Chapter 1164 Epilogue 20: Being a Jade Scholar, You Have to Act Like a Tough Guy

Chapter 11: Being a Jade Scholar, I Want to Show Off

What has Xie Yan been doing for the past two or three months?

One is writing papers, two is making a scale, and three is making pen pals.

Several papers, all related to the scale, 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 speed of developing the scale is very slow, because the scale made by Xie Yan is much more advanced than the one made by Nie Qi. During the development period, it is necessary to constantly debug, and even a micro-carving craftsman was invited to carve the scale.

There are only six pen pals for the time being, and more letters to him are on the way.

Among them is Nie Qi in Luoyang. The two of them exchanged letters and had a good chat. Between the lines, Nie Qi wanted to get more information, and Xie Yan took the opportunity to treat him as a tool.

Xie Yan said that he liked mathematics, physics and chemistry since he was a child, but he was influenced by his father and brother to choose liberal arts, and he has been working hard to learn by himself privately. As for the discovery of the damping phenomenon, he also made up a lot of nonsense, anyway, there are all kinds of celebrity stories to copy.

All this information was spread through pen pals such as Nie Qi and Zhu Shirong.

Who doesn't know how to build momentum?

After Xie Yan's various essays were sent to Luoyang and Kaifeng, the academic circles in the two capitals soon had a more specific understanding of him.

The image is particularly full.

A young man born in a gentry family in Hebei lacked an environment for studying natural sciences since childhood. At the request of his father and brother, he was forced to choose liberal arts, but it could not extinguish his passion for pursuing truth.

After years of diligent self-study, this young man finally showed his amazing talent and had profound attainments in cutting-edge fields of mathematics, physics and chemistry.

Of course, Xie Yiqin helped with the whole process.

After they got that issue of the physics journal, Xie Yiqin carefully analyzed Nie Qi's papers and letters and said to his son: "This person has bad intentions. He uses you as a ladder and makes you think that it is all a favor."

"Very disgusting." Xie Yan commented.

Xie Yiqin asked: "How much of an impact did he have on you by making a damping balance first?"

Xie Yan shook his head: "No impact, the ideas are different. His long-arm balance has come to an end. I am taking another broad road, and I have just started."

"Then there is no need to turn against him. This kind of person can also cooperate, but remember not to be led by him by the nose." Xie Yiqin reminded.

Xie Yan asked: "The Royal Society invited me to Luoyang next year. What should I pay attention to then?"

Xie Yiqin thought carefully and said: "I will write a letter to your elder brother and ask him to stay in Luoyang in advance, and then send a few people to escort you all the way. After arriving in Luoyang, you should discuss with your brother first if you encounter any problems."

Xie Yan's elder brother is 23 years old and has passed the examination for a scholar. He will take the provincial examination next autumn.

Although he is not old, he has a very calm personality. When my grandfather retired and returned to his hometown and was still alive, my elder brother lived in my grandfather's house for three years. I heard that he learned a lot of ways to deal with people.

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In winter, Xie Yan's balance was finally successfully manufactured.

He was almost going crazy at home, thinking about balance-related issues all day long, eating and sleeping.

He wanted to go out for a walk before it snowed.

"Put on the jade pendant!" Wang Yitong called her son.

This jade pendant, with the main pattern of the Bai Ze mythical beast, is a waist badge symbolizing the membership of the Royal Society.

It is divided into five levels in total, made of different materials, and the lowest level waist badge uses colored glass.

The waist badge mailed to Xie Yan is the second-level waist badge, made of emerald green Xiuyan jade.

After putting on the jade pendant, Wang Yitong stepped back and observed, and the more he looked, the more he felt that his son had an extraordinary demeanor.

Xie Wan had heard from her mother that those who wear this kind of waist badge are all great scholars. She stared at the badge again and again, clapped her hands and laughed: "Sixth brother is so impressive. I told the teachers at school that my brother is a member of the society, and they all respect him very much. My classmates are also envious and want to come to my house to see what Sixth brother looks like. There are also a few older seniors who secretly asked if Sixth brother has a marriage contract."

Wang Yitong smiled and said: "Your Sixth brother has a promising future, but he is not worthy of ordinary people."

"Then Sixth brother is going to marry a princess? Or the young lady of the prime minister's family?" Xie Wan asked innocently.

Wang Yitong was also very bold and said in a half-joking tone: "Marrying a princess is too troublesome, and I don't know if the prime minister has a granddaughter."

Xie Yan stood there with a silly smile, unwilling to participate in such a woman's topic.

The mother and daughter dressed up Xie Yan and finally let him go out.

Second brother Xie Kan waited for a long time, and the carriage was already ready, and Wang Sheng and several servants were going to follow.

Xie Kan glanced at the jade pendant and showed an envious look: "You are the second Jade Scholar at the age of sixteen since the founding of the Ming Dynasty."

Xie Yan was surprised and said: "There is another one before?"

Xie Kan nodded and said: "More than thirty years ago, there was a child prodigy named Zhang Pei. He did not study the Four Books and Six Classics at all, nor did he study physics and chemistry. He did not study anything else, but was obsessed with mathematics. He published a mathematical paper at the age of fourteen and was specially recruited into Luoyang Imperial College at the age of fifteen. In just one year, he achieved remarkable academic results and was awarded the Jade Scholar at the age of sixteen."

"The child prodigy from more than thirty years ago should still be alive now?" 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 and night, turned down all the marriages arranged by his family, and often stayed up all night because of a difficult problem. I heard that this person died of exhaustion. You should take it as a warning."

Xie Yan scratched his forehead with his index finger.

Death from overwork, I have experience with this.

