A Man of Science and Engineering in Troubled Times Wandering in the Late Qing Dynasty

Chapter 1 Don't touch the switch lightly

The moment he pulled the switch, Li Yu regretted it.

Just now, he was about to leave the laboratory where he had worked all day, but he forgot that he was overhauling the electricity these days.

When a tingling sensation came, he immediately realized that he had been electrocuted!
At the beginning, it felt quite cool, after all, it was said that falling in love is like getting an electric shock, but soon, he knew that fairy tales are all deceitful.

The speed of the electric current was obviously not slower than his consciousness, and within a second, the crisp feeling disappeared, replaced by a whirlwind, leaving only a blank in his mind.

But the time seemed to have passed only a few seconds, and a severe headache came, and he began to feel that consciousness was slowly regaining consciousness.

"Fortunately, it seems that the leakage protector saved my life."

Li Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and when he opened his eyes again, he was stunned!

What caught his eyes was an unbelievable scene:

In a very quaint alley full of small stalls, many hawkers and pedestrians with big braids on their heads walked past him, as if they were in the shooting scene of Hengdian.

But soon Li Yu realized that this was definitely not a palace drama of the Qing Dynasty on TV, because even the ensemble actors on TV were all rosy-faced and cleanly dressed.

But most of these people in front of them looked yellow and thin, and almost all of them were dressed in gray cloth clothes, let alone clean.

There is no asphalt concrete under your feet, it is just a dirt road that has been simply compacted, and pedestrians will bring up a little dust when they walk by.

It's definitely not what it looks like on TV.

Everything told him that he——had crossed over!

As a talented student majoring in 985 Applied Physics, he couldn't believe all this!

Yes, he couldn't believe it!

After observing in place for a while, Li Yu finally realized that he was indeed in a real world, and seeing the clothes of the people around him, he came to the Qing Dynasty.

It's just that the environment around him is so unfamiliar that he doesn't even know when and where he is.

Li Yu is a very rational person, if he can't accept it now, he has to accept it.The next question to consider is how to survive.

Leave your hair behind!
This terrible thought first flashed through Li Yu's mind. He quickly touched his head, and suddenly found that his handsome hairstyle was gone, and his forehead was bald.

Do not!
Li Yu's heart felt cold, and he touched it back with his hand, and it turned out to be a strange big braid.He hurried forward a few steps, and saw a mirror in front of a grocery stall, and when he looked inside, it was indeed himself!
I have to say that if a long robe is added to the current look, it seems that there is still a shadow of Jet Li.

Foshan Wuying...

Li Yu quickly stopped his rambling thoughts.

He sighed softly, the change came too suddenly, and he really didn't know what to do for a while.

The owner of the grocery stall looked at the inexplicable young man in front of him, and asked, "My lord, do you want to buy a mirror?"

Yo!After a good bite of Beijing movies, it seems that I am still in Beijing.

After learning the first useful information, Li Yu said in a panic, "I'm sorry, boss, I just came to the capital, and I lost all my money."

The stall owner looked at the schoolbag on his back suspiciously, and asked, "A scholar?"

In this day and age, common people still respect scholars very much, Li Yu immediately nodded frantically: "That's right, it's just..."

The stall owner waved his hand: "I see, you are also from Tianjin, Zhili. Life is hard now." The stall owner pointed to one end of the street, "There is a teahouse opposite, there are some teeth in it, maybe it can help Find something to do."

Li Yu quickly thanked: "Thank you, boss, for your advice!"

The stall owner sighed: "Hey, it's unlucky to sign the contract. It's not easy for everyone."

treaty?Li Yu felt a chill in his heart, and many bad thoughts came to him.

It turns out that not only did I travel through many Qing Dynasty that I was reluctant to travel to, but I also came to the most miserable late Qing Dynasty!
Feeling very depressed, the stall owner thought he was a poor scholar, and said sympathetically, "Hurry up, it would be nice if you can make a living now! When the gate of the city is closed, if you are still strolling on the street, you will be fine." To be captured!"

Li Yu understood that there was nothing wrong with what the stall owner said. He knew about the curfew. If he was really caught by night watchmen, he would be whipped.Besides, for this day and age, his behavior seems a bit out of place.

After bidding farewell to the stall owner, Li Yu walked to the end of the alley, and indeed saw a teahouse with four large characters written on the signboard: "Mingqian Gonglong".

There were many teahouses in the late Qing Dynasty. There were big teahouses where you could eat, book teahouses where you could listen to storytelling, and the most common Qing teahouses.

Although there are no storytellers in Qing tea houses, there are many non-governmental organizations such as chess clubs, and because there are many people coming and going, they generally have the function of an intermediary. There is also a brokerage fee!
Li Yu only has one bag that he carries with him now, but he looked through it, and there was no surprise. It contained some things he usually carries: a gel pen, a pencil, a notebook, and a calculator , and his mobile phone.

Not a dime!
What a sad traveler!
Just thinking about how to go in, three or four banner people walked towards the teahouse, and a few people were still chatting:

"Old Yu, I heard that you Xiangbaiqi have reissued the regular silver in the past two days?"

"Hey! It's not thanks to Prince Su, or I'm still drinking the northwest wind!"

"You can finally hold the silver!"

"That's right, Lafayette just came back from Xishou in the middle of the new year, and was thinking about whether he could be better. Now, I can't pay what I owe in the past half a year!"

"Keep your voice down! Besides, there is only one or two taels of silver a month, what can you do with it?"

"..."

A few people chatted and walked into the teahouse.

From their chats, Li Yu got some more information: Lafayette Xishou was talking about the Gengzi national disaster, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing, and the Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an with Guangxu. Li Hongzhang and Prince Qing Yikuang signed a peace treaty with the foreigners before returning to the capital.

In other words, it is now 1902.

In a few years, the Qing Dynasty will no longer exist, what an era full of ups and downs!

Those few were the children of the Eight Banners just now, and the imperial court supposedly gave them 2 to 3 taels of silver every month, but now that the "Xin Chou Treaty" was signed, plus the previous "Treaty of Shimonoseki", the Qing government suddenly backed it. There is a huge debt of 7 million taels of silver. If the interest is included, this amount may be doubled!
Finances can not be tight!Therefore, the Qing court had no choice but to cut down on food and clothing, and even the regular silver for the Eight Banners disciples and idle clans was halved.

　First, the timeline description: it will be written around 1930, but because the word "Republic of China" cannot be included in the title of the book, it has changed from "Late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China" to only "Late Qing Dynasty".

　　Second, the description of body wear and soul wear: Actually, I really can't explain this!I can only explain it in one sentence: indecision, quantum mechanics!

　　Haha!

　　To be serious, I originally imagined wearing it, because the calculator is indeed useful in the future; but considering that the hairstyle is really difficult to solve, so I can only do so.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)