Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 311 50 Chen Muwu’s old acquaintance

I visited so many scenic spots in Rome in one day, and the intensive itinerary was both fulfilling and exhausting.

After returning to the hotel, Chen Muwu had a good sleep and waited for the Vatican to send someone to contact him and Hubble when he woke up the next day.

Then the strange law of meeting strange strangers before he had breakfast in the hotel restaurant came into effect again.

What Chen Muwu saw today was the reporter from Corriere della Sera who interviewed him yesterday, and a stranger in a suit and tie next to the reporter.

Chen Muwu, who had had a good spring sleep in the hotel, had not seen the newspaper published this morning. Of course, even if he had read it, he could not understand the Italian written on it, so he did not know that the interview he accepted yesterday would become a What does it look like.

He thought there was something wrong with the interview, so the reporter had no choice but to come to the hotel early in the morning to look for him.

As for the person next to the reporter, Chen Muwu became the reporter's immediate boss by default, the editor of the editorial department of Corriere della Sera.

"Mr. Reporter, do you have anything to do when you come here so early?"

After asking, Chen Muwu realized that he hadn't woken up yet and actually spoke a bunch of English to an Italian.

Yesterday, because Fermi was the translator, the two of them were able to talk freely, one speaking English and the other speaking Italian.

But now that Fermi is away, it is still unclear whether the reporter can understand English.

The reporter didn't speak. The man in the suit standing next to Chen Muwu answered.

"Hello, Dr. Chen. I am a staff member of the Italian Prime Minister's residence. The Prime Minister would like to meet with you today. When is it convenient for you?"

It's a very standard British pronunciation, but the content it says is very uncomfortable.

What most people should ask when requesting a meeting is "do you have time?"

But what this person said was "whenever is convenient", which meant that he had to see this person today.

After keenly catching the problem of word choice and sentence construction in this person's words, Chen Muwu realized that he seemed to have missed a more important point.

Who invited me to meet?Your Excellency, Prime Minister?
Isn't the current Prime Minister of Italy the handsome bald man named Mo?
Damn it, when did I have such a big hand?
"Uh, sir, I'm really sorry. I already have an appointment today. You may not know that the purpose of my coming to Rome is that I was invited by His Majesty the Pope to enter the Papal States to meet with His Majesty. Today is We agreed on a date.”

Addressing the Pope as Your Majesty does not mean that Chen Muwu is a believer in God, but is just an honorific title attached to his position.

Moreover, the Pope’s Majesty is not quite the same as the British King George V’s Majesty.

The English word for the latter is "His Majesty" and is common among European monarchies.

The Pope's Majesty is another one, "His Holiness", which can only be used after the Pope.

Chen Muwu raised the banner of the Pope in order to overwhelm those who came, saying that it was not that he did not want to meet Prime Minister Mo, but that it was because he had an appointment with the Pope and it would not be appropriate to break the appointment.

However, after hearing what Chen Muwu said, the staff of the Prime Minister's Office did not say much and still maintained that attitude: "Dr. Chen, we have communicated with the Papal State and they have agreed to adjust the time of your meeting with the Pope. The day after tomorrow, I also brought an updated invitation letter from them today. Your Excellency the Prime Minister sincerely invites you, and I hope you will definitely meet him today."

Chen Muwu actually made a bad move, because the relationship between the Papal State and Italy, which was nestled in a corner of Rome, was actually on fire and water.

Since the mid-[-]th century, King Emmanuel II of Italy, who unified the Apennine Peninsula, also captured Rome and the surrounding Papal States territories that originally belonged to the Holy See.

The French Emperor Napoleon III, who had withdrawn the French troops protecting the Pope into the country to fight the Franco-Prussian War and was deposed because he lost the war, could not protect himself, let alone send troops back to Italy to restore the glory of the Pope.

Seeing that the Papal States had no hope of regaining their lost ground, they could only rely on the pope's own prestige in the European Catholic world to try to incite other countries to isolate Italy.

The feud between the two countries has been severed since then. Those thousands of Swiss legions in fancy clothes in the Papal States will definitely not be able to defeat Rome. In order not to further damage the relationship with Catholic countries, Italy does not dare to go further. Completely destroy the Papal State in the Vatican.

