Chapter 140 The Spread of Culture
Audrey habitually snuggled to the side in her sleep, but did not feel the warmth. Her hand reached to her side, but she didn't feel Zhou Nan's presence, which made her sober up all of a sudden.
In the dark bedroom, the outside light reflected in, so that she could clearly see that Zhou Nan was sitting on the sofa by the window at this time, quietly in a daze. "Honey, why don't you sleep yet?"
Audrey's hand reached to the head of the bed, turned on the light, and woke up Zhou Nan in a daze. He got up and walked to the bed, pulled up the sheets that had been kicked to his feet, and covered them for Audrey. "I can't sleep all of a sudden, you leave me alone, go to sleep quickly."
Audrey got hooked, wrapped her arms around his waist, and pressed her face against his lower abdomen. "Jonas, I'm your wife, isn't there anything we can't do together?"
Zhou Nan stroked her hair and said with a smile: "Where will there be something...... Aren't the two of us together every day? It's just that I suddenly felt something in my heart today, so I couldn't sleep. ”
"Is it because of the company's affairs?"
“…… It's not."
Audrey raised her head, and her usually clear eyes were a little blurred at this time. She thought about it, but she didn't know what was the reason for Zhou Nan's insomnia, so she couldn't help but ask coquettishly, "What is the reason for that?" ”
Zhou Nan sat down on the edge of the bed, and Audrey wanted to get out of bed to help him lift his legs, but Zhou Nan held her body. "I can do it myself."
He turned his body sideways, and using the inertia of his body when he turned sideways, he lifted his left leg directly to the bed.
Audrey put another pillow behind Zhou Nan and let him lean comfortably against the head of the bed. Then he leaned sideways to his side, pressed his face to his side, and placed his right hand on his stomach, feeling the ups and downs of his breathing.
Her original favorite movement was Zhou Nan leaning against the head of the bed, she pressed her head against his stomach and let Zhou Nan's hand caress her hair. Since Zhou Nan was injured, she was afraid of touching Zhou Nan's wound, so she changed her posture.
"Why do I have insomnia? Haven't you always had a good night's sleep? Is it in ...... Worried about the future? ”
"It's not." Zhou Nan sighed softly, pinched her earlobe, and gently rubbed it with two fingers. "Remember Elena? The Lady Wang? ”
"Well, she gave birth to seven children and loves oriental culture......"
"Yes, she likes oriental culture, but she doesn't have a place to learn. It made me feel like I wasn't doing enough......"
Audrey didn't understand what Zhou Nan meant for a while, raised her head, put Zhou Nan's right arm on his own chest, hugged it with her hand, and put her chin on Zhou Nan's arm. "What isn't enough? Do you have any plans again? ”
At night, he met the Wang wife, who had always liked oriental culture, and Zhou Nan suddenly discovered a problem that he had been negligent before.
That is, he is promoting world culture everywhere, but he has never had the idea of introducing oriental culture to the world, which has to be said to be something that his thinking has never taken into account.
He got memories of the future, and the changes were more about the people and things that mattered to him, and the current impact on the world situation was minimal.
The confrontation between the East and the West, although there is a butterfly like him, does not have such a great impact on the overall situation.
In such a situation, the misunderstanding and prejudice of Westerners towards the East will still appear as in history, shouldn't he do something about it?
Not to mention those noble things, just from his own side, there are many things he can do.
Setting up a column in the newspaper dedicated to oriental culture was something that Zhou Nan could easily do.
It even includes cultivating a group of students who are interested in Eastern culture, and vigorously promoting the positive things in Eastern culture in the Western world.
He thought of the Confucius Institutes of later generations, that is, the efforts of his homeland to promote oriental culture. If you do all these things decades in advance, although you may not be able to change the minds of all Westerners, at the very least, it is better than doing nothing.
So, when the thought swelled up in his mind, he no longer felt a little sleepy, and he was thrilled by some of his ideas.
He published columns in newspapers and periodicals, offered courses on Oriental Culture at universities in Europe and the United States, and established the Institute of Oriental Culture. If he can do these things well, then his life will not be in vain.
This plan may seem small, or even small, but the direction in which it can be developed is infinite.
Looking at Audrey's curious little face, he couldn't help but laugh. "My dear, if I open a column on Oriental culture dedicated to Oriental culture, do you think anyone will read it?"
"Of course."
"What if I go to a university and offer such a subject?"
