The British are really crazy about money. Taking advantage of the fact that the Qing Dynasty basically exempts imported medicines from taxes, and because of their admiration for foreigners and foreigners, they dare to sell them at high prices just by adding some foreign things.
Anyway, with Li Yu's limited knowledge, he would never believe that it could have such a curative effect.
Guo Weiwei took the two of them to a small room in the back.
"Master Beizi, the several models on the cabinet are cosmetics that we have sold in Shanghai, but the capital does not allow them to be sold now."
Shanghai is indeed more open at this time. As for the current capital, there are many stubborn old men and there is indeed greater resistance. After all, even Cixi herself doesn't like to use cosmetics. If she can take the lead, maybe it will be better.
Guo Weiwei pointed to several bottles and said: "This bottle of high-quality floral water is our best perfume product."
Li Yu took it over and looked at it. It was just an ordinary glass bottle, which was indeed not fancy enough. Fortunately, he saw that there were many other categories on the table, "I see there is a bottle of rose water there too! "
Guo Weiwei explained: "Rose water is for face washing, not perfume."
Li Yu was a little embarrassed because he really didn't know about cosmetics.
Zhen Zhen's method is simple and crude: "It doesn't matter what kind of water it is, just bring a few bottles."
"good idea!"
Li Yu suddenly figured out that since the grade was not enough, he would make up the quantity.
It is entirely possible for the queen to have a perfume bath by herself. No one would dare to pour perfume into the bathtub for bathing now. In this way, although it is a bit extravagant and wasteful, it also improves her style. Anyway, the perfume sold by Watsons is also suitable for her. Not to mention expensive.
And if they knew that the perfume industry in Europe is booming because Europeans don't like to take baths, they wouldn't know how they would feel.
You don't like to take a bath so you spray perfume, but I just pour the perfume into the tub and take a bath. Isn't that a step ahead in terms of concept?
As long as I explain it to Queen Longyu in this way, although it is a bit illogical, she will definitely be able to get around it!
"Pack it all up! Pack it up and take it away!"
Guo Weiwei was elated because he liked such generous customers! However, he still took the trouble to explain to them the uses of different products: "Master Beizi, this bottle of tender jade liquid is a toner, and those bottles of acne and freckle white food potion are for removing freckles. In addition..."
"Okay, okay!" Li Yu really couldn't bear to hear these names that made him feel ashamed. "The imperial concubine is not stupid. She will definitely use it. Just bring a few instructions."
The price of things is really expensive for ordinary people. Li Yu saw that the price of a bottle of rose water was more than three yuan for a bottle. The instructions and the advertisement in the "Declaration" were also the most powerful: This is what Queen Victoria of the British Empire used. Good product!
hehe! Just deceive people like the Qing Dynasty who don’t know the truth! The Watsons have never left the country for more than 100 years.
In short, we will take the things back first and wait for Sigege to return home.
Royal Scientific Society, London, UK.
Lord Kelvin opened the door to the office with a cigar in his mouth. Logically speaking, a person of his status should not always smoke in official functions, but he was already beyond ordinary people. With his status, no one dared to say anything.
"President Huggins, do you have any good tobacco leaves for calling me here in such a hurry?"
Huggins, President of the Royal Society, came over with a manuscript and said, "There are no tobacco leaves, but I think you are more interested in this thing."
Lord Kelvin glanced at it. The beautiful handwriting was all too familiar, "Is it from a Chinese named Li Yu?"
President Huggins nodded: "I have already read the paper. It is written in the field of thermodynamics, which you are best at."
"Thermodynamics?" Lord Kelvin would never have thought that after writing the first article on rays, Li Yu would immediately write another paper in a completely new field. Wasn't he too bold? He wondered: "Is there anything new?"
President Huggins said: "There are a lot of new ideas, and his understanding of thermodynamics is really thorough."
"Oh?" Lord Kelvin put down the cigar in his hand, picked up the paper and sat aside to read it carefully.
About fifteen or six minutes later, Lord Kelvin turned the last page and breathed a sigh of relief.
President Huggins asked, “How?”
Lord Kelvin turned the page further: "As rigorous as ever, and it seems that he is a firm supporter of atomic theory and is on Boltzmann's side."
President Huggins said: "Yes, he not only used Clausius's theory skillfully, but also used Boltzmann's equations to make many extended derivation. I can't see any problems at all, and even in many places I still don’t understand it well, so I invited you here.”
Lord Kelvin picked up his cigar again, "The first half of the article summarizes the basics of thermodynamics. It can be seen that he is indeed proficient in the theory of thermodynamics, but these contents are obviously just foreshadowing. The most exciting thing is the Boltzmann equation used later. The dual micro- and macro-derivation carried out really amazed me.”
"Do you think it's okay to write?" President Huggins asked.
"There is no problem, and the writing is very innovative. It's just that I haven't done in-depth research on Boltzmann's theory. You know, this level of mathematics is not my strong point."
President Huggins said: "Of course I know. Although I am not proficient in thermodynamics, I have some understanding of it, but I really know very little about Boltzmann's theory."
Lord Kelvin took a puff of his cigar and asked: "Professor Boltzmann is in Vienna now?"
President Huggins nodded: "I heard that his current situation is not very good, and he doesn't get along well with the Austrian scholars."
Lord Kelvin shook his head: "His character! Although I somewhat praise his theory, this person is really difficult to get along with. So, let your editor write a paper and send it to Boltz Let Man take a look, professional issues still need to be reviewed by him."
President Huggins was surprised: "You still can't make the decision on this article? Originally, I thought I could publish it with your nod."
Lord Kelvin pointed at Li Yu's paper and smiled and said: "I really can't make the decision today. The content he wrote has both breadth and depth. I can approve most of it, but the part involving derivation can only be judged by Mr. Boltzmann." "
"I understand, I will write to him today."
President Huggins also did not expect that even Lord Kelvin could not make a decision on a paper on thermodynamics. What did this Chinese named Li Yu write?
In fact, Lord Kelvin is still very humble. If he knew that 100 years later, the International Congress of Weights and Measures would use Boltzmann's constant to define the thermodynamic temperature unit of 1 Kelvin, he would be very pleased.
Of course, it would be 50 years before the official use of the unit Kelvin came into use.
The two people will still be connected in the world of science.
