When Liu Bin saw Sun Yuanqi the next morning, he saw that his face was haggard, with two big black circles on his head—if he knew that there was an animal like a panda in the world, he would definitely use that appropriate analogy.

On weekdays, Sun Yuanqi looks neat and peaceful, and this appearance can't help but surprise him, and he hurriedly asked: Sir, is the hotel unhygienic and didn't sleep well last night?

In China in this era, it is common for inns and inns, even if they are first-class rooms, to have bed bugs and fleas in the house, which bite the guests and keep them awake all night. The big hotels in the United States are better, and the small and medium-sized hotels are not immune to this disadvantage. However, Sun Yuanqi's insomnia doesn't do anything about small animals. I want to talk about thinking about the problem, but I can't say it:

On weekdays, he advised the students to study hard without distraction, and preached the theory of saving the country through science and education on various occasions. When I fell into this entanglement, I couldn't convince myself, and I couldn't sleep at night. It's really hairy all over my body, and I say that others are monsters."

This kind of thing is common in life. For example, a famous doctor treats others, and the medicine is cured; When he and his family see a doctor, they panic and mess up, and the treatment is often ineffective. So that there is a saying that doctors do not heal themselves. At this time, it is necessary to turn to others for help. But the only companion is Liu Bin, and the others are Americans who have never met before, how can they talk to them?

At the moment, he only replied vaguely, "Oh, oh, yes, I didn't sleep well last night." “

Liu Bin is out of character, he never thought about it, and when he saw the teacher say this, he believed it. After starting to run, Zhang Luo and the two went to Boston.

As soon as he arrived in Boston, his colleagues at MIT surrounded him with various test reports, so that Sun Yuanqi had no time to think about other problems.

During this time away from the United States, with the support of the university and the Massachusetts authorities, the lab conducted a year-long radio trial in the city of Boston, where it is located, and received a wide and positive response from the community. Although at this stage, radio stations, which are only self-entertaining institutions, do not have enough reporters to provide timely news, and can only broadcast some newspaper news summaries. and looping relaxation music. That alone has made the Bostonians ecstatic. The loudspeakers, which are played at a fixed time every day, have become an important moment for Bostonians to fully demonstrate their sense of superiority.

If you have money and connections, you can get a assembled superheterodyne wireless receiver from the MI lab, or "radio for short", put it in the house, plug it in, and you can listen to the news and music 24 hours a day. This slightly large square box has become a status symbol in the last year. Anyone who sees it in your home will compliment: Wow! You're not just a master. He's still a hipster!

Of course, this kind of joy is not shared by every colleague in the laboratory, for example, in the experimental branch that tries to study transistors, everyone is gloomy: when you enter the laboratory at the same time, others have already achieved fruitful results, while you have spent three years of hard work and wasted countless money. Still nothing. Almost every cheer from the next door is a ruthless denial of oneself.

Although the same person who came up with the "transistor concept" and who led the development of radio broadcasting, there is no deliberate favoritism over the other. People who study transistors often ask: Could this transistor be a perpetual motion machine? There are errors in the theory, so there is no research at all?

If the researchers are just silently skeptical in their hearts. Then the university that was stimulated by the unlimited commercial money situation of radio and television is much more direct: Professor Johnson, after three years of exploration, the transistor laboratory has still not made progress, can it be temporarily suspended?

We feel that more energy should be put into strengthening the research and development of image signal coding and modulation and television signal receivers. “

Sun Yuanqi shook his head very firmly: No, the research on transistors will continue. There is no rush to study television, because it involves a major part that is currently being developed at Yale University. “

Joke! Television is just an entertainment tool, or a promotion of wireless signal transmission. How can it be compared to the role of transistors? The difference is simply incomprehensible. You know, transistors are of epoch-making significance in the history of the development of electronic components. The simplest proof: William? Shockley and John? Bardeen, Walter? Blaton shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for co-inventing the transistor; The Scotsman who invented the television set is almost never mentioned in the history of science, except for the occasional memory of the curious

Taking a step back, there are no LCD panels today, and televisions can only be displays using cathode ray tubes. Although this technology was invented by the German Brown as early as 1897, it must have experience in particle accelerators to be applied to television signal processing. In order to make the velocity and deflection angle of the particles very precise. Not to mention the countless other image processing chips? If there are no transistors, relying on electron tubes to achieve it, a TV set must be at least half a room big, how can you watch this TV?

Seeing that Sun Yuanqi was so insistent, the university put aside the idea of abolishing the transistor laboratory for the time being.

