Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 141 89 The Magical Chinese Magic Square

After returning from the British embassy, ​​the next day, Xie Dongfa also came to visit Chen Muwu's residence.

His trip was a special trip to deliver news for the Republic of China Embassy in France.

Chen Muwu made such a great achievement in the Paris Olympics. As the Minister to France, Chen Lu thought that he must also meet with this hero and take two photos.

This is his great achievement in office, and when he returns to China in the future, it can also become the capital when he competes in the officialdom and politics.

So he found Xie Dongfa and asked him to invite Chen Muwu to meet him at the embassy.

When receiving this invitation, Chen Muwu's first reaction was that he didn't want to go.

When he was still in the UK, he sent telegrams to the French embassy but did not reply. He even asked Zhu Zhaoxin of the embassy in the British embassy to use his diplomatic contact information to inquire about how to sign up for the Olympics, but your old man still pretended to be dead.

Now that I have won the gold medal, I want to come over to pick peaches. What did I do so early?
But it was Xie Dongfa who came to the door. During the Olympics, this person helped him run before and after, and never cared about the return.

Chen Muwu could just pat his ass and leave, but this old man will still hang out in France in the future, if he doesn't go this time, it would be inappropriate for him to be implicated.

So Chen Muwu still agreed to the invitation, and asked someone to pick up Ye Gongchao from the villa in the suburbs in advance, and planned to take him to meet the Minister in France.

Get in touch with the Minister in France, and if Ye Gongchao encounters something in Paris in the future, it will be convenient for the embassy.

Seeing Ye Gongchao again, he has long since lost the handsome demeanor of a playboy, his beard is unshaven and his eyes are dull.

When taking this drunk from Chinatown last time, Chen Muwu told him and De Broglie to learn French well.

However, with De Broglie's status, although he can't condescend to teach him in person, it is definitely not a problem to find a few teachers.

Moreover, it should be a normal thing for noble families to find a few old-fashioned tutors who are knowledgeable but strict in teaching style, right?

Therefore, during the few days when Chen Muwu was in the Olympic Games, Ye Gongchao ate and drank in the villa in the suburbs, and devoted himself to learning.

"Gongchao, I haven't seen you for a few days. How is your French? Have you made any progress?"

When Ye Gongchao saw Chen Muwu, it was as if he had seen a savior. This time, he finally called the right generation: "Han... Chen Sanshu, Chen Sanshu, I really know I was wrong this time! I will never hang out with those gangsters and drinkers again. Together!"

"If you know a mistake, correct it. There is nothing good! Go shave, have a haircut, change into clean clothes, and accompany me to the legation tomorrow to meet the Minister."

After meeting the Minister the next day, Chen Muwu heard another flattery.

Chen Muwu had heard these words countless times at the party that De Broglie hosted for him after the game, and he couldn't get any numbness in his ears.

However, Minister Chen also found a rather novel entry point.

He and Chen Muwu actually became relatives, saying that his surname is Chen, and he is also surnamed Chen. The two belonged to the same family 500 years ago.

Who is with you!
Chen Muwu is from Jiang, and Chen Lu is from forced construction.

Thanks to his rich imagination, he was able to come up with such an absurd approach.

After a few words with the envoy, Chen Muwu and Ye Gongchao were left in the embassy again by Chen Luqiang, and had dinner together.

"Han Chen, you have been in Europe for more than a year. During this period, you must not have eaten the local dishes a few times. In my legation, it is a coincidence that there are so many cooks brought from China. Tonight You and Gongchao will stay here, and we will have a family dinner, and by the way, it can be regarded as a celebration for you to win four gold medals in the Olympics."

Chen Muwuxin said that my buddy eats a Chinese meal almost every now and then, and the person standing next to him should have a higher level of cooking than his academic level.

When it was time for dinner, Chen Muwu found out why Chen Lu wanted to keep him for a family dinner.

The so-called family banquet, then there must be other family members of the owner.

So during the banquet, Chen Lu naturally introduced his wife and, uh, daughter to Chen Muwu.

Chen Muwu felt that he had committed a crime recently. First, Cai Yuanpei wanted to accept him as his son-in-law, and now Chen Lu wanted to introduce his daughter to him.

In Chen Muwu's heart, he is only 22 years old this year, and he has just passed the legal marriage age stipulated in the "Marriage Law", so he can still be regarded as a young man.

But in the eyes of the people in the Republic of China, he was not married at the age of 22, which already meant a bit late marriage and late childbearing.

What can I say about Chen Lu's daughter's appearance? She can't be said to be good-looking, nor can she be called a middle-aged figure, but she can only be said to be quite... rich.

