Chapter 113: A Small Gift from a Big Tyrant

Princess Sissi waited lonely in the chairman's office for her workaholic husband, still busy upstairs on the big day, looking out the window at St. James's Square, where the lights were preparing for the grand wedding of Princess Victoria. Her chestnut hair was beautifully knotted, and it was even more delicate today. Under the coiled hair is her dignified face and white marble-like neck and shoulders, which looks super elegant, and has changed from a lively and active girl to an elegant duchess.

There was a hint of uneasiness and melancholy in her eyes, because her wedding to the Grand Duke had not yet taken place, and it was already rumored in the gossip world that there was a possibility that she and the Grand Duke would break up, of course, she knew that it was just a rumor, her husband was still quite obsessed with her beautiful and sexy body, and as a great scientist, Tang Ning was as focused on marriage as he was about science.

The Grand Duke, who was freed from the meeting, saw her moving back, and couldn't help but give her a hug behind her, kissing her fragrant shoulder, delicate and tender, very delicious, as if she had drunk a sip of the Duchess of Bavaria's home brew.

He seemed to sense the uneasiness in her heart, and knew what she was thinking, his schoolboy Princess Victoria had all had a wedding, and it seemed too rude for the eldest couple to have a wedding yet. His heart moved, and he said, "Sissi, I have an idea - let's go to India for a wedding, right?" There, no one can control us. ”

Sissi turned her head suddenly, and almost touched the heads of the two of them: "Huh? Going to India? Why? ”

One look at her reaction knew that she was biased against India, but the Grand Duke still puffed up his tongue and said, "India is interesting, you know?" More than half of the world's most famous diamonds come from India. Not to mention the world's largest Koh-i-Noor diamond at the International Industrial Exposition, the East India Company gave it to the Queen, what you didn't expect is that I just heard a piece of information from the committee, and there is a famous diamond called the 'Eye of the Statue' in the hands of the East India Company, and I will bring it to you! This diamond is even more beautiful than the Queen's Koh-i-Noor! ”

"Really?" Hehe, when you hear the famous diamond, the beautiful girl can't be happy?

Grand Duke: "Of course it's true, there is also a place called Taj Mahal in India, which is a sacred place for love, a mausoleum built by the fifth Mughal emperor 200 years ago to commemorate his beloved wife, and the emperor put all his energy into it, this is probably the greatest building built for love, and it is breathtakingly beautiful." I won't spoil, and you don't have to inquire, when the time comes, take a look for yourself, it's beautiful. ”

Sissi: "Beauty is beauty...... However, this is a mausoleum! ”

Grand Duke: "Isn't the mausoleum a major function of the church?" ”

Sissi: "That's right. ”

She is still most interested in diamonds: "Where is the eye of the idol?" She stretched out her white jade palms.

The Grand Duke grabbed her palm and said with a smile: "Don't be so anxious, I've already asked someone to pick it up, but let's wait until the wedding day to see it, there will be surprises!" ”

Where can I wait for that day? The Grand Duke's wedding was delayed again and again, and Princess Sissi had no confidence in him, so she was very angry and wanted to take a look at the big diamond first.

Well, then take a look, and the Grand Duke warned: "Don't reveal to anyone for the time being that we are having a wedding at the Taj Mahal, and we have to learn the lessons of the French Emperor." ”

The combination of the mysterious big diamond and the mysterious Taj Mahal finally made the duchess happy, once the duchess was in a beautiful mood, it became more and more beautiful, the grand duke was beastly, and unfortunately the kissing by the window was photographed by gossip reporters, but fortunately it was a kiss to our wife, not a trick.

The atmosphere in St. James's Square was high, and it seemed that it was about to begin, and the Grand Duke and the Duchess of Bavaria entered the wedding scene, staying far away on the edge, looking very low-key, only muttering to their daughters-in-law, pointing and pointing, which etiquette at the wedding was interesting, which decoration was interesting, and their own wedding should also have a pleasant topic.

The place arranged for him by the prince gathered people from the academic world, and many Cambridge University professors he knew were there, and they won Downing's heart, and they talked and laughed very happily.

The wedding march sounded, and the court musicians chose Mendelssohn's wedding march, and in an era when the rules were not certain about wedding music, the choice of the royal family would have a huge impact on the public. The piece is also quite good, similar to Wagner's wedding march.

To the beautiful music, the bride and groom appeared, and today the eldest princess shines with her ancient Roman silk dress inlaid with beautiful Hornton appliqué lace made of blooming roses, clovers and pale purple feet. At the front of the dress is a wreath of orange blossoms and German bridal myrtle. It's beautiful! This is the bride, Sissi envied the eldest princess, and couldn't help but pinch a certain male again.

The wedding in St. James's Square can be enjoyed with the people, but the subsequent dinner has nothing to do with the townspeople, it is the business of the nobles, the royal family, and the dignitaries. A convoy of dozens of cars from the royal family, half MINI and half SMART, carried VIPs to Windsor Castle for a wedding dinner.

In Windsor Castle, although the "Grand Duke of Windsor" is extremely low-key, the gifts he gives are too low-key, which immediately attracts the attention of the newlyweds. It was the world's first wristwatch produced by Swiss Precision Instruments in collaboration with Patek Philippe. The craftsmanship of this era can only produce huge bag watches, the birth of this watch is like a shock, its debut ceremony during the wedding of the eldest princess of the British Empire and the prince of Prussia, it is even more fake low-key, real publicity, you can see the bad taste of the local tyrant inventor.

This watch is champagne-colored, which is the familiar local tyrant gold, which is really suitable as a gift from the local tyrant. The slender body is encrusted with 10 small diamonds, strangely evenly spaced on two sides, and the distance between them is strange, although it looks strange, but the designer designed it this way, and it is undoubtedly quite eye-catching for women.

