When Konoe Akiyuki returned, he deliberately bought some steamed buns instead of rice balls. It happened that Li Yu was sending Iwasaki Koyata and others back, so he accidentally or intentionally revealed what he had bought.
Of course Li Yu noticed these little moves. However, he still became suspicious and decided to observe it for now.
The ship was finally setting sail for San Francisco. After they left, Takahashi Yoshio recorded the interview with Li Yu and published it in "Jiji Shimbun".
Today, the newspaper founded by Fukuzawa Yukichi is still selling well. The repercussions caused are naturally not small.
The theory of evolution is already subversive enough, but Li Yu directly said that humans and gorillas are 98% similar, which is even more shocking.
Most people, not just Takahashi Yoshio, can accept it. In the understanding of many people, it is simply not the theory of evolution. Could it be that evolution has only evolved by 2% over so many years?
Many people then raised this to an ethical perspective: People feel that the gap between human beings alone is large enough, and they are even divided into three, six or nine levels, and what are orangutans and monkeys?
Or can orangutans and monkeys continue to evolve into humans? If Li Yu sees these comments, he will definitely want to write another script for "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".
But he will probably be scolded to death... There must be conservatives in Japan. The number of people who believe in the theory of relativity is limited to begin with, and now many people have directly begun to write articles to refute it.
It's just that biology has not yet entered the microscopic realm, and Li Yu really doesn't have a good way to fight back.
Fortunately, the article was only published in Japan and did not cause too much noise. However, some supporters of Li Yu obviously still believe in Li Yu's judgment as a top scientific expert. For example, Natsume Soseki wrote excitedly: "It's amazing! The gap between humans and animals is so small, it can be called evolution." A slight difference can make a huge difference. And in our society, many times it is a subtle gap that can lead to a very different situation! I think everyone should think more deeply about the philosophical meaning behind it." Well, Natsume Soseki directly rose to From a philosophical perspective.
But Li Yu himself knew that the real development of biology would take half a century, and this thing was really too cutting-edge.
After all, life is the most delicate structure in the universe, and its many hidden secrets are far from being discovered.
Lu Xun also supported Li Yu and pointed to the newspaper and said to Jiang Baili: "It turns out that the gap is so small. I would say that some high-ranking officials are so stupid that they are worse than a monkey." Jiang Baili said: "Don't talk nonsense about this when you return home." Lu Xun Said: "There is no need for literary inquisition now." Jiang Baili said: "I'm afraid someone will miss me." Of course, Brother Xun really has to wait until the Qing Dynasty is gone before he can unleash his critical talent.
These things in Western science that were equally subversive to him also influenced his creation to a certain extent.
But when gene sequencing emerged decades later, everyone discovered that Li Yu, a top scientist, had made the assertion long ago.
People even more praised his forward-looking vision and profound scientific outlook. He lives up to his reputation as one of the top scientists of the first half of the twentieth century.
——The voyage for more than ten days was somewhat boring, and Li Yu was planning to get a few more patents. If you want to become an automotive supply chain and intellectual property giant like Bosch, you must have enough powerful patents.
Li Yu quickly drew a design sketch of the car's rearview mirror and seat belt on the car. Yes, cars at this time did not have this extremely critical part.
The reason? Of course there is no carriage. At the beginning of the birth of the automobile, many concepts were inevitably inseparable from people's long-lasting impressions of horse-drawn carriages.
But in later generations, anyone knows that the most important thing about transportation is safety. ——Lu Bicheng After taking a long train ride last time, this time I took a very long ship ride. I really experienced the most advanced travel method today.
"It turns out that this is the life that leads to the world." Lu Bicheng was very excited. Li Yu said with a smile: "Trains and ships, now only one of them is empty, land, sea and air."
"Is the air travel you mentioned really possible?" Lu Bicheng still felt a little unbelievable.
"Why, did I miss anything I said?" Li Yu said.
"No, not really, but I really don't know how it can be realized." Lu Bicheng said.
"The actual operation is indeed not that simple, but the principle behind it is not that complicated. It is actually Bernoulli's principle, which uses the pressure difference of the air." Li Yu said.
"Pressure difference?" A few students came over. Li Yu used to lecture them about science at home, and everyone liked it very much.
"Yes, with the pressure difference, it can float." Li Yu said. Konoe Akiyuki said: "Floating? Wouldn't that be the same as a ship?"