Of course, even if this young lady of the Chen family is a fish and a wild goose, and a fairy descends to earth, Chen Muwu doesn't want to have anything to do with the minister in front of him.

The most famous event in Chen Lu's life was not because he signed the unequal "China-Russia-Mongolia Treaty" in Kyakhta on behalf of the government of the Republic of China.

It was because he himself was the highest-ranking official shot by the military during the entire War of Resistance Against Japan.

The reason why Chen Lu was shot by the army was because he became a traitor and became the foreign minister of the Wang puppet government.

To be a traitor's son-in-law?

How hard is he, Chen Muwu?

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A few days later, the enthusiasm for winning the Olympic Games finally gradually dissipated.

Chen Muwu wanted to take advantage of the time before the closing ceremony to write the remaining two wave equation papers.

But although he wanted to write, some people didn't want him to write.

De Broglie has been in a good mood these days.

Because after matrix mechanics troubled him for more than half a month, de Broglie finally found another way to solve the problem by relying on the wave equation given by Chen Muwu.

So now every day he always "tortures" Chen Muwu in different ways, either to take him around Paris, or to take him to a winery in the countryside to see the precious wine he has stored in a cellar. wine.

Chen Muwu really didn't tire of being disturbed. It seems that if he wants to write his thesis with peace of mind, he must first help De Broglie to disperse his excess energy.

Soon he thought of a way, took out a blank piece of paper, and drew a total of 81 squares of nine times nine on it.

In addition, the third and sixth columns and the dividing line between the third and sixth rows are thickened, and these 81 squares are divided into three rows and three columns, a total of nine nine squares.

Then Chen Muwu randomly filled in a few numbers in it, and then called De Broglie to ask him to fill in the nine numbers from one to nine in the 81 squares, and each row, column and each In Jiugongge, numbers can only appear once.

Things like Sudoku have long been rotten in later generations, but they are still a novelty now.

Let De Broglie use it to pass the time and not bother himself, it is a good choice.

Sure enough, using Sudoku, Chen Muwu managed to hide from Xiao Xian.

De Broglie is obsessed with these 81 small squares, and Chen Muwu can also calm down and write a thesis quietly.

As for Ye Gongchao, who finally returned to human society, he was imprisoned in an empty room in this residence again, and made a new round of revisions to the first draft of "There Were None" based on Chen Muwu's comments.

Two days later, De Broglie, with dark circles under his eyes, approached Chen Muwu again.

"Chen, I have solved quite a few problems you gave me, but some of them don't seem to have a unique solution."

There is no unique solution.

It is said that at least seventeen numbers are needed to give Sudoku a unique solution.

But when Chen Muwu came up with the question, he didn't have the time to help de Broglie verify whether it was the only solution one by one. He just filled in a few numbers at random.

"Chen, this very novel puzzle is very interesting, does it have a name?"

"It's called su (number)... No, no, this thing is called Magic Square (Magic Square), Chinese Magic Square (Chinese Magic Square)."

Ever since he gave Bohr the Tai Chi Tu, and Zhuang Zhou Mengdie, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai to the Duke of York and the Crown Prince of Sweden, Chen Muwu felt that he was gradually fascinated by cultural export.

Since I have already designed the Sudoku game mode in advance, it is absolutely impossible to give it a sudoku name that looks Japanese at a glance.

So he continued to fool around: "Louis, this game of filling one to nine into the grid has appeared in China as early as thousands of years ago. Our ancestors first called it 'Hetu' and 'Luoshu'." ', and later called this kind of thing a 'magic square'.

"Later, along with the Arab merchants who traded east and west, while transporting Chinese goods to Europe, they also introduced the magic square to Europe.

"In the eighteenth century, the great mathematician Euler created a mathematical model called the Latin cube based on the magic square.

"Then, one day last year, I accidentally discovered this research conducted by Euler in the library of Cambridge University. I thought it was similar to the ancient Chinese game called magic square, so I added some information based on the two. Improvement, thus forming the appearance on the paper in your hand now.

"What do you think, is it still fun?"

"Absolutely, I found that from mahjong to magic square, you Chinese seem to be very good at number games."

How were these two things connected by De Broglie?

Apart from the fact that they both use the numbers one to nine, there should be no other similarities, right?
But when he kept saying the word magic square, Chen Muwu suddenly thought of another similar phrase, that is magic cube, Rubik's cube.

Fortunately, I can't live in France for a few days, otherwise, when De Broglie gets tired of playing with this magic cube, he will try to figure out the Rubik's cube, which will plunge Mr. Duke into deep self-doubt again.

(End of this chapter)