Chapter 1071: Taming in Progress (3rd update, please subscribe)

Japan is the empire's model colony!

This sentence is never mentioned in public. Why is it not mentioned?

Because officially speaking, the Ming Dynasty never regarded Japan as a "colony". At least on the surface, the Protectorate of Japan implemented the merger under the high-sounding reason of "union tomorrow".

Even if one knows in his heart that this is a settlement, or a colony of a slightly higher level, one cannot reveal such thoughts.

It is also for this reason that the Ming Dynasty never regarded Japan as an ordinary colony, but rather as some kind of overseas province. At least in all official documents and verbal statements, it was regarded as an overseas province.

Of course, this kind of overseas province needs to be reformed, and the so-called reform is naturally "imperialization."

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is domestication, and the first step of domestication is definitely not some means like shaving the head and changing clothes. It is language. Although it is impossible to change the language of these indigenous people all at once, it must be placed in the most important position.

It is for this reason that the imperialization education began from the day the Protectorate was established. According to the actual situation, the Protectorate established schools while promoting national language education, that is, Chinese language education in the schools.

The Ming Empire's "imperial education" is a long and arduous task that cannot be accomplished overnight.

In short, the first step is the language barrier.

This language barrier is implemented through education, and Mandarin must be promoted in schools. Although they will inevitably speak Japanese in their daily lives with their families and the outside world, when this generation of Japanese people grows up, they will take the initiative to gradually reduce their Japanese and switch to Mandarin conversations.

According to Emperor Zhu's plan, it would take about twenty to thirty years, or one generation, to turn Japanese from mainstream to non-mainstream, and two to three generations to turn it into history, or rather, into the regional intangible cultural heritage of the Ming Dynasty.

This will take about 50 to 60 years. As long as half a century is enough, three to five generations of Japanese people who cannot speak Japanese will be trained. By that time, they will be no different from the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this is all later.

Everything must be based on the present, and the present is... Japan is absolutely worthy of being a model colony of the empire. Here live 26 million imperial subjects who are loyal to the empire.

However, the imperial subjects of the empire were always full of envy for the people of the empire. When a bus with "Imperial Study Tour Group" written on the body was driving on the streets of Edo, the people around it all looked at it with envy.

The Imperial Study Tour Group...all the people on the bus are from the Empire!

Five years ago, in order to deepen the next generation's understanding of the empire, the Imperial Ministry of Culture cooperated with the Immigration Bureau and other institutions to establish the "Imperial Study Tour Association", using the empty cabins of immigration ships to organize students to travel by ship to places including the Northern Territory, the Japanese Protectorate and African colonies for study tours, allowing them to gain an intuitive understanding of the empire's overseas provinces and colonies.

After all, many of them either became officials at the core of the empire and participated in the formulation of colonial policies, or went to overseas provinces and colonies as officials to exercise ruling responsibilities for the empire.

"Since the first batch of 'Japanese women' arrived in Nanhua as 'contract maids' in 1864, and then the Empire established the Protectorate of Japan, a large number of Japanese women went to the Empire as maids. More than 6 million Japanese women have married into the Empire. From this point of view, the Empire and Japan are connected by blood!"

The tour guide was a young Japanese woman, wearing a Japanese-style kimono. The kimono originated from Hanfu, but was slightly different from Hanfu, which is also a characteristic of Japan. Her voice was a typical Japanese woman's voice - soft and sweet.

Of course, it will always make those teenagers who are in adolescence feel a little excited. In fact, for the students of Yizhou Sixth National Middle School, when they learned that they were going to study in Japan, they all shouted excitedly.

As we all know, Japan...it's a paradise for men!

Why heaven?

Because here, even the most ordinary Ming men can have many romantic encounters. When the gentle and affectionate women see the Ming men, they can't even tie their skirts. In the eyes of the women, all Ming men are strong and have muscular bodies. It is obvious that they cannot live without meat.

The younger a teenager is, the more he or she will have certain desires and impulses.

"Right in front of you is the old street of Edo..."

The female tour guide introduced with a slightly inferior tone,

"As you can see, the buildings here are all traditional Japanese-style buildings, mainly made of wood. Although they are simple and short, Japan is an earthquake-prone area. Even if these light wooden structures collapse during an earthquake, they will not cause many casualties."

“That’s also an advantage…”

Sun Yat-sen murmured to himself, looking at the city outside the car that resembled a traditional Chinese city, and he seemed a little excited.

As the saying goes, seeing is believing!

Although the empire has advanced technology and a prosperous economy, before coming to Japan, many of them felt that everything here was not worth mentioning except for the women. When they actually came to Japan, they could not help but be shocked by the unique local culture.

Sun Wen, who came to Edo for the first time, was unable to sleep all night like most of his classmates, and was even in a very excited state for the next few days.

They were excited and thrilled not only because they saw a unique culture, but also because they felt the power and vastness of the empire.

The long journey from the empire's homeland across the vast Pacific Ocean to Japan made all of them deeply feel the vastness of the empire. It was also during this study tour that an early view of the empire was formed in the hearts of these young people of the empire.

What is the imperial view?

This is the formation of a rather complex outlook on life, but one thing is certain: once a complete view of empire is formed in their hearts, they will take the initiative to safeguard the interests of the empire. They will be well aware of the importance of the empire's overseas provinces and colonies to the empire, and will do everything possible to protect them.

This is also the reason why the "Imperial Study Tour" was launched, which is to help the young people of the empire fully understand the empire's distant overseas territories and colonies.

Rather than giving up easily at some point in the future due to lack of understanding, or because their understanding of the colonies is limited to words and pictures, they would be like the British Labour government after World War II. Those senior Labour officials who had never set foot outside the British Isles not only had no feelings for the colonies, but also did not understand the importance of colonies to Britain at all. In order to win the votes of the people, they gave up Britain's hundreds of years of foundation with the spirit of "castrating themselves".

This "self-castration" saved Britain from having to bear heavy military expenses and colonial expenses. When they invested those funds in their homeland under the pretext of improving people's livelihood, the fate of the British Empire was doomed. When the huge empire collapsed, it took the British economy more than 20 years to get out of the shadow of the war. After the end of World War I, relying on transfusions and markets from the colonies, it took Britain only ten years to fully recover.

After losing its colonies, Britain became a second-rate country.

Ultimately, the collapse of the British colonial empire, despite external pressure, was essentially due to the short-sightedness of the Labour government.

For Emperor Zhu, this was a lesson learned, and it was for this reason that he instructed the government to establish the "Imperial Study Abroad Association". This type of study abroad was not limited to the children of the imperial elites, but involved the majority of young people throughout the empire.

Studying abroad helps them understand overseas and form a preliminary "imperial perspective", which is beneficial rather than harmful to the future of the empire.

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