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

After Feng Ling went out, Li Yu immediately began to imagine what a good picture it would be. In this day and age, there is no chance to watch a short video. Things like Happy Buddha or erotic pictures are too rare.

Exciting to think about.

While thinking about it, a sharp voice suddenly came from the door: "Master Emperor, you are back."

It was Xiao Dezhang who came.

The charming picture in Li Yu's mind was instantly blown away.

Suddenly remembered the few naked dialogues between the two in Game of Thrones when they faced the army of the Unsullied.

— A group of men without penises.Don't know what they are fighting for.

—gold?
——How do you think my soldiers will spend the gold they earn?

Li Yu got up and said, "Eunuch De, why are you here?"

Xiao Dezhang said: "Lafayette also knows about the emperor's master abroad, and he is very happy. He will definitely reward you heavily. Today, I specially sent a miscellaneous family to call you into the palace."

Li Yu remembered Eunuch Cui's lukewarm words before, so he took out a gold pen and gave it to Xiao Dezhang: "It's made in Germany, Eunuch accepts it with a smile. If you want to draw in the future, it will be more comfortable to draw lines with a pen."

Xiao De Zhang likes to engage in architectural design when he has nothing to do, and he took it to his own appetite, and said with a smile: "There is a little teacher in Lao Di's mind."

Xiyuan.

Cixi looked at "Shenbao" for a while with a pair of glasses, and there were several English newspapers in the Tianjin Concession, such as "Zi Lin Xi Bao" and so on.

Cixi said to Zhang Baixi, the Minister of Management next to him: "The Ai family pondered for a long time, and it turns out that this Nobel is a maker of explosives."

Zhang Baixi said: "Explosives are a part of chemistry, and chemistry is a part of Western learning."

Cixi said: "All the newspapers say that this award is very powerful, better than the Swedish king's arithmetic award before?"

Zhang Baixi replied: "Yes, Queen Mother."

"Since that's the case, I deserve a reward!" Cixi said, "I heard that the prize money for the Nobel Prize is the same as that set by the King of Sweden, and there is also a gold medal. What should we reward this time?"

Zhang Baixi said: "It all depends on the Queen Mother's decision."

Cixi thought for a while: "How about taking two paintings from the palace."

The cash in the inner treasury is still a bit small, but there are many paintings in the palace.

After Li Yu had an audience, Cixi said: "Li Yu, Aijia has heard your name more and more in recent years. It's very good. It shows that my Qing Dynasty is not empty. In view of your performance, I have paid attention to your name." Eunuch Li went to the House of Internal Affairs to order two more famous paintings for you."

Li Yu replied, "Thank you, Queen Mother."

Not long after, Li Lianying came back: "Lafayette, according to your order, this time it is a Song painting and a Tang painting."

Cixi said: "Understood."

Li Lianying then came to Li Yu: "Emperor Master, this one is Zhao Lingrang's "Picture of Geese" in the Northern Song Dynasty; this one is the "Picture of Horse Nature" by Han Gan in the Tang Dynasty. Lord’s seal. I reward you now, which is a testament to the grace of Lafayette.”

Li Yu was a little speechless when he thought of Qianlong, the stamp-stamping madman.

It is said that whenever a painting has Song Huizong's thin gold inscription and Shuanglong small seal, its value will double and rise, because Song Huizong's art appreciation ability is recognized as top-notch.

As for Qianlong... there are as many stamps as psoriasis.

But the two paintings themselves are indeed priceless.

Like "Six Dragons", they will all be lost to Japan in the future. In 2017, Christie's in New York specially auctioned these six Chinese paintings from the Fujita Art Museum in Japan because they could not afford the air-conditioning fee, which shocked the entire painting and calligraphy circles at that time.

"Six Dragons" is undoubtedly the most expensive.

"Picture of Geese" took 2700 million US dollars, or about 2 million yuan;

"Horse Nature Picture" took 1500 million US dollars, close to 1 million yuan.

After Li Yu thanked the reward, he said: "Queen Mother, I have brought some things back from abroad this time."

He took out the "Heart Writing Zhiping Map" from his pocket: "This is a relic of the Old Summer Palace."

A group of ministers turned pale with shock: "Old Summer Palace?"

Cixi said: "Show it to me quickly."

Li Lianying quickly held up the painting, and Cixi's hands trembled a little: "It really looks like Lord Qianlong! There are also a few empresses, imperial concubines!"

Li Yu said again: "In addition, I also redeemed the sheep's head from Yuanmingyuan and returned it to the imperial court."

Cixi was even more delighted: "The emperor's teacher is really the pillar of the country, and he should be rewarded!"

Li Yu's guess was right, these two things really made Cixi right.

Cixi looked at Yikuang beside him: "Prince Qing, what do you think?"

Prince Qing Yikuang immediately said: "Li Yu is very talented and has made such contributions. If he does not add an official status, it will appear that the imperial court does not know how to know people and make good use of them."

Cixi nodded: "It makes sense, pass it on! In addition to rewarding Li Yuli's ministers, the new learning will be promoted and supervised by the envoy, and it will be the fifth grade."

In fact, Li Yu didn't want to be an official at all, but the atmosphere was so bad that there was nothing he could do if he didn't accept it, and he was just a idle job, so he said: "Queen Mother, I have a small request. After traveling in many countries, I feel deeply that the cultural relics are lost. Sad, I hope that in the future I can act cheaply and take responsibility for the protection of cultural relics."

