Who are you, buddy?
This was Chen Muwu's first reaction.
The dinner he came to attend today was hosted by the Soviet Foreign Affairs Department to welcome the visiting Swedish Crown Prince.
But his invitation letter was prepared for him by Sweden.
In other words, Chen Muwu was attending the dinner as a guest and a member of the Swedish Crown Prince's entourage.
Under such circumstances, he would be embarrassed to ask for an additional invitation letter from the Swedish Consulate and bring Oppenheimer with him.
After all, even Kapitsa, who had been accompanying him as a translator these days, was not invited.
Chen Muwu was completely alone today. He was startled by the sudden intrusion of an uninvited guest.
I still remember the first time Oppenheimer met Dirac. Dirac, who was so excited because he discovered a "mistake" by Chen Muwu, rushed into the party of the Kapitsa Club. It was Oppenheimer who was the first One of them reacted and stopped between Chen Muwu and Dirac.
If Oppenheimer were around now, he, the great protector, would definitely repeat his previous behavior and rush out to block the situation as soon as possible.
There are many people in Sulian with black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin, but there are not many serious Far Easterners.
Chen Muwu didn't know which one was coming towards him. Is he Chinese? Or myself? Or South Korea?
Oh, sorry, no Korea yet.
Before coming to Sulian, Chen Muwu went to the Chinese Embassy in London to find out about the situation here from Charge d'Affaires Chen Weicheng.
Although Su Lian had always been in contact with Guangdong, when the agreement to establish diplomatic relations between China and Li was finally signed in 1924, it was the Beiyang government that signed the agreement.
It may be a newly established country that urgently needs to improve its international status.
In the agreement signed between Sulian and the Beiyang government, not only did the two sides bypass the minister level and directly establish diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level, but in addition to the embassy in Moscow, the Beiyang government could even establish a consulate general in Lezhigrad. .
When mentioning this consulate, Chen Weicheng said with envy: "Brother Hanchen, you don't know that our Consul General in Lezhigrad was really prosperous when he took office. I heard that he came from Beijing When I took the train to Sulian, I brought a total of forty-five carriages of servants, including thirty to forty cooks who cooked the dishes of the north and south."
Although the first key word that Chen Muwu caught from these words was thirty or forty cooks, and he had already begun to imagine that after Lezhigrad, they would be able to feast and stuff themselves every day, he was still shocked. Due to the extravagance of this battle when the Consul General took office.
You have to take the Trans-Siberian Railway from Beijing to Moscow. You cannot buy tickets for such a long journey. You can only sleep in a sleeping car. But even if twenty people sleep in a sleeping car, there are still 900 people in 45 carriages. .
A few days ago, didn't Chen Weicheng cry and complain that the British Legation had no funds and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would not pay them?
He is also from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, how come this person can be so generous!
Let alone the son of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, it is estimated that even the Minister of Foreign Affairs himself would not be able to hire so many followers.
"Charge Chen, who is this Mr. Consul General? Could it be that he is a young man from a wealthy family who spent money to get an official position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?"
"The son of a rich family? Their family is even richer than a rich family! The Consul General of Shuijun Shaoshui, his family was originally a salt merchant in Zhangsu Province. Later, he married Zhang Wenxiang's daughter and transformed into a handsome and handsome idler. husband!"
Darling, that’s really incredible!
Whether Zhang Wenxiang or Xiangshuai mentioned in Chen Weicheng's words, he refers to the same person.
That is one of the "Four Famous Officials of the Late Qing Dynasty and the ZTE". His photo is often worshiped in the comment area of Douyin and people mistakenly believe it to be Zhang Zhidong of Li Hongzhang.
After Zhang Zhidong's death, the Qing government gave him the posthumous title Wenxiang, so he was called Zhang Wenxiang.
And because he was nicknamed "Xiang Tao" and held the position of governor called "Da Shuai", he was also called "Xiang Shuai".
Zhang Zhidong was also one of the representatives of the Westernization Movement. At that time, the first and largest Hanyang Iron Works in Asia was the steel company he presided over.
