Who are you, buddy?

This was Chen Muwu's first reaction.

The dinner he is attending today was organized by the Sulian diplomatic department to welcome the visiting Swedish crown prince.

But his invitation letter was prepared for him by the Swedish side.

In other words, Chen Muwu is equivalent to attending this dinner as a guest, as a member of the entourage of the Swedish crown prince.

In this case, he was always reluctant to ask for an extra invitation from the Swedish consulate and bring Oppenheimer with him.

After all, even Kapitsa, who has been by his side as a translator all these days, was not invited.

Chen Muwu was completely alone today, and he was startled by the uninvited guest who suddenly came over.

I still remember the first time Oppenheimer met Dirac, Dirac, who was excited because he found Chen Muwu's "mistake", rushed into the meeting of the Capitsa Club, and Oppenheimer was the first to react and stopped between Chen Muwu and Dirac.

If Oppenheimer was by his side now, his great protector would definitely replicate this kind of behavior and rush out to block the front at the first time.

Su Lian has a lot of people with black hair, black eyes and yellow skin, but there are not many serious Far Easterners.

Chen Muwu didn't know which one was coming towards him, he was Chinese? Or me? Or South Korea?

Oh, sorry, there is no South Korea yet.

Before coming to Sulian, Chen Muwu went to the Chinese Legation in London to find Chargé d'Affaires Chen Weicheng to learn about the situation here.

Although Su Lian had always been in contact with the Hungdong side, it was the Beiyang government that signed the agreement to establish diplomatic relations with Liberia in 1924.

It may be a newly established country that urgently needs to improve its international status.

In the agreement signed between Su Lien and the Beiyang government, the two sides not only went beyond the ministerial level and directly established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level, but in addition to the embassy in Moscow, the Beiyang government was even able to establish a consulate general in Letegrad.

When mentioning this consulate, Chen Weicheng said with envy: "Brother Hanchen, don't you know that our consul general in Legagrad was really beautiful when he took office. I heard that he took the train from Shaojing to Sulian, and brought a total of forty-five carriages of servants, and thirty or forty cooks who cooked the dishes of the north and the south. ”

Although the first key word that Chen Muwu captured from these words was thirty or forty cooks, and they had already begun to imagine that after Lebegrad, they would be able to feast and eat seaweeds every day, he was still shocked by the luxury of the consul general's battle when he took office.

From Shaojing to Moscow, you have to take the Trans-Siberian Railway, and you can't buy a ticket for such a long journey, so you can only sleep in a sleeping car, but even if you sleep 20 people in a sleeping car, 45 cars are a full 900 people.

Didn't Chen Weicheng cry a few days ago that there was no money in the British Legation, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would not give them money?

is also from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, how can this person be so generous!

Not to mention the son of the Minister General of Foreign Affairs, it is estimated that even the Minister General of Foreign Affairs himself will not be able to hire so many entourages.

"Chargé d'Affaires Chen, who is this Mr. Consul General? Could it be that the son of a big family spent money to donate an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? ”

"The son of a big family? Their family is even bigger than a big family! This Consul General of Shui Jun Shaoshui, whose family was originally a salt merchant in Qisu Province, later married Zhang Wenxiang's daughter, and became Xiang Shuai's idle son-in-law! ”

Oh my boy, that's pretty damn!

Whether it is Zhang Wenxiang or Xiang Shuai mentioned in Chen Weicheng's words, they all refer to the same person.

That is one of the "Four Famous Ministers of Zhongxing in the Late Qing Dynasty", and the photo is often worshiped by others in the comment area of Douyin and recognized as Zhang Zhidong of Li Hongzhang.

After Zhang Zhidong's death, the Qing government gave him the nickname Wenxiang, so he was called Zhang Wenxiang.

And because he was called "Xiangtao" and served as the governor of the "big marshal", he was also called "Xiang Shuai".

Zhang Zhidong was also one of the representatives of the Westernization Movement, and the first and largest Hanyang Iron Works in Asia at that time was the iron and steel enterprise he presided over.

