In the puzzled eyes of Marcus Jr., Chen Muwu told the other party all the things he had secretly talked with the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy Mo in the Venice Palace, the prime minister's official residence in Rome, the capital of Italy, as he had just done when he introduced the design and invention of the seat belt ratchet.

Although in Rome, the Italian side reached a preliminary intention of cooperation, and both sides agreed to sign a legally binding contract to bind each other, so as not to harm the rights and interests of either party.

But whether it is a verbal agreement or a paper implementation, Chen Muwu still feels that this matter is a little unreliable.

Because the other party is a well-known rogue country, he may turn his face one day, and after finding oil deposits and finally successfully drilling wells and starting large-scale exploitation, he kicked Chen Muwu, a well finder, away and ate alone.

Especially in this place, which is rich in oil reserves, and it is precisely within Italy's North African colonies that they will do whatever they want.

Chen Muwu is not afraid that he will work hard from beginning to end, and in the end he will not even get one percent of the profit.

Although the money that can be credited to the account every year is a huge amount of money, it is dispensable for Chen Muwu, and it is not a life-saving money in the snow, but just the icing on the cake.

What he is really afraid of not fulfilling the agreement on the Italian side is his quota of workers who enter the Italian factory every year to intern and learn technology.

Even if these workers could only be sent until before the two countries broke off diplomatic relations after the outbreak of World War II, they were very important to Chen Muwu and even to wartime China.

Chen Muwu felt that although he had a very pleasant conversation with the other party in the prime minister's official residence at that time, and there was also Zhu Zhaoxin, the Chinese minister in Italy, as a witness, he believed that first, Zhu Zhaoxin, who was "a guarantor from it", had no status or restraint in the eyes of the Italians, and second, it was estimated that it would not be long before the Beiyang government completely collapsed and the Shenjing side had not yet formally established a foothold, Zhu Zhaoxin would have a quarrel with the Beiyang side because of unpaid wages, so he resigned and hung up his seal, left Rome in a fit of anger, returned to China from Italy, and went into the wilderness.

Therefore, Chen Muwu's point of view is that it is necessary to pull a person with sufficient weight to be this witness in the middle, and at the beginning he wanted these business friends to introduce a few lawyers and sign a contract with the Italian government.

But after seeing Marcus Jr. today, he thought that instead of doing this, it would be better to directly pull the Wallenberg family into the gang.

Although the introduction of one more party may better protect their rights and interests, but it is not even, and the opposite party will join hands to kick him, an insider, out of the game.

However, Chen Muwu believes that if it is Marcus Jr. and the Wallenberg family behind him, the probability of this happening is very small.

Not to mention that in addition to the oil in Libya, the two of them also have exchanges in education, commerce, and industry, just talking about the face of the Swedish crown prince who linked Chen Muwu and Marcus Jr., the Wallenberg side had to give.

As long as Chen Muwu can always have a good relationship with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who likes Chinese culture and regards him as the best relationship among the Chinese people he knows, then the cooperation between him and the Wallenberg family can always be safe.

Lao Wa's family has a big business, they can't look down on the small money that leaks to Chen Muwu from their fingers every year, if only through this small money, they can make friends with Chen Muwu, a world-famous physicist, and can also maintain the relationship with the current Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the future King His Majesty, this kind of thing, why not kill two birds with one stone?

As for how the Lavalenberg family should distribute their benefits with Italy after entering the game, that is not something that Chen Muwu should think about.

His Taoism is not enough, and the thousand-year-old foxes of the Wallenberg family can naturally read their own chats.

Chen Muwu only needs to ensure that his rights and interests are not infringed upon, and he can maintain peace and stability until the outbreak of World War II.

After listening to Chen Muwu's description, the secret agreement on oil exploitation reached between him and the Italian prime minister was still incredulous.

He was not surprised that Chen Muwu and Mo were able to talk, after all, the photo of the two standing side by side and shaking hands had already made the front page of Milan's "Corriere della Sera" and was reprinted in other newspapers in Europe and the United States.

Marcus Jr. was just surprised by Chen Muwu's calm attitude when he said this, as if he must be able to find oil in the Mediterranean, so that the Wallenberg family only needs to prepare for the tug-of-war with the Italian side over the contract.

