Zhang Boling also wanted to see the situation in Japan, so he followed Li Yu and set off for Yokohama, Japan in advance.
This way of going abroad is currently the best way. Taking a Japanese ship to Japan first can avoid a lot of trouble, because the Bohai Strait is now almost controlled by the Japanese.
Then transfer to an American ship in Japan and go to California.
As expected, Zhang Boling brought several athletes with him. It seems that Zhang Boling is really interested in the Olympics.
Zhang Boling sighed: "Four years ago, I read about the Olympic Games in the newspaper. At that time, Paris sent an invitation. Unfortunately, it was the Gengzi Incident and the Holy Father failed to send a representative."
The 1900 Paris Olympics was also considered a subsidiary venue of the World Expo, with a long duration.
Li Hongzhang had seen the predecessor of the Olympic Games in France before, and when he returned home, he talked to Guangxu for a long time about what "track and field" was.
However, although he failed to go there in 1900, some newspapers made relevant reports. It is estimated that Zhang Boling paid more attention to it from then on.
Li Yu asked: "What events did you bring with you?"
Zhang Boling said: "I was in a hurry, so I could only choose track and field athletes, 100 meters, long jump and the rumored marathon."
Li Yu sighed: "Okay, let's just practice and practice."
Zhang Boling said: "Experience and practice? No chance of winning any prizes?"
Li Yu asked: "How long can it take to run 100 meters?"
Zhang Boling turned around and asked, and then said: "According to foreign standards, eleven or two seconds."
Li Yu said: "Okay."
Although it was the early 20th century, sprint times had already steadily entered 11 seconds, a little over 10 seconds.
Zhang Boling looked at Li Yu's expression and asked, "Not enough?"
Li Yu said frankly: "It's a big difference. Although one or two seconds doesn't sound like much, 0.1 second or even 0.01 second can determine the outcome."
Zhang Boling was not discouraged: "Anyway, it's just a temporary team, just to see what foreign sports will be like."
Li Yu smiled and said: "You have the right mentality."
The ship set sail from Tanggu Port. Unlike the previous times, there were not many people.
There are also Japanese naval soldiers patrolling the ship from time to time. They have nowhere to use their energy and are panicking.
As the ship sailed out of the southern end of the Bohai Strait, Li Yu sighed with emotion. On one side was Liaoning Province and on the other side was Shandong Province. It was a pity that there were no Liaoning and Shandong ships, otherwise there would be no way for Little Japan to be so rampant.
Zhang Boling saw Li Yu sighing and said, "Don't worry, Imperial Master. Let's work hard. Just like Japan, it won't take many years to have such warships."
Li Yu said helplessly: "It's difficult, there used to be one in Beiyang."
Li Yu stopped discussing such sad topics with him and returned to the cabin to read newspapers and books while he was imagining several experiments.
The overall idea is yes, but the trouble is that current equipment is difficult to assemble, and many of them even have to be manufactured by yourself, and the accuracy is much worse than that of later generations.
It's really a bit overwhelming. As expected, experiments are more difficult for me than theory: there are too many things to worry about outside of experiments.
Five days later, the ship arrived in Yokohama.
Li Yuxian took Qiu Jin to the International Students Association.
Outstanding international student representatives Ma Junwu, Jiang Baili, Lu Xun and others came to welcome her.
Ma Junwu said happily: "Sister's arrival is like a spring breeze blowing away the haze in the east."
Qiu Jin said calmly and generously: "I am here to learn, and I will ask all the seniors for your guidance in the future."
Lu Xun said: "Guidance is not a question. I think you will enter a girls' school. Our meeting is nothing more than coming to the International Students Hall here at a fixed time."
Jiang Baili said: "I heard that my sister is already married and has children. She still has the courage to come to Japan to study alone. It's really admirable."
Qiu Jin said: "If you don't want to be an official's wife, you should be Tan Sitong."
As soon as this sentence was said, everyone else present was also in awe.
Lu Xun looked around and said, "It's better not to say this name casually."
Qiu Jin said: "We are in Japan now, why can't we mention it?"
Lu Xun said: "Something happened just now..."
The incident he was talking about was naturally the previous incident at Chengwu School and Ma Junwu's talk about scheduling in the International Students Association in front of the Manchu royal family Zai Ze.
Ma Junwu said carelessly: "Don't worry, if we don't seek improvement, why would we study here?"
Qiu Jin also agreed with him: "It feels really good to study abroad. I don't have to have so many constraints anymore."
Lu Xun still reminded: "The primary purpose of studying abroad is to study. You may or may not have other things. You must finish studying first, otherwise you will not be able to understand right and wrong."
