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Chapter 1783 Chinese Language and Technical Assistance

"It is too difficult for us to learn Chinese, which is not from the same language family as ours. It is too difficult for us to use it as a common international trade language."

The ambassadors below were in an uproar. They all use the alphabet system, but let them use Chinese as the common language in international trade...

At present, only the students of Queen's College in England and a few Westerners who came to the East for trade know Chinese, while most of them know nothing.

The cost of changing the language of international trade from the commonly used Portuguese and Spanish to Chinese is also a bit high.

"There is a special Queen's College in the city of London, which can already use two languages ​​for teaching. We have also invented pinyin to assist people in other kingdoms to learn. And we can send Chinese lecturers abroad for free, and set up overseas departments to accept people who study abroad .As long as you live here for a few years, you will learn the language very quickly. There are not a few of you who are foreign ministers who are good at several languages. I think it should not be difficult to learn Chinese.” With Chinese, he has now raised his national power to an incomparable level, and finally began to export culture to the world.

If you want to carry out cultural colonization, the most important thing is language.

At present, Portuguese and Spanish have not yet occupied an absolute position in international trade, and are not truly international lingua francas. There has not yet been a truly international lingua franca.

If a language can become a common language in world trade, education, navigation and other fields, it will indirectly affect the world for the next few hundred years.

When they heard about the Queen's College in England, everyone turned to Sophia. She was the first person to set up a bilingual college in Europe, and she donated money to build the Queen's College. It is said that Chu Yun also donated money.

"If you can maintain a hard-working attitude, Chinese is not so difficult to learn under the premise of pinyin. Although there are some accents, it does not affect normal communication." Sophia said.

She has only lived here for a few years, and her accent is still more influenced by her mother tongue, which is called British Chinese by Chu Yun.

It is quite normal to have an accent. Even the accents of people in different parts of the country are quite different. Only children who receive new education from an early age can correct their accent at the beginning and form a standard pronunciation.

Chu Yun knew that he planned to promote the local currency and language to the status of international trade, which would cause quite a stir, and even protests from some countries.

People often resist the changes brought about by new things, not to mention that the promotion of Chinese and silver dollars to the world is not necessarily a good thing for them, and China is the main beneficiary.

But Chu Yun believes that countries will eventually have to use a new international language and currency.

Whichever country is the most powerful, the standards it sets are likely to become international standards. For example, in the era of the empire on which the sun never sets, English and British pound became the common language and currency.

In fact, Chu Yun does not need to be so anxious. With the increase of trade between the East and the West, the Western economy will become dependent on the Eastern economy and commodities, and a set of Eastern standards will naturally be formed over time.

Chu Yun is a little worried that Europeans will gather together to play their own tricks again, so they have to establish in advance and propose to use Chinese and silver dollars as the international lingua franca and common currency.

"Our eastern merchant ships are active in every corner of the world. The territory we control alone occupies nearly one-third of the world's population, and the population and area covered by direct trade may reach an astonishing half. Which one Can the country achieve such a level? If our language is not qualified to be the lingua franca, then which other language has such qualifications?" Chu Yun's words made the people below have to admit it.

Indeed, no country seems to be able to trade so widely around the world on such a large scale.

"If you can master our language, you can get more trade opportunities from us. In addition, we also teach in the form of Chinese to promote technology, and the overseas department of the Jingshi University Hall will also teach Chinese. This is the foundation of modern civilization. Basic, only in Chinese can we provide you with technical assistance."

In order to induce them to learn Chinese, Chu Yun threw another important bargaining chip besides trade.

Don't want to get technical?After developing a new generation of technology, Chu Yun can help out the useless technology to improve the overall productivity.

Although outdated technology is useless to China, it is an advanced technology that is elusive for Europe and West Asia at this time.

If they want to learn the eliminated technology, they need to learn the language here, otherwise they will not be able to understand the content of the technology.

"In the future, all our technical papers and books will be written in Chinese characters, so everyone should understand the necessity of learning Chinese. This is also to reduce the cost of communication, otherwise the world will be flooded with different languages ​​and it will be difficult to conduct technical exchanges."

With Chu Yun throwing out the heavy news of technical assistance, the ambassadors of various countries could not rest easy.What they can't even buy with gold, they didn't expect that the premise is to learn Chinese.

"Steam boats, steam locomotives and other technologies can help us?" Some ambassadors seemed to see the hope of obtaining technology, and their expressions were a little excited.

"Of course." Chu Yun readily agreed.

However, he did not specify when to provide technical assistance... Wait until new technologies become available in the future, and then gradually transfer the eliminated technologies to the West.

Chu Yun added: "If you want to obtain technology from us, it is not just a simple matter of learning Chinese, but you also need to pay us patent fees. We will establish a complete set of international patent laws and clearly stipulate the procedures for technical assistance."

Of course Chu Yun will not provide technology for free, he needs to collect money!In the future, they will use obsolete technology to assist the other party, and they will also be charged huge patent fees every year!

Obtaining a steady stream of patent fees through patents, the other party is probably grateful to you, because they have obtained technologies that they cannot develop, and the lives of civilians have been improved.

And the patent fees collected can be invested in the research and development of new technologies to maintain long-term technological leadership.

This kind of practice was often played in a country called the United States in Chu Yun's era, but in this era, there was no practice of collecting patent fees across countries. The first patent law only appeared in England more than 20 years ago, and it is not yet popular.

"You have to learn Chinese and pay protection fees. It's really difficult to get these technologies..." the delegations from Tsarist Russia, Poland and other kingdoms muttered.

But what can they do, all the technology is in one family, and it is kept strictly confidential.

(End of this chapter)