06 Chen Muqiao is in a dilemma
Zhu Zhaoxin, chargé d'affaires ad interim of the Chinese Legation in Britain, was once again taken aback after receiving the official letter from Cambridge University.
It's not that Zhu Zhaoxin is uncommon or strange, but mainly in this era when international exchanges mainly rely on writing letters, it is impossible to apply to foreign universities by sending a few emails in China as in later generations.
It took three months for Chen Muwu to communicate with Europe once, and the frequency of such communication cannot be compared with convenient and fast e-mail.
The process of studying abroad during the Republic of China period is that after a student completes high school or university, he or she either pays for it from his family, or he or she is admitted to the national and provincial government-funded study abroad programs.
After getting the money, they have to choose the destination of their study, whether it is Europe or the United States, or the cheapest living expenses and tuition fees.
After they have traveled a long way across the ocean by boat to the destination of their study, the government-funded international students will enter the university they have already contacted under the coordination of the education officials of the Chinese embassy or consulate in the local country.
For self-financed international students, they must obtain the entrance examination qualification of the local university with the diploma they have obtained in China, and after passing the examination, they can be admitted to the university.
Even if you don't pass the exam, you can still take the exam of the next university, anyway, there are universities in Europe and the United States, as long as you have money, you can always find a school to study.
The poorest can also enter the preparatory tuition specially opened for international students, these financially strapped universities will definitely not refuse a God of Wealth who is in a hurry to send them money.
Zhu Zhaoxin has served as the first secretary of the Legation in the UK for many years, and has contacted the school for countless government-funded and privately funded international students who have come to study in the UK.
Every time, he ran from east to west, begging his grandfather to tell his grandmother, so that he could finally complete these things.
Today, it was the first time he had seen a British university send an invitation letter to the legation, asking them to invite Chinese students to study in the UK on their behalf, and they even offered a large amount of scholarships.
After sending the comers away, Zhu Zhaoxin called the relevant staff and asked them to immediately send a report to China, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the Ministry of Education, and to the Railway Bureau of the Two Roads of Qianhai, until they could find this student named Chen Muwu.
In the early days, the Cabinet of the People's Republic of China was like a hotel on the side of the main road, and there were not many long-term guests, everyone stayed in it for a night or two, and then left in a hurry.
Between 1916 and 1928, the Beiyang government's cabinet changed 37 times, reshuffled 24 times, 26 people served as prime ministers, and four regency cabinets exercised power in a short period of time, with the longest term of office being 17 months and the shortest being only two days.
Among them, in 1922, the number of cabinet changes was the largest, and in just one year, the National Assembly changed eight cabinets.
The frequent changes in the cabinet have led to officials in various government departments also "singing and I will appear".
In addition, there is a time delay in receiving the information from the country at the embassy in the United Kingdom, so the staff who send the report do not know whether their current immediate boss, the foreign minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is surnamed Gu, surnamed Wang, or surnamed Shi or Huang.
Huang Ying only temporarily put out the fire in early February, replacing Shi Zhaoji, who was rejected by the Senate, and took up the post of acting foreign minister.
As soon as he saw the name Chen Muwu from the telegram of the Legation in Britain, Huang Ying immediately remembered that the grand occasion of Shao University's lecture that he had read in Yishi Bao a few days ago seemed to be that the person who gave the lecture was also surnamed Chen?
So he immediately sent someone to call Shao Da, and soon after, his subordinates replied after the call: "Chief Huang, the Chen Hanchen who gave a lecture at Shao University last month is indeed the Chen Muwu mentioned in the British telegram. ”
Huang Yin felt that this name was a little familiar, and asked, "Chen Muwu?" Where is he from? ”
"This ...... The subordinates don't know, wait for me to call Shaoda to ask. ”
"Move your mouth above, and break your leg below", Mr. Huang's words made the staff go and return again, and he told Huang Ying that Chen Muwu was a native of Jiang.
What does it mean to write a book without coincidence?
This Huang Yan is also a native of Yeyu County, and he has also gone to study in Waben, and Chen Muwu's eldest brother Chen Muqiao, whether in his hometown or in the Waben period, has had several encounters, but he has no deep friendship.
As for who Huang Yin's friends were who he made and even worshipped during the Wa Ben period, it is really impossible to say, as soon as he says this book, he will be karma.
Among his fellow countrymen, there was a genius who was favored by the world's No. 1 university, and Huang Yin was also honored as a fellow countryman, and he quickly asked people to forward this telegram from the Legation in Britain to the Ministry of Education.
The universities of this era are not all poor like Shao Da.
Chen Muwu's alma mater, the superior unit of the three Jiaotong Universities is the Ministry of Communications, which controls the country's railways, sea vessels, postal and telegraph undertakings, and is naturally wealthy.
Church schools such as St. John's University and Hujiang University have the support of a large number of foreign believers, so that they can easily preach and brainwash in China.
Only Tsinghua School is the most special, and it is managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is responsible for the allocation of Gengzi indemnity.
As the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Huang Yin happens to have the authority to control the funds for studying at Tsinghua University.
Therefore, he even simply issued a special order, asking him to allocate a special amount of money from the study abroad funds managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a special official fee to fund the study of his little brother, whom he had never met.
After dealing with this series of official duties, Huang Yin sent a telegram in his personal name to Chen Muqiao, a fellow villager and classmate during his stay in the country, informing him of the good news that his younger brother was invited to study at Cambridge University.
Chen Muqiao, who received Huang Yin's telegram, became the first person in the Chen family to know the news.
Although Eddington sent the telegram to the two railway administrations several days earlier than Zhu Zhaoxin, Chen Muwu, a salted fish, took another week's long vacation a few days after returning to the unit to cancel the vacation.
The day before going north, the eldest brother agreed to Zhang Naiyan's lecture invitation for him.
During the Chinese New Year, Zhang Naiyan read in the newspaper about the deeds of Chen Muwu, who went to Shaoda to give a lecture.
Just after the New Year, the newly appointed president of the Yujiang Education Association couldn't wait to come to the door again with gifts, giving the old lady of the Chen family a New Year's greeting, reminding Chen Muwu not to forget his promise, and to set a date to return to the Jiang River to give a lecture is true.
As soon as the word came out, the horse was difficult to chase, so Chen Muwu could only ask for a week's leave from the unit and accompany Zhang Naiyan to the south of the Yangtze River.
After receiving Huang Yin's telegram, Chen Muqiao was really surprised, happy and sad.
What was surprising was what Chen Muwu had done, how could he alarm foreign universities when he went to Shao University to give a lecture once?
Happily, my little brother's gold finally shined and was recognized by the world's well-known universities.
But the sad thing is that Chen Muwu went north to lecture for nearly a month a year ago, which has made the old lady very unhappy, in order to keep her younger son by her side for a long time, her mother began to prepare for arranging a blind date for her third brother.
If she told her mother at this time that the third brother would go to England to study, and that she would be gone for a few years, the old lady would definitely be a hundred disagree.
As the eldest brother, Chen Muqiao is in a dilemma.
What the hell should he do?