The delegation came to Canary Wharf on the Thames River. This time they saw off not only Prince Arthur, but also Prince George, the son of Edward VII.
In addition, Lord Kelvin and President Huggins also came to the dock in person.
Lord Kelvin liked this young man who brought surprises every day. Although he was very reluctant to leave, he had to leave for the time being: "You can boldly use the telegraph machine of The Times from now on. If they dare to charge you, tell me!"
Li Yu smiled and said, "Thank you, Lord, for your kindness."
President Huggins shook hands with him again: "I have decided not to use the observatory on Mount Hals, and I have renamed it Pluto Observatory to commemorate your discovery."
Li Yu said: "President, there is no need for you to do this. Such good equipment..."
Lord Kelvin waved his hand: "Don't worry about him, he is not short of money."
Um... Li Yu did remember that President Huggins was indeed a businessman, and he was engaged in science as a hobby.
The ship's whistle blew, and Li Yu finally boarded the ship and stood on the deck to wave goodbye to them.
Zai Zhen and the others were dumbfounded. Why did the British like Li Yu so much? !
Zai Zhen said: "You really stole the show this time. The Queen Mother will definitely be very happy to know about it."
Li Yuxu said to Wei Snake, "There is nothing better than making the Queen Mother happy."
But I was cursing in my heart, what does it have to do with her!
Li Yu still has some ambitions now. Although he has not experienced any suffering personally, he has read history!
As for why the 450 million Chinese people suffered so much, he also understood, so he had no good impression of the corrupt rulers of the Qing court at all, and was even filled with hatred.
It's a pity that he doesn't understand politics, let alone military affairs.
Fortunately, he is more or less a modern person with a broad vision, able to bend and stretch, and can endure braids, so he will just deal with it for the time being and take advantage of them.
Perhaps what I can do in the future is to find ways to make as many people as possible suffer less. Even if it only helps one in a thousand or even one percent of people, such a large base is 450,000 to 4.5 million people!
What a concept!
But it is obviously still far from such an ambitious goal.
The salty and humid sea breeze from the North Sea blew on his face, and Li Yu didn't smile much, although the fame in front of him was enough to make him a professor at a Western university, and even go down in history.
However, it's not enough!
The passenger ship crossed the English Channel, went eastward along the Seine, and sailed all the way to Paris.
In the distance, the tall spire of the Eiffel Tower appeared in everyone's sight.
Liang Cheng pointed at it and said, "Master Bei, this Eiffel Tower is more than ninety feet high. It is the tallest building in the world today."
Zai Zhen looked over with a telescope: "It's really jaw-dropping that such a tall tower can be built. Liang Cheng, you have been abroad for many years, can you build it?"
Liang Cheng smiled awkwardly, not expecting Zai Zhen to ask such a question: "Master Bei, I don't know much about construction."
"What a pity. If one could be built outside Yongding Gate, the Queen Mother would definitely like it if she saw it from a distance every day."
Look at Master Bei Zi’s consciousness, he just wants to make the Queen Mother like him!
hehe! But it's right to think about it. If the Queen Mother doesn't like things in the Qing court, it will be really difficult to do anything.
The Eiffel Tower was originally built to host the 1889 Paris World's Fair and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the victory of the Revolution, but the tender required that it be easily dismantled in the future.
And there were many people who opposed the construction of the Tower, such as Maupassant and Xiaozhongma. Therefore, no matter what happens, some people will oppose it.
But neither supporters nor opponents could have imagined that the Eiffel Tower would become a national symbol of France in the future.
Liang Cheng did not forget to teach Zai Zhen a lesson: "Master Bei, when France and Prussia fought, they also lost 5 billion francs, but they are not still so powerful now."
"Five billion francs?" Zai Zhen asked in surprise, "How much is this?"
"In short, it far exceeds the amount of silver we compensated to other countries."
Zai Zhen said in disbelief: "Why can France still be so strong after losing so much money?"
Liang Cheng said timely: "Because they have changed, we also need to make changes."
"What changes?"
"Just like a republic or a constitution..."
Zai Zhen waved his hand, "This is not something I can decide. Let's go back and write a report and let the Queen Mother decide."
Li Yu secretly laughed at the side, how could it possibly make sense? No matter how hard Liang Cheng tried, it was in vain.
In order to unify Germany, Bismarck sent a small "Emes message" to induce France to declare war on Prussia. Napoleon III really thought that he was also Napoleon, but he was beaten to pieces.
In terms of superb skills, Napoleon III was a younger brother to the iron prime minister Bismarck.
Privately, Li Yu even felt that although Li Hongzhang had merit, some people called Li Hongzhang the "Bismarck of the East", which really elevated Li or lowered Bismarck. The gap in their achievements was still very different.
Bismarck himself said after hearing this statement: "Li Hongzhang is the Bismarck of the East, but I will not be the Li Hongzhang of the West."
This sentence is very thought-provoking.
Besides, Li Hongzhang signed the reparations treaty anyway, while Bismarck took the reparations from France by snatching them from the mouth of a tiger.
It goes without saying how important the Franco-Prussian War was to Germany. Although the target of the war was France, it was a war fought for its own unification.
After the victory of the war, William I was even crowned Emperor of Germany in the Palace of Versailles in France, which was extremely ridiculing.
After the Franco-Prussian War, Germany demanded 5 billion francs in compensation from France. According to the unit "Guan Ping Yin" used in Xinchou and other treaties, the conversion is about 1.2 billion taels of Guan Ping Yin, which indeed exceeds the total compensation of the Qing Dynasty.
Moreover, before the compensation is completed, Germany will station troops in France, forcing France to pay honestly.
But miraculously, France quickly sent away the German army. Because they mobilized the power of financial capital and issued treasury bonds only three times, they quickly raised 5 billion francs!
France also tasted the sweetness of finance. Subsequently, it continued to issue capital everywhere, turning it into a "loan shark empire." It was already extremely rich before World War I, and the French people could live a very comfortable life just by eating interest every year.
Japan's rise also partly resembled that of Germany. It also gained reparations and international status through waging war, built national self-confidence, and then developed industry and commerce.
However, a blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise. The biggest legacy of the war is hatred.
Later, France fought so fiercely in World War I, and millions of people died one after another under the Maxim machine guns with infinite hatred for Germany. The Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme were so tragic that human lives were like leeks. Cut off by the stubble.
After the victory, France asked Germany to compensate Germany 112 billion gold marks, which is almost more than 30 billion taels of silver! It was not until 2010 that Germany paid off the last reparations...
When is the time for retribution!
Germany once again held a grudge and launched World War II again decades later, again destroying countless lives and property.
From the perspective of future generations, Li Yu knew that only by looking at these things in series, would he find that they all had causes and effects and were intertwined, which was even more shocking.
However, he couldn't tell Zai Zhen these things.
Just talking about the financial means used by France to tide over the difficulties, given the level of corruption in the Qing Dynasty, why do you want them to try to issue national bonds? Putting aside the poor credit of the Qing Dynasty, there is the question of whether anyone will buy the national debt. If someone buys it, they will definitely use it to loot people's property. I am afraid that the golden yuan coupons will be released more than 40 years in advance.
It makes me shudder to think about how many people will have their families destroyed.
