John has not been in the mountain town for a long time, at the beginning he can only contact the mountain people through Zhang Yingquan, but most of the time to face the new language environment independently, learning the language not only needs to have a good environment, but also to have a good teacher, Xiang Xianyun is a good teacher, teaching very seriously.

When John was in Shili Pavilion, the parishioners generally communicated directly with Bit, and even if they asked Bit for a lot of Chinese sentences, no one understood what they said, and they couldn't understand what others were saying. And no wonder! There is a problem with the pronunciation of the old bit, with a Cantonese accent, isn't this 'the donkey in Jiangbei learning to bark the dog', the difference between the two is too far.

Now John has mastered a lot of Chinese vocabulary, and can write more than 200 Chinese characters, general life dialogue, is no longer a problem, the pronunciation is actually an official dialect with Zhejiang pronunciation, many mountain people are not accurate in pronunciation, according to Xiang Xianyun, this is a language genius.

Ever since John was able to communicate briefly with the people in the mountains, the scope of his activities has gradually expanded, and he has become familiar with all the people in the town. "Obviously, there are some contexts that have not been flexibly grasped. The townspeople have largely forgotten that he used to be a 'foreign monk', and now they call him 'Yanglangzhong', and his small clinic is quite popular.

John is proficient in chemistry, Western medicine originally comes from anatomy and chemistry, dispensing is a chemical science, the foreign potion of the small medical hall, whether it is taken internally or externally, is very effective, this is in the Qing Dynasty is the level of the doctor Langzhong, this 'Yanglang' has material!

Now Zhang Yingquan communicates with John, basically in Chinese, and when he finds that he can't understand it, he can communicate much more smoothly with English.

"Where did you work before you came to Qing Kingdom?"

"In English, I was in the service of a community and a volunteer missionary."

"What club?"

"League of Communists"

"What?" Zhang Yingquan was taken aback, the revolutionary old-timers!

"Five years ago, this society was called the League of the Righteous and then renamed the League of the Communists, what's wrong?"

"There's nothing wrong, it's just that there's a guy named Karl Marx, you've met?"

"How do you know?" John's eyes widened.

"He wrote a communist manifesto?"

Yes, it was the second year after the renaming of the Society, and Carl wrote it himself. This, you know this, too? ”

"Just interested. I heard a friend talk about it in Nanyang. Zhang Yingquan clenched his fists and made an oath: "Proletarians all over the world unite!" ”

"Proletarians of the whole world unite!" John looked more serious.

"Why did you come to Qingguo later?"

"A year ago, when the British government banned community organizations, I went back to the church, and then I came to Daqing."

"Do you believe in communism?"

"The purpose of communism does not conflict with the doctrine of God! The Bible opens with the words: 'Come here, you who labor and are heavy laden!' 'Isn't the toil-laden one the proletarian?' Both are at the service of the proletarians, aren't they? All born equal, distributed according to need, this is the portrayal of life in the Garden of Eden. Didn't the Lord Jesus come to earth to redeem mankind and return to the world of Datong? ”

This is the first time Zhang Yingquan has heard this kind of explanation. It is also right to think that it was the capitalist consortium that was culling the communist movement at that time, the government authorities, the church was not among them, the clergy were also proletarians, even fellow travelers of communism, and at the moment this John was at least a sympathizer.

John didn't expect that in the far east, he would find a bosom friend, which made him feel sorry for Zhang Yingquan. I have a great impression of the Zhang family and the mountain town.

"John! There's something I want you to help with. ”

"What's the matter?"

"We want to open a foreign bank in Ningbo in your name."

"Do what?"

"Guns, ordnance business, and some new products."

"Hah! I see, you want to circumvent the laws of the Qing Kingdom and sell back to China in the name of foreigners, don't you? ”

"You know, the laws of the Qing Dynasty stipulate that the people are not allowed to produce weapons, let alone buy and sell weapons. If you legally purchase parts and components in the name of a foreign company, and then assemble them into weapons and operate them in accordance with the law, this is a reasonable legal circumvention of the problem, and there will be no trouble, and if they can be sold abroad, I have no opinion. ”

"How can I help register a shell foreign company?"

