Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 258 206 The haunting invitation

Who are you, buddy?
This was Chen Muwu's first reaction.

The dinner he attended today was organized by the Sulian foreign affairs department to welcome the visiting Swedish crown prince.

But his invitation letter was prepared for him by the Swedish side.

In other words, Chen Muwu is equivalent to attending this dinner as a guest, as a member of the entourage of the Crown Prince of Sweden.

Under such circumstances, he would always be reluctant to ask for another invitation letter from the Swedish consulate to bring Oppenheimer along.

After all, even Kapitsa, who has been by his side as an interpreter these days, was not invited.

Chen Muwu was completely alone today, he was taken aback by the unexpected visitor who suddenly came over.

I still remember when Oppenheimer met Dirac for the first time. Dirac, who was so excited because he discovered a "mistake" by Chen Muwu, rushed into the party of the Capitza Club. It was Oppenheimer who first met Dirac. He came to his senses and stopped between Chen Muwu and Dirac.

If Oppenheimer was by his side now, he, the great protector, would definitely repeat his original behavior and rush out to block the front immediately.

There are many black-haired, black-eyed and yellow-skinned people in Sulian, but there are not many serious Far Easterners.

Chen Muwu didn't know which one was walking towards him, was he Chinese?Or myself?Or is it South Korea?

Oh sorry, no Korea yet.

Before coming to Sulian, Chen Muwu specially went to the Chinese Legation in London to find out the situation here with Chargé d'Affaires Chen Weicheng.

Although Su Lian had been in contact with the Guangdong side, it was the Beiyang government that signed the agreement to establish diplomatic relations with Lidong in 1924.

It may be a newly established country that urgently needs to improve its international status.

In the agreement signed by Su Lian and the Beiyang government, the two sides not only skipped the ministerial level, but directly established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level, and besides the embassy in Moscow, the Beiyang government could even establish a consulate general in Leograd .

When mentioning this consulate, Chen Weicheng said enviously: "Brother Hanchen, you don't know that our Consul General stationed in Zuigle was really brilliant when he took office. I heard that he came from Beijing Taking the train to Sulian, I took a total of 45 carriages of servants, and I brought thirty to forty cooks for the North and South dishes."

Although the first key word Chen Muwu caught from these words was thirty or forty cooks, and he had already begun to imagine that after Leograd, he would be able to feast on every day and eat endlessly, but he was still shocked The luxury of this battle when the consul general took office.

From Beijing to Moscow, you need to take the Trans-Siberian Railway. For such a long distance, you can’t buy a seat ticket, you can only sleep in a sleeping car, but even if a sleeping car sleeps 45 people, there are [-] people in [-] cars.

A few days ago, didn't Chen Weicheng cry and complain that the British Legation had no funds and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wouldn't send them money?

He is also from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, how can this person be so rich!
Let alone the son of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, it is estimated that even the Minister of Foreign Affairs himself would not be able to hire so many entourages.

"Chen Charge d'Affaires, who is this Consul General? Could it be that he is the son of a rich family who spent money to donate an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?"

"The son of a rich family? Their family is even richer than a rich family! This Consul General of Shuijun Shaoshui, his family was originally a salt merchant in Changsu Province, and later he married Zhang Wenxiang's daughter. husband!"

Darling, that’s really incredible!

Whether it is Zhang Wenxiang or Xiangshuai mentioned in Chen Weicheng's words, they are all referring to the same person.

That is one of the "Four Famous Ministers of Zhongxing in the Late Qing Dynasty". Photos are often worshiped by others in the comment area of ​​Douyin, and they are mistaken for Li Hongzhang's Zhang Zhidong.

After Zhang Zhidong's death, the posthumous title given to him by the Qing government was Wenxiang, so he was called Zhang Wenxiang.

And because he was called "Xiangtao" and served as the governor-general known as "Dashuai", he was also called "Xiangshuai".

Zhang Zhidong was also one of the representatives of the Westernization Movement. At that time, the first and largest Hanyang Iron Works in Asia was the iron and steel enterprise founded by him.

