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

Chapter 19 The Invincible Essay from the Qing Dynasty

"Okay, go back and wait for the good news," Martin said to Li Yu after he walked out of the post office. "Shipping has resumed recently, and it won't be long before we can arrive in London."

Even so, the shipping is really slow, it would be nice to send an email!

During this period of time, Li Yu still spent his time as a student assistant. Although the old Mr. Yikuang, Prince Qing, didn't necessarily learn any advanced knowledge, he still had some common sense of science.

Yikuang himself thought that he was getting better and better, so he had to force Rong Lu to teach him two lessons every day, one on planetary theory and the other on the principle of tides.Even the queen mother often praised him, which really made Yikuang overjoyed. When he was happy, he rewarded Li Yu with 100 taels of silver, which was regarded as teaching expenses.

Li Yu worked as a teacher at night, and was not idle during the day. Apart from exercising, he would go to the Tongwen Museum to learn foreign languages ​​by himself.

His English is excellent, and because of watching anime, he also learned Japanese when he has nothing to do, so he can do simple daily communication.Later, I went to the University of Munich in Germany as an exchange student for half a year, and I can speak German fluently.

Both Japanese and German have basic language assistance: with the bonus of Chinese mother tongue, Japanese is actually much easier to learn; while English and German are both Germanic languages, it is not so difficult to learn.

Anyway, it's not like learning some super difficult small language like Arabic from scratch, that would really kill me.

However, his Japanese and German are limited to daily communication, which is not enough, let alone writing.

It just so happens that the Tongwen Museum has ready-made textbooks. The textbooks written 100 years ago are very hard-core. During the day, I can’t use Douyin or play football, so I have to learn foreign languages.

I have to say that the efficiency of learning in this way is really high!I don't want to bother with other things!
At this time, London, England, thousands of miles away.

A letter from across the ocean was sent to the Royal Society.

The one who got the letter was Jorsen, an editor of the Journal of Natural Sciences. Recently, he has received hundreds of emails from all over the world.

When he got the letter, he was shocked when he saw the postmark: "What? Great Qing Dynasty?"

Jolsen is a little helpless, he really submits articles from everywhere!
He put the envelope on the table and didn't intend to open it right away. Recently, he had read a lot of Indian and Malay manuscripts, which were completely at the pediatric level!
——Some were proving the Pythagorean theorem, some were discussing the law of buoyancy; that’s nothing, and some even wrote about how to make lime and mineral powder into gold!
Directly regard the majestic Royal Society as a primary school journal + science fiction essay site!

What is this all about!

Jolsen felt that the idea that he would come up with was really weak, and he didn't get any good papers, but instead made himself a lot of work.

This issue of "Journal of Natural Sciences" requires five manuscripts, and currently only one can be selected for publication, which is sent by Tokyo Imperial University, about how to improve the efficiency of ship engines.

There are still four vacancies, there is no way, Jorsen had to read today's letter again.There were no surprises in the first few letters. It took him just over half an hour to read the six letters, leaving only the rare letter from the Qing Dynasty.

This was the first time he had received a letter from the Qing Dynasty. He really didn't want to read it, but seeing that the letter was signed by an American, he reluctantly opened it.

The first page is Ding Weiliang's introduction letter. Ding Weiliang is more aware of the gap between China and foreign countries than those high-level officials in the Qing Dynasty who do not understand the depth, so he made an introduction very humbly at the beginning:

"Dear reviewer, I am Ding Weiliang, the former head teacher of the Tongwen Academy of the Qing Dynasty. You must have never heard of this school, and naturally you have never heard of me. But I would like to introduce you to a rare genius whose papers are astonishing. Absolutely gorgeous, it will definitely not embarrass your journal!"

Jolsen had some expectations when he saw this. If he blows so hard, he won't come to teach him elementary physics again.

The manuscript has a total of more than 20 pages, which is quite thick. Jolsen took away the introduction letter on the first page, and immediately saw the beautiful English font.

"Yo! It turns out that there were people in the Qing Dynasty who could write English calligraphy."

Come up and add a roll first.

When it came to the main text, Jorsen couldn't sit still after watching it, and his right hand holding the pen began to tremble uncontrollably.

"Oh my god!"

Jorsen exclaimed excitedly, "It's too cutting-edge, this is actually a paper from the Qing Dynasty in the far east!"

Jolsen reviews manuscripts all the year round and is highly sensitive to scientific topics. Moreover, the most popular subject in Europe is radiography.

This paper completely jumped out of the shackles of conventional articles, from the elaboration of physical properties to the essential explanation, and even gave a perfect proof and experimental method.

In short, it is too high-end and too cutting-edge!

He must submit this kind of paper to the chairman for review!
Sir William Huggins, then president of the Royal Society, was studying cigars in his office with former president Lord Kelvin.

"How? Is this box of cigars from Cuba ten times stronger than the ones you usually smoke." Lord Kelvin said proudly.

Huggins put it under his nose and sniffed it: "It's good, but your statement is wrong. I think it's fifty times stronger."

The two immediately laughed together.

"Bang bang bang!"

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in," Huggins said.

Joelsen pushed the door open and immediately said excitedly, "President, there is an incredible paper, you must read it yourself."

Huggins put down the cigar in his hand: "What paper makes you so fussed?"

Jorsen saw Lord Kelvin standing inside, he is now the top scientist.

"Mr. Lord, sorry to interrupt, I..."

Lord Kelvin said, "It doesn't matter, you just say so."

Jolsen put the paper on Huggins' desk, "President, this is a paper sent from the Qing Dynasty, which deduces some physical properties of X-rays in detail."

"What's the matter, don't we read too many articles like this?" Huggins asked casually.

"No, no, no!" Joelsen continued, "You turn the page, the later part of this paper explains the nature of X-rays in essence, and predicts that they are electromagnetic waves."

Lord Kelvin next to him interjected: "How is it possible! Now our Cambridge, Oxford and other universities are still arguing about this topic, why does he say that?"

Jolsen said to Lord Kelvin: "I couldn't believe it at first, but later in this article, I used the equations of Maxwell and Faraday to conduct a very rigorous derivation, calculated the frequency range of the rays, and even gave a verification method, which can be carried out with crystals. Diffraction experiments."

As soon as the words "diffraction experiment" and "crystal" were uttered, the expressions of Lord Kelvin and President Huggins immediately turned serious.

　Created a small group, put it under the introduction, if you have nothing to do, you can join in and brag.

　　In addition, please recommend tickets, please collect, haha.

　　


(End of this chapter)