Chapter 108： history class

Chapter 108 History Lesson

December 7, 1867.

East African Colony, Mlandizi Cultural School.

Today, the Cultural School of the First Town (Mrandizi) welcomed two special "students", Maximilian I and his wife Queen Carlotta.

A month ago, Queen Carlota arrived in East Africa. At that time, for the safety of her future mother-in-law, Ernst personally arranged for her own ship, vacated a boat, and came to East Africa with the fleet.

Seeing the safe and sound Maximilian I in Tanga, East Africa, Queen Carlota and Maximilian I embraced and wept.

As the person who had encouraged Maximilian I, after Maximilian I was arrested and imprisoned in Mexico, Queen Carlota shed tears every day in Europe and suffered a lot.

The disaster in Mexico made Queen Carlota abandon her fantasy of becoming a queen. Now she just wants to spend the rest of her life with her beloved.

After Tanga and Maximilian I played a show of love, Queen Carlota expressed her willingness to live with Maximilian I in East Africa for some days.

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It was the first time for Maximilian I to visit the first town (Mrandizi), the seat of the central government of East Africa.

The first town, as the first city developed in East Africa (towns, some European cities are small, are actually towns), its scale is slightly smaller than that of Dar es Salaam, but the planning and facilities are obviously more complete, and Architecture and culture reflect the style of the German region everywhere.

It is slightly different from Europe in that it lies in the local natural landscape, environmental climate and some East African urban facilities planned by Ernst himself.

For example, street trees and green belts, which are hard to see in European cities at present. Of course, the green belts in the East African colonies are very simple, which is to reserve a piece of soil in the middle or on both sides of the road to allow weeds to grow by themselves.

The most indispensable thing in the East African colonies is land, so the urban planning is very wild, and it is good to pursue big everywhere. Although the current scale and level of roads are not up to the mark, the reserved places have been reserved and can be directly used in the future. Upgrade city roads.

Therefore, on both sides of the road paved with bricks and stones, except for the green belt, there is still a large open space, and the houses and buildings on both sides are separated by the road. ) looks more open.

The houses on both sides are mainly built on one floor. At present, many of them are civil structures, but the open space between the yard and the houses is about 100 square meters, which is also convenient for subsequent renovation and upgrading.

The drainage channel is mainly behind the house, which is currently open-air. The strange law in East Africa stipulates that residents are not allowed to discharge sewage in the public drainage channel behind the house. The drainage channel is mainly used to deal with precipitation in the rainy season.

This is done to prevent the drain from becoming a stinky ditch. You must know that in the environment of East Africa, especially the coastal plain like the first town, the temperature is relatively high throughout the year. Once the sewage is fermented, it can be washed away by the rain in time during the rainy season. , and the weather is dry during the dry season, the sewage can only be left in the drains, breeding various bacteria and attracting flies.

Of course, with the development of the future, it doesn’t matter if the open-air canals are covered with cement pipes, but in East Africa in this era, hygiene must be the first priority, and the hotbeds of tropical diseases are not a joke.

Maximiliano I and his wife saw the Cultural School of the First Town when they first arrived in the First Town. Because the construction of the Wenhua School in the First Town was late, it was built on the outskirts of the town.

Both the couple are interested in the educational content of the East African colonies. They want to know what is taught in such a backward place (compared with Europe) and what is different in Europe.

In Mexico, Maximilian I had no time to show his ambitions. The whole country was in chaos, so there was no energy for education.

Even though the conditions in East Africa are relatively poor, they can still provide compulsory education, which naturally aroused the interest of the couple, so Maximilian I offered to experience the schools in East Africa.

The East African colonial government sent someone to arrange for two people to visit the cultural school in the first town.

First Town Cultural School, the first grade classroom was full of students, and Maximilian I and his wife were arranged to sit in the temporary seats behind.

There are about 30 to 40 students in the class, including the children of Chinese immigrants and the children of immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Paraguayan immigrants need a separate Spanish teacher). The teacher is a graduate of the Hechingen Military Academy.

As the seat of the central government of East Africa, the teaching staff of the First Town Cultural School is the best in East Africa.

You must know that the Hechingen Military Academy and other schools run by the Hechingen royal family are actually crash courses, so the level of the students is uneven.

Many students, by the time they graduate, can at most be able to converse in German and master some German words.

But East Africa is too short of people, so no matter how poor their grades are, they will be sent to teach in the East African colonies.

Those who are smart and learn a lot will be taken to the upper grades, and those who are not very smart and poor in learning will be taken to the lower grades.

Fortunately, the textbooks in the East African colonial schools are relatively low-level, and most people only need to read the textbooks according to the text.

This section is a history lesson. Maximilian I opened the textbooks of the East African colonies and read them with relish, and kept complaining to Queen Carlota in a low voice.

The teaching graduates of Hexingen automatically ignored the small gestures of Maximilian I and his wife. After all, they knew that these two were distinguished guests invited by the government.

Because of the current diversity of immigrants in the East African colonies, in the first grade, teachers have to use bilingual teaching, and later, from the second grade, they will fully switch to German teaching. Therefore, Chinese children must overcome the language barrier if they want to achieve results.

The first chapter, no accident, is the eulogy of the Hohenzollern family, emphasizing the rulership of the Hexingen royal family over the land of East Africa, and the long history of the Hechingen royal family and the Hohenzollern family.

These young children naturally don’t feel awkward looking at them, so they listen to them as stories. History textbooks are actually extracurricular readings, and there are no exams.

This is also a trick played by Ernst. When a course requires an exam, there will always be a group of people who will be disgusted (weary of learning).

As for reading extracurricular books (actually books that do not take exams), the younger you are, the more addictive you are. Just like novels, the more you read, the more addictive you become. However, taking novels as the content of the exam will greatly discourage the enthusiasm of readers.

And Maximilian I and Queen Carlota suppressed their smiles and read the last part of the first chapter.

After all, when it comes to history and inheritance, many families in Europe are more prominent than the Hohenzollern family, especially in front of the Habsburg family, the Hohenzollern family is not as good as it is.

Of course, every noble family in Europe publicizes its prominent status and long history to the outside world, so this is not the reason why Maximilian I broke the defense. more exaggerated.

What made Maximilian I two feel funny was the last description of the royal family of Hechingen, which was no different from the savior.

This did not wrong Ernst, the final content is the method of religious narrative, the myth of the status of the royal family of Hechingen.

It’s just that Ernst was more reserved, and didn’t explicitly mention any gods, such as God, such as the so-called descendants of the Japanese royal family, the so-called descendants of Amaterasu, the Egyptian pharaoh who called himself the son of the sun god, and the Far Eastern royal family Taishan Fengzen....

Instead, the use of speech techniques (yes, that of the Blue Sky Project) to make the royal family of Hexingen look very solemn and majestic. The reason for this is to avoid religion.

The current immigrants in East Africa have all kinds of beliefs, but there are no churches and priests. Residents, whether they are Catholic or Orthodox, can only rely on ancestral experience to engage in some spontaneous prayers and other activities.

Ernst is aiming at secularization. It is difficult to force these adults to give up their beliefs, but it is still very easy to change the thinking of these children.

It doesn’t need to go too far, as long as the education and sports are not implanted with religious colors like the current European ones (many religious schools in Europe).

If you don’t learn and repeat, people’s memory will gradually fade away. Relying on the spontaneous inheritance of those religious traditions by the East African people will never be worth the elaboration and dissemination of a professional organization (referring to the church).

(end of this chapter)