Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 18 Chapter 18
For this question, Chen Muwu thought carefully for a while, and finally gave a one-word answer: Go!
There are two reasons for his decision:
First of all, the remuneration proposed by the other party in the letter is full of sincerity, and 500 yuan is indeed not a small amount.

Moreover, Chen Muwu knew that sooner or later he would have to go abroad to study abroad, so that the poor and rich would be safe, and if he had one more silver dollar in his pocket, he would feel more secure in his heart.

Although the Chen family is not short of money, and the brothers and sisters are respectful, there will be no conflicts and disputes in property distribution, but this does not mean that Chen Muwu can spend money freely, otherwise, after a long time, no matter how harmonious Kunzhong There will also be rifts between them, which will eventually lead to brothers fighting against each other.

The second is Chen Muwu's selfishness. He finally returned to this era. Apart from wanting to "make meritorious deeds and comfort his life", he also wanted to see the influential figures recorded in the textbooks with his own eyes.

Today's Bei has a large group of talents, young and old, except Dr. Hu who plays cards all day long in his diary, and Mr. Shouchang with a mustache. Brother Xun, who is still kind-hearted, is a professor of physics. , Ding Xilin, who also serves as the executive director of the Dramatists Association, and so on.

Now there is such an opportunity to meet with the generous family at public expense, how can he miss it?
(Actually, there is a third reason, which is plot killing. If he, Chen Muwu, does not go north, then the author of Lazy Dog will have to rack his brains to think of an even more unreasonable reason to change the map.)
So Chen Muwu took advantage of his lunch break to send a telegram to Professor Hu of Bei University at the Telegraph Office of the North Railway Station located downstairs of the Railway Bureau.

He originally wanted to write a letter, but he thought that it would take three days at the fastest to send a letter from Qihai to Beijing.

Hu Shi's letter was signed on the [-]th, but when I received it today, it was the [-]th four days later.

In this way, I communicated with Bei Jing back and forth, and a week was gone.

Moreover, when writing, there is also the risk of losing the letter on the road. In later generations of online shopping, there may also be courier traveling around the country, but it will not be delivered to you, not to mention the more chaotic situation now. era!
Compared with writing letters, telegrams are undoubtedly much more convenient and quicker. He sent a letter to Bei University at noon today, and he will receive a reply at the earliest tonight, and at the earliest when he goes to work tomorrow morning—if Dr. Hu is willing to spend money on him Answer the telegram.

The reason why Chen Muwu replied in such a hurry was because he was afraid that it would change if he was too late: If this matter is not settled quickly, what should Bei Da do if it repents?
Chen Muwu found Beida's registered telegram from the telegram handbook, and filled in the beginning of the telegram form.

This four-digit code only needs to cost one word, so that the telegram can be sent to Beida accurately.If there is no telegram registration, you can only write down the detailed address honestly. You must know that these addresses are also charged by the word!

He pondered for a long time, took out a pen and wrote down the twelve words "Brother Shi, Yu Xinxi, when can I go, Chen, Hui" in the content column.

Of course, there are no commas in his message, and how to make a sentence depends entirely on the recipient's writing skills.

This is already the limit of Chen Muwu's abbreviation skills.

The three words "Brother Shi" indicate the recipient.

After all, telegram registration can only allow the deliveryman to send the telegram to Peking University. If the name is not written, the concierge will not know which professor to send the telegram to.

According to the current red tape among literati, Chen Muwu should actually call Hu Shi Mr. Shizhi. After all, he had heard Hu Shi's lectures when he was in the school.

Chen Muwu originally wanted to write the word "Shizhi", but due to etiquette, he finally added the word "Brother" which was worth a dime and two cents.

"Yu Xin Xi" means that I have received the letter on the [-]th.

"Pingshui Yun" is a rhyme book in ancient my country. The word "fish" is the sixth of the fifteen Shangping rhymes in the book. It is used in the telegraph to represent the sixth day of the month, which is the sixth day. .

"Yu Xinxi" saves another word of money compared to "Six Days Xinxi".

Contrary to those internet writers of later generations who thought hard and only thought about how the number of words was bad money, now when sending a telegram, the sender is racking his brains to think about how to reduce the number of words and use the shortest words to convey the most news. In order to be able to save money.

There is no need to explain "When can I go?" This is the only useful information conveyed in the entire telegram by Chen Muwu when he asked Hu Shi that he could go to Bei University to give lectures.

"Chen" of course refers to Chen Muwu, and the word "gray" is used in the same way as the word "fish" in front of it. The tenth of the final consonant in "Ping Shui Yun" represents the date when this telegram was sent, that is, the tenth.

Twelve characters plus a registered telegram cost Chen Muwu Dayang [-] cents, which was almost as much as the price of the two registered letters sent to Europe in the morning!

That afternoon, Hu Shi, who was far away in Beijing, received this telegram from Chen Muwu.

Seeing that he could not wait to reply as soon as he received the letter, Hu Shi secretly thought in his heart that the fish was hooked, and that he was fortunate enough to live up to the task entrusted by Minister Schulman.

Since Chen Muwu sent a telegram, there was no reason for Hu Shi to write a letter to reply. He immediately drew up a telegram. reception work.

Putting it aside, Hu Shi went to Cai Yuanpei with a telegram, informing him that Chen Muwu had been successfully invited to give lectures.

Simply speaking, the next day, after Chen Muwu received Hu Shi's reply, he was busy making preparations for going north.

The most important problem is to ask for leave, to give lectures for two weeks, plus preparation work and traveling back and forth on the road, all these things add up, he estimates that he will need to leave the post for about a month.

The British chief engineer only praised himself two days ago, so it shouldn't be too difficult to take a half-month long vacation.

Sure enough, when the Englishman heard that Chen Muwu was going to give lectures at Bei University, he agreed to leave without hesitation.

He also complained to Chen Muwu, saying that the two railway administrations of our two railways control the Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo railways. Making money is making money, but we have never forgotten the investment in education. 10 yuan is given to the Ministry of Communications to run a university, and Nanyang University alone can have 6000 yuan in silver dollars entered into the account every year.

We are all in the same sea, and we are in the same transportation system, and I don’t see Nanyang University inviting you to give lectures. They would rather invest money in holding eight university football games. What a bunch of guys who eat inside and outside!

Chen Muwu thought, it's not just for giving lectures, they even want me to teach!

What the chief engineer was talking about was the Eighth University football match held a few days ago. In the final, Nanyang University defeated Fudan University [-]-[-] and won the championship.

Chen Muwu was very surprised, how could this British guy not like football?
How did he know that now the gentlemen and wives of the British upper class watch cricket, and football is still a favorite entertainment for blue-collar workers.

Most people in the UK like football in later generations, and a special group of football hooligans was born.

However, the popularity of cricket in the UK has declined sharply, and it is not even comparable to India. Is it true that the British orthodoxy is in South Asia?

No wonder Brother Ah San can become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

(End of this chapter)