Seeing that Song Zhewu attached great importance to his opinions, Ba Yuzao continued: "Foreign aviation technology and theories are developing rapidly, while our domestic news is relatively closed, and it is difficult for us to learn the latest aviation technology and theories in China in a timely manner, which is not conducive to our development of advanced aircraft. I would like to ask the commander to collect this information for us on a regular basis, which will be very helpful for us to grasp the most advanced technology and theory. ”

Song Zhewu was very happy in his heart, it was really the right time to meet these aviation experts this time. These people are active in thinking, and they are looking forward to and confident in developing their own aviation careers, and the suggestions they put forward are all rich in construction. He ignored this matter of collecting information, and thought that it would be enough to bring in these top aviation experts.

Song Zhewu understands very well that there will be no future in building cars behind closed doors, and only by keeping a close eye on the world's most advanced technology and theories and absorbing and sublimating them will we be able to make great progress in domestic aviation technology as soon as possible. "I see farther because I'm standing on the shoulders of giants." Song Zhewu doesn't remember whether it was Newton or some other cow who said this, if he could get foreign scientific and technological information in time and understand the latest scientific and technological trends in the world, these scientists could at least be regarded as "sitting" on the shoulders of giants even if they did not "stand on the shoulders of giants".

"Brother Yunhua, this suggestion of yours is very good!" Song Zhewu said excitedly.

"Height determines the field of view, angle determines the concept. Only by understanding the latest scientific and technological achievements can we have a broad vision and novel ideas in scientific research, and I agree with your request. ”

"Chief of Staff, this matter is arranged by you, and we will arrange for the students we sent to Europe and the United States to take charge of this matter, and ask them to collect scientific journals and all scientific research materials that can be obtained from various disciplines, and send them back to China once a month. Funding for the collection of information should be set aside separately and guaranteed absolutely. ”

"Height determines the field of vision, angle determines the concept." ……

Regardless of the experts who are still thinking about Song Zhewu's extremely connotative and philosophical words. Song Zhewu said to Guo Wenyuan: "Wenyuan, your Academy of Engineering is responsible for translating the materials of various disciplines into Chinese and Chinese, so that not only you overseas students can learn to understand the trends of world scientific research, but also your students can also study, and even some of you can be compiled into teaching materials in time." ”

Song Zhewu said with great ambition: "In the future, when we have a stable place, I will build a comprehensive surname university with the best and most complete disciplines in China on the basis of your Academy of Engineering, so that our young students can learn advanced scientific knowledge without going abroad." At that time, we had to hire some famous scholars at home and abroad to teach or give lectures, and after several years of unremitting efforts, I was even confident that our future university would become one of the most famous universities in the world. ”

Song Zhewu's words made everyone present, even Xiao Guodong and Wu Jin, listen to their blood boiling. Ba Yuzao stood up again excitedly and said, "Commander, if you can really do this, you have done a great good thing for our country and nation!" ”

Then he said sincerely: "Commander, to tell you the truth, when I first heard about you, I thought you were nothing more than a warlord who was very good at military affairs. ”

Ba Yuzao's sudden warlord startled everyone, and Wang Zhu, Guo Wenyuan, and these experts all changed color on their faces. Wang Zhu frowned when he saw Wu Jin, only Song Zhewu and Xiao Guodong still had a smile on their faces, and there was no change, so he couldn't help but be a little worried, and secretly stepped on Ba Yuzao's feet and reminded Ba Yuzao that what he said was a bit too much. In these days, there is no such powerful faction who wants to be called a warlord.

