"You are the one!"
Standing in front of the map, Zhu Xianhai stared at a location on the map with a slight smile on his face.
"Japan!"
There is not only one "Tatar" in East Asia, but also another country whose door has been opened - Japan!
Unlike the "Tatars" who still pretended to be deaf and dumb after being blasted out of the country in the Opium War, Perry's "Black Ship Attack" shocked Japan. Many Japanese faced the Western invasion and felt the pain in order to maintain their independence.
European and American civilization must be learned, and to learn the West, one must first learn the language. Many scholars realize the importance of learning English and have devoted themselves to English education.
After the Perry Fleet opened the door to Japan, almost every feudal lord in Japan had English training classes. Even Fukuzawa Yukichi, in addition to writing books in English, also ran English cram schools and taught English in class himself. English learning became a standard in Japan.
of the moment.
It was not just a moment, but it lasted for nearly a century. It was not until around the outbreak of World War II that Japan started a farce of boycotting the "enemy language".
But in this era, the craze for Japanese people to learn English became more and more intense. With the efforts of many scholars, before Japan started its reform and reform in 1853, they translated thousands of Western humanities books.
Why was it that at the beginning of the Meiji Restoration, Japan was able to hire a large number of foreign scholars from Britain, the United States and other countries to teach Western scientific and technological knowledge? To put it bluntly, before the Restoration, they had already completed basic talent preparation - they had thousands of
Talents who are proficient in English and basic scientific knowledge.
When our country was still arguing about whether to send foreign students, when we in China regarded Western knowledge as a scourge, they had already sent a large number of foreign students, and they were proficient in foreign languages and had a certain foundation in Western learning. Studying in the United States
When young children are in elementary school, Japanese students go directly to middle school or even university. Because the mathematics, physics, chemistry, world geography, world history and other textbooks in Japan's new middle schools are almost all direct copies of original English textbooks from the United States and the United Kingdom.
, and was later directly translated into Japanese.
In fact, the fate of China and Japan in modern times has been decided in terms of English education. Japan has never used the indemnity money from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 to develop education, because more than 20 years ago, they had universalized compulsory education. Instead, it still changed English from
Start learning in primary school.
In contrast, the Qing Dynasty's Westernization Movement with the core of "rich country and strong army" ended up in a lonely state. It cost hundreds of millions of money to build arsenals, and the craftsmen produced useless weapons such as guns and technology.
The personnel of all foreigners, such as the China Merchants Shipping Company, which is known as the number one in East Asia, even until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, did not train a Chinese captain or a Chinese senior crew member. Those arsenals did not train a few engineers, and foreign experts still remained
Can't play.
In other words, the training of modern talents in the "Westernization Movement" was almost "zero"!
Talent!
This is the future of the country!
Recalling the "talent preparation" and "translation movement" mentioned in the books before the Meiji Restoration in Japan, Zhu Xianhai's heart was full of jealousy. Just like "Hai Guo Tu Zhi" was ignored in China, but it was ignored in Japan.
It became very popular and sold tens of thousands of copies. The Chinese scholars who were being domesticated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty had long lost the curiosity about Western knowledge that the scholars in the late Ming Dynasty had. In the Youqing area, under the threat of literary prison, how could the Chinese scholars dare to have any
What about curiosity? What do they study? It is the so-called "ichthyology" and "textual criticism", and they never dare to go beyond the boundaries.
The so-called conservatism...nothing else can save your life!
But such conservatism left Zhu Xianhai unavailable!
"We have to find a way to harvest a wave of Japanese talents!"
In an instant, Zhu Xianhai made up his mind to recruit a wave of talents proficient in English from Japan and fill South China with them to translate Western books.
As for Chinese, he was not worried at all. Until the Meiji Restoration, all Japanese scholars had to study Sinology. They were all proficient in Chinese and spoke fluent Nanjing Mandarin, also known as Ming Mandarin, which was enough to make any Ming Dynasty survivor fall in love.
It was not until the 1870s that Japan's Sinology education was changed from "Nanjing Mandarin" to "Beijing Mandarin".
Even the translated Western works of their time were written in Chinese. This is why a large number of Japanese scientific books were introduced in the late Qing Dynasty, which could be quoted directly or translated in small quantities.
"It's time to send a ship to Japan to do business. If nothing else, even if you hire dozens of translators and buy some books, they will be of great use!"
If you don’t cut Japanese leeks, you’ll be really sorry to God for allowing you to travel through time!
"You can't just cut the translator's leeks, but you can also cut the samurai's leeks!"
It seems that many samurai in Japan in this era are so poor that they even have no food to eat. Why is there such a movement in history? To put it bluntly, there are many bankrupt samurai who really can't afford to eat. By "honoring the king"
"Rejecting the barbarians" is an excuse to rebel and want to reshuffle power and wealth. In other words, it is just a gamble!
Without him, too poor!
If you are poor, think about change!
As for "honoring the king", they are all just slogans. In the final analysis, they are still for profit. Bankrupt samurai and homeless people are all good leeks!
Get thousands of people to serve as mercenaries, and you can enrich your own military strength. Of course, those people are definitely the most qualified cannon fodder, no, samurai! It is a very honorable thing to die on the battlefield.
"The Sword-Batting Team..."
Thinking of the famous "Sword Drawing Team" during the Meiji Restoration, Zhu Xianhai's lips curled up. Nanhua could also form his own "Sword Drawing Team". When he thought of those Japanese, carrying samurai swords and shouting to kill the enemy's rifle array
, there was a burst of excitement in his heart, this scene was spectacular!
"Oriental leeks are definitely good leeks! If you don't cut them, you'd be sorry!"
As soon as Zhu Xianhai finished speaking, someone said over there.
“What are leeks?”
It was Maria. She walked up to Zhu Xianhai, opened her blue eyes and asked curiously.
“What kind of vegetable is leek?”
“A delicious dish!”
Zhu Xianhai smiled.
"This vegetable is specially reserved for cutting. After cutting one crop, there will be another crop! There is simply inexhaustible supply and inexhaustible use..."
"Is that food delicious?"
Maria wondered.
"It's delicious, not afraid of the taste, and it's also good for men..."
You can only understand the benefits. You can understand them all.
If you don't understand, you will understand when the time comes.
"Is it also good for men?"
Maria looked at Zhu Xianhai doubtfully.
"What's the benefit?"
Seeing the doubts flashing in the woman's beautiful eyes and staring at the jade-like face, Zhu Xianhai couldn't help but feel hot in his heart. It seemed that he had been neglecting her a bit in the past two days.
To put it bluntly, after returning to Nanhua, Zhu Xianhai spent more time with Elizabeth. Thinking that a woman traveled thousands of miles from Chile to Nanhua with him, he would get the rain and dew equally!
"I tell you……"
With his lips close to Maria's ear, Zhu Xianhai spoke quietly and moved his hands up and down while speaking.
"Dear, no, not here...this, this is the office..."
Maria looked nervously towards the office door.
Amidst the woman's gasping for breath, Zhu Xianhai, who was quite proud of himself, was still able to take care of so much.
"Don't worry, no one will come in."
Office…I’ve wanted to try it for a long time!
This chapter has been completed!