Chapter 14: Female Students (Part I)
Over the next month, Xu Qing's Anglo-Chinese Bank in the UK began to expand rapidly, almost at an astonishing rate. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info because Xu Qing successfully seized a gap, that is, he seized the gap for the British bankers to change their business models. Because British bankers are also changing from the business model of charging depositors for custody and then charging high loan sharks to Xu Qing's business model.
But this change is not so easy, for so many years of business model, where is it said that it can be so easy to change? Therefore, this will inevitably produce a large vacuum period, in which they will not be able to receive loan orders, and they will have to re-straighten out their internal relations, which will give Xu Qing an amazing development opportunity.
It's only been a month, and Xu Qing's Anglo-Chinese Bank has opened all over London, radiating to cities near London. Soon spread throughout the United Kingdom, because London was the capital of the United Kingdom, and the significance of the capital was extraordinary to all countries in the world. Having got the market in the capital, basically the whole country is not a big problem.
Yinghua Bank began to expand rapidly, and Xu Qing took the initiative to hand over the management rights to a senior manager hired by himself. Xu Qing knew that he couldn't be in charge of too much day-to-day management, and his real purpose was still in politics. Leave other things to the manager to be responsible, as long as you grasp the personnel power and financial power, the problem will not be too big. The future is also managed by professional managers, this is for sure.
When Xu Qing's Anglo-Chinese Bank began to expand rapidly, on the other hand, the first batch of "international students" selected from the Manchu Qing Dynasty also came to England.
However, when Xu Qing saw the first batch of international students, he was immediately very depressed.
"Why are they all girls? None of the boys? Xu Qing asked.
Xu Qing asked directly, because the first batch of twenty international students were all girls, which made Xu Qing very dissatisfied. It stands to reason that I don't dare to say that there are half boys and half girls, but at least not all girls!
"Lord Xu, from now on we will be your people! In the future, whether you are a slave or a slave, we will listen to you! The first girl, about fifteen years old, said.
When Xu Qing heard this, cold sweat came out of his back, what is this?
"What the hell is going on with you? What did the domestic officials say, didn't they let you come to study? Xu Qing asked.
The female student at the head said: "My lord, the adults in China said that they will select some people to come to the UK to study with you, Lord Xu, and they will be sold to you, Lord Xu in the UK." This time we are a girl, and the price is four thousand taels of silver, so that we can all ......"
"Grass!" Xu Qing scolded.
Even if Xu Qing thought he was a well-cultivated diplomat, he couldn't help but burst into foul language. He found that he still underestimated the Manchu period, the country's isolation and ideological backwardness. It is a tragedy to treat these international students as "being sold". It was the first time Xu Qing had heard that studying abroad was tantamount to selling people to foreign countries.
Isn't it true that how many people go to study abroad just to come back and serve the motherland? Even if it is utilitarian, it is to go to a foreign country to learn new knowledge, and then to earn more wages, and even some have ulterior motives. But in short, it has nothing to do with selling yourself!
But in China in this era, the thinking is so strange that it actually treats studying abroad as being sold.
"I want boys and girls under the age of fifteen, how can I ......," Xu Qing asked.
The girl at the head said: "The adults in China have said that boys and girls under the age of fifteen must have a sufficient cultural foundation and look good, and they must not lose the face of the Qing Dynasty. So we were all elected, and we were all elected from some wealthy families in Guangdong. The adults in the country said that as long as they are selected, they can also get an eight-rank official rank. ”
"So, our twenty girls were chosen out of six thousand girls. Not only is it academic, but also temperamental, and the figure is very good, and even the talent is very carefully selected. Moreover...... And we also had training after we went abroad......"
Xu Qing asked, "What is the training?" Do you have foreign language training? ”
The girl at the head replied: "Training...... Train you to serve men in bed, and we're all virgins......"
Xu Qing lowered his head, he really wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into, what the is this? is a good policy for international students, but it was tossed like this by the bureaucrats in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Xu Qing wanted to cry!
Xu Qing emphasized again: "I'm talking about men and women under the age of fifteen, men and women!" ”
"My lord, you're talking about men and women under the age of fifteen, who are beautiful and have an extraordinary talent for reading."
Xu Qing said again: "That's right, since you want to go abroad, of course you have to look good, don't lose the face of the country!" But I'm talking about men and women under the age of fifteen, not just women! ”
The girl at the head said again: "My lord, in our Qing Dynasty, who would be willing to send the boy he added to the barbarians...... Barbarian...... That's it! Therefore, since the adults did not additionally say that men and women should have half of each other, those adults in the country are not willing to offend people, so they only want girls. Anyway, girls don't give it to anyone, and the daughter who will marry in the future will spill the water, so it's all girls! ”
Xu Qing sat in a chair in a daze, he was really almost crazy. He really underestimated the closed-mindedness of the bureaucrats in China, and he actually thought about the policy of international students.
"It's really a lie, and after so many mouths, the meaning of his mother has changed. A good policy for international students has actually become selling children and daughters, and then going to foreigners to give that, isn't this nonsense? Me too, why do I habitually write the words "male and female"? Can't I just ask for all men? Xu Qing complained in his heart.
This time, Xu Qing is really used to it, because later generations have stipulated that men and women are equal, and both boys and girls have the right to go to school. So he habitually wrote about men and women, and did not separately stipulate that men should be men. As a result, he neglected the patriarchal preference in China in this era.
In addition, these Manchu bureaucrats used false rumors to treat international students as the kind of people who were sold to foreigners. The female is regarded as a concubine for foreigners, and the male is ......
In this kind of false rumors, coupled with the preference for sons over women in China, and more importantly, Xu Qing forgot to deliberately mark that there must be half male and half female, and as a result, this first batch of international students turned out to be all girls!