Ba Yuzao was unimpressed and continued: "When I arrived in the United States, including before I met the commander in Laiyuan, I began to think that the commander was not only a loving [***] lord who had made achievements in military affairs, but also an open-minded and knowledgeable person who knew the important surnames of science and technology and big industry, and was determined to save the country through industry and science and technology. But today, after listening to the commander's insight, Yuzao knows that he is wrong, it is not enough for the commander to be just a national hero and an elite, I think the commander is still the most insightful, the most pragmatic and the most accomplished person in China today! With someone like the commander, Yuzao thinks that there is great hope for our China to rise again! ”

For Song Zhewu, a person who travels through the country, there is nothing unacceptable about the title of warlord, and Song Zhewu doesn't care very much, not to mention that the person he says is still the person he hopes for. Xiao Guodong knew Song Zhewu's mind best, and knew that if someone else said this, it would probably be a little troublesome, but Ba Yuzao said, or these experts here said, Song Zhewu would definitely not care, so although he was a little dissatisfied, he didn't show it.

However, Ba Yuzao's words later made everyone present breathe a sigh of relief. This exposition of Ba Yuzao is very much like the famous poem of the Ming Dynasty genius Xie Jin: "This mother-in-law is not a person, and the nine-day fairy goes down to earth." The taste, first suppressed and then raised, seems to be depreciating and praised.

Song Zhewu knew Ba Yuzao's true words at this time, Ba Yuzao had completely stood on his side, as long as he implemented his plan step by step, so that China's scientific and technological level was continuously improved, even if he openly raised the banner of anti-Chiang, Ba Yuzao and the vast majority of experts and scholars would not leave him.

Song Zhewu believed that in China's feudal society, it was not the peasants who had the most rebellious ideas, but those thoughtful intellectuals.

Although there are Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, Liu Bang, Han Gaozu Liu Bang, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Zicheng studied private school in their early years, and they can all be regarded as small intellectuals in that era. Although Chen Sheng's history is not very clear, Song Zhewu concluded that Chen Sheng was by no means an ordinary peasant, otherwise how could he say the "ambition of the bird's nest and bird" that has been passed down through the ages. Bold words. Moreover, in today's China, almost all of the experts and scholars who can master advanced scientific and technological knowledge have studied in Europe and the United States, and they are all very patriotic under the influence of Western concepts, but they are not very interested in political axes.

Song Zhewu lost no time in further saying: "You are all studying in Europe and the United States, you should know that it is very important for a nation and a country to prosper or not, and even the decision is national education, and the high quality of a nation means that it will have more talents, advanced science and technology, and more powerful productive forces." ”

"It takes a lot of time to improve the quality of the people, and we need to do it step by step, but with you first-class talents, we already have a certain ability in terms of science and technology, at least in some aspects we have not been pulled too far by the West, as long as we work together, it is not impossible to catch up with the West or even surpass the West in some fields. I believe that as long as all of us work hard from now on, the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, which has the longest history in the world, will certainly be within reach......

Coming out of the air base, Song Zhewu didn't dare to stay, his time was too tight, and he was going to Taiyuan tomorrow, so he went directly to see Zheng Dazhang non-stop.

In the memory of Song Zhewu's previous life, Zheng Dazhang graduated from Yanjing High School at the age of 16, and then went west to France for work-study. After passing the language barrier, he was admitted to the Faculty of Science of the University of Paris in 1922, where he chose chemistry as his main focus.

At that time, the European powers were still in a stage of economic growth, and some short-sighted Westerners were blind and arrogant, looking down on students from poor and backward China, and Zheng Dazhang was not immune to discrimination. Unexpectedly, after the first academic year, in the mathematics examination of the University of Paris, the first place in the grade was Zheng Dazhang from China! The fact that a Chinese student won the first place in the examination was something that had never been done in this prestigious European university before, so much so that a local newspaper ran a "sensational" headline: "Mathematics in France is in danger".

The University of Paris is home to some of the world's leading universities and scientists, and Zheng Dazhang is trained in strict basic knowledge and trained by famous teachers. One of his mentors who had a great influence on his life's work was Madame Currie, a French physicist and chemist originally from Poland.

Marie Curie admired this diligent and studious student from the ancient civilizations of the East, and often gave him special guidance. Immediately after obtaining his bachelor's degree, Zheng Dazhang went to the Curie Building, the Institute of Radium Studies of the University of Paris, and became the first Chinese graduate student to study radiochemistry under Marie Curie.

