Chapter 141 The Story of Two Cities

Dickens's novel "The Tale of the Two Cities" was very popular. The Twin Cities here refer to the grudges between London and Paris. Britain and France have been around for a long time, sometimes eased and sometimes tense, but the fates of these two cities are closely linked, and they are too close in geographical location.

In Tangning's planning, in the near future, public transportation will be divided into three levels, urban transportation, mainly bicycles, which is an affordable mode of transportation for everyone. Ordinary people can easily ride 15 kilometers per hour under normal circumstances. If this number exceeds this, people will not be willing to use bicycles. At this time, the mainline bus planned by Tangning will debut.

The so-called trunk line is a line that is not too close to the station. In the plan, there is only one trunk station every 5 kilometers on average. There is also a highlight. The public can take bicycles to the trunk bus. The buses are specially optimized for taking bicycles. After boarding the bus, the front of the bicycle can be raised and securely fixed to the special lever. Taking bicycles on the bus will not only not increase the price, but also receive a 50% discount. Round table knights are encouraged to use bicycles more easily, happy and environmentally friendly tools. After the trunk bus station comes out, you can travel comfortably within a radius of dozens of kilometers, truly bringing a good experience to the citizens.

Now many copycat versions of bicycles have been released. They have changed the design to less infringement and launched it to the market at a low price. They still buy it out at one time, which seems much more cost-effective than the annual rental form of the Round Table Knight. Tangning strongly promotes the trunk bus that can go to the Round Table Knight bicycle, which is to increase the added value for the Round Table Knight and continue to maintain its dominant position. Users will eventually find that with the benefits of trunk traffic, the Round Table Knight is still more cost-effective and convenient than other copycat bikes, which is also difficult to copy.

The third floor is long-distance travel transportation, which is composed of airships and suspended rail transit. Don't engage in duplicate construction. Tangning, a place with developed railways, does not intend to grab their business. The advantage of airships is that they do not need ground construction, and there is almost no noise, so they can easily enter the city's center. It can also easily cross areas with huge mountainous areas like Switzerland. Even poor mountainous areas have transportation needs. Using long-distance airship transportation with long distances can greatly improve the transportation in mountainous areas.

A more efficient large market lays the foundation. The trans-ocean airship is another matter. This is the next development task. To build a large airport and complete the task with a semi-buoyancy airship with huge wings, it will be large in size. Not any small airship can carry out intercontinental travel, which is too slow. A airship with long wings will exceed 200 meters in length, and its wingspan will not be shorter than that of future Boeing passenger aircraft. Its speed will reach more than 300 kilometers, and its energy consumption will still have the unique advantages of airships.

Many people do not understand the principle of wings producing lift. If you look at a mature wing carefully, you will find that it is always curved on top and planes on bottom. This is the mystery. When the air passes through the curved surface, the path of the air is longer, and the air above and below always reaches the tail at the same time. This means that the speed of the air above must run faster than the bottom. The faster it runs, the less pressure it will on the wing. The air below exceeds the top, thereby generating lift. This is the magical principle of wings.

The risk of stalling of airships with helium supporting most of the buoyancy is greatly reduced, and can be forced to land at a relatively safe speed in emergencies, so it is more reliable and controllable in this regard than the ordinary fixed-wing aircraft we see now.

Airships with large wings may be considered the fourth floor of the bus. The difficulty of research and development will specifically test the airship team, and it cannot be handled in one or two years.

Downing also thought that the statement of "The Tale of the Two Cities" would make the relationship between Britain and France better. Unexpectedly, he learned about the relevant content, which seemed to be about the French Revolution, and then the civilians persecuted by the nobles were forced to flee to London. This was Dickens boasting that Britain was more than French civilization, which might make the French more popular. In any case, at a party at the Little Dutch House Literary Club, he finally met the great writer Dickens. Dickens was even more content because of the recent hot sale of "The Tale of the Two Cities" and brought his good friend Andersen, the Danish fairy tale writer. Haha, it was really easy to get it. He also wanted to get Andersen's consent for the creativity of the brand name "Ice Queen". Of course, the benefits are also great.

