Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 186 134 The Duke of York's Invitation

The plexiglass is finished, but there are still many things that Chen Muwu needs to be busy with after that.

Because it was the first time to make it and he had no experience, he spent a few days polishing the glass surface, then cut it into several pieces of equal size, and put them together with the remaining scraps in his backpack.

In fact, the last few things can be done by skilled workers, but Chen Muwu is afraid that if it is leaked at the last moment, the success will fall short, so he does everything by himself.

Old Prague was not very interested in what Chen Muwu did, and was even a little disappointed.

In the Cavendish Laboratory, Dr. Chen fiddles with gamma-ray sources and X-ray sources every day, doing sophisticated physics experiments.

Why did he start to study beakers and flasks as soon as he arrived at David Faraday's laboratory?
Old Prague was still very interested before. He couldn't figure out why Chen Muwu asked him to buy hydrocyanic acid.

He occasionally came to Chen Muwu's place to observe, but then he gradually became disappointed, and then he didn't even come back once in a month.

As the director, he still wants to rebuild the laboratory. Since Rutherford has boasted and Chen Muwu can't get money, Old Prague has to think of other ways.

In the David Faraday Laboratory, Chen Muwu was the only one who basically participated in the whole process of this work.

Although Shi Ruwei and Chen Muwu came to London at the beginning of the year, after recognizing the crude environment of the laboratory and the status quo of zero funding, Chen Muwu finally decided to let him return to Cambridge University to take classes.

Fortunately, this decision was made at the time, and the production of plexiglass was already at the end of April, the spring semester of Cambridge University had already ended, and even the Easter semester had already begun.

Had I stayed in London, it would have been a waste of time.

Going back and forth between the Legation of the Republic of China and the Royal Research Institute every day, Chen Muwu has always been able to learn about some major events at home and abroad from Zhu Zhaoxin.

Mr. Sun, who was sick and went north, failed to return to the south, but died in another country. The matter that Zhu Zhaoxin asked Chen Muwu to help him with a few good words also had the final result.

The good news is that Zhu Zhaoxin finally went a step further and was promoted from first secretary and chargé d'affaires to minister of the Republic of China.

The bad news is that his country of residence is not Britain, but Italy.

The good news is that he will stay in the UK first, and after handing over all the affairs in the embassy to the new minister in the UK, he will go to Italy to take up his post.

And the new envoy to the UK does not know who it is, probably because this is a fat job, and several forces in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are fighting openly and secretly, and are not giving in to each other.

Chen Muwu also regretted that he should not have come forward to write that recommendation letter for Zhu Zhaoxin.

If he left now, wouldn't he have to work hard to get on good terms with the new envoy?
Well, let's take it one step at a time.

Now that the plexiglass has been made, the next step is to sell this rare product for a good price.

Ever since he figured out that selling to the second prince who also served in the Air Force should be more profitable than selling to that Brigadier General Daoding, Chen Muwu didn't think about contacting the latter again.

He dug out the address that the Duke of York had left for him last year, wrote a letter and sent it.

In the letter, Chen Muwu did not specify the specific content, but only said that he had a treasure and wanted to have the Duke of York take a look at it.

After writing the letter, Chen Muwu felt that he was very much like those courtiers who flattered the emperor in ancient times, saying that lotus flowers were juxtaposed in a certain place, and Ganoderma lucidum appeared in a certain place, in an attempt to get promoted and make a fortune.

However, the Duke of York is not yet the emperor, and Chen Muwu is not a subject of his Great Britain.

Not to mention being promoted and flattering, he just wants to get rich.

After writing the letter to the Duke of York, Chen Muwu wrote another letter to Oppenheimer of Cambridge University.

After receiving the letter, Oppenheimer was moved again. He felt that the teacher still missed him.

When Chen Muwu invited Shi Ruwei to go to London with him, although Oppenheimer didn't hold grudges, he still felt a little unhappy.

Now that the teacher wrote a letter, he was the first to invite himself to London, and he asked again. The remaining two people did not receive the teacher's call.

What does this mean?It shows that the teacher still puts himself first in his heart!