The treatment of successive popes was similar to that of the Qingxun Emperor in the Forbidden City a few years ago. He was well fed, well served, and well served, but he had no power at all.

Everyone lived peacefully like this for decades, and the pope also changed for several generations.

But every pope would jump out and shout from time to time to ask Italy to return the occupied territory of the Papal States, although the pope's appeals did not work at all.

The Prime Minister of Mexico, who took office a few years ago, has always maintained a hateful attitude towards religion, and from time to time declared that he would provide a final solution to the Papal States trapped in Rome within his term of office.

Therefore, when the Papal State invited Chen Muwu to Rome this time, it actually wanted to use his reputation to publicize this matter to the international public, so that it would not be destroyed by the tough tactics of the Prime Minister.

If Prime Minister Mexico wanted to meet with Chen Muwu today, in order not to anger Italy, the Papal States, which had already agreed on a time with Chen Muwu, had no choice but to make concessions.

When he made this decision at the Venice Palace last night, the Prime Minister was fully confident that he would be able to meet with Chen Muwu today.

Chen Muwu took the invitation letter from the Papal State from the visitor's hand, and what was written on it was indeed true.

Since I definitely won't be able to go to the Vatican today, it's better to wait for the arrangements from Italy.

"Dr. Chen, at two o'clock this afternoon, we will send a car to take you to the Prime Minister's residence in Palazzo Venezia. I hope you can cooperate with me. If you have nothing else to do, I will leave first."

The reporter, who remained silent throughout the whole process, accompanied the staff member to leave, leaving Chen Muwu and Hubo behind who had not had breakfast.

Hubble, who had received such explosive news early in the morning, felt that Chen Muwu was really unfathomable. The prime minister was basically the head of Italy. When he heard that Chen Muwu had arrived in Rome, he couldn't wait to meet him.

If it were the United States, it would be equivalent to Chen Muwu getting off the ship in New York on the first day and rushing to Washington to meet with the President the next day.

And unless something unexpected happens in my life, it will be difficult for me to see President Coolidge, who brought the United States prosperity and strength, even once, right?

It's amazing, it's really amazing.

The meeting with the Pope was moved to two days later, giving Hubble two more days to spend in Rome.

But Chen Muwu felt a little uneasy in his heart. What did that person want to do with him?If he had known earlier, he should not have agreed to the Pope's invitation, and he should not have even come to Italy this time!

Chen Muwu, who was waiting to arrive at two o'clock in the afternoon, read the news report about his interview in Corriere della Sera that day with the translation and help of the front desk staff. He wondered whether the Prime Minister of Mexico was also interested in aliens?

Amid speculation and anxiety, Chen Muwu finally waited until two o'clock in the afternoon and got into the car sent by the Italian government.

Palazzo Venezia is right next to Piazza Venezia, which he visited yesterday, but the tour guide at the time, Femi, never said that this was the official residence of the Prime Minister, and Chen Muwu never thought that he would return to such a place the next day.

Not long after waiting in the reception room, a tall man walked in surrounded by his entourage.

Although he is not tall, he has a lot of momentum.

Chen Muwu quickly stood up from his seat, and in order to express his welcome to the guest, the Prime Minister even greeted him with a warm kiss, so that Chen Muwu had to bend down.

At this moment, the cameras in the hands of reporters who followed him into the reception room flashed wildly, recording the leader's cordial meeting with foreign scientists.

Chen Muwu had a professional fake smile on his face, thinking that after these photos were actually published in newspapers and reprinted by media in other countries, Einstein would probably blame himself for doing something stupid again.

But people in the world have no control over their own actions, and he never expected that something like this would go wrong!

Fortunately, Prime Minister Mexico has a leadership style. He did not ask Chen Muwu about aliens at first, but asked about the situation of the Como meeting.

In these years of socializing with people from all walks of life, Chen Muwu's level of polite words has been constantly improving, and now he has at his fingertips such things as "Thank you, Your Excellency the Prime Minister for your strong support" and "The most comprehensive physicist for the first time since the World War." A big party (meaning that Germans also came to attend the meeting)", "A victorious conference, a united conference", "Italy is a beautiful and passionate country" and other half-truths and half-false words, so shameless. It popped out of his mouth without a jump.

If such a meeting had not been held in time, the Cavendish Laboratory's particle accelerators might not have been able to successfully sign several orders.

