THE LIBRARY

OF
THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES

CHATS
A-

IN CHINESE.

TRANSLATION OF THE

\N LUN HSIN PIE N

'

C.

H.

BY

BREWITT-TAYLOR,

Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED

HY THE

PEI T'ANCx PRESS,

PEKING.

Oriental

library

PREFACE,

book of which this is a translation differs

largely from the ordinary texl hooks of colloquial
1 he

Chinese.

Not only

is

the style

more ambitious, but

subjects chosen are those which

late

years

in

the

have been discussed of

Its pages,

Chinese newspapers and reviews.

therefore, contain the Chinese

Chinese expressions for

number of modern and jvesteivi ideas, and its

study cannot fail io make many I'aluable additions
a large

to the student's

vocabiilarf

an attempt to combine literal'

t^endering with readable English, and so minimise the
This

t?'au slat ion

is

wearisome drudgery with dictionarf and indifferent

perhaps incompetent

"teacher".

No

attempt

is

made

to

express the "spirit" of the original as superior to the

text
the student whose acquaintance with Chinese leaves
unsatisjied only that desire must seek other pasture.

As a further help two vocabularies have been added,

one ofphrases chosen from the text with their equivalents,
romanisatiou, tones of the accented word and reference

umbers, the other, of nearly the same phrases, ffii'in^

the Kiiglish Jirst. The Roman numerals indicate the
}

exercise in the Chinese iext^ the Arabic, the column, in

which the phrase occurs.

expression in situ

This oiablcs one

no small advantage.

to

see the

IV

The

appearance of this small volume has been

unavoidably delayed. The M. S. of the text ivas in the
the first vocabular y
printer's hands in October 1899
soon after. But pressure of other work kept
and the outbreak of trouble in Peking found

M.

half done. Worse than

this, the

Chinese vocabulary

entirely destroyed.

colleaiTue, M""

n>.is

S.

this
it

behind

less

than

of the English

However my
,

N. A. Konovaloff, has been kind enough

remainder of the work through the

not only to see the

press, but to re-compile the missiiif^ vocabularj', a labour

for which

am

uiiablc

to

sujjiciently

express

f^ratitude.

C. B-T.
Sjvciloiv,

April,

China,
I (JO I

^'7T~<^SJ^!^~-.Sljl^

my

CHATS

CHINESE

IN

A TRANSLATION OF THE

TAN LUN HSIN

"==^

PIEN.

What have you been working at lately

For the present am in a college studying
I

Is the

teacher English or American

There

is

You

an English teacher.

are studying Eni^lish.

thing in present alTairs.

ing;,

all

English,

takes

Kiii^lish

ality, in their

place.

first

use English, but

it

Truly that

is

most important

In every place in Asia, generally speak-

is

Not only

fact that

in the area of trade

officials

mutual intercourse, either talking face

written correspondence,

all

do

of every nationto face, or in

English as the master language.

English then with the officials and

use

If one doesn't understand

merchants of every nationality, both

in intercourse

and business,

hindrances ("plucking elbows") will be unavoidable.

What you

say

is

after a tew years'

in

Knt^lish.

oflicial

post

shall get

on

exactly so.

My

idea

is

simplv

this.

reck-

work to be able to be roui^hly "through"

After that, when I go out, whether
manatee an

on

or whether
better.

go into business, certainly

think

vou have studied English wcIK never mind where

you po with any nationality, doing any sort of business, undertake to guarantee that you will get on much belter.
Yes.

If

II
I

lately

hear

it

added

Quite

said that in the

a

Tunj^vcn Kuan of Peking they have

Japanese School

rit^ht

is

it

tor the languai^e of

there really such a thinj^

year a school

lasl

your country has been added, under the name

of School of Japanese.

How many

is

Since the aiilum n of

so.

on the same model as the others.

It is

schools of lanf;uages had the T'unt^wcn

Kuan

ori-

.i;inally

Now

nese, there are in

all five

And
vours

Or

When
gan

that they have

added

School for Japa-

schools.

the teacher in the School of Japanese a

is

is

he a native of

the school was

now

the clearing''

German and

four, English, French,

Kormerly there were the

Russian schools.

my

first

countryman of

country

opened, one of our teachers "Ix'-

ihe professor enf^ai^cd

is

one of your ciuin-

tn'men.
Indeed.

have also heard that your i^ovcrnmcni has lately

established schools for our lanj^uai^c in other provinces.

Kxaclly so; I have heard the same. Kuanf^tunj^ and liipci

have both established schools for Japanese, anJ have also cni;aI

^cd professors from your country.

Our higher Grade Commercial Schools

schools of foreign lant;uai;cs,

all

professors cngai^ed arc vmir countrvmen.

of our educated people

Now

Chinese.

language, and
<J'\'elop

ill

both

in ten

and, from

who have

Tokio, and the

Hcsidc ihcre arc some

thcinscl vcs

our countries

set

arc learnin}^

ii

p schools of

each

other's

years or so the talent of both countries w

this, ihc

become closer.
True
True

at

have (Chinese classes, and the

bunds bclwcc-n ihc two

ill

stales naturally

III

As
thing

between two countries, the

think, in the relations

first

very important.

knowing each other's language. This

do not understand each other, not only the two counmodes of government and morals cannot be thoroughly unis

is

If thev
tries'

derstood, but even in the intercourse and relationship of friends,

and mutual good feelinf^s, it will be quite impossible to avoid
some slit;ht harriers. So to speak it is the hairbreadth error
putt one a thousand miles astray. Since each cannot express
Thoui;h
his own ideas, whence can anv kindly feelings arise
one may say there is a translator between to reveal each one's
thoughts, yet, after all, as compared with each being able u>
talk to the other, face to face, certainly there is something of a
Ai^ain

difference.

if

each other's literature

how can one examine

there should happen
countries,

it

is

the systems of

is

Further

to be any important matter affecting

even more necessary to discuss

an intepreter be

not understood,

government
it

if

both

face to face.

If

although both fully understand the

translalint;

general circumstances of the case, vet between them there will be

There cannot hut he some slii^ht

conveyance
Generalising we mav sav that language, spoken

that small j^round of ditYerence.

barrier.

In these cases there can onlv be thought, not

of thought.

and

written,

is

m alter

of

the

greatest

concern

lo

proper

intercourse between iwo countries.

IV
This year, in the

you had f?one up

you went

that

did not go to

Avent lo Tientsin.

sprint;,

to

a friend

Peking.

Peking.

Was
had

who came
it

on

a little

here meniioned

official

business that

private business and

4
H(nv lonp did you stay there
I

staved there a

little

over two months.

Had vou been to Ticnsin before

had made a trip there before.
This means a good many years
I

This means more or less

And
it

The

how

j;eneral air of the

The

place

is

quite dilFerent from what

it

foreign concessions in Tz'ii-chu-Iin, have been

quite built over with Chinese and foreif^n houses.

many

there are a good

part

did you find

compared with the time before

lookint^, as

Avas before.

twenty rears.

a little less than

time that you Aveni to Tientsin,

this

and

streets,

In the

I'oreit^n

both sides of

aloni?

them stand foreign houses as thick as trees in a wood. There

is truly no end to them.
Foreign business and inland trade are
improving every day.

o see from a distance the luxuriant trees

one knows what they hide

Why

prosperity.

away up from
order

Even

simply a solid mass of the

is

that

stretch

of

and day, without ceasing.

chased some scores of
their concession.
is

mou

fro, nij^ht

of land and they also wish to extend

Japan also has concluded

about to lay out

manifest that thinj^s pre

and

truing to

Lately the British concession has pur-

a concession.

down tramways.
tlourishing.
And in

the

And

hear they are about to lay

will surely

of

Tz'ii-chu-lin to the capital has been put into j^ood

There are rickshas by the thousand

land and

spirit

road leadinf?

official

It is

all this

ol'
1

certainly very

tew years the place

have become exiremelv prosperous.

southern open ports naturally

purchase

beside

At present ihe

under Shant^hai as the Hrsi in

future those of the northern district may fall under Tientsin as

the

tall

first.

V
I

hep

Ocean
Three

to ask liow

altogether.

All in Chihli

many open pons

there are on the Northern

5
Oh no

only Tientsin

Fengl'ien

Which
The

he port

those three ports are in three provinces.

Yentai, also called Chefoo,

of those three

largest

is

is

is

Newchwanj^

Shantung

in

is

o'
iti

in the province of Chihii.

is

Tientsin

to be

reckoned the largest

the next

Newchwang

Chefoo.

is

is

the smallest.

have heard that Tientsin

then can

is

also not a very large place,

be reckoned a large port

it

how

That place, Tientsin, though it isn't reckoned a'very large place

Not only is it the threshold of the
vet the market is very wide.
capital, but even north of that, right away up to beyond the Northern passes, that is to say all the province of Chihii and the neighhourint^ provinces of Shansi,

Shantung, and Honan and

all

ly-

ing north of Chihii, and even the district outside Chanchiak'ou and

Kueihuach'eng

most
a

part,

in Shansi, the

merchants of all these places, for the

Tientsin resembles

go to Tientsin to buy their goods.

godown,

a place for the storage

and

The

sale of goods.

three

northern sea-poris dispose of a large quantity of goods, but come

under Tientsin as the first. Hence it cannot be said that Tientsin

is

not a large place.

VI

When

did you arrive

Last Fridaw

How many

days were you

in Shanj^hai

Didn't go to Shanghai this trip.

hy steamer

When
On
on the
ven.

went

this

journey

direct

from Tientsin

Kobe.

to

did you leave Peking

the tenth of this month, lour o'clock in the morning,

train at

Machiapu and arrived

at

Tientsin a

little

got

after ele-

stayed there a couple of days and then went by train to

Tongku;

left

the train

and went aboard immediately

started.

The whole way

ihe ship

was not delayed

Then we

6
Onlv at Newchwanp, Chefoo and usan
at each port.
On arrival at Nagasaki did you not stop

wc

lay

two or ihree

days

We staved
How many
From

there onlv half a day.

days in

all

were you on hoard

the lime of embarkation to landint; in

all

twelve

just

days.

And you were

On

not seasick, nor anyihinj^ else

Fusan

that bit of the voyaj;e from

to

Tsushima

was

seasick, but not very bad.

little

And

How

way you had no bad weather

the

all

Thanks

vou

to

it

no bad weather

-was very i^ood

Kobe

long did you stay in

to

speak

of.

Slaved two days.

In what inn
In the "Western village" inn
It
has a reputation. Not only are
That is a good inn.
But the manaj^er, in ihe entertainment
the rooms and fare good.

of his guests,

You

is

perfect

are right there

The manager

is

smart fdlmv and a

capital host.

When
noon
1

you

left

Kobe

for here, did

you

travel

hy the carlv or

train

came on by

noon

the

train

on the Thursday, and on

Friday morning about nine o'clock,

Do you

Indeed.

tlic

rcacheJ Shimbashi

intend to stay here

at this inn,

or

140 s<>nu*-

Avere else
I

bit

think

shall

move on

lo

another place

Hui

nuisi slop a

now, another lime

Yes.

also have a

little

business to sec

to, so we'll

sec each

other another day.

So, so.

We'll meet af;ain

VII
These two years that you have been in Peking, what vernacular
papers have you seen

hose

There

There

Chihpao,

Hup jo.

yet another called the

there are also

Huipao.

These are the

some few others newlv pub-

have not seen anything of them.

That Huipjo you mentioned, that

Just so.
in a

is

Though

only sorts.
lished

have seen are the Shanghai Shenpau and the

another purely Tientsin paper, printed there, called the

is

Peking priming

office, isn't

is

paper printed

it

not a paper issued by a newspaper office

it is printed by
book bureau
That oflicial hook bureau, when was it established
What
sort of thing is this Huipao
The Huipao is not a sint^le sheet paper. All the copies
are printed on vhite paper, and bound into a volume.
Everv
dav appears one volume. Just as vou turn the cover, on the
first two sheets, are printed the proceedings copied daily at
The Palace Gates and the Edicts.
There are also copies

It is

an

official

of important memorials.

After

there

this

are

translations

of

news from various foreign newspapers. This is the

fashion, more or less, of the Huipao,
As to the bureau,

important
i^eneral
it

has been established only perhaps three years

when

it

Peking,

was

first

who

set

begun, there were a few

up

officials

Originally,

and

a place outside the Ch'ieniTien,and

literati

of

engaged

tew good scholars among their friends, and also a few translators
well up in foreii^n languai^es to translate

daily

the important

Thev sold these to certain students.

The primary object was to make students understand present day matters not to make money. Aferwards the
(jovernmcnt chani^ed the place into a Kuan-shu Chii, or OlFicial
Ciazeite Office. The court deputed the Assistant Prefect of Shunnewspapers of various

foreit^n countries.

control the business of the bureau.

tMcMi-fii to

translators

who

There are also

which is

translate foreii^n papers into Chinese,

embellished by the (Chinese editors, and afterwards printed and

handed over
for sale.
this

to the various

Thus

it

Ching-pao

came about

Huipao^ could understand

Pekinj; Gazette

agencies

thai the students, hy reading over

a lillle

about foreign

affairs.

What
The

sort of a style

stvle is very

the Hiiipao in

is

good;

entirely a translation of foreign

is

it

There are no criticisms nor remarks.

ideas.

VIII

What appointment have you now

have no appointment.
At the moment
I

When you
the capital

went abroad hadn't you

hadn't a vested appointment

a vested

appointment

in

only the rank of an expec-

tant assistant sub-prefect.

That

turn that you had abroad, weren't you

last

promotion

for

When my

recommended

period of service was up

was recommended

for

an expectant sub-prefect, with province undesignated.

What
If

province do you reckon lo

had some money of my own,

Unluckily

province desii<nated.

saved

What

your intention

is

anyihint;

so

that

particular province.

own mind, do you

In vour

could manaf^e to

*get

my

have come hack and haven't

cannot

suppose

subscribe in order to

they'll i;ive

think you'll

i^et

me Kwant^si.
t^o down into Kwanj^si

for a turn

What's the good

border province

tain to get an

appointment there

Beside, shall

shall only get

some

be cersort of

a temporary post in one of the departments with pay perhaps a

few half score of

that

And

if

taels a

when

malarial place or other and

i^o

would be

Not much

month.

should get an appointment,

still

more

it

came

a case of difficulty.

home doing nothing that's best.

What you say is right only if you

slay at

it

"smack" about

would be

to that, to
It

will

in

some

go or nol to
be better to

service, will

of"

you not sink

all

put aside your previous

your former good record

Well, thai can't be helped.

Lately a friend has

come

lo say

that this year there

is

news of

manage

he thinks he can

for

go for a turn of foreign service,

Quite

foreii^n ministers,

post abroad.

If

and

can again

will.

you do another turn of foreign service vher_

If

rif^ht.

change of

me some

vou return vou mav be recommended for the rank of taoiai or

sufficient for you to
prefect, and then vou'll get a good post
shew your magnilicent talent. That would be extremely good.

Not only have

Don't Hatter me.

I

haven't that great luck.

That

How

depends on what sort of

all

not that great talent, but

can

dream of such

a thini^

ovn one

a luck of one's

has.

IX
Formerly,

you been
I

to

From Shanghai

What

it

Shanghai

Hankow on some official

Hankow, does one go by

business.

have

any other of our ports

only went once to

That's

in

you had an appointment

Sir,

to

river steamer

one goes by river steamer.

sort

of scenery does one find along the river?

The time went there, it was just full autumn. The view, from
the time ve sailed out at Woosung till we reached the river, the
clear autumn sky, and the smooth river, were just "autumn waters"
When ve reached Chinkiani;, at the foot of
the whole day loni^.
Peiku shan, we stopped awhile, and
went up to have a look at
the place. On the summit of that hill is the '*Kanlu' sweet dew
I

temple, where the T,ai

"the

tirst kinj^".

tzii

rest

moon"
is

When

The

East,

got to the Ts'ai- shih- chi

house), which they say

arbour.

Wu in the

Empress of

is

met Liu,
saw a T'inj;-

first
I

Li Ching- lien's

"catch the

route led bv W'u hu in An-hui, where there

a temple close to the

That

river bank.

is

the temple of

Lady

Sun, a heroine of the Three Kini;doms. Next we came to I'uchihk'ou, where, close

to

the river,

is

a sinj^le

steep

mountain rock

on the top of which are four vords "Tieh so ch'en chiang'' *'The
iron-locked river", in characters as hig as a bushel.

These words

were written by P'cng Kung-pao and,

out by some-

later, chiselled

 10
hodv.

we reached

Just about dark on this Jay

west gale of Huant^-chtni-fu

in

Hupci.

a point outside the

was where

'I'h is

Sii Tii ni^-p'o

"Red Sleep" when he was alive. Thai particular

wc had a lovel v moon, Trul it was, "quite like Jav and

roanicd near the

evenint;

the clear brec/e sighing;*'.

stood alone on ihc wheel-house lean-

on the raiK and looked awav over-die country thinking over

ing;

those verses from the Ballad of the Red CAiiY

*'Thc

moon

hills are hif^h, the

The rocks appear

small,

is

as the waters fall."

We

coulj not help feeling quite sentimental.

we were

ther night and

at

went on ano-

Hankow.

Hearing vou speak of the beauties of the voyat^e,

feeling sore
that

trip

heart.

at

would be

The time

am

sorry

made

that trip, in the

my

could not land and take

But now

as

recall ihe scene,

can't

f^et

down

can't help

there for a

delicious.

sing business, and in the second, as

I

place

travelling

on a steamer,

mo re's the pity.

before my very eyes.

of the scenery,

fill

seem

had some pres-

first

was

to see

it

X
He came

vesterJay and mentione

shop had fionc bankrupt.

silk

the position

was

faultless.

It

is at

cmimard

And

the price cannot be ihoui^ht dear, as

t;raphinii;

He
into

has an idea

<f

takinj^

it

it

cnurtvard inside was

two compounds, one

si

is

less

is

street

extensive.

than a ihousan J

over himself to open a pholo-

estaMishment, and also run nini^

said the

buy the shop

within the premises

in addition, the

He

to

the entrance to a busy

and,

tads.

that outside the city a

one wished

It"

lari;c

a forcit^n

shop.

fiooJs

and could be divided

Jc for photoiiraph v and one side tor

There was a vcrv ban Jsonie froniat^c. As t,

the purchase price and whatever was necessary lo buy fminps,
Only there was also to he found some lilllc
that amount he had.
the toreif^n floods.

moncv lo pav for

how lhal niii^hl

the slock, aiui he

be arrrani^cJ.

came
lol J

to see

him

me

ih;U.

to

as

talk
to

over

hii\ ini^

 11
it was
not necessary to pay in advance for that.
vou have several friends amonj^ the foreign floods traders
and on ihe strent^th of this friendship, you can select one or two
of the best known and most reliable persons out of those friends

stock in trade,
I

said,

of vours and write lo them,

them

tellint;

you are thinkini;

that

of opening a business in the city, and ask them to

you have a

let

small supply of goods out of their godowns tor Avhich you will
pav, sav, after a couple, or perhaps, three months. You mij^ht

add that friendship

also

and vou can

And

much

af^ree, so

the better

Hearing

went

oiX at

In

mV

once

this

if

shop of mine,

When the

thev do not,

to put

we can

tind

ore

After

t^oods.

business,

if

it.

they

some other

very t^ood and

it

is

more than half

side,

indeed

in

Ave are

favour of their con-

saved the findini;

cash for stock, vet thev, on their side, are also

111

is

they vish

into operation.

it

Here on our

if

reply comes,

scheme of mine, he found

this

opinion there

senting.

from

without delay.

will ihev replv

plan.

friendship, hut business

is

security

f^et

this

all

both sides, and what reason

is

is

ut*

villir\g to sell

matter of a t^ood hart;ain tor

why

ihcre

ihey should not consent

XI
In evervthinp lay vour plans
atTair is,

if,

hefo

re bct^inning,

then

Never mind Avhat ihe

made vour plans,

act.

ynu have not

cjuiie

hut start in headlong, al'lerward certainly you will not escape worry

and trouble.
tact
Ik*

his

is,

vou

first

be put

oiTiill

\va\

look

at that hiiildinL^
lart^c

thouf^ht of biuldini^

first

said,

Now

ideas vere loo

we

see

how

rooms

scir

it

ought

for
to

me.

simply

work can
il'

could onlv say,

me

the garden

He said, do not stand in my

who have promised, thai, by

be doubly carcfiiU for

you may well sutler

W hen

in a fix.

ihint^s t^o.

have a couple of friends,

chance the money should not be ready

arrant^e

is

he came lo consult

build the necessary

The

he has just started.

and now he

good

deal.

if
if

at

anv time, they

will

ihev said that, you you rthere be

some

lillle

slip

As you may guess, he did

-12commenced

not agree vith me, but obstinately

work began

the houses and i;arden

it

operations, and

Now indeed
When he

same time.

at the

has come to this and he has not been strong enoui^h.

went to look up those two friends, one was absent, and the other
had not got in some money he expected. When he saw the situation was not at all secure, and retleclcd that lo slop his building
operations halfwav would cause the utmost mortitication, and
money, he vas
scheme for him.

vet he could not raise

out

me

to tind a

t;reatly

told

own house and,

worried and soui^ht

him

to

me

hrint^

the

borrowed more than a

thousand taels for him. This Avill save him from being a laui;hing-stock. You see if one is not careTul, what advantaj^c there is
deeds of his

You know
friends

just

fell

he bct^an to

upon

i^et

sanguine

to a

when he

never entered

car, but

his

due

is

on, the {^ood advice of his

got

then he remembered ihe good words of his

difficulties,

friends.

that thoui^htlessness of his

When

temperament.
into

outside,

Unhappily

it

was too

late.

XII
Haven't seen you for an

When

worthy brother.

ai^e,

did you

come back
I

home

reached

Have you been

yesterday.

well

all

the

lime, brother

Thanks
Thanks
of vour
1

was

to

vou

Did

quite well.

to you,

quite

yoii

peaceful.

son's f^lorious wcJdint^

have

a pleasant

However on

was not able

to

journcv

the occasion

he present

really wantinj^ in politeness.

What

a thing to say!

When

that

all'air

came

ofT

in-law brought your congratulatory presents.

things

Hov

Truly
can

am

very grateful.

listen

to

this

Thanks!

Really

My Lady

Sister-

Really too

many

Thanks

have been

rude and

nol respectful.

Tuo modest
Kirst

Too modest

thought

that

be lure

you

had

wedding

at

your

house, worthy Brother,

could have got back to have made the

preparations for you, but, as luck would have

province on the Miao border there was a

patron had orders to
stay a few days

him

couple of months

and

at

once

my

me

to

volens^

stayed on about a

the affairs in the next province

till

in ours ail precautions

my

and

departure awhile, to help

suppose

the next

urgently begged

could not refuse, so, nolens

could not but stay a few days.

settled

He

things.

longer, and delay

matters.

settle

settle

in

it,

rising,

little

were relaxed.

Then

were
I

all

started

home.

for

And now

this trip

home

suppose

is

to arrange

your service

matters

Do you
hcMTi:e is

tlaink

letter

in the matter of rhe familv

into a

muddle and

matter and find a

I

have (returned.

want

ve

mode

common

some of them have

ptropertv,

have been called to

of settlement.

It is

fairly

on

this

discuss the

account that

when you have arranged things,

you and a few of our best friends to meet and

In a com pie of days,

see.
ito

tiaat affair in a moment

My run
from the head of my family, because

caa manage

on acccmnt of a

engaf^e

will find

some place ^vhere we can chat

I shall be very glad
W

Excellent

a bit.

meet

shall certainly

again.

XIII
Have you landed my baggage
Have you taken it to the inn
the Custom House.
I have
only a trifle of personal baggage. There is no merchandise. Why must it all go to the Customs
You don't know. All travellers' baggage, whatever it is, wheIt is still at

ther

merchandise or not, when landed from a ship, must

be taken to the Customs for examination.

dutiable, then

be released

at

you pay duly

once.

if

there

is

If there is

first

anything

nothing dutiable,

it

can

-14certainly did not

know

there

was

this bother.

see that these carriers of ours must

You

If passengers'

regulations.

bagi^age,

all

obey the Customs

landed from a ship, be not

taken to the Customs for examination, but carried

first

Customs

the

inn,

to the

authorities,

if

they rtnd

it

straif^ht

out, will line

who happen to kn('W the rules it is easy

we happen upon some who dt) not U now the

If we tind passeni^ers

us.

but

to arrani^e

if

rules, then they are anj^ry at

This

is

our bothering them.

one of the Customs primary

rei^ulations,

and the anuer

not against you.

is

You speak

But you must give

reasonably now.

so as to be ready

if

me your

keys

they wish to open the boxes for examination.

Those of mine are only clothing and hook boxes, must thcv
be opened

Thoui^h it be as you say, they will certainly wish to open

and examine them, fearing lest there be any smuj^gled goods or

contraband

articles.

What do vou
I

smut^i^led floods

call

and contraband

articles

do not understand.
Just

now

Wait

you.

then

will tell

All right.

This
go

\vi:h

is

evervthini;

a bit,

till

you

all

Who

is

hurry and confusion, and

we reach
about

will

the inn and have a

can,t tell

leisure

little

it.

come with mc

to the inn

one of the employes of the Shun Chang Inn; he

will

you.

XIV
yoii

What do you
can move into
It'll

do.

think of this

room

If

it

Joes not suit you,

another.

There

is n()thin"'

much

the matter with

it

and no

need to move.

Your honoured name, Mr.

MV

poor name

Mr. Manager.

is

Yang.

Visitor
1

have not yet learned your

style,

15

Mv poor name is Huang.

Where do you belong
Canton.

Been here

in business

many

More than

ten years.

Are you going

Exactly.

And

you

is it

official

tell

business

for

my

doctorate.

the people to get ready something for

But there is something I wish to ask you

Could I presume to
But what is it r

hurrv.

about.

nov

Just

my
the

on

to eat

No
me

Shall

Peking

One of my family is in Peking,

am going up to him to stay and

business.

official

and has an appointment, and I

work up for my next year's examination
Indeed.

to

goin^g to Peking.

vou're going to the capital,

have no

am

years

Customs

landed and the porters came to carry away

thev said that boxes and so on must be opened by

bai;i;ai^e,

goods.

Avhen

in case there

should be any smuggled or contraband

don't understand what are smuggled goods and

to tell

what

are contraband articles and therefore beg to ask you.

Smuggled goods

are those

hidden among the baggage

As

to the

to

which are dutiable, and which are

sneak through without paying duty

contraband goods, the case

is

more

Such

serious.

things as firearms, powder, cartridges, swords, saltpetre, sulphur,

all contraband, and merchants are not allowed to buy
them privately. The regulations are very strict. As to
smuggled goods, if smiiL^i;led goods are found by the Customs
hut if they
they onlv add some multiple of the duty as a tine
Not only do they
find contrabaiiLU then there is no help tor it.
confiscate the floods hut they punish the man.

salt,

or

are

sell

Since the ret^ulations are so

strict,

prohahly no one dares to

smigf^le in those few things.

You
profit

ouf;ht to k now that in the

world those who look

and don't think of the harm, are very mam'.

cannot he avoided that sonic try the law upon their

Thai

is

so.

at the

Certainly

own

it

bodies

-.

i6

XV
Your baggage has

How

Thanks.

Many

come.

all

is it it

has been such a long time in cominp

You should have seen

The entrance to

ships have arrived today.

poods piled up on the

mountains.

jetty like

Custom House, what with

the
the

and baggage, was quite full. I

beggedthe examiner ta examine our things first if not, we should
carj^o

have had to vait longer stiH. Here are your three kevs and will
you please check over the number of articles to see if ihey are
correct or not
All right

nothings missing..

How much

is

Here

bill

the

is

Here

Yes.

everything:

you

fer

a thing

is

drawn out

have

plainly.

the porterape;- this other small

is

is this-

bit.

the porterage alti>j;cther

give you extra for

What
What

and

Tell the assistants to ; o

you may drink a little tea vhile you are restinf^ a

really troubled* you a lot today.
What's that youVe saying
What trouble is this

sum

is

what

to drink a i^Eass of wine.

