African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 108 History Lesson

1867 12 Month 7 Day.

Colonial East Africa, Mlandizi Cultural School.

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

A month ago, Queen Carlota arrived in East Africa. 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 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, and now she just wants to spend the rest of her life with her beloved.

After Tanga and Maximilian I staged a love affair, Queen Carlotta expressed her willingness to live with Maximilian I in East Africa for some time.

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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.

The difference from Europe 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 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 soil space in the middle or on both sides of the road to let weeds 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 still civil structures, but the open space between the yard and the houses is about [-] square meters, which is also convenient for subsequent renovation and upgrading.

The drains are mainly behind the houses, which are currently open air. According to the strange law in East Africa, residents are not allowed to discharge sewage in the public drains behind the houses. The drains are 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 paved with cement pipes, but in East Africa in this era, hygiene must be the first priority, and the hotbed of tropical diseases is not a joke.

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

Both the couple were interested in the content of education in the East African colonies, and they wanted to know what was taught in such a backward place (compared to Europe) and what was taught in Europe.

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

Although 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 the two 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 [-] to [-] students in the class, including children of Chinese immigrants and children of immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Paraguay immigrants need a separate Spanish teacher), and 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 have mastered 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 have learned 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 colonial schools in East Africa are relatively low-level, and most people just need to read the textbooks according to the textbooks.

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 Carlotta in a low voice.

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

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

Chapter 1, unsurprisingly, is a tribute to the Hohenzollern family, emphasizing the rulership of the Hechingen royal family over the East African lands, and the long history of the Hechingen royal family and the Hohenzollern family.

Naturally, these young children don't feel awkward looking at them, so they just 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 (disgusted).

And reading extracurricular books (books that are not tested in fact), 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 readers' enthusiasm.

And Maximilian I and Queen Carlotta suppressed their smiles and read the last part of Chapter 1.

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 still a little less sophisticated.

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, gods, etc., 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) made the royal family of Hexingen look very solemn and majestic. The reason for this is to avoid religion.

Immigrants in East Africa now have various beliefs, but there are no churches and priests, and residents, whether they are Catholic or Orthodox, can only rely on ancestral experience to engage in some spontaneous prayers and other activities.

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

It doesn't have 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)