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Wearing a thick cotton jacket, Liu Bannong stood in front of a small western-style building and walked back and forth, rubbing his hands together to ward off the cold.

"Gah!"

The heavy iron door opened, and the servant said to him, "Mr. Liu, please come in!" ”

"There is labor." Liu Bannong nodded to the servant.

Walking through the garden to the living room, Cai Yuanpei got up to greet him: "Brother Shou Peng, don't come unharmed?" ”

"It's okay, it's just cold, I'm panicking, I'm here to bake the stove." Liu Bannong made a little joke, he came from Beiping.

Cai Yuanpei personally brewed a cup of hot tea for Liu Bannong, and asked with a smile: "Have you met Mr. Einstein?" ”

Liu Bannong said: "See, Ai Weng is humorous and funny, and there is no master's frame at all. ”

"People who are approachable are true masters." Cai Yuanpei said.

Liu Bannong held the teacup to warm up and said: "I heard that the Institute of Physics of the Peking Research Institute seems to be hiring Ai Weng as an honorary member. ”

"Mr. Einstein agreed?" Cai Yuanpei asked in surprise.

"Seems to have agreed." Liu Bannong said.

Cai Yuanpei felt quite uncomfortable, he and Li Shizeng were preparing to establish a national research institute at the same time, and the Academia Sinica was relatively sufficient in terms of address, equipment, personnel, and funds, far exceeding Li Shizeng's Beiping Research Institute. On the surface, the Institute of Physics of the Beijing Research Institute has been established, but the actual progress of the work is slow, and it is nothing more than a lack of money and personnel.

But now that Einstein has agreed to be an honorary member of the Institute of Physics of the Beijing Research Institute, he will instantly compare the Institute of Physics of the Academia Sinica, and I am afraid that many young physicists will enthusiastically join.

Liu Bannong blinked and encouraged: "Brother Xiaomin, why don't you go to Beiping with me and talk to Ai Weng in advance?" ”

"You're here to earn me again," Cai Yuanpei said with a smile, "I won't do it, the president of Peking University, Zhou Mingcheng is good, you can go to him." ”

Liu Bannong sighed and said: "He doesn't want to, he has to wait for the central government to appoint him." ”

The mess of Peking University has not been resolved, and last year, Peking University students telegraphed the resumption of the whole country, driving Li Shizeng away, and so far, the position of president of Peking University is still vacant.

Although Li Shuhua temporarily acted as the principal, many teachers and students did not approve of it. Moreover, Li Shuhua has no ability to ask the Ministry of Education for money, and the salaries of those professors at Peking University have been owed for more than half a year.

Most of the students wanted Zhou Hexuan to return to be the principal, but the teachers thought more.

Although Zhou Hexuan is famous, he has no connections in the Ministry of Education, and it is difficult to get much-needed education funds. So Liu Bannong, as a representative of Peking University, corresponded with Cai Yuanpei many times, wanting to invite Cai Yuanpei back as the president, so that everyone's salary can be guaranteed.

This new semester has already begun, and Peking University has neither a president nor funds, so it can be said that life is like a year.

Can the teachers not be in a hurry?

"Brother Shou Peng, you must persuade again. I was founded at the Academia Sinica, and I was too busy with affairs to leave, and I didn't have the energy to be the president of Peking University. Cai Yuanpei refused. Now that the situation in Beiping is complicated, and a stick of local warlords unite against Chiang, Cai Yuanpei will not wade into troubled waters.

Liu Bannong persuaded bitterly: "Brother Xiaomin, as long as you put on the name of the principal, we will handle the daily school affairs by ourselves." ”

"That's the corpse vegetarian meal," Cai Yuanpei said, "The position of the president of Peking University, let's let the virtuous live." ”

"Do you really not think about it anymore?" Liu Bannong asked.

Cai Yuanpei shook his head resolutely.

"Alas!"

Liu Bannong sighed, he got up and said, "Farewell!" ”

Cai Yuanpei hurriedly stayed: "Brother Shou Peng came all the way from Beiping, stay for a few more days." ”

"How can I still have the face to play in Shanghai? The teachers and students of Peking are waiting for me to go back to my life! Liu Bannong was somewhat resentful, he felt that Cai Yuanpei was too unremiss of the old feelings and too faceless.

Cai Yuanpei sent Liu Bannong out of the door before returning to the study to continue reading the newspaper.

Nowadays, every newspaper has news about Einstein, and it also reports on Li Shizeng. This greatly increased Li Shi's prestige in the educational and cultural circles, and the Beiping Research Institute also overshadowed the limelight of the Academia Sinica, and Cai Yuanpei could only do it in Shanghai.

When the conflict between the French faction and the British and American factions just arose, as the leaders of the two factions, Li Shizeng's personal relationship with Cai Yuanpei was not affected. But with the expansion of the contradiction and the plan, the two inevitably opposed each other, and they have not been in touch for more than a year.