Really you are squandering your weallh.

to say

is

only a

little

consideration.

Are you going to stay a few days

I

may

ask you.

stay ten or eight davs.

What

For the guests who stay

of business.

have another

little

thing to

husirress does this inn eni^age in

They

in this inn, they

ftuy railway

undertake any sort

and steamer

hire pack

tickets,

mules and donkeys. They charter passenger vessels, or hire carpo

boats for discharging cargo,
letters,

or they send telegrams, or carry

or hire porters, or carry

change money and

sell

bai^f^ni^e

miscellaneous

They

or goods.

articles.

also

All these things

are looked after.

Yes
tell

the

then whatever

Ma naffer,

That

some one

is

to

Just so.

so.

want the assistants to do

ought la

eh
Generally speaking,

if

arrange the matter for you

Just so.

you
it

tell

will

the head to send

be safer.

 17
like to go back, and
I should
If vou have nothing more.
whenever you are about to go away, the day before, send one of
the people here to tell me, and at the proper time I will bring
alonj^ men to remove your baggage for you.
Excellent.
Let it be settled that way.

XVI
I

have something

your place and

am

wish

This

to ask you.

my

is

first visit

ignorant of every local custom.

to

wish to

need to
These friends
of mine have office work from which they cannot get away. These
restaurants hereabout have very small rooms and, as the weather

ask a few friends to a small dinner.

go to some biggish restaurant some

is

varm

which

am

they would be inconvenient.

am

however

thinking of asking

talk with the

do you think
If

way

my

is

This room in the inn in

friends to dine in here.

could be managed

it

you are
vou say

shall

rather roomy,

inviting people to dine, then, to tell the people

here to prepare the eatables will not be at

didn't

off.

and not very hot I

But unhappily
What is to be done If
this inn is far from fine.
manager to* get some rather better cooking done,

living

the cooking in
I

suppose

little

that the

rooms

all a

in the' restaurants

good plan.

And

hereabout were

' Here is a good scheme for

Whatever VoU want in the \vay of dishes, and the day and
hour when vou want them, just note down on a piece of paper,
rather confined and inconvenient

you.

and send (me of the people in the inn with it to one of the restaurants. When the lime comes tell them to send what they have to
this inn,

To
that the

and your guests can

arrange

it

this

manager here

What

is

way

is

eat

it

here.

Isn't that a better

certainly excellent

will not like

there he will not like

only

am

plan?
afraid

it.

If

we

live

here one day he

lump sum, every day

so much. Whether ve eat or not for one day, we must pay him
for that day, so that it does not concern him in the least. Where

puts together the rent and board into one

can he begin not

to like

it

 18
That's so

and. to settle

that

it

way

excellent.

is

XVII
When

went

to

Peking.

noticed that the inns in the city,

of whatever sort did not supply food.

Talking on
conditions.

this subject,

it is

simply that each place has difTerent

All the travellers to Peking,

are lari^e travelling merchants..

they are not officials,

if

Vov the most part

all

arc wcalthv.

As

to the officials, they

in

charge of remittances, or they are graduates of Chii or Chin

go up to Peking for audience, or they are

Most of them have

rank, or something of the kind.

one side or the other

the capital,

in

friends of old standing.

When

have important business

to transact,

and

And

leave.

The tew days

the exception of the time occupied in busi-

Where then

as for the

most, they stay in

at the

does not invite them, there are friends

ness, if a relative

ask them.

vkh

the time for

is

merchants,

it

is

ihcm

hoard

to

the same.

Peking, they generally have some large

mercantile circles

or

thev go to Peking of course they

Peking two or three months and then must

they are in Peking,

on

relatives

or fellow townsmen,

When

a lair in
I

at

who

ihe inn

they go to

hand.

And

in

essential ihat there slujuld be hospitality.

it is

Daily various hongs and various shops will wish to invite them
to dine

outside, or to visit the theatre,

there

to

is

meet each

arrange,
other..

is

always settled

The

inn then

is

and whatever business

at a

restaurant where ihcy

only a picd-a-tcrrc, simply

he real merchants arc at the inn only a very short time

and then because it is cloudy or wcf and ihcy cannot t;o out.

this.

Outside, and in the vicinity of the inns, are ahvavs a

small restaurants.

They have cakes and

pastry.

require anythinf; they send the inn people to

and

in

quick.

no great time

When

it

is

you look

inns prepare food

broui^ht in.

at the

It

tell

number of

When

t;ucsts

the restaurant,

saves trouble and

circumstances,

why should

is

the

- 19 XVIII
I

have been up

outer

the

Pekinj^ once and

to

Everv dav,

citv.

what

is

called "inn- to -inn" trade,

of two kinds.

not.

As

to sell.

of something

to that

sort

ot

the inns,

business,

sort of people are en imaged in it?

That
is

rooms

to L^uests'

sellers

They entered

carrying bundles of something or other.

and went

stayed some days in

saw several

In

With regard

one sort there

to

is

and

a shop

that with

perhaps only a couple of the assistants

from inn

tion to going'

runners and have but

lo

that sort of business

a shop,
at

who

its

other

in the

back, there are

devote their atten-

inn to do business.

little to

and

Thev

are called

do with the ordinary business

in

morning meal, they take their

hundle-cloths, wrap up a few things and i^o to the various inns
and sell to the strangers from outside. When it gets late they
return to the shop. Then ai^ain, there are those who have no
shop, but who !() from inn u> inn doini^ business. Thev either
have something which thev can make at home, or thev carry things
from a store thev sell i\ r a wholesale place and go from one inn
Evcrv dav,

the shop.

after

the

>

to

another to

You mav observe

sell.

of business, especially

if

who do that sort

man v inns to work

that those

thev have a yood

upon do no small trade in a year.

Yes indeed. As regards those who carry on that sort of innto-inn business, isn't there some little commission in the inn
Certainly it is impossible to avoid com missions. Whatever
may be the selling price thev certain! v must leave a little door

monev

for the inn people.

XIX
Yesterday
a play.
lo

Just as

two

Thinking

or
I

went out of the

I

three

of the

theatres

must have struck

into a tea shop,

city

with the intention of seeing

reached the district \vhec the theatres vere,

bouyhi

had

no sign

a little tea,

hanging out.

jour maif^re.

went
and enquired from the people

a dies non^ or a

 20
They

at the counter.

to-day there are no plays, but

said,

neither a dies non nor a jour maigre

duty inside.

it is

plays inside today and the players are gone vithin.

it

is

There are
I

did not

seemed very busy in the shop, so

enquire more carefully. Therefore I

quite understand this, but they

was inconvenient to
to tell me, what sort of stutT thev were saying.
What they were saying was that there was a performance in
the "Great Within", and the players from outside had been ordered into the palace to perform. That is called ch'iian cliai and

that

it

beg vou

therefore that day, outside, there could be no performance.

But what

Precisely.
I

there at the bottom of

is

May

all this

Why do they summon

Have ihey no players inside
outside players
And when these outside players go inside

hear

the

do they get paid

to perform,

You

while

listen

much

at so

ycni

tell

per day

reason of

the

all

In the

this.

''Great Within', thou ' h they have players, yet they are outside

vahing

plavcrs, Avho are

perform

dare not say thai playing

upon

is

written

It

says that to-day they are

that notice

he idea

piece.

ready

to

is

means of

it

at the

rate

with a

little

is

an

otlicial

mucH

of so

money, or

called

Wo

listen to the

"tea money".

As

duty and one

per day.
t;ive

Look

living.

what

at

the door of the theatre.

new

day they are rehearsing outside

the price of playing.

is

perform, that

at

rule,

They

rehearsing.

rehearsing such and such a

go inside and perform.

is

called

is

hanging

that every

and the money we give

say that

that

their

is

They, as a

perform inside.

to

hut

ihe Theatres,

in

them

to their

performance

They may not

going inside to

cannot give them pay

One can only reward them

a fcastj or

present of silk

that's all.

Indeed,

now

understand.-

XX
I

hear that

in

Peking, of those engaged

from the provinces,

ihe greatest

number ?

in trade,

very

manv

Generally speaUing^from what province

-21
Talking of those

Shantung

and

as to

in

Peking engaged

in trade,

they belong to

Shantung, most are from the three Eastern

prefectures.

The three Eastern prefectures, which are thev

They are Tent^chou, Laichou and Ch'ingchou.
Those at Peking, what business do thev carrv on
Say eating-house keepers, restaurateurs, large and small rice
hullers, and grain sellers
all these trades are, for the most part
in the hands of the Tengchou men.
Then there are pig-dealers,
pig-killers, and sellers of pork
these are all ^ichou men. The
;

Ch'ingchou men are oilmen.

When ve come

Shantung

to the

people in Peking, from the three western prefectures, they are

cloth-dealers and charcoal

sellers.

After

all

they are not so

numerous as those from the three Eastern prefectures.

Are the Shansi men many
There are not a few but certainly not so many as Shantung.
And the Shansi men in Peking, for the most part what do
they do
In Peking they have banks and assaying furnaces.
Some
have cash and opium shops. Their business is on rather a large
scale. Those who are in small trade have small restaurants, flour
shops and so on. The people from the various southern provinces,
what business are they generally engaged in
Gold and silver smiths and mercers
these trades are
mostly in the hands of Kiangnan and Chekiang men. When vou
come to piece goods and Canton wares, there Cantonese are
numerous.
Precisely.

XXI
Here is a matter which I don't understand very well. It
seems thai in Pckinj^ the people helonginp to the place are not
few.

How

outsiders

is it

that the business people of the place

Are not the Pekingese good

there are but few people with capital

ihey have not, they cannot trade

at trade

enough

are mostly

Or

to trade,

is it

that

and, as

-22will tell

vou mui^hlv the reason of

this.

First,

mav

sav,

Peking has two sorts of inhabitants, Manchiis and Chinese.

that

The iManchus, Mongols and Chinese of the ei^hl banners, were

not orif^inally Pekini; people they came in the train ofthe drai^on
Emperor
Now they arc proper inhabitants. The Bannermen,
if thev have
offices, have their vearlv salary.
Thev live on
that.
Those who have no oilice, have a monihly allowance of
money and firain thev live on that. Thev are soldiers and live
).

on the

soldiers'

not allowed to trade as

Although they are

Now we come

Avell.

to

Thev

for

are

ihe Chinese.

ihcm arc from Kiangnan and Chewere at Peking in office,

half of

All of them, since their forbears

kiang.
in

responsible

is

must perform some dutv.

Pekingese now, they were not originally of

all

More than

the soil.

Since the state

allowances.

their support, these soldiers

course of lime have been registered in the department

rcf^islers

These are the descendants, sons and grandsons,

of onicials. Some of ihem have t^one in for the examinations,
and become officials, and some have become poor and dropped
of the capital.

down

into teaching for a living;.

yamens

as shupan.

Allhoui^h

these are very few.

real

Some have

got into the dillerem

some have entered

into trade,

yet

For these reasons naturally very few of the

people of Peking are

Therefore those

business.

in

who do

the business, arc, the furcate r part of thein, outsiders.

XXII
You

"u'erc tellini;

mc

jiisl

now

vh\'

it

was

thai

of the peo-

Peking were in trade

and I more or less, understand.
However, I have also heard that those who are rich enough also

ple of

engai^c in business.

Jo

n<Ji

k now

il*

this

is

true or not.

you only speak of the wealthy and oilicial classes, it is true

that some arc in trade, and what vou have heard is not false.
I
can also explain why tliis is. If tell a sort of muddled up tale,
and do not explain ihinf^s thoroui^hly, then what you have heard
If

and what

just

now

told

you do not agree.

What

spoke of

 23
just

now, why there were few of the people of Peking engaged

The

in trade, that relates to the original circumstances.

last

few years, the rich and

never
that

official is

It is

allowed to

a fixed

start

supply the capital

and engage

fact is the

have begun

to trade, but

rule of the

Government

any trade

Hence they do not allow

the people.

Thev

own names.

in their

no

official classes

competition with

in

their names to appear.

manager to carry on the

business as their agent.

What

sort of business

They always

do they mostly engaj^e

cnj^ai^e in

in

business of the superior sort such as

or

gold a lid silver smiths, assavers, pawnbrokers

and hullers, and so

i^rade t^rain dealers

Ill

case the

that

in a lower,

forth.

manager thev engage,

is

he necessarily a

Peking man

Not

at ail.

In fact very few Pek.ng

men

are employed.

They

nearly ahvavs .employ Shantung or Shansi men.

Why

do

ttiey

not engage natives

Why

engage

men

tVoin

those two provinces

In the first place the Pekingese are not very great in that sort

of business

in the

easily leak out

men

second place,

who

in

the real master

each have their specialities

course of time,
is.

in this sort

So

will certainly

of business and beside

tkey cairy on the business very secretly, so that

out Avho the real owaer

it

he Shantunt^ and Shansi

it

never leaks

is.

that is the reason.

Now

understand.

XXIII
Lst-ely

resource

if

have been at ihome, sitting idle and indeed without

you have

raething very important to

outside the city tomorrow morning early, have a

do ve

iittle

will

wine, listen

to a play -and enjoy ourselves a liiilc.

These couple of days 1 really have something to do and canIf you will want .a e\v days I shall be glad of your
company.
not get a\vay

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Every time

morrow

me

ask you, you put

it

to

account.

am

These couple of

not makinj; an excuse.

Can you tell me?

What business have you
Tomorrow is our Yamen banquet the day after
birthday celebration of a relative of mine
are a couple of other social duties.
shall

To-

off with "Business".

your account, eh

Truly

have business.

reallv

dinner we'll put

not a matter of anybody's

is

It

days

after

Only

there

is

the

beside these, there

after four or five

days

be able to go.

have heard of your Han-chan banquet, but

end of the month

The banquet here

to-morrow

is

is at

the

end of the month.

isn't

it

at

the

The banquet

for the Li Pu.

But haven't you passed into the "inner class" and already
left

the

How

Yamen

is it

that at the Li

Pu banquet they

also

have you
Properly speaking

banquet ought

have already

to be without

me.

This

left
is

the

Yamen, and

little

the

kindness on the

It
part of my friends, because I have not lonj^ left the Yamen.
vould not look vell to pass me over immediately. They >vere
rery much set on my goint^.
That is because you were always popular.
What do vou mean by popular It only means that my friends

me
You

hold

too hij^h a

little.

But as you say you have this atfair

and that afTair during the next few days, have nothing to do
with whether it is true or false, I shall regard it as true. Bui,
Just mention a cerafter all, when can you go out of the city
tain day and be done with it.
are too modest

This

is

the

fifth.

We

might

i;o

out on the eleventh, early.

Kh?
That is settled, then. On ihe eleventh, early, I
And we will go together.
The Hanlin and Chan-ssii-fu rc called "Nei pan".

That'll do.
shall wait.

Note.

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XXIV
have ihout^ht of something else to ask about.

yamcns has

that each of your

Is

feast.

there a general subscription of all the

seems

It

New

banquet and

a yearly

Year

members toward

the expenses
If

you mention the expenses,

know about
now

not

But really

the matter regards

there

is

to make
who does

was once necessary

it

a general subscription, and at the present day any one

it

as a general subscription.

no need for us

to bring in

any money.

There are friends who present the subscriptions.

Who

who

are they

present

Former yameii comrades,

as soon as thev get their appointments as Taotais and Prefects, knowing full well that office in
the capital is a poor enough thing, when thev reach their posts

and are thereby

remember

to

more comfortable circumstances, do not

ia

old

the

Every year each one,

scription
i^inal

and sends

it

friendliness of their

Yamca Banquet and New Year

undertaking oa their part.

This

Feast.

For them

casv to raise", while with us really

it

it is

is

a su h-

expenses of his

capital for the

is

fail

colleagues.

means, prepares

accordin^i^ to his

to the

yam en

()ri-

a charitable

a case of "all

lifting,

"true kindness alFeciini;

all".

What vou sav, though it is lii^htlv spoken, vet

The saying i^oes, "Oilicials' kindness is

kindness.

thin". This saying

charity,
it'

the

and

it

not the

own

it is

If

one looks

not at

paper,

at this little

However,

all thin.

all will

have

to

bring in from other sources.

should not be enough, the shortage, whatever

funds.

hut in ours there

lime

word.

a solid

they send at any time should not prove enough,

he, as a matter of course

>ur

last

this friendly sentiment,

money

naturally vou
If

is

it is

like

is

don't

must be made up bv

know how

a surplus

is it

may
from

things go in other yamens,

every year.

when it was insutlicient.

And the money that is over

it

a subscription

have never seen

kept by itself as a balance

3

26

There is a special man to look after this money, who puts

away the surplus for use on the next occasion.
1

see.

XXV
Brother, please

Brother,

Same

to you,

How many
Four

same

for only four.

The

three others had a

little

something

to

do

came on here
This box is very roomy

They'll soon be here.

not look for a place.

Sit here, please.

was alone today I would

If
however have invited me today.
reserved box opposite.
True
I

Why

of you lately.

little

to you.

had dined.

You need

first.

here.

friends here today

in all.

after they

come

have seen but

not true?

Why

should

You never come out to

Where have I the least

Some

people

There they are already

in that

with you.

just sit

lie?

a play.

Vor some

leisure to listen to a play

up till today, not an hour, not a quarter of an hour,

years
have I not been busy. Today a couple of friends enf;af;ed me
and, thouf^h I had something imporiani to do, yet, no help for it,
I could not stay away.
since,

Are those friends Pekingese

They
from

are not

One

Pekingese.

is

a (Cantonese

the other

is

("hekianj;.

Have they appointments

in the capital

Neither has any appointment.

The Cantonese, whose name

is

Still

they have

Huan^, was

at

years ago in the China Mercantile Guild as Director.

clever, very well versed in forcif^n

rank.

official

Singapore some

He

is

very

languages, both spoken and

written.

he Chekiang man,

named

Ilan,

is

an assistant in ihc China

27
and this
Company at Shanghai.
now for many years. Mr. Huang
was introduced bv Mr. Han. This is the first time we have met.
Thev are getting me to do something for them and this morning's
Navigation

-merchants' steam

Mr.

Han have been

entertainment

Yes

is

Mr. Han's.

and have you also an evening entertainment

Mr. Huang

is

going lo see to

the city this evening.

i^ot

friends

There

that.

is

This evening after nightfall

their consent yet.

important draft to find the T'ang-kuan to sign.

I

have

shall

manage

shall

come

in

If

have not

have a very

dine outside,

by the night gate, and the draft

will not

Therefore, in a moment, and before the play ends,

get signed.
I

to

a dinner outside

have already declined but

to get

away.

Exactly.

XXVI
Is

the date of vour departure fixed

This date of departure of mine

Is

is still floating and not fixed.

some unfinished business
my business is settled and the day has come when I

there

All

still

should go.

Unfortunately

disposed

and therefore, what

a little

to ask

of,

uncertainly about in

you

What

to

decide for

little affair is

me

hear there
I

my
to

is

said of
heart.

little

my
I

alTair

go or stay.

came

Let

former

kept inside, and

a

commissioner

of the likin

control

office.

do not know whether

If

It

return

may

What
this

is

it

my

be that

it

a matter of sending

it is

or referring

General and Governor for a report.

rather in a dilTicully.

hear.

But the document has been

else's atrair.

to investigate

me

say that yesterday

to

morning a Censor handed in a sealed memorial.

denounced was our business over there. Involved in
denounces somebody

is

have come intendin^u

there not yet disposed of?

Yesterday a relative of mine

chiefs

not yet

departure, there

When

it
I

fear that

to the Governor-

heard of this

was

perhaps our chief

28

has hcen found in the "u'rong and superseded.

to

come back

as soon as

at this

hard to decide.

is

the host plan.

want

That

arrive.

Hence

and useless journey

go or Slav

ti)

should

want that he should not suspect me.

me

think out for

avoid a useless journev, and

to

have

shall then

moment whether

prav vou

be a troublesome

will

also

Those are two most im-

portant conditions.

You
delay a
iiiust
it,

wait

till

be vai^ue and

Avith

vraiscmblance, so that, as he looks

perfectly

not a trace of a hair's

and reasonable.

friendly

ai

F^speciallv

breadth of the real intention should he

For the moment

left.

You must

a letter with a

mav appear

it

have thoui^ht out a pood scheme.

good excuse. Tell him that you must

few davs before vou can start. The wordini^ of the letter

him

write

that

mav

be reckoned ihe plan \o he

fol-

lowed.

That

hits

that's

it

it.

tomorroAv to hear vhat vou

How
most

dare

likely

That

have advice

is

I must beg you to give me a share

some scheme for me. I will come

But

of your thought and think out

mav

sav.

of no importance.

Tomorrow

shall

tor vou.

XXVII
Two

days ago

the books
I

have

don't

have heard.
lost rather

in

your

relation's

shop

tliev

were making up

know what their success has been.

Thev have succeeded iincly. This

more than

vcar ihcv

last.

None of vour joUes

Where is the joke
It's true.
Then vou k now how much ihev have

lost

Last year, on making up the books. hnJn't thev lost over

three hu nd red taeU

and more.

This year

hear ihc loss

tivc

hunJred

-29But to lose

What
enough

like that

make good

to

What's

year after vear

are vou afraid of ?

There's

still

to

money

several vears' losses.

When

cleaned out, then thev will close up the business.

be done
in the famil
all

has been

It will

be a

does not lose in the market, nor even on bad debts.

He

little late.

But

He

Where

do not understand.

is it

he loses

on that crowd of assistants he has. Just look

shopmen. Which of them is not rubbish
loses

The

True.

assistants in that place

would he hard

really

at that lot

of

dare not over-

and unyielding lot.

loin-boarded, stilT-necked ). When thev see a man thev cannot
even get out a proper sentence. How could they draw business?
not understand how he chooses this sort of stuff.
1 do
praise.

It

to find

such a

stiff

You do
is

not understand that temperament of his.

a little lively he says he

untrustworthy.

is

that sort of wood-carving,

complaisant.
then

am

not one

He always

not steady.

is

more steady

he looks upon as

"I onlv "want

mv men

steady

And

his business-well, the longer

it

con-

it is.

hard to say he does not

It is

man

man

Consequently of the assistants he chooses,

happy".

tinues, the

clay-image

says.

If a

Speaking generally,

know

that this steady

is

another

term for useless.

How

Don't you know a joke there was last vear

autumn, the San-sheng pawn shop opened
and every one was there. During the feast all the people pot to

Last

can he

year, in the

talkini^

on the assistant question.

He remarked "In

that

shop

of mine, thoiif^h the assistants are not ahead of others in cleverness, yet there
re

advantage, they can hold on. That is wheAmoni; the guests was an old hanker who,
said "Quite rii^ht
There is the old saving that
is

hearing

this,

ti'i^hting is

easy hut holdini^

maxims of war".
did

this

feel at ease".

not

imagined

see that they were

it

was

hard.

is

The whole party

a

saying

compliment.

It

agrees perfectly vith the

roared.

He, the simpleton,

anything against him hut

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XXVIII
commonly

is

It

learning.

But

remark.

to carry

very

is

it

commonly heard

out properly

is

very

upon

doing

He

his conceit

also

If a

man

he cannot

that maternal

'home-made

the

does not understand in the

Beside

least.

Last year he manaj^ed to

not shallow.

is

is

a Hippant

Well, hitherto, he has been obstin-

Whatever you may say about

cart fitting the ruts\

man

You know

anything well.

cousin of mine, Li Yii-feng.

ately egotistic.

as

dilTicult.

he not conversant with the sentiments of his fellow

reckon

man

said that learning to understand

saying

his

t^et

appoint-

He thouf^ht he had a chance to '"spread" himself.

He thought himself able to overthrow all the best. Immediately

ed to Kiangsi.

after his arrival in the province,

He was

of the bureaux.

gues

authorities sent

the

there a couple of months.

to

one

They all with one

The Treasurer

sent in their resignations in a crowd.

all

him

His collea-

voice said they could not stand his meddling.

sav

at a

glance his mismanagement and withdrew his appoint-

Then he

ment.

lived in the city doing nothint^.

Itv

and by, there was not

the

rit^ht.

He saw

seems

to

me by

to f^et

the

It

went on till,
find him in

man who vould

himself and, not

it

made illness a pretext

how he came back.
It

a sini^le

likini; to stay

away and came home.

longer, he

So

ihat

is

way your nephew officialises and my

ambo the two of them.

relative trades that they are arcades

Precisely.

It

teaches one that things go in pairs in the world.

Hsiao-fent?,

Yii-feng's elder,

His temperament

pacific,

is

and when he talks he

is

is

man

of such intelligence.

he has some learning inside him,

most entertaining.

In fact

he has no

l*au!t.

Yes Hsiao-fcng
IS

deep.

nd

and

likes
a

is

man

of first class ability.

Althouf^h in matters of riendship he

f

spending money, yet he

popular man.

is

His experience
is

a little

erratic,

a jolly fellow at the bottom,

His recent appointment as sub-prefect, and

then as acting prefect,

is

enough

to

shew

ihc

man

has ability,

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which

is

very important.

seems

It

to

me

that fellows of the Yii-

men

feng pattern could not even be set to pull otF the boots of
of the stamp of his elder brother.

XXIX
When

man

doing something for another he must not

is

speak in excess of his powers

withdraw, and be prepared
a turn

that,

backward, he himself has

must leave

chance to

hy chance, the

allair takes

hut
it',

stand upon.

a place to

In that

matter the other dav, which you promised, you went too
Certainly looking at

blundered.
I

at

Just think

on

this

side

when

days

What can you

they wished to remit, and

As

earlier.

to talkin^^

Yes.

least

word about

Though you have

reply to
this.
it

is

far.

sav vou have

them

only

hit

upon

necessary to pay

about the quantity of goods,

any time they can be handed over.

There was not the

mav

thev

cannot be held to have blundered in

the time
a few

it

Thev have

all

agreed.

declining;.

not blundered altogether, vet, gene-

it.
What did vou
payment vas in three
months. Now the other party says payment must he made in
two
Since they say this how can you
hack to them with

rally speaking,

you have blundered

say to them that day

You

said

in half of

that

such a different story

that.
only tell them that unluckily we
I can
upon a time when they wished to remit, and therefore
the money must be paid a month earlier.
You may say this, and other people will not be able to sav
that in acting for your friend you have not exerted yourself.
Still, on the whole, you have not arranged thinj^s quite compleI

cannot help

have

hit

tely.

Is

it

not so

You

are right.

This

is

now my

In that case what plan do vou suggest

plan.

Go

again to the party on that side and

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you consent to pay in equal instalments. At

months one half, and at the end of another month

them

just tell

that

the end of two

pay

it.

To

oir the other half.

sent.

this settlement

they do, you need not

If

As soon

as the

lell

think they vill con-

the other side anything about

two months are up we can

make up

first

halt

of the price of the goods, which you can pav off on behalf of this
After a

side.

payment.

You

month more has passed thev will complete ihc

will then take from that sum what ve have

advanced and repax us and the matter will he finished. You see
the airair thus keeps up appearances on both sides.

to arrange

What do you
Kxcellcnt

think of
If

once see them and

it

vou
tell

will

round

jiisl

them about

off thini^s for

me,

will at

it.

XXX
That friend of vours with

Yang

Hao-fini;,

whv

whom

the post he held in the provinces

you about

it,

\vc

were

did he plead sickness and

I

and he seemed quite

yesterday,

sittinj^

come ha civ from

heard what Utile he said to

of grief.

full

Surely

it

is

that he did not succeed outside.

If

vou

talk of his

oflicial

career,

then

at first

but thint^s turned about and chant^cd to failure.

he was

recommended

for

i^ood

service

for a

he succeeded

In the

first

place

small post in the

hen he purchased a secretaryship in one of the Boards,

and was appointed as a probationer in the Board of Revenue.
Later,
After two years' service he obtained his second deforce.
on account of some other services, he was recommended for an
capital.

expectant secrciarvship in his own Board. Probably, if he had

passed a couple or three years more he would have f^ot a subsWhile on this footint^ came his next exatantive appointment.

mination and luckily he succeeded.

