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    let's go.  " Ren Lingyu stretched out his hand to dust off the corners of his clothes and said to Xuanhua and Huang Bo. Without waiting for the two to respond, he had already stepped forward to meet Sir Thomson and the others. Xuanhua and Huang Bo were both startled and hurriedly followed.  Go up.

    The three of them had just walked a short distance when they bumped into Sir Thomson and others. When the two groups passed by, Sir Thomson, who was thinking about something, suddenly raised his head and glanced at Ren Lingyu and others.  A thoughtful expression immediately appeared on his slender face, while the people around him showed expressions of surprise and disdain at the same time.

    Ren Lingyu's thin lips quietly raised a sneer - it seems that for these physicists who are at the forefront of natural philosophy at this time, seeing a few black-haired and black-eyed barbarians in front of Newton's tomb is not a good idea.  A pleasant thing.

    "Keep walking." He whispered to Xuan Hua and Huang Bo behind him, and then the two of them followed him and accelerated their pace. After a while, several people had left the Scientists' Corner and returned to Westminster Abbey.  The main hall.  Just at this moment, there was a rush of footsteps from behind the three of them.

    "Three gentlemen, please wait a moment." The voice came over before anyone arrived, and the corners of Ren Lingyu's lips slightly raised - finally here

    He immediately stopped and turned around slowly, and the black-haired young man who was greeting the three people behind them just arrived in front of him.

    "Excuse me" The man looked at the three young men in front of him who were also young. He hesitated for a long time and said: "Among the three gentlemen, does anyone know Michael?"

    "

    Hello, my name is Michael Ren.  " Ren Lingyu replied rather reservedly. He carefully looked at the black-haired young man in front of him - a very broad forehead, a high nose, and deep eyes. The English he spoke seemed to have some exotic flavor

    Ren Lingyu's brows frowned slightly. The image of the man in front of him slowly overlapped with a photo of a middle-aged man he had seen when he was a boy. It's just that this man seemed to be digging in his own plot in New Zealand at this time.  Potatoes?  !  Why did he come to London?

    "Are you Michael Ren? Michael, who wrote "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", looked at Ren Lingyu in shock, as if it was difficult to accept this fact.

    "Yes. I am Michael Ren.".  Ren Lingyu repeated it quite firmly.

    The man looked Ren Lingyu up and down again.  He breathed a sigh of relief.  He said abruptly: "You are really too young".  He immediately noticed his gaffe.  A deep embarrassment immediately appeared on his face.

    ¡°I am already 24 years old. Sir.

    " ". Ren Lingyu smiled. He looked at the visitor with interest. He continued: "Didn't you also enter Canterbury College of the University of New Zealand when you were 18 years old?  Mr. Ernest Rutherford?  "

    The expression on Ernest Rutherford's face has turned to horror: "We have met before, right? Mr. Ren?"

    "I think I've seen it before."  Ren Lingyu smiled calmly - for any middle school student who participated in the Olympic physics competition at the end of the 20th century.  It's incredible to not know Ernest Rutherford.

    "It's nice to meet you. If I have the chance, I really hope to sit down and have a deep talk with you" He took the initiative to reach out and hold Rutherford's hand, and said sincerely: "But it's a pity that I still have to talk to you today."  I have some personal matters to deal with, I guess I¡¯ll have to wait until next time.¡±

    ¡ª¡ªThe purpose of this trip is just to let the future Baron Kelvin know that he has arrived in London. He really wants to have an in-depth communication with the first real physicist of the British Empire. He is not completely ready at this time.  What's more, now there is a future "Father of Atomic Physics"!

    If you don¡¯t leave now, when will you wait?

    "Are you leaving?" Rutherford said hurriedly, "I am accompanying Sir Thomson to pay homage to Lord Newton. Sir, Sir Thomson has always hoped to have the opportunity to see you"

    "I'm very sorry." Ren Lingyu said apologetically, "As a special envoy of the Qing Dynasty, I must rush for my country first" He looked at Rutherford who was full of disappointment, and suddenly changed the subject: "But I still have to be in London.  If you want to stay for a while, please tell the Lord that if he wants to see me, he can send someone to the Qing Legation to find me at any time. If you have time, I will definitely pay you a visit."

    He paused for a moment and continued to say to Rutherford: "It is my honor to have the opportunity to meet the Lord, but now" Ren Lingyu raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and continued: "I can only  Saying goodbye to you."

    "Okay, goodbye." Rutherford hesitated for a moment, and suddenly said: "Mr. Ren, do you know that your article completely subverts the second law proposed by Lord Isaac Newton?"

    "No,"?No.  " Ren Lingyu's answer came very quickly, "My dear Ernest, please believe me, Newton's second law is not wrong.  ", he continued with a bright smile: "It's just not precise enough"

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    Ren Lingyu finally stepped out of the door of Westminster Abbey. Not far from the door, the carriage that brought him over was waiting there quietly. However, compared with when he first arrived, the carriage waiting next to the carriage at this time was  There seems to be one more person?  The man next to the carriage also saw Ren Lingyu and immediately ran towards him.

