Zhu Zhaoxin, charge d'affaires of the Chinese Embassy in the UK, was once again shocked after receiving an official letter from Cambridge University.
It’s not that Zhu Zhaoxin is unusual. The main reason is that in today’s era when international communication mainly relies on writing letters, it is impossible to apply to foreign universities by sending a few emails at home, as was done in later generations.
It took Chen Muwu three months to communicate with Europe once. This frequency of communication cannot be compared with the convenience and speed of email.
The process of studying abroad during the Republic of China was that after a student completed high school or university, he either paid for it from his family or took the exam for a national or provincial government-funded study abroad program.
After getting the money, they have to choose a destination to study abroad, whether it is Europe or the United States, or the one with the cheapest living expenses and tuition fees.
After they have traveled a long distance across the ocean by boat and arrived at their study destination, the government-sponsored international students will, under the coordination of the education officials of the Chinese embassy and consulate in the local area, enter the universities they have already contacted.
As for self-financed international students, they must rely on the diploma they obtained in China to obtain the entrance examination qualifications of local universities. After passing the examination, they can be admitted to the university.
Even if you fail the exam here, you can still take the exam at the next university. Anyway, there are many universities in Europe and the United States. As long as you have money, you can always find a school to study at.
In the worst case, you can also enter a preparatory tutoring program specially designed for international students. These financially strapped universities will definitely not reject a God of Wealth who is rushing to give them money.
Zhu Zhaoxin has worked as a first secretary at the Chinese Embassy in the UK for many years and has contacted schools for countless government and privately financed students studying in the UK.
Every time, he was the one running around begging grandpa and grandma to finally complete these matters.
Today was the first time he saw a British university sending an invitation letter to the embassy, asking them to invite Chinese students to study in the UK, and actually offered a large scholarship.
After sending the visitor away, Zhu Zhaoxin called the relevant staff and asked them to immediately send a report to the country, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the Ministry of Education, to the Qihai Railway Bureau, until the student named Chen Muwu could be found.
The cabinet of the early Republic of China was like a traveling inn along the road. There were not many long-term guests. Everyone stayed there for a night or two and then left in a hurry.
From 1916 to 1928, the Beiyang government's cabinet changed 37 times and was reorganized 24 times. 26 people served as prime ministers. In addition, four regency cabinets exercised power in a short period of time, with the longest term of 17 months. , the shortest is only two days.
Among them, 1922 last year had the most cabinet changes. In just one year, Congress changed eight cabinets.
Frequent changes in the cabinet have resulted in officials from various government departments also "taking the stage after you sing."
In addition, the embassy in the UK far away from home has a time delay in receiving information from the country. Therefore, the staff who sent the report do not know whether their current boss, the Director-General of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has a surname of Gu or surname. Wang, whose surnames are still Shi and Huang, simply did not write his name in the official documents and telegrams, and directly started with "Minister of Foreign Affairs Jun Jian".
Huang Yong 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 in the telegram from the Embassy in the UK, Huang Qi immediately remembered the grand lecture at Bei University that he had read in the "Yi Shi Bao" a few days ago. It seemed that the person giving the lecture was also named Chen?
So he immediately sent someone to call Beida University. Not long after, his subordinate made a call and reported back: "Mr. Huang, the Chen Hanchen who lectured at Beida University last month is indeed the Chen Muwu mentioned in the British telegram."
Huang Yi felt that this name seemed familiar and asked, "Chen Muwu? Where is he from?"
"This... subordinate is not sure. I will call Beida and ask again."
"If you talk at the top, you will break the legs at the bottom." Mr. Huang's words made the staff come back again. He told Huang Yan that Chen Muwu was from Yujiang.
What does it mean to write a book without coincidence?
This Huang Yi was also from Qiyu County, and had also gone to Qiben to study abroad. He had met Chen Muqiao, Chen Muwu's eldest brother, a few times, both in his hometown and in Qiben, but he did not have a deep friendship.
As for who Huang Qi had a close friendship with or even worshiped during this period, it is really impossible to say, and this book will be banned as soon as it is mentioned.
There was a genius among his fellow countrymen who was favored by the world's number one university. As a fellow countryman, Huang was also honored. He quickly asked someone to forward this telegram from the Embassy in the UK to the Ministry of Education. share.
Not all universities in this era are as poor as Bei University.
The parent unit of Chen Muwu's alma mater and the three Jiaotong Universities is the Ministry of Transportation. The Ministry of Transportation controls the country's railways, shipping, postal services, and telegraph services, so it is naturally very wealthy.
Christian schools such as St. John's University and Hujiang University have the support of a large number of foreign believers, which makes it easier for them to preach and brainwash in China.
Only Tsinghua School is the most special, being managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is responsible for allocating the Boxer Indemnity.
As the Minister-General of Foreign Affairs, Huang Hao happens to have the authority to control the funds for studying abroad at Tsinghua University.
So he even issued a special order to allocate a special amount from the study abroad funds managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a special official fee to support his little brother, whom he had never met, to study abroad.
After handling this series of official duties, Huang Yong sent a telegram in his own name to Chen Muqiao, a fellow countryman and classmate of his during his stay in Qian, telling him the good news that his younger brother had been invited to study abroad by Cambridge University.
Chen Muqiao, who received the Huangyi telegram, became the first person in the Chen family to know the news.
Although Eddington sent the telegram to the Two Railway Administration Bureau several days earlier than Zhu Zhaoxin, Chen Muwu, a salty fish, took another week-long leave a few days after returning to his work unit to cancel his leave.
The day before heading north, his eldest brother agreed to Zhang Naiyan's invitation to give lectures on his behalf.
During the Chinese New Year, Zhang Naiyan read in the newspaper the various deeds of Chen Muwu who went to Beida University to give lectures.
Just after the New Year, the newly appointed president of the Ejiang Education Association couldn't wait to visit again with gifts. He wished the old lady of the Chen family a happy New Year, and reminded Chen Muwu not to forget his promise, and to quickly set a date to return to Ejiang to give lectures.
Once the words were spoken, it was hard to catch up, so Chen Muwu had no choice but to go back to the work unit and take a week's leave, and accompanied Zhang Naiyan to the south of the river.
Chen Muqiao was really surprised, happy and sad when he received Huang's telegram.
What is surprising is what Chen Muwu did. How could he alarm foreign universities by going to Beida University to give a lecture?
Fortunately, my little brother's gold finally shined and he was recognized by the discerning eyes of a world-renowned university.
But what is worrying is that Chen Muwu went to the north to give lectures for nearly a month two years ago, which made the old lady very unhappy. In order to keep her youngest son with her for a long time, the mother began to prepare to arrange a blind date for her third brother.
If you tell your mother at this time that your third brother will go to England to study for a few years, the old lady will definitely disagree.
As the eldest brother, Chen Muqiao is in a dilemma.
What should he do?
