A night of silence.
Early the next morning, Chen Muwu asked the legation staff who brought him breakfast where he should take the train to reach Cambridge.
The staff told Chen Muwu that there are many train stations in London, and each station has a different destination. For example, the Victoria Station where he got off yesterday was dedicated to Dover and transferred to the English Channel Ferry to Calais and Paris. station.
King's Cross Station is the main line to Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and the starting station of the Great Northern Line. Trains to Cambridge generally depart from this station, and then after arriving at Hitchin Station, they are diverted to the branch line to Cambridgeshire.
Of course, there is also a Liverpool Street station in London, which also has a branch line to Cambridge, but the trains running on this branch line have old carriages and slow speeds. Apart from the fact that the fare may be a few pennies cheaper, it is not as good as the one from King's Cross. The experience of riding a train departing from the station.
The staff also told Chen Muwu that there was no need for him to take the train with so much luggage.
The British postal system is very convenient. As long as he pays less than a shilling, they can deliver it to his destination within a day or two, which is convenient and fast.
Chen Muwu, who followed the good deeds, except for the leather bag filled with various documents that he had to carry with him, all the rest of his luggage was sent to Cambridge from the post office.
After finishing the luggage postage and having lunch, Chen Muwu, who was traveling lightly, finally decided to set off from King's Cross Station. Firstly, he did not lack the extra pennies for the ticket, and secondly, Chen Muwu also wanted to see the King. Cross station, is there platform nine and three-quarters?
Wandering on the streets of London, he felt that the streets here were similar to those in the public settlement in Sihai. They were also synonymous with filth and mess. Their cleanliness was far inferior to that of any fifth-tier city in the future that was in the process of "creating health".
Coupled with the hazy weather from morning to night and the horse-drawn carriages running on the streets, Chen Muwu always reminded Chen Muwu of the small northern counties that began to burn coal for heating after winter.
In order to allow everyone, rich and poor, to take trains, the British transportation department mandated that the fare for third-class trains was one penny a mile, which is equivalent to an ocean, which is about four cents a mile.
The railway fare stipulated by the Ministry of Transportation of the Republic of China is two cents per mile for third-class trains.
The Republic of China, whose macroeconomic data such as national finance, national income and steel production are far less than half of those of the UK, was the first to reach this level in terms of railway fares.
Of course Chen Muwu would not choose to sit in the third-class carriage. The environment inside the car was too poor and the seats were uncomfortable. The main reason was that it was too close to the locomotive.
The wooden carriages were not tightly sealed, and the wind brought by the forward movement of the locomotive would blow all the incompletely burned soot and soot into the third-class carriages, leaving every passenger unkempt after getting off the train.
Nowadays, the higher the level of the train car, the farther away the suspension position is from the locomotive.
He bought a first-class ticket and left King's Cross Station on time at three o'clock in the afternoon.
The sky became bluer and bluer as the train drove away from London.
Outside the car window, the grass on the hills was green, and the manors and castles were retreating quickly.
No matter what era or where you are, rich men can always enjoy life in different ways.
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At 4:48, Chen Muwu arrived at Cambridge Station.
When Cambridgeshire was first preparing to build a railway station, the original idea was to build the station into the center of Cambridgeshire.
However, this idea was jointly resisted by a group of academics in the university. They were afraid that the loud noise caused by the train would affect the quiet academic atmosphere around Cambridge University, and at the same time prevent students from being tempted by the big city, making them unable to So frequent in London.
So after they realized the convenience of the train, they had to go out of the city and go all the way to Cambridge Station, one mile outside the city, to take the train to all parts of the country.
The scholars of Cambridge University, the wealthy water transport merchants of Yang San, and the Qing government who were afraid that trains would destroy the royal feng shui could be described as the three great ingenuity of the railway age.
The evil done by the predecessors made Chen Muwu suffer the bitter consequences.
After getting off the train, he did not wait in line for one of the few buses in the city like others. Instead, he called a taxi and went directly to Trinity College by the Cam River.
The dean of Trinity College had long known that a Chinese student was coming to enroll, so he did not make things difficult for Chen Muwu. He just asked out of curiosity whether Chen Muwu had studied in the United States before. Otherwise, why did his English speak so well? Strong American accent.
Why? Of course it’s because Lao Ying is dying!
When Chen Muwu played a game and chose the English version, the national flags following English were all Stars and Stripes.
After explaining to him that Ch'ên on the passport and Chen on the paper were the same surname, Chen Muwu finally completed the procedures to attend Trinity College.
Although the name is a college, this college does not mean the same as the college of physics in later universities or the college of journalism.
The colleges in Cambridge should be more appropriately called academies, where students stay, eat, and discuss issues.
The college itself will also offer certain professional courses, but more often than not, students still have to participate in courses offered by the school together with students from other colleges of the University of Cambridge.
However, Chen Muwu was not assigned a room of his own in the college. This was because he came at the wrong time.
According to the information Chen Muqiao obtained from the Global Chinese Students Association, British universities have three semesters each year, from January to March, April to June and October to December.
Chen Muwu thought that he could enroll before the start of any semester, so he arrived in Cambridge in April.
But the British actually regard October as the beginning of the new school year by default. The old students have not graduated yet, so naturally there are no vacant rooms for them to use.
Chen Muwu should naturally be a 1923 graduate student who enrolled in October, but because he sent a telegram to Eddington before departure, Trinity College also contacted him in advance about his accommodation.
In a Victorian house in an alley about ten minutes' walk from the college, the landlady Jenny Brown rented out three rooms on the second floor to students just like Mrs. Hudson in "Sherlock Holmes" in exchange for money.
The room rate was two pounds and five shillings a week, and Mrs. Brown would help with the laundry, but no meals were provided.
Mrs Brown also does not need to provide meals, as Trinity College provides students with three meals a day.
Mrs. Brown also has a task, which is to record the time when the students who stay with her return to their residence every day.
If a student fails to return by ten o'clock in the evening, she must record it and report it regularly to Trinity College.
The room is not spacious and has a musty smell unique to old rooms.
There was a gas lamp in the middle of the head. It was still dim after it was turned on, but it matched the whole room.
As soon as Chen Muwu put the handbag he was carrying on the table, he heard a burst of hearty laughter from outside the door: "Chinese genius, you are finally here!"