"If you insist on saying it, you can understand it this way," Li Yu said,
"However, the specific experimental process is very difficult. After all, humans have known about Bernoulli's principle nearly 200 years ago, and until now, they have not been able to realize the dream of God." Li Yu could not tell them too in-depth, because fluid mechanics is more difficult than classical He is famous in all major fields of mechanics.
Many differential equations that could not be solved until Li Yu crossed over came from fluid mechanics, such as the Navier-Stokes equation that challenges the limits of human beings.
Many people may not have heard of this thing, but Wei Dongyi and Wei Shen should know it. He studies this equation.
There is no need to try to understand what it is specifically, it is enough to know that it is a branch of fluid mechanics, and it is extremely difficult and cannot be touched by ordinary people.
The rest is the realm of God. As for why airplanes can actually fly, a completely accurate answer cannot yet be given.
However, the existing theoretical knowledge, wind tunnel models, and huge test data are enough to support its safe and stable flight.
Konoe Akiyuki pondered for a while and asked: "So, if you can easily go up to the sky, wouldn't the various commanding heights lose their meaning? What I mean is that in some books about history, it is often mentioned that commanding heights can overlook the battle situation." Hu Jiayan immediately Agreeing: "Zhaoxue is right, I have seen such examples many times in books."
"You have forgotten another sentence, the Tao is as high as the devil," Li Yu said,
"By then, humans will have cannons that can be fired into the sky." Konoe Akiyuki clenched her fingers: "Will this also come true?"
"Believe me, it will happen." Li Yu said. Lu Bicheng said: "What's the point of this? Won't everyone continue to fight?" She is truly a cosmopolitan and anti-war member.
Konoe Akiyuki had read Li Yu's game theory. Although he didn't fully understand it, he had some idea of the meaning at this time: "Is it a long-term game?" Li Yu said meaningfully: "Yes, wherever there are people, there will be Jianghu."
"Jianghu?" Konoe Akiyuki didn't understand this word. Li Yu thought about how there is no martial arts nowadays, and indeed no one can understand what he said.
"Jianghu" reconciliation. I can only say: "Big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimps. The sea has evolved for hundreds of millions of years, and it has not changed."
"Hundreds of millions of years? Isn't it a Buddhist concept?" Lu Bicheng asked.
"Literally hundreds of millions of years, life on earth has existed for a very long time, and there were once extremely terrifying creatures." Li Yu said.
Hu Jiayan felt that he was getting more and more mysterious as he talked, so he asked: "A scary creature?"
"Tens of millions of years ago, there was a terrible reptile on the earth. It was huge and ferocious. Westerners called it a dinosaur." Li Yu said.
Konoe Akiyuki was surprised: "Are you telling a science fiction story or a horror story?"
"Of course not," Li Yu said,
"If you have the chance in the future, you can go to Europe and see their terrifying fossils." Fortunately, some people discovered dinosaur fossils 80 years ago, but research on them is still ongoing. The key is that there is no such thing as carbon 14. A technology for determining age exists.
Konoe Akiyuki returned to the room and wrote down everything Li Yu said in his notebook. At the end, he couldn't help but sigh: "What kind of head does he have? I really want to get in and see, why is everything so weird?" You know it, but you said it so confidently!" After arriving in the United States, several people took a train across the continental United States and arrived in Detroit first.
David Buick and Zou Zhou received the news early and kept the factory clean and tidy. Although it hasn't been long, the production process is obviously on track.
David Buick's talents were brought into play here. He was a technical geek and obsessed with the research and development of automotive technology, especially the engine field.
What Li Yu wanted to pursue happened to be in the high-tech direction, where David Buick could fully unleash his talents. Zou Zhou and David Buick took Li Yu and others to visit the factory and told him about the recent progress: "Boss, although it is slower than expected, the production of the electronic ignition system is now very smooth and can be successfully delivered. Mr. Leland’s Cadillac Company completed the supply.”
"Very good! We must ensure the quality of the product, and there must be no problem with the yield rate. If there is a quality problem with the product, we must unconditionally repair or even replace the product." Li Yu said.
David Buick said: "In fact, most people who buy cars will perform simple maintenance on the car to a certain extent. As long as the function is satisfactory, I think even if it breaks down occasionally, there will be no problems." Li Yu shook his head. : "Quality and reliability must be guaranteed, and we must build a reputation at the same time." As a time traveler, he understands why Toyota can become the world's number one in sales in later generations.
Anyone who knows cars should know that Toyota's biggest trump card is reliability. There are even a lot of jokes online.
However, reliability can be achieved through technological innovation and strict management, and the gap between Toyota and other car companies is actually shrinking.