Chen Muwu was sincerely grateful to the Como Conference for not only inviting a number of European physicists, but also traveling thousands of miles to bring in an enemy like Compton from the United States.

Who wouldn’t be confused after hearing such praise?
Dr. Chen is indeed a talented person, and he speaks nicely.Baldhead felt that inviting him to his official residence was the right thing to do.

The two high-level language masters then began to compliment each other heartily.

One praised the other for being a young talent, and the other praised the other for running the country well.

We talked for a long time but didn't talk about anything serious. Instead, we drank one cup after another of coffee.

Chen Muwu thought that he might not be able to sleep tonight, so he might as well take the time to write the outline of "The Da Vinci Code".

Perhaps because Italy is a long and narrow country, Prime Minister Mexico took a long time to draw the map. The two talked nonsense for nearly an hour. Chen Muwu even described to him the beautiful scenery of Lake Como on the outskirts of Milan for half a day (do not rule out the possibility of doing so in the future). It was Chen Muwu’s credit that the Prime Minister ran to Milan after he stepped down, and finally got to the key points of today’s speech.

"Dr. Chen, Your Excellency the Prime Minister would like to ask if you really have a way to find oil?"

The translator restated Mussolini's questions in English.

So it turned out that he couldn't wait to meet him today because he wanted to ask this question.

After unification, Italy has become one of the top ten industrial countries in the world after decades of development.

However, the development of modern industry requires coal, electricity, minerals, and oil, none of which are available in Italy.

Coal is imported from Germany, Poland and southeastern Europe;
More than [-]% of the oil comes from North America and Central America, and the remaining [-]% relies on Romania, Albania, the Middle East and the Soviet Union to fill in the gaps;

The poorest thing is iron. Although Italy's steel production is only one-fifth of the UK's, the country's annual supply of iron ore only accounts for about one-third. The remaining two-thirds are mainly obtained from The United States and France import second-hand scrap iron to cope.

Italy is in urgent need of various mineral and fossil resources for development. Even if the Prime Minister is tough, the state machine cannot operate without resources.

After learning that Chen Muwu had arrived in Rome in the morning, Prime Minister Mo asked his secretary to compile a piece of information about him for him.

Chen Muwu's academic achievements were all at a disadvantage to the British, and he was not very interested in them.

But Chen Muwu said that he could find oil using new geological theories, which aroused the strong interest of the Prime Minister.

Although I don't know how sure Chen Muwu is, as long as there is a certain hope, there will always be three poles.

Chen Muwu had almost forgotten that there was such a thing as looking for oil. He didn't expect that the sycamore tree had been planted for so long, but instead it attracted a "bald phoenix" on the Apennine Peninsula.

Hearing this question, Chen Muwu was stunned for a moment, and then nodded happily: "Oil? Yes, yes! But no one can guarantee [-]% about what is under the ground. You must go to the field to explore it yourself."

Chen Muwu was excited, and the other party was even more excited. He quickly translated this answer to the Prime Minister.

However, Bald Mo, who asked the question, suddenly lost interest. He waved his hand to indicate that he should not continue talking about this topic, but instead invited Chen Muwu to stay and have dinner with him.

Chen Muwu didn't know why the other party's performance was so different before and after, but since he didn't want to continue asking where the oil was, he wouldn't rush to tell it.

After all, he would definitely not give up the locations of those oil fields. Even if he couldn't make a big profit by running an oil company on his own, he would not relent until he put a consulting fee into his pocket.

The Prime Minister said that he still had some work to do, and once again left Chen Muwu in the reception room.

He couldn't leave, and he didn't know what to do. He stayed there until the sun's shadow moved farther and farther to the west, and someone pushed open the door of the reception room of the Prime Minister's official residence.

Chen Muwu thought someone was telling him to go to dinner, so he got up and left. But when he looked up, he saw an acquaintance he hadn't seen for more than a year.

"Ding Gong, long time no see!"

"I asked why the Ministry of Foreign Affairs suddenly notified the Prime Minister that he wanted to treat guests to dinner. It turns out that it was because of you, Hanchen!"

His Excellency Zhu Zhaoxin, the Minister of the Republic of China in Italy, walked into the reception room and greeted Chen Muwu inside with a smile.

(End of this chapter)