62 Another wise man

The top priority of Cavendish Laboratory's task is not to solve the issue of Kapitsa's passport, nor to let Chen Muwu single-handedly facilitate the resumption of diplomatic relations between Britain and the Soviet Union, which had just severed diplomatic relations.

These two things are inextricably linked, and they can't do anything, all they can do is "slowly figure it out", in other words, do it and wait.

The only thing they could do now, and had to get an immediate result, was to think about how to send the particle accelerator that was about to be built to Sulian.

Although the factory cost of this machine is not a lot of money, it will still make people feel very unhappy if they can't sell it and smash it in their hands.

However, as a bridgehead planted by the Sulian physics community in Britain and Europe and the United States, Kapitsa did not have any good ways to deal with it.

He thought about it for a long time, and only came up with one sentence: "...... Why don't I write a letter to my teacher, Professor Yofy? ”

Chen Muwu looked at his sincere good friend, and the expression on his face was a little crying and laughing.

Peter's clever plan to settle the world, lost his wife and folded his soldiers.

- Although he does not have a wife yet, Kapitsa, as a person with a certain status and social influence among the Sulian people who still remain in the UK, will definitely be under the intensive surveillance and care of the British authorities.

On the one hand, it is necessary to guard against Kapitsa and his compatriots, as well as the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, to secretly communicate and secretly pass on the academic and other information from the Cavendish laboratory and Cambridge University.

On the other hand, the British never gave up, wanting to take this opportunity to naturalize Kapitsa.

Therefore, no matter what the reason, from the moment the British and Soviet relations were severed, Kapica had already begun to be under the surveillance of the British authorities, and at this time he contacted Professor Yue Fei in Su Lian's country, whether it was writing a letter or taking a telegram, he would be the first to check the content in the telegraph office and the post office before he was allowed to send it.

Flying back calls or letters to Kapitsa will also be treated in this way.

If the British authorities knew that the Cavendish Laboratory wanted to make a deal with the Sulian Academy of Sciences in Leegrad, and that it was the most sophisticated experimental instrument in the most cutting-edge physics, they would know that they would definitely obstruct it behind it, and the final conclusion of this deal would probably be more than lucky.

The British are like that, when they hate the Sulian, they will say that you Kapitsa are a spy.

And when they hate Su Lian, they will say that you are a great science that was forcibly detained by the Su Lian authorities because you returned to China to visit your relatives.

Thinking of Kapitsa being treated with double standards in the future, Chen Muwu even had some strange thoughts in addition to sympathy:

Should he be thankful that it is precisely because the motherland of China behind him is not strong enough that he has never been suspected by the British of being an academic spy or an intellectual thief?

However, after thinking of himself and China, Chen Muwu finally found a good idea to smoothly transport the particle accelerator to Sulian.

Britain blockaded Sulen, but not other countries except Sulen.

In fact, in the name of exporting particle accelerators to other countries, it is only necessary to mix out of the British customs, and how things develop after the customs are released, the British will not be able to reach it.

Chen Muwu said his thoughts, although Chadwick felt that this kind of deception of the British government seemed to be a bit "treasonous" to him, an old Cheshire man with a genuine rice banner.

But for a while, it seemed that there was no other way to transport the particle accelerator to Sulian reasonably and legally.

So Chadwick felt that he should simply pretend that he didn't know about these things and turn a blind eye.

Kapitsa expressed great enthusiasm for this, and when he came up, he wanted to give Chen Muwu a bear hug, but the latter deftly dodged it.

"Chen, I really don't know how to thank you, you have really done us a great favor in Su Lian's scientific career! For this matter, I think you deserve a medal! ”

No.

Su Lian's medal does seem to be full of qualifications, but it has also been unpopular in China for a long time.

If you put a "Su*" hat on yourself, wouldn't it be worth the loss?

Thankfully, Kapitsa didn't have the right to award medals, he just said it casually.

