Chapter 241 Cambridge Life from Scratch (Part 2) (6.6K)
In the dormitory.
In fact, when he heard Thomson's sentence [. Fat Fish once said that people like Sir Newton were called "this son"], Xu Yun remembered what was going on.
That was something that happened in the early days of copy 1665.
At that time, in order to gain the trust of Mavericks.
He deliberately linked Maverick's experience with the protagonist in the novel, and introduced the word "this son". (Chapter 9)
It was precisely through such a single operation that Xu Yun officially became closer to the Mavericks.
What I didn’t expect was.
Such an incident was actually recorded in Maverick's autobiography, and even became a very grand ceremony at Cambridge University!
Also, when the selection was made for ‘this boy’, everyone in the audience actually had to hold ice cubes in their mouths and gasp?
Really gasp. (After I typed gasp, the words "a breath of cold air" automatically appeared.)
Of course.
This also shows the status of Mavericks from another aspect, which can really be called a saint in Cambridge.
But soon.
Xu Yun's attention was brought back to reality by the howling wheat.
He turned around and looked.
I saw Xiaomai standing by the bathroom door at this time, taking off his clothes quickly, and kept saying something like "I'm not clean".
Xu Yun: "."
Yes.
The future master of electromagnetics has just been touched by a bunch of hands holding smelly socks
Ignoring Mai, who stripped naked and rushed into the bathroom, Thomson pulled Xu Yun aside and ordered:
"Luo Feng, although I live next door to you, I may be a little busy in the next few days and may not always stay in the dormitory."
"So Maxwell depends on you to pay more attention to things in life and study."
"As for your three meals, I will explain it to the cafeteria. Then you can send it to your dormitory or eat in the cafeteria."
Thomson's words were very serious and had an inexplicable meaning.
On the way to Cambridge University, he had roughly figured out the personalities of Xiaomai and Xu Yun.
Wheat is actually very simple.
He is unsociable but kind-hearted, with a wild beauty in his innocent eyes, and a sincere look.
As for Xu Yun, it's a bit complicated.
He occasionally makes mistakes in some life details or knowledge that can be regarded as common sense in this era, and it seems that he is trying to adapt to some habits - this is mainly reflected in the diet. Some of the delicacies that Thomson personally likes, Xu Yun does not Often refused due to lack of appetite.
Such as white pudding made from sheep fat, oats and pork liver and lungs.
There are also haggis made from sheep’s heart, liver and lungs, paired with onions and mutton fat, etc. Xu Yun would refuse such a delicious delicacy
I heard that those Orientals like to eat animal offal. It seems that the name is really not worthy of the name.
It's a pity that Xu Yun didn't know what Thomson was thinking, otherwise he would have made at least thirty ellipses.
It's so pitiful. It's true that British white pudding and haggis use animal offal, but the problem is.
None of tmd’s internal organs smell fishy.
For example, when we wash pig lungs in China, the more sophisticated ones will first soak them in alkali and vinegar, and then repeatedly wash away the dirty blood.
The lungs are not ready to be cooked until they turn white.
But what about British white pudding?
It is made by directly mincing freshly killed pork liver. The more blood the better - because the blood can be used to seal the edges.
It's strange that Xu Yun can eat so much.
The topic is returning to its original place.
Another point that is completely different from the adaptation performance is Xu Yun's character.
He is too mature.
Moreover, Xu Yun's maturity is not a pretense, but a maturity and stability that contains life experience. Sometimes Thomson is ashamed of himself.
Because of this.
Only then will he hand the wheat into Xu Yun's hands.
Because although what he has to do next is not life-threatening, the game inside is equally complicated and unusual.
There was even a brief moment when a special idea came to Thomson's mind.
However, after much hesitation, he gave up the idea.
Looking at Thomson with a serious face in front of him, Xu Yun pondered for a moment and replied:
"Mr. Thomson, Maxwell is my friend, of course there is no problem taking care of him."
