Chapter 8 Completely impressed

Ding Weiliang brought Li Yu and Fan Xiren to his office, which is a small library, and the bookshelf behind the walls are full of original English books.

Speaking of which, books in ancient times were extremely expensive and were not affordable to ordinary people.

For example, as a super diary expert, Zeng Guofan once recorded all kinds of trivial matters in life in detail. He once wrote about his various daily expenses:

In 1841, Zeng Guofan lived in Beijing and spent 10,000 yuan to rent a house, which was the monthly rent, with a total of 18 rooms;

Then I bought two kilograms of fresh meat and spent 40 yuan;

I bought another set of "Zhu Zi's Complete Book" and it actually cost 4,000 papers!

There are many other items listed, such as leather boots for 1,000, roast duck for 500, door curtain for 1,000, Balabara wrote a lot of them, dozens of items, and at first glance it looks like a primary school student is in hydrology!

From the previous three more special features, we can see that two and a half sets of "Zhu Zi Quan Shu" can rent a big house with 18 rooms a month in Beijing!

What is this concept!

And later Zeng Guofan bought another set of "The Essence of Zishi", which also cost 4,000 articles!

Although both books are big, you can buy 200 kilograms of pork by counting one book! It is easy for ordinary people to choose between the two - in a popular saying, aren't ribs fragrant?

Even in modern times, it is difficult to understand!

Perhaps this is also one of the reasons for the extremely high illiteracy rate in ancient times. It is difficult for poor families to have noble children!

The above is just the price of domestic published books. If it is the original English books on Ding Weiliang's shelf, the price is extremely high.

Of course, the current original English books are not cheap either, but compared to the late Qing Dynasty, it is a big deal.

Ding Weiliang asked Li Yu and Fan Xiren to take their seats directly and introduced themselves: "My surname is Ding, my name is Qingliang, my courtesy name is Guanxi, and my ancestral home is the United States of America."

For his identity, self-introduction is a very high etiquette. After all, Ding Weiliang is now the third-ranked court.

Li Yu and Fan Xiren quickly stood up and bowed, and then introduced themselves again.

Li Yu recalled the taste at this time, "Guanxi"!

Good guy, Ding Guanxi, it’s interesting!

Ding Weiliang and Li Yu talked about science-related topics again. Li Yu was very good at these aspects. He talked about spectral theory from double-slit experiments, from universal gravitational formulas to Kepler's three laws, from plural space to Euler's identity...

For more than two hours, let alone physics teacher Shi Deming, even Ding Weiliang was a little unable to keep up with the rhythm, interrupting Li Yu from time to time, and then searching for corresponding theoretical books from the bookshelf behind him to find evidence.

In fact, Li Yu is already controlling himself. He talks about the latest scientific research results of the 19th century and does not "over-outline". If we talk about relativity and quantum mechanics, they will not accept it. Moreover, these two things have not been born yet, and it is still "two dark clouds" at this moment, which is too shocking to say.

Even so, Ding Weiliang has never learned many things himself, such as the double-slit experiment and the Euler identity. He only knew it, but he had never studied it at all. He even took time to find books on the bookshelf. It was Li Yu who helped him find the corresponding books several times.

Ding Weiliang was completely impressed: I'm afraid this guy can be a professor in Western universities!

However, Ding Weiliang did not have such strong resources to recommend him directly to foreign universities, and it also took time to further verify Li Yu's level.

He was about to retain this talent, so he turned around and whispered with physics teacher Shi Deming, and then said to Li Yu: "Given your excellent scientific literacy, I sincerely invite you to take the admissions examination of the Beijing University in a few months. Of course, this kind of examination will be extremely easy for you."

The first enrollment after the resumption of the Peking University School in 1902 can be said to be the first official enrollment in Peking University in history, because the first two years were indeed quite failed, and coupled with the fact that such a big trouble in the Gengzi National Damage almost broke up, the university school was almost lost.

For Li Yu, it was also a big temptation. I still felt a little expectant. It felt so strange to be able to return to my original alma mater and be one of the earliest alumni.

But then he thought about it and he did not have a formal Qing Dynasty household registration, and he is now a "refuge".

Ding Weiliang seemed to see Li Yu's hidden worries. He just said that he was just a librarian, so he said: "I will personally write a letter of recommendation for you to help you get formal qualifications."

This has helped Li Yu a lot. If he is really sleepy, he will give him a pillow - he will beg for it!

Li Yu had no reason to refuse and bowed: "Thank you, the chief teacher!"

Ding Weiliang thought for a while and said, "There is another thing. Some time ago, Prime Minister Yi Li asked me to find a scholar who is proficient in Western learning to go to his house to assist in his school. Because of his noble status, I have never found a suitable candidate. Now it seems that I think you are very suitable. I wonder what you think?"

Before Li Yu could react, Fan Xiren next to him was shocked: "Yi... Are you talking about Prince Qing?"

Ding Weiliang nodded: "Yes, it is Prince Qing of your country."

"My God!" Fan Xiren grabbed Li Yu's arm, "Brother, you are going to be prosperous!"

Prince Qing Yili is now an absolute powerhouse. A few years ago, he was named "Tieha King" and was hereditary.

During the Qing Dynasty, there were only twelve Qin-hat kings, and the first eight were founding heroes, basically all of them Nurhaci's brothers and descendants.

Then, until the Yongzheng period, his thirteenth brother was appointed as the King of Hats; as for the last three, they were from the late Qing Dynasty, namely the generation of Xianfeng, namely Prince Gong Yi, Prince Chun Yixuan, and Prince Qing Yili.

Prince Gong Yi is the most famous and capable. He is known as the Japanese Sixth person. He is the first to establish and take charge of the affairs of the Prime Minister for the longest time.

Prince Chun Yihuan had an ordinary skill, but his wife was well married and was Cixi's sister. The son she gave birth to was really blessed. She was directly chosen by Cixi as the emperor, namely Guangxu. Not only that, Puyi, the last emperor of the late Qing Dynasty, was also his grandson! She was the son of his fifth son Zaifeng.

I am not an emperor, but my son and grandson are both emperors and are also strange people!

But for this reason, Yihuan was worried and scared for the rest of his life. Like Guangxu, he lived under the shadow of Cixi.

Now that both of these two have passed away, Prince Qing Yili has become the only living "generation" king of stewards.

Yi Li's skills are also very average, but if you look at the photos, you will find that Yi Li and his descendants are all very handsome, and can be said to be the beauty of the Qing royal family.

Of course, he was not really useless. The most powerful thing about Prince Qing Yili was that he was making money, and he was a "financial management" expert. When selling officials, he always marked the price clearly and was free to be honest! Moreover, he had seen the advantages of foreign banks very early on, and putting all the money in foreign banks, which could be said to be very advanced.

In ancient times, not only books, but also cultural supplies were not cheap.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!