Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 59 08

Since then, the old lady of the Chen family began to frequent her Buddhist hall, kneeling in front of the Bodhisattva for an hour or two every day, chanting scriptures non-stop, praying for the blessing of the Bodhisattva, and her youngest son's trip went smoothly.

After reading the scriptures and returning to the living room, she put on her glasses and carefully looked at the photos of well-matched and suitable-age girls sent by the matchmaker one by one.

Chen Muping also started to buy a large number of pounds in the market in the name of the bank, using oceans and gold, to raise money for his younger brother to study abroad.

Chen Muqiao, the eldest brother who is like a father, is the busiest. He first traveled all over the consulate generals of various countries in Shanghai to inquire about the visa application for his younger brother.

Then I went to Travelex Travel Company, a British business, to inquire about how to buy international railway tickets.

But he inquired about a piece of news that was not so good for Chen Muwu:
It was only at the end of last year that the Soviet army completely occupied Vladivostok, the terminal station of the Trans-Siberian Railway in the Far East. At this time, the entire railway was still in the process of repairing and rebuilding and clearing out the surrounding remnants. Passenger and mail transportation has not yet resumed.

If you want to go to Europe by land via the Trans-Siberian Railway, you will have to wait until this summer at the earliest.

It has only been more than half a month since he came back from the north. Chen Muwu still has a deep fear of taking a ship at sea. He has been looking forward to the early opening of the Trans-Siberian Railway so that he can reach Europe by train.

But now that he got the news from his elder brother, he hesitated again.

If he set off from Qihai by boat within a few days, after nearly [-] days of sea voyage, he could still arrive in Cambridge before the summer semester starts at the end of April.

And if he waited until June and July to go north to Sulian, not only would he have to stay at home for nearly three months, but he would also miss the summer semester, and he would have to wait until the autumn semester in October to enroll.

With such a delay, there will be a difference of nearly half a year.

Half a year is enough for Chen Muwu to publish many papers ahead of others.

What's more, the people from Travelex only said that navigation will be resumed as soon as this summer.

But if he can't recover by summer, will he have to wait until the railway is connected?

What's more, the longer you stay at home, the more likely your mother will find her ideal daughter-in-law.

There were many masters in the Republic of China, no matter how enlightened and progressive they were, they could not escape the clutches of arranged marriages, such as Lu Xun and Zhu An, Xu Zhimo and Zhang Youyi, and Mei Fumao.

This kind of arranged marriage is generally difficult to end well, with only one exception, this person is still Dr. Hu who Chen Muwu is most familiar with.

Dr. Hu, as a first-class and trendy person in the country, married a wife who was the first-class and conservative in the country and had her feet bound. The two still lived together for a lifetime.

Regardless of Dr. Hu's other aspects, but in this aspect, there is basically nothing to say. 【1】

After returning from Beijing to Haihai, Hu Shi and Chen Muwu passed several letters. The contents of the letters were nothing more than the former’s persuading the latter to study in Cornell, while the latter repeatedly rejected the former with various reasons. .

It wasn't until it was published in the newspaper that Cambridge University planned to invite Chen Muwu to study in England, and after Hu Shi sent the last congratulatory letter, the news gradually disappeared.

After discussing with his eldest brother, Chen Muwu finally decided to give Dahai another chance.

He did this because he wanted to devote himself to the scientific cause as soon as possible, not because he was afraid of his old lady who would arrange for him a daughter-in-law from heaven!
Now that he has decided to take the sea cruise, the eldest brother Chen Muqiao hurried to contact the French Consulate in Shanghai and the British Consulate in Shanghai to help him apply for an expedited visa.

And Chen Muwu hurried to Travelex, and booked the André Lebon ship of the French cruise line that departed from Haihai to Marseille on the [-]th of this month.

Due to time constraints, the cheaper second-class and third-class cabins had already been booked, so Chen Muwu could only buy the only remaining first-class ticket for a huge price of 120 pounds.

120 pounds, converted into silver dollars, is 1000 two hundred yuan.

It is equivalent to saying that Chen Muwu's boat ticket is equivalent to one and a half of the courtyard that Lu Xun bought newly in Xisantiao Hutong.

But he didn't care much about his half-year salary, because as soon as the news of studying abroad came, people from all aspects were sent to rush to deliver the money to the door.

The wealthy Trinity College of Cambridge University offered Chen Muwu a scholarship of 3000 pounds a year, which is 250 yuan in silver dollars, an average of [-] yuan a month, which is two times higher than Chen Muwu’s salary when he was working at the Railway Bureau. In half.

Huang Yu, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, took special care of his little brother from the same country. The special official fee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was 25 pounds a month for living expenses, plus [-] pounds for transportation, and [-] pounds. clothing fee.

Chen Muwu didn't need to buy any new clothes, so the transportation and clothing expenses sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had already offset all the cost of the boat ticket.

Although Peng Yunyi, the head of education, is not liked by the teachers and students of Bei University, but one thing to say, he is quite generous to Chen Muwu.

The Ministry of Education, who really couldn't afford the money, actually allocated [-] yuan to Chen Muwu every year from the money saved between his teeth.

Although they paid less money, they sent a certificate of studying abroad with the seal of the Ministry of Education, which is one of the indispensable documents for studying abroad.

After seeing the news that Chen Muwu was about to go abroad to study in the "Declaration" (yes, it was from Chen Muping, Chen Muwu's second brother), Zhang Naiyan, the president of the Jiang Education Association, reciprocated, and managed a sum of money for him in Jiang Province. Official fee, twenty pounds a month.

Because Chen Muwu is a graduate of Jiaotong University, his elder brother originally planned to help him apply for a subsidy from the rich and powerful Ministry of Communications.

But seeing that he has already got so much money, he is no longer embarrassed to go to the department to collect wool, anyway, his family is not short of money.

Adding up the above money, Chen Muwu received a scholarship of 950 pounds per year before he set off.

Although this money is not comparable to the monthly salary of President Li Yuanhong, who earns tens of thousands of dollars a month, it is more than one and a half times the annual salary that Cai Yuanpei, who has just resigned, gets as the principal of Bei University.

For the first time, Chen Muwu tasted the benefits of being famous. People sit at home and money comes from heaven.

But Chen Muwu didn't know how much of the money he could really get.

Because the official fees for studying abroad are not settled at one time, but they are paid to the embassy in the UK on a monthly basis, and then the staff of the embassy distributes it on a monthly basis.

Huang Yu and Peng Yunyi won't be able to sit in the positions of chief executives of the two ministries for long. When they step down and new officials arrive, who knows what will happen?Will you cut off your official fees? 【2】

At present, it seems that the only ones who can get it steadily are the scholarship from Cambridge University and the provincial official fee from the wealthy Jiang province.

Although it was nearly half less than before, it would at least allow Chen Muwu to live a relatively good life in the UK.

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[1] Author's Note: Hu Shi had an affair once in his life, and made his sister-in-law's sister pregnant.After the incident came to light, Hu Shi's wife, Jiang Dongxiu, picked up a kitchen knife and wanted to kill her son first, then Hu Shi, and finally committed suicide.Hu Shi was so frightened that he immediately ended the extramarital affair, gave someone a sum of money to have her have an abortion, and sent his lover to study abroad at his own expense.

[2] Note from the author: Historically, Huang Yu resigned as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in April of that year, and Peng Yunyi resigned as the Minister of Education in September of that year.

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