"But I can take the liberty to ask, what are you going to do next? You don't even have time to go back to the dormitory?"
Thomson raised his head and looked at Xu Yun for a few seconds, then said frankly:
"I plan to run for president of the Student Union of Cambridge University this year." (Actually, the Student Union of Cambridge University only has the chairman, but although this word is not a blocked word, it is said that if it appears too much, it will lock the chapter, so it is called president)
Xu Yun was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then he suddenly became enlightened.
I see.
He asked why Thomson looked so lonely.
It turns out that he was planning to run for president of the Student Federation.
Unlike other universities.
Influenced by college autonomy, Cambridge University also allows student autonomy.
Therefore, student organizations have always had a very, very strong say in Cambridge University.
For example, Aveline before.
She is just the Minister of the Interior, and she can decide the dormitory allocation from first-year undergraduates to doctoral students without the consent of the school at all.
This kind of power is actually a bit beyond the scope of the student, even if she is a descendant of Mavericks.
The Minister of the Interior is like this, let alone the President of the Federation of Students.
Said without politeness.
Anyone who can become the president of the Cambridge University Students' Union, whether he goes into the scientific research circle or the political circle in the future, can become a director of the Royal Society or a member of the House of Commons.
Today, Thomson is one of the few 'angels' in the Cambridge Apostolic Society. He has completed the task of attracting wheat and is indeed qualified to run for president of the Student Union.
In addition, it is not difficult to see from the frequent appearances on various occasions after Thomson changed his job to Kelvin in his previous life that this well-known physicist is still somewhat addicted to officialdom.
So it makes perfect sense that he would run for president.
However, unlike the Minister of the Interior, the President of the Cambridge Student Union has two special features.
First of all, Cambridge University does not always have presidents of student unions.
This is not difficult to understand. After all, they are supposed to lead the student representatives of all colleges. It is not possible to have them so easily every year.
According to the local timeline.
The last president of the Union of Students at Cambridge University was Tennyson, almost 20 years ago.
Secondly.
Cambridge University has a requirement for presidential candidates:
If you fail the election, you must immediately graduate and leave the college, and your resume will follow the graduation regulations.
This is also a requirement that stops many students who intend to run for president.
Many people often think of this word as "study", but in fact it is pronounced "yi".
It's a statement that's just above dropout, and not exactly respectable.
Many companies in later generations refused to accept graduates, let alone today in 1850.
So for Thomson.
Running for student union president is indeed a game you cannot afford to lose.
Also, if Xu Yun remembers correctly.
Thomson in the local timeline did not run for president of the Student Union of Cambridge University.
While he was studying for graduate school, he became a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Glasgow, so Xu Yun could not use the original history for reference or assistance.
Finish explaining these.
Thomson didn't wait for Mai to finish taking a shower, then turned around and left dormitory 302.
You can tell.
Even Thomson, who has facial paralysis, still lost his temper when talking about running for president of the Federation of Students.
After watching Thomson leave.
Xu Yun walked to his bed and began to sort and check his luggage.
Before entering the dungeon, he prepared about a dozen items, and the core skills basically covered various time periods.
In the end, only four small boxes were left with him in the 1850 copy:
First is the steel sword. (Some readers previously said that 304 is too rubbish, because no matter how good the steel is, it exceeds the productivity level)
Next is a small box containing gold.
Xu Yun went offline to buy 240 grams of pure gold before entering the dungeon, which was much more than when he went to the Northern Song Dynasty dungeon.
After deducting what was stolen in London, there is currently about a little over two hundred grams left.
In 1717, Calf or Lao Niu set the price of gold at 3 pounds, 17 shillings and 10 pence per troy ounce.
Since then, the pound has had its price fixed in gold,
This price lasted until 1931, with only interruptions between 1797 and 1819 and between 1914 and 1925.
Students who have studied mathematics should all know this.
