Xu Jingcheng asked, "What?" Will it have an international impact? What will be the international implications? ”

In the judgment of the international situation, Xu Jingcheng and Lin Yuan are very different, so it is normal for him to not know what the impact of this matter will be, Lin Yuan said: "Only twenty-five years ago, a war broke out between Germany and France, in this war, the French Emperor Napoleon III and 120,000 French troops surrendered to the German army, the French Second Empire was replaced by the Third Republic, France ceded Alsace and Lorraine, and since then, the French people have strongly demanded revenge against Germany!" ”

"Our next stop is France, we have signed these secret treaties with Germany, and once the French know about it, they are likely to think that we are going to form an alliance with Germany, and at that time, how passive we will be, I believe you will not be ignorant of the way."

Xu Jingcheng had never thought about international relations like Lin Yuan, and when he heard that Lin Yuan knew so many things, he couldn't help but admire Lin Yuan so much, and said in a loud voice: "I will never mention these things again." ”

Lin Yuan waved his hand at Xu Jingcheng and said, "You go back first, don't talk about this matter to anyone." ”

As soon as Xu Jingcheng left, Shen Wanqing said: "A man named Planck came to you today, and he said that he was a friend of Roentgen and also wanted to go to China. ”

Lin Yuan said happily: "I still want to go to him, since he sent it to the door himself, it's really good!" ”

Shen Wanqing asked, "Is there anything special about this person?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "This person, like Roentgen, is also a famous physicist, he proposed the concept of energy tons, but he is the founder of quantum mechanics!" He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918, and if he had gone to us, the development of physics in the whole of Europe would have been greatly delayed! ”

Shen Wanqing said: "That's good, our next stop is France, can we fight Marie Curie's idea?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Do you still know about Marie Curie?" ”

Shen Wanqing said unconvinced: "Of course, who hasn't heard of Marie Curie's name!" ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Then do you know what Marie Curie's original name is?" ”

Shen Wanqing bit her lip and thought for a while, Lin Yuan smiled: "You must not know the way, right?" Marie Curie's original name was Marie? Scrodowska, originally a Pole, Poland had been annexed by Russia at this time, and Russia did not allow women to go to university, so she went to France. ”

"Mary? While studying in Paris, Scrodovska met one of her teachers, the famous Pierre Anderson. Curie, Pierre? Curie was also a great scientist, but his light was overshadowed by his wife, so much so that when later generations mentioned him, the first message that came to mind was that he was Marie Curie's husband. ”

"Pierre? Before Curie got married, he had been engaged in crystal research, and the piezoelectric effect of crystals was discovered by him and another scientist, and the piezoelectric effect of crystals is the physical basis of sonar, and all submarine commanders owe Pierre to it? Curie. They got married after they met, Mary? Scrodowska officially changed her name to Mary? Curie, also known as Marie Curie. ”

"According to historical records, they were married in 1895, and now they are newlyweds, but they have not yet purified the radioactive elements, and they are not famous, but we go to Paris, France to find them, I am afraid it will be dangerous."

Shen Wanqing asked, "Dangerous?" How can it be dangerous? Didn't you say they weren't famous? So no one will stop us. ”

Lin Yuan said: "The danger I am talking about is not this, but the current social environment in France, do you know the way?" In this era, France was the most socially and politically unstable of all the European and American powers, and you just heard me mention the term: the Second French Empire, the reason why it has such a title, is because France also has the First Empire, the First Republic and the Second Republic, and every change of regime is the result of bloody struggles at all levels of society. ”

"Now France is the French Third Republic, France in this period, the economy is stagnant, the people's living standards are low, the unemployment rate is extremely high, social security is not very stable, we are Chinese, we look different from them, we will definitely be hostile when we get there, and this is a foreign country, and we are not good at using weapons, so I said that our trip to France will not be easy."

Shen Wanqing thought for a while and said, "We can change our dress, and we will also dress up as Europeans when the time comes." ”

The two discussed, and in the next two days, Lin Yuan signed the "Memorandum on the Construction of the Sino-German Joint Railway" and the "Sino-German Patent Protection Protocol" on behalf of the Qing government.

On the third day, Lin Yuan took the delegation to take the train to France, escorted by German diplomats to France, from Berlin to Paris, the nearest route is through Belgium, but Belgium is a small country, and there is no place for it in Lin Yuan's plan, so Lin Yuan did not plan to stop in Belgium, but he did not expect that when the train passed through Brussels, the capital of Belgium, a German diplomat actually came over and said: "The King of Belgium wants to see you." ”

The Belgian king of this era was Leopold II, Lin Yuan had no good impression of this king, in history, this was a king who frantically plundered the colonies, he once organized an African investigation mission, and occupied the Congo as his own colony, in those places, the colonists frantically oppressed the local natives, and even killed them.

However, Lin Yuan still agreed to the request for a meeting, and in the Belgian Palace in Brussels, Leopold II warmly received Lin Yuan and others, unlike Nicholas II, who wanted to make Lin Yuan ugly, and Wilhelm II, who wanted to embarrass Lin Yuan so as to show the superiority of the German Empire, Leopold II was much more peaceful, and the most talked about topic with Lin Yuan was Chinese food.

The banquet was tepid, and when Lin Yuan was sitting drowsy, he suddenly felt a tap on the shoulder, and a familiar voice came: "Old friend, we meet again." ”

Lin Yuan looked back, and suddenly fell asleep, because the person behind him turned out to be the founder of the Red Cross, and Henry, who had dealt with Lin Yuan a lot? Dunant.

Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "Why did you come here?" ”

Dunant said helplessly: "I am here to participate in an event to protect the indigenous people of Africa. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "The natives of Africa, what's wrong with them?" ”

Dunant said: "I will talk about the Belgian-occupied Congo, where the natives are wantonly oppressed and have no rights at all, do you know the truth? The Belgians demanded that the natives pay for rubber, and when the natives were looking for rubber trees to cut rubber, the Belgian colonists shot the natives for fun! And it is also eloquent to say that those who were killed were the taxes when they paid the rubber! ”

When Lin Yuan heard this, his brows immediately tightened, and he said angrily: "Is there such a thing? ”

Dunant said: "That's right, such a thing is simply a human sorrow! ”