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

Chapter 98 Unable to surpass the boundaries of the stars

Li Yu saw that Guangxu was very fluent in using pencils and writing English beautifully. Sure enough, it is not too fast for a person who has practiced calligraphy with soft pens to write calligraphy with hard pens, just like a driver who drives a large truck and then asks him to drive a car.

Li Yu found another piece of paper, wrote down some homework topics, and wrote some mathematical logic in a targeted manner. They were all very simple things, but they were indeed new knowledge to Guangxu.

This is the first time Guangxu saw such a class today, the efficiency is much better than that of the previous teacher Jingyi, and the old problem is repeated: "Such an excellent teaching method, I must promote it to the whole country!"

But as soon as he finished speaking, Cui Yugui walked in, and he said to Li Yu, "What did you write?"

"Homework, what's the matter?" Li Yu said.

Cui Yugui glanced at it: "What kind of messy ghost painting, you can make another copy, and I will show it to the Queen Mother Lafayette."

Guangxu had endured him for a long time, and said, "Cui Yugui, do you want to show your father the content of the class?"

Cui Yugui was not afraid of Guangxu at all: "You don't need to read the books in class. The Queen Mother knows that Professor Ding Weiliang brought them, but everything written by Li Yu must be copied for the Queen Mother."

Li Yu knew the situation, so he said, "Okay, it won't take long, just write one more copy."

Cui Yugui took the content that Li Yu had copied again, and said with satisfaction: "Okay, anyway, it's almost time, Long Live Lord, let's go."

Guangxu, the emperor, really has no taste, his every move is under surveillance, and he has no freedom at all.

Naturally, Li Yu and Zhang Deyi couldn't stay longer, and followed Cui Yugui to bid farewell to Emperor Guangxu.

Li Yu and Zhang Deyi left Xiyuan directly, while Cui Yugui showed Cixi Li Yu's handwriting.

Cixi thought about it for a while but couldn't understand it, but it was indeed a Western scientific content. He called Ronglu over: "Take it."

Rong Lu said, "Queen Mother, I can't understand either."

Cixi said: "I know you don't understand, and I don't expect you to understand. But at least you are a teacher for the emperor. You send what he wrote to Weng Tonghe for a look."

Weng Tonghe was the teacher of the emperors of the two dynasties, and served as the teacher of Emperor Tongzhi and Emperor Guangxu, but he was vacated and returned to his hometown four years ago, and was ordered to "never use him".

Even though Cixi returned from Xishou and restored many officials to their original posts, she did not use Weng Tonghe again.

Rong Lu asked, "What does the Empress Dowager mean?"

"It's not interesting, just let him see that he has done a lot of tricks and wants to serve the court again, but I don't want to see him anymore. But on this matter, I think I can listen to his opinion."

Ronglu understood Cixi's meaning, saying that he would never use it means that he would never use it, but as the emperor's teacher of the two dynasties, let him see for the time being what level the new teacher is learning.

The prime minister is thin in Hefei, and the world is barren in Changshu.

We all know that the first half of the sentence refers to Li Hongzhang from Hefei, while the second half of the sentence refers to Weng Tonghe from Changshu.

After Weng Tonghe was dismissed from office, he lived in Yushan, Changshu.

Speaking of Weng Tonghe, apart from being the emperor's teacher of the two dynasties, he is most famous for his deeds of "clearing the stream and ruining the country".

Many are also political struggles within the imperial court, because it happens that Weng Tonghe and Li Hongzhang are deadly enemies, and they almost sing the opposite of everything.

Weng Tonghe made many major mistakes in his later years. During the Sino-Japanese War, Li Hongzhang advocated peace, while Weng Tonghe resolutely advocated the war.

But in fact, Weng Tonghe did not really dare to deduct Beiyang military expenses like in the TV series. Although he had a grudge against Li Hongzhang, the navy military expenses did not go to the household department in charge of Weng Tonghe at that time.

There is a special naval office for naval military expenses, which is managed by Prince Qing Yikui, Prince Chun Yixuan, and Beiyang Minister Li Hongzhang. Yikui and Yizheng are basically hands-off shopkeepers, and the real power is still in the hands of Li Hongzhang.

But Weng Tonghe did lead the battle, on the one hand, because of Qingliu's true nature, he had to fight!It's not my responsibility to lose!

On the other hand, because Li Hongzhang once boasted that the Beiyang Navy was very powerful when he went to Haikou, Weng Tonghe believed it.