After receiving the letter, Oppenheimer bought tickets overnight and rushed from Cambridge University to London.

In fact, Chen Muwu wrote to Oppenheimer only because he was confident that after contacting the British Royal Air Force through the Duke of York, it would be a matter of time before they allocated funds for the plexiglass project and the David Faraday Laboratory.

Therefore, Chen Muwu planned to call Oppenheimer to his side first, and immediately send him to Leiden University in the Netherlands to handle matters related to the purchase of experimental instruments as soon as the money arrived.

As Sherlock's kin and the son of a merchant, although he finally embarked on academic research instead of continuing to engage in business, his racial talent should give him more or less bargaining power, right?
The letter to the Duke of York was quickly answered.

Since the last farewell to the British embassy in Paris, France, the second prince has not met Chen Muwu, a good alumnus of Trinity College.

After a long time, he also forgot about the "emotional mentor" Chen Muwu's "three sentences cost him [-] pounds".

Winning the Nobel Prize, the Big Bang, being elected as a fellow of the Royal Society, and fighting Einstein in a dizzying manner.

The Duke of York felt more and more that Dr. Chen, an alumnus of Trinity College, was becoming more and more unfathomable.

He has always wanted to go back to Cambridge University and meet Chen Muwu in a private capacity.

But because the royal family is too busy, the Duke of York doesn't even have time to play tennis, which can only be reduced to twice a week, and he has no time to see Dr. Chen.

After receiving a letter from Chen Muwu, I learned that he was not in Cambridge, but in London.

And he also said in the letter that there is a treasure that the Duke of York wants to take a look at, so he has to meet.

The second prince was just because he really wanted to meet this outstanding alumnus who hadn't seen him for a long time, and it was definitely not to see baby Lao Shizi.

The Duke of York called his personal servant to study which day he would be free recently.

He thought not only to meet Chen Muwu alone, but since it was a treasure offering, he had to let his friends learn a lot, especially the group of Oxford University graduates represented by Huxley.

……

Chen Muwu met the royal servant sent by the Duke of York in the David Faraday laboratory. This person was exactly the one Chen Muwu met at the Olympic Games in Paris last summer.

Writing a reply letter through the post office is really unreasonable, and the timeliness is not high, and it is easy to lose the letter, so Prince Albert directly sent someone to send the invitation letter and the game ticket to the Royal Research Institute where Chen Muwu worked.

"Dr. Chen, long time no see. Your Royal Highness, the Duke of York, invites you to watch this year's FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium at [-] pm this Saturday, and attend a private dinner hosted by His Royal Highness after the game. "

FA Cup?

Chen Muwu felt that the dimensional wall was broken again.

He was not a Moroccan in his previous life, so he was not a pure football lover.

Moreover, the football in his own country is not up to par, and his understanding of football is only at the level of cloud fans who occasionally play tricks.

It's three o'clock in the afternoon, which is the hotter time of the day.

Going to the open-air court to accept nine or 10 minutes of sun exposure is really not a thing to enjoy.

Chen Muwu guessed that the Duke of York thought he was a good athlete, so he invited him to enjoy this annual sports event.

He glanced at the newspaper unwillingly, wanting to know which two teams will play in this year's final.

If it is a famous team in the Premier League in later generations, then you can also brag later, saying that you have watched Arsenal's game or something.

By the way, I wonder what level of team Arsenal is now?Still in fourth place?

However, looking at the names of the two teams in the newspaper, Chen Muwu was a little dumbfounded.

Sheffield United played against Cardiff City. He had heard of both names, but he had only stopped at this stage.

Although he was conflicted in his heart, in order to successfully sell the plexiglass, Chen Muwu showed up at the gate of Wembley Stadium on time at noon on April 25th.

This magnificent stadium built in 1923 should be the largest stadium in the world today. It is much more magnificent than the Colombe Stadium where Chen Muwu participated in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Paris last year.

It's just that there is no VIP channel in the stadium, and the tickets are not sold in advance. Instead, the window is opened before the game starts, allowing spectators to line up to buy.

So there are huge crowds of people outside the stadium, and the order is also very chaotic.

