Lu Xun also sent a telegram to Li Yu from Tokyo. He and Jiang Baili had packed up all the experimental equipment and sent it out. However, because it was relatively expensive, it would take about a week to arrive.
Li Yu felt that it was time to rent a larger house in Beijing to conduct a laboratory. Uncle Wang went to the teahouse to find Cui Laosan, the agent.
Nowadays, Li Yu's status is no longer what it used to be. Guapimao Cui Laosan can be regarded as witnessing that Li Yu has gone from not having a single coin on his body to being able to rely on pawning a strange pen to reach his current situation.
When Cui Laosan saw Li Yu, Cui Laosan nodded and said, "Master Imperial Master, what do you want from me?" Li Yu smiled and said, "Of course I'm renting a house from you, what else can I do?" Cui Laosan said. : "We can also introduce people to work, and in addition to being a prostitute, we can also be a pimp..." Fengling from behind heard Cui Laosan's words and mocked: "What good place can you find? Don't mess with our master about this!" She was famous in Bada Hutong back then, and the people there were well-known.
Cui Lao San, a man with a melon skin hat, smiled and said: "That's right, that's right! Mr. Emperor, what kind of house do you want to rent?" Li Yu thought for a while and said, "As close as possible and with a larger area." Cui Lao San San patted his head and said: "It needs to be closer, and it needs to be bigger. This requirement... don't tell me, there is really a house very close and very big, but... hey, forget it!" Li Yu said: " Just tell me." Cui Laosan swallowed and said, "Master Imperial Master, you can't say you heard it from me. It's the house next to you. Master Baron has left. You can rent the house if you can. It sells better." Li Yu asked in surprise: "Left?" Cui Laosan said: "Master Balong was infected with the disease, which is said to be very serious. Some time ago, for some unknown reason, he beat a maid to death with a rake. When the government arrived, they saw that he was crazy and had tumors and sores on his face. It was so scary. The court was also afraid that he would disturb the people like this, so he was forcibly sent outside the customs." Li Yu knew that Balong was suffering from it before. Syphilis, the onset and evolution cycle of this disease is usually relatively long, but it may also be shorter. Baron seems to be an unlucky guy.
Syphilis goes through three stages from mild to severe. From Cui Laosan's story, Li Yu could roughly guess that Balon should have reached the most serious stage of tertiary syphilis.
The syphilis virus may cause extremely serious damage to any part of the human body at this time. Attacking the eyes and ears will cause blindness and deafness; attacking the heart will cause a terrible aortic aneurysm; attacking the brain or spinal cord will cause severe personality distortion, rage and violence, and even dementia and paralysis.
This Balon is almost the final situation. Although he is Ronglu's son, Ronglu is dead, and the status of the Rong family has dropped sharply; his sister Youlan is still the princess of Prince Chun's palace. It is too shameful to say this kind of thing, so we might as well throw him out.
Moreover, Emperor Tongzhi may have suffered from a similar disease at that time. Most of the records about this are obscure and false, and it is unclear whether it was really syphilis.
In short, the Qing court was worried about this, just like it was afraid of smallpox when it first entered the country. Fengling knew about this disease, and while she was trembling with fear, she secretly cheered.
Li Yu asked: "So the Rong Mansion next to it is empty now?" Cui Laosan said: "Isn't it! Everyone is very scared. This kind of flower and willow disease is said to be transmitted from foreigners. It is very evil. Otherwise, How could Mr. Baron go crazy and beat someone to death!" Syphilis was indeed becoming popular in Europe.
When Columbus first discovered the American continent, he probably took it back to Spain. Voltaire said it was collected by the Spaniards from the New World
"The first fruit". Of course, the Europeans brought the even more terrifying smallpox to the Indians. Unexpectedly, so many things happened in the capital during this period.
Li Yu asked: "What about this house?" Cui Laosan said: "If the emperor wants to buy it, the original price is 40,000 taels, but now it is only 20,000 taels." Li Yu took a breath, even if he cut it off, it was too expensive.
Cui Laosan looked at Li Yu's eyes and said: "This kind of deep house compound is rare. There should be about ten courtyards in it. If you count the small courtyards, there are about seventeen or eight courtyards. And there are more There is a small garden, which is definitely the best choice in this area." It is indeed very large, almost seven or eight times the size of Li Yu's current residence.
Li Yu covered his head. He didn't have the spare money to buy real estate now, so he asked: "Where can I rent?" Cui Laosan said: "If I rent, it will cost at least 80 taels a month." The rental-to-sale ratio at this time seems to be relatively high. It's reasonable, at least more normal than Li Yu's previous life, but the number is a bit too coincidental, 1:250.
But this number should be within a reasonable range before 200-300. Li Yu said: "I'll rent it for now." Cui Laosan said: "If you rent it, the longest is one year." Li Yu said: "Then let's rent it for one year first." It's not too late to buy it if you have money in the future.
