I was a god in the 18th century

Chapter 319 Morning in Lilliput
After waking up from a good sleep, Xia Qingdai looked at the clock on the wall. It was five o'clock.

She stood up, changed out of her nightgown and returned to modern times. If her brother Xia Shanglu is lucky, he will get off work on time at 5:30.

Because he lived nearby, as long as he could get off work on time, Xia Shanglu could drive a donkey from his office to his home in ten minutes.

So Xia Qingdai had to prepare dinner quickly. After resting at home, she naturally had to cook for her brother so that he could have delicious and hot meals when he got home.

Just when she was about to open fire, she received a message from Xia Shanglu. He said that he was going out for mediation and would not get off work very early, so that she did not have to wait for him.

Although her brother wasn't coming back, Xia Qingdai didn't want to give in, so she still made herself a bowl of tomato beef brisket noodles that were both delicious and delicious.

The beef brisket is a finished product that has been baked before and is stored in the refrigerator for later use. You can add it to the dish anytime you want to eat it.

In terms of cooking skills, the Xia brothers and sisters are all very good at it, and a child without a mother will have to take charge early.

Halfway through eating, it suddenly became dark outside the window, accompanied by a whistling wind.

"Is a typhoon coming?"

Xia Qingdai put down her chopsticks and closed all the windows first. The wind blew the cold hair on her arms and she immediately stood on her head.

The thought of her brother having to go out in such weather made her a little worried, but there was nothing she could do.

The worse the weather, the more the people's police need to be on duty.

As soon as the National Day holiday is over, the cold air comes and the temperature drops sharply by several degrees. Maybe if you wore short-sleeves yesterday, those who are afraid of the cold will bring out the thin down today.

Walking on the street, you can see pedestrians wearing seasonal clothes. This is the characteristic of Jiangcheng.

When Xia Qingdai returned to modern times for dinner, Liszt was lying on the bed in the eighteenth-century Tao Le Manor, thinking about this oriental girl who had made him miserable.

In fact, he couldn't say how much he liked the other person, but he was used to going to a certain place to pick up the most beautiful girl in the place. This time he targeted Xia Qingdai but failed, which made him very unconvinced.

Owen, who is the master of the Villa, is not very sociable, so he has no reason to go to the Villa every day. He does not have many opportunities to meet Xia Qingdai, and he cannot give full play to his seduction skills.

They had joined each other's picnic party yesterday, and he could tell that they were not welcome.

This is really unreasonable.

What fun is there in the countryside if you don't socialize with neighbors, hold dance parties, and have barbecues? Do you spend time looking at cows, horses, flowers and grass every day?

Liszt sneered in his heart when he thought of how Xia Qingdai never looked at him, and he already had other ideas.

Not to mention that Liszt couldn't sleep early in the morning, thinking about things on the bedside, and there was bad water in his stomach.

After dealing with the unread messages in the modern era and climbing up the stairs to the inner disciple group, Xia Qingdai happily lay down in the glass jar and watched her Lilliputian country again!

It was only six o'clock in the morning in eighteenth-century terms, but there was already activity in the countryside.

It seems that farmers all over the world are the same. They go to work in the fields early in the morning and wait until the sun rises before going home to have breakfast. At this time, the idle squires and landlords were just about to get up.

"Dingling bell~"

As a crisp bell rang, Xia Qingdai saw a two-wheeled carriage suddenly appear from the edge of the glass jar, pulled by a horse.

This is the British postman who delivers newspapers and sometimes letters. Fortress Villa subscribes to the "Oxford Gazette" and "The Times", which makes many people speculate that Fortress Villa is really rich.

Because Mr. Macken, who was once the richest man in their town, only subscribed to one copy of The Times, while Fukuoka Villa subscribed to two copies!

At the end of the 18th century, even with the parallel tracks of the Industrial Revolution and colonial plunder, ordinary people in Britain could not afford newspapers.

Not to mention workers and farmers, small landowners with an annual income of less than two thousand pounds will not have the leisure to publish newspapers to care about national affairs.

Because newspapers at this time were very expensive, it was not because of the high cost of printing and paper, but because the British ruling authorities invented many taxes during this period, and knowledge tax was one of them.

The original intention of establishing the knowledge tax was to restrict newspapers and periodicals that attacked the government, including stamp tax, advertising tax and paper tax, as well as the later addition of newspaper supplement tax, etc.

On the surface, it gives you freedom of speech, and the ruling class does not directly interfere with the content of newspapers. But if you are anti-government and anti-royal, all kinds of high taxes will come one after another.

Because of the knowledge tax, publishers of newspapers and periodicals must naturally increase their selling prices if they want to maintain healthy operations.

Once the price is raised, it is obvious that many sales will be lost. First of all, the middle and lower classes will definitely not buy it, and not many landowners who sit on family properties are willing to pay such a high fee for information.

It was also because of Xia Qingdai's constant feeding that Owen made the entire Fucui Villa rich and wealthy, so that they could afford expensive newspapers.

He does not have as rich a night life as an ordinary squire, nor does he like to sleep in. At around seven o'clock every day, he would get up on time and care about national affairs.

The master gets up early, so the valet naturally gets up earlier. One of the KPIs of the butler David on the valet is whether the newspaper is delivered to the owner in a timely manner.

Every day after the postman came to deliver the newspaper, one of Owen's valets would go to the servant's work area to iron the newspaper immediately, and then present the newspaper to Owen when he got up for his morning snack.

The reason why there is a procedure for ironing newspapers is to prevent fresh newspapers from being stained with ink from the owner's hands.

Professional servants must have professional qualities so that they can afford the high salary they receive at Fukui Villa.

Now the people at the bottom of the entire town know that working as an errand at Fortress is the best thing to do, and is more popular than working in London. More money, less things to do and close to home, it's perfect.

And if you get sick, if you are lucky, you will be treated by the kind-hearted Countess herself!

Not only does the countess give people free medical treatment, but her medical skills are far better than the barber in town who can only do bloodletting.

Of course, there is a hospital in their town, which has brought in many senior doctors who graduated from universities in London.

But how can ordinary people dare to step through the door of the hospital without bankrupting their family?

From ancient times to the present, the most serious disease in the world may be the disease of poverty.

People without money can only endure the illness no matter how serious it is and resign themselves to fate.

It goes without saying that the Countess, who often provides free medical clinics, is highly respected in this country.

Xia Qingdai herself didn't know about this situation. To be honest, her free clinic was just for internship.

After watching the postman ring the bell and leave again, Xia Qingdai stopped lying down and watched.

She thought that Owen should be up by now, and she could ask him to play the piano and listen to music.

Miss Bai will not get up at this time. In an era where the pace of life is very slow, the only people who get up earlier than chickens are the people at the bottom and King Juan.