Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 438 177 The Sulian people took advantage of the situation and robbed them.

"Everything is difficult at the beginning." It stands to reason that this is Prince College's first admissions examination in China. As the founder of Prince College, Chen Muwu should be present at the examination site to coordinate all possible problems.

But here in Stockholm, the newly founded Prince's College is also facing many problems.

The school's construction progress, including construction quality, needs to be monitored.

Compared to the admissions exam, Chen Muwu had to sit back and deal with these more difficult problems.

He finally understood why when Bohr was building his Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen, he didn't think about food and drink every day. When he was extremely depressed, he packed up his luggage, put on his backpack, and went to the forest outside Copenhagen. Hiking and camping take the stress away from your mind.

In 1924, it happened to be the second phase of the expansion project of the Institute of Theoretical Physics. Bohr did not even attend the Fourth Solvay Conference held in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, not far from Denmark.

Chen Muwu had no choice but to entrust the domestic admissions examination to Shi Ruwei, who had been engaged in academic research with him at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University.

In order to ensure that there would be no big mistakes in this admissions examination as much as possible, Chen Muwu also made use of all his contacts in the country.

For example, before the exam, Shi Ruwei spent more than half a year visiting several well-known universities across the country, where he visited the deans, professors and students of the physics department to ask them for their opinions on the Prince College admissions. Exam help is available.

Fortunately, because of Chen Muwu's connections, Shi Ruwei did have a few more capable assistants.

For example, Xu Zhimo, who has concurrently held professorships in four or five universities in Wuhai and Xingjing, is more active than anyone else because he is about to leave China and go to the Prince's College founded by Chen Muwu in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Busy and busy spontaneously, he handled a lot of things for Shi Ruwei.

Of course, Xu Zhimo, who is so popular, has also attracted a lot of attention. Many people have entrusted their connections to him, hoping to know the scope or specific questions of the exam in advance.

No matter how good the relationship between the visitor and him was, Xu Zhimo did not go to Shi Ruwei to ask for the original questions for this exam. One of his principles for helping this time was that he would never cause trouble for the admissions exam.

Xu Zhimo also tried to encourage Hu Shi, who was a professor at Daxia University like himself, to devote himself to the preparations for the admissions examination.

In early 192, he saw with his own eyes that when Chen Muwu went to Beijing University to give lectures, because the school's president Cai resigned and returned to the south, Beijing University was in a leaderless state. It was Hu Shi, the provost at the time, who stepped forward to receive the reception. Chen Muwu was lecturing in Beijing and was sent there.

Therefore, in Xu Zhimo's eyes, the relationship between Hu Shi and Chen Muwu should be very good, at least five years ago.

That's why he invited Hu Shi, who was also at Daxia University, to help Chen Muwu with his Prince's College entrance exam. Unexpectedly, Hu Shi officially rejected him.

He also gave a decent reason, because Hu Shi himself is the director of the China Foundation for the U.S. to return the Geng Geng money. This foundation was set up to manage the Geng Geng money to study in the United States.

To a certain extent, there was a conflict and competition between Hu Shi's work, which was to select students to study in the United States, and Chen Muwu's Prince's College entrance examination.

If all the good students went to Chen Muwu’s Stockholm, then there would be no more students who would pass the Boxer Examination and go to American universities to study.

American universities cannot accept outstanding students from China. Firstly, it may affect China's reputation in the United States. Secondly, it may also cause the American education department to evaluate China's educational level. If it does not meet the standards, it will The portion of the returned Geng money used for students studying abroad may be reduced and used elsewhere.

If this is done, Hu Shi's foundation may no longer need to exist.

Xu Zhimo didn't understand why Hu Shi's attitude towards Chen Muwu had changed so much after just a few years.

But he also respected the other party's choice and no longer invited Hu Shi to help with the selection examination of Prince College.

Of course, in addition to Xu Zhimo, there are also other individuals and institutions that have invested their efforts in this selection examination.

