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Chapter 109 The Chinese Lesson of the Ming Envoy

"General Chu, I have never heard of a graded test for Chinese." Mitsuhisa Shimadzu looked bewildered.

"There is no road in this world. If there are more people, there will be a road. There is no Chinese proficiency test in the world, but there are more people who come to study in Daming, so there will be a Chinese proficiency test. We set this Chinese proficiency test. Exams are all for your own good. Think carefully, the courses in our Academy of Sciences are all taught in Chinese, and the production and trade are all communicated in Chinese, and the books are also written in Chinese. If your language skills are not solid enough, in case you are studying If you misunderstood the essentials of knowledge during the process, wouldn’t there be endless troubles? And if you don’t speak Chinese well, how can you communicate with our businessmen and workers?” Chu Yunyu patted Mitsuhisa Shimadzu on the shoulder earnestly.

It makes sense.Mitsuhisa Shimadzu frowned, but he had to agree with Chu Yun's statement.

"Besides, our teaching resources are very tight. If we want to set up special classes for you, we still need to hire some teachers. This fee..." Chu Yun said again in embarrassment, rubbing his right thumb and middle finger lightly, indicating that he would like a lot of money. "Hey, you were originally guests from afar, so I should have provided free teaching for you, but unfortunately our funds in southern Liaoning are a little tight recently..."

"Understood, I understand, we came here specially to study and caused a lot of trouble for General Chu. Our Shimadzu family is willing to bear this part of the expenses." Shimadzu Mitsuhisa said quickly.

The first batch of dispatched envoys consisted of more than 40 people. They were about to start their studies for several months or even years, so the Shimadzu family allocated funds for them to study abroad.First of all, they have to pay tuition fees, and then they are faced with the high rent in Jinzhou City!
With the development of Jinzhou City in southern Liaoning, the land price is getting higher and higher, Chu Yun is not willing to give them the land of Jinzhou City, which is very expensive, as a dormitory.So these poor envoys had to spend their own money to rent a house... Even the rent of a farmhouse outside the city cost one tael a month, and more than 40 people spent hundreds of taels a year. This does not include the usual expenses of eating, drinking and drinking, as well as tuition fees, which brings at least 1000 or even thousands of taels of income to southern Liaoning a year.Although it is not comparable to some large orders, no matter how small a fly is, it is still meat.

Chu Yun hired an old gentleman from a private school to teach them traditional Chinese and traditional culture, and a young gentleman to teach them simplified characters and pinyin for the group of envoys. The period lasted for three months.Then each person received ten taels of silver as tuition fees, with a total income of more than 400 taels... The expenses paid to these two gentlemen were only two to thirty taels of silver, and the rest was put into the warehouse by Chu Yun as extra income ...

There are already more than 70 old gentlemen in the private school, and it is said that [-] is rare since ancient times. This old gentleman failed to pass the exam when he was young, so he became the private school teacher.After teaching for a lifetime, he is still not used to being idle, so he came out again, and Chu Yun took care of the elderly more, and gave him a monthly salary of five taels of silver.

As for money, the old gentleman is already bearish.The reason why he was willing to go out of the mountain, besides not wanting to spend his days leisurely, was also an important reason because he heard that the people he was going to teach this time were from Dongying!Introducing traditional Confucian culture overseas is the dream of every teacher in the Ming Dynasty!
"Students from Dongying, my name is Kong Renli, and my name is Meng Xiang. I will teach you from today. Our Chinese culture is extensive and profound. When talking about this origin, we have to start from the pre-Qin era..." The old gentleman stood on the stage At the meeting, the Confucian culture was narrated in a frenzy.

Mitsuhisa Shimadzu, who sat below and listened to the lecture, carefully took notes on paper with a brush.It's not that he is not familiar with Confucian culture, it's just that the tuition fee is too expensive, if you don't listen carefully, the tuition fee will be wasted!
"Young master, we paid so much money to Chu Yun, and Chu Yun sent this old man to fool us. Is it true that we have never learned Chinese characters? We are the most educated group of people in Kyushu Island. Knowing the culture like the palm of your hand, and taking this so-called pre-requisite course. It will take three months to waste.”

"It's very boring. They are all things we know. Why don't we go to their bookstore and buy a batch of books to study on our own."

The retainers of the Shimadzu family who came to study with Mitsuhisa Shimadzu in the Satsuma clan secretly communicated in Japanese, and they all looked down on the 70-year-old Kong Renli.

Kong Renli couldn't understand Dongying, but the old man was very excited when he said it. This is a face for the Ming Dynasty!A group of masters and young masters with big and small names in Japan have to listen obediently in his class. Is there anything more enjoyable than this?
"Talking about our Ming Dynasty's Chinese characters, they are profound and affectionate, far beyond your imagination." Speaking of Chinese characters, Kong Renli was even more proud.

"Mr., we all know Chinese characters. That's such a rare thing. You should teach some Confucian classics so that we can pass the HSK. We are still waiting to enter the Academy of Sciences!" There was a man from Dongying in the hall There was a commotion.

"That's right, our time is very valuable. We don't have time to learn from you what we already know." Other Dongying people also booed.

Kong Renli frowned: "Student, do you know our Chinese characters well?"

"That's right, sir, I know more than 2000 Chinese characters, which is second to none in our Dongying." The Dongying man who took the lead in booing said, raising his legs.

"Oh, then do you know what these three words mean?" Kong Renli wrote on the paper with a brilliant brush, and then displayed the paper in front of everyone.

The Dongying student who was still proud just now was stunned, and he said hesitantly: "The second Chinese character is 'Xiang', the third Chinese character is 'Dou', as for the first character... Uh, together they should refer to some kind of beans." ..."

"Hmph, I don't even understand the word 'fen' in fennel beans, how can I understand my Chinese culture." Kong Renli flicked his sleeves and snorted coldly, "Let me ask you again, how many ways can the word 'fen' be written?"

"Huh?" The Dongying man looked at a loss, "The word 'fen' is the word fen. Are there many ways to write it?"

"If you can't answer and make trouble here again, I'll invite you to stand outside the dormitory." Kong Renli said.

The Dongying people who caused trouble blushed because of shame, and couldn't answer, so they had to quietly ask Mitsuhisa Shimadzu, the most knowledgeable here, in Japanese: "Master, do you know how many ways to write the word 'fen'?"

"Baga, how the hell do I know how many ways the word 'fen' can be written?!" Mitsuhisa Shimadzu said angrily.

　There is another chapter to be published later, and I am starting to return to the main thread. Thanks to book friends 2017012***2832 and all book friends for their support.

　　
　
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