"Everything is difficult at the beginning", it stands to reason that this is the first admissions examination of Prince College in China, as the founder of Prince College, Chen Muwu should appear at the examination site and coordinate all possible problems.

But here in Stockholm, the newly established Prince's College also faces many problems.

The progress of the school's construction, including the quality of construction, needs to be watched.

Compared with the admissions exam, Chen Muwu had to sit in the rear and deal with these more tricky troubles.

He now finally understands why when Bohr was building his Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen, he didn't think about food and tea every day, and when he was depressed to the extreme, he packed his luggage, put on his backpack, and went hiking and camping in the forest outside Copenhagen, releasing the pressure in his heart.

In 1924, just in time for the second phase of the expansion of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Bohr did not even attend the Fourth Solvay Conference, which was held in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, not far from Denmark.

Chen Muwu lacked skills, so he could only entrust the part of the entrance examination in China to Shi Ru, who had been engaged in academic research with him in the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University.

In order to ensure that there are no major mistakes in this admissions exam as much as possible, Chen Muwu also used all his contacts in China.

For example, before the exam, Shi Ruwei spent more than half a year visiting several well-known universities in China, where he visited the deans, professors and students of the physics department, and asked them to help with the entrance examination of Prince College.

Fortunately, because of Chen Muwu's connections, Shi Ruwei does have a few more right-hand men.

For example, Xu Zhimo, who held professorships at four or five universities in Qihai and Yangjing, because he was about to leave China and go to the prince's college founded by Chen Muwu in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, so he was more active than anyone else, and spontaneously handled a lot of things for Shi Ruwei.

Of course, Xu Zhimo, who is so in the limelight, is also very popular, and many people have entrusted their relationship to him, hoping to know the scope or specific topics of the exam in advance.

No matter how good the relationship between the visitor and him is, Xu Zhimo did not go to Shi Ruwei to ask for the original questions of this exam, and one of the principles of his help this time is that he will definitely not trouble the admissions exam.

Xu Zhimo also tried to encourage Hu Shi, who was a professor at Daxia University like himself, to devote himself to the preparation of the admissions exam.

At the beginning of 192, he saw with his own eyes that when Chen Muwu went to Shaojing University to give a lecture, because the school's principal Cai resigned and left Beijing to return to the south.

Therefore, in Xu Zhimo's eyes, the relationship between Hu Shi and Chen Muwu should be very good, at least five years ago.

That's why he invited Hu Shi, who was also at Daxia University, to help Chen Muwu's Prince College entrance exam, but Hu Shi officially rejected him.

He also gave a decent reason, because Hu Shi himself is the director of the China Foundation that the United States refunded Geng's money, and this foundation was set up to manage Geng's money in the United States.

To a certain extent, Hu Shih's work, that is, the selection of students to study in the United States, and Chen Muwu's entrance examination for the Prince's College is a conflict and competition.

If all the good students go to Chen Muwu's Stockholm, then there will be no more students who pass the Geng exam and go to study at a university in the United States.

U.S. universities are unable to accept excellent students from China, which may affect China's reputation in the United States, and second, it may also allow the U.S. education department to evaluate China's education level.

If this is done, Hu Shi's foundation may no longer exist.

Xu Zhimo didn't understand why Hu Shi's attitude towards Chen Muwu had changed so much in just a few years.

But he also respected the other party's choice, and no longer invited Hu Shi to help with the selection exam of the Prince Academy.

Of course, in addition to Xu Zhimo, there are other individuals and institutions who have put their strength into this selection examination.

After a quiet period of silence, he finally moved from Kuozhou to the Minist government in Shenjing, and the educational administrative committee, which originally acted as the Ministry of Education, followed the example of the French education system, and became involved in this matter after the selection examination of the Prince College became louder.

The entry of the Chinese government was not because he wanted to pick Chen Muwu's peaches, but because of the personal factors of Cai, the dean of the graduate school.

In January 1912, Li Shizeng, the "first person to study in France in China", established the "Society for Studying in France and Thrift", which was supported by the first Minister of Education, Cai, who not only used his power to allocate a property under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education in Shaojing as the office land of the Association, but also personally participated in the specific work of the Association.

Later, because of the failure of the "second g-life", Cai, who followed the former prime minister, was wanted by Yuan Xiangcheng and went into exile, and even went to France in person.

From the initial rise of the idea of going to France to work-study, to the implementation and finally the reluctance to cancel, Cai has always participated in the front line of this movement, and has made great contributions to the fact that many aspiring but poor young students can go abroad to France to receive advanced scientific and cultural knowledge.

But those students were able to study in France not only by Cai's alone, but by many educators and famous people.

Cai never imagined that after a gap of nearly ten years, a new trend of studying in Europe would rise in China.

Moreover, this learning activity is more planned and has a clearer goal than the one they organized at the beginning, and there is only one goal, that is, to cultivate batches of outstanding science and engineering talents in China.

The most important thing is that this project can rely on Chen Muwu's own efforts to communicate with the Swedish side, build a school, and recruit students.

Although this moment is not as good as that time, when I sent students out to work and study, it was because I had just overthrown the rule of the Qing government and caught up with Yuan Xiangcheng's perverse behavior, and China was still relatively chaotic in China, and the level of education was not high, so I had to go abroad to receive more advanced education.

Now that China has been reunified, it is about to enter a more stable period of development.

Cai believes that there may be no need to send students abroad to work and study like they did at the beginning, and they can still receive relatively good jobs in China.

But precisely because the person who took the lead in it was Chen Muwu, who their graduate school had always wanted to fight for, the Cai family intended to show favor to Chen Muwu.

