Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 110 58 From France to Belgium

Watching chess without talking is a real gentleman. Although Chen Muwu knew that he was good at mahjong, he also hated this kind of behavior of pointing behind his back.

After he turned around with a grim expression, he found that the person standing behind him was an East Asian man wearing a suit and tie, with black hair, black eyes and yellow skin. Only then did Chen Muwu realize that the voice just coming from behind was actually The Chinese words are correct and round.

In the English-only environment in Cambridge, he could only speak a few words of Chinese unscrupulously when meeting Ye Gongchao.

But Ye Gongchao, who started writing novels recently, gradually tended to become a fake foreign devil. He always liked to mix a few English words in a good sentence.

Chen Muwu was still staring at this person, a little dazed, but he didn't expect his compatriots to be more anxious than him: "Sir, hurry up and play this two-of-a-kind card, no one wants this card anymore."

Chen Muwu stretched out his hand in a daze, followed his command, and beat Er Tiao out.

This step was indeed the finishing touch for bringing the dead back to life. With the cooperation of off-court support, Chen Muwu miraculously won this one.

It's just that his cards are too small, and the money he earned is completely incomparable with what he just output.

"Stop playing, stop playing," Chen Muwu stood up from the poker table knowingly as the three people on the poker table glared at him who had foreign aid, "I met a fellow on the boat, and I want to go with him." Let’s catch up on the old days, you should either change your person, or take a rest, I guess you will arrive in France in a short time.”

Turning around, Chen Muwu invited the compatriot behind him to the bar.

Although he still lost a lot of money in total, thanks to this fellow, he was able to win at the end of the game.

Inviting him to a glass of beer should be the most basic etiquette.

"Chen Muwu, Mr. Yu, by the looks of him, he shouldn't be an international student from around London, right? I haven't asked you how to call him yet?" asked Chen Muwu, who ordered a glass of beer and a glass of soda as usual.

At the gathering reported at the legation during the New Year this year, he basically saw all the members of the London Chinese Student Union. There is such a number one person.

"So you are the Mr. Chen who was said in the newspaper to have discovered the Yellow Emperor Star? I didn't expect you to be so young. It's a pleasure to meet you!" Hearing Chen Muwu's self-reported family name, the other party looked surprised, "Xiangshan Guo Linshuang, I am not International students, come to Europe this time to run business for the family."

Looking at Guo Linshuang's clothes and decent conversation, she really looks like a businessman, either a comprador of a foreign firm or a manager of a bank.

There are a lot of people like this in the sea, after all, Chen Muwu's second brother is also one of them.

But Chen Muwu still doesn't know what a huge business the Guo family is behind.

Guo Linshuang has been in the UK since last summer, and has been traveling between the US, the UK, and continental Europe because of business matters.

So he also read a lot of news about Chen Muwu from the newspapers, so he naturally knew about the planet he discovered some time ago.

After learning that he was Chen Muwu, Guo Linshuang seemed very excited, and quickly took over the initiative of the conversation: "Mr. Chen, is there anything you want to go to France this time?"

"You can call me Hanchen. I am just passing through France. I will transfer from Paris to Brussels, Belgium, to attend a physics conference there."

However, Guo Linshuang was obviously not interested in physics, so after a few polite chats, he returned to flattering Chen Muwu.

From Ye Gongchao and the continuous congratulatory letters from China, these compliments have already made Chen Muwu's ears callused, but in the face of the excited Guo Linshuang, he can only keep a gentlemanly smirk and listen quietly. .

"Mr. Chen, I just found out today that foreigners also like to play mahjong. I think their level seems to be very high. What's going on?"

Chen Muwu explained to him in embarrassment how this mahjong tile became popular in Cambridge University by accident.

The vigorous promotion of Kapica is one aspect, but the key is that the gameplay is novel and attractive.

The speaker is unintentional and the listener is interested.

As a businessman, Guo Lin knew a little bit about it, but after watching Chen Muwu play a few rounds of cards with three foreigners, he began to think about the big business hidden behind it.

……

"Han Chen, why don't you see your wife?" After drinking a glass of beer, Guo Lin's cool topic turned to life.

