Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 266: Uninvited Guest Refresh Point 05
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year month day.

Today is the last day of our visit to Nankai University.

(slightly)

Before I left, I tried a new mode of transportation for the first time in my life in China.

It doesn't seem that fresh at all. The means of transportation this time is just an ordinary truck.

But the reason why it is still fresh is that Dr. Chen and I did not sit in the compartment in front of the truck, but stood in the bed of the truck with some soldiers.

This vehicle is a military vehicle sent by Fengjun, and Fengjun, as its name implies, is the army with its headquarters in Fengtian.

Their leader is none other than Marshal Zhang, the father of Marshal Zhang whom we met in Fengtian.

It is estimated that the person who sent this car here should be Shaoshuai Zhang.

The soldier standing with us in the carriage seemed to be several years older than Dr. Chen.

But after I asked curiously, I learned that he was the same age as me.

After further chatting, I also learned that he never went to school. In order to have enough food, he joined the army in his hometown in the Northeast, and then followed the army of Marshal Zhang from the Northeast into Shanhaiguan.

He stood on the outermost side of the truck, shielding Dr. Chen and me from the wind and dust raised by the moving car.

From the way he looked at us, I seemed to see some envy and respect for intellectuals.

The truck containing Dr. Chen, me and our luggage drove to the platform of Tianli Railway Station and stopped.

I thought I could board the train here and continue my journey in China.

But just like when we came to Tianyi, there were uninvited guests on the platform of the train station.

When we were leaving, the uninvited guest showed up again.

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As the largest broadsheet in Tianyang, "Yi Shi Bao" not only has great influence locally, but also radiates to Beijing, Tang Dynasty, and even the entire North China region.

Nankai University revealed that the day after "Yi Shi Bao" reported Chen Muwu's stay in Tianli, readers as far away as Beijing also read the news in local newspapers.

The two cities, Beijing and Tianyi, are actually not far apart. Although they are still in the era of steam trains, they only need three or four hours of bumping on the rails to get from one city to the other.

Of course, the "Yi Shi Bao" published by Tianli can also be sent to Beijing on the earliest train after it is printed on the same day, so that local readers can get the freshest first-hand advice on the same day.

It’s just that the operator of the newspaper, probably in order to snatch the newspaper market in Beijing, also created an editorial department of "Yishi Bao" in Beijing to publish the Beijing version of "Yishi Bao".

The "Yi Shi Bao" newspapers in the two places only have the same name and occasionally share telegram news sent from other places. In essence, they are two newspapers with almost completely different contents.

Chen Muwu's visit to Tianyi may be a big news in the local area, but it may not be a big deal in other places, so no one in the editorial department felt the need to telegraph this matter to Bei Jing.

Therefore, it was already the next day after readers in Beijing saw this news, and the source of the news was reprinted from the Tianyi newspaper the day before.

Universities across the country, like Nankai University now, hope to invite Chen Muwu to give lectures at the school.

As the most famous and highest-level national university in the country, Bei University's funding for running the school is allocated by the Ministry of Education. However, two consecutive Zhili-Fengtian wars destroyed the government's credit and assets, and even Bei University's funding was starved. Have a good meal.

After the Feng faction took control of the entire northern situation, the situation became even worse.

The first is that they cannot pay their salaries, and the second is that there are rumors that the Fengcheng Department is planning to dissolve Beiping University and merge all the national universities in Beijing, following the example of the University of Paris, to establish a new National Beiping University.

So since 1926, many professors have left their jobs, either going south or to other schools in the same city with better pay.

Despite the hard work of the principal, Jiang Menglin, the school's situation is still getting worse day by day.

The principal tried his best to find a financial relief for the school, hoping to temporarily tide over the difficulties.

So at this time, Jiang Menglin saw the news of Chen Muwu's arrival in Tianyi in the newspaper.

The failure to invite Einstein to give lectures at Bei University has always been a pain in the heart of Cai Yuanpei, the former president of Bei University.

As the firefighting captain of President Cai who left the school several times before, Jiang Menglin also participated in the whole process and experienced this incident.

