Chapter 18: A Language Lost for Two Thousand Years
Hilton, one of the world's top operating hotel chains, has nearly 3,000 hotels worldwide, and one of them is located in the most prosperous area of Haishan, with a night view of the entire Bund from the top floor.
Of course, it's still early morning, and it's still some distance from noon, so it's natural to enjoy the so-called night view.
However, the current Hilton Hotel is also very attractive, starting with the central gate, a red carpet is rolled out in a way that covers the whole venue, which is more exaggerated than the red carpet show of the Cannes Film Festival.
Top sports cars are gathered in the parking lot, all of which are rare models on the road, and all of them are parked here at the moment, like a grand car show. Men in suits and leather shoes and bejeweled women got out of the car and pushed through the doors of the Hilton Hotel with a bright red invitation in hand.
Today is the 80th birthday of Tang Yijin, the richest man in Haishan, and almost all the celebrities of Haishan are present, if someone implements a terrorist plan similar to 911 on this building at this time, then the entire Haishan economy will almost collapse, and then affect the economic situation of the entire country.
Considering the status of seamounts in the country, this assumption is definitely not an exaggeration.
Duanmuci, who received the invitation a few days ago, was naturally dressed up to attend (in fact, it was similar to a few days ago), and he was still holding a step in his arm that insisted on following.
Duanmuci handed the invitation to the waiter guarding the gate, and then entered the hotel building. After entering, I looked up and saw Tang Ke and Tang Rui standing in the hall to welcome guests.
Duanmu Ci and Bu Tongxun, a pair of eye-catching young men and women, came in, standing in a group of people with an average age of about 50 years old, not too dazzling. Tang Ke and Tang Rui noticed it at the first time, but their reactions were completely different, Tang Rui snorted coldly, twisted his head as if he didn't see it, but Tang Ke greeted him with a smile.
"Brother Duanmu, you can appreciate your face, I really welcome you!" Tang Ke said it sincerely, and the expression on his face was very convincing.
Duanmuci's Tai Chi Kung Fu is not bad, and he casually copes with it, "Where is it, if I can participate in Old Man Tang's birthday banquet, it will be a big increase." ”
Tang Ke "......" the son of the Duanmu family also needs to rely on this occasion to raise his identity? Hehe.
Tang Ke, who didn't want to talk nonsense in front of the public, directly led Duanmu Ci to the second floor to enter, which caused everyone in the hall to look sideways. Which of these people is not the elite among people? The mind is like a road in the Yunnan-Guizhou Mountains, and a small random move by others is enough for them to analyze for a long time. What's more, it is the powerful young master of the Tang family.
An extremely faceless and young character would actually be treated so ceremoniously by the Tang family, which had to give them an extra mind.
You must know that the guest who came in before the mysterious young man came in, but the predator of Haishan's retail industry, Rao is like this, and he didn't get this kind of treatment from the young master of the Tang family who personally led the way, but just arranged a close subordinate to receive him on his behalf. And this young man was able to make the young master of the Tang family condescend to this point, I really don't know where it came from.
Mo is not from the capital -- some people have a lot of brains. But it's not unreasonable. That person has neither appeared in Haishan's business circle, nor is he Haishan's official son-in-law, but he can still get the attention of the Tang family, so there is only one answer, that is, the young man's origin is higher. And the only place in the country that can be higher than the sea and mountain is the capital.
When you think about it, it can be completely explained. ――But speaking of which, the Tang family is really powerful, and it has quietly set up such a high-level line, which is really worthy of the signboard of Haishan industry and commerce.
However, if Tang Ke knew what these people were thinking, he would definitely scoff at them. Which onion is the Haishan retail predator? Can you compare with the son of the Duanmu family? What are those chic and happy young masters in the capital? Can you compare with the son of a Chinese family in the United States?
Crush in all directions!
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Duanmu Ci followed Tang Ke to the second floor, and kept meeting people who greeted Tang Ke along the way, and Tang Ke returned the salute one by one with great grace, making people feel like a spring breeze and at the same time with a kind of aristocratic alienation, which is very in line with the identity of the young master of the Tang family.
