Volume 2: The crown and the hat are all over the capital, and the spirit is full of energy and enter the foggy city Chapter 81: White Palace
Subtitle of this chapter: Who could be more prominent than the current president?
The Seres say that the course of heaven is constant, and it does not exist for the sake of Yao or die for the sake of Jie. And the direction of America's progress will not change just because Wilson stepped down, Harding took office, or Yuan Yanshu defeated Lieutenant Colonel Harold Alexander in a duel.
The economic recession that began in mid-1920 has not yet improved. The only good news on the economic front is that the soaring prices that the American people complained about in the late World War I have finally subsided, and now the prices of most necessities of life have even fallen slightly.
Although the trial of Sacco Vanzetti had not yet begun, the Super Patriots were still furious and wanted to send both of them to the gallows. Fortunately, the original huge Red Scare had gradually subsided.
Under the "call" of Mr. David Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", the KKK has revived across the country and is currently recruiting its first few hundred thousand members..
The guys who brewed, sold and bootlegged liquor finally realized that the United States was really a paper tiger. After all, "Hermit" Mr. Hoover was still investigating the red elements in the country and had no power to intervene in this matter.
Well, I also want to talk about the cultural world.
The best-selling novel in the United States at present is called "Main Street", and the author is Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), the first American winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Main Street, which was released at the end of last year, will be reprinted 28 times in 1921. It is called " the most sensational event in the history of American publishing in the 20th century". Through the eyes of a beautiful, innocent and pure heroine, Mr. Lewis unveiled the hypocritical veil of tenderness in a small town in the Midwest, exposed the closed, narrow and conservative nature of the small town, and ridiculed the vulgarity, ignorance and ugliness of the citizens. After the publication of this work, "Main Street" almost became a synonym for conservative life in the United States.
Next is "Outline of World History" compiled by Herbert George Wells, a British writer who was both a teacher and a friend of Xu Zhimo.
This guy is really good at writing science fiction, and he also edited this very down-to-earth and popular historical masterpiece. "Outline of World History" discusses the world history across five continents, from the formation of the earth, the origin of life and human beings to the modern First World War. The book is accompanied by 105 maps and 100 illustrations, making it a veritable classic masterpiece.
The third one is of course the single volume of A Song of Ice and Fire written by our Master Yuan. On the bestseller list, Titanic written by his female disciple Miss Helen Brown ranked tenth.
This is probably the biggest change that this time traveler has made to American literary history so far. It's not that he didn't work hard enough, but "A Song of Ice and Fire" was still a little too advanced. Even though he has published a "clean version", many conservatives have already called for a boycott of this "little yellow book written by the Chinese".
What's most surprising is that in 1921, the hem of American women's skirts finally, finally, finally rose to the knee. No matter how hard our Master Yuan tried, he couldn't stop the trend of skirts continuing to rise. Well, in fact, he was happy to see it happen.
Friday, March 11, 1921.
In the evening of that day, Yuan Yan, who was just a few days away from traveling through a "full" half a year took a car to the White House, which is known as the "center of the world."
Of course, it is still a little early to call the White House the center of the world. However, as a time traveler, Master Yuan naturally understands that this building will become the most important scene on the stage of history, and the owners living in it will definitely play the most critical role.
This is not an exaggeration, because history is right before his eyes.
The Kremlin , 10 Downing Street, the Berlin Chancellery, the Elysee Palace, the Akasaka Palace, the Zhongnanhai... These places are of course important, but they are not as important as 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.
Now he was standing at the back door of this neoclassical sandstone building built in 1800. It was not because he was Chinese or not famous enough that he could only go through the back door, but the front door was for tourists.
That's right, starting with the third president, Thomas Jefferson, the White House... the presidential residence, which was not called that name at the time, was completely open to the public, which was a concrete manifestation of his democratic ideas. At that time, there was an endless stream of visitors, and Jefferson himself would at some point walk out of his office, shake hands with strangers, and even have afternoon tea with them.
After President Wilson announced his participation in the war, the White House was closed to the public to prevent "German spies" from taking advantage of the opportunity to assassinate him. However, President Harding, who was very friendly to the people, allowed tourists to visit the White House as soon as he came to power.
The White House in 1921 consisted of only the Presidential Residence and the West Wing, which housed the office staff. The often photographed Oval Office was located in the West Wing built by Theodore Roosevelt in 1901..
"Mr. Yuan, please follow me."
"Sir, where are we going?" Yuan Yan suddenly asked the White House staff member.
"Mr. Yuan, Mr. President wants you to go to his office."
I finally got the upper hand this time. The first time I entered the White House, I went straight to the Oval Office. This was really exciting...
"Woof! Woof! Woof!" Even the Shih Tzu he brought was very excited.
Master Yuan pointed to the dog that was marking the territory next to the pillar and said, "Sir, this is one of my gifts for the President and the First Lady. Can I take it in?"
The staff member scratched his head, thought for a moment and said, "Mr. Yuan, you'd better not bring this dog to see the president. I think you should have someone send it to his wife."
"That's okay too."
Yuan Yan suddenly thought that Shih Tzus were more popular with women, so she might as well give it to the First Lady. It was said that Lady Florence Cline Harding had a bad temper towards people, but a good temper towards dogs.
So Master Yuan carried a big box and followed the guide straight to the President's office. In this day and age, even American agents have a poor sense of confidentiality, and no one asked him to open the big suitcase to check it.
Fortunately, he is now the acting director of the SCP Foundation's American branch, not an anarchist. If TNT was put in here, Yuan Yan could suddenly change history by exploding on the spot.
