Chapter 27 Asia's No. 1 University
Early in the morning, the train slowly drove into Nanjing Xiaguan Railway Station.
The train that Lu Zhuhu took was just the most ordinary train.
The national team took the same night, but it is a high-quality "blue steel special train" imported from Germany, the locomotive is purchased from the United Kingdom, the power is the first in the country, from Nanjing to Shanghai, halfway to Suzhou Wuxi Changzhou Town four stations, only 5 and a half hours during the day, the carriage furnishings are also very elegant, the seat is covered with a light blue poplin cover, the table is also equipped with a small vase, a small teacup, the service is very standardized, the exaggerated is that even the air conditioning has it, the look and layout is very similar to the EMU of the Shanghai-Nanjing high-speed railway in later generations, and even better than the EMU - The chairs are in genuine leather.
This is only a second-class carriage, and the first class is more luxurious, but it can only be used by privileged people such as military and political officials of the Kuomintang and family members, even if the seats are empty, no one else is allowed to enter, and Lu Zhuhu has no chance to see it.
However - if the fans of the Republic of China use this to boast about the modernization of the Republic of China, it is nonsense. The simplest reason is that each ticket of the "Blue Steel Express" is more expensive than one yuan for an ordinary car, which is enough to buy half a stone of rice, and ordinary people will never experience the taste of this kind of "modernization" in their lives.
Therefore, only the national football team composed of big movie stars such as Hu Die, Ruan Lingyu, Xu Lai, and Zhao Dan, and famous stars such as Li Huitang and Bao Jiaping can afford it.
There are many reports of later generations that exaggerate how "miserable" the process of this national team going to Berlin is, but Lu Zhuhu understands that their conditions are not bad, compared with ordinary people in this era, I don't know how many times better - no different from the national football team in later generations.
It's just that they're much simpler.
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"Returning" to this "familiar" city - if more than 70 years later is familiar, Lu Zhuhu did not feel too much expectation and joy.
After all, in this time and space, there is no Xi'er;
It's not like he came here after the age of eighteen to feel like "home".
After all, in this time and space, there is no Ning Shuangxiao.
Lu Zhuhu sometimes thinks about his relationship with two girls. He and Ning Shuangxiao have separated several times, and reunited several times, he has a lot of faults with himself, stubborn, arrogant, and machismo, maybe in the end she can still tolerate him, of course, he sometimes feels guilty when he thinks about it.
In their hearts lived a person who might never be seen again, she was the dead brother, and he was the first love who was suddenly separated. Lu Zhuhu knows very well that he is in his twenties, and he still thinks of that little girl so well, because he has ignored her various faults in his long-term thoughts, and fantasizes about her better and better. If they had been together, he might have been unable to stand Xi'er's eldest lady's temper for a long time.
Now that he has Ning Shuangxiao, he is very content, and if he reunites with Xi'er one day, he may be able to say calmly: I haven't seen you for a long time.
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After the national team arrives in Nanjing in the morning, according to the usual practice, they will go to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum to pay respects, and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, they will play the match against the Shanghai Chinese team at the Inspirational Club Stadium against the Shanghai Chinese team.
Originally, when he was in school in Nanjing, Lu Zhuhu had been to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum many times, and at that time, when the school team was going to train, they would also choose to climb the steps of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum to exercise their physical fitness, so they did not choose to go with the national team.
On the other hand, he is still a "supernumerary" of the national team, and it is inevitable to be embarrassed to meet with the "team selection", so it is better not to meet, and see the real chapter on the field in the afternoon.
But it's still a long time until the afternoon, I don't know how to play?
After thinking about it, Lu Zhuhu came to Ning Shuangxiao's alma mater, which was later known as Nanjing University, now called "National Central University", which is the first university in Asia.
Lu Zhuhu still remembers how envious he was when he went to his girlfriend's school when he was still studying in an ordinary university in China: the fifth school in East China, 985, 211, an old famous school with all kinds of names, and there are more than a dozen canteens alone. However, compared to this time, the status of NTU has been reduced much. After all, the later Nanjing University, Southeast University, Hohai University, Nanjing Normal University, Southern Agricultural University, Southern Forestry University, China Pharmaceutical University, etc. were all spun off from this school.
At this time, it was the number one university in China and even in Asia. In March 1927, the Northern Expeditionary Army captured Nanjing, and in June, based on Southeast University, it was merged into the original Hehai University of Technology, Shanghai University of Commerce, Jiangsu University of Law and Politics, Jiangsu Medical University and four public colleges in Jiangsu, and reorganized into the national "Fourth Sun Yat-sen University", which was renamed Central University in May 1928, and was regarded as the most important signboard of the government in terms of culture. In history, there was even a situation where Lao Jiang personally served as the principal, which is estimated to be no such spectacle in the future.
However, the president at this time was Luo Jialun, the former president of Tsinghua University - he was a student of Fudan and now President Lee Teng-hui. 1
In less than two years from October 930 to August 1932, Zhu Jiahua, Ren Hongjun, Gui Chongji, Liu Guanghua, Duan Xipeng, Li Siguang and others were appointed as the president and acting president of Central University. It was not until August 26, 1932 that Luo Jialun was appointed as the principal, and the Yi Chang turmoil subsided.
After Lu Zhuhu walked into the school, he looked east and west, and felt that the Central University was not as good as he imagined - the buildings were all low, and the students did not want to compare with the future, but there were fewer people than the traffic college he studied before and any university in China, and he didn't see the atmosphere of having the first university in a big country at all. In 1934, Lo Ka-lun decided that "the time has come for the development of CUHK" and decided to build a new site to build a "University of Ten Thousand People". In November 1935, 8,000 acres of land in Shizigang was acquired as the new site of CUHK. However, half a year after the construction of the new school site began, the Lugou Bridge Incident occurred. In August 1937, the Japanese invading forces captured Shanghai. On December 13, 1937, the capital city of Nanjing fell, and the idea of building a university of 10,000 people was put to naught.
Of course, the most important thing in a university is the "master", not the "building".
Moreover, just as the place where Su Shi "Chibi Nostalgia" was not the Chibi of the Battle of Chibi at all, the area where he appeared now was not Ning Shuangxiao's campus at all—the later Nanjing University was the old campus of Jinling University, a former church school.
However, Lu Zhuhu still chose to come here, because after all, the spirit is here.
When walking through the playground, Lu Zhuhu saw that many students had already gotten up and were playing basketball by the basketball court. He has always been idle for a moment, watching the students play basketball well, and he wants to join them for a while.