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In addition to having a good infrastructure, a strict management system, abundant funding, and excellent students, a successful first-rate university must also have outstanding professors who have some influence in their fields and, preferably, academic authorities.

Of course, academic authorities and well-known professors are not omniscient and omnipotent, and it does not mean that they can teach first-rate students, and it does not mean that they will be able to research new results worthy of their fame, but they can attract excellent students to enter the school, can attract investors to inject money into the school, and can influence the government to provide various support for the school's research projects...... Academic authorities and renowned professors are able to do many things. They're celebrities, they're advertising, they're important.

Qin Lang needed some academic authority, as well as well-known professors. He was the only chemist at Tsinghua University who had a certain reputation -- as well as a gunsmith, an arms dealer, a mercenary chief, and an expert on China...... There was also the Count of Abyssinia, but these titles meant nothing to the school - other than that, no scholar of great standing was willing to leave his present life to spread scientific knowledge in a strange country thousands of miles away.

Only missionaries have such fanaticism, but Qin Lang obviously doesn't need missionaries.

He needs academic authority and renowned professors.

However, it seems that this problem cannot be solved in a short time, but it is not that there is no ability, but that there is no time. He had a busy schedule all summer, and possibly all of fall. Processing documents, holding meetings, inspecting factories, instructing technical departments, meeting with important visitors, keeping an eye on the political situation in China, secretly contacting accomplices in railway fraud schemes......

Every morning, one or several of these tasks are already waiting for him, but there are times when they appear out of nowhere without warning. And when they don't show up, he can't solve the school's problems, because whenever he does, he's always on a running train or horse-drawn carriage.

In August, Qin Lang went to Milwaukee-Henry. Ford held a grand press conference for the world's first commercial sports car; In September, he was in Philadelphia -- Benjamin. Ryan. Dillman invited him to attend the laying of the first keel of the USS South Carolina, the world's first dreadnought; In October, he returned to California, but instead of San Diego, he went to Stockton, where he went to see Henry in the heavy machinery division of Ford Motor Company. A full-scale model of the second track-type tractor completed by Mr. Adams.

That is, in less than three months, he ran two round trips between the East Coast and the West Coast of the United States. But the matter did not end there, when Qin Lang was about to leave Stockton and return to San Diego, he received a telegram from O'Connor and had to set off for Virginia again.

For the predicament he faced, Qin Lang hated it deeply. "God, I need a plane!" Of course, this is an unfulfilled wish. He knows and is able to control his emotions, but still complains. "This Miserable World ......"

"Why did Sean want you to rush to Virginia?" Elizabeth placed a glass of Coke in front of him.

"For the sake of the Military Academy." Qin Lang replied and picked up the Coke. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." She smiled and sat down on the couch opposite, "Military Academy? I thought all the problems were solved. ”

"The problem has been solved." He shrugged, "It seems that the leadership of the Virginia Military Academy intends for me to give a speech at the school, though." And there is still a slight difference in the curriculum of the Zhanjiang branch."

Qin Lang was a little careless, as if it was indeed just a "small disagreement" - but it was not. O'Connor and the Virginia Military Academy's disagreement over the curriculum at the Zhanjiang branch was so serious that it could affect cooperation — the question of whether or not to train cadets in strict cohorts was already boiling over their arguments, otherwise how could O'Connor ask him to come forward in person?

Of course, Qin Lang didn't plan to tell Elizabeth the truth. Things have nothing to do with her, and she won't care about it.

Elizabeth really didn't care, and all the problems of the Virginia Military Academy Zhanjiang were not on her radar. As a chemist, Elizabeth only cared about Tsinghua University. "Oh." She nodded her head to indicate that she understood, despite the fact that she didn't.

For the next period of time, both of them seemed to lose interest in talking, and both fell silent. Qin Lang was thinking about his plan as always, and Elizabeth also looked thoughtful. All that remained in the carriage was the hollow but rhythmic "clang" and "clang", and the occasional whistle.

Time passed slowly, and the silence continued, but in the end, Elizabeth broke it again.

Tsinghua University...... How are you going to solve that problem we have? After a pause, she added, "The school's first school building is almost finished. ”

"I know." Qin Lang said, a little depressed, but there was nothing abnormal in his tone.

Qin Lang's depression came from Duncan's hard work. His Royal Highness the Honorable Duke showed extraordinary enthusiasm for the school's infrastructure, and under his supervision and supervision, the construction work proceeded at an extraordinary pace, almost as fast as the battlecruiser "Tennessee" on the slipway, and the William Camp shipyard claimed that it would take only 18 months to launch her, while the historical "Tennessee" took nearly 22 months.

There was no doubt that Duncan deserved praise and awards, but his speed was frustrating when Qin Lang had not yet found time to find academic authority and renowned professors.

And Elizabeth brought up the issue again.

He sighed reluctantly. "Elizabeth, you know, I don't have time to visit those academic authorities and renowned professors that I need, although I have time to advise the company's technicians to design mechanical vacuum pumps."

This was last week. He visited Adams's crawler tractor in Stockton, but the immature complex machinery was paralyzed by a malfunction as a matter of course, just when the extremely embarrassed designer organized technicians to repair it, Qin Lang suddenly felt that the manual vacuum pump currently used was a painful torture for users, so he gathered the remaining technicians and skilled mechanics in the company, explained to them the commercial value of mechanical vacuum pumps, and "suggested" them to design one immediately.

In fact, it didn't take much time to do this, only an hour, or an hour and a half, but as long as he thought that he couldn't even spare half an hour to visit the academic authority and well-known professors he needed, Qin Lang couldn't help but mention it as a negative example.

He amused Elizabeth. "You should write to them."

"Actually, I wrote it, but it didn't work at all." Qin Lang corrected it very seriously.

No academic authority or renowned professor was willing to accept his invitation - at least a few letters were not enough. However, if he had visited in person, the situation would have been different...... It's possible. But it doesn't matter, since it's just time and money that is wasted and nothing else, it's worth a try, even if it's only a 1 percent chance.

But he just didn't have the time.

Elizabeth was silent for a moment, and then suddenly asked, "Have you ever written to a scholar in Europe?" ”

"I wrote it to academics in the UK." He replied.

"Just the UK?" She was surprised. After all, Germany is the country with the most developed chemical research and industry...... Of course, he didn't like the Germans, which was a problem, but it wasn't unsolvable, and it was an extremely narrow move to care too much about the nationality of the scholars.

But Qin Lang is not a narrow-minded person, he doesn't like Germans, but that doesn't mean he can't accept German scientists. But the problem is still that one - time. "Elizabeth. I haven't had time to write letters to scholars from other countries. And ......"

"And what?"

"I haven't gotten their address yet."

"God." Elizabeth almost laughed, "You can write directly to the school." ”

"Unfortunately, I don't even know which school they are in." Qin Lang spread out his hands.

"Are you kidding?"

"I'm serious." He looked at her seriously.

Qin Lang was very serious. He had already made a list, but he didn't know where the people on the list lived. Although he could find their addresses, it took time to look through the archives, and letters and telegrams needed to be delivered—for many of them were not well known by now, and were not even professors.

For example, Ernest. Rutherford, he was supposed to go to graduate school in England, but he didn't have the slightest impression of which school; And Mary. Curie with her husband Pierre. Curie, Qin Lang knew that they were in Paris, probably at the University of Paris, but the inquiry telegram he sent to the school two months ago has not been replied to so far - loose French!

"So, what do you think I can do, Elizabeth?"

"You can ask me, Qin." She laughed, a little smug and a little sly, "I just know Mary. Where is Curie? (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )