Chapter 323 Angel on the left hand, devil on the right hand
Author: Sanqiu Empty City
Chapter 323 Angel on the left hand, devil on the right hand
When Li Yu was teaching Guangxu, Guangxu asked a lot about Li Yu's overseas travels. So Li Yu generally talked about what he had experienced in the United States, Japan and Europe.
Not many people have been to so many countries nowadays, and Li Yu's knowledge is also much ahead of his time, and his insights into various countries are very profound.
Guangxu was very fascinated when he heard this: "The defeat of Gengzi is indeed inevitable."
Isn't it right? Cixi was even afraid of trains at that time, so she didn't know where the link was in the wrong place and declared war on the eleven countries.
When Eunuch Cui outside heard this, he coughed slightly.
Guangxu originally wanted to ask something more, but he immediately stopped talking and sighed softly.
Of course he knew in his heart that Cixi was very responsible for Gengzi's defeat, but it was precisely for this reason that he couldn't talk about it too blatantly in the palace. Cixi's good face was rare in the world, and he couldn't say that he had done something wrong.
Guangxu waved his hand: "Step back."
Li Yu walked out of Yingtai, and Eunuch Cui said to him on the way: "Master Emperor, please don't let the emperor talk about some things casually, otherwise, hehe."
Li Yu said: "The emperor asked about it."
Eunuch Cui said: "I know it was the emperor who asked, but now that the emperor is ill sometimes, it is inevitable that he will make some actions that are not, well, not in compliance with the rules. As a slave, you cannot let the emperor make mistakes."
While they were talking, Concubine Jin passed by the two of them.
Eunuch Cui quickly saluted her: "Your Majesty."
"No gift, Eunuch Cui," Concubine Jin said, "This is the Jiangnan cake selected from the tributes. You can try it."
"What a shameful villain." Cui Eunuch said quickly.
Concubine Jin was a good person in the palace, and everyone in the palace, including the eunuchs and maids, had a good relationship with her.
Concubine Jin looked at Li Yu: "The image of the Imperial Master made me think I was seeing a Japanese envoy. By the way, I heard that you wrote a set of novels and won a prize in France, and the co-author is Bicheng, a talented girl from Beijing and Tianjin.
?”
Li Yu said: "That's it."
Concubine Jin said: "Can you get one for the Ai family? I'll also see if it can win the French Prize."
Li Yu said: "Of course, it's a piece of cake."
Concubine Jin said: "That's good. It's boring sometimes in the palace anyway."
This Concubine Jin is a typical "lay flat" type. She knew that Guangxu didn't like her from the day she was selected as a concubine. However, Concubine Jin's attitude towards life is three words: it doesn't matter.
No matter how much I love it, I spend my days raising flowers, fish, cats, and dogs, or reading, and painting, and I actually live a pretty happy life. I even have to eat a soy pork elbow every day, and I am definitely a typical example of a fat and generous person in the palace.
She also lived in Yingtai, but she was not in the same palace as Guangxu.
Because according to the tradition of the Qing Dynasty, it was impossible for any concubine to spend the night with the emperor. The emperor slept alone at night. On the one hand, it was for safety reasons, and the other was to prevent the harem from interfering in politics.
However, no one expected that the Qing Dynasty would end up being more than just a harem intervening in politics, and would completely control the government for half a century.
Li Yu returned to the mansion and taught the Yuan brothers again.
The Yuan brothers were very curious about what Li Yu had given Guangxu today.
Li Yu told them: "It's about some basic content of astronomy and celestial mechanics, which is the theory of Western Newton."
The Yuan brothers immediately said: "We must learn the same thing as the emperor!"
Li Yu smiled and said, "I knew it!"
Although Li Yu is not good at giving lectures, his insights are far beyond those of current teachers. If the Yuan brothers study hard, they will definitely learn better than studying outside.
However, the Yuan brothers obviously have no intention of engaging in academics. It is simply because Western learning is so popular now and knowledgeable people know that Western learning is important, so they studied Western learning at Yuan Shikai's request.
After the Yuan brothers finished the class, they were very interested in Li Yu's car. After pestering Zhao Qian to drive it for a few times, they had already made up their mind to buy one.
The Yuan brothers are definitely not short of money. The cost of shipping a car to the customs now costs 1,000 taels of silver. Taking into account miscellaneous expenses and the special business environment of the Qing Dynasty, it can be sold for almost 2,000 taels.
Absolutely sky-high price.
This does not include maintenance costs, not to mention that today's cars are not as stable as those of later generations. It is definitely not possible if they don't know a little bit about mechanics.
Li Yu naturally knew that this thing was not open casually, so he could only tell them to learn it first before talking.
The Yuan brothers were very unconvinced: "Isn't it just like riding a horse? We brothers can't tame an iron lump!"