However, from the words of the university, it can be seen that they are dissatisfied with the work of the transistor laboratory; Their anxiety can also be seen in the eyes of their colleagues in the laboratory. Since the establishment of the laboratory. Except for giving them a little information at the beginning, I didn't have too much guidance and care. Thinking of this, Sun Yuanqi felt apologetic. In the following period, he actively leaned more energy into the research of transistors. As for the troublemaker, Bao Liu Bin. They were assigned to the next door to learn the assembly of radio broadcasting. Sun Yuanqi said: When we return to China, we will bring it

A radio broadcasting system went back. If something goes wrong after returning home. And if you can't solve it, I'll throw you into the sea and let you swim back to the United States to learn again! “

Soon after arriving in Boston, Sun Yuanqi finally had free time, and Sun Yuanqi couldn't wait to come to his father-in-law, Mr. Bergman's house, to visit Lilith and Xiao Nianzu. Unfortunately, Mr. Bergman took his two sons, Tony and Arthur, to the factory, while Lilith went shopping, and only Mrs. Bergman was at home teasing Xiao Nianzu.

Seeing Sun Yuanqi, Mrs. Bergman rejoiced: Yanke, come on, come on, come into the house! We know you've been in the U.S. and we've been talking about when you're coming here these days. This is Aaron, you hug and see if he still recognizes Dad?

Sun Yuanqi hugged Xiao Nianzu lovingly and examined it carefully: the little thing was ten months old, and the beautiful big eyes and blue pupils obviously came from his mother, while the sword eyebrows and black hair were inherited from his father. The little guy was a little surprised to see the stranger in front of him, waving his arms wildly and muttering some unknown voices in his mouth.

Originally, I thought that father and son were connected, so they knew each other. But after not holding for a minute, the little one got tired of it, and writhed in his arms, looking for his grandmother, and a series of them came out one after another. Sun Yuanqi was still to be appeased, and the little guy's sharp cry filled the house and outside. Mrs. Bergman had no choice but to take over quickly.

Sun Yuanqi was very embarrassed. After sitting for a while, Lilith came back from the street, again without mentioning it.

In the evening, Mrs. Bergman was in the kitchen preparing a sumptuous dinner, while Lilith was upstairs coaxing Xiao Nianzu to sleep, leaving Sun Yuanqi sitting in the living room drinking coffee. Boredom, he picked up a stack of newspapers on the table and flipped through them.

During this period, just in time for the Massachusetts gubernatorial election, the newspapers were full of articles about the candidates' policy platforms, and from time to time some of the candidates' scandals were exposed, causing a lot of trouble. Sun Yuanqi looked at it, and suddenly saw someone's campaign slogan, which was printed in bold font as the title of the article: Useful government to improve everyone's life!

Ever since Liu Bin put forward his theory of usefulness, Sun Yuanqi has been pondering this question: how can we change the fate of the country? What can be done to improve people's lives? When I suddenly saw this title, I didn't feel stupid.

If you want to say which period of time in modern China is the most democratic, it is absolutely necessary to first recommend the period of the Beiyang government. The frequent changes of the central government have led to an unprecedented decline in the status of the central government, and the parliamentary groups with the gentry and the national capitalist group as the core have begun to freely discuss politics. Young students are not willing to be lonely, and they go to the government every once in a while to make trouble, and the government mostly swallows their anger. A group of intellectuals also entered the political arena at one time. As the old Chinese saying goes: learn and excel. If you go into politics yourself, can you change something?

In the heart of every man, in fact, he has the desire to control the world and hunt all the people. Drunk pillow beauty knees, wake up to the power of the world, how fast? Politics, in particular, is even more blood-striking. You don't see it, a smuggled salt seller thinks to himself that if he is the Qingdi, a thorn and a criminal are drunk and dare to laugh at Huang Chao is not a husband, and a normal student writes poems, which insect dares to make a sound! It's just that because of the limitations of ability and environment, this kind of thing is gradually worn out and hidden.

Sun Yuanqi is also a man, and he will also be agitated by some majestic things, such as power.

He sat in the living room, began to conceive his own path to politics, and then to his own program, and finally, he was so moved by his utopian blueprint that he forgot that he was in the dark living room of a house in a foreign country, and his children were sleeping upstairs.

Suddenly, the door was pushed open, and the visitor turned on the light in the living room: "Hey, Yank, why are you sitting here alone?"

When Sun Yuanqi, who was awakened from his dream, looked up, it was Mr. Bergman who came back with Tony and Arthur. Hearing this, he hurriedly stood up: Hehe, are you back? I'm reading the newspaper. “

The father and son were busy in the factory, and received a call from home saying that Sun Yuan was up, so they hurried back. Arthur said bluntly: It's so dark in the living room, can you see it? While talking, he came to Sun Yuan's side and wanted to give him a hug, but when he saw the newspaper in Sun Yuanqi's hand, he glanced at it and said with a smile: Why, you also care about the campaign? I thought scientists and politics were insulated! “

Sun Yuanqi was said to be the central matter, which was inevitably a little unnatural. In order not to be seen through, he disguised himself with a clumsy joke: Well, I'm going to run for governor in Massachusetts!