Before 1933, all universities in China were recruiting students independently. The schools set their own questions and organized their own admission exams. The admission of students was also determined by the school. Therefore, some big shots in the Republic of China often had zero points in a certain subject and could still be admitted to prestigious schools.

After 1933, although schools recruited students independently, the number of admissions for public universities was uniformly stipulated by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China.

The entrance examination time of each school is also different. For example, the entrance examination time of the Central University in Nanjing is mid-July, the entrance examination time of Peking University is at the end of July, and the entrance examination time of Guangzhou University is at the beginning of August. The entrance examination time of the Nankai University is at the end of July.

Under this admission rules, a student can apply for multiple universities, and after taking Tsinghua University to take the Peking University, which school can admit which school can take. This is a bit like the college entrance examination for future students with special talents. Candidates will go to the venue and take multiple efficient special talents exams. Excellent students can also meet the admission standards of many universities.

As a private school, Nankai University has much more expensive tuition than public schools. At that time, those who could afford to attend Nankai University were rich, so the number of students at Nankai University has never been large.

Nankai University cannot rely solely on Zhang Boling, the "almonster" who raises funds everywhere to maintain it. The tuition fees for enrollment are still the main source of school income. Now it is June, which is the graduation season for middle school and the best time for Nankai University to promote.

In order to recruit more students, Zhang Boling took Chen Qiang to Peking and visited several more well-known middle schools in Peking.

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The No. 1 Middle School in the Capital is Chen Qiang’s first stop.

During the Qing Dynasty, this place was once a specialized school for the Eight Banners' children. It was renamed Jingzheng Academy in 1894, and in 1902, it was renamed as the Eight Banners Secondary School of the Royal Family Jueluo Eight Banners Secondary School. After the founding of the Republic of China, it was changed to the No. 1 Middle School of the Capital, and the enrollment was fully liberalized, with Chinese, English, mathematics, history, geography, physics and chemistry and other subjects. From then on, the No. 1 Middle School of the Capital became an ordinary middle school.

It is said to be an ordinary middle school, but in fact, ordinary people cannot go there. Although everyone who can go to school here is not the child of a noble family, they are also the children of wealthy families and can afford Nankai University.

Peking is not far from Tianjin. The news that Chen Qiang won the victory over foreigners at the World Games has already reached Peking, and Chen Qiang is also well-known in Peking.

On the playground of the No. 1 Middle School of the Capital, Chen Qiang performed a 100-meter sprint and invited several students from the No. 1 Middle School of the Capital who ran faster together.

Then, amid the exclamation, Chen Qiang shook the other people apart and rushed through the finish line.

"Chen Qiang ran so fast!"

"It's worthy of being the fastest in Asia!"

"I heard that even the world champion of foreigners is not Chen Qiang's opponent!"

"So amazing. I also want to compare foreigners like Chen Qiang."

"I decided that I will go to Tianjin next month to take the entrance examination for Nankai University."

Before he knew it, Chen Qiang attracted a wave of fans for Nankai University.

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In the evening, Tsinghua University held a banquet to entertain Zhang Boling and Chen Qiang also met Professor John Ma of Tsinghua University again.

The name Ma John sounds like a foreigner, but he is a real Chinese. Professor Ma was born in Gulangyu, Xiamen. Gulangyu was called the "Museum of Architecture of All Nations". At that time, many foreigners lived in Gulangyu, and these foreigners also influenced the residents of the island, so Professor Ma had this Chinese name with a bit of foreign aura.

Professor John Ma has worked at Tsinghua University for a full 52 years. He actively advocated sports throughout his life, which can be said to have devoted his entire life to China's sports career.

The last time Chen Qiang met with Professor John Ma was at the Far East Games. Professor John Ma was the head coach of the Chinese team at that time, so Chen Qiang met Professor John Ma.

After a year, Professor Ma John's has not changed much, and he seems to have gained some weight.

Professor John Ma looked at Chen Qiang with a smile: "Chen Qiang, I heard that in the past year, you have set a national record and Asian record many times. It's really awesome young man."

"Professor Ma praised it!" Chen Qiang said modestly.

"I have known about the fact that you broke the national record of 200 meters and 400 meters at the North China Games. I heard that you won the world champion Eric Lidir Lidir is the holder of the 400 meters world record a few days ago. I have had a few encounters with him. It is definitely a real skill to defeat him."

Professor Ma changed his voice and continued: "I think at your current level, you can definitely participate in the Olympic Games. The next Olympic Games will be next year. Are you interested?"

"If you can go, it would be better, but the situation in the country is not good, so if you participate in the Olympics, you will do things in the world," Chen Qiang sighed.

