Chapter 13 A chance encounter in the Hundred Returns

Wang Maoru circled the earth, in addition to bringing back the tools for the production of fireworks and oil lamps, but also brought back a large number of foreign scientific books, all of which were originally in English, French, German, and Spanish. Later, he asked someone to buy a large number of books, and he found Yan Fu and entrusted Yan Fu to name the library. Yan Fu also didn't see him for half a year, and he was very happy when he said goodbye, and after thinking about it, he nominated Baihuilou, taking Su Shi's poem "Old books are not tired of reading a hundred times, and he knows that he is a famous eunuch every day, and how can he chase it today", so he named Baihuilou. There is no money to read in the bookstore, you only need to volunteer here to read for free. As soon as Wang Maoru came back from abroad, he opened a bookstore around Peking University for college students to study for free, which immediately made the people of Sijiu City dumbfounded. Didn't this Mr. Xiusheng send something?

Yan Fu inquired and knew that Mr. Xiusheng had opened two factories, and now he has real estate and a business, and he can be regarded as a gentry. He wanted to bring him to Yuan Shikai's staff, so he dragged him to Yuan Shikai to ask for an official position, but Yuan Shikai was busy running for president, and he was busy all day, where did he have time to pay attention to him, and let him go to the Ministry of Education for the sake of Yan Fu's face. Yan Fu thought that Wang Maoru would be very happy, but he didn't expect Wang Maoru to resign and not go, so he decided to take care of his business. Yan Fu asked him why he didn't go to work, Wang Maoru smiled and said: "I don't do anything about hot faces and cold butts, Lao Yuan doesn't even see me, how do you know me, it's just for Mr. to save face." I don't want to be in the Ministry of Education, where the KMT is divided into several factions, what am I going to do? Fight with them? Yan Fu had no choice, so he let him go, and few of the high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital paid attention to the opening of this bookstore, it was just a matter of losing money and making money. It has benefited a lot from the students around me, and all kinds of students from girls' public schools, Peking University, Normal University, Tsinghua University, and National No. 1 Middle School have nothing to do and come to read free books. And some of the students who come to Beijing are willing to come here to study, there are electric lights, there are stoves, and most importantly, there are young students from Beijing.

When Wang Maoru came, he was very pleased to see many students reading here, but after watching, he found that everyone was reading books in foreign languages, but they did not pay much attention to classical books.

The structure of the building is somewhat similar to that of a modern library, with the first floor being a dormitory for registration and living staff, and a small cafeteria where staff and students can eat at noon. However, Baihuilou does not provide free meals, and students will have to spend a few pennies if they want to eat, but they provide free boiling water here. There are four floors on the upper floor, which are divided into a classical class, a foreign class, a science and technology class, and the top floor is a digest of newspapers and magazines from various countries. The entire Baihuilou invested 30,000 taels of silver, all of which were funded by Wang Maoru himself, which was also the first time in the history of the Republic of China.

On the second floor, I didn't see a few people, but on the third floor, I saw a lot of people looking at foreign countries, and when I went up to the fourth floor, I saw seven or eight people writing and calculating on the one hand, while reading and analyzing the scientific and technological books that Wang Maoru brought back from foreign countries, and being able to concentrate on studying science and technology, which made Wang Maoru very good. He crept over and saw that this man was drawing an airplane on a drawing, a rudimentary double-wing propeller aircraft, and to his great surprise, this man was actually studying an airplane. And the book he took was a Western book about air resistance.

The man noticed that someone was standing by, and then he looked up and said, "You are ......."

"In the next hundred times, Wang Xiusheng." Wang Maoru sat down, nodded at him, and said in a low voice: "Are you studying airplanes?" ”

The man said crampedly, "Mr. Xiusheng, this is really ...... Are you really yourself? ”

"Naturally, it's me." Wang Maoru smiled, "Sir, you are also studying aircraft?" ”

"Mr. Xiusheng doesn't think that Mr. Feng Jiuru is the only one studying airplanes, haha."

"Hehe, may I ask the name of the gentleman."

"Student Ouyang Peng, a native of Shaoyang, Hunan, came to Beijing to study at the beginning of the year and found that there was nothing I learned in the school, alas." Ouyang Peng shook his head and said, "Only here is there some information about aircraft, and there are no articles about aircraft in other schools." I originally wanted to go to Guangzhou to study Mr. Feng Jiuru, but I didn't expect Mr. Feng Jiuru to accidentally fall to his death while piloting a plane last year, but it's a pity, it's a pity. ”

"Feng Ru is dead?" Wang Maoru was taken aback, and only then did he remember that Feng Ru did not fall to his death during an air show in the first year of the Republic of China, and the reason for his death was ridiculous to say. After Sun Yat-sen established the provisional government, he hired Feng Ru as the captain of the Guangdong ** military government, responsible for the Guangdong flight team. However, the so-called Guangdong Flying Corps only had two planes made by Feng Ru himself, and all the funds had to be raised by themselves, except for the 3,000 eagles given to them by the Guangzhou government at the beginning. Therefore, in order to grow the flight team, Feng Ru and his assistants had to fly planes to make money for Guangzhou citizens, advertise for businesses, etc., in order to maintain the normal survival of the flight team. Therefore, during an air show, the plane piloted by Feng Ru fell, and Feng Ru died.

Wang Maoru suddenly regretted a little, he should have thought of it earlier, and he would have thought of it earlier, so he could find a way to remind Feng Ru, but it's a pity......

"You're not studying, you're all self-taught?" Wang Maoru asked.

"Yes, I'll study on your own in this hundred times." Ouyang Peng said with a smile.

Looking at his emaciated cheeks and gray gown with patches, Wang Maoru suddenly said: "That's it, I lack a third-floor building manager here, I don't know if Mr. Ouyang can take on it?" ”

"The third floor manager?"

Wang Maoru explains: "It's because some of the students' books are misplaced when they are put back, so you just have to put them back in place that night, and the rest of the time you can study the plane." The monthly salary is not high, and it is only four eagles, for food and shelter, and for you to calculate the pen and paper. Of course, if you want to build an airplane, I would like to personally fund you. ”

"What?" Ouyang Peng stood up in surprise, and the other students immediately glared angrily at this short boy who was disturbing others, Ouyang Peng sat down embarrassedly, and said, "Mr. Xiusheng's truth about funding me to build an airplane?" ”

"Nature." Wang Maoru nodded, "China has no Feng Jiuru, there is a second Feng Jiuru, without Feng Jiuru, let's cultivate Feng Jiuru." If you have like-minded people, you can also recommend me to come back to the building, and I will not refuse to come. If you're alone, it's hard to make an airplane. ”

"It's the pole, it's the pole." Ouyang Peng nodded and said, "I have a few friends, but unfortunately they are not in Beijing, if I write to them, I will definitely come back, I don't know ......"

"Don't worry, it's a talent, and all the buildings will be accepted." Seeing that the others were dissatisfied with the two people who were talking here, Wang Maoru hurriedly stood up and said in a low voice: "Wait a minute, you go to Curator Qian, he will help you arrange a qiē, and you won't disturb Mr. Research." ”

"Thank you, thank you." Obviously, Ouyang Peng is not very good at communicating, he can only say thank you, Wang Maoru also laughed, this kind of person is the best, those who can communicate, how can they have time to study knowledge.

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