Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 441 180 Classmates, see you tomorrow!

Although Chen Muwu has always been working hard to build the school, he also seeks help from little Marcus of the Wallenberg family from time to time.

But since the school is given the title of a prince, naturally the school's first superintendent cannot be anyone other than the Crown Prince of Sweden.

Chancellor, also known as Chancellor in English, is a permanent position that basically exists in European universities.

If a school is compared to the country of England, then the school superintendent is the King of England.

In name, the school superintendent is the head of a school, but in fact, this is just an honorary position.

He is equivalent to the virtual head of the school and basically has no actual power to manage the school.

For example, Balfour, the current chancellor of the University of Cambridge, once served as the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom. Then because of his age, he retired from front-line management positions. Not only was he awarded the title of Lord Hereditary nobles also hold the honorary position of Chancellor of Cambridge University.

The most powerful "prime minister" in the school is the school's Vice Chancellor.

Vice here does not mean "deputy", but "agent".

The Vice Chancellor replaces the school supervisor to manage the school's leadership, academic and daily administrative affairs. He is the real person in power and the talker in a school.

However, as the person who contributed most to the establishment of Prince's College, Chen Muwu did not serve as the school's acting superintendent.

Rather than allocating his energy to take care of other miscellaneous things, he would rather focus on teaching, education and academic research.

Chen Muwu's only connection with the management of Prince's College is that he is one of the shareholders of Prince's College.

However, this school is not for profit. Even because of the free education policy, the shareholder Chen Muwu has to pour money into it continuously from his own other industries.

Therefore, rather than saying that he is a shareholder, it is more appropriate to say that he is the sponsor of Prince College.

The students, teachers and guests from all walks of life who came to attend the opening ceremony today have already taken their seats in the auditorium of Prince College.

It is also impossible for the Crown Prince of Sweden, Prince Gustaf, to miss such an important event as the first opening ceremony of Prince's College.

And as the Chancellor of Prince College, he will have to speak on stage later.

Meeting his good friend Chen Muwu backstage, the Crown Prince of Sweden walked over with a smile.

"Chen, congratulations. The school you have been planning for so long is finally on track today!"

It was also in Stockholm, but this time for Chen Muwu, who was backstage at the Prince's College Auditorium, he was even more nervous than the time he received the Nobel Prize backstage at Stockholm City Hall.

Seeing the Crown Prince of Sweden extending his hand to congratulate him, Chen Muwu shook hands with him and said with a wry smile: "It's different to speak on stage in someone else's school but in your own school. I hope today's opening ceremony goes well." Everything goes smoothly, don't make any mistakes."

The Crown Prince of Sweden, who often replaces his elderly father, the King, to visit various places and attend various events, is already experienced in such large scenes and has seen a lot.

He repeatedly comforted Chen Muwu, who was "embarrassed at this moment": "Relax, we have made all preparations, and everything will be fine.

"By the way, speaking of which, I have prepared a gift for you, and I have sent someone to deliver it to Prince College today. If there is no problem, you will be able to see it after the opening ceremony is over."

"Thank you very much, His Royal Highness, for letting you spend money again."

"Hey, why are you so polite? Don't forget, I am the principal of Prince College. Of course I hope that the school will get better and better."

Since the Crown Prince of Sweden didn't say anything, Chen Muwu didn't ask what the gift he had prepared was.

Anyway, if you can run away, the monk can't run away from the temple. You can see it later.

A staff member came to inform that the opening ceremony was about to be held, and those people in the background were asked to come on stage as soon as possible to attend the following activities.

Chen Muwu and the Swedish Crown Prince no longer chatted about anything, but walked out of the backstage with others and came to the rostrum in the auditorium to sit down.

There is no "Welcome March" that often appears at various conferences, and the excitation film speaker, which is very popular in later generations, is still in its infancy and will take more than ten years to be promoted on a large scale. use stage.

There was no live band arranged in the auditorium, so there was no lighthearted music played when everyone came out.

