I want to be emperor

Chapter 1101 Taylor’s Interview

When it was Taylor's turn to apply, he was not alone, but with nineteen other people.

An English girl with blond hair and big waves wearing a flowing bandeau-style Hanfu led twenty of them forward.

As he walked forward, Taylor was a little afraid to look at the English girl in Han attire in front of her... Just the sight of her back could easily make people think wildly.

Not to mention that when I looked at her from the front just now, the woman's facial features were so beautiful that it was rare to see outside. Her skin was not pale and had big pores like that of ordinary white girls, but was delicate, white and rosy... She was wearing a tube top Chinese dress, which also highlighted her figure that made people couldn't help but pay attention to her.

To be honest, Taylor has never seen such a girl outside... It's not that he has never seen beautiful girls, but he has never seen such a beautiful and delicate girl, and also dressed so fashionably... Such a girl If it were not that her hair was blond and her eyes were blue, making her look like a European girl at a glance, but if she had black hair and black eyes, everyone would probably think she was a girl from Chu country.

Because the facial features and skin are very similar to those of Chu people, without many characteristics of white Europeans.

Such girls are very beautiful both in the eyes of Chu people and in the eyes of Europeans...and this also means to a certain extent that even if it is only a short period of ten years, Europeans' aesthetics have changed. Views were also greatly influenced by the people of Chu.

Aesthetics is an important characteristic of cultural influence!

A simple example, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the original time and space, Chinese people thought that Europeans looked like ghosts, and they were called red-haired ghosts... When ordinary people saw Europeans, their expressions were really the same as seeing ghosts... …

About a hundred years ago, the Chinese felt that although white people were still quite ugly, they were not incapable of looking at... but black people were still ghosts...

However, a few decades later, after entering the 1980s and 1990s, European and American culture began to rapidly invade and penetrate, quickly changing the aesthetics of the Chinese people... They accepted and recognized the aesthetics of some European and American regions, and even some Chinese who were seriously affected People even think black people are quite handsome, and they can even fall in love, get married and have children together...

This would have been unimaginable a few decades ago...

Because in the past thirty years, European and American film and television dramas have fully entered, which has brought a large amount of cultural input, including aesthetics... In addition, there are other values ​​​​and the like.

Why does this happen?

In other words, why European and American culture was able to fully invade and penetrate, and ultimately influenced the Chinese people...

In fact, the reason is very simple, and there is only one, that is, the United States is the contemporary superpower... and people will always have some special attitudes towards powerful countries, or many different mentality such as mindless licking, hatred, disgust, yearning, learning, etc... …

If it is a weak country, people will ignore it. There is no such mentality of hating or yearning for it, most of them will ignore it!

In another hundred years, a super human power suddenly appears in Africa and dominates the world... Then maybe humans will regard black as beauty... That scene makes me vomit just imagining it... …

But this is because national strength affects cultural output, and culture affects aesthetics and even values.

A similar situation has a greater impact on the vassal states in the Great Chu Empire and Europe, West Asia, India and other places... because the contemporary Great Chu Empire has brought all-round suppression to the vassal states...

Regardless of whether the people in these vassal states are willing or not, they are gradually accepting the comprehensive invasion of Chu culture in all aspects... This is actually not promoted by the Chu people themselves. The Chu people have no interest in cultural invasion. Instead, these indigenous people themselves came into contact with and learned it.

There are natives who hate Chu...but to defeat the enemy you must first understand the enemy.

There are people who yearn for Chu State, and this requires understanding Chu State.

So whether they hate Chu State or like Chu State, they will go and study the Four Books and Five Classics, study it comprehensively, understand Confucian culture, and deeply interpret the traditional feudal empire model of the Chu Empire...and then argue about Confucianism, the Chinese feudal monarchy and The relationship between industrialization... Many European scholars have vowed in recent years that the Chinese empire, that is, a unified and centralized imperial state, is a prerequisite for the emergence of industrialization...

The prerequisite for China's traditional feudal monarchy is Confucian philosophy.

God knows how they came to this conclusion...

Because as a party involved, Luo Zhixue knew very well that the industrialization of the Dachu Empire had nothing to do with what the empire was like. There was only one person who had a relationship, and that was himself... Without him, Luo Zhixue, the Dachu Empire would be just another two or three. It was just a traditional feudal empire that was finished in a century. If you want to industrialize without the influence of the external environment... that is simply a joke.

But today's Great Chu Empire actually has nothing to do with the traditional Chinese centralized feudal dynasty, and is even very different... Anyway, Luo Zhixue himself is not sure how to define the empire he created, because it turned out that This situation has never occurred in the history of mankind, and Luo Zhixue could not find a reference.

