Expedition to Europe

Education is the foundation of a century-old plan, and it takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. No matter how poor you are, you can't afford education, and no matter how hard it is, you can't hurt your children. Qin Zhiyuan had already heard these words in his previous life, and his ears were numb.

The Republic put forward these slogans very early, but because of its poverty and weak national strength, it was already the end of the twentieth century when it really took them seriously.

Lanfang has not put forward any slogans about education, but Lanfang has attached great importance to education for a long time. As early as the Corsican period, Qin Zhiyuan began preparations for education, laying a good foundation for Lanfang's education work. Base.

Of course, Qin Zhiyuan at that time was not preparing for Lanfang's education, but preparing to improve the educational level of the Republic of China. It was only by some mistake that Lanfang's current Imperial University was established.

Unlike the Imperial University in Tokyo where the word "Empire" has been erased, Lanfang Imperial University started from a very high starting point. After the World War, Qin Zhiyuan recruited a large number of scientists from Europe. These scientists were basically They are all leaders in all walks of life, and some are even academic leaders. After arriving in Lanfang, regardless of whether these scientists had teaching experience or whether Imperial University had related disciplines, Qin Zhiyuan asked these scientists to go to Imperial University to register .

The result of this is that the faculty of Imperial University looks extremely strong. Look at those star-studded names. In addition to Sandy, Michelle and the Long brothers who are already well-known to the public, there are many others who are not well-known to the public. Big names in the technology world, such as Fritz Haber.

Fritz Haber was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918. Fritz Haber was a German. After the end of the world war, the Allied Powers held him responsible for the poison gas he developed and was used in war. Germany was unable to deal with it at the time. Fritz Haber provided protection, so Fritz Haber came to Lanfang. In Lanfang, Fritz Haber was able to resume his old career and served as the chairman of the chemistry department at Lanfang Imperial University.

Max Planck was also a German and an important founder of quantum mechanics. Max Planck was a pacifist. During World War I, one of Max Planck’s sons and two Both daughters died one after another, which made Max Planck unable to face everything in Germany, so Max Planck came to Lanfang and is now the head of the physics department of Lanfang Imperial University.

Another person who had the same experience was Otto Meyerhoff, last year’s Nobel Prize winner in biology——

Johannes Stark, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics——

It is these top science and technology giants that have made Lanfang Imperial University famous. Currently, there are only more than 800 students in Lanfang Imperial University. Of these more than 800 people, less than half are Western students who come here because of their reputation. The real Lanfang Imperial University There are only 500 Chinese students.

But these five hundred people will become the future pillars of Lanfang's technology industry.

Although there are already so many big names in the technology industry, Qin Zhiyuan is not satisfied. There is still a long list of names on Qin Zhiyuan's list that he wants to get. They are Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Schrödinger, Bohr and so on.

Well, in fact, some people Qin Zhiyuan has already obtained it, such as Schrödinger, who now works in the Department of Physics of Lanfang Imperial University. However, perhaps because of changes in his living environment, Schrödinger had not yet had the opportunity to date his lover, so he had not yet proposed the famous "wave equation".

But this is only a matter of time. Although Schrödinger has not yet shown its due value, Schrödinger has this potential. As long as Schrödinger is given time and trust, Schrödinger will definitely give Qin Zhiyuan generous rewards.

Qin Zhiyuan has plenty of time. It should be more than ten years before the next world war breaks out. Qin Zhiyuan still has enough time to prepare.

Qin Zhiyuan also has the money needed for scientific experiments. There are few people in the world who have a deeper understanding of the role of scientific research than Qin Zhiyuan. Qin Zhiyuan has always spared no effort in supporting scientific research.

Qin Zhiyuan also has trust. There may be many people in Imperial University who are not well-known, but Qin Zhiyuan knows that sooner or later these people will be at the top of the scientific and technological world, so Qin Zhiyuan will give them enough trust. At the same time, there will be appropriate influence to keep these current technology giants or future technology giants on the right path.

Like the composition of students at Lanfang Imperial University, the reputation of Lanfang Imperial University has now spread all over the world. Scientists all over the world know that Lanfang Imperial University has such a pure land in the scientific and technological world. There is no racism, no political suppression, no Economic disputes, no slander. Here, even if a scientist consumes millions of funds every year without any output, he will not be criticized. Even if a scientist takes ten months of vacation every year, he will not be fired.

Of course, so far, there are no scientists at Lanfontein National University who take ten months of vacation a year.

Scientists' time is precious.

Plant the sycamore tree and the phoenix will come.