"The Zhan family has a shop in Ningbo, the port, the gatehouse is not bad, although it is smaller, it can put down a few tables, and then decorate it better, and rent a warehouse to complete. You don't need to be there in person except for registration affairs, we arrange for a Chinese manager to handle the business, and you only need to sign a business authorization letter. ”

"Let me think about .......... Well! There is a requirement, take 2/1000 of the transaction amount to me, is it feasible? ”

"You want?"

"I want to build an education foundation, run schools, schools that have nothing to do with the church, and provide free education for children from poor families and orphans."

"I'll give three thousandths to the Foundation."

"I'm going to have to talk to Bitt, and I don't think he'll object."

"You're not going to be in the Qing Dynasty and propagating communism, are you?"

"Why not?"

"Hah!"

A month later, Zhan Yuqing accompanied John back to the mountain town.

"Han Zhang? Is there a moral to it? ”

"Han Tonghan, Zhang Tong Zhang Zhan. Westerner Zhang Zhan can't tell the difference! Shopkeeper Zhan explained.

It is not troublesome to register a foreign bank, in addition to John, there is the blessing of the old bit, and it takes nothing to complete the procedures. Later, I learned that there are also many foreigners' "leather bags" and foreign firms, and short buying and selling short is the specialty of capital compradors.

At present, this Hanzhang foreign bank has entrusted the Hangzhou branch of Zhan Family Goods Bank to act as an internal agent of Zhan Dalian Zhan Da shopkeeper, and has hired a Chinese manager and two interpreters.

Everyone tacitly knows that the behind-the-scenes manipulator of this foreign bank is Zhang Yingquan.

The first business of the foreign bank turned out to be 500 breech fire cap guns, which were sold to the Ningbo Ministry of Industry Bureau, each selling 35 taels of silver, plus 12 clairglasses, each with 50 taels of silver, and delivered within 40 days.

This is a business obtained through official bidding, the price is slightly higher is not a problem, the key is that other families do not have this type of firearms, this is a new type of firearms, the supply is tight, even if it can be transferred from abroad, it comes and goes, and the delivery period of half a year is relatively fast, otherwise it can only be a pity.

But the appearance of Hanzhang Foreign Firm immediately caught several old foreign companies off guard, and they will fly within forty days of delivery? Even if you have stock, you can't play like this, everyone eats this bowl of rice, this is too much to break the rules, right?

"Where did this foreign company and this goods come from?"

“…………”

Let them be amazed! There's your good-looking ones in the back.

Zhang Yingquan, Zhan Yuqing, and John are raising their glasses to celebrate, and the opening is auspicious!

Zhang Yingquan did not break his word, and immediately gave John's education foundation money, not proportionally, it is also his obligation to run education, first pay two thousand taels of silver, build a serious school in the mountain town, let Zhan Erlian operate, in addition to Zhan Erlian's full-time teaching position, those people are part-time, Xiang Xianyun, Zhang Hengshan, Zhang Yingquan, basically enlarge the Zhang family's literacy class to the whole town, and the children come to the school for free at noon, so the idle school-age children in the town can come without mobilization, including girls, more than 30 people are counted, uneven, Busy with a lot of people and so on.

The external name of the school is 'Hanzhang Library', so the mountain town makes people feel a lot more fulfilling.

The adult literacy class is still ongoing, the location has been changed to the library, and in addition to the addition of Zhan Erlian, there is also one person who is unexpected, and that is John. Originally, John volunteered to teach everyone arithmetic, but when he saw Zhang Yingquan's 'Little Ninety-Nine' multiplication formula table, he immediately shut up and was willing to be a student in arithmetic. Changing to talk about Western knowledge, that is, talking about gossip and talking about Western scenery, don't say it, this lesson is the most popular among adults, how fresh!

One day, John gave a rough introduction to the twenty-six letters, which aroused everyone's interest.

"These twenty-six strange sounds, interconnected are Western dialects?"

"Correct! Look at it," John turned and wrote on the blackboard: communism

"What does that mean?"

"Communism."

"Communism, is it something to eat?"

"It's the Garden of Eden under construction."

"Where is Eden?"

"The mountain town of the future!"

Sure enough, it's a revolutionary old-timer!