    "Hello, sir.", he first addressed Ren Lingyu

    He saluted and then said: "An old friend of yours is already waiting for you here." He looked at the two people behind Ling Yu again, and then gave Huang Bo a warm smile: "Long time no see, Huang."  "

    "Hello, Qiao." The person who answered him was Xuanhua who was standing aside. He said to the visitor very cautiously: "It's really surprising to see you here!"

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    "Sir, please come this way." Joe Sanders led Ren Lingyu back to the veranda next to the main entrance of the church. After walking along the veranda for a while and going down the stairs, a car with a simple exterior appeared.  The carriage was waiting there.

    Ren Lingyu took a few steps forward involuntarily, and a rare hint of excitement flashed through his usually clear and tranquil eyes. There was a small shield-shaped logo inlaid on the front of the carriage. On a red background, there was a head in the middle.  A golden double-headed eagle wearing a three-headed crown, while Saint George slaying the dragon stands proudly in the middle of the eagle's body.

    Joe Sanders, who was following Ren Lingyu, lowered his head slightly, and a strange smile slipped across his dark face. He quickly raised his head, took a few steps forward with a solemn expression, and opened the door of the carriage.  Then a small folding step was pulled out from under the car floor.

    "Please get in the car." After saying all this, Joe Sanders stood by the door with his hands tied. Although he tried to make his words and deeds appear solemn, the unconcealed joking in his eyes could not be missed.  into Ren Lingyu's eyes.

    Ren Lingyu suddenly felt a fever on his face. He stepped forward, suddenly stretched out his hand and slapped Qiao hard on the shoulder. Amidst the latter's muffled groan, he climbed into the carriage on the folding steps.  .

    There was already a female passenger in the carriage. She was wearing a form-fitting red "Goastka" skirt. The corset held up her breasts high, and her upper body was decorated with several layers of large flanges and trumpet-shaped waves vertically from shoulders to waist.  The skirt opens naturally like a trumpet, and two slender hands are exposed at the end of a pair of standard "Gygosri cloth" style leg-of-mutton sleeves. These hands are currently holding a book with a brown cover. The book is just right.  It covered most of her face, only a few strands of fiery red hair were slightly exposed.

    Ren Lingyu very wisely did not disturb the visitor who was concentrating on reading. He found a seat opposite the person and sat down. The car door closed at this time. Ren Lingyu immediately felt a tremor under his feet, and his ears  Immediately, I heard the sound of horse hooves and wheels rolling over the gravel road next to the square.

    The car drove through the lively streets of London, passing the Houses of Parliament and No. 10 Downing Street, and then passed London Bridge over the Thames River, meandering towards the commercial street in the northeast of the city.

    The visitor was still reading quietly, and Ren Lingyu remained silent. He leaned against the car window, quietly looking at the pedestrians coming and going outside the car window - this is a prosperous area in London, and in these clothes and expressions  He could easily read expectations, desires, calmness, joy and even anxiety on the faces of different London citizens, but he rarely saw the insensitivity that was most commonly seen on the faces of Chinese people when he was at home

    A touch of loss quietly appeared in Ren Lingyu's eyes - a glimpse of the whole thing can be seen. Perhaps this is the biggest gap between an empire that is in the afterglow of the sunset and an old empire that is already in decline?  !

    "What are you thinking about?", a clear female voice rang in her ears. At some point, Miss Perrie Rothschild had put down the book in her hand. She looked at Ren Lingyu and asked softly.

    "I'm thinking" Ren Lingyu turned his head slightly, and a pair of blue eyes that haunted him came into his eyes, and his breath couldn't help but suffocate. At that moment, he had gradually become hardened.  I felt a rare warmth in my heart, even though it was only for a moment.

    "I have been thinking about a question in the past - when Hirobumi Ito first arrived in England 28 years ago and saw the busy traffic under the street lights, what kind of shock did he feel in his heart?", for a moment  After his heart was shaken, Ren Lingyu quickly calmed down: "The London Confidential Flight lasted only half a year, but it made him determined to follow suit."Why is Japan so determined to revolutionize its past and make new things?  "

    Peri didn't answer. She knew that Ren Lingyu didn't need his answer now. He just wanted her to listen quietly. This was a wonderful tacit understanding between the two of them, which often only needed a look.  Understanding from heart.

    "But when I arrived in the UK, I quickly understood Ito Hirobumi's state of mind at that time." Thinking of the outstanding figure of the generation who was in charge of Japan at this time, Ren Lingyu's brows relaxed and frowned tightly.  , the voice also became solemn: "Compared with China and Japan, the gap between the atmosphere of Britain today and that of China and Japan is far more than measured in miles This is the gap between a new Western civilization and an old but fossilized Eastern civilization.  , the advantages of the former cover all aspects of politics, economy, and military affairs, and cannot be described by the simple words 'strong ships and powerful guns'. But now, it is another world of great competition around the world"

    "Today's world is not about swords and swords, it's about fish and meat!" Ren Lingyu frowned even more tightly, "Time waits for no one! I think when Ito Hirobumi read and heard the news in The Times that the Shikoku fleet was about to bombard Choshu.  , I am afraid that the anxiety in his heart is a bit more than that of me today, and what he is thinking in his heart may be the words 'If it's not for the sword, it's for the flesh' and 'The time has not waited for me'."