In December 1931 alone, three of Zheng Dazhang's papers were published in the Proceedings of the French National Academy of Sciences. In December 1933, the defense committee of the Faculty of Science of the University of Paris, chaired by Marie Curie, unanimously approved Zheng Dazhang's doctoral dissertation, and Zheng Dazhang received a doctorate degree in physics and chemistry from the French state.

At that time, people were not very clear about actinides and uranium-radiums, Zheng Dazhang determined the radioactive ratio of polonium to uranium in bituminous uranium ore through experiments again and again, thus demonstrating the radioactive branching ratio of uranium actinides and uranium-radium. A series of his new research results and experimental papers have been published in first-class academic journals in China and France, and he pioneered the "water method" prospecting, which has been used abroad until the 60s of the 20th century.

What is even more worth mentioning is that shortly after the Lugou Bridge Incident, a group of Han annihilators in North China were instigated by the invaders to organize a pseudo "political axe preparation office". Wang Yitang was the cousin of Zheng Dazhang's grandfather, and when he became speaker of the House of Representatives in 1918, he used Zheng Dazhang's grandfather, Zheng Boheng, to manage general affairs. Therefore, after the fall of Beiping, when Wang Yitang served as the puppet "chairman of the North China Political Affairs Committee", he strongly invited Zheng Dazhang to serve as the puppet "Minister of Education", but Zheng Dazhang categorically refused.

At the end of 1938, Zheng Dazhang and his assistant studied under Julio Curie's son-in-law when he was studying in France. Curie's Yang Chengzong and others secretly left Beiping, which was tightly controlled by the puppet, and went to the Shanghai Concession to continue to engage in radium research. Under extremely difficult conditions, they separated a strong new β radioactive source from a large number of uranium salts, and found that the absorption coefficient of the β rays changed with the surname of the material around the radioactive source, thus pioneering the theory of backscattering the identification of different supporting materials and their thicknesses.

Now, Zheng Dazhang is only 26 years old at this time, and he has only worked in Marie Curie's laboratory for more than a year, and has not yet obtained a doctorate. Although Song Zhewu sent an invitation to Zheng Dazhang last year, and even sent him a salary of hundreds of oceans every month, he just wanted to book such a talent first, so as not to let Zheng Dazhang go to another place when the time comes, and he didn't want to let him return to China now. Unexpectedly, this Zheng Dazhang turned out to be an extremely patriotic and hot-blooded young man, and he was impatient to "run" back first.

It was still last year that Song Zhewu received a telegram from Xiao Guodong on his way to Manchuria, which read: 'Zheng Dazhang called and said that his teacher, Marie Curie, did not agree with him to return to China now, and thought that there would not be such good conditions for scientific research in China as in Paris. Zheng Dazhang was also very suspicious, not to mention that Song Zhewu was a local force, even the national political axe, no one cared about the research he did, and even those high-ranking officials were very suspicious of whether they understood the word radiation, so he called with questions to ask. ’

Although Zheng Dazhang sent a telegram of inquiry, he was bent on returning to China and pioneering China's own radiation technology, even if he did not have Song Zhewu's invitation, he would return to China, but he wanted to go back after obtaining a degree, otherwise he was afraid that no one would pay attention to him in China with only a bachelor's degree, and the telegram he sent was completely a comfort to the teacher who cared about him.

Zheng Dazhang knew that it was impossible to have a research room with the same scientific research conditions as the Radium Research Institute of the University of Paris in China, and those high-ranking officials would not invest too much money in his research room, which would not create any benefits. Therefore, Zheng Dazhang's requirements are not high, he only needs to have some necessary equipment.

But what he didn't expect was that not long after, an American who claimed to be the French office of the "North American Brothers Investment Bank" came to him with a check for $2 million and told Zheng Dazhang that he was assigned by Song Zhewen, president of the "North American Brothers Investment Bank", to assist Zheng Dazhang in purchasing the experimental equipment he needed. The visitor also told him that if the 2 million funds were not enough, he could increase some more.