"Sorry Mr. Guo, I'm still single and not married."

"Sorry, sorry."

Guo Linshuang apologized repeatedly, as if she knew that Chen Muwu was not married yet, so she poked him in a sore spot.

However, if someone's girl can marry this handsome and knowledgeable young man in front of her, it should be a good story.

Before parting at the bar, Guo Linshuang took out a business card and handed it to Chen Muwu, saying that if he returned to Qihai in the future, he could find him according to the address on the business card.

After Chen Muwu took it, he found that the two English words WING ON were printed in the middle of the top of the business card.

WING ON?Yongan?
Wing On Department Store?

This is one of the four major department stores in Qihai. When Chen Muwu was a clerk at the Railway Administration, every time he came home from get off work, he would change to a tram at the Rishenglou Station at the intersection in front of Yongan Department Store. .

The founder of Wing On Department Store is the Guo Brothers, an overseas Chinese in Australia, and the person in front of him is also surnamed Guo, so that means...

"Mr. Guo, I don't know what your relationship is with Chairman Guo Le of Wing On Department Store?"

"Chairman Guo is my father's second elder brother and my second uncle." Guo Linshuang answered very frankly, without any concealment.

"It turned out to be Yong'an's young master. It was me who didn't know Taishan with my eyes. I was disrespectful and disrespectful."

The suit Chen Muwu is wearing now, and the pens in his pockets are all bought from Wing On Department Store.

Now that he can see the young owner of Yong'an Company, it is basically equivalent to walking on the street in later generations, and when he looks up, he finds Dong Ge, who doesn't know his wife and beauty, coming towards him.

"Hey, no matter how much money you can make, you can't compare with Mr. Chen. You are the most admirable people who study science, improve the prestige of your country, and promote the progress of society and mankind."

The two said a few more polite words in front of the bar before parting, and went to their respective cabins.

Although it is a joy to meet an old acquaintance in a foreign land, I don't know if we will meet again in the future.

……

After disembarking from Calais and changing trains to Paris, de Broglie's friendship as a landlord once again let Chen Muwu see what it means to be rich and powerful.

The group not only lived in their family's villa in the suburbs of France, but also had sumptuous meals every day.

Although the daily dinner at Trinity College is richer than that of ordinary British families, it is not only richer, but also tastes much better than the food cooked in England.

De Broglie also led the three of them to his brother's private laboratory, which was indeed much better than the Cavendish laboratory as he said to Chen Muwu when he was in Cambridge.

Looking at the experimental environment with bright and clean windows, even Rutherford couldn't help but praise him.

I spent a few days of rich and noble life carelessly at De Broglie's house, eating, entertaining and playing mahjong every day. Even Rutherford was a little addicted to it, and even refused to invite him to play the game he loved the most before. One sport, golf.

However, Chen Muwu took the time to write out the first draft of his paper on the incompatibility principle.

Then, when it was time to leave again, the group returned to the university in central Paris from their villa in the suburbs, and met with their French counterparts waiting here.

It's the Olympic year, and there is a place in the streets and alleys of Paris where slogans and posters have begun to appear.

Although the official opening ceremony has to wait until July, some games will start earlier in the near future.

Chen Muwu doesn't remember any useful information about the Olympic Games 100 years ago.

The only cold knowledge he knows comes from football.

As one of the few countries with four stars printed on the chest of the jersey, Uruguay actually has two stars not because of winning the World Cup, but the Olympics.One of the stars is from this year's Olympic Games.

It's a pity that there is no football lottery or gaming company, otherwise Chen Muwu would definitely make a lot of money from this matter.

In Paris, the group met De Broglie's teacher Langevin, who was an old acquaintance of Chen Muwu's teacher Rutherford. When the two were young, they used to be classmates in the Cavendish laboratory, and then they each grew up to be great. Physicists in the past few years have met many times at various international physics conferences.

As for Chen Muwu, he once again experienced the passionate face-to-face gift from the French, this time of course it was from Langevin.

