173 Candidates for the compilation of teaching materials
Shi Ruwei arrived at Northeastern University not only to meet with He Yujie, exchange with him about the academic level of Northeastern University students, and accumulate relevant experience for the future selection examination of Prince College.
After stopping He Yujie from buying a particle accelerator from Su Lianren and learning the relevant information he wanted to know, Shi Ruwei, who left the office of the head of the physics department, still had the second task assigned to him by Chen Muwu.
He asked He Yujie to send a message to the above on his behalf, and then temporarily stayed in the faculty dormitory of Northeastern University, waiting for the big gold advocate behind Northeastern University to return to school after receiving the news.
Shi Ruwei's last handwritten letter from Chen Muwu was written to this young marshal Zhang who began to transform from a dissolute and unruly son to the son of the Zhang family who took on family responsibilities.
At first, Qun heard someone on the phone that a Ph.D. graduate from Cambridge University had come to the campus of Northeastern University and wanted to meet him by name, but Zhang Gongzi didn't really care.
But when he heard that this person was carrying a handwritten letter written by Chen Muwu to himself, Zhang Gongzi suddenly became interested.
He put down the big cigarette gun in his hand, and a bone turned over from the bed and stood up, ran to the room where the telephone was placed, grabbed the receiver, and shouted to the other side: "Let the guests wait in the school to entertain the students, I will immediately send someone to arrange a car, and I will rush over to meet him." β
Zhang Gongzi did what he said, Shi Ruwei had just finished chatting with He Yujie in the morning, and before he had time to eat lunch, Zhang Gongzi rushed from his official residence in Fengtian to the campus of Northeastern University.
He invited the guest, who is visiting Northeastern University today, to join him for lunch.
While waiting for the food to arrive, Zhang Gongzi was already impatient to ask Shi Ruwei for a handwritten letter written by Chen Muwu to himself.
"Dr. Shi, did Brother Hanchen say anything at the same time when he handed this letter to you? How is he doing in Europe? If it weren't for the fact that my side was so busy with military and political affairs, I would have wanted to go to Europe to meet him. β
Zhang Gongzi said with a regretful face.
"Thanks to you, Dr. Chan is doing well in Europe. He is now not only successful in his career and has won numerous awards, but also has a wedding next year, which can be said to be a double harvest of career and love. β
"That's a good idea! When will he have his wedding next year? I'll be there myself! β
Zhang Gongzi was very longing for the arrival of 1928, but he never thought that in the second year, his life would change dramatically.
"What does Dr. Shi think of our Northeastern University?"
After chatting with Chen Muwu, I heard that Shi Ruwei had come to Northeastern University this morning, and Zhang Gongzi began to ask unexpectedly about the other party's evaluation of his proud industry.
If Shi Ruwei can't hear Zhang Gongzi's words, he is a fool, and he is on other people's territory, so what's wrong with saying a few flattering words?
What's more, he came all the way from the sea and saw the public and private universities inside and outside the sea concession, the Zhongyi University in Beijing, the Nankai and Beiyang universities in Tianyi, and those universities in Shaojing.
Only Tsinghua University, which holds the U.S. Gengzi indemnity and continuously sends international students to the United States, can be on a par with it.
Hearing the beautiful words that came out of Shi Ruwei's mouth, the expression on Zhang Gongzi's face couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, he knew that he was powerful, and it was another thing to hear them praise himself from others.
"In that case, Dr. Shi, I don't think you should go anywhere else, just stay at our Northeastern University. You are a top student at Cambridge University, and Northeastern University will not treat you badly. β
Facing Shi Ruwei, who is both a doctor from Cambridge University and a good friend of Chen Muwu, Zhang Gongzi, who is eager for talent, issued an invitation to stay in the school to teach.
But Shi Ruwei just smiled apologetically: "Principal Zhang, I'm really embarrassed, I returned to China this time, and I still had the task assigned by Dr. Chen, to stay over there in the sea and deal with the selection and examination of international students from Prince College." β
Hearing that his invitation was rejected, Zhang Gongzi slapped his head and pretended to come out with a sudden realization: "Look at my memory!" Brother Hanchen once told me about this, saying that he wanted to set up a school in Europe that specializes in training Chinese students, but I didn't expect it to be done so quickly! Brother Hanchen is both talented and virtuous, and I naturally want to support his righteous deeds.
"Otherwise, I'll have a whole school student assembly convene this afternoon to announce this to everyone. Dr. Shi, how about you also take the stage to speak a few words? β
"This ...... Is this necessary? I already spoke to He Yujie, the head of the Department of Physics, about this this morning. β
"Of course it is necessary! You have been researching at Cambridge University for several years with Brother Hanchen, and you are the person in charge of this selection examination. The most important thing is for students to learn first-hand about this exam from you.
"It just so happens that I also want to take this exam as an examination to test the learning level of students, and see how effective the teaching effect of this Northeastern University, which we have spent a lot of money on in Northeast China."
Zhang Gongzi warmly invited, and Shi Ruwei had no choice but to agree.
He also knew not to look at the young man in front of him, who was about the same age as himself, with a respectful smile on his face.
But he is actually a smiling tiger, behind the smile is a big warlord with hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army, if he blindly refuses and makes Zhang Gongzi unhappy, then the consequences are likely to be not good.
"However, Mr. Zhang, I came to visit the Northeast this time, and I also brought with me a handwritten letter from Dr. Chen."
The two of them chatted about other things for so long, and finally entered the main topic of Shi Ruwei's visit to the Northeast this time.
He took out Chen Muwu's last letter from the document bag he was carrying with him and handed it to Zhang Gongzi.
Zhang Gongzi personally stood up from his seat, took Chen Muwu's letter, opened the envelope, took out the letterhead, and read it carefully.
