After chatting with them for a long time, the students from Hongwen College finally
"Let go" Li Yu. In fact, Li Yu found it quite interesting to chat with them. After all, they were all great people from now on.
But at this time, Hantaro Nagaoka came to Hongwen College and found Li Yu: "Great, I finally found you! I thought you left Tokyo Imperial University in anger." Li Yu said with a smile: "How could I be so narrow-minded?" Hantaro Oka said: "This incident is originally our school's fault. If not, sir, come back to school with me, the principal would solemnly apologize to you." Li Yu said: "It's not necessary, it's not a big deal. Son." Hantaro Nagaoka shook his head vigorously: "The school is a sacred place. If such a discriminatory incident occurs, and it is targeted at an outstanding scientist like Mr., if word spreads, we at Tokyo Imperial University will probably be laughed to death by others." Li Seeing his sincere attitude, Yu had no choice but to say: "Okay, let's go back to Tokyo University first." Li Yu didn't like to add it intentionally or unintentionally.
After all, the word "empire" will not exist in the University of Tokyo in the future. Li Yu first said goodbye to Jigoro Kano: "Mr. Kano, I'm really sorry. I have to go back to Tokyo University temporarily because of something else. I will definitely learn judo skills from you when I have time." Jigoro Kano said: "No problem, I want to learn from you too. Learn radio gymnastics humbly!" Li Yu smiled awkwardly: "Learn from each other." Jigoro Kano said he was also practicing competitive sports, which suddenly reminded him of a joke he had heard before: There was a foreigner who came to China to learn martial arts. After studying for a year, I returned to China and performed well.
Later, when a Chinese saw it, he felt something was wrong: Why did this foreigner come back after learning a set of radio gymnastics?
Li Yu also said goodbye to the students of Hongwen College temporarily: "You can contact me at any time if you have the opportunity in the future. I also have a telegram, which is very convenient." They also got along very happily with Li Yu during this short period of time. , after all, he is a student with advanced ideas, and a brief collision of ideas can leave a deep impression.
When he returned to Tokyo Imperial University, President Kenjiro Yamakawa actually greeted him at the gate of the school. Kenjiro Yamakawa stepped forward to shake hands with Li Yu and said: "I'm really sorry that the best oriental scientist today came to our school, and it's a pity that I only got to see him today!" Hantaro Nagaoka introduced: "This is our principal, said It's a coincidence that he also studies physics. President Yamakawa received his bachelor's degree in physics from Yale University in the United States more than 20 years ago." Li Yu said, "It's a pleasure to meet you. The University of Tokyo really attaches great importance to science." Yamakawa Kenjiro said: "Sir, he is the most outstanding talent in mathematics and physics. I am too old now and have long retreated to the direction of education. In the emerging scientific research direction, the gap with you is not the same." Li Yu said: "The principal's words are serious. "Kenjiro Yamakawa solemnly said: "This is the fact! I have been fortunate to read all the papers written by Mr. , which also brought shame to the school. After discussion by our school committee, we unanimously decided to give him a warning of expulsion." Li Yu said: "That's not necessary, it's just a verbal offense. Besides, I didn't take it to heart." He really didn't take it to heart. This kind of idleness was something Li Yu was too lazy to have, and he wasn't a great person, so it wasn't worth his anger.
However, after hearing Li Yu's words, Kenjiro Yamakawa felt that Li Yu had a lofty personality: "Sir, he is worthy of being from an ancient Eastern country, and his belly can hold a boat! No wonder Professor Nagaoka has always said that he should be in awe of China." Hantaro Nagaoka also joined in. He said: "Sir, you must give another lecture or seminar in our school." Kenjiro Yamakawa agreed: "That's right! I promise that the last situation will not happen again. And this time I will invite all colleges and universities. Anyone who wants to listen can come and enjoy Mr.’s style together.”
"Okay." Of course, Li Yu didn't need to refuse, so he seemed to be a host. Kenjiro Yamakawa added: "Please, sir, please move on. We have summoned the famous teachers of the school in advance to hold a tea party for you. It is also an act of our university to express our apology." Unexpectedly, they had prepared many tricks.
When they arrived at the tea party, several professors from Tokyo University were already present. Nagaoka Hantaro introduced him: "This is Takamine Joeyoshi, an outstanding professor in chemistry. He recently returned from the United States. This is Professor Shiga Kei, the infectious disease An expert in medicine." Gao Feng Rang Ji Li Yu knew that this person completed the crystallization of adrenaline in 1900 and was indeed very powerful in chemistry.
As for Shiga Keima, although there is no obvious connection with the later Unit 731, when it comes to Japanese experts in infectious diseases and bacteriology, people will always think of it in a bad direction.
