Ta Kung Pao directly gave Lu Bicheng an outlet to express her literary talent, and many of her lyrics were published in the newspaper.
Nowadays, the rarity of good female writers is not much different from that of outstanding scientific workers. In addition, Lv Bicheng's writing is indeed full of flowers. For a while, "Lv Bicheng is widely known" all over Tianjin.
No matter what era or who you are, it is a very happy thing to be recognized by others.
Lu Bicheng couldn't hide her smile: "It turns out that not everyone is so pedantic, and no one came to scold me."
Li Yu smiled and said, "Do you feel happy when someone scolds you?"
Lu Bicheng said: "I thought everyone thought it was virtue for a woman to have no talent."
Li Yu said: "How is that possible! This is just the beginning, and there will be endless talents in the future."
"Definitely!" Lu Bicheng said, "Women are just like men."
"Of course." Li Yu said with emotion, "It would be great if everyone could understand scientific content as well as articles and poems."
Lu Bicheng shook his head: "What you wrote is too difficult, how many people can understand it."
Li Yu smiled: "Yes, it's too difficult."
But the "difficulty" Li Yu had in mind was the popularization of basic science.
No matter what era or country, the popularization of science is not an easy task. As long as the difficulty increases slightly, it will be a huge threshold for the public.
To give an inappropriate example: in his previous life, every year after the college entrance examination, the topic of Chinese composition would be on the hot search on major websites on the same day, and everyone could comment on it, and even want to write it himself.
But when have you ever discussed the last question in mathematics or physics?
As for mathematics, high school mathematics is just the beginning. After all, I only learned introductory calculus in high school.
Of course, there is no need to let the general public understand such profound scientific knowledge.
But he deeply understands that at least the scientific content of the nine-year compulsory study should be popularized and is extremely useful.
Even though you may feel that you don’t need much physics and chemistry content in your work, it is ultimately a kind of scientific thinking that is very inspiring to people and can often prevent you from being deceived.
It is difficult to popularize it in later generations, and it is even more difficult in this era of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.
After all, if you look across the country, there aren't even a few decent books on science.
The reason why Li Yu still used blackboard writing at the Beiyang Armed Forces Crash Course, and Wu Peifu compiled his notes, was because there were no Chinese textbooks.
Now all science and engineering textbooks in China are in foreign languages.
After all, there are too few good translations nowadays, and literary works cannot be translated well, let alone advanced mathematical works.
And this situation will be the norm for decades to come.
Therefore, all modern Chinese scientists are surprisingly good at English (or other foreign languages), and they are really forced to do so.
Of course, in Li Yu's era, English was also a necessary tool for science and engineering students.
There is still a long way to go!
Tianjin takes advantage of its proximity to the port and receives overseas mail the fastest.
On this day, Fu Zengxiang found Li Yu again and said, "With the entrustment of Tang Shaoyi Daotai, I happened to see an overseas package of yours from the port, so I intercepted it and brought it specially."
Li Yu looked at the shipping address and saw that it was sent from Stockholm. After opening it, there were more than twenty thick second editions of "Fractals and Chaos" inside.
The shipping costs for these books across the ocean were much higher than the books themselves, so Levler simply sent as many as possible at once.
Fu Zengxiang saw that there were books in the package and asked curiously: "Is this your academic work that shocked the West?"
Li Yu said: "I wrote it."
Fu Zengxiang said: "I am a super bookworm. Can I exchange an ancient book with my husband for one?"
Li Yu knew that he was a big bibliophile, so he smiled and said, "I'll just give Mr. a copy."
Fu Zengxiang shook his head: "In our book collection circle, mutual gifts and exchanges are common. How could I get Mr.'s book for nothing, let alone a book that promotes the spirit of our people."
Li Yu said: "It's a pity that this book is in English. If not, I will find a book publisher to print a batch of Chinese versions for you."
Fu Zengxiang said: "It doesn't matter! To be honest, firstly, there are currently no original books in foreign languages in my Shuangjianlou; secondly, even if it is a Chinese version, I can't understand it at all."
"That's right." Li Yu took out a book and gave it to him, "Then I'll give you the original English version."
Fu Zengxiang took the book. He couldn't understand the content anyway, so he didn't rush to read it. Instead, he looked at the book itself. He said, "It's strange. The spine of this book is so thin. It seems to have no lines."
Li Yu said: "This is the latest glue binding technology in the West. It can be made into a book without thread."
“So amazing!”
The more Fu Zengxiang played with it, the more he couldn't put it down. He wanted to take apart the spine of the book to see how it was bound.
Of course, Li Yu was familiar with hard-bound books.
However, it is true that most books, both at home and abroad, are now thread-bound, rather than glue-bound in later generations.
This is also one of the reasons why books are more expensive today than in later generations. Large-scale assembly lines can be used for perfect binding, but the speed of line binding is much slower and the cost is much higher.
The glue binding technology was just born eight years ago, and it was not until thirty years later that it began to be promoted on a large scale.
However, as a scientific research institution, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is obviously more interested in emerging technologies, so it specifically asked the publisher to use glue binding.
However, the price of perfect-bound books at this time is still not that cheap. And the sense of quality is slightly weaker than that of thread-bound books.
The promotion of new technologies always takes time!
Fu Zengxiang felt that he had found a treasure: "When I go back, I must appreciate it with my book friends!"
A few days later, unexpectedly, Fu Zengxiang came to find Li Yu again. He was holding an ancient book in his hand: "This is a fragment of the Song Dynasty's "Historical Records". As a courtesy, I will give it to you, sir."
