The rickshaw pulled Li Yu to the HSBC Bank. Li Yu asked the driver to wait for a while, then walked into the HSBC Bank in a swaggering manner, slapped his passbook on the counter, "Withdraw money!"
——After charging myself so much in handling fees, I must hold back a little! Besides, the other party is still HSBC, and he knows all the dirty things he has done in the past and future.
The teller picked up the passbook and checked it carefully. After confirming that it was correct, he said, "Do you want to take it out?"
"That's right!"
The teller said with a smile on his face: "If it is deposited in the bank, we will get 4% interest. And our HSBC bank has a guaranteed reputation and will never misappropriate customer assets."
"No, take it all out!" Li Yucai didn't want to do that. Besides, it wouldn't be too troublesome to run to the bank with just such a small amount of money.
Seeing Li Yu's firm attitude, the teller had no choice but to say, "Would you like to change it into silver taels or silver dollars?"
At this time, the bank had already launched an integrated remittance business. Li Yu thought about it and felt that silver coins were more convenient, so he said, "Convert them all into silver coins, pack them up and bring them up together."
The teller put away the passbook and soon brought over a pack of silver dollars with the Queen's face on it. Foreign money has very good circulation now, and major banks and banks prefer to accept foreign money. Because the regulations are unified, it is much more convenient to convert than loose silver with various components that need to be weighed and converted.
The teller said: "You have a total of 71 pounds in your account, which is converted into silver dollars and totals 253 yuan. Please check it."
Li Yu picked up the small bag and estimated that it weighed thirteen or four kilograms, but since it was money, it didn't feel heavy, and he could easily carry another ten kilograms.
Li Yu didn't talk nonsense, just counted the money and left.
Then we continued taking a rickshaw to the Qing Post Office to mail the letter, and immediately spent 10 silver dollars. In fact, if it could be expedited, Li Yu really wanted to add 10 silver dollars, but unfortunately there was no airmail at this time, so he had to wait.
After returning to the house, Li Yuduo gave the driver 100 cents as a tip. After all, it was not easy to accompany him for a long time. The driver was very grateful and wished he could be Li Yu's full-time driver.
Xiyuan, the sun sets in the west.
Cixi immediately couldn't wait to sit down at the table set by Li Yu. When she took a look, she saw the ring of Saturn surrounding it.
"Hey! It's really amazing. Little Plum, come and see it too!"
Li Lianying did not dare to sit down directly, so he bent over and took a look and said: "I didn't expect that this is the original appearance of Zhenxing, surrounded by a circle, just like the charm of Lafayette."
Cixi asked: "What does it have to do with the Ai family?"
"Zhenxing guards the Heavenly Palace, wouldn't it be like the Queen Mother guarding our Qing Dynasty." Li Lianying's level of flattery is really high.
"It depends on what you said!"
Cixi found it very interesting and pulled Sigege and Queen Longyu over to watch.
Longyu is almost a widow now. Although she is the official queen of Emperor Guangxu, the two of them cannot meet at all. Of course, even if he saw her, Guangxu would not like to see her and always regarded her as a puppet sent by Cixi to monitor him.
Several people were having a lot of fun around the telescope. They didn't expect that this thing could see the stars so clearly.
Si Gege wanted to adjust it, but Cixi quickly stopped him: "Don't move, it will be troublesome if you can't see."
It's just that they just find it interesting, and after watching it, they just use it as a source of conversation with other people.
The next day, Li Yu found Puland and asked him to help find some disinfectant and surgical instruments.
As soon as I entered his office, I saw several customs orders on the table.
Li Yu immediately thought of the chandelier in Yikuang's house. He was probably the one who secretly raised the price. After all, he was from the Chief Taxation Department, Hurd, and it was too easy to do anything.
"Mr. Li Yu, what do you want from me today?" Puland said.
Li Yu got straight to the point: "Mr. Reporter, I am going to buy some disinfectant and surgical instruments for a surgeon at the hospital. I wonder if you have any channels in the hospital."
"Surgeon... doctor? The name you gave is really interesting," Purland immediately understood and smiled, "Of course there is no problem. Although Tongren Hospital is run by Americans, our embassy has a good relationship with them."
"Then there's Mr. Lao, and the money won't be missing from the hospital."
While the two were talking, two more embassy staff knocked on the door and came in. They brought two telescopes and placed them on Purland's table.
Li Yu said: "I'm afraid not many celestial bodies can be seen during the day."
Puland explained: "I'm not using it myself. Yesterday, Prince Qing asked our Minister Sa Daoyi to help get a telescope. Today, he actually found two telescopes from the warehouse and asked me to send them to the palace."
"Why send two of them?" Li Yu looked at the telescope. It was a newer model of reflecting telescope. Judging from the diameter, the magnification should be higher than that of the Queen Mother's. It's just a bit bulky and not as refined and beautiful as the one from Xiyuan.
Puland touched the two telescopes and said: "I don't know why the prince suddenly became so interested in astronomy. As soon as he made the move, he gave the minister 200 taels of silver, which was enough to buy several telescopes! The minister also wanted to look for other telescopes. .”
Li Yu smiled awkwardly. Yi Kuang really didn't know the market for Western things.
It was obviously too early to go to Prince Qing's Mansion during the day. Li Yu and Pu Lande arrived at Tongren Hospital first. Pu Lande used his connections to get two boxes. "In them are sodium hypochlorite and iodine, as well as four sets of surgical equipment, which is enough for him."
Iodine has not yet been released, so using iodine directly is slightly more dangerous and irritating, but it was considered a superior drug at the time.
As soon as Li Yu thanked him, Pulande continued: "A total of 20 taels of silver."
Good guy, that’s so blunt!
And it’s too dark. Even if shipping costs are included, such a small amount of money will definitely not cost more than seven or eight taels of silver.
However, the reason why people like Puland traveled thousands of miles to come to the Qing Dynasty was because their top priority must be to make more money.
Li Yu had no choice but to give him money first. A rickshaw with two big boxes was definitely not going to work, so we took a horse-drawn carriage.
He also just learned that horse-drawn carriages can also be driven, which is like the Qing Dynasty version of Lalamove.
Li Yu drove a cheap small saddle car. The wheels were in the middle of the carriage, and the doors did not open from both sides, but got on from the front. This kind of car is faster and cheaper. Of course, it is definitely much more expensive than a rickshaw. Li Yu's trip cost him 280 Wen.
If it is a large car with wheels at the back and doors opening on both sides, it will be more expensive.
However, the car was fast, and it was really bumpy. At this time, there were no pneumatic tires in the Qing Dynasty, and the carriage had no suspension. It was just like riding an old-fashioned unicycle in the countryside.
When he arrived at Fangzhuangchang Alley, Li Yu just got out of the car and saw Xiaodao Liu chatting politely with an elder's father-in-law. The father-in-law was wearing a third-grade crown on his head, which gave him an extraordinary status.
The carriage alarmed the two of them. Before Xiaodao Liu could say anything, the father-in-law next to him said first, "Isn't this Li Jiaoxi!"
Xiaodao Liu was stunned: "Eunuch, do you know Li Yu?"
The father-in-law said: "That's not true!"
Li Yu was also confused and asked Xiaodao Liu: "Who is this father-in-law?"
Xiao Dao Liu hurriedly said: "The person in front of me is the head of the imperial kitchen in Ouchi, the empress's father-in-law."
It turned out to be Xiao De Zhang!
