Volume 2: The crown and the hat are all over the capital, and the spirit is full of energy and enter the foggy city Chapter 39 FSM
This chapter's subtitle: Cooking doesn't care, RAmen!
"Sir, your French onion soup."
Our Master Yuan pointed to his bowl of soup and said, "Look, sirs. If I were a Buddhist, I wouldn't even be able to eat onions."
"Hehehe..." The three soldiers chuckled a few times, but didn't know how to respond.
Major Cao Linsheng was a very kind person, otherwise he would not have become a respected teacher. He was also very upset about the Paris Peace Conference's handling of the Qingdao issue, so he later gave up his job as a military attaché and became the director of the Department of Physical Education at Tsinghua University.
He wanted to change the topic, which was too controversial and embarrassing, and said, "Neo, you know? The Democrats in Washington are resentful of you, especially..."
"Especially the old fellow William Jennings Bryan!" Yuan Yan immediately said, "Thank you, Lance. If you hadn't reminded me, I would have forgotten that there is this 'great commoner' in the Democratic Party."
So who is this Mr. Bryan? He was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1896, 1900, and 1908. Of course, he failed all three times. But this also shows his status in American politics and the Democratic Party.
In 1913, in return for Mr. Bryan's role in securing the Democratic nomination for Woodrow Wilson, he was appointed Secretary of State.
He was a radical political and economic figure and a national leader in the bimetallism system, a currency system that used both gold and silver as the standard currency and was popular in the early stages of capitalist development in Western Europe.
Mr. Bryan proposed an economic policy that made Northeastern financiers feel uneasy, that is, to mint unlimited silver coins at a silver-to-gold ratio of 16 to 1. So the movement he led was called the Free Silver Movement.
Well, if this policy can be implemented... Nonsense, of course it can't be implemented! So although this "great commoner" has a very high prestige among the common people, he still can't be elected president.
However, no one is perfect. He hated the theory of evolution that was popular at the time and believed that German militarism and American robber barons were all related to social Darwinism.
This brilliant orator was the most influential spokesman for the anti-evolution movement at the time, arguing that taxpayers had the right to decide what was taught in public schools, whether biology professors liked it or not.
Thanks to his efforts and advocacy, anti-evolution legislation was passed in five states between 1921 and 1929.
This was undoubtedly the "great victory" of fundamentalism in the United States, so even into the 21st century, nearly half of Americans still do not believe that humans evolved from monkeys.
This is because the number of middle school students in the United States increased from 360,000 in 1890 to 2.5 million in 1920, and many children from lower-middle-class families were able to go to school, and the education they received was anti-evolution education.
“Dang!”
When our Master Yuan thought of this, he was so angry that he threw the soup spoon into the empty soup bowl without any courtesy.
"It's a crime! He is committing a crime! It's a crime against the great United States of America!" he said gritting his teeth.
Captain Arnold coughed and said, "This... Mr. Yuan, this doesn't seem to be a crime."
"Captain, how is this not a crime?" Yuan Yan said with her neck stiff, "When I think about the next generation of Americans receiving fundamentalist anti-intellectual education, I can't sit still, I can't sleep well, I can't enjoy my food..."
"Sir, your seafood spaghetti is for three people."
"Thank you, can I have some ketchup?"
"sure."
“Hula hula… hula.”
In front of three officers with big appetites, the angry Master Yuan finished three servings of Italian seafood pasta in just three bites, then picked up a large piece of bread in front of him and began to wipe the soup in the plate.
As he wiped it, he said, "By the way, where was I?"
Major Cao stammered, "I don't like the food."
"Yes, when I think of this, I lose my appetite." Yuan Yan said very seriously: "The 21st century... um, what is the most important thing in the 20th century?"
“Talent, of course it’s talent!”
"If the next generation of Americans receive such ignorant education from an early age, they will only produce a group of charlatans instead of talents. In this case, how can America lead the development of science and technology? How can it compete with other countries? How can it maintain its position as the world's largest industrial country?"
"No, we can't just sit there and do nothing!" Our Master Yuan made up his mind in an instant, so he immediately stood up and raised his hand and said, "Waiter , three more servings of pasta!"
"People with quirks are not necessarily geniuses, but geniuses definitely have quirks, because their brain circuits are different from those of ordinary people. This sentence was said by Mr. Yuan Yanshu. And as a genius, he does have quirks. As he often said, food brings him inspiration, and inspiration brings him appetite."
"He really likes to create at the dining table, and the smoother his creations are, the better his appetite is. So some people say that Mr. Yuan is definitely not the person with the biggest appetite in the world, but he is very likely the genius with the biggest appetite."
——Excerpt from The Oddities of Geniuses
After a while, the three servings of noodles that Yuan Yan ordered were served.
But this time he didn't eat right away. Instead, he rolled up some noodles with a fork and piled them in the empty bowl in front of him. Then he made two balls with mashed potatoes and placed them on the noodles, and then put two drops of ketchup in the balls. Finally, he used a fork to slightly adjust the shape of the noodles and separated a few noodles from the pile, like tentacles.
He lifted the basin, looked at it, nodded with satisfaction, and then showed it to the three officers present...
"Gentlemen, look!"
The three officers were indeed somewhat helpless about his childish behavior, but they were not angry at all. This was because... he was an artist who could ignore the rules of the world, not a soldier like them who had to follow the rules.
Aren’t all artists like this? The more crazy an artist is, the more powerful he is.
To be honest, human beings are much more tolerant of artists than ordinary people. Looking at Yuan Yanshu's crazy appearance, the three officers, especially the one with an "unruly soul", felt a little envious.
Yes, our Master Yuan is so "genuine". And Patton often talks nonsense, for example, he said in the late World War II that if my army was caught between Germany and the Soviet Union, I would fight both sides, but he almost got on a ship back to the United States because of this.
Of course, they didn't know what this pile of pasta with eyeballs and tentacles was, so they had to ask, "Mr. Yuan, what is this?"
"This is the god I just created, the Flying Spaghetti Monster!"
