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Chapter 1047 – 1043 【Literacy Class】

Chapter 1047 1043 [literacy class]

Hotita Yoshimasa was a little disappointed. These twenty Japanese students could not go directly to the headquarters of Jinling University to study.

Because the number of literacy class students in Jinling University is increasing, it simply established a branch campus in the suburbs. The classes are all small, with no more than 25 students in each class, because there are too many students to teach.

They wandered around Nanjing for half a month, and then they were arranged to study in school.

Students from different places were broken up and organized into classes. In the literacy class that Yoshimasa Horita was in, there were only six Japanese, five from Mongolia, two from Tibet, four from the southwest, six from the northeast, one from North Korea, and one from overseas.

Anyway, no matter where they come from, they all wear Confucian uniforms issued by the school.

A teacher walked into the classroom and asked, “Who can speak Chinese? Raise your right hand.”

In an instant, a quarter of the students raised their right hands.

The teacher wrote on the blackboard again: “Who can write Chinese characters, but can’t speak Chinese? Also raise your right hand.”

All the Japanese students, as well as the North Korean student, raised their right hands in unison.

The teacher muttered to himself: “This class is not bad. Last time I was too tired from teaching that class.”

For the rest of the time, the teacher is talking and writing, teaching these students to read and write one, two, three, four, five.

Of course Yoshimasa Hotta can write numbers, but he can’t read them.

It’s fine if you can’t read at all, but the pronunciation of Japanese numbers is somewhat similar to the pronunciation of Chinese numbers. Therefore, the learning speed is very fast, but the accent after learning is not as good as that of Mongolian students.

For a whole day, only teaching these five numbers, Horita Yoshimasa was so bored that he almost fell asleep.

He likes the school cafeteria the most, where meat can be eaten every meal, which is much better than the food in Edo. The dormitory conditions are also good, even better than the headquarters of Jinling University. Who would let international students pay more for accommodation?

The tuition fees for foreign students have already increased.

Hotita Yoshimasa’s annual tuition fee is 120 taels of silver, and the annual accommodation fee is 40 taels of silver, and he has to pay for meals by himself.

Compared to the minority students in China, that is really super preferential treatment. Tuition and accommodation fees are free, you can also receive meal tickets every year, and you can take the boat and car at the post station for free when you go home.

In the dormitory of Yoshimasa Horita, there was a Tibetan student. It took more than three months for them to have simple exchanges.

This is also because Tibetan students can speak a little Chinese.

“Are you an aristocrat from Tibet?” Hotta Yoshimasa asked.

The Tibetan student named Langga replied, “I am not an aristocrat. My father used to be a slave.”

Hotita Yoshimasa felt uncomfortable in an instant, and he actually lived in the same room with a slave for more than three months. He suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, and asked curiously, “Can the son of a slave also study in Nanjing?”

Lang Ga explained: “The imperial court occupied Kham for a year, and many chieftains rebelled. My father helped the army as a guide. After the chaos was settled, he was appointed as the mayor of the town.”

However, Tibet is divided into Kham area and Snow area, Kham area is under the jurisdiction of Sichuan, and the Snow area engages in ethnic autonomy.

After the decree of the complete release of slaves in Kham was promulgated, the chieftains rebelled collectively. It took the Datong Army two and a half years to completely quell the rebellion, killing all the chieftains in Kham in one go, and arranging Tibetans who were close to the Datong Army to be officials.

In the snow area, some chieftains also followed suit and rebelled, and all those who caused trouble were also killed. Immediately afterwards, the Datong Army built three cities in the snow area. 1,500 troops were stationed in Lhasa, and 1,000 troops were stationed in each of the other two cities. Prisoners exiled in Tibet were given priority to be placed around the three cities.

Killed all the chieftains, freed the slaves, and distributed grassland and farmland. The Datong Army had a high prestige in Kham, and the majority of Tibetans supported the imperial court from the bottom of their hearts.

“After you studied in Nanjing, can you become an official when you return to Kham?” asked Yoshisa Horita.

Langa’s character is honest and friendly, and he said all the beans in the bamboo tube: “My father can’t write, and all the Tibetans in the town can’t write. My brother learned to write. He went back to work as an assistant for his father, but after two years I was sick and died before. The Shangguan was very upset and said that every time he delivered official documents, he had to arrange for someone to read it out to my father in Tibetan. My brother died, so he sent me to study in Nanjing, and I will be my father’s assistant after returning. .When my father dies, I can be the mayor.”

Kyoshi Horita has a general understanding of the situation and knows that this is the ruling method of the Nanjing court.

Langa continued: “There is also a school in Kham, but it is too far away from our town, and it takes five days to get there. I heard from my father that our town will also build a school, and it will be completed in at most 20 years. The Shangguan told my father.”

The main reason is that Kham-Tibet has a large area and few people, and school construction is very troublesome.

The so-called town is nothing more than a meadow and several settlements that have been combined and classified as administrative districts. If the townspeople are far apart, they will have to walk for a day or two to visit each other.

Came to the classroom again, Horita Yoshi was subconsciously looking at the map.

The world map is posted on the classroom wall. Before it could be updated, the newly occupied territory, including Ezo Island, was not marked.

But that’s big enough!