The steel mill was lucrative, and it was not cheated by the British like the Kaiping Mining Bureau, and Zhang Zhidong, as the founder of the iron mill, would definitely make a lot of money from it.

Shui Junshao is not only Zhang Zhidong's son-in-law, but his son-in-law is also very famous.

Shui Junshao's eighth daughter is named Shui Shifang, during the Anti-Japanese War, because of her father's status in the Department of Foreign Affairs, she also entered the Dutch Embassy in Yanqing to work.

It was at the Dutch embassy that Shui Shifang became acquainted with a first secretary, Robert Hans van Golick, and eventually became his wife.

This first secretary also has another Chinese name, Gao Luopei, who is the foreigner who wrote the "Tang Di Gong Case".

has a father-in-law and a son-in-law, and Shui Junshao, who is sandwiched in the middle, has become the least famous one in the entire family heritage.

Just like Chen Weicheng said, Shui Junshao's family was originally a salt merchant, and he climbed into a heavyweight father-in-law, and this family condition can afford to hire so many maids.

But is there a must for this?

Regardless of whether it was necessary or not, Chen Muwu at that time couldn't wait to leave England and rush to Leegrad, where he happened to lecture for two weeks, and he wanted to take advantage of half a month to eat a big meal every day, and taste all the skills of the thirty or forty cooks that Shui Junshao had brought to him.

- Although he did not eat in Lebegrad for half a month, he was about to return to the country.

But it is better to eat other people's things without spending money than to eat at your own expense.

When the time comes, in the name of visiting the door, and then taking the opportunity to live in the consulate general, presumably the son-in-law of this pioneer of the Westernization faction should not refuse his own person.

Chen Muwu asked Chen Weicheng if he could say hello to the Consulate General in Leegrad and send a telegram or something for him, so that the other party could be prepared when he arrived.

Although you don't have to go out of the city to greet you, it is still necessary to buy some chicken, duck and fish in advance!

Then his own family, Chen Weicheng, told Chen Muwu an unfortunate news.

Maybe he thinks that living abroad is not interesting when he is uprooted from his hometown, or it may be that he has other things to do at home, anyway, this Shui Junshao resigned in April this year and returned to China in April this year to become a counselor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The consul general in Leedgrad was replaced by Fu Yangxian, secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Chen Muwu went to Sulian a few months late, and he and Shui Junshao happened to walk back and forth, and no one could see anyone.

He complained very much about Chen Weicheng in his heart, if he didn't mention it, he shouldn't have known about it, and he wouldn't have expected anything about it.

Well, now it's been exciting for a long time, and in the end it's just empty joy.

Chen Muwu came to Lebegrad from London in this way, and he didn't even enter the door of the Consulate General once for so many days.

He was afraid of going there to touch the scene, and he couldn't help but think of the gluttonous feast that should have been imported but disappeared.

So now he doesn't go to the Consulate General, but Mr. Consul General comes to visit in person?

In addition, Chen Muwu couldn't think of any reason for his compatriots to find him, and he couldn't think of other candidates.

Someone wouldn't come to study in Sulian now, right?

You can all go abroad, why not choose Britain, the United States, Germany, France, and other countries with a higher level of science and technology and more modern times?

"Hello Dr. Chen......"

As soon as the other party holding the wine glass spoke, Chen Muwu was even more sure.

This is a full Chinese character, and the identities of the people who can attend today's dinner are either rich or expensive.

If he wasn't that Consul General Fu, who would he be?

“…… I am the ambassador of the Otachimoto Empire to Rukuni, Tanaka Toyoshi. ”

The slap in the face inevitably came too quickly.

There is no time to wonder why a person can speak Chinese so well, except that he can't distinguish between r and l.

Chen Muwu even wanted to know, what was the ambassador to Sulian doing when he stayed in Moscow and came to Leygrad?

Although Ben did not have a consulate in Leeggrad, a small Swedish crown prince should not have such a big face to allow an ambassador from such a distant place to come to his welcome dinner.

"Hello, Mr. Ambassador."

According to official diplomatic language, the title "Ambassador" should be followed by "Your Excellency".

