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

Chapter 210
The two manuscripts still have to be handed over to Yu Deling for translation. Anyway, science fiction is not a classic, so it is not difficult for Yu Deling.

Li Yu also gave part of the remuneration to Yu Deling, but Deling's family was obviously not short of money, so she said, "You know, Mrs. Rong went to Xiyuan to sue the Queen Mother about you before, you cut The hair is also kind of unexpected."

Li Yu didn't expect that Rong Qing would bring the matter to Cixi, so he said, "Master Rong is really making a fuss out of a molehill."

De Ling said: "Master Rong doesn't think cutting hair is a trivial matter. Fortunately, Prince Qing said a few good words for you, so the Queen Mother didn't take it seriously."

Li Yu wondered, "Prince Qing speak for me?"

"Maybe it's because you lived in his house." De Ling said.

Li Yu couldn't guess that Tang Shaoyi had secretly helped him, so he had no choice but to believe it: "It's possible."

De Ling warned: "In the future, you should be more careful, otherwise, if something happens, it may be a big problem."

In the feudal era, there were many incidents where a small mistake was caught and hammered to death, not to mention that there was a fault, even if there was no fault, it could still be "unfounded".

Li Yu said, "I will be careful."

A few days later, there was a semester exam in Beijing Normal University, and Zhang Baixi really arranged for Li Yu to take the graduation exam.

For Li Yu, the degree of difficulty is naturally still out of the question. The content involving mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geography and other subjects is almost at the level of the first grade of junior high school, or even worse.

——Of course, chemistry should start relatively late in the nine-year obligation.

Even if Weiliang Ting deliberately increased the difficulty of mathematics and physics, he still couldn't stop Li Yu.

It’s just that Confucian classics is still a big problem, which makes Li Yu very headache. This time, two scriptures from “Four Books” were selected as topics in the Confucian classics exam:

"Thus, be tempted and forbearable to gain righteousness that cannot be done" and "If the right is wrong and wrong, the people will obey the righteousness".

Li Yu knew the meaning of these two sentences, but at his level, he could only write an argumentative essay in vernacular.

Just write it as a college entrance examination composition!
As a result, as expected, Li Yu got full marks in other subjects, and failed in Confucian classics...

Fortunately, Zhang Baixi had guessed it a long time ago, so he still planned to award him the degree certificate.

But Gu Hongming did not know how to know about this, and suddenly jumped out: "Are you going to let Li Yu graduate? I don't agree!"

Zhang Baixi frowned: "Li Yu is already excellent in all subjects, and as a foreign academician of the Royal Society of England, it is really inappropriate to be listed as a student again. That's why we allowed him to graduate to help him smooth his path to science in the future."

Gu Hongming took Li Yu's Confucian classics test paper and said: "If you fail in Chinese studies, how can you be a graduate of the Imperial University? You can fail other subjects, but as a Chinese, you must fail in Confucian classics alone!"

Li Yu asked rhetorically, "According to Mr. Wang, if Chinese people fail in science subjects, it should be right?"

Li Yu's question got to the point, but Gu Hongming was really not easy to answer.

He stroked his beard and said, "Are you arguing with me?"

Li Yu said, "It's not a sophistry, it's just a discussion."

"No, it's just sophistry," Gu Hongming said, "That's fine, if you can beat me in the debate, I will agree to your graduation, otherwise I can guarantee that you will not get your graduation certificate smoothly."

Li Yu knew Gu Hongming's temper a long time ago, and he must not accept it.

"Okay, how do you want to argue with me, sir?" Li Yu asked.

Gu Hongming was slightly taken aback: "It's interesting, you immediately started to set me up, which looks a bit like a university. But don't think that playing smart is enough! Tomorrow, I will be in the classroom of the university, so you can argue with me."

In turn, he continued to attack Li Yu as "sophistry".

Li Yu smiled and said, "Mr.

After Gu Hongming finished speaking, he walked away. When it came to sophistry, he was really not afraid.

Seeing this, Yan Fu was quite worried, and said to Li Yu, "You! Say a few words less, and let Master Zhang push him over."

Li Yu said: "Since Mr. Gu is the examiner, he naturally has the right to speak."

Yan Fu said: "You have learned the freedom of speech of Westerners, but sometimes you have to be tactful to look like a qualified Chinese."

After all, Li Yu is young, and said proudly: "Smoothness is the wisdom of dealing with the world, but not the principle of doing things. If Mr. Gu insists on doing this, I will accompany him to the end, otherwise this graduation certificate will not be happy."

Yan Fu sighed: "You, although you are very talented and show your sharpness, you will be held hostage after all, and sometimes you have to learn to bend and stretch."

Li Yu felt how he, a person 100 years later, would lose to the ancients, so he said confidently: "Sir, don't worry about me. If I'm not sure, I won't argue with Mr. Gu."

He certainly would not have guessed that he would pay the price for it later on.

Weiliang Ding felt that Li Yu had integrity, so he applauded and said, "You have courage, I really like you more and more."

Zhang Baixi shook his head, he could only wait and see what happened.

On the same day, Lu Bicheng learned about Li Yu's debate with Gu Hongming from Yan Funa.

