Chapter 664 (1/2)

University of Oxford did not make a big effort to make University of Cambridge happy. Before it was worried about who has the final say in technology towns, now this worry is totally unnecessary. Britain is very different from the United States. There are many well-known and powerful enterprises in the United States. Colleges and universities cannot dominate such major projects. There are no so strong enterprises in the UK, at least no enterprises that can convince the public; This makes it inevitable that colleges and universities will occupy a dominant position in science and technology towns.

The best universities in Britain are Oxford and Cambridge, and now Oxford has offered to give in. Cambridge will certainly have more voice. It is more appropriate for the British technology town to be named Cambridge town. This is the real idea of the leaders of Cambridge University.

The British have one thing better, that is, they know their own strength. Only one science and technology town is planned to be built, and even if there are more funds, there are not so many enterprises and universities settled; However, there are contradictions in the site selection.

Britain, the full name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is located in the British Isles in the northwest of the European continent, surrounded by the North Sea, the English channel, the Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

Britain is a Western European island country composed of England, Wales and Scotland on the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland in the northeast of the island of Ireland and a series of affiliated islands.

The establishment of a technology town can promote the local economic and technological development to a certain extent. The best choice is to build it in England. It is more trustworthy than Scotland and Northern Ireland, which are often independent. Although Wales is more obedient, the land face is too small, and the geographical location is not very suitable.

Construction in England soon reached a consensus on how to say that the British Empire really held power or the English. The most ideal choice is London, but there is no redundant land planning in London, so it is impossible to build a technology town in the city of London.

The British have done a good job in protecting private property. Dozens of legal provisions emphasize the issue of private property. Now it seems that only Liverpool or Manchester can be chosen as the technological town.

But this will provoke another contradiction, that is, the contradiction between the two cities. Moreover, it is still a contradiction between several worlds. These two waiting cities will not give in. After all, no one can afford to lose.

Liverpool reached the peak of urban development in the 18th century: it was the second largest city in Britain after London. Relying on the disgraceful slave trade, it became the second largest port in Europe (the first is Amsterdam). The first dock in Britain was born here. In the early 19th century, 40% of world trade was completed through Liverpool dock.

Albert port was an important port of Liverpool at that time. Before and after the British Industrial Revolution, trade and slave trade around the world were closely related to this port.

However, with the arrival of the industrial revolution, Liverpool, which adheres to the traditional trade, has lost its team. However, Manchester, which is only 40 kilometers away from Liverpool, has become the new industrial center of Britain relying on the textile industry represented by ”Jeanne machine”.

As Liverpool is a big raw material export city, many industries in Manchester have to rely on the transmission of the Mersey River.

At the end of the nineteenth Century, the Manchester Canal opened, extending 58 km from East Harlem to Manchester, perfectly bypassing the Liverpool pier.

Liverpool people feel that their dignity has been violated. They attack Manchester people with ridicule and say that they only know manufacturing ”blue collar”. Manchester people use the term ”Scousers” to define Liverpool people, ironic Liverpool people to eat ”Scouse” (fried beef), the whole city's temperament is vulgar.

The struggle between the two cities in the process of historical development has created the best script of a tale of two cities in history: The Curse war triggered by a canal.

In the 20th century, the contradiction between the two cities was exacerbated by football. Now, suddenly, the location of the technology town is added, which gives British executives a headache.

The two candidate cities suddenly disrupted the British plan to locate a high-level technology town. It can be said that the two cities do not give in to each other. Moreover, the two cities have similar votes and their own strength; Finally, there is no way but to retreat to the second place and establish science and technology towns in the two cities respectively.