Li Yu shook hands with the two of them: "Nice to meet you!" The two of them also respected Li Yu very much: "I have heard about Mr. Li Yu's name for a long time, and when I saw him today, he is indeed extraordinary." Hantaro Nagaoka continued to introduce: "This is from the School of Liberal Arts Lecturer Natsume Soseki, he heard about your husband’s situation and felt deeply unfair.” Natsume Soseki has not yet become famous, but his talent has begun to show.
Natsume Soseki ranks first among Japan's most popular writers, and his face has been printed on Japan's 1,000-yen currency.
Li Yu said: "I have admired you for a long time!" Natsume Soseki said: "It is Mr. I have admired you for a long time! Although I also studied in England, I have deeply felt that just being proficient in English is not enough to strengthen the country. I really regret not studying mathematical sciences." At about this time, Natsume Soseki also became famous in the country because he felt that he had studied English for so long.
"It doesn't help", his ideals suddenly collapsed and he suffered from neurasthenia. Li Yu said with a smile: "There is an old saying in China, good fortune lies in the misfortune, and misfortune lies in the blessing. There is no real good or bad." In fact, it was indeed this neurasthenia that stimulated Natsume Soseki to start Create and then become himself.
But neurasthenia was really tormenting him. There was no advanced psychology or neuroscience in this era, so there was almost nothing he could do to deal with neurasthenia.
After the introduction, Kenjiro Yamakawa presided over the tea party: "Today, I suddenly heard that students in our school were disrespectful to Mr. Li Yu. I am deeply worried, which may cause the reputation of our school to drop suddenly. You must already know that Mr. Li Yu is an extremely It should be our honor for an outstanding scientist to come to Tokyo Imperial University. It is a pity that I did not learn about it at the first time, so I was unable to make arrangements in advance. Here, I would like to solemnly apologize to Mr. Li Yu!" Kenjiro Yamakawa retreated One step, a direct ninety-degree bow, which made Li Yu feel a little embarrassed, as if he owed the other party a big favor.
After the speech, the tea party officially started. This is Li Yu’s first time drinking from Japan.
"Tea Ceremony". In fact, it is a pity to say that when it comes to matcha tea ceremony, it seems that the whole world thinks of Japanese tea ceremony, but in fact, Japanese tea ceremony was completely learned from the Song Dynasty.
Matcha has always been drunk in ancient China, by mashing the tea leaves and pressing them into tea cakes. Then when drinking tea, break the tea cake into a tea bowl, beat it continuously with a tea brush until it becomes a bowl of green soup, and drink it together.
Of course, this is just a simple talk. In fact, the tea ceremony is very complicated. There are now more than fifty procedures in the Japanese tea ceremony, which were simplified based on the Song Dynasty.
Japan has been very fond of tea ceremony since their Warring States Period. People such as Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were obsessed with collecting tea sets and even regarded them as treasures.
tea set with
"Tangwu" is the best, that is, imported goods from China. After all, Japan at that time even made all kinds of strange pottery, and exquisite porcelain was naturally extremely valuable in their eyes.
Nowadays, people may have heard that the ancients had four elegant things: tasting tea, listening to the piano, burning incense, and hanging pictures. Tasting tea ranks among them.
It's just that these things are the favorites of literati and doctors. They cost money and time, and are not affordable for ordinary people.
When Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty conquered the world, Zhu Yuanzhang came from a poor background and hated the aristocratic culture. He ordered that tea cakes should not be tributed and that tea cakes should be replaced with loose tea.
Since then, China has slowly transformed from matcha culture to the current loose tea culture. Natsume Soseki saw that Li Yu didn't seem to know how to drink matcha, so he deliberately sat next to him.
Li Yu followed his example and did not make a fool of himself. Natsume Soseki's family used to be very powerful in the Edo area, but it declined when he was young.
But a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and he still knew all kinds of upper-class life since he was a child. It feels like Natsume Soseki's experience is a bit like that of Cao Xueqin, both of them are declining nobles.
Natsume Soseki said: "I have loved Chinese culture since I was a child. I started studying ancient Chinese books at the age of fourteen. When I was young, I determined to be born in Chinese." There are definitely not a few Japanese who have his thoughts, and Li Yu certainly knows it.
Natsume Soseki always has a relatively upright mentality, and there are still many people who regard Japan as their mission to replace Chinese Han culture. That is terrible.
Li Yu said: "I'm afraid that your master's level of Chinese poetry is better than mine." Natsume Soseki said with a smile: "I don't dare to imitate others. After all, I am just a Japanese. Even if your master does not specialize in studying Chinese poetry, he will not be better than me." Next. I first used 'Soseki' as my pen name when I was twenty-two, and it was taken from the Chinese book "Book of Jin."" Li Yu really didn't know this, but Natsume Soseki did have a deep understanding of Eastern culture.
The entire Eastern culture has been influenced by China to a certain extent and has many similarities. Perhaps the most typical difference between Eastern and Western cultures is unrestrained and reserved.