Li Yu knew the value of the Song Dynasty blockbuster, which was almost at the top of the pyramid in the book collection world. He waved his hand and said: "It's too precious! There is a history of a thousand years, and you are no longer a courtesy exchange."
But Fu Zengxiang said: "No! My friends all know that I like the new and hate the old. If I have good books and have no money, I have to exchange them for old ones. And I don't think the value of Mr.'s books is low. If I always think about these old books,
Books, but without new ideas and new books coming out, I am afraid that these rare and rare books will not be preserved. As a pillar of the country, there is nothing wrong with exchanging this book for your advanced scientific knowledge."
But Li Yu still felt that he couldn't accept it and kept pushing away.
Fu Zengxiang had no choice but to say: "Actually, I have selfish motives and gave this book to you, hoping that he can help you in the future."
Li Yu said: "If you need anything, Mr. Fu, it's okay to say it. Why are you so polite?"
Fu Zengxiang looked at the fragments of the Song Dynasty's "Historical Records" in his hand and said: "Actually, this book is not in my collection, but was recently purchased from the Lu family in Huzhou. You may not know this, but the Song Dynasty building in Lu Xinyuan, Huzhou is owned by me in the Fourth Chinese Dynasty.
The library has the largest number of engravings from the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Unfortunately, Mr. Lu Xinyuan passed away eight years ago.
The descendants of the family also used their money to help the victims, resulting in financial constraints. The Lu family was almost unable to take care of the library. Now that the Lu family is in decline, they have to prepare to sell the books collected in the Kan Song Tower to tide over the difficulties. However, the books collected in the Kan Song Tower
The value is too high and no one can take it. I heard from Tang Daotai that it has been targeted by the Japanese."
Li Yu was surprised: "Japanese?"
Fu Zengxiang sighed: "This incomplete volume of the Song Dynasty's "Historical Records" was almost bought by the Japanese Han Shimada. Fortunately, after I found out about it through a friend, I immediately borrowed money to buy it."
Historically, next year Lu Xinyuan's son would start to advertise in newspapers looking for buyers and prepare to sell the Song Building. As a result, Shimada Han persuaded the director of the Jingjiado Library where he works, Yanosuke Iwasaki, to buy it all for only 120,000.
Silver dollar.
Yes, this Yanosuke Iwasaki is now the second generation president of the Mitsubishi Group.
It's Mitsubishi Group again!
To this day, the Jingjiatang Library is still the famous library in Japan with the richest collection of ancient Chinese books from the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Lu Xinyuan’s posthumous writings account for 36% of the total number of printed Chinese books. The library has been selected as 18 kinds of ancient books in Japan’s “Important Cultural Properties”
Among them, the Song and Yuan editions in the old collection of Lu Xinyuan account for 16, which shows that the entire collection of the Song Dynasty library in the late Qing Dynasty was put into the library, which made the Jingjiatang Library become a major collection of Japanese Chinese books.
Li Yu gritted his teeth and said: "Nothing can be allowed to fall into the hands of the Japanese!"
Fu Zengxiang also hated the Japanese and said: "That's right! The Japanese took away my gold and silver after their victory in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, and they also want to take away my territory! Now no matter what, we cannot let them use the money from the compensation to buy up our cultural heritage again! Think about it!
It feels disgusting just thinking about it!”
Fu Zengxiang still doesn't know that what the Japanese will do in the future is a hundred times worse than the Sino-Japanese War.
Therefore, Li Yu hated the Japanese even more, but he didn't understand whether those officials and powerful people were just losers, so he asked: "Are the government or the rich and powerful ministers indifferent?"
Fu Zengxiang sighed: "The ministers in the DPRK have too much time to take care of themselves. How can they care about a few tattered books? Even if they are rich, they may not like to collect books."
Li Yu realized that he really asked too much. When there was a famine in Huzhou, the Lu family had to provide money for disaster relief. Now that the Lu family is in trouble, the Qing government can't even provide money for rescue.
Li Yu already understood what Fu Zengxiang meant and said: "Sir, if you say so, I can't even ask for this book. I know what you mean, sir. You want to gather as much people's power as possible to prevent the collection of books from flowing overseas."
Fu Zengxiang nodded: "Individual power is too weak, but it is much better if we unite. According to my estimation, the value of the books collected in the Song Dynasty Tower should be close to 700,000 taels, which is not something ordinary wealthy people can afford."
Li Yu took a breath, 700,000 taels, a total of 1 million silver dollars!
One can imagine how much money the Iwasaki family of the Mitsubishi Group made four years later by purchasing the entire collection of books in the Song Dynasty for only 120,000 silver dollars, let alone their value for future generations. They are really terrible businessmen.
Li Yu said: "I understand, and I will help as much as possible."
Fu Zengxiang clasped his fists and said: "From his previous exploits in exposing Americans, I know that you are a righteous man."
Fu Zengxiang naturally saw that Li Yu had received many rewards and was not a "poor scholar", so he mentioned this matter to him.
Li Yu rubbed his chin, he really needed to earn more money, otherwise he would really be just a "poor scholar" in front of the huge Mitsubishi Group. While these bastards hadn't invaded in a big way yet, they were just engaging in economic plunder.
, make up for it as much as possible.
A gentleman does not take away people's love. After all, Li Yu did not ask for the incomplete copy of "Historical Records" engraved in Song Dynasty. Although Fu Zengxiang didn't say it, he must have spent a lot of money.
After things here are over, it seems that Li Yu needs to find an opportunity to go to Huzhou and also take a look at the south.