[64] Translation

Yao Fan and the Li brothers took a car to the Ding family, and then quietly accompanied the three members of the Li family in the guest hall, listening to the three chatting with the five sons of the Ding family. Yao Fan remembered that Ding Baozhen had five sons and five daughters, five sons were accompanying him, and one daughter did not come out.

Although Ding Baozhen knew that Li Jingxuan was a woman, it was not appropriate to find her daughter to come out and accompany her in front of so many people, and it exposed Li Jingxuan's identity.

Yao Fan knew that his status was just a businessman, even if he came from overseas, he was not a big man. So he basically doesn't say anything, just echoes the crowd, increases their favorability towards him, and occasionally blows about what he has seen and heard overseas at the request of the crowd.

When the banquet started, everyone sat down around the table, Ding Baozhen came out and sat down, and at this time, the dishes came up one by one.

"Yao Fan, try it, although this green vegetable tofu is plain, it is the best taste in the world." Ding Baozhen pointed to a plate of green vegetables and tofu and said to Yao Fan.

Yao Fan hurriedly clipped a chopstick.

"I think when I was in my hometown in Guizhou, a family of thirty or forty, the annual expenditure was only four hundred taels of silver, although not everyone had silk and satin to wear, but everyone had two pieces of cloth in rotation. Although not everyone has meat to eat, there are two or three catties of meat at home every day. Life is in the world, contentment and happiness. Ding Baozhen said lightly.

"What my lord said is that some officials are spending a lot of money at every turn, which is really wasteful." Yao Fan smiled and slapped the sycophants up.

Ding Baozhen glanced at him: "Most of you businessmen only know how to make money, and don't know how to do good deeds and accumulate virtues. ”

Ding Tichang listened, and hurriedly said: "Dad, where did you go, Brother Yao is your valued guest, and he must be a righteous businessman." ”

Yao Fan was resentful when he heard Ding Baozhen's words, probably when he was raising funds from the people, and said busily: "The younger generation is willing to listen to the teachings of adults!" That's what the adults say!

So after I returned to China this time, I heard that Hu Xueyan, a Hui businessman, opened a Hu Qingyu Tang, which was known to the outside world as a true price, not to make money, but to treat medicine and save the disease, I was moved, and I was willing to donate 100,000 taels of silver to open a medicine store in our Shandong, just call Yao Qingyutang! I don't want to make profits, I just want to be able to cure diseases and save people, and make good connections. In the future, I will not take a penny of silver, and I am willing to donate 10,000 taels every month to help the people. ”

Ding Baozhen's eyes lit up and said: "You can have this heart, but it is a hundred times stronger than fooling me with 100,000 taels of silver!"

It's just that the old man looks at your business name is too unparticular, just like the word you took yourself, what is it called Zaofan? There is no decency. With that, Ding Baozhen shook his head.

When Yao Fan saw Lao Ding say this, he knew that he couldn't be strong at this time, and if he wanted to benefit, he had to follow his words.

"I was originally a lonely person living abroad, although I have learned a lot of mixed knowledge, but when it comes to the subset of classics and history, it is indeed a lot of absurdity, and it cannot be compared with many scholars in the Qing Dynasty.

It is the greatest honor of my life to be invited to sit with Mr. Ding today. I have a small request tonight to ask Lord Ding to change the name of my business and the name of the medicine store I am about to set up. ”

Ding Baozhen drank a few glasses of wine, his face was also bloody, and after hearing Yao Fan's words, he nodded slowly: "Then I will give your business a name, just call it Yuchun." Brahman, the grass and trees are verdant, and in spring, when you do business, you naturally seek wealth and achievement. ”

Yao Fan clapped his hands together in front of his chest, and shouted, "Okay!! "The exaggerated appearance is like Zhao Benshan's sketch character.

"Uncle Ding's name is good! Yuchun business, Yuchun foreign line, Yuchun hall, how to use this name is smooth, used in the name of the medicine hall, there is also a wonderful hand of rejuvenation implication, it is really good! Li Jingfang also applauded.

