Chapter 766 Tesla Becomes a Ming Fan (Second Update, Please Subscribe)
How can one become a Ming Dynasty person?
For many Europeans, they have never even thought about this issue. The fundamental reason why they don't think about this issue is not because they don't want to become Ming people. In fact, for all ordinary people in Europe, they are eager to go to Ming.
In Europe, ordinary scholars are hardly taken seriously. Ordinary workers in Europe not only have to endure heavy labor, but also their illnesses and work-related injuries are ignored until they lose their ability to work.
But what about the Ming Dynasty?
Even the youngest scholars there can receive official funding to engage in various scientific research and inventions. Even the most ordinary workers only need to work 12 hours a day to get a pension insurance and work-related injury insurance, so that they can live a life without worries.
What's more important is that there they can live like a noble, in a house with a garden, while here? They just live with disease, poverty and dirty garbage.
It is really not easy to go to the Ming Dynasty. It can even be said to be a difficult matter. First of all, they must apply for a visa, and to apply for a visa they must prove that they are the talents needed by the Ming Dynasty.
This kind of talent is not just scientific research talent. Ming Dynasty also needs skilled workers. If those workers can pass the technical assessment, they will also have the opportunity to obtain a technical visa to go to Ming Dynasty.
But apart from that, it is almost impossible for ordinary people to go to Ming Dynasty.
Of course, sometimes some people are lucky.
For Nikola Tesla, who lived near Gospić in the Lika Province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he was undoubtedly lucky.
Of course, he was also unlucky. He had just graduated from high school this year and had the opportunity to go to university through a scholarship from the Military Border Service. However, due to some unforeseen reasons, the Military Border Service was abolished. And of course, he lost the opportunity to get a scholarship and go to university.
It was at this time that Nikola Tesla saw a news report in the newspaper that the Ministry of Culture and Education of the Ming Empire provided 200 degrees to European students every year and provided corresponding scholarships. Any European student could apply, but the prerequisite was that they had to pass the exam.
Go study abroad in Ming Dynasty?
For many people, they didn't even think about it, but for Nikola Tesla, this was his only chance to receive a university education. For this reason, he took the train to Vienna with the money he saved. He took the exam in the Ming Dynasty Embassy in Vienna. Fortunately, the exam paper was in German.
It was because of this that he was able to pass the exam successfully and become one of the 32 international students in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Of course, even when he got his visa and ticket and boarded the ship to Daming with other international students, he didn't know that his name had been registered in the embassy. Even if he couldn't pass the exam, he could still get the opportunity to study in Daming.
Of course, he passed the exam successfully and embarked on the journey to Daming smoothly. For this young man who was only 19 years old, the upcoming journey was undoubtedly very exciting for him.
For Nikola Tesla, the journey to Ming Dynasty was like an adventure of life. It was a strange country. The people there spoke a strange language and were even of different races. But it could provide him with the opportunity to receive a university education that he could not get in Europe.
How could he not be excited?
"Hello, good morning……"
Like other international students, after passing the exam, Nikola Tesla got a copy of the Huade Dialogue Learning Dictionary and began to learn Chinese. For any European, learning to speak Chinese or write Chinese characters is challenging.
In order to master the ability to read and write Chinese characters as quickly as possible, every day he would read and write those extremely complex Chinese characters with a pen as if he were drawing.
“These words are like works of art.”
When writing those Chinese characters, Nikola Tesla had this thought in his mind. Although the Chinese characters looked very complicated, he enjoyed it, not just because they looked very beautiful.
More importantly, it was because that country could provide him with what he could not get in the Austro-Hungarian Empire: a university education.
Of course, what Nikola Tesla didn't know was that the fundamental reason why the Military Border Bureau was abolished last year was because the Austro-Hungarian Empire had to prepare for the upcoming war. In order to use as much of the budget as possible on military combat readiness, the imperial authorities asked the Military Border Bureau to cancel their financial aid to residents in border areas.
But for Nikola Tesla, he did not know that the change in his life was fundamentally related to the change in the world situation, nor did he know that his fate was changed by the flapping of the wings of the butterfly in South America. All he knew was that with the funding from that strange country, he could continue his education.
This is the most important thing.
This is not right. Although he has not yet set foot on that land, he is already full of gratitude towards the Ming Dynasty.
He even gave himself a famous name - Tesla.
His last name is Te and his given name is Sila.
According to his argument in the embassy, the surname Te is a very long and noble surname in China. This surname originated from the descendants of Te Gong, a minister of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period. Te Gong was one of the seven ministers of Jin Crown Prince Shensheng.
Of course, Tesla didn’t know what the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were, nor did he know about the State of Jin, and of course it was impossible for him to know that Prince Shen of Jin gave birth to the Seventh Doctor.
But it does not prevent him from having this name with a grateful mood.
Even now he has gotten used to writing his own name in Chinese characters.
"Maybe by the time I arrive in Ming, I'll already be able to speak Chinese."
Inside the cabin, while Tesla was learning the Chinese pronunciations in a stiff tone, he was talking to himself in a voice full of longing.
In fact, although he had not yet arrived in Ming Dynasty, Tesla already had a small wish, or a small goal in life, in his heart.
It means becoming a Ming Dynasty person.
It wasn't just because he was grateful. He knew it was a country of inventors, and that was exactly what he loved.
But it is really difficult to become a Ming Dynasty person.
Thinking of this, Tesla couldn't help feeling a little melancholy...
Because even in Europe, he had heard how difficult it was to become a Ming citizen. Ming only needed the best talents.
Of course he was very clear about this. If it weren't for the fact that they gathered the best talents in the world, how could they become a country of inventors?
But are you good enough?
Tesla certainly didn't have much confidence in this, although he felt that he was very good, but... if he wanted to become a Ming Dynasty person, he had to prove that he was better than everyone else.
How difficult this is!
It is so difficult to be a Ming Dynasty person!
(End of this chapter)
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