Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 439 178 Do not steam the steamed buns to fight for your reputation

Sulian, a country, has never received any good looks from Western countries since its establishment until now.

Especially in recent times, after the death of Vladimir, Lev Davidovich was expelled from the country and went into exile. The entire country is even less favored by the entire Western world. There is a theory that the "Soviet Union" is about to split. Then there was an uproar.

Because of the consequences of the 1926 general strike, Britain severed diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in 1927.

For example, in the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University, two people, Kapitsa and Landau, were able to leave their homeland of Sulian and come to the UK to participate in study abroad activities. This behavior is already a masterpiece.

The two countries have severed diplomatic relations, and are no longer able to send new students to each other.

In other countries on the European continent that have not severed diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, it is still not easy for Soviet Union students to study abroad in various countries.

Because of their Soviet identity, the entry-exit management agencies of most countries are always careful, careful, and careful when issuing visas to every Soviet who tries to enter their country. They must ensure that the materials completely comply with their requirements. Only if you meet the requirements can the visa be issued.

As long as there is any violation of the regulations, what awaits them is a stamp of refusal.

The reason why the diplomatic departments of various countries do this is that they are afraid that the real purpose of these people entering their country is not what they wrote on the application materials.

Their real purpose may also be to sneak into their own country, and the secret is always a conspiracy to subvert activities. The massive strike in various industries in the UK in 1926 is a lesson for everyone.

Because the visa review for each country is extremely troublesome, the top universities in these countries are "more trouble than less" and basically do not admit international students from Sulian to study at the school.

In addition to Sulian's old foundation in mathematics inherited from the Tsarist Russia and the chemists left behind by Mendeleev, his research level in science and engineering is very weak.

Although in recent years, due to the secret military cooperation between Soviet Union and Germany, Soviet Union received many advanced European industries from Germany before World War I, and also sent some international students to Germany.

But even so, Su Lian still faces a huge gap in science and engineering.

Moreover, in recent years, with the rise of an emerging force in Germany, the direction of the entire German country has undergone a huge change, and the attitude of their people towards the country of Soviet Union has gradually changed from friendship to resistance.

This made the opportunity for Sulian, who was already not wealthy, to exchange science and technology with foreign countries even worse.

If one day Germany and the Soviet Union are at odds with each other, then if the Soviet Union wants to participate in international academic exchange activities, it will have to wait for professional academic events like the Solvay Conference and the International Congress of Mathematicians that occur every few years. Conference.

Without frequent access to advanced scientific knowledge from the West, the technological gap between the Soviet Union and the West would only grow wider.

Among the many Western countries, Sweden, the neighboring country across the Baltic Sea from the Soviet Union, is considered a relatively friendly country to the Soviet Union.

They are not as strict about visas as other countries, but because there are no decent universities in Sweden, the Soviet Union government has not sent any international students to Sweden.

However, this situation is completely different now, because Chen Muwu founded the Prince's College in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.

Chen Muwu is not only the youngest Nobel Prize winner in physics, but also has made great achievements in mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, literature and even sports.

Some people have already made the assertion that the first two decades of the 20th century were the era of Einstein.

The next twenty years after Einstein belonged to Chen Muwu.

Moreover, Chen Muwu is not the only teacher at Prince's College. Not only has he invited many new scientific stars like him to teach at Prince's College, but a group of old scientists who have long been world-renowned have also come to Stockholm to work for Chen Muwu. The most famous among them is She must be Chen Muwu’s mother-in-law, Marie Curie, the only scientist in the world who has won the Nobel Prize twice.

Led by such a rising and extremely bright academic star in the scientific community, this Prince's College was established to specialize in cultivating talents in science and engineering.

Although it has not been established for more than a year, Sulian's education department has concluded after research and judgment: It is only a matter of time before the teaching level of this Prince's College reaches the top level in Europe, and Sweden can also be regarded as a comparison of Sulian. There is absolutely no problem for a friendly country to send Soviet students to Prince's College.

