This should be a comment, but as I cannot comment yet, I give it as an answer (made community wiki):
Given your motivation, it should be much easier to prove that for two finite fields $\mathbb{F}$ and \mathbb{F'} of different characteristic the group $\mathop{PSL}_n(\mathbb{F})$ usually does not embed into \mathop{PSL}_n(\mathbb{F'}).
For this, look at the structure of $p$-Sylow subgroups for $p$ the characteristic of $\mathbb{F}$ rsp. not the characteristic of $\mathbb{F}$.
You can make your life easier by choosing the order of $\mathbb{F}^\times$ to be $\ne 1 \bmod n$ (and work with prime fields if it suits you better).
For instance, if G is the group you are embedding, take n to be max(|G|,3), and then for your Fi take all prime fields of size pi congruent to 1 mod n. Then the Sylow pi-subgroup of PSL(n,Fi) is non-abelian, while the Sylow pj-subgroup of PSL(n,Fi) is abelian, hence PSL(n,Fi) cannot embed in PSL(n,Fj).
The important part is solely that p > n, to ensure we get Sylows contained in a maximal torus. The n ≥ 3 requirement makes the defining characteristic Sylow non-abelian, and avoids some issues when Fi is of size 4 or 5 and n is only 2, where one does get some embeddings, and when Fi is of size 2 or 3 and n is only 2 (or in general if n is 1), when we do not get simple groups.