Chapter 50 Admission of International Students
Xu Qing waited for half a year, and finally waited for the second batch of international students. The first batch of international students www.biquge.info last time were all girls, which made Xu Qing very depressed. However, the second batch of international students Xu Qing also required that the ratio of three men and one woman must be, otherwise there is really no way to start classes. However, this second batch of international students finally met Xu Qing's requirements, of course, this was also based on Xu Qing's many letters to return to China, repeatedly assuring that this international student was not betrayed to foreigners.
Otherwise, if you take those situations in the Manchu Qing Dynasty and mistakenly think that the international students are for foreign devils, it will be troublesome. However, this international student is still very strict in her choice, and there are not too many problems.
"I've seen Lord Xu!" Those international students knelt down and said.
Xu Qing emphasized again: "I tell you, don't kneel easily, remember? In this Britain, in all of Europe, you can't get down on your knees easily, understand? You represent China, you represent China's face, and you must not kneel down easily. You don't have to kneel to me, let alone to any foreigner, understand? ”
The international students stood up again and quickly replied, "Understood! ”
Xu Qing then checked the knowledge of these international students, and felt that these international students had obviously received overseas training in China, and it seemed that the bureaucrats in the Manchu Qing Dynasty were not incorrigibly stupid, and they had some experience. According to Xu Qing's idea, a group of these international students will be sent to study in high schools in the UK, and then enter universities again.
And the best of them will be sent straight to college.
And Xu Qing soon prepared to meet the president of the university. The two most famous universities in the UK, namely the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, and this University of Cambridge is another translation of the University of Cambridge, which is still popularly translated as the University of Cambridge, so Xu Qing did not reluctantly change. Xu Qing met with the two vice presidents of the university.
"Your Excellency, Vice-Chancellors, I think we are about to take place. I think the first batch of female international students should apply for liberal arts, what do you think? As for male international students to apply for science and engineering, can you arrange for them? Xu Qing asked.
The vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge quickly replied: "Okay, Her Majesty has already told us that allowing our two universities to accept Chinese students can be regarded as a bridge of friendship between the UK and China in the future." As for this, we will come up with excellent teachers to teach, please rest assured Minister Xu Qing! ”
Xu Qing quickly nodded and said, "Very good, our first batch of college students are preparing to enter the university to study, have you started to prepare a special class?" In the future, when we enter the school, those common language courses will be organized into a separate class for learning, and those professional courses will be transferred to the class. “
"As for those secondary school and preparatory things, I think we can build a Chinese secondary school together, what do you think? In the future, our international students, if not the best ones, will be sent to this secondary school for a certain period of initial study, and then take the entrance examination of your university again. ”
Xu Qing's plan is to let the best batch of these international students go directly to the university to study, and the students who are not so good will be sent to study in Chinese middle schools, so that they can receive preparatory education, and first learn the language and various cultural basics, so that they can get better grades when they enter the school, otherwise the foundation is not solid, and they will inevitably not be able to learn in the end.
"Okay, we will also send teachers to teach, please don't worry Minister Xu Qing!" The two vice-chancellors assured together.
Xu Qing sent off the two vice principals, and then he was ready to hurry these international students under his command, and was ready to arrange for them to enter the school to study.
"Since you have come here to study on behalf of our China, that is, you will be able to learn knowledge and serve the motherland in the future. I hope you can remember that you are shouldering the future and destiny of the country and the nation. You are also mainly Cantonese, and just a few years ago, the country under your feet sent troops to invade our China. You should be deeply aware of what you say you should do. Do you want this to happen a second time? ”
"I don't want to!" The international students said together.
Xu Qing then nodded and said, "Very good, you don't want it to happen again." What we can do is to study hard, work hard to learn all their things, and then truly become our own. Don't think they're barbarians, but if you look at us at home and abroad, who is more like a barbarian? ”
"What's more, our Chinese sage Confucius also said that there must be a teacher for threesomes, and we must know how to ask questions without shame. So you study hard, the court has spent at least 8,000 taels of silver for each of you! Eight thousand taels of silver, to put it mildly, it is not worth the money to sell you. ”
"If you really want to reciprocate, then give me a good study, don't waste the opportunity given to you by the state!"
"Yes, Lord Xu!" International students answer together.
Xu Qing quickly handed over these international students to those sent by Kangqiao University and Oxford University, and then sent them away one by one to study.
"Master Xu, we're leaving, do you have anything else to say?" Hu Ling asked.
Xu Qing said: "You study hard, don't mind if it's useless for any girl to study, and you can serve the country in the future!" ”
Hu Ling asked directly: "Lord Xu, can we still see you?" I don't want to go, I want to be by your side to help you! ”
Xu Qing shook his head and said: "No, no, no, you still have to study now, London is not far from Kangqiao University, not to mention that we have to hold a press conference every once in a while, once every half a month." When the time comes, you can come back and be the spokesperson for this press conference. But you have to study hard, because the requirements of the press spokesman are very high, and ordinary people can't do it! ”
Hu Ling thought for a while, and then said, "Okay, Lord Xu, I will definitely study hard, and I won't embarrass you!" ”
Hu Ling quickly turned around and left, ready to study at Kangqiao University.
Xu Qing continued to stay at No. 49 Portland Street, London, and there was a lot of vacancy here. Because most of the staff of the former legation were mainly international students, and now most of the international students have gone to study, naturally there are no more staff, only some servants temporarily hired by Xu Qing here, but these servants definitely do not mean that they are diplomats, they are not the core figures.
As for the rest, they are some foreigners.
