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Chapter 20 19. Fear of thorns when walking on secluded paths

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    This is how the year goes, just eating and drinking.

    After the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, the year was officially over. Capital University, Chongshi Middle School, and the elementary school in the courtyard all started school one after another. Sun Yuanqi began his life of running back and forth between the three schools.

    When the guests of the Commercial Press said goodbye, they "suggested" Sun Yuanqi to speed up the writing of textbooks, because there is still no complete set of modern textbooks. Sun Yuanqi's set was a pioneer, and various primary and secondary schools responded strongly.  At this time, there is a certain urgency in the need for subsequent teaching materials. After all, students are growing year by year, and time waits for no one!

    Sun Yuanqi also feels that since he has the ability to expose current students to newer and better teaching materials, why not work harder to influence and change more people's lives?  After all, this kind of influence and change is of positive significance.  Today, there is no response to the paper sent to "Science", and it will take some time for the academic community to understand and digest the paper.  Using this time, plus the new apprentice students in the third grade of Chongshi Middle School, the speed of compiling textbooks should be able to meet the expectations of the Commercial Press, right?

    Since the New Year, Sun Yuanqi has been in a state of uneasiness.  Because after the Spring Festival, it was the Year of Gengzi, and the famous Boxer Rebellion broke out in this year, which eventually led to the "Gengzi Revolution".

    Originally, Sun Yuanqi didn¡¯t care much about politics. He was just an ordinary person, and things at that level were too far away from his life.  But the Boxer Rebellion was a national movement, especially in North China. It affected most people from the emperor and the queen mother to ordinary people. Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people died in this movement.  From a long-term perspective, it has affected the development process of China's modern history.  As a member of the common people, Sun Yuanqi thought that it was difficult to get a chance to protect himself wisely in this movement.

    As a science student, Sun Yuanqi's understanding of the Boxer Rebellion was limited to fragments described in middle school history textbooks in his previous life, occasionally mixed with descriptions from film and television works such as "The Whip", and he felt that it was a massive "anti-imperialist war"  ".  In my impression, there was a boxer pennant in the middle school history textbook in my previous life, with four big characters written on it - "Support the Qing Dynasty and destroy the foreign countries".

    In the past, perhaps he, like others, would have sympathized with the Boxers, hated foreigners and foreign missionaries, and believed that they were accomplices of imperialist aggression against China.  But since coming to the Qing Dynasty, I have received help from Mr. Conger and his family, Mr. Ting Liang, Rutherford and others. I feel that there is no difference between foreigners and Chinese. They both have bad guys and good guys.  "Destroying the foreigners" means killing all the foreigners, so Mr. Kanger's family and Mr. Ding Haoliang are all targets of elimination.  Is this right?

    And, what about yourself?  The Chinese people know best the principle of "reconciling foreigners before settling domestic affairs", and they hate "traitors" and "Japs" even more than they hate foreigners!  In the eyes of others, there is no doubt that I belong to the "second devil"!  Therefore, my current situation is like a frog in warm water, approaching death step by step inadvertently.

    The fear of death and the desire for life forced Sun Yuanqi to care about the current situation.  After the Spring Festival, he would ask Lao Tong to go out every day to inquire about information.  After all, Lao Tong is a native of Beijing and a disciple of the Eight Banners. He is definitely a "local snake" in the five cities and nine gates of the capital. He goes out for a walk, meets a few acquaintances, drinks tea, and chats about the big winds and small things in Beijing.  The door is cleared.

    At first, Lao Tong was still very curious about this "business" and didn't know what Mr. Sun had planned.  I saw him give himself a little change every day, let himself go out to find out the information, and then come back and tell him.  Then he started to make random guesses: Mr. Sun wanted to listen to it to relieve his boredom?  Still want to know something?  Is it because you are afraid that you will be bored and give yourself a way to entertain yourself?

    However, Sun Yuanqi did not tell Lao Tong that he would provide him with food, drink, shelter and expenses, and he would also teach his grandson for free.  Sun Yuanqi ordered him to inquire about the news, but he went out without asking.  In this way, Sun Yuanqi could hear the late Qing Dynasty version of the news network every day: from the Queen Mother's decree to military aircraft disputes; from floods and droughts to firewood, rice, oil and salt; from famous Peking opera actors to top brothels

    After half a month, Sun Yuanqi didn't get any useful news.  Sun Yuanqi had no choice but to give Lao Tong the general direction of inquiry: It would be best to find out what major activities the Beijingers had recently, for example, whether anyone had organized gatherings, organized boxing exercises, etc.

    Sure enough, at the end of the second lunar month (the end of March in the Western calendar), Lao Tong came back and told Sun Yuanqi a piece of inconspicuous news: a Boxer altar appeared in the Yuqian Temple in Xicaihu Hutong, Dongdan Archway.

