Lu Xun also sent a telegram to Li Yu from Tokyo. He and Jiang Baili had packed up all the experimental equipment and sent it out, but because it was relatively expensive, it would take about a week to arrive.
Li Yu felt that it was time to rent a larger house in Beijing to conduct a laboratory.
Uncle Wang went to the teahouse to find the agent Cui Laosan.
Nowadays, Li Yu's status is not what it used to be. Guapimao Cui Laosan can be regarded as witnessing that Li Yu went from not having a single coin on his body to having to rely on pawning strange pens to reach his current situation.
When Cui Laosan saw Li Yu, he nodded and said, "Master Imperial Master, what do you want to do with me?"
Li Yu smiled and said: "Of course I am renting a house from you, otherwise what else can I do?"
Cui Laosan said: "We can also introduce people to work, and in addition to being a prostitute, we can also be a pimp..."
Fengling from behind heard what Cui Laosan said and mocked: "What good place can you find? Don't fool our master with this!"
She had become famous in Bada Hutong back then, and the people there were well-known.
Guapimao Cui Laosan smiled and said: "You're right, you're right! Mr. Imperial Master, what kind of house do you want to rent?"
Cui Laosan swallowed and spat: "Master Imperial Master, you can't say you heard it from me. It's the house next to you. Master Baron has left. If you can rent the house, you can rent it. If you can sell it, it's better."
A few days later, the express delivery from Tokyo finally arrived, along with the radio device Zou Zhou had sent from the United States.
There was no other way. In order to dispel their doubts, Li Yu said, "Go buy some high-strength liquor and disinfect it, then there will be no problem."
In fact, if it hadn't been for these things, it would have been difficult to rent such a good location. After all, there are not many houses in Beijing now.
Li Yu said steadily: "Don't worry, I have my own sense of discretion."
Li Yu said: "Then let's rent it for one year first."
But fortunately, Fengling and the others believed it to be true. After all, in their eyes, Li Yu was an omniscient god.
Li Yu's ambition is still very big, and he will slowly use it all in the future.
If you have money in the future, it won't be too late to buy it.
In addition to mother-to-child transmission, it can only be transmitted through body fluids.
Cui Laosan patted his head and said: "It needs to be closer, and it needs to be bigger. This requirement...don't tell me, there is really a house very close, and it's big, but...hey, forget it!"
In fact, the syphilis virus is very fragile and only uses the human body as its only host. Once it leaves the human body, it will die quickly.
Fortunately, I have a new house, otherwise I would not be able to let go.
Cui Laosan said: "If you rent, it will cost at least 80 taels a month."
Voltaire said this was the "first fruit" collected by the Spanish from the New World.
So now the Rongfu next to it is actually very safe.
However, Uncle Wang still has a headache: "It will be difficult to clean such a big house in the future."
Unexpectedly, so many things happened in Beijing during this period.
Li Yu asked: "What about this house?"
Cui Laosan said: "Master Baron was infected with the disease, which is said to be very serious. Some time ago, for some reason, he beat a maid to death with a rake. When the officials arrived, they saw that he was crazy and had tumors and sores on his face.
, it was too scary. The court was also afraid that he would disturb the people like this, so he was forcibly sent outside the customs."
It seems that things happened to the houses that Li Yu rented. People died in the house where he lived and in the house that he rented for Xie Yuxi. People died in the Rong Mansion that he rented at this time, and someone also contracted syphilis.
Zou Zhou was very careful and made a detailed list.
Cui Laosan said: "If the emperor wants to buy it, the original price is 40,000 taels, but now it is only 20,000 taels."
The syphilis virus (strictly speaking, it is called Treponema pallidum) can cause extremely serious damage to any part of the human body. If it attacks the eyes and ears, it will cause blindness and deafness; if it attacks the heart, it will cause a terrible aortic aneurysm; if it attacks the brain or spinal cord, it will cause serious damage.
Severe personality distortions, rage and violence, and even dementia and paralysis may occur.
The syphilis virus was only discovered in 1905. Before that, humans did not understand the cause of the disease.
Cui Laosan gave a thumbs up: "The Imperial Master is indeed the Imperial Master! Even this can be surrendered! I heard that the Rong family invited shamans to do it, but it was of no use."
After signing the contract and paying the money, Li Yu could use this large mansion. It must be said that as the former most important minister of the dynasty, Ronglu's residence was really large and luxurious.
Li Yudao: "Just tell me."
The rental-to-sale ratio at this time seems to be quite reasonable, at least more normal than Li Yu's previous life, but the number is a bit too coincidental, 1:250.
It is indeed very big, almost seven or eight times the size of Li Yu's current residence.
Li Yu smiled and said: "I study Western learning, so of course I only dare to rent if I am sure."
Of course, I don’t blame them, because the cause of syphilis is still unknown, so of course everyone is afraid.
Li Yu covered his head. He didn't have spare money to buy real estate now, so he asked: "Where can I rent it?"
