In November 1904, the third Olympic Games, which had lasted five and a half months, came to an end. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The farce-like Olympics produced 277 medals, of which the Americans won 215. In this Olympic Games, the 10-school league shone brightly, with Huntelaar University alone winning 4 gold, 6 silver and 11 bronze medals. Although no one is paying attention yet, John is looking forward to the future, for example, those who are interested in counting the various strange histories of the Olympic Games......

It's casual to get something, and there's no need to focus too much.

On the afternoon of December 10 of the same year, the Swedes held the fourth Nobel Prize ceremony. Huntelaar was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics this year for his contributions to the fields of X-ray, radioactivity and electronics. This increasingly influential award was finally given to an American.

But at this time, John, of course, could not go to receive the award.

If it had been more than ten years or even a few years ago, John might have made a special trip for this medal, after all, for a traveler, the Nobel Prize is still attractive enough. But by now, this thing was dispensable to John. Let's not talk about the little prize money, that is, in terms of fame, which Nobel Prize can compare to him?

And at the end of the day, John's reasons for winning the award are other people's theories.

So when John was informed by the Swedes, he said that someone else would accept the prize on his behalf, and if the Swedes didn't agree, forget it......

Eventually, the Nobel Prize accepted John's request.

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January 1, 1905, the first day of the new year.

Just as John received the Nobel Prize medal and prize money in New York, far away in Shanghai, China, far away in the Pacific Ocean, the branch of Huntelaar Publishing House launched a series of books in a low-key manner, including more than 70 school textbooks, covering the entire curriculum from the first grade of primary school to the third grade of high school; In addition, there are some books about the situation around the world, as well as some popular science books, the number of which is as high as more than 200.

Each of the 10,000 books has already been unloaded from the port of Shanghai.

More than 70 school textbooks will be the first to appear and will be forcibly promoted in all the schools that Huntelaar Bank has built, and as early as a year ago, the relevant teachers have already obtained these sample books and gathered for training. These complete sets of teaching materials, from low to high, completely put an end to the fragmentation and relative chaos of school teaching, and even aroused strong attention from other church schools, even if they had never seen such excellent teaching materials.

It's just a pity that not all Chinese people accept these things.

The same left-to-right typography format as the Westerners, as well as a whole set of punctuation marks that refer to Western but are used innovatively, have made many literati furious! If the imposition of theology, physics, and chemistry in other church schools only makes them sigh, then the Huntelaar Press makes them angry by changing something in their own country at will......

It is a pity that their protest against the Huntelaar publishing house fell on deaf ears.

Although some students had to choose to drop out under strong public pressure, most students still chose to stay because of the low tuition fees, free lunches, scholarships and other discounts, as well as the attraction of giving priority to studying in Germany and the United States in the future. So a month later, when the Huntelaar schools completed the textbook update and officially started the semester's curriculum, less than 10 percent of the students dropped out.

At the same time, different voices were transmitted.

For example, the most influential "Declaration" in Shanghai, China's first official newspaper "Beiyang Official Daily", as well as major newspapers and periodicals in Hong Kong and other places, etc., have written articles to evaluate this set of freshly baked textbooks, in addition to the left-to-right layout format There are different opinions, the content of the textbook and the use of punctuation are all greatly appreciated!

A year later, when almost all of the church schools adopted the textbook, and the Gazette reported that many schools in New York were using it, the criticism of the textbook slowly subsided......

But at that time, the talk about several other books was just booming!

The series of the rise of great powers allows Chinese to finally see the causes and processes of the rise of Western countries from a deeper level; Books on the whole, legal and cultural systems of the West have opened their eyes to things that they could not see before, while books related to oil, steel, trains, automobiles, warships, etc., have provided a popular science education for all readers......

Of course, the one that attracted the most attention must be the book "Mandarin and Hanyu Pinyin"!