The two brothers got on the carriage, and Xie Kan deliberately asked the driver to go to the southeast city.

When they arrived at the cultural and educational area, Xie Kan said to his brother: "Get off the car and walk around. Don't walk around in your fine clothes at night."

"What?"

Xie Yan didn't understand and was dragged off the car in a daze.

Today is a ten-day holiday, and many people come to the cultural and educational area to go shopping, and the literacy rate of passers-by here is very high.

Xie Kan walked with his brother with his head held high, but he was soon disappointed.

Because no one paid attention to his brother's jade pendant!

Even if someone came to greet them, it was because of their status as Tongpan Gongzi, or they were scholars who had known each other for a long time.

Finally, Xie Kan couldn't help it.

When they met acquaintances again, Xie Kan pointed at the jade pendant on his brother's waist: "Shi Erlang, Mei Wulang, do you recognize this?"

Shi Erlang took a closer look and nodded and commented: "Xiuyan Jade, good quality."

"You have no knowledge," Xie Kan was angry at his ignorance and reminded, "Come closer and see what is carved."

Shi Erlang and Mei Wulang leaned over to check together.

Mei Wulang said, "It looks 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 to say, "It's Bai Ze. When Huangdi was touring the East China Sea, Bai Ze emerged, able to speak, and knew the essence of all things."

Mei Wulang laughed, "Who would carve a jade pendant with Bai Ze? If you tell others, you'll be ridiculed for pretending to be a royal scholar."

"That's right, take it off quickly." Shi Erlang agreed.

Xie Kan was completely speechless: "My sixth brother is a royal scholar, a sixteen-year-old Jade Scholar! Listen carefully, not the lowest-level Yaoyu Scholar, but a sixteen-year-old Jade Scholar!"

The two friends laughed at the same time.

Although Xie Kan had said long ago that his brother was elected as a member of the society, they still felt that Xie Kan was bragging.

Xie Kan sighed and said, "Oh, forget it. You won't believe me no matter how much I tell you."

Mei Wulang smiled and said, "Who doesn't know that your son Liulang studied liberal arts? The physics journal you brought last time, although the author of the paper is indeed Xie Yan, you can't forge a bachelor's badge for your brother just because you have the same name, right?"

Shi Erlang also reminded: "Forging a bachelor's badge is not a crime if you don't use it to cheat, but it will affect the reputation of your Xie family if it gets out."

Xie Kan just wanted to show off, but he was made autistic by his two friends.

No one else believes what you say!

Xie Yan said, "Second brother, let's go for a walk outside the city."

Xie Kan no longer walked on purpose. He 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 he traveled through time.

The number of beggars on the streets outside the city has decreased a lot, and it is no longer so chaotic at a glance.

Xie Yan pulled up the curtain and looked outside, commenting: "The reform is quite effective, even the number of beggars has decreased."

Xie Kan explained: "They are all loaded on the ship and taken away."

"The government pays?" Xie Yan asked.

"What do you think? Those beggars can't afford the boat tickets," Xie Kan said, "There are two immigration gathering points in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Immigrants from provinces along the river are transported there by local governments. The rest is paid by the court to transport those immigrants overseas. Huangzhou Prefecture can just transport the immigrants to Jiujiang."

Xie Yan said: "The immigration funds are mainly paid by the court, and the local government is very relaxed."

Xie Kan shook his head repeatedly: "How can it be easy? The prefectures and counties of each province are far and near from the immigration gathering points. Those farther away pay more, and those local officials are willing to pay more. There will definitely be trouble. The province must come forward to make unified arrangements, so that the rich prefectures and counties can move some to the poor prefectures and counties, and the closer prefectures and counties can move some to the farther ones. "

Xie Yan understood: "If we do this, the richer and closer prefectures and counties will not be happy. "

Xie Kan laughed and said: "The officials in the province have been running back and forth to coordinate and arrange for the immigration. They are tired and angry and don't want to do it anymore. My father is in charge of the money and grain of Huangzhou Prefecture, so he naturally has to speak for Huangzhou Prefecture. He has quarreled with the special envoys from the province several times. "

"This requires a clear rule from the court." Xie Yan said.

Xie Kan lowered his voice: "The court did it on purpose. The current cabinet officials were mostly demoted to remote and difficult places in their early years, and their roots in the local area are too shallow. It is necessary to let the local officials at all levels fight each other and have no energy to challenge the court, so that they can control the overall situation in Luoyang and slowly cultivate their own local forces. "

"Didn't many local officials get replaced some time ago?" Xie Yan asked.

Xie Kan said: "It's not enough to just replace some officials. There are many reasons. And the officials who are replaced are not necessarily their confidants. For example, my uncle is not the confidant of any cabinet minister. It was only because of my grandfather's connections in the past that he was recommended by the current Minister of Works that he was transferred to Shanxi to serve as an inspector. My uncle has nothing to do with the cabinet and is only a member of the Minister of Works for the time being."

Xie Yan stopped talking. This thing is too complicated. It's easier to be a scientist.

The carriage moved forward slowly, enjoying the street view along the way, and unknowingly approached the riverside pier.

One beggar after another took the initiative to line up to board the ship.

It was about to snow, and the beggars were willing to go to sea because they might freeze to death if they stayed in Huangzhou.

Xie Kan said: "Those beggar leaders control the beggars and don't let them leave. In the past few months, the government has arrested many evil beggars and cracked a den of human trafficking."

Xie Yan looked at the beggars who were ragged and had dull eyes, like walking corpses, and suddenly felt bored: "Go back."

The master is kind-hearted and can't bear to see the suffering of the world.

So he didn't watch it anymore.