Shunruo was Shi Ruwei's nickname, and he was also the oldest among the four.
Currently, Chen Muwu has the highest level of knowledge among the four, but he is ranked third in age, only two years older than Oppenheimer.
Although he invited the two compatriots to come from China, he never showed the attitude of a teacher.
Zhao Zhongyao and Shi Ruwei were also very grateful to Chen Muwu for spending his own money to invite them to study in Cambridge.
They also didn't put on airs just because they were a few years older. Confucius respected Xiang Lu, who was only seven years old, as his teacher.
He is definitely not as good as Confucius, but Chen Muwu is definitely much more powerful than Xiang Lu.
After all, given his academic achievements and status, it is no exaggeration to call him the person who knows the most about physics in China.
Chen Muwu's decision to ask Shi Ruwei to go to London with him this time was not a whim, but he had already laid the groundwork.
After arriving at Cambridge University, in addition to arranging for Shi Ruwei to follow him in classes and tutor some theoretical knowledge.
In the Cavendish Laboratory, Chen Muwu also entrusted him to Kapitsa, the assistant director of the Magnetism Department, and Stoner, who was famous for his research on magnetism, whom he had met through the extranuclear electron experiment.
Shi Ruwei will become China's leading figure in magnetism in the future, but Chen Muwu thinks it's better not to change his trajectory.
As for the Nobel Prize arranged for Zhao Zhongyao, he had already thought about it. Of course, it was the regrettable positron. He missed it in his previous life and must get it back with his own hands in this life.
Moreover, Chen Muwu also predicted the existence of positrons in his paper. He proposed this concept himself before, and later found it with his colleagues. It is a very reasonable thing, right?
This time he was rejected, and Oppenheimer said nothing.
It's just this rejection that made him think harder and harder, thinking that the reason why Chen Muwu didn't choose him was because he couldn't speak Chinese.
If I can learn Chinese as soon as possible and communicate with Chen Muwu smoothly, maybe he will choose me next time.
After the party that night, Chen Muwu simply moved into the empty room upstairs in Mrs. Brown's house. He planned to live here temporarily for the two or three days before leaving Cambridge University.
Because he was a little scared recently, Einstein, who knew which room in Trinity College he lived in, would talk to him all night long again.
Fortunately, Einstein would have never thought that Chen Muwu would have another place to stay at Cambridge University.
Mrs. Brown welcomed Chen Muwu's return, and asked him directly and without concealment when the round-faced George could come to Cambridge University again.
"Come on, come on. When the summer vacation comes, I'll write a letter inviting him to come to Cambridge and come see you by the way."
Chen Muwu said this, but what he was thinking in his heart was that Ye Gongchao probably didn't want to see him or see any letters he wrote to him in the recent period - unless it was the royalties allocated to him. money.
Before leaving, he also received a telegram from Sweden. The sender was Marcus Jr., the agent of the Wallenberg family who had been introduced to him by the Swedish Crown Prince.
He asked Chen Muwu if he was at Cambridge University recently. If he was, he would come in the near future to discuss with him the matter of building a school.
He immediately sent a reply to Sweden, informing Marcus that he would be in London for the next few months. If he came to the UK, he would not have to come to Cambridge, but to the David Faraday Laboratory of the Royal Institution. Find yourself.
He also sent a telegram to Doyle to inform him of his upcoming departure.
After everything had been arranged, Chen Muwu and Shi Ruwei were driven to the Cambridge train station on the outskirts of Cambridgeshire by Kapitsa in his Lagonda car one early morning a few days later.
Kapitsa, who was captured as a coolie early in the morning, would certainly not miss any opportunity to make fun of his good friend. He mocked Chen Muwu and said that Dr. Chen was scared out of his wits by Einstein.
Obviously Cambridge University should be his home court, but now the situation is completely reversed.
"If you stomp, you will be numb!"
Unlike Oppenheimer, Kapitsa did not understand Chinese at all and had no desire to learn Chinese. I don’t know what Chen Muwu said in a frustrated voice.