He later learned that the reason why he paid a huge price of two thousand pounds to hire Einstein was not because he valued education, but because it was profitable.

Invite a well-known physicist from all over the world to give lectures in China, and the money earned by buying tickets is much more than the lecture remuneration.

Thinking of this past event and seeing the news of Chen Muwu's arrival in Tianjin in the newspaper, another idea suddenly came to Jiang Menglin's mind.

How about inviting Chen Muwu to give a lecture at Beida University again, and try charging a ticket fee this time?
The last time Dr. Chen was invited to Beida University, it happened to coincide with Cai Yuanpei’s resignation for the last time. Beida University was leaderless. The person mainly responsible for this matter at that time was Professor Hu Shi.

But Professor Hu just left Beida University and went to the United States in July. He was going to Columbia University to deal with the long-standing issues after his PhD graduation.

Who has to study for ten years to get a doctorate?

Look at Chen Muwu. From going abroad to getting his doctorate, it only took one year.

Hu Shi and Chen Muwu, who had returned to China, happened to miss each other.

In addition to Dr. Hu, there are also Beida professors who are close friends with Chen Muwu, as well as Mr. Lu Xun and Yan Renguang, the former head of the physics department.

But these two gentlemen, like Hu Shi, have left Beijing University for various reasons.

Now only Professor Ma Yuzao, the head of the Chinese Department who Chen Muwu once lived in Banqiao Hutong, is left.

It is said that Professor Ma has a close relationship with Chen Muwu's family, and he should be the best candidate to go to Tianyi to invite Chen Muwu to give lectures at Peking University under such circumstances.

Maybe with the friendship of Dr. Chen staying at their house for a month, they can play the emotional card extra.

Although the school is closed during the summer vacation, Professor Ma Yuzao still insists on coming to the school to work and study every day because of the rich collection of books in the library of Bei University.

Jiang Menglin hurriedly went to the office of the director of the Chinese Department to find Ma Yuzao. At the same time, other universities in Beijing were also eyeing Chen Muwu's return to China.

As mentioned earlier, professors from Bei University left the school for various reasons. Some went to the south to make money, while others went to other wealthy universities in the same city.As the capital of the country, Beijing certainly has more than one university in it.

The poorest of the most famous universities in Bei University, it has two rich buddies, one is Tsinghua University who took Boxer indemnity.

The Department of Physics at Tsinghua University was established just this year, in 1926. They hired Ye Qisun, a top doctoral student who graduated from Harvard University in the United States, from National Southeast University to serve as the department chair.

Ye Qisunna is also one of Chen Muwu's old acquaintances. Not only did the two meet once at Cambridge University, but the former also recommended two students to the latter to do research under Chen Muwu at the University of Cambridge in England.

Now that the two people are in the same time and space again, what Ye Qisun is thinking about is not asking Chen Muwu to give a lecture at Tsinghua University, but whether he can hire Chen Muwu as a professor in the school and help him build the newly established Department of Physics of Tsinghua University.

If Chen Muwu can be invited even if he gives up the position of head of the physics department, Ye Qisun will agree to it without hesitation.

Although he was slightly dissatisfied with Chen Muwu who suddenly returned to China without notifying him in advance, Ye Qisun felt that he still had to go to Tianli in person and invite Chen Muwu to Tsinghua University first.

Another wealthy university in Beijing is Wujing University, which relies on funding from American missionary schools.

The president of Wujing University is the American missionary John Leighton Stewart, who also has a more widely known Chinese name, Stuart Leighton.

Although Stewart is an out-and-out foreigner, he was born in China and has lived here for a long time. He has mastered both Chinese and English proficiently.

In China, whether it is Chinese or English newspapers, they will always publicize Chen Muwu's various achievements.

So Stewart has known about Chen Muwu for a long time.

In 1923, Beijing University missed the opportunity to invite Chen Muwu to give lectures at Bei University. Stewart felt that he should not miss it again this time.

He didn't even discuss it with the professors and staff of the school's physics department. He took his secretary Fu Jingbo with him, took the school bus, and hurriedly left Wujing University.