In fact, without Luo Zhixue, a time traveler, it would be impossible for humans to have such a strange model of empire... Well, at least the mainstream socio-economic, political and other academic theories in the original time and space cannot explain this situation...

But in this time and space, the Great Chu Empire does exist... and for the people of Chu, it's actually fine. They don't care much about these things. Anyway, that's how the empire is now.

However, for some latecomers, that is, those vassal states in West Asia and Europe, especially for some people with lofty ideals in their countries, this is a very important issue that must be clarified... Then That's why the Chu Empire was so powerful!

When they find the answer to this question, they can learn from it, turn around, and finally surpass it!

This is actually an important reason why many high-level elites in sweet potato countries have begun to study the Four Books and Five Classics... It's just been a few years since they studied, but these ambitious people in Europe still haven't figured it out, so they can only learn the most superficial ones first. Something, especially what is best for them.

For example, centralization, military reform, etc... The rulers of the vassal states like this very much... Therefore, the mainstream academic theory in Europe now criticizes the previous feudal system as useless... This The rulers of various countries are basically funding and supporting them. After all, these scholars need funds to write and publish books and promote their own theories, and the people who provide money behind them are basically the kings of various countries.

These are actually important manifestations of Chu's cultural invasion...and aesthetics, to be honest, are not too important.

As for John Taylor, the young generation who grew up during the period when the Chu people fully invaded Europe, and they were still educated young people, they were extremely influenced by Chu culture... This also included aesthetics.

Only in this way can I feel that the blond woman in the tube top Hanfu in front is very beautiful, and I even vaguely feel in my heart that it would be more perfect if this girl had Mediterranean black hair color and black eyes.

After following the blond woman in Hanfu in front into a small conference room, the woman in Hanfu said in Chinese with a slight accent: "Please register your personal information first, and then take a test paper. If you pass the written test, you can enter the interview. link.”

The registration form is very simple, it is nothing more than registering some simple personal information.

After the test paper was handed out, Taylor quickly glanced at it and thought to himself that this is not easy!

There are a lot of questions in this test paper. The first ones are some seemingly simple poem writing, filling in the blanks to make sentences, reading comprehension, and some basic mathematics questions. The last question requires writing a 500-word article. , there is no limit on the style of writing, and there is no limit on the number of words for poetry.

However, the time given for the entire exam is only forty minutes!

There is less time, there are many questions, and many of them are relatively difficult... This difficulty is not meant for ordinary people, but for people like Taylor who have been exposed to Chinese teaching as a child and are in East London. For those who have studied in a higher Chinese language school for four years and obtained a second-class certificate...

As for those who are not up to Taylor's level, let alone the exam, you can't even understand the questions... because all the questions above are in Chinese. If your Chinese level is not good, you can't even understand the questions, such as one of the reading comprehension questions. The question was asked by Ailian. This is a classical Chinese prose. Your Chinese proficiency is not good enough, so you can’t understand the question, so you can’t answer it at all.

This exam was more difficult than the B-level Chinese exam that Taylor had taken before... At least the B-level Chinese exam did not test classical Chinese.

Taylor picked up his pen and answered the questions quickly. He had no problem with most of the previous questions, but there were some that he didn't know. The basic math questions were relatively simple, so he solved them all quickly.

As for the final composition, you are required to write an article with the title of Spring Rain. The short article should be at least 500 words, and there is no limit on the number of words for poetry.

Taylor is quite talented in poetry. He mainly likes to read poetry and has memorized a lot of Tang poetry and Song lyrics. He has also written a lot of limericks. When he was in school, he was praised by a Portuguese teacher, saying that he was good at reading poetry. There is quite a bit of talent in this area.

As for the poem about spring rain, he had written one before that he thought was good, so it was just the right time for him to write it and hand it in today.

The spring rain is moist and silent, the trickle flows into the green terrace, the willow silk hangs down the clear water, and the shadows of flowers reflect in the bright window.

After finishing writing, he briefly checked other parts of the test paper. It was time for the exam. When he put down the test paper and prepared to hand it in, Taylor looked at the other people around him. Many of them had bad expressions. They probably didn't take the test. good.

It's not their fault... This exam is quite difficult. Taylor has already been exposed to Chinese education at home when he was about ten years old... His father still attaches great importance to the education of his eldest son, and has spent a lot of money on it. He was exposed to and learned Chinese. When he was a teenager, he was sent to East London by his father, and he was successfully admitted to the East London Higher Chinese School to study.

Counting this together, he has been learning Chinese for seven or eight years.

