Chapter 1463 The boy chasing his dream (first update, please subscribe)
Everyone has their own understanding of prosperity.
Many outsiders are often surprised by the prosperity here, and then exclaim "this is a miracle", so the "Equator Miracle" is praised by almost all the world.
At the same time, for the people here, they seem to have already adapted to all this, especially for the young first generation. In their growing memories, even though they have witnessed High-rise buildings have sprung up on the horizon like mushrooms after a spring rain, but to them, this is all taken for granted and is normal.
After all, it is in their memory. Perhaps there was once desolation here, but they witnessed it all and the birth of prosperity. Therefore, they think that all these things are natural and there is nothing abnormal about them.
In fact, this is the difference between the first generation and others.
The so-called first generation refers not only to those who were born here, but also to those who grew up here and received education here. Maybe they have memories of their motherland in their childhood, but more of their memories are in Here, they witnessed all this, and they also enjoyed it all.
What is the life of young people like in this land?
For sixteen-year-old Zhao Xiangming, his life is very simple, nothing more than studying. As a student of a liberal arts middle school, his goal is to get into college.
Although British and American education has had an impact on education here in the past few years, traditionally the education system in Borneo is still German-based. Once they graduate from the compulsory education stage, children will enter different schools to continue their studies. : Ordinary middle schools, industrial middle schools, liberal arts middle schools.
The first two are vocational schools. Those who graduate from ordinary middle schools are basically ordinary workers from all walks of life, including construction workers and the like. As for industrial middle schools, they are more complex skill-based positions, such as nursing, secretarial work, assembly line inspection, etc.
Liberal arts schools go straight to the college entrance examination, although students from the first two schools can also take the joint entrance examination. But most of the time, after graduation, they serve in the military and then find employment.
And what about Zhao Xiangming?
As a student of a liberal arts middle school, going to university was his only personal choice.
During class, my classmate Guo Linghang chatted with his classmates about filling in the application form, and his tone was full of yearning for college life.
Zhao Xiangming, on the other hand, remained a bystander with a smile on his face and said nothing more.
It's not that he doesn't have much yearning for college, but it's because he has already set his goal.
"Xiang Ming, what about you? Which university do you want to apply to?"
"Do you still have to ask? Nanyang University, Department of Physics. He is the one who wants to build a spaceship!"
"Build a spaceship!"
This is Zhao Xiangming's dream. He has had this dream every time he saw a satellite entering space.
"Why not major in aviation?"
Without waiting for Zhao Xiangming to answer, Guo Linghang said:
"You don't understand this, come on, Xiang Ming, tell him."
"Because..."
Zhao Xiangming smiled and said:
"At present, our rocket technology is too backward. Although we have sent humans into space, it is at best the same as the Austronesian people releasing a canoe on Bay Island thousands of years ago. We used such a canoe to reach the moon. The flight time is about three days, and it takes 6 to 9 months to fly to Mars, even if we rely on a canoe like that. After conquering space, we are just the Austronesians in the space age. We will be like them, scattered in the vast space, and live on those planets like the Austronesians, but that’s it, for a few hundred years, Thousands of years later, they are isolated, just like the Austronesians in the Pacific..."
The "Austronesian" canoe, this is Zhao Xiangming's definition of "rocket". As early as junior high school, when a scientist from the Space Technology Exploration Company came to the school to give a lecture, Zhao Xiangming proposed to him I have come across this point of view and it is also supported by the scientist.
It was from then on that his dream was to leave the Austronesian "canoes" behind.
"Human beings can enter the sea with canoes, but they cannot conquer the sea. Human beings really conquered the sea with Galenic ships. Only after having large sailing ships did human beings conquer the Pacific Ocean. Only then did the Age of Discovery begin. Then It created modern civilization. If human beings want to enter the age of space exploration, they must make new breakthroughs. We not only need larger spaceships, but also faster speeds. It is difficult to solve this problem just by studying the field of aviation. , we need to make a breakthrough in physics, otherwise, everything is empty talk..."
When Zhao Xiangming said these words, his tone was firm. It seemed that what he was talking about was not a fantasy, but the work he was going to work on.
In fact, this is the case with young people. They believe in and are willing to work hard for their dreams. It is precisely because they have dreams that they will chase and work hard.
Looking at his good friend, Guo Linghang asked:
"So, you are building a faster and bigger spaceship, right?"
"No!"
Zhao Xiangming shook his head and said:
"I want to conquer space! Be the one who conquers space..."
Has mankind conquered space?
In Zhao Xiangming's view, human beings have just entered space. What is the conquest of space is that human spaceships fly freely on various planets, just like the Galen ships sailing on the oceans in the Age of Discovery. Those seemingly simple Galenic ships transported millions of humans to the New World.