Then

if

he had ''applied lo

33
own

return to his
position.

could have

tainly

was

writer he

would have been

class" he

verv secure

in a

matter what came, havinj^ the Doctorate, he cer-

N<j

pressed

forward

into a post.

man

for the

Hanlin.

a likelv

Being

When

good

the palace

examination was over, indeed, he .as pricked otV to enter the

Shu Ch'ang-kuan, and was

So he threw aside

Hanlin Bachelor.

Who could

his secretaryship.

have

f;iiessed that at the

examination he was "relieved" and hy Edict referred

Department Mai;" st rate

as a

to

drawing he drew Kuani^si and

this, his

At that time

his

head and hore

and came home.

requested to return to
a

vacancy as secretary.

miner

for certain,

State,

and become

provinces,

it

is

luck

ill

for

about

After

all,

vhat he has

So he reported himself

If in the future

he had gone into the

as a Prefect or Taota:,

inlinitcl

in that

case he would not have the distinction

No

mailer what

he has been through that.

as far

an

now.

as

can see, what he has got

lost is i^reat

is it

can onlv

He bowed

Last vear his time expired

well.

have come to discuss somethini^ with vou.

What

and he might have got into the Council of

a Censor.

But

it

like

saving

mine has

t)f

it,

border province.

of havinj^ been in the Hanlin that he has now.

v()u sav

said, the

when he had got his Doctorate, he had

his own class he would soon have secured
He wou'd have been appointed a sub-exa-

would have been

so.

border province

no help

in

nluckilv, at the

If,

better thing than he has

That

This
is

in a

for ten vears.

it

and vet he had not got on verv

sick

"

But there

was ten years

it

ii

Of himself he

"Fortune low, Kuangsi go

i^oes,

140.

at getting a

heart grew verv bitter.

surelv reached bottom.

Then,

Board

He was

await employment

very low spirits at what he had done.

subsequent

to the

is

small

and

34

have

a friend

and look

station

who wants

open

to

warehouse

u nladini; i^oods

after

them, and transporiini; iheni

at the

railwav

from the south,

siorini;

There

business like that.

is

separate honi; to look after the payment of duties, and this h(mg

have nothini;

will

The business

do with the

to

the railwav truck and

for a

dav

storini; in the

pay a day's

will

mule

to hire carriai^e or

come

to

we

get this percentage

lot

of money.

this.

warehouse.

A tier

thai

we

from

Goods stored
will

undertake
W'e can

very lar^e quantity of floods ot

Peking from the south every year, and

if

make

and the storage,

in a

year we shall

an all-gains-and-no-losses sort of business.

Its

At starting we have only

buy the land, build, and pay the fee

There also is the purchase of
Totiinj; it all up, we must have five thoufriend of mine thinks of forming a company
to

licence from the yamen.

tor the

some

after the iinladint;

freight to transport the i^oods.

charge one per cent for

various kinds

storaj^e.

part of the business.

oiTicial

will be contined to looking;

little

furniture.

sand tads capital.

to develop this business.

How much

We
issue

do you think

a share will be

have decided on shares of one hundred

of them

fifty

taels,

and

will

exactly the Hve thousand.

Have you settled about the licence

he vamcn has already consented

to issue a licence

only

the tee has not ycl been paid.

How manv subscriptions has vour friend i^ot

He says he has already f^ot thirty \vc are twenty short. He
don't k now what to be done. And so
tells me to i;ct them but
We two may he ahlc
thouf^ht to discuss the aiTair wiih you.
I

l<)

manage

it.

Allhoui^h
scribers,

licence

he

vet

may he perhaps

it
il

actually in hand.

willinf; to trust

he enrjuf^h

dilVicult to f;et l<)L;eihcr the

can he arranf;cJ.
you.

for the all'air

In this case,

if

vou

But

first

voii

should

sub-

i^el

the

Once you have that, every body will

One other point Hve thousand will not
v')u must issue more shares.
:

will u nJcriakc

ihc

all'air,

within ihe next

35

dav or two

will

my

engaf^e

friend to

That

come and you two can

What do you

discuss the matter face to face.

think of that

will do.

XXXII
You two gentlemen, now
if

you have any subject

The

Yes.
to

outline of this atfair has been already explained

me bv our

friend,

But

scheme.

you have met each other todav,

may talk away at it.

that

to discuss,

want

and
first

understand the general

to

learn whether you

drift

of the

have already

actually any prospect of the licence or not.

That matter can be rei^arded

w'nh the consentinj^ note on

You

see

this

my

is

petition,

hv the vamen.

This

shop owners.

There
Look.

neif^hbours.

is

is

Is

it

as settled.

vith me.

and

copy of
also a

at

the end of

a security

bond

have the petition

beg you to read

f^iven

it is

it.

the note

bond given bv four

by our family and

not that the permission given by the

yamen
Quite right

this is

But, according to

so far in order.

my

stupid view, you ought to have the licence really in hand, and

then

would be much easier to obtain subscriptions. One can

know whether this licence can be f;c)t quickly or not.

it

hardlv
It

can be

the necessary

as

i;ot

fee,

soon as

and the

eight or ten days the

it

is

the

taels six

to the present

It

issued.

will the fee

and the

the office

office

a total

expenses
of

eii;ht

mace.

how much have you

really got
subscriptions
'

for
I

only requires that

expenses, he paid over and in

memorandum from

hundred and four

Up

required.

document may be

That being so how much

amount to in all

Here

is

olTice

have actually got thirty shares taken up.

-36And these thirty, have they already

None of them have paid anything.
Do vou think thev would consent,
small amount

some

asked, to pav up

if

Among them
call

paid up something

upon them

who

are eii^ht

pay up

to

my

are

a little in

very oldest friends.

It'

advance, they will certainly

be willini; to do so.

Seeing that
tof^ether

ve

so,

is

enough

you look up those few f^entlcmen and get

the licence and first get that. Then

to obtain

will f^o into the matter aj^ain

and see how many shares

be necessary to issue, taking the

When

into consideration.

this

has hcen quite settled,

decide upon our course of action.

thousand

toi^ether a capital of five

Hcient.

But

hand and,

set

your mind

at rest,

it

will

buildings and arrangements

You

Hrst

that will

thoui^ht of

ve can
i^eitini;

certainly be insu f-

ve only want the licence

may be left to me.

in

as for the subscriptions, they

Exactly, exacllv.

Yestcrdav Kao (:hm-t'ien came to my house and tlJ me that

two davs heforc he had paid all the licence fees that were necessary, and Yesterday had received a "n()te permiitinf? the issue
of the licence.

They

or three davs.

Me

it tor you
Very good.

brint;

business vill go

say in the oilice that

said that as soon as

We

quite true.

capital \vc shall

will conie out in

to

two

hand, he wouki

onlv want this to be rcallv issued an d the

much

Lately

better.

bare word, people do not

rs

it

came

to see.

been coming out and thcreture,

That

it

tcel

if

tot)

man v swindles have

you have nothint; hcvond your

inclined to trust you.

And now

will

vou calculate how muc

require for the iindcrtaUintj; and the matter can

be finally seulcJ up.

 37
I

have reckoned

that,

even managing with economy,

if

we do

not raise eight thousand the thing will not go.

Hum

Your estimate

Listen while

speak.

iliilers

On

a lot from the original one bv

the basis of raisint^ eight thousand,

the issue of this dociiment has not cost aiivthhig to speak of less

than a thousand.
;in

That leaves seven thousand.

At the very be-

uing there are the buildini^s, a most important part of the

work

Then

we caanot economise upon them.

next there

is

the

accountant department with reception rooms and the apartmeals

for the managers. Again, adding to these kitchens and what not,
and totting up the whole, don't you gel a total of some scores of
rooms
The building programme is no iij^ht one and then there
Adding ali these up do
is the land and the furniture and so on.
you ihink eight thousand is much
If one reckon in this way, eii^ht thousand is certainly not much?

When

the capital has been all subscribed

has commenced, then

we can

discuss the

and the building

statT,

have thought

cner that as veU.

There must be two book-keepers, two inside

managers and two outside ma nailers. That makes six permanent
empioyes. With these we can manage. These six it will not be
cas5' to select.

As regards the staff, you and Chun-flcn can talk over it

I can
have nothing t< do with it in anv wav, AH I
shall do will be to subscribe for a share, and when
have taken

loj^ethcr.

ihal,

am

done,

XXXIV
Today, vhen you had gone

out, a friend crime to see you.

His name was Yen and his hao^ Chieh-ting,

j^hroad a few days ago.

he has con\c lo

him

cail

lel'i

and

sat

He

returned from

says he has not met you he tore, but

out of respect to you.

ialo the library

he uas gv>ing he

He

This being so

with him chatting awhile.

this card,

and also

this

letter,

asked

Just as

saying that

38
the Consul at Singapore,

convey
>

He

you.

to

Chu

said

^'iieh-fu,

had entrusted

Chu was

Mr.

that

to

it

^ood

him

to

friend of

ours and a contemporary and that ihcv are related, having be-

come connected bv

marriat;e last vear while

still

abroad.

Did you talk with Mr. Yen some time

Yes, yes.

W'e challed for something under an hour.

How

old

is

gentleman

this

more or

le looks like fortv,

hat sort of a lookinj^

Very

Kom

tall

less.

man
man

conversation polished, a

the stvie of his conversation he

seems familiar with oHicial matters.

of the world rather.

well read.

is

He

is a

man

Moreover he
of ahilitv

til

to

become anylhini;.
Has he come hack on comjiletion of sev/ee
asked him if he had not come back on a>mpleti(>n ofservice,
hut he was u nwillini^ to sav on what business he had returned.
I think it must he that someone has recom mended him.
I

How

do vou know

Durini^ the
X

-''

summer

of this year a friend of mine tolj

mc

that

he Superintendent of Northern Trade, in a memorial, had inclu-

ded

a Scc'retarv

his

name

who was

Yesterday

presented and he replied thai

said that last

vear,

after

the Superintendent on

with

noihcr, docs

it

However he did not nicniioii

Yen whcilier he had been
he had hceru tw ice. Moreover he

al^'oad.

asked

r.

the seals

some

otlicial

were opcncJ, he hnJ been

duty.

not look as ihouj^h

yon put one

to

thint;

someone had recomenJ-

cd him

Yes
his call

shall

vcrv like

it.

shall gather

Wait
some

till

within the nc\l few clays

idea from a talk w ith him.

know.

XXXV
Arc you a Chihli man?
am. My province is Chihli.
1

return

Then wc

39
I

beg

MV

what grain vour province produces

to ask

province

no moist Hclds

naturally an elevated and dry country, having

is

to

speak

of,

and therefore does not produce much

rice.
It

produces mostly cereals and pulse.

Is

there anv wheat?

Wheat
some

there

Beside there

is

buckwheat and so on.

little

What do vou
The

both spring and autumn

is,

among

include

the''

'

mixed grain

chief varieties are spiked millet, maize, white kaoliang,

next there are red kaoliang, vellow beans^ kidnev beans, i;reen

beans, black beans,

The amount

sesamum and

ycll(\v rice,

so forth.

of grain that Chihli produces,

is

it

enough

tor

the whole province

At
little,

when

come

in,

added

the harvests have

Well then

when

was, within a

Latelv for the reason that too

for its use.

strangers have
floods

grain produced by our province

the

first

enough

it is

to

many

the inevitable droughts

been short,

it

and

has not been enough.

not enough, on what province do you

rely for aid

Wheat
up

is

And

Yes.

and

officials

That
ries a

lao

purchased from Shantung and Honan and hroui^ht

For grain and pulse ve depend upon

to help.

the rice stored

soldiers,

properlv

is

long time,

it

what

all

in the

l-'enf^t'ien.

granaries of

Pelvini^

for

rice is that

white rice

changes

but since

to a red

it

lies

colour and

it

in the j;rannis

then called

nti.

And

the orii^inal white rice

brought

It is all

liiang.

It is

Tiuf^ts^ao,
li is

fro in the

whence

is it

hroui^ht

two pin>vinces of Kiangsu and (]he-

the taxes paid by the people. That sort of tax is termed

and therefore that sort of rice is termed Tsaolitzn^.

also called .Wvits'jo.

Exacllv

thank v(>u tliank vou.

40

XXXVI
I

beg

to ask

chants trading

vou something;.

at

It

seems that the

foreif^n

mer-

he northern ports every year brint; inu> port

no small amount of goods. But I do not know whelher there is

an y native produce exported or not.
Are vou talkini^ about foreii^n merchanis buying and transporting native produce for export?
Yes
I

have not been

know bm
fairly well

to other ports,

and hence do not very well

have lived in TienTsin several months and know

Beside

transporting several varieties of goods for e\port

What
They

the general character of such goods?

is

are sheep's wool, camels' vooI' furs of various sorts.

There are also

When
export,

it

have seen foreign merchants bu yinj; and

to send

is it

and so on.
buy these native products for

pigs' bristles, straw braid

the foreign merchants

them abroad

Exactly; for export to foreij^n countries.

They buy
what

sheep's wool, camels' wool^ bristles, straw braid and

What

not.

are these

Their uses are not

wool, that
all

is

woven

all

a few.

used for?

With regard

into broadcloth^ flannel

that cloth imported

woven out of

to sheep and camels*

and so

this sort

The
summer

bristles, they are the materials tor brushes.

used to make those straw hats worn

Indeed.

And when

the merchants

chase these native poods

They may po
employes
TO

go

in their

to the

in

\vhf>)e

v,iu)ds

dc>

AH

t;<)

not

As

straw braid

to
is

into the interior to pu r-

that

may send one

of the native

necessary for them to do

is

Customs Tautai's yamcn and apply

t^ot

Is

ihey go in person?

person or ihev

hong.

for native t^oods. Havint;

The

in

forth.

of material

this thev

is

for a San-lien-tan

can proceed inland

at

once.

of the duties neccssarv to be paid, the places where the

have to be examined, where

it

is

necessary to leave the

certificates, etc., all these details are clearly

contained in the ccr-

-41

and the foreign merchant with one glance

tificate,

ficate

can understand

all

at the certi-

the ordinary rules.

XXXVII
Just

now

heard vou savin(g that the foreign merchant bn vs

our sheep and camels' wool, conveys

weaving into broadcloth, and

it

into foreii^n countries lor

attain brings the cloth here u> sell.

rather imagine that the freit^ht on this going and return

light,

and besides someone wants

that broadcloth
try the

is

very dear. Thovii^h

amount disposed of

is

Hence

a profit.
it is

it is

is

not

not strani;e

so dear, yet in our coun-

not small.

In

my

opinion,

if

we

established a factory in the district where the sheep's wool and

camels, wool are produced, bought foreign machinery, hired foreit^n

workmen, and called our people to learn how to weave broadcloth

and what not, in a few years they would have learned and could
weave it entirely themselves. The cloth which thcv wove mii;ht
pay the same duly as that imported and then be sent to other places for sale. In the verv first place it would be saved the outward
and inward freij^ht and would only pav the small freit^ht u>
K)cal districts.
As compared with that imported hv foreigners
the price must be much less than theirs. And the first cost heini;
lighter than theirs, the cost of the thinj^ naturallv would he cheaper somewhat. The people would be able to biiv a cheaper article;
and the slate taxes would not suffer diminution. Moreover we
can recover our position.
it

not he an

f thini^s

were arranj^ed thus,

wmiM

advantaf^e both to the slate revenue and people's

means o f livelihood
Gan what you say be wrong?

heard that a certain

ihc capital last year discussed the question of reform in

official

of

manulac-

and heard someone sav explicillv that what he

was quite rit^ht. Bui just now am in a hum. to i^o out and
cannot give you the details. Wail till tomorrow, an J most likclv
I will tell you what
heard about what he said

lu ring matters,

said

Excellent

should verv

much

like to hear.

XXXVIII
Yesterday

heard 'hat you mentioned

tli^tt

official last

Peking

a certain

year sent up a memorial, requesting

reform in the

You said that what he stated was

much like to hear how he put it.

matter of manufactures.
right.

He
and

should verv

said something like this

fertile

in itself.

Orii^inallv

it

China vas naturally

that

many

land, producini; very

quite

arize

and very complete

thin^^s,

did not depend upon foreign imports.

Since

trade with Eurc^pe had bet^un, the import of foreign floods had

been growint^ every year because the floods which thev made were
verv ini^enious and the Chinese people greatly liked to buy them.

Therefore foreign merchants regarded China as a large market

and

in this

tries.

wav monev from

Du ring

much.

If

the interior went out to foreit^n coun-

the last few score years

certain that thev arc so

numerous
is

and make from ihem

goods.

all

much

is

in

Beside ihey

higher.

of which

tine

as those

all

goods

hrini;

returninij;,

is

it

not

China, and so the

And

naturally the selling price

use machinery in their factories,

marvellously clever and really indescribably inge-

nious, saving labour and producint^

buy our inland

of*

being able to take the raw products

foundation of their wealth

is

one could not calculate how

one talks of the products of foreign countries,

material, convey

back tor sale

China

it

'vme

the Chinese.

lo

My

suffers threat loss.

according to whatever

is

ihint^s.

I'urther, they

abroad, and the manufactured,

produced

in

In this goini^

simple opinion

is

and
that

each province we should

imitate western manufactures, purchase foreit^n-made machinery,

engage foreign workmen, establish factories and

come and

in vile

people to

China would be able lo manufacture all sorts of floods and Chinese money would not run away
tf) foreign countries.
Thenceforward wc could bcj^in lo close our
learn.

In ten years

doors and maintain our position, having nothint;

abroad.
ter this

The

root of riches

memorial had g ( nc

and
in,

strcni^ih

ofthc

much

to seek

vStalc lie in this.

the Govcrnnicnt orJcrrcd ihe

Af-

pm in-

-43
cial authorities to

ward

look into the matter and report.

Governor of Shansi reported

that the

sheep's wool and camels' wool,

And

thin^^s.

as

it

also

it

produced

that, as

heard after-

Shansi prouuccd

could weave cloth and such

could make wine After-

"'rapes,

ward both these mii;ht be started. This niav he regarded as the

hej^inning of development and the business of manu facta rc will
daily expand.

No wonder that you

say he spoke well

was indeed quite

it

rit^ht.

XXXIX
should like to ask what parts of your country produce

sill";

In our country Kiangsu and Chekiani; produce silk.

And vour Northern

do thev not rear silkworms

rei^ions,

Not only do our Northern parts not seem to rear them hut
with the exception of Kiang and Che, I have never heard much
of an V other place rearing; silkworms.

What
very

little

of which
talk
try

ing

is

the reason of that

about

was

attention since

am ashamed.
it,

Loni; aj^o

mulher rv

to plant

work

sort of

this

was very small.

and they said

m Lilherries,

To

will not deceive you.

used

Reallv

it

hear

to

have
is

mv

i^iven

matter

seniors

that the first thing in the silk indus-

The North

trees.

is

row-

unsuitable for

and therefore one cannot rear silkworms.

But then has the North no mulberries

The mulberry

is

Since there are

there,

< >

m ulberrv

\'

at all

not to anv extent

trees,

it

is

not that the

soil

is

un-

suitable for their plantinj^

much

Y<Hi speak

to the point.

seniors said, hut lately

At

first

beleived w hat

have seen in memorials upon reform

mv
in

methods of cultivation, that silk-rearing bureaux have hccn

established in Kuanpsi to encou rat^e the people there to plant the
mulberry and rear silkworms, and that lately thev had met with
some success. Also in Hupei they have hei;un u) cultivate the

the

mulberry, and

hear that

now

in

many

places there arc miilbcrrv

 44
forming quite

Tree?;

Ai^ain

living; h\\

dually developed.

and the business

forests,

hear

( hihli

in

Since this

the case,

is

about the country being unsuitable U

The

hcrrv cannot he credited.

onlv after
it

will

men have done

answer or

is

one

to

is

make

bcinf; i^ra-

what was said of old

mul-

the cultivation of the

that, in every thin't^,

is,

their best that

That

not.

truth

>

is

production

silk

it

the truth of

it

is

may be seen whether

il.

XL
The proverb

common
(ne

runs, 'Dress according to the year, eat according

Are

to the vear/

And

two sentences,

not these

their real reasonableness

wishes to put

it

rather

more

elcf^antlv,

is

so to speak, very

u nqucslionahle.

one mav say

it is

If

the idea

Not only have at^riculture and

main root and trunk of our food and cl(lhiiit;
rom the earliest times till the present dav, but we must honcstiv try
to improve these.
And even the manufactures lately introduced bv
Kuropean nations bear a most important relation to our nances
of suiting; one's self to the times.

the nuilherrv hccn the

f

ti

and people's welfare. This is the i^cneral outline of what know

about the affair. It seems that steamships, railways and telegraphs
arc the three main ihint^s which ca n not. on an v accou nt, he done
I

The

without.

do not
of*

themselves.

Bui that

t;crs.

hulls of steamers arc both lari^c and sIpohl;.

Thcv

themselves of the strenj^ih of man, they can niov

avail

' hev

carrv

n aliirall v

much car^o

manv

thev ca rrv

need noi be spokcMi

passen-

All the great

of".

oceans and seas, upon which men woulJ not venture formerlv,

now
a

thev can traverse

at their

month can he reached

still

m(re

il

convenience.

in cii^ht or ten

days.

What
As

formerly took
to the railway,

cannot be done without on the d rv land.

In the Hsrt

place, in matters of irade, the railway carries floods and both saves
tVci^ht

and arrives quickly.

cheaper.

Bin also

it

is

Articles of

common

use are rather

of i^rcalcr importance to the State.

time of war, the coiivcvance of troops and supplies w

ill

In

be (juickcr

 45
There

than ever before.

and vant of food.

flood or

sand

as to the scarcity of troops

hv chance

a certain place suffers

ihev go hv
vet thev

most people

rail,

sii

forget

for

number

save anv

though

the

he

difficulties

Travellers hy

journev of two or three thouit makes

Once more

In fact

of travelling.

telegraphic messages have an advantage truly not small.

In lime

of peace the condition of trade in the market, the rise and

prices, are uniformly telei^raphed
ters of trade there are,

again

if

there be anv

from

fall

of

and every land knows. In mat-

And

t^ood deal fewer losses.

this, a

unexpected changes, or anv calamity, a

telegram arrives and immediately

And

rom

can arrive early, be

it

of lives.

the least hardship.

not

ffcr

it

distribution and assist

l''orvarded bv rail

mav

soon issued, and

if

no anxietv

if

dmuf:ht we can send grain

the distressed people.

road,

is

Also,

we can prepare

for

its

think that, of these few important thin;s,not one can

relief.

we

lack.

XLI
"Study that vou mav understand the principles of right."

What

these attain

of the country.

is

the regulation of the State

man's knowledge

is

and half from observation. Therefore

to

his

knowledge increases.

official position,

conduct of

affairs.

or harmful.

If

man

first

studies in order

As soon

as he

has reached

he can depend upon his knowledge in the

Every

ihini^ in

the world

one sees clearly that which

should be put in practice.

it

understand what right means, and afterwards observes events,

Natu rally
an

and the tranquility

derived, half from reading

should be removed.

If

is

is

either heneticial

beneficial, then

one sees that which

is

it

harmful, then

This, both for the State and lor the peo-

doing one's best.

If there be an advantageous affair,

which yov dare not start, or a harmful matter, which vou dare
not remove, th roiif^h fear of consequences or dread of results,
then indeed you are not a man of knowledge. Now as to the
ple, is truly

various schemes which the different countries of

inauguraled, there arc amonj^ them vcrv

Ku rope have
many which should be

46
But again and

imitated.

mav be

They do

have had these

no

alroad v

This

we have our

ancient methods and

people's

we

This sort of

thinf^s

introduced

thint^ is

follow

who

we follow
laid

point

anyhow

The

sav that

to follow other
will not look

it

for the

new

for

me."

choose the beneticial and

Sage.

say such things, though they

the

being our

are not equal to

to

is

the

"When three
He did not

Saj^e said.

others, i^ood methods,

down by

have never understood

Hmv

Or thev

them

reject

Therefore we should imitate them

distant countries

The important

those

whv

rcallv gathered

enouizh to shew that that

su relv a teacher

is

teachers.

will hc-

hv Ku ropeans are more int^enious and m(re

are toi^ether, there

it.

is

l<n()\vledj;e.

shall benefit thereby.

the principle

it

one has ever heard

even more ridiculous

clever than ou r ancient ones.

sav that certain

and

vears,

imitate western methods,

well.

and then we

manv

men with

sort of talkers are not

be feared that

tVom them, and that no

that the least evil has resulted.

imitate western wavs, thouijh

is to

it

not consider that the nations of Kuropc

thii^s i^oin^;

henetit

little

we

if

this advantaLie, vet

that evil.

t;et

have sent out man v distorted

weii^hl,

criticisms of them, savint^ thai

there

fashioned and obstinate

attain those old

whose opinions have

Seniors

will agree wiih

it

Looked

at in this

may have

principles of the

way

studied, yet

Sage's

doctrine.

can ihey rei^ulaie the Slate or iranquillisc the country

XLII
hear vou have been

V iian hon^,

The
it,

even

ii

if

Of
and

is

Is

is

verv

there was

about

manv

what

allair

What
Is

tryinf; to

arrange that affair of the Pao-

there ihoiii^h to arrange

ditlicult.

somewhere

It

would he p rettv easv, wouldn't

to bci^in

Hut

It is n<l

the business of ihc l^ao-v iian honi;

to shut

course.

up

They

finished vel.

in a Uini; a loss

arc about lo close up.

ohliqations an J ihcv have hcirfjcd

iis

Outside

tlicy

few Iricnds lo

have
out

talk over ihc ihini^ with the creditors lo coiiipou nd at scvcniy

per cent.

 47
Where

did the discussion take place?

the lAin[;-sheni^-t'ani; restau rani.

At

How many
In

creditors are there in

What

money

sort of

Four houses
one

also

all

all, six.

lea

house debt

for

are ihey r wed

goods

ihcy are

warehouse, and one house

is

is

is

The tea
contracted for. The

an assayer's.

is

an advance on floods to arrive

assaver's debt

There

the trade.

all in

remittance advanced.

Altogether, outside,

how much

is

owing

More than sixteen thousand taels.

Have all the six houses aj^reed
The four houses in the same trade have agreed. Only the
tea house and the assavers sav ^*Oii rs is money advanced it cannot be classed with debts for floods. Beside wc have noi had any
This nionev was advanced seven or eit^hi months
interest even.
a^o and nolhini^ has been repaid. Neither have we pressed them.
r

This

has

compound
custom

been

Now

very friendly on our part.

for this at seventy per cent

will

After this

vou

think

We

wish to

y on

think iherL-

is

no such

Hence ve dare not consent."

as this in trade.

Then how

settle it?

il

will

he something of this k n d
i

In the

Pao-v iian hong there remains some small q uantily of damaj^'ed

t^oods.

The n'o houses will

their value.
They

more than

the goods outside

and

lose a

detain ihem,

little

Certainly thev will have given

and that

will be the

tled this

way.

end of

it

may

it

be, for rather

mind if thcv presently sell

money that will not mailer.

will not

full

weight to

simply that.

friendl_\

ihink

it

feelint^s

will be set-

XLIII

When

did you return

Yesterday

about midnii^ht.

Your return has been much delayed

more than

month

it

48
reckon

W hat

it

iwenty or so days.

at

Simplv waiting
come, how could

You r
ly

till

If

the

heard the Chief Manager's report of

it.

vou

that

all

pav out.

to

assistant (:hia looks

after.''

else?

Looking

chia

man's exterior he appears

that

at

reallv this

false

to

name

have

him admirablv.

suits

a little

His name too

he Joes not understand nuich.

hilt reallv

Chia Yu- t'sai

:

very near-

Have you heard of

of worry.

lot

Isn't this the business that

is

many days

wonder how much more we should have had

Who

name

so

to death.

had not been that you came forward and took

I

abililv.,

not having

that's nothing.

it

trouble

month.

