There is a world of difference between the privileged class and ordinary people.
Although Sweden has long implemented a constitutional monarchy in reality, the specific implementation of this political system in the law had to wait until the 1970s, after the Swedish crown prince ascended the throne and passed away.
In other words, the current Swedish King Gustaf V still holds real political power in his hands.
Perhaps the most outrageous thing that Gustav V did by using his power was that he threatened the then Swedish Prime Minister Per Albin Hansen during World War II.
If Sweden does not open its own railways and allow German troops to transit to support its ally Finland to attack Soviet Union, then the 83-year-old king who supports Germany and mustache will abdicate before the summer of 1941 .
If this were in the UK, which has already implemented a constitutional monarchy system, then the Prime Minister would definitely not pay attention to this unreasonable request made by the King.
Prince Albert, Duke of York, and his brother, Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, who is now the British Crown Prince, had to abdicate and become Duke of Windsor because he wanted to marry Mrs. Simpson from the United States after becoming the British King?
But Prime Minister Hansen could only agree to the old king's request and had nothing to do about it.
As the son of Gustav V, Prince Gustav Adolf, who was facing Chen Muwu, had ascended to Dabao a few years later, and he still had the same rights in his hands as his father.
That’s why the Crown Prince of Sweden said with confidence in his conversation with Chen Muwu:
He did intend to build such a school, and he did not intend to spend a penny on it.
Because there was no need for him to pay for it himself, someone rushed to pay for the future king of Sweden.
This made Chen Muwu very jealous.
In order to prepare for the construction of his ideal school, Chen Muwu has been asking around recently to find out how much it would cost to build a building now.
He even wrote a letter to France to ask Cai Yuanpei, the former president of Beijing University, how much money Beijing University spent on building the Beida Red Building on the beach.
Although Cai Yuanpei didn't understand what it meant when Chen Muwu, who had never been in contact with him, suddenly wrote a letter asking about this matter, he still gave a very detailed answer.
In 1916, Beida borrowed 200,000 silver dollars, agreeing to repay the principal and interest over 20 years, and repaying the principal and interest of the loan 22,000 yuan per year.
After writing this letter, Cai Yuanpei suddenly thought that the Nobel Prize received by Chen Muwu amounted to nearly 100,000 yuan.
Could it be that he wants to donate the money to Beijing University and help them build another teaching building?
Naturally, Chen Muwu would not know about Cai Yuanpei's somewhat naive idea. If he did, he would definitely comment, "Old sir, your idea is quite beautiful."
Even if he wanted to donate to a domestic university, he would definitely not choose Bei University, but his alma mater.
Cai Yuanpei said in the letter that Beida spent 200,000 silver dollars to build the Red Building, which should be 20,000 pounds when converted into pounds.
And this is data from 1916, nearly ten years ago. The purchasing power of the ocean back then was far stronger than it is now.
Therefore, even if we build a building of the same level as the Red Building in Beijing now, the cost will be more than 20,000 pounds.
After arriving in Denmark, Chen Muwu asked Bohr how much he spent to build the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen.
Bohr was very proud to say that he did not spend a penny and all the money for building the building was provided by the Carlsberg Foundation in Denmark.
The entire building, including its decoration and experimental equipment, cost less than 700,000 Danish kroner.
The krona is a Nordic currency unit, and both the Danish krona and the Swedish krona have similar prices.
The Nobel Prize in Physics that Chen Muwu received is more than 120,000 Swedish kronor. If he wants to build a building similar to the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Stockholm, he will need to win at least five additional Nobel Prizes. .
For such a huge sum of money, the Swedish Crown Prince in front of him only needs to show off his face, and someone will obediently pay for him?
Chen Muwu wanted to know who was the one who was taken advantage of.
Prince Gustav Adolf did not hide it: "Dr. Chen, when do you have time recently, let's go meet Mr. Marcus Wallenberg, Jr. of the Wallenberg family.
"Some time ago, I mentioned to Mr. Marcus Wallenberg Sr. my plan to build a school about Eastern civilization. Mr. Marcus Sr. was also very interested in this matter, so he asked I introduced his youngest son, Marcus Jr., who only joined Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) this year and has not yet been assigned a specific job.
“So Mr. Marcus Sr. decided to put Marcus Jr. in charge of building the school, which can be regarded as an inspection of him.
"You two are young people, it should be easy for you to communicate with each other."
The Crown Prince of Sweden called Chen Muwu a young man, and he was not trying to make excuses.
