Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 437 176 The big tree attracts the wind exam
Baihai in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China was the most magical land in the entire Chinese continent.

And the people in Wuhai are the most magical nation in the whole Wuhai.

In 1842, with the signing of the Treaty of Beijing, Baihai became one of the five trading ports.

A year later, in 1843, Baihai was officially opened as a port, and countless foreigners came in droves to open hotels, docks, concessions, and banks in this "adventurer's paradise."

Twenty years after the opening of the port in Sihai, expatriates from the United Kingdom, the United States, France and other Western countries poured into Sihai. At that time, there were no permanent residents of the country in this land.

By the early years of the Republic of China, more than seventy years had passed since the opening of the port in Wuhai. The number of local expatriates in Wuhai had already ranked first in the country, accounting for more than one-third of the total number of foreign nationals in Wuhai.

Even a few decades later, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the number of overseas Chinese in Wuhan exceeded 100,000, accounting for two-thirds of the total number of foreign nationals in Baihai.

And compared with the Westerners who live scattered in the public concession and the French Concession, these overseas Chinese have another characteristic, that is, they all live together.

Basically, the Japanese in Sihai live in the northern area of ​​the public concession north of the Suzhou River, especially in the Hongkou area.

The entire Hongkou area is full of various localized buildings and markets. If you don't distinguish them carefully, people will mistakenly think that you are in Benghai instead of Baihai.

These people are also engaged in a variety of professional activities in Jihai, ranging from finance and industry, culture and art, education and technology, medicine and health, religious vocations to handicrafts, entertainment services, etc. Basically, these overseas Chinese are involved in all industries in Jihai. In the meantime.

Of course, the largest number of jobs held by these Japanese expatriates living in Jihai are in the local military, government, and special agencies.

I even opened a school in Baihai - Dongya Tongwen Academy, just like the Prince's College founded by Chen Muwu in Stockholm.

Of course, the two schools have completely different purposes.

Chen Muwu's Prince's College is dedicated to teaching and educating people and cultivating science and engineering talents for China.

But this East Asia Douwen Academy...

It is true that it also trains talents, but it does not train talents who are proficient in Sinology, but cultivates talents in the so-called "Chinese Studies".

——In other words, between D and W.

China's vast land area is far beyond what the long and narrow island countries can compare with.

If you want to understand the situation in various parts of China, you must train a large number of intermediary personnel.

Instead of building this school behind closed doors in our own country, it is better to build this school in China.

In this way, while cultivating these students, they can be placed in a Chinese context and become better familiar with China's customs.

Therefore, during the Qing Dynasty, I first established the Nissin Trade Research Institute in Shanghai, and later based on this foundation, the Toa Doubun Academy was established.

East Asia Tongsun College organized students one after another to conduct on-the-spot investigations in China for more than 40 years.

They have as many as 700 travel routes, basically visiting all provinces except the southwest snow area, and have a thorough understanding of the geography, industry, commerce, society, economy, politics and other aspects of the places they visit. Clearly.

Otherwise, during the Anti-Japanese War, how could there be military maps of the national army, which were not as accurate as the civilian maps published by this publication?

The East Asia Tongwen Academy, as well as other special agencies in China and the country, are eager to have a clear understanding of the major and minor events that occur in China.

Therefore, they have long been eyeing Chen Muwu, who has become very famous in Europe and the scientific community. Chen Muwu is listed in the "Latest Supporting Important Persons" published every year in this country, and the attached photos are all from The latest editions found in major European newspapers.

The domestic special education courses have also assigned tasks to branches of embassies and consulates in various European countries, allowing them to obtain more information about Chen Muwu.

But this task was not easy to carry out, because Chen Muwu was either in the UK or Sweden, both of which were Western territories.

Moreover, whether Chen Muwu is at Cambridge University or in Stockholm, he enjoys the treatment of a national treasure. It is not easy to send Honma D in Europe to contact him.