However, seeing the Crown Prince of Sweden, Chen Muwu, and Marcus Jr. appear on the rostrum one after another, the audience in the auditorium spontaneously burst into applause.

After various introductions were completed, Prince Gustaf, the most distinguished Crown Prince of Sweden, was the first to take the stage to speak, whether in the Prince's College or in Sweden.

He walked to the podium with the speech script in hand, took out his glasses from the inner pocket of his suit and put them on, and then he read the speech script written by someone else seriously.

In order to take care of all the guests present today, someone behind the rostrum translated the Swedish Crown Prince's speech from Swedish to English word for word, and then Shi Ruwei translated the English word for word into Chinese.

The Swedish Crown Prince's speech was nothing more than some very decent and high-sounding clichés. He first thanked Chen Muwu and the Wallenberg family, represented by Marcus Jr., for their support in the successful establishment of this school.

Then he talked about the great benefits that the establishment of Prince's College would bring to improving the scientific level of Sweden as a whole.

This sentence became more and more familiar to Chen Muwu who was sitting on the podium. He seemed to be listening to a report on investment promotion somewhere. He was the "capital" that the local leaders had gone through all kinds of hardships to bring in.

——Although what his "capital" brought to Stockholm was not money, but knowledge.

Next, the Crown Prince of Sweden, as the school supervisor, changed the topic and began to persuade the first batch of students of the Prince's College who were sitting in the audience to study hard and not let everyone down in order to create this school. the efforts put in by the school.

At the end of the speech, what the Crown Prince of Sweden said was even sublimated.

He said that the establishment of Prince's College represented the in-depth cooperation and exchanges between China and Sweden in the field of education, and established a platform for cultural exchanges and scientific and technological cooperation between China and Sweden.

He is full of confidence in the mission and vision of the college and believes that he will make important contributions to the cooperation between China and Switzerland in the fields of education, science and technology and innovation. If we don't say that the Crown Prince of Sweden is a professional who has seen countless stormy and stormy scenes, the words coming out of his mouth are different.

Chen Muwu felt that even if he was given eight hundred brains and eight hundred mouths, he might not be able to speak so beautifully.

Just when he thought the Swedish Crown Prince's speech was about to end, he didn't expect that he could continue talking.

He also hoped that the students would succeed in their studies at Prince's College and that it would become a link and bridge for friendly exchanges and cooperation between China and Switzerland in the future.

After the Swedish Crown Prince finished his speech, no matter whether the audience sitting below was genuine or fake, the whole audience burst into applause anyway.

Chen Muwu also clapped his hands vigorously. He really admired the Swedish Crown Prince for being able to speak a cliché without leaking.

After a few more procedures, Chen Muwu was also invited to the microphone and took the stage to speak.

Because most of the people sitting below were teachers and students from China, Chen Muwu simply used his mother tongue—Chinese—to speak.

This situation is exactly the opposite of what it was just now. Chen Muwu spoke Chinese, Shi Ruwei translated it word for word into English, and then the local staff in Stockholm translated from English into Swedish.

Chen Muwu has been thinking about what he should say on stage in front of so many students and teachers for a long time and has made several drafts.

However, the eldest brother is uneducated and his words of WOC are all over the world. No matter how he writes, he can't write a speech that satisfies him.

In the end, Chen Muwu finally thought about it. As a science and engineering practitioner who studies physics, he absolutely cannot write an inaugural speech like the one that the former Qing Dynasty Hanlin gave when he was the president of Beijing University. His speech is also absolutely unacceptable. Can be included in middle school Chinese textbooks.

Of course, in an occasion like Prince's College, it is indeed inappropriate to mention Mr. Cai who delivered that speech.

This is not because there are local Swedes from Stockholm in the audience who don’t know who Cai is.

But it was because Cai also supported the massacres in the spring and summer of 1927.

Most of the people in the audience are passionate young people from China who are dedicated to serving the country. If he mentions the name of the executioner Cai at this juncture, it is likely to arouse the disgust and dissatisfaction of these teachers and classmates.