Yan Fu valued Lu Bicheng as a female apprentice very much, and of course he also valued Li Yu as a college student.

Lu Bicheng found Li Yu with a few books: "Mr. Yan said, read these carefully."

Li Yu found that what she brought were the Four Books and Five Classics and Zhu Xi's writings, so he smiled and said, "It's too late."

Lu Bicheng asked anxiously, "You can still laugh?"

Li Yu spread his hands: "You don't think I can recite the entire Analects in one night, do you?"

Lu Bicheng sighed, "Then what should we do?"

"Cold salad." Li Yu said.

"Cold salad?" Lu Bicheng asked.

"That's right, cold cucumbers, cold tomatoes... By the way, when it comes to tomatoes, not only can this stuff be scrambled eggs, but it's also great when mixed with sugar. I'll buy some tomatoes tomorrow and make a dish for you to try." Li Yu said.

Lu Bicheng was not in the mood either: "Don't change the subject, why are you still in the mood to eat agars?"

Li Yu laughed: "If you are worried, just come with Mr. Yan tomorrow."

"Then these books?" Lu Bicheng asked, pointing to a pile of Confucian classics.

Li Yu said, "There is no need."

Lu Bicheng still didn't believe it: "With your level of Chinese studies, I really don't know where the confidence comes from. You dare to argue with Mr. Gu. Do you know his reputation abroad?"

Fortunately, it was Gu Hongming who came, and his level of Chinese studies was just that way. Li Yu had at least read Gu Hongming's works now, but Gu Hongming couldn't understand Li Yu's scientific works.

So Li Yu said: "Know yourself and know the enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles. I know it well."

Lu Bicheng felt his head was getting bigger: "Do you want to read the art of war?"

Li Yu joked: "It makes sense, then I'll look at the art of war."

Lu Bicheng immediately said: "You wait, I'll go home and get you "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Six Secret Teachings", "Wei Liao Zi's Art of War" and "Zhuge Liang's Art of War"."

Li Yu asked: "Do you really have the art of war? No, didn't Mr. Yan Fu ask you to bring it?"

Lu Bicheng was slightly taken aback: "This..."

Li Yu smiled and said, "Don't worry, don't worry about anything, remember to bring peanuts and melon seeds to the theater tomorrow."

Lu Bicheng said, "I don't even eat melon seeds when I go to the theater."

Li Yu chatted, "That's so boring."

"It's not elegant to spit melon seeds everywhere," Lu Bicheng said.

"I thought there was some reason. The fun of eating melon seeds is the skin of melon seeds," Li Yu said, "Since I don't eat melon seeds, I'll eat melons tomorrow."

"What melon?" Lu Bicheng had never heard of this online vocabulary.

Li Yu said with a smile: "It's the so-called theater."

Lu Bicheng said: "Since that's the case, I won't tell you anymore. It's getting dark, so it's unreasonable to stay here."

She said and left.

Li Yu couldn't keep it, and she couldn't figure out whether Yan Fu asked her to send these four books and five passages that made people worry about it.

The next day, Li Yu came to the big classroom of the Imperial University Hall as scheduled.

Yan Fu, Ding Weiliang, Zhang Baixi and others were also present, and it looked like a graduation defense meeting.

Many students also came here after hearing the news, Lu Bicheng was among the crowd, she was clever, so a woman disguised herself as a man.

Dressed in men's clothes, it really means that Qiu Jin is called "Women's Two Heroes" together with him.

There were still three people standing beside Gu Hongming, and he said, "Why, you are really here alone. According to Western rules, a debate needs one debate, two debates, three debates, and four debates, isn't it?"

He Yujie, Feng Zuxun and Fan Xiren jumped out immediately: "Li Yu, let's come!"

Li Yu stretched out his hand to block them, and said, "I accept your wishes, but today is considered a graduation defense. If you also win, don't you want to graduate together? How can you go abroad for further studies?"

Gu Hongming said with a smile: "What you said inside and outside the meaning is that we are doomed."

Li Yu said: "I didn't say that, I just said that I will win, not that my husband will lose."

Gu Hongming asked: "What's the difference?"

Li Yu said: "There's a big difference. Would you like me to explain to Mr. what a collection is, including and being included."

"It's not your turn to give me lessons," Gu Hongming said, "Look carefully, the three on my side are Zhu Zumou, the former Guangdong Xuezheng, Cao Yuanzhong, the Hanlin scholar, and Zhang Xigong, the Bagong Juren. One Jinshi, two Juren , you have all been admitted to the Imperial Academy, and you can also be called a doctor, so you will not be unqualified for a small bachelor's assessment, right?"

Gu Hongming was really good, and the few people he brought over were typical conservative literati.

But obviously they all make up the numbers.

Li Yu said, "Of course, Doctors."

Cao Yuanzhong didn't understand: "What is a knife?"

Gu Hongming did not expect them to be completely defeated by a single English word by Li Yu. It seemed that he had to rely on himself, so he said: "According to Mr. Zhang and Mr. Yan, you are very strong in science subjects, so even though you failed the examination of classics , can also be allowed to graduate and awarded a bachelor's degree. But I think it is not enough at all! A Chinese who can't even understand the most basic knowledge of his ancestors, what qualifications can he graduate?"

(End of this chapter)