I have received all your letters, and I will remit you another 500 yen here. Since my son has gone to China and it's only April, why do you want to take away my daughter's career? What a strange thing! You go here to study. Study hard first, you don't have to make friends to pay the bill. Money worth 1000 dollars is enough for one year. Why not use it up before April? If your application is reasonable, although you earn 100 yuan a day, your strength is enough for you, especially if you are not an ear. If you waste so much, eating and drinking will not be extravagant, and there will be other expenses in your daily life.

You also read Mencius? A person who has made great achievements must first suffer from his mind, his bones and muscles, his body and skin, and his body before he can achieve anything. My son depends on your father's protection, so we don't need this. However, we should also understand the difficulties of the draft and do our duty of learning. If not, I can't help it if I return to China after my studies. I'm afraid I can't hope for you from time to time! It's great to waste your energy and energy and your time because you have less money. I wrote to warn you before that you must study hard. How can you forget? Time is precious, learning is not easy, and there is sweetness in bitterness. You should know for yourself, don't be trained by the old people.

Translation of Fu Zishu

I already know everything in your letter. Now I will remit you another 500 yen. You have only been abroad for four months. Why did you spend all the money you brought? This is very strange! The purpose of your going abroad this time is to study. Study should focus on hard work, and you don't have to worry about making friends and socializing. You have brought enough money for more than a year. Why did it run out in less than four months? If you spend it in the right place, even if you spend 100 yuan a day, I can afford it according to my financial resources. But you shouldn't. Besides, such waste must not be spent on diet and daily life, but must be spent on other things.

Have you read Mencius? Anyone who does something must first suffer from his own heart and let his body suffer from hunger, trouble and worry before he can make a difference in the future. You don't need to do this, because you have my father's protection, but you should know the hardships of labor and do your duty to study. If you don't, even if you return to China after your studies, you will certainly be unable to do anything. If you do this now, I may give up hope for you in the future! Spending money is a trivial matter, but it is a big thing because it wastes study, energy and time. I have written to warn you before that you must study hard. How could you forget? Time is precious and learning is not easy. You should experience the joys and sorrows in the middle, and don't live up to the old man's teaching.

Extended data:

Zhang Zhidong was the leader of the Qing school in his early years and later became the main representative of the Westernization School. In education, he founded Qiangzi School (now the predecessor of Wuhan University), Sanjiang Normal School (now the predecessor of Nanjing University), Hubei Agricultural School, Hubei Wuchang Mengyang College, Hubei Technology School, Ci 'en School (Nanpi No.1 Middle School) and Guangya Academy. Politically, it advocates that "middle school is the body and western learning is the use". In industry, Hanyang Iron Works, Daye Iron Mine and Hubei Gun Works have been established.

When Eight-Nation Alliance invaded, Dagubao fell, and Zhang Zhidong, together with Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, negotiated with the consul in Shanghai about "mutual insurance in the southeast" and suppressed the self-defense uprising of the reformists such as Tang, Gui Lin and Qin Lishan. In the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu (1908), he died the following year in order to take care of the life of the Jin Taizi Taibao. There are complete works of Zhang Wenxiang. Zhang Zhidong, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and Zuo are called "four famous ministers of ZTE in the late Qing Dynasty".