The review by the big guys took many days, which was actually very fast. It is common for some peer reviews to take several months.
The main reason is that the name of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is well-known, and everyone gives it a higher priority because of its reputation.
Stockholm, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
After seeing the review opinions of the three mathematics masters, which were highly praised, the Royal Mathematics Advisor Levler certainly had nothing to say, so he met directly with King Oscar II and presented the three people's replies.
Oscar II also did not expect that the peer reviewers of mathematicians would give such a high evaluation, especially the praise from Hilbert, a leading figure in mathematics.
It looks like I made the right bet this time!
"Very good," said Oscar II. "What we in Sweden need is such high-quality mathematics papers! We must suppress the momentum of Germany and the British mathematics community."
Levler said: "Your Majesty the King, I think the paper can be printed in advance and distributed in various places to build a good reputation. When you personally award Li Yu the medal, it will definitely greatly enhance the reputation of our Swedish mathematics in Europe."
"That's it!" Oscar II was deeply satisfied. "In the name of the King of Sweden and Norway, I announce that this time the highest royal medal in mathematics will be awarded to Li Yu from the distant Qing Dynasty!"
"Yes!" Levler said, "One more thing, Your Majesty the King, we can name this mathematics award after you just like the Nobel Prize. How about calling it the Oscar II Gold Medal for Mathematics?"
Levler fully understood the king's thoughts.
Oscar II nodded vigorously: "Just use the name you mentioned! You immediately send a telegram in my name and invite Li Yu to come to my Swedish palace. I will personally award him this highest honor!"
While the Swedish side was reviewing the article, Li Yu had nothing to do and was sorting out the banknotes in his hand.
He now mainly has 1,500 taels given to him when he was teaching in Beiyang, 2,000 taels rewarded by the court when he returned from the European Mission, and 1,000 taels of silver notes given to him by Yu Geng.
These money are all banknotes from Beijing Henghe Bank, and naturally only Henghe Bank recognizes them.
But the trouble is that the tickets they give are all big tickets with a face value of one or two hundred taels. Giving money is a temporary pleasure, but spending money is very unpleasant.
You can't go out to eat noodles and just put out a big ticket worth a few hundred taels!
If Li Yu really wants to do this, I'm afraid the noodle shop won't think that Li Yu is here to eat noodles, but to buy noodles!
So Li Yu decided to exchange some small bills and loose money, otherwise life would be too inconvenient.
Of course, he was not in a hurry to exchange all the money from the bank and deposit it in the bank, because Si Daheng's reputation was still very good.
Two years ago, the Eight-Power Allied Forces ransacked major banks in Beijing, and the Si Daheng alone was robbed for three days.
However, Si Daheng resolutely decided to "dig out silver" (digging out the "hoards" of silver stored in residential Kang holes) to meet the urgent need.
They rented a store specifically to exchange Si Daheng's banknotes. Although some of their own banknotes were not saved, they still used the banknotes in the hands of customers as evidence to pay all the deposits, exchange banknotes, and repay debts.
The Si Da Heng Jing was severely damaged by this incident. Until ten years later when it was completely unable to hold on and collapsed, it still insisted on fulfilling its original solemn promise: guaranteeing that the money (money) can be transferred at any time and under any circumstances.
The bills were converted into cash, cash.
Li Yu called Zhao Qian: "Let's go to Dongsi Archway!"
Dongsi Archway is the financial street of Beijing in this era. It is located on Chaoyangmen Inner Street. Three miles further east is Chaoyangmen.
Chaoyangmen is the passage for grain from the south to Beijing. There are many official warehouses and warehouses nearby, and the banknote industry is very prosperous.
Dongsi Archway and Dongchang Hutong are very close, less than two miles away.
The clerk at the counter saw the five 100-tael silver notes that Li Yu brought up and said, "Sir, what you got are official tickets. Do you want to withdraw cash?"
Li Yu said: "Give me a small silver note worth ten taels, and give me another hundred taels of silver."
"Come on, sir, please wait."
In order to prevent counterfeiting, the banknotes are still very complicated. All kinds of code words, patterns, and the shopkeeper's handwriting are known only to the banker himself, and there are also watermarks.
If it is a large-value banknote, there may not even be an amount on it, just some code words.
While Li Yu was waiting, he saw Baron and Lin Binghua appear again from a distance. It seemed that they had negotiated the interest rate with HSBC and were preparing to withdraw the money and deposit it in HSBC.
Li Yu said to the teller: "I'll go out for a while and come back later to get the money."
Then he called Zhao Qian over: "Let's go home!"
After the banker learned about Balong's intention, it was indeed quite difficult. Although Balong only deposited 800,000 taels in their store, the amount was still too large. Taking it out all at once would be a big run on them.
When Li Yu came back again, the bank manager was negotiating with them: "Master, 800,000 taels is not a small amount. If you really want to take it, I'm afraid it will give our bank a few days to prepare."
Lin Binghua also added: "Don't forget that you still have my twenty thousand taels."
