Chapter 20: Rapid Advance
Although it occupies only a third of the top of the peninsula, it is a public grassland and there are no residents nearby, which means that it is always quiet except when the grass is mowing.
After a few years, when the food crisis is lifted and the policy changes, Zhou Nan can also buy all the surrounding pastures, so that the top of the entire peninsula belongs to his family.
In this era, the price of a house and the price of a ranch are not very high. In particular, this Sennar villa was originally built with concrete in order to pursue fashion. However, the Swiss government later discovered that concrete buildings would cause construction waste, so it strictly banned the construction of concrete buildings in rural areas.
In terms of environmental protection, Switzerland has been paying great attention since the 19th century because it is a tourist country. After the demolition of the brick and wood structure house, all the raw materials can still be used, but the concrete building, only construction waste remains.
This kind of architecture also does not correspond to the Swiss aesthetic, so the price of this house is not high. Forty acres of pasture, 160,000 square meters, for a total price of only 150,000 Swiss francs.
And Zhou Nan doesn't have to pay 150,000 Swiss francs, because his house in Megan has been escrowed, and the house price has risen slightly, and it has now exceeded 70,000 Swiss francs, so Zhou Nan only needs to pay 80,000 Swiss francs temporarily, and the bank will directly deduct this part of the money and a little interest after the house is sold.
Villa Sennar was originally the place where Rachmaninov lived for ten years, and because of its remoteness, it has been neglected. But after Zhou Nan bought it, it also caused a sensation.
Because there was a suggestion to turn this place into a Rachmaninov memorial, it was only because of a lack of investment that the proposal was not approved.
Now that Zhou Nan has moved in, Zhou Nan's fame has risen slightly, especially after others know that he is also a musician, and their interest in him has increased.
But after the musician moved to his new home, he was not busy with music, but with literature.
In the past few days when Zhou Nan moved, Zhou Nan has already shown some manuscripts that can be taken out to the itchy mayor of Entlebuch one after another.
He has now become Zhou Nan's first book lover, and spends half a day at Villa Sennar almost every day. When Zhou Nan is not busy, he will discuss the content of the book with Zhou Nan.
Zhou Nan, who has the memories of later generations and the integration of Eastern and Western cultures, has already turned this knowledge into his own when he drafted this book, and has established a complete cognitive system.
Therefore, Entle Buch is not only a fan of Zhou Nan's books, but has even become an admirer. He contracted almost all the chores around Zhou Nan, hoping that Zhou Nan would finish the book as soon as possible.
Zhou Nan does have a lot of trivial matters, such as the layout of the new home, the cleaning and induction of the farm, and the procurement. Although Glewin and Kelly are doing these things, after all, he spends money, and he still needs to know some about many things.
Knowing that Zhou Nan wanted to buy a motor boat, he immediately took the initiative to help Zhou Nan contact a small Riva yacht from a friend in Lucerne, and sold it to Zhou Nan at a friendly price.
Villa Sennar is located at the tip of the peninsula, in the middle of Lake Lucerne. If you go to Lucerne by land, taking Audrey's school as an example, it is twenty-five kilometers and it takes half an hour to drive.
But it's only seven kilometers from the lake, and it takes less than ten minutes to drive a boat. You only need to carry Audrey's bicycle onto the boat, and there is a distance of less than 500 meters to ride a bicycle from the boat, which is more convenient than driving.
Knowing that Zhou Nan was looking for a translation team, he immediately helped Zhou Nan contact a translation team of more than eight people, English and French, as well as Spanish and Italian, with two translators each.
These translators not only know German and related languages, but are also people with relevant academic qualifications. Therefore, these books, which seem somewhat tasteless to ordinary people, are holy texts to them.
In just a few days, seeing these manuscripts and hearing Zhou Nan tell them from beginning to end about the original intention of these creations and the way of thinking to get these conclusions, although these people are older than Zhou Nan, they all worship Zhou Nan's feet.
Zhou Nan himself did not expect that the "General History of the World" would have such a great impact on Entler Buhe after it was known to him. Now the acceleration in all aspects has caught him off guard. Originally, he wanted to improve slowly, but now, everyone has started to push forward.
Every day he was surrounded by more than a dozen people, perfecting the content of the book and translating it, leaving him with little time for himself.
By the middle of March, the interior of Villa Sennar had been transformed into a large office space. In the first few rooms, there are teams of translators in various languages, and in the living rooms, countless scholars and professors come to visit every day, and many more are Swiss politicians.
In early March, Zhou Nan had already become a full member of the Liberal Democratic Party. Many high-ranking members of the Liberal Democratic Party also read Zhou Nan's manuscript after visiting Zhou Nan. Subsequently, Zhou Nan's book was regarded as a special event of the party's propaganda this year, and began to be publicized at home and even internationally.
