When she said that, the light in Marie Curie's eyes was dim.

She had already foreseen that Chen Muwu was going to tell the money for the construction of the cyclotron particle accelerator, and she and the Radium Research Institute would definitely not be able to afford it.

But Marie Curie still wanted to hear Chen Muwu tell an exact specific number, so that she would be completely dead.

"Well, I think, at least in 10,000 dollars,—— I'm talking about pounds, not dollars, not francs and not Swedish krona.

"And this money is only an initial initial investment, and when additional investment is made, it should still be based on 10,000 pounds sterling."

Lord Austin took out more than 200,000 pounds to help Cavendish Laboratory build a cyclotron, which directly shrank by an order of magnitude in Chen Muwu's mouth.

It's not that he is very confident that he can do big things cheaply, but he just thinks that he can't bluff Marie Curie by saying a string of astronomical numbers at the beginning of the project.

10,000 pounds is almost equivalent to about 40% of the annual funding of the Cavendish Laboratory after Chen Muwu brought in various investments, and this figure should barely be able to say in Chen Muwu's heart.

Chen Muwu was used to living a prosperous life, so he forgot how he came to be poor in the first place.

Long ago, because of the small size of the laboratory and the small number of people, the University of Paris allocated much less money to the Institute of Radium than the Cavendish laboratory receives from Cambridge University every year.

After a few years, because of Chen Muwu, the funding of the Cavendish Laboratory has been rising every year.

The Radium Institute is still the same, the funds allocated by the University of Paris are a drop in the bucket, and the entire institute can only rely on careful calculations and the money and materials "raised" by Marie Curie with her own prestige.

A few years ago, Rutherford was reluctant to spend nearly one-fifth of his annual budget to give Chen Muwu the world's most advanced vacuum pump imported from the United States.

A few years later, Marie Curie, who was not wealthy enough for Rutherford at the time, could only look at a cyclotron that required at least tens of thousands of pounds of investment.

At the same time, she also wanted to know who Chen Muwu had taken from Sweden, and the other party was willing to pop up such a huge sum of money to let him try something new with an uncertain future.

At this time, the most famous Swede in the world is not Garbo, who has just become popular overnight with the movie "Spirit and Flesh" released at the beginning of the year, but Kruger, the Swedish match king who started by selling matches and lending money to various governments.

This person has money, and he acts in a high-profile manner, and he is so happy that he looks like a rich man who can fund Chen Muwu, a scientist with a high topic, to do research.

Marie Curie asked him if the big patron behind him was the match king.

Chen Muwu shook his head with a smile: "The energy behind me is far greater than that little boy who sells matches." ”

Chen Muwu told Marie Curie again about the past when he and His Royal Highness Prince Gustav, the Crown Prince of Sweden, met at the Paris Olympics.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a lover of Chinese culture, while Chen Muwu is a Chinese and has achieved very good results in the swimming competition.

Later, in the second half of the year after the Paris Olympics, Chen Muwu went to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize again.

In the eyes of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Chen Muwu has all the good qualities of a large country in the East, not only has a strong brain, handsome appearance, but also a strong physique.

Fortunately, the crown prince of Sweden is not a believer in ethnography, otherwise he might really have a quarrel with the neighboring mustache across the sea over the question of "who is the best race in the world, Han Chinese and Aryans".

Chen Muwu also conveyed to Marie Curie the determination of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to revitalize the country's education.

That's why he did something like buying a horse's bones, inviting himself to Stockholm to set up a school and teach there, in order to attract more talented people from all over the world for his country, Sweden.

"Madam, this school is supported by His Majesty the King of Sweden in Sweden, and with the support of the Wallenberg family, the richest family in Sweden, I think that when it is finally built, the academic atmosphere there will be no worse than that of other excellent universities in Europe, and the research conditions will be able to reach or even surpass the top level in the United States.

"The only downside is that Stockholm has a slightly cold winter, but you've been to Sweden's capital twice and experienced the pre-Christmas temperature, so you know it's not an insurmountable challenge."

