The original intention of Bu Nei Men Company to send Bert to find Chen Muwu was to win Chen Muwu's favor with someone who could speak Chinese and Hanhai dialect and use his local accent.
It never occurred to them that doing so was actually stealing the chicken but losing the rice.
"Mr. Bert, let's speak English."
Chen Muwu quickly stopped his pidgin talk, which was really annoying.
"So you are here to discuss the patent rights of this new type of glass with me today, right?"
"That's right, Dr. Chen, that's it. Lord Mond attaches great importance to your new invention. When he heard that you planned to sell the patent rights, he sent me to have preliminary communication and contact with you."
"That's no problem. Please wait for me here for a moment, and I'll ask Sir Bragg to come over."
When doing experiments, Old Prague didn't help at all, he just provided an experimental venue.
When it came time to negotiate for money, Chen Muwu felt that it would be inappropriate if Prague did not come out.
He needs someone with status to help him stand up and suppress the momentum of Bert opposite him.
Also, although Chen Muwu took the lion's share of the money, the David Faraday Laboratory could also obtain funding for it. The director of this laboratory must be shown how difficult it is to obtain this funding.
A Chinese, in order to help the development of physics in the UK, sold the patent of a popular product that made energy sources profitable at once.
No one who sees it can say that Mr. Chen is righteous?
Chen Muwu hummed a tune and went to the director's office to find Old Bragg. Oppenheimer, who was left behind as his student, stared at the visiting Bo Nemen Company representative Bert in the laboratory.
After receiving Chen Muwu's letter, Oppenheimer left Cambridge University.
It has been a few days since he came to London, but Chen Muwu has never assigned him a task. He doesn't know what the teacher is calling him here for.
In the past few days, Oppenheimer has been following Chen Muwu in the David Faraday Laboratory to make plans, which experimental equipment should be placed here, and what experimental drugs should be placed there.
It's just that no matter the equipment or medicines, they are all castles in the air, and they are things that do not exist in the laboratory at all.
What is Teacher Chen doing?
Today's uninvited guest made Oppenheimer even more confused.
He first said a few words in Chinese that seemed to be Chinese, but he couldn't understand it at all.
Then he introduced himself as an engineer for the Brennamond Company.
Isn't this a chemical company?
How can teachers relate to them? And it sounds like he's talking about selling patents?
What was equally strange was Old Prague.
He has not seen Dr. Chen for more than ten or twenty days, and he did not expect that he would suddenly come to the door today.
Are you still not giving up and asking for funds again?
"Sir Bragg, I need to discuss a patent transfer with someone. If this matter is completed, the funds for the David Faraday Laboratory will be secured. Why don't you come with me to take a look?"
Old Prague, who was unwilling to see him one second, wanted to give him a hug the next second, and even kissed Chen Muwu on both cheeks like the French.
Rutherford, that old guy from New Zealand, really wasn't bragging. His good student could really bring good luck to the laboratory.
"Easy to say, easy to say. Dr. Chen, what patent is it? Is it the one you have been tinkering with in the laboratory for a while?"
"Exactly that, ser."
Hearing this answer, Old Prague felt a little disappointed.
What valuable patents can be produced from those bottles and jars?
The most valuable thing ever invented in David Faraday's laboratory was the disc motor invented by Faraday, the former director.
However, his disappointment quickly dissipated.
No matter how much, it is always Dr. Chen’s heart.
Moreover, the scale of experiments in Davy-Faraday Laboratory is much smaller than that of Cavendish Laboratory.
The Cavendish Laboratory has 20,000 pounds a year, and the Davy-Faraday Laboratory can have 5,000 pounds.
Moreover, after Dr. Chen learned that he had been deceived, he could have turned around and returned to Cambridge University and returned to the wealthy Rutherford of the Cavendish Laboratory to conduct experiments.
But he stayed. Not only did he stay, he also tried to invent and finally produce it, just to get out of the predicament of Davy Faraday Laboratory.
Old Bragg felt that he had made a wise decision when he proposed to Chen Muwu on the ship returning to the UK from Belgium that he should nominate him for the Nobel Prize in Physics.
This Chinese Chen, like his compatriot George Chen in the recently emerging detective book, also knows how to repay kindness.
As long as Dr. Chen can bring in a thousand pounds with his invention, he should be grateful to him.
Moreover, Old Bragg also believed that after he retired, he could recommend Dr. Chen to succeed him as the director of this laboratory.
With his achievements and help to the laboratory, a hundred years from now, this laboratory may be named the David Faraday-Chan Laboratory.
…
After returning to the laboratory, Chen Muwu began to help them introduce each other.
"Sir Bragg, this is one of my students at Cambridge University, Robert Oppenheimer, this is Engineer Burt from Brennamond Company.
"Two, this is Lord Bragg, Fuller Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution and the director of the Davy Faraday Laboratory."
After the introduction, Old Bragg and Oppenheimer had the same doubts as Oppenheimer just now. How did Chen Muwu get in touch with the chemical company Brennamond?
But after thinking about it, he was relieved. He had been tinkering with bottles and jars in the laboratory for several months, and started doing chemical experiments without doing his job. Then it was quite legitimate for him to sell the results to chemical plants.
"Dr. Chen, what on earth did you invent that made engineers from Brennamond Company come to the laboratory to purchase the patent?"
Bragg Sr. asked the question that had always interested Oppenheimer.
"It's this new type of glass." Chen Muwu took out a new piece of plexiglass from the bag he had been carrying around with him these days. "It is stronger and lighter, and it is completely synthesized using advanced chemical raw materials. There is no need to use silica party materials, nor does it need to be fired at a high temperature of more than a thousand degrees Celsius.”
