Chen Muwu was not surprised at all that Kapitsa could say such a thing.
His reputation in the UK is constantly changing over time, like riding a roller coaster.
In the eyes of today's people, Kapitsa is a warm, cheerful and familiar Russian in Cambridgeshire.
He is a Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge University, a student of Rutherford, and a good friend of Chen Muwu. His academic level must not be low.
At the same time, he is also a banner of openness and inclusiveness of the University of Cambridge, which can show to the world that the University of Cambridge can allow a student from a red country to have unreserved access to the world's most cutting-edge and advanced physics knowledge in the UK.
However, more than ten years later, in 1934, Kapitsa decided to stay in the country after returning to visit relatives to help build and improve the physics level of his motherland.
In the imagination of people in the UK, he became a world-class physicist who was mercilessly detained by the ruthless red regime. He was a living example that perfectly demonstrated that the Soviet Union was a dictatorship without freedom.
What's more, some small newspapers in London, in order to attract attention, made up his fate, saying that Kapitsa either went to Lubyanka or to Siberia.
Rutherford just listened to the rumors in the UK, so he wrote to the Soviet Union government asking them to release him.
A few years later, when the Second World War broke out, the Soviet Union and major Western countries stood on the same front, and Kapitsa's identity became a great physicist in the Anti-Fascist Alliance.
After Denmark was invaded and occupied by Germany, he also made a plan to try to rescue Bohr, who was trapped in Copenhagen, to Soviet Union.
But this plan ultimately failed because the British Chadwick took the lead and got a plane and almost sent Bohr to heaven, but in the end he helped Bohr escape.
Regarding how Bohr escaped from Denmark, if it were made into a movie, it would definitely be regarded as a "physicist's version" of "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth".
After Germany occupied Denmark, as the most famous scientific figure in Denmark, Bohr was naturally under surveillance.
Before the outbreak of World War II, Bohr's teacher Rutherford had passed away.
Although Chadwick, the great butler, left Cambridge for Liverpool, he did not forget that the director's best student was in danger.
Relying on his military status and through the British spy staying in Denmark, he sent Bohr a letter written on microfilm. The end of the letter implicitly stated that he hoped to meet Bohr in England. .
But Bohr disagreed. Although he was disgusted with what the Nazis were doing in his own country, he was unwilling to leave his motherland.
Until the surveillance on him became more and more strict, Bohr finally couldn't bear it anymore and secretly went from Copenhagen to neighboring Sweden.
There is only a narrow strait between Copenhagen and Malmö, Sweden. It is easy to sneak across by boat at night.
Sweden remained nominally neutral during World War II, but secretly opened its own roads and railways to Germany and continued to sell them various minerals. In fact, it was more biased towards the Axis powers.
Therefore, although the German agents knew that Bohr had gone to Sweden, it was still their sphere of influence and they turned a blind eye.
However, as a neutral country, Sweden did not cut off its ties with the other Allied Powers.
One night, taking advantage of the darkness, a Royal Air Force Mosquito bomber parked at an abandoned airport in Stockholm.
After putting on makeup, Bohr hurriedly evaded all kinds of surveillance and got on the plane.
Because it was a bomber, there was no passenger cabin, so Bohr, who was tall, could only hide in the bomb bay.
For this rescue, the mosquito bomber's bomb bay was also modified and equipped with an intercom that could communicate with the pilot, and an oxygen supply system to prevent hypoxia during high-altitude flight.
The purpose of the plane's trip was to cross the English Channel back to the UK, but before crossing it it had to pass through a large area of German-occupied territory, and there was a high chance that it would be discovered by the Germans.
In order to avoid this situation, the pilot can only continue to increase the altitude.
He reminded Bohr several times on the intercom to bring oxygen equipment, but he never received a response.
The pilot was afraid that the world-famous physicist would be suffocated by him, so he could only grit his teeth and risk being discovered by the Germans. He flew at a low altitude and finally almost touched the sea.
When the plane finally landed in Edinburgh, the staff guarding it opened the bomb bay door and found that Bohr was already unconscious.
Afterwards, it was discovered that the plug of the intercom was loose, which prevented Bohr from hearing the pilot's orders and did not bring his own oxygen supply system.
However, there is another theory that Bohr suffered from hypoxia because his head was too big to wear an oxygen mask.
In some stall readings, this incident was interpreted as an example of Professor Bohr's devotion to academics and diligent thinking:
"When the airport staff opened the bomb bay door, Professor Bohr was still unaware. He was still immersed in his own world, thinking about profound physics problems, and had no reaction to the changes around him."
