bacteriology, which was located at the edge of the field, could actually have such a huge effect.

To go against the first rule, intelligent people would naturally understand some things from the other party's words. Ferdinand suddenly thought back to the Empire's investigation of the Ryukyu's intelligence reports.

In the intelligence network, the basic city construction of the Ryukyu was not inferior to that of Paris. Although it was not as big as Paris, it was said that the whole city's sanitation was greater than that of Paris.

But today, the medical team led by Doctor Ba Ke shocked him even more. From the skills of these Chinese people, he knew that, at the very least, in the research of the bacteriology, the Chinese were no weaker than the Europeans.

This was a very worrisome matter, and it meant that Xiao Letian was already deliberately raising the country's soft power, and was using this influence to attract more attention, and to make use of this civilization's difference to affect the hearts of the people.

What a terrifying opponent! Just a casual miss from the medical team today already made Ferdinand feel a strong pressure, because he was a noble. He was naturally very sensitive to this kind of invisible power.

Suddenly, Fei Dinanzijue raised his hand and stopped Doctor Ba Ke from speaking. Dear Mr. Ba Ke, I have roughly heard what you have said. However, I have a question.

Ba Ke didn't know that this was a test but said proudly, "Of course, of course I strictly followed such hygiene regulations. You must know that many regulations exist in the Chinese cities as laws!"

"The network of sewer systems ensures that the sewage won't flow freely. Some of the streets even attract sea water to clean the toilet feces …"

"People have long been forced into the habit of drinking hot water. In that city, teahouses are not the most common places. Anyone can buy very cheap hot tea at any time, so there's no chance of a drinking hot water epidemic …"

There are red cuff s on the streets that are organized by the officials, they are specially used to investigate illegal acts such as spitting on the ground, throwing garbage around, etc. The high fines are enough to make a middle-class merchant's flesh ache, if it is serious, they will even be sentenced to hard labour!

Not to mention that Chinese medicine pays great attention to the relationship between climate and the body. Generally speaking, when the weather is changing drastically, Chinese medicine will always prescribe a maintenance medicine, and the local authorities will distribute free green beans in the summer to prevent sunstroke. In the winter, there will also be some warm tonics to prevent typhoid fever …

The more Ba Ke spoke, the more proud he became, but the more Ferdinand heard, the more frightened he became, because he knew clearly that such a strong and soft power in culture was extremely difficult to defeat. You could defeat an enemy's army with your guns, but an enemy's global soft power could not be wiped out by war.

Because humans always had an instinctive desire to pursue the happiest of all! It was just like the British British Empire. No matter how arrogant he was, when it came to food, wine, and clothing, even wine, including the most popular clothing, he had to lower his head to Paris.

And Paris, through these luxury goods industry's final price, also made a lot of money in Europe. This was the France's soft power.

In the simplest instance, wine originated in the ancient Greece, in the Roman region, and was brought by the Romans to all of Europe. However, the final top-grade wine was produced in France.

A wine culture that is world-famous has established a deep-rooted sense of authority in the minds of the world's drinkers. With this sense of authority, the French had the right to set the price of red wine.

This is terrible. When a country has absolute pricing power over a particular commodity, then it has a more lucrative profit than a monopoly.

Ferdinand couldn't figure out what kind of movements the Chinese were, but he knew very clearly in his heart that Xiao Letian must be making some kind of breakthrough.

"No, I have to submit a report to His Majesty. This group of Chinese is too big, and we have to eliminate them as soon as possible. Otherwise, Western Civilization will not be able to continue expanding in Asia, we have to stop these Chinese!"

Thinking about that, Ferdinand nodded his head: Thank you, thank you for your efforts on behalf of the people here, I have already memorized your plans, because you still have to pass through Suez Canal, I will not keep you here for the feast, I hope that we can meet in Paris one day!

Hm! Ba Ke was startled, he could hear the perfunctory tone in Ferdinand's words, and the most important part was that the viscount did not use his pen to record it down, so his own Plague Control skill was extremely detailed and could not be memorized by listening from the side.

"Dear Consul... Please be sure to pay attention, otherwise within ten days at least a third of the people in this port will be infected with dysentery! "Those are thousands of lives …" The impatient Ba Ke actually extended his hand and grabbed Ferdinand's sleeve.

Ferdinand who was frowning deeply flung Ba Ke's hand away, looked at the White Gloves he was wearing and then thought about the examination they had conducted on the corpse, and felt waves of disgust in his heart.

"Dammit, how could you have touched me with a glove that touched a corpse!" After saying that, he took out his handkerchief and started wiping it with it.