Since its establishment, the country has never been able to get any good face from Western countries.

Especially recently, after the death of Vladimir, Lev Davidovich was expelled from the country and went into exile, and the whole country was even less favored by the entire Western world, and the argument that "Sulen" was about to split has become very loud.

Because of the bane of the 1926 general strike, Britain had already severed diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in 1927.

For example, in the Cavendish laboratory at Cambridge University, two people, Kapitsa and Landau, were able to leave their home country of Sulian and come to the UK to participate in study activities.

The two countries have severed diplomatic relations, and it is even more unlikely that they will send new students to each other.

On the European continent, in other countries that have not severed diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, it is still not easy for Soviet students to study in various countries.

Because of their Sulian status, the immigration authorities of most countries are always careful, careful, and cautious when issuing a visa to every Sulian who tries to enter their country, and must ensure that the materials fully meet their requirements before it is possible to issue the visa.

As long as there is one irregularity, then what awaits them is a stamp of refusal.

The foreign affairs departments of various countries do this because they are afraid that the real purpose of these people entering their own country is not as written in their applications.

The real purpose may also be to infiltrate their own country, and the secret is always a conspiracy to subvert activities, and the huge strike in Britain in 1926 is a lesson for everyone.

Because the visa review of each country is extremely troublesome, the top universities in these countries are "more than less", and basically do not admit international students from Su Lianlai to study in the school.

In addition to the old foundation of mathematics inherited from Tsarist Russia and the chemists left by Mendeleev, Sulen's research level in science and engineering is very weak.

Although in recent years, because of the secret military cooperation between Su Lian and Germany, Su Lian received a lot of advanced European industries from Germany before World War I, and also sent some students to Germany.

But even so, Su Lian still faces a big gap in science and engineering.

Moreover, in recent years, with the rise of a new force in Germany, the wind direction of the entire German country has changed dramatically, and the attitude of the people in their country towards the country has gradually changed from friendly to resistant.

This made the opportunity for Su Lian, who was not wealthy, to exchange science and technology with foreign countries even worse.

In the event that Germany and the Soviet Union had a bad relationship one day, if the Soviet Union wanted to participate in international academic exchange activities in the future, they would have to wait for professional academic conferences such as the Solvay Conference and the International Mathematicians Conference every few years.

If we do not have frequent access to the advanced scientific knowledge of the West, then the gap between Su Lian and the West at the level of science and technology will only widen.

Among the many Western countries, Sweden, a neighboring country across the Baltic Sea from Sulian, is a relatively friendly country for Sulian.

They are not as strict in terms of visas as other countries, but because there are no decent universities in Sweden, the Sulian government has not sent students to Sweden.

However, this situation is no longer the same, as Chen Muwu founded the Prince's College in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.

Chen Muwu is not only the youngest Nobel laureate in physics, but also has made great achievements in mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, literature and even sports.

Some people have already asserted that the first 20 years of the 20th century were Einstein's time.

The next 20 years after Einstein belonged to Chen Muwu.

And Chen Muwu is not the only teacher in the Prince's College, he not only invited many scientific stars like him to teach at the Prince's College, but also a group of old scientists who have long been world-renowned have also come to Stockholm to sit in Chen Muwu's town, the most famous of which is Chen Muwu's mother-in-law, the only scientist in the world who has won the Nobel Prize twice.

Led by such a rising and unusually bright academic star in the scientific community, this prince's college was established to train science and engineering talents.

Although the institute has not been established for a year, after the research and judgment of Sulian's education department, it has come to the conclusion that it is only a matter of time before the teaching level of this prince's college reaches the first-class level in Europe, and Sweden can be regarded as a relatively friendly country to Sulian, and there is no problem at all in sending Sulian students to the prince's college.

Another advantage is that Chen Muwu himself is also a foreign academician of the Sulian Academy of Sciences, and he is also a well-known friendly person to the Soviet Union in the Sulian government.

However, Su Lian did not do this very authentically, they did not discuss with Chen Muwu in advance about sending international students to the Prince's College, but after the end of the selection examination in China, they tried to "blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes" on the visa issue of more than 80 teachers and students, and used the visa matter to force Chen Muwu to agree to their request to send a large number of international students to study at the Prince's College.

Originally, Chen Muwu, who received the telegram news that the selection examination ended perfectly, was very excited, he had contributed to this matter by running around for so many years, and now it was finally time to bear fruit.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, Chen Muwu received two telegrams in a row, one from the Sulian education department, which discussed the issue of sending Sulian students to the Prince's College.

The other letter was sent by Shi Ruwei from Qihai, and in addition to repeating Su Lian's requirements, it was also specially noted that these students' visas to take the Trans-Siberian Railway were also stuck in Qihai because of this problem.

At this time in time, the Beijing government has completely severed diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.

However, Su Lian's influence in China, not to mention in the border areas, has not decreased much in the interior of China, because of this Eastern Railway in the northeast.

The Eastern Railway is part of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and according to the treaty signed by the two sides, it is theoretically jointly managed by China and Sulian.

However, in fact, the Soviet side has not fulfilled the relevant agreements, and has not returned to the Chinese side non-railway business projects that should be returned to China, such as telegraphs, telephones, mines, libraries, observatories, schools, etc.

As a railway, the most important department, the Railway Administration, is also unilaterally controlled by Su Lian, and less than 400 of the nearly 3,000 employees are Chinese, and most of the jobs they do are translators or low-level staff.

Even though China and Sulian have severed diplomatic relations, the China Eastern Railway still operates independently as a company.

The Beijing government, which had severed diplomatic relations with Su Lian, was very unhappy with the railway company, but there was nothing it could do.

