Nowadays, almost all of the news and news published in the newspapers everywhere are local news and news.

A few big and wealthy newspapers may send professional reporters to several important big cities, or hire part-time workers in the local area, and they will send extremely important news back to the newsroom by telegram.

In order to save money, the text on the news telegram is only a few words.

As for the rest of the world, the expenses of expatriate correspondents are not proportional to their profits, and the price of international telegrams is even more unaffordable, so they have to buy them from various foreign news agencies in China.

However, there is another way to disseminate news, just like the aforementioned "Miller's Review", although its distribution department is in Qianhai, there are still many foreigners who are overseas but want to know about Qihai and understand Chinese culture, and send money to the distribution department to subscribe.

After the publication of each issue of the newspaper, the distribution department will also send it to readers in other cities by mail.

Although this method loses some of the timeliness of the news, it is still cheap.

If you want to see the news of Qihai, you can subscribe to the distribution department of "Declaration" in Shaojing.

After the issuance of each issue of the "Declaration", there will be a part of the loading at the North Railway Station, with the train of the day to the north, first take the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway to Beijing, then take a ferry to cross the Yangtze River, and then along the Jinpu Railway to Tianyi, and finally change to the Beijing-Feng Railway to arrive at the Shaojing Zhengyangmen Railway Station, which is picked up by the Shaojing Distribution Department waiting here, and finally distributed to the hands of various subscribers.

Although it took two days on the road, the speed of this news delivery was a day faster than the 800-mile rush when Emperor Lao Tzu exhausted countless horses a hundred years ago.

Similarly, people who are in the sea can also see Shaojing's "Morning Post" and Tianyu's "Yishi Bao" more "conveniently".

Cai Yuanpei relied on this method to read the news in the "Declaration" that Einstein would not come to Shao University to give lectures.

However, it is not only the newspaper "Declaration" that is loaded from the North Railway Station and sent to the north.

Also on January 4, when Cai Yuanpei was still pouring bitter water on the school newspaper, Dr. Jacob Schulman, the US minister to China who was also in Shaojing, also got his hands on the "The Times" published two days earlier, and naturally read the news article about Einstein's discussion meeting at the Ministry of Industry Bureau.

In fact, as early as the day after the seminar, Schulman received a daily briefing from the US Consul General in Shanghai, John Coll, to the legation by telegram.

On the evening of New Year's Day, Ke Yinhan also attended the relativity discussion in the auditorium of the Ministry of Industry, so he wrote a lot about the situation at the meeting in the briefing.

It mentioned that before the end of the meeting, a young Chinese man asked Einstein a question about time travel, which intrigued him and invited him to the stage for discussion.

As soon as the newspaper news and the briefings from Ke Yinhan confirmed each other, Schulman, like Tyr, became interested in the Chinese who Einstein called the "Ramanujan" of physics.

But unlike Thier, a diplomat who has worked in diplomacy all his life, Schulman had another identity before he was appointed minister to China, that is, an educator.

From 1892 to 1920, Schulman served as president of Cornell University for twenty-eight years.

As the third principal of the school, he does not need to be bothered by all the trivial matters in the initial period, and can devote all his energy to the construction of the school.

As a result, during his tenure at Schulman, Cornell University has grown rapidly and welcomed many Chinese students.

Today, there are two of Cornell's most well-known alumni in China, one is Shi Zhaoji, the minister of the People's Republic of China to the United States at this time, and the other is none other than Dr. Hu, who wrote a letter to Chen Muwu.

After Hu Shi returned to China, he always regarded himself as a disciple of Dr. Dewey of Columbia University, but in fact, he first entered Cornell University in the United States, studied agriculture for two years, then transferred to the Department of Literature, and only went to Columbia University three years later.

At this time, Schulman, who was quite interested in Chen Muwu and wanted to know more about the situation of this young man in China, his first reaction was to go to his beloved apprentice Hu Shi to inquire.

There was no need for Schulman to visit in person, he only made a phone call to the university, and the next day Dr. Hu asked for leave and personally visited the legation in Dongjiaomin Lane.

After a few polite words, Shulman got straight to the point and asked Hu Shi directly if he knew the specific situation of this young man named Chen Muwu.

Everything in the world is so coincidental, on the foreign car to the legation, Hu Shi happened to see the news published in the "Declaration".

Regarding the fact that Professor Shao University was not as good as a student in Zhao Junhao's speech, Hu Shi, who was also a professor of Shao University, was not the slightest dissatisfied.

He came to teach at Shaoda just to make money and make a reputation, and now his feelings for the school are far less than that of Mr. Cai and Mr. Li.

Hearing Shulman's question, Hu Shi didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly got up to the inner pocket of the coat hanging on the hanger, took out a ball of newspapers, rubbed it on the table, and then pushed it in front of the old principal, pointed to the tofu block on the tenth page and said: "Mr. Minister, this is the new "Declaration" that arrived today, and there is a very detailed introduction to the Chen Muwu you mentioned. ”

Knowing that Schulman couldn't understand Chinese, Dr. Hu also thoughtfully translated it in English word for word: "The newspaper said that this Chen Muwu graduated from the Ministry of Communications with a bachelor's degree in engineering from Yanshan University, and is now working as an engineering ...... in Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway Bureaus."

"Wait," Schulman interrupted Hu Shi's introduction, "Is Yanshan University the same Yinshan Industrial College that Mao graduated from?" ”

"That's it, Mr. Minister."

Mao Yisheng, an expert in bridge science, graduated from the school in 1916 and went to Cornell University to study with Tsinghua Gengzi funds.

The school did not know where he graduated from the school as stated on the enrollment registration form, nor did they know what the teaching level of this school was, so they offered to take an entrance examination for him, and only if he passed the test could he be enrolled.

When the results of the exam came out, the Cornell teachers were very surprised, and the students of this middle school were almost close to perfect scores in all subjects.

At that time, the principal of Cornell was Shulman, and on behalf of the school, he announced that all students who came to the school in the future would be exempted from the entrance examination.

Since then, the graduates of the school have received the benefits of Senior Brother Mao and have gone to Cornell to study after graduation, and the school has gradually gained the reputation of "Oriental Cornell".

Listening to Hu Shi, this young man who talked with Einstein eloquently and was very optimistic about Einstein also graduated from the school, Schulman felt very strange.

If he is so good, why didn't he go to Cornell to continue his education after graduation?