'

up

This morning early

Oh,

Money

arrived.

havini^ been delayed outside

worried you r Chief ManaL;er

has given you a

more than

you

rotu rn

trouble that has spru

It

money

the

not

It is

that hindered

was the business

Chi a, a

when a merwc receive the list, to Hrsi tick off the

Then ve hand it to the (Customs. On
list.

Hiiherio our custom as brokers has been, that

chant's floods arrive and

items accordini; to the

that occasion

plv handed
few.
a

it

on

reccivini^ the

enouL^h to prove one must never

It' s

it,

but sim-

packages ton

five

relax vigilance for

moment.

The dav

that the

the floods and at

M anager
error,

(:usims found out

first

decided

Avas distracted

Customs saw

and

the

and there was no inlcnlion

Deputv cancelled ihc

one hundred lads

say

it

soiii^hi

is

fi

nished

lo

willi.

uut a hundred lads.

But

me.

hundred

him

went

taels.

at

this reallv

to short declare,

pleaded with him

orii^inal

mark

the onu'ssion, thcv detained

to fine cif^hl

the Deputv, and told

soincthini^ to teach caution.

to

they did not check

list

Unluckily they had written

in.

once

was

Your
t(

the

a clerical

lie mii^hi fine

a lont;

time and

decision and cha nt;cd the iine

that

now we mav

this litllc carelessness

simply pulled

the otTcncc.

So

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the Deputy, could

we have

finished

up the case thus smartly?

XLIV
I

have begged vou to come today because

Yesterday

to ask of vou.

have something

received a letter from our Consul in

some
wonder if

Tientsin saving that his "teacher,, had resigned on account of

and

t'aniilv affair,

askinj^

me

to find

him another.

you have a suitable man in your mind.

Since it is a Consul who wants a teacher, there

some writing

Precisely.

matter.

is

certainly'

to be done.
for official

It is

In the letter

our countrvmen,

the Consul's idea

it

merchant,
that

is

But there

work.

also says that there

he

is

is

another

who wishes to learn

may get this teacher

to
to

little

one of

also there

speak, anji

come

to the

morning for office work, and in the afternoon he

might go to the hong to teach.
I have a friend lately reYes. This comes in verv luckilv.
turned from Canton who, at this moment, has nothing to do. He
has taupht toreii^ners formerly for many years, and I think if 1
talk with him he will he willin;^ to go.
What is you r friend styled
His name is Tu and his Juo^ Min-fa.
Well, has this Mr. Tu done any official work before
Yes.
He was orii^inallv a teacher in Peking for some vears,
and afterward, at some'of the outports, he did official wovk for
some Consuls. He has also been a "writer in the Customs.
office in the

'

In that case he

He

fairlv well

Since that

is

very experienced in official work.

is

understands

so,

talk over things with

it

is

all

that sort of work.

verv excellent.

can onlv ask vou to

Mr. Tu, whether he reallv wishes

to

i;o,

me know. I will write a reply and ask what the pav is

when an answer comes we can settle the matter tinallv.
Yes.
will i^o lo see Mr. Tu tomorrow, talk over this
let

and
and

with'

 50
him, and afterward bring him to have

Do you

with you.

a talk

approve

That would be

still

Don't mention

it.

Thank

better.

vdu.

XLV
Is

your baggage

all

All got together,

breakfast to

ready

am

only just waiting;

till

have finished

start.

Since vour baggage

is all

you can simply hand

collected,

over to the hotel people here

to

hire

men

to carry

it

it

to the

railway station.
Is

V>o

it

send

safe to

advance

off in

it

There is no danger at all. Travellers by rail nearly all do this.

vou suppose that luggage ought to i^o with the passcni^er
I supposed it must be so.
Listen vhile

tell

vou.

You

call

one of the assistants

in the

hotel, and whatever be the nuinhcr of boxes and packages, you

reckon up the total, check ihcin in his presence, and hand them
over to him. He will hire men and send them in advance to the

There he will tell them the number, and the

him so many copper checks, which he will brinj;
bacU to vou. Vou lake those and, as soon as voii have arrived
at vour destination and got your inn, you t;ivc the checks lo
the inn people and tell them to go to the station and brint^ all your
railway

station.

station vill i^ive

luggage

Just before voii return voii send

after breakfast,

vour

ticket

go

you can

tell

along, to l)uy fur you.

ticket
1

do you intend

want

the

to

train.

Isn't

the assistant,
I>ucsn,t

it

it

<

IT

vour

when he

and,

lui^t;ai;e

move

i^ood

Kvcn

lakes the lui^gaj^e

spare one trouble

W hat

class

lo lake

a first class ticket.

You hand
be put through.

it

over to him to manaf^c anJ

The

fa re, ihc

iVciyht

in

moment

it

will

on your luggage, and the

 51
porterage to the station, whatever
a

bill for,
I

am

which vou pay

much

really

obliged.

There

That's nothint^.

comes to, they will make you

and there you are.

it

lump

in a

is

one thing more.

vou carefully take with you the

that

ticket

It

important

is

and the luggage checks.

Exactly.

XLVI
The

now

has

ship

arrived

the

at

do you think of

letter

here for the Hsi-

jetty

landing foithwiih
I

shall not land first thing.

ch'angt'ai

Wait

Hotel

a bit while

man

it

for

me

that be better

That

will certainly be better.

Among you
t,ai

to deliver

There must be some of the

will give it to them to take

take a look.

Hsich'angt'ai Hotel people come.

wo n't

have a

can you hire a

people there,

is

there

anyone

from, the

Hsich'ang-

Hotel

What do you want

yet.
want it sent to the Hsich'angt'ai Hotel.
That's easy enough
am just now going to take a traveller's luggaf^e there.
will take it.
Will that do
I
Hsichangt,ai

Here

is

no one has come

a letter

That's capital.

Thank

No

is

it

to

me.

Is

there any answer

there any replv to this letter

When

reply.

you.

Give

You're very polite.

Mr. Gh'en,

they see the letter they will certainly send

someone
All right.

Which gentleman

My name

is

is

Mr. Ch'en

Gh,(hi.

am an employe of the Hsich'anj^t'ai Hotel.

me to he'g vou to come to the hotel.
And what about my baggage
I

has sent

Our

manaj;et"

 52 You simplv hand

Well look.

over to us, that's

it

This

my

is

bat^j^at^e

all.

and small,

lart^c

fifteen

packages.
Exactly.

If

vou

will land

will call a jinricksha for you.

Thanks.

man

Ricksha

vill

be paid
All

us

l)y

Mr. Ch'en, please walk

Excellent.

make

This court

in.

think of staying here in this

Is the

He is in, but at
moment to see you.
to

fare

Mr. Ch'en has come.

What do you

Good,

take this

The

Hotel.

Hsich'angt'ai

to the

Step into the ricksha, Sir.

rij^ht.

Manager

and

You

Bring your ricksha over here

Chen

gentleman, Mr.

manager

the

clean and

(luiet.

in

moment

he

will first tell

is

room

is

He

busv.

them

come in a
some water

will

to bring

tea.

g(iod.

XLVII
Mr. Ch'en, our manager has come over.
Please

This
1

come

have

in

and

sit

down.

Kuo, the manager.

Air.

is

This

is

Mr. Ch'en.

looked up to vou.

loni;

Your name is Yu-t'ing, isn't it

Yes, my name is Yu-t'ing. What is vours
Mine is Yunj^-fu.
Have you seen Mr. Kao Yueh-fcni^'s letter?
Yes,

have seen

you on your

arrival

it.

Idler from him sayint^

lie sent

Ves.

you

How

In the letter he asks

me

These few davs since

you had already started.

to

send

also

to

meet

received a

a letter direct, then.

long have you been

v)n lVcindl\

terms wiih Viich-

 53
Our two

families are old friends.

How

Indeed.

His

In a year he

makes

out his hand for

His

he getting on at Tientsin

good

trim. His

name

is

already well known.

a couple of thousand taels by

merely holdini^

it.

abilities are really

In business circles he

of.

he

is

affairs are in

Beside he can be

good.

man

is

made

a friend

ready to accommodate one

honest and straightforward.

is

That man, as any one can

You

are right.

came a few days

you six hundred
Quite

For
There
on my
Ill

is

right.

my

By

"wealthy.

me

ago, did he say he had told

draw from

to

dollars
It is

How

so.

you going

are

expenses here and the price of

nothing

else.

The remainder

arrival in

Canton.

that case

you may wait

and

become

see, will

the way, in that letter of Yiieh-feng's that

till

to use this

my

of the

ticket

money

money?

when

will be

go.

used

reckon up what you spend

you an order. You can

Kuangfa kept
by my cousin maternal ). His name is Cheng Hua-fang. If you
will take the order to him you can d raw the money.
It will save
handing it to the Banker's and also the cost of remittance.
Many thanks. Really I am depending upon you entirely and
you are taking much trouble on mv account.
Never mind that. It's only what I ought to do.
here

for the

balance

will vrite

take that to Canton, where there

is

a hotel called

XLVIII

how

should like to ask you

of Chihli has two yamens.

incial capital,

Avhich was

present

first

and one

at Tientsin.

established and which

moment should

that the

it is

hear one

is at

And
was

Governor General

Paotingfu, the provof these two

later?

And

yamens

also at the

the Governor General reside at Tientsin,

or should he reside at Paotingfu

54Since vou have brought up the subject

And you

vou from the very beginning.

has

will

will

explain

ir

understand how

to
it

come about.
Exactly.

Many

wish

hear the details.

to

years ago the Court sent a special

Ta-Chen

to control

monopoly af Ch'anglu in Chihli. The official's style was

Yen-cheng and he resided at Tientsin. His yamcn was called the
Yen-yiian yamen. In the eleventh year of Hsien-Keng, the ofiicc
of Yen-Cheng was abolished and they ordered the Governor Genthe salt

Department in addition to his

Yen-cheng was abolished just
coincided with the opening of the North to foreign trade. The
court deputed a Vice-President of the Board of War to act as Superintendent of Trade, to reside at Tientsin and devote especial
eral of Chihli to control the Salt

The time when

other duties.

the

attention to matters relating to foreign relations as well as the

duties of the two
ritorial authority.

into the

yamen

Kuan, the Hsin and the CJiao, but without terIn this way they changed the Yen-yiian yamcn

for the

Superintendent of Foreign Trade.

In the

ninth year of T'ung-chih, they abolished the office ofTrade Super-

intendent and ordered the Governor General of Chihli to act as

Superintendent of Trade, and changed the yamen into that of the

Governor General's "travelling" yamen. Hence Paolingtu is the

original yamen of the Governor General, and the one at Tientsin
By the original rules every
is reckoned a "travelling" yamen.
year, after the opening of the river, the Governor General resides
at Tientsin to deal

and

with business arising from foreign relations,

in the winter, after the river closes, he

the provincial capital.

Though

some grave business between China and

does not return to Paotingfu.

Now

resides at Paotingfu,

these rules exist, there

This

is

may

not certain.

have heard what you have said

understand perfectly.

XLIX
There

is

yet another matter

be

power and he

a foreign

wish to ask you

to tell

me.

 55
What is it you want to ask me?
who manages matters connected

Pray don't!
Is

not a taol'ai

it

with the

China with the consuls of the different counthe open ports of your country

foreign relations of
tries at

Quite
It

Has

right.

this taoi'ai

Government

the

for the especial

a taot'ai.

It is

seems that

most people

call the

established, as additional, a

Customs Taot'ai.
Customs Taot'ai

purpose of managing the business connected with

foreign trade?

Every case

is

our officialdom.
of Taot'ai
Ta(tai

it is

who

River

Taot'ai

that

all

have said

about

a little

when you speak

of the post

business relating to the transport of

who

who manages

river matters

salt

and

tea

the

tri-

Monopoly; the

controls the Salt

controls both salt and grain

controls

till

divided into several sorts, as the Grain Taot*ai the

coatrols

bute rice; the Salt Taot'ai,

who
who

Wait

not like that.

You must know

the Salt-Grain

the Yen-Ch-a,

salt-tea

Cha-Ma Tao, who

Tao
Tao,

controls the

transport of tea and the supply of horses.

When we come to the territorial taot'ai, he is called the PingTao or the Hsi'in Tao, The Pingpei Tao may control three
or four fit, or two or three fi" it is uncertain or a couple oi fit
and a cfwu. The taot'ai who controls the relations with foreign
pei

countries at the ports

is

the territorial taot'ai.

Since thev

addition, control the Customs, they are called the

t'ai.

It

is

hai Tao.

the

same

His real

all,

in

Customs Tao-

one ahvavs calls the Shai\gSu-Suug- T\ii Ping-pci Tao that is,

sort of thing as
title is

he controls Suchowfu,

Sungkiani^fu, and T'aits'angchou. The

under the control of the Sungkiang prefecture.
And therefore the trade affairs of Shanghai come under the control
of the Su-Siing'T'ai Tao. Most of the ports have a similar arran-

Hsien of Shanghai

is

gement. Only Tientsin does not follow this

Ping-pei Tao,

who was

of Tientsin and Hochien.

Yet the

ally

had

eign trade did not

From

come under

the ninth year of

rule.

Tientsin origin-

the Taot'ai of the prefectures

affairs in

connection with for-

the control of the territorial taot'ai.

Tung-Chih, when they abolished the supe-

 56
intendencv of Trade and handed over his duties to the Governor
General, thev also established a Taot'aiship for foreif^n trade matand also to control the two Customs. They styled him the

ters

Hsin-hai-kuan Tao.

This

is

the point of difference from other

sorts.

L
I

you

hear that 'our school regulations have been changed

have

also heard so?

Yes.

Lately

who

received a letter from a friend in Peking

me the i^isl of the edict.

What are the changed regulations

wrote

In his letter he says an Edict has been received to establish

Peking an Universtity. All those who enter this college

colleges
and
are to come from the middle schools

at

schools, proceeding

Shu-yuan which
chou, and hsien are
the

foreign

instruction.

upward

in regular order.

exist in in
to

to

study

pri mary

In addition to this,

each provincial

city,

and each fi"

be changed into schools for Chinese and

As

to the classification

ments, the larger Shu-yiian of the provincial

of the establish-

cities arc to

be high-

fu are to be middle schools, and

those in the chou and hsien, primary schools. The rules for all
the schools will issue from the University in Peking, and each
er grade schools, those in the

school will he managed accordint^ly.

Beside these

if

any place

has a free school or a village school, both Chinese and wcestern

subjects are to be jointly tauf^ht in order to extend and develop
the minds of the people. Also the books to be read in each school
are to be compiled from Chinese and

kinds

issued

from

Western books of various

the department established by government.

Moreover the cost of maintenance of the schools is to be paid

from the surplus fund of the telei^raphs, the steamship company
and the fees collected in each yamen. All these arc to be remitled by the higher authorities as part of the cost of maintenance.

 57
These are the particulars of what
Since there
that

men's
It

is

know

reform of this kind

abilities

may

of the modified rules

hy our country.

for schools lately instituted

in future

it

mav be expected

be graduallv brought out.

only wants proper administration and in time, as a matter

of course, there will be i^ood results.

LI
That vhich
people be

is

most to be feared

many and

increase daily and their

any individual of the people

he

may have been

world

in the

is

that the

means of living small that the poor

ways of obtaining a living contract. When

their

is

unfed or unclothed, then, though

originally orderly

and good enough, yet under

the inriuence of hunger and cold, he

mitting offences and doing evil.

simply forced into com-

is

Therefore

officials

must find

means of enlarging the field of labour for the people and

enable them to fill their bellies and keep themselves warm. Then,
as a consequence, those who commit offences and do evil will be
a

moment

At the

few.

hear vour country

railways and develop the

good thing.
merchants

Nut only
but

means of

in

To

advantages.
live

so

minini; industry

will

enrich the state and

it

an affair there

i;rcat

common

their lui^i^ai^e

of

i^eltinf; a little

money to
who

those small capitalists

articles of

money
will

i;et

All the

cars.

and goods, the

no end

to

Passengers mount upon

wovk

belont^ini^ to

iriovin

and so on, affords a means

the mouths of poor people. Also
to make a livini; hv scllini; various

porterai^e,

fill

trv

food and general use, they are enabled U) gain a

to live

their

upon.

the

new

people, every place which

has a railway becomes daily more husv.

and dismount from the

is

very

benefit the

the question of opening up

simpiv take

lihood to the

about to extend

is

this is really a

Further the

threat

cities

roads repaired and levelled.

ran rickshas, a great "mvcnience

l.or

little

and market towns

Then

travellers

to

and

(vo

mav

and cheap into

 58

Poor people without resource who have the streni^th

manage to get hold of a ricsha and
do a dav' s work and the moncv thev gain is enouf^h to keep
It is plain that these two things, the railwav
several people.
and the ricksha, mav well keep goodness knows how many poor
folk.
Again if they open up mines of various sorts, coal mines,
and what not, then those who have no work nor means of
living can all go to the minini; places to work, and get enoui^h
to eat and to wear.
If people have their clothing and tood
secure, they will learn to regard their appearance and to value
the bargain.

of a pair of shoulders can

their lives,

and

will not

venture to break the laws.

All

officials

should see to openini^ up the ways of getting a living for the

people, and that

What you
live

upon

their

is

say

own

real love for

them.

certainly without fault.

is

If the

labour and keep themselves

people can

warm and

full,

they of course will not venture to stupidly do wrong and break

the laws.

LII

All those

who

exercise the "parental" offices

of the people, influence them for good.

when one begins

to think

over

it

This

carefully

it

is
is

among

the

mass

easily said, but

not easily done.

As for me, say it is not so very difficult. Officials only

need to keep themselves upright, not to be avaricious and receive
bribes, not to be inHuenced by personal feelinf^s and importunity,
hut with their whole heart to serve the state and love the people
and one could hardly say that they cannot improve the morals
I

ot"

the people.

What you

sav

is

hut

and that they

you say you certainly

the tao-li of officials

mere truism. But

improve ihe moral lone of the people,
In the
will not venture to say that you will surely succeed.
first place, the poverty of the masses is a thing that you cannot
should act thus
rely
I

upon

is

this to surely

if

59
at all

undertake to cope with.

You may be

a perfect

sage,

Suppose vourself a local official.

and what you teach the people is

really the perfect tao-li of the holy one.

Unhappily those people

have no clothes to their backs nor any food in their

They know you

-oi'

are a

good

doctrines yet they will think

much

not do to err so
their

as a single

two hardships which are the most

comes to these two words, hunger and
they are pushed to extremes.
hen where is the tao-li
with

cold, those

When

terrible of all.

Where

is

and rob

the law
a

is

people,
teachiriL;

they

it

When

What

death has
feedint^

time enough to talk of law

is

Will the) then care for the tao-li

to bear huni^er is to
Therefore tirst feed your

the ancients said

this

meaning.

and then you can begin

and

First they steal a trifle

reach the very depths of poverty, even

disregarded.

you preach

su ffer a slow

Utterly disregarded.

break the law

When

hreakingi

the king's law

it

"to put something into their bellies".

little

they actually

that

if

pace out of the way. Onlv

stomachs are craving with hunger, and their bodies arc

freezing

cold,

bellies,

and you hold the most correct

they ohev your behests it will

official

to teach

proceed together.

them.

That

is

to say

You cannot have one

without the other.

What vou sav is not at all what the scholars sav. Y(u m ust
know that the oTHcials in close contact with the people ccrtainlv
have some other wav of improving the people.
know well enough that what sav is not the sort of ihinc:
I

you hear from students.

onlv measure hu manitv with the
measuring rod of) human nature. The"roval wav" is no different
from human nature. Wait till one dav vou have f^ot near the
1

people a nd

let

me

oihcr than what

see

what method vou have of educaliiiy the in

have said.

LIII

Two

days ago one of

my

brothers

came

here.

He

told

me

 60something and when

He
birth

dav and called

outside screened

it

heard

month

said that last

it

felt

little

wonder.

was celebrating his

They j^avc him a room and
He sat alone within the room

mimic.

in a

some

a relative of his

with a curtain.

and could imitate four or five men from

sitting toi^ether and talkini^ each in his own

different

provinces

Nor was

dialect.

when one man had finished speaking; another bc\qan,

was now a sentence from one and ihcn a sentence

that

but

it
it

from

another, everyone speaking at the same time and even joking,

each perfectly naturally and not off

appeared

slip

his

how can he speak

least

That
a

Rcallv

mimic.

could not

not wonderful.

is

friend's

We

one room.

many

so

{gardens

were

We

in a

sii

We

all

l]

perfectly,
uite

One

m n mer

Not the

least

one muzzle of

without

We

were outside

mistake or

believe the thing.

vear a i^ood

many

wine and ihcv

house and he

a table, a pot of tea

himself had an iron wand.

a curtain.

in ihc least.

different sorts of talk without the

drinking

gave him

ii

thoui^ht, with that

and wilhal so

hesitation,

confusion

in

what

in

he said.

all

and

also screened the

listening;.

of us were

b roiit^hl in a

bv himself
a teapot.

in

He

doorway with

\Vc heard a tap from

seemed as it* orders were j;iven to servants

up the doors and t^o to bed. We heard
And, hsilthi^- lnijlcni^\ they bolted the doors.
the servants replv.
heard the sounds of" people in the various rooms
Presently
e fore loni^ \vc heard a dug bark in the
snorini^ in their sleep.

the wand.

First

bv their master

it

to shut

1-5

all bci^an.
The dot; in
compound barked verv licrccly. Then we heard the tiles on
the root' make a noise and, Uutuuf^ kuiung, from the adjoinini^
ilic house yelled
roof down jumped several men. The inasicr
and his servants all replied. They opened ihe doors
"Thieves
and there was the sound of pickini^ up sticks and cluhs. Then
we heard the thieves Uuluui:; kittmig, i^cltint; up on the roofs.

distance, and soon ihc doi;s near al liaiul

the

\Vc also heard the servants

catch the ihicvcs.

Before

f^o

out callioL; ihc nciL^hbours to help

loni^

ihe sou nJ of several half scores

we heard ch^aoch'ao j^^ngjang,

men cominj^ up and engaging

of"

 61
the thieves

hand

and spears with

down from the

There Ave re the sounds of swords

and clubs and the sound of tiles falling
The little children were crying and the

to hand.
sticks

roof.

The whole courtyard resounded with the

Then there Ave re also people
bawling out to catch the thieves. At this, when the confusion
was at its heignt, the few of those sitting with us who were not
verv brave were really alarmed and turned pale. Then suddenly
we heard a tap from the iron wand and at once the whole
Now, what do you say? Good?
stopped.
dogs were barking.

of swords against swords.

ring

LIV
A

few davs ago vou were so kind as to give vour attention

to arrangint^ the
to ask if

not

Yesterday the friend,

me

to

come over and

For that
friends

affair

who know

dares not consent.

to

mv

to

for

me may

do anything toward

who gave

it

me

to get

it

venture
lately or

done, asked

enquire.

have

ft)reiL;n
I,

disappointment,

concerned.

book

translation of that

you have managed

already

hunted out a good many

languages.

since you

could

asked

not

And everyone of them

me such a trifle, and I

report

After a f^ood deal of trouble

vas verv
someone to hunt

success,

got

man who vas a good hand with his pen. He took the
book and had a look at it. Then he said there was no wonder
none of our friends would consent to translate. It is a Treatise
on the manufacture of war material and hitherto very difficult to

out a

Not only the names of materials therein and their

modes of use are terms hitherto not found in Chinese, and which
Therefore would have to be explained in notes, but it must be in
accordance with Chinese style and especially it must not miss
the meaning of the foreii^n text.
Moreover it must he made so
that a man understands the text at a t;lance and does not have
to stop and consider what it means.
Further there are many
chemical and mathematical terms. Then again one must have
translate.

-62
many books

SO

manage

of reference before one could

said he could undertake the translation of the book,

One was

there were two obstacles.

He could

not consent to that because

it.

He

but that

the half year limit of time.

was

it

He

a big job.

said

that at the quickest he must have ten months, and to go slowly

This was one difficulty. Another vas the

Three hundred taels was rather little. He said
that to translate such a book the very least that would do was
five hundred.
Therefore I have brought the book back with
me, and what he said I have just told you. I must ask you to
explain the circumstances to your friend.
I am really much obliged to you for what you
have done in

would take

it

a year.

remuneration.

Since there

the matter

the

book

man

other

conditions,

man who

is

think we can satisfy him.

this,
I

and

shall

if

he

willing to get

is

come and

willing to translate

is

Wait

till

it

have told the

done under those

^receive your kindness' again.

man who asked you really wants the

arranged you can let me know and think we can decide

Please don't
thing

If the

upon

settle

it

day

to request the

to

meet each other and

Will this do?

face to face.

Very good.

two gentlemen

Let

it

be this way.

LV
I

went

to consult

to

your house today

to look for you.

had somethini^

with you personally about.

it you wanted to know about

have a friend and he is the manager of a large bank.

What was
I

Yesterday he

engage
also be
felt

so

for

me and

it

said that the

some correspondence.
was not easy

came

to consult

at

once

to

hong wished

When

to find a

There wtnild

thought over

good hand

over the matter with you.

only undertake this business

it

would do

to

devote his attention

French documents.

translation of various

to the

sent

gentleman who knew French,

at

it

a little,

French, and

If

capitally.

you would


am much

manage

Unhappily

you.

obliged to

that sort of thing.

63

fear

cannot

should only make you ashamed of

yourself.

you are saying? Your French is quite famous

Besides you have translated many books
How is it you can't do this
as everyone savs.
You ought to know that those books that I translated were
simply books connected with study quite ditferent from business

What

this

is

one knows.

as every

matters hitherto

And

Supposing

ted with.

my hand

have never put

the mercantile line.

the forms in use

suddenly begin

and should make a mess of

should

it,

to

toward anything in

am

quite unacquain-

manage such things

not discredit your dis-

cernment

You speak

too modestly.

matter of a foreign

cannot trust

really

although

anguaj^e,

am

In this

it.

an outsider, yet

think that in evcM^ thini^ under the sun the one principle holds:
if

vou understand one, you understand

much

alike.

as an

excuse to decline

Everything

all.

is

pretty

Your knowledge of foreign language, deep as it is,

is it not more than enough to manage the little writing to be
done in business
And what you say about fearing that you will
not manage things quite in the proper way, is not that to be taken
Since you have been so very good to me,
ungrateful
I

am

for

your excessive kindness

afraid that

descended

shall

the atlair and

ihirif^,

It

do you discredit.

to think so well of

friend from the hank.

shall

if

feel

reallv

Most
at all

not dare

will be capital if

in this

me,

let

dare not be

matter. But really

Since you have con-

us wait

till I

have seen your

we shall have
to make myself

likely

a chat

able

tit

to

you can.

to

about

do the

decline.

So

just wait

till

you hear from

me.

LVI
How

is

the lawsuit progressing that your relative

the other fellow

has wiih

 64
Don't mention

may reckon
What is

He

it.

has run against a nail.

The

one

suit

lost.

it?

tenant in arrears with his rent, and he has

af^ainst him
Not that sort of ailair. Outside the city he has a shop with
some sixty or so chicn in all. He let this to a Cantonese to open
That was some ten years since.
a piece goods shop and store.
As there was an empty yard at the back and the storage accommodation was insufficient they wished to add a building of five
chien in the empty space.
He first told my relative plainly that
as soon as the building vas finished he would increase the rent
a little, and in the future if no business was carried on, the rule
about buildings on borrowed land not being pulled down should

brought an action

They could not pull down the buildint^s. At that time he

made no reply.
As soon as the people had built their new
premises, they gave him a few taels a month more rent. He
hold.

would not agree

to the

He

said that

and insisted on an addition of ten

let him increase the

to this

if

The people

said,

to

some other place

our business here

cannot be ordered out hy the landlord.

move, our business

This being

manager

yamen

so,

for

fixed

is

is

on

to

this

rent.

demand he

they would not settle according; to his

would make them leave and go

shop.

taels

he people would not

rent.

open

site

their

and we

Supposing we must

worth more than your house premises.

he got angry and hroui^ht an action attains: the

When

unlawful occupation of his premises.

the

the date for the hearing, the people deposed that

he had increased the rent beyond the contract and was brint;ing

Thev had
added rooms. As soon as ihc maf^istrate understood the whole
alTair from beginning to end, he said to him, these people have
built rooms, they paid you several tads extra rent ihev seem
to have acted generously as well as rii^lu.
Ymi insist upon the
pressure to bear to force them to close their business.

payment of increased
of the agreement.

unreasonable.

rent,

You
shop

which is
them

force
is

not the

increasini; the rent in excess

to

same

move, which

is still

more
and

as a d welling house,

-65

may

Avhen a business has reached a position the landlord

The shop

order the tenant to move.

is

not behind with

and vet you bring an action

for unlawful occupation

reckless charge and untrue.