The last time they held a meeting in Nanjing, Cai Yuanpei and Li Shi had nothing to say when they met, so they only nodded and said hello.

Both of them held their breath in their hearts, and they saved up enough energy to prepare for the establishment of a research institute, wanting to overpower each other through academic research achievements. The disadvantage of this competition is that there are few exchanges between the two major national research institutes in the North and the South, resulting in a lot of redundant research funding and a great waste of manpower and financial resources; The benefits are obvious, both of them are working hard to do research, constantly recruiting powerful scholars to join, and actively seeking exchanges and learning with countries such as Britain, the United States, and France.

It can be said that the academic foundation of social sciences and natural sciences in New China was laid in the competition between Li Shizeng and Cai Yuanpei. The members and academicians of the two research institutes include almost all the top talents in New China.

Cai Yuanpei gritted his teeth and thought: When Einstein comes to Shanghai, he must be invited to be an honorary academician of the Institute of Physics of the Academia Sinica!

……

Peking Railway Station.

Yan Keats returned to China a year earlier than in history, and last year Cai Yuanpei and Li Shizeng invited him, which made Yan Keats in a dilemma, not knowing who to promise.

Yan Keats was overwhelmed and simply hid in France to do research. As a result, Li Shi chased him to France, visited him twice in three days, and buzzed like Tang Seng, and blew up Yan Keats's head.

Hearing that Li Shi had invited Albert Einstein to visit China, Yan Keats was finally tempted and packed up his soft and ran back to be the director of the Institute of Physics of the Beijing Research Institute.

In the final analysis, Yan Keats is a person who studied in France, and it is easier to start working at the Peking Research Institute. If you go to the Academia Sinica, all the colleagues around you are British and American, and it is estimated that there will be various contradictions in normal times.

"Keats, I hope you back!" Li Shuhua was responsible for greeting him at the station. He is now the vice president of the Peking Research Institute and the director of the Institute of Physics, but he is too busy to take care of it.

"Mr. Lee." Yan Keats greeted respectfully.

Although Yan Keats is famous and has strong scientific research ability, he is too young after all, not even 30 years old, and he belongs to the junior in front of Li Shuhua.

Li Shuhua said with a smile: "The accommodation has been arranged for you, put down the luggage, and let's go to Tsinghua to meet Mr. Einstein." ”

"It's fine." Yan Keats also wanted to meet Einstein sooner.

The two took a rickshaw and went to the dormitory of the Peking Research Institute first, and then went straight to Tsinghua Park.

Zhou Hexuan, Li Shizeng, Albert Einstein, Le Corbusier and others were in the garden of Tsinghua Garden, admiring flowers and discussing with Tsinghua professors.

As soon as Yan Keats arrived, Li Shizeng immediately smiled happily: "Keats, you are finally here, the Institute of Physics of the Day After Tomorrow is officially opened!" ”

Zhou Hexuan hurriedly got up and shook hands, although Yan Kheati was younger than his age, this master must be respected.

Who is Yan Keats?

He is one of the founders of modern physics research in China, and the actual founder of the Institute of Laser Engineering of the Beijing Research Institute (the predecessor of the Institute of Atomic Energy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences).

After the fall of Beiping, Yan Keats moved the Institute of Physics of the Beijing Research Institute to Kunming, and used a ruined temple in the suburbs as the office of the Institute of Physics. In this ruined temple, he told all the researchers: "It is wartime, the invaders have destroyed the conditions for us to engage in scientific research, and every patriotic Chinese cannot stand idly by." In view of the shortage of materials in the rear during the war, and the urgent need for military communication tools and medical equipment, I decided to lead everyone to develop piezoelectric crystal oscillators, microscopes, and various optical instruments. ”

During the Anti-Japanese War, Chinese researchers worked in such a difficult environment, and even the most basic microscopes were handmade by them.

The same situation occurred in Lizhuang, Yibin (the address of the Academia Sinica), where a large group of scientists and cultural scholars were engaged in academic research hungry and under bombardment. Lin Hui was so sick that he lay on the bed and coughed up blood, but he still insisted on compiling the "History of Chinese Architecture".

I don't talk about any political darkness, and I don't care about factional struggles. These venerable scientists and cultural scholars are the true backbone of the Chinese nation, and their dedication has contributed greatly to China's rise.

Just as Yan Keats said in an interview with the French newspaper "Lyon Progress": "The war of resistance of the Chinese people is a just cause, no matter how long the war lasts and how dangerous the situation is, the final victory will definitely belong to the Chinese people." I will join 40,000,000 compatriots in the national crisis. Although I am a scholar and cannot go to the front to contribute, I want to work with thousands of Chinese scholars to contribute to the sacred war of resistance. ”