Chapter 526: Zhang 249: The Troublemaker Arrives (6.4K)

Inside the lecture hall.

Looking at Tian Haosuo who seemed somewhat timid on the stage.

XU Yun’s heart was stirred by an unprecedented storm.

To tell the truth.

The name Tian Suo Hao itself really doesn’t pose much of a problem.

At most, it’s just easily mistaken for Tian Suo Hao, and then gets tagged on with an extra few characters, becoming a certain 24-year-old unpleasant graduate student.

XU Yun has encountered similar situations when writing novels in his past life; this subconscious misunderstanding is a very, very common thing.

After all, fast-food literature doesn’t need, nor has the right to demand readers to savor each word carefully.

But some readers, occasionally on the basis of misunderstanding, would further imagine things, and then, in their emotional state, issue some not-so-friendly comments to the author, which is quite speechless.

If XU Yun were to write maliciously engaging content or narratives that deviate from popular values, then being criticized would naturally present no issue.

No one likes taking time to read nonsense, no matter who it is.

However, XU Yun obviously had done nothing wrong, and the reason for the readers’ excitement was due to their own lack of clarity, leaving him feeling wronged T . T...

In fact.

Back then, the character XU Yun arranged was requested by an old Book Friend who had followed two novels and nearly three million words by XU Yun.

And just because of a similar name, he was blasted, which was really too tragic.....

Returning to the original topic.

The name Tian Suo Hao isn’t the issue, so the reason for XU Yun’s surprise naturally only leaves one:

He shouldn’t be here!

It is well known.

The first person in Huaxia history fitting the definition of an international student was Zheng Manuo, born in Guangdong Xiangshan County in 1633.

When Zheng Manuo was born, the Portuguese had already been in Macao for 80 years, turning Macao from a small fishing village into a renowned port for economic and cultural exchanges between China and the West.

The era in which Zheng Manuo lived coincided with the great transformation of the First Western Missionary Expansion.

Later, he studied at a missionary school in Macao under the arrangement of Father Lu.

Due to his excellent performance, he was greatly appreciated by Western missionaries, and thus was brought to Europe to study at Rome Public School.

However, a key point to emphasize is:

Zheng Manuo actually did not obtain a bachelor’s degree at Rome Public School.

He transferred in his sophomore year to pursue theology in a church, ending with the title ’Father’ rather than an international student.

Therefore in later generations.

The individual acclaimed as Huaxia’s first international student wasn’t Zheng Manuo, but Rong Hong.

Rong Hong was a native of Guangdong Xiangshan County, born in 1828, and is recognized historically as Huaxia’s first international student to earn a bachelor’s degree:

In Daoguang’s twenty-seventh year... which was early January of 1847, he went to study in the United States.

In 1850, he was admitted to Yale College.

He graduated successfully in 1854.

The renowned "An Account of the Western Missionary Expansion" is penned by Rong Hong.

Later, Rong Hong also took charge of the Qing Dynasty’s affairs concerning Chinese children studying in America, starting on August 11, 1872, receiving 120 children sent by the Qing Dynasty for American education.

Among these 120 people.

Eventually, one was admitted to Harvard, 22 entered Yale University, 8 enrolled in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and 10 were accepted at Columbia University.

Numerous others also entered Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania.

Huaxia’s renowned engineer Zhan Tianyou, the first president of Shuimu University Tang Guo’an, Beiyang University’s president Cai Shaoji, the first president of Ludong University and the founder of Fudan University were all part of these overseas children.

A fun fact, by the way.

Everyone knows or has heard of O. Henry, right?

He’s the one whose ’classic O. Henry-style endings’ are often seen in the comments section, having been deconstructed ruthlessly by those top students:

After graduating from his aunt’s private school in 1877 and entering high school, he just happened to encounter the first batch of overseas children who aced their high school exams, resulting in his studies facing ruthless battering.

When writing to Asor Estes, he once lashed out:

"Those Huaxia people are too XX good at studying, study study study, study to the xxxx...."

Aside from Rong Hong, Huaxia’s first modern person to study in Europe was Huang Kuan.

Initially journeying across the sea along with Rong Hong to Massachusetts’s Mengsong Middle School.

Then in 1849, he went to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and successfully obtained a degree in medicine.

So the emergence of modern Huaxia students studying abroad actually happened quite early.

But if we narrow the scope to Europe’s top universities, then the related timeline must be greatly postponed.

The first Huaxia person to enter the University of Cambridge was Su Benyao, who entered the University of Cambridge’s St. John’s College to study English in 1892, but only graduated with a degree certificate in 1907.

Thus in history.

The first Huaxia person to receive a University of Cambridge graduation certificate was Wu Lien-teh, who entered Cambridge University in 1896 and obtained a degree in 1900.

Yet now it’s merely 1850, the First Opium War hasn’t erupted yet.

Why at the University of Cambridge’s opening ceremony, did a Huaxia international student suddenly appear?

This is forty years ahead of the original historical trajectory!

Bear in mind.

The primary reason motivating the dispatch of numerous local international students was because of the First Opium War’s outbreak, resulting in national doors being knocked open.

And looking at his long braid and somewhat clumsy English behind him, it clearly seems unlikely he is the descendant of earlier Huaxia immigrants.

But very quickly.

XU Yun contemplated another matter.

That was a few days ago in the library, when he ascertained that Europe’s current productivity level roughly approximated that of 1900, a question suddenly sprang to mind:

Why at this level of productivity, could the local area rather manage to survive until now without being invaded?

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