Others, especially those who appear on this occasion today, rarely have the same learning opportunities as Taylor... Many of them are actually self-taught, or studied in some private elementary schools, and passed the second-class Chinese proficiency certificate It's not a big problem, but if you really have to do this kind of question, I'm afraid it will be difficult to even pass.

Sure enough, when the time came, the blond woman in Hanfu in front put away the paper, and then graded the paper on the spot with a red-haired English man next to her... Because except for reading comprehension and composition, other questions had standard answers, so the paper was graded. Extremely fast. Not long after, the blond woman in Chinese attire said: "Daniel Alexander and John Taylor are staying, and the others can be invited back!"

Of the twenty people who took the exam, only two passed the written test and successfully entered the interview stage, which shows the high elimination rate.

In fact, entering the interview does not mean that you will be able to apply for the job... In fact, more than 300 people came to apply for the job today. According to Taylor's round, if two people out of twenty people enter the interview, I am afraid that the last person to enter the interview round There must be about thirty of them.

But... the 'European Channel Trading Company's London Concession Office' was commissioned to organize the recruitment.

They are only recruiting two people this time, but what they are recruiting is not labor dispatch workers, but regular workers who sign work contracts directly with the company... This one thing alone attracted the attention of many people, and Taylor was attracted by this one. attractive.

The benefits of formal workers in all aspects are much better than those of dispatched workers!

Not to mention that the European Straits Trading Company is still a large company with a good reputation.

European Strait Trading Company, a Chu State enterprise registered in Cadiz, is mainly engaged in the trading of industrial consumer goods in Europe... It represents the sales of many products in Europe, and its core business is as Royal Petroleum Company in Europe. Kerosene agents promote the sale of kerosene.

These days, companies related to oil, whether they are oil exploration and refining companies or overseas agents, are large companies with good money, and their backgrounds are often very powerful... It is said that behind this company there is a big noble from Chu State. Woolen cloth.

European Straits Trading Company, the company's headquarters is not actually in Europe, but is established in Guangzhou... However, the main operating body is the European branch in Cadiz, and a subsidiary is also established in Dover, England, for management business throughout the UK.

The office in the Chu Kingdom Concession in London is managed by the Dover Branch.

This is a large company with operations all over Europe. If you can work in such a large company, the benefits and benefits will be very good, and your social status will also be very good.

Therefore, this kind of enterprise recruitment has always been sought after by indigenous talents... Just like today, even if it only recruits two ordinary civilian employees, there will still be a large group of people applying... And these people who come to apply, let alone In fact, among the indigenous groups, they are considered a new generation of elite talents. They can get relatively decent jobs by working in many indigenous governments or companies.

But compared with the jobs in Chu State's enterprises, and the jobs as formal workers, the attractiveness of the two is completely unequal.

Otherwise, Taylor wouldn't have come... To be honest, a talent like him is not bad among a group of new generation talents in England.

However, it may not be easy to finally get this job...

John Taylor was not taken to the interview immediately. Instead, he was taken to a small conference room to wait, where there were already eight people before him.

Now counting Taylor and the two who passed the written examination in the new round, there are now ten people. There is still a group of people taking written tests one after another.

It is estimated that about thirty people will participate in the second round of interviews.

In fact, it was almost as expected by Taylor. Twenty-eight people finally participated in the interview, and the ratio of the trial candidates to the interview was more than ten to one.

After everyone gathered, Taylor and others were notified that the interviewer from Strait Trading Company had arrived, so that they could prepare and then take turns to go to the interview.

Taylor waited for about half an hour before it was his turn for the interview.

The girl who took him there was still the girl with blond hair and big waves wearing a tube top Hanfu. Maybe she saw Taylor's sunshine and handsomeness, and his demeanor was better, and Taylor also deliberately led the chat, mainly because he wanted to wear some clothes. He wanted to know some information in advance so that he could conduct the interview, so the woman chatted with Taylor for a while while leading him to the interview.

Although I didn’t know much inside information, I did know the name of this woman in Hanfu. Her name was Yi Jing... At this time, I knew it was a later Chinese name, and the original English name was Elizabeth, who was the human resource of this family. Company employees!

Judging from her behavior and conversation, you can basically tell that this woman's background is not bad. She is most likely from a wealthy businessman or even a noble family in England.

It is impossible for a woman from this ordinary family to have the opportunity to learn Chinese and then enter this human resources company run by people from the Chu country... Just being beautiful doesn't work.

In fact, Taylor's guess was not wrong... Elizabeth really came from a noble family, and her father was an earl... But her father had already faded away from the center of power in England, the fiefdom had long since disappeared, and the family economy was not optimistic... ... He is a very typical run-down aristocrat, with nothing but a name, otherwise Elizabeth would not have come out to work.

