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

Chapter 322
Li Yu's current experimental equipment is still too small. It just so happens that He Yujie and Feng Zuxun have gone to Japan, so they can help buy some experimental equipment.

However, judging from the telegram they sent back, some high-end equipment is indeed unavailable.

It's normal, because Japan's current physics research is doing the rest of Europe's game.

In fact, in terms of basic research at this time, the whole world is playing with the rest of Europe, including the United States.

The only surprise is that there is an extra Li Yu out of thin air, and many people are now constantly researching his papers:

The observatory is repeating his major discoveries, the physics laboratory is repeating his X-ray diffraction experiments, the Institute of Mathematics is perfecting and proving his chaos theory and game theory, and the communication laboratory is based on Li Yu's products and technologies. Cutting edge learning objects...

Li Yu almost became the leader of many disciplines.

Now he wants to make some more high-tech discoveries, and the equipment he needs can only be imported from Europe or the United States. If it is the best, he has to buy it from Germany.

So Li Yu not only let He Yujie and Feng Zuxun buy some experimental equipment from Japan relatively easily, but also sent a telegram earnestly, asking Karl Siemens and Planck to send some experimental equipment.

Karl Siemens readily agreed.

Plank continued to emphasize that Li Yu should hurry up and write the follow-up works of the Star Wars series.

Li Yu immediately replied with a telegram and agreed, and Planck was satisfied and agreed to help him find and mail it.

In fact, during the Chinese New Year, Li Yu had already written a Star Wars story, that is, "Rogue One", the one with Donnie Yen.

This story is quite tragic, and all the protagonists are dead, but a lot of settings have been added, which can lay the foundation for the subsequent writing of the post-Star Wars trilogy.

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After Lu Bicheng and Qiu Jin packed their luggage, Li Yu and Zhao Qian drove a car each and helped them back.

Knowing that Lu Bicheng was going to live here completely, Fengling was overjoyed, but seeing that she moved to the small courtyard specially set up for her, she said: "Master really knows how to lead to secluded places, don't worry at all."

That night Li Yu left Qiu Jin to have dinner at home.

Now the diet in Li Yu’s mansion is definitely “a strange thing in the capital”: there are novel tomato scrambled eggs, curry chicken nuggets, chili fried meat, and the newly developed instant noodles...

Although it is commonplace in later generations, it is really unique at this time.

Qiu Jin felt very delicious and strange after eating it.

Yuan Keding and Yuan Kewen brothers also lived in Li Yu's mansion in recent days, especially Yuan Keding, who ate a lot of delicacies from mountains and seas with Yuan Shikai, but never saw these novel dishes.

You must know that Yuan Shikai is very particular about food, not much worse than Cixi.

Yuan Keding took another bite of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and praised: "My father loves eggs the most, and he can even eat six or seven boiled eggs in one meal. If he knows that eggs can be eaten this way, he will be ecstatic."

Li Yudao: "It's very simple, I can teach you how to do it, and you can also do it for the Taiwanese master when you go back."

Yuan Keding couldn't believe it: "It's so simple?"

Li Yu said: "At most half an hour, including education and meetings!"

Yuan Keding said: "It really is the master!"

Seeing that everyone was having a good time eating, Feng Ling took out the canned food that Li Yu had treasured for a long time.

Li Yuzheng and Yuan Keding took a sip of the wine, and when they saw Fengling open the can, it was too late to stop them: "Don't!"

"Crack!"

When the can was opened, a strange smell filled the air.

Feng Ling put the can on the table, covered her nose and said, "Sir, didn't you say that the can will not go bad after more than ten years? It's a good thing bought from Sweden, so why does it stink?"

Li Yu said embarrassingly: "The canned herring has this taste."

Qiu Jin also covered her nose, and when she heard Li Yu say that it was the smell, she lowered her hand, sniffed it closer, and almost spat it out, saying, "This... this is simply..."

After all, she was too embarrassed to say that it smelled like poop.

Yuan Keding was ecstatic: "Is it really the original taste?"

Li Yu pretended to be calm: "That's right. Canned herring has a history of more than 200 years in Sweden. It is fermented fish, not rotten fish."

Yuan Kewen clapped his hands and said, "Fermentation? Wonderful! It's ten times and a hundred times smellier than the stinky tofu I've ever eaten!"

Li Yu said awkwardly: "Young Master Yuan, do you like this one?"

Yuan Keding said: "The master laughed."

Li Yu said, "Then you can try it first."

Yuan Keding took the can of herring, his eyes almost glowed, but after thinking about it, he still said to Li Yu: "Master first!"