Li Yu felt a headache. He had known for a long time that they were not easy to discipline. After all, even Yuan Shikai himself had no choice. He could only ask Zhao Qian to keep an eye on them while driving.
On the other side, Zhu Guozhen, a second-class Jinshi, also officially came to defect to Li Yu.
He is still a concubine of the Hanlin Academy, but Zhu Guozhen no longer has much hope of becoming an official.
From a historical point of view, if he followed Li Yu, it would definitely be regarded as the most important move in his life. Otherwise, he would only be an unknown second-level Jinshi throughout his life.
Moreover, their current imperial examination is the second to last in history, and its reputation is far inferior to that of this year's last imperial examination.
In terms of commemoration, it is much different.
You see, Liu Chunlin, the number one scholar in the last imperial examination, is countless times more famous than the number one scholar in the penultimate imperial examination. Anyway, I don’t believe that many people still remember the name of the number one scholar in the penultimate imperial examination, even if it was mentioned before.
Sure enough, the second one will always be unknown!
Even if it is second to last, it is too miserable!
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Aoki Mansion.
Uchida Yasuya and Kawashima Naniwa have already formulated a strategy, and there is also little Zuo Xiang in the room who is making suggestions.
Uchida Yasuya said: "If these letters are found from Li Yu's house and we come forward to defend them, Li Yu will definitely be grateful to us and come to our side. It is even possible for him to settle in Tokyo from now on."
They definitely didn't want to kill Li Yu, they were just jealous of his abilities and desperately wanted him to take the pro-Japanese route.
Kawashima Naniwa asked Xiang Zuoxiang: "How to put the letter in Li Yu's house, do you have any idea?"
Xiao Zuoxiang said confidently: "I have found a suitable candidate, there is absolutely no problem. I will let him in right now."
The door opened, and it was Uncle Wang's sons, Xiao Wang and Wang Shuo, who walked in.
Xiao Zuoxiang introduced them.
Kawashima Naniwa was a little worried, because according to the intelligence, Li Yu was as important as Wang Boen, and it was because of Li Yu that Xiao Wang escaped the fate of being purified, so he asked: "Why are you willing to help us?"
Xiao Wang said: "Brother Zuoxiang told me that this can give me more happy medicine and allow me to enter a Japanese school without taking the exam."
Kawashima Naniwa said: "I heard that the Soongsil School you opened in the United States is not good, right?"
Xiao Wang said softly: "I, I have been a little stressed in my studies recently..."
Kawashima Naniwa said: "It's understandable that white people don't understand the habits of East Asians, so there will inevitably be many problems in teaching. If you enter a Japanese school, you will definitely flourish."
Xiao Wang looked at Xiao Zuo Xiang: "Does it mean that if I help you, you can keep giving me happy medicine?"
Little Zuo Xiang said: "Of course, but you must be obedient."
Xiao Wang said: "I will definitely listen to you, as long as you give me happy medicine."
Little Zuo Xiang took out a small bottle from his arms: "Take these, and when things are done, there will be more."
Xiao Wang's eyes lit up and he snatched it away. He didn't even have time to say thank you and rushed out excitedly.
Uchida Yasuya asked strangely: "What is that?"
Xiao Zuoxiang took out another bottle and gave it to Uchida Yasuya: "It's a German magical medicine, used for children's coughs."
Uchida Yasuya knew English, so he took the bottle and looked at it. It said "heroin" on the bottle, so he asked: "Heroine? Cough medicine?"
Xiao Zuoxiang said: "This 'Heroine' is no ordinary cough medicine. It contains morphine."
Heroin means heroine in German.
"Morphine?" Kawashima Naniwa immediately heard the clue, "Opium?!"
"It's not that simple," Xiao Zuo Xiang introduced to them, "Bayer's cough medicine is officially sold, but although its advertisements repeatedly emphasize that it is the next generation of morphine, it will not make people adult.
'addictive', but one of my medical school professors at Imperial knew that it was definitely more addictive."
"It's interesting." Uchida Yasuya picked up this small bottle, which was densely written with various promotional words from Bayer.
For example, some doctors said that it can dispel the "pain of the soul", not only relieve coughs, but also treat pain, depression, bronchitis, asthma, etc.
In short, it is described as a miracle medicine.
Uchida Yasuya lamented: "Legal opium is so interesting!"
Everyone must have noticed that it is the famous "Heroin".
It has brought huge profits to Bayer. Just one drug accounts for 5% of the profits of the entire pharmaceutical industry!
Bayer is very good at marketing. They distribute free trial products to doctors all over the world, and commission some experts to conduct studies to promote its miraculous effects. In the records of these researchers, Heroin only has trivial symptoms such as lethargy, dizziness and constipation.
It has side effects, but the effect is surprisingly good.
Bayer even placed advertisements in major newspapers such as "Deutsche Physician" and boasted wildly.