First, although the Kuomintang was nominally reunified, the actual ruler of the Northeast was not the Zhongyi government in Beijing, but in the hands of Zhang Shaoshuai, the second-generation head of the Zhang family.

Second, because the Trans-Siberian Railway is the fastest mode of transportation connecting China and Europe, if there is a bad relationship with the Soviet Union, not only will future passengers not be able to take the train to and from China and Europe conveniently, but the Soviet side will also be very likely to cut off the telegraph line attached to the Trans-Siberian Railway, completely interrupting the information exchange between China and Europe.

Third, even if the Northeast is returned to the control of the Chinese government, it will not be easy to get the Soviet Union to withdraw from the Eastern Railway, and it is very likely to lead to a confrontation between the two sides, and then end in the defeat of the Chinese side.

In the future, Zhang Gongzi, who was in charge of the Northeast, suffered a big loss in the matter of the Middle East Railway, and the Middle East Road Incident broke out during his tenure, and then the Northeast Army suffered a big defeat in front of the Su Lian army.

Therefore, the Beijing government also acquiesced to the fact that Su Lian could still be in charge of the China Eastern Railway after the severance of diplomatic relations, and in order to facilitate the purchase of tickets for passengers going to Europe, the China Eastern Railway Qianhai Office set up in the public concession was still operating as usual.

This office in the south echoes the headquarters of the Middle East Railway in Harbin to the south and the north, which is basically equivalent to the consular office of the Soviet Union in China after the severance of diplomatic relations with China.

It was also here that Shi Ruwei bought train tickets for the Trans-Siberian Railway for these teachers and students, as well as visas to transit through Sulian.

What stuck him happened to be the last link.

Chen Muwu, who received two telegrams, one before and one after, was a little angry about this matter.

If the Su Lian people did not get in touch with Chen Muwu in advance through such arrogant and unreasonable means, Chen Muwu would be willing to accept a group of Su Lian students to study at the Prince Academy.

But Chen Muwu's neck is harder than Dong Xuan's neck in Luoyang during the period of Emperor Guangwu.

He will never succumb to the coercion of others, let alone bow his head under the pressure of external forces.

Chen Muwu immediately called Shi Ruwei back from the Prince Academy, asking him to suspend all matters such as train ticket purchases, and wait for him to confirm the situation before communicating with him.

Chen Muwu first took Landau, who could speak Russian, to Su Lien's legation in Stockholm in a menacing manner.

He made it clear that he was here to fight, not to reason.

In the face of Chen Muwu's aggressive questioning, the Su Lian Legation used the common diplomatic routine, that is, asking three questions and ignorant mud.

They claimed that they had no idea that there was such a thing, and that they had to contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jusco for instructions, and then go to the Prince's College to inform Chen Muwu after receiving a reply.

But Chen Muwu waited for three days, and he didn't wait for the diplomats from Su Lian to come to the Prince Academy, so he had no choice but to take Landau to the door again.

As a result, the news he got this time made Chen Muwu even more angry.

It is true that Su Lian wants to send Su Lian students to the Prince's College, and it is indeed a decision made by the Sulian education department after research and discussion, and it has been sent to the Prince's College by telegram, and the next thing to do is to discuss "how to send foreign students", "how many to send" and so on.

However, not distributing visas to those Chinese students was not the original intention of the relevant institutions in Sulian, but the spontaneous act of the China Eastern Railway Administration.

The China Eastern Railway Administration is an independent company, and China also has a 50 percent stake in it, and Su Lian has no authority to manage it.

Su Lian's set of Tai Chi boxing, which can be called a classic, did not knock Chen Muwu out of internal injuries.

This time, he completely cut off the idea of letting the students selected from China take the Trans-Siberian Railway to Europe.

After leaving the Sulian Legation, Chen Muwu first went to find Marcus Jr. and asked him to contact the merchant ships of the French Merchant Steamship Company by relying on his family connections to reserve a ticket from the sea to Marseille.

Although it takes longer to take a ferry than a train, and the price of a ferry ticket is more expensive than a train ticket, if Chen Muwu compromises this time now, he may compromise a second time.

Then, when he returned to the Prince's College, he sent two more telegrams in succession.

The first letter was sent to Shi Ruwei, who was anxiously waiting for news in the sea, telling him not to wait for a visa from the China Eastern Railway Office any longer, but to go to Europe by boat instead.

As for which company's ship he will take in the future, Chen Muwu will get in touch with him later.

The second telegram was a reply to the Soviet education department, which had previously applied for the dispatch of students.

Chen Muwu expressed deep regret over their proposal, and he specifically noted in his return call that because the science and engineering students of Prince College are recruited from China, the daily teaching and teaching are in Chinese.

Under the current circumstances, the school has no plans to open up a second foreign language teaching, so naturally it cannot accept Sulian students from Sulian who can only speak Russian but not Chinese.

If you allow others to be unkind, you allow yourself to be unjust.

After sending the second telegram, Chen Muwu was refreshed, and he did not think that the reason for the current situation was his own mistake.

Eighty-three Chinese students selected from China completed the examination in October 1928 and the list was determined.

Because of the train visa hiccup, they and the teachers who were about to take up professors of Sinology in Stockholm were unable to take the train to Europe immediately after the exams.

Therefore, they borrowed the empty classroom of Hainan University to conduct a two-month pre-study training in China, and invited people like Shi Ruwei and Xu Zhimo, who had experience studying abroad, to explain the dos and don'ts of living abroad, and the latter also opened an additional temporary course to teach him the simple Swedish in everyday life that he learned from the Swedish legation.

In December 1928, the students and teachers finally boarded the ship from the Shiliupu Pier in the sea and embarked on a journey to Europe.

A little more than a month later, they landed in Marseille, France, and then France and Germany, and finally reached Stockholm.

(End of chapter)