Therefore, the Special Higher Education Department continued to guide the work of special institutions in various European countries, asking them to select undergraduate physics students in Europe, in an attempt to get these people to contact Chen Muwu.

However, the implementation of this method still faces various difficulties.

One is that although there are a lot of international students studying physics in Europe, because Europeans are xenophobic and the level of international students is not good enough, they are not the top group in the physics circle. They want to find someone who can It was more difficult to break into Chen Muwu's academic and social circle as a suitable candidate.

The Cavendish Laboratory had an overseas student named Takeo Shimizu, and he was the first Asian to enter the world's top physics laboratory before Chen Muwu.

His main work in the Cavendish Laboratory was to improve the cloud chamber invented by Professor Wilson.

But the bad thing is that Shimizu Takeo left Britain and returned to Japan in the 11th year of Taisho.

Chen Muwu only entered the Cavendish Laboratory in 1923, and there was no intersection between the two.

Well, maybe there is still some overlap.

That is, after Takeo Shimizu left the Cavendish Laboratory, it was Blackett who took over his work and continued to improve the cloud chamber.

Later, Blackett successfully improved the cloud chamber, and Chen Muwu also used this cloud chamber to conduct many physics experiments.

Fortunately, after Chen Muwu arrived in the UK, he did not stay confined to Cambridge University. Instead, he went on academic exchange visits in Europe from time to time. Only then did I finally find the opportunity to get in touch with Chen Muwu. That is, in 1924, Chen Muwu first Once I went to the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen.

Yoshio Nishina met Chen Muwu. On the one hand, he wanted to find some good scientific research ideas from him. On the other hand, he remembered the tasks assigned to them by the embassy in Denmark, so he began to contact him with ulterior motives. .

It seems that the mission of the Special Higher Education Course to these Japanese embassies and consulates in Europe was successful, because Yoshio Nishina did obtain some information about physics and industry during his exchanges with Chen Muwu. He also followed the professional advice given by Chen Muwu and shifted his academic focus from the study of emerging microphysics to the more mature low-temperature physics.

Because according to Chen Muwu, superconductivity, a low-temperature physics phenomenon, is not only easy to produce results, but the future results will be very helpful to the country's industrial development.

Chen Muwu did not lie, and Yoshio Nishina did make major discoveries in superconducting research very quickly.

First, Chen Muwu found niobium metal, which has the highest superconducting critical temperature among elemental elements. Its critical temperature is 9.2 Kelvin.

Later, Yoshio Nishina was inspired by the letters exchanged between Chen Muwu and him, and also found the niobium-nitrogen compound "niobium nitride" NbN. Its superconducting critical temperature is 15.6 Kelvin, which is almost double the critical temperature of metal elements.

Moreover, the niobium nitride found by Yoshio Nishina is the material with the highest superconducting critical temperature that physicists have found so far, and it has not been able to break it for several years.

This is enough to show that in the research of superconducting physics, we are in the leading position in the world.

Relying on this achievement of his own, Yoshio Nishina, as a junior who had just returned from studying in Europe, after returning to Tokyo Imperial University, for the first time, he obtained the funds that had been raised and established the Imperial University's Low Temperature Physics Laboratory. , to help Japan continue to maintain its advanced position in the field of low-temperature physics.

However, apart from Yoshio Nishina's superconducting physics, it was difficult for the Special High School to obtain other information from Chen Muwu.

They also tried to contact Chen Muwu through Nishina Yoshio's line, hoping to send their overseas students to the Cavendish Laboratory to work beside Chen Muwu.

In his reply, the latter welcomed Nishina Yoshio's request and said that as long as there are foreign students from this country who can enter the Cavendish Laboratory, he will do his best to help them.

But the problem lies with Rutherford, the director of the Cavendish Laboratory.

I don’t know why, but this strong man from New Zealand rejected all my applications who wanted to study and work in the laboratory.