Another advantage is that Chen Muwu himself is also a foreign academician of the Soviet Union Academy of Sciences and a nominally friendly person to the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union government.

However, Su Lian did not do this properly. They did not discuss with Chen Muwu in advance about sending international students to Prince's College. Instead, after the domestic selection examination in China, they tried to obtain the visas of more than 80 teachers and students. Regarding the issue, Lai was responsible for "holding the emperor to order the princes" and used the visa issue to force Chen Muwu to agree to their request to send a large number of international students to study at Prince's College.

Originally, Chen Muwu was very excited when he received the telegram news that the selection examination had ended perfectly. He had been running around for so many years to promote this matter, and now it was finally time to bear fruit.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, Chen Muwu received two telegrams in succession. One was from the Sulian Education Department. The content was to discuss the issue of sending Sulian students to Prince's College.

The other letter was sent by Shi Ruwei from Sihai. In addition to repeating Soviet Union's requirements, the content also specifically stated that the visas of these students taking the Trans-Siberian Railway were also stuck in Sihai due to this issue. ocean.

At this time, the Tengjing government has completely severed diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.

However, Sulian's influence in China, not to mention in the border areas, has not decreased much in mainland China. The reason lies in the China-Eastern Railway located in the northeast.

The Eastern Railway is part of the Trans-Siberian Railway. According to the treaty signed by both parties, it is theoretically jointly managed by China and the Soviet Union.

But in fact, the Soviet Union has never fulfilled the relevant agreements. Non-railway business items that should be returned to China, such as telegraphs, telephones, mines, libraries, observatories, schools, etc., have not been returned to China.

As for the railway, the most important department, the Railway Administration, was unilaterally controlled by Su Lian. Among the nearly 3,000 employees, less than 400 were Chinese, and most of their jobs were translators or low-level employees.

Even though China and Soviet Union have severed diplomatic relations, China Eastern Railway is still operating independently as a company.

The Tengjing government, which had severed ties with Su Lian, was unhappy with the railway company, but there was nothing they could do about it.

First, although the Republic of China was nominally reunited, the actual person in charge of the Northeast region was not the Zhongyang government in Beijing, but in the hands of Shaoshuai Zhang, the second generation head of the Zhang family. Second, because the Siberian Railway is the fastest mode of transportation connecting China and Europe, if there is a conflict with the Soviet Union, not only will future passengers not be able to take the train to conveniently travel between China and Europe, the Soviet Union will also be likely to cut off the attachment. The telegraph line on the Trans-Siberian Railway completely interrupted the exchange of information between China and Europe.

Third, even if the Northeast is back under the control of the Chinese government, it will not be easy to get the Soviet side to withdraw from the China Eastern Railway, and it is very likely to lead to a military confrontation between the two sides, and then China's failure And ended.

In the future, Mr. Zhang, who was in charge of the Northeast, suffered a big loss on the Middle East Railway. During his tenure, the Middle East Railway incident broke out, and then the Northeast Army suffered a big defeat in front of the Soviet army.

Therefore, the Beijing government acquiesced that Soviet Union could still be in charge of the China Eastern Railway after the severance of diplomatic relations. In order to facilitate the purchase of tickets by passengers going to Europe, the China Eastern Railway Baihai Office established in the public concession continued to operate as usual.

This office in the south echoes the China Eastern Railway headquarters in Harbin, one south and one north. It is basically equivalent to the Soviet consulate in China after it severed diplomatic relations with China.

Shi Ruwei was also here to buy train tickets for the Trans-Siberian Railway and transit visas for Soviet Union for these teachers and students.

What stuck him happened to be the last link.

Chen Muwu, who received two telegrams one after the other, was a little angry about this matter.

If the Sulian people had contacted Chen Muwu in advance instead of using such arrogant and unreasonable methods, Chen Muwu would be willing to accept a group of Sulian students to study at Prince's College.