Duanmu Ci walked behind, seeing all these in his eyes, and his evaluation of Tang Ke in his heart was faintly higher.
Bu Tongxun also said to Duanmu Ci in a very strange but rhythmic accent, "This Tang Ke looks pretty good." ”
Although Bu Tongxun lowered his voice, it was too close after all, so Tang Ke also heard her words. But Tang Ke helplessly found that he couldn't understand what Bu Tongxun was saying at all, because it was a tone he had never heard before.
"Could this be the legendary 'Luoyin'?" Tang Ke thought secretly.
The legend of Duanmu's "Luoyin" is widely spread in a certain circle, and everyone knows that Duanmu has a unique and special language, although it can be clearly known that it must be Chinese, but no one can understand it. There are even some chicken thieves who secretly record the voices of the Duanmu family when they speak, and then send them to a well-known professional language research institute in China to study, hoping to solve this mystery.
But the results were disappointing, because after some careful study, the internationally renowned linguists said, "What the hell is this?" "I've never heard of it", "You shouldn't just be fooling around and entertaining us".
After some efforts, the only thing that can be determined is that there is no such thing as "Luoyin" in the official language library preserved by the Linguistic Institute.
Duanmu Ci didn't know these things, otherwise he would definitely sneer in his heart. Of course, the so-called linguists have solved some mystery, because "Luoyin" is a lost language.
It was the language spoken by the Emperor of Zhou Tianzi in the Luoyang Palace more than 2,000 years ago, so Duanmuci called it "Luoyin", and the people of that era called it "Yayan", which is now Mandarin. Confucius, who was far away in the Lu Kingdom, would use "Yayan" when he read poetry and books and carried out ritual activities, so this is a very solemn and solemn language.
Later, when Duanmu Ci was engaged in commercial activities in modern times, he often found that some people would obtain important trade secrets of their opponents through the dishonorable means of "eavesdropping". Therefore, out of secrecy, Duanmu Ci began to teach important members of the Duanmu family and young seedlings to collectively learn "Luoyin", and strictly forbade it to be passed on to maintain its effectiveness.
As soon as this trick comes out, the effect can be described as immediate. Even in that era when bugs were unscrupulous, in this era of mysterious commercial espionage, the trade secrets of the Duanmu family were never leaked, and they were regarded as a miracle by the outside world, and some people even joked that this was the supernumerary "eighth wonder of the world" that could be ranked alongside the "Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang".
Later, some large families wanted to learn from this method, and sent people to a small tribe in Africa to learn the language, and then taught it within the company, but the result was a huge loss.
The lack of loyalty is a problem, and the fact that their people do not use it consistently after they have learned it, and they still habitually speak their original language on important occasions or moments - this is tantamount to learning in vain.
Of course, the most important point is that African tribes, no matter how small, still exist on this earth. Linguists and volunteers who are passionate about preserving endangered civilizations have long documented the African savannah and rainforests to explore isolated tribes. In other words, the language they learned in African tribes could be deciphered.
This is really a true portrayal of "painting a tiger is not the opposite of a dog".
After such a failure case, those families or companies that originally had this intention have all died down and abandoned this way. So this became the Duanmu family's unique skill, and later there was even an extreme statement that "a spy who can steal the Duanmu family's trade secrets can manage a company".
However, it can also be seen that the degree of business secrecy of the Duanmu family, it is rumored that the two major state-level spy agencies with constant grievances in the United States, cIa and FBI, have also regarded "whether they can steal the trade secrets of the Duanmu family" as the ultimate contest between the two, and those who lose will have to admit the fact that they are inferior to the other party.
But the result was very surprising, cIa and FBI, a pair of spy agencies that enjoyed great international fame, both failed in disgrace under the iron barrel-like defense of the Duanmu family, and became a black history shared by the two families......
I heard that the White House was furious because of this, and the president took time out of his busy schedule to call these two embarrassing directors together, and then taught them a lesson......
The topic is a little far, now let's pull the camera back to the Hilton Hotel in Haishan, and then we can clearly find that under the guidance of Tang Ke, Duanmu Ci and Bu Tongxun have already walked into the hall, waiting for the start of the birthday banquet.
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