It's just a telegram to the United States, and the salesman of the United States Film Company doesn't need to make a toss back to London and then come back, he just needs to find a place to live in Cambridgeshire, and then go to the county telegraph office to shoot a telegram to the United States and wait for the call back.

Chen Muwu also went to the telegraph office and sent a telegram to the headquarters of the British Steamship Company in London, asking where the steamer his family was traveling on was and what the expected date of entry was.

However, before he could reply to the letter from Luen Mei and the steamship company, he waited for another acquaintance whom he had not seen for a long time.

A few years ago, when Chen Muwu went to London, he met with the Duke of York.

Before the meeting, he was full of joy that the design of his seat belt should be about to bear fruit, but after the meeting, the other party told him that the British Rolls-Royce Motor Company did not look down on the seat belt at all.

Chen's hopes of making a lot of money in patent fees have been frustrated, let alone leaving a good name in the history of automobiles for the safety of drivers and passengers.

At that time, he was depressed and helpless, feeling that the pearl was secretly cast, and the Rolls-Royce who couldn't see the pearl was just like that.

However, he couldn't rush to build a car factory and produce cars on his own......

Why not?

He may have limited strength, but that doesn't mean he can't find someone to work with, right?

After the idea was understood, Chen Muwu immediately wrote a letter to Sweden, mentioning that cars would play an increasingly important role in his later life, and indicating that he wanted to build a car factory and produce cars independently in Sweden.

He originally planned to write this letter to the Crown Prince of Sweden, but because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was still on a journey around the world at that time and did not return to China, Chen Muwu transferred the letter to Marcus Jr. and asked him to discuss it after His Royal Highness the Crown Prince returned to China.

At first, Marcus Jr. was just involved in the business of the Wallenberg family, and was sent to curry favor with the Swedish crown prince, so he got in touch with Chen Muwu.

At first, he was not very optimistic about this Oriental who was about the same age as himself, but out of politeness and the face of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he met Chen Muwu.

But fortunately, he did not lose this side, Chen Muwu gave him a little advice in business, so that the young Marcus who was just starting out in the workplace successfully gained a firm foothold and entered the field of vision of the head of the Wallenberg family.

Chen Muwu tried his best to get Marcus Jr. to suggest that the family buy Ericsson, a company engaged in telephone production and telecommunications services, and finally allowed the Wallenberg family to defeat the Swedish match king Kruger in this acquisition battle and get the majority of Ericsson's shares.

He not only suggested that Marcus Jr. acquire, but also put forward the company's operation strategy after the acquisition, that is, to temporarily avoid the edge, not to grab the cake with a series of American companies led by the Bell Telephone Company in Europe and the United States and other mainstream markets, but to be the first batch of crab eaters, to open up the domestic market of some mysterious eastern neighbor - Sulian.

At that time, Su Lian had changed the person who spoke to him, and he had basically calmed down the situation in the country, and was ready to seek the resumption of national construction and economic development.

It's just that the European and American powers suffered from the natural distrust of the red Sulian, and they carried out blockade and encirclement in all aspects, so that the Sulian people could not attract large sums of investment, nor could they introduce advanced Western technology.

Under such circumstances, Ericsson took the initiative to contact Sulian to help build the telecommunications construction of various large cities in Sulian such as Mohelie, which was completely an act of sending charcoal in the snow.

This is not only a delivery of telecommunications technology, but more importantly, a statement.

Since then, the government of Sulian has opened the door to Ericsson, and it is precisely by relying on the move of eastward expansion that this Swedish company, which was already about to lose money and go bankrupt, has turned losses into profits in Sulian.

With the acquisition of Ericsson and the entry into the Sulian market, Marcus Jr. became the first person of his generation to enter the inner circle of the Wallenberg family.

At the same time, he also believed that Chen Muwu not only has a smart brain that can achieve countless achievements in scientific research, but also has a keen eye and detached judgment in business.

After receiving Chen Muwu's letter, Marcus Jr. began to pay attention to the automobile manufacturing industry in Sweden and internationally in Europe and the United States.

It was only because of his busy affairs at the end of the year, and in the telegram contact, Chen Muwu said that he was also going to Italy for a meeting at the beginning of 1927, so the meeting between the two people waited until now after the Como Conference.

After meeting with the representative of the Swedish chaebol family, Chen Muwu's main concern was not whether he could establish an automobile industry in Sweden.

In fact, the car is not a car, it is just a source of income that Chen Muwu found for his school in Stockholm.

After all, if you want to do a good job in education, if you want to engage in scientific research, and continuously achieve all kinds of new results, you need a lot of financial support.

If you just rely on your relationship with the Swedish crown prince and Marcus Jr., and sell your face to ask for funds from them, there will always be a day when the relationship will fade.

Only when you have "food in your pocket" can you "not panic in your heart".

He wanted to know when the school in Stockholm would be completed, not until the domestic selection exams were over, but the Swedish school was not completed, so that these selected good seedlings in Switzerland had nowhere to go.

It is not a problem for Chen Muwu to solve the problem of three or five students entering Cambridge University and entering the Cavendish laboratory every year, especially since he is still the acting director of the laboratory, and his power is much greater than when he was a student.

But if dozens or hundreds of people were allowed to enter Cambridge University at the same time, not to mention him, the acting director of the Cavendish laboratory, even the Chancellor of Cambridge University, Belfour, or even the Duke of York, the second son of the British king, who was a nobleman, would not be able to do it.

Good guys, is this to treat the UK's number one higher education institution as a crowded bazaar, where you can come and go whenever you want?