It can be seen from its name "heroin" that it comes from the root word "hero".
How ironic.
But the really scary thing is that, currently, it is indeed not banned.
It was almost until 1910 that various countries eliminated its clinical use. Two years later, an international conference on opium was held in The Hague, Netherlands, where delegates unanimously favored regulating the trafficking of opium, morphine and heroin.
Felix Hofmann, the inventor of Heroin, is definitely a true incarnation of "angels and devils".
He invented aspirin, one of the world's three major drugs.
And just 11 days later, he synthesized heroin in the laboratory.
After holding up the sacred staff of medicine, a terrible Pandora's box was opened.
Aspirin's status in the pharmaceutical world is absolutely supreme.
And Heroin can even be called the poison king of the previous generation.
In fact, its addictiveness is not strong at first. It is mainly designed as an oral liquid and has a slow and long-lasting effect. The user does not feel a strong pleasure, but only feels that the whole body is relaxed.
But when it landed in the US market, it was completely different.
The United States seems to have always been the world's largest consumer of drugs, with a huge number of drug addicts.
After drug addicts in the United States discovered heroin, they felt like they had found a treasure. They immediately abandoned morphine, turned to their new favorite, and developed an injection method.
They were swallowed up by the pleasure that reached its peak in an instant.
Since then, heroin sales have surged.
What's even more frightening is that addicts no longer need to be sneaky, but can go to pharmacies and buy "heroines" in exquisite bottles.
To say that Bayer doesn't know about its side effects would be a fool's errand.
They are fully aware of heroin's background.
Doctors soon suggested that the drug had not undergone rigorous clinical verification and should not be sold on such a large scale.
A few chemists have discovered that heroin can be metabolized into morphine in the liver.
But it cannot withstand the power of capital.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Bayer's giant cross-shaped neon signs were seen all over the world. They paid for Heroin to continue selling them, and then made more money.
Xiao Zuoxiang said proudly: "After I learned that Xiao Wang in Li Yu's house was suffering from a cough, I used some tricks to make him unable to extricate himself."
Uchida Yasuya praised: "You really have a lot of tricks. Even I don't know about such a powerful control tool."
Kawashima Naniwa also said: "The more important thing is that it is not illegal like opium, which damages the face of the Japanese Empire. Since this drug is publicly released by a German pharmaceutical company, we have nothing to do with it. Wonderful, wonderful
To the top!"
Although opium continued to be sold in the Japanese Concession in the following decades, the Japanese certainly did not dare to allow it to leave the Japanese Concession directly.
Even the French Concession across the road would not allow it.
Uchida Yasuya looked at the small bottle and said: "The Germans are so smart that they can come up with something like this."
In fact, Uchida Yasuya also suffered from a cold recently. He coughed and had headaches from time to time. Looking at the description on the medicine bottle, he couldn't help but try a piece to see if it was really so magical.
Seeing him opening the bottle cap and smelling it, Xiao Zuoxiang said quickly: "Mr. Uchida, you must not do this!"
"I know," Uchida Yasuya closed the bottle cap and said, "When General Aoki comes back from the front line, I will personally recommend you and make you an important figure in our espionage work."
Xiao Zuoxiang saluted and said: "Thank you, Minister Uchida, and thank you, Mr. Kawashima!"
Uchida Yasuya said: "You have proven your ability to us time and time again. Being an espionage officer is the most difficult job. It requires not only multi-disciplinary professional knowledge, but also the disguise ability of an excellent actor, and decisive judgment.
You are perfect in every way."
Little Zuo Xiang said: "Your Excellency, the Minister is full of compliments."
Uchida Yasuya said: "From now on, I will write to the country and strive for early approval for you to join the nationality of the Empire of Japan."
Little Zuo Xiang said excitedly: "I will definitely live up to your high expectations!"
Kawashima Naniwa patted him on the shoulder: "We have witnessed your ability with our own eyes. The empire needs talents like you."
Uchida Yasuya asked again: "By the way, there won't be any problem with the letter, right?"
Xiao Zuoxiang wiped away his excited tears and said: "Minister Uchida, don't worry, the letter from the Revolutionary Party comes from Liang Qichao in Japan, and the letter from the Russians comes from Horvat from the Harbin Middle East Railway Administration. The Qing government has no ability at all.
Go investigate Horvath. As for Liang Qichao, he is in Japan. We can say whatever we want. Even if we forge it, they will find no evidence."
Although Xiao Zuoxiang regarded Liang Qichao as a revolutionary party, it did not affect the attitude of the Qing court, because in the eyes of the Qing court, he was a rebel anyway.
Uchida Yasuya laughed and said: "I really like you so much, you are smart and bold."
Little Zuo Xiang said: "Some subsequent operations require the cooperation of two adults."
Uchida Yasuya said confidently: "Don't worry, even if Li Yu is extremely talented, he will never think about the people around him!"