Professor Ma nodded: "That's right, but if you can go, try to go as much as possible. Your President Zhang is looking forward to the Chinese appearing in the Olympic stadium every day. The next Olympic Games will be held in Los Angeles, the United States. When I was young, I went to the United States to study and met some people from the American sports industry. If you really plan to participate in the Olympics, you can say hello to me first, and I can also help you arrange a few or two in the United States."

Professor John Ma has gone to Chuntian College in the United States twice to study. Chuntian College is the most famous sports college in the United States, so Professor John Ma knows many American sports practitioners.

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As July entered Nankai University, the summer vacation was also on, and the students were all home, while Chen Qiang stayed at the school to continue training. Anyway, he was a homeless person and had no other place to go.

But the weather was a little unbearable. Starting from mid-July, Tianjin rained for several days, turning the stadium of Nankai University into a fish pond.

Once the coal ash runway encounters rainy days, it will be very muddy and there is no way to train. Chen Qiang had to pause his daily training and wait for the sun to clear up.

Tianjin only encountered heavy rains, while the situation in the south was even worse. The Jianghuai region encountered a rare and extremely large flood in a century. For example, cities such as Nanjing, Changsha, and Wuhan along the Yangtze River were all flooded, among which Wuhan was the most serious. The entire city was soaked in water, and citizens even traveled on small bamboo rafts.

This heavy rain was national, not only in the Jianghuai region, but also in the south, Guangzhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and provinces in the Yellow River Basin in the southwest, have also encountered disasters of varying degrees. For example, in many places in Shandong, precipitation has exceeded historical records.

As August entered, many victims from Hebei, Shandong and other places appeared on the streets of Tianjin.

All sectors of Tianjin have also spontaneously organized disaster relief and fundraising activities, but compared with severe floods, this donation in Tianjin is just a drop in the bucket.

The role that the civilian power can play in this large-scale disaster relief is very limited, and sometimes it will help too much, so disaster relief still depends on the government. However, since its establishment, the Nanjing National Government has always put military first. As for people's livelihood projects, they should not be allowed if they can.

At that time, Nanjing's military expenditure accounted for 50% of the total fiscal expenditure, and debt expenditure exceeded 30%. The remaining 20% ​​also had to bear various government expenditures, and very few could be used for national economy and people's livelihood.

The tariff recovery in 1931 could increase the fiscal revenue by about 400 million yuan each year, which is equivalent to a free extra money. However, when the flood comes, Nanjing still cannot pay for it and has to rely on issuing disaster relief bonds to provide disaster relief.

Of course, all money was used for war. On July 23, the Jianghuai region had become a country of terror, but the big boss in Nanjing ran to Jiangxi to supervise the war and also issued a telegram "Reporting compatriots across the country to unify the internal and foreign aggression", officially proposing the policy of "Safeguarding the internal aggression first". As for the tens of millions of disaster victims in the Jianghuai region, it was not important in his eyes.

The key is that the money has been spent, the words have been spoken, the bull has been bragging, and the force has been pretending, and the final battle has not been won, which is too embarrassing!

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In July, August and early September 1931, disaster relief became the main thing in China. In September, although the flood had gradually receded, the subsequent relief of victims and the restoration of production were all major problems, and winter was about to begin. Tens of millions of victims had no food, no winter clothes, and no shelter. If it was not resolved as soon as possible, I don’t know how many people would die this winter.

The flood caused the Nanjing government to make things worse. The neighbors facing each other across the sea in the east of China finally extended their claws to the northeast.

September 18.

Fengtian fell, Siping fell, Yingkou fell...

All eighteen cities along the South Manchurian Railway and Anfeng Railway fell.

Changchun fell and Jilin fell! The Japanese army began to attack the entire northeast, Qiqihar was in danger, and Jinzhou was in danger.

Bad news came one by one, and it was spreading rapidly like a virus, and that feeling was suffocating.

Overnight, countless Tianjin citizens took to the streets, demonstrating and protesting. The people could not understand why the Northeast Army did not resist and simply handed over the great rivers and mountains to the invaders.

All the factories opened by the Japanese in Tianjin were in a state of suspension. Even if they wanted to start work, no one would work. The Chinese workers in the factory had already gone on strike collectively and took to the streets.

Japanese shops have also been closed-door, because a new round of boycotts against Japanese goods has arrived, and this time, boycotts against Japanese goods will be more violent than before.

The Japanese concession in Tianjin has been completely blocked, and all Japanese expatriates in Tianjin have hid in the concession. Defensive facilities such as sandbags and horse-rejecting facilities are placed at the entrances and exits of the Japanese concession. Heavy machine guns have been set up, and they are ready to shoot at any time when they enter the concession. The nearby buildings have been cleared, and the Japanese troops stationed in the concession in Tianjin have also arranged firepower on the commanding heights.

