"Chen Dingtian, you traitor, don't think that you have foreigners to take care of, you will fall into my hands sooner or later! Let me tell you, in this Shanghai, if you have a kind, don't leave this foreigner's territory, otherwise I will kill you! A Qing officer shouted. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But Chen Dingtian showed a wry smile, he was really unlucky, he actually faced this result, and he was almost killed this time, which is really dangerous.

"This late Qing Dynasty period is really too dangerous." Chen Dingtian said with a wry smile.

However, a big-nosed foreigner next to him immediately asked, "Chen, why are those people so fierce to you?" You don't seem to have a grudge against him, do you? ”

Chen Dingtian shook his head and said, "Mr. Truman, in fact, this is because I don't have that braid on the back of my head, so I will be hunted down by them!" ”

"No braids? Without braids, so what? How do individuals dress up, that is personal freedom, and there are so many such acts? Truman, the big-nosed foreigner, wondered.

Chen Dingtian said again: "In our Chinese period, if you don't have that braid on the back of your head, it means that you are a thief, that is, a rebel." ”

"It's ridiculous, because of a braid, they all think you're a rebel, it's ridiculous! This country, too, is too crazy, right? Truman complained.

Chen Dingtian finally said helplessly: "Yes! In our Chinese era, it is so crazy and perverted! ”

Chen Dingtian knew that this was the late Qing Dynasty, and the late Qing Dynasty was also the Qing Dynasty, and the ideas of the feudal era were extremely perverted. This kind of thinking in the feudal period, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was even more hairless without a head, and after crossing over, his head naturally did not have that braid, so he was treated as an anti-thief. This is incomprehensible to foreigners, who actually treat you as a thief because of a braid.

Since Chen Dingtian crossed over, he thought that he was very unlucky, and he actually traveled to this late Qing Dynasty. He was born in the twenty-first century, he was a genius, a genius in linguistics. He is different from the average student, who is very afraid of foreign languages, and few students can learn them well. However, Chen Dingtian is very good at foreign languages, he is simply a linguistic genius, he is proficient in three foreign languages at the age of seven, and can communicate fluently with foreigners in foreign languages. By the age of twelve, he would be able to speak seven foreign languages.

Later, at the age of twelve, he was specially recruited as a college student by a well-known foreign Chinese college in China, and then at the age of eighteen, he successfully mastered more than a dozen foreign languages, not only proficient, but also able to translate foreign literary works. By this time, he had often translated Chinese books and foreign books into each other, and he was also a well-known translator internationally. He owns the translation rights of many books, which can bring him millions of income every year, and he is very valuable.

But he seems to have had the good fortune of a lifetime, when he was 20 years old, he was a well-known top student of the School of Foreign Chinese, and then he was valued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then seconded him to Shanghai to help with the simultaneous interpretation task of attending an unconventional meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and was responsible for translating documents. But not long after he came to Shanghai, he crossed over. Traveled to Shanghai more than 100 years ago, in 1850 in the late Qing Dynasty, a few months before Emperor Daoguang had just burped and Emperor Xianfeng had just inherited the throne. Ten years ago, the Opium War broke out, and the Opium War ten years ago was the beginning of China's decline, and China will suffer countless humiliations in the future.

"However, what I have to do now is how to save my life!" Chen Dingtian smiled bitterly.

Chen Dingtian is the most unlucky at present, what he wants to do is not some kind of rebellion, what he wants to do is revolution, what he wants to do now is to save his life. Because his identity is very embarrassing at the moment, his identity is just a "thief". The reason why he was "re-thiefd" was because he did not have a braid on the back of his head. During the Qing Dynasty, Chen Dingtian did not have a braided head on his head, so he would naturally be considered a thief. But the conscience of heaven and earth, Chen Dingtian did not leave braids before he crossed, and later generations did not have the habit of keeping braids.

So he was taken for a thief, and then he was almost killed on the spot. But fortunately, this Mr. Truman helped Chen Dingtian in time, so that he was not killed by the Manchu Qing officers and soldiers, and he picked up a life! However, he can be regarded as "registered" with the Qing court, and he can be regarded as an anti-thief, which is the most tragic.

"Mr. Truman, thank you for your uprightness, otherwise I might have been killed!" Chen Dingtian said with gratitude.

However, Truman shook his head and said, "Actually, I also feel close, I did not expect that in the far East, there would be people who speak English." I was so touched to be able to hear English so proficiently in another country. You speak English so fluently that if I hadn't clearly seen that you were an Oriental, I would have mistaken you for an Englishman! Your London accent is more standard than many of us in the UK. Many of you Chinese here in China are not proficient in English, so I have a hard time listening to English, and even they are not familiar with English at all. Now I finally have someone who is so familiar with and proficient in English that I feel like I have seen my compatriots. So I'll help you, it's normal. And looking at your suit, and your polite appearance, I think I can help you a little. ”

"Thank you, I hope you will take care of me in the future, I can only rely on you Mr. Truman for now!" Chen Dingtian said.

Truman nodded and said, "Well, you can follow me now, as my secretary and translator, what do you think?" Your translators here in China are so bad that I can't even accept their English proficiency. And according to you, in addition to English, you know French, Russian, German, Spanish, and many other foreign languages, right? ”

"Yes!" Chen Dingtian said.

Truman nodded and said, "Well, I'm in Shanghai these days, and I'll let you be my translator and secretary, what do you think?" During this time, I will shelter you as a foreigner. And, I give you a salary of three pounds a month, what do you think? ”

"Yes!" Chen Dingtian agreed.

Chen Dingtian is also helpless, he is currently "registered" in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he is already an "anti-thief", so he naturally needs foreigners to take refuge. Not to mention that he has an income of three pounds a month, even if he is just taking care of food.

