Zhu Zhaoxin was not interested in the parallel universe and cats proposed by Chen Muwu in the newspaper.

I don't even care about the life or death of people, what is the fuss about the life or death of a cat!

Didn't it be said in the Analects, even after Confucius and his old man retired from the court, he only asked "Hurtful?" Don't ask the horse.

The chargé d'affaires a.i.e., Chen Muwu's new title is more interested.

Gu Weijun, the nominal minister to Britain, only came to London a few years ago to take office for a few days, and then returned to China to participate in politics.

Since then, Zhu Zhaoxin has always been the one with the largest official position in the legation, ushering in batches of international students.

Among these students, although most of them are the sons of gentlemen who are lustful and lustful, there are also those who study hard and do their studies seriously.

They have been studying in England for a few years, and if they can add a Docker title in front of their surname, they are already high-spirited.

The last time Zhu Zhaoxin met Chen Muwu, he came to London to apply for a visa before he went to Denmark.

The speed with which the school was completed had already surprised the charge d'affaires.

Unexpectedly, after less than half a year, he met Chen Muwu again, he not only won a gold medal in physics, but also entered the Royal Society of the United Kingdom as a fellow.

Now you can not only add Doukto, but also FRS in front of the surname.

It's terrifying!

When Chen Muwu left from Marcus Jr. that night and returned to the legation, Zhu Zhaoxin had already prepared a dinner party for him.

"Ding Gong, this meal is so rich, the younger generation really deserves it."

Chen Muwu felt that this time was more luxurious than the previous times when he came to the legation to play the autumn breeze.

It seems that Zhu Zhaoxin should be the chef of the legation and take out the best ingredients and the skill of pressing the bottom of the box.

"Hanchen, you are the pillar of the country, how dare the old man slack off!"

After a few polite words at the dinner table, the two of them basically talked about the bad things in China.

The little emperor of the former Qing Dynasty was blasted out of the Forbidden City by a cannon mounted on Jingshan, and Mr. Sun went up from the northeast of the Forbidden City to participate in the aftermath meeting held by Duan Qirui in Shaojing.

It is as if the war is over and there is hope for peace.

Chen Muwu smiled and didn't speak.

He heard the meaning of Zhu Zhaoxin's words, and it seemed that the chargé d'affaires felt that the situation in the country was estimated to settle down soon, so he moved his mind to rise one liter.

He has been sitting in the position of Chargé d'Affaires in the UK for more than three years, and it is time for him to take off this unpleasant title, go one step further like Chen Muwu, and wear the hat of a minister, right?

Zhu Zhaoxin's big banquet today probably also wanted him to say a few good words to the domestic side as a bargaining chip for his promotion.

Chen Muwu felt that there should be no problem in helping with this.

Compared with Chen Zheng, the former minister of France, Chen Muwu and Zhu Zhaoxin got along more well, and he did help him a lot.

If he can be promoted to minister this time, it will naturally be a good thing, and he will be able to do more for his requests in the future.

Chen Muwu was only afraid that after Zhu Zhaoxin was promoted to minister, he would be transferred to other countries.

So he praised Zhu Zhaoxin in the letter of commendation he "spontaneously" wrote to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the dinner table that night, saying that Chargé d'Affaires Zhu took good care of him and the Chinese students in the UK, and got along well with the British upper class, and hoped that he could continue to stay here to serve his compatriots.

I don't know what the effect of my letter will be after it is sent, anyway, Chargé d'Affaires Zhu smiled at him and thanked him a thousand times.

After the dinner, the staff of the legation sent Chen Muwu an invitation letter from Doyle.

It said that Chen Muwu would be invited to attend a meeting of the Ghost Club in two days, and that a car would pick him up in front of the legation in advance.

The invitation didn't even include a location, and the club was as mysterious as its name suggested.

Chen Muwu, who was sitting in the carriage, thought to himself.

He was bored now, and sitting face to face him was an Englishman with a blank face, who looked like a well-trained butler under some great nobleman.

Chen Muwu had no desire to talk, so he could only close his eyes and listen to the sound of horses' hooves coming from under the car.