You have managed

lirelv

illct^allv,

and you must go away and

arbitrate as soon as

come

to grief

And now, how

is

over

orward

someone

call in

to

affair

few days someone has stepped

last

already injured himself a good deal over

make any

is

it

make peace between them, and

to

That

this affair en-

speaking you are guilty

he thinking to settle up the

hear that within the

Strictly

not

rent,

Since things have turned out thus, don't you think

of a crime.

he has

you can.

its

think that, as he has

it,

he will not dare to

difficulty.

'

LVII
fwo davs ago

went

to the

me about

they were askini^

Chin-hua goldsmith's shop and

They said that you had not

you.

know

been there for a long time and they did not

Have you not been for some time.

It is nearly a month since I was

And
know

have not heen, and there

Thev

one should know.

are arranging

But the

fact

if

certainly cannot help

that whatever they have had

If for

knowinj^ a

hv chance some rumours of their

will suspect that

into the

have

let

it

if

little

lest

don't go

example

am

it

is

in

always

of their business,

atfairs get

out for them, and then

Yellow River and yet not be washed clean.

my

any

very secretly, fearing

is

order to avoid dislike and mistrust.

and

a reason.

it

hand, they have not kept from me, and

there

is

have been talking over starting

that lately those people

something;.

in

there.

Avhy have you not been

Between you and me

I

the reason.

abroad they
I

may jump

How

bitter

and get angry vith me

Would not it be offending people without any object
It is
better to withdraw one's self a little and avoid the recrimination
it

will

that

be to make

may

follow.

friends suspect

 66 What you sav is certainly dictated hy experience and agree

you. Some years ago a younger brother of mine simply bore
burden of someone else's fault in this vav. He was t^enerally
I

whh
the

company of a tew friends, all of whom were in otVicial

Those friends of his were enga^^ed in puttinj^ through
some affair for somebody and were afraid lest people should
know it. My brother was always vhh them and of that affair
knew perhaps a tritle, Afterwards, no one k new how, there
was some little gossip outside, and ihey suspected that it vas my
brother who had talked about it. Each one of them could not
help feeling a little annoyed and my brother had no means of
clearing himself. Only after more than a year they found out that
some other person had let out the secret, and so m v brother was
cleansed of the suspicion. But for more than a year he had
suffered their dislike for nothing.
Do vou sav that was an
in the

employ.

injury or not

It

Avas

just

because

know how to keep clear.

You should always remember that
thing which he does not wish men

heini; vouni;

everv
to

man who

know,

if

vou

would hate you more for that than if you abused him
Hence in this matter one cannot be too earful.
face.

You

are quite right

people are like

he did not
has somelet

it

out,

to his very

this.

LVIII
Some days ago, vhen I was at Tientsin, one Jay saw a great
many soldiers returning, just dismissed from the drill ground.
They all had forcif^n rifles and some one told me ihev were
the Northern I'icid 'orce.
asked him how manv there were of
I

them, and he replied that there were three Hang,

did not

Hand was, and was just going to ask him

Avhen, unluckily, another man came up and took him away so
that I could not enquire.
Do you know what is the meaning of
this term Hang
I know.
The term Hang is a ying, five hundred men. That
understand what

this

- 67 is

one of the words used

proper kuan-hua.

Those

camp and cannot he reckoned

in the

In writing

one would have

still

since thev use foreign

soldiers,

to use

ying.

undouhtcdlv

rifles, Ave re

of the Field Force.

At the present moment

in Tientsin

what are

all

the various

camps
Since the Governor General of Chihli came to Tientsin to
reside, they

have instituted the Guards and the

the Field Force called the van, rear,

left,

right

five

companies of

and centre camps.

Beside these are the Body Guard camps, the Naval, the Artillery

and the Cavalry troops.

Where

camps stationed

are the

At Sanchahok,ou,

Yaowa and

at

Chiachiatach'iaou, east of the river, a

apeiyuan, north of the river, and on both sides of

Tachihku Arsenal.

Also there

camp

a training

is

outside the

Hsingch'eng, Taku,

west gale of the citv and there are stations

at

Hsiaochan, Mach,ang Chiinliangch'eng.

All these places have

camps.
Yes.

What

systems do the companies of the riflemen and

artillerymen learn

Some learn German, some French, some English.

The arms which they use, are thev all of new pattern
Exactly all are new pattern breech loadini^ ritles and cannon.

LIX
This
It

me

a present of

Was

sword of yours

foreii;n

was not
it

bouL;ht.

is

did you buy it

Frenchman, made

really faultess

friend of mine, a

it.

while vou were abroad that vou got

it

was formerly when I was in the Secretarial Department

of the army there vas a French military oflTicer and ve were
very good friends. Just before he was goini; home to his own
It

country, he gave
that the

sword

is

me

this

sword.

jokingly quoted the saying,

given to the fierce warrior.

was not

war*

-63rior

and why should

have

present of a sword

he a laui^hint; stock to this sword

only present you vith this as a souvenir

Most

a verv first class

is

what

French friend

that

sword.

also said that

If

class

it

it

Last year

f^ood.

is

He brought home
were beautifully

had a friend who went

it

really

However
sword

Japanese sword.

that one could sec one's

must be one of the very best.

fear

not to he

is

Japan.

to

The sheath and vhat not

ornamented, and vhen one drew it out it was
a

like a mirror, so bright

thought

According

cannot be called a

yd it can be reckoned of middling quality.

had been through a battle, and had killed
vas hunt^ in one's room it would keep otX evil.

first

He

That

it

weapon,

very

men.

lauih.

nothing more/'

alihouf^h

saiJ,

Shouldn't

But he replied, don't

have no knowledge vhatevc'r of sharp weapons.

to

likclv this

it

is

not necessarily so.

looked for

in

self in

The

it.

quality of a

the ornamentation.

have

heard from a Japanese friend of mine, that there are swords of a

lew dollars value, of a few score, and of several hundreds. There
are also svords that are priceless.

few dollars

enough

to

in

price

see one's self in.

countrymen,

if

He

also said that swords of a

were also beautifully

He

also said

that

who

and

hrii^ht

even his

own

they had not studied that sort of thing, could not

thoroughly understand the fineness of a sword.

we,

up,

f^ot

are quite ignorant of the subject

quality of a sword

How

then can

Can wc recognize

the

-''

LX
Didn't vou sav once before that munitions of
bited bv Govern mcnt and
trade in them

Exactly

that

war were prohi-

merchants were nol allowed

to

thev arc really contraband articles.

So you said. Last year when I went to Chcfoo I went on

board at Tonpku. I saw there was a steamer loaded up quite
and she vas unloading at Tongku. Not
full with war material
a man did I see paying any attention to that.

-69
You do

Those things were not being smug-

not understand.

gled in by merchants, they were war materials bought by permission of the authorities and broui^ht from abroad.
I saw
landed Kriipp field guns and Armstrong field guns.
There were also long barrelled ritles and new pattern breechloading
Mauser rifles. There were also a few rifle and gun charges and

so on.

felt

our merchants were smugi^Iing in

certain that

these things.

Who would have such a "gall" as to brinp in such a lot of

You still do not realize that smuggling in contrawar material
band is a matter prohibited by regulations and a serious crime.
Whatever country the ship may belc'ng to, if it brinies in munitions
of war and is found out by the Customs, both ship and cargo are
confiscated.
If a Chinese merchant smuggles, in Avar material,
and

it

discovered, not onlv do thev contiscete the goods but

is

thev also memorialise the throne to hand the merchant over to

the

Board of Punishment

when

be severely dealt with.

to

who would he

Just think

however avariSupposing a
cious he was, to put himself into such a position
merchant dared to buy war material no ship would dare to run
the riskof carrying it for him. Therefore the smuggling of war
the rules are so strict

material

is

willing,

quite impossible.

LXI
Have heard

that there

year,

vet

abroad,

is

a very

large factory in the

North

amount of war material every

am constantly hearint; about buying weapons from

where thev manufacture

how

is

a larj^e

it

One is that there are some

for this.
war materials which China cannot make and cannot do otherwise
than purchase from abroad. The other is ihat, just now, each
There are two causes

province

is

pickini; out

men

putting of defences in order.

for irainint^

Rifles

weapons of waiiare and since there

and there

is

a general

and cannon are the

is

ellcctive

a chani;c in progress in the

-70system of training soldiers, though we

train

ihem thoroughly,

nothing w

ill

Shan si are

Now

it.

just in the

and the quantity of

system,

of

may

pick our

men and

they are not well armed, certainly

if

Honan, Shantu
and
These three

Ghihli,

mutually neighbouring provinces.

all

moment

are at this

large.

come out

yet

process of reforming their defence

and cannon they require

rifles

is

they had to depend upon the Peiyani; factory for such

If

supply of war material, there would not be enough.

Hence

the chiefs of the armies of those three provinces gel the Peiyang

Ta-Ch'cn to purchase war material for ihcm from abroad, and

it up to them.
Since there is this reason, it is evident that
a great deal must be bought.
Yes, indeed. I understand this part of it. But I wish to ask
you one thing more. I hear that the arms used in the various
camps of our provinces are all going to be changed to a uniform
pattern.
hey do not wish that one province should have weapons
of one pattern and another, another), fearing lest in time of war
send

it

will be difficult to avoid error.

You

are quite nghl.

sent up a

camps

in

Last year

Some one

heard the same.

memorial requesting that the

rifles

used in

the

all

each province should be reduced to one pattern, so as

have also heard that

vas sanc-

to avoid

failure at a crisis.

tioned.

Really what that memorialist said was wise, and

were

foreit^n rifles

all

chanf^cd to the same pattern

it

if

the

would be an

it

excellent scheme.

LXII
Has not

Whom
Your
It is

that relative of yours

sister's

very

to ask

you

to arbitrate

husband, Yao Yen-chuan.

many days

ness should he seek from

come

are you talking about

since he came.

What

arbitration busi-

me

matter between us two.

What have you between

arbitrate

you, thai he should

call

upon me

to

 71
More than two months ago he asked me

He

for him.

said he

wished

buy

to

do something

to

something; rather

little

him to his post, and

him two hundred taels,

particular to give his brother to take with

he got

me

to devise

means

to

borrow

for

At the end of the year

the interest to be about ten per cent.

when

his rents fell

gel

for

it

due he would repay.

him everywhere, and

money-lender outside the

so,

tried to

city

one fen per month lo p. c. per arm

had taken the money home I at once sent a man to ask

hundred

When

This seing

^ood deal of trouble, found

and borrowed a couple of

after a

taels for

him

at

|.

him to come and take awav the silver. But he did not come
and afterwards I asked him a good many times, but he made
one excuse and another and still did not come. The money lay
A couple of days ago he unexin my house more than a month.

me that

pectedly dropped in, and told

he had borrowed the amount

from another place and would not use

this.

said, if

you were

Now

not going to use this, you should have spoken earlier.

how

has been here more than a month, and

He

arranged

pay the

replied,

interest.

did vou not ask

that
not,

me

to

borrow

nothing to me.

He

said,

had better

j^et

vhat

wherever you mention

it

someone

-would ask you to do so.

you

He

said,

say

is
I

said, "whether

vhat vou sav

that
to

You can

vou

for

it

quite

am

settle

cannot

not used the money, but

is

it

or

utterly unreaso-

You - ill

see

said, then

you

reasonable.

in the right.

scarcely say

vou pav

and he said he

this question,

thought he most have already asked

to arbitrate.

Just think

me

You have

it

the interest to be

have not used the money and

replied.

should pay the interest.

is

nable.

is

is it

lo arbitrate

for

not plain that he

him

in

such

grieved at this worrying affair.

is

wrong"?

How

Just enquire plainly

amounts to, and will pay it.

Never mind who pavs, thai does not matter.

the interest

all

how much

not speak reasonably and that

After

can he ask

But vou need not be

a case

vou must do

as

is

hard for

little

as

man

vou can

Only he does

to hear.

for

him.

In the

72verv

what he says

place,

first

varv t;reedv after a

him

lent

this

slij^ht

money, the

not to be trusted, and he

is

advantat^e.

So that

interest beinj; a

it

is

also

matters not

who

less

little

the

than yours,

would not use

therefore he at once repudiated the bargain and

money.

LXIII
One

of the saddest things under the sun

stances of the lower cannot be

made known

is

that the circum-

By

to those above.

good crop of abuses is inevitable.

Everv prince loves the people like children, and fears lest they
suffer without the Court knowing it and its kindness cannot reach

the lapse of time the growth of a

the people.

Therefore the granting of free speech

know

getting to

common

the state of the

the things which concern the people,

memorial and some cannot.

Censors mav be,

The

Avhere.

it is

vet, after all, their

among

When

soon as heard.

public spirited and uprii^ht men.

They

come

The

to think

Those

in.

f^reat

or small,

editors arc a

bodv of

"Whatever happens, ihev write.

respect no one, nor do they fear any one's influence.

those placed

over men,

the bad of each place.

at
I

in a

the masses the

one comes

here that the advantages ofa newspaper

as

of

eves and ears cannot be everv-

actual conditions prevailint^

news printed

way

some can be embodied

matters which are recorded in the papers, vhether

arc

the

Moreover, however numerous the

Court cannot know very completely.

of it,

is

Unhappily, of

people.

one

t^lance,

can

know

hear that y(air Court has

the

And

good and

now ordered

the Governors (Icncral and (jovcrnors of each province to fonvard

to

Peking

This

is

for the

really a

Kmpcror,

wav

ditferent places every

interior,

all

to reform.

the papers of their

I

the

Hmperor

own

districts.

sees the papers of

day, not only the stale of things in the

and the pleasures and hardships of the hamlets, may he

completely known,

Init

also the political strength and

weakness

of the different states (" the world, the failure of their govern-

ments, and the conditions of education, agriculture, labour and

trade

in all countries.

Though one may be immured within

the

-73

Palace, yet the conditions of the whole world

may be

seen as

palm of the hand. Therefore newspapers

matters of very great benefit, and in my opinion no one from
Emperor to the meanest subject, should fail to read the papers.

easily as if lying in the

are
the

LXIV
hear you are going away, have you some business

Exactly.

have some business.

Where are you going

I am going to Foochow.
The

reason

is

that

have a verv dear

Foochow, opened a ship chandlers chop

for supplying both steamers and sailing ships with all they require
in the way of food.
It is now some years since he began business.
However he is in want of a man for his shop and, knowing that I
know a little English, and have had some years' experience in
business, he has written inviting me to come and help him in his
business. As I am at home doing nothing I am thinking of going.
I shall gain experience.
That is never a had thing.
You go out and gain experience that is excellent. Only I
friend

who,

in the port of

have a few Avords of important advice to give you.

the

i^eneral

extravagance
individual

is

morality
is

terrible.

poor or

want the very

best,

It

makes no

rich, in food,

and

they hold, looks well.

poor.

open ports

at the

is

At present

The

not very good.

difference

whether the

drink and clothing thev

like to play the

man

Suppose the case of

of -wealth.
a

man

all

This,

originally

At the ports he becomes tinged with extravagant habits,

and even

fori^ets

entirely

that he ever bore the seal of poverty.

Houses of entertainment quite replace the everyday home life.

Eating, drinkini^, prostitution and gambling are the usual forms
of friends' hospitality.

who

also catch these

customs.

This

is

habits.

worst in the circle of business

They do

men

not keep to old merchant

Without the vealth of the rich merchants thev vish to

away money. Lacking the business

imitate their habits of Hinging

capacit y of the rich traders they wish to copy their display.

'

One

 74
way and another

own

their

nowhere
and decoy. There

poor

Aviih

They become verv

business loses.

and presentlv devise means to entrap

nothing ihey will not do. By and bv ihcy

to turn,
is

themselves perceive they have no

fool-hold whatever.

What

having no resource, they can only abscond.

come

What do you think of this slate of

And therefore, when you go
own original simplicity. Do not let yourself

no one can

to

things

Is

it

tell.

be leared or not

to

away, keep you r

Keep

be tinned with those habits of extravagance.

three <)r perhaps,

after

vou r own

The
in

my

live

his

village.

instruction that

heart.

Then,

ihev linallv

an important

is

in

mind

that

years, you will be able to return lo

thini^.

you have given me

certainly dare not forget

will dilit^enily

record

it.

LXV
have enquired o f

Why
The

not buy
price

condition.
the idea

is

l)uy

you wished

it.

it

hear

is

Only

verv cheap.

in

it

iherc

is

a dinicull

The shop owes a lot () munev to dilYerent people and

that any one who wishes lo buy the shop, in addition

to the selling price,

which he wants

responsible for one half

of'

ready money, must become

in

This condition being

the debts.

sell forthwith.

he will

tisfied

friend aboiu thai business

But vou may not

to Iniv.

Because there

is

this reason,

sa-

he has

made the price very small so that there may he some one willint;
to become responsible lor him for the payments of tlie dcbls.
J)o you think now that there is ihis troublesome mailer attache J
to the business, that

The
for the

make
I

aflair

you

vill

buy

simplv stands thus

it?
:

if

the ready

money

rc-quireJ

purchase and the responsibility for debts, added lugclher,

the price really low

may bu y

it.

think since he has brout^hi out this son of dodge that he has

already

made

pood reckoning which will be certainly suitable

which will decidedly nol be any bargain for us.

a very

to himself, but

-75
There

also another point.

is

matter

If the

think, your shop, even before

just

and what not.

this lot of creditors

good reputation

This

Some

for the business.

taken up the debts of the old business.

think that

ill

v(->u

a character

What

all

no good name nor

is

will know that you have

Some, who do not know,

have opened the business vith money 'pulled

and borrowed

out east,

settled in this \vay,

is

has opened, will have

it

What

\vest\

is

the use of getting such

is

the excellent position of

without any reason

real

\'

am scheming

after

the shop.

Though vou may scheme

(]ertainl\' the position is faultless.

good position

after the

ad vantages,

it

is

are certain dis-

it,

not wholly convenient.

Well ve must look into

sing and

connected wiih

vet, if

and not advantages, we have onlv

an end to it.

after discus-

If in the future,

this.

should turn out

calculating:, there

drop

to

be disadvantages

lo

and

it

there

Avill

be

LXVI
YesterJay
for

re

1 1

Wang

Fcng-t'ing engaged you to dine with him

he,

some means of makin"' monev l

He was talking about forming a company,

talked over with vou

You have guessed it.

I'.orming a company
What business is he about to star"
ne savs he has alread v become responsible for two coal
mines.

he coal in thcin

is

holh plentiful ana good.

He

says

and intends to
divide this business into icn shares, each of three hundred taels,
the Ten sha res makinj^' three ihoiisan d taels capital.
\\ verv vear
lie

has

already ^ot the certificates

nn nmUini^ up ihc accou nts, the

divided amont; the shares,

profits

is

think to take

to be

think

made

lie himself will lake

and the rem ainint^ ei^lM he has told

And w hal uo vou

rit;ht

all

it

cmmsel with

mc

to find

in voiir

niv

will

be equally

up two shares

purchasers

friends

and then sec what

done.

Naturally

uu are yoing

lo lake

fur.

mvn mind

up one of iho shares

 76Is

great

and
that

necessary to say so?

it

cheat.

the profits

all

now no one

Now

business.

company
his
To

went

to

him and

And

affair.

way

in the

He may

really

must.

is

the losses to the other, so

willing to go with

him

in

he has been talking with you about this share

he says he has taken up two shares himself.

By and by whatever

of fees and taxes, and the

Avill

pretend that he

even the cost

m onev

there

is

lor the pur-

money of you people

owner of two shares, but
of one share he will not pay up, and vet, hy

chase of tools and so on he

for.

all

of his old friends

only a means to cheat you.

is

pay

Of course

you something. That Wang Feni^-t'inp is a very

At first he vas a partner with a man in business

vill tell

is

use the

the

and by, Avhen the accounts are made np, if there is a gain, he
will get two shares of that.
But if there is a loss, that will fall
upon you others. If vou do not believe mc, keep a careful lookout and

certainly

it

Avill

not dilfer from what

have said.

LXVII
Those things that Ave re stolen from your shop have you
managed to get any clue to the affair

No

clue as yet.

How

did the thief pet in

was by our small back yard he prised open the window

of the counting house and got in that way.
It

What about
Very

insensibla.
in the

the assistants

likely the thief

If not,

morning had

Quite

so.

It is

All asleep

used some anaesthetic and made them

how was
a little

it

that

all

of them

when

they got up

headache

certain they were cirut^i^ed.

What vas lost altogether

They twisted off the safe lock and took out more than fifty
They also took two bundles of clothing belonging to the
taels.
shopmen and a few strings of ready money iliat were under the
table.

 77
Did you

tell

the Magistrate at the time

Early next day

drew out

a list of things

lost

and called

the Tipao to report the affair to the Magistrate.

When did the Magistrate come to make his search

The same day at noon the Magistrate and the police officials came together to search.
As soon as that was done they
returned to the

Yamen and

sent four policemen, giving

them ten

days Avithin vhich they were to arrest the thieves.

How many days have elapsed

Today nine days have gone by. The time expires tomorrow.
Yesterday two of the policemen came to beg me not to hand in
hey said they had sent many men to
the request to hasten.
and that they had sent even into the neighbourcertainly bring on the case before
long.
them that I would give them ten days more when
I told
they would have to produce both the thieves and the stolen pro-

trace out this case

ing

district.

They would

row with the gentlemen in the office.

and the things together
made up a loss of two hundred taels. Nor was this excessive.
The office employes estimated the loss at one hundred. I said
that since the silver amonted to fifty taels and more, the remainder, clothing and so forth, wasn't it hard to say "was only worth

perty.

My

Yesterday

had

original statement Avas that the silver

you need not reckon it at much

and get back
the original stolen property, then whether you assess it at
much or little, I shall agree. If any thing is missing then what
reported as so much, is so much. With this I came home again.
What do you say
Was it annoying or not.
a

few half scores of taels

or

All that

little.

is

said,

required

is

to arrest the thieves

When
ing in

they value the lost property low,

estimate from the owner

it is

not from differ-

they do so with the idea ot

shielding their superior from blame.

LXVIII
Just lately hereabout they have been terribly strict.

All thv

 78pamblinp saloons, great and small,

and outside the

have been shut up

in the citv

opium dens have been

of thieving and rohhery about

there been a lot

Has

closed.

citv several

have heard of three places having been plu ndcred.

davs ago they took

couple of thieves from

and another from an opium den omside the

Do you

city.

few

saloun

a t^amblint^

ihink

opium divans and the saloons will not shut up?

Opium- shop keeping and pamblinj^don't understand.

that the
I

saloon running; are brah

illegal businesses, arc

Really they are illegal

For

d()

they not

not permit them to open.

Local authorities do noi

arc always open.

that they

all

they

stop them, do they

Under common conditions, when

they open on the

because the

sly,

there

is

no trouble about,

Jo not

oflicials

keep

strictly

them down.
he reason is, that a large number of poor people
depend upon opium dens and pamhling saloons for a livelihood
and so they cannot but shut their e\ es to them a little. But if
any robberies occur

may

places

neii^hbourhood, they fear that these

in the

serve as hidint^ places lor oHendcrs or booty, and

they cannot do otherwise than

What you
people

at

say has a

lot

make them

who

the gambling saloons

place here

is

under

sanction.

official

up.

nt (Mice slint

of sense in

But

it.

said

have seen
our

folks openlv,

to

What

rii^hi

had ihcy

to say

that? Not havinf^ official sanction, would they dare say such a

thing outside
If

they said they had

They wanted
the

first

official

sanction

it

was decidedly not so.

and ihey meant, in

that sort of thinf; said miisi Jc,

place to

let

intending gamblers

being sanctioned, ihcy

niii;ht {^o

know

from anxiety, certain thai ihcrc would he

n()

alarm of

rumour to
saloon was not

the second place, thcv wanted the

the bIackf;uarJs
to speak,

inp

us

wanted
or

know

thai that

to sav to

accusing

i^et

a raid.

illct^al.

In

to

Id

They

so

abroad

ihcm. ''Don't you reckon upon squecz-

us."

That vas

jcally prohibited very siricily and

break ihc regulations and

that their place,

there and play wiih a heart free

let

their

idea.

how dare

ihcm gamble

( ambling

is

the local officials

 79 LXIX
am

you. Sir, that just

TO tell

the roads are not safe,

that

and soldiers

oflicers

robbers.

to live

now

the

manager

told

me

and the General has sent mi lira rv

in

the towns lo search

all

Orders have been given

to

each

out the

inn not to allow anv

morning. Thereyou think of Icavint^, the inn

travellers' carts to leave before daylif^ht in the

tomorrow

fore

people
if

we

I. ieu

the time

at three,

he manager savs that

not dare lo open the gates.

Avill

we may

really Avish to start so early,

ten ant-Colonel

and

if

ask you, Sir, to see the

he vill consent the inn

mav

be opened

to let us go.

Where does

the Colonel live

Just across the road, in the T'ungt'ai Inn opposite.

Then
call

get

one of

my

cards and

follow

me

to the inn.

will

on the Colonel.
Yes.
I

am

troubling you.

Whom

are

In this inn

you looking
is livinij;

His surname

vho

has

come

is

for

Licuten ant-(".ulonel

Chou.

is

This gentleman
P'ing

What

wliat

is

he called

business have vou with him

the Japanese interp rctcr ivom I^eking,

to call

upon

(Colonel (:h(ui.

Be so good

r.

as

to take in this card.

Wait here

niomeni.

will

go up and b ring vou word.

Thanks,

Chou Laoyeh begs

P'ing Laoyeh to

come

in

and

sit

doun.

Are you Chou Laoyeh Sir

,

How

dare

My name

Laoyeh
I

dare not.

Please be seated.

You

sit,

When

please.

did you arrive here

Just now.

is

Chou.

Vou,

Sir,

are

F'ing

 80
What

inn are you staying at?

At the inn opposite, the Wanho.

Where are you going
And where are you from

am from

our

Kungkuan

Peking.

in

am

going to Ne\T-

chwang

come to see you because I have been sent to NewI have

chwang on business of some importance. I must get away tomorrow morning at three, and just now the inn people told me the
orders are that before daybreak in the morning no traveller

allowed to

start.

inn people that

Hence I have come to request you to

tomorrow at three they can let my carts

tell

is

the

out.

very greatly obliged.

shall be

now

Just

the roads are not very safe,

and therefore we cannot

allow travellers' carts to start early for fear of some mishap on

But as you have some important

the road.

hand and want

a

moment

to get on,

Avhat

is

the best

vhy
way

to settle

business in

official

vhat can we do
it.

Let

will see

me

think

you pre-

sently in your inn.

am

We

really

will see

much

obliged, and

vill take

my

leave.

each other soon.

LXX
P'ing Laoych, Chou Ta Laoyeh has come.
Ask him in.
Have you eaten, Sir
Thank you I have.
have troubled vou to cross over to me.
That's nothing. As to that atTair of yours we were talking
I

over just now, will you listen while

The

last

very good order.

vellers

give you a few details

few winters the roads outside the wall have not been in

Mounted robbers have been plundering

and therefore, on the

a few soldiers to live in the towns and catch them.