It's because there is indeed a twenty-year age gap between the two.
Prince Gustav Adolf, born in 1882, is forty-two years old this year.
But he still had to wait another twenty-six years, after his ninety-two-year-old father Gustav V passed away, before he could ascend the throne and become king at the age of sixty-eight.
If anyone can relate to someone who only became King of England at the age of seventy-four, it must be his great-uncle in Sweden.
Chen Muwu felt that the name Wallenberg seemed familiar.
Damn it, why is it that the Crown Prince of Sweden, who is usually so quiet, introduced himself to a great big shot, or a big family?
On the surface, the entire Sweden belongs to the Swedish King.
But in fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that the entire Sweden belongs to the Wallenberg family.
Today, the Wallenberg family's sphere of influence has still not reached its maximum, and it seems that the person who has helped the entire family reach its peak is little Marcus Wallenberg, whom Prince Gustav Adolf is about to introduce to Chen Muwu.
For Chen Muwu now, this person is simply a natural pair of white gloves.
Moreover, I heard from the Crown Prince of Sweden that little Marcus had just joined the family work, and Chen Muwu became friends with him at this time. It can be said that they met at a very young age.
If I can help young Marcus defeat his brother Jacob Wallenberg in the family power struggle, then I will not say that I can gain the absolute trust of the leader, but at least I can be regarded as a leader. A confidant and confidant.
Although Chen Muwu is not very proficient in business warfare, he actually does not need to help Marcus defeat his elder brother in business.
He felt that he only needed to use the historical trends that he knew in advance and a large number of patented products that had not yet been invented, so that Marcus could create a steady stream of wealth for himself and the Wallenberg family, which would be enough for him to compete for the heir. Stand out in the battle.
Chen Muwu suddenly discovered that except for the eldest son in front of him, all the other European royal families and nobles he knew were the second-eldest sons in the family.
Prince Albert, Duke of York, was the second child, de Broglie was the second child, and little Marcus is still the second child.
But it is still unclear whether he can establish a good relationship with little Marcus.
Even if they can't have a deep friendship, then Chen Muwu must go through the process of plucking his hair, at least get a school out of him first.
Chen Muwu planned to prepare a big gift for little Marcus before meeting, as a stepping stone for him.
"Your Royal Highness, you can decide the time yourself. After receiving the Nobel Prize, I am still staying in Sweden. In fact, there are only two things to do.
"The first is to talk to you about the friendship between friends, and the second is to put the school matter into practice as soon as possible."
In fact, the only second thing in Chen Muwu's mind was that he and the Crown Prince of Sweden only met briefly after the Paris Olympics. Perhaps His Highness the Prince regarded him as a friend because of his great achievements in sports and science.
But Chen Muwu knew that the identities of the two were so different that there was no friendship at all between them.
"Okay, Dr. Chen, then I will arrange for someone to contact Mr. Marcus and agree on a time to meet with him as soon as possible."
The Crown Prince of Sweden acted very quickly, and little Marcus responded quickly.
As a young man who has just entered the core of the family, although he has become an assistant director of SEB Bank, he does not have any actual projects in his hands. Helping the Crown Prince of Sweden to build a school should be regarded as the first test given to him by the family.
Little Marcus took this matter very seriously, especially after he heard that not only the Crown Prince of Sweden, but also the new Nobel Prize winner in physics Chen Muwu wanted to participate in this school plan, he quickly made an appointment with the two The time to meet the distinguished guest.
Prince Gustav Adolf was right. Little Marcus, who was born in 1899, like Chen Muwu, was also an energetic young man in his early twenties.
Marcus is more interested in sports than science.
He loved playing tennis and won the men's singles championship in the Swedish tennis competition. He also participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but the event at that time was not tennis, but crossed over to sailing.
So as soon as they met, Marcus Jr.'s first words to greet Chen Muwu were completely different from what he had heard in Sweden these days.
He did not congratulate Chen Muwu for winning the Nobel Prize, but mentioned that half a year had passed since the Olympic Games.
"Dr. Chen, it's a pleasure to meet you. Your swimming performance in the Olympics really shocked me. If I have the chance, I really want to swim with you in the water."
"Congratulations on winning this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that Dr. Chen also has plans to open a school in Stockholm?"
"Mr. Wallenberg, it's a pleasure to meet you too." Seeing how enthusiastic little Marcus was, Chen Muwu thought it would be a good idea to gain his trust. "Indeed, as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said, I also have plans to open a school in Sweden."