I don't know how long it took for the carriage to finally stop.

Next to the road is an old and imposing building, which is supposed to be a suburb of London, judging by the density of the lights, but the exact location is unknown.

The housekeeper opened the car door and guided Chen Muwu to get out of the car and into the building.

The palatial hall is brightly lit, with a long bar table in the center where guests sit on either side.

Chen Muwu thought that the lecture that Doyle said would be held in a classroom or lecture hall with a podium and a blackboard, but he didn't expect the venue to be this kind of restaurant.

He now felt that it was inappropriate for him to appear on such an occasion in a suit that he thought was formal enough, because everyone present except him was wearing a tuxedo that was more formal than a suit.

He wore the tuxedo only once, when he went to Stockholm last winter to receive the Nobel Prize.

It was only after Denmark learned of the award that the dress was made, and under the leadership of Bohr, the best local tailor in Copenhagen rushed to make it.

Then Chen Muwu was ridiculed by De Broglie, who came from France.

On the surface, he ridiculed the craftsmanship of the Nordic tailors, but in fact he satirized Bohr, who was also a Dane, and the Viking blood in his body was not enough to be Europa orthodox.

However, as a guest invited with a lot of money today, Chen Muwu was not ridiculed and despised by the members of the ghost club present.

After all, they are accustomed to seeing American nouveau riche like him who knows little about etiquette, and although he is rich, he is always a little less authentic than the old London at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

"Dr. Chen, you're finally here."

Doyle, who had invited Chen Muwu to the party, stood up to greet him, and enthusiastically introduced to everyone present: "I have always thought that China is a country rich in geniuses, and when I was still studying at the University of Edinburgh, there was a genius surnamed Gu in the school......

The genius surnamed Gu in Doyle's mouth should be Gu Hongming, who had just followed Cai Yuanpei's resignation before Chen Muwu came to Shao University to lecture the year before last, and he was also a graduate of the University of Edinburgh.

He didn't expect that there would be such a connection between two people who were not related.

Doyle continued: "Recently I have become acquainted with a new Chinese genius, Dr. Chen of Cambridge University, who is the proposer of the parallel universe theory that I introduced not long ago, and who is also known as the Nobel Prize in Physics, an Olympic swimming champion, a fellow of the Royal Society, and an astronomer who has achieved great results......

Doyle's sudden praise made Chen Muwu, who was getting thicker and thicker, couldn't help but feel a little ashamed.

But what he said was telling the truth, and the titles he had given himself were genuine, and if he said it, he would at least be turned away by the old man in the wilderness, and not be turned away like the "host, writer, folk singer, bartender, oil painter, leatherman, silversmith, tambourine artist, old backpacker, investment consultant, French knight, Zen disciple".

After the introduction, Doyle did not mean to let Chen Muwu sit down, but introduced him to the other people who attended the party today one by one.

He first introduced a white-haired old man: "This is William Butler Yeats, he is the other Nobel laureate besides you among the people present......"

I have never eaten pork, I have always seen pigs run, I have never read "When You Are Old", and I have always heard Shuimu Nianhua's "Life with You".

What's more, Chen Muwu really read this song "When You're Old" in the years when he was a young man.

I didn't expect him to be a member of the Ghost Club.

"Hello, Mr. Yeats, it's an honor to meet you......"

Chen Muwu hurriedly shook hands with the great poet, thinking that after tonight was over, Gao Gao would also take a group photo with him and get a few autographs.

Doyle introduced a middle-aged man to Chen Muwu: "This is a professor of zoology at King's College London, Julian Huxley, ......."

"Hello, Dr. Chen, I heard His Royal Highness the Duke of York mention your name. At every private party, he always boasted to us, the Oxford graduates, that there was an all-rounder in sports, astronomy and physics at Cambridge. ”

Just like he didn't know that Doyle and Gu Hongming had an intersection, he also didn't know that there was also a relationship between the second prince and this Huxley.

And it sounds like if you can often go to private parties, so the relationship is not bad, right?

After more than ten years, at least it can be mixed with the dragon's skills.

Huxley, though?

This surname is so familiar.

