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Chapter 510 Knowledge = Wealth
Leaving that aside, how did Gan Minglan arrange things when she returned to Ganluchuan with two hundred foreign craftsmen and their families?

Just as the autumn trade fair opened this year, nearly 100,000 people flocked to the entire Yili Bagua City.

Of the eight streets, Qian Street is the most bustling.

The entire street was teeming with people, like a school of sardines, and the street was packed to the brim.

Especially at the entrance of the Kansai Trading Company's headquarters, hundreds of foreigners were desperately trying to squeeze into the store.

Unfortunately, they implemented traffic restrictions.

Only ten people are allowed in at a time.

The foreigners outside the shop were getting anxious, fearing that someone would seize the opportunity first.

They were shouting loudly outside the store, speaking different languages:

"I want to buy medicinal wine, two kinds, one that will make men more masculine and another that will make women more beautiful and fertile!"

"God, please grant me more milk candy! Last year's thousand catties of milk candy was simply not enough to sell; your trading company's output is far too small!"

"Please be sure to sell me more cotton fabric, the kind with lots of leaves and flowers on it!"

"Oh, toilet paper! Nobody can take my toilet paper. I brought three hundred wagons with me this time. Please fill all my wagons with toilet paper."

"I won't argue with you about anything else, I just want soap, all kinds of scents, ten thousand yuan worth."

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The foreign merchants thought their cries would go unanswered.

Finally, they had to resort to various body language gestures.

Those who were clever brought the outer packaging of the goods they had purchased last year, and had written down the quantity they wanted to buy on a piece of paper in their hands.

Unexpectedly, a young woman soon emerged from the shop.

The young woman was seeing such a grand scene for the first time, and was initially a little nervous. Blushing, she replied in fluent Latin to the foreign merchants crowding the entrance of the trading house:
"Please don't worry, our Kansai Trading Company has plenty of stock this year. We will hold an order fair for each product in the next few days. You can place your orders at the order fair."

In addition, our store has launched many new products this year. Please pay attention to the new product launch events held every evening on the third floor of the store these days.”

She had just finished speaking.

The foreigners were in an uproar:

"My God, at least we can finally communicate! Latin truly is the most widely spoken language in the world!"

"It's good that there's enough stock! I'm just worried that like last year, we couldn't buy everything we wanted! I'm sure I can sell a million taels of silver worth of goods this time!"

"I really want to know right now what new products Kansai Trading Company has in store."

The Kansai Trading Company is no longer the same trading company that was completely unable to communicate with foreigners last year!
This time, there are 63 account managers who can directly communicate with foreign businessmen to conduct business.

Among them, fifty-six were young women.

These account managers are all recent graduates carefully selected from the training schools of various health stations in Kansai.

They were all fifteen or sixteen years old.

In the past year, missionary Marco Bellady has been busy preaching and also serving as a foreign teacher to these students.

These students are specifically taught Latin, French, and English.

Marco Berardi cried: The General said that only by teaching these young people foreign languages ​​can they better learn the doctrines of Catholicism.

What can he do?
I can only teach with full passion!

It's the free kind!
Initially, there were over two hundred students learning each of the three foreign languages. However, since they all had no prior knowledge, learning them was extremely difficult.

Teaching, testing, and elimination are all done simultaneously.

Over the course of a year, one-tenth of the more than 600 people had mastered the skills.

The fact that so many people were able to complete their studies is largely thanks to the generous encouragement given by the General Who Protects the Nation.

What kind of incentives were given?

Anyone who can converse fluently with the missionary Marco Bellady in any foreign language—Latin, French, or English—within one year will receive a reward of five hundred taels of silver!

Proficient in reading and writing, double your bonus!
What is this concept?
Teenagers can become rich overnight in just one year!
The students were practically studying like crazy, except for eating and sleeping.

To the astonishment of all the parents, the young lady was more talented than the young man in learning foreign languages.

Among these young men, some were students from Qingshan Academy who had achieved the rank of Xiucai (a scholar who passed the lowest level of the imperial examinations).

But, if you're inferior to others, you're simply inferior to others!
Among these sixty-three people, three young ladies were proficient in listening, speaking, reading, and writing three different foreign languages!
They naturally received a reward of over a thousand taels of silver!

Not only that.

The Kansai Trading Company also issued appointment letters to 63 people who could directly communicate with foreigners as account managers.

This is a high-paying job.

With a base salary plus commission, I can earn at least a hundred taels of silver this month at the Autumn Trade Fair.

The written appointment letter was once publicized.

The status of the young women in all the common people's families in Kansai rose higher and higher.

Just listen to what the common people have to say.

"She still has to go to school! My daughter is still two years away from turning 18, so I'll send her to school next month for two years!"

"Oh dear, Ah Lang's family! The village chief's wife advised you to send your child to school before, but you refused every time, saying that girls are useless in school and it's better for them to stay home and raise silkworms for you! You also said that she would graduate in two years and then be of marriageable age, which wouldn't be of any benefit to her family?"

"Hehe! You used to blame me for being short-sighted! My family only came here last year. In Jiangnan, young ladies rarely leave their homes! Even daughters of officials don't get to go to school, and no young lady can go out to work after getting married."

"Hmph, things are different between the areas outside and inside the Great Wall! Girls can not only learn to read and write by going to school, but they can also learn all sorts of skills! Families with means want wives who are well-educated and intelligent!"

"Yes! I've figured it out too. In Kansai, a clever young woman is better than ten boys!"

“Ah Lang’s daughter, it’s not too late for you to realize this! Whether other skills are easy to learn is another matter, but when it comes to learning foreign languages, young ladies are generally better than young men! Our village chief said that the foreign church will be recruiting more than a dozen foreign teachers this year, and there are many different languages. Your daughter still has a chance!”

"Oh my god, is there really such a good thing?"

"You didn't go to Qian Street this morning, did you? Those sixty-three account managers really made a splash today, taking care of those foreign businessmen perfectly! Tell me, is learning foreign languages ​​even useful?"

How could it be useless?

In this era, anyone who could directly communicate with foreign merchants was considered a treasure.

Not only did the Kansai trading companies need them for their regular work, but many wealthy Han Chinese merchants also needed translators.

They can't learn it themselves, but they can hire someone for a lot of money.

The kind of translation where you get several hundred taels of silver for a single transaction.

These sixty-three young people will truly be used like several people each at the upcoming Autumn Trade Fair.

It can be said that they have taken the concept of "knowledge is wealth" to its extreme.