Although the letter was written very politely, at the beginning, Dean Cai, an old man who was nearly sixty years old, was still calling Chen Muwu Brother Hanchen according to the traditional etiquette of China.

However, as for the invitation letter jointly written by Dean Cai and all colleagues from the graduate school, Chen Muwu's first reaction was to refuse.

You can't say that if you let me go, I'll go, wouldn't that make Lao Chen lose face at all?

Let's not say that Chen Muwu doesn't want to return to China at all, even if he can't think about it one day and plans to return to China, but the Academia Sinica is by no means the best choice for him.

In the decade from 1927 to 1937, although there was a civil war in China, at least in the field of higher education, some practical things were done.

However, this achievement certainly does not go to the head of the civil government, because the Ministry of Education, which is supposed to run the universities according to the regulations, is in a mess within itself, and every once in a while a new minister is replaced by a new minister because of factional struggles.

Each of the new ministers has some ideas about the education of the people, which has led to the fact that the policy of the Ministry of Education is not to follow the rules, but to change the order every day.

The success of higher education depends entirely on the early educators who studied abroad and then returned to China, who really wanted to cultivate talents for the country.

But it is not enough to have a sincere heart, everything in the world wants to develop, it is inseparable from money.

There is nothing wrong with teachers gritting their teeth and suffering a little bit in terms of salary, but the lack of education funds is a big problem.

Even if the education funds are allocated according to the actual allocation, it is not necessarily possible to buy a particle accelerator from the Cavendish laboratory.

But if you don't have any funds at all, and you keep using all kinds of excuses to be in arrears, then you can't buy any instrument, not even a test tube.

For a long time, the future Academia Sinica was in such a situation.

Even if the Academia Sinica is crowned as the highest academic research institution in China, the research funds in the hands of the Academia Sinica are seriously insufficient because of the lack of funds directly under its own and the Ministry of Education, which has to be corrupted and deducted at all levels.

Without funding, in-depth research cannot be carried out, and it is not possible to go far by simply bringing your own dry food to generate electricity for free.

Therefore, for a long time in the future, the Academia Sinica will only be unworthy of its name and will have no achievements at all, except for its lofty name.

In contrast, Dean Cai's nemesis, the Shao Research Institute under Dean Li of Shao Ping, is much higher than the Academia Sinica in terms of academic research, especially in the three disciplines of physics, chemistry and botany.

This is because the Shao Research Institute is completely the Ministry of Education in order to appease Dean Li, specially opened such a department for him, which belongs to the first radish and then digging a pit.

In order to prevent Dean Li from disagreeing with each other and coming to the door to fight, which made the Ministry of Education uneasy, the research funds of the Institute were paid in full every year at the beginning.

Another point is that the establishment of these disciplines in the Shao Research Institute is all based on the universities in Shaojing.

After all, the Beiyang government has regarded Shaojing as the capital for so many years, and there will definitely be a tilt in terms of educational resources, such as Shao University, Yuda University, Tsinghua University and Nankai, which are all traditional old and strong schools, and after the establishment of the Shaoyang Research Institute, we can effortlessly recruit a large number of professors and scholars in these places for my use.

One of the most famous of the various branches under the jurisdiction of the Institute should have no other choice than the Institute of Physics.

The first director of the Institute of Physics was Li Shuhua, the head of the Department of Physics at that time.

——When Chen Muwu went to Shao University to give a lecture, he once met with this professor of the Department of Physics of Shao University.

Later, several universities of Shaoping and Tianyu merged to form Shaoping University in the Shaoping University District, Dean Li served as the president of the university, and Li Shuhua became the vice president of the university.

Later, the Ministry of Education appeased Dean Li and asked him to establish the National Shaoping Research Institute, and Li Shuhua left Shaoping University with Dean Li, and continued to be the deputy of the president of the Shaoping Research Institute, presiding over daily tasks and taking charge of the affairs of the institute.

In addition to being the vice president of the Institute of Physics, Li Shuhua is also the director of the Institute of Physics.