He

given

f^ates

orders to the innkeepers not to permit the

opened before daybreak

to

tra-

arrival of winter, the General sends

has also
to be

allow travellers to continue their

-81journey.

nience
since

it

not that he wishes to put any one to inconve-

It

is

is

really with the idea of protecting people.

you have been sent on

must get on

early,

am

otHcial

thinking that tomorrow

men

send a couple of subalterns with twenty

Beside that

light.

have written a

Howevej

business of importance and

letter

as a

three

at

guard

which you

with you and tomorrow evening on arrival

will

till

day-

Avill

take

end of your

at the

and when you have got your inn, vou may take the letter
on duty at the town and he vill also send a
guard.
At each stage you can act in the same way and I will
stage,

and

visit the officer

i^uarantee

you

Newchwang

will reach

and

safely,

will certainly

not be disturbed.

Really you are very kind.

am

sorry to put you to so

much

trouble.

This

That's nothing.

How
at

my

we

is

only

mv

Since you are here

duty.
I

would trouble you

To look

passport.

Yes.
this

dare

This

and the

passport from the Tsungli Yamen, and with

is a

letter

Avill

give you, you will be perfectly safe.

shall see each other again

tomorrow

Really you are very kind

It's

Then

early.

thank you.

not worth thanking for

LXXI
Arc you

just ofT a trip into Chihli

Exactly.
I

have come hack froni Tientsin.

have been doing business these

country and do not

Since

vou have

know

just returned,

last

much about

very
I

few vcars
ihini^s

in

vour

overe there.

should like to ask about

lew

matters.

What do vou vish

I

to

enquire about

Anything:; that

know

will tell you.

Good.

bep

to

knoAv

how

the

railway and mines in the

north of our country arc inciting along.

Do you know

82

k now something . hunt these nvo thinj^s.

Just now vonr
countrvmen are constructing; lines and openi ni; up mines these
two a Hairs are rcall v m(i\'ii\g.
will first tell vou about the
I

raihvav.

The

long

and that

af^o

Up

vear.

from Tientsin

line

Iroin

be

mercantile

As

it.

There

iMoho are heini;

ma nailed

excellently

Since raihvav and mining business

is

everv dav, the (jovern ment, fcarini^

mav

lack

issued an

KiJict

at Pckini^

for

f:i

rise to

vint;

that a Hairs will be ihoroui^hK'

only hope

is

for

of

Kaiping an

the provincial methods

mav

d He r
i

tVom

incon venience and deadlocks,

a Central

and railways.

way

this ihev will

this is the

Bureau

They have

mining and railroad

and properly looked

from

that

and extend the railways,

at

to

and are succeeding well.

lest

the control of mines

to control

rom
is

growing more important

Havin<^ arrant;ed things in this

provinces.

likelihood

little

tew davs since establishing^

deputed two ministers

MV

some

unifm'mitv, and that ihcir regulations

each other, thence

all

is

hear that the two mines

a line

hear that the Lu-han lino

iin dcrlakini;.

mines,

to the

Shanhaikuan was completed

Tientsin was finished last

INmv thev are arranging; for

Talingho and

to

to

present thev have just completed the line from

to the

Tientsin to Liikouch'iao.

Shanhaikuan

to

l^'kin;^

it

alfairs for
is

evident

after.

develop the mines

mainstay of wcalih and

LXXII
It

is

saiiJ"

Man can impuvc

ronment can impr(>e

terchan^^clh with ihc d iv land."

statements,

it

is

found

it

was

one

jiisl

wordi

card'tillv

mcniionini;.

there was a siaiio n there,

it

examines these

Let us take for an

inside the port ofl alui in Chihli.

rustic villai^e

vini^

on the bank of

a river,

There were no
After the railway was built and
beyan to shew signs of some little

with a few fishermen and farmers as

shops

environment, and his envisayii^u is " The ocean in-

ilicv arc rcall v true.

example the port of Ton^kii,

Originally

his

m ;in. "-Another

in habitants.

- 83 The last few vears, since the river has shoaled, from
ongku upwards, bevond the reach of ordinary measu res, and
dredging has become so difficult, steamers have been unable to
activity.

reach Tzuchulin near Tientsin, and ihey discharge their cargo at

Tongku, Avhence it is conveved to Tientsin either bv small steamers
or bv rail. When this began, foreign merchants built jetties at
Tongku and the general aspect of the place began to change.
Many Chinese merchants built godowns there, and there were
some who set up shops. All at o nee it developed into a fine busy
market town. Formerly the roads there were not very good
when it was rainv weaiher the slush made it hard to move. Now
the roads have

opened

large

and very clean.

and

at

been repaired.

all

Lately

enterprises, steamers

One may

see from this that the

and railways, can

therefore they cannot be done vihout at

case of a

Kor

hear a Chinese has

Native and foreign refreshments are both sold,

reasonable rates.

This

with large convenient rooms

restaurant there,

really develop places

all.

indeed correct, and vou ought to see

is

man, ve

a long time a

two

and

that, as in the

talk of his fate, so places have a fate as well.

man

is

quite undistinguished.

luck comes and not only does he

even fame and general respect.

'gain

Suddenly the

wealth and honour, but

Nothint^

is

wantini^.

Places are

There is a place which nobodv mentions. Suddenly

luck comes round and ihint^s begin lo stir.
In a few years it

the same.

becomes
man's

famous and most prosperous

fate

and the

late of a place

spot.

have a good deal

It

proves that

in

common.

LXXHI
The other day

heard that in your Peking they had already

received an

Imperial Rescript to establish an IJniversiiv

do not know

if

it

but

J.

already has heea appoinled a Tach'cn to control

or not.

Lately

appointed

heard iVoni

G rand

a friend lhal

our Cjovcrn nieni had already

Secretary lo conirol educational matters.

 84
The

official

certainly have

appointed to control educational matters will

That one need not

a lot to do.

President of the University

own

be one of our
ancient lore,

learning, a

look up

and

respect, and

man of attainments is
What you say is quite true.
of universal learning,

one that

fit

to

all

men

to the post.

Where can

they find such a

undertake the post? That friend

He

said that the high official

He

charge had recommended one of the ministers abroad.

He

will

think

not easy at once to tind.

of mine also mentioned this point.

in

he

He must

the task.

to

would he equal

In that case he

this sort of

man

If

scholarship, be well up in western

man commanding

to.

unequal

fear he will be

Further the

say.

not be easy to select.

will

scholars of great learning, well versed in

high in position

stand

it

is

was
an excellent scholar, who understood present day affairs, was
upright and of general respect. He asked the government to
a Vice President of a Board.

said that that Vice President

appoint the Vice President to the Presidentship of the University.

I

hear that the government has

Unhappily he

is

still

sanctioned the

abroad and cannot return

appointment.
he

at once.

appointment of President cannot remain vacant and therefore the

Tach'en in charge had to request permission to act in the double
capacity and look after the President's work.

Since there

is

that

is

of j^ood man filling the

may be expected to advance by

this sort

chair then education

President's
strides,

and

a matter for rejoicing.

LXXIV
Yesterday that ship Avhich entered
but had a

What
a

lot
is

of passengers.
this

indeed

Was

Why

it

the ship that

very large cargo, hut there were not

thirty or so.

Look

at the

hear hadn't

passengers, only

jelly there

there a

a little

cargo,

came yesterday had

many

stud piled up on the

good deal
That certainly looks not

much

so

really

it

is

like a hill.

son't

- 85 That

is

other half

onlv the remainder, about half, of her cargo.

is

Now

godown

the

in

The

do you think the cargo was

small

What vas it all

Of manv kinds

opium, medicines,

seaweed, timber, matches, needles and a

When

vou think

it

The amount brought

it

in

may

good

understand.

it

all

deal.

How

well be called large.

the report got about that the cargo

Now

piece goods, paper,

of factory machinery.

took two days and a half on end to get

vou may know there was

out,

tea,
lot

was

was not much

There was some reason for the report.

Yesterday there was a ship going out carrying nothing but sheep's
wool, strawbraid, raw cotton and, beside, some

fresh fruit.

little

was not large. Her passengers, however, were

not a few.
Every bit of cabin accommodation, first, second and
ihird class was entirely filled.
The worst was that those who
had tickets but went aboard late were not able to find places.
Thereupon one and another began quarrelling and shouting. As
the lime that this ship was going out was just when the other
was coming in, the tvo Ave re there together, and so the
erroneous report got about. As to the storv that the incoming
steamer had little cargo and manv passengers, the fact is the
What do
out-f;iunt^ ship had manv passengers and little cargo.
you think
Haven't
guessed right
Her cargo

really

Quite right

Yuu guessed much

to the point.

LXXV
1

have heard

that there

is

gold mine

at

Jehol

in

your

country and that a few years ago the Superintendent of Northern

Trade sent a Deputv

k now

how

it

is

(>uite right.

goint^

to

form a company

to

work

it.

do not

now.

That was

six

or seven years since.

The Su-

perintendent sent a Wciviian to open up mines in four places,

Pingch'uanchou, Ch'iench'anghsienj Chaovanghsien and Ch'ih8

- 8G fonghsien,

all

They formed

Jehol.

in

When

a bureau.

tablished

company and

mines were

the

first

account of the hardness of the stone, and the scarcity of

and also because the expenses were loo heavy,

out as was expected.

was not

It

apse of four or

after the

Alter that the

division.

amount of

i^old,

did not turn

it

an immediate success. But

at all

five years,

es-

opened, on

there was a

royalty

was

little

settled.

profit

Just

for

al'ier

mine people established a

Jcvclop the mines there.
The seams there were thin and cropped out on ihe surface at
Nor was there loo much water. So the works
di lie rent places.
were carried on rather more easily. Last year, at the end of the
had been decided upon, the

this

sub-bureau

vcar,

at

Jungpi'ngfoo an J be an

heard there vas a little dividend

that the bureau

to

to J cola rc.

Ch'ienanhsien has ' nt hold of

at

have also heard

gold mine and

has been putting out more and more gold every day

lately

The

shareholders in those other mines have had no dividends fur some

But

vcars.

lately

people say thai ihc tnireau has invited the

come forward for their dividends. It has been

summer to establish a (:hien-l)iny pay-office in the
China Merchants' Steamship Company at Tientsin,

shareholders to

decided this
otliccs of the

one

at

Shanghai,

in

the

Paoyuanhsiang long, and another at

(:<>' in Hongkong.
These three
I

The offices of the C. M. S. N.

oiliccs are for \hc

about,

is

it

Ry

Yes.

mining
I

at

pavnicnt of dividends.

Since such reports are

certain that ihc t^old mines are on

he boom.

the way, do ihey use foreign or native

methods of

Jchol

hear they use the native mclliods.

Why
You

do ihcy run use

shall hear.

expensive, and
loss he

the gold

still

more

is quite?

right.

even

This

if

I'orcit^n

mclhoJs of

(^pcninj;

Koreign methods, thmi;h

is

cH'cclive, are very

not very plentiful,

terrible

would not ihc

'

LXXVI
I

hear that this year

at

sonu place

in the south, there is a lot

- 87 Not long ago, on two consecutive nights, half a

more houses were plundered and a great deal of property
also heard that the vatch came out to seizethe thieves,
lost.
I
but as the few could not withstand the many, it came about that
After taking him some
the thieves dragged olT one of the watch.
of robbery.

score and

seven or eight

How

is it

li

they

let

that there

him
is

go.

so

much robbery

there

There are two reasons for so much robbery in that place. One
reason is that the unemployed and idle rapscallions are very numerous. These men have no occupation to follow, and yet must
eat

and be clothed.

But where

thev get very hard up,

at

night

is

the

money

they do a

houses

people's

to

first

and

unconsidered

which they

trilles,

As they

dissipation.

get

sell

presently, eight or ten of then meet in

in the night

This

spirit is

sums

to

spend

so they get bolder,

some

There

it.

The gambling

another reason.

is

in
till

particular spot and

go to the house of some rich person and plunder

really rohbery.

is

or jumping

holes,

head ornaments and

for small

nore rowdy,

When

come from

petty thieving, going

making

stealing articles of clothing,

over walls,

to

little

very strong in the place, the wealthier people are fond

of plav and the pour people are also fond of play.

In

What

gambling

after all

one gains but few times and loses many.

with losing here and dropping there, a rich

poor and the poor

licials in

man becomes

a robber.

man becomes

Hence

the local of-

dealing with local administration, should before anything

prohibit play.

If

thev can only stop the gambling

why

mania robbery

you wish to purge

out robbery, first you should prohibit gambling. That saying
indeed is not wrong.
This

will diminish.

What you
ling certainly

say

ought

is

is

the ancients said,

really to the point.

In

to be strictly prohibited.

people lose excessively then,

if

if

my

opinion,

gamb-

Presupposinj^ that

they do not d rift into rohhcry,

pawning wives and selling children are inevitable. This is a

mailer of great consequence to human lies and general morality.

-83

LXXVII
You have brought up
you something.
south.

He

the subject of robbers and

-will

tcll

Last year a friend of mine returned trom

ilic

said there

was

a place

where there was

a ferry hoai.

This day a large number of passengers had already taken passages

when,

just as ihe boat

men came on

board.

was about

The

to start,

suddenly seven or

eif^ht

ferry-boat people seeing such a mint her

were not over pleased, and began to question them, what ihcv
were about and where thev vere going. Anionj; them were two

who

said ''What

Don't vou recognise us

here and used to take passaj^e on this boat.

We two were tradinj;

We used to joke

Do y('u not
It is only a few months since ve met.
remember us
Then he pointed at a carter named Tuwii who
was in the boat and said "That Mr. Carter there wc used to kncnv
well enough.
The carter, Tuvii just said a word. '*Kxactly.
W'e know each other',. Then the ferry boat people seemed to look
as if they knew them before, ond said '^Excuse us Really oi\ r eyes
were dull." And so the boat started. Aa soon as it reached the
middle of the stream, these seven or eii^ht men siiJdenlv pnlleJ
out pistols and pointinj^ them at the people on the boat cried, "If
anv one moves he will be at once shot Jcad/' The folks on the
with vou.

boat were terribly frij^htened, and dared not say a Avord.

men

then quickly put the boat alongside the hank and then

half dozen iiiore

came aboarJ. They set to work and plundered

The carter, Tvnvu, who was on the

the people on the boat.

all

l)oat seeing things go af^ley,

f^ot

of

1 he

some

ihc)iif;ht

he avouKI he implicated and

ashore as quick as he could and look to his heels.

how can one he prepared

it

against such pirates

Just think

when

it

is

never certain in what form thev will appear

LXXVIII
A

few davs apo the Canton store

Yuho

laiJ a plaint

apainst

the Building-yard Lunglisinjj, that in the mailer of a cuniracl lo

-89
there were differences between the original plans

build a house

There had also been some skimping of

I
do not know how that case has been

and the work done.

labour and material.
decided.

with regard to that case a couple of days since

Just so

heard the

office

people in the Hsien's

yamen

and they thought

had had two hearings,

it

saying, that the case

could not be settled

out of hand.

What
The

is

first

the point involved

time the case came on, they

summoned Manager

of the Building-yard and the magistrate asked

contracted to build a house, they had not constructed

to the original

He

it

according

stated that this undertak-

a contract between him and the Yuho store.

Chu Yu-heng, who had undertaken it and had

was not under

ing
It

contract and drawings.

Chia,

him why, having

was

his cousin,

also put his

name

His cousin was manager of the

to the contract.

Tashunte Building-yard and the drawings had been made by that

firm. But because his brother, Chu Yu-heng, after having undertaken the work, had suddenly gone to

work over

business, he had handed the

heng had given him

accordingly.

As

a drawing;

to the

drawing; or

firm,

to

po away

whether

know

he did not

not,

Manager Chia

told him to
made between

and

contract

Yu-heng and the Yuho

Foochow on important
to him to do.
Chu Yu-

and

this

at all.

at the

build the house

his brother

was the

Chu

original

The magistrate

told

next hearing bring the

them in. When the case came on the second

Manager Chia handed in the drawings and the manager of
Yuho firm was called and told to see whether those drawings

drawini^s and put

time.
the

were the originals or not.

He

said these were not the original

drawings, that they diOered somewhat from them.

they

summoned Wang

and questioned him.

with the

Yuho

This being

so,

Feng-ch'i, an employe in the Tashunte yard,

Wang

Feng-ch'i stated this undertaking

firm had been arranged by their

manager Chu

Yu-heng, and whatever contract or drawings might have been,

as also the

matter of passing on the contract to the

Lunghsing

90

knew nolhinp whatever

he

Ruildinp-yard,

about.

I'p to the

present they had received in the yard neither contract nor plans.

He also said that Chu Yu-heng would be back in a couple of

months more and begged a postponement for two monihs so that
( hu Yu-heng mit;ht return and then the truth would appear.
Under these circumstances the mai^istrate ordered that Manat^er
Chi a should first give a security to come up when summoned.
So at present work is at a standstill and the case is in suspense
till Chu Yu-heng returns, when it can be gone into.

LXXIX
Two months

ago we heard thai they were about

dredge out

to

Haiho Peiho at Tientsin. They said

that the Peivang Ta-ch'en had already sent up a memorial.
But
1 do not know if there has been any more news of it.
the shoal places in the

Somebody said that the

Precisely.
I too heard this report.
Boards of Revenue and Works had already reported on the project

and received the Imperial sanction. However the estimaicd

is tvo hundred and tifiv thousand laels of

cost of the dredging

As

silver.

to this,

one hundred thousand

tacls arc to

come from

the Board of Revenue, and the remainder, one hundred and

from outside sources.

thousand,

Report says thai

it

is

fifty

to

be

drawn from the steamers on the river and ihcv have decided lo
collect two per cent on the value of all i^oods from the tirsi of
August this year. <'urther they have settled to cni^aj^e some one
with experience in Customs matters to superintend the collection.
As to Chinese merchant's goods they will depute a special Wciyiian to look

after the collection.

settled in this

way.

wonder

if

that tax

is

to last

Report says that

for a limited

it

has been

num bcr

of years

or not.

They say
soon as the

However

it

has been settled to continue for twelve years.

limit ot time

do not know

shall

arrive the

if this is

collection

true or not.

A%

will cease.

- 91
Whether this is true or not dare not say for certain hut
anyhow there cannot be no basis for this report.
What shall we say indeed
I only wish this may prove true.
From the time the Haiho bet^an to shoal, not only has it been
I

inconvenient

for

the

steamers to land and

various

dischari^e

cargo but even passengers embarking and disembarking have been

many

put to trouble and expense, and

inconveniences.

once properly dredged out steamers can come right up

chulin

That

jetty.

will be a great

If

to

it is

Tzu-

convenience.

LXXX
I

hear that in your office thev will soon draw out

recommendations

Is the

a list

of

promotions.

This year

Precisely.
offices are

for

year

the

is

when

our telej^raph

all

allowed to pequest rewards.

memorial requesting rewards sent up by the Tsunt;li

Yamen
No

according

Tach'en

to arranL;e.

to the

From what Telegraph

general

rule

it

stations are the

belongs to the Pcivang

requests to go in this

time

From

the Telegraph offices in the capital, Shanghai, Paotiiii^fu

Taiyiianfu in Shansi, Singanfu in Shensi, and

According to the regulations

mendations allowed

By

the original

ih ree years they

What

is

in

in

Kansu.

years are recom-

regulations as reported to the Throne, e \ erv

may recommend

once.

month

the most likely

for the list of

Always during the third moon.

that in making out this
I think

recommended among

recomnienda-

up

lions for this year to be sent

Why, what

Lanchou

how many

list

you

will

certainly he

the best.

service have

The other day during

I,

all

thai

may he

ihc hu rry

well

recommended

and turmoil of the war,

- 92 the

all

movements of troops and requests

w hole

for supplies, the

of the telegraphic edicts and memorials were sent as messages to

and

At thai lime

along the telci^raph wires.

fro

all

the

empUn^cs

day and night, were kept

telegraph offices,

in the various
If a

telegram came they dared not delay

this

reckoned

as service for

Although

in

it

momeni.

at

Is

it.

not

everybody

when on duty we dare not delay

we ou ' ht to do, but since there are

ordinary limes

things, yet that

only Avhat

is

regulations for requesting rewards the hit;her authorities do not

wish
as

far

as

the office.

experience

any other way than according

in

am concerned
Those who are

simply follow

This speech of yours

in

is

Where

many.
the

in

simply get

then could they

crowd and

if

some

gel

it.

too modest.

he

last

time didn';

recommendation

get a

Yes

However

to rule.

only a telegraphic apprentice

higher in rank than myself and whose

recommendation, well,

little

am

greater are a good

is

me?

propose

you

Bui they cannot recommend

to lose sight of ihat little merit.

rewards

for

time

last

What

got one.

did you get last time

Last time

Then

got an Expectant Sub-district Deputy Magistrate

may be recommended

time you certainly

this

for the

rank of District Mat^istratc.

How

can

it

recommended
will

This time

be

tor

if

can pass over a class and gei

an Expectant Assistant District Magistrate that

do very well.

And

the

There

is

number of recommendations,
a limit

mended should
tional services

Yes.

be twenty four, of

and

Then

is

there any limit to

according to precedent.

fifteen for

after all

whom

nine

ordinary services.

wc must

just

patch from the Board of Riles, and

wail the arrival of a des-

then wc shall

gratulate you.
I

take advantge of

all

it?

The total recommay be for excep-

your auspicious words.

have

lo

con-

-93LXXXI
Are vou back from Kirin ihis time ?
have come back from Kengi'ien.

This time

you not go

In the spring of this year did

Precisely.

was awav
I

was

It

Kirin that

to

Then

a few davs.

as beTore

to Kirin

made an

official

trip.

returned to Kengt'ien.

have been hearing lately about the

colonising

all'air

in

Sanch'akVm in Kirin. Lately they have revised the regulations.

vou know if there is an yihing of the kind
There is something of the kind. When I went there ihcy
had

up the new

just settled

What

is

This

matter

colonising

rules.

the general drift of the regulations

Sub-Bureau

must

tell

vou from the beginning. When

Bureau and a

began, thev established a Central

first

connected with

matters

control

to

Latel V the vearlv receipts from the land tax

up have been

for the

insufficient

However now they have gone

are three

sources of profit.

the

This

soil.

is

expenses of the two bureaux.

into the matter

The

mainlv grain.

colonisation.

on the lands opened

first

The

is

last

and find that there

from the produce

ot*

few years merchants

commonly coverllv bu ving it, anu taking it over the

Nor has there been anv means of stopping this.
Now h V the new rules thev lew a measure tax and permit ihe
merchants to purchase rice for transport over the frontier. The
second possible source of gain is that as the place produces much
pain merchants commonly make wine illicillv from the grain.
This also is a ihint^ impossible for the authorities to stop. By
the present new ret^iilations if anv one wishes to set up a still to
make wine he declares his intention, receives a licence to distil
and pavs a vearlv tax. The third source of prortt is that, hhht'ru),
have been

frontier to sell.

the miscellaneous

Now
This
thf'ee

hv the
is

the

new

products of the country have paid no lilin.

rules

general

all

sorts

tenor of the

sources of income

ar'e

of p roducls have lo pay

revised

rei^ulaiions.

developed the mailers

dm v.
these

coniicctc

-94with colonisation will be

According
profit

not so

is

my

to

Good and bad

lo

enough

do

simplified.

these

sonrccs of

three

up these new lands ihc

in openinj^

from the vagrant class of other places.

all

are both

open up

to

But

dilficult.

people got hold of are

lately

much

view, lo develop

undertaken

Beside they have

there.

a railway

and the

local

have

will

officials

look after the place and keep the populace

to

in

order.

LXXXII
How many

vears did you live in Shanghai

was going

What

and

to

kind of

Shanghai

fro there a

the

in

is

matter of

five or six years.

do you think Shanghai

a place

place

first

general

is

trading

cenirc.

Merchants, Chinese and foreign, are very many, and the place
fine

and busv.

warehouses

manner not

from

Ships

thick

rise as

as trees.

lo be surpassed.

is

tiers,

and

Trade flourishes there

in a

nations

all

lie

there

People have flocked

in

in

there from

it good ihinj^s are indeed

many. At first the rules
Each inn had a circulating register and whenever
a guest arrived, the people in the in n had to ask whence he came,
and whether he intended to stay long, or whether he intended to
remain there temporarily. These things vcre entered in a book

every place inland

many, but bad

were excellent.

every day.
lights.

At

These

The

bad.

crowded.

was

frm

a fixed

lime for putiinj^ out the

rci^nlations ihoufih ihcy

was inevitable

it

In

also

really

there

nif^ht

the most dilficult

in

is

it

orii^inal

course of lime

have come

till

lhinf;s arc

that

matter to manage
(Uilside

people
is

were good,

that

many

and amoni; llicm arc

vet in

But here

lax.

t^ot

vai^rant folk

l)C)ih

j^ood

ami

rapscallions amont; them open gambling hells and

men to
money or

entice

plav, or they ]iake plans lo swindle people out of

their

they

stir

noi these they cpt; on

there are a great

many

up men

men

to

institute

lawsuits.

to join in faction fit;hls.

othcM*

wrong and

illegal

If

it

is

Beside these

proceedings, dark

95

and difRcult
no

evil

(:hihhsien

thai

the whole one

all

is

and

very severe

is

about

it.

sharp, and

On one hand

reform the place.

U)

On

discover.

to

undone

left

may

Now

say there

exerting

is

is

the Shanghai

himself

he has issued proclamations

prohibiting the vhole of those evils, and on the other has sent to
lind out

and arrest these unemployed scamps.

If local authorities

could thus strictly reform thini^s the few people

keep

legitimate metier

to their

would not dare

prowl about

to

who do

would be found out

at their

not

and

a little

ov/n sweet will.

Lxxxni
When

man

likes to

(Iranied that he

gamble he

no

really suffers

begins to play and his losses become heavv, his

hurt.

heart straight

who came back last year

post in the provinces.
lie told me he had a friend who
expectant ( hihhsien, awaiting e m ploy men in the provin-

changes for the worse.

iVom a

was an

have

a relative

he capital was some hundred

cial capital.

That friend of

post.

little

fundamentally a good man, as soon as he

is

his

had

li

distant from his

servant, a very intelligent

and very steady. Keally he had no

fault,

man

but was very reliable.

Suddenly someone inveigled him into plavini^. He gained a

and lost much. First he pledi^ed or sold or pawned his
own clothini^, and lost all that. Then he did not hesitate to
little

lound

(tul

by

knows

in

what

reckless.
relative's
iliat

just

borrow

money and

master's

his

steal

master

his

terrible

Knowing

This was

Goodness

straits

his

he

was

But he began to get

master was a good

then he had a prcssinj^ need for

hund red

As soon
he saw it was

missed.
it

i'urth.

friend of

my

he forged a letter from his master to the friend, saying

lacls.

thai

He

money and wished

My

relative di J not

know he had been

had opcn"i the

letter

to

iVicnd

borrow

to

himself took the letter and went to

as he

iny relative's post.

liimsclf,

lhat

things, an d so

and he was clischaryod.

hundred

taels.

dis-

and glanced over

He thooj^hi to
how comes it

has always plenty of money,

96that he suddenly

not

know what

wants

to

borrow

hundred

pressint; matter he can

want

taels
to

from

use

it

me

lor.

do

In his

This heini; so he said to

heart he half believed, half doubted.

will
"Go home and tell vmir master that tomorrow
send the monev." The servant had no alternative but sim pi
As soon as he had f^one niy friend felt
said ',Yes and went oiW
So he wrote
uile doubtful, tearini^ the matter was not straif^ht.

the servant,

<.]

asking whether there really was anyihinj; of the sort or

letter

Thereupon

not.

a reply

because of

servant,

arrived from his iViend saying thai the

and

i^anhlini;

theft,

had already been dismis-

and that he had not written about borrowini^ money. The

letter had been forged and he was about to in form the local
Then my
(ilicials, that they mii^ht arrest and punish the man.
sed,

meant

friend understood that ihe servant had

Happily hv

threat

L()()kinj4

this

at

to

swindle him.

care and caution he had not been swindled.

case

omc

sees that the

evils of gamblini; arc

not small.