But you should be polite: "Peter, you don't have to take it too seriously, after all, I am also a member of the Sulian Academy of Sciences, and I have the obligation and responsibility to help the Sulian Academy of Sciences obtain the world's advanced physics technology." ”

Chen Muwu, who had been to Leegrad to give lectures, was the first batch of people to receive the honor of foreign academician of the Sulian Academy of Sciences, and even Kapitsa, a native of Sulian, could still enter the Sulian Academy of Sciences.

Chen Muwu slightly reminded of Versailles' speech, so that Capitsa continued to joke with him: "Then I won't be grateful to you now, but I'm still a little jealous of you." ”

So in this way, the country to which this particle accelerator was sent changed from the Sulian Academy of Sciences to the Shaojing University in China.

However, because of the long-distance transportation of goods, it is impossible to deliver all of them 100% in place, and occasionally the goods will be damaged or even lost.

The staff of the Cavendish laboratory, which had been installed in China with the particle accelerator in the future, reported the sad news when they returned to Cambridge University.

That large box of goods, since leaving Poland and entering the territory of Belarus in the Soviet Union, disappeared because of a trance of his own.

So this mission to help them install the particle accelerator in China was also declared a failure, but fortunately, when he went to check the "loss" in the carriage where the particle accelerator was originally transported, he picked up an unclaimed package, which was full of pounds, which was a "mistake" to recover the loss for the Cavendish laboratory.

The thrilling process and the happy ending are all in the future, and now being able to find a solution to the situation is already a happy thing for Cavendish Labs.

Kapitsa said he was going to have a drink and go out to celebrate.

Chen Muwu would definitely not agree to his invitation, and persuaded him to stop being extravagant and save the money for when he got married.

In addition to being busy with the business affairs of the Cavendish laboratory, Chen Muwu also has a personal matter to be busy with.

One day he saw the news of the arrival of a steamer in the Times and rushed from Cambridge to London a few days in advance.

Royal Victoria Wharf, since it is named Royal, must have its own merits.

Not only is it a deep-water port in the Thames River in London that can berth ocean-going giant ships, but also a variety of supporting facilities around the wharf are very complete, and the transportation routes to this place are also perfect.

After nearly two months of wandering at sea, his family finally came to England from the sea, and the eldest brother Chen Muqiao would occasionally take a telegram to the younger brother when he stopped in Hong Kong, telling him to rest assured that the family was safe and sound on the ship.

The rest of the time, the two sides were largely cut off.

Now that the ship is about to enter the port, Chen Muwu is more timid than he is close to home, but he is still a little excited and nervous in his heart.

The smoke-emitting chimneys were getting closer and more visible, and the steamer was slowly approaching the mouth of the Thames after the guide boat, and the whistle sounded twice to signal the dock to ask for berth.

The ship slowly dropped anchor, and the cables were tied to the stakes on the shore one by one.

After the ship came to a stop, the gangway slowly descended, and the passengers in the most expensive restaurant were the first to get off the boat, and after more than 50 days at sea, their feet finally stepped on the ground again.

Although they had just been separated in Qihai more than half a year ago, most of the world apart, after the family met again, they were still all excited.

Needless to say, after a brief meeting at the dock, the whole family got into two cars, and one followed behind to pack their luggage.

In the past, when Chen Muwu came to London from Cambridge, if he wanted to spend the night, he chose to live in either the Legation of China on Portland Street, or in the house prepared by the Royal Society.

But now it is different from the past, he is no longer alone but a large family, and it is not convenient to disturb either side.

And Chen Muwu didn't buy a house in London and Cambridge,—— not because he didn't have money, but he didn't want to buy, he had no plans to be resident, and London was taken care of every day by the air force of the shampoo every day during World War II.

Besides, their family will have to move to Sweden sooner or later, and sooner or later they will have to return to their motherland.

Fortunately, Chen Muwu still has the connections he has accumulated through his personality in the past few years, and the president of the ITTF, Mr. Montagu, rented his home to him in a vacant house in central London, near the Chinese Legation and Chinatown.

Because he helped the ITTF at the first World Table Tennis Championships at the end of last year, Montagu wanted to rent the house to Chen Muwu at a rent lower than the market price.

Although he knew that the other party was from an aristocratic family, and his family was not bad for money, Chen Muwu did not take advantage of this small advantage.