Is he really that sure?

Although Northern Europe was the first to start the great voyages in Europe, it did not form independent states in the Viking Age.

It was not until the end of the era that states and kings began to appear in that part of Northern Europe, and with the introduction of Christianity, it gradually began to enter the Middle Ages and became a feudal kingdom.

In the later period of discovery, Spain, Britain, Portugal, France and the Netherlands all opened up or occupied many colonies in Africa, the Americas and Asia, and Denmark, Sweden and other Nordic countries also took advantage of this trend to fight in a few places.

But after all, because of the lack of seafaring skills, there is no large amount of money to support the expenses of the fleet, and it is impossible to maintain a continuous trade to gain any benefits.

Sweden lost several colonies because of the defeat in the war, or sold them to other seafaring powers, so that they could be used as a foothold for steamships, and they were traded for land for money.

By now, Sweden was no longer an overseas territory, not even as good as his love-hate Nordic brother, Denmark, who still held Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

There was no constant flow of blood from the colonies, and therefore no influence over the colonized areas that had been retained after the end of the Second World War and the rise of the decolonization of the world.

But even so, Sweden can still become the spiritual homeland of many people on the Internet in the 21st century because of its high welfare.

The reason why Sweden can maintain high welfare is because it has a large number of various mineral resources stored in its territory, and it only needs to sell the minerals to get a good income.

During World War II, they were able to remain neutral on the surface, not being invaded by either of the two sides, relying on their vital iron ore resources.

Germany even sent troops to occupy Norway directly, but spared Sweden, which was sandwiched between Norway and Germany, because Sweden was able to continuously export iron ore to the Germans, and the occupation of Norway could ensure that the iron ore produced by the mines in northern Sweden could have an outlet to the sea, so that the ships transporting the ore would not be harassed by the British navy.

However, although Sweden has a large number of forest and metal deposits, it is very short of fossil resources.

Not only are they oil-poor countries with very poor oil resources, but they also have not many coal deposits in the country.

Whether it is coal for steam engines or crude oil for gasoline engines and diesel engines, it can only be imported from abroad, which limits Sweden's further development after the start of the industrial revolution.

Sweden's industry is in dire need of oil, and its importance in industry and other fields is increasing day by day.

Originally, when I first saw the newspaper that the general manager of the Royal Dutch Shell oil company told Chen Muwu that he could find a batch of oil, the Wallenberg family was also skeptical.

But today, seeing Chen Muwu's sworn performance, and his fact that the Italian government also agreed to his request for cooperation, Marcus Jr. had to think about it.

He felt that he had gained a lot from coming to the UK to meet Chen Muwu this time, which not only avoided the possible disappointment of letting the new Volvo cars enter Sulian rashly, but also found a new direction for the new star car company.

Most crucially, he also gave Sweden hope for a steady supply of oil resources.

Sweden's industry basically has his family behind it more or less, so Sweden's lack of oil is not their Wallenberg family's lack of oil?

In fact, Chen Muwu has another big killer and forgot to tell Marcus Jr. that after having crude oil, he will definitely build an oil refinery and vigorously develop the chemical industry.

In addition to gasoline, kerosene, and diesel, petroleum fractionation can also produce various things such as liquefied petroleum gas and liquefied natural gas.

In addition to being used as fuel for kerosene lamps, kerosene can also be used in lighters, as is the case in the famous Zippo Treasure.

And liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas have more or less one component, that is, CH, butane.

Coincidentally, the liquefied butane can also be loaded into lighters, and the cost of the disposable lighter is much cheaper than the imported one like Zhibao.

If the Wallenberg family didn't want to wait for the Great Depression a few years later to make their rival Kruger go bankrupt and commit suicide, but wanted to directly confront the "match king", then making a lighter is a very good choice, and the so-called "taking advantage of his illness to kill him" is also.

Marcus Jr. hurriedly said goodbye and left, he assured Chen Muwu that after returning to Sweden from the UK, he would immediately report Chen Muwu's suggestions to his family, and if they were approved, he would rectify the car factory in Gothenburg as soon as possible, and make Volvo independent from the SKF bearing factory, and build a separate production line, and the main focus was a safe luxury car trusted by the royal family.