Nishina Yoshio also wrote to Chen Muwu again because of this matter. The latter reluctantly said that it was because the person who arrived was not good enough and failed to pass Rutherford's test. He was sorry that he could not do anything about it.

Chen Muwu's reply in the letter seemed to be watertight, but later the intelligence department in the UK learned that after Chen Muwu, the Cavendish Laboratory and the University of Cambridge successively recruited several international students from China.

The most famous among them should be Zhao Zhongyao, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927. I don’t know how they entered the Cavendish Laboratory, or whether they are related to Chen Muwu.

From the birth of Chen Muwu in 1923 to 1928, for five years, Japan's intelligence agency only obtained sporadic information from Yoshio Nishina, which was completely insufficient to make a comprehensive judgment on Chen Muwu.

During this period, various means including coercion and inducement were used to try to get Chen Muwu to "invite" him to Japan for a lecture visit when he returned to China in 1926. However, because there was a more important Swedish Crown Prince who needed to be received, Chen Muwu's visit was Eventually there was no news.

Later, the information collected about Chen Muwu in China was that he would establish a Prince's Academy in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, to cultivate reserve talents for the Chinese.

Bente W Institution, which was already very interested in Chen Muwu, became even more interested in him after Chen Muwu announced that he wanted to run a school.

This is because China only has one Chen Muwu, who poses no threat to Ben.

But Chen Muwu's desire to train more Chinese students has touched upon his own insecurities.

A life is ten, ten begets a hundred, a hundred begets a thousand...

If more and more Chinese people master advanced knowledge, it will be very detrimental to the country's further policy towards China, and it will also be a major threat to intelligence personnel like them.

Therefore, several special agencies based in Qihai unanimously agreed after research and judgment that starting from the enrollment of Prince's College would be an excellent opportunity to get close to Chen Muwu and obtain information.

Therefore, they reported to the higher authorities one after another and proposed to select students to pass the selection examination and blend in as Chinese among the freshmen going to Prince College.

The primary purpose of these special W is to find out "What was Chen Muwu's motivation for founding the Prince's Academy in Stockholm?", "Does his move have any impact on the entire empire?" and so on.

They sent this information back to the corresponding agencies in the country, so that after conducting research and judgment on Chen Muwu, they lurked next to Chen Muwu on the spot.

When new tasks come from the country, they will be activated again.

Chen Muwu had already thought of this when he first started running the school.

I am curious about him, or want to send someone to study at Prince Academy like Yoshio Nishina recommended Arakatsu Bunsaku to the Cavendish Laboratory. These are all inevitable things.

Although he was disgusted with doing this from the bottom of his heart, because he had to recruit students of the right age across the country and not miss any malleable talents, Chen Muwu could not keep the matter of setting up a school secretive, but had to make a big splash.

However, Chen Muwu soon felt relieved about this matter. Prince's College was his own piece of land. Chen Muwu also had a relationship with the Crown Prince of Sweden and the Wallenberg family in Sweden. For safety reasons, the school would implement semi-closed management. .

Even if a few people sneak into the school, they probably won't be able to cause much trouble.

Thinking back to the beginning, both the number of young people who defected to Yancheng from all over the country and the number of special people from all walks of life who were mixed in there were much more than the number of students Chen Muwu has to accept at Prince College now.

After accepting so many mixed people, Yancheng has not had any major incidents for so many years. What does Chen Muwu fear?

He couldn't let the Prince College project that he had been busy with for so long fall short and be shelved at the last moment just because of a few people who might sneak in.

Therefore, in the enrollment details that Chen Muwu gave to Shi Ruwei, he only stated that the registered students must be of Chinese nationality.

As for whether there is someone with ulterior motives sneaking in with a false identity, let him be.

The Consul General in Shanghai met with the Swedish Minister in China to ask for exam questions. Although it was a private matter, it was still a diplomatic occasion, and Shi Ruwei did not appear.

As the examiner of this selection exam, he was fully focused on the upcoming exam.

(End of this chapter)