Not only Old Bragg and Oppenheimer, but also Bert, who came from Bu Nemen Company, saw this new gadget in Chen Muwu's hand for the first time.
The Duke of York regarded the piece of glass given to him by Chen Muwu as a treasure. He only showed it to A. Mond, the general manager of Bunemen, at his own home, but did not agree at all that he wanted to take the glass away for analysis. ask.
There are so many explanations, it is better to let them see it and believe it.
In front of the three people, Chen Muwu performed the magic trick of throwing the glass to the floor and the glass would not break.
The laboratory let out three exclamations.
Old Bragg changed his previous view on Chen Muwu's invention. He estimated that the price of one thousand pounds for this piece of glass was really too low.
It seems that this time he has luck. Once the patent is sold and the funds are in place, the Davy Faraday Laboratory can finally straighten its back and stand up!
Although Oppenheimer also thinks this piece of glass is magical, he is now somewhat accustomed to it. His teacher Chen Muwu is a genius, and it is only natural that he invented such a slightly innovative thing.
Oppenheimer was even a little dissatisfied with Teacher Chen's new invention.
Teacher Chen should not be an inventor, inventing these gadgets that improve human life.
He should not forget his true nature, continue to be a great physicist, and discover some new things in high-end atmospheric physics, thereby changing mankind's understanding of the universe in which we live:
For example, the electrically neutral particles in the nucleus that Rutherford Sr. has been looking for;
For example, the teacher proposed it in the paper, but others always laughed at it as a whimsical "positron";
Even like the one published in the newspaper, the parallel universe proposed by the teacher during the debate with Einstein;
…
Oppenheimer believed that one day, Teacher Chen would be able to find all the above things.
He just has this ability!
Bert's eyes were even more wide-eyed. Although he was not very good at business, he was still a chemical engineer with a professional background.
He knew that if this kind of glass that was not afraid of falling could be mass-produced at Brennamond Company, it would soon enter the markets in Europe, North America and even around the world, and the profits it would bring to the company would be considerable.
The East Asian soda ash market suffered losses caused by the emergence of the Red Triangle, as well as the losses caused by the explosion of trinitrotoluene at a chemical plant in Silvertown, a suburb of London a few years ago. This new type of glass ribbon can also be produced and sold using this method. The incoming profits made up for it.
Bert now finally understands why Lord A. Mond did not even issue a punishment to himself, but was so anxious to ask himself to come to London to find Dr. Chen to discuss the purchase of the patent, and also upgraded his authority. so many.
This is an inexhaustible cornucopia!
"Dr. Chen, what is your psychological expectation for the price of your patent?"
"Um……"
Seeing that the formal topic had entered, Chen Muwu pondered for a long time.
He is not good at business, and he does not know how much the patent should be sold for.
There is still a shortfall of ten thousand pounds to cover the school's shortfall.
However, this price is already a thing of the past. The finance minister in Baldwin's second cabinet, Churchill, the God of Wealth in Chen Muwu's heart, finally pushed the pound to return to the gold standard.
As a result, the exchange rate of the pound against the Swedish krona has also risen. If calculated in Swedish krona, he now does not need to pay another 25,000 pounds.
How do most people bargain for prices?
Chen Muwu thought about the bargaining tips he had seen online before: No matter what other people's first offer is, cut it in half first. After cutting it in half, you can cut it down by about 20%.
So if you calculate it backwards, (10000÷80%÷50%)...
"Mr. Bert, you should know what this patent means and how much profit it can bring to your company.
"If I weren't in a hurry for money now and didn't have the upfront funds to support me in setting up an independent factory for production, I would never have asked the Duke of York to help me contact buyers for my new patent. ..."
Old Prague on the side was startled.
Dr. Chen’s energy is great!
In order to sell a piece of glass, he found a way to the Duke of York?
How many years has Dr. Chen been in the UK? He has already made contact with members of the royal family!
"...So let me give you a fixed price for this patent, how about twenty-five thousand pounds?"
The more he said this, the more he felt less confident, because the price he had just calculated was really ridiculously high in Chen Muwu's mind. The funds he provided to young Marcus of the Wallenberg family to build the school were only This is just a number.
Old Bragg, who had been startled by the Duke of York just now, was taken aback again.
How dare Dr. Chen want to be so tall?
As a fellow of the Royal Society and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, I can get the top professor salary in every university.
Even so, it would take thirty years of hard work to get the twenty-five thousand pounds.
Old Prague almost wanted to persuade this young man, asking for a high price is not such a good idea, don't scare away the financial backer who finally came to his door!
But someone beat him to it: "Mr. Bert, I think Dr. Chen's price is very reasonable.
"If your company is not willing to provide corresponding patent transfer fees for such a great invention, I think DuPont in the United States should be very willing to pay a price of US$125,000 for this.
"Teacher, although my father's business in the United States is not big, there is no problem in connecting you with DuPont."
After Britain returned to the gold standard, the exchange rate of one pound to the dollar was fixed at 4.86.
The price Oppenheimer gave was a little more than twenty-five thousand pounds.
Chen Muwu quickly realized that his student was helping him cheer and build momentum.
"Yes, Mr. Bert, if DuPont in the United States does not want it, I have done business with the BASF factory in Germany before. If they see this new piece of glass, I think they will not reject my offer. "
Bert quickly apologized and smiled: "Dr. Chen, please be patient and patient. As long as this piece of glass passes our inspection and tests and confirms that it meets the requirements in all aspects of performance, this price will be reasonable for you." There is no problem at all for Bu Nemen Company.
"So, Dr. Chen, should we sign a contract of intent first?"
Hearing the other party agree so readily, the elderly Prague almost fell off his seat.
Chen Muwu also felt a little regretful.
Judging from what Bert means, his price seems to be too low?
(End of chapter)
