Chapter 182 Naturalization (First update, please subscribe)

People's destiny always changes inadvertently.

For Hu Xueyan, when he was in Hangzhou, he never thought that he would be abducted and sold overseas one day.

After arriving at Nanhua, although he was unwilling to be an ordinary person, just when he was thinking about using his savings to do some business after the railway was built, he met someone unexpectedly and was suddenly entrusted with an important task - to study banking in London.

bank!

Hu Xueyan was neither unfamiliar nor familiar with the banking industry. After all, when he was in Hangzhou, he had dealt with foreign banks in Shanghai. He knew that banks were different from money houses, but he could not explain the specific differences. His understanding of banks was limited to this, but this did not prevent him from learning.

"I, can I do it?"

In his master's office, Hu Xueyan seemed a little hesitant.

"My Lord, I only studied English for a few months with Mr. Sato at night school."

If he hadn't seen that knowing English would help him communicate with foreign technicians and make him more likely to be employed, he wouldn't have thought about learning English.

Even now, he can only speak simple conversations. It is too difficult for him to study abroad at this level.

Is it possible?

"Don't worry, take your time. When you get to London, you can learn the language and go to school. You won't be the only one going there. There will also be some people, including the children of your acquaintances in Hangzhou. Next year, you will go to banks and factories for internships. Right now, the Bank of America has just been established. Although the foreign employees we hired are quite attentive, we will eventually have to hire our own people in the future!"

Although the lord did not make any promises to him, these words still gave Hu Xueyan an opportunity.

bank!

There will be an opportunity to host a bank in the future!

Faced with such an opportunity, who would refuse?

In fact, Zhu Xianhai did have the intention of letting Hu Xueyan run the bank. After all, the Fukang Bank he founded must have been the largest private bank in Shanghai. But before that, he hoped that Hu Xueyan could go to the West to fully understand Western finance. After all, what Zhu Xianhai needed was not a traditional bank, but a bank! A real modern bank.

Bank. As early as the end of last year, the Bank of America was established and even now issues banknotes. In this era, paper money in many countries is issued by private banks. Not to mention that the United States has hundreds of banknotes issued by private banks. Even in the UK, banknotes issued by the Bank of England and banknotes of private banks are circulated and used at the same time.

Although the size of Bank of America is limited now, with the increase in population, it will sooner or later become the most important financial institution in South China.

People and talents are the key to everything.

As long as there are people, all problems will be solved.

However, people still need training. The earliest school built in Nanhua was not an elementary school or a preparatory school, but a factory apprentice school. Among these apprentice schools, the shipyard apprentice school was established later. This is because the shipyard was established later. It was not until May last year that the first stone dock and slipway were built. It started with ship repair, which was actually to provide maintenance such as cleaning the bottom of the clipper ships returning from long voyages. In this process, shipbuilding began.

However, its first batch of workers were indeed trained in the apprentice school, which was located in a temporary wooden shed next to the dock. The workers studied while working. At that time, there were apprentices aged 13 or 14 as well as craftsmen in their 40s in the classroom.

In fact, even in the apprentice school of the shipyard, the apprentices are of different ages. After all, the shipyard assigns some new workers every month. Compared with a year ago, the apprentice school has moved into the red building near the shipyard. In addition to the apprentice classes for carpenters and blacksmiths, there is also an apprentice class, which is full of teenagers aged 12 to 15. Most of them studied privately in the past and can be considered as good at reading and calculating. In addition to learning shipbuilding knowledge here, they also have to learn mathematics, English and other aspects of knowledge. They are called apprentices, but in fact they will go abroad to study shipbuilding in the future.

Among these apprentices, Li Chenpu was undoubtedly the most talented. He was born in a wealthy family in Hangzhou, and it was an accident that he came to Nanhua. If it wasn't an accident, he and his family would have been beheaded when the city was broken. After all, in history, Hangzhou, which had a population of 800,000, was reduced to only 70,000 people after just four years of war. In Zhejiang, which had a population of 31 million, only 15 million survived. Fully half of the population was lost in this catastrophe.

Among the hundreds of thousands of people in Nanhua, almost all of them should have been wiped out in that catastrophe. Now, not only have they survived, but they have also embarked on another unimaginable path.

Just like the sixteen-year-old Li Chenpu, who had passed the examination at the age of fourteen, his ambition was to pass the examination like his elder brother, become an official in the court, and bring honor to his family, but now his ambition is to become a ship engineer. He is extremely smart. In just half a year, he not only memorized the words in the "English-Chinese dictionary", but also understood the lessons taught by the teacher without translation. Even if it was only part of it, it was extremely rare.

Because of this, his name has been included in the new list of students studying abroad, but he is also having a headache about this. Many things always have extra troubles.

"Li Chenpu, did you solve yesterday's math problem?"

Jiro Tengda is the school's mathematics teacher. Compared to European and American teachers who need translators, scholars hired from Japan through foreign companies are undoubtedly more popular with Nanhua. They are all proficient in Dutch studies without exception. They may not understand mechanics or science, but they can teach mathematics and English to junior and senior high school students. More importantly, they can speak Chinese!

Not to mention the children of samurai, even the children of ordinary people had to learn Chinese characters, write Chinese poetry, and read Confucian classics as compulsory courses when they studied in a temple. As for Japanese language teaching, it did not exist. Even for the samurai class in Japan, being able to speak Chinese and write Chinese poetry was itself a symbol of status that distinguished them from farmers.

These people's Mandarin is even better than that of many immigrants. After all, most of Nanhua's immigrants are from Zhejiang. It is even because of them that the pronunciation of Ming Dynasty Mandarin has become popular in schools. After all, what is taught in Japan's Terakoya is Nanjing Mandarin, which is the Mandarin of the Ming Dynasty.

"It's already been solved, Mr. Tengtian."

Unlike others, Li Chenpu spoke Beijing Mandarin, which was a compulsory course in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty. Anyone who passed the examination to become a scholar would hire a special teacher to learn Mandarin.

Tengtian said, nodding.

"Very good, your English is very good. Although English is a must for studying abroad, you must remember that mathematics is very important. If you want to become an engineer, you must be proficient in mathematics. You don't even have to be proficient in English. After all, one day, Nanhua will have its own university and its own scholars to teach students shipbuilding in Chinese. However, if you don't know mathematics, you will definitely not be able to become an engineer!"

Mathematics is very important. As a math teacher in school, Teng Tian always reminds every student tirelessly, fearing that they will not pay attention to mathematics. As a teacher, he is undoubtedly very competent.

Even because of his dedication, his score was much higher than others. At this rate, he would be able to "naturalize" Nanhua and become a Chinese in two years at most.

For a teacher like him who came from Japan, being able to naturalize as a Chinese is definitely a cause for celebration.

After all, after naturalization, not only will the corresponding treatment be greatly improved, but he can also bring his family here and settle here forever.

After living here for a few months, they were unwilling to return to Japan to experience the suffocating class and bloodline.

No one here will care about these things, as long as you work hard you will always be rewarded.

For example, becoming a Chinese.

(End of this chapter)