LXXXIV
Wih whom
With

arc vour

(Cantonese

Yard people at law

buat (Company.

(:arj;(>-

They

laid a plaint

against us.

Whv

did ihcy lay a plaint

was this way. In our \ ard were two old boats lying in ihc
Willow Bend Dock. A f'ev days since, our Manauer, Mr Li, sold
Hut he only
these two hoals to the (Lanioncse Cargct-boai (:()
received payment tor one boat. Two days ai^o the company hired
Thcv went and broke
a foreman shipwrii^hl and a couple of men.
break
the
second.
Our Manaj^er,
to
up
intended
up one boat and
Mr Li, hearint; this siorv grew tronhled and in the evenini? took
It

some men and moved

lorcman with
brcakinf^
told ihe

his

up the

the boai to anolhcr dock.

men went
One
boat.

to

the dock

look

company people wiihoui

The

Next day the

with the intention of

boat was not there.

loss of rime.

Mr.

He

(:huu of ihc

97

company, said "Go

it

you

shall

make

at

it

once and find the boat.

put about, and sought

that

it

If

all

He

had been moved by our yard people.

company owed us the price

company that our yard people had
this,

much

Afterwards he heard

over the place.

was very angry, wrote out

the plaint at the HsierTs

yamen, saying

back a boat which we had sold.

He

know

did not

So he told the
stolen the boat. That Mr.
of one boat.

that the

Chou, hearing

you do not find

good." The foreman hearing this was

a charge

that our yard

The Hsien

and

laid

had stolen

sent a Weiyiian to

once summoned Mr.

Chou and our

Manager Li for interrogation. Each side held it was right. Mr.
Chou said that Manager Li should not have secretly stolen away
a boat he had sold.
Manager Li said Mr Chou had not paid for
the boats in full and should not have hired men to break them
up. The Weivuan said, "You both are \vrong'\ Turning to Mr.
Chou he said ''Since the price has not been paid in full, and yet
you got men to break up the boats, you have acted hastily."
Moreover he said to Manager Li, "If he had not paid the price
of the boats, and yet wished to break them up, you ought to have
first requested payment, and should not have secretly removed
Now both of you go away,
the boat. You have acted rashly.
one will pay over the price at once, and the other will return the
This day each of you will
boat.
I must thus settle up the case.
square up his side and tomorrow both will come to the yamen to
look into the matter.

at

close the case".

This decision
fault.

What

is

really just

he said was quite

and

Really both were in

fair.

right.

LXXXV
In cultivating this

every year

am

tc^n

htou of garden

This loss never seems avoidable.

mine, do what

may

Lately someone stole a large

quantity of vegetables out of the garden.

right into his

of*

sure to lose a good lot of melons and vegetables;

house and questioned him.

My

watchman searched

Not only would he no\

9

-98confess

it,

but talked about fighting.

told the

watchman

it

was

not worth fighting and brawling because a few vegetables were

he would be more careful for the future, there was an

If

lost.

end of

But, look you, that sort of men,

it.

is

terribly

wanting

what thev sav.

his one though he lacked reason, yet vas not so very bad.
When I was in the south there was a "firewood" island, very
large and producing recds.
There were some half score of
in reason in

families

living there

vho

gathered the recds for

came down

I do not know from where,

who cut down all the reeds
They being many and the reedmen few,

off.

Avas a case of the few

unable

reedmen dared not provoke

were

in

Suddenly,

horde of rohhers

and carried them

it

paid their yearly reed land tax, and

sale.

sad position.

to

withstand the many, and the

Afterwards the reedmen

their anger.

All of

them met

to consult

what should

They wanted to raise an island militia and made some

They got together a few militiamen and put their names

be done.
rules.

to a general petition to the local authorities.

their consent, they

night.

If

bought

any lobbers came

the initiative

first

If

as they got

the reeds, they took

they captured any of the

to the local

punished ihcm severely.

families in the

away

to steal

and attacked them.

robbers they handed them over

officials

As soon

few weapons and kept guard day and

place spent their

and the
Those few

authorities,

Just think of

own money

it.

in

buying the

island so thai ihey mit^hi cut the reeds every year and they had to

pay the
but

state taxes.

came as ihcy

The robbers had

liked

and

nothing; to

do with

stole the people's reeds.

all this,

Not only

the livelihood of those families did ihev interfere, but the

Aviih

revenue also su lie red

men

still

loss.

Would you

think that such wicked

existed in the world

LXXXVI
I

that

wish to ask you something.

Woosung

has been opened and

hear that people are saying

made

a trading port.

How-

-99ever

do not know

Why
How is

That matter has been

is

something one does not credit

make enquiry

friends to

at

Shanghai,

any

rate

had been

but lately

hears a

among

necessary

little

one's

before believing anything.

not false.

Some one

of the concession.

few days ago, vhen

to the

I was in
measurement

said that the concession

Some were

enlarged.

stretched to the south, and

remember

It is

it.

heard of the discussion relating

ded upon

is

first,

it

many rumours, when one

since there have been so

That

settled a long time.

you have only just heard of it

really a month ago since I heard

it

It

be true or not.

if this

not true

how

far to the

saying

deci-

first

how

north, but

far

it

do not

One way and

another, as compared with the

was rather larger. As soon as
the Nanyang Ta-ch'en received the Peking telegram, he called
the Shanghai Tao to the provincial capital to discuss the matter.
clearly.

place originally decided upon,

After that he appointed an

it

Expectant Taotai of Kiangsu

to the

Directorship of the General Office of Trade, to control the laying

out of the

port,

ihe

streets,

roads

and bridges and

all

the

month they
would finish the surveying and making of plans and when this
was all arranged the work would commence.
arrangement

of the place.

also heard that in

think that the trade of the place,

will certainly

now

By nature

is a good port, and

and monthly flourish

the place

The

sung

Avas

that

it

is

opened,

will not the trade in

have a Cantonese friend who has opened

hai.

go well.

future daily gain

I

other day a letter from him

opened

to trade

a store in

came saving

Shang-

that if

WooHe

he wished to start business there.

geuin,;' me to go and assist him.

But in m y heart
am undecided whether it is better to go or not to go.
In my opinion it would be well to go.
You are experienced
in southern business, and at the moment vou are in a vein of
good luck. If you go for a few years, won't you make money
Ypu oupht to know however, thai though make a good deal

reckoned upon
I

100
outside,

also spend a lot

You ought
after all

it is

and there

to think this

way

not

is

much

left.

although you spend

much

yet

better than gaining nothing,

Thai's true,

LXXXVII
I

beg

they not

Exactly

goods

to

ask one question.

to

mean

The two words

exchange of goods

the

for

in ancient times the original

exchange

However

for goods.

cannot certainly say that

is

so.

Now

chiao yi'' do

goods

at

idea was they used

the present day one

the two

words

cliiao

yi

convey the idea that goods are sold for money. Frequently
there is written on the signboard of a shop the four words "Kung
chiao yi". That only means that they carry on their buying
and selling fairly and justly. If one really thought that it was
exchange of goods that would be too obstinately antique.
I understand
this part of it
but in your country have you

ping

not the sort of business

There

is

known

but not much.

as barter?

Probably outside the Wall, where

the Chinese trade with the Mongols, they

For example, places outside the wall

make great use

Lamamiao,

like

of barter.
Uliasulai,

Kobdo, and Kiakhia, in these great places, our Shansi merchants

sell some little tea and mixed goods, which, outside the frontier,
are exchanged for Mongol native goods which are imported into
the interior and sold. Also in Peking are two places which do a
Mongol trade. However all the shops arc in the hands of PekingOne place is not far outside the Anting Gate. There is a
ese.
street and there are several shops and so on, where they have
ready all the thint^s for the use of the Mongols. Every year the
Mongol Princes and Dukes whose turn it is, come to Peking.
Their followers brint^ goods from beyond the frontier. They live
in that place, and exchange their native produce for some few
Thai place is called
articles of our make to take away outside.
the Wai'kuan.
There is another place inside the Hatamen at

the end of Legation

Street, along the

canal by the

canal bridge, on ihe west side of the road.

Their speciality

with several shops.

same

When

Waikiiau.

as in the

That place

there.

is

is

the

There

Chung-yu
is

a street

Mongol business, the

Mongols come, some live
the

called the Li-kuan.

In the

summer

there

is

nothing going on in these two places, but Avhen winter comes

and the Mongols

One may
Yes.

they must be pressed with business.

arrive,

say that every year they do half a years business.

What

They bring
There are also

few musk-deer,

antelopes, and what not.

business, though

does not

fall

do the Mongols bring

sort of things

in various sorts of furs, felt,

it

pao

far short

deer, pheasants, hares,

So you see doing

cannot be reckoned

for sale

mushrooms, cream.
that sort of outside

entirely

barter,

yet

it

of the old fundamental meaning of the

words, ^^chiao yi/'

LXXXVIII
it was reported that your Government
borrow money from the people, bonds to be issued by
the Board of Revenue.
I have not heard
whether this has come

This year in the spring

wished

to

off or not.
It

has been already settled.

How many

bonds has the

Hu Pu

issued

What

is

the value

of each?
In

all a

million bonds have been issued bv the Hu-pu.

are called the Chao-hsin

Bonds and each bond

is

for

hey

one hundred

k'u-p'ing taels.

What

is

the annual interest? Is there any fixed time to repay

the principal

The annual interest is five per cent the term is tweniv years
when both principal interest and will be repaid.
have heard that what the Hu-pu received, was sycee of full
touch. What is in common use among the people, is Sungkiang
:

silver or foreign

dollars.

If

any of the people wished

to

lend

102

money

Government, they had

to the

hand over to the Board.

It was not necessary
also could pay

to

get full touch sycee to

to take all that trouble.

over either their

The people

common Sungkiang

silver, or

foreign dollars to the Board, only adding enough for the quality.
Has the Board already got the bonds made and issued

Thev are not vet made and issued.

Then have thev commenced operations
They have put out notices that operations have commenced.
Since they have begun, and the bonds are not yet made,

if at

moment, people wish to lend, the officials will not at once

have bonds ready for them. How then ought they to act?
For the present it has been arranged thus. If any of the
people are willing to lend to the Government, before the loan
bonds are ready, there will be issued to him by the officials a
sealed receipt. After the bonds are ready the receipts will be

this

exchanged
Yes.
classes,

for

bonds.

Then any one, whether

may buy these bonds.

of the official

or mercantile

Yes from Princes, Dukes, Ministers, Officials of all kinds

and grades, down to the common people, all can buy these bonds.
But I do not know what funds they will use hereafter to
:

repay these loans.

I

the

hear

Land
Once

it

has been already sanctioned to repay the loans from

tax, the Salt tax,

this

custom

suddenly wants money,

our own people than

to

is
il

and the Likin.

started,
will

be

if

the

much

Government hereafter
borrow from

better to

borrow from foreigners.

Yes, indeed.

LXXXIX
Why
Who

did you lay a plaint against the

you that
Never mind who lold me

Shengho hong

told

is

there such a thing or not

-103What we

laid a plaint

against was the camel agency,

not

against them.

What was
I

will tell

the beginning of

you the

it

rights of

all
it.

Within

this

month

goods have arrived, so we called Li Lao-heng of the

camel agency and arranged with him for the hire of

all

our

Wanshun

five

hundred

Lao-heng came and told us he

feared that he could not get together five hundred camels, and
asked whether four hundred would do. We replied by asking if

camels.

Just a few days ago Li

hundred were enough, why should we hire five Beside in

was written five hundred camels, and he had better
get them together quickly and not come hindering us at the last
moment. Afterwards Lao-heng came again many times, always
four

the contract

We

saying he could not muster five hundred camels.

is

and the bargain money has been paid.

the contract,

say you cannot collect so

that

yet

He

if it

said though so

came

to

many
many

said there

Now you

Where is the reason in

written down in the contract,

camels.
are

being impossible to collect so many, would w

We

some one
had told us that Ch'en Pao-shan, of the Shengho hong, made a
secret arrangement with Li Lao-heng to let the Shengho hong
have a hundred camels at a tael more each. When
heard this,
I got
to the bottom of my patience and went to the yamen and
laid a plaint against Li Lao-heng.
At once the yamen summoned
Li Lao-heng and asked him why he had not acted according to
the contract.
He first said generally that only few camels had
come in, so he could not get them. After this, the official said
"You tell the truth and say to whom else you have also supplied
camels, or I will punish you". Then Li Lao-heng got frightened
and came out with the name of the Shengho hong. He said that
Ch'en Pao-shan had begged him so deathly hard to make him
consent to let the Shengho hong have a hundred camels, and
that he had given him a little more camel hire.
Bit by bit the
whole truth came out. The official then sent for Ch'en Pao-shan
and gave him a wigging in public. He also told us to pay Li Lao-

take his

lite

replied "Yes".

But the truth

is

that

104

heng

fifty taels less

to

official

camel hire by \vay of

a fine.

We

And

so the case

was

Now

closed.

do you not think that

our plaint was laid against the camel agency

brought any charge against Ch'eii Pao-shan.

that

have never

How

can he say

have laid a plaint against him

But

it

was not he who told me that you had

It was an employe in the hong who

against him.

laid a plaint.

Now

laid

said

you had

plaint

have heard the circumstances of the case

though you did not bring

in a

prayed the

be kind enough to pardon him and afterwards the

decided to fine him ten taels to go to the soup kitchen

official

fund.

charge against Ch'en Pao-shan yet

round about way you did bring

a suit against him.

xc.
In this world

it is

not difficult matters that are to be feared

man. Formerly when I was in business

you must know, there was a certain Huang Big Belly, manager
it is

the lack of a capable

of the T'ient'ai hong.

Exactly.

was famous

in

have heard speak of him, but never saw him.

He

our hong as a clever fellow.

He really had ability. He really was

That's as may be.
more than clever, and in his heart vas very terrible.
No one
was more high-handed than he in managing things. One year,
in autumn, just as the time came to forward goods, all the
boats on the river amounted to some forty or fifty, and all had
been hired by the
to

T'ient'ai hong.

All

were exclusively engaged

them, and they had given them bargain money, and nobody

could get hold of any.

On

the river only remained about half a

Goods arriving by land had all arrived.

The warehouses were crammed full. At last it became serious,
not being able to hire boats. You can tell whether
was anxious
or not. The assistants, everyone of them were of course, worried.
Some said, we must take half a score of T'ientai's boats by force,
load them and go.
If they want to make a fight of it, then we
score worthless old tubs.

105
will

fight

We

out in the right.

we ought
them
go.

told

Huang Big

He would go

them.

them that was not the way. If

would certainly not fight with
law with us and in court make himself

with them.

they did that,

to

Belly

should certainly lose the

and get them

a little extra freight,

exclusive agreement and they have given

ney.

to load

said, that plan also will not succeed.

If

suit.

Others said

hold of half a score boat masters, secretly give

to get

they take our cargo aboard and

sue the boat masters.

As soon

our cargo and

They have made

the

them the bargain mo-

go Huang

Big Belly will

as the boat masters are

summoned

yamen we shall also have to go to give evidence. That

said, you need not bother about it,
suit we should also lose.
some scheme. Such being the case I went to
I will think out
ientai hong and saw Huang Big Belly,
I said, I wish to
the
borrow something from you." He said, " Anything whatever, if

to the

have

said "If

you
I

it

you can borrow it". I said that was as it ought to be.

I came to borrow what you had
not, wouldn't that put

in a hole

Then

said, "All

our goods have arrived, but

cannot hire boats to forward them

you have rather too many

boats in your hong, could you lend us fifteen to load our cargo

What do you

think

He

"When

he heard this he looked a

little

good many boats

yet our goods will soon be all here and I fear if we let you have
them it will hinder our own business." I said, "Our goods will
go quickly. As soon as unladen we will send back the boats.
disconcerted.

It
I

will

said,

"Though we have

He

"There is no help for it.

and done with it. As soon as
done, send them back quickly."
I
said, "Of

not hinder you."

will let

you have

the unlading

course."

is

So he

cargo and sent

at

it

said,

fifteen boats

once lent us

off.

fifteen boats,

and ve loaded our

Afterwards vhen the thing was done and

we reckoned up the freight, it was not very much. After that

I asked Huang Big Belly to a dinner
and thanked him. And so
the thing was ended.
If
had listened to the assistants' wav of
I

managing the

affair,

shouldn't

have been afraid of a lawsuit

-106XCI

We

two, on a former occasion were talking about the Chao-

Bonds issued

hsin

money from

your country by the

in

the people.

You

me

told

Hu Pu

borrow

to

generally the

mode

of

managing this and I understand it pretty well. Yesterday I happened to meet a friend, one of your countrymen, and he began
about this. What we on the former occasion did not reach fully,

me carefully so that I understand it better.

What was it he told you about in greater detail
He said the Hu Pu had established a bureau especially to

in that subject, he told

control the Chao-hsin

Exactly.

most

likely,

Bond

business.

have also heard

But thai bureau, so

this.

Not yet established.

At

present

they

have temporarily

borrowed the north archive room of the Hu pu

business. When the bureau is completed, they

The business
of bonds
five

is

far,

has not been established.

in

to carry

on the

will m('ve over.

connection with the receipt of money and issue

carried on there.

remittance banks

They

say that in Peking there are

and four large cash banks which have

to manage the receipt of moneys for the Chao-hsin

Whatever
moneys there are, arc handed over to these
Bonds.
nine houses, and by them passed on to the Hu pu. That friend
also mentioned that if they hand in Peking taels, for every hundred they must make up the weight by six taels four mace, which
If* they pay in dollars
is equivalent to one hundred Kuping taels.

undertaken

thev are reckoned according to the market rate.

to the

hanks

for receiving

to raise or

money and

lower the

rate.

It is

not allowed

Every month the days

issuing bonds are ihc third, thiriccnlh,

and tweniyihird, these three days. If the money is paid into

the banks to be passed on to the Board, the money must be paid
in three or five days in advance in order to avoid any delay when
the lime draws near to issue the bonds.
told

deal

This

is

what

me of the regulations for the Chao-hsin bonds.

What your friend has told you about this subject,
more

in detail

than what

said to

you before.

my
is

friend

good

 107
XCII
I

have heard that your tea exported abroad has been less

these last few years than

Hitherto

it

was formerly.

do not know much of

is

But according to

details.

its

been exporting

late years India has

because of

What

the reason

have given no attention to the lea business, and

tea,

my

idea,

it is

and of course

our tea export lessens.

I

have also heard that Indian tea as compared with yours,

has a richer flavour, and

therefore

foreign

merchants

in

your

country buy less of yours to send abroad.

This
tea

is

have never heard.

mostly on account of the

What you
I

say

enquired of

it is

the

is

same

a friend in a tea

suspect the richer flavour of that

soil.

as

used to think.

But afterwards

hong and, would you believe

it

not so.

Then what

is

the reason

what the tea merchant said, India uses machinery in the manufacture of lea and thus can make a richer flavour
in the leaf.
Only with machinery there must also be human
labour. That labour is not in looking after the machinery; it is in
making the tiavour. Beside this there must be rolling and firing
According

to

machines and also one must understand the chemical principles

of producing the flavour.
his is a very difficult part of the
process.

Also one must have the very best

because the rich flavour of the tea

in the leaf.

If the

leaf

is

is

mode

of cultivation,

from the richness originally

withered and weak, then, given the

very best of chemical flavour producer, he certainly cannot take

vhich before the operation has no rich flavour, and by

means of machinery bring out a flavour. Hence one must first

the leaf,

know how the Chinese have heretofore planted tea and then one
can know whether the method is the best or not. If the method
of cultivation

method.

means

to

It*

is

not the best, then they should imitate the Indian

they continue in the old way, and do not find

improve,

am

some

afraid that your tea will not be able to

compete successfully vith the Indian,

-108You

are right.

What you

say

is

so.

XCIII
Yesterday in conversation with your relative, we got upon
the subject of the export of tea lately to foreign countries.

much

decreased.

According

what your

to

It

has

relative said, India,

these few years since, not only has planted tea, but also by the

This was really hear-

use of machinery brings out a rich flavour.

ing something'
if

it

He

had not heard before.

also said that China,

did find some means to find out the method of growing tea,

and did not use machinery to make tea well,

could not successfully compete with India.
this respect
if it

is

really

it

was

to

What

he feared

he said in

But, as I think,
had perfect reason in it.
purchasing a complete outfit of machinery,

a question of

and engaging

must be

a chemist, the capital

large.

This

is

one

must be investigated whether China has

If she has not then she ought to
the best method of cultivating.
imitate the Indian mode. The changing of an old method to a
difficulty.

perfectly
is

Beside this

new

is

it

not a matter to be done in a

Thinking over

a difliculiv.

all

this

it

is

moment. This

also

no easy matter to

make the change.

The two difficulties you have mentioned are indeed not easy
to overcome, but men and money can accomplish all things.
There is nothing they cannot do. In the business world when one
'

reckons upon

a gain lasting

does not spare capital

mode

lo

forever without

ensure business.

of cultivation of lea, that

is

fail,

As

to

one of course
changing the

only a matter for investigation,

and spending a little money and labour, and one can get success.
Moreover in Foochow there is already a Tea Improvement Coy.
The shares were publicly
established as a public company.
trade, what fear is there
anew
the
develops
it
If
subscribed for.
another difficulty, and a
there
is
yet
But
fail
may
anything
that
thing not easv lo change.

much

about.

This even

my

relative does not

know

have heard that foreigners say that your duty and

100

Likin are too heavy.

It is difficult to

and therefore the capital

little

handicapping.

If

thoroughly change the rules

does not avoid some

in the tea trade

they do not devote their best and truest

efforts to retaining the tea business, they will not reap the advan-

tage from the lea trade. Truly this

would be

a regrettable thing.

XCIV
To-day when you saw your chief what important public business did you talk about

We

Half of

did not say anything of very great importance.

it

was mere small talk. But we talked about the reforms that should
be made. I said, toward everything under the sun it is best to
be liberal. We must select the good and follow that up. From
the date of our first intercourse with other nations, and the opening of trade, the manufactures of foreigners have been getting
more and more numerous and more wonderful. We people
in

we

the East, as

are firmly conservative in

methods, do not know the word

thing

new

keeping our old

Whenever there is anyby step who shall be first. But

liberal.

those people hasten step

we, in easy going fashion, gradually drop behind.

quences are involved

are very important

in this,

Large conse-

Western methods, some

once imitated. There are

Talking of

and ought

be

to

at

some not very important, and they can be followed at leisure.

Those who are always at books and inexperienced in modern
also

affairs, as

soon

as they hear

put forth a tremendous

not this to be feared, then

never

reflect that

method which
it,

in

human

speak of any change

it is

once begin to
If

it

is

They
same everywhere. The

that to be anxious about.

nature

is

the

one country produces no end of benefit, how can

being transported to our country, produce

When

at

of criticism and discussion.

lot

they talk in this

way

is it

not

lot

of injury

empty chattering?

Take

for

example steamers and railway carriages. They are simply carts

and boats, only they can take more and heavier cargo, and accom-

modate many passengers, and

they

are

much

quicker than
10

110
other carts and boats.

How

It is

evident that they are advantageous.

Then

can one say they are harmful

they are very convenient.

graphs

are the tele-

there

If there

be any matter of

is nothing more convenient.

As to foreign
and cannon, those are things the Government cannot do

importance there
rifles

without a single day.

went

into

In

the old days

we

in the F*:ast

used long spears and great

battle,

when ve
bows

halberds,

and arrows and swords. Now we use Western-made rifles and

cannon, more effective than ever, and handy beyond comparison.

If in the

battle-field

we

should use our old-fashioned

weapons to match those more effective

would be no need to await the engagement.
at once who would win and who would

var

there

should

know

tools of

We
lose.

Therefore, at

day we cannot but adopt wholly new methods.

Then we may defend our state and keep our people safe. If
there be any old conservative feeling left of unwillingness to
reject the old and take up the new, then misfortune is really to
the

be

present

feared.

My

chief said,

well

now

the spirit of change

we do

is

make a
From ihist
change we cannot Htly administer the country.
time forward, the introduction of novelties will be much
easier than before. We just talked a little lime in this way and
abroad and many understand that

if

not soon

then parted.

xcv
wo

your country, Tokio.

saw that on the streets
everywhere were policemen and the policemen were efficient,
keeping everything in order and very zealous in their duty. They
But I do not know by vhat dereally were worthy of respect.
partment those policemen were controlled. I would beg of you
I

years ago

went

to the capital of

stayed only a few days there but

to tell

'

me.

Certainly.

Just listen to me.

ed an Inspectorate of Police

who

is

In our Tokio there

at the

is

establish-

head of which a high

the Chief Commissioner of Police.

hat

yamen

official,

controls

11

many

a preat
tell

you

in

The

things.

officials also are

any reasonable time

all

about

not few.

it

could not

but only give you a

He \v horn I mentioned just now, the Chief

Commissioner of Police, is Chokunin l"van appointed by the
Emperor, just like ihe T'ang-J<uan in your yamens. Under him
are twenty seven Inspectors, and one Chief Police Surgeon, a
Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, and three Inspectors of
reported to
Prisons, all of those r.ppointments are Soninkwan
the throne ) just as in your cciintry are the Ssu-kuan tsung-pan,
Secretaries ). Below these are Sergeants of Police Police clerks}
Police Surgeons, Prison Clerks, Prison Superintendents and
Head Firemen in all four hundred and fourteen men. These
are all Hannir-Kwan
subordinates), like the lower Ching-kuan
sub-directors
in your yr.mcns.
The Chief Commissioner of
Police controls all the Police Stations, Fire Brigades and Prisons
general description.

Tokio Prefecture.

of the

Again

all this is

under ihe Minister of

the Interior.

How many

police stations are ihere in Tokio.

7 here are uventy ihree and one "water police station

under those police

dition

Under

are sub-cffices.

ad-

in

stations, according to the districts

the si.b-c fflces also, according to districts^

are beats.

Yes.

Really

any place there be

it

is

damage

such unforeseen mailers, presumably the

settled

to the road,

affair is

if

in

and

taken up and

hy the police.

Exactly.

It

belongs to the police to

have noticed lhat the policemen

And now

rrrar^cd very perfectly.

a ihcTt, or quarrel, or

honestly, so that there are not

many

all

settle

it.

look after districts very

crimes.

Beside

this, as is

evident ihey have a well organised and respect-inspiring look.

xcvi
I

beg

to ask

whether your country now uses

silver or silver

dollars
In

olden days the whole country used

silver.

In the reign


of

Tao-Kuang

ir2

the various countries of the west began to trade in

the south, and the provinces of Kuin^tang, Iviangui and Che-

kiang used both foreign dollars and

was opened

he silver

and second

After wards

silver.

north

tlia

and began to use foreign money.

which your country used, is it divided

to t.ade

into first

class

In the market what is commonly used is all

It is divided.
Sungkiang silver. Each ingot has a weight of four taels, five or
six mace.
Some are of five taels weight. That is inferior silver.
What the Government uses is pure silver.
hat is full touch

The pure

sycee.

silver

How many
At

first

is

This

called fang-ts'ao.

shoes

of

fifty

taels.

It

is

the highest quality of silver.

qualities are there of foreiyn silver?

Spanish dollars were used

The touch was

dollars.

in ingots
is

rather high.

in the south, called pillar

Now

they are seldom seen.

Afterwards in trade they used Mexican dollars called "eagle"

The touch,

money.
lower.

as

current in the same

money coined
is

much

as "eagle"

This also

is

Beside these there

less

country.

Now

he value

is

come
way as

Lately has

current in the same

the Russian rouble.

its

is

the

same
at

value

Its
is

as the "eaj^le"

may be used.
money in the treasury

money.

present our country uses

foreign money, and the dollars coined by our

vernment.
I

money.

silver.

there are also dollars coined by our

Speaking generally one may say ihnt

silver,

was rather
This was

pillar dollars,

than that of "eagle" money, and

also very different.

own

way

in India.