Cui Laosan asked: "Master Emperor, are you really not afraid?" Li Yu asked: "What is there to be afraid of?" Cui Laosan said: "I heard that this Hualiu disease is very serious! Even foreigners are afraid of it. If they get it, they will Crazy and destructive, no one will have any descendants! No one dares to buy or rent." Li Yu said with a smile: "I study Western learning, so of course I only dare to rent if I am sure." Cui Laosan gave a thumbs up: "The Imperial Master is indeed the Imperial Master! Even this can be surrendered! I heard that the Rong family invited shamans to do it, but it was of no use." Li Yu asked again: "How long has Balong been away?" Cui Laosan said: "Almost more than a month." Li Yu asked Said: "I understand, you go and get the land deed signed and pledged." Cui Laosan said happily: "Come on! Mr. Emperor, you are really my living Bodhisattva, no matter how difficult it is to rent a house, you are still like this It's easy to deal with." It seems that everything happened to the house Li Yu rented. People died in the house he lived in and the house he rented to Xie Yuxi. People died in the Rong Mansion he rented at this time, and someone also contracted syphilis.
In fact, if it hadn't been for these things, it would have been difficult to rent such a good location. After all, there are not many houses in Beijing now.
Feng Ling asked tremblingly: "Sir, is it really okay?" Li Yu said steadily: "Don't worry, I have my own sense of proportion." In fact, the syphilis virus is very fragile and only uses the human body as its only host. Once it leaves the human body, it will die quickly. .
In addition to mother-to-child transmission, it can only be transmitted through body fluids. So the Rong Mansion next to it is actually very safe now.
Li Yu rented the house he currently lives in at a low price because everyone was afraid of the death in the house, out of feudal superstition; then Rong Mansion is really a blind spot in knowledge.
Of course, I don’t blame them, because the cause of syphilis is still unknown, so of course everyone is afraid.
The syphilis virus was only discovered in 1905. Before that, humans did not understand the cause of the disease.
——Fear often comes from the unknown. However, Fengling had lived in Bada Hutong, the Land of Fireworks, so she understood the horror of Hualiu Disease and was still concerned about it.
"Sir, I'm afraid..." There was no way. In order to dispel their doubts, Li Yu said: "You go buy some high-strength liquor and disinfect it, then there will be no problem." In fact, it was just a kind of psychological comfort.
But fortunately, Fengling and the others believed it was true. After all, in their eyes, Li Yu was an omniscient god.
After signing the contract and paying the money, Li Yu could use this large mansion. It must be said that as the former most important minister of the dynasty, Ronglu's residence was really large and luxurious.
Although there are many larger houses in the capital, such as some palaces, even the garden of Natong's house not far away in Jinyu Hutong is larger and more exquisite.
But this house is definitely in the upper echelon of big houses in the capital. Zhao Qian jumped up and down as soon as he entered the gate: "Oh my God, such a big house! I can't even think about it!" He ran around inside a few times and almost got lost. It took him a long time to get back to the main hall.
"If you live here, you might go the wrong way if you go to thatched cottage at night." Of course, such a large house will not be used entirely as a residence, at least half of it must be used as a small experimental base.
Simply doing theoretical research does not take up much space, but when it comes to experiments, at least two or three yards must be set aside.
Li Yu's ambition is still very big, and he will slowly use it all in the future. They got to know each other for a day or two and were almost settled.
Uncle Wang, Zhao Qian and Fengling were also extremely happy to have a better place to live. However, Uncle Wang still had a headache: "It will be difficult to clean such a big house in the future." A few days later, the express delivery from Tokyo finally arrived, along with the radio device Zou Zhou sent from the United States.
Li Yu hired many short-term workers to transport all these facilities back. Fortunately, I have a new house, otherwise I would really not be able to let go.
The experimental equipment was specially placed in a larger courtyard. The fifteen sets of radio equipment sent by the United States were not small and were placed in another courtyard.
The telegram Zou Zhou sent before said that Tesla had made some improvements, and Li Yu immediately took it out to study it.
Zou Zhou was very careful and made a detailed list. Li Yu took out one of the sets and quickly saw the clue: Tesla had designed a superheterodyne circuit for radio devices.
Simply put, this circuit can effectively prevent two signals with similar frequencies from interfering with each other in the receiver, and can ensure that signals of different frequencies are distinguished, so that the receiver can receive signals of different frequencies respectively.
The actual history would not appear until ten years later, and the designer was Armstrong, another American radio engineer.
But as Li Yu introduced the electronic triode in advance, this design was easily realized. Tesla is indeed a genius in the field of engineering, and his ability to draw parallels from analogies is very strong.
The devices in front of us are not simple radios. They all have the ability to send and receive information, and can even be used as radio stations.