Lu Xun's worries are not without reason.
Qiu Jin said: "Brother Zhou's words make sense. I must study hard and not lose the face of my daughter's family."
Ma Junwu took out some books he was translating: "Just in time to show it to my sister, this is "The Principle of Freedom" that I just translated."
Ma Junwu was a person with good translation ability in the early days. Even Liang Qichao wrote a preface to him personally, praising his translation as "the second best translation in our country" after Yan Fu's "Tianyan Lun".
Qiu Jin said: "This name is good, I will definitely read it carefully."
Ma Junwu took out another one: "There is also this one, I think you like it better."
Qiu Jin was extremely excited when she saw the name of the second book: "'Women's Rights', is it also a foreign book?"
Ma Junwu said: "Yes, coming from the UK, women's liberation and equal rights for men and women are everywhere."
Qiu Jin really liked it very much: "I had many such thoughts in my dreams, and finally I can see a real translation."
Ma Junwu said: "The liberation of women is to awaken the soft souls of China's 20 million corrupt women who have died in sleep, and can completely eradicate the backward imperial system. Women cannot just wait for men to give up their power, they must fight for themselves!"
Qiu Jin recited silently: "I like this sentence and I want to embroider it on my clothes."
Qiu Jin couldn't stop chatting with them. She felt like she had finally found her best friend in life. She only wished she hadn't gone abroad to study earlier.
The next day, Hantaro Nagaoka, a professor of physics at Tokyo Imperial University, came to invite Li Yu, "I haven't seen you for a year, and my husband has become a foreign academician of the Royal Society. It's really disappointing."
Li Yu thought to himself that there will be many things that will shock you in the future, so he said: "It's just a false name."
Hantaro Nagaoka said: "Your fame is coveted by countless people! We now collect your papers everywhere, including every issue of "Science" magazine in the United States. We even published an album of your papers, which is widely circulated in the Faculty of Science. Of course.
, we only circulate it internally, so we don’t have your approval.”
Anyway, it has been published publicly. Li Yu said: "It is normal to study."
Hantaro Nagaoka said: "Sir, please come with me to Tokyo Imperial University. The president and a group of professors are waiting for you to give another lecture."
Li Yu asked: "Speech? Is there another theme?"
Hantaro Nagaoka said: "Actually, we hope that sir can talk about the differences between races. Sorry, I was wrong. It should be said that there are no differences between races. That is to say, yellow people will not be worse than white people, because we think you
He is the most typical representative.”
Li Yu had somewhat guessed that this would happen before, because good news came back from the Japanese-Russian front line. The Japanese army defeated the Russian "Eastern Manchuria Detachment" in Dandong.
This was the first land battle between the two sides. The Japanese victory opened the door to attack Lushun.
Now all the media in Japan are frantically reporting on this matter, as if a victory has been achieved, and the enthusiasm for recruiting has been completely ignited.
The academic community hopes to refute the racial antagonism advocated by the Russians.
However, Li Yu did not want to be their tool, so he said: "This kind of thing can only achieve results through facts. What I say is empty talk. I think it is better to simply talk about the science that I am good at."
Hantaro Nagaoka thought for a while and said: "That's fine. Anyway, as long as you can stand here, it has shown that East Asians are no worse than Westerners."
When the two came to Tokyo Imperial University, President Kenjiro Yamakawa personally greeted them outside the gate. He stepped forward to welcome them: "Mr. Li Yu, thank you for coming again. We got news from Europe that you have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics."
Scholar, by then, I’m afraid it won’t be easy to invite you again.”
Li Yu Japan has now been regarded as a model for the yellow race. Li Yu understands Japanese and even saw Japanese students holding banners: "The Peak of East Asian Wisdom!"
Li Yu shook hands with Principal Kenjiro Yamakawa: "Thank you for the reception."
Today's podium is placed in the school's auditorium, which is larger than the previous auditorium of the Department of Science.
Kenjiro Yamakawa spoke impassionedly about Li Yu's deeds. In fact, most people already knew that Li Yu had been to Tokyo Imperial University after all, and some unpleasant things happened last time.
Kenjiro Yamakawa finally said: "Welcome Mr. Li Yu, academician of the Royal Society, to bring us a top-notch academic report."
Li Yu walked onto the stage with Zeppelin's technical documents and said:
“It’s a great honor to come to the University of Tokyo again.
Professor Nagaoka once said to me that he hoped I could introduce the advantages and disadvantages of East Asians and Westerners.
But I told him that this matter does not need to be argued with words, because facts speak louder than words, and everyone in the world can judge."