At the beginning, some people even doubted whether Zhou Nan, a young man who had just reached the age of 24, would be a gimmick promoted by the Liberal Democratic Party for propaganda, but when many experts and scholars across the country praised Zhou Nan's book in every way, there were fewer and fewer doubters.
This attracted more people to visit, and as a last resort, Zhou Nan also established an outreach team to receive these people, and then took out some of the manuscripts that Zhou Nan had finalized to exchange and promote Zhou Nan's fame.
Among them, there are some people who need Zhou Nan to be paid, even if they don't want to, they just feel satisfied if they can participate in this matter, but Zhou Nan still has to give.
However, more people are volunteering to promote, especially some people in the Liberal Democratic Party, who have already regarded Zhou Nan as a new propaganda target within the party.
With the existence of these people, Zhou Nan does not have to worry about someone saying that he plagiarized, and someone will take these theories for himself.
However, this also interfered with his plan to a large extent, after all, there is still a lot of content in this book that needs to be verified and verified by citing scriptures and consulting materials.
For these trivial things, Zhou Nan didn't even have time for his birthday, and on his birthday, he ate a bowl of longevity noodles with Audrey.
So, in mid-March, Zhou Nan couldn't help it, like the propaganda minister of the Liberal Democratic Party, Hlein, who proposed that he should leave for a while and go to several libraries in Zurich to consult materials.
To Zhou Nan's surprise, Hlein replied: "No matter what kind of books and materials you need, as long as there are materials in Switzerland or even some materials abroad that are not highly confidential, we can borrow them from you." So you don't have to go to Zurich at all, just give us the list and I'll send it to your home. ”
Zhou Nan really felt the power of the organization this time, he had been planning with a personal mentality before, but now, with the help of the organization, he seemed to be much more relaxed.
Zhou Nan took out a list compiled by several Zurich students, which made Toynbee stunned for a moment.
Because this list is indeed too long, including more than 500 books, and the classification of books alone reaches dozens.
Major programs include History, Social and Communication Sciences, Philosophy, Economics, Political Science, Jewish and Christian Studies, Religious Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Theology, Law, Cultural Studies, Religious Culture, Economics and Politics, Sociology, Theology, Comparative Media Studies, World Society and World Politics, Religious Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, etc.
Seeing this list, Hlein's eyes were full of respect when he looked at Zhou Nan. "Jonas, you have made me aware of my insignificance, that I may not be able to read all these books in my lifetime, and that these are only the things you have to study thoroughly in a short period of time."
Zhou Nan said modestly: "No, I only studied it superficially, and then laid the foundation for my own theory from the theory here." ”
Two days later, a truck pulled up in front of Sennar's house, and the staff carefully removed stacks of books from it, and finally placed them all in Zhou Nan's living room on the second floor.
"From today onwards, I hope to be able to be quiet for a while, non-important visitors, and let Etinny take care of the reception." Zhou Nan was talking to his secretary, Miss Rotentum, while arranging all the books according to categories.
Others can't help with these tasks, even if they are arranged, Zhou Nan will rearrange them according to his own needs.
Rotentum is a typical Swiss girl, growing up and moving within a radius of 50 kilometers. Go to school here, work here, live here, and die here.
Although Switzerland is a pitiful small country, more than 50 percent of Swiss people have never traveled abroad and do not want to do so. They think Switzerland is the best place in the world, and they have no interest in the outside world, and many don't even know where the United States is.
Rotentum was a little better, having been to Zurich and Bern during his university years in Lucerne, but he soon struggled to get used to it.
Many Swiss people think that cities with more than 100,000 people are too scary and are used to living leisurely in small villages.
After graduating from the University of Lucerne, she returned to the town and worked in the library attached to the church. The work is easy and boring. But she graduated from sociology and had experience in the library, so Mayor Entlebuch persuaded her to become Zhou Nan's secretary.
At present, her work is very careful, and the work coordination is also very reasonable, which makes Zhou Nan quite satisfied.
"But the publisher that Mr. Hlein has contacted will come tomorrow to discuss the publication of the first volume, and Professor Koch would like you to find time to give a lecture at the University of Lucerne."
"I don't have to give lectures for a while, and my theories won't be too easy to accept before the students have seen my book. Let Etinny talk about the publication first, and with the Liberal Democrats' sign, I don't think the publisher will be harsh on the contract. ”
"So, does the work of picking up Audrey every day also need to be arranged?"
Zhou Nanleng paused, sighed and said, "Luo Tengtum, this is the only time I have to relax every day, please don't deprive me of the last bit of happiness, okay?" ”
She pursed her lips and laughed, and said, "In two days, the sample of the music arranged for Audrey in the music room will come out, and they want to ask you to guide it on the spot." ”
"I'm going to go here, I don't want them to make a tune that I don't want at all."
"Okay......" Rotentum looked at the mountain of books in the living room that was almost about to bury Zhou Nan, and couldn't help but want to laugh again. I won't bother you. ”