Chapter 1164 Postscript Twenty: Being a Jasper Bachelor, I have to show off.
Chapter 1164 Postscript 20·Being a Jasper Bachelor means showing off
What has Xie Yan been doing in the past two or three months?
The first is to write a paper, the second is to build a scale, and the third is to make pen pals.
There are several papers, all related to balance, but they are deliberately written separately, and only one has been sent out so far.
The reason for doing this is of course for insurance.
He is not stupid!
The development of the balance was very slow, because the balance made by Xie Yan was much higher-end than the one made by Nie Qi. During the development period, it required constant debugging, and even a micro-carving craftsman was hired to engrave the scales.
I have only made six pen pals for now, and more friendship letters written to him are on the way.
Among them was Nie Qi from Luoyang. The two exchanged letters and chatted quite well. Between the lines, Nie Qi wanted to get more information, and Xie Yan took the opportunity to use the other party as a tool.
Xie Yan said that he has been fond of mathematics, physics and chemistry since he was a child, but he chose liberal arts due to the influence of his father and brother. He has been working hard on self-study in private. He also made up nonsense about discovering the damping phenomenon. Anyway, there are various celebrity stories to copy.
This information was spread through pen pals such as Nie Qi and Zhu Shirong.
Who doesn’t know how to build momentum?
When various short essays written by Xie Yan were sent to Luoyang and Kaifeng, the academic circles in the two capitals soon had a more concrete understanding of him.
The image is particularly plump.
A young man from a gentry family in Hebei Province lacked the environment to study natural sciences since childhood. At the request of his father and brother, he was forced to choose liberal arts, but this could not extinguish his passion for pursuing the truth.
After years of diligent self-study, this young man finally showed his amazing talent and gained profound knowledge in the cutting-edge fields of mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Of course, Xie Yiqin helped with ideas throughout the entire process.
After they got the issue of the Journal of Physics, Xie Yiqin carefully analyzed Nie Qi's papers and letters and said to his son: "This man has a bad heart. He treats you like a ladder and makes you think that it is all kindness."
"It's quite disgusting." Xie Yan commented.
Xie Yiqin asked: "He came up with the damping balance first. How much impact did it have on you?"
Xie Yan shook his head: "It has no impact, the ideas are different. His kind of long-armed balance has come to an end. I am taking another broad road, and it has just started."
"Then there is no need to fall out with him. This kind of person can also be cooperated, but remember not to be led by his nose." Xie Yiqin warned.
Xie Yan asked: "The Royal Society invites me to go to Luoyang next year. What should I pay attention to then?"
After thinking carefully, Xie Yiqin said: "I will write to your elder brother and ask him to go to Luoyang to stay in advance, and then send a few people to escort you all the way. After arriving in Luoyang, if you encounter anything, you should discuss it with your brother first."
Xie Yan's eldest brother is twenty-three years old. He has already been admitted as a scholar and will take the provincial examination next fall.
Although he is not very old, he has a very calm character. When my grandfather retired and returned to his hometown and was still alive, my eldest brother lived in my grandfather's house for three years and I heard that he learned a lot about how to deal with the world.
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In winter, Xie Yan finally succeeded in making the scale.
He almost went crazy at home, thinking about balance-related issues all day long while eating and sleeping.
He wanted to go out for a walk before it snowed yet.
"Put on the jade!" Wang Yitong called to his son.
This jade pendant, with the main pattern of the mythical beast Bai Ze, is a waist badge symbolizing membership of the Royal Society.
There are five levels in total, made of different materials. The lowest level badge uses colored glass.
What was mailed to Xie Yan was a second-level waist badge, made of turquoise jade.
After wearing the jade, Wang Yitong took two steps back to observe. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that his son's magnanimity was extraordinary.
Xie Wan had already heard from her mother that those who wore such badges were all great scholars. She stared at the badge again and again, clapped her hands and laughed: "Brother Six is so majestic. I told the teacher at school that my brother is a member of the society.