This not only surprised Zheng Dazhang, but also his teacher, Marie Curie. You know, the $2 million is not enough to rebuild a laboratory like the Institute of Radium at the University of Paris, but I didn't expect that there are people in China who are willing to spend this little money on scientific research, and the most surprising thing for her is that this person is only a local leader in China. This person even donated $100,000 to her, not for her scientific research, but to thank her for training Chinese scholars like Zheng Dazhang, and hoped that she would pay more attention to the training of Chinese students in the future if possible.

Finally, at the suggestion of Marie Curie, Zheng Dazhang decided to buy only the experimental equipment and instruments necessary for the experiment, as well as the experimental materials that had to be purchased abroad at this time. Marie Curie believes that for the time being, because Zheng Dazhang will not have many researchers, there is no need for his new laboratory to be large and complete.

Originally, Zheng Dazhang should have waited until the experimental equipment and experimental materials were all purchased, and Zheng Dazhang returned to China with these materials, but at this time, he saw the good news from the newspaper that Song Zhewu had recovered Outer Mongolia and annihilated tens of thousands of Soviet troops in Manchuria in a battle.

Zheng Dazhang was very excited by this news that shocked the West, knowing that the person who had achieved such a big victory was his "boss", and he could not stay for a moment in France, so he handed over the purchase of instruments and equipment to the people of the Paris office of the "North American Brothers Investment Bank", and hurriedly said goodbye to Marie Curie and embarked on the road home.

Zheng Dazhang's early return to China also gave Song Zhewu new ideas...... This is a man he has to talk about.

According to Xiao Guodong, Song Zhewu told him that since Zheng Dazhang met Wang Mingyang, a student of Song Zhewu, in Laiyuan, except for asking Li Minghua to lead him around various research institutes and factories for the first few days, he spent almost all day with Wang Mingyang.

Because the housing in the city is very tight, in order for these experts and scholars to have a good environment to engage in scientific research, Song Zhewu specially built a research base in the suburbs, not only to give them a place to conduct research, but also to build a residence for them in the vicinity, all of which are the same courtyard houses.

Seeing Zheng Dazhang, who had been waiting anxiously for a long time, both of them were very excited. Zheng Dazhang was excited to see the hero he had admired for a long time, and Song Zhewu was excited because of his new idea.

Zheng Dazhang, who was dressed in a brand-new colonel's woolen military uniform, clumsily gave Song Zhewu a military salute, and then carefully arranged the military uniform, and it could be seen that Zheng Dazhang was very fond of this imitation German military uniform unique to the Fourth Route Army.

Song Zhewu first carefully inquired about Zheng Dazhang's study in France and his feelings in Laiyuan, and promised that Zheng Dazhang would be given a more stable and excellent research environment after half a year.

Zheng Dazhang excitedly and eagerly told Song Zhewu that after he got off the ship in Shanghai, he visited his classmates and colleagues in Shanghai and Nanjing, and had a preliminary understanding of China's current science and technology and industrial situation. China is decades behind the West in terms of industry, only equivalent to the level of the early stage of the industrial revolution in the West; The level of science and technology is even worse, at least nearly a hundred years behind. Of course, Zheng Dazhang said that the comprehensive level, which made him very disappointed. But after coming to Laiyuan this time, a series of things made him excited.

He and Li Minghua are classmates, so they naturally get close to Li Minghua. Li Minghua proudly took him on a tour of his humble laboratory.

Although the laboratory is simple, but its results are very brilliant, although air conditioners and refrigerators are available abroad, but not only the volume is huge, the efficiency is not high, and the air conditioners and refrigerators developed by Li Minghua are much smaller in size, and the efficiency is surprisingly high. Li Minghua called these two products of household appliances, although they are still in the stage of development and perfection, they are definitely the best in the world......

(To be continued)