For the two choices given by Sun Yuanqi, this group of young people fell in love with the name "Generrrporation" (GM) at a glance, and they were completely unable to accept the German Vgen.

No wonder Durant knew that General Electric (GE) already existed,—— General Electric was established 92 years ago, funded by the elder Morgan, and merged Edison General Electric Company, Thomson Hauntsden International Electric Company and other three companies - the new automobile holding company based on Buick Motor Company and Oz Motor Company was named "General Motors", and it seems that the American people really have a soft spot for the word "Gener".

Because Sun Yuanqi was in a hurry to return to China, Jamie and others found a lawyer that day and agreed on the important matters of establishing a new company. Early the next morning, before Sun Yuanqi left, he had already had an extra $1 million in his Citibank account.

Let's put aside Sun Yuanqi and his entourage's westward march from the east coast of the United States, and let us turn our eyes to Tokyo, Japan, thousands of miles away.

At this moment, in a tea house in Tokyo's Chiyoda district, more than a dozen Chinese are discussing a certain topic, and on the table is a letter sent from London by the European branch of the Chinese Society for Science and Technology.

It is said that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were three different organizations among international students:

The first was the official organization called the "Office of the Superintendent of Students", similar to the Education Department of the embassy today, which was responsible for managing all aspects of international students, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs serving as the General Superintendent and the Deputy Superintendent being jointly appointed by the Faculty and the Minister of Mission.

The second type is a student-initiated organization similar to a hometown association, which is generally divided according to the province. The Association of Fellow Residents will take orders from the Office of the Supervision Office of Traveling Students; Regulate the relationship between fellow villagers and help each other. There are both ties and enmity between the townspeople's associations, and there is a great meaning of "brothers are on the wall, and they are insulted by the outside".

The third type is the underground organizations such as the League, the Constitutional Council, and the Socialist Seminar. These organizations are formed with like-minded comrades at their core with specific political ideas at their core. The political ideas they propagated were not recognized by the Qing court, so they were closely supervised and severely cracked down on by embassies abroad, and they could only operate underground.

After the inaugural meeting of the European branch of the Chinese Society for Science and Technology, in the name of President Sun Yuanqi, the Chinese students in the Americas and Japan sent the articles of association of the society, suggesting that they set up corresponding branches. There is nothing taboo about this kind of letter, and it also needs to obtain official support and recognition, so it is sent directly to the Student Supervision Office.

At this time, Li Jiaju, who served as the minister of the Japanese envoy, always advocated that more things are better than less. In his opinion, this kind of letter, signed "European Branch of the Chinese Society for Science and Technology," is similar to the propaganda leaflets of the "League Society" and "Royalist Society" that the embassy often receives, and there is no need to open it at all, and it can be destroyed directly. Only when he saw the words "Sun Yuanqi" made him resist the urge to throw the letter into the trash.

For Li Jiaju, the name Sun Yuanqi is not unfamiliar, because there is too much overlap in the experience of the two eunuchs:

First of all, they all spent time in Hanlin Temple. Li Jiaju is the third Jinshi in the second class of Enke in the 20th year of Guangxu 94), selected Shu Jishi, and was awarded the Hanlin Academy for editing; Sun Yuanqi was a happy Lafayette in the 31st year of Guangxu (1905) and rewarded him for being a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.

Secondly, they all ate mixed rice in the hall of Beijing Normal University. In 1898, Li Jiaju was promoted to the newly opened Beijing Normal University Hall, and went to Japan with Li Shengduo and others to inspect academic affairs, and in 1906, he served as the chief superintendent of the Beijing Normal University Hall; Sun Yuanqi has also been working in the hall of Beijing Normal University since 1898, and has done all kinds of teaching, guild management, and deputy sponsorship.

Third, they all served as Hubei scholars. In 1903, Li Jiaju was edited by the Hanlin Academy and served as the Hubei Xuezheng; Sun Yuanqi went to Hubei in 1906 to serve as a scholar who had just been changed from a school administration.

Fourth, they were all former officials of the school. When Li Jiaju served as the chief superintendent of the Beijing Normal University Hall, he hung the title of the right of the school; At present, Sun Yuanqi is still the nominal right attendant of the school.

Now the two of them are still second-class officials of the Qing Dynasty, maybe this is also a common denominator. However, Li Jiaju's second grade is a consolation prize in exchange for suffering abroad, and Sun Yuanqi, a domestic real job, has to bow his head in front of the second grade. In addition, there is an uncle and grandfather who is a scholar behind the family, so it is really not good to offend him rashly.

So Li Jiaju had no choice but to open the letter with a frown and read it carefully, and it seemed that there was no obstacle. Of course, the establishment of the Japanese branch of the Chinese Society for Science and Technology naturally cannot be done by itself. According to the usual practice, send someone to invite the speakers of the provincial associations to study in Japan, hand over the letters to them, and let them handle it, and the matter will be over.

Since it was an errand assigned by the officials, everyone had to put aside their usual entanglements and sit together to discuss. Hence the current scene of the tea house.