Later, perhaps because there were too many complicated and trivial facts in the institute, which made him too busy, and a group of talents who had mastered more advanced physics knowledge after returning from studying abroad, Li Shuhua retired from the part-time job of the Institute of Physics and gave up the position of director to Yan Keats, who had just returned from France.

Compared with the Institute of Physics of the Academia Sinica, which has nothing to do, under the leadership of Yan Kici, the Institute of Physics of the Academia Sinica can really be called an outstanding achievement.

Someone once commented that the Institute of Physics of the Shao Research Institute under the leadership of Yan Keats was "an important institution for the cultivation of physics talents and physics research in China." Before the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the research results produced by the Institute of Physics were the first in China in terms of quantity.

Not to mention anything else, the Institute of Physics of the Shao Research Institute took the lead in establishing the only radium research institute in China in China in 1932, which is higher than the Academia Sinica in the capital!

Therefore, even if Chen Muwu can't think about it and chooses to return to China during this period, he will not choose the Academia Sinica, which has no power or money in the capital Shengjing, but will definitely go to Shaoping and conduct research in the Shao Research Institute, which has sufficient funds.

However, there is also a place that is not very suitable for Chen Muwu, that is, Dean Li, Vice President Li Shuhua, and later Yan Jici, director of the Institute of Physics, are all students studying in France.

But this should not be a problem for Chen Muwu,—— everything must be based on the premise that if he really wants to return to China and go to the Shao Research Institute.

Therefore, Chen Muwu naturally refused the invitation letter written by Dean Cai and others inviting him to return to China to serve as the president of the Academia Sinica.

He suddenly thought of an interesting thing, and instead of writing a reply to Dean Cai, he went to the telegraph office in Cambridge and took a reply call to the Preparatory Office of the Graduate School in China.

There are only five words on it, "I can't do it, thank you", which is a small tribute to Dr. Hu.

The cost of sending telegrams across continents was much more expensive than what he usually spent sending telegrams to London, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm.

Chen Muwu felt that when his teacher Rutherford returned from New Zealand and attended the Solvay Conference in October, he would discuss with Bohr again to see if he could work with him to persuade their teacher to install a telegraph transceiver in Cavendish's laboratory.

……

Sometimes, life is full of coincidences.

Just a few days after Chen Muwu returned the call to China, he received another guest at Cambridge University who was still related to this matter.

This guest, who was not the representative of the steamed bun party in London, England, came to persuade Chen Muwu to accept President Cai's invitation and return to the newly established regime to serve the motherland and support the development of physics education in China.

He came from France on the other side of the English Channel, and he was about the same age as Chen Muwu, and his research disciplines and nationality were also the same as Chen Muwu's.

Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, and the second director of the Institute of Physics of the future Shao Research Institute, Yan Keats came to England from France.

In the summer of this year, Yan Keats received his Doctor of Science degree from the University of Paris.

In the original history, this was the first time in Yan Keats's life to study in France.

In his first study abroad experience, he did not have much contact with Marie Curie at the Institute of Radium, which also belongs to the University of Paris, but visited him a few times as a junior of physics.

Soon after Yan Kets returned to China, he received a subsidy and returned to France with the money for further study.

It was during this second study abroad experience that he became more connected with Marie Curie, because this time he applied for a job at the Radium Research Institute, where he stayed for more than two years.

However, the trajectory of history has been deviated by the emergence of Chen Muwu.

In the first part of Yan Keats's study abroad trip, their status as Chinese students became particularly popular at the University of Paris.

Everyone thinks that since Cambridge University can pick up such a treasure as Chen Muwu, then we can also find smarter students from Chinese international students.

In addition, the Curie family is about to find a Chinese son-in-law, and there is an aristocratic physicist de Broglie in Paris who loves Chinese culture, and gradually Yan Keats has an intersection with the Radium Research Institute.

Frédéric, in particular, was his classmate when he was a student at the University of Paris.