But Shi Ruwei, who is from Chongshuang, understands Chinese and speaks Wu dialect, also didn't understand. He thought it was Chen Muwu speaking in the Yu dialect, and guessed that it might be a curse word.
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When he arrived at the Royal Institute, Old Bragg received Chen Muwu warmly and told him that he could use all the instruments and equipment in the low-temperature physics laboratory without any restrictions.
The only thing is that the Royal Institution does not provide accommodation. If he and Shi Ruwei want to live in London for a few months, they must choose to live in a hotel or rent two rooms from a local landlord like Mrs. Brown's family in Cambridgeshire.
Forget about renting a house, Chen Muwu was afraid of not being safe if he stayed in a hotel.
In that small place in Cambridgeshire, Chen Muwu had accumulated a certain reputation by relying on his achievements in sports and academics.
Everyone knows that there is a chatty and familiar short Russian like Kapitsa in Cambridge University, and they also know that there is a handsome Chinese scholar like Chen Muwu.
But when I arrived in London, everything was different.
Although in recent years, the British capital has been surpassed by New York in the United States, losing the title of the largest city in the world.
But a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. The city of London is much larger than Cambridge, and the composition of the people is naturally a mixed bag.
Everyone knows that there is a Chinese doctor in the UK who discovered planets, won the Olympic Games, won the Nobel Prize in Physics, and is an academician of the Royal Society.
Just walking on the street, they may not know that the Chen Muwu who appears in front of them is the Chinese who often appears in the newspapers.
So instead of staying in a hotel, Chen Muwu thought it would be better to ask his old acquaintance Zhu Zhaoxin, the charge d'affaires in the UK, for help.
When you live in an embassy, you don't have to worry about your luggage being stolen, and you can eat Chinese food every meal.
There are also cars picking up and dropping off people every day when commuting to and from get off work. Although they don't display the national flag or the license plate of the legation, it is safer than walking on the street.
The key is that the embassy has not complained about this, and they are even a little eager for Chen Muwu to stay in London for a few more months.
Because the current domestic political arena is in chaos, instead of choosing sides and betting on one side, it is better to hold on to Dr. Chen’s thigh.
Before leaving the Royal Research Institute, Chen Muwu specifically checked to see if there were any telegrams or letters for him.
Sure enough, little Marcus left him a message.
He arrived in London one day earlier than Chen Muwu and left his residence in the city at the Royal Institution.
After getting the news, Chen Muwu did not dare to neglect. He first sent Shi Ruwei back to Portland Street, and then asked the embassy to send a car to take him to find little Marcus.
Having received this telegram from the Wallenberg family when he was at Cambridge University, Chen Muwu vaguely felt that building a school in Sweden seemed promising.
Now when he met little Marcus, the latter told him the good news.
However, he did not get straight to the point, but first talked about the Ericsson incident.
"Dr. Chen, after meeting with you, I conveyed your proposal to the family. They were undecided about doing business with Su Lian, but they also tried to send people to make contact there.
“Recently, I got news that there is indeed a need for telephone switches and other equipment there, so the family started to invest in Ericsson.
“My father was very impressed by your vision, and when he heard that you wanted to cultivate Chinese students at this school in Stockholm while also revitalizing Swedish education, he decided to support your righteous cause.
"The Wallenberg family plans to provide a piece of land on the outskirts of Stockholm and use 500,000 kroner as start-up capital to build the first phase of the Prince's College - we have tentatively named the school - and will be the first to provide it to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Used in the teaching of Chinese history and culture, and your two subjects of physics.
"At the same time, we also contacted the Rockefeller Foundation in the United States. They heard that they were going to establish an education program and were willing to contribute US$50,000 as support for this school."
From the moment Marcus opened his mouth as a child, Chen Muwu was very happy that his plan to build a school would be implemented so soon.
He had no objection to naming the school after Gustav Adolf. Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince liked fame, let him do it.
Until Chen Muwu heard the word foundation, he had a natural resistance.
Moreover, this foundation also comes from the Rockefeller family in the United States.
As soon as people have money, they like to engage in charity in a sanctimonious way, and medical care and education are the two main directions of charity.