Before Li Yu's time travel, reliability had basically become the consensus of the entire industry. Especially in the field of family cars.
Because family cars and performance cars target different consumer groups, their original design intentions are also very different.
Buyers of performance or luxury cars are wealthy people who don't care about fuel economy or reliability.
But what buyers of family cars consider is fuel economy while also driving reliably for many years. This is why a car priced at around RMB 100,000 may have fewer problems than a luxury car priced at RMB 100,000 or more after being over ten years old.
It's not that the luxury cars are different, it's just that the initial design and production concepts are different. After all, performance improvement often requires sacrificing a certain degree of reliability.
But later on, I don’t know why the country was crazy about the reliability of luxury cars. Needless to say, everyone knew that it was a thunder car.
It’s not that mine cars are bad, but many people really have problems with the direction they blow. Moreover, domestic thunder trucks and American thunder trucks are not the same thing.
Most of the electric cars sold in China are small-displacement self-priming models with weak horsepower, while in the United States they are large-displacement cars. The actual driving experience is not the same car at all.
Although I don’t like Japanese cars very much, I have to say that Japanese cars have promoted the progress of the entire automobile industry in some aspects.
So in the final analysis, many of the advantages of the Japanese system’s rise must be learned. What's more, quality is a key point.
David Buick said: "From a production point of view, if we pursue the yield rate too much, it will lead to a serious decline in profit margins." Li Yu said: "When the products are really rolled out, these are minor problems, and our profit margins are already It’s not small either. Moreover, there will be more novel products that others don’t have on the production line in the future, and our structure will definitely become bigger and bigger by then.”
"Any new products?" David Buick asked. Li Yu took out his design drawing: "These two things will definitely be standard in the future." David Buick understood what Li Yu drew after looking at it for a while: "I once saw it in the newspaper. A racing driver strapped himself into his seat and was the only one to survive a crash."
"This is where the design inspiration comes from," Li Yu said.
"We must prepare for a rainy day. These patents will definitely be vigorously promoted and even legislated in the future." David Buick gave a thumbs up: "Boss, you really have a unique vision. I doubt how you did it. Do you think there are many cars in China?" ?" Li Yu smiled and said: "There is not now, but it can be in my mind, and it will be indispensable in all countries in the future." David Buick said: "I am convinced of this." Li Yu said to Zou Zhou: " In addition, I want to ask some skilled workers to return to China."
"Return to China to build a factory?" Zou Zhou asked. Li Yu nodded: "That's right." Zou Zhou said: "Of course there are no problems with the automotive people on my side, we just have to continue to train new workers; but on Mr. Tesla's side, the staff may be a little nervous." Li Yu sighed: "What an old man!" Many Chinese workers still want to return to their roots. This is how Chinese people are. Many people cannot give up their traditions.
This is also the reason why some countries don't like Chinatown. Because many Chinese people consider themselves Chinese from beginning to end, even if they add their nationality.
Um, I didn’t say absolutely. But that was certainly the case for at least the first half of the twentieth century. Li Yu took them on a good tour of the factory.
At this time, the United States has become the world's industrial hegemon, and Detroit has not become a declining city like later generations. Now its terrible production capacity has greatly shocked everyone.
Even though Hu Jiayan came from the top official and business family in the country, he couldn't help but marvel at such terrifying production capacity: "So this is the strength of the great powers. If Britain and France were the same, how could they defeat them?" At this moment, he suddenly understood why the previous The war could not be won no matter what. The dignified monk king led the most heroic 30,000 elite Mongolian cavalry, but it was still like an egg hitting a stone when facing the 8,000 army of a modern country.
And later, the reason why Li Hongzhang still did not dare to go to war despite having a powerful navy. Konoe Akiyuki, who grew up among the generations of Japan's expansion, was also embarrassed when he saw the real industrial power. However, after hearing Hu Jiayan's words, he said: "Since ancient times, the weak have defeated the strong." Hu Jiayan choked. , thinking about it, it really ruined his prestige, and stuck out his tongue: "It's because I have limited knowledge." Li Yu didn't have to worry about the Chinese workers being unwilling to return to China, as everyone was really enthusiastic about it.
After they return, they can become a proper technical backbone, but it will be more difficult than Detroit.
After reading this, Li Yu of course wanted to urge Lao Te. News came back from the telegraph that he was already working on lighting up the New York night sky again through artificial lightning.
Li Yu knew that he couldn't stop him, so he could only go and watch this outstanding performance, just like the most gorgeous fireworks show.