Moreover, the national government had just moved its capital to Shenjing, and the university had just been reorganized and established, and it happened to need one thing to establish its prestige.

The combination of these reasons allowed the Cai family to exercise their authority and ask the power of the Graduate School to cooperate with the selection examination held by the Prince's College in the sea this time.

In order not to arouse Chen Muwu's disgust, he also specially told him to cooperate with the work, and remember not to occupy the magpie's nest and dominate the guests.

Cai Shi used the special line of the graduate school to send a telegram to Chen Muwu, who was far away in Europe, informing him of the official fate.

Although Chen Muwu is not very optimistic about the ability of the Chinese government, Chen Muwu feels that there should be no problem in organizing such a simple exam.

Therefore, he expressed his gratitude to Cai for his kindness in the call, and then immediately sent a telegram to Shi Ruwei, telling him that it was okay for the people in the graduate school to help, but if they wanted to do anything about the selection exam, they should never agree.

Although his behavior is a little bit like a villain's heart, Cai Yuanpei didn't want to interfere, but Chen Muwu had to do this, to prevent himself from spending money to invite aspiring young people from the Prince's College from China to sincerely learn knowledge, and become a son-in-law who does not learn and is idle and relies on his family's status and connections.

Internationally, with the Swedish Legation in China and the help of the Graduate School of the People's Government in charge of education, Shi Ruwei's preparation for the examination was much easier.

And basically, most people will not be like Hu Shi, but like Xu Zhimo and Cai, they are very optimistic about the selection exam held by Chen Muwu, so they also do their best to help this exam.

In the end, because Chen Muwu's eldest brother Chen Muqiao once served as the provost of Nanyang University in the Ministry of Communications, this time Nanyang University hosted the selection examination as a venue.

Chen Muwu is not the kind of person who only asks for help but never reciprocates, and he announced that in the future, Prince College and Nanyang University will form a sister school, and priority will be given to inviting Nanyang University graduates to continue their studies in Stockholm.

According to Chen Muwu's original intention, there should be no registration fee for this kind of meritocracy examination, so as to prevent those poor but talented students from giving up the exam because they can't afford to pay the registration fee.

However, in the follow-up communication with Chen Muwu, the domestic Cai raised objections to his view.

Because if the registration fee is not charged, it is likely that many people will have the idea of "playing three poles with dates without dates", and then the test organizer will bear a great burden.

Holding an exam with hundreds of people is not child's play, it has to be taken into account.

Although the problem of venue selection has been solved by Nanyang University, it does not mean that there are no problems in other aspects.

In ancient times, when the imperial examination was held, there were heavy troops around the vicinity of the Imperial Courtyard, first to prevent the possible leakage of examination questions, and also to prevent the students who took the examination from mutiny for various reasons.

When hundreds of young and middle-aged students in their twenties get together, it is equivalent to a large powder keg filled with gunpowder, and for some reason, it may be directly detonated, causing very serious consequences.

As the number of candidates increases, so does the number of proctors.

Every invigilator has to keep an eye on the situation in their own exam room, and there is no need to think about cheating, it will definitely happen.

What should be done after cheating is discovered, and the problems that may undermine the fairness of the test are all points to pay attention to.

Therefore, Cai, who said that he would not interfere in the selection examination of the Prince Academy, still expressed his opinion on the examination registration fee after communicating with Chen Muwu many times.

Each candidate who registers for the exam is required to pay a certain registration fee to take the exam.

If the test score reaches the demarcated cut-off mark, such as passing, the registration fee will be refunded in full.

Although passing does not necessarily mean that you will be able to pass the exam, it at least shows an attitude of the organizers, which can more or less discourage those who try to fish in troubled waters.

With the help and coordination of all parties, the first exam in China after the completion of the Prince's College finally did not produce any big problems.

Of course, some small situations will still occur, such as a certain candidate lost the admission ticket, a certain candidate played abnormally because of mental stress, and a certain candidate overslept and failed to take the exam.

For this situation, Shi Ruwei had already made a plan in advance according to Chen Wu's requirements.

They are not as strict as they were in the college entrance examination in later generations, but consider opening up the net as appropriate.

After all, although China has been nominally reunified after the "Northeast Banner Change," in fact there are still warlords, bandits, and foreign garrisons everywhere, and if you miss this year's selection exam, whether you can still participate in it next year is a big question.

This time, the selection examination of the Prince College was basically successfully concluded.

I didn't have any major problems before the exam, and I didn't have any major problems during the exam......

…… But after the exam, there was a big problem.

And the place where this trouble occurred is not at home, but abroad.

A total of 83 students were selected to leave for Stockholm.

Because the Trans-Siberian Railway has long been completed, there is no need for this group of students to go to Europe to board the ship from the sea as Chen Muwu did at the beginning, and then follow the route of "East China Sea - South China Sea - Strait of Malacca - Indian Ocean - Red Sea - Suez Canal - Mediterranean", but can spend half a month taking the train like Chen Muwu went to Europe from China for the second time.

The only trouble with taking the train is to ask for a visa for Sulian, which is to have trouble in this link.

Su Lian took down the visas of these eighty-three students and professors such as Shi Ruwei, Xu Zhimo and Guo Dingtang, and then attached a more rude request to Chen Muwu-

If you want the visa to be processed smoothly, you must let the Prince's College accept a group of international students selected from Su Lian.

They knew Chen Muwu's motives for running a school in Stockholm, Sweden, so they also wanted to take advantage of this east wind to rob and get a piece of the pie.

(End of chapter)