1 constant ounce = 28.3495 grams.
1 troy ounce is equal to 1.0971428 constant ounces, which is equal to 31.1034768 grams.
To put it simply, 1 pound today contains approximately 7.32238 grams of pure gold.
In other words.
Xu Yun currently has about 27 or 28 pounds worth of gold, which is almost equal to eight months' income of an ordinary person.
The third one is the flashlight, there’s nothing much to say about it.
As for the fourth one
It is a small bottle with a height of four centimeters and a diameter of about 1.5 centimeters.
There are several words printed on the bottle:
Nitroglycerin.
In his previous life, Xu Yun had some heart problems due to years of coding, and he felt a little uncomfortable for a while.
In addition, at that time, several colleagues died of heart problems one after another, so he kept nitroglycerin on hand all year round on the advice of his doctor.
Before traveling this time, Xu Yun thought that this thing was small but might have miraculous effects, so he took it with him.
Nitroglycerin was invented in 1847 by Sobrello, a chemist at the University of Turin, but it was initially unable to be used due to its unstable chemical properties.
This situation would last until 1866, before Swedish chemist Nobel solved its stability problem.
As for its use in treating heart disease, it was even later, probably around 1875.
So it's obvious.
This is another thing that appeared due to changes in the timeline.
After all, Maverick's obsession with alchemy is well known. It is not unusual for him to discover something during the alchemy process, which prompted or even directly led to the emergence of nitroglycerin.
all in all.
The above four items were Xu Yun's entire possessions in 1850, and at most they were just a windbreaker and Anta shoes.
Now he still owes Aveline a debt of 140,000 pounds. In order to prevent the halo halo from materializing the debt in the form of Easter eggs, Xu Yun must consider making money to pay off the debt.
"Steel sword, flashlight, gold and nitroglycerin"
Xu Yun played with the flashlight he brought with him, his expression a little solemn.
The material of steel parts is obviously better than the weapons of this era, but nowadays, except for the border, the mainstream weapons are flintlock guns.
The flashlight is a popular product, and its only selling point is that the light intensity is much higher.
As for nitroglycerin
It is actually not easy to use in an emergency.
Because this era is truly a period of primitive accumulation, the levels and interests involved behind heart disease are enough to make many people take risks.
Therefore, if there are special circumstances at present, the most pounds Xu Yun can collect should be around one hundred pounds.
If you are interested in knowing the goods, you can probably increase it to around 120.
This should be the maximum amount he can collect now if he sells off his assets.
What can one hundred pounds do?
"It's hard to bear"
Just when Xu Yun was a little troubled, Xiaomai's voice suddenly came to his ears:
"Male top? What man top?"
Xu Yun turned his head and found that Mai was wearing a pair of big pants and walked out of the bathroom while wiping himself.
He shook his head slightly and said vaguely:
"It's okay, I'm thinking about class."
Xiaomai nodded innocently, and smoothed out his already thin blond hair:
"Huh? Where is Mr. Thomson? Is he gone?"
Xu Yunjian thought for a moment and then decided to tell Thomson that Xiaomai planned to run for president of the Student Federation:
"Yes, Mr. Thomson is planning to run for President of the Union of Students at Cambridge University, so you have to be prepared too."
Xiaomai was stunned for a moment and blurted out a sentence:
"I'm ready? What does it have to do with me?"
Xu Yun bent down and picked up a towel, raised his head and threw it towards him:
"Go back to your Scottish accent, are we serious about reading novels?"
Then he paused.
I feel like this fool who looks a bit like Enrico in "School Boy" really has no political sensitivity:
"You are stupid. You were introduced to Trinity College by Mr. Thomson. To outsiders, you are Mr. Thomson's direct descendant. Oh, I guess that counts."
"But compared to me, a good-for-nothing, you are a once-in-a-century student of Trinity School with reduced tuition, and you are even nicknamed Mavericks Newton No. 2."