The sedan chair was carried by everyone, and Ding Baozhen's five sons also praised their Lao Tzu's name for being good, and Ding Baozhen couldn't help but be proud.

Yao Fan hit the railroad while it was hot: "If Lord Ding is willing to help me inscribe a plaque, I am willing to buy words at the price of a thousand gold!" ”

Ding Baozhen looked at Yao Fan meaningfully and said, "Okay, I'll write it to you, but I won't take anything!" You just have to remember what you said today. ”

Yao Fan knew that Ding Baozhen was not only talking about the establishment of the medicine hall, but also about helping Ding Baozhen purchase machines.

"My lord, don't worry, the Yao family does business in the world, relying on a letter." Yao Fandao.

Ding Baozhen was also refreshed and asked his family to fetch pen and ink. On the spot, he wrote on the copywriting in the lobby "Yuchun business, Yuchun Yaotang" eight big characters.

"As long as these eight big characters are engraved into a plaque, and then countless copies are printed, their semicolons in the country are considered to be protected, especially in Shandong, which is more effective than anything else, this magic weapon, it is difficult to buy!" Yao Fan thought to himself.

"My lord! In the future, as long as you have the required Western information, the Yao family is willing to be your eyeliner. You have the Western machine you need, and the Yao family is willing to be the little ghost in your five ghost handling**! Yao Fan cursed on the spot and hugged his thighs like an oath, for this old man who will be promoted to the governor of Sichuan next year and the secretary of the military department, Yao Fan completely tore off his face.

Li Jingfang was not surprised by this, as if he had long seen that Yao Fan was this kind of person, and he didn't feel pity, after all, he originally wanted to help Yao Fan find a position in the Westernist system in the Great Qing Kingdom, as for serving Ding Baozhen or his father Li Hongzhang, Li Jingfang didn't care, after all, Li Hongzhang had too many resources in his hands, and it was not too rare for a Yao Fan.

Li Jingshu was a little disappointed, feeling that Yao Fan's thighs were too tightly hugged this time, how could his father win him over in the future?

It turned out that this kid still had the intention of introducing Yao Fan to Li Hongzhang. He is the one who has the deepest contact with Yao Fan among these people, so he can feel the special temperament of Yao Fan the most, and he deeply feels that this person represents not only his knowledge, but also a trend of the times. Li Jingshu often feels that Yao Fan has a rushing breath on his face, and the smell of it makes people feel that a new era has come in a trance.

Although Li Jingxuan is a woman, she is as careful as a woman, and her unique sixth sense tells her that there is something wrong with Yao Fan, but she can't see where the problem is.

Ding Baozhen was very happy, firstly, he was happy that he could get the help of such a valuable family as the Yao family, and secondly, he was happy that Yao Fan suddenly expressed his stance in front of the Li family, and the three stinky boys of the Orthodox Li family tasted the unspeakable feeling of making wedding dresses for others.

In order to show generosity, Ding Baozhen didn't mind saying to Yao Fan in front of the three members of the Li family:

"Yao Fan, can you help me find some Western science books recently, although the Jingshi Tongwenguan is also translating Western science books, but the progress is slow. It is better to ask for others than for yourself, the old man has asked Shangzhi Academy to start translating, but he suffers from the lack of translation talents, and invited a few foreigners to read and dictate, and the scholars dictated and sorted out the transcripts, but still the donkey's lips are not the horse's mouth, and the progress is very slow. ”

Yao Fan knew that the Jingshi Tongwenguan was actually a garbage dump, the equivalent of a foreign language college in the Qing Dynasty, used to train petty officials for written and oral translation.

In principle, the ghost place only recruits the children of the Eight Banners, and the standard for the Han people to enter is under the age of 3o, and the talent is above the fame, and it is best to raise people and jinshi. However, if a person is less than thirty years old and is already a talent or even a scholar or a jinshi, is it necessary to go to that ghost place? For those under the age of 30, the road to the imperial examination is the real road.