But Chen Muwu's neck was harder than that of Dong Xuan, the Luoyang commander during Emperor Guangwu's time.

He will never succumb to the coercion of others, let alone lower his head under the pressure of external forces.

Chen Muwu immediately called Shi Ruwei back from Prince's College and asked him to suspend all matters such as the purchase of train tickets and wait until he confirmed the situation before contacting him.

Chen Muwu first took Landau, who could speak Russian, to Su Lian's legation in Stockholm aggressively.

He made it clear that he was here to fight, not to reason.

Faced with Chen Muwu's aggressive questioning, the Sulian embassy used a common diplomatic tactic, which was to talk to each other without knowing the answer.

They claimed that they had no idea that such a thing existed, and that they would contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Osko for instructions. After receiving a reply, they would go to Prince's College to inform Chen Muwu.

But Chen Muwu waited for three days and did not wait for the diplomats from Sulian to arrive at Prince's College. He had no choice but to bring Landau to visit again.

As a result, the news he got this time made Chen Muwu even more angry.

It is true that they want to send Sulian students to Prince's College. It is indeed a decision made by Sulian's education department after research and discussion, and it has been sent to Prince's College via telegram. The next thing to do is for both parties Discuss issues such as “how should international students be sent?” and “how many should be sent?”

However, not issuing Soviet visas to those Chinese students was not the original intention of the relevant domestic institutions in Soviet Union, but a spontaneous act of the China Eastern Railway Administration.

The Eastern Railway Administration is an independent company, and China also holds 50% of the shares in it. The Soviet Union has no right to manage it.

Su Lian's legion performed a set of Tai Chi that could be called a classic, but it was almost impossible to injure Chen Muwu internally.

This time, he completely rejected the idea of ​​letting the students selected from China take the Siberian Railway to Europe.

After leaving the Sulian embassy, ​​Chen Muwu first went to see little Marcus and asked him to rely on his family connections to contact the merchant ship of the French Merchant Shipping Company to reserve a ticket from Jihai to Marseille.

Although taking a ship takes longer than taking a train, and the price of a ship ticket is more expensive than a train ticket, if Chen Muwu compromises now, he may compromise a second time.

Then after returning to Prince's College, he sent two more telegrams in succession.

The first letter was sent to Shi Ruwei, who was anxiously waiting for news in Sihai, telling him not to wait for a visa from the China Eastern Railway Office, but to take a boat to Europe instead.

As for which company and which ship to take in the future, Chen Muwu will get in touch with him later.

The second telegram was a reply to the Soviet education department that had previously submitted an application to send overseas students.

Chen Muwu expressed deep regret for their proposal. In his call back, he specifically pointed out that because the science and engineering students at Prince's College are all recruited from China, the daily teaching is in Chinese.

Under the current circumstances, the school has no plans to offer courses in a second foreign language, so naturally it cannot accept international students from Soviet Union who can only speak Russian but not Chinese.

If you allow others to be unkind, you allow yourself to be unjust.

After sending the second telegram, Chen Muwu felt refreshed. He did not think that the cause of the current situation was his mistake.

Eighty-three Chinese students selected from China completed the examination in October 1928 and the list was determined.

Because of the train visa incident, they and the teachers who were about to go to Stockholm to work as sinology professors were not able to take the train to Europe immediately after the exam.

Therefore, they adapted to local conditions and used an empty classroom at Nanyang University in Nanyang to conduct a two-month pre-study training in China. They invited people like Shi Ruwei and Xu Zhimo who had experience in studying abroad to explain to everyone how to study abroad. The latter also opened an additional temporary course to teach simple Swedish in daily life that he learned from the Swedish Embassy.

In December 1928, students and teachers finally boarded the ship from Shiliupu Pier on Sihai Lake and embarked on a journey to Europe.

More than a month later, they docked in Marseille, France, then traveled to France and Germany, and finally arrived in Stockholm.

(End of this chapter)