1855 United States Tycoon

Neither Dena nor Alice were disturbed on this day, the second day, the third day, and the fourth day.

"These guys are really useless!" Back in the small attic, Dena fell on the bed, staring at the glass tiles on the roof, cursing.

"Dana, who did you say? Who made you angry?" Alice poured a glass of water for both herself and Dana with a smile, and then walked over gently, "Get up and drink, I'm almost dying of thirst Are you not thirsty at all?"

Dena sat up, took the water glass from Alice, and took a sip of it.

Seeing Dena's movements, Alice couldn't help but want to laugh. In her opinion, although Dena Miss is very good, she can learn almost everything well. In these days, she has a wide range of knowledge, profound insights, and conscientiousness in doing things. I was deeply impressed, but Dena Miss is a half-year-old child after all, and sometimes obviously a little childish. For example, when outside, no matter what you are doing, Dena Miss is always polite. And once she returned to the own room, she seemed to have deliberately tried to confront the outside image, so she would come as she would not be a lady. For example, if her mother saw this gesture of drinking water, she would be very angry. Moreover, this kind of performance also reminded Alice of some descriptions of Dena in the materials she had seen just before departure.

"Dana Miss may be because of the pressure in the family, so she desperately desires freedom, and some intentional resistance. Every time she goes out, Dena Miss will deliberately create some unexpected things, her favorite one One thing is hide-and-seek with the person in charge of the security work. So when you are in charge of the security work of Dena Miss, you should not only be careful of other external dangers, but also be careful of Dena Miss itself, and don't accidentally be dumped by Dena Miss. "

"Those guys he said are really useless. Shouldn't you be talking about the hooligans? Maybe Dena Miss just wants to use the hooligans to make trouble, get rid of me and those who secretly protect her, and play hide-and-seek with us? See? Now we really need to be more vigilant." Alice thought.

...

After that, the days in the UK were quite dull. Dena completed the report on the nursing status of the British hospitals, and then left the UK and went to France as planned.

It was a lively time in France in 1889. The Paris World's Fair was being held, and all kinds of fresh gadgets from all over the world gathered here. At the end of June of this year, Dena and Alice came to Paris.

Dena soon found a new job in Paris-a female journalist.

This is an era of rapid development. More than ten years ago, the rarity of female reporters was similar to that of the South China Tigers of later generations. Now, although female reporters are still very rare, their rarity has changed from that of the South China Tigers that may or may not exist. The level was lowered to at least the level where there is no doubt about whether it exists or not, and it can be seen in the zoo from time to time.

This is mainly because in recent years, the second industrial revolution brought about by the popularization of electricity has caused a large number of upstarts, large and small, in all countries. The children of these people will receive education. At the same time, there is an increasing demand for educated women in society. This makes the number of women who have the opportunity to receive education ascending greatly, and also makes more women start to leave the family and enter some industries that were previously dominated by men. The reporter is one of them.

However, those mainstream newspapers, or conservative newspapers, still cannot accept female reporters, so the newspapers Dena currently works for can only be left-wing newspapers. Most of these newspapers are very unstable. Maybe they open today, and tomorrow they will publish some untimely articles, and the newspaper will be shut down as a result. Of course, this is definitely not to restrict freedom of speech, but to maintain social order.

However, left-wing newspapers also have their own readership, so despite this danger, although left-wing newspapers are constantly being blocked, new left-wing newspapers are constantly appearing. Now Dena has found a left-wing newspaper that has just started to be established-"Morning Star".

Strictly speaking, this newspaper cannot be regarded as a new newspaper, because its investors, editor-in-chief, and reporters have been cooperating for a long time. It's just that their newspaper used to be called "The Standard", then "Ming Lantern", later "Alarm Bell", and later...now called "Morning Star".

"Dana Miss, do you know the tendency of our newspaper?" asked Armand, the editor-in-chief. Their newspaper really needs reporters now, and from a conceptual point of view, they do not reject female reporters. However, journalists’ political tendencies are best not to be contrary to newspapers, or everyone will feel very uncomfortable.

