C2119 The Boiling London (1/2)

London, the greatest human city of this age, had no one but one.

Since 1850, the population of London had already reached 3 million. After that, it continued to rise until the population of London, the nineteenth century, was nearing 6 million.

In those days, this was simply unimaginable. With the ancient technology and productivity, as well as the management ability of the government, the population of a city was already at the limit of one million.

Since more than one million people, each increment of one order of magnitude of population has put forward a severe test on the organizational capacity of the various resources of society.

The society has to ensure that so many people eat, drink, dress and live in houses... There are also garbage disposal, sewage discharge and other basic survival needs.

With a large population, you have to provide enough work, security, medical insurance, etc. Everything else, not to mention just a single medical treatment is already a curse of the medieval world.

The population will increase with the natural infectious disease, medical means cannot keep up with the supermetropolis will not appear.

What was comprehensive national power? This was comprehensive national power. When a country was able to maintain the smooth running of such a super city, this kind of strength was already enough to look down on all the heroes of the country.

The first world war and the second world war, British victories, in fact, were largely a result of the superb organizational capabilities they had built up, especially during the second world war, when the Nazi wolves in the Atlantic began to slaughter cargo ships without limits, and before the aid of the United States reached shore.

For countless days and nights, Britain had relied on its most powerful organization to coordinate the distribution of resources among its citizens and to reconstruct the social order.

This was the soft power of a country, something that many politicians neglected. Without this soft power, a civilization would be lacking in toughness, and when the war dragged on for a long time, countries with strong organization would always be able to laugh at the end.

Today, however, the organization of the entire city was under extraordinary challenge. The city had become restless since yesterday, and the police could smell it.

This was not the beginning of any chaos, nor was it the beginning of any conspiracy. It was all because of the arrival of the ambassador group from the east. Under the constant bombardment of the Chinese series, the curiosity of the British people was piqued to the extreme.

Since half a month ago, London's hotels and hostels had been continuously taking in guests, and only going in and going out. Ten days ago, all the hotels and hostels in London no longer had a single empty room.

There were wealthy and idle European aristocracy s, capitalists, mega-merchant s everywhere … There was no way they would miss such a historic event. There were even some wealthy Americans who wanted to take a cruise across the Atlantic to watch the show.

God knows if they were spies or ordinary spectators.

It was not just the big shots in Europe and the North America who were moving, but also the countless middle classes with better economic conditions who were beginning to gather in London.

This was especially true for the citizens of the other cities on the British Isles. If they couldn't find a hotel or a hotel, they would have to rent a place to stay. Countless local residents of London had made a huge profit by renting out an empty house in the past half month.

Many people were hoping that the Chinese diplomatic corps wouldn't leave. If they stayed in London for a long time, they would definitely die.

The busiest place in London was the police force. In order to ensure the safety of the diplomatic convention, all the guests from the city had to be registered, especially those from France and Russia, who were potentially dangerous people and even those from Scotland Yard.

The London Chief of Police had mobilized all 30,000 police officers from the city, and that was not enough to mobilize another 20,000 police force from other cities.

Fifty thousand elite police officers were concentrated in London, which made the public order much better. Every day, the number of police officers patrolling the streets was twice as many as usual.