It didn't take long for Taylor to be taken to a conference room on the second floor. After entering the conference room, Taylor discovered that in addition to a blond European, there was also a black-haired, black-eyed man wearing a sophisticated professional suit. Pretending to be a young Chu man.

As Taylor came in and said hello, the young man from Chu State above him did not speak, but the middle-aged man with blond hair and blue eyes spoke first: "Taylor, right? Sit down and start introducing yourself!"

After hearing this, Taylor immediately sat down, and then began to introduce himself in accented Chinese... While introducing himself, he also observed the interviewer in front of him with the corner of his eyes.

Especially the Chu guy... Obviously, the Chu guy from Strait Company is the one who really decides whether he can succeed in the interview.

At this time, An Tongsheng, a native of Chu country, was also looking at Taylor's resume... To be honest, there was nothing interesting to see, because this kind of resume is not very valuable!

A mere second-class Chinese language certificate, the cultural level behind this is probably the level of primary school graduates in the empire... The poems are pretty good, probably at the level of junior high school students... But their Strait Trading Company is not a writer. Not even looking for poets.

Besides, if you pick any junior high school graduate from Chu State, the limericks he writes will not be much worse than his poems.

This is not to say that all the scholars in the Chu country are literary giants, but they have learned these things since they were young. After six years of primary school and three years of junior high school, classics have always been the main subject. I can't write poems but can also recite them... I can change this at will. Once you change it, you can get something similar.

However, the two indigenous civilian employees they recruited this time were used to do odd jobs and do dirty work. They only needed to be able to do the work, and they did not need to have a high level of education.

Therefore, when An Tongsheng recruits people this time, he has to consider more things like hard work, learning ability, and personality... As for ability, no one expects these indigenous employees to do anything.

That's right... in the eyes of the English people, people like Taylor are already considered elite talents of the younger generation. In the eyes of the Chu people, they are just a low-end labor force... not considered talents at all.

If it weren't for the fact that the salary offered by their company was too low, and that many young people in a poor place like London, which is gloomy, cold and rainy all year round, would be disgusted and unwilling to come, their company would not recruit local aborigines for clerical jobs.

There is nothing we can do about this... Not to mention other people, even before An Tongsheng himself was transferred to the London Concession, his boss had done ideological work with him for a long time, and then he was promoted and received a salary increase, and then there was another There are a lot of subsidies, one of which is called: Subsidy for working in difficult areas... Otherwise, he would not come to work in this damn place.

Yes, London, in the eyes of contemporary Chu people, is a remote and difficult area... Those who are sent to work in this place are either assigned or attracted by high subsidies.

And no one wants to come to the jobs in these places, especially low-level ordinary clerical jobs.

In the eyes of Taylor and others, the positions that require huge efforts to compete are all positions that Chu people dislike and are unwilling to take...

Not to mention the low-level clerical jobs in the London Concession, even the corporate jobs in Cadiz, not many Chu people are willing to do them...

Contemporary Chu people have a poor overall impression of Europe, not to mention that young Chu people from East Asia are unwilling to come and work... Even if their parents work and live in Europe, and their children are a little older, their parents They will be sent back to their home country to receive education, and then try to find a job there...

In Europe, even a directly-administered territory like Cadiz, the gap between it and the local areas is too big, and this gap is in all aspects, from employment, medical care, education to social environment, etc.

Not to mention compared with East Asia, even compared with America, it is still far behind!

Therefore, it is actually very difficult for Chu companies that are doing business in Europe to recruit people... and it is impossible to forcefully recruit people at a huge cost... It is okay to spend a lot of money to let middle management and above, professional and technical personnel to work.

But ordinary employees cannot do this because the cost is too high.

For a low-end clerical position here in the London office, if you recruit a Chu nationality and don’t pay thirty or forty yuan, people will be too lazy to talk to you... But if you hire an indigenous person like Taylor, you only get a monthly salary of It takes three or four Chu Yuan...the difference between the two is ten times.

And this is also the main reason why indigenous talents like Taylor have the opportunity to enter these Chu enterprises. Although these indigenous talents are inferior, they are cheap...

However, although the talents among the indigenous people are cheap, their overall quality is too poor. When recruiting people, they need to be carefully selected...otherwise, it will be useless to recruit them cheaply.

Recruiting people from the indigenous people, especially for this kind of civilian position, requires a lot of searching to find a few indigenous employees who are qualified for the job... Otherwise, a human resources company would not be entrusted to do this.

It's not easy for An Tongsheng and the others to recruit people!