The original author of the book "Theory of Heavenly Evolution" that Yan Fu translated at the beginning seems to be also surnamed Huxley?

"Hello Professor Huxley, I wonder what your relationship is with another Mr. Huxley?"

"Dr. Chen, he's my grandfather."

"It is a great privilege for me to get acquainted with Huxley's descendants, who made his book on evolution popular in our country and spurred the development of a reform movement."

What Chen Muwu didn't know was that the Julian Huxley in front of him also had a younger brother a few years younger, Adolphus Huxley.

Abroad, it may be that Julian is more famous, but at home, the most famous of the two brothers is undoubtedly the younger brother, the one who wrote "Brave New World".

If Chen Muwu knew that he still had such a younger brother as a writer, then he would also let Daous sign a contract with Penguin Publishing to become one of its cash cows.

"This is Sir Hugh Carswall Dowting, a brigadier general in the Royal Air Force who now holds the post of Chief of Staff of the Outback Headquarters."

Well, the soldiers are here.

The brigadier general of the Royal Air Force also came to engage in feudal superstition, should he popularize what is Boxer and what is red light?

If the British soldiers also learned to draw talismans and chant incantations, they asked the gods to do that and taught their allies, the French.

Cromwell, the protector of the kingdom, led the troops to fight with Napoleon, the French emperor who went down to the earth, did not have the Dunkirk retreat?

It's a coke just to think about!

"Hello," said Dow Ding in a very lame Cantonese when the two shook hands, "Dr. Chan, when I first joined the army twenty years ago, I served in the Royal Artillery Corps in the Royal Artillery Corps in Hong Kong, and I was transferred to the Air Force much later. ”

When Chen Muwu first saw a car of this era, he was taken aback.

In his stereotype, the cars in the civil period should be like Stipunk in "Latent".

Unexpectedly, the streets are basically open-top, and the few enclosed cars are also boxy.

It's 1924, and Kapitsa still bought a convertible.

I can't even figure out the car, what the plane looks like in this era, and Chen Muwu doesn't know it either.

Previously, De Broglie asked him to fly back to London from Paris but Chen Muwu refused, fearing that the plane would break down and crash, and falling into the English Channel and burying himself in the belly of the fish was one reason, and he didn't know that the situation of the plane was also one of the reasons.

An old French comedy movie "The King of Kings" in my memory contains a scene of air battles during World War II.

At that time, they were all open-top biplanes, and they were flying around at low altitudes.

Wearing a trench coat and goggles, listening to the wind whistling in the air hundreds of thousands of meters above his ears, he didn't dare to take this risk.

I wonder what the aircraft has developed in the years since the end of World War I, whether it still remains open-topped, or whether the cockpit has been closed?

When it came to the closed cockpit, Chen Muwu was suddenly curious, wondering if the brigadier general in front of him could talk to the aircraft factory and the Air Force's procurement department.

He thought of a suitable arms business, and if he could successfully match, the deficit of the 10,000 pounds to build the school would not be a problem.

Before the lecture began, Chen Muwu had already talked about business.

"General Dowding, I'm honored to know you, too."

Honor was the word, he didn't know how many times he had said it tonight.

Chen Muwu didn't expect that the ghost club that Doyle brought him to was either rich or expensive, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

"I don't know if you can introduce me to the military's procurement department, I have a new type of material in my hands, maybe they should be very interested."

"Dr. Chen, can you elaborate on what this material of yours is?"

"It's a similar material to glass, it's as transparent as glass, and it's also colorless and odorless.

"However, compared to glass, this new material is more impact-resistant, and even if it is subjected to extreme impacts, it will not break, only cracks.

"I think if there had been this kind of material, maybe the European war a few years ago would not have fired the first shot from the Balkans.

"The material is also weather-resistant, and even if it is exposed to sunlight and climate change for a long time, it will not fade and age.

"In addition, it's only about half as dense as glass, so it's lighter.

"And the key thing is that it's easy to process, and it only needs to be heated to a certain temperature to make a variety of shapes.

"If this material is used in an airplane, replacing the heavy and fragile glass, it may be easy to seal the pilot's cockpit."

(End of chapter)