The contents of Li Mingyuan's public speech at the Yongan Hydropower Station quickly spread within half a month and caused quite a stir in Europe and the United States.

Electric lamps and generators, like the four great inventions of ancient China, were originally invented by Western countries, but in terms of technological improvement and practicality, the Han Kingdom went ahead of Western countries in two subdivisions.

In 1854, Henri Goebel, a German watchmaker who immigrated to the United States, made the first practical electric light from a carbonized bamboo wire placed in a vacuum glass bottle, which lasted for 400 hours.

In 1860, the Englishman Joseph Swan also made a carbon filament electric lamp, but he failed to obtain a good vacuum environment that allowed the carbon filament to work for a long time.

In 1878, when the vacuum technology in Britain developed to the extent that it was necessary, he invented the light bulb powered by carbon filament under vacuum, and obtained a British patent. At the beginning of 1875, after purchasing a patent for vacuum degree, Edison experimented with improving the filament, and in the second half of 1880, he produced a carbonized bamboo filament lamp that could last for 1,200 hours.

The carbonized bamboo wire lamp is a new type of incandescent lamp with practicality, however, because part of the technical patents for the preparation of carbonized bamboo wire lamps are in the hands of Henry?? Goebbels was in the hands of Goebbels, so the U.S. Patent Office ruled that Edison's invention of the carbon filament incandescent lamp was invalid.

The patent application was rejected, the industrial production of carbonized bamboo silk lamps was shelved, and while Edison was busy fighting a patent lawsuit with Henri Goebbels' widow, the streets of Chang'an, the capital of the Han Kingdom, were already lit up with bright tungsten incandescent lamps.

Tungsten incandescent lamp adopts a new process, bypassing the patented technology system of Western countries, and is a more economical and promotable commodity than carbonized bamboo wire lamp.

"Tungsten incandescent lamps have high lighting intensity, two to three times the life span of carbonized incandescent lamps, and the overall economic cost is half of that of carbonized bamboo filament lamps............

From the perspective of science and technology, we have to admit that tungsten incandescent lamp is an invention with very superior performance, and its emergence is an epoch-making change in the field of electric lighting......"

When German engineers sent the relevant performance data from tungsten incandescent lamps back to Europe, it set off a wave in the European electrical science community.

"My team and I have already started screening experiments on the preparation of metals from incandescent filaments, and if it were not for the obstruction of the patent application of the American Patent Office and Mrs. Henry Goebbels for carbonized bamboo wire lamps, I believe that the honor of the first invention of tungsten incandescent lamps would have belonged to the United States, not to a South American Han country that had just learned industrial reform from Western civilization.

As a pure and passionate scientific research practitioner, I have an equal attitude towards civilized races in any part of the world, but the practice of the American Patent Office is heartache and anger, they do not respect the results of the hard research of American scientists, and use their old thinking as hard as a stone to brutally stifle countless great technological inventions, hindering the further development and improvement of the United States in the field of science and technology. I am even more dissatisfied with the countless scientific inventors who have been treated unfairly like me.

My heart is sad and sad not for myself, but for the future of American science............

Here, I openly publish my true thoughts, hoping that the great American government will be an ideal country of freedom, equality, and respect for science, as it promotes, and not a barbaric country that allows the patent office to do whatever it wants and brutally stifles the creation and invention of scientists! ”

In the United States, Edison was furious when he learned that tungsten incandescent lamps had been put into production earlier than carbonized bamboo lamps, and excitedly issued a public statement in the press, crusading against the conservative and backward management methods of the United States Patent Office.

Following Edison, American researchers who were engaged in the study of hydroelectric generating units also brought a lawsuit to the federal government, accusing Wisconsin of deliberately delaying and negligently causing the construction of the Fox Hydropower Station to be delayed and lagging behind the Xing'an Hydropower Station in the Han Kingdom.

Faced with the pressure of the new power field and other scientific researchers who had caught up with the excitement, on November 14, 1882, the United States Patent Office persuaded Henri Goebbels' widow to reach an understanding with Edison and completed the patent dispute over the carbonized bamboo wire lamp.

However, on the European continent, the reactions of the scientific circles of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia are not the same, and some scientists believe that the achievements of the Han in South America in the two subdivisions are only short-lived, which does not show the competitiveness of the Han in the overall scientific field.

From the perspective of relative impartiality and neutrality, some scientists have pointed out that the Han Kingdom of South America, as an emerging country composed of Chinese immigrants, some whites, and a small number of Indians, has been able to make remarkable progress in the fields of electric power, medicine, military, and iron and steel one after another, and has been able to make remarkable progress in the fields of electric power, medicine, military, and iron and steel in just 14 years, and it has only taken 14 years to become a primary industrial country with breakthrough achievements in certain industrial fields. They advocated that the Western powers should look squarely at the strength and achievements of the scientific community of the Han countries in South America from the perspective that scientists should have.

The scientific and technological achievements suddenly displayed by the scientific circles of the Han Kingdom, which had been developing in a low-key manner for more than ten years, surprised the Western scientific community, and also gave great encouragement to the overseas Chinese and international students who were at the lowest level of national civilization.

"When will I wake up from a long dream for a thousand years, who will make the alarm bell ringing in the sleeping town!

Jiashen has been mourning for 300 years, and he has given people away! ……”

In the woods outside the University of Berlin, more than 300 Chinese students gathered together and excitedly recited Li Mingyuan's speech:

"Looking at all the nations of the world, there is no law that has been immutable for five thousand years,

Jiashen national mourning, the Central Plains sinking, and now, the national liberation! Men shave off their money rat tails, and women spread out their traditional hairstyles and tie up their hair in a new style!

