After such an incident, no one had the intention to go out for such a celebration banquet.
Blackett, who lived at Magdalen College, stayed to continue to comfort Ye Gongchao, while Chen Muwu and Kapitsa had no choice but to leave together.
The three people came here in good spirits and returned in despair.
Back at Mrs. Brown's house, Chen Muwu lay on the bed and pondered for a long time about Ye Gongchao being beaten, but he couldn't think of any good solutions.
…
Starting the next day, Blackett began to tinker with the borrowed mass spectrometer, hoping to use the experimental results in the photos to prove that the particle he discovered was indeed a new isotope of oxygen, oxygen-17.
Chen Muwu, on the other hand, continued to look at Blackett's remaining photographic films, hoping to find more proton trajectories to provide more evidence for writing the paper.
Although Chen Muwu only looked at a few photos at first, he found the trajectory of protons and made a new reasonable explanation for the experimental phenomenon.
In his opinion, these were trivial things that didn't count, but in Blackett's eyes, they were another great help that Chen Muwu had given him.
Therefore, Blackett strongly requested that Chen Muwu's name be added to the paper. The two declined each other for a long time. In the end, Chen Muwu took over all the writing of the paper and replaced him as the second author.
In this way, Chen Muwu inadvertently helped Blackett with a small favor, and Chen Muwu picked up another paper of sufficient weight for nothing. Beautiful, beautiful!
Chen Muwu was a master of typewriting, and the papers he wrote were both exquisite and neat, which was already an open secret in the Cavendish Laboratory.
His crackling typing speed is a few points faster than the typist specially hired by the laboratory.
If Chen Muwu hadn't been busy thinking about various new theories and experiments every day, the typist might have been unemployed because everyone wanted to ask Chen Muwu to type papers for them.
In early December, Blackett finally collected enough experimental results on the mass spectrometer to prove that the helium nucleus bombarded by alpha particles did indeed generate a new atomic nucleus after radiating a proton outward. The nucleus is exactly the oxygen-17 that Chen Muwu "guessed" before.
Before mid-December, Chen Muwu merged the paper on the photographic film that he had written long ago, together with the mass spectrometer that Blackett had provided to him a few days ago, and finally compiled a paper signed with two name and sent it to the Natural Philosophical Transactions in London.
The fall semester has ended long ago, and now it’s Christmas and New Year’s holidays.
Blackett and Dirac, both natives of England, naturally wanted to go home for the holidays.
Both of them had also sent invitations to Chen Muwu to go home with them for the holidays.
And Kapitsa has no plans to go home again this time like in the summer. Firstly, this holiday is not as long as summer vacation, and secondly, because Christmas in Russia is different from that in continental Europe. There was a difference of more than half a month.
Kapitsa wants to take Chen Muwu around the European continent, go to Switzerland to ski in the Austrian Alps, or go to France to Paris to feel the atmosphere of a romantic city.
Chen Muwu declined your invitation because he had to make another trip to London to participate in the annual celebration of the founding anniversary and the New Year.
Different from the previous dances organized by the Chinese Students Association in London, this time the organizer was the Embassy of the Republic of China in the UK, and the signature on the invitation letter naturally became Zhu Zhaoxin, the chargé d'affaires of the embassy.
Chen Muwu didn't dare to offend the God of Wealth who controlled his official expenses, so as soon as he received the letter, he took the train to London as soon as possible.
In winter, the smell of London becomes even stronger. Chen Muwu, who had just gotten off the train, used a scarf to cover his mouth and nose tightly, trying to minimize the haze entering his nose and mouth.
Ye Gongchao didn't have to write a paper, so his vacation naturally started early. He couldn't rest anymore and left Cambridge early to travel around the UK to relax.
It wasn't until they sat down in the venue that the two finally met again.
The National Day of the Republic of China was October 10th, the day of the Kuichang Uprising, and New Year's Day in 1912, when the interim president was announced in Nanjing, became the founding anniversary of the Republic of China.
The invitation letter said that this day should be celebrated together with New Year's Day, and by the way, I would like to convey to everyone the latest news from China.
However, the charge d'affaires Zhu Zhaoxin who took the stage only talked about the "glorious deeds" of the newly appointed President Cao Gong, nothing more.
But these are no longer news. Apart from Chen Muwu, who else has read them in the newspaper?
To put it bluntly, this party is more like the big companies of later generations holding an annual meeting at the end of the year after squeezing their employees for a whole year, giving small favors and giving the social animals a beating.
