Transmigration: A Farm Girl’s Brocade

These students, almost all from impoverished families, also bore the title of Scholar. The Imperial Court promised that once they had studied abroad for a few years and returned, they would be directly granted the title of Graduate and could either enter the Yamen or teach at the Imperial College.

Among the students, there were a few exceptions, one being Liang Jinzhen, who caused a fuss about going to the foreign barbarian country to study his beloved mathematics. Another was Yi Gege, Pan Zhanyi, who wanted to experience a different world.

There were also Qian Yide and Cai Xiaoji.

Qian Yide inherited Old Master Qian’s adventurousness and speculative nature, believing that this journey would transform him upon his return. He believed that he might not necessarily qualify as a Graduate like his elder cousin Qian Yishan, so he preferred to go overseas, thinking that it might be even more respectable than being a Graduate.

Cai Xiaoji, on the other hand, spoke excellent foreign barbarian language and served as the interpreter for these students studying abroad.

Although these students had learned foreign barbarian language in advance from Sean and Jack, their proficiency was still inadequate. Sean and Jack were not going to stay in the native land with the students; they were to return to Daqian with Prince Yonghe. Thus Cai Xiaoji acted as the interpreter there, having learned the foreign barbarian language fluently from two foreigners since childhood.

For this, Qian Yixiu had even released him from servitude. Since he did not bear the Scholar title, His Majesty the Emperor exceptionally promised to grant him the title of Graduate upon his return.

The purpose of this overseas journey was to establish diplomatic relations, engage in mutual learning and exchange, sell the goods on the ship, and buy things needed by the Great Qian Kingdom. Of course, they also prepared a gift for the king there, namely the Nation’s Essence: Double-sided Embroidery Screen from the Great Qian Kingdom.

Qian Yixiu greatly admired the foreign policies of Emperor Mingle, Zhu Sujin, who implemented the strategy of befriending distant states while attacking nearby ones. Apart from a few large islands which had already established their own countries and were left untouched, smaller islands had been occupied by the Great Qian Kingdom. Not only were troops stationed there, but impoverished people were also sent to live there, and intermarriage between Great Qian people and the natives was encouraged.

Future small Southeast Asian countries had already been preemptively occupied by the Great Qian Kingdom and would not fall under the colonial rule of certain other nations.

Moreover, the Great Qian Kingdom’s navy warships were always patrolling nearby maritime areas, acting like an "international police."

They aimed to establish mutually beneficial diplomatic and regular trade relationships with the countries across the vast ocean.