With Lanfang Imperial University as a plane tree, there is no need to worry about not having a phoenix come to visit. The key is that Lanfang Imperial University invites scientists from around the world every day in the name of "technical exchange" to Lanfang Imperial University to exchange experiences. Lanfang Imperial University will reimburse all the expenses of the invitees during the exchange period, even their The whole family is also included.

This is still very attractive to current scientists.

Scientist, it sounds like a high-sounding term. This term should be naturally associated with generous treatment, rich patent returns, and well-equipped laboratories, but in fact it is not the case.

For example, Nikola Tesla, a top technology giant who was not known to the world until the 21st century, is now living in a very tight situation.

For a long time, the name Nikola Tesla has been associated with Edison. Nikola Tesla once worked in Edison's research institute, so the results of his research must have something to do with Edison. Although Edison is nominally the greatest scientist of the 20th century, his character is really speechless, especially when conflicts of interest arise, Edison's performance is not even worthy of the glorious title of "scientist".

Because of the patent dispute between alternating current and direct current, Nikola Tesla has been suppressed by Edison for a long time. Nikola Tesla not only does not have the reputation that matches his research results, but he cannot even get the due compensation. This is speechless.

Fortunately, there is now Lanfang Imperial University.

From the first day of the establishment of Lan Fang Imperial University, Nikola Tesla had invited him, of course, in the name of "academic exchange".

However, a new university was obviously not within Nikola Tesla's consideration. When Lan Fang was first established, its reputation in the United States was similar to that of the Philippines, the colony of the United States in Asia. In Nikola Tesla's eyes, Lan Fang was a technological desert without any soil that could breed technology.

So Nikola Tesla did not even respond to the invitation of Lan Fang Imperial University.

However, Qin Zhiyuan obviously did not care. Every once in a while, Qin Zhiyuan would ask Lan Fang Imperial University to invite Nikola Tesla, and even sent people to the United States to introduce Lan Fang Imperial University to Nikola Tesla in person.

Persistence always pays off. From not responding at all at the beginning, to reluctantly sending a rejection telegram with only a few words, to a polite refusal with a yearning meaning, Nikola Tesla's attitude is loosening.

The original text is in Liu # 9 @Book/Bar!

New York, the largest city and the largest port in the United States, is also the largest economic center in the world. Nikola Tesla currently lives in New York.

When the agents sent by Qin Zhiyuan found Nikola Tesla, Nikola Tesla was in a financial crisis.

This has to start with the famous Wardenclyffe Tower. In fact, since the end of the last century, Nikola Tesla's name has been known to the public. As early as 18, Tesla served as the vice president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and became a pioneer of the American Institute of Radio Engineers.

Around 1897, Tesla submitted the first patent application for radio to the US Patent Office, which aroused the interest of the Morgan Group. J.P. Morgan realized that this would be an invention that would change the world, so he provided Nikola Tesla with a large amount of funds for research.

Nikola Tesla was indeed researching radio, but at the same time Nikola Tesla was more focused on the Wardenclyffe Tower. The Wardenclyffe Tower, which was called "Tesla's million-high tower" by the American media, was not used for radio research, but for research on obtaining electricity in the air.

While Nikola Tesla was researching radio, the Italian Guglielmo Marconi was also conducting radio research at the same time. Unlike Nikola Tesla, who was conducting other research at the same time, Guglielmo Marconi was more focused.

In 1901, Marconi took the lead in achieving transatlantic radio transmission, thus obtaining a radio patent.

This made J.P. Morgan very angry with Nikola Tesla. J.P. Morgan was the helmsman of the Morgan Group. Although Nikola Tesla was a technological giant, his energy was no longer on the same level as J.P. Morgan. So J.P. Morgan used his power to delete all the text materials of Nikola Tesla in American newspapers, and Nikola Tesla finally got into big trouble.

J.P. Morgan provided Nikola Tesla with hundreds of thousands of dollars in total. These investments should have received corresponding returns. Once there was no return, Nikola Tesla would have to pay the price.

Obviously, this price was unbearable for Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla sold all his property, but still could not repay J.P. Morgan's investment, so Nikola Tesla asked for help from Westinghouse, which he had funded before (in 1896, when Westinghouse was in financial difficulties, Tesla generously helped the company to overcome the difficulties).

However, disappointingly, Westinghouse did not dare to offend J.P. Morgan. Instead of helping, Westinghouse took advantage of Tesla's misfortune to recover the loan for the relevant equipment.

At the same time, it seemed that debt collectors all over the world were asking for debts from Nikola Tesla, who was actually bankrupt.

At this time, Lanfang agents found Nikola Tesla.