In fact, there is not much effective information on the letter, except for some polite words, the rest is to say that he asked Dr. Shi to go to Northeastern University for investigation and research, and hoped that Zhang Gongzi could instruct the relevant personnel in the school to cooperate.
The above matter has basically been dealt with, and the last thing in the letter is the focus of Chen Muwu.
When he returned to China before, he was warmly welcomed by Zhang Gongzi all the way in the Northeast, and he once described his own imagination to the other party at that time.
He not only wants to set up a school in Europe to train young talents for China, but also to train a group of skilled workers for China while educating them.
The students were selected by the admissions examination held by Shi Ruwei and the Swedish Legation in China.
As for the workers, they completely want to entrust it to Zhang Gongzi to deal with.
On the one hand, the Zhang family is willing to spend money, and for so many years in the Northeast, they have invested a lot of money to build factories, and their own industrial base is stronger than that of other places.
On the other hand, Chen Muwu also thought of a more long-term thing, that is, these workers selected from the Northeast would receive at least three to five years of industrial training after arriving in Europe, and when they returned to China after completing their studies in Europe, by that time, Zhang Gongzi would probably have left the Northeast with his Northeast Army and went to the West.
Relying on Zhang Gongzi's prestige, most of these people should have gathered around him and followed him to Sanqin together.
Then, of course, the new factories that have learned the advanced production experience of Europe will also be set up near Xiyu.
These new factories that produce civilian or military products will become a great gift left by Chen Muwu.
Who they will serve in the future is self-explanatory.
Seeing what the letter said, Zhang Gongzi, who didn't know why, thought that Chen Muwu was helping himself.
It's just that these workers seem to have been invited a little late, and if they had come a few years earlier, and now that some workers had begun to return to China, it would not have been so difficult to say that they and their father had been involved in the war against the south.
Fortunately, it is better to come late than not to come, Zhang Gongzi decided to carry out a selection work in various factories in Northeast China at the same time as all the staff of Northeastern University to review the Prince's College exam, and to select a sufficient number of young workers, requiring them to be clever and receptive.
Chen Muwu gave the Northeast a chance, so he had to seize it firmly.
A handwritten letter from Chen Muwu made Zhang Gongzi very excited.
Shi Ruwei didn't know what was written in Chen Muwu's letter, and he thought it was just a selection exam, why did Zhang Gongzi become like this.
After reading the letter and the dishes, the next banquet is for the guests and hosts.
Fengtian was the last stop on Shi Ruwei's journey to the north, and he stayed at Northeastern University for a few more days, where he lectured at an all-hands meeting about the 1928 Stockholm Prince's College selection exams in Linghai, and his journey across most of China came to an end.
Chen Muwu, who was far away in Europe, also inadvertently became a witness to Shi Ruwei's journey.
Because he basically received one or several letters from the local area to England about a month after Shi Ruwei went to a place, and the senders were basically those people Shi Ruwei visited.
And there are also a few telegrams mixed with sporadic ones, whether it is the content of letters or telegrams, they all praise Chen Muwu's righteous deeds, and say that he will do his best to cooperate with this selection examination.
This made Chen Muwu feel more and more confident about the selection examination held in China.
This confidence lasted until Chen Muwu got married and returned to Stockholm to prepare for the opening of the school.
From England to Sweden, he was accompanied not only by his wife Chen Aifu, but also by several "coolies" from Cambridge University.
Among these people, there were guests who came to attend Chen Muwu's wedding, such as von Neumann from the University of GΓΆttingen, Heisenberg from the University of Munich, and the Russian Landau, who had been studying with Dirac after coming to Cambridge University for more than a year.
Oppenheimer of the University of Chicago also wanted to go directly from London to Stockholm with Chen Muwu, but was ruthlessly bombed back to the United States by the latter.
Chen Muwu asked him to go back to China first to deal with the relevant matters, and then talk about going to Sweden.
He brought so many people together to compile the textbooks for future teaching before the first students of the Prince's College arrived.
Heisenberg and von Neumann were the same people who had previously worked together in Chen's office in the Cavendish lab to write lecture notes on quantum mechanics.
Only Dirac, who had already obtained a teaching position at Cambridge University, couldn't leave, so Chen Muwu chose to take Landau, who studied with Dirac.
Landau later published a set of teaching books, "A Course in Theoretical Physics", which caused physics students around the world to lose an unknown number of hairs.
This set of books has been translated and published in China, and more than one edition has been published because of the special project funding from the state.
But Ben, college students who want to study physics are not so lucky.
In the 21st century, the last time this book was translated and published was in 1970, not only was there only one edition, but it was also very rubbish, and the point is that since the first printing in 1970, the publisher has long since stopped publishing the book.
Fifty years after 1970, I have suggested that Landau's Course in Theoretical Physics should be retranslated into a better version, but no official agency in China is willing to undertake the translation of this basic textbook.
Eventually, six undergraduates in a student club at Tohoku University in Sendai began to study Russian spontaneously while trying to translate the latest version from the Russian version.
Because it is a student club, the funds are obtained from the school, and the distribution of the school's club funds is ranked according to the popularity votes on the campus.
How can an unattractive club made up entirely of science and engineering nerds compete with kendo clubs, baseball clubs, orchestras, and choirs?
In short, the translation work of this society was very slow, and it took several years, and even the first volume of "Mechanics" of "Theoretical Physics Course" has not been translated.
was inexplicably named by Chen Muwu and had to go to Stockholm with him, Landau was a little incredible.
Landau was even more shocked when he learned that his mission to Stockholm was to work with Chen Muwu and several other PhDs from well-known European universities.
Just me? How can he be?
However, Chen Muwu, who ordered these people, was not finished, he wrote another letter and sent it to Berlin, Germany.
Happy Chinese New Year!
(End of chapter)