The train along the southern shore of Lake Baikal has left the railway around the lake and arrived at the first station where it left the lake, Irkutsk, the capital of the Sulenirkutsk region.

This is where the leader of the White Army, Kolchak, was shot, and in the future a large aircraft factory will be built to produce Il-2 attack aircraft, which are as important as air and bread.

Although the names of this series of aircraft are all called Il, they have nothing to do with Irkutsk, where they were produced, and are just a coincidence.

Irkutsk is a station on the Sulian-Siberian Railway near the middle, more than 4,100 kilometers from the starting station Vladivostok to the west, and more than 5,100 kilometers from the terminal station of Irkutsk to the east.

It's just that Chen Muwu and Oppenheimer got on the train from Harbin Station, and the terminal of the two of them was not Jusco, so the journey that belonged to the two of them was far from halfway there.

Due to the topography and the difficulty of construction, this section of the Trans-Siberian Railway through Lake Baikal was not built in history, but was transported by ferry by breaking the train into several sections.

It was only a few years ago that the Circum-Baikal Railway was finally repaired, but there is still a risk of rockfalls on the way, and ferries are often reopened.

It can be regarded as Chen Muwu and Oppenheimerjee's own natural appearance, and the two of them came and went back and forth without catching up with the matter of crossing the river by steamer.

When the train stopped at the platform, Oppenheimer, who was tired of seeing the deserted woods and lakeshores, was the first to run out of the carriage and go to the platform to move his muscles and buy food.

Chen Muwu, who had just finished writing the manuscript of "The Rise of a Great Power", lazily turned over and lay down on the bunk, and his eyes inadvertently fell on the luggage that almost filled half of the box.

The two of them bought a ticket for a big bag of four, not because Oppenheimer had made enough money playing mahjong from the Swedish royal family when he came, but because he had even more luggage on his return than when he came.

Chen Muwu hurried back to Europe, on the one hand, to return to the Cavendish laboratory and continue his experiments on the particle accelerator he had just built.

On the other hand, it is to coincide with the wedding of Eve and her eldest sister Irena and Yorio in October this year.

As for Mrs. Chen, his eldest brother and second brother, although because of the suddenness of the incident, they had to reserve enough time to prepare, and they would only take a ship from the sea to France at the end of the year.

But if people don't arrive, the ceremony must arrive.

Hearing that her in-laws, whom she had never met, were a bigwig in the academic world, Mrs. Chen felt that she had to prepare a generous gift for the sister of Chen Muwu's daughter-in-law.

Listening to the second Chen Muping, many of the foreigners in the concession like to collect antique vases, so Mrs. Chen thought that she would pay for such a pair as a wedding gift for Irena.

Although it is said that "gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times", in the late Qing Dynasty, antiques were really not worth much.

In addition, the Qing Xun Emperor in the Forbidden City was not distressed when he sold his master's field, and he sold the treasures in the palace without mercy, which greatly enlivened the current antique market, but also greatly reduced the market price of antiques.

Everyone else is coaxed, but when they come to him, they are coaxed.

Even if it doesn't cost much to buy a pair of blue-and-white antique vases of the Ming Dynasty now, even if the Chen family is not short of money, Chen Muwu doesn't feel the need to do such a thankless thing.

As long as they are not the top collectors, the remaining foreigners are basically interested in the exquisite patterns on the blue and white jars, rather than the thick history behind them.

If you only talk about patterns, then the craftsmen of the Republic of China can also do it very well, there is no need to spend a lot of money to buy so many national treasures as gifts, and even let Chen Muwu become an accomplice to help the national treasures flow overseas.

So Chen Muwu used all kinds of fallacies to persuade Mrs. Chen to change her mind.

Someone was sent to Jiang Yi to order a set of vases and plates, and Chen Muwu even designed the patterns on these blue and white porcelains with ingenuity.

When others are eight immortals crossing the sea and five blessings and longevity, when they come to him, the center of the plate is a schematic diagram of the nuclei of radium atoms and polonium atoms.

Of course, this diagram is neither his quantum mechanical model nor Bohr's atomic model, but the simplest and most intuitive but incorrect model of the solar system.

Chen Muwu even ordered an extra set by the way, which he planned to take back to Cambridge University and give to the proposer of the solar system model, his teacher Rutherford.

It can only be said that Xiao Chen is a person who knows how to be grateful, "a teacher for one day, a father for life", Rutherford helped him at Cambridge University for more than three years, and when he returned to China, was there anything wrong with giving him some gifts?

What is flattery?

What is it called sycophancy?

Pure nonsense.

It's called a strong teacher-student relationship!

