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

Chapter 326

Aoki mansion.

Kawashima Naniwa and Uchida Yasuya also did not expect the development of the matter at all.

What makes them even more distressed is that both "Ta Kung Pao" and "Shen Bao" reported this matter.

"The Japanese ronin chased and killed the emperor's teacher in the street! The reason was to catch wind and shadow!"

Then the relevant evidence and the confessions of Russian diplomats were put on it.

Shame on you!

Naniwa Kawashima couldn't explain too much to his ronin subordinates, they were still asking whether senior died because of Li Yu's tip-off.

Now that the letter from the Russians has been confirmed as a fraud, Naniwa Kawashima has no choice but to prevaricate and remains to be investigated.

The rogues made fun of it, but they didn't think about admitting their mistakes to Li Yu.

Xiao Zuoxiang was the one who was wronged the most. Obviously such a perfect plan, from the investigation order to the envisioned follow-up interrogation at the Patrol Office, should have been under the control of his own people.Now it is because of a problem with the people of the Kawashima Naniwa faction that the success has fallen short.

Can you not be angry!
If it takes another two years, it may not be such a failure, because there will be formal patrols at that time, but the newly established patrol office at this time still uses the officers and soldiers of the former infantry commanding yamen, that is, the nine admirals.

Naniwa Kawashima knew that he had messed up the matter, and said to Xiao Zuoxiang: "I don't blame you this time, but we still have a chance."

Little Zuo Xiang was dejected, he knew what it meant to scare the snake, and if he wanted to succeed in the future, it would be difficult, maybe it would take Senior Sister Jinwei to use a beauty trick to do it.

But he clenched his fists tightly, as if he didn't want to let things go that far.

Originally, I could do it myself, but now I was spoiled by my confused boss. I was dumb and ate Coptis chinensis, and I couldn’t tell what I was suffering.

He walked out of the Qingmu Mansion, walked hesitantly for a while, and when he came to Beicheng, he saw Xiao Wang running towards him.

"My lord, can you bring me some happy potions?"

Little Zuo Xiang is very angry now: "The matter is messed up, what medicine do you need? Get out!"

Xiao Wang was full of grievances: "But, I did everything according to your request."

Xiao Zuoxiang is well aware of the way of espionage. After a plan fails, there is absolutely no reason to use it again. Xiao Wang has no use value in his opinion.

Moreover, the Japanese themselves feel that addicts cannot be reliable for a long time, and it is okay to use it for a short time.

After a long time, addicts will deny their relatives and cannot control it at all.

Xiao Wang hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to him: "Without medicine, I will die!"

Little Zuo Xiang kicked him away in disgust: "It's none of my business!"

Say it and walk away.

After Xiao Wang returned to the mansion, his eyes were extremely empty.

He has stopped taking medicine today. Although he doesn't know why his cough is cleared up, he still can't help but want to take medicine, but he knows what the consequences will be if there is no medicine.

When going to bed at night, Xiao Wang's withdrawal reaction finally broke out, scratching his head frantically, and grabbing the ground with his head.

Uncle Wang, who was in the same room, was frightened and tried to hold him back, but he couldn't hold him back at all.

Xiao Wang continued to smash wildly, as if he couldn't see anyone in his eyes, and soon alarmed others.

Zhao Qian and Feng Ling rushed over first, seeing the scene in front of them, they asked, "Uncle Wang, what's wrong with your son?"

Uncle Wang was confused: "I don't know either!"

Zhao Qian wanted to go up and talk to Xiao Wang, but he was punched two or three times as soon as he got up, making him confused: "Boy, are you crazy? I'm Uncle Zhao!"

Uncle Wang sighed, "He even hit me."

Zhao Qian was a little angry: "It's against him!"

At this time, Li Yu also wrapped his clothes and came to the gate of the yard, and asked inside, "What happened, there was a lot of noise in the middle of the night."

Zhao Qian said: "Sir, Xiao Wang has lost his mind for some reason."

Li Yu walked in and saw Xiao Wang's appearance, he was shocked, really this kid?
Knowing Li Yu's supernatural powers, Uncle Wang stepped forward and asked, "Sir, what's wrong with my baby, I've never seen him like this before."

At this moment, Xiao Wang cried out in pain: "Give me the medicine, give me the medicine!"

Li Yu asked, "Is he sick?"

Uncle Wang said, "I had a cough a few years ago, but it's gone now."

"cough!"

Li Yu is completely sure now, because "Heroin" is used as a cough medicine for children.

Li Yu asked solemnly: "Xiao Wang, I can think of a way, but let me ask you, have you ever found a Japanese?"