"Chen, nice to meet you!
"Since you put forward the theory that electrons are a kind of wave, to be honest, I have always been skeptical, thinking in my heart, why is this young man so bold, and every time he puts forward a new idea, it is so shocking.

"Unexpectedly, Louis believed in your theory so deeply that he even went to England to conduct experiments with you.

"I really didn't expect that the two of you were actually able to carry out this experiment, and even got the expected results!
"After reading the articles you two published, I think maybe I'm getting old and that's why I'm as intimidated as I am now."

"Mr. Langevin, you are too much." Chen Muwu said politely

This guy is actually a wonderful person. Unlike Rutherford who prevented Kapitza from promoting ummism in the Cavendish laboratory, Langevin began to oppose fascism with his academic reputation after he came to power from the mustache. Therefore, in the years when France was occupied by Germany, the Vichy government, regardless of Lang Zhi’s long-term stature and his huge influence in the physics field, just found a reason and threw this respected physicist away. went to prison.

After France was restored and Langevin was released from prison, he was still full of passion for struggle, and even became a member of the French Communist Party a year before his death.

There were several other French physicists standing beside Langevin, including Marcel Brillouin and Léon Brillouin and his son. I said hello.

However, there is a heavyweight French physicist who did not appear in this group, that is, Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize twice.

After the accidental death of Pierre Curie, between Langevin and Mrs. Curie, there was a piece of lace news that appeared in Paris newspapers.

Although this relationship ended without a problem in the end, since then, Mrs. Curie will always avoid suspicion and try not to appear alone on the same occasion with this Langevin at the same time.

So for this Solvay meeting, Mrs. Curie has already set off ahead of schedule and went to the Belgian capital by herself.

After de Broglie and his group of four successfully joined the local French physicists, everyone boarded the train from Paris to Brussels.

In the carriage, Chen Muwu leaned against the back of the uncomfortable chair and closed his eyes to rest his mind. De Broglie, like Kapitza, seized all his free time and crazily promoted Mahjong, a game from his French teacher and colleagues. The game of Oriental Mystery China comes.

Humans are animals that can best adapt to the environment. Chen Muwu has gradually gotten used to the turbulence from the discomfort he felt when he first took the train northward, and this time he even fell asleep on the train.

Chen Muwu didn't wake up until it was getting late and the train arrived at the station in Brussels, the capital of Belgium.

Although Ernest Solvay, who invented the ammonia-soda method, passed away two years ago, his large legacy, as well as the foundation for this conference, are still in good operation.

So when we got off the train, there were special reception staff who took these physicists and their students from France and Britain to the hotel near the conference center.

The first Solvay Conference in 1911 was organized by Solvay on a whim.

He made his fortune by making alkali, and originally thought of creating a prize with a lot of bonuses to be awarded to physical chemists, but there was already a Nobel in front of him.

At this time, someone told him that it is better to provide travel expenses, board and lodging expenses, and gather the world's most famous physicists and chemists together, and let them have a meeting to discuss the future development direction of human society.

After hearing this, Solvay felt that this suggestion was very good, so he held the first meeting that year.

Due to the rush of preparation time, the first session was held at the rented venue.

Solvay felt that this was a bit condescending, so he invested a huge sum of money to build a Solvay International Institute of Physical Chemistry in the Leopold Park in Brussels, so from the second session, the meeting began in this magnificent held in the building.

It is also from the second session that every group photo of famous participants is on a lawn in front of the building, with this building as the background board.

Tomorrow, April 1924, 4, is the opening day of the Fourth Solvay Conference. According to the original schedule, the conference will last for five days.

During these days, this Solvay building should be the place with the highest physical level in the world.

It’s rare to get out of the busy and boring desks and laboratories. None of us felt tired from the exhausting journey. On the contrary, playing cards on the train was not enjoyable, so after entering the hotel and settled down, we got together again and continued to play cards. play mahjong.

Of course, they all knew that Chen Muwu's mahjong level was really bad, so they didn't call him to the poker table at all.

Chen Muwu was also happy to be at leisure, he went back to his room and fell asleep, recharging his energy for the upcoming meeting tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)