Chen Muwu had long heard of this foundation. First, they helped build Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing, the same hospital that misdiagnosed Liang Qichao.
The second is that Heisenberg went to work under Bohr at the Danish Institute of Theoretical Physics, and it was the Rockefeller Foundation that provided him with travel expenses and bonuses.
It just so happens that one is medical and the other is education.
When Bohr wanted to invite Chen Muwu to Copenhagen, one of the conditions he proposed was to help him apply for a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Although the elder Rockefeller is still at the helm of the entire Rockefeller family, the foundation may still maintain its original intention of doing charity.
But it always felt like it wouldn't be long before the foundation would become part of the American spy network, and Chen Muwu really didn't want to get involved with them so early.
"Mr. Wallenberg, I don't know if you know this clearly, but I am actually very resistant to the nouveau riche on the other side of the Atlantic and don't really want to be associated with Americans.
"You just said that the Rockefeller Foundation plans to provide $50,000 to help build the school. I did a rough calculation and the amount should be less than 200,000 crowns, right?
"In other words, the first investment in this school is about, um, around seven hundred thousand crowns?"
Little Marcus nodded: "Dr. Chen, you made a good calculation. From building materials to decoration to construction teams, our family can help. This investment of 700,000 kroner is definitely more impressive than the one in Copenhagen." !”
It seems that the Wallenberg family's preliminary research was very thorough. They even went to neighboring Denmark to inspect Bohr's Institute of Theoretical Physics.
“I think that without the money from the Americans, the Wallenberg family wouldn’t have to pay as much as half a million kronor.
"My idea is, how about I personally contribute twenty-five thousand pounds, which is probably less than four hundred thousand crowns when converted, and then you guys will make up the rest?"
"Dr. Chen, you have offered such a large sum of money. Do you have any other demands?"
"Yes, to be honest with you, Mr. Wallenberg, I want 51% of the shares of this school. In other words, I want to have enough say in management."
It seems that Chen Muwu's money accounted for more than half of this expenditure, but don't forget that the Wallenberg family also provided an additional piece of land!
And the school will definitely have follow-up investment in the future. I don’t know if Chen Muwu will continue to appear by then. He wants 51% of the shares, which is really a bit too domineering.
Little Marcus was a little undecided.
At the same time, he didn't understand what Chen Muwu was thinking. If the Americans didn't take the money, it would be free. Why did he insist on being taken advantage of?
"This...Dr. Chen, I can't make the decision. I probably need to discuss it with my family again."
"Oh, by the way, I want to add one more thing." Seeing Marcus's hesitation, Chen Muwu, who was getting more and more excited just now, realized that he had forgotten to mention something, "this fifty-one percent share, I only want twenty...yes, twenty-five years. After twenty-five years, I will unconditionally transfer these shares to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. As for what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will do with it then, it has nothing to do with me."
The time limit of twenty-five years was the result given by Chen Muwu after careful calculation.
In 1950, Chen Muwu's good friend, the Crown Prince of Sweden, would ascend the throne and become the new king of Sweden.
By that time, it is estimated that Chen Muwu will completely leave Europe, where he has lived for nearly thirty years, and return to China with his students and various instruments, so this time is just right.
But little Marcus didn't know the twists and turns. He thought it was Chen Muwu who wanted to live the addiction of being a principal.
And it lasted for twenty-five years. He was really greedy.
Even though Chen Muwu proposed this concession, Marcus still couldn't make the final decision.
He said that he would definitely convey Chen Muwu's message to his family and bring him a new reply as soon as possible.
After meeting little Marcus this time, Chen Muwu was very happy to learn that the school had made great progress.
But at the same time, he had a new worry, that is, where can he get so much money?
His main source of funds now is just a few bonuses from the Nobel Prize and the Hughes Medal.
Coupled with the royalties from several books, the most I can draw out is fifteen thousand pounds.
This is basically Chen Muwu's entire net worth, which is still a full 10,000 pounds short of what he boasted to little Marcus.
Is it possible that this time we really want to pretend to be a magician who came across the ocean from the far east to England and teach Doyle and his gang of wealthy geniuses how to practice qigong?
(End of chapter)