After some polite exchanges, the three of them gradually got down to business.
Little Marcus originally thought that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince just wanted to build such a school on a whim.
In his imagination, this school would not be too big, and it would teach Eastern culture and other aspects of literature and history. It is estimated that even Sweden, let alone Stockholm, would not be able to recruit double-digit students.
Even if the number of students is estimated to be one hundred, the size of this school is only a few classrooms, plus a reading room, and a few teachers hired from the Far East.
Little Marcus thought that it shouldn't cost a lot of money, and he didn't even need to build a building. It would be enough to just take out one from his family's real estate.
But he didn't expect that Chen Muwu, who was sitting opposite him, would speak loudly. He not only proposed to buy land and build a building, but also specifically proposed the size of the school.
In addition to the Chinese culture that His Royal Highness is obsessed with, Chen Muwu also proposed that the school should establish a physics major from the beginning, and gradually expand it after its establishment to continue to add other subjects such as chemistry, mathematics, and biology.
In addition, Chen Muwu also said that he hopes to establish a technical school that will not only train professional talents, but also train a group of technical workers.
He also hopes that after these skilled workers complete their studies, they can enter the factories owned by the Wallenberg family for internship and work, and accumulate corresponding experience.
Marcus Jr. felt that Chen Muwu's request was too much. If it was really like what he said, it would still be a school. Instead, he would build a new liberal arts comprehensive university like Uppsala University in Stockholm.
This must be a huge expense, many times higher than the cost of the small school he envisioned to establish to please the crown prince.
"This... Dr. Chen, your idea is indeed very tempting, but is the scale of this school a little too big? And I feel that your school plan seems to be similar to the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. There is some conflict. I think if you want to teach science locally, I can get in touch with the Royal Institute of Technology. I think they will be willing to grant you such a great scientist a tenured professorship."
Chen Muwu knew that it was normal for little Marcus not to believe that he had not been given out yet.
At the same time, he couldn't hold it back and murmured in his mind that he really didn't like the professorship in this college. If he was allowed to be the lifelong principal, he might still consider it.
Before Chen Muwu could speak, the Swedish Crown Prince, who was leisurely and contented on the side, had already opened his mouth to smooth things over for him.
"Mr. Wallenberg, if Dr. Chen only wants to be a professor, then I think the best Cambridge University in the world, as well as those upstart Yankees, will provide him with a more attractive position than a professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden." Position."
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is indeed right. Before leaving the UK for Denmark, his teacher Rutherford had already offered the position of Lucas Mathematics Instructor Professor Newton once held to tempt him to stay in Cambridge.
Prince Gustav Adolf continued: “And Dr. Chen wants to build this school not just to train students from China, but our Swedish students can also enter the school to study.
"I hope you can think about this question: Although we in Sweden have the Nobel Prize founded by Mr. Nobel, which is awarded to the most famous and influential experts in science in the world, since the Nobel Prize was first awarded in 1901 First of all, how many prizes has our country won in physics and chemistry?
"I will tell you the answer to this question directly now. In both disciplines, Swedish scientists have only won one award each, and once was ten years ago, and the other was even twenty years ago.
“What a country is most famous for academically is not how many achievements they have made, but because they created an academic award. This is a very sad thing to say.
“Right now, the whole of Sweden can’t find a candidate who has achieved higher achievements in physics than Dr. Chen.
"Perhaps we shouldn't say Sweden. Looking at the entire world, I think only Dr. Einstein can compare with Dr. Chen..."
Hearing this, Chen Muwu quickly stopped the Swedish Crown Prince. He was afraid that if he continued to brag, he would surpass Newton.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, you are serious. There are many people in the world whose status in physics is much higher than mine. I really cannot afford your compliment."
"Dr. Chen, you don't need to be humble. This is your status in my heart." The Crown Prince of Sweden felt that Chen Muwu stopped him just because of the humble character of the Chinese.
He continued to turn to little Marcus and said: "You may not know much about Eastern culture, so let me tell you a traditional Chinese story.
“A long, long time ago, there was a king in China who liked riding horses very much, so he asked his ministers to go around the country to find the fastest BMW horse.
“But three years have passed and no one has brought back a good horse.
"Later, a minister asked the king for instructions and asked the king to give him a thousand gold to buy a thousand-mile horse.
