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

Chapter 24 Author Fee!

Li Yu walked in and coughed twice. Jia Honglin saw that it was the person who helped them out just now, and hurried forward and said, "Thank you for your help, I don't know your name?"

"I'm Li Yu, I have nothing to worry about." Li Yu replied casually.

The owner of the theater troupe was almost dumbfounded just now: "Master Liyu, we really don't want to offend Prince Qing, and the small building is going out like this, you see what we can do!"

"Uh, it's four times, Li Yu!" Li Yu corrected his pronunciation first, and then said, "It's true that the matter is not over yet, I just lied just now, and if I need everyone's cooperation in the future, I have to perform two more performances. "

The owner of the troupe quickly agreed: "Don't say two plays, it's no problem to let us perform two hundred plays, but I hope the prince will not blame him!"

Li Yu comforted: "It's not that serious, don't worry."

Although Yikuang was in power in the late Qing Dynasty, he didn't like to risk his life to kill his opponents, and he had an indecisive side in his character.This is also the reason why other things are rarely known to future generations except for his "greed".

It is extremely rare for this kind of person to be able to achieve a high position of less than one person and more than ten thousand people.

Of course, people did take greed to the extreme, and many scholars even estimated that he was greedy far more than He Shen and his lords, and he was the real number one greedy in the Qing Dynasty!
However, Yang Xiaolou did not thank Li Yu, probably thinking that he was also one of the corrupt officials under Yi Qiang whom he hated so much.

Li Yu didn't take it seriously, and patted him on the shoulder: "Good job, there will be a period later."

The next day.

After agreeing to go to the British embassy, ​​Li Yu first went to Tongwenguan to find Ding Weiliang, Ding Weiliang said: "Don't rush to the embassy, ​​do you have an account?"

"Account?"

"Oh! You may not know that it is a bank account that can collect money." Martin explained.

Li Yu was ashamed, he had a bank card in his previous era, okay?
"If you know it, you must know it, but if you have it, you really don't have it. Why do you want that?"

Although Li Yu had the 100 taels of silver that Yikuang gave him, it still wasn't enough to deposit it in the bank.

Martin said: "Your manuscript has been published in the Journal of Natural Sciences, and they need to pay you the manuscript fee."

Almost forgot about this!

"That's right, how much is the manuscript fee?" Li Yu asked.

"It should be about 80 pounds." Martin said.

80 pounds, equivalent to almost 200 taels of silver, is very impressive.

"The Royal Society will send the money by wire transfer. There is HSBC next to the embassy. The handling fee is not high, and there will be about 70 pounds left."

Well, more than 10% was deducted all at once. I was too optimistic just now, and more than 20 taels of silver were wiped out in the vast Pacific Ocean in a blink of an eye.

HSBC just opened a branch in Beijing this year, in the embassy area of ​​Dongjiaomin Lane.

Opening a bank account in this era is actually quite troublesome. It is definitely not a matter of calling a number, entering an ID card and then verifying your identity.

Fortunately, Martin was very familiar with the process and handed him a piece of paper not long after.

"Is that all right?"

"That's right, you can withdraw money in about a week."

Efficiency!
Li Yu is holding the hard paper in his hand, with a seal in the middle, and a seal on the left and right. Isn't this a passbook?
It's so old-fashioned!

Li Yu's antique heart began to flood again: Wouldn't this passbook be a cultural relic after 100 years!

But the rational heart immediately took the high ground: I won't live to that time, so why bother!It is a fool to have money and not spend it. If the people are gone and the money is still there, wouldn't it be too sad.

After leaving the bank, I saw minister Sa Daoyi and another foreigner as soon as we arrived at the British embassy in the Qing Dynasty.

Li Yu didn't know him, so Ding Weiliang stepped forward to say hello: "Mr. Minister, I have brought the Li Yu you are looking for."

Sa Daoyi respected Ding Weiliang: "Thank you, Professor!" Then he looked at Li Yu, "Yu Li, oh no, according to your tradition, you should be called Mr. Li Yu, hello."

"Hello."

Li Yu shook hands with him.

"It's hard to imagine that you are so young, I thought you would be an old scholar." Sa Daoyi said, and then pointed to another foreigner behind him, "This is Mr. Pu Lande, a special reporter representing the "Times". See Mr. Li Yu."

Pu Lande was really dedicated to his work. Knowing that the Queen Mother was dissatisfied with him, he still came to the capital, but being in the embassy area, there would be no danger.

He had been in the Tianjin Concession for a while, and now that The Times lacked reporters in the capital, they transferred him here. After all, the current news in the capital is the real first-hand news.

Pu Lande shook hands with Li Yu and Ding Weiliang: "Before I asked the minister to contact Mr. Li Yu, I didn't expect to meet so soon."

When the four of them came to the legation, Pu Lande said, "I have received two telegrams from the headquarters in the past two days. Mr. Li Yu, you are very popular now."

"What news?"

Now that there is no internet, Li Yu can't immediately know about foreign affairs. Pu Lande, as a person in the media circle, is the most well-informed.

Pulland took out two telegrams from his briefcase: "You should already know the content of the first telegram, which is about Lord Kelvin and President Huggins. This one is about Mr. The article in the Review praised your academic achievements, and it was highly praised."

No wonder Li Yu's prestige in the European academia has risen so fast now, and another big shot has come out to speak for him.

Lorenz is the winner of the Nobel Prize this year, that is, in 1902. Although the award has not yet been awarded, the nominations have been sent out a long time ago, and it is basically a certainty.

The three big Vs spoke collectively, and the popularity increased amazingly!
Minister Sa Daoyi exclaimed: "Professor Lorenz? Li Yu, you are... who the hell are you?"

Sa Daoyi searched in his mind for a long time, and finally came up with this word.

"I am just an ordinary scholar, and it is a great honor for me to be appreciated by so many masters." Li Yu said modestly.

Pu Lande said: "Although the telegram is very short and I don't see much information, I believe that Mr. Lorenz's original text must have been praised, otherwise the headquarter would not have asked me to write a report about you."

Turns out that was his purpose.

"Yes, yes, but I have a request." Li Yu said.

"You don't hesitate to ask, I will definitely do my best." Pu Rand said, patting his chest.

"I hope you can help record a Chinese opera record."

——In this way, the previous lie can also be fulfilled, and Yang Xiaolou and the others can be rescued.

"Records?" Pu Lande was taken aback, feeling that the two fields were totally incompatible.

Seeing his doubts, Li Yu had no choice but to say, "Well, the record is dedicated to our great empress dowager."

"I see!" Pu Lande laughed loudly, "I understand, if we can take this opportunity to make your empress dowager happy, then we will definitely do our best."

That's all right!
(End of this chapter)