Chen Muwu said with a smile.

In his words, he alluded to Marie Curie, who had twice been to Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Although the heroes don't mention the courage of the year, once they mention it, it is difficult not to miss themselves who made many achievements when they were young.

As the world's top female physicist, Marie Curie can certainly hear the truest meaning of Chen Muwu's words.

While talking about how good the conditions are in Stockholm, and how polite and virtuous the Swedish royal family is.

If there were no surprises, his real intention should be that he had told him a few years ago that he wanted the family to move from France to Sweden.

Although Marie Curie's home country is Poland, she has lived in France for so long and has left many deep memories of Pierre and her two daughters in Paris.

Paris has become Marie Curie's second home, and here she and her husband have painstakingly built up the Institute of Radium, which is difficult to part with.

Even if Chen Muwu said that Stockholm was out of the blue, Marie Curie still did not do a good job of the psychological construction of leaving her hometown after she was over half a hundred years old.

Chen Muwu saw Marie Curie frowning, with a solemn expression on her face, and guessed what she was thinking.

He knew that Marie Curie had obviously not made up her mind to go to Sweden, but this was not a big problem for Chen Muwu, and he had no intention of achieving the ultimate goal in one step today.

"Madam, according to my estimates, if the construction of this expensive cyclotron requires a lot of money, it will definitely need a lot of manpower.

"Sir Rutherford, my teacher, is already an extrajudicial favor to release me from the Cavendish laboratory, and he will never allow me to take enough people from the laboratory to build this big guy in Sweden.

"So, can I borrow a few people from you? I thought that if my sister and brother-in-law didn't have anything to do lately, I would like to ask them to come to Stockholm to help me. ”

This is a coping strategy that Chen Muwu came up with temporarily after meeting with Marie Curie and Irena.

When Irena and Frederick went to Cambridge University on their honeymoon and saw the "unattended" particle accelerator, they told Marie Curie all sorts of things about it when they returned to Paris.

So if you invite the little Curie couple to go to Sgolmomore like they went to Cambridge University, and see with their own eyes the various advanced features of the school jointly built by Chen Muwu and the Crown Prince of Sweden, maybe it can also dispel many of Marie Curie's doubts.

Marie Curie was still wondering whether she should agree to the matter, and perhaps ask Frederick's opinion.

However, the eldest daughter Irena sitting next to her was very excited about Chen Muwu's invitation: "Of course it's no problem!" Mom, Frederick and I have wanted to try working with Chan for a long time. ”

Just now, I heard Chen Muwu draw such a big pie to his mother, and he said that the characteristics of the cyclotron are so fanciful.

Moreover, as a physics practitioner who has been experimenting in the Radium Institute for several years, Irena has seen with her own eyes how many meaningful experiments Chen Muwu has made on the particle accelerator at Cambridge University, and she knows better how many new achievements it will bring to physics if this cyclotron can be built.

"They...... Can the two of them really help you? ”

Marie Curie was a little unsure.

"To do this kind of large-scale work, of course, the more people you have, the better. Moreover, my brother-in-law has a Ph.D. degree from the University of Paris, and my sister has been experimenting with you for so many years in the Institute of Leixue, so there is absolutely no problem with the hands-on ability of the two of them.

"Both of them have accumulated a lot of experimental experience, and if there are any problems in the process of building the cyclotron, I believe that my sister and brother-in-law will be able to point out these problems as soon as possible, so as to avoid detours in the construction process and save a lot of time for the final completion of the cyclotron."

Chen Muwu said sincerely, and the reasons given were also appropriate.

How did Marie Curie not know that Chen Muwu was helping her eldest daughter and son-in-law?

Due to the lack of funding for many years, the Institute of Radium Science has not produced any major discoveries in recent years.

Irena is just a starter by her side, and Frederick's doctorate has also graduated a few years ago, and she still studied with Langevin before, focusing on theoretical physics knowledge, and she can basically be regarded as a half-newcomer to physics experiments.