"So if something happens to you, do you think it will damage Mr. Thomson's prestige?"
As he spoke, he glanced at Wheat who was thoughtful, sighed, and continued:
"Don't think that you are invincible just because you are the second student with reduced fees after Newton. At most, others will not dare to persecute you in terms of personal safety."
"But if someone tries to trick you academically, the school may not be able to help you."
After saying that, Xu Yun shook his head.
There is no need to question Wheat's character, but his experience is really lacking.
It is certainly a good thing to be careless, but it is not good to be careless or lacking in care.
According to the original historical trajectory.
Wheat will get into a very serious car accident because of this too 'simple' character.
1859.
For the first time, Wheat used statistical laws to derive Maxwell's velocity distribution law, thus finding a more accurate way to find the statistical average from microscopic two.
One winter later, Wheat met Faraday and described his ideas in detail.
This was also the only time the two met in their lives.
As a result, less than two months after Wheat returned to Edinburgh, a director of the Royal Society came to visit.
He told Xiaomai that Faraday was not in good health and could not reply to the letter, so he could only dictate some content to Xiaomai through the Royal Society.
"Faraday" suggested that he start with Virta's unconventional transport theory to try to solve the derivation problems of heat conduction and gas internal friction.
Then
Wheat actually believed it.
Well, there is no doubt about the letter anymore.
Ever since.
Wheat jumped directly to another pit before the molecular distribution function—that is, the velocity distribution function of later generations—had not yet been derived.
It took him two years to create this trap. It was not until a letter with Faraday in 1862 that Xiaomai realized that he had been tricked.
Therefore, Wheat could only overturn all his ideas in the past two years, reintroduce the concept of relaxation time, and solve this problem four years later.
So Xu Yun hopes that through Thomson's incident, Xiaomai can quickly realize the reality that there is a dark side in academia - no matter what happens, you still have to be vigilant, right?
After all, most of the courses for undergraduates and graduate students are different. Without Xu Yun by Xiaomai's side, who knows when he would have jumped into the trap.
Of course.
Someone may ask.
That’s not right, Fishing Girl, didn’t nothing happen to Wheat in normal history? (What a hammer.)
That's right.
It is true that nothing happened to Maimai in normal history, but Thomson in normal history did not run for president, right?
Xu Yun can guarantee that the wheat in this dungeon will definitely encounter Wu Zhuan taking off his pants - an invisible target.
He dared to gamble on this with five chapters and more!
Then Xu Yun and Xiaomai mentioned some things that should be paid attention to, and the two had dinner with the leftover bread and potatoes on the road.
Then he dragged his body, which was a little tired from the long journey, to bed to rest.
A night of silence.
Early the next morning.
Xu Yun woke up to the sound of hymns.
"Ha"
He yawned lazily, rubbed his eyes and climbed out of bed.
He put on his clothes and went to the window, looking out the window where the singing was coming from.
As the seminary of the University of Cambridge, Trinity College organizes a choir for each grade to sing outside the dormitory at a fixed time every morning, which also serves as an alarm clock.
At that time, there was a film producer in Europe and the United States who even tried his best to make a small movie. It was basically a buzzing thing while a choir was singing. As a result, the platform was taken away by a wave of people that day.
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Then Xu Yun looked at Mai, who was sleeping like a dead pig, and decided to go to the water room to get some hot water first.
As a result, as soon as he went out, he saw Jones Border, who was also yawning - the same Snape guy from yesterday.
The senior was quite enthusiastic when they met yesterday, so Xu Yun smiled and nodded to him:
"Senior Jones, good morning."
But what he didn't expect was.
The senior who greeted him with a smile yesterday only glanced at him lightly after seeing him, and then walked to the other end of the corridor.
Xu Yun:
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The life of this 21st century science and technology hegemon at Cambridge University in 1850 began with a blank stare. (End of chapter)