In the South, the book has caused a great deal of controversy, especially in regions where the vernacular is considered more important, and most readers dismiss it. But in the north, especially in the Zhili region, in addition to the controversy over the use of Western pinyin, many people highly recommend the book. Therefore, outside the primary schools of the Huntelaar system, this book "Putonghua and Hanyu Pinyin" soon entered the classrooms of some Mongolian schools in the north......

Changing a country, of course, is not an easy task.

Let's not talk about how many people are willing to accept John's book, but how many people can afford to read it given the current situation in China? And how many people have access to these books? Even if they do, how many schools have the same number of teachers as the schools under the Huntelaar system?

So from the beginning, John didn't think about relying on these books to change a country.

He only hopes that these words, which he has spent more than 20 years accumulating, can influence some people, can give the country some talents, or bring them some changes, and this is enough. John couldn't tell, and he didn't want to. All he knew was that if there were Chinese who wanted to read these books, he would order the Huntelaar Press to print them in a steady stream and then provide them at a low price......

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In February 1905, Carnegie established the Carnegie Foundation for Education in China and began investing in the Carnegie School of Technicians. At the same time, Huntelaar Bank began to build a technical school, albeit several times larger than the Carnegie Endowment for Education.

In March 1905, with $10,000 funded by John, Edward? Hume came to Changsha, Hunan Province, and began to look for a suitable location to build his own clinic. After five days in Changsha, he gave himself a Chinese name, Hu Mei.

At the beginning of 1905, the fierce war between Japan and Russia was raging, and Europe was worried, and the Americans smiled indifferently.

It seems that having tasted the sweetness of the Spanish-American War, the Roosevelt administration rose up with the idea of mediating the Russo-Japanese War. It's just that now that the two countries are inseparable, who wants to listen to an American president? Whether it is Russia, the old empire in Europe, or Japan, the upstart in Asia, no one will look at the United States in their eyes, and naturally they will talk about it when they have had enough.

Optimistic about this is Huntelaar Bank.

Through the many arrangements made before the start of the war, and the terms negotiated with the two countries after the start of the war, the Huntelaar Bank used a large amount of money to open the way, and most of the Chinese residents were evacuated from the main battlefield. Of course, they did not suffer losses in this process, first, they won the great favor of the Chinese, and second, they made a lot of money from arms and medicine trade with the two countries, and the profit part alone was enough.

Of course, these things have nothing to do with Mr. Huntelaar.

Aside from the occasional focus on things in the East, John focused all his attention on his home. Because when the time came to the beginning of 1905, the old Huntelaar, who had been suffering from illness, had reached the point of running out of oil......

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"Elizabeth ......"

The old man's chapped lips kept muttering a familiar name.

"Alas......"

Holding the old man's left hand, which looked like a dead branch, John couldn't help but sigh softly, the pain in his heart could not be suppressed. Even though he was a human being in two lives and was used to seeing death, at this moment, when the old man who had been with him for more than twenty years was about to leave, John still felt as if his heart had been cut by a knife.

It's the same feeling as when Elizabeth died and when she just understood that she had crossed over.

The faint sound of breathing gradually faded away.

John's hand tightened......

"John, grandpa...... Already went. ”

In a trance, a pair of soft hands placed on John's shoulders and took him into his arms.

"I know."

Nodding slightly, John's expression seemed to be so calm, but he didn't know when two water marks had appeared under his eyes, and his voice was a little choppy.

One of his closest people in the world, finally went to ......

On February 11, 1905, Al? Huntelaar left.

Within a day of the news, more than 100 telegrams were sent to the Huntelaar family, including American giants such as Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan, including Roosevelt, the president of the United States, including many people who had relationships with or were working with the Huntelaar family, and as the news spread, more telegrams were coming......

However, as far as the old Huntelaar is concerned, such a momentum is not grand.

Although the Huntelaar family has become stronger and stronger over the years, both the old Huntelaar and the little Huntelaar are relatively low-key people, which are not quite the same as the high-profile American tycoons of the same period. So even if the obituary of the elder Huntelaar was published in the newspaper, many ordinary people did not even know who this person was.

It wasn't until that lavish funeral in New York City that they realized that a big man had died...... (To be continued.) )