    ¡ª¡ªIn 1864, Ito Hirobumi, who was secretly studying in England under the orders of the lord of the Choshu domain, heard that the Choshu domain was following the order of the shogunate to "repulse the barbarians".

    Strong, he hurriedly stopped studying with Country T after the news that he was about to be attacked by the four Western countries. Then he was officially involved in the magnificent reform movement in Japan's modern history, and eventually became a generation of heroes in Japan!

    Heroes create times, and times also create heroes!

    The anxiety in Ren Lingyu's eyes was even worse - he was not arrogant enough to think that he could compare with Ito Hirobumi, not to mention that at this time, except for the Beiyang Navy, he had not gained any more room for display.

    And Hirobumi Ito, no no no, it should be said that he is a generation of outstanding figures in Japan including Ito, but he has been advancing the reform cause on that small island country for 24 years!

    "Are you worried too?" Peri looked at Ren Lingyu's cheeks, which were obviously much thinner than when they parted, and the sudden wrinkles on his forehead, and felt a little heartache - but  After a few months, the man in front of me seemed to have aged by more than ten years, and there were actually a few white hairs growing on the originally dark temples.

    "Time waits for no one!" Ren Lingyu raised his hand and rubbed his slightly hot forehead, closed his eyes and murmured again: "I really don't know if it's still too late, it's already 1892"

    ¡ª¡ªThis is the haze that has been hanging over his heart in recent days, making him unable to get rid of it, and today is the first time he has spoken out about it. Only in front of the woman in front of him can he be so relaxed and careless.  Unguarded.

    "Don't think about it so much. Here, here it is." Peri opened the small wooden box on the right and took out a strange-shaped glass bottle. She took out a screwdriver and quickly removed the metal cap of the glass bottle.  , and then handed the bottle still smoking with carbonic acid gas to Ren Lingyu.

    "Thank you." Ren Lingyu, who was still in a daze, took the bottle and took a sip nonchalantly without making any reaction, and a look of loss immediately flashed across Peri's delicate face.

    "By the way, how did you know that I would be here today?" Ren Lingyu took another sip of the dark brown liquid in the bottle and asked as if he remembered something.

    ¡°Today is the birth anniversary of Lord Isaac Newton.

    "", Peri smiled confidently, "On this day every year, Lord Thomson comes from Glasgow to attend the commemoration ceremony in Westminster. This is also a rare time in London when you can definitely see the Lord.  You once said to me when we were on the ship" Peri smiled and said: "You said you hope to gain reputation through this article about physics, then you will naturally not let go of this opportunity to meet Lord Thomson.  , so I came and saw you.  "

    "A very good inference." Ren Lingyu praised sincerely. He raised his head and looked at Peri, and forced a smile and said: "I didn't expect you to be a master of reasoning."

    "The whole life is a huge chain. As long as you see one link, you can deduce the situation of the entire chain.", peri replied.

    "The words of Sherlock Holmes" Ren Lingyu smiled a little weirdly and continued: "The contents of the article "A Study of Scarlet Letters" Chapter 2 Treasure Book".

    "That was a story five years ago" Peri pointed out the book she just read to Ren Lingyu, "The latest one is the "History of Adventure" series and so on." She looked at it in surprise.  The next Ling Yu said, "Have you also read "The Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection"?¡·?  "

    "I've seen some." Ren Lingyu smiled, but his expression immediately returned to sadness.

    "Still can't relax?" Peri leaned forward, put his right hand on Ren Lingyu's hand, and comforted him: "Don't think so much, everything will be solved."

    "It's not that I don't want to relax" Ren Lingyu murmured, "Including today's incident, I have done almost everything I can do, but I don't know what the result will be. I don't know what I can do.  Whether to win the necessary reputation and, more importantly, peri"

    He looked out the window with a slight embarrassment and said after a long time: "I have no money, no money at all."

    Peri was startled, she stared at Ren Lingyu for a moment, and suddenly let out a burst of silver bell-like laughter. After a while, she covered her mouth and said: "I thought it was such a big thing, but it turned out to be just the word 'money'  That¡¯s all.¡±

    "Michael, have you forgotten that you are also a shareholder of IBM?" Peri smiled, stretched out his finger and tapped the glass bottle in Ren Lingyu's hand, and continued: "The money you want is in your possession now.  In your hand?"

    Ren Lingyu was slightly startled. He immediately lowered his head and looked at his right hand. In his palm, he was holding a glass bottle with smooth curves. On the red background, there was a series of eye-catching English characters printed on it¡ª¡ª  la¡­

    He raised the bottle in disbelief and took another sip. It was the familiar taste that entered his mouth - in his original time and space, for more than a hundred years, the taste of Coca-Cola has not changed at all!

    Peri's voice sounded in his ears again: "This is one of the first bottles of Coca-Cola made in the UK, Michael. This product sells better in the UK than in the United States" A sweet smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.  With a smile, "Don't worry too much about money. Believe me, Michael, you will definitely get returns beyond your expectations from our IBM company!"
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