If the oil development is also approved, a professional legal team will be dispatched as soon as possible to get in touch and communicate with the Italian side, and strive to implement the contract as soon as possible.

Marcus Jr. was gone, and the Cambridgeshire staff member of the United States Company received a response from the United States headquarters from the Cambridge telegraph office.

Their original intention at the beginning was to hire Chen Muwu as a consultant for alien movies in order to be able to promote the movie and the company in the future.

When he heard that Chen Muwu not only agreed to serve as a consultant for free, but also invited Luen Mei Film Company to shoot and record all his work before and after his marriage, Luen Mei felt that Chen Muwu was a big gift.

Even if the wedding is a highly intimate and personal event, the full copy may not be made public, but as long as Dr. Chan and others nod their heads and authorize them to use a few of these clips to edit out a tidbit, the company can get a heavyweight publicity.

In this way, the affairs of Luen Mei Film Company were also completed, and Chen Muwu felt that he had finally completed the various things he had accumulated during his time leaving the Cavendish laboratory, and he could go to the particle accelerator and theoretical physics group to inspect the work, and his current assistant, Chadwick, came to the door again.

However, Chadwick did not come to Chen Muwu this time to ask for money, nor did he urge him to hurry up and continue to sell the laboratory's leading product, the particle accelerator, but to discuss another matter with him.

- Nominations for the Nobel Prize in Physics for the new year.

Since Chen Muwu won the Nobel Prize in Physics three years ago in 1924, surpassing Little Prague to become the youngest Nobel Prize winner in history, he has not paid much attention to the Nobel Prize, because he knows that even if he does, it will never be possible to win a second Nobel Prize in physics or chemistry in a short time.

The winner in 1925 was Blackett's teacher at the University of Göttingen, Frank, and his collaborator Hertz Jr., who collaborated on the Frank-Hertz experiment that bears their respective names.

The winner in 1926 was the Frenchman Perrin, whose most famous work was the study of Brownian motion based on Einstein's theories.

During this period, Chen Muwu has never exercised his right to nominate as a Nobel Prize winner, and he only remembered this matter not long ago, and since then he has begun to consider whether Lu Xun should be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

During this time, the rest of the Cavendish laboratory had been working tirelessly to nominate candidates, but they had never been able to get into the eyes of the members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' jury.

This time, Chadwick approached Chen Muwu and asked him to be nominated because he had made many new discoveries in physics in the laboratory last year.

The first is the particle accelerator team under Chen Muwu, which freed people from the suffering of being bombarded with alpha ions, and completed the first artificial intervention in nuclear transmutation in human history.

The second is Appleton, who walked out of the Cavendish laboratory, and found the difference in signal strength between day and night in the observation of the BBC broadcast sent by Cambridge to London, thus discovering the ionosphere in the sky.

With this technology, it is now possible to communicate by radio from the UK to Australia.

Regarding Chadwick's proposal, acting director Chen Muwu felt that he could give it a try.

The reason is that these two achievements will win the Nobel Prize in physics in the future, and the Nobel Prize in 1927 has seriously deviated from the original history because of the appearance of Chen Muwu.

The winner of that year is absolutely unlikely to be Compton, the director of the metallurgical laboratory in the physics department of the University of Chicago, which makes it likely that this year's winner will be vacant, and the University of Cambridge is fully capable and has the opportunity to compete.

However, the 1927 Physics Prize in history was actually a double yolk egg, half of which was given to Compton, and the other half was given to Wilson, who invented the cloud chamber in Cavendish Laboratory.

At that time, when Compton was doing experiments, he officially used the cloud room to detect the trajectory of the particles, so that Wilson could share the prize with him.

But without Compton this time, it is also unknown whether Wilson will also win the award.

After all, in the past two years, the physicists of Cambridge and the United Kingdom have declared the winners to the Nobel Prize jury, all of whom are Wilson, but each time they have returned home.

However, in order to be foolproof and on the safe side, Chen Muwu still suggested that Chadwick even declare Professor Wilson's group together.

Although there is no Compton, there is still him Chen Muwu, right?

Moreover, Blackett's first discovery of nuclear transmutation, Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft's use of particle accelerators to detect the products of the collision, are still inseparable from the cloud room.

(End of chapter)