After returning from London with a visa, Chen Muwu returned to the laboratory and continued to devote himself to the experiment of electron diffraction.

Although two photos a day is not very efficient, as the operation becomes more and more proficient, the experiment is getting better.

Chen Muwu also conscientiously followed the teachings of his teacher Rutherford, and took the time to write a bulletin recording the preliminary results of the experiment, and sent it to the editorial office of the weekly "Nature".

Over the next ten days, he and de Broglie changed a total of four materials: gold foil, aluminum foil, platinum foil and celluloid flakes, changed the acceleration voltage, and conducted comparative experiments on electrons of different wavelengths.

After sorting out and calculating the experimental results, the lattice length of various diffraction materials is compared with the length measured by X-rays, and the error between the two is not more than one percent, which is enough to show that the electron is indeed a wave.

The experiment came to an end, and after the paper was written, Chen Muwu still sent it to the Bulletin of the Natural Science Society.

De Broglie also wrote a paper in French and submitted it to the journal of the French Academy of Sciences.

During the experiment, de Broglie also received a reply from his teacher, Langevin, agreeing to take him with him to the Solvay conference.

Therefore, after the experiment was completed, de Broglie did not leave Cambridge immediately and returned to Paris, but stayed in England, intending to go to Belgium with the people in Cavendis's laboratory for a while.

As for the vacuum pump, which had completed its mission, it was also donated by him to the Cavendish Laboratory.

Unlike De Broglie, who went to London to watch George Bernard Shaw's new play "Joan of Arc" in the past few days before departure, Chen Muwu here is a mountain that lets go of a mountain.

Because this experiment was completed by Chen Muwu and De Broglie together, there was no reason for him to only sign his own name on the thesis, and the plan to make it a graduation thesis was also ruined, so he had to find a new direction again.

Fortunately, at this time, Stoner sent a lifesaver.

After finishing the electron diffraction experiment, Chen Muwu joined Stoner's group next door, thinking about writing a new paper on the principle of incompatibility as soon as possible, and taking this theoretical paper as his graduation thesis.

In addition to this, there are several trivial things that happen in his life.

First of all, as the weather warmed up, the Best side of the swimming club began to resume training in the Cam River again, in order to prepare for this year's Cambridge-Oxford Combined Games.

Chen Muwu also tried in the water a few times, although he had never been in the water in winter, his body function was still there, and his speed was basically the same as last year.

Last year, because of Oxford University, a very fast swimmer was born, and almost swept the entire swimming competition, which made Cambridge University lose face.

After a whole year, coupled with the athlete Chen Muwu, the best of the tiger is determined to win this year, and he has to let Oxford University also experience the pain of being dominated.

It's just that now there is an embarrassing thing that makes the president of the club a little worried, that is, Chen Muwu said that he will go to Belgium in late April to attend a physics conference, and he doesn't know if he will be able to come back before the sports meeting, so that he can completely raise his eyebrows once.

There is another thing, after taking the manuscript and looking for Chen Muwu to discuss the plot direction a few times, Ye Gongchao finally finished writing the book "Murder on the Paris Express".

The plot and psychological description of his version are very well described, and after Chen Muwu browsed it, he felt that this masterpiece, which came out a few years in advance, would definitely be able to crush all the detectives on the current market, including the Fu Manchu series.

He persuaded Ye Gongchao to find a publishing house as soon as possible, so that this book could come out, and he was ready to make a lot of money.

But a few days later, Ye Gongchao, who came to Chen Muwu with the manuscript, was depressed.

When he was a student at Amherst College in Massachusetts, he published a book of poetry in English under the guidance of Robert Frost, a professor at the school.

Ye Gongchao thought that he had publishing experience, and this book was very well written, so it should not be a problem to publish it in the UK.

So he went to London with the manuscript and visited one large publishing house after another, but because of his nationality, basically no one was willing to publish the book for him, and many people didn't even read the manuscript.

Even if one or two small workshop-style publishing houses agreed to publish, these black-hearted businessmen all coincidentally pushed the royalties to a very low price.

Ye Gongchao, who ran into a wall everywhere, couldn't make up his mind, plus he was about to graduate, and he still had a bunch of things to deal with, so he had to return to Cambridge first and discuss with Chen Muwu with the manuscript what should be done in this matter.

Chen Muwu remembered that he still had a group of rich and powerful good brothers in Cambridge, that is, the group of people from the Apostle Society.

So he took the manuscript from Ye Gongchao and brought it with him during a Saturday regular meeting of the members of the Apostolic Society.

When they first heard Chen Muwu say that he had written a book of detectives, everyone thought it was incredible, thinking that the Chinese genius had made a joke with them.