Frederick became the eldest son-in-law of the Curie family, and the intersection between Yan Keats and the Radium Institute deepened.

In the year of the Paris Olympics, at the celebration dinner held by De Broglie for Chen Muwu, Chen Muwu met Yan Keats for the first time, and three years have passed.

Not long ago, the Curies came to the United Kingdom from Paris for their honeymoon, and went to the Cavendish laboratory to visit the particle accelerator built by their brother-in-law.

The two of them were full of praise for the behemoth, and when they returned to Paris after their honeymoon, they started talking to each other.

Yan Keats, who had just defended his dissertation and received his Ph.D., had of course heard the news from the physics department of the University of Paris.

Originally thinking of returning to China directly after graduation, he changed his mind, and before leaving, he decided to come to the UK once to meet Chen Muwu, a compatriot of the same discipline as himself, to see if he could get some inspiration from him.

Chen Muwu didn't expect that he had just rejected the invitation of the Academia Sinica, and now the people from the Academia Sinica had come to "find the door" again.

Regarding Yan Keats's intention, Chen Muwu thought that he definitely did not come to be a lobbyist for the Shao Research Institute, and asked him to return to China to conduct physics research in Shaojing.

This is, of course, because the Northern Expedition has not completely ended, and Shao Jing is still in the hands of the Feng Department, not to mention the fact that it was renamed Shao Ping and became the Shao Research Institute.

There is another point, that is, the current Academia Sinica has only held a few preparatory meetings, and Dean Li may still feel that he is expected to be elected as the president of the Academia Sinica, but he never thought of going to Shaoping to open another Academia Sinica, and compete with Dean Cai's Academia Sinica.

"Brother Hua Ting, what kind of wind is blowing you from France?"

"Of course it's the west wind."

"Then it seems that you are riding the wind and waves this time, and you are coming all the way to the west against the west wind."

The most famous line of Shelley's famous poem "Ode to the West Wind" is "If winter comes, will spring be far away?" ”。

It's winter again, and it's a westerly wind, which is likely to make people in the monsoon climate mistakenly think that the westerly wind in the title refers to the westerly wind that blows under the influence of Mongolia's high pressure in winter.

However, the fact is that not only the United Kingdom, but also the entire western part of Europe, most of them have a temperate oceanic climate, which is in the westerly wind zone, and of course it blows all year round.

Faced with Chen Muwu's polite question, Yan Keats chose to use this geographical common sense to make a joke.

Fortunately, Chen Muwu had already "discovered" neutrons and positrons, so he dismantled the instruments he had assembled before.

Kapitsa was the only one who was seen secretly doing experiments in Cavendish during the summer vacation.

Without experimental equipment, Chen Muwu could generously invite Yan Keats to his office to learn more about the purpose of his visit to the UK this time.

Yan Keats didn't see it, and directly told Chen Muwu that he came to the particle accelerator this time.

After Frederick returned to France, he blew the machine that Chen Muwu built in Cambridge to the sky.

What worries Chen Muwu still happened, he had already deliberately created a particle accelerator during the time when the Curies visited Cambridge, and it was completely a waste of money and no use, but he didn't expect it to change the two of them at all.

Yan Keats could hear Frederick's praise, so wouldn't Marie Curie hear it even more?

His mind was full of confused thoughts, and he didn't even hear Yan Keats's last few words, only felt like a series of questions.

Looking at Yan Keats's expectant expression, Chen Muwu could only apologize repeatedly: "I'm sorry, Brother Hua Ting, what did you say in the end?" Can you please repeat that again? I was just thinking about it and accidentally lost my mind. ”

Chen Muwu's remarks did not make Yan Keats feel the slightest disrespect, on the contrary, he still thought that Dr. Chen was worthy of Dr. Chen, and he had new ideas in his mind anytime and anywhere: "Of course no problem, Brother Hanchen, I want to ask, if you have the opportunity, can you also take me to visit this particle accelerator?" How much does it cost? If it is not expensive, can we also install one in China? ”

(End of chapter)