Silence passed, and finally the National Government moved from Guangzhou to Tingjing. The Educational Administration Committee, which originally acted as the Ministry of Education, was reorganized into a graduate school based on the French education system. After the voice of the Prince College selection examination became louder and louder, it also participated in In this matter.

The Nationalist Government entered the situation not because they wanted to pick Chen Muwu's peaches, but because of the personal factors of Cai, the dean of the university.

In January 1912, the "Frugal Society for Studying in France" established by Li Shizeng, "the first Chinese person to study in France", returned to China. It received the support of Cai, the first director of education. He not only used his power to establish A property under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education was used as the office space of the Overseas Chinese Thrift Association. I also personally participated in the specific work of the Overseas Chinese Thrift Association.

Later, due to the failure of the "Second Life", Cai, who followed the former Prime Minister, was wanted by Yuan Xiangcheng and went into exile overseas, and even went to France in person.

From the initial rise of the idea of ​​​​going to work-study in France to its implementation and finally its cancellation, Cai has always been involved in the front line of this movement, helping many ambitious but poor young students to go abroad to receive advanced science in France. Cultural knowledge has made a great contribution.

But those students were able to study in France not just because of Cai, but because many educationists and famous people were involved.

Cai never thought that after nearly ten years, a new trend of studying in Europe would arise in China.

Moreover, this learning activity is more planned and has a clearer goal than the one they originally organized. There is only one goal, which is to cultivate batches of outstanding science and engineering talents for China.

The most important thing is that this project relied entirely on Chen Muwu's single-handedly to communicate with Sweden, build schools, and recruit students.

Although this moment is not as good as that time, the reason why we sent students out for work-study studies at that time was because the Qing government had just overthrown the rule and caught up with Yuan Xiangcheng's perverse actions. China was still in chaos and the level of education was not high, so we had to Go abroad to receive a more advanced education.

Now that China has been reunified, it will soon enter a more stable period of development.

Cai believes that there may be no need to send students abroad anymore. They can still receive relatively good jobs at home by working as part of a work-study program like they did in the past.

But precisely because the person in charge was Chen Muwu, who was the one their university had always wanted to win over, Cai wanted to show his favor to Chen Muwu.

Moreover, the government had just moved its capital to Beijing, and the university had just been reorganized and established, so one thing was needed to establish its prestige.

The combination of these reasons allowed Cai to exercise his authority and ask the power of the university to cooperate with the selection examination held by Prince College in Wuhai. In order not to arouse Chen Muwu's resentment, he also specifically told him to cooperate with the work and remember not to occupy the magpie's nest and overshadow the guest.

Cai used the university's dedicated line to send a telegram to Chen Muwu in Europe, informing him of the official fate.

Although Chen Muwu was not very optimistic about the National Government's ability to handle affairs, Chen Muwu felt that there should be no problem in organizing such a simple exam.

Therefore, he expressed his gratitude to Cai for his kind deed in his reply, and then sent a telegram to Shi Ruwei, telling him that people from the university could help, but if they wanted to have any influence on the selection examination, they would definitely Don't agree.

Although his behavior was a bit like judging a gentleman's heart with a villain's heart, Cai Yuanpei had no intention of getting involved, but Chen Muwu had to do this to prevent himself from spending money to invite Prince College from China to come to the Prince's College with sincerity. An aspiring young man who earnestly studied knowledge has turned into a young man who has no knowledge and skills, idles around and relies on his family status and connections to get ahead.

Internationally, the Swedish Embassy in China came forward, and the domestic political circles had help from the National Government College, which is specialized in education. Shi Ruwei's preparations for the exam suddenly became much easier.

And basically, most people are not like Hu Shi, but like Xu Zhimo and Cai, who are very optimistic about the selection examination held by Chen Muwu, so they all do their best to provide help for this examination.