Isn't he a student of physics, why did he suddenly run away and write?

Chen Muwu didn't talk nonsense, and directly found a member who usually likes to write poems and recite in public, threw the manuscript to him, and asked him to read the first few paragraphs on his behalf.

At first, everyone was unimpressed, but gradually, the venue began to fall silent.

By the time the great poet had been reading for more than an hour, his mouth was dry and his voice was hoarse, and he was about to rest for a while, the crowd was completely drawn into the story.

"And then?"

"Don't stop, keep going!"

There was also a discussion about who was the murderer, and even a debate was raised in the venue over the subject.

Of course, Chen Muwu didn't want them to finish the whole story and then discuss the matter of publication.

He directly motioned to the poet to rest for a while, and then said to the audience: "Actually, I write this article with my own selfishness, that is, I can't get used to seeing Saxon Romer and his Fu Manchu, and I plan to write a detective book and fight him in the ring."

"You have already heard part of the story just now, and I am not boasting, I believe you have already understood the level of this book......

"Chen, it's really a good book! The plot development, the contradictions, and the appeal to the reader are all first-class! And the Fu Manchu you mentioned, I have also read one, and the characters in that book and the storyline are incomparable to yours! ”

The man who said this was George Leylands, a literature student at King's College and a well-known up-and-coming director in the Cambridge University drama club.

He knew very well whether a story was good or bad, so after his comment, all the apostles present also nodded their heads in agreement.

"However," Chen Muwutu said, "I took this book and went to several major publishing houses in London, but no matter which one it was, because they saw my skin color, they didn't even read the content of the manuscript, so they directly told me that they had no intention of publishing this book."

"That's why I'm here today with the manuscript, to ask you to brainstorm your thoughts on this matter and whether there are any good ideas for solving the problem."

He didn't directly ask you who had anything to do with me to publish the book, but chose to side-track.

Listening to Chen Muwu's request, the apostles began brainstorming.

Some people said that Chen Muwu should give him the manuscript of the book, and let him, an Englishman, come forward and talk to those publishing houses in London.

This should be regarded as a next step, Chen Muwu did not express his position.

Some people also said that they could have a relationship with a certain publishing house, and they could go home and ask their family members to help publish the book.

Chen Muwu made a note of the person who said this, and planned to have a private chat with him after the party.

But at this time, someone made another suggestion.

"The publishers are very low-priced, and then they set the price of the book very expensive, and because of the content, they may not promote the story vigorously, so it may not make Chen's book sell well.

"I have an idea, why don't we come forward and set up a publishing house ourselves, and with Chen, and a few other writers here to provide works, maybe we can become an instant hit!"

Starting a publishing house may sound like a fantasy to others.

But to the members of the Apostolic Society, it seemed to be a trivial matter.

And this matter quickly attracted everyone's interest, because all along, these young masters of the Apostle Society have been labeled as relying on their families, and they also want to prove their strength in person, and then the idea of this publishing house was sent to the door.

After getting along with them for a long time, Chen Muwu also began to have their aristocratic thinking.

He didn't think about how complicated it was to set up a publishing house, but he had already begun to think about the operation model of the publishing house after its establishment.

Chen Muwu thought of the famous Penguin Publishing House in the future, and naturally remembered how this publishing house had established itself in the UK.

That is, to publish cheap, well-papered, and portable paperback books, using a model of small profits and quick turnover, so that the price of a book is equal to the price of a pack of cigarettes, and naturally it will be able to grab a piece of meat from the book market, which is still dominated by hardcover books that serve the upper class, by opening up the reading market for the masses.

The business idea he put forward more than ten years ahead of his time was quickly supported by the apostles.

Everyone also struck while the iron was hot, and simply took this opportunity to allocate capital investment and share proportion.

Chen Muwu took out the bonus for the discovery of the planet, the personal money he had saved from the living expenses that he couldn't spend at all, and the two thousand pounds that had always been in the bank.

Together, he took out a total of £4,000 and became one of the major shareholders of the publishing house.

The reason why the money is so refreshing this time, and not as timid as when considering whether to buy the vacuum pump from GE before, is because Chen Muwu knows that this investment will definitely make money.

As for how to register a company, how to join the British Publishers Association, obtain a license from a publishing house, etc., the manpower of the dozens of people in the Apostle Society alone is completely insufficient, and naturally the family behind them has come forward and sent someone to deal with it.

found a place for this book, and a stone in Chen Muwu's heart finally fell to the ground.

He told Ye Gongchao about it, and then plunged into Stoner's laboratory again.

(End of chapter)