    After hearing the news, Sun Yuanqi felt a thrill all over his body and felt the cold air rushing from the soles of his feet to the top of his head: It seems that history is still stubbornly moving forward according to the script!  At that moment, he quickly instructed Lao Tong:But the ground was full of dead people and there were no houses left." After occupying Beijing, the Eight-Power Allied Forces began more crazy massacres and plunders. They massacred the Boxer Rebellion members. In Prince Zhuang's Mansion alone, more than 1,700 Boxer Rebellion members were killed and burned.  . German Marshal Waldersee, who was the commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces at the time, also carried out plunder for three days, and then continued private robbery. At that time, everyone from ministers and generals to missionaries and soldiers participated in this atrocity. The Japanese army started from  The Ministry of Household Affairs robbed 3 million taels of silver and burned down the houses to destroy evidence of the crime. All government offices were robbed, with a loss of about 60 million taels. The imperial palace, the Summer Palace and other places filled with gold, silver and treasures from past dynasties were also looted, and a large number of  The precious cultural relics were looted and destroyed. Of course, Sun Yuanqi didn't know about these, or he didn't know them in detail. It's just that arson, robbery, rape, and murder were "compulsory courses" every time foreign invaders entered China. Therefore, Sun Yuanqi felt that there was  Need to be mentioned in advance.

    "In fact, the ministers of various countries stationed in Beijing will hold a meeting in two days to decide whether to jointly send troops to Beijing in the name of 'protecting the embassy.'" Mr. Conger stood up, walked back and forth a few steps, and then said slowly: "  If things come to that, I think I will bind American soldiers to abide by the basic laws. As for the armies of other countries, I can only make suggestions to their generals and ministers. I'm sorry, but I think that's all I can do.  In case, and I mean in case, things get out of control, your relatives and friends can take refuge at the U.S. Embassy."

    "Thank you." Sun Yuanqi knew that this was all he could do - even the emperor and queen mother of the Qing Dynasty could only get such a promise.  A weak country has no diplomacy!

    After chatting for a few more words, Sun Yuanqi saw that Mr. Kanger was too busy, so he didn¡¯t bother him much and stood up to leave.  After walking a few steps, he heard Mr. Conger calling him. He turned around and saw Mr. Conger rummaging through the drawer, finally pulling out an envelope and handing it over.

    ?? took the envelope and looked at it. It had the words "yale university" printed on it, and there were two lines of small print printed on it: "Mr. Conger, Embassy of the United States of America in China, c/o Mr. York Johnson."

    Mr. Conger explained: "Yale University sent us an official letter, hoping that we can contact you. Well, they are very interested in you."

    Sun Yuanqi knew that he was pretending to be a master of physics from Yale University, so he just thought it was a letter of questioning from them. He did not dare to say more, made a few perfunctory words, and left in a hurry.

    When I got home, I opened a letter from Yale University in my study. The letter was printed on a typewriter and was a very short official letter.  The content is as follows:

    Dear alumnus Mr. Yorkjohnson:

    Hello!

    It is believed that Mr. is a Master of Science from our school.  We would like to apologize for not being able to find your information due to an oversight in our school's management.  If possible, our school sincerely invites you to give lectures and complete your information.

    Sincerely my regards.

    Yale University

    1900.2.12

    I read this short official letter several times and found that Yale University did not seem to have any intention of blaming me.  I thought, it would be best if I have time to go to the United States and find out my origins.

    A day later, the May parcel arrived.  When he opened it, he saw a sample issue of "Science" that published his own paper. Because the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies and the Relationship between Mass and Energy" had eighty or ninety pages, Sun Yuanqi thought that the editor of "Science" would use it as a magazine.  An article in an issue.  As a result, he still underestimated the ability of the editors, because now he had another weekly issue in his hands.  There is a note added by the editor at the beginning. On the one hand, it affirms Sun Yuanqi's superb research on physics. On the other hand, it also expresses a cautious attitude towards the paper because they cannot verify whether the paper is correct. However, even so, no one can verify the paper.  Raise strong doubts and hope that readers can judge for themselves.  Following the paper is an article by a special commentator, which first questions the two basic postulates in the paper, "the principle of relativity" and the "principle of the constant speed of light", and concludes that the entire paper is nothing more than the Palace of Versailles on a pile of sand and is nonsense.  Talk; the conclusion that "ether does not exist" is considered absurd; and the "mass-energy equation e=mc2", "Although it looks very beautiful, facts will prove that this is wishful thinking."  In short, this paper is useless.

    In addition to the sample issue of "Science", there are also invitations from MIT and the American Chemical Society, as well as letters from some scholars. What is worth noting is the letter from Rutherford, which discussed several issues and once again invited Sun Yuanqi to visit Canada.  study.

    Sun Yuanqi had some interest in going to Europe and the United States to study and visit some rare academic leaders.  Now, the Boxer Rebellion is in full swing. Maybe that day, I will be burned into a pile of ashes, and there will be no room to reason.  In such a precarious situation, going abroad seems to be a good choice.  With Rutherford's invitation, Sun Yuanqi made an instant decision:

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