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

Chapter 323 Left-Handed Angel, Right-Handed Devil

When Li Yu was teaching Guangxu, Guangxu asked a lot about Li Yu's going abroad.So Li Yu generally talked about what he had seen and heard in the United States, Japan and Europe.

There are really not many people who have been to so many countries now, and Li Yu's cognition is much ahead of him, and he has profound insights into various countries.

Guangxu was fascinated when he heard it: "Gengzi's defeat is indeed inevitable."

Isn't it true that Cixi was afraid of trains at that time, so she didn't know which muscle was wrong and declared war on the Eleven Kingdoms.

After hearing this, Eunuch Cui coughed lightly.

Guangxu originally wanted to ask something more, but he stopped his mouth immediately after hearing it, and sighed softly.

Of course he knew in his heart that Cixi was very responsible for Gengzi's defeat, but it was precisely because of this that he couldn't say this matter too blatantly in the palace.

Guangxu waved his hand: "Back off."

Li Yu walked out of Yingtai. On the way, Eunuch Cui said to him, "Master, please don't tell the emperor what you say, otherwise, hehe."

Li Yu said, "It was the emperor who asked."

Eunuch Cui said: "I know that the emperor asked, but now that the emperor is sick sometimes, it is inevitable that he will make some actions that are not, um, not in compliance. As a slave, you can't let the emperor make mistakes."

While talking, Concubine Jin passed by the two of them.

Eunuch Cui hurriedly saluted her: "Your Majesty."

"Excuse me, Eunuch Cui," Concubine Jin said, "This is a Jiangnan cake selected from the tribute, you can try it."

"What a villain." Eunuch Cui said hastily.

Concubine Jin is a kind person in the palace, and everyone in the palace, including the eunuchs and maids, have a good relationship with her.

Concubine Jin looked at Li Yu: "The image of the emperor made me think I saw the Japanese envoy. By the way, I heard that you wrote a set of novels and won an award in France, and the affiliated author is Bicheng, a talented woman from Beijing and Tianjin." ?”

Li Yu said, "That's right."

Concubine Jin said: "Can you get one for the Ai family? I'll also see something that can win the French Award."

Li Yu said, "Of course, it's a piece of cake."

Concubine Jin said: "That's good, anyway, sometimes it's boring in the palace."

This concubine Jin is a typical "lying flat" type. She knew that Guangxu didn't like her from the day she was selected as a concubine.However, Concubine Jin's attitude towards life is just three words: It doesn't matter.

How about love, I raise flowers, fish, cats and dogs every day, or read, draw, and I am actually quite happy.He even had to eat pork knuckle every day, which was definitely a typical example of a fat and fat man in the palace.

She also lived in Yingtai, but she was not in the same palace as Guangxu.

Because according to the tradition of the Qing Dynasty, it is impossible for any concubine to spend the night with the emperor, and the emperor sleeps alone at night.On the one hand, it is for safety considerations, and the other is to prevent the harem from interfering in politics.

It's just that no one expected that in the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was not just a simple harem meddling in politics, it was completely controlling the government for half a century.

Li Yu returned to the mansion and taught the Yuan brothers another lesson.

The Yuan brothers were very curious about what Li Yu told Guangxu today.

Li Yu told them: "It is about some basic content of astronomy and celestial mechanics, which is the theory of Western Newton."

The Yuan brothers immediately said: "We want to learn from the emperor!"

Li Yu smiled and said, "I knew it!"

Although Li Yu is not good at lecturing, his insights are far beyond those of the current teachers. If the Yuan brothers study hard, it will definitely be better than learning outside.

However, the Yuan brothers obviously don't want to engage in academics. It is simply because Western learning is too popular now, and people of insight know that Western learning is important, so they study Western learning at Yuan Shikai's request.

After the class, the Yuan brothers were very interested in Li Yu's car. After pestering Zhao Qian for a few laps, they made up their mind to buy one.

The Yuan brothers are definitely not short of money. A car costs 1000 taels of silver to be transported to the customs at the current cost price. After including miscellaneous expenses and the special business environment of the Qing Dynasty, it can be sold for almost 2000 taels.

Absolutely sky-high.

This is not counting maintenance costs, not to mention that today's cars are not as stable as later generations, and it is definitely not good if you don't know a little about mechanics.

Li Yu naturally knew that this thing was not opened casually, so he could only tell them to learn it carefully before talking.

The Yuan brothers were very unconvinced: "Isn't it the same as riding a horse? We brothers can't tame an iron lump!"

Li Yu felt a headache, and knew that they were not easy to discipline. After all, even Yuan Shikai himself could not help.I can only let Zhao Qian take a good look at them while driving.

On the other side, Zhu Guozhen, a second-class Jinshi, also officially came to join Li Yu.

