The moment he pulled the switch, Li Yu regretted it.
Just now, he was about to leave the laboratory where he had been working for a day, but he forgot that he had been inspecting the power supply for the past few days.
When a numb feeling came, he immediately realized that he had been electrocuted!
It felt quite good at first. After all, they say falling in love is like getting an electric shock, but soon, he knew that fairy tales were all lies.
The speed of the electric current was obviously no slower than his consciousness. Within a second, the refreshing feeling disappeared, replaced by the world spinning, and there was only a blank in his mind.
It seemed like only a few seconds passed before he felt a severe headache and he began to feel his consciousness slowly returning.
"Fortunately, it seems that the leakage protector saved my life."
Li Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and when he opened his eyes again, he was stunned!
What caught his eyes was an incredible scene:
In a very antique alley full of stalls, many vendors and pedestrians with big braids on their heads walked past him, as if they were on a filming set in Hengdian.
But Li Yu soon realized that this was definitely not a Qing palace drama on TV, because even the extras on TV had rosy faces and clean clothes.
But most of the people in front of me looked sallow and thin, and they were almost all dressed in gray cloth, not to mention clean.
There is no asphalt concrete under the feet, just a simple compacted dirt road, which will bring up a little dust when pedestrians walk by.
It's definitely not like what's on TV.
Everything told him that he had traveled through time!
As a talented student majoring in 985 Applied Physics, he couldn't believe all this!
Yes, he couldn't believe it!
After observing for a while, Li Yu finally realized that he was indeed in a real world, and looking at the costumes of the people around him, he had arrived in the Qing Dynasty.
But the environment around him was so unfamiliar that he didn't even know where and when he was.
Li Yu is a very rational person, and he has to accept it now if he can't accept it. The next question to consider is how to survive.
Keep your head but not your hair!
This terrible thought first flashed through Li Yu's mind. He quickly touched his head and found to his surprise that his handsome hairstyle was gone and his forehead was bald.
No!
Li Yu felt a chill in his heart, and when he touched his hand back, he found that it turned out to be a weird big braid. He hurriedly took a few steps forward and saw a mirror in front of a grocery stall. When he looked in, it was indeed him!
I have to say that if a robe is added to the look at this moment, it seems that there is still a bit of Jet Li's shadow.
Foshan Wuying...
Li Yu quickly stopped his rambling thoughts.
He sighed softly. This change came so suddenly that he really didn't know what to do for a while.
The stall owner of the grocery stall looked at the incomprehensible young man in front of him and asked, "Do you want to buy a mirror?"
Yo! After a good Beijing movie, it seems that I am still in Beijing.
After learning the first useful information, Li Yu said in a panic: "I'm sorry, boss, I just came to the capital and I lost all my money."
The stall owner glanced at the schoolbag on his back in confusion and asked, "A scholar?"
In this era, people still respect scholars very much. Li Yu immediately nodded frantically: "Yes, yes, it's just..."
The stall owner waved his hand: "I understand, you are also from Tianjin, Zhili, and life is difficult now." The stall owner pointed towards one end of the street, "There is a teahouse opposite, and there are some teeth in it. Maybe you can help me." Let’s find some work.”
Li Yu quickly thanked him: "Thank you boss for your advice!"
The stall owner sighed: "Hey, it's not easy for this unlucky guy to sign a contract."
treaty? Li Yu felt a chill in his heart, and many bad thoughts came to him.
It turns out that I have not only traveled to the somewhat reluctant Qing Dynasty, but also to the most miserable Late Qing Dynasty!
He suddenly felt quite depressed. The stall owner thought he was a poor scholar and said sympathetically: "Go quickly, it will be great if you can make a living now! When the city gate is closed, if you are still walking on the street, you will He’s going to be taken away!”
Li Yu understood that the stall owner was right. He knew the curfew. If he was really caught by the night watchman, he would be whipped. Moreover, his behavior seemed a bit out of place for this era.
After bidding farewell to the stall owner, Li Yu walked to the end of the alley and indeed saw a teahouse with four big characters written on the sign: "Mingqian Tribute to the Dragon".
There were many teahouses in the late Qing Dynasty. There were large teahouses where you could eat, there were book teahouses where you could listen to storytelling, and then there were the most ordinary teahouses.
Although there are no storytellers in teahouses, there are many private organizations such as chess clubs, and because there are many people coming and going, they usually function as intermediaries. There are often some dental dealers inside who specialize in helping people find jobs. Of course, people There are also agency fees!
Li Yu only had one package with him now, but he looked through it and found no surprises. It contained the things he usually brought: a gel pen, a pencil, a notebook, and a calculator. , and his mobile phone.
Not a dime!
What a tragic time traveler!
Just as I was thinking about what to say when I went in, three or four bannermen walked towards the teahouse. A few of them were still chatting:
"Lao Yu, I heard that you, Xiangbaiqi, have reissued regular silver in the past two days?"
"Hey! It's not all thanks to Prince Su, otherwise I would still be drinking the northwest wind!"
"You can finally hold the money!"
"That's right, Lafayette just came back from hunting in the West at the end of the year, and he was still thinking about whether it could be better. But now it seems that he can't pay back the debt he owed for the past six months!"
"Please keep your voice down! Besides, you only have one tael of silver a month, what can you do with it!"
"..."
Several people walked into the teahouse while chatting.
From their chat, Li Yu got some more information: Lafayette's hunt to the west was about the Gengzi national disaster, the Eight-Nation Allied Forces invaded Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an with Guangxu, and the Governor of Zhili and Beiyang Minister who took office again Li Hongzhang and Prince Qing Yikuang signed a peace treaty with the foreigners before returning to the capital.
In other words, it is now 1902.
In a few years, the Qing Dynasty will no longer exist. What an era full of ups and downs!
Those few people just now were the children of the Eight Banners. The court was supposed to give them 2 to 3 taels of regular silver every month. But now that the "Xin Chou Treaty" was signed, plus the previous "Treaty of Shimonoseki", the Qing government suddenly owed it to them. There is a huge debt of 700 million taels of silver. If interest is included, this amount will probably double!
Can finances not be tight? Therefore, the Qing government had to cut back on food and clothing, and even the regular money for the Eight Banners disciples and idle clans was halved.