With such a couple of newcomers, what kind of questions can Chen Muwu ask?

He obviously knew that the cyclotron would be a great physical discovery, so he got his family involved in advance.

"Since it was Chen who invited the two of you to Sweden, then of course I have no opinion. However, Irena, after arriving in Stockholm, she can't tell Chen about the progress of her experiments just because she is a few years older.

"In terms of particle acceleration, you and Frederick are added together, the experience of both of them is not as good as Chen Yicheng, we must follow him to study hard, do research hard, and strive for the completion of the cyclotron, return to the Radium Research Institute, and we will build one ourselves."

Marie Curie still did not forget her identity as the director of the Radium Research Institute, and wanted to add several world-class high-end instruments to the institute.

Chen Muwu didn't care about this, after all, "it is easy to go from simplicity to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality", and when the little Curie couple saw the excellent environment of the Prince of Stockholm College and the sufficient funds, they would definitely feel a strong sense of disparity, and it would be too inconvenient to do anything.

"Thank you, Mom!"

Irena became the most agitated of the three present, and ran to Marie Curie and pecked her on the cheek.

Chen Muwu was already surprised by this situation.

Marie Curie looked at Chen Muwu with some embarrassment, although he was her quasi-son-in-law, but after all, he had not yet become a family member.

came to such a show in front of Chen Muwu, and I felt a little embarrassed.

"Madame, it's not too early, I've only arrived in Brussels on the first day, and I haven't even had time to pack my luggage.

"The schedule of meetings lasted almost a week, and we spent the next few days getting together to discuss various things.

"If there's nothing to do today, I'll take my leave."

Marie Curie didn't stop Chen Muwu any longer, because she really had to calm down and think carefully about what he had just said.

If you go to Sweden, the experimental conditions and working environment will be better, and it is possible to make some new experimental results.

But if you don't move and stick to Paris, then the end result is likely to be nothing.

Chen Muwu walked to the door of the room where he and Dirac lived, and listened to the sound of talking and laughing coming from inside, and felt that it was difficult for him to have another guest?

It's already so late and still bothering people, it's really a little hard to read the air.

But on second thought, Dirac was at Cambridge University, but he was more wooden than Blackett's wood, and it was almost impossible for him to have a good conversation with a stranger he had just met.

So the person in his room should at least be his acquaintance.

After pushing open the door, Chen Muwu really verified his guess.

Half a month ago, he used the new car he bought for Kapitsa in London to pick up Cockcroft, who had successfully completed his mission and returned from the United States.

Half a month later, he met Zhao Zhongyao, who was busy with things on the European continent, in Brussels.

Because he has been studying and working by Chen Muwu's side, the relationship between him and Dirac is also very good.

At this moment, Zhao Zhongyao was telling the latter about what he had seen in Sulian in Germany during his trip, and about the strangely shaped roofs of the Orthodox buildings.

After seeing Chen Muwu enter the door, Zhao Zhongyao, who had not seen each other for several months, stood up and greeted him.

Although he knew Dirac very well, he was not familiar enough to visit Belgium as soon as he arrived, and it was obvious that he had come for himself.

However, even if you are reporting on your work in Europe, you don't need to be in such a hurry.

"Brother Zong Yao, everything went well on this trip to Europe?"

"TOEFL and TOEFL, after all, nothing big went wrong.

"It's just that when I first arrived in Belgium, I accidentally lost my passport, so I went to the legation in Brussels a few days ago, explained my situation, and reported the loss of the document to reissue.

"When the staff of the Legation heard that you had come to Belgium, they wanted to ask me to invite you to find a time to visit the Legation."

At this juncture, what is the matter with the legation looking for itself?

Do they represent the North, or do they represent the South?

Neither is a good thing though.

Or is it that these embassies abroad have completely run out of money because of the lack of funds, and they want to find him, Chen Muwu, a rich man, to fight the autumn breeze?

(End of chapter)