He still has the status of a scholar of the Imperial Academy, but Zhu Guozhen has no hope of becoming an official.

From a historical point of view, he followed Li Yu's words, and he definitely made the most important move in his life, otherwise he would just be an obscure second-class Jinshi throughout his life.

Moreover, their current imperial examination is the penultimate one in history, and their reputation is far less than that of the last imperial examination this year.

Much less commemorative.

You can see that Liu Chunlin, the number one scholar in the last imperial examination, is many times more famous than the number one scholar in the penultimate one.Anyway, I don't believe that there are a few people who still remember the name of the penultimate champion, even if it was mentioned above.

Sure enough, the second is always unknown!

Even if it is the second to last, it is too miserable!

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Aoki mansion.

Uchida Yasuya and Kawashima Naniwa have already drawn up a strategy, and there is Xiao Zuoxiang in the room who made a plan.

Uchida Yasuya said: "If these letters are found out from Li Yu's house, and we come forward to defend them at that time, Li Yu will definitely be grateful to us and fall to our side, and it is even possible for him to settle in Tokyo from now on."

They definitely didn't want to kill Li Yu, because they were jealous of his ability and desperately wanted him to go on a pro-Japanese route.

Naniwa Kawashima asked Xiao Zuoxiang: "How to put the letter in Li Yu's mansion, do you have a way?"

Xiao Zuoxiang said confidently: "I have found a suitable candidate, there is absolutely no problem. I will let him in."

The door opened, and it was Uncle Wang's sons, Xiao Wang, and Wang Shuo who walked in.

Xiao Zuoxiang introduced them.

Naniwa Kawashima was a little worried, because from the intelligence point of view, Li Yu was as important to Wang Boen as a mountain, and it was because of Li Yu that Xiao Wang escaped the fate of being purged, so he asked, "Why are you willing to help us?"

Xiao Wang said: "Brother Zuoxiang told me that this would give me more happiness medicine and allow me to enter Japanese schools without examination."

Kawashima Naniwa said: "I heard that you opened Soongshi School in the Americans, what, isn't it good?"

Xiao Wang said softly, "I, I'm a little bit stressed recently..."

Naniwa Kawashima said: "It's understandable. Caucasians don't understand the habits of our East Asians, so there will inevitably be many problems in teaching. If you enter a school in Japan, you will definitely make a fortune."

Xiao Wang looked at Xiao Zuoxiang: "Is it because I helped you that you can always give me happiness medicine?"

Little Zuo Xiang said, "Of course, but you must be obedient."

Xiao Wang said: "I will definitely listen to you, as long as you give me happiness medicine."

Little Zuo Xiang took out a small bottle from his arms: "Take these, there will be more when things are done."

Xiao Wang's eyes lit up, and he snatched it away. Before he even had time to say thank you, he rushed out excitedly.

Uchida Yasuya asked strangely: "What is that?"

Xiao Zuoxiang took out another bottle and handed it to Uchida Koya: "It's a kind of magic medicine from Germany, which is suitable for children's cough."

Uchida Yasuya knew English. He took a look at the bottle and saw "heroin" written on the bottle, so he asked, "Heroine? Cough medicine?"

Xiao Zuoxiang said: "This 'heroine' is by no means an ordinary cough medicine. It contains morphine in its ingredients."

Heroin means heroine in German.

"Morphine?" Kawashima Naniwa immediately heard the clue, "Opium?!"

"It's not that simple," Xiao Zuoxiang introduced to them, "Bayer's cough medicine is officially sold, but although its advertisements repeatedly emphasize that it is the next generation of morphine, and it won't cause people to become sick. Addiction', but I know from a medical school professor at Imperial that it's definitely more addictive."

"It's interesting." Uchida Yasuya picked up the small bottle, which was densely written with various promotional words of Bayer.

For example, it is mentioned that some doctors say that it can dispel the "pain of the soul", not only to relieve cough, but also to treat pain, depression, bronchitis, asthma and so on.

In short, it is described as a magic medicine.

Uchida Yasuya said with emotion: "Legal opium, it's so interesting!"

Everyone must have seen it, it is the famous "Healuoyin".

It has brought huge profits to Bayer, and just one drug accounts for 5% of the profits of the entire pharmaceutical industry!

Bayer is very good at marketing. They distribute free trial products to doctors all over the world, and commission some experts to do research to promote its miraculous efficacy.In the records of these researchers, Heroin has only insignificant side effects such as drowsiness, dizziness and constipation, but its efficacy is surprisingly good.

Bayer even advertised in major newspapers such as the "German Doctor" and boasted extravagantly.

It can come out from its name "heroin", which is derived from the root of "hero".

How ironic.