After hearing this, the students in the audience applauded and agreed:
"What great thing can foreigners do? Isn't it just that they start a hundred or two hundred years in advance? We can catch up in forty years!"
"In forty years, we will be even more powerful than the foreigners!"
Li Yu was ashamed. Fortunately, he did not agree to Hantaro Nagaoka's request. Even for a relatively objective and rational place like the University of Tokyo, it was still a bit too much in this regard.
It’s not that it’s bad to be enthusiastic at all, but it’s just too much. Since it’s a university, you must remain rational when engaging in learning. This is an absolute basic condition.
Li Yu flipped through the technical documents of the airship, and then continued after calming down a little: "If you really want to surpass the foreigners, you should learn some cutting-edge knowledge that the foreigners are studying. This is a technical route that represents the future.
Because it can take people into the sky, and can even provide air transportation like a ship."
The students exclaimed: "Can you cross the ocean?"
Li Yu nodded: "Of course."
Li Yu drew a diagram of the airship on the blackboard, and then listed some equations and required design conditions: "Now even foreigners are studying its manufacturing, but many technologies are kept secret by foreigners. If they can be conquered, it will be
A great achievement.”
Li Yu wrote and drew on the blackboard, but deliberately left out some key details.
Even so, the people below also felt excited when they heard it.
Li Yu finally said: "I am a physicist, not an engineer, so I only gave a general outline of the technology, and there are still a lot of places that need to be filled in."
The students were very excited: "With this technology, we can see the Russians from the sky!"
“Just thinking about it makes me feel hopeful!”
"We must conquer it!"
Historically, Japan did research on airships, but compared with Germany, it was really far behind.
Li Yu felt a little dazed when he saw their appearance.
If you want to distort the Japanese technology tree, this is only the first step.
The game of top IQ is super taxing on brain cells, and there are still many things to do in the future.
Unexpectedly, I became a "technological spy".
In addition, Li Yu also has some selfish motives, so he can easily help himself with the help of Japanese people.
The development of airplanes will still take many years, but airships have been relatively perfect. Even if they are slower than airplanes, they are still much faster than ships. It only takes three weeks to travel around the world.
At that time, you can save yourself the trouble of traveling and traveling...
Traveling from East Asia to the United States can take at most one week, or even less, which saves time on old noses.
It goes without saying that the price of airship rides is very expensive, but Li Yu is not short of money, what he needs is time.
And I know at least a few major airship accidents that could have been avoided.
Professor Nagaoka was extremely excited. After the speech, he said to Li Yu: "Mr. Li Yu really surprised me. You have dabbled in all fields of today's science and technology, and you have not just dabbled in it, which makes me ashamed. I have studied physics all my life.
, can’t even compare to your fraction.”
Li Yu smiled and said: "I actually didn't do anything. The formulas on the blackboard can't be solved casually. There will be some flight tests involved in the follow-up."
"Science and technology" are often used as one word. In fact, the gap between science and technology is not small.
Technology research and development is really time-consuming, time-consuming and money-consuming.
However, Li Yu gave the Japanese a lot of hope, and they were determined to do something about it.
President Kenjiro Yamakawa invited Li Yu to the conference room. Those present were professors from the University of Tokyo and celebrities in Japanese academic circles.
Principal Shanchuan said: "Mr. Li Yu, you have lived up to expectations and once again proved the wisdom of East Asians. But I wonder if this is a wisdom buried in the hearts of all East Asians?"
Li Yu sighed in his heart, but still couldn't get rid of this topic.
Li Yu thought for a while and said: "If the principal is so obsessed with wisdom, I have a way to solve your doubts from a relatively scientific perspective."
President Yamakawa, Professor Nagaoka and everyone present asked almost simultaneously: "How to do it?!"
Li Yu was startled by their uniform actions. He paused and said, "We can join forces with European and American psychology professors to conduct an intelligence test to determine the level of something called IQ."
The concept of "IQ" has not been proposed yet, and no one knows it.
Principal Yamakawa asked: "IQ?"
Li Yu said: "Yes, it's called IQ, which is the level of intelligence that you care about so much. Moreover, we have teamed up with European and American psychologists, and the results are the same. They can't say anything."
Principal Yamakawa strongly agreed with this proposal: "We will unite the entire school, no, all psychologists and academic groups in Japan, to cooperate with this intelligence test!"
Li Yu feels that the enthusiasm of the Japanese people is too high now, which is really worrying, because if the enthusiasm is too high, rationality will be suppressed by sensibility, and the right-wing government will be able to control the people.
But Li Yu doesn't object to the matter of IQ, because it is a relatively convenient intelligence test that he can take back home and bring confidence to the students in his school.