Hypoxic coma is just called hypoxic coma. Why is it so high-sounding?
Even if it is for the sake of His Majesty, it cannot be hidden like this!
In fact, Bohr was not a Jew. Even if he stayed in occupied Denmark, to be honest, he did not have to worry about being purged by Germany, which was committing genocide.
But among the allies, both the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union wanted to bring Bohr to their own countries.
On the one hand, he didn't want this master of physics to eventually return to Germany with his good student Heisenberg to study how to grow mushrooms.
On the other hand, I also want him to be used by me to help the allies study how to grow mushrooms.
But Bohr, who had an innocent heart, was still not welcomed by others even in Britain and the United States.
Scientists from the United Kingdom, the United States and other allied countries were developing atomic bombs at the Los Alamos Experimental Base in New Mexico, but they did not play with Su Lian alone.
Bohr felt that such betrayal of an ally was not good, and that the secret of the atomic bomb should be shared with Sulian.
He first met British Prime Minister Churchill and told him this idea.
After hearing these words of Bohr, the little fat man who had been opposed to communism all his life immediately became alert.
He felt that Bohr was either a Communist or had communist criminal tendencies.
After arriving in the United States, Bohr met Franklin Roosevelt.
He repeated to the wheelchair-bound President of the United States what he had said to Churchill.
The response was that Roosevelt politely spoke to him.
It can be seen from Bohr's experience that in World War II, high-end physicists were the most valuable assets.
Chen Muwu suddenly thought of such a situation in his mind. If, he meant, if he showed flirtation with the Germans when he was in Sweden, would the British, American and Soviet spies lurking in Sweden be called to the top? Ordered them to kidnap him back at all costs, like transporting Bohr?
Thinking about it this way, his previous plan of rubbing mushrooms in Sweden seemed to have certain hidden dangers.
Although he is on the side of the Allies mentally and morally, he does not rule out the risk of being invited to Germany by the Gestapo.
It seems that I can only use Stockholm as a place to teach and educate people, and I have to find another place to grow mushrooms.
Going to South Africa?
Although the hometown of the thin man, the fat man and the little boy is Congo, South Africa, which also belongs to Africa, also has high-quality uranium mines.
Moreover, South Africa is still a British colony. White people from Europe have settled here since the 17th century. Through continuous colonization, a white race has been formed in Africa, the Boers.
South Africa is considered the most civilized country in Africa south of the equator. If you choose to grow your own mushrooms here, it seems to be a good choice.
——After all, there is still a deep connection between Chen Muwu and the Duke of York.
But that's not the case at all. It is precisely because of South Africa's high level of civilization that Britain spent a lot of money to turn it into a colony.
They fought two Boer Wars, with a total cost of more than 200 million pounds, more than three times the amount of the Treaty of Xinchou, which paid a total of 450 million taels of silver.
The UK is really rich, but South Africa is really hard to beat.
Finally, at the beginning of the 20th century, Britain added this large piece of fertile land to its own territory, and also gained many Boer subjects who seemed to be incompatible with each other.
When World War II broke out, the careless British focused all their energy on Europe and North Africa and had no time to care about Africa south of the equator.
Taking this opportunity, South Africa started to make various small moves. Chen Muwu was very afraid that if he went to South Africa to study atomic bombs at this time, he would not get the cooperation of the local people who were already disgusted with the British.
If South Africa doesn't work, Australia seems to be a good choice.
This is the country with the largest uranium reserves in the world, and it is loyal to the Belt Empire.
Even more than a hundred years later, their national flag still retains the Union Jack in the most important position, and the nominal supreme head of state is still the governor appointed by the British royal family.
But Australia also has a fatal flaw, that is, it is too far from Europe and too close to Asia.
If Chen Muwu wanted to go to Australia, he would have to take a ship that might kill him.
Not to mention that he did not want to repeat the tragic boat ride in the North Sea, even if Chen Muwu arrived in Australia safely and successfully, he successfully detonated an atomic bomb there.
But there are only two ways to transport the completed atomic bomb, either by plane or by ship.
But neither planes nor ships can bypass Papua New Guinea in the north of Australia, which is a place occupied by the military.
If the atomic bomb cannot be dropped on Tokyo and only kills tens of thousands of troops, although it is considered worth the money, it will still make people feel unhappy.
Not in Sweden, not in South Africa, not in Australia.
Chen Muwu only had two alternatives left in his mind.
Either go to Los Amos, New Mexico, or go to Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
But as long as he goes to these two places, Chen Muwu will definitely not be able to return to the country for the rest of his life.