Although Chen Muwu has a VIP ticket, there is no VIP channel in this stadium. He can only stand in the crowd and slowly move forward with the flow of people.

After squeezing into the stadium, Chen Muwu finally came to the box according to the guidance of the prompts on the field. Here, he also met the future King of England after nearly a year.

"Your Highness, long time no see."

"Dr. Chen, long time no see. Congratulations on winning the Nobel Prize in Physics! You are the pride of our University of Cambridge!"

"Your Highness, you are amazing. I should thank you for your support for the Cavendish Laboratory. With the funds you provided, the laboratory has been getting better and better recently."

After taking his seat, Chen Muwu discovered that this box was located in the place with the widest view of the auditorium of the stadium, and besides Chen Muwu, the Duke of York, and some royal servants who provided services, there was no one else in the box.

The royal servants placed some exquisite refreshments on the table, as well as an equally exquisitely crafted teapot.

"Dr. Chen, please enjoy the authentic British afternoon tea. Today, because of your arrival, I specially asked them to choose Chinese tea instead of Indian tea."

Prince York is really caring, but Chen Muwu couldn't be happy.

When normal people drink tea, they add milk and sugar to the tea water!

"Forget it, Your Highness, I don't like drinking black tea very much." He politely rejected the second prince's offer, "I didn't expect that you would invite me to watch a football match. Are you a football lover?"

"I like riding horses and playing tennis, but I don't like watching football very much. I came to the scene today as a last resort because I was present for His Majesty the King and I wanted to present awards to the champion.

"After I received your letter, I remembered that you are an Olympic champion, so I decided to arrange the meeting place for this occasion.

"I've been looking forward to hearing from you since we left France. Why did it take so long for this one to come!"

To put it mildly, whoever is serious is a fool.

I, an ordinary person, and you, a high-ranking prince, what can we talk about in common?
Is it in the letter to chat with you about the latest developments in physics, or to chat about various astrology in literature?

"Your Highness, I watched the sky at night and found that Mars has been hovering around Alpha Scorpius."

According to ancient Chinese astrology, Yinghuo is Mars, and Antares is the Alpha star in Scorpio.

Mars intruded into the Alpha star of Scorpio, which is called Yinghuo Shouxin in conversion.

Yinghuo guards the heart, a sign of great misfortune.

At the least, the prince lost his position, and at the worst, the emperor died.

If Chen Muwu really wrote that in his letter, then he might as well just go one step further and continue to write "The stars of Alpha Scorpio and Sigma are dim, while the surrounding stars of Scorpio are abnormally bright".

The two stars Sigma and Tau in Scorpio, like Alpha, belong to Antares, corresponding to Antares I and Antares III.

In ancient astrology, Antares [-] represents the emperor, Antares [-] represents the prince, and Antares [-] represents the concubine.

The subtext of the passage just now is that your father and your eldest brother will not be able to do it in the end, and there will be a day when you sit on the throne of St. Edward in England and the Stone of Destiny in Scotland!
Chen Muwu is now quite mysterious in the eyes of Doyle's gang of ghost club members.

If he really went to write such a letter to the Duke of York again, he would use astrology to express the facts that would happen in the future more than ten years in advance.

So wait until the Duke of York is on the throne, and savor what he wrote in the letter carefully.

It is estimated that Chen Muwu will be treated similarly to Rasputin in front of George VI.

Chen Muwu fell into that state of thinking blindly regardless of the people present, with a silly smile on the corner of his mouth.

Although the Duke of York felt that Chen Muwu's current behavior was a bit out of manner, his good family education did not allow him to express his dissatisfaction.

Maybe it was because of football, so I thought of some new academic discoveries?
"Dr. Chen, what are you thinking?"

The Duke of York kindly reminded.

"No, it's nothing, Your Highness, I lost my composure," Chen Muwu quickly apologized, "I just heard you say that you don't like football just because you want to replace the king to attend the final awards ceremony.

"It seems that you, as a member of the royal family, have your own difficulties. My only worry is that you will have more opportunities to attend such occasions in the future, not less."

It's uncomfortable not to give spoilers, but Chen Muwu still cryptically said what was in his heart.

(End of this chapter)