Chapter 21 Militarization Management
"Everyone stand at attention, don't move. The third person from the left in the second row, I'm talking to you!" the instructor roared. This was truly the worst class he had ever taught.
Although most people have understood the word "stand at attention", when the instructor says "stand at attention", they are not allowed to move and must stand straight, but there are always some people who can't figure it out.
After severely punishing the unfortunate guy with a ruler, the instructor stared at the team with a fierce look. He shuttled back and forth in the team, with sharp eyes like a falcon looking for prey in the sky. As long as he found someone making small movements or being lazy, the ruler in his hand would hit the offender hard on the body.
This ruler is made of dense mulberry wood, exactly one meter long. After processing, it is extremely tough and will leave a red mark on a person in an instant.
This is the Heixingen Military Academy. The cadets are doing morning exercises. The instructors of the entire academy are veterans of the army who have received rigorous training and experienced the baptism of war.
They brought the military's set of rules and regulations into the academy. The army of that era basically used corporal punishment. For the safety of these half-grown children, Ernst replaced the stick with a ruler, which only hurt the flesh but not the bones.
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“Ding, ding, ding…”
The bell rang and the students sat in the classroom. Because they had been "educated" before, they now sat upright on the stools, with their hands straight and close together, the palm of their right hand folded on the back of their left hand, their elbows bent at 60 degrees on the table, and their heads held high and their chests puffed out.
Ernst walked into the classroom with the lesson plan and went straight to the podium. He pointed at the leftmost student in the first row and said, "I will start calling the roll now! I will start with you."
There are exactly 100 students in each class, and there are five classes in total.
To facilitate early teaching, everyone was assigned a number instead of a name, and everyone had to memorize their number first.
This makes it easier for German instructors who do not speak Chinese to manage them. In the past few days, these trainees have learned some simple words, most of which are military instructions.
So even if you don’t understand what the instructor is saying, you can guess what he is going to do through these words.
"Now open the textbook to page five." Ernst spoke in Chinese, which the students could understand.
I saw that the fifth page of the book was all in German. Of course, these were not for them to read now. They just needed to listen to what Ernst said. There was someone else responsible for teaching German, and Ernst was mainly responsible for ideology.
But the rules cannot be broken, so Ernst also asked everyone to strictly protect this German and Italian textbook that is now incomprehensible. Of course, even if it is written in Chinese, these students probably cannot understand it. After all, there were too many illiterate people in the East at that time, and ordinary people could not receive education.
"This class is mainly about the Hohenzollern family." Ernst said seriously: "You may ask which family the Hohenzollern family is and what Hohenzollern means?"
The students below began to listen to Ernst's story. They really didn't know what Ernst was talking about, but Ernst's lecture was about some common sense about Germany and German cultural traditions. The students just listened to it as if it were a story. After all, in an era without media and self-media as entertainment, listening to these exotic things felt very novel.
"You should all know what a family is. It is a group of people who are related to you by blood, such as your parents, brothers and sisters..."
Ernst tried his best to use easy-to-understand language to instill ideas in these students: "We already know what a family is, so now let's explain what Hohenzollern means. Hohen means noble in German, and Soren is a place name and also the name of the family. You look at the castle Soren Castle in the distance every day. This sentence means the noble Soren family."
Ernst spoke eloquently: "So what does noble mean? Just like the dignitaries in your previous place, that is, high-ranking officials and royal relatives, in a word, it means 'nobles'."
"And Soren is the name of my family. My family originated from Soren, so we used the place name as our family name. In addition, our family has a very prominent position in Europe, so we added a noble name to our name, which is Hohen. Do you understand now? If you don't understand, you can ask me."
Ernst looked at these students. Apparently no one wanted to be the first to stand out. Ernst simply called out their names, "Sieben (seven), do you understand? Don't pretend to know something when you don't."
When the student code-named seven was called, he timidly replied, "Principal, I don't fully understand."
"What don't you understand? You can just tell me directly. Don't worry, I won't blame you." Ernst asked in a friendly manner.
"Principal, you said that Hohen is noble, but I don't know how noble it is. Can we use something from our hometown as a reference?"
Ernst was satisfied with the answer. "Very good. Let me tell you this. Who do you think has the most power in your hometown? Who is the most powerful person in the world?"
"Reporting to the instructor, I heard from my master that the official is the most powerful, and the most powerful among the officials is the emperor who lives in Zijing City in the capital." No. 7 replied.
Ernst nodded and said, "That's right. In your East, the person with the highest status and most honor is your emperor. You can also understand the highest status in the Hohenzollern family as the emperor, that is, the king of the Kingdom of Prussia. Of course, you don't need to know what Prussia is. You can just understand the Hohenzollern family as the royal family."
Ernst continued, "And I, your principal, am a member of the royal family. My father is a prince in your East. I think you should know what a prince is. It is a person whose status is second only to the emperor."
Although what he said was inappropriate, Ernst just wanted to emphasize the dignity of the Hohenzollern family and instill the power of the Hohenzollern family into these children who didn't understand much.
Ernst went on to say: "And from today on, you must remember one thing, that is, the Emperor of the East, that is, your emperor, is no longer your emperor." Looking at the ignorant young men who were looking at each other in bewilderment.
Ernst further deceived: "From today on, you have a new identity, that is, Germans, because you are already German citizens, and the German emperor is your emperor."
Ernst had thought carefully about the reason for doing this. He had to instill a new identity in these students, or in the words of later generations, to change their world view, outlook on life and values.
After all, Ernst will employ these people to maintain his rule in the future, and he can't let them play any tricks like "Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers born with different species?"
Russia had a Yellow Russia plan in its history, and Ernst is now also carrying out the Yellow Germany plan, but the difference is that Ernst really wants to integrate the two different ethnic groups.
Therefore, most of the Eastern immigrants selected by Ernst were illiterate peasants. Ernst did not want any of the "reactionary" intellectuals. Of course, there were also those "religions" and "clans", which were all strictly controlled by Ernst. No one was allowed to get in.
In the future, there will be only one unified country with pan-German cultural identity in East Africa, and everyone will have only one nationality, which must be German. This is determined by Ernst's background. People who betray their own class often do not have a good end. This is what Ernst thinks deep in his heart.
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After completely deviating from the textbooks, Ernst frantically instilled his own ideas into the minds of these ignorant teenagers. It can be said that Ernst was not here to teach, his purpose was to brainwash these students.
This is done for the harmony and stability of the future colonies. Any unstable factors under the future world wave will not be tolerated in Ernst's eyes.
Dear book friends, the author is not good at naming, so I have started to collect the backgrounds and names of the students of the Heixingen Military Academy. If they are suitable for this article, they may be adopted in the future. Please post them in the book circle.
(End of this chapter)
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