The Duke of York, who didn't hear Chen Muwu's voice, always felt that Chen Muwu's words seemed like cursing himself.

His Majesty is indeed too busy with official business to do everything himself.

But in front of him is the Prince of Wales and his eldest brother, so he can't fall on himself every time he watches football.

The style of early football focused on simplicity and practicality, and there were many imperfections in the rules, so the players played rough and violent in most games.

Where do English gentlemen see this?

They still prefer tennis, horseback riding and sailing as gentlemen's sports.

But today's game may be an exception.

Probably the league is not over yet, so the competition between the two teams is not too fierce, and it feels like a bus driver versus a bus driver.

This gives the two more time to chat.

The Duke of York didn't pay any more attention to the very inexplicable words that Chen Muwu said just now: "Dr. Chen, why did you come to London?" ”

"Your Highness, I have been here for nearly three months to conduct experiments in a laboratory of the Royal Research Institute."

"What is this about that Cambridge University can't do and wants you to come to London? That card, Cavendish lab where you're located? Hasn't someone already allocated the funds? Isn't that enough money to keep you in Cambridge for experiments? ”

In the Duke of York's cognition, 10,000 pounds a year, plus more than 9,000 pounds in the first place, these funds are enough in a small laboratory.

Unless they're working on a money-burning technique.

He was right, the money was enough.

But only if the director in charge of the laboratory is willing to spend money.

Thinking of this, Chen Muwu was still a little angry, and he remembered that when he returned to Cambridge, he must develop an accelerator in the Cavendish laboratory, so that Rutherford willingly watched him spend money like water.

But in the face of the Duke of York's question, Chen Muwu could only temporarily suppress the small flame in his heart and answer patiently.

After all, one of the purposes of meeting with this financier today is to help old Prague also get a sponsorship.

Chen Muwu told the Duke of York in detail how after winning the Nobel Prize, he passed through the Netherlands on his way back from Sweden to the United Kingdom and visited the low-temperature physics laboratory of Leiden University.

How did he want to reproduce a cryogenic laboratory at Cambridge University, but was rejected by his teacher Rutherford, and recommended himself to the Davy Faraday laboratory at the Royal Institution in London.

Then he talked about the main point of this meeting with the Duke of York.

"Your Highness, when I arrived at David Faraday's laboratory, I found that the environment in this laboratory was rudimentary, and the experimental conditions were even worse than the previous Cavendish laboratory.

"It's true that there is a cryogenic laboratory here, but the experimental equipment in it hasn't been updated for more than ten years.

"When I first arrived, I didn't know why I asked Sir Bragg, the director of the laboratory, for funds, like a stunned young man, but I didn't expect Sir Bragg to tell me helplessly that the funds for the laboratory had always been insufficient, and he was forced to reluctantly accept the invitation of the Royal Society and was ordered to rebuild the laboratory in the Royal Institute."

Chen Muwu deliberately repeated the word "Royal" many times in the last few sentences.

At the same time, he had been observing the expression on the Duke of York's face.

If he knew from the beginning that he was here to ask for money this time, would he have agreed to this?

Hearing that the Royal Research Institute had no money, the Duke of York did frown slightly as Chen Muwu had imagined.

Although he is much more handsome than Quan Xiaojung, the two of them almost made the same expression.

Fuck, how did the country become like this!

The point is that the disgrace is also lost in front of foreigners.

Although Chen Muwu came from that weak China in the Far East, it did not cause any surprise from friendly countries.

But he is also a Nobel laureate, and he has even surpassed Albert Einstein in the limelight in the newspapers recently!

Appropriation, we have to allocate funds to the laboratory of this royal research institute, let Dr. Chen see how the financial resources of our empire where the sun never sets!

Just when the Duke of York was sorting out his thoughts and thinking about how to speak in response to Chen Muwu in order to make the scene less embarrassing, Chen Muwu continued to speak.

He's such a caring person, the only purpose today is to ask for money, so he can't really let the gold owner be deflated, right?

"Your Royal Highness the Duke, there is a very old book in our country, called "The Book of Change", which has a sentence that says that when people are poor, they must consider change, and when they change, they will be accessible, and only after they can they be reached. ……”

So far, the English translation of the I Ching has been "Book of Changes" instead of the transliterated "I Ching".

And Chen Muwu also deliberately mistranslated the word poor in the sentence "poor will change, change will be smooth, and general will be long", and changed the meaning of "end" to poverty.

What he wanted to blurt out at first was actually another sentence, that is, the living cannot be suffocated to death.

But when the words came to his lips, Chen Muwu realized that this sentence was too unelegant and did not fit his identity, and he was embarrassed to say it in front of the Duke of York, who would become a king in the future.

“……。 Although the experimental conditions in the laboratory of David Faraday at the Royal Research Institute were not enough to support my experiments, during this time, I also found another experiment that I could do in this laboratory, and achieved great results.

"I have brought the results of the experiment here today, just so that I can show them to Your Highness."

Finally, when it was time to offer the treasure, Chen Muwu opened a briefcase he was carrying with him and took out a piece of plexiglass that had been cut to the size of paper.

"Your Highness, please see, this is the new thing I have made in the laboratory."

Following the prestige, the first time he saw this thing in Chen Muwu's hand, the Duke of York thought that he was joking with himself.

"Dr. Chen, Dr. Chen, is this, a piece of glass?"

He said baby, and he took out a piece of glass to fool me?

Is this a hint that the Royal Research Institute is so poor that it can't do any other experiments than to cut glass with a glass knife?

If this is the case, then Dr. Chen's sarcasm can at least reach the level of Mark Twain.

The Duke of York was so angry with Chen Muwu that his language barrier was even a little more serious than usual.