Being able to offer a home in the heart of London is already a huge help, and it would be too much to ask someone else to lower the price.

And the reason why his family was arranged in London was not Cambridge, Chen Muwu also had his own considerations.

One is that the London house is close to both the Chinese Legation and Buckingham Palace in Downing Street, the center of British power.

There is always an illusion in the hearts of the older generations that the closer you are to these officials, the safer they are.

Although the Chinese Legation is now a "mud bodhisattva crossing the river - it is difficult to protect itself", it seems that the Chen family does not care too much about this matter.

After coming to England, when they saw the tragic situation reported in the newspaper that the southern government had carried out all kinds of massacres and sabotage in the sea and in Beijing, Mrs. Chen still believed in her heart that it was the younger son who inadvertently let their family escape the catastrophe.

The second reason for living in London is because it is the second largest city in the world, not to mention the convenience of life, and there are many Chinese people in London.

It is inevitable that you will be homesick when you leave your hometown, although you can't go back, but it's good to see more yellow-skinned and black-eyed compatriots.

If you go to Cambridgeshire, except for Chen Muwu and a few international students from China, there will be no Chinese faces.

If the old lady is allowed to live there for a long time, Chen Muwu is afraid that she will be depressed all day long because of this.

After settling his family in London, Chen Muwu hurried back to Cambridge.

Next, he estimated that he would have to go back and forth between the two places at every turn, taking the train every day, tinkling on the railroad tracks at a junction of more than ten meters, and his body would definitely not be able to bear it.

It seems that the matter of buying a car is indeed on the agenda, what kind of car should I buy?

Rolls-Royce forgot it, not that he couldn't afford it, but that he had asked them to cooperate through the Duke of York before, and the other party's attitude made Chen Muwu very unhappy.

Is that to buy Austin, to buy the Lagonda from Capitsa, or to wait for Volvo in Sweden to go into mass production and let Marcus Jr. give him one?

After returning to Cambridge University, Chen Muwu went to a meeting of the Apostolic Society for the first time in a long time in order to express his gratitude to Montagu.

It had been a long time since he had come to his daily meeting every Saturday on time, but the other members of the Apostolic Society had said nothing about it.

After all, Chen Muwu is no longer an idle college student who has nothing to do at Cambridge University every day except for studying, and has recently been promoted to become the acting director of Cavendish Laboratory, and he has a lot of work to do every day.

He is now on the side of the Apostolic Society, basically on the same level as Russell, who also teaches at Cambridge University, and no one will object if he does not participate in the event; If you have to participate in the event, there are many newcomers lining up to get to know him.

When Chen Muwu arrived at the venue of the Apostolic Society's weekly meeting, one of the things that everyone was talking about was the first solo transatlantic flight in human history without landing.

The USS Spirit of St. Louis took off from Roosevelt Airport on Long Island, New York, on the morning of May 20, took more than 30 hours, flew nearly 6,000 kilometers non-stop, and finally landed at Le Bourget Airport in Paris on the evening of May 21.

Lindbergh was treated at home and abroad in the same way as Yuri Gagarin, who made his first space flight.

Chen Muwu regretted that this hero could not complete the feat of crossing the Atlantic sooner, otherwise, he could just use this example to explain to Marcus Jr. that airplanes will become more and more important in human society in the future, so that he can start to establish Saab's aircraft manufacturing industry after returning to China.

But since Chen Muwu arrived at the venue, everyone in the Apostolic Society who attended the meeting temporarily put away their enthusiasm for Lindbergh and turned to welcome Dr. Chen, who had not seen him for a long time, oh no, Director Chen.

The concept of aliens proposed by Fermi in Rome under the banner of Chen Muwu was a hot topic in the Apostolic Society before Lindbergh.

Now that one of the parties has appeared in the venue, everyone has to talk to him for a few words.

But even if you want to greet Chen Muwu, the order must be according to the distance and proximity.

Ramsey, a professor of philosophy at King's College, ignored the order of the queue and walked directly to the front: "Brother Chen, it's been a long time!" You're here just in time today, and let me introduce you to another smart man in the world! ”

(End of chapter)