The embassy also collected a whole year's wool from these young men. Of course, it also wanted to appease these rich leeks so that they could grow a newer and greener crop in the spring of next year.
Although Chen Muwu had tried very hard to pull Ye Gongchao to hide in a corner, due to his reputation being too prominent in the past year, he had never seen the light of day.
Therefore, when the news that "Chen Muwu also appeared at the venue" spread, there was an endless stream of people coming to say hello with wine glasses, batch after batch.
Chen Muwu felt like a penguin in an aquarium or a panda in a foreign zoo. He felt uncomfortable being watched by people.
He finally met a series of people from the London Chinese Students Association.
Some of these people, Chen Muwu, had heard of their names, but most of them he had never heard of.
But regardless of whether he had heard of them or not, Chen Muwu did not want to go any further and have more interactions with them.
On the contrary, he met Jin Yuelin, the famous "love madman" in later generations, at the venue.
After receiving his doctorate from Columbia University, he sat in London Political Economics for several years. Without the support from the Boxer Indemnity, his life was not very prosperous.
Ye Gongchao said that he basically relied on Yin to eat grain and borrow money to survive.
But what was different from Chen Muwu's expectation was that there was a beauty beside Jin Yuelin, and she was also a blond and blue-eyed foreign girl named Taylor.
The two were playing wildly in the venue, completely ignoring the opinions of others.
He is so charming now, who would have thought that he would look different in the future?
Another person came with a wine glass, which impressed Chen Muwu deeply.
It's not that this person's name is exactly the same as that of the person who said, "You can achieve success with a knife and live up to your youth." It's because he just opened his mouth and wanted to invite Chen Muwu to a bitter steamed bun party.
This frightened Chen Muwu so much that he took Ye Gongchao and fled directly from the celebration scene of the legation.
If you offend Zhu Zhaoxin, feel free to offend him. At this time, it is more important to save your life.
The two stayed in London for another day, and the next day they went to Chinatown to buy a lot of spices and New Year's goods, before taking the train back to Cambridge.
"Being a stranger in a foreign land, I miss my loved ones even more during the festive season." The New Year is approaching, and you can't treat yourself badly while wandering away. After all, you still have to have a good New Year.
Ever since he suffered an unreasonable disaster in the alley that day, Ye Gongchao has been feeling a little depressed. Although he had some fun during the winter vacation, it was still better than nothing.
This is the most significant blow he has suffered due to racial discrimination in all his years of studying in Europe and the United States, both mentally and physically.
Even now, as two people wearing well-dressed clothes sit in the first-class carriage of a train, invisible discrimination still exists.
Sitting in the bumpy train with the clanging bells, feeling the very depressing low pressure in the carriage, Chen Muwu suddenly thought of a way that might enlighten the little brother next to him.
So he touched Ye Gongchao next to him with his elbow: "Old Ye, after you came to England, have you read the detectives written by them?"
"Of course I have. When I was in the United States, I read "A Study in Scarlet" and "The Sign of Four" written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. After I came to the UK, I read them in the library of Magdalen College. Read all the Sherlock Holmes books.”
"Have you ever thought about writing a detective story yourself? Look at the cars, everyone is holding books, newspapers and magazines to pass the time. I bet most of them are reading about detectives. . I thought that if I could write a best-selling book, I would be able to make a lot of money.”
Since Sherlock Holmes became popular in the UK, reasoning has entered a golden age. Detective investigation can be regarded as one of the best-selling themes in the UK nowadays. Chen Muwu’s words are true.
"I wrote it? Brother Hanchen, to be honest, although I am a literature major, I really don't have such a bright brain. Let alone being able to study physics like you, I am just a detective with a thoughtful mind. I can’t write it either.”
Ye Gongchao rejected Chen Muwu's proposal.
"I have an idea. Suppose there is such a train from Moscow to Paris. When it stops on the streets of Berlin late at night, a rich man sleeping in a first-class box is suddenly found to have been stabbed twelve times. , died tragically in the box.
"The suspects in the carriage included a noblewoman from Russia, an officer stationed in India, an ambassador from Hungary, and a salesman from the United States...
"And these people are no more and no less, there are exactly twelve people.
"...
"What do you think will happen after this?"
The bumpy train inspired Chen Muwu, who basically gave Ye Gongchao a brief summary of the book "Murder on the Orient Express".
The story he told really aroused Ye Gongchao's interest.
"Then, what then?" he asked impatiently.