The profits of the iron and steel factory were huge, and they were not cheated by the British like the Kaiping Mining Bureau. As the founder of the iron factory, Zhang Zhidong would definitely make a lot of money from it.

Shui Junshao is not only Zhang Zhidong's son-in-law, his son-in-law is also very famous.

Shui Junshao's eighth daughter is named Shui Shifang. During the Anti-Japanese War, because of her father's status in the diplomatic department, she also entered the Dutch embassy in Qingqing to work.

Shui Shifang met a first secretary in the Dutch embassy, ​​Robert Hans van Gulik, and eventually became his wife.

This first secretary has another Chinese name, Gao Luopei, who is the foreigner who wrote "Da Tang Di Gong An".

There is a father-in-law and a son-in-law, and Shui Junshao, who is caught in the middle, has become the least famous one in the whole family inheritance.

Just like what Chen Weicheng said, Shui Junshao's family was originally a salt merchant, and he became a heavyweight father-in-law. This family condition can afford to hire so many servants.

But is this necessary?

Whether it was necessary or not, Chen Muwu at that time couldn't wait to leave the UK and go to Leugrad, where he happened to be lecturing for two weeks, and he wanted to take advantage of half a month to eat big households every day and bring Shui Junshao to him. Those three No. 40 cooks have all tasted their craftsmanship.

——Although he will not be in Lejugrad for half a month, he will return to China soon.

But eating other people's food without spending money is better than spending money on eating yourself.

At that time, he will use the name of visiting the door, and then take the opportunity to live in the consulate general. Presumably, the son-in-law of the pioneer of the Westernization Movement will not reject himself.

Chen Muwu asked Chen Weicheng if he could say hello and send a telegram to the Consulate General in Leugel, so that when he arrived, he could prepare the other party.

Although there is no need to go ten miles out of the city to greet them, it is still necessary to buy some chicken, duck, fish and the like in advance!
Then his family member Chen Weicheng told Chen Muwu the sad news.

It may be that living abroad is not interesting, or it may be that there are other things in China. Anyway, this Shui Junshao resigned in April this year and returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after less than a year in office. Became a casual job as a counselor.

The Consul General in Liegler was replaced by Fu Yangxian, a minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Chen Muwu went to Sulian for a few months late, and he and Shui Junshao happened to walk around, and neither of them could see each other.

He blamed Chen Weicheng very much in his heart, if he didn't mention it, he shouldn't have known about it, so he wouldn't have expected it.

It's all right now, I was excited for a long time, but in the end it was nothing but joy.

Chen Muwu came to Lejugrad from London in such a dejected way, and he didn't even go through the door of the Consulate General once in so many days.

He was afraid of being touched by the scene there, and couldn't help but think of the gluttonous feast that should have been imported but disappeared.

So now he is not going to the consulate general, has the consul general come to visit in person?

Other than that, Chen Muwu couldn't think of any reason why his compatriots sought him out, nor could he think of any other candidates.

It's unlikely that anyone will come to study in Su Lian now, right?

If you can go abroad, why not choose a country with a higher level of science and technology such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany and France?

"Hello, Dr. Chen..."

As soon as the person holding the wine glass opened his mouth, Chen Muwu became more sure.

This well-spoken Chinese, coupled with the identities of the people who can attend today's dinner, are either rich or noble.

If it wasn't that Consul General Fu, who would he be?

"...I am the ambassador of the Dali Ben Empire to Lu, Tanaka Tokichi."

The slap in the face might have come too soon.

There is no time to wonder why a person can speak Chinese so well, except that he can't distinguish between r and l.

Chen Muwu wanted to know even more, why did the ambassador to the Soviet Union stay in Moscow and come to Lejugrad?
Although Ben didn't set up a consulate in Lejugrad, a mere Swedish crown prince should not have such a big face, allowing an ambassador from a country to come from so far away to attend his welcome dinner.

"Mr. Ambassador, hello."

According to official diplomatic terms, the title of "Ambassador" should be "Your Excellency".

