Nowadays, almost all the news published in newspapers everywhere is local news and news.
Several wealthy major newspapers may station professional reporters in several important big cities, or hire part-time workers locally. When they encounter extremely important news, they will send it back to the editorial department via telegram.
In order to save money, the text on the news telegram was only a few words.
As for other countries and regions in the world, the expenses and income of foreign journalists are not proportional. The price of international telegrams is even more unaffordable, so they can only buy them from various foreign news agencies in China.
However, there is another way for news to be disseminated. Just like the Miller Review mentioned above, although its distribution department is in Jihai, there are still many people overseas who want to know about Jihai and Chinese culture. Foreigners, remit money to the issuing department to subscribe.
The circulation department will also deliver each issue of the newspaper to readers in other places by mail after it is published.
Although this approach loses part of the timeliness of the news, the advantage is that the price is still low.
People in Beijing who want to see news about Wuhai can subscribe to the Shenbao’s distribution department in Beijing.
After each issue of "Declaration" is issued, part of it will be loaded at the North Station. As the train goes north that day, it first takes the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway to Xingjing, then takes a ship to cross the Yangtze River, and then along the Jin-Pu Railway to Tianli, and finally After changing to the Beijing-Fenghuang Railway, it arrived at Beijing Zhengyangmen Railway Station, where it was picked up by the Beijing distribution department waiting here, and finally distributed to each subscriber.
Although it took two days on the road, the speed at which this news was delivered was one day faster than the eight-hundred-mile express that the emperor had exhausted countless horses to do a hundred years ago.
Similarly, people in Jihai can also read Beijing's "Morning News" and Tianyi's "Yi Shi Bao" more "conveniently".
Cai Yuanpei relied on this method to read the news in Shenbao that Einstein would not come to Bei University to give lectures.
But Shenbao is not the only newspaper that is loaded from the North Railway Station and sent to the north.
It was also January 4th, when Cai Yuanpei was still complaining in the school newspaper, Dr. Jacob Shulman, the U.S. Minister to China who was also in Beijing, also got the copy of "The Haihai Times" published two days ago. ", naturally I also read the news reporting that Einstein held a seminar at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau.
In fact, as early as the day after the symposium, Shulman received a daily briefing from the U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, Coyinhan, to the embassy via telegram.
On the evening of New Year's Day, Ke Yinhan also attended the discussion on the theory of relativity in the auditorium of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau, so he wrote a lot about the meeting in the briefing.
One of them mentioned that before the end of the meeting, a young Chinese man asked Einstein a question about time travel, which intrigued the latter and invited him to the stage for discussion.
The news in the newspaper and the briefing from Ke Yinhan confirmed each other. Shulman, like Till, was very interested in this Chinese man whom Einstein called the "Ramanujan" of physics. became interested.
But unlike Till, a diplomat who has been engaged in diplomacy all his life, Shulman had another identity before being appointed as the minister to China, that is, as an educator.
Shulman served as president of Cornell University for twenty-eight years from 1892 to 1920.
As the third principal of the school, he does not need to be troubled by the trivial matters of the start-up period and can devote all his energy to the construction of the school.
Therefore, during the years when Schulman was employed, Cornell University developed 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 Republic of China in the United States at this time, and the other is none other than Dr. Hu who wrote to Chen Muwu.
After Hu Shi returned to China, he always regarded himself as a disciple of Dr. Dewey of Columbia University. In fact, he first entered Cornell University when he came to the United States. He first studied agriculture for two years, then transferred to the literature department, and then went to Columbia University three years later. big.
At this time, Schulman was very interested in Chen Muwu and wanted to know more about this young Chinese man. His first reaction was to ask his beloved disciple Hu Shi.
There was no need for Shulman to visit in person. He only made a phone call to Beida University. The next day, Dr. Hu took leave and visited the embassy in Dongjiaomin Lane in person.
After a few polite words, Schulman 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 such a coincidence. In the foreign car coming to the embassy, Hu Shi happened to see the news published in "Shenbao".
Hu Shi, who is also a professor at Bei University, was not dissatisfied at all when Zhao Junhao mentioned in his remarks that the professors at Bei University were not as good as the students at Nuo University.
He came to Bei University to teach just to get money and fame. Now he has far less affection for the school than Mr. Cai and Li.
After hearing the question raised by Schulman, Hu Shi did not dare to neglect. He quickly stood up and went to the inner pocket of the coat hanging on the hanger. He took out the balled up newspaper, smoothed it on the table, pushed it in front of the old principal, and pointed at the tenth The tofu block on the page said: "Mr. Minister, this is the new "Declaration" that arrived today. It has a very detailed introduction to the Chen Muwu you are talking about."
Knowing that Schulman could not read Chinese, Dr. Hu also thoughtfully translated it word for word in English: "The newspaper said that this Chen Muwu graduated from the Ministry of Transport's Lushan University with a bachelor's degree in engineering, and now works as an engineer in the Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway Bureau. …”
"Wait a minute," Schulman interrupted Hu Shi's introduction, "Is Lushan University the same Lushan Industrial College where Mao graduated?"
"That's the one, Mr. Minister."
Mao Yisheng, an expert in bridge studies, graduated from Wuhan University in 1916 and received a Boxer Scholarship from Tsinghua University to study at Cornell University.
The school did not know which school he graduated from on the admission registration form, nor did he know the teaching level of this school, so he was asked to take an entrance exam and only if he passed the test could he be admitted.
As soon as the test results came out, the teachers at Cornell University were very surprised. The Chinese student's scores were almost perfect in all subjects.
At that time, the president of Cornell was Shulman. On behalf of the school, he announced that in the future, all students from the school would be admitted without taking the exam.
"Forefathers plant trees, and future generations enjoy the shade." Since then, graduates of Wu School have received benefits from Brother Mao, and have gone to Cornell to study abroad after graduation. Wu School has gradually gained the reputation of "Cornell of the East" Honor the name.
Hearing Hu Shi say that this young man who had chatted with Einstein and was highly regarded by Einstein also graduated from the U.S. school, Schulman felt very strange.
Since he is so good, why doesn't he go to Cornell to continue his studies after graduation?