However, that Truman was secretly happy in his heart, and secretly thought: "Such an excellent talent, he only needs a salary of three pounds a month!" If it is in Europe, such a top talent, it is priceless, even if it costs ten times the price, it may not be able to be invited. Such an excellent talent is not something that money can invite at all, and now it only costs three pounds to bring in, which is really too profitable. ”

In the next few days, Chen Dingtian began to communicate with many foreigners in this neighborhood with the British businessman named Truman, and Chen Dingtian, a Chinese who can speak more than a dozen foreign languages, is amazing in Shanghai's foreigner circle and has accumulated a lot of fame. Chen Dingtian has known since ten years ago. After the war, the Manchu government was forced to open several ports as bases for trade. And this Shanghai was listed as one of the concessions, and then they traded here, and some Western merchants came to the Far East to pan for gold, and this Shanghai is also one of the very important ports. There are a lot of foreigners here in Shanghai, who seek business opportunities here, and then hope to do business and make money to go back to live a prosperous life.

And the same is true of Truman, he was in the book business, he came to China, hoping to see what Chinese books could be worthwhile, or to get foreign books to be sold in China, so that he could make some money. Chen Dingtian temporarily became Truman's translator and secretary, not only responsible for the communication and translation between Truman and the Chinese, but also responsible for Truman's translation and communication with the French or some other countries. In Shanghai's foreigner circle, Chen Dingtian's translation level is also full of praise, and even the entire Shanghai ocean circle has heard of Chen Dingtian's name. They were also envious, and they only spent three pounds a month to hire Chen Dingtian. You must know that talents like Chen Dingtian, who can speak more than a dozen foreign languages and can interpret simultaneously, even in Europe, cannot be invited by money alone.

In this era, when Chen Dingtian showed his ability to "interpret simultaneously", everyone was shocked and snorted amazingly. There are even many people who come to dig the foot of the wall and want to hire Chen Dingtian with a high salary. However, because of Truman's protection of him a few days ago, he naturally wanted to choose to continue to follow Truman, after all, people were kind to him.

Chen Dingtian took the pen, then shook the cap of the pen, and then complained: "What should I do now?" What a tragedy it is to travel to this era! According to history, the Jintian Rebellion would also break out next year, and later Hong Xiuquan established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. And the world will be a chaotic time, so what can I do? I'm already a thief who was registered by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, if it goes on like this, then who knows what the consequences will be? What can I do in these troubled times? Rebellion, revolution? It's too hard, isn't it? ”

Chen Dingtian found that he didn't seem to be suitable for rebellion, and if he wanted to rebel, he must know military affairs and politics. But at present, I am just a translator, a translator who only knows foreign languages, where do I know anything about politics and military affairs! He is now suddenly very envious of those special forces, those secret service kings, and even those military traversers. They all know how to fight, and their personal martial arts are extremely strong, and they can beat down more than a dozen of those Qing troops by themselves. He is only a literati, a literati who can only translate into foreign languages, but he is powerless.

He doesn't know how to command a war, and if he wants to rebel, I'm afraid he won't be able to beat the other party at all! He doesn't know how to personally command a war, he doesn't have any experience in leading troops, and he doesn't know any strategy and tactics, how can he beat those Qing troops? So he didn't know what to do with this rebellion and revolution.

"What the hell, I don't know what to do. What do I do next? Chen Dingtian finally discovered that he was really a literati.

"It's useless to be a scholar!" Chen Dingtian sighed and said.

However, at this time, that Truman walked in.

"Chen, do you have time now?" Truman asked.

Chen Dingtian immediately replied: "Of course, it is a pleasure to serve you, Mr. Truman!" ”

Truman walked in and said, "Chen, recently I want to translate your famous Chinese historical novels, and I plan to translate these novels such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Journey to the West". Can you translate it for me? As for the manuscript fee for literary translation, I will give you three pounds and 10,000 words, what do you think? ”

Chen Dingtian didn't expect that this Truman actually wanted to help translate literary works by himself, and he also translated Chinese masterpieces to foreign countries for sale. And this three pounds and 10,000 words, this is definitely not low. You must know that the pound in this era is an out-and-out hard currency, and all countries use the gold standard. If the pound is exchanged according to the gold content, the value of each pound is more than 1,000 yuan in later generations, which is definitely not low.

And the price of this translation given to him by Truman was 10,000 words per three pounds, which is more than 500 yuan per thousand words in later generations. This is definitely very high, because you must know that in the future generations, you can get 500 yuan per 1,000 words of translation, and that is the status of well-known translators.

This Truman gave Chen Dingtian such a high translation fee, which can be regarded as a very good "friendship price", which shows that he values Chen Dingtian's talent and can have such an excellent translation talent, so he thinks that it is worth giving Chen Dingtian a high translation fee.

"Well, Mr. Truman, since you have this idea, then I can help you with this translation work. I think I'm still up to the task of translating. Whether you want me to translate these four masterpieces into English, or French, Russian, German, etc., I can also help you get it right. Chen Dingtian said.

Thinking that this business can be done, this translation is a lot of money. Even translating the four famous books in several languages alone is enough to make a lot of money. If I can complete the translation of these four famous books in several languages, I am afraid that my income will be more than 4,000 pounds. Don't look at it just over 4,000 pounds, it will definitely be more than 1 million in the next generation, so this business is done!

At present, Chen Dingtian has no work to do, and he does not prevent him from doing some things to translate books to make money. As for rebellion and revolution, he can't do it. Let him rebel and revolution, so that it is better to let him choose to hang himself directly.

Unbeknownst to Chen Dingtian, he was now on the path of "messing with the world with literature", and he was called the "most murderous and bloodless" butcher of the 19th century, because his writings and books directly and indirectly caused more deaths than all previous wars combined.