As for the children of the Eight Banners, they also look down on the Jingshi Tongwen Museum, and the children of the Eight Banners feel that learning foreign languages is equivalent to descending to a foreign country. Those who are willing to read are basically so stupid that they can't even read the official school of the children of the Eight Banners, and they will be repeated or driven out of the official school of the Eight Banners. Even so, when I went, I was discriminated against by relatives and friends, and even broke off friendships, and I couldn't raise my head when I went out.

Therefore, this Daqing Foreign Language College, which is also known as the Jingshi Tongwen Museum, is usually not satisfied with the recruitment of students, but it is posted with a vest money and food equivalent to the children of the banner people, and no serious scholars are willing to sign up. That's vest money! Thirty Chinese New Year's Eve, six taels of silver and 23 stone rice! One stone is equal to 12o catties!

You must know that the annual income of the seventh-grade official is only 45 taels of silver and 22 stone and a half meter, and the eight-grade official is even lower, only 4o taels of silver and 2o stone rice. The vest money and food of the flag salary are already the treatment of the seventh or eighth grade officials.

Even if the vest money and food are given, the children of the Eight Banners will not go to the language school, you say that the children of the Eight Banners at this time have become a group of lazy waste, right?

Yao Fan said: "I listened to the merchants passing by in Jingshi, and the couplet circulated in Beijing wrote, 'There are many tricks, so that the small court will set up a hall of the same text; The military plane has no far-sightedness, and the disciples are tempted to worship different kinds as teachers. Others said that it was 'not the same as Sven's mourning.' Some people even said, 'Nonsense has made people follow Catholicism.' ’”

Ding Baozhen said angrily: "What are these people left except for a mouth!" Book of the Later Han Dynasty. Yang Yu Biography said, 'Those who disobey their hearts will seek slander', they don't like it, so they spread rumors and make trouble, and they don't care whether it is beneficial to the country or not!

Under the destruction of their bones, now the Jingshi Tongwen Pavilion can't even find a principal, and no one wants to find this scolding! ”

Yao Fan said: "There are so many opposing ministers in the DPRK and China, it is naturally difficult to find translators, and in this case, it is really difficult for the academy to translate books. ”

Ding Baozhen said: "The Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau Translation Museum has translated a lot of books over the years, and there are all kinds of scientific books, but I can't rely on just one translation hall in the Qing Dynasty, right?" To say the least, it takes three or two to be enough. ”

Yao Fan said: "I think so, if the adult has a book to translate, he will hand it over to me, and I will ask the children of the family to translate it for the adult." ”

"Great goodness!" Ding Baozhen was overjoyed and praised.

"Yao Fan, you may find some children of your family who are proficient in foreign languages to come to my Shandong as translators and teachers?" Ding Baozhen asked.

Yao Fan didn't expect to take up such a troublesome matter, and hurriedly said: "I can help find it, but I can't guarantee that someone is willing to come, after all, there are not many people who know the languages of the two countries, and if there are any, they are also busy making a lot of money in sea trade, how can they be willing to be a little teacher." ”

Ding Baozhen was a little disappointed when he heard this, and now the work of translating books in the academy in his hand all relied on the missionaries' stumbling dictation into strange Chinese, and then the scholars guessed the meaning of the words and recorded them in writing.

Ding Baozhen was full halfway through eating, and got up to leave.

The rest of the people ate one meal, and by the end of the day, they were already talking and laughing and getting acquainted with each other.

In this dining hall, more than a dozen red candles burn on the candlestick, and the bright flame illuminates the outer courtyard, which can be seen with pots of flowers and bonsai.

Ding Tihe, the third son of the Ding family, said: "Tonight's flowers are really good, and the flowers are even more beautiful under the candlelight." ”

Li Jingfang said: "Now the lotus flowers in Daming Lake are full, right?" ”

Ding Ti, the son of the Ding family, often smiled: "Tomorrow, you will know that it is a beautiful scenery with infinite lotus leaves." ”

Li Jing said: "Then tomorrow we will go to Daming Lake!" ”

So everyone set up a trip together the next day.

Yao Fan smiled silently, he knew that after this meal, he had established a reliable connection with the Ding family.

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