There is only one almost impossible way to get so many people enrolled at the same time, and that is to suddenly donate a large amount of money to Cambridge University, buy land in Cambridgeshire to build a new college, and successfully persuade the Cambridge University Senate headed by Belfort to agree to accept the newly established college as a member of Cambridge University.

But isn't this no different from what Chen Muwu did in Stockholm?

Moreover, compared with Cambridgeshire, Stockholm not only has one less school supervisor Balfort who sees Chen Muwu as unpleasant to the Chinese people and will definitely obstruct it everywhere, but also has a good Swedish crown prince who loves Chinese culture and has a good relationship with Chen Muwu.

Fools know where to build this school, and Chen Muwu did exactly that.

Chen Muwu breathed a sigh of relief after receiving an affirmative reply from Marcus Jr., saying that the Stockholm Prince College should be completed and put into use as scheduled.

But the guest from Northern Europe was more concerned about something less important than the host who was worried about the development of education.

After answering Chen Muwu's concerned question, Little Marcus suddenly became a little mysterious: "Dr. Chen, do you say that this alien really exists?" ”

Damn, I really regret it, why did you tell Fermi about it in the first place?

He didn't expect Fermi to be a big mouth, and he calculated a conclusion that was difficult to say whether it was correct or not, so he couldn't wait to find a reporter to publicize it.

Well, everyone who comes to Cambridge University to find themselves can't avoid mentioning it.

But looking at the little Marcus who was full of "curiosity" in his eyes, Chen Muwu had no reason not to answer this partner who would be his partner in the next few decades.

"Who can say for sure? As I've always emphasized, probability-wise, aliens may exist, but there is no evidence of their existence on Earth, nowhere else. ”

Chen Muwu politely gave his own response, wanting to turn the topic to the construction of an automobile factory as soon as possible.

However, Marcus Jr. prefers to break the casserole: "There have been a lot of news about the spectacle in the newspapers lately, some of which have been around for a long time, and some of which have only recently been discovered. Either way, humans haven't been able to explain why they exist before, but your new alien idea makes sense. - How would these things have been built if there were no aliens? Isn't this exactly what you are talking about, the traces left by aliens on Earth, that is, the evidence of the existence of aliens? ”

"What you mean is that because these things seem to have been built by aliens, and people can't explain them, they are built by aliens."

"That's right!"

Chen Muwu felt that if he continued like this, he was likely to fall into an endless melee between one side saying that it was not an alien and the other side saying that it was an alien, so he felt that he would try to explain it in a different direction.

"Let's not talk about aliens or not, I want to ask this one thing: if an animal looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, walks like a duck, and swims like a duck, then is it a duck?"

The duck problem was very popular in the United States in the future in the forties and fifties.

It's not that Americans at that time began to think about philosophy, but because at that time when the congressmanship of a certain surnamed Mai was prevalent, they used this fallacy to judge whether a person was ***, which was similar to the nonsense of the Southern Song Dynasty.

"I can't prove you're ***, but when I see a bird quacking like a duck...... I would certainly assume that he was a duck. ”

Even in the United States, Archbishop Richard Cushing of Boston once used this rhetoric to accuse the legendary bearded man who was assassinated by the CIA more than 600 times without success.

"Of course it's a duck! It's the same with things that people can't explain, they seem to be left by aliens, so they are left by aliens. ”

Marcus Jr. felt that the analogy given by Chen Muwu was very vivid and reasonable, so he actually supported that aliens had come to Earth, but because he was a scientist, he couldn't express his views publicly, so he could only tell himself in this very obscure way?

"Forget it, let me give you another example to show how unreliable the judgment of something in the human subconscious is.

"There is a chemical element called chlorine, which is one of the constituent elements of table salt that we consume every day.

"There is also a chemical element called iodine, which is also widely distributed in the sea and is an indispensable trace element for the human body, which can also make the starch solution blue, so as to exist as a detection reagent for starch.

"Together, these two elements can turn into a compound called iodine chloride, which is a reddish-brown crystal at a low temperature, and when the temperature rises, it melts into a dark red liquid with a pungent odor.

"If there is such a liquid, it also has the same pungent smell as halogen, and the color is also dark red, and the source is the same as iodine chloride, which is extracted from the sea, and even if you calculate the molecular weight, you can find that the molecular weight of this liquid is comparable to that of iodine chloride.

"According to the duck theory just now, there is no doubt that this unknown new liquid is iodine chloride.

Baron von Liebig, a great German chemist and 'father of organic chemistry', thought the same way, when a German businessman offered him a bottle of this new liquid from the filtrate of algae ash, hoping that Liebig would analyze the composition of the liquid for him.

"After getting the liquid, Liebig did not measure the new liquid with the chemical instruments in the laboratory, but only looked at it with the naked eye, sniffed it with his nose, and hastily labeled it as 'iodine chloride' and put it in the corner of the cabinet where he stored the medicine.

It was four years later, when Antoine Barral, a young man in France who had just completed his degree as a pharmacist, also got the new liquid from the algae filtrate from Montpellier.

At first, Barral, like Liebig, thought that the new liquid was iodine chloride. But he tried to prove his judgment, and in the end, the attempt failed.

Barral then decided that the new liquid was not iodine chloride, but that a new element should be present in it.

"Later it became known that this new element is called bromine.

"Mr. Wallenberg, I think you can understand from this real example in the history of chemistry that it is not an animal that looks alike, sounds like it, and can swim, it must be a duck."

"Dr. Chen, I probably understand what you mean, do you want to say that although those traces seem to be left by aliens, they are not necessarily aliens, and they may also be underground people who look very similar to aliens?"

(End of chapter)