When Li Yu was studying how to get in touch with the British Concession in Tianjin, Tang Shaoyi took the initiative to contact Li Yu.
In fact, Li Yu still has to teach Guangxu a class now. Although due to the restrictions of Cixi, there are fewer classes now, but he still has to teach two to three classes a week.
Li Yu therefore met Tang Shaoyi in Xiyuan. Tang Shaoyi, of course, came to Beijing to report on his work again. He saw Li Yu and Eunuch Cui coming out of Yingtai together, and stepped forward to greet him: "Mr. Li, you are well." Li Yu shook hands with him and said: "Tang Daotai, we meet again."
"Did your trip to Japan go well? I didn't expect you to come back so soon." Tang Shaoyi said. Li Yu knew that he was concerned about Prince Gong's affairs, so he said directly: "Now the Japanese side is likely to send a female spy to Prince Gong's mansion to help open a girls' school, and by the way, use this as an opportunity to provide intelligence to the Japanese side." Tang Shaoyi raised an eyebrow. Yi Ning: "Female spy? Could it be a honey trap?" Li Yu said: "There is no way to know how to operate it. It is not easy to monitor a woman in the palace." Tang Shaoyi touched his chin: "I never expected that Japan will send a woman." Li Yu said: "Daotai must not underestimate this Japanese woman. Her name is Kawara Soko. She was born in a traditional Japanese feudal family. She is full of loyalty to the emperor. Today's Japan has many people who are dedicated to the emperor. Women are willing to sacrifice their own career, and the same is true for women, and it is even harder to guard against it.”
"I understand," Tang Shaoyi took a deep breath,
"I have been in North Korea for so long, and I still have some understanding of the Japanese character. In this case, how should we break the situation?" Li Yu first asked: "Is there any channel in Daotai that can also enter Prince Gong's Mansion?" Tang Shaoyi shook his head: "It's difficult to do. You know, the court will not easily allow us to get too close to the Mongolian prince."
"I guess so," Li Yu said,
"That's the case, just wait and wait." Tang Shaoyi was surprised: "Waiting and waiting? Isn't it too passive?" Li Yu said: "We only need to grasp the core of the problem. If Kawara Soko wants to pass on information, there will definitely be a contact person. And once it is critical information, it must be very urgent, and the palace will definitely not be able to set up a telegraph line, and she will definitely use one of my things."
"Your stuff?" Tang Shaoyi wondered,
"what?"
"Wireless telegraphy!" Li Yu said,
"When the time comes, I will give her a tampered wireless telegraph machine, and monitoring will be easy."
"Wireless? Telegraph?" Tang Shaoyi has not heard of wireless yet.
"What is this?" Li Yu said: "It is a machine that can send telegrams anytime and anywhere without a telegraph wire. It is the most advanced communication method now."
"Is there such a thing? Do foreigners already have it?" Tang Shaoyi asked. Li Yu nodded: "It wasn't long ago." Tang Shaoyi sighed: "Foreigners are really getting better and better at technology. Since I mentioned this, do you also know about radio?" Li Yu said: "Of course, otherwise how would you do it? He is a Japanese spy who is living a good life."
"It's great to have you!" Tang Shaoyi said,
"I don't understand these things at all." Li Yu added: "But if I want to fully master it, I have to find an opportunity to go to the United States." Tang Shaoyi said: "The United States? It's easy to say, no one else understands it anyway. I can rely on you. If Mr. Xiao needs to go to the United States, please feel free to contact me if you need help." Li Yu cupped his fists and said, "Thank you, Daotai." Li Yu is also a man of science and engineering. At present, the most suitable one for engineering is to first Let's start with communications. This thing has high technical content but is not heavy industry. It does not require too much capital investment at present. It is cutting-edge technology and has a bright future for future development.
Anyway, the era Li Yu lived in was really fed up with being choked by others. And communication is a key part of the bottleneck.
Of course, communication is actually very difficult, but it is only the initial stage of radio, and Li Yu can still handle it.
Tang Shaoyi added: "One more thing. The Minister of Railways, Sheng Xuanhuai, recently returned to Tianjin and hopes that you will go to Beiyang University Hall to participate in the resumption ceremony of the university hall. Educational celebrities from all walks of life in Tianjin will be present." Li Yu said: "Respectfully It's better to obey." From this point of view, there is no need to contact the British Concession, Li Yu himself has to go directly to Tianjin.
Tang Shaoyi said: "I will tell you the time when the time comes. Shanda people have also admired you for a long time." While the two were talking, a sharp voice came: "Fortunately, I didn't leave." Tang Shaoyi heard the voice and turned around to pay respect. He said: "Eunuch Li." It was Li Lianying who came.
Li Lianying said: "It's him I'm looking for." Li Yu saw his finger pointing at her and asked in surprise: "Me?" Li Lianying nodded: "Lafayette's gramophone has been squeaking for the past two days. It seems to be broken. I was worried about finding someone to repair it, but I just remembered that you happened to be in Xiyuan, so I asked you to come and take a look."
"phonograph?"
"Yeah, I don't know what happened, but suddenly it stopped working. Our family doesn't understand it, so we can't explain it."
"Okay," Li Yu said,
"Let's go take a look." Li Yu didn't like to contact Cixi, but since he came to visit, he couldn't refuse directly.