In the future, there will be a new era of Galen ships that will transport millions of humans to every corner of space and to new planets. Humanity will once again begin a new era of colonization.
At that time, we will truly conquer space.
Now, it's just a canoe dropped into the Pacific Ocean!
"Physics... and only physics can allow us to conquer space!"
Zhao Xiangming raised the physics textbook in his hand and said with a smile:
"So, I am going to the Department of Physics of Nanyang University. Maybe, one day, I will be able to solve this problem there. Who knows?"
As he finished speaking, the sun shone on the young man's body through the window, and golden light spots dotted his short black hair, as if covering him with a dazzling brilliance. His eyes were firm and resolute, like a rock. No matter how many difficulties and obstacles lay ahead, they could not shake his determination. "Maybe I will never find the answer in my lifetime."
When the classmates’ mutterings came, Zhao Xiangming laughed:
"Then let's live another life. Many things are like this. If we don't do it, how will we know? Just like Columbus, if he didn't do what everyone thought was impossible, how could he have discovered the New World and opened up the great voyages? What about the era? ”
As soon as he finished speaking, a classmate said next to him:
"It was Vasco da Gama who opened a new route."
There are gangsters everywhere, even in high school. Zhao Xiangming just smiled and did not respond to his classmates' rebuttal.
He knew the answer very well in his heart. Vasco da Gama was just the one who opened up new routes, while Columbus was the pioneer of the Age of Discovery. He was not the first to discover the New World, but so what?
The Indians, Incas, and even Austronesians and Vikings who discovered the New World either disappeared in the New World or were isolated from civilization and became so-called aborigines.
Only Columbus truly discovered and conquered the sea. Since then, human civilization has entered a new chapter.
"Haha, when you succeed, I will be the pilot of the spaceship and go to the New World."
"Guo Linghang, that's a new planet!"
"It's all the same, it's all the same, a navigator is always needed!"
"By then, it may be replaced by computers!"
Soon, the laughter and laughter of the students once again became the mainstream in the classroom. For young people, their lives will always be so happy and simple.
Zhao Xiangming was also there joking with his classmates, completely losing his previous serious look.
After school in the afternoon, as usual, Zhao Xiangming lay there doing homework and reviewing his homework. He was busy until after nine o'clock in the evening, when he finally finished his work.
In fact, this is also the situation here. Although primary school only has a few hours of classes every day, whether it is primary school or junior high school, students need to go all out.
Just like those who graduate from junior high school, many with average grades will enter ordinary middle schools and receive vocational studies there. In the future, they will enter factories and enterprises and become skilled workers. Industrial middle schools train people for skilled positions.
Liberal arts middle schools train college students, and universities are also divided into third, sixth and ninth grades. Although the admission rate of ordinary universities is almost 40%, the admission rate of the top eight schools, led by Nanyang University, is only 2%. The admission rate at Nanyang University is even lower.
Therefore, for every student who wants to enter Nanyang University, they have to make amazing efforts - even your son did not get into Nanyang University!
Last year, when the news came out, Nanyang University once again became famous across the country.
Distance to Nanyang University - 2.75 kilometers!
Looking at the words written on the wall calendar, Zhao Xiangming's eyes were determined. He knew what he should do and his goals.
Department of Physics, Nanyang University!
This is his goal!
He felt that he would be able to achieve this goal. After all, his academic performance was there.
"Well, there is only one year left. In one year, I will enter Nanyang University!"
Once again, to encourage himself, Zhao Xiangming took out the book again and looked through it. However, what he was reading was not the textbook, but the magazine "Physics". Although he was only a high school student, he was good at physics. His attainments are no worse than those of many college students.
I don’t know how long I watched, but there was a knock on the door, and then my mother’s voice sounded outside the door.
"A Ming, haven't you rested yet?"
Then Mary opened the door, looked at her son and said:
"It's already very late, it's time to rest."
"Yes, beautiful Ms. Mary, I only have one question to calculate!"
Her son's words made Mary laugh and said:
"Okay, I'll give you thirty minutes at the latest, do you understand?"
Thirty minutes?
This is not enough!
It was said to be thirty minutes, but it took almost an hour for Zhao Xiangming to figure it out. Then he took off his clothes and went to bed, planning to have a good sleep first and continue working hard tomorrow.
Realizing your dream is easy to say, but it’s really not that easy.
The moonlight slanted in from the window, shrouding the young man in the dim moonlight. Although he was lying on the bed, his eyes were determined, as if he was ready to face any challenge. At this moment, he was no longer an ordinary boy, but a brave warrior and a fearless dream chaser.
In fact, it was not at this moment, but when Zhao Xiangming set his goal at a very young age, that he became a dream chaser.
And in this land, the most lacking thing is dream chasers like him. If we say, what is the biggest difference in this land?
It is to encourage people to chase their dreams, to attack and challenge their dreams.
(End of chapter)