"Your Highness, yes, this is a piece of glass," Chen Muwu replied with a smile, got up and left his seat, and walked towards an open space in the box with the "glass", "If I say, what will happen if I throw this piece of glass on the ground now?" ”

"Of course, it's going to break apart and break into small pieces, and there's a lot of debris that can hurt people."

Of course, the glass would shatter if it was thrown to the ground, and the Duke of York's inherent thinking made him quickly give an answer.

However, looking at the smile on Chen Muwu's face, he began to be a little uncertain again.

After his brain was racing, the Duke of York hurriedly added, "Could it be that this glass is different?" ”

"You're right, exactly."

"Bang!"

As he spoke, Chen Muwu raised the "glass" and smashed it to the ground.

When the two come into contact with each other, the sound is not crisp, but a muffled sound.

Then a surprising scene happened, this magical "glass" was not only unscathed, but even bounced a few centimeters visibly with the naked eye.

Although nothing happened, Chen Muwu's sudden move still startled the royal servants on the side.

The cultural differences did not make them think of smashing the cup, but only feared that he would pick up the sharpest piece from the ground after the glass had broken, and then assassinate the king, assassinating the unsuspecting Duke of York.

When everyone was still immersed in surprise, Chen Muwu had already bent down to pick up the "glass" again.

He came to his seat again, and then handed the "glass" in his hand to the Duke of York, who was already stunned: "Your Highness, please check, I didn't lie to you, right?" ”

The Duke of York, who subconsciously took the things handed over by Chen Muwu, carefully examined this magical piece of glass.

He also quickly realized that something was wrong with this piece of "glass".

It's just that the feeling that something is wrong doesn't come from the eyes, but from the hands.

"Dr. Chen, it doesn't seem to feel like glass, and it doesn't seem to weigh right."

"That's right, Your Highness, it's not a piece of glass made of sand, it's something else."

"What is it? Magic? I recently heard Huxley talk about you, and he was a big admirer of your theory of parallel universes, and thought there must be some bit of magic in you. ”

What kind of magical brain circuit is this?

Please, buddy's current character is a genuine, science-believing physicist.

Well, at least most of the time.

Only occasionally when I can't control my mouth will I talk about something mysterious and mysterious, like something that travels through time and space, a parallel universe.

It's just a new material, so it's all about magic!

Even if you really want to be King Arthur, I'm not Merlin!

"Sss I assure you, at least there's nothing magical in this glass, it's full of science. ”

As he spoke, he introduced the potential financier to other properties of plexiglass.

But what impressed the Duke of York the most was Chen Muwu's shocking fall just now.

How can glass not break?

This is not a word game like "the hammer hammers the glass hammer does not break", but the ironclad evidence is in front of you.

The Duke of York, who was holding plexiglass, also got up from his seat, walked to the place where Chen Muwu had just smashed the glass, and stomped a few times suspiciously, confirming that the performance just now was not a magic trick prepared in advance.

"Amazing, just like you're so magical! Dr. Chen, this piece of glass you invented is really amazing! ”

"Your Highness, this piece of glass, in fact, still has a lot of room for improvement. But I'm still a physicist by profession, so I don't have too much time and energy to continue to devote myself to this research.

"You know, I was able to develop such a piece of glass only because I didn't have the money to buy equipment in Davy Faraday's lab and couldn't do the experiments I wanted to do, so I had to do it. ……”

"Don't talk about it, Dr. Chen!" The Duke of York interrupted him with some excitement, "Just rush this glass, I will immediately send someone to the Royal Research Institute, the laboratory you said will allocate funds, make a price, how much?" ”

"Your Highness, don't be impatient, I haven't finished yet."

Chen Muwu thought to himself, I want 25,000 pounds, can you give it?

I'm counting on this piece of glass to make me a school!

"You've already made a payment to the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge last year, and this time you won't be able to pay for anything more.

"I've met Brigadier General Dowding of the Royal Air Force before, and I don't know if you recognize this man.

"But it doesn't matter, I would say that it was Brigadier Dow who inspired me, and I think this new type of glass can be used in airplanes.

"I read about your deeds in the newspapers and know that you are a squadron leader pilot in the Royal Air Force.

"Your Highness, with all due respect, can you make a connection with the Royal Air Force, I want to transfer the patent for this new material to them, and rely on the patent transfer fee to help David Faraday Lab tide over the difficulties."

Chen Muwu spoke with sincerity and toughness, and it seemed that he refused the Duke of York's re-appropriation.

But it's one thing for him to refuse, and it's another thing for the second prince to give money.

The dignified Royal Research Institute, relying on a foreigner to make money by inventing and selling patents to do research, what kind of system is that?

Although the Duke of York did not express his position immediately, he thought that when he returned, he must send someone to allocate a sum of money to the Royal Academy.

"Dr. Chen, when you found me before, did you already find a place for this piece of glass?"

Chen Muwu nodded.

"It's true that I'm a member of the Royal Air Force, but I don't think the place where your piece of glass is going should be the Royal Air Force.

"The Royal Air Force doesn't even produce airplanes, but orders from various manufacturers, so how can they produce glass like yours?

"According to what you just said, this new glass is made by chemical means, so I think Brennamond should be interested in your patent.

"This is the largest chemical industry company in the UK, and I recently visited the company's soda ash plant in Noswych, Cheshire, on behalf of His Majesty.

"Dr. Chen, why don't I match you with the relevant person in charge of this company, and you sell them the patent for this new type of glass, how about it?"

As soon as the Duke of York finished speaking, cheers rang out from all sides of Wembley Stadium.

Sheffield United's left winger Fred Tenstor scored a goal to finally break a dull draw that had lasted more than three decades.

(End of chapter)