Andersen is an ugly duckling in reality. His father is a shoemaker, but he has literary dreams. It is the worst thing that he has dreams but fails to gain something. His father was depressed for life and placed all his hopes on his son. His poor father had to go to Napoleon's army as a mercenary. His hard military career broke his body and died shortly after he was discharged from the army. Andersen, a young man in the small town, traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark at the age of 14. He had a lot of ambitions, but he was suffering from cruel reality like a 99% boy who had dreams.

Balzac believed that only by writing novels without inspiration can he engage in drama and other side-by-sides. Andersen could not step into the palace of literature in one step. He studied dance. When he was 16 years old, he also played a role in the same dance drama with the famous ballet dancer Madame Anna Margaret Schal.

He studied at the Music School affiliated to the Royal Opera House, but later he was forced to drop out of school because of a problem with his throat. He wanted to make a living through writing and be a "free writer". However, the poems and novels he wrote were not appreciated, and criticism and hurt deeply hurt him, almost at the end of his life. He once described the situation at that time: "I can't say a word, and I was washed away by the huge waves. I felt deeply hurt by the sharp knife, because I was abandoned by people at this time and I was on the verge of despair. I could not tolerate the sarcasm of others to me. Whenever those whom I loved deeply also whip me viciously, I felt that those whips were simply scorpion tail whips."

The young migrant worker in the capital suffered great tests of survival and spiritual tempers, but he finally defeated his destiny. When he found a way to fully demonstrate his wisdom, talent and fantasy genius in the fairy tale world, his literary path suddenly became so open and open.

Logically speaking, a hard-working atheist doesn't like fairy tales, but the Duke has never played according to common sense. He really likes it, or he thinks that accommodating this wild magical fantasy is in line with his aesthetic view. At this time, Andersen was already in his fifties and had long been famous all over the world and was not short of money. After receiving the invitation from the Duke, he generously expressed in his not very smooth English that Tangning could use the brand creativity of "Ice and Snow Queen" for free.

Just kidding, is the big tyrant a habit of taking advantage of others? Since my brother is so generous, the rich duke is ready to repay his favor and hire Andersen as the cultural director of the cold drink chain store and owns 1% of the shares. At this time, no one thought how amazing the 1% stock was. This was what Tangning planned to monopolize agricultural products such as chocolate beans and coffee beans in South America.

The goal of the Snow Queen is to become a transnational cultural symbol like Starbucks, although this sounds a bit strange. Downing has too many promotion chips in his hands, such as: he can open the first Snow Queen and flagship store in Paris, and use his visit to Paris to present signature ice cream to the French Emperor and Queen. Hehe, let Eugenie become the Snow Queen and accidentally become the brand spokesperson. This intoxicating and innovative chocolate product with milk can definitely be expected to be popular.

After observing the performance of Napoleon III, Downing judged that he was not a hero who dared to take risks, so he dared to go to Paris. He was recently officially nominated by the Duke of London and agreed by the Queen. The Queen also personally sent it to the port before his visit. All this means that the Duke of London and London are safe from the close relationship between the Duke of London and the reasonableness.

After everything was arranged, he took the team of the Snow Queen and set off. His car was the East India Company Navy No. 1. This warship was no different from the Big East on the surface, but who knows what secret weapons the Duke arranged on it?

France is a hard Catholic country. Fortunately, the emperor controlled the newspaper and instructed the newspaper to say a lot of good things before the Duke of London visited. Napoleon III had seen the terrible black technology of Swiss precision instruments. He did not dare to make any mistakes unless he had to. He also sent the most loyal army to the port to protect it. Finally, the emperor and the queen welcomed the duke and duchess with the etiquette of the head of state at the Palace of Versailles. The Leica camera with continuous improvement in imaging quality recorded a historic moment. The "No. 1 Beauty in Europe" that was as famous as the queen and the duchess finally stood together.

"I didn't expect we would meet again so soon!"

"I really didn't expect it!"

Handshake gift.

On the surface, the two enemies have abandoned their past grudges and are intimate.

The Palace of Versailles is undoubtedly a luxurious palace with a long history, which is more famous than the Duke of London in the Palace of Sitau. The Duke envied Napoleon III to live here.