"I know some. You are a left-wing newspaper." Dena replied, "If not, you wouldn't want a female reporter."

"Ah, this is, to support equality between men and women, equal pay for equal work for men and women is our consistent philosophy." Armand laughed. Then he began to test Dena's knowledge level.

"I can't say that I have gone to college. In fact, I'm raising tuition for college." Dena told Armand like this, "I'm from Cleveland, United States. You know there is a good polytechnic school there. It's a pity. Although they recruit female students, their tuition is very high. I completed my secondary school in Cleveland and taught myself some sociology, mathematics, and engineering. I also learned French and German. I think I can do this job as a journalist. Especially, my mathematics and science and engineering are just pretty good. Now Paris is holding the World Expo, there are many new science and engineering related things, which is my advantage. "

In this era, very few women will do research on mathematics and science and engineering. Even future generations, people habitually think that this business should be a man's domain. So Armand immediately became interested. He himself studied mathematics when he was studying at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (the name of the École Normale des Supérieure in Paris is very old, but this school is definitely the top university in France and Europe). So he randomly gave Dena a few math problems that were not too difficult. And this kind of problem is not difficult for Dena at all, she can easily answer it."Well, very good." Armand said, "So in terms of social sciences, what books have you read?"

"Liberal I have read "The Wealth of Nations", and left-wing social economics, I have read "1844 Economic Manuscripts", "Critique of Political Economy", "Surplus Value Theory" and part of "Capital". "Dena replied. And the books she said suddenly made Armand's eyes wide open-this amount of reading has even overwhelmed most college students who specialize in sociology.

So Armand took out several social phenomena and asked Dena to analyze them with own knowledge. As a result, he was surprised again to discover that Dena did not brag. Not only did she read these books, she could even understand them and use them. Her analysis of some socio-economic phenomena is even deeper than Armand’s own answer.

"How can a young girl have such an opinion?" Armand thought this way. Of course he didn't know how many similar cases had been analyzed by the retired Scrooge in Duck Castle.

Of course, Dena's analysis is not perfect, at least, one problem is very obvious. That is, Dena's expression is too direct and sharp.

"The analysis is very good." Armand said, "It's just too straightforward in terms of expression. Dena Miss, if such language is published directly in the newspaper, I'm sure that in a few days, our newspaper will It’s about to be blocked again. But it’s okay? It’s just another name. It’s just that sometimes our reporter will be caught for a while. Miss, you are a lovely Miss, we can I don’t want you to be caught in that kind of place. So, when you analyze this kind of problem in your article, you’d better express it more tactfully. But in any case, your talent has conquered me... You are welcome. , Comrade Dena! Welcome to join us and fight for the truth!" Armand stretched out his hand to Dena.

Dena has been exposed to the theory of socialism a long time ago, but she has been exposed to things like political economy. Scrooge is very careful when choosing textbooks for children. After all, children are easily motivated by the big goals of justice. If they were taught to become proletarian fighters, wouldn't it be a smashing stone? own feet? Therefore, for works with more elements that point to revolution, such as the "Communist Manifesto," Scrooge would not let such children learn. Of course, even the purest economics contains revolutionary ideas, but Scrooge does not teach there. Although Dena feels a little hazy, she will not seriously think about it. In general, her attention is almost all on the question of "what the world is like", and she doesn't really think much about "what the world should be". Naturally, there is limited interest in the socialist movement. So now Armand's sudden enthusiasm surprised Dena. Surprised but surprised, Dena felt a kind of sincerity from Armand's enthusiasm, a kind of sincerity without profit calculation. And this is exactly what is missing in Duck Castle. In the duck castle, there is a Mephistopheles (the devil who seduces Faust), a negative elf, who constantly tears off the veil of warmth and affection that shrouds family relations, and replaces it with a clear can Calculated money relationship. He taught the children wisely, and he taught them coldly. And this kind of sincere enthusiasm suddenly appeared, but Dena resisted and liked it.

"Comrade Dena," Armand said, "we will have a major job right away, which is to interview the first congress of the ‘Socialist International’..."

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