The spirit and outlook of the people have changed, but the improvement of the country's strength still requires the efforts of all the people!

The importance of education, the independence of culture, and the advancement of technology!

Only by adhering to the three core principles of reform and reform can the empire embark on the road to prosperity and strength.

Only when all the people are united can the country resist foreign aggression! …………

Hate the bullying of America! I swear to all the people today:

Every day the country is not rich and strong, the struggle will not stop for a moment, and the people will not be respected overseas for a day, and the struggle will not stop for a day! Yangyi will not give up the policy of hostility to the empire for a day, and will struggle for a day without stopping............"

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"The country is not rich and strong for a day, and the struggle is not for a day!

Citizens are not respected overseas for a day, and they struggle for a day!

Yangyi will not give up the policy of hostility to the empire for a day, and will struggle for a day without stopping............"

Hundreds of students kept repeating the last sentence of the speech, and their expressions of excitement and excitement were all over their young, enthusiastic faces!

"Students! Fellow citizens! See? The first hydroelectric power station and the first tungsten incandescent lamp were all invented by local Chinese scientists! The Chinese nation is still the majestic and progressive nation it used to be! We are no worse than whites in science! The Chinese have never been an inferior people! ”

Tan Yaoxun stood in the woods, and said in a hoarse voice, "Youth is the hope of the country and the future of the nation, the country spent precious financial funds to send us to Europe to study, we must not live up to the expectations of Your Majesty and the country, and we must not waste the precious opportunity to study abroad!" ”

"That's right! Your Majesty has issued a call to us that all the sons and daughters of China should work hard for the prosperity and strength of the country and the nation! ”

At the University of Berlin, the 17 young children who escaped from the supervision of diplomats of the Qing court and were arranged by the Han government to complete their university studies, Pan Mingzhong, Tan Yaoxun, Shi Jinyong, and Cao Jifu were arranged to receive higher education at the University of Berlin together as a member of the children who went to the Han Dynasty.

"Brother Tan, Brother Shi, Brother Cao and I will all graduate next year, and now that all the professional subjects in the school have been completed, I suggest that we use the six months before graduation to go to the large industrial factories around Berlin for interviews and internships, and get in touch with the German industrial production industry in advance, so as to make more adequate preparations for returning to China in half a year!"

"I am a steel smelting major, and I would like to come to the Ruhr Steel Group for an interview!"

"I majored in chemistry and I wanted to do an internship at Bayer for a while......"

"I studied shipbuilding, and I might have to go to the coast to find an internship"

"My major is also steel smelting, and Brother Shi and I can go to the same company for an interview......

After the four of them successively said the internship unit they wanted to go to, other Chinese students gathered in the woods also spoke: "Although Brother Li and Brother Wang and I have just entered our freshman year this year, we can use the vacation time to intern in the factory. ”……

"Yes, and me, I can also take time off to intern at the factory............

In November, the weather in Germany reached below freezing, but the Chinese students in the woods did not seem to feel the cold around them, and everyone was full of vigor on their faces.

"Everyone, be quiet, listen to what you have to say!"

Seeing the students who were in high spirits, Tan Yaoxun pulled his already hoarse voice and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of our study abroad is to learn scientific knowledge, and learning is the first, if the freshman and sophomore students have tight courses, they don't have to follow me to the factory for internship, you can also make use of a small amount of spare time, every day after school, translate a small part of the German textbook, and persist for a long time, more than 300 international students at the University of Berlin, according to the speed of translating a textbook in two years per student, After graduating in four years, the University of Berlin can provide 600 Chinese textbooks of different majors and different levels of difficulty for the locals.

Students, the number of local new generation children exceeds four million, every year in the future, there will be a number of hundreds of thousands or even millions of children enrolled in school, the local knowledge of foreign languages, can write professional foreign language talents are scarce, and the use of our international students' professional knowledge, German, English, French and other foreign language teaching materials into Chinese, can make a far-reaching contribution to local education! ”

The pain in his throat forced Tan Yaoxun's speech to stop for a moment, and after just one minute, he continued, "There is more than one way for international students to serve the country and practice in factories, but we should try anything that is beneficial to the country!"

Now please go to Brother Shi and Brother Cao, register the category they have chosen, and after the registration is completed, we will first contact other students studying in Germany, and then make plans and assign tasks according to the different factories and translated textbooks. ”…………

In 1871, the Han government first sent its first batch of students to Germany, and in the following twelve years, from 1871 to 1878, the total number of students sent by the Han government to Europe was 3,278.

In the three years from 1879 to 1882, the number of students studying abroad, both government and private funds, reached 3,900, more than the total number of government students in the previous seven years.

The rapid growth of government and private self-financed international students has benefited from the financial support of the local government and the uninterrupted development of local education standards.

According to government statistics, in June 1881, the first batch of native-born, a total of 207 eleven or twelve-year-old boys who had been screened by the Ministry of Education and performed well in school, were sent to Germany for about ten years of study abroad after completing five years of primary education.

In June 1882, the second batch of 400 young students were sent to Germany and Austria-Hungary to receive intermediate and advanced education.

Behind the breakthrough progress in the field of science and technology is the international student program that has been promoted for more than ten years, and the results are gradually showing.

The young local new generation followed the footsteps of their predecessors and embarked on the road of studying abroad in a foreign country one after another, while their predecessors, Tan Yaoxun and other international students who are about to complete or are in the process of studying, are running to inform and contact, trying to contribute to the development of the country with their own efforts.