Li Yu quickly waved his hand: "Just eat."

Yuan Keding insisted, "My father said, we should respect our teachers."

Li Yu had no choice but to pick up the chopsticks tremblingly, pick up a little bit, and put it in his mouth.

The taste is directly on the head, as if hitting the depths of the soul, strong and long.

People's stinky tofu smells stinky, but it doesn't taste stinky.

And canned herring smells even worse after eating it in your mouth.

Really stinks!It even stinks to the mouth.

And not only smelly, but also very salty, salty and fishy, ​​very disgusting.

Li Yu couldn't bear it immediately after swallowing it, so he quickly ate four or five cloves of garlic to suppress the disgusting stench.

Lu Bicheng and Qiu Jin almost frowned as they watched Li Yu eating, and asked, "You, do you really eat...then what?"

Li Yu took a sip of the smell of garlic, but luckily both of them covered their noses, and then said, "It's really a dog shaking its head."

Feng Ling had already raised the fly swatter, Li Yu asked, "What are you doing?"

Feng Ling said: "Didn't you see that there were flies flying in?"

All right!Sure enough, it was canned herring.

Li Yu asked, "Is there anyone else who wants to eat?"

Everyone leaned back together and said firmly: "No!"

Li Yu said to Yuan Keding, "It's all yours."

Yuan Keding was very happy, picked up the chopsticks, took one bite, ate all three in a flash, and even drank the soup.

Li Yu's eyes almost fell off, and he gave a thumbs up: "Warrior!"

Yuan Keding said: "Is there any master? I will take it back and let my father taste it together in the future."

Li Yu said, "Okay, okay, you can take them all."

He took a bite, smelled it, and felt that it was enough, and he would never take a second bite in his life.

After dinner, because it was relatively late, Li Yu drove Qiu Jin back with Lu Bicheng, and finally Li Yu gave her a pocket watch.

Now there is no market for watches at all. It should be said that this situation is rare, and everyone basically uses pocket watches.And the pocket watch seems to be the social weapon of the upper class.

Qiu Jin said, "It's too precious."

Li Yu said, "It's just an ordinary pocket watch, from Sweden, not from Switzerland."

Qiu Jin said: "But you don't get paid for nothing..."

Li Yu said, "You have contributed too much."

Qiu Jin smiled slightly: "Then I'll accept it." Then asked: "By the way, you have been to many countries. Is there any way for girls to study in Japan?"

Li Yu said, "I'll help you find out, it's not a big problem."

Qiu Jin said, "Thank you so much, sir."

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The next day, Zai Tao came to Li Yu with a chess player, and discussed publishing an appointment with the Japanese in the newspaper.

Zai Tao introduced him: "This is the king of chess in the capital, silly boy."

Li Yu was taken aback: "Silly baby?"

Zai Tao laughed and said: "Yes, because he is a member of the clan, but he can't do anything except play chess, just like a fool."

Li Yu asked again, he is good at Chinese chess, and China is too strong in this respect.

Li Yu said, "Your Majesty, are there any Go masters?"

Zai Tao said: "So it's a game of Go? Then I'll look for it."

Li Yu said, "Don't worry, I don't know if the Japanese will be able to come."

Zai Tao felt a little troublesome: "If you want me to say, there is no need to compare intelligence. With you here, what arrogance they have!"

Li Yu said: "Then they should at least publish an apology in the newspaper."

Zai Tao found it a bit difficult: "It is not easy for the Japanese to apologize."

On the contrary, the Qing court sent the prince out many times to apologize to other countries.

Li Yu said, "Let's talk about it after it's published in the newspaper."

After Zai Tao left, Li Yu went to check on the progress of the factory.

The production lines of monosodium glutamate, soap, and instant noodles have been established in three factories because they are relatively easy.

Radios and auto parts are more cumbersome, and equipment needs to be shipped from abroad for assembly and debugging by workers.

The situation in China is very different from that in the United States, so the company is completely controlled by Li Yu.

But it is precisely because of the special situation that there needs to be a special "public relations department", that is, to deal with the court.

Li Yu chose Hu Jiayan, a kid with a good sense of government and business, smart and capable.

The students who returned home years ago have basically returned, and Li Yu is going to conduct a quiz to get to the bottom of it.

It just so happened that I ordered some exercise sets from Ding Weiliang of the Peking University Hall, and took out a part to form the test paper.

Li Yu said to them: "Those who can get the first place will not only get better development, but also get a European pocket watch."

——The same few watches I brought back from Sweden.

For students at this time, this sentence is almost equivalent to the configuration of "top graphics card + 4k screen + latest processor", which is very tempting.