When Li Yu asked these words, everyone present was stunned.

Xiao Wang crawled to Li Yu's feet: "My lord, I found the Japanese, and I secretly released the letter. I'm sorry for you! Please give me some medicine, I'm going to die of pain!"

Uncle Wang's forehead exploded in an instant, and he kicked him on the head: "You bastard! The master has been so kind to us, and you want to harm the master! I will kill you, an ungrateful bastard!"

Xiao Wang didn't care about Uncle Wang's kicking and beating, and grabbed Li Yu's trousers tightly: "Master, give me the medicine, I've already said everything, it's really uncomfortable!"

Xiao Wang scratched his face with bloodstains, and looked very creepy in the middle of the night.

Li Yu closed his eyes, feeling like a knife was twisting his heart.

Zhao Qian and Feng Ling froze in place, not knowing what to do.

Uncle Wang suddenly picked up the scissors on the table, "I'll kill you bastard!"

Li Yu quickly grabbed his hand and snatched the scissors: "Uncle Wang, what are you doing!"

Uncle Wang suddenly knelt in front of Li Yu and said in pain, "Sir, kill me too, I really have no face to face you!"

Uncle Wang burst into tears.

Xiao Wang at the side was still crying for Li Yu to give him medicine.

Li Yu said to Zhao Qian, "Find a hemp rope and tie him up first."

After Li Yu spoke, Zhao Qian dared to act and quickly found the rope.Xiao Wang yelled hoarsely for more than an hour, but he had no strength left and was tied tightly.

After a while, when he calmed down, Li Yu squatted in front of Xiao Wang and continued to ask, "Where did you meet the Japanese?"

Xiao Wang said weakly: "Yes, in Beicheng."

"What's the other party's name?"

Xiao Wang shook his head: "I don't know, I just know that he said that he is a doctor in Japan, and he has an overseas cure for cough."

"Where is the medicine?"

Xiao Wang looked at his pillow.Feng Ling immediately went to search, and took out several medicine bottles from below.

Sure enough, it is the medicine of "heroin".

Feng Ling asked: "It's really in foreign language, what is this?"

Li Yu said: "The king of drugs who is many times more powerful than opium."

Hearing that it was a big smoke, Uncle Wang became more anxious and almost smoked, Zhao Qian quickly pressed him again.

Uncle Wang said with tears, "It's over, you're over!"

Li Yu continued to ask Xiao Wang, "What else do you know?"

Xiao Wang said: "The doctor took me to a certain place, but he sat in a carriage and blindfolded. After entering, he was so gloomy that he didn't see anything."

Li Yu pondered: "So, you've only met one Japanese person whose name you don't even know? What does the other person look like?"

Xiao Wang said: "He is wearing sunglasses and a big hat, so he can't see clearly, but he should be able to hear his voice."

Li Yu sighed. This kid is really too young in front of professional spies, and his voice is probably imitated by the other party.

The most important thing is that even if he can identify, no one will believe what a drug addict says.

Li Yu stood up: "I know everything."

Zhao Qian asked: "Sir, Xiao Wang... how to arrange him?"

Uncle Wang said: "Whatever to arrange, just kill it! I, I don't want to live anymore."

Knowing that Xiao Wang was his only son, Li Yu sighed and said, "Whoever doesn't know is innocent, and he is just a pawn. Let him get rid of his drug addiction first."

Uncle Wang burst into tears: "Thank you, Master, for not killing me."

Li Yu said to Zhao Qian: "Let him be alone in a room these few days, tied tightly to the bed, usually stuffed with cloth strips, and don't let him bite his tongue. Drink some rice porridge when eating."

Zhao Qian asked: "Can I quit?"

Li Yu said: "I just hope that the drug addiction is not deep, otherwise... hey, it depends on his own luck."

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Once the Japanese are found, it is really impossible to push.

As early as the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, the Qing court declared "partial neutrality", and now it dare not provoke the Japanese casually.

Li Yu had expected it a long time ago, so he was not in a hurry.

On February [-]nd, he went to a foreign company to buy some glasses and foreign wine, and asked Feng Ling to buy a lot of cooked dishes, and made a large table of dishes. Everyone sat around and ate together.

Li Yu said to everyone: "This time, it can be said that you survived a catastrophe, and there must be good luck. Lao Tzu said that bad things are not necessarily bad things, so we should celebrate. I bought French red wine specially and tasted it with everyone. Drink For red wine, you must use a glass."

Everyone filled up the wine, and Li Yu took the lead in drinking it.

Then he continued: "However, this incident taught me some lessons, so I bought a newest American-made fireproof safe from a foreign company, which is specially used to store letters."