They all respect me very much. My classmates are also envious and want to come to my house to see what Brother Six looks like. There are also a few older seniors who secretly ask me if Brother Six is engaged."
Wang Yitong smiled and said: "Your sixth brother has a bright future, but he is not worthy of being an ordinary person."
"Does Sixth Brother want to marry a princess? Or marry the Prime Minister's daughter?" Xie Wan asked innocently.
Wang Yitong also dared to think about it. He said in a half-joking tone: "Marrying a princess is too troublesome. I don't know if the Prime Minister has a granddaughter."
Xie Yan stood there with a stupid smile, unwilling to participate in such a feminine topic.
The mother and daughter cleaned up Xie Yan and finally let him go out.
The second brother Xie Kan has been waiting for a long time. The carriage has been prepared, and Wang Sheng and several servants are also going to follow.
Xie Kan glanced at the jade pendant and showed envy: "Sixteen-year-old Jasper Bachelor, you are the second one since the founding of the Ming Dynasty."
Xie Yan was surprised and said: "There is another one ahead?"
Xie Kan nodded and said: "More than thirty years ago, there was a child prodigy named Zhang Pei. He didn't study the Four Books or Six Classics at all, nor did he study any physics and chemistry. He didn't study anything else, but he was obsessed with mathematics. He was fourteen years old.
He published a mathematical paper and was specially recruited to Luoyang Imperial College at the age of fifteen. In just one year, he made outstanding academic achievements and was awarded the Jasper Bachelor's Degree at the age of sixteen."
"The child prodigy from more than thirty years ago should still be alive now, right?" Xie Yan asked.
Xie Kan sighed and said: "He died suddenly at the age of twenty. God is jealous of talents. He studied mathematics all day long, put down all the marriages arranged at home, and often stayed up all night because of a difficult problem. I heard that this
People are exhausted, you should take this as a warning."
Xie Yan scratched his forehead with his index finger.
Death from overwork, I have experience with this.
The brothers boarded the carriage, and Xie Kan deliberately asked the driver to go to the southeastern part of the city.
When he came to the cultural district, Xie Kan said to his younger brother: "Get off the car and walk around. Don't walk at night in brocade clothes." "What?"
Xie Yan didn't understand and was dragged out of the car in confusion.
Today is a holiday, and there are a lot of people coming to the Cultural District to go shopping, and the literacy rate of passers-by here is very high.
Xie Kan led his brother forward with his head held high, but he soon became disappointed.
Because no one pays attention to my younger brother’s jade pendant!
Even if someone came to say hello, it was because they were Tong Guanzi, or they were scholars whom they had known for a long time.
Finally, Xie Kan couldn't bear it anymore.
When they met an acquaintance again, Xie Kan pointed to the jade pendant on his younger brother's waist: "Shi Erlang, Mei Wulang, do you know this one?"
Shi Erlang took a closer look, nodded and commented: "Xiuyan jasper is of good quality."
"I have no knowledge," Xie Kan said angrily at his lack of knowledge and skills, "come closer and see what is carved."
Shi Erlang and Mei Goro leaned over to check.
Umegoro said: "It's a bit like a lion."
Shi Erlang retorted: "It's Suanni, there's one on my incense burner."
Xie Yan couldn't help laughing.
Xie Kan had no choice but to say clearly: "It's Baize. The Yellow Emperor patrolled the East China Sea and Baize came out. He can speak and understand the essence of all things."
Meigoro smiled and said: "Who knows how to carve a jade pendant out of Bai Ze? If you tell me, you will be ridiculed for pretending to be a royal bachelor."
"Yes, yes, take it off quickly." Shi Erlang agreed.
Xie Kan was completely speechless: "My sixth brother is the Royal Bachelor, the sixteen-year-old Jasper Bachelor! Listen clearly, he is not the lowest Medicine Jade Bachelor, but the sixteen-year-old Jasper Bachelor!"
The two bad friends laughed at the same time.
Although Xie Kan had already said that his younger brother was elected as a member of the society, they always felt that Xie Kan was bragging.