Zhang Baixi admired it very much: "Queen Mother, Li Yu's heart of fist and fist should not be let down."

This trivial matter is very simple to Cixi: "Yes, give him the seal of the Ministry of Rites from the second grade. If you encounter cultural relics, you can mobilize local academic administration, libraries and colleges."

It's just a little more power on the basis of idle work, not real power, it can be said to be insignificant.

However, this has met Li Yu's request, and he thanked him: "Thank you, Queen Mother!"

With this small title, Li Yu can do something he has always wanted to do.

After withdrawing from Xiyuan, Zhang Baixi was also preparing to return to the Imperial Academy.

The two walked side by side, and Li Yu asked, "Principal, are the 20 teachers I want to come from the Netherlands arranged properly?"

Zhang Baixi said happily: "I was about to thank you. The university has always been short of teachers. This time, so many came. I was so happy that I didn't fall asleep all night."

Li Yu said, "These are the people I plan to put in primary and secondary schools in the future."

Zhang Baixi asked in surprise: "Elementary and middle school?"

Li Yu told him about himself and the Carnegie Educational Foundation's plans to build a school.

Zhang Baixi pondered for a moment: "Elementary and middle schools should indeed be caught, but I really lack people here. How about it, I will keep eight and give you the rest."

Li Yu smiled wryly: "It wasn't many."

Zhang Baixi bargained: "Five, no less! After all, you are also a person from the Imperial Academy, so you have to give me some face, right?"

"Okay, five is five," Li Yu said with a smile, "but the treatment of the Dutch teachers has been negotiated, the principal pays attention."

Zhang Baixi said: "The Capital University is not short of funds, you can rest assured that it is."

Unexpectedly, the Peking University Hall directly stated "stealing people".

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Tianjin, Tanggu.

As soon as Lu Bicheng came back, he was locked up and grounded by his uncle Yan Fengsheng.

Lu Bicheng was notoriously independent, and in the late Qing Dynasty, he was a clear stream. He couldn't stand this kind of feudal ethics, and immediately went on a hunger strike to protest.

Lu Bicheng's mother, Yan Shi, felt sorry for her daughter, and quickly called Yan Fu who happened to be in Tianjin.

Yan Fu has a very good relationship with the Lu family and the Yan family, and he feels great pity for Lu Bicheng, a talented and handsome apprentice. When he came to Yan Fengsheng's house, he comforted Lu Bicheng first, and then smoothed things over and said: "Brother Fengsheng, my son It's normal not to take care of it when you get older, and you can't starve your body to death."

Yan Fengsheng snorted: "How decent is it for a girl to walk in the rivers and lakes! Now everywhere in Tanggu, there are rumors that my Yan family's family education is not strict, and the girls are allowed to run around."

After thinking about it, Yan Fu said: "It's time for Bicheng to talk about marriage. Some time ago, Mr. Hu Weide, the minister in Russia, returned to Beijing for business. He heard about Bicheng's talent and appreciated it very much. His wife has passed away. I was a matchmaker, and I gave a poem as a token."

Yan Fengsheng's eyes lit up. The person who is now sent out to be an ambassador will definitely be a senior official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when he comes back.

He deduced quite correctly that Hu Weide even served as the head of the Republic of China later on. Although he was only in power temporarily as the acting prime minister and only served for less than a month, he was at least one of the top leaders.

Yan Fengsheng was immediately very interested: "Quickly show it to me!"

Yan Fu took out a hand scroll, on which it was written: "Wuling is full of dust and spring, knowing that there is no beautiful woman in the empty valley."

Yan Fengsheng praised: "Good poetry, good poetry! It's my daughter's blessing that Mr. Hu can fall in love with my daughter. I ask you to write back, we agreed..."

Lu Bicheng interrupted him immediately, and said righteously: "I! No! Marry!"

Yan Fengsheng patted the table angrily: "What do you know! Mr. Hu is the imperial envoy, do you understand the imperial envoy? A second-rank official, and the wives married by the Ming media can be called imperial wives in the future. What else do you want?"

Lu Bicheng said: "I've heard from my little sister about this. Mr. Hu just lost his wife, and he dated an American female student. I don't want this kind of person who can't wait to get back together!"

Lu Bicheng's mother, Yan Shi, quickly persuaded him: "Bicheng, Mr. Hu is a rare good man no matter how you look at it."

Lu Bicheng still insisted: "It's not suitable! I don't like it either!"

Yan gave Yan Fu a look, so Yan Fu opened his mouth to persuade: "Bicheng, don't pay too much attention to men's single-mindedness. Throughout the ages, how many men have only loved one woman in their lives? Men are like this. After giving birth to a child, a woman watches the child grow up, and this life is considered complete. When a man loves someone, he just closes his eyes and passes away."

Lu Bicheng shook his head: "Master, you know me, and I will never change my mind about what I decide."

Of course Yan Fu knew Lu Bicheng's temperament, and sighed: "Bicheng, you are so arrogant, there is no man in the world who would suit you."

But Lu Bicheng said: "Don't meddle in my business, I have my own opinion."

"Proposition, what proposition!" Yan Fengsheng said angrily, "Could it be that little yellow-haired boy Li Yu? When I saw Mr. Yuan, I thought he was a relative of Yuan's family. I was shocked. After inquiring, It turns out that he is just a researcher of Western learning, without any official position, and there is no high-ranking official in his ancestors. He is nothing more than a refugee seeking some luck. How can he be compared with Mr. Hu? He is just a shameless villain who has forgotten his ancestors and has no family education!"