There will be more letters in the future, and Li Yu will indeed do this.

In this era, letters are almost the most important means of communication, and many secret events erupt from letters.

For example... Mrs. Curie, who just won this year's Nobel Prize and is very popular in Europe, has been troubled for many years because of a few letters a few years later.

At that time, Pierre Curie had passed away, and suddenly there was a scandal about Mrs. Curie, who was still with her student Lang Zhiwan.

Lang Zhiwan is a student of Pierre Curie, that is to say, Mrs. Curie is his wife.

Moreover, Lang Zhiwan is married and has children. For some reason, there is a story with Mrs. Curie.

It didn't spread too widely, but Lang Zhiwan was really too careless. He let his wife sneak into the office and stole several letters written by Mrs. Curie.

This can be fatal.

In 1911, the first Solvay Conference was held in Brussels, and Marie Curie and Langevin attended the conference together.

Madame Langevin was furious, and took the letter to the newspaper office.

For a time, there was an uproar in Paris, and the front page of the "Daily News" reported the love story of Madame Curie and Professor Langevin.

The reporter added fuel and vinegar to the article, portraying Mrs. Langevin as a weak woman who lost her husband and even her child. She had no choice but to resort to public opinion for help.Correspondingly, Mrs. Curie is portrayed as an "old shrew" who snatches other people's husbands and destroys other people's families (harridan, this word is used to comment on Mrs. Curie who has already won the Nobel Prize, and it is quite heavy).

Afterwards, Mrs. Curie wrote a severely worded statement, accusing the publishing house of spying on her private life for no reason, and said that what she had done was not ashamed of her heart, and she wanted the publishing house to make compensation for it.

The Daily News eventually retracted the story, and the contributor apologized to Marie Curie.

But things have greatly affected the image of Mrs. Curie.

Because Mrs. Curie had already become famous all over the world through the Nobel Prize in 1903.

In 1911, when Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry again for her discovery of radium, French domestic newspapers basically did not mention the Chemistry Prize when they reported the Nobel Prize this year.This is a world of difference from when Marie Curie first won the award in 1903.

As the first scientist in history to win the Nobel Prize twice, and an outstanding female scientist, this period should have been the brightest moment in Madam Curie's life.

But because of this incident, she was not only criticized by the public, but also excluded by her peers.

You know, in France, it is common for men to have extramarital affairs at this time, and they are even proud of it, but women are not allowed, especially a foreign woman.

After learning of this incident, the Swedish Nobel Committee threatened to deny Madame Curie the chance to be nominated for the Nobel Prize, and even told her not to come to Stockholm to accept the award.

Mrs. Curie fought hard, claiming that the Nobel Prize had nothing to do with her private life, and thus she kept her second medal.

Anyway, the story between Madame Curie and Langevin ended here.

But many years later, the grandchildren of the two, Mrs. Curie's granddaughter and Langevin's grandson, actually formed a couple, which can be regarded as the complete end of this grievance.

Later generations seldom know this story, but in fact, at that time, Madame Curie's situation was quite sad.

It's all because of the lack of confidentiality measures!
Near the end of dinner, Li Yu casually said again intentionally or unintentionally: "Recently, I just made some important discoveries on the radio, and I will send the materials to the United States in two days."

When the bait is dropped, the other party will definitely bite, and it is the willing one who takes the bait.

Because once the safe arrived, the letters would definitely be difficult to get their hands on; and Li Yu knew how enthusiastic the Japanese were about radio, and they definitely couldn't bear it.

When Konoe Zhaoxue heard the news, he couldn't wait to go to the Aoki Mansion to report the situation.

Li Yu just said another sentence: "Tomorrow I will go to the hospital for reexamination, and I will not be at home."

Konoe Akiyuki feels that things are a bit strange, but there have been too many strange things these days, so he should first ask Naniwa Kawashima and Yasuya Uchida before deciding on the next move.

After all, radio technology is related to the situation of the war. The Japanese are too crazy about the war now, and they are trying their best to win the war.

Especially at present, the war is in the early stages, the situation is not clear at all, and the real bloody battle has not yet begun. To be honest, the Japanese do not have much confidence that they can definitely win against the Russians.

So they hope at all costs to tilt the balance of war to their side.

Wireless technology is undoubtedly a key weight.

In Japan, the most "noble" navy has already purchased Marconi's radio equipment, but now anyone with a discerning eye can see that Li Yu's equipment is better.

Even the "Army Red Deer", which the Japanese navy looked down upon, has now tasted the sweetness of wartime wireless communication, and the pressure has been put on Uchida Yasuya and Kawashima Naniwa in the capital.

(End of this chapter)