Xie Kan sighed and said, "Oh, forget it, no matter how much I tell you, you won't believe it."
Meigoro smiled and said: "Who doesn't know that your Rokuro studied liberal arts? In the physics journal you brought last time, although the author of the paper was indeed called Xie Yan, you can't just make a fake one for your brother just because he has the same name.
Bachelor’s degree badge, right?”
Shi Erlang also reminded: "Forging a bachelor's badge, although you are not guilty if you don't use it to show off, but spreading it will affect the reputation of your Xie family."
Xie Kan just wanted to show off, but he was made autistic by two friends.
No one believes anything you say!
Xie Yan said: "Second brother, let's go for a walk outside the city."
Xie Kan stopped walking deliberately, said goodbye to his two friends, and got into the carriage to calm down.
This is the second time Xie Yan has left the city since time travel.
On Fuguo Street outside the city, the number of beggars has decreased a lot, and it no longer looks so chaotic at first glance.
Xie Yan pulled up the car curtain and looked outside, commenting: "The reform has been quite effective. There are even fewer beggars."
Xie Kan explained: "They were all loaded onto ships and taken away."
"The government pays?" Xie Yan asked.
"What do you think? Those beggars can't afford the ferry tickets," Xie Kan said. "There are two immigration gathering points in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Immigrants from the provinces along the river are transported there at the expense of the local government. The rest is left to the imperial court.
Pay money to transport those immigrants overseas. For Huangzhou Prefecture, we can do business by transporting the immigrants to Jiujiang."
Xie Yan said: "Immigration payments are mainly paid by the court, and local officials have it easy."
Xie Kan shook his head repeatedly: "How can it be easy? The prefectures and counties in each province are far or near from the immigration assembly point. Those far away will pay more, and those local officials will definitely make trouble. The province must make unified arrangements to let the wealthy prefectures
The counties should transfer some to poorer counties, and let the counties closer to them transfer some to those further away."
Xie Yan understood: "If you do this, the richer and closer counties will not be happy."
Xie Kan smiled and said: "The officials in the province are running back and forth to coordinate and arrange the immigration matters. They are all tired and angry and don't want to do anything anymore. Our father is in charge of the money and food of Huangzhou Prefecture, so naturally he has to speak for Huangzhou Prefecture.
I have had several quarrels with the special commissioners from the province."
"This requires a clear regulation from the imperial court." Xie Yan said.
Xie Kan lowered his voice: "The imperial court did it on purpose. The current cabinet officials were often demoted to remote and difficult places in their early years. Their local foundations are too shallow. They have to let local officials at all levels fight with each other and have no energy to fight with each other.
Only when the imperial court challenges them can they control the overall situation in Luoyang and slowly cultivate their own local power."
"Didn't we replace many local officials some time ago?" Xie Yan asked.
Xie Kan said: "It's not just about replacing some officials. There are many reasons in it. And the officials replaced may not necessarily be their confidants. Let's just say that my uncle is not a confidant of any cabinet minister. Just because our grandpa
His connections back then were recommended by the current Minister of Industry, so he was transferred to Shanxi as an inspector. My uncle has nothing to do with the cabinet, and for the time being he only belongs to the Minister of Industry."
Xie Yan stopped talking. This thing is too complicated. It would be easier to be a scientist.
The carriage moved forward slowly, admiring the street scenery along the way, and unknowingly approached the riverside pier.
One beggar after another took the initiative to line up to board the boat.
It's going to snow soon, and the beggars are willing to go to sea, because if they stay in Huangzhou, they will probably freeze to death.
Xie Kan said: "Those beggar leaders control the beggars and do not let them leave. In the past few months, the government has arrested many evil beggars, and also uncovered a den for harvesting, cutting, and human trafficking."
Xie Yan looked at the beggars with ragged clothes and dull eyes, like walking corpses, and suddenly felt uninterested: "Go back."
The old man has a kind heart and cannot bear to see the suffering in the world.