There is a geography class every ten days to teach students to recognize Chinese maps and cultivate a sense of national identity and pride for ethnic minority students. At the same time, it also cultivates the reverence and fear of China for foreign students.

Hotita Yoshi was looking at the land of Japan, looking a little bit like a poor bug.

And China next to it has such a vast territory.

He occasionally wanders into the city, or visits Changganli outside Nancheng. China’s wealth and strength have long been engraved into his bones.

The other Japanese students studying abroad are similar, they are all children of famous families. To tell the truth, there is no motivation for them to work hard to revitalize Japan, because it would kill them.

When these people return to Japan, of course they will also bring culture, art and science with them. But more, it is to spread admiration for China. They will be very proud, talk about their experience of studying abroad, and scoff at everything in Japan. If there is friction between Japan and China, they will try their best to reconcile the conflict, because in their minds, China is invincible.

“Horita-kun, let’s fight!” A Japanese student ran into the classroom.

Hotita Yoshimasa hurriedly asked, “Who did you call?”

“Zhao Fuchen!” The man replied.

Zhao Fuchen is actually a Mongolian student. In today’s Mongolian grasslands, tribal leaders all have Chinese names, and all the surnames are Zhao.

What’s more nonsense is that if the head of those small tribes in Mongolia dared to be surnamed Zhao, they would be suppressed by the big tribes—do you deserve the surname Zhao?

The surname Zhao has become the exclusive honor of the Mongolian nobles.

On the playground, hundreds of students are watching the game, and there are even Kachin from Myanmar. Of course, after the Datong army took over, they didn’t bother to name it separately, and classified the Kachin ethnic group as the Dai ethnic group.

The Kachin students are not outrageous, and there is also an Armenian student!

Armenia is located at the crossroads of religion, race, and culture in the world. More than a hundred years ago, they were expelled from Persia, followed the Portuguese to Myanmar, and became an important force in the founding of the Taungoo Dynasty in Myanmar.

The Pingnan Military and Civilian Mansion built a city in northern Myanmar. Due to the lack of craftsmen, they directly brought those Armenians there. Now, they have also become citizens of China, and young people with outstanding performance are recommended to study in Nanjing. Acquiring knowledge is still the second thing, let them see some of the prosperity and power of Nanjing.

“come on! Come on!”

All kinds of accents come and go on the playground.

The word “come on” has been around for a long time, and now it is very popular in Meizizhou Stadium, and then spread to schools inside and outside Nanjing.

There are rules in the school that fights are not allowed.

Fighting privately will be punished, but there is still a chance to reform. Those who fought in groups were directly expelled, and those who used equipment were also directly expelled.

Therefore, this is a one-on-one match right now, and their friends are cheering around.

I saw Zhao Fuchen, a Mongolian student. Although he is not tall, he is extremely stout. And Naoxing Ii from Japan is as thin as a monkey.

“what!”

Zhao Fuchen cried out in pain, but it was he who was going to fall down Jing Yi Zhixing again, and was bitten severely by the opponent’s mouth.

“Bite, you really are an uncivilized beast!” Zhao Fuchen scolded.

Jing Yi Naoxing argued: “Soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent. Do you not allow the enemy to attack at night or defend the city when you are marching and fighting? Do you have to fight with you on horseback on the grassland?”

Zhao Fuchen said: “Dogs bite people!”

Ii Naoxing said: “Wolves can bite people. Wild beasts can bite people. I’m just learning from wild beasts.”

Zhao Fuchen waved: “Come, come, beat me again, you are allowed to bite, see if I don’t beat you to death today!”

The two fought again, and the future shogunate Ii Naoxing was thrown to the ground by Zhao Fuchen like a broken sack.

The teacher finally came and asked the reason for the fight.

It was Naoxing Ii who boasted about how awesome those big names were during the Sengoku period in Japan. He also said that his ancestor, Naomasa Ii, was not only among the Three Heroes of Tokugawa, the Four Heavenly Kings of Tokugawa, and the Sixteen Generals of Tokugawa, but he was also the youngest among them.

Zhao Fuchen was very disdainful when he heard this, saying that the Japanese Warring States Period was monkey fighting.

Ii Naoxing immediately became angry, saying that no matter how powerful the Mongols were, they would be blown into the sea by a gust of wind to feed the fish, and that Genghis Khan would never conquer Japan.

So, a verbal fight quickly turned into a fight.

After listening, the teacher said immediately: “You two, copy the new words taught yesterday five hundred times each!”

“what?”

Mongolian students and Japanese students are stupid, especially Mongolian students, making him copy is worse than corporal punishment.

At this moment, a Miao (actually Tujia) student rushed to the playground and shouted: “Great victory in the Western Regions, great victory in the Western Regions, the imperial court has recovered the Western Regions!”

Where is the Western Region?

Hotita Yoshimasa didn’t realize it for a while, it seemed that Tang Seng passed by to learn scriptures.

The battle to recover the Western Regions was carried out at the same time as the battle to conquer Japan.

Although two divisions were dispatched to conquer Japan, it was very convenient to travel by sea. The maritime merchants expelled by Japan even delivered military rations to the imperial court for free.

The money and food spent to recover the Western Regions was more than ten times that of conquering Japan.

(end of this chapter)