After the Sino-Japanese War was defeated, Weng Tonghe tried his best to put the blame on Li Hongzhang, which was a failure of the style of a generation of emperors.

Coupled with a series of inexplicable operations during the reform movement, they opposed Cixi and Guangxu many times, annoyed both of them, and finally ended up with the result of "never using it".

Weng Tonghe was very excited when he saw the letter from the capital: "The queen mother is going to use the veteran?"

But after reading the letter, he was very disappointed. It turned out that it was just to let him know that Emperor Guangxu had a new teacher.

I don't know if I am deliberately mocking myself.

Weng Tonghe looked at Li Yu's introduction again, and it turned out that he was going to teach Emperor Guangxu a Western education!
When he saw Guangxu learning the language of "barbarian people", he strongly opposed it. The emperor shifted the main learning time to English, which made Weng Tonghe deeply disappointed.Master Weng, who was full of sages and had nowhere to teach, saw that the emperor's desk was full of English study materials, and wrote in his diary sadly: "It's so sad that the foreign language is so close to the imperial case."

Now Guangxu not only has to learn English, he also has to learn science and strange skills!
Weng Tonghe felt that his apprentice Guangxu was really hopeless!
Looking at the pile of "ghost painting symbols" written by Li Yu again, I can't understand anything, and the only Chinese characters written in pencil have no calligraphy artistic conception, so they are not worthy of the post of a god teacher.

Weng Tonghe's calligraphy is indeed very good, and it is second to none in the late Qing Dynasty.

He was able to be admitted to the number one scholar back then, and his calligraphy also made meritorious service, so he attaches great importance to calligraphy.

Therefore, Weng Tonghe became more and more angry at this time, so he took up a pen and wrote a note to the court: "The sinful minister heard that the sage went to learn Western learning today. You should condescend to learn the skills of craftsmen, this kind of knowledge only needs to be taught by folk schools, your majesty should stick to the learning of sages!"

Weng Tonghe still misses Guangxu very much, although his thinking is wrong, Guangxu was angry with him a lot at the beginning because of this, every day he used Qingliu's opinions that seemed to be on the moral high ground to suppress him.How can such a big matter of governing the country depend on moral failure everywhere.

Weng Tonghe did not forget to write another letter to Li Yuye when it was over: "It is difficult for those foreigners to enter the hall of elegance. How dare they be the emperor's teacher? People often say that seeing your characters is like seeing a person, but I think your characters are as ugly as a child. , must be despicable in form! Don't deceive Long live like Kang Liang who advocates Western learning!"

Weng Tonghe blamed Guangxu's house arrest on Kang Liang.

Li Yu recently explained the basics of mathematics and physics to Guangxu when he had nothing to do. He laughed when he received Weng Tonghe's letter.

But I have to say, just looking at the small letters on the letter, we can see that Weng Tonghe's calligraphy is well-deserved, but his ideas are too old-fashioned.

If you don't reply, you can't justify it. Li Yu had an idea and wrote a reply in English. The general content is: "It is true that I am not as good as your handwriting, but it is too much to say that I am contemptible. You can find a newspaper and read it. There is my photo. Besides, if Master Weng also wants to learn Western learning, I can teach you."

When Weng Tonghe received the reply and saw that it was written in English, he was stunned!
Although he didn't want to read the "barbarian" language he despises, but he wanted to know the content, and he couldn't find anyone around who could understand English, so he was so anxious that he blew, "This Li Yu, I'm so angry!"

He couldn't say exactly what he wrote when he got angry, and he couldn't even write a reply because of this. He could only hold his breath in his heart and couldn't vent it.

Li Yu's move is really amazing!Just blocked Weng Tonghe's mouth, if you want to scold me back, you should first learn the Western learning that you despise!

At the same time, Li Yu's letter about the three-body problem was also sent to Sweden.

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Leeffler, the Royal Mathematics Advisor, received the letter. When he saw the address of the letter, his first reaction was very similar to Jolson, the editor of the Royal Society's "Proceedings of Natural Sciences", "Great Qing Dynasty?"

On the envelope, Li Yu wrote Poincaré's famous sentence on the N-body problem: "It is impossible to go beyond the boundaries of the stars."

When Levler saw Li Yu's name, he immediately thought of Li Yu who shocked the scientific circle this year. Was it the same person?
After reading the contents of the letter, Leeffler was even more shocked. He even gave several special solutions to the three-body problem at once, and the remarks he wrote at the end about the chaos of the solar system were even more shocking.

Emperor Oscar II must have a look!
(End of this chapter)