If the protesters dare to attack the Japanese concession, I believe these Japanese soldiers will shoot without hesitation!

The British Concession, French Concession and Italian Concession also began martial law. They were worried that this tense situation would affect the safety of the expatriates, and they were even more worried that the arrival of war would affect their interests in China.

For example, the British consulate ran to the Japanese consulate as soon as possible. He did not condemn Japan's aggression, but asked Japan to promise to protect British expatriates in the Northeast from harm. At the same time, he also hoped that the Northeast after being occupied by Japan could implement an open door policy to the UK.

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Chen Qiang also joined the protesters.

Although Chen Qiang also knew that these demonstrations, these protests, these boycotts of Japanese goods, were ultimately futile, the wheel of history still rolled forward along the original trajectory, and the pace of the invaders would not stop because of this.

But even though Chen Qiang knew it was useless, he still had to do some things because he was a Chinese!

It has been two years since he came to this era. Chen Qiang has already overcome the initial confusion and gradually integrated into this era. He has become more and more like a person of this era. So even though he knows what will happen, even if he is mentally prepared, when things really happen, Chen Qiang will still feel sad and angry!

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Not only in Tianjin, Peking, Shanghai, Nanjing, and all cities within the pass, the people are demonstrating and protesting. Everyone hopes that Nanjing can send troops as soon as possible, fight with the Japanese with real swords and guns, and take back the seized territory.

However, Nanjing poured a basin of cold water.

The big boss in Nanjing gave a speech at an important conference, asking the people to "have to be consistent with the top and bottom, first with justice against power, peace against barbarism, endure pain and hatred, temporarily take the attitude of obedience, and wait for the judgment of international axioms."

Simply put, we must be reasonable, peaceful, patient, and wait for international intervention.

The invaders have pointed their guns at you and pulled the trigger. You have to be reasonable, peaceful and patient. What is the difference between this and waiting for death? And they also hope that international interference can make Japan retreat. This is really naive!

Subsequently, Nanjing issued a letter to the people, instructing the whole country's army: "We also unanimously warn the Japanese army to avoid conflicts and to the people, and we must maintain a serious and calm attitude."

As soon as this news came out, the crowd was excited! The wave of protests in various places became increasingly fierce, and thousands of college students who petitioned were gathered in front of the Nanjing government.

Faced with the fierce public opinion, Nanjing finally launched a scapegoat, and Foreign Minister Wang Zhengting requested to resign.

Wang Zhengting is not only a foreign minister, but also a member of the International Olympic Committee. Now that he resigns, the core of Nanjing's rights has faded out, it also makes the future Olympic journey for Chinese athletes even more difficult.

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Chen Qiang's desk was a "Sports Weekly", which is a local newspaper in Tianjin and one of the few sports journals in China. The contents published in "Sports Weekly" mainly include: sports theory, sports technology research, sports history, sports records, textbooks, domestic and foreign sports surveys, competition rules, sports records, sports who's the list and literary works, etc., which are very rich in content.

Chen Qiang read carefully, and suddenly, a message attracted Chen Qiang's attention.

"Japanese player Tadaehiro Minami set a new world record in the long jump event with a score of 7.98 meters at the sports meeting held in Tokyo. It is understood that Tadaehiro Minami used a new forward long jump technology for the first time..."

Behind are some brief introductions by Nanbu Zhongping. Chen Qiang didn't look at it much. His eyes were on the words "world record" and "stand up and long jump technology".

"Southern Zhongping has indeed broken the world record!" Chen Qiang sighed.

According to his memory, at the Los Angeles Olympics next year, South Chunghei will also break the world record of triple jump. An athlete maintains the world record of long jump and triple jump at the same time. South Chunghei can definitely be regarded as the world's long jump king in the 1930s.

"For the first time, the new forward long jump technology was used. There should be many flaws in the forward-looking air in this era!" Chen Qiang thought to himself.

There are three main types of long jumping techniques, namely squatting, stand-up and walk-through style. Among them, squatting, squatting, and simplest. The subsequent step-up style, squatting, appeared, and the stand-up style, did not appear until 1931.

Nanbu Chukai was the first to use the stand-up and flee, so later generations generally believed that Nanbu Chukai was the inventor of the stand-up and fleeing technology, and this technology also brought two world records to Nanbu Chukai.

Suddenly, Chen Qiang had an impulse, he wanted to practice long jump and snipe Zhongping from Nanbu at the Olympics.

Chen Qiang had no hatred for Nanbu Zhongping. He just regarded Nanbu Zhongping as an opponent. If it were before the "September 18th", Chen Qiang might not have the idea of ​​sniping Nanbu Zhongping.
To be continued...