Among the several literary jokes that people like to play nowadays, one is from Natsume Soseki. It is said that when Natsume Soseki was teaching English to his students, he once gave the students an English article and asked him to describe a sentence that the hero couldn't help but say when the hero and heroine in the article were walking under the moon.
"iloveyou" translated into Japanese. Some students translated it as more straightforward
"I love you". Unexpectedly, Natsume Soseki shook his head and said: "Japanese people will not say 'I love you' on their lips. Such a literal translation has no charm." So the student asked: "How should it be translated?" Natsume Soseki pondered for a moment and said: "Japanese People would say, 'Tonight the moon is bright and beautiful.'" This is a typical subtlety, but it is indeed a bit too subtle.
Anyway, when Li Yu heard this story, he felt that if he really pursued girls like this, he would definitely be dumped countless times.
Still the same sentence
"Stand here and don't move, I'll buy you some oranges" is more like a literary gag. The expression is also very implicit, but the meaning~~ Ha, everyone should have the impression that this sentence comes from Zhu Ziqing's prose "Back" in the Chinese textbook. As for what it means, it is: I am your father!
Natsume Soseki was also very interested in Li Yu's situation. After all, Natsume was not that kind of person.
"Wen Aotian" himself also knows the importance of science.
"I admire you so much that you can become an outstanding scientist in such, well, such a miserable environment in the Qing Dynasty. I just returned from studying in the UK a year ago. The two years in the UK made me deeply aware of how powerful British and Western science is. , it is so difficult to catch up. But I actually found out from the newspaper that Mr. has been highly recognized by the Royal Society, which is incredible! You may not know that this is something that our principal and the entire School of Science cannot do." Now. The Faculty of Science of Tokyo Imperial University is indeed nothing in the world, but Li Yu can tell from the fact that their principal has a doctorate in physics that Japan attaches great importance to the Faculty of Science.
I have to say that there are many places in Little Japan that are really worth learning. Whatever they set their sights on, they really risk their lives to do it, and they must achieve their goals no matter what means they use.
Li Yu said: "Nowadays, science in Western Europe is still booming. It won't be long before there will be even more explosive development. The achievements in a few years will even exceed the sum of the previous hundred years." Hantaro Nagaoka on the side was surprised. : "Why do you say this, sir? According to my understanding of physics, the development of science should be gentle." Li Yu said: "Of course development is gentle, but no matter how gentle the process is, there will inevitably be fluctuations, just like... ..." Li Yuben wanted to say something like
"Quantum fluctuation", but they definitely couldn't understand it, so they changed their words,
"Just like the sea, even if there are no waves on the surface, there are undercurrents surging under the surface. It is very likely that tsunami-like waves will gather in the near future." The Japanese are so familiar with tsunamis. Nagaoka Hantaro was surprised: "That's it. , the gap between the Empire of Japan and Western Europe is still infinite. We can’t even catch up with their current achievements. If Western Europe experiences progress like another volcanic eruption, what else can we do to catch up?” Li Yu said: “I don’t think so. This is a bad thing. Science always progresses through accumulation, and it is time to erupt." Even with the two dark clouds in physics, the theoretical foundation has almost been laid. Even Maxwell had already touched the threshold of the theory of relativity, but he just lacked A step forward; Planck also discovered the founding formula of quantum mechanics three years ago, but he did not pay attention to it.
Anyway, it’s the so-called storm that is about to come. During the conversation, Kenjiro Yamakawa, the president of the University of Tokyo, handed a telegram to Li Yu: "This is from your country's embassy in me." Li Yu asked doubtfully: "You're looking for me?" Kenjiro Yamakawa nodded: "Yes. , it seems that there was no response from the telegram sent to Beijing by the University of Gogentin in Germany, and they are looking for Mr. Hilbert everywhere. The signature is the famous Professor Hilbert." No wonder Kenjiro Yamakawa would find Li Yu personally with the letter, Hilbert Ah, of course they know what level they are.
And Hilbert was looking for Li Yu by name, which of course made him feel curious and surprised. Li Yu read it.
Everyone around turned their heads when they heard Hilbert's name. Kenjiro Yamakawa asked: "Why did Professor Hilbert come to see you?" Li Yu said casually: "He wanted me to write a paper for him. ." A few of them were undecided: "Professor Hilbert! Requesting a manuscript from you?!" Li Yu encountered this kind of thing not once or twice. Seeing their surprise, he said: "Yes Ah, it’s no big deal.”
"No big deal?!" Kenjiro Yamakawa was shocked.
"How did you talk about such an important thing so lightly!" Li Yu was a little overwhelmed, so he had to say in a surprised tone: "It's really incredible!" Natsume Soseki almost fainted: "Can you pretend to be a little bit more like this!"