In the end, because Chen Muwu’s eldest brother Chen Muqiao once served as the provost of Nanyang University under the Ministry of Transport, Nanyang University hosted the selection examination as a venue on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Chen Muwu is not the kind of person who only asks for help from others but never repays it. He announced that Prince's College and Nanyang University will form a sister school in the future, and will give priority to inviting graduates of Nanyang University to continue their studies in Stockholm.

According to Chen Muwu's original intention, there should be no registration fee for this kind of examination to select talents, so as to prevent poor but talented students from giving up the examination because they cannot afford the registration fee.

However, Cai in China raised objections to his view in subsequent communications with Chen Muwu.

Because if there is no registration fee, it is likely that many people will have the idea of ​​​​"three poles if there are dates but no dates", and then the exam organizers will bear a huge burden.

Holding an exam in which hundreds of people may take part is not child's play, and all aspects must be taken into consideration.

Although the issue of venue selection has been solved by Nanyang University, it does not mean that there are no problems in other aspects.

In ancient times, when imperial examinations were held, heavy troops were guarded around the Gongyuan. First, to prevent possible leaks of examination questions, and also to prevent students taking the examination from mutiny due to various reasons.

Hundreds of young and middle-aged students of about 20 years old gather together, which is equivalent to a large powder barrel filled with gunpowder. For some reason, it may be directly detonated, causing serious consequences.

As the number of candidates increases, the number of invigilators will also increase.

Every invigilator must keep a close eye on the situation in their own examination room. Don’t worry about cheating, it will definitely happen.

What should be done after cheating is discovered? Failure to detect illegal cheating will cause dissatisfaction and protests from candidates. These issues that may undermine the fairness of the exam are all points that need to be paid attention to.

Therefore, Cai, who said he would not interfere in the Prince College selection examination, still expressed his opinion on the examination registration fee after communicating with Chen Muwu many times.

Every candidate who registers for the exam needs to pay a certain registration fee to take the exam.

If the test score reaches the designated score line, such as passing, the registration fee will be fully refunded.

Although passing the exam does not mean that you will definitely pass the exam, it at least shows the attitude of the organizer, which will more or less deter those who try to fish in troubled waters.

With the help and coordination of all parties, the first exam in the country after the establishment of Prince College finally went without any major problems.

Of course, some minor situations will still occur, such as a certain candidate who lost his admission ticket, a certain candidate who performed abnormally due to mental stress, and a certain candidate who overslept and failed to take the exam.

For this situation, Shi Ruwei had already made a plan in advance according to Chen Wu's request.

They are not as strict as the college entrance examination in later generations, but consider allowing online admissions as appropriate.

After all, although China has been reunited in name after the "Northeast Rebellion", in fact there are still warlords, bandits and foreign troops stationed everywhere. If you miss this year's selection exam, whether you can still take it next year is a matter of course. A big problem.

This time the selection examination for Prince Academy was basically concluded successfully.

There was no big trouble before the exam, and there was no big trouble during the exam...

...But after the exam, big trouble arose.

And the location of this trouble is not at home, but abroad.

Through this examination, a total of eighty-three students were selected to go to Stockholm.

Because the Trans-Siberian Railway has long been completed, there is no need for this group of students to go to Europe the way Chen Muwu did, boarding a ship from the Sea of ​​​​Sea and then traveling along the "East China Sea - South China Sea - Strait of Malacca - Indian Ocean - Red Sea - Suez Canal - Instead of taking the "Mediterranean Sea" route in a large circle, you can spend half a month taking the train like Chen Muwu did when he went to Europe from China for the second time.

The only troublesome thing about taking the train is Sulian's visa, which is where the trouble comes.

Su Lian blocked the visas of these 83 students and professors such as Shi Ruwei, Xu Zhimo and Guo Dingtang, and then gave Chen Muwu a more rude request -

If you want the visa to be processed smoothly, Prince's College must accept a group of international students selected from Sulian.

They knew Chen Muwu's motive for setting up a school in Stockholm, Sweden, and therefore wanted to take advantage of this opportunity and get a share of the pie.

(End of this chapter)