The iron and steel plant was highly profitable, and it was not defrauded by the British like the Kaiping Mining Bureau. Zhang Zhidong, as the founder of the iron plant, would definitely make a lot of money from it.
Shui Junshao was not only Zhang Zhidong's son-in-law, but his son-in-law was also very famous.
Shui Junshao's eighth daughter was named Shui Shifang. During the Anti-Japanese War, because of her father's diplomatic status, she also entered the Dutch Embassy in China in Yanqing.
Shui Shifang met a first secretary in the Dutch Embassy, Robert Hans van Gulik, and eventually became his wife.
This first secretary also has another Chinese name, Gao Luopei, who is the foreigner who wrote "The Case of Di Gong of the Tang Dynasty".
There is a famous father-in-law and a famous son-in-law. Shui Junshao, who is caught in the middle, has become the least famous person in the entire family inheritance.
Just like Chen Weicheng said, Shui Junshao's family was originally a salt merchant, and he had a heavyweight father-in-law. With such family conditions, he could afford to hire so many servants.
But is this necessary?
Regardless of whether it was necessary or not, Chen Muwu at that time couldn't wait to leave the UK and rush to Lezhigrad. He happened to be giving lectures there for two weeks. He wanted to take advantage of half a month to eat big food every day and bring Shui Junshao with him. The chefs No. 30 and 40 have tried all their skills.
——Although he won't be living in Lezhigrad for half a month, he will return to China soon.
But it’s better to eat other people’s food without spending money than to eat it yourself.
At that time, he would use the name of a visit and take the opportunity to live in the Consulate General. Presumably, the son-in-law of the pioneer of Westernization would not reject him.
Chen Muwu asked Chen Weicheng if he could say hello and send a telegram to the Consulate General in Lezhigrad for him, so that when he arrived, the other party could be prepared.
Although you don’t have to go ten miles out of the city to meet us, it is still necessary to buy some chicken, duck, fish and the like in advance!
Then his family member Chen Weicheng told Chen Muwu some unfortunate news.
Maybe he felt that living abroad after leaving his hometown was not interesting, or maybe he had other things to do at home. Anyway, Shui Junshao resigned in April this year, less than a year after taking office, and returned to China to work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He worked as a counselor.
The consul general in Lezhigrad was replaced by Fu Yangxian, minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Chen Muwu went to Sulian for a few months late, and he and Shui Junshao just walked away from each other, and no one could see the other.
He complained very much about Chen Weicheng in his heart. If he hadn't mentioned it, he shouldn't have known about it and wouldn't have looked forward to it.
It's fine now. I was excited for a long time, but in the end it was just empty joy.
Chen Muwu came to Lezhigrad from London in such a state of despair. He didn't even check in at the door of the Consulate General for so many days.
He was afraid of being touched by the scene there, and couldn't help but think of the gluttonous feast that should have been imported but disappeared.
So now he doesn’t go to the Consulate General, but Mr. Consul General comes to visit in person?
Apart from this, Chen Muwu could not think of any reason why any of his compatriots would seek him out, nor could he think of any other candidates.
There’s no way anyone would come to study in Su Lian now, right?
You can go abroad, why not choose a country with higher scientific and technological level and more modernity, such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany and France?
"Hello Dr. Chen..."
When the person holding the wine glass opened his mouth, Chen Muwu became even more sure.
This Chinese word is well-spoken, and the status of those who can attend today's dinner is either rich or noble.
If he wasn't Consul General Fu, who would he be?
"...I am the ambassador of the Dali Empire to the Kingdom of Lu, Tanaka Mikichi."
The slap in the face came too quickly.
I don’t have time to wonder why a person can speak Chinese so well, except that he can’t distinguish between r and l.
Chen Muwu even wanted to know, why did the ambassador to the Soviet Union come to Lezhigrad instead of staying in Moscow?
Although there is no consulate in Legegrad, a mere Swedish crown prince should not have such a big reputation that an ambassador from a country can come from such a far away place to attend his welcome dinner.
"Hello, Mr. Ambassador."
According to formal diplomatic terms, the title following "Ambassador" should be "Your Excellency".