"Minister Xu Qing, I think that little girl likes you." Mathilde said.
Xu Qing nodded and said, "You're talking about Hu Ling, I can see it!" If I can't even see this, then I, a diplomat, will just resign! ”
Mathilde asked, "Are you willing to let her go?" A little girl who likes you, and you are so willing to let her leave you and go to school? Wouldn't it be nice that she could be there for you? In what you said, if there is something to do, the secretary is fine...... Hehe! What's more, such a cute and beautiful little girl, you let her suffer, can you bear it? ”
"Don't you know that it is cruel for a woman who has a lover in her heart to let her feel the pain of separation? I'm a little unbearable, it's not like I haven't seen many noble daughters forced to leave their lovers and marry men they don't like! ”
Mathilde sighed a little in the end, this may be the fate of the nobility. However, Mathilde was still good, and she knew that her fate since she was a child was that she would inevitably be sent by the family to marry someone who could help restore the Bonaparte family. Mathilde was glad he didn't have a man he liked, otherwise he would be in trouble.
But she has also seen many aristocratic ladies forced to leave the man they like, which is very painful, and Mathilde feels a little sorry for Hu Ling, to be able to follow the man she likes, so that she can study hard in the past!
Xu Qing replied directly: "Why don't I really value her?" It is precisely because I value her that I let her study and study hard, so that she can really become my important assistant in the future. I did it because I knew he was interested in me. Because I only let her see hope, see the hope that she can come back often, so that she can study well. Sometimes, people just have to have goals, and only with goals can they have the motivation to move forward. It was precisely because I knew that she was interesting to me that I wanted to send her to school. In this way, in order to be able to come back once every half a month, to be the spokesperson of this press conference, and to be able to really meet with me, she will inevitably study hard. ”
Mathilde took the initiative to ask, "What if she is not up to the task?" Or is there someone who is more qualified for the job? ”
Xu Qing replied: "I will not hesitate to replace her, as for what she is, then I don't care!" ”
Mathilde was speechless, and after a few minutes, he replied: "Minister Xu Qing, you are too cold-blooded, right?" Don't you think you're shameless when you force a little girl who likes you like this like this? Using her feelings for you to force her so much, you have already broken through the moral bottom line by doing so. Even among our European politicians, there are few people as shameless as you! actually took advantage of a woman's feelings for you, and instead forced her to study hard, you are too cold-blooded and shameless to do so. ”
"As a woman, I don't feel worthy of her, and I actually like a cold-blooded and shameless politician like you! In order to achieve the goal, even the girl's feelings for you are used? ”
Xu Qing was silent, he knew that he was indeed very immoral in doing this. Using a little girl like this for her feelings, no matter what she says, even Xu Qing himself knows that this scumbag who behaves is not allowed by public opinion and morality.
Xu Qing had no choice, so he said directly: "Mathilde, do you know? In this world, there are times when it is so cruel. Especially in China, in our China's imperial examination, hundreds of thousands of people participated in the imperial examination, and how many of them succeeded in the final victory? However, it is precisely because of this process that we in China have selected countless outstanding talents and then let them govern the country. This has laid the foundation for the glory of our Chinese dynasties. ”
"If you want to succeed, you have to go through the baptism of the battlefield. Elect an elite from a group of people and become a ruling class. In China, ability and talent are the foundation of true domination of the country. There is a saying in China that the rich are no more than three generations. In addition to the future generations of losers, more importantly, our Chinese culture is like this. In our China more than 2,000 years ago, Chen Sheng, a peasant of all kinds, could shout out that the prince and general Xiangning had a kind of thing, and then led a group of peasants to rebel. ”
"From that time on, our class in China was mobile, and no one could dominate forever. may have been just a cloth cloth and grass people before, but he also has the opportunity to become famous, become the prime minister of a country, and maybe even become a founding emperor. There are countless examples of this kind in our country, and this kind of cultural thinking is the foundation that lays the foundation for our China, even though it may decline again and again, but it will rise again and again. ”
"It's not like you in the West, where generations of aristocracy rule, ruling by blood. Even now, although the aristocracy no longer has the legitimacy of natural rule, the idea of aristocracy is still in the hearts of everyone. You in Western Europe may not be able to get rid of this aristocratic thinking for more than a hundred years. And we have been freed from the theory of the sacredness of blood more than 2,000 years ago, and then this laid our foundation. ”
Mathilde was speechless at last, and continued: "My uncle, Napoleon, was not a native of France, but a Corsican. My uncle was a Corsican from the French colony, and he was arguably the lowest in Europe, not only was he not an aristocrat, but he was still a Corsican in the French colony. ”
"But in the end he became the emperor of the French Empire, but we had to compromise with the nobles and choose to marry them. Because the aristocracy was the ruler of Europe after all, even if my uncle became emperor, he still had to compromise. You're right, in the European culture, it's true that the aristocracy is serious. Such an idea is conducive to the rule of the aristocracy, but it is not conducive to the development of the nation! ”
Xu Qing continued: "So, I had to do it too. Although Hu Ling, a little girl, was interesting to me, I had to choose to let her study hard. I don't want a little girl who serves people, I want a real assistant, a powerful assistant. If I just want a little girl, maybe I spend a few dozen taels of silver, I can buy one from China at any time. ”
"But I don't want a nanny, I don't want a servant, understand? So although I know that she is interesting to me, I would rather let her go through this cruel trial, because only with a goal can I have the motivation to persevere. Perhaps, this goal, that is, me! I don't need a nanny, and in the process of the country's prosperity, I don't need a nanny who serves people. What I want is talent, really great talent, do you understand? ”