What followed was Chen Muwu's unbridled nonsense. He changed the identity of the great detective Poirot to a Chinese student studying in England who arrived in Moscow from Harbin on the Trans-Siberian Railway. He also happened to be taking this train to Paris. Then he transferred to England to study.
The Chinese student witnessed the whole incident and finally solved the case of the murder of the rich man.
Ye Gongchao couldn't help but praise: "This is really a wonderful story. Brother Hanchen, you really should write this story down. You can definitely make a lot of money in the UK!"
Chen Muwu shook his head: "With my level of English, it is not a problem to write a few physics papers, but if you ask me to write them, I won't show them to show my shame. Gongchao, if you are interested, you can tell me what I just said I want to expand this story into a book and try my luck with a publishing house. As for the name of this Chinese student, let’s take half of our names and call him George Chen. Although this name is half Chinese and half Western, it not only retains the characteristics of the Chinese people, but also makes it easier for the British to accept it.”
"This is an interesting idea. Brother Hanchen, I will accept this job. If I can really get royalties in the end, then the two of us will get 70% of the royalties, and 70% to you and 30% to me. How about that?"
"Hey, if I come up with the ideas and you come up with the writing, it should be a 50-50 split."
"Absolutely not. Either I won't take any money and won't touch this pen; or I will pay 70/30. Brothers have to settle the accounts clearly. If you agree, I will take out the paper and pen to establish the written record."
Seeing Ye Gongchao's persistence, Chen Muwu had no choice but to accept such a large royalty with tears.
Unlike the one-million-word "The Condor" he wrote in China and only earned 10,000 yuan, the royalties in European and American countries were very high at this time.
In 1920, Fitzgerald, who would later write "The Great Gatsby," published his first book, "Heaven on Earth."
With just this book of 90,000 words, he made a lot of money. Calculating the royalties for that year alone, it was as high as more than 13,000 US dollars.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the golden age of mystery, if you published a best-selling detective, the royalties could only be much more than Fitzgerald.
Once this book "Murder on the Paris Express" is published, the royalties received should be able to support Chen Muwu to complete his electron diffraction experiment.
I just hope that when the specific amount of royalties comes out, Ye Gongchao won't cry because of the seventy-three-thirds account he always insisted on and wrote in black and white on the paper.
The reason why he did not choose to write it himself, but asked Ye Gongchao to provide ideas for him, was because there were more physics experiments waiting for Chen Muwu to do, and there were more stars and seas waiting for him to explore.
Of course, Chen Muwu asked Ye Gongchao to write this book not just to make quick money, he also had other intentions.
Just a few Fu Manchu books by Black Dog can deceive European and American people into fearing the Chinese. Even high-IQ college students at Cambridge University can be encouraged to punch Ye Gongchao walking on the road.
This shows how popular detectives are now in the UK since Sherlock Holmes.
Detectives would rule the British and American best-seller world for nearly two decades in the future. It was not until after World War II that they gradually turned to the tough guy genre.
If the image of the talented Chinese detective George Chen is successfully created during this period, it may subtly influence a generation of Europeans and Americans' views on the Chinese.
The character of George Chen can also be built into a powerful IP for cultural export to the outside world.
That's why Chen Muwu chose the story of "Paris Express" to let a Chinese student from the far East make his debut on a train.
After this, there will be "Tragedy on the Nile". What is a narrative conspiracy and which is Blizzard Villa? Everything can be settled on George Chen.
Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen and Dickson Carr, the three golden age heroes, will no longer appear. When George Chen is mentioned in the future, he will be dubbed "the greatest figure in the history of reasoning since Sherlock Holmes." name.
The classic reasoning stored in Chen Muwu's brain is inexhaustible. He can completely let Ye Gongchao make George Chen into a romantic and adventurous James Bond-like character.
As for the nationality of the villains in the book, now in order to cater to the mainstream, they can be Germans who are looked down upon by the whole of Europe.
After waiting for this period of time, slowly transfer it to the kid.
In this way, it not only improves the image of Chinese people in the eyes of Europeans and Americans, but also lowers their perception of themselves.
When the movie adaptation is released on the big screen in the future, this influence will spread more widely.
Maybe, when bombing Tokyo in the future, pilots will even paint George Chen's face on the fuselage of the aircraft.
As a result, Americans' aid to China may be more generous than in history.
But whether it is generous or not has basically no effect here, because most of the aid will flow into Mrs. Chang's bank account in the United States.
It just hurts those Americans who will be imprisoned in concentration camps by the United States in the future. It seems that the treatment they will receive in the future will definitely be worse than in history.
(End of chapter)