But Chen Muwu didn't want to say that, he didn't want to give himself any good looks.
His little idea didn't seem to have any effect. Tanaka Dokichi still had a polite smirk on his face: "The newspaper in Luguo said that Dr. Chen will follow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Sweden after finishing this lecture visit. Let’s take the train back to your country. I would like to ask Dr. Chen, whether he will take advantage of this hard-won opportunity to return to China and go to a friendly neighbor that is separated by a narrow strip of water from China for an academic visit and exchange?”
No wonder Tanaka Tokichi came here from Moscow. He was not here to welcome the Crown Prince of Sweden, he was clearly here for himself!
However, these people's intelligence methods are really superb. It is not surprising that they know that they will return to China after the lecture. As Tanaka Dokichi said, this matter has been published in Sulian's newspaper.
But how do they know they'll be at the welcome party tonight? This is somewhat thought-provoking.
I have invited myself to visit, not just once or twice.
They have always been generous with their money. Referring to Einstein's visit in 1922, in less than two months, they spent two thousand pounds in remuneration and took care of all his travel to and from Europe and East Asia. Travel expenses.
However, my shrewdness is that wherever Einstein goes, his lectures are not free to the general public, but charge a certain fee.
This is like inviting the Argentine national team and the Australian national team to China to play a game. Although the appearance fee and venue fee are a lot of money, as long as enough people can be attracted to watch the game If you sell enough tickets during the game, it's a sure-fire business.
If Bei Da and Cai Yuanpei could learn this trick, they might be able to overcome the regret of Einstein not being able to visit China.
Now Tanaka Dokichi did not discuss money with him, but only asked him if he had the intention to give lectures at this university.
Chen Muwu knew that as long as he nodded and agreed, he could make a small fortune.
At a time when the German mark was rapidly depreciating, two thousand pounds was a huge sum of money to Einstein.
But for Chen Muwu now, these two thousand pounds can only be regarded as better than nothing.
After all, he was a man who could make the future King of England pay 10,000 pounds a year and let the future King of Sweden build a school for him with just three words.
And will I upgrade his treatment to be equal to that of Einstein?
This is still unknown.
From a personal emotional point of view, Chen Muwu was torn between not wanting to go back to his roots but also wanting to go back to his roots.
It's easy to understand why he doesn't want to go. There are too many old grudges between him and Ben.
Just because of the Chinese Exclusion Act, he refused to go to the United States for so many years.
The things I have done are more abominable than those of Americans. I cannot treat them differently and reject America and accept Japan, right?
But the reason why he wanted to go to Japan was because Chen Muwu wanted to see if his big deception had paid off.
Whether it was to Nishina Yoshio or to Arakatsu Bunze, he did not tell lies. Superconductivity will indeed be the mainstream in the future of physics.
But I'm afraid that I won't believe it and will live up to my good intentions.
Especially after Rutherford's massive publicity, physicists all over the world basically knew that Chen Muwu had built the first particle accelerator at Cambridge University, which could bombard it with particles other than alpha particles. Nucleus.
Do I feel like I'm lying to them? Although that's the way it is.
What if they try to do accelerators too?
Chen Muwu felt that the best way was to go to Ben in person and convince those respected physics seniors in Ben to agree and support the study of low-temperature physics.
In this country that pays attention to seniority, basically no young people would dare to break the rules set by the older generation.
Of course, we can't be too absolute. After all, there was once a group of young people who entered Tokyo singing "Miluo Yuan water makes waves, clouds roll over Wushan Mountain".
To go or not to go, that is the question.
Since he couldn't make up his mind, Chen Muwu simply didn't think about it, and he didn't want to invest too much energy in thinking on this occasion.
It was more important to eat, and he was already very unhappy when Tanaka Mikichi interrupted his meal.
"Mr. Ambassador, I'm sorry, your invitation is too sudden. I won't be able to give you a definite answer for a while."
"Dr. Chen, please don't worry too much. I'm just preliminary revealing some of my intentions in this regard to you today. When you return to your country by train, if nothing else, someone there will contact you again."
Now, the ghost is still lingering.
(End of chapter)