Downing's favorite is also the most famous hall of Versailles - the Mirror Hall. It is converted from an open corridor. It is 76 meters long, 13 meters high and 10.5 meters wide. On one side is 17 huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows facing the garden, and on the other side is a huge mirror composed of more than 400 mirrors. The floor in the hall is carved with wood, the walls are decorated with lilac and white marble veneers, and the columns are green marble. The heads, pillars and the guard wall are all brass-golded gold-plated. The theme of the decorative pattern is the sun with wings spreading, indicating the reverence of Louis XIV. On the ceiling are 24 huge Bohemian crystal chandeliers, as well as oil paintings praising the merits of the Sun King. In the east of the hall are four doors leading to the King's Bedroom. In the era of Louis XIV, the furniture and bonsai decorations in the mirror gallery were also made of sterling silver, and grand masquerades are often held here.

Tangning: "I like this hall of mirrors, Emperor, His Majesty the Queen, do you know why?"

Napoleon III still doesn't know why Downing visited Paris. Downing's past actions made people think that he would not come to Paris simply for tourism. III didn't know anything, so he could only say: "I hope to hear it carefully."

After years of experience, Tang Ning, who already has a French talent, has now said it very well: "Because I have a small gift to give to you and the queen, the name of the small gift is 'Magic Mirror Fragment'."

In the book "The Snow Queen", the magic mirror is different from the magic mirror of Snow White's stepmother. It is even more evil. As long as you are stabbed by the fragments of the magic mirror, people will become deteriorated.

The exquisite gift box was presented by the assistant and opened it. The royal photographer quickly caught the photo. It turned out to be several ice cream drums, including a pair of black chocolate chips inlaid on them, symbolizing the fragments of the magic mirror!

Andersen's fairy tales are quite controversial. Some people think that his language is not the language of writers at all. The fantasies in it are also ridiculous and will cause trouble to the formation of children's worldview. Napoleon III has never read such a book. Tangning explained: "This is the most powerful queen in the Danish fairy tale writer Andersen's work "The Snow Queen" is the fragment of the magic mirror. Be careful, who will still become extremely evil after eating it. Unless the person who eats it has true love in his heart, the evil ice can melt, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable. Your Majesty, Queen, do you dare to eat it?"

All the ministers and nobles present laughed, and some people wanted Xuanbin to take the emperor as the emperor's tasting substitute.

Later, the photos of the brave French queen trying out fragments of magic mirrors became the favorite of the front page headlines of mainstream French newspapers, as if proving that Eugenie had true love in her heart.

At this time, Mr. Andersen, who was accompanying him, had already felt that his 1% Ice Queen stock seemed not so simple, and this kind of marketing promotion was really...

This is a piece of cake, and the later program will be exciting. In short, after some secret talks, I don’t know what method the Duke used to convince Eugenie to become one of the spokespersons of the Snow Queen. Uh, it’s one, there are two queens in total. How dare the Duke forget his wife? Isn’t you afraid to kneel down the ice cone when you go home?

What's even more incredible is that the first flagship store of the Snow Queen was approved by the emperor and was set up in the Palace of Versailles! Damn, did our emperor really get hurt by the magic mirror broken card? The puzzled Parisians representatives from all walks of life were invited to the Palace of Versailles to attend the flagship store unveiling ceremony. The two Snow Queens were going to show everyone their magic.

It's real magic!

Under the gaze of everyone, the Duke's assistant brought out a model of a fairy tale town that had been prepared in London. The most unique feature of this exquisitely made town is that the scattered houses are surrounded by soft springs. Since this model is as big as 25 square meters, it is so pleasing to the eye.

Everyone thought this was the most exciting part of the show, but they expected that the two ice and snow queens were about to show their magic just now. They were standing together like a pair of sisters, closing their beautiful eyes, as if they were brewing casting time. (http:///.). Five seconds later, Eugenie and Sissi looked at each other, and at the same time, slowly touching the surface of the spring with their delicate right palm.

Everyone didn't know what the two queens were pounding, and they both stared with their eyes widened and the magic appeared - the spring water actually started to freeze from the place where the palms of the two ice and snow queens touched!

Ah! The timid little girl even hugged her mother's thigh. There is really magic.

The spring water surrounding the town slowly freezes! The small river that was still flowing just now was frozen under the magic of the two snow queens.

All the onlookers who were not sure of the truth were stunned and shocked, this... this...

The audience, who were originally happy, all their chins fell off, and half of the Catholics cut crosses on their chests.

Queen Eugenie said seriously: "Yes, you see, magic is real!"
Chapter completed!