Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 64 13 Repair at the station outside the city

Silent all night.

Early the next morning, Chen Muwu asked the embassy staff who brought him breakfast where he should take the train to reach Cambridge.

The staff told Chen Muwu that there are many train stations in London, and each station corresponds to a different destination. Like the Victoria station where he got off yesterday, it was dedicated to Dover, and then changed to the English Channel ferry to Calais and Paris. station.

King's Cross Station is the main line leading to Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and the starting station of the Great Northern Line. Trains to Cambridge generally depart from this station, and then divert to the branch line leading to Cambridgeshire after arriving at Hitchin Station.

Of course, there is also a Liverpool Street Station in London, where there is also a branch line leading to Cambridge, but the trains running on this branch line are old and slow, except that the fare may be a few pennies cheaper, which is not as good as going from King's Cross A ride on a train departing from the station.

The staff also told Chen Muwu that he did not need to take the train with so much luggage.

The British postal system is very convenient. As long as the payment is less than one shilling, they can deliver him to his destination within a day or two, which is convenient and fast.

The kind-hearted Chen Muwu, except for the leather bag full of various documents that must be carried with him, he sent all the rest of the luggage from the post office to Cambridge.

After completing the mailing of luggage and lunch, Chen Muwu, who was traveling lightly, finally decided to start from King's Cross Station. Firstly, he did not lack the extra pennies for the fare, and secondly, Chen Muwu also wanted to see the king. Cross station, is there platform nine and three-quarters?

Walking on the streets of London, he feels that the streets here are similar to the public concessions in the sea, and they are also synonymous with mess and disorder. Their cleanliness is far less than that of any fifth-tier city in the process of "creating health" in later generations.

Coupled with the smoggy weather from morning to night, and the horse-drawn carriages running all over the streets, Chen Muwu always reminded Chen Muwu of a small northern county that started burning coal for heating after winter.

In order to make trains affordable for everyone, rich or poor, the British transport department has mandated that the fare for third-class trains is one penny a mile, which is equivalent to four cents a mile.

The railway fare stipulated by the Ministry of Communications of the Republic of China was two cents per mile for third-class fares.

The Republic of China, whose macro data such as national finances, national income, and steel production, is far less than half that of the United Kingdom, is the first to reach this level in terms of railway fares.

Of course, Chen Muwu would not choose to sit in the third-class carriage. The environment inside the carriage was too bad, and the seats were uncomfortable. The main reason was that it was too close to the locomotive.

The wooden carriages were not tightly sealed, and the wind brought by the forward movement of the locomotive would blow all the incompletely burned soot and soot into the third-class carriages, leaving every passenger unkempt after getting off.

Now the higher the level of the train car, the farther the suspension position is from the locomotive.

He bought a first-class ticket and left King's Cross on time at three o'clock in the afternoon.

The farther the train traveled from London, the bluer the sky became.

Outside the car window, the grassland on the hill was green, and the manors and castles were retreating rapidly.

No matter in which era, no matter where, rich men can always enjoy life in different ways.

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At 48:[-], Chen Muwu arrived at Cambridge Station.

When Cambridgeshire first planned to build a railway station, the original idea was to build the station in the city center of Cambridgeshire.

However, this idea was jointly resisted by a group of scholars in the university. They were afraid that the loud noise brought by the train would affect the quiet academic atmosphere around the University of Cambridge. So frequently poured into London.

So when they realized the convenience of the train, they had to go out of the city and go all the way to Cambridge Station, which was located a mile outside the city, to take the train to all parts of the country.

The scholars of Cambridge University, the rich merchants of water transportation in Yangsan, and the Qing government who were afraid that trains would destroy the royal feng shui are the three great wisdoms of the railway era.

The sins of the predecessors made the later Chen Muwu eat the bitter fruit.

After getting off the train, instead of waiting in line for the few buses in the city like everyone else, he took a cab and arrived directly at Trinity College by the River Cam.

The dean of Trinity College had known for a long time that a Chinese student was coming to enroll, so he didn't make things difficult for Chen Muwu. He just asked curiously whether Chen Muwu had studied in the United States before. Strong American accent.

Why?Of course it's because Laoying is dying!

When Chen Muwu played a game and chose the English version, the national flags followed by English were all Stars and Stripes.

After explaining to him that the Ch'ên on the passport and the Chen on the dissertation are the same surname, Chen Muwu finally completed the formalities for studying at Trinity College.

Although the name is a college, this college does not have the same meaning as the physics colleges and journalism colleges in later generations of universities.

Colleges in Cambridge should be more appropriately called colleges, where students stay, eat, and discuss issues.

The college itself will also offer certain professional courses, but more often, students still have to participate in courses offered by the school together with students from other colleges of the University of Cambridge.

However, Chen Muwu was not able to get a room of his own in the academy because he actually came at an untimely time.

According to the materials Chen Muqiao obtained from the Global Chinese Student Association, British universities have three semesters each year, from January to March, April to June, and October to December.

Chen Muwu thought that it would be fine for him to enroll before the start of any semester, so he arrived at Cambridge in April.

But the British actually regard October every year as the beginning of the new school year by default. The old students have not yet graduated, so naturally there are no vacant rooms for him to use.

Naturally, Chen Muwu should also be a 1923 graduate student who enrolled in October, but because he sent a telegram to Eddington before leaving, Trinity College also contacted him in advance to find a residence.

In a Victorian house in an alley about 10 minutes walk from the college, the landlady Jenny Brown also rents out three rooms on the second floor to students just like Mrs. Hudson in "Detective Sherlock Holmes" in exchange for money.

The room rate was two pounds and five shillings a week, and Mrs. Brown would help with the laundry, but not board.

Mrs. Brown does not need to provide meals, because Trinity College provides students with three meals a day.

Mrs. Brown has another task, which is to record the time when the students staying with her return to their residence every day.

If a student failed to return by ten o'clock in the evening, she had to make a note of it and report it regularly to Trinity College.

The room is not spacious and has a musty smell typical of old rooms.

In the middle of the head is a gas lamp, which is still dim when turned on, but it matches the whole room.

As soon as Chen Muwu put the handbag he was carrying on the table, he heard hearty laughter from outside the door: "Chinese genius, you are finally here!"

　The third one is here, please follow up.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)