As for the teacher Rutherford's teacher, Tomson Sr., he also once proposed a model of raisin pudding.

It's just that the model is too complicated to draw, and it doesn't look good when printed on porcelain, so it can only be selectively ignored by Chen Muwu.

The custom work of porcelain began to be prepared from the beginning of Chen Muwu's return home, and it was not until a few days before their departure that they finally got their hands on it.

After careful calculation, the price of customizing such a few sets of brand-new porcelain is not much different from directly buying antiques from the Ming Dynasty.

There is only one point, that is, when the porcelain was delivered home, Chen Muwu had already become a shopkeeper, and he went directly to Suzhou along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal from Lingzhou.

He only carried a small bag with a few changes of clothes that he wore when he returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors.

But most of the luggage that returned to the UK was still left at his home.

These luggage and items could only suffer Oppenheimer, and he could only escort the car alone and send it to Suzhou to meet Chen Muwu.

In addition, Oppenheimer, the eldest young master, has been eating, drinking and having fun in the sea for so many days, and he himself has bought a lot of things.

Although Oppenheimer was not very popular in the Cavendish laboratory, he still had a few friends.

Except for a few American students from New York or Harvard, his social circle at Cambridge University basically coincided with Chen Muwu.

Among them, the best get along with Oppenheimer, except for Zhao Zhongyao and Shi Ruwei, who used to get along day and night, should be Dirac.

Because he was one of the physicists at Cambridge University, like Dirac, who was not good at hands-on experiments, but who were proficient in theoretical calculations.

Even without Chen Muwu's original time and space, Oppenheimer and Dirac's relationship was still very close.

The two of them first met on the campus of the University of Cambridge and continued to meet when they went to the University of Göttingen.

In Cavendish Labs, neither of them did much hands-on experimentation.

In Göttingen, none of them could integrate into the circle of German students, so they could only sympathize with each other.

Even though Oppenheimer had tried to kill Dirac's good friend Blackett with a poisoned apple soaked in cyanide, the incident did not affect his friendship with Dirac.

In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series of games, the military generals have a value called phase.

Only generals with similar sex values to themselves can easily become good friends, triggering various special events such as bowing and surrendering.

Oppenheimer and Dirac should belong to the one with similar characteristics, and the appearance of Chen Muwu has prompted the relationship between the two of them to go further.

I came all the way to China once, and when I returned, I had to bring some gifts to these friends.

So the things Oppenheimer bought in various places in the sea were no less than the luggage and gifts that the Chen family prepared for Chen Muwu.

He was carrying so much luggage alone that he couldn't even get to the train.

Chen Muping had no choice but to find two cars, and even Oppenheimer took the luggage and sent them to Qihaibei Station together, and specially spent money to pay for the crew of the first-class carriage to let him take more care of the foreigner along the journey.

Chen Muwu boarded the train at Suzhou Railway Station and met Oppenheimer on the train.

After that, they followed the route they had come from, from Shenjing, Tianyi, Mukden, Harbin, and Manchuria, all the way north, and after entering the Trans-Siberian Railway, they turned westward again, until the train stopped at Irkutsk, where the train stopped.

Oppenheimer descended from the carriage to the platform and returned, carrying all kinds of food in his arms.

Even the train tickets with the highest ticket prices have been bought, and naturally there is no shortage of money to go to the dining car of the train to eat or order food.

But Oppenheimer seems to have developed a fondness when he was in China, and he always likes to buy some local specialties everywhere he goes.

This time, he was carrying black bread, a staple food that could be found everywhere along the way, and honey that he had bought specially to accompany it.

In addition, buying fruits to supplement vitamin C is the main thing.

Oppenheimer bought a variety of berries from Irkutsk, mostly red, black, and blue raspberries, as well as gooseberries.

In addition to food and fruits, he got off the train this time and even brought back a newspaper from the platform.

Newspapers were sold at stations along the way, so that the semi-isolated passengers on the train could learn what was happening in the country and the world as they crossed Siberia.

It's just that Oppenheimer didn't know Russian at all, and Chen Muwu only learned a few words from Kapitsa about a three-legged cat in case of emergency.

When the two of them faced a Russian-language newspaper, they were completely wide-eyed, and they insisted on reading the carrier of the text as a pictorial.

Chen Muwu did not understand what Oppenheimer's motive was for buying this newspaper.

As if sensing Dr. Chen's doubts, he opened the newspaper, pointed to a certain photo on a certain page, and said: "Doctor, you see, it is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, it seems that he has arrived in China safely and smoothly. Is the man standing next to him Ben's emperor? ”

Chen Muwu looked in the direction of Oppenheimer's finger, and sure enough, he saw the Swedish crown prince in military uniform on the paper, and a bust of a short man wearing glasses in the same uniform.