"eagle" money.

weight

compared with

Formerly there was also Japanese trade

own Go-

All these

suppose the

is

yiun j>ao

is

it

made

by ihe Hu-pu

That is made solely for the

It is not made by the Hu-pu.
Government by the assaycr. On the inj^ots they make, are chiselIf :hcre is any fault in thnt
led the words Lufang as a chop .
silver only the Lufang is responsible.
Mence the silver of oulcial
payments is very reliable, and caa be used fearlessly as free
from

fault.

113

XCVII
wish

ask for information about a certain subject.

to

the old days did your country use

the

same

In

sort of silver as

ourselves
Yes, our country, in oldea times used silver, and also gold.
Only the shape of that silver was perhaps not the same.
What shape was it
Some was elliptical and some oblong, there were silver bars,
here were also round ''drops*' of silver.

gold bars.

When

new shape

did the

come

of coins

into use

Since the time of ihe general reform they have changed to

coined money.
they

made

The

dollars.

that dollars are

first

Now

made was

trade money.

no longer used.

The gold coins arc of \vhat value

Some of one dollar, some of five dollars, and
Then the silver mune\ is no longer used
It

is

There are

used.

still

After that

they have changed to gold money, so

fifty

som'e of ten.

cent pieces - twenty cent

pieces, ten cent pieces, and five cent pieces.

How many

sorts of

copper money are in use

Copper money is of three kinds. There are two cent pieces,

one cent pieces, and also half cent pieces. On the copper coins
are characters.

On

worth one dollar".

one dollar".

the two cent pieces

On

is

engraved

"fifty

are

"one hundred are worth

he half cent pieces bear the words "two hundred

are worth one dollar."

the cent pieces,

The value

is

constant, neither rising nor

falling.

This plan of creating a fixed value really

only can banks

make no squeeze on

it,

is

perfect.

Not

but even in buying small

you give the silver, there cannot be any irregularities

exchange as high or low.
Beside it saves
trouble and leads to no discussion.

things,

if

in calculating the

And hence when

in ihc

first

place they established this rule


it

was

in

114

order that hereafter, the out-growih of a

lot

of abuses

should be avoided.

That

so.

is

There are also notes used

of

your country

in

what values are they

There are some of five dollars and some of one.
As to those notes, are they current ihroughout the whole
country

The whole country can use them.

something else that will set your mind at

will

rest.

also

you

tell

Our notes

are

never forged, nor are there any bank failures.

This is still more convenient

XGVIII
I

beg to ask

We have

if

you have

also banks.

But ve do not
them j^nz hangy we distinguished them as remittance
agencies, and silver banks, for their business is the same as that

many ^vho do

the banking business.

really call

of silver dealers.

Are they private establishments or

They

are

all

In a general

As

ofTicial

private.

way what

sort of busines

do they carry on

for the remittance agencies, ihey

remitting of

money between

the capital

specially

manage

and the provinces.

the

Whe-

official funds or private moneys, iliey manage it all,

upon the commission. There are also monevs remitted
to the Board of Revenue the payment of "which is arranged offiThere are also purchases of degrees or purchases of
cially.
appointments, and the sums for these, which must be paid into

be

ther

it

and

live

the

Board, can be paid into the

agency

will

receive

remitting agencies, and the

them and hand them

addition to these there are

many

deposited in the remittance agencies.

a receipt,

and pay them

into the

"wealthy people

In

hey give ihe depositors

month The remittance

money and from it make a

interest every

agencies allow others the use of this

treasury.

vho have money

115

With

gain.

little

respect to

what the banks do

that

is

same

business as the remittance agencies, only they buy and

sort of

sell silver as vell.

Do

the agencies and banks issue notes

All the notes that

Yes, ihey issue notes.

we use

are issued

by the banks.

And

Oh
taken

the silver notes, can they be used every^vhere

Each place uses

no.

down

to Tientsin,

its

own

notes.

If

Peking notes are

then they cannot be used.

These are

not so convenient as yours.

For how many laels are the notes

There are hundred tael notes, fifty tael, thirty tacl, uveny
and ten tael notes. There are also five tael, four, three, two and
Indeed.

one

tael notes.

But there

is a

sort of business

on

a smaller scale than that of

the agencies and banks, isn't there

There
in silver.

is. These are cash shops.

The cash shops only deal
There are also wealthy people who deposit a thousand

ore taels in the cash shops, or perhaps a few hundreds.

Bu^
There are also
cash shops in which another trade is carried on as in the case
of the Shansi men in Peking who have cash shc'ps and also sell
opium. These are called cash and opium shops. Some deal in
wine. These are called cash and wine shops.
or

rr

they are not equal to very large transactions.

Can they also issue notes

They also can issue notes.

What

they

issue

are

cash

notes, not tael notes.

For how many tiao are the cash notes

Fifty, thirty, twenty and ten tiao
there are also
three, and two tiao notes.

five, four,

Indeed.

XCIX
When
there any

your countrymen open remitting agencies or banks,

sum deposited

in the

yamcn

as a security

is


There

is

no sort of security deposited

any one from the

Is

IG

in the

Yamcn.

official classes sent to inspect the state

of the business

have never heard

tell

of any official being sent to examine

into the state of alFairs.

The banks opeaed

in

our country

For

have fixed rules.

all

example, the managers of the Nippon Bank and of the Industrial

Bank

are both deputed by the

Government

superintend their

to

Other private banks although they are self-managed,

business.

yet inspectors are appointed to look in:o their alFairs.

Moreover,

bank there must be a certain sum deposited

in the Yamen.
That is called a guarantee fund. Those who
carry on hanking business in your country, since there is no
guarantee money in the Yamcn, what guarantee is there in this

when one opens

sort of business

Every hong which starts as an agency, or bank, or cash shop

is guaranteed by so many other hongs in the

our country,

in

same

line of business.

Is

After this they can begin.

necessary that the guaranteeing hongs draw up and sign

it

bond
That

is

of course.

In that case,

make away with

ties

the agency, or bank, or shop fails, or

and cannot redeem

if

their notes,

they

According
pro rata.

Is

if

they

their liabili-

must the guarantors make up

to rule all the

guaranteeing hongs must bear the

But whether they do so or not

Then although there are guarantors,

depositing money in the Yamcn.
You are right.
I

meet

fail to

among them

the loss

loss

if

the deposits, or

it

it

is

cannot say.
not so secure as

then that you have no banks established by Government?

hear that lately the Government has established a bank.

do not very well know the rules of it. I know that for the
at each of the open ports there have been Customs

But

last

few years

official

banks which issue notes, but ihey are only

to issue the

117

salaries of the officials

and employees.

favour in the market.

Unfortunately ihey are not

difficult to get

hold

These notes are

in great

many and

are

of.

In my opinion it would be excellent if your Government

would establish banks and issue notes, which would be current
throughout the country. Not only would it save trouble and be
convenient, but it would get rid of many irregularities.
That is quite true.

c
hear your wheat harvest this year

This year's harvest

is

excellent.

estimate will be better by far than those

of late years.

Very good. What about the

The

rice fields?

seen, are also better than last

as far as can

rice fields,

hear that your wheal harvest this year is also very good.
Yes; that is not far off it. Though one cannot say that this year's
prospect is quite perfect, yet, on ihe whole, it is eight or nine lenihs.
The "great*' harvest also is not amiss, eh
That seems certain to be better than ihe wheat harvest.
year's.

This year not only

but

both our countries have i;ood harvests,

will

see the papers say that

the countries in ihe world have

all

uniformly good harvests.

That
len

is

very good; at present the price of prain has already

somewhat, and

ihink after

autumn

it

vill certainly fall

falstill

lower.
Afler

autumn

is

over the grain will stand in piles like

fear that the price of grain will not

I
want ihe Great Father
goou harvests and the markeis

Well,
of

Naturally

sho

and

it

will

be so.

If

finding

No

some consecutive years

show signs of movement.

to give
will

things arc like the last lew years, with

harvests and the price of grain rising and

all

hills.

tall.

everything dear,

and handicrafts drooping and the people

to get along-if one sees anoihcr turn ot tha^

sorts of business
it

very ditVicult

sort of thing

Tilling

come round,

the

liel

Js

is

it

will be reallv frif;hltul.

man's main occupation.

It

only \vant5 a

few years of abundance to see all sorts of business begin to move

But if we gel a hard year, then the middle classes must
devote all their earnings to getting food lo eat. When grain is dear,
then the surplus over alter buying food is simply nothinf^ either
Then business of every kind how
to buv this or pav for that.
can it not go slowly In my opinion there are two things in the
world, one is what we must have every year, and the other is what
along.

we must

not have in a century.

Tell me vhat it is we must have
not have.
People look upon food as Heaven.

and what

it

is

we may

Abundance is what we
must have every year. If there come a poor year, it is as if Heaven were falling. The people cannot live in comfort. There is
War is the
a common saying "A man's life concerns Heaven".
"When var begins it inthing we must not have once a century
That is most of all lo be grieved for.
jures so many living things.
In time of war the people cannot live in peace and enjoy their
substance, and their sufferings are indescribable. Therefore ihey
yearn for peace in the world and plenty of grain. There is no
.

greater blessing than that.

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XGII
XLIII

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LXXXII
LXVII

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LXXXII

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To

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XXVII

XCIV:

praise extravagantly

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XXXIV

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LXVII

arrest

Difficulties

LXXXVII 18
XL: 14
LIV 10
LXXVII :1
:

be angry with

LXII
LXII
LVII

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VI :9

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16

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LXXXVII:18
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LXII 16
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LXVII

13

a row

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tu ch'uan-

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1

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LXII: 5
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LI 11
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XXXIII:

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t'ien^

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12

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managing XCVIII

character
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XCIX

do

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te tao'^

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to actually

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arrange

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tao^

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rlcy

mi

look one's

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fill

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in an age

customs

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business

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10

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ch'a2

tire

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ti

increase

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fu
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11

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LXXI:

LVII

10

fault

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LIV

XLII

LVII 9
LXXIII :G
LXXXVII:'20
:

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mo

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XXIX:

rap on the

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14

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line of business

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XXXI:

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family

11

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eat full

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rregularities

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turn (for the worse)

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p-i\

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shut eyes

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shut

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ti

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ti

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position

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correspondence

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IHIII

su'^

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XLIII

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tui

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pi'i

5
1

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2

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2
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XXVII
XXI 6

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fa

XXXVII

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8
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VIII

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hao hsiian^

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AAXLY 6
XLIX 13
XC 6

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kuan'^

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disagree

LIX
LXVII

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LII

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XXXIX 2
LV

far off

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shuo^

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Shop

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tan^

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3o

19

15

IX

14

XXV

need

LXXIII

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110

hu

in spite

of one's self
to

15

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dismiss

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13

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te

LYII
XI 1.

wai^ hu

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disagree

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"

k'an^

lun'-^

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XYII
LAI

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"

LV: 13

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"

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"

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XV
LI

o get a post

ch'ueh^

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are ruining yourself

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LXVII 3
LVI 3
LVI 10, 11
AXVVIII 17
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site

the performance

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14

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XXV

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XXV

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if

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13

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in battle

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11

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means

XI

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taxes or royaltie s

VII

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i3

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10

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t'i

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save

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XCIV:
to. to

.
1

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XXX:
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qualiiieu tor
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i,XCVII

LIII
livelihood

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LXIV

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III

10

9,

LA AAV

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2.
:

LIII

skimp

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LV

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save trouble

attempt

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save, to

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1

LVII

6,

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11:7, VII:

establish

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hen shou^

LXIV;

17,

XXI

teach

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To investigate
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To

Business

III

VII

3,1\'111

XLIX

6,i3

164

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XXIV: 9
LXXXVIII

rue

XXXIX:4

Real kindness
"

shou^

'

tsai

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LXII

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XXXII

First

Shih chiao^

and last
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LVI 14
XLVII 6

Shih'i chien

In the world

LXIII

Your son

XII

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XXVIII

Human

LII

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fei

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lu
shih'<

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'

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chia't

mien shang

action

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II

la

la

XXVIII
XLI 2

rate

the market

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II

A'CVI

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LXXV;4

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Complete

C 3
LXVIII

Shih" hsia^

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XXVI

Shi}"

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III

Time

LXXXII 7
LXIX 18

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fou

Shm

ch'eng

"

fen

ko
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m
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chiao
1

Shou^ hsia tijen^

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(set)

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XLV

Salt

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XIV II
XGVll
:

12

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XCVII

12

Followers

LXXXVII

12

Handicraft

To make money casilyXLVII 8

LXXXIII
To be injured
To be inconvenienced XV 6
To sufferinconvenience XLIII 5
XLI 3
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LXVIII 3
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16

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i3

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hut

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fen'<

XXVII

liquidate

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Shou^ shih

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XXXVII

back

get

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Shou maihnai

LXXXV:

gather in

LI

^hnii^2

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XXV: II
LXXXVI: i5,XCII:

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tCs

fBtt

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Well up in
Experienced

chiiQ

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<a

LXXVII

LXXVI

LXXXIII

Library

XXXIV

College

Common

LXIII

Shu^ shuo

To say
To gamble

jo
shen'^

Shufi chiao
Shui-^ han'^
,

huan

Shut lo shih ch'u^

Shui3 shih

Shu"

people

Poor

Shuang^ k'uai

Shuang

Convenient
Smart

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chiao^

Shun shou^

at the truth

LXXXIII
AXII 12

LXXIX

14

XLV lo
XC 24
:

XL:

12

LXXV
LXXVI 11
LVIII

To

LI 1 1

sleep

Easily

12

XXXVII

Naval
Taxes, revenu*

Shui'^ k'o

i6

Flood or drought
Trouble with water

Freight
1

Comfortable

Shuai'

Book bureau

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jen

cliien'^

lo

Shu'^

Shu a

LV

Letters

Shu^ yiian'^

LXXXII 14
LXXVI 7

plac

Shoul

LXIV

Head ornaments

Shou^ shih

lo
5

19

8
12

A'XXVII

XXXIII

10
:

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XCIV

Complaisant

A'XVII 111

19

166

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ho

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shcH^ ckH

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inj

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ppi

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say 111

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ru Vcl u

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XLIII

LIV

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XL:
XL:

LXXXV
XIII

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To send to

XLV

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Ssu^ hao'i

least

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shihk

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Ta

chart

Smuggled goods

LIX

13
1

LXXXIX
XXVI:

Sung"
Ssu chiupai ieh

XXIX
LXV:

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Sung'* tao

Injury

1 yi

Sun^ chu

^fl tit"

10

to the

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shcTi^ ti
1

^W

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13

year (harvest)
*

cI

LXXXIII

Although,

Sui'^ nien^

'

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XXIV

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1/ 1 1

XIV
I

Mathematics

2,8

Ahvays

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OH

LIII

U /V jV V
XXII 8
LIU 12

o relax diligence

"

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ti

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14,LIII:5

XCVIII:3
12, XIV: n

XIII:

Private affairs

IV:2

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LIII

17

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XLVI: 16
From at
XXXI 14
From
XLVIII:4,LXXXI:5
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LXXXV
To fight
XXVIII: 3
To build a cart
LXXXV:3,XC:
To fight
X: 12
To find a way
To join in taction
LXXXII: 10
fights
XVI 9
To send
XXXVI 11, LXXXIII: 13
XXVII 2
To joke
To laugh
LIII 13
To snore
To engage in litigationLXXXlI 10
LVI 1
Lost
LXXVII 11
To kill

Ta change
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"

chia^

"

chu2

"

ch'iln chia^

ra'!

c/i'el

i
1

fa

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1

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kuani

ssii

j/imI la

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1

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1

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1:6

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To

estimate, reckon:

VIII

think

XII

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'

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11

XXIX
XIX 1

12

XII 10
To intend
To suppose, to decide XVI 2
XXXIII 7
To estimate
To send telegrams XV 11
XXI V ,LXXXI V
To enquire
:

Ta
Ta3

Ta

tien

pao*

t'ing
t'oul

At

"
1

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^6

"
1

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kai'*

Fisherman

The whole body

7"a4 chid

"

first

Everybody
Ambitious
Probably

XXXI
LXII

XI

XIV

LXXVII

1!

14,XXX:

XX:

On

General idea

XXXII

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18

LXXII
XXVIII

the whole

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pan'*

"

sheng

Ta

tan^

t^ii

t'i'i

mu

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"

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V:9

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LHI

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It

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tsiing^

Ta

m
m

tuan^

Ta\ ying

Tai^

Important items

know

To consent
To assent
To reply
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To take a passage
To destroy
o-gether with

To
1

bring

Badness
In place of

Tai'*

12

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lai

15

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LX 7
XXVI

in

LXIII

LVI 8
LXXXIII
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XXXII 4
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XXXIII:

Too much
Too much

XXIX
LXXVI:9

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man^

"

shengi

T'ai" hsi

ran
Tan

Europe

-wo?

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To run a risk

hsien^

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Tan^

Tan

ffu
tju hsiao^

To

^
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^
jj^
I

"

yen

rani

favour

delay

Gall

Cowardly

XXIII

12,

XXXVIII
LX: 13

LX

13

LIII :21

LIII :21

Bill

XV:

To delay
To hinder
To delay

XLIII

LXXX:9

Avaricious

LII:

VI 6
XLIII:

'

169

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LX:

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feng^

Style of talking

XXXIV

T'an^

p'ei'i

To
To
To

XCIX
LXXXI

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Tang\

ch'ai^

Tang^

ch'ii^

"

hsien^

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suppress
take

it

to think

LXII

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XIV
IX

At

XXXV:

first

First

1:3

Face

1:4,111 :6

to face

LVI

Tang^ wu^chih chi"^

7
Then
4
XLV
suppose
To
LXIV: 10
To replace
Of present impor-

Tang'"* p'u

Pawnbroker's

XXII

Archives

XCI:7

shih
1

Tang3
Tang^

shift

tance

IS

To
WA

T'ang3

kuan

(legal)

Responsible

10

LIV': 8

If

hearing

Lin': 10

screen

Obstacle

A
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tso

Tang^
Tang3 shang
Tang yen^

LXXXVIII:17
LXXVIII:3

official of

Price

XXV 16
XX 5
XXXV
LXV
X 2

Tao'* fei

Rebels

LXXVI

Tao'i

Reason
Roads

XL! 15
LXXII:9

Tangi kuo

mm

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chia^

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lu
1

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Tao

18

15

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III

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11

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chung^

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subscribe j3ro rata

11

sell

After

tfl

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1

yamen

all

:14

XXIII

14

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LXXXIX:

To abscond

LXIV:

15

170

Tel

To

Teja>

Properly

LIX 2
LXXI

To succeed

XI

"

Te

'

je'rt

get

Success

XXX

XXVII

Popular man

XXVIII

Necessarily

Teng'^ tfu

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"

shih

Situation

shih

Position

t'u

mien
shih

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ch'u
1

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place

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12

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IV

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LXV: 12
LXXXI 7
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XLV

Investigate

III

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Shape
To mention

LXIV:8

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ch'i

tao

Land
1

r73 cha2
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,

LIII

Position

tfa

to face

Area

Tik

Servants

mien

15 wt

LVI i3
L 5
XCVII

to get out.

VIII

Face

i3

Perpetual post

P"

Ti

to enter

Drop

773 ch'iief"

Tengfangi
Ti churh^

XCIX: 17
LXXXII 6
LXXXII 7

get hold of

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To vacate

Teng^

i3

Successful

To

tao shou^

LIV

VII
I

XVII

XXX

To pay over
To mention

XXXIV

Mentioned

IV:

To fall
To skip
To jump
To jump down

LIII

L:

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12

19

LVII

LXXVI
LIII

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Memorandum XXXVII

12,

lo

XXXVIII

Tieh^

Picked
LXI 4,5
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LXXXII ic
To remove
LXXII 5,LXXIX:
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hsi'ian

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"

(friends)

hand

"

Lfi

LXin :7
LIX:3

pi

Tsu" hao
Ha&' shou
Chih

quite-, thoroughly

LV:4
LXIV:

hao'3

,
'

fine

Hsii huo

smuggled

Ssu^ huo'^

supplied, for

Gossip

fg

Government, mode of
Governor General

XIII

Huo yin^

XLII:G

XCIV

i'an^

'

LVII
in :2

Cheng* chih

13

Tsung'^ tu

LXXVIII

Kuan^ chih

official

Gradually

5i

Chien

Lu
tlZJ^

Grain (and pulse)

chierli^

Kung

chien

lAang

XLIX
XXXIX
XO C.
:

hsu*

Liang' shih

shop

Grand Secretary

tiert

Graduates of low rank

12

XIV:8

Hsien

Grace
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V:6

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11

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to

filial

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Guild house,

If
a

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Guns
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pao3

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Guarantor

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sang

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15

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XIV 11
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III

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aiih"i

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Hanlin rank, of

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nao
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16

17

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LXXV
:

LXII 18
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find

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18

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LXXVIII 3

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11

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c chou3

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ti

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han'i cho
li

the administration

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19

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the market

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te

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15

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XCIV

luconvenienced, to be

Shou

XV

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Inaugurate

Hsingr ch'u

Incite

Incomparable

lei"

LXXIX
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^XCVII: II
LXXIII: 14
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L: 13
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Pei~ cWu\

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^
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chi-

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chin't C
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13

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miao XLI

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ch^iao

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VI

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a

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13

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LXXIX 4

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payments

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XXVI

LXIII

pi'*

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one's place
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LXXXIX
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LXXXII

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LXXVII
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ch'iao t'un^i

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19

::

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14

lo

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to receive

14

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XXIII

ch,i

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great

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fungi

XXII

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the

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hu

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po

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XCIV

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t3

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218
l-and tax

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fii

to

Ti

tsui

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fi^

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tung^

LVI;

lo

LIV

lo

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time

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XCI

hill

XXVI 11

nao

LXXXIV

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Laugh,

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LIX
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to

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become

II;

XI

LXIV

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Wang'- fa

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LXXVIII

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Lax
Leak out

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spend

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^^^
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stok, to

/!-'

12

freely)

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kao''

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the

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to

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XI
VI

t'in'g

Ts'ung huan

LIII

'

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:

14

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IV

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3
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wen

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Learned

17

14

i5

xciv

r.

11

26
3

219
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etc.

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ill

Levy

"

to

Levy,

1:4

Ping- t'an
Cheng I
Chengi s/
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fee

"

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LI

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LXXXI
:

fling

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II

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lO

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to

Library

nw

Pi^

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LV

clia

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LXXXIX
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5

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Life
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uq

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Like

XA'XVII

'

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Tui j-en-i
Liao'*

XXIX

ku

LXA'X

Hsien'* chih

Limited

Hsien' Hang LXXIII

Line of business, same

Pen hang'
Shou

Literature

dinner

Live, to

mai:!
'

f'li

ti

III

ssu

lA'teh n'L'ii

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t^ii

upon
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'

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XLII :6
mai XXVII

li

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:4
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LXXVII

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to

",

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2
3

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LA'XXV.
:

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20

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sheng^

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XXVII
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for

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one's

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fill,

to-

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14

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16

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18

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t'oi

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accounts
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money

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to

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suit

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of government

t'lDtf^

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1-2

10.

L.VIA

18

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in

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lender
to

.
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make

Mongol
Mongolia
Monopolise

mo

Ts'aP-

po

Chang chih
Fa ts'ai-^
Aleng

kit

K'oit Wai'i

II

LXXVI
/,-mLXII

LXVI

-2
:

LXXX:VlI:i;

V 7
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:

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224
LXXVI

h 1//7

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Moral advance
Morals customs

XCI 4
XCVII

More

fen^"^ ch'i

Mores habits
Morning s entertainment
:

Mortgage,

Tsao

'

Chih

Mostly

TV*

pan'*^

Fa^

titng

Move,

XXV:
LXXVI

chil-

to

Most, at the

Mount,

No^ XIV:

/ciLXXXIV

tsoii^

Movement

LVI
C 8

iMoving

Pan^

yi'in

LI

Much, too

T'*ai

man

LXX

Nagasaki
Name, in his
Names

SIS

CJiang'"^

^::;^

place

Near

9
(

LXXVIII
LIV G

T'li" huo'*

XXXVI

*i

Chi' kuan]

10

m ing'^
M{n<(' mu

Naturally

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cli

Jen

'

chitig'2

XXI
II

Lli

(J

1.

Shui'< skill

LVI II

Tso

XVI

chin''

18

XLVII
XXXII

shii

Yi(^ cJiien

Ch,ii

Native goods

LXVII

pi

Lien

'

}g

10

'.)

XXIX
LXXXVII

''

Mutually

accommodating

tei

view

15

Pan cilia
Huo- tung

n'"''

lU

LXXII
XCI 7
LI

Nung

Mushrooms
Must

14

V:9

XLV

to I

to

to

Nature

18

XCIV 4
LXIV:7

the

My

15

III

-2

225

Near the bank

"

"

K'ao

LXXVII
XCI; 13
LXXXII :6
XXV: 3

an't

Lin cWii

date

Necessarily

Tei3

Need, not

Pu'^jrungi

to

Pu yung s/jMolLXXIII

Needless to say

Negligence

Yiui hsiln

ACIl

Neighbour

Lii"

XXXII:

Neighbours

Chieh\

fang

Never

Weii

mind
News

Pu IUH

'

cli'atig2

Hsiao^ hsi

Newspaper

Next, the

Nominated

to a province,

tfil

Fe'Hi

fa

ChUii

It

8
i

XXXIII

Choui jrefi'*

Night, day and

LXXIX
XXVI

tfii'*

Hsiai

time

Hsin wen2
VII
Hsin wen chili^'VU
Ch'i

17

LXIV
XI

Hsin'i hsi

15

LIII

XXIV
LXXX:

XXVIII: 4

to get

North of Chihli,

"

to

the

the

Northern

Not

far off

only

,'

the least to do with

"

'Note'' the

Notes (bank)
to issue

Notice

board

'

Now
"

Pei^ fang

V 8
XXXIX

Pei^

LA'XI

Pu
Pu

fang

wai'^

hu

LII

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i5

p'iao''

i5

10

LX XXVI
pai
XIX 12

1 1

XI

chin

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LA'XI
(XXII:
r
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-,

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kanXVl

A'CVII

piao''

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tan',

just

pei3

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3 -

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Tang yen^

LIV

Obstinate

ChiU jan

XI
LVI

Obliged

for, to

be

7
i5

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LXXI

(illegally)
Occupy, to
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LVI
LI

Wu c/n'l

no

CK ai^
Twng

XXIV

shih

A'lV

ch*cii^

"

career

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LXVII

li

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chill

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Kuan^ cha" I 7
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XXI
1

^^

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10

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LVI

tii

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whole

/f

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j/i

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ih

5
:

10

mien shang A'CVl

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XLIII

Shao'i hsieh

the market

Chilli

ku'' chilis

A' VI

Omit

at

LXXXVII

conserva

' friends

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matters

" fashioned

post

Once,

Kuan^ chci" XVI 3

Kuan^ chi}" XLIX:4

portion

'

gradations

duties

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LXXXI
XXX: 3

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lo
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the

"

LXXXV

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12

12

XXVIII
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LXXXVI
XXXIX

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to

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"

case of theft,
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etc.)

shop)
(mining)

up, to

river

XXVII

shih''

cash shop

en^ ch ten^

14

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4
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lo

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LXVII

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k'aii

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',

10

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"

i3

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to

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LXIX 2

I.

LIII

LXXXVII
XXI 8
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Yuan pen^'
XXIV 2
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LXXVI 7
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,

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set

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general

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to

to

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2,

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mu

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21
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LXXVII

LXXIV

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Pawnbroker

^^^

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XXII
VIII

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XI JV

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IJV
LXII

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to

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out

over

up
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one

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LXXXIV:
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duty

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all

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middleman

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mm

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kindness

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ti

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XXIV

k,i4

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man

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"

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producers)

standing

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shih

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ch'iian^

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Ti*

pu

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XCIII 16
LXXIII :5

12

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in a

bureau, a

official

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LXXX

Prefects

and Magistrates

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pei

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to

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money

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15

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of

17

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pdw-i

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LXXXII

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Ch'Mi ch'a>i3

LXXXI

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to

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down

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