Cixi was playing cards with a few people at this time, still card-based mahjong. Playing cards with them were Queen Longyu, Princess Rongshou, the daughter of Prince Gong Yi, who was called the eldest princess in the palace, and a palace maid whom Li Yu didn't know. .
Li Lianying was good at observing words and emotions. After entering the room, she was not in a hurry to disturb the Queen Mother. Instead, she walked over quietly to see how the Queen Mother was holding her cards.
Cixi is really busy now, and she and the maid opposite have already heard the cards. Of course Princess Rongshou knew how to play cards with Cixi. She played a six of a kind. In fact, the palace maid was waiting for this card to tie, but looking at Li Lianying's eyes, she did not dare to tie the card.
In the second round, Princess Rongshou played a nine-cake card, and Cixi said happily: "I knew you were going to play this one, so I tied again!" Li Lianying praised: "Lafayette's good fortune is also accompanied by the prosperity of our Qing Dynasty. "Li Yu felt his teeth tingle as he listened. Could they really see the situation clearly?
——Maybe I really just can’t see clearly. Cixi happily accepted the money, and then saw Li Yu at the door: "You are here, Li Yu, right? Go and take a look at the Ai family's phonograph. This foreign thing suddenly doesn't work." Li Yu walked over. I went to the gramophone and looked at it and found that the needle was broken. Most likely it was because it was not used during the Chinese New Year and the record fell into dust.
Recently, the stylus was damaged when I forced it to turn on. When Li Yu was about to tell Ci Xi the situation, Concubine Jin came in.
The palace maid hurriedly stood up from the card table to salute, but was pulled back by Cixi: "No need to get up, you don't have to salute when they come from now on." Li Lianying on the side said: "Why don't you thank Lafayette now?" The palace maid quickly said: "Thank you, Lafayette." Lord Buddha." Li Lianying said with a smile on her face: "My girl is very sensible." It turned out to be Li Lianying's sister, this woman's name was Li Lianwu.
Li Lianying had always boasted to the Queen Mother that her sister was beautiful and polite. Cixi really regarded Li Lianying as one of her own. She always liked to use her own people, so she recruited Li Lianwu into the palace.
Li Lianying had long passed on her skills of flattery to her sister, making Cixi happy. Now her status is not that of an ordinary palace maid.
Concubine Jin had been in the palace for so long, so she could see why, and said to Li Lianwu, "Miss, you don't need to see anyone else when I come here from now on."
The title of "big girl" was naturally awarded to her by Cixi. Cixi also said: "That's right! You have small feet, how can you stand for a long time." Li Lianwu said respectfully: "Lafayette has a kind heart and is considerate of his slaves." Li Lianying was quite satisfied with Li Lianwu's performance.
After all, he had other little plans in mind. Seeing that they had said enough, Li Yu stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, I have checked the gramophone, but the record and needle are damaged. Just ask Shengli Records to replace the cartridge with a new one. As for the record, you can also ask them to replace it." Replace it with a new one." Cixi wondered: "How can it be broken even if it is left idle?" Li Yu explained: "The air in the capital is very dusty in winter and dust easily falls. Perhaps it is because fine dust fell on the track of the record. The stylus was broken." Cixi frowned and asked, "Who is in charge of cleaning the palace on weekdays?" Li Lianying quickly said, "It's the fifth son." Cixi said displeased: "Even the hygiene in the palace is not good. If there is no food in the palace, If it is mixed with dust and debris, wouldn't the Aijia also eat it in their mouths?" Cixi's words were already serious, and Li Lianying immediately shouted: "Little Fifth Son, come here!" The little eunuch was already frightened out of his mind: "Old Buddha , I really don’t dare to touch foreign things. I have always done a good job of cleaning, at least three times every day." For such a small character, Cixi does not need to speak. Li Lianying said: "Bring it to the honorary room and beat it first... He glanced at Cixi from the corner of his eye and saw that she had a sullen look on her face, so he said: "If you hit 100 big boards, hit the heavy ones." This is a dead end. If you hit a big board in the palace, you may still be alive and kicking if you hit 100 big boards. You may not be able to get out of bed for half a year.
It all depends on the executioner's technique. The executioners have all been trained. It is said that they will use tofu in daily practice. Take a piece of tofu and hit it only to make a sound, but not to break the tofu. After the beating, the surface of the tofu is intact, but the inside is broken into slag.
Therefore, after being tortured, some people may look bloody on the outside, but their bones and muscles are not injured at all; some people may only have redness and swelling on the surface, but their bones and flesh are actually injured.
It's really three hundred and sixty lines, and he will be the number one scholar in every line. If you hit a board and you can get flowers, you can only do it in the palace.
Li Lianying left no room for the order he just gave. If these 100 boards are actually sold, he will probably be able to go to Xitian.
The little eunuch begged desperately: "Grandpa Li, I know I was wrong!" Li Lianying was unmoved, so the little eunuch begged Xiao De Zhang again: "Dad Zhang, I was wrong. Please save me. I was the one you brought into the palace." !" Xiao Dezhang was so angry that his face turned red: "Stop talking nonsense, you can't do anything well, what's the use of keeping you?" This little eunuch turned out to be the little eunuch that Xiao Dezhang took to Xiaodao Liu to cleanse himself.
Hey, it's really not easy to get along in the palace. You already have someone to back you up, so you still can't escape bad luck after all.