But what's really scary is that, as it stands, it's not banned.

It was almost until 1910 that countries canceled its clinical use.Two years later, an international conference on opium was held in The Hague, the Netherlands, and the delegates unanimously approved the adoption of controls on the trafficking of opium, morphine and heroin.

And the inventor of Heroin, Felix Hoffman, is definitely a real "angel and devil" incarnation.

Aspirin, one of the world's three major medicines, was invented by him.

And only 11 days later, he synthesized heroin in the laboratory.

The sacred staff of medicine was propped up, and a terrible Pandora's box was opened.

Aspirin's status in the medical world is absolutely supreme.

And Heroin can be called the poison king of the previous generation.

In fact, it was not very addictive at the beginning, mainly because it was designed as an oral liquid, which has a slow and long-lasting effect, and the user does not have a strong pleasure, but only feels relaxed all over the body.

But when it landed in the US market, it was quite different.

The United States seems to be the world's largest drug consumer from beginning to end, with a huge number of addicts.

After American addicts discovered heroin, they immediately abandoned morphine and turned to a new favorite, and developed an injection method.

They are swallowed by the pleasure of rushing to the top in an instant.

Since then, heroin sales have skyrocketed.

What's even more frightening is that addicts no longer need to sneak around, but can swagger to the drugstore to buy "heroines" in delicate vials.

To say that Bayer is unaware of its side effects is to be believed.

They are fully aware of the details of heroin.

Soon some doctors pointed out that the drug has not undergone strict clinical verification and should not be sold on such a large scale.

A few chemists have discovered that heroin can be metabolized into morphine in the liver.

But it can't stand the power of capital.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Bayer's giant cross-shaped neon lights appeared all over the world.They make money to keep heroin selling and then make more money.

Xiao Zuoxiang proudly said: "After I found out that Xiao Wang in Li Yu's house was suffering from a cough, I used some tricks to make him unable to extricate himself."

Uchida Yasuya praised: "You really have two tricks, such a powerful control tool, even I don't know."

Kawashima Naniwa also said: "More importantly, it is not as illegal as opium, and it will damage the face of our Great Japanese Empire. Since this drug is publicly released by a German pharmaceutical company, we have no handle. Wonderful, wonderful To the top!"

Although there has been opium sales in the Japanese Concession for decades, the Japanese certainly dare not let it go out of the Japanese Concession.

Even the French Concession across the road will not allow it.

Uchida Yasuya looked at the small bottle and said, "The German guy has a knack for making this kind of thing."

In fact, Uchida Yasuya also suffered from a cold recently. He coughed and had a headache from time to time. Looking at the introduction on the medicine bottle, he couldn't help but try a piece to see if it was really so miraculous.

Little Zuoxiang saw him open the bottle cap and sniffed it, and hurriedly said, "Minister Uchida, you absolutely must not do it!"

"I know," Uchida Yasuya closed the bottle cap, and then said, "When General Aoki returns from the front line, I will definitely recommend you personally and make you an important figure in our espionage work."

Xiao Zuoxiang saluted and said, "Thank you, Minister Uchida, and Master Chuandao!"

Uchida Yasuya said: "You have proved your ability to us time and time again. The spy is the most difficult thing to do. Not only does it require multi-disciplinary professional knowledge, but also the disguise ability of an excellent actor, but also decisive and decisive judgment. You are perfect in every way."

Little Zuoxiang said: "My lord envoy is absurd."

Uchida Yasuya said: "From now on, I will write a letter to the country to try to approve your citizenship of the Empire of Japan as soon as possible."

Little Zuoxiang said excitedly: "I will definitely not disappoint your high expectations!"

Kawashima Naniwa patted him on the shoulder: "We have seen your ability with our own eyes, and the empire needs talents like you."

Uchida Yasuya asked again: "By the way, there will be no problem with the letter, right?"

Xiao Zuoxiang wiped away the tears of excitement and said: "Minister Uchida, don't worry, the letter from the Revolutionary Party is from Liang Qichao in Japan, while the letter from the Russians is from Horvath from the Harbin Middle East Railway Administration. The Qing court has no ability at all. Go investigate Horvath, as for Liang Qichao, he is in Japan, we can say whatever we want. Even if we fake it, they will find no evidence."

Although Xiao Zuoxiang regarded Liang Qichao as a revolutionary party, it did not affect the attitude of the Qing court, because in the eyes of the Qing court, he was a rebel anyway.

Uchida Yasuya laughed and said, "I really like you, smart and bold."

Xiao Zuoxiang said: "For some follow-up operations, the cooperation of the two adults is still needed."

Uchida Yasuya said with a guarantee: "Don't worry, even if Li Yu has a peerless talent, he will never think of the people around him!"

(End of this chapter)