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Chapter 97 Meeting with King Shangfeng

"Ming Pao will have ten writers and forty printing and engraving workers. I will ask people to arrange a workshop and a house as the newspaper's operating land. Ming Pao publishes a copy every seven days, and I will designate the content in advance." Chu Yun made the final arrangements.

The biggest role of newspapers is to let the people know the latest policies in a timely manner, and to guide public opinion.Writers should choose better writing styles, and must quickly master simplified characters, and their thinking should not be as pedantic as those ordinary people, so that they can better write articles that satisfy Chu Yun.

"My lord, regarding the overseas promotion team, our current plan is to divide it into three groups and six batches of personnel, with [-] personnel in each batch. These personnel must have been trained and master simplified characters and Chinese, and they must also go to the Academy of Sciences to learn certain scientific knowledge to be able to Become a member of the overseas promotion team. The three groups will target Korea, Dongying, and Ryukyu to export our Ming culture to them." Zhou Xiaode, the head of the language promotion office, said to Chu Yun.

"Well. The overseas promotion team members have high requirements and heavy tasks. The monthly salary is tentatively set at [-] taels of silver. Afterwards, the performance will be assessed every year to see the increase." Chu Yun thought for a while and made a decision.

Eight taels of silver every month!It can be nearly 100 years of silver every year, which is a fat job for the ancient private school.The people in the language promotion department were stunned, their eyes lit up with starlight, such a high starting salary made them all go overseas to become Chinese promoters in person!
"The private schools established overseas by the overseas promotion team can no longer be called private schools. They are not attractive. They are called Confucius Institutes. What do you think?" Chu Yun said again.

"Confucius is a sage in ancient times. It is very good to set up a college in the name of Confucius." The officials of the Language Promotion Office, mainly Zhou Xiaode and others, nodded, and there was no objection to the name Chu Yun came up with.In the Ming Dynasty, when Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism and Yangming's Psychology were popular, Confucius was a sage of all ages. It is not surprising that it is named after Confucius to represent Ming culture.

In fact, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism had great influence in Korea, Dongying, and Ryukyu at that time. Exporting culture in the name of the Confucius Institute could also relieve their resistance.

"Do you have the confidence to send the first batch of overseas promotion personnel within a few months?"

"Three months is the fastest. One month to learn simplified Chinese characters and pinyin, and two months to go to the Academy of Sciences to learn basic scientific knowledge." Zhou Xiaode always talks about "science", although he is not very Understand what science is, but everyone thinks it is a good thing, and it does not conflict with tradition, then it is a good thing.

"Three months is not too late. So let's leave it to you to run this place. If you have any difficulties, just ask Chen Ting or me." Chu Yun said.

Chu Yun walked out of the official residence of the Language Promotion Office, just as the Ryukyu King, escorted by Ella and Deng Qianlong, arrived in Jinzhou.

Jinzhou is the base camp of the Liao army. It is more prosperous than Dalian Port, where the trade city is located. Almost all types of factories can be found here.Large carriages carry goods and resources in and out.The original Jinzhou city gate was too narrow, so the gate was simply demolished and rebuilt.And as the number of people pouring into Jinzhou City increased, the city began to expand outward.

King Shangfeng in the Ryukyu Kingdom had never seen such a prosperous city full of paper and gold.

On the street, the beautifully carved large carriage slowly rolled over, and no one knew which rich and wealthy businessman was sitting in it.On both sides of the street, there are countless hawkers, all kinds of goods and food, and some stores have a wooden pole with their own billboards on it.Pedestrians walking on the streets don't care much about etiquette, and choose their favorite products in stalls and shops.After the wages of the common people in southern Liaoning were raised by Chu Yun, their consumption levels also greatly increased, which represented an increase in productivity, and silver from all over the country began to flow into southern Liaoning.

These surprised King Shangfeng, as if the Ryukyu Island he lived in were two completely different worlds!

"My God... my God..." King Shangfeng couldn't say anything admiring, but said incoherently, almost dreamily.

The point is that he still knocked on his thigh hard, leaving Ella and Deng Qianlong who were in the carriage speechless.As for?

Finally, the carriage arrived at Chu Yun's mansion. King Shangfeng took his family to meet the Liao Liao army commander who had deposed him before they even met him. He seemed to be the most powerful person besides the Ming emperor.

Chu Yun looked at the captured Ryukyu King with a smile.This is the first time he has captured a king-level person without any effort, although the other party has been controlled by a poor puppet of Dongying Satsuma, and it is not at the same level as the shogun, Huang Taiji, King Koryo, and Emperor Chongzhen. Opponent, but in the name of a king, isn't it?
King Shangfeng couldn't help being shocked when he saw that the legendary leader of the Liao Army was only in his twenties.Maybe it was suppressed by the Dongying people for too long, or seeing the prosperity of Jinzhou City and Dalian Port, King Shangfeng subconsciously knelt on the ground: "There are a large number of talents in the Ming Dynasty, and the little king of Ryukyu pays homage to the military leader of the Ming Dynasty."

Chu Yun was at a loss. As a king, why would he kneel down as soon as he met him? What about your integrity, big brother?And he couldn't understand what King Shangfeng said at all.

Aila motioned to the Ryukyu translator who had brought her over, and the Ryukyu native hurriedly conveyed King Shangfeng's words to Chu Yun.

"Oh, King Shangfeng, you don't have to be polite. Our Daming has a population of over [-] million, and what we need most is talents." Chu Yun told King Shangfeng to get up.

"My Ryukyu Kingdom has been passed down for a hundred years, but the country is poor and weak, and I was bullied by the Dongying people. I have seen the strength of Ming Dynasty in the past few days, and I realized that I am really not qualified to be the king. I beg the military master of the Ming Dynasty to let our Shang family become the Ming Dynasty. It is enough for the dynasty to be an ordinary family." King Shangfeng said shamefully.

"Everything is easy to talk about. I will ask someone to arrange a relief fund for you. From now on, you will no longer call yourself a royal family. I will arrange for the young juniors to study at the Academy of Sciences. Your concubine will go to the textile factory to set up a The Ryukyu-style weaving group, maybe the costumes with ethnic customs can be sold well." Chu Yun gave his idea to King Shangfeng's concubines and children.

He will not raise a bunch of princes like the Ming Dynasty, what kind of moths of the dynasty, everyone has to support themselves, relying on their own talents and skills to eat!
This made the translator from Ryukyu Island a little embarrassed. He hesitated to translate to King Shangfeng, but he stuttered again halfway.

"Master Daming, what is this 'Academy of Science'? I didn't have this word when I came to Daming to study in the past." The interpreter said in embarrassment.

(End of this chapter)