Li Gengen, president of the Yunnan Association of Students Studying in Japan, is a student of the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, and his movements are very crisp and neat. He quickly flipped through the catalog of the society sent with the letter, and said angrily: "My brother is a military student, and he doesn't know much about science or anything. However, is it necessary to establish so many societies? Look at what mathematical societies, chemistry societies, physics societies, meteorological societies, astronomical societies, geological societies, societies of biology, a whole bunch of them, what is the use! In the eyes of the brothers, if you can directly engage in a Chinese science society, why is it so finely divided? Of course, the armament is taken out separately and listed separately, which the brothers still agree with very much! ”

"Hehe, most of us here are not studying science, and I am afraid that this society will not give any better advice. As for this list, after all, it was drawn up by Mr. Baixi and them, and it should be very authoritative. Even if we want to make changes, it is best to ask people who study science, engineering, agriculture and medicine to do it, and it is not appropriate to overstep the bounds. The speaker was Lin Changmin, president of the Fujian Association in Japan, who is currently studying politics and law at Waseda University in Japan.

Speaking of Lin Changmin, some people may not be familiar with it, but when it comes to his daughter Lin Huiyin, everyone must be familiar with it.

Xu Jingxin, the president of a fellow villager from Shandong who also studied law at Waseda University, was not so polite when he spoke: "I don't know if you have seen it, but the work of this science and technology society is to carry out scientific project research, organize academic exchange activities, edit and publish scientific journals, carry out international academic exchanges, hold discipline competitions, carry out popularization work, organize activities to promote the reform of science education, and so on. It's not that I look down on those who study science in Japan, what do they know? After graduating from high school in China, I came to Japan, first learned a foreign language, then entered a junior college, and after three or two years of hard work, I learned a little fur, and then went back to teach and become a technician, purely for his faintness! What kind of scientific research can be done?

"Besides, now that Shenzhou has been dead for seven or eight years, there are bloody everywhere, the streets are full of wolf dogs, and the country will not be a country, what can you do if you learn science and technology well? It's not about being a slave to the Manchu Tartars and a comprador to the foreign devils! In my opinion, don't fix those useless things, everyone should unite as one and overthrow the Manchu rule as soon as possible and expel the foreign insults. When the country is strong and the nation is independent, it is not too late to talk about these messes! ”

Everyone present knew that Xu Jingxin was a member of the Alliance, and when he saw his fierce words, he didn't think he was angry, and even a few people were nodding frequently.

But then again, compared to students studying in Europe and the United States, the level of students studying in Japan is really not high. First of all, it is naturally because the level of science and education in Europe and the United States far exceeds that of Japan. Secondly, studying in Europe and the United States, students are generally studying in universities, and almost all of them are junior colleges, including Cambridge, Oxford, London, Berlin, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Berkeley and other top universities in the world. However, students studying in Japan are generally enrolled in junior colleges, and the level of education is equivalent to that of today's technical secondary schools. Even if there are occasional students studying Tokyo University and Waseda, most of them are in the direction of politics and law and business.

In addition, for some reason, in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, Japan opened a large number of special Chinese departments and crash courses for Chinese students. According to a survey conducted in May 1922, 50 of Japan's 72 universities and schools directly under their jurisdiction accepted Chinese students. These schools will "fully consider" the actual level of Chinese students and try to streamline the curriculum so that students can get their diplomas as soon as possible. For example, Waseda University's Chinese International Students Division has a two-year undergraduate program. There are also faster ones, such as the accelerated normal course, the accelerated police department, the accelerated physics and chemistry department of Hongwen College, etc., which can send you a graduation certificate in half a year or eight months!

Some people may think that Japan's friends have to use a quick way to cultivate talents out of goodwill, considering the low level of Chinese students and the fact that the people's wisdom is just beginning to open up, and they need a large number of teachers.

But we might as well speculate on Japan's intentions with the most malicious thoughts: they used this move to quickly cultivate a large number of pro-Japanese people, who are generally not of high quality - if the level is high, who will study the accelerated course! - With the diploma issued by Japan, they will naturally sell their interests to Japan when they return to China and embark on a political career; Entering the education world, half a bottle of water for half-hangers will ruin generations of Chinese!

Jing Dingcheng, president of the Shanxi Students' Association in Japan, was sent to study in the normal class of Beijing Normal University in the 27th year of Guangxu (1901), and he was still half of Sun Yuanqi's students. After all, unlike in the past, we can't deal with the enemy with blood, guns, and clubs alone, and we must have strong ships and cannons! Besides, Li Jiaju still has to deal with it? ”

"The key is how to deal with it," Li Gengen frowned, "At present, there are at least six or seven thousand Chinese students studying in Japan, even if a quarter of them are workers, peasants and doctors, there is an incredible number!" Moreover, these students are from Sapporo in Hokkaido to Fukuoka in Kyushu, and we can't afford to have a meeting just for travel and accommodation! ”

"European countries are supposed to be much bigger than Japan, how did they get the meeting?" Jing Dingcheng asked.

Xu Jingxin flipped through the paper inside the letter from beginning to end, and shook his head: "Who knows?" Nothing is said in this! ”

But Lin Changmin came up with an idea: "Most of the international students in Japan are still near Tokyo." To set up a society, I think it would be better to find some people from Tokyo Imperial University, Waseda University, Tokyo Higher Technical School, Tokyo Higher Normal School, Chiba Medical College, Tokyo Sericulture Training, and other schools. Since it is a grass creation, it is naturally impossible to cover everything. Later, more on that later. And what will happen in the future, who can say for sure? ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but nod their heads again and again: "That's a good idea." ”