Syphilis goes through three stages from mild to severe. From Cui Laosan's story, Li Yu could roughly guess that Balon should have reached the most serious stage of tertiary syphilis.
Although he is Ronglu's son, Ronglu is dead, and the status of the Rong family has dropped sharply; his sister Youlan is still the princess of Prince Chun's palace. It is too shameful to say this kind of thing, so we might as well throw him out.
The fifteen sets of radio equipment sent by the United States were not small and were placed in another courtyard.
Li Yu had known before that Balon was suffering from syphilis. The onset and evolution of this disease usually take a long time, but it may also be shorter. Balon seemed to be an unlucky guy.
Li Yu asked: "What is there to be afraid of?"
Li Yu took a deep breath. Even if he cut him off from the waist, it would still be too expensive.
Syphilis did become popular in Europe.
When Columbus first discovered the American continent, he probably took it back to Spain.
Li Yu asked: "So the Rong Mansion next to it is empty now?"
This Balon is almost the final situation.
Cui Laosan said: "I heard that this Hualiu disease is very serious! Even foreigners are afraid of it. If they get it, they will go crazy and lose their children! No one dares to buy or rent it."
Li Yu hired many short-term workers to transport all these facilities back.
Feng Ling asked tremblingly: "Sir, is it really okay?"
He ran around inside a few times and almost got lost. It took him a long time to circle back to the main hall, "If you live here, you might go the wrong way if you get on a thatched roof at night."
Cui Laosan asked: "Master Imperial Master, are you really not afraid?"
Although there are many larger houses than this in the capital, such as some palaces, even the garden of Natong's house not far away in Jinyu Hutong is larger and more exquisite.
Cui Laosan said: "If you rent, the longest period is one year."
The experimental equipment was specially placed in a larger courtyard.
They got to know each other for a day or two and were almost settled in.
In fact, it is just a kind of psychological comfort.
Simply doing theoretical research does not take up much space, but when it comes to experiments, at least two or three yards must be set aside.
Li Yu said: "I understand, go and get the land deed signed and pledged."
The telegram Zou Zhou sent earlier said that Tesla had made some improvements, and Li Yu immediately took it out to study it.
But this house is definitely in the upper echelon of big houses in the capital.
Li Yu asked again: "How long has Balon been away?"
Cui Laosan looked at Li Yu's eyes and said: "This kind of deep house compound is rare. There should be about ten courtyards in it. If you count the small courtyards, there are about seventeen or eight courtyards. And there are more inside.
There is a small garden, which is definitely the best choice in this area.”
But this number should be within a reasonable range before 200-300.
Cui Laosan said: "Almost more than a month."
Li Yu thought for a while and said: "As close as possible and as large as possible."
Li Yu said: "I'll rent it for now."
Uncle Wang, Zhao Qian and Fengling can also have better places to live, and they are also very happy.
Li Yu rented the house he currently lives in at a low price because everyone was afraid of the death in the house, out of feudal superstition; then Rong Mansion is really a blind spot in knowledge.
Of course, the Europeans brought a more terrible smallpox to the Indians.
——Fear often comes from the unknown.
Moreover, Emperor Tongzhi might have suffered from a similar disease at that time. Most of the records about this are obscure and false, and it is unclear whether it was really syphilis. In short, the Qing court had lingering fears about this, just like they were afraid of it when they first entered the customs.
Like smallpox.
Li Yu was surprised: "Leaved?"
Cui Laosan said: "Isn't it? Everyone is very scared. This disease is said to be transmitted from foreigners. It is very evil. Otherwise, how could Mr. Baron go crazy and beat people to death!"
Li Yu took out one of the sets and quickly saw the clue: Tesla had designed a superheterodyne circuit for radio devices.
Zhao Qian jumped up and down as soon as he entered the gate: "Oh my God, such a big house! I can't even think about it!"
Of course, such a large house will not be used entirely as a residence. At least half of it must be used as a small experimental base.
However, Fengling had lived in Bada Hutong, the Land of Fireworks, and knew how terrible Hualiu Disease was, but she still had lingering fears, "Sir, I'm just afraid..."
Fengling knew about this disease, and while she was trembling with fear, she secretly cheered.
Cui Laosan said happily: "Come on! Master Emperor, you are really my living Buddha. No matter how difficult it is to rent a house, you can handle it so easily."
Simply put, this circuit can effectively prevent two signals with similar frequencies from interfering with each other in the receiver, and can ensure that signals of different frequencies are distinguished, so that the receiver can receive signals of different frequencies respectively.
In actual history, it would not appear until ten years later, and the designer was Armstrong, another American radio engineer.
But with Li Yu's early introduction of the electronic triode, this design was easily realized.
Tesla is indeed a genius in the field of engineering, and his ability to draw parallels from analogies is very strong.
The devices in front of us are not simple radios. They all have the ability to send and receive information, and can even be used as radio stations.