Because there are a lot of people traveling between Beijing and Tianyi every day, there are a lot of trains going back and forth every day on the Beijing-Tianjin section of the Beijing-Fenghuang Railway.

But even so, it is not easy to buy a ticket and leave suddenly.

Ye Qisun from Tsinghua University and Stewart from Wujing University. The schools behind them have plenty of money and can easily buy first-class tickets.

However, as a professor at Beida University, Ma Yuzao did not have much money with him.

One of the reasons why Beida can't pay his salary recently is because he has a large family to support and his family's savings are not too much.

After being told that all the tickets for the third-class and second-class carriages were sold out, Ma Yuzao could only grit his teeth and bought a first-class ticket at a price three times that of a third-class ticket.

The ticket office of Beijing Station was full of bustling crowds. The four people, Ma Yuzao, Ye Qisun, Stewart and Fu Jingbo, did not meet each other when they were at the ticket office.

But after boarding the train, there was only one first-class carriage, and the academic circle in Beijing was so small.

These are four people from three universities. Although they have different subject majors, they all know each other.

Under this coincidence, everyone reported the destination of their trip, and what was even more coincidental was that everyone's destination was Tianli.

Then the conversation continued, no matter where we went in Tianli, it was Nankai University.

There is no need to talk anymore.

Because everyone knows very well what other people are going to Nankai University for. After all, everyone has exactly the same purpose of going there.

The first and last ends of the Jinpu Line are Tianli Station and Pu Station on the north side of the Yangtze River in Jingjing.

But further north and south of these two cities respectively, Beijing and Jihai are now the political and economic centers of China.

Tianyi Terminal is also a station on the Beijing-Fengcheng Railway and can go directly to Beijing.

If you take a ferry across the Yangtze River from Pu Station, you will find Tengjing Station in Xiaguan opposite, where you can take the train on the Shanghai-Nanjing Line directly to Baihai.

Therefore, most of the trains running on the Jinpu Line were from Beijing to Baihai. The four of them took the first special express train from Beijing south to Tianyi.

This blue steel train happened to be the same one that Shaoshuai Zhang and Chen Muwu bought to go from Tianli to Pu.

Chen Muwu had taken the second train from Tongjing to the north before. It was the same train, but it was a different train.

And this car was also the one that was derailed and hijacked by robbers who damaged the railway in Xiandong Province a few years ago.

After spending a lot of money to repair it, it started running on the Jinpu Railway again.

Although it is a special express train, it still has to stop at Tianli Station for more than ten minutes to facilitate passengers to get on and off, as well as passengers coming from the northeast to transfer.

A principal, a secretary and two professors who came from Beijing had just walked from the train carriage to the platform and were stretching their tired muscles after sitting on it for several hours.

Then they saw a Fengjun military vehicle rushing to the platform unreasonably and stopping just at the door of the first-class carriage, startling several of them.

Fu Jingbo, the youngest of the four, secretly cursed "Qiu Ba" in his heart.

No matter how angry he was, he didn't dare to curse out loud, because these soldiers and ruffians carrying guns were so unreasonable.

But after seeing who was standing in the car, Ma Yuzao and Ye Qisun beside him were shocked.

From their perspective, Chen Muwu stood with these soldiers carrying guns and wearing Fengjun uniforms, as if they were being escorted.

Why did Chen Muwu offend Feng Fie, a local viper, as soon as he returned to China?

There is a foreigner accompanying him. Could it be that he has offended the foreigner and will be escorted by the Feng army to the legation in Beijing to plead guilty?
The older Ma Yuzao is still somewhat stable, but although Ye Qisun is a professor of physics at Tsinghua University, he is still a young man in his 20s. He shouted Chen Muwu's name repeatedly and wanted to ask what happened. What a situation.

When he heard someone calling his name, Chen Muwu subconsciously followed the call.

After he saw clearly the people standing together on the platform, he had no choice but to pretend to be happy and jumped out of the bed of the truck.

At this time, Chen Muwu's first reaction was that this house seemed to be impossible to return to.

Is the platform at Tianli Station some strange refresh point?

How come uninvited guests can be refreshed stably every time?

(End of this chapter)