Rebirth in America: Great Slave Owner Chapter 42

"Oh, dear Tony, we have to have four times twenty plus ten plus nine months without seeing each other!" Yule greeted Tangning warmly.

Seeing Tangning was stunned, Jules apologized, "I'm sorry, Tony, I've been in Paris for the past few years, so I'm used to the French way of counting!"

Hearing what Yule said, Tangning realized that he was talking about 99 months. Let's take a look at the popular science here. The French describe numbers very strangely. A mix of decimal and sexagesimal...

1-16 is hexadecimal, each number has its own word; 17-69 is decimal, just like us; 70-79 begins to be individualized, such as 71 is 60+11, 78 is 60+10+ 8; 80-99 is a combination of decimal, hexadecimal and hexadecimal, for example, 80 is 20*4, and 99 is 4*20+10+9 just said by Jules...

So Tangning complained in her heart, "Can't you say more than eight years?" I have to say 99 months, we don't communicate often, do you need to calculate so clearly?

But on the surface, he still had to say with a smile: "Uncle Jules, you have always been in Paris, I thought you were in London!"

Hearing Tangning's words, Yu Le gave a "squeak" as if his tail had been stepped on, and said with a look of disgust, "How could I stay in a place like London where the sky is full of smoke and the ground is full of horse dung! "

Tangning complained again in her heart, if you want to say that the air in London is very polluted right now, then I admit, it's foggy after all, but when it comes to horse manure, Paris isn't much better, even all big cities. They are all facing a "horse manure crisis".

Some people may think that horse-drawn carriages are very good. They have no exhaust emissions, low noise pollution, and are environmentally friendly. They hate cars and hope to return to the era of horse-drawn carriages, but the reality is that the environmental disasters brought about by horse-drawn carriages are much more terrible than cars.

In 1894 there were 300,000 horses in London and 100,000 to 200,000 in New York. Under normal circumstances, each horse will produce 10 kilograms of feces and about 1 liter of urine a day. Note that horses always defecate everywhere. This means that at that time, London would add 3,000 tons of horse manure to the streets every day; there was also 300,000 liters of horse urine in one day, which is equivalent to pouring horse urine full of an Olympic-sized swimming pool on the streets of London every 8 days. . (No 1859 data was available, but I don't think it's much better.)

The chat that followed also made Tangning very unpleasant, because Yu Le, like some people now, was full of Chinese and English. Express his meaning clearly and more accurately. In fact, it would be better if you were all in English. The most annoying thing is that these two are mixed.

Of course, Tangning could understand Yule's thoughts, because in this era and even before the First World War, Americans were regarded as upstarts. Otherwise, there would not be so many rich Americans who would go to Europe to find aristocratic nobles to marry, such as Consway. Lou - Vanderbilt and Karl in the Titanic, so speaking French with an authentic London accent or Parisian accent at this time can satisfy some people's vanity.

Fortunately, the maid brought in two cups of coffee at this time. Tangning thought that the coffee would stop Yu Le's mouth, but when he saw the maid, he frowned and asked Tangning, "Tony, this maid is not a black slave. Bar?"

Tangning nodded and replied, "Yes!"

"It's already 1859. Why do you still use black slaves? This is not the practice of a civilized person. Europe has abolished the slave trade decades ago. Hey, the United States is still too backward!" Yu Le shook his head with emotion.

Although Tangning didn't like slavery either, but the way Jules pointed at the monk and scolded the bald donkey was really disgusting. Besides, before your family moved to London, didn't you buy and use black slaves? What kind of big-tailed wolf are you wearing now? And if you say this in New Orleans, aren't you afraid of going out and getting beat up?

However, considering that they would not come back for many years, Tangning changed the subject and asked, "Uncle Jules, what have you been busy with in Paris all these years?"

"I'm studying art, do you know Monsieur Courbet?" Jules asked proudly.

If Yu Le talked about something else, Tangning might not understand, but how could a master in this field not know? So he asked: "Courbet? Is it Mr. Gustave--Mr. Courbet, the author of "The Atelier"?"

Yu Le was surprised by Tangning's answer, "You actually know about Mr. Courbet and "The Studio"?"

Tangning thought to herself, how could I not know such a famous realist oil painting master. Speaking of which, Tangning didn't really like Impressionism, but she was about to catch up with the era when the Impressionist masters were blowing out...

"Uncle Yule, are you planning to return to New Orleans for a while or settle down this time?" Tangning asked again.

An unnatural look flashed across Yu Le's face, and then he replied, "Uh, UU reading www.uukanshu.com I haven't thought about it yet, but I must first look for creative inspiration in New Orleans, create a few excellent works, and then Take it back to Paris to participate in the art exhibition. By the way, Tony, I came back in a hurry this time, so I didn't bring any money, you lend me a little first, and I'll give it to you when my friend in Paris calls me!”

"Uncle Yule, how much do you want to borrow?" Tangning asked casually.

Jules thought for a moment, then replied: "Two thousand francs!"

Tangning immediately shook her head and replied, "I don't have francs here, only pounds!" The reason why Tangning said this is because the US dollar is not yet dominant. In the south, pounds are used more. People do business.

"Well, then a thousand pounds!" Jules changed his tone.

Tangning hesitated for a while, then reluctantly agreed. After all, this was indeed his relative, and normally he should be able to pay the money.

Originally, Tangning didn't take the money seriously, but a few days later, he unexpectedly discovered that Uncle Yule had left New Orleans. At first, Tangning thought he was going out to gather and find inspiration. When Rick sent someone over to ask him about Jules' whereabouts, only then did he know that this guy had actually borrowed money from them again, and he was still using his name. Although there were not many of them, they added up quickly A thousand pounds...

PS: Thanks to the book friends "I have clear waters and lush mountains" and "Roads and Cars" for their support! Another point, (in fact, French is not the most troublesome, Danish numbers are more troublesome, such as 99 in Danish is 9+(-0.5+5)*20, written in Danish is syvoghalvfemsindstyve(syv-og-halv-fem-s ), like wiping the keyboard?)

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