But Chen Muwu was reluctant to say this, he didn't want to give himself any good face.

His careful thinking didn't seem to have any effect, and Tanaka Toyoshi still had a polite smirk on his face: "The newspaper in Lu Guo said that Dr. Chen, you will return to your country by train with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Sweden after this lecture visit. I would like to ask Dr. Chen, will he take this hard-won opportunity to return to China and also go to China's friendly neighbors to do an academic visit and exchange? ”

No wonder this Tanaka Tsuyoshi came here from Moscow, where he came to welcome the Swedish crown prince, he obviously came for himself!

However, these people are really clever in their intelligence methods, and it is not surprising that they know that they are going to return to China after the lecture, as Tanaka Mitsuyoshi said, and this matter has already been published in Sulian's newspaper.

But how did they know they were showing up at the welcome banquet tonight? This is a bit thought-provoking.

I have invited myself to visit, not once or twice.

They were also generous, referring to Einstein's visit in 1922, and in less than two months, they were paid £2,000 and paid for all his travel to and from Europe and East Asia.

However, my shrewdness lies in the fact that whenever Einstein went, his lectures were not free and open to the general public, but charged a certain fee.

It's like inviting the Argentine national team and the Australian national team to China to play a game, although the appearance fee and venue fee are a lot of expenses, but as long as you can attract enough people to watch the game and sell enough tickets, this is a sure deal.

If Shao Da and Cai Yuanpei can learn this trick, maybe they can really make the regret that Einstein failed to visit China into a complete one.

Now Tanaka Mitsuyoshi didn't talk to him about money, but only asked him if he had any intention of going to this lecture.

Chen Muwu knew that as long as he nodded and agreed, he could make a small profit.

At a time when the Deutsche Mark was depreciating rapidly, two thousand pounds was a huge sum for Einstein.

But for Chen Muwu now, 2,000 pounds can only be regarded as better than nothing.

After all, he is a man who can make the future king of England pay 10,000 pounds a year and let the future king of Sweden build him a school.

And will I elevate his treatment to the same level as Einstein?

This is still an unknown.

From the perspective of personal emotion, Chen Muwu neither wants to go to Ben, but also wants to go to Ben, he is very entangled.

It's easy to understand why he didn't want to go, there were too many old hatreds between him and Ben.

Just because of a "Chinese Exclusion Act", he insisted on not going to the United States for so many years.

What I do is more hateful than the Americans, and I can't treat them differently and reject the United States and accept Ben, right?

But the reason why he wanted to go to Ben was because Chen Muwu wanted to see if his big fool had achieved results.

Whether it is to Yoshio Nishina or to Arakatsu Fumisake, he is not lying, superconductivity is indeed the mainstream of the future physics community.

But I'm afraid that I don't believe it and live up to my kindness.

Especially after Rutherford's hype, physicists around the world basically know that Chen Muwu has built the first particle accelerator at Cambridge University, which can bombard atomic nuclei with particles other than alpha particles.

Do I feel like I'm lying to them? Although that's what it is.

What if they try to do accelerators as well?

Chen Muwu felt that the best way was to go to Ben himself and persuade those respected predecessors in Ben to agree and support the study of low-temperature physics.

In this country where seniority is important, there are basically no young people who dare to break the rules set by the older generation.

Of course, you can't say it too absolutely, after all, there was once a group of young people who entered Tokyo singing "Miluo Yuanshui beats waves, and the clouds are surging Wushan'e".

To go or not to go, that's the question.

Since he couldn't make up his mind, Chen Muwu simply didn't want to, and he didn't want to invest too much energy in thinking about it on this occasion.

It's still important to eat, and he was disturbed by Tanaka Toyoshi's dry meal, and he was already very unhappy.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Ambassador, but your invitation is so sudden that I can't give a definite answer for a while."

"Dr. Chen, please don't be too entangled, I just want to preliminarily reveal some of my intentions to you today, and when you return to your country by train, if nothing else, someone will contact you there."

Now, the ghost is still gone.

(End of chapter)