Not only will he not be able to return to the country, his name may even be changed.
If you go to the former, you will be called George Chen for the rest of your life.
If you go to the latter, you will become Chenski Muvenovich.
If you mix well, you might even be able to add Davarish after your name.
There may be a way to return to Sulian, and that is to take advantage of Project 156 to come to China as an expert to help with development and construction.
But whether this is feasible is completely unknown.
The more Chen Muwu thought about it, the angrier he became, so he simply acted like an ostrich for the time being and buried his head in the sand.
Continuing back to Kapitsa, who was sitting opposite him, he was still excited because Chen Muwu agreed to visit Sulian.
After the victory of World War II, Kapitsa's reputation in Britain deteriorated again.
Churchill, who lost the election as Prime Minister, delivered the Iron Curtain Speech. The world gradually became polarized and fell into the Cold War.
As more and more secrets were mastered by the Soviet Union, the unsatisfied Dai Ying discovered many Soviet spies among internal personnel during the investigation.
Moreover, these people are all rich or noble, and many of them are even students of Cambridge University.
Cambridge University will definitely not bear such a big blame from the sky.
If no unlucky person is found to take the blame, doesn't it mean that there is a big problem with Cambridge's education system?
After picking and choosing, I finally picked the lucky one Kapitsa.
He stayed at Cambridge University until 1934, which coincided with the time when he entered Cambridge to study with the five heroes in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
So he has to bear the blame if he doesn't want to.
Kapitsa was finally assigned a role by the British. He was no longer a great scientist who was forcibly detained by the Soviet government for no reason, but a man lurking in Cambridge sent by the Cheka, the predecessor of the KGB, as early as the early 1920s. spy.
Otherwise, why would his teacher, Yofei, the dean of the Institute of Physics of the Sulian Academy of Sciences, be so kind and use public funds to send him to study in the UK?
Chen Muwu suddenly felt that he might have to bear the blame for Kapitsa in this life.
The reason is simple. He sympathized with the strike, came from a red country, and was one of the key members of the Cambridge Apostolic Society, a famous British anti-theft den.
Then in order to preserve the face of the British royal family, maybe the relationship between him and the Duke of York will be erased by historians using spring and autumn techniques.
If you are upright, you are not afraid of slanted shadows. Say whatever you like!
Unless they are awesome enough to change the effect laws and theorems named after themselves, as long as physics is not lost, his name will not disappear from British textbooks.
Or they can cancel physics classes!
However, Chen Muwu was really a little suspicious. Kapitsa readily agreed to help him apply for a Sulian visa. Is it possible that there really was a secret relationship between him and the Sulian government?
It doesn't matter, as long as I can get the visa in hand quickly.
Xu Zhimo returned to China by train from the UK last year. He waited for Sulian's visa in Paris, France for more than a month!
Every minute and every second of Chen Muwu's time now is precious.
The reason why he agreed to Kapitsa still had something to do with the letter he held in his hand.
This letter from the Swedish Embassy actually contains the translation paper of a telegram.
The source of the telegram was the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the sender was Prince Gustaf, the Crown Prince of Sweden.
Chen Muwu just replied to him a few days ago, but he didn't expect to receive the second one so soon.
In the telegram, the Crown Prince of Sweden said that there was nothing wrong with the request made by Chen Muwu in the telegram. The Swedish Embassy in China was fully capable of organizing and supervising the examination for students to study in Sweden, and ensuring that the examination was fair and just.
But he also felt that just sending an official document by telegram would appear informal, which would make the diplomats who were far away from the sky not pay attention to it.
The Crown Prince of Sweden once again mentioned his desire to visit China and urged them to complete the selection examination.
In the telegram, he invited Chen Muwu to spend two months and go with him.
Chen Muwu thought about this invitation and felt that he really shouldn't refuse it.
Traveling with the Swedish royal family can ensure your personal safety to the greatest extent on the smoke-filled battlefield of the Northern Expedition.
And I just took this opportunity to bring all my family members to Europe, so I decided to come to attend the wedding of Aifu and his eldest sister, and watch Chen Muwu marry the old Chen family.
The time arrangement is also very suitable. The plan given by the Swedish Crown Prince is to go in mid-July and return in mid-September, just in time to catch up with Irena's wedding.
That's why Chen Muwu agreed to Kapitsa's invitation. He could go to Sulian half a month in advance and meet up with the Swedish Crown Prince and his entourage there.
But the time left for such work in Cambridge was even more pressing, and he could not waste a minute now.
(End of chapter)