Chen Muwu also deliberately explained to these students how to "predict" the development of the domestic and international situation in the next one to twenty years, and made it clear that China would not become better and better because of the victory of the Northern Expedition and the coming to power of the Beijing government. .

It's just that the agents of imperialism have changed from the old-style warlords distributed across the country to the new-style compradors today.

However, the imperialist countries behind these new compradors are still determined to destroy themselves. Undercurrents are surging beneath the seemingly calm surface of the lake. They are all sharpening their knives and planning further actions.

Chen Muwu also wanted to talk about what happened in Jilun last year, but this time he took into account that the people sitting on and off the stage were not all Chinese, and the speech he gave at the opening ceremony today would probably be delivered tomorrow. It will be compiled into transcripts by journalists, published in local newspapers in Stockholm, and then reprinted by news newspapers in other countries around the world.

In this way, the future international situation he "predicted" will be spread to all parts of the world through newspapers.

When they first saw his prediction, many people might be dismissive of it.

But when things develop step by step, they are completely consistent with what he said in the newspaper. It is estimated that many people will pay attention to this matter and re-read the newspaper that originally published Chen Muwu's remarks. .

However, Chen Muwu didn't want to show off his talents, he just wanted to hide his clumsiness.

After thinking about it, he felt that there was no need to place too many demands on himself regarding the speech. He estimated that the audience present did not care at all about what he said on stage.

Chen Muwu even put himself in the audience's shoes and thought about it.

When he was in college, every time he attended a Laoshizi meeting and encountered relevant leaders speaking at length on the stage, he would secretly play with his mobile phone in his seat.

Chen Muwu felt that there was no need to write his speech into more than 10,000 words. He only needed to be "sincere".

So he didn't bring any speech notes at all, but walked to the podium alone.

“Everyone who gathered from China to Wuhai, and traveled thousands of miles from Wuhai to Stockholm, Sweden, must not have come to Prince’s College to listen to various long speeches.

"There were so many people and so many speeches just now. I guess you are all very tired, right?
"To be honest, even I felt drowsy while sitting on the stage.

"Now it's finally my turn to speak. I decided to be simple and just share a song I like with my classmates."

As soon as Chen Muwu mentioned songs in his words, Xu Zhimo, who was sitting at the teacher's bench in the audience, immediately became energetic, leaving aside others.

Others may not know it yet, but as a witness when Chen Muwu gave a speech at Beijing University in 1923, Xu Zhimo knew that Chen Muwu also had the skills to create music.

Not only did he compose a piece of music for a modern poem "Hope" by Hu Shi, he also used the piano in the lecture hall of Bei University to play and sing it.

The score of this song was later published in the "Beijing University Daily" and was widely circulated on the campus of Bei University and even in various universities throughout Bei Jing.

Xu Zhimo felt that Chen Muwu was likely to compose a new song, but the answer he gave made Xu Zhimo a little disappointed.

"Everyone may sing the song "Farewell" written by Master Hong Yi when they graduate, but I prefer his other work "Evening Song". This song can be regarded as a song that I have listened to since my enlightenment period. The lyrics of the song still touch me to this day.

"I believe that many of you here can sing this song. Even if you can't remember all the lyrics, you can still hum along with the tune.

"I hope everyone will not be embarrassed and can sing this song with me, and carefully understand the extraordinary meaning of this simple song."

After that, Chen Muwu walked down from the podium in one corner, strolled to the center of the podium, stood up straight, and started singing:
"Time flies like water. After a while, I will return from school after class.

"Let's think carefully for a while. Did you understand today's homework? Did you violate what the teacher said?
"As parents look forward to seeing their children return home, we should not hesitate along the way. In the future, it will all depend on us to govern the country and bring peace to the world!"
"Everyone, work hard, classmates, see you tomorrow!"

The students in the audience also echoed, singing louder and louder.

(End of this chapter)