"The king agreed to his request, but unexpectedly, a few months later, the minister only brought back the bones of a dead horse, and told the king that he had spent five hundred gold just to buy these horse bones.
“The king was very angry, thought the man was a fool, and cursed him.
"But the minister explained to the king that a dead horse cost five hundred gold, and now everyone in the world thinks that you must really want the horse.
"Sure enough, as the minister said, within one year, the king got many good horses.
“If just building one school in Stockholm can keep Dr. Chen in Sweden, then I would rather build ten such schools than it is too many.
“This school can not only retain Dr. Chen, but also attract more and more people like Dr. Chen to Sweden.
"Dr. Chen, is this allusion of mine good?"
Looking at the Swedish crown prince showing off Chinese culture to himself, Chen Muwu knew that what he was telling little Marcus was the same story Guo Wei had told King Yan Zhao.
But why compare yourself to a dead horse?
He was a little dumbfounded, but because the Crown Prince of Sweden was standing in the same trench as him, Chen Muwu did not point out that his allusion was not so appropriate.
"Your Royal Highness, you have really opened my eyes. Only now do I know that your understanding of Chinese culture has reached such a high level."
The Crown Prince of Sweden was very happy to be flattered, but when he faced little Marcus again, he still had a serious face:
"If the Wallenberg family is not willing to help build this school, then I might also consider other people, such as Ivar Kruger from Swedish Match Company, which is also very good.
"His money can be loaned to the governments of other countries, so I think he should be very willing to help me build this school."
"Your Royal Highness, it's not that I am unwilling to pay this money, but I have made a little estimate. If a comprehensive liberal arts school with a technical school is built as Dr. Chen envisioned, it will be Not a small expense.
"I may not be able to make this kind of decision by myself. I should discuss it with my family."
The Crown Prince of Sweden has played the bad role for so long, so now it's Chen Muwu's turn to play the good role.
"Mr. Wallenberg, there is no reason in the world that I can train students for my own country without paying a penny."
Although the Crown Prince of Sweden had already told him that someone was willing to pay the money, Chen Muwu always felt that he was short-handed and short-handed.
And his goal is not only to be the principal of this school, but also to have actual control of the school.
"I know that the Wallenberg family is very powerful in Sweden, but to be honest, I always feel that you and I hit it off, and I just want to cooperate with you, not the family behind you.
"I also know why the family behind you pushed you out to discuss the establishment of a school with His Highness the Crown Prince.
"If I'm not wrong, this is just a test of your ability to work.
"The successful establishment of this school in the end shows that your work ability, Mr. Wallenberg, will be recognized by the family.
“But I think that no matter how well this school is run, it won’t be a big surprise to the family behind you.
“After all, to run a school, you only need to invest enough money.
"Do you want to have a more outstanding performance in front of your family?
"Let's put the school aside and talk about other things.
“I have been in Sweden for nearly half a month. In addition to preparing for the Nobel Prize ceremony, I also learned about some recent business news in your country.
"One of them really caught my attention. I think this is a big deal. If it succeeds in the end, not to mention the funds to build a small school, it will even provide funds for the entire Wallenberg." The family provides a substantial income that will last for many years.
"I wonder if you are interested, Mr. Wallenberg?"
Chen Muwu threw out his own bait, a gift that little Marcus would not refuse.
He knew that little Marcus had just entered the core of his family and urgently needed to succeed in a few things to prove his ability to his family.
Sure enough, the fish bit the hook, and when little Marcus heard the big cake painted by Chen Muwu, his eyes brightened unconsciously, and he couldn't wait to ask: "Dr. Chen, what is this big deal you are talking about? "
Chen Muwu smiled slightly and leaned back on the chair.
He pointed to a phone in the corner of the room: "Ericsson.
“Before I came to Europe and when I was still in China, I heard the name of this company in my hometown of Wuhai.
“More than half of the telephone systems in Wuhai City are related to Ericsson.
"This company's business level is indeed good, but I heard that when they acquired telecommunications companies in other countries, they took a slightly bigger step. And when they entered the US market rashly, it seems that the current situation is not as good as expected, which has led to the current situation of the entire Ericsson company. Financially, some are unable to make ends meet.
"If you can suggest to the family behind you to acquire the entire company. I believe Ericsson will continue to create huge wealth in the future.
"And I also read in the newspaper that Mr. Kruger, whom His Royal Highness the Crown Prince just mentioned, seems to be also very interested in Ericsson."
(End of chapter)