Audrey said coquettishly: "Hasn't the University of Lucerne always wanted to invite you to give a lecture?" They will definitely agree. ”
"Would anyone want to learn?"
"Of course, I learned calligraphy from you, and many of my classmates are very interested in square Chinese characters!"
Zhou Nan said with some excitement: "In the future, I will reduce the time for going out to publicize, stay in Lucerne more, and I will improve this plan as soon as possible, and strive to open such a discipline in the university within three years." ”
"Then I'm going to be your first student......"
Zhou Nan laughed and said, "You are already my founding disciple......"
"What is the Great Disciple ...... the Founding Mountain?"
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The train passed through the rolling Jura Mountains, and Zhou Nan and the others returned to Switzerland after a long absence.
At Basel Station, when the Swiss ticket inspectors saw Zhou Nan, they couldn't help but be excited and offered words of blessing.
Each of them had a respectful face, a proud expression, and a kind of excitement of honor.
Zhounan has become a shining business card of Switzerland in the international community, and although this originally poor country has gradually caught up in terms of economy in the past century, it is still a cultural desert of Europe.
It is home to some of the most sophisticated craftsmen in the world, but there is a shortage of scientists in the field of research. It has one of the cleanest political atmospheres in Europe, but there is a lack of influential politicians.
The only one in Switzerland that has now come to the forefront of the world is the biomedical industry. However, the influence of this industry is only in the industry, so it cannot bring worldwide influence.
The appearance of Zhou Nan has made more foreigners aware that there is also a world scholar in Switzerland. Zhou Nan, a scholar, has a wide influence not only in academics, but also in the field of academic application, that is, international relations.
Because Switzerland lacks talents in this area, the emergence of Zhou Nan not only fills the gap in this area. Moreover, because of his humanitarian contributions, he has now become a model for Switzerland's vigorous publicity.
Even ordinary Swiss people have almost no one who doesn't know Zhou Nan at this time. The literacy rate of the country's population of four million, with the exception of children under the age of six, is more than 96 per cent.
There are only a few elderly people in remote mountainous areas, and a few who are illiterate, and all of them have received primary education or above.
Moreover, more than 80 percent of the citizens who have received an intermediate education or higher also means that there is almost no one who does not know Zhou Nan.
From the moment he entered Switzerland, the heartfelt respect and closeness of these Swiss people also made Zhou Nan feel at home after stepping into Switzerland.
This is his current home, where his roots are. This will not change with the administration of anyone, any political party. What's more, the multi-party regime in Switzerland has remained unchanged for a hundred years, and it will not change for the next 70 years.
Of the seven seats on the Executive Committee, the Liberal Democrats have two, the CDU has two, the SPD has two, and one belongs to a small party. No matter how the situation changes, this will not change.
In other countries, there may also be changes in the importance of Zhou Nan after different political parties come to power. But in Switzerland, no.
In Zhou Nan's lifetime, there will be no changes.
A stable social environment and a stable political environment will give Zhounan a stable environment for development. The more he felt this, the more fortunate Zhou Nan was to make the decision to immigrate here.
The train arrived in Zurich, and the Coatbus Architects had been waiting for Zhou Nan's return, and the two designers were already waiting at the train station with their design drawings. They also bought two tickets to Lucerne and prepared to return to Lucerne with Zhou Nan.
Getting on the train to Lucerne, Zhou Nan and Audrey couldn't wait to open the drawings brought by the two designers, and listened to the introductions of the two designers while looking at various drawings.
They did spend a lot of thought on designing a new home for Zhou Nan, and there were dozens of architectural drawings alone. These drawings have panoramic plans, house plans, garden plans, dock plans, digester plans, stables, farm plans, and are dazzling.
Audrey is concerned about the design of the main house of the new home, and she has also put forward many of her own ideas in the construction of this new home, wanting to have a private small space with Zhou Nan.
However, Zhou Nan is concerned about the overall planning of the farm, which will be his main living environment in the future, of course, he wants to be as distinctive as possible.
Cottage Design is still very level, and they used to communicate with Zhou Nan and Audrey through telegrams. According to their requirements, the planned farm design made Zhou Nan and Audrey unable to find the slightest fault.
If they follow their plan, the farm will definitely become a beautiful and comfortable new home.
Audrey couldn't help but look forward to it: "Jonas, is this really our new home?" If all of this can really become a reality, I don't think I will get bored of living in it for the rest of my life. ”
"Of course, everything on the drawings, in a few months, will become a reality."