But Chen Muwu didn't want to say that, he didn't want to give himself any good looks.

His little thought didn't seem to have any effect, and Tokichi Tanaka still had a polite smirk on his face: "The newspapers in Luguo said that Dr. Chen will follow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Sweden after this lecture visit." Let’s take the train back to your country together. I would like to ask Dr. Chen, will he take this hard-won opportunity to return to China, and also go to a friendly neighbor with China for an academic visit?”

No wonder this Tokichi Tanaka came here from Moscow, where he came here to welcome the Crown Prince of Sweden, he clearly came here for himself!

However, these personal intelligence methods are really clever. It is not surprising that they know that they will return to China after the lecture. Just as Tanaka Museyoshi said, Su Lian's newspaper has already published this matter.

But how did they know that they would be at the welcome banquet tonight?This is somewhat thought-provoking.

I invited myself to visit, not once or twice.

Their sales have always been generous. Referring to Einstein’s visit in 1922, in less than two months, this party spent [-] pounds in remuneration, and also paid for all his trips to and from Europe and East Asia. travel expenses.

But my shrewdness is that, wherever Einstein goes, his speeches are not open to the general public for free, but charge a certain fee.

This is like inviting the Argentine national team and the Australian national team to China to play a game. Although the appearance fee and the venue fee are a lot of money, as long as enough people can be attracted to watch the game For the game, if you sell enough tickets, this is a sure-fire business.

If Bei Da and Cai Yuanpei can learn this trick, maybe they can really make the regret of Einstein's failure to visit China come true.

Now Tokichi Tanaka didn't talk about money with himself, but just asked him if he had any intention to give lectures in Ben.

Chen Muwu knew that as long as he nodded and agreed, he could make a small fortune.

At a time when the Deutsche mark was rapidly depreciating, £[-] was a lot of money for Einstein.

But to the current Chen Muwu, these two thousand pounds can only be regarded as better than nothing.

After all, he is a man who can make the future king of England pay ten thousand pounds a year and let the future king of Sweden build a school for him with three sentences.

And will I raise his treatment to be equal to that of Einstein?
This is still unknown.

From a personal emotional point of view, Chen Muwu was torn between not wanting to go to Ben and wanting to go to Ben.

The reason why he doesn't want to go is easy to understand. There are too many old enmities between him and Ben.

Just because of the "Chinese Exclusion Act", he insisted not to go to the United States for so many years.

The things I do are more hateful than Americans, so I can't treat them differently, reject the United States and accept Ben, right?

But the reason why he wanted to go to Ben was because Chen Muwu wanted to see if his big deception had paid off.

Whether it was Yoshio Nishina or Wensaku Arakatsu, he did not lie. Superconductivity is indeed the mainstream of future physics.

But I'm afraid that if I don't believe it, I will let down my good intentions.

Especially after Rutherford's hype, physicists all over the world basically know that Chen Muwu has built the first particle accelerator at Cambridge University, which can be bombarded with particles other than alpha particles. nucleus.

Do I feel like I'm lying to them?Although it was like this.

What if they also try to be an accelerator?
Chen Muwu thinks that the best way is to go to Ben himself and convince those respected senior physicists in Ben to agree and support the study of low-temperature physics.

In this country that pays attention to seniority, basically no young people dare to break the rules set by the older generation.

Of course, you can't say it too absolutely. After all, there used to be a group of young people who entered Tokyo singing "The water in Miluoyuan beats in disorder, and the clouds surge in Wushan'e".

To go or not to go, that is the question.

Since he couldn't make up his mind, Chen Muwu simply didn't want to, and he didn't want to put too much energy into thinking on this occasion.

The most important thing is to eat. He is already very unhappy when he is disturbed by Tanaka Tokichi.

"Mr. Ambassador, I'm sorry, your invitation is too sudden, and I can't give a definite answer for a while."

"Dr. Chen, please don't get too entangled. I just revealed some preliminary intentions to you today. After you return to your country by train, if there is no accident, there will be someone there to contact you again."

This time, the ghost is still lingering.

(End of this chapter)