Princess Victoria is Downing's proud schoolgirl, she likes to say that she is a student of the Grand Duke everywhere she goes, and it is very suitable for her to give such a high-tech gift, this exquisite combination of technology, art and luxury that no one knows except the Patek Philippe company in Geneva knows about its manufacturing secrets, exudes a moving atmosphere, and constantly reminds people that behind its core craftsmanship is the profound skill of this great industrialist, and it is beyond the reach of extraordinary people.

Bismarck, the ambassador to England who accompanied the Prussian prince, looked at it with straight eyes, because he thought he had never seen such a delicate clock. There is no doubt that a certain prince has once again shown his unparalleled status as a god-level industrialist.

The princess bride was so excited that she pulled the groom to the Grand Duke and his wife to thank him, and repeatedly sighed: "Teacher, you must come to Berlin to see me!" ”

The Grand Duke smiled and groaned: "Berlin, I will definitely go!" ”

The princess bride hurriedly picked up: "When?" Why don't you come with us? ”

The Grand Duke laughed and was noncommittal.

Now it is obviously not suitable to go, and it is still rumored in Prussia that their king was driven mad by the Grand Duke and my old man.

Paris also has to wait for the "time", Berlin is also waiting for the time, and even Luxembourg has not been there, it seems that the Grand Duke has offended a lot of people over the years.

That's why he likes to hang out with scientists and professors, these academics are harmless, innocent and not naïve, how nice. The scientists gathered to share their recent research areas and talked about it with great relish, and one of them, Tyndall, a professor at the Royal Academy, who became a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences for his work on anti-magnetism, was asked what the use of the study of magnetism could be. In fact, what the man wanted to ask was what the suspended force of the magnet could be, this force seemed amazing, but it didn't seem to be useful. Used to find a needle in a haystack?

Faraday of course wants to introduce you to the use of electromagnetic force in wind power generation systems, Downing talked about the role of large electromagnetic forces in separating iron ore from aluminum ore, and then said that the magnetic suspension effect can also create suspended vehicles, because there is no need to overcome huge ground friction, and there is a huge increase in speed and economy.

This sentence aroused great interest from everyone, and they all asked whether this was feasible?

Downing said: "Of course you can, you can do this, place magnets on both sides of the vehicle, one side is the S pole on the lower N pole on the top, and the lower end of the vehicle is the S pole, the S pole on this side produces an upward thrust on the vehicle, the N pole produces an upward suction, and the maximum distance dù pulls the vehicle up." On the other side of the vehicle, of course, it is the opposite side of the S pole, and the magnet on that side is also pulled upwards in a similar way, and the combined force of the two sides produces a huge suspension force. Today's trains are only 50 kilometers per hour, while suspended vehicles can reach 500 kilometers per hour. It's just that there is no need for such a fast speed now, the cost is high, and it is not commercially viable. ”

Wow, 500 km! What a scary speed, scientists have persuaded the Grand Duke to make a suspended railway to play, anyway, you are not short of money.

Haha, you can't waste money like this, the suspended railway is very expensive, and the local tyrant politely declined the request of the bad friends.

Tyndall worried: "Then you are not afraid that the train will fall suddenly and injure the passengers when the electromagnet power is cut off?" ”

Tang Ning: "Well, on the one hand, you can set the suspension height at a relatively low level, even if you drop it, it will not be a big problem, and you can also make permanent magnets." I'm reminded of a permanent magnet called a Hellbeck array. The magnetic field of an ordinary magnet is evenly distributed on both sides of the north and south poles, but the Helbeck array can reduce the magnetic field on one side to almost zero and concentrate it all on the other side, which is equivalent to a magnet producing twice as strong a magnetic field. ”

He roughly explained the way the array was arranged, and Tyndall and Faraday's hearts were shaking, and they wanted to go back and make this magical magnet now.

After boasting in front of the big scientists, Tang Ning suddenly thought: "Huh? Ladies and gentlemen, the fact that ordinary passengers do not have the need to travel quickly does not mean that there are not a very small number of people who have such needs, such as a person who is seriously injured and needs to be sent to another city for treatment, a certain document is essential for businessmen to negotiate and needs to be obtained in a very short time, and so on. (http://.)。 I wonder if it would be possible to pass a miniature suspended pipe, the size of a person, and only deliver parcels in normal times, but in extreme cases it can transport one person, so that it can be much cheaper and much faster. Everyone thinks that 200 kilometers from London to Birmingham can be delivered in only half an hour, and it is too late to rescue a patient. London to Brussels, 360 kilometers, that is, more than 40 minutes, when the time comes to my greater Luxembourg as the center, connecting London, Paris, Berlin and other super metropolises, it is quite interesting......"

Brunel, who didn't pay much attention to the suspended railway because he had a good time in the airship project and had a lesson in failure in the vacuum railway, said with a smile: "How do you calculate the 360 kilometers from London to Brussels?" Forget that there is an English Channel in between! ”

Tang Ning snapped his fingers: "I didn't miscalculate!" I was about to say that I could build an undersea tunnel! The English Channel is only 50 kilometers narrow, and in 6 minutes, a snap of the fingers has passed! Interesting, right? ”

The Grand Duchess saw the benefits but not the harms, and clapped her hands to encourage: "Okay, good!" How long does it take to get from London to Bavaria? ”

Brunel jokingly pinched her fingers and calculated: "It's 1,500 kilometers to Munich, it only takes three hours, and Her Royal Highness Princess Sisi can return to her parents' home in three hours, so happy!" ”

Sure enough, imagining that they were all happy, Princess Sisi said to the Grand Duke, "Great! So happily decided! ”

As soon as this remark came out, everyone burst into laughter, and it was obvious that everyone felt that this project was quite unreliable.