Li Yu took the time to invigilate the exam, and then collected and graded the papers.

No.1 is actually Konoe Zhaoxue, this girl really works hard.

Li Yu kept his promise and gave her a pocket watch: "I hope you can do your duty in the future."

Jinwei Zhaoxue held the pocket watch and said happily: "I will definitely live up to my entrustment."

She was overjoyed.

The next day, Konoe Zhaoxue saw Fengling sending a telegram to Li Yu, so he came to Li Yu with a bowl of Japanese matcha.

"Sir, the taste is different this time."

As soon as she put it down, Lu Bicheng also brought a teapot: "Today we just have the best Biluochun in Suzhou..."

After she entered the door, she saw Konoe Zhaoxue at a glance.

Li Yu suddenly felt very troubled and didn't know which drink to drink.

Time seemed to stand still.

Lu Bicheng was the first to break the silence: "You should drink matcha tea, which was only available to noble sons back then, and it will be bad if it gets cold."

Jinwei Zhaoxue immediately said: "I can reheat it, it's better to taste Biluochun first."

The two of them became polite.

Li Yu didn't even know what they were thinking.

Li Yu said, "Actually... I'm not thirsty..."

The two women looked at Li Yu together, and Li Yu instantly felt as if a thousand swords were pointing at him.

Konoe Zhaoxue immediately smiled and said, "Okay, I'm just going to look at the production documents."

After she left, Li Yu breathed a sigh of relief, picked up Biluochun and took a sip: "It's really refreshing."

Lu Bicheng said: "Of course, there may not be many in the whole capital."

Li Yu praised: "Good tea! Good tea!"

Then he gave her Japanese matcha: "Try this."

Lu Bicheng said, "It was given to you."

Li Yu smiled and said, "I've already drank it, you can try it again."

Lu Bicheng didn't really want to drink it, so Li Yu continued, "Don't worry, it doesn't smell as bad as canned herring."

Lu Bicheng was amused, and then took a sip of matcha: "It's so strong! It's like drinking tea."

Li Yu said, "Yes, so I actually prefer to make tea. The Japanese have always claimed to have inherited the tea ceremony, but it is still far from the Song Dynasty."

The tea ceremony and Japanese food culture are actually in conflict, and to those who understand it, it looks like a foreign thing.

Because there is a big difference in diet between China and Japan.

A Michelin chef once said a very concise sentence summarizing the difference between Chinese food and Japanese food:

"Chinese food uses fire, Japanese food uses water"!
That is to say, Chinese food has very high requirements on the chef's skill. It needs cooking, that is, using fire, and then adding various seasonings.

The Japanese food is basically all kinds of natural sashimi, and cooking skills are rarely used, and they are cut and served directly.Of course, it's not like drinking blood, as it has developed its unique sashimi culture for a long time.

Um, sashimi is mainly fish, so we say "water".

The fish itself is relatively tender, and other things are not suitable for sashimi. If there is a large intestine sashimi, the Japanese may not be able to stand it.

On the contrary, the tea ceremony, which is very complicated and cumbersome, is quite different from the habits of the Japanese.

Although the people of the Warring States Period in Japan liked the tea ceremony very much, it is really incomparable with the Song Dynasty.Because Japan was divided into so many small countries during the Warring States Period, and fought for years, it was too barren to develop a real tea ceremony.

The Song Dynasty was able to develop, really because the Song Dynasty was indeed rich.

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Qing Dynasty Post Office.

Little Zuoxiang came over again to find postman Cui, and the two arrived at a secluded place. Little Zuoxiang asked, "How are you getting ready?"

Postman Cui said: "I have forged several letters, some from the Russians and some from the Revolutionary Party."

Xiao Zuoxiang looked at it and said, "Very good, I am not disappointed."

Postman Cui let out a sigh of relief: "That..."

Little Zuo Xiang took out a cotton-padded jacket and a pair of gloves and threw them to him: "It's yours, and there will be rewards after it's done."

Postman Cui put on his gloves and said, "Thank you, sir."

Little Zuo Xiang said disdainfully: "It is the Emperor you should thank."

"Thank you, the Emperor!" Postman Cui continued, "Your Excellency, please don't confess to the villain."

Xiao Zuoxiang said: "You don't need to take action in the future, don't worry."

Postman Cui didn't know whether it was disappointment or happiness on his face, so he could only say: "The villain knows."

Li Yu never dreamed that it was so simple for him to be bribed.It feels like in the prison break, the teenager was bought by the prison guard with a hamburger.

(End of this chapter)