The shopkeeper of the bank quickly said politely: "Okay, okay, as long as you come with the banknote, we will definitely deliver it in full."
It seems that he won't be able to get the silver today. Just as Balong stood up to leave, Li Yu immediately stepped forward and pretended to be surprised: "Good guy, 800,000 taels. I don't believe that someone really has so much silver. You don't say it to scare people, right?"
Lin Binghua said with a smile: "You poor scholar, don't be greedy."
Li Yu said in a tone that he had never seen before on the market: "That one really makes me greedy."
Balon wanted to be angry with him, so he pulled the wires randomly in front of his house, held out the banknotes and said, "Watch it!"
"I really need to see it clearly."
Li Yu took the banknote, and there was indeed a code word on it. The pattern around the banknote was very complicated, and there were even many small characters in the pattern.
Li Yu only glanced at it and handed it back, "You must keep it!"
The bank note in Lin Binghua's hand was also a code type. Li Yu also took it and took a look at it, and said in shock: "If it weren't for the two gentlemen, I would never have seen so much money in my life."
Lin Binghua sneered: "I don't think I'll see you again."
After the two left, Li Yu immediately picked up the tea on the table, poured it on his hands, washed them, and then sneered: "I'm afraid you won't see each other again."
The bank manager is in a very big position. He has barely survived the post-war difficulties, and now he has to bear the impact of foreign banks. He may lose his entire family fortune.
Li Yu took his banknote and said to the shopkeeper: "I wish the shopkeeper lots of money."
The shopkeeper squeezed out a wry smile: "I hope so."
The impact of banks on banks can be said to be fatal. It is basically the difference between a hot weapon and a cold weapon.
Although from a purely economic point of view, modern banks are basically in a state of "insolvency and on the verge of bankruptcy". There is no need to wait for a financial crisis or crisis. Under normal circumstances, as long as most depositors come to withdraw money at the same time, the bank will collapse immediately.
.This is every banker's nightmare - a "run".
Banks don't dare to play like this. They must ensure positive cash flow, because banks bear unlimited liability. Although they are also afraid of runs, they have much more money in savings.
The biggest difference between the two is not here. To sum up, banks are competitive participants in the free economic market. But modern banks are not. They are monopolistic special industries, and the state is behind the banks.
It is precisely because of the full protection from the state that the bank's capital scale can be much larger, its business scope is much wider, its ability to bear risks is much stronger, and its profits are naturally much greater.
Therefore, the bank's attack on bank account numbers is completely dimensionality reduction.
Otherwise, there are so many century-old brands in Beijing such as Quanjude and Tongrentang, but why is there not even one bank?
Lin Binghua carefully took out the banknote at home in the evening and prepared to examine it under candlelight. However, for some unknown reason, the banknote in front of him suddenly started to spark, and then quickly burned up. The whole banknote caught fire, and he was so frightened.
He quickly threw it on the ground.
Lin Binghua's eyes were dumbfounded. What happened just now?
When I tried to pick it up from the ground, the banknote had turned into a pile of ashes.
This, this, this?
Where is the banknote? Where is the banknote as big as the one I just gave?
The next day, Balon looked at Lin Binghua in a panic and said, "Oh no, no, no, no, I've seen a ghost!"
Lin Binghua didn't close his eyes all night. When he saw Baron, he weakly said: "Master."
Balon said harshly: "My banknote caught fire for no apparent reason!"
Lin Binghua cried sadly: "Mine too, it's gone, it's all gone!"
According to bank regulations, bank notes cannot be reported lost after five days. If they are gone, they are completely lost.
Otherwise, what if someone pretends to have lost the banknote, reports it as lost, then withdraws the money, and later takes the banknote to the semicolon to withdraw money.
In an instant, more than 800,000 taels were wiped out. The two of them sat on the ground and were so sad that they couldn't even cry.
Balon is okay, his father is the most powerful official in the dynasty, Ronglu, and the family has more than that little money.
But Lin Binghua was miserable. Twenty thousand taels was almost his entire net worth now. He had just spent a lot of money to donate to an official position. If he didn't have money to continue to manage in the future, he would soon be squeezed out by others.
Li Yu was sitting at home but he knew it all the time. Especially when Balon rushed out of Ronglu's house next to him wailing early in the morning, he was even more happy.
Of course everything was done by him.
Haha, don’t you look down on science? Let me give you a little taste of the power of science.
Li Yu actually went home at that time and took a bottle of carbon disulfide solution with white phosphorus dissolved in it, and then secretly wiped it on when the banker took the banknotes from them.
Carbon disulfide will slowly evaporate, leaving only white phosphorus. White phosphorus will spontaneously ignite as long as it exceeds 30 or 40 degrees Celsius. Even if the weather is cold and the temperature is not enough, with the oxidation reaction with oxygen in the air, white phosphorus will gradually accumulate heat and then burn.
Everything happened without anyone noticing, and Baron and Lin Binghua would never have thought of it.
After all, they don't even know what phosphorus is.
Although Li Yu's behavior was a bit lame, it's not a big deal if he is punished "a little".
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