As a Nordic man, Prince Gustav Adolphus is tall, and he doesn't look like he can be about the same size as himself.

It is estimated that this is the reason why there is only a photo of the bust in the newspaper, and I am either stepping on a box or sitting on a chair with the Crown Prince of Sweden.

However, this person is not the "emperor" in Oppenheimer's mouth, but the current crown prince, Hirohito.

The presence of the crown prince to receive the crown prince is completely reciprocal in terms of diplomatic etiquette.

But there is another reason behind this, that is, Hirohito's father Yoshihito, who is now the emperor of Ben's era name Taisho, is a psychopath and often makes some ridiculous and ridiculous acts in the court.

In order to prevent humiliation of the national dignity and embarrassment on some important occasions, the nobles and political elders of Ben united to negotiate the result of the negotiation was to let Kahito be the "emperor", and let the crown prince Hirohito take the regent in advance.

However, Taisho in the autumn of 1926, like a grasshopper after autumn, could not bounce for a few days.

By the end of this year, Kahito will die, and then the regent crown prince will also ascend the throne and change the yuan.

"No, it's not, it's not Ben's emperor, it's their crown prince."

Anyway, taking the train is idle and boring, Chen Muwu explained the ins and outs behind this to Oppenheimer in detail.

"It's ridiculous that the supreme ruler of a country is actually a mentally ill person, and they have to bow down to a mentally ill person every day.

"I don't know why they still insist on the imperial system, which is a remnant of the feudal period, rather than adopting a more advanced political system like China and the United States......"

Listening to Oppenheimer's complaints, Chen Muwu said in his heart that there is no need to be like this.

Not to mention how many European countries such as Britain and Sweden hit in the face at the same time.

Let's just say that he talked about the political systems of the two countries, and said that the United States can be understood, after all, it is the most developed country in the world.

But Oppenheimer actually said that China was advanced, which made Chen Muwu really want to laugh.

Whether it is the current Beiyang government or the future Shenjing government, they have nothing to do with the word advanced.

He doesn't have to tout anything that has anything to do with China in order to curry favor with Chen Muwu.

Chen Muwu had the heart to ask Oppenheimer to tell him where the advanced place in China was, but he couldn't bear to debunk his words.

But he still interrupted Oppenheimer's criticism of himself and the empire, and it was useless to tell himself that when he returned to the United States and talked to a man named MacArthur, it might have some effect.

Otherwise, just throw a large mushroom into Edo and experiment with the royal family and politicians, so that they can test the irradiated water and food for themselves.

- But Oppenheimer didn't say anything about it.

Chen Muwu interrupted the criticism of the royal family on the other side, which was still chattering, and instead mentioned another topic: "How is your travelogue?" ”

Oppenheimer didn't hide his travelogue either.

He even interviewed Chen Muwu many times, just to be able to grasp detailed first-hand information.

"I've basically finished revising and supplementing it, and when I get back to the UK, I want to submit the manuscript to a publisher in the UK or the US to see if I can get a chance to publish it."

Chen Muwu felt that there must be a lot of things in Oppenheimer's travelogue that could not be published.

For example, if I asked him to write a letter to my father to buy a microphotography machine, if nothing else, he must have written all of this into his travelogue.

My intelligence system is so developed, I am sure that I can see the subtleties from this, and maybe I will understand my true intentions.

Wouldn't all the preparations in the early stage be wasted?

But Chen Muwu had no choice but to say it directly: "Robert, do you know Penguin Press?" ”

"Of course, the same publisher that publishes the George Chan series has been very popular in the UK and the US in recent years."

"I happen to be familiar with one of the editors of their publishing house, otherwise, how about I help you recommend this travel diary of yours to this publishing house?"

"That's the best!"

Oppenheimer was pleasantly surprised.

Chen Muwu breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he could agree, when the time came, it would be good to write in the publishing contract that the publishing house had the right to delete and modify the content to a certain extent, and then quietly delete those words that were unfavorable to him.

After the surprise, Oppenheimer suddenly figured out something else.

"Dr. Chen, why are you so familiar with the editors at Penguin? Could it be that you are really the author behind the George Chen series as rumored? But why haven't I seen you write anything? ”

It can only be said that Oppenheimer's observation ability is too poor, but also his associative ability does not seem to be very rich.

Although he didn't see much of himself writing, but in the winter of two years ago, on the way from Sweden to France after receiving the Nobel Prize, he should have seen Ye Gongchao's unremitting writing, right?

(End of chapter)