Chapter 1072: The Sun and the Moon Will Shine Forever, and the Country Will Prosper Forever (Fourth Update, Please Subscribe)
"While teenagers in Europe and America were struggling to survive in dark sweatshops, and their tender faces were losing their innocence due to heavy work, on the other side of the earth, there was a group of teenagers traveling around the empire in the sunshine, feeling the prosperity and wealth of the empire..."
For the children in Japan, they are happy.
While their peers in Europe and America were toiling in dark sweatshops, they were being educated in classrooms under the compulsion of the law.
Although Japan is an overseas province of the empire, it implements the same six-year compulsory education as the Ming Dynasty. Children here not only receive free compulsory education, but also receive free lunch in primary and secondary schools. Compared with the children in sweatshops in Europe, the children in Japan are undoubtedly full of happiness. This is of course the reason why the Japanese people are loyal to the empire.
In order to reduce the cost of studying abroad, the group would have lunch at a nearby school. As usual, when Sun Wen and his classmates arrived at the nearby elementary school, the principal, teachers, and students all warmly welcomed them.
In the school cafeteria, the young children all looked at Sun Yat-sen and others with curiosity.
Looking at their tall bodies and strong physiques, everyone secretly sighed in their hearts.
You are truly worthy of being a Ming Dynasty person!
Every Ming person is tall and mighty, every Ming person is handsome, every Ming person... any Japanese can name a hundred good qualities of the Ming people.
Of course, they can also pick out a hundred shortcomings of themselves, such as short stature, bow legs, ugly teeth... In short, in one word, the Japanese are typical short, poor and ugly people.
"Fish again!"
I saw the food on the plate - a bowl of brown rice, a few pieces of fish, and a few pieces of green vegetables, which is the lunch of the Japanese school. Yes, there is also a glass of milk - this is reconstituted milk made from the milk powder produced by the Empire.
Thanks to the extensive Pampas Empire's highly developed animal husbandry, which not only provided abundant meat but also excellent milk sources, Nanhua had already exported large quantities of milk powder to Europe and the United States as early as fifteen years before the establishment of the empire.
According to the "Imperial Youth Nutrition Meal Plan", students in the Ming Empire were supplied with a glass of milk every day. In addition to fresh milk, reconstituted milk made from milk powder was the most convenient choice.
As an overseas province of the empire, Japan naturally also implemented this plan. At the beginning, the milk here all came from milk powder in the empire. However, with the development of animal husbandry in Ezo, Japan has achieved self-sufficiency in milk.
They could provide themselves with milk, but not meat. The nutritious meals here were mainly based on fish. For people like Sun Yat-sen who had not tasted meat for several days, this was indeed a bit unbearable.
"Oh, I miss the braised beef at school..."
"It's been fish and meat all day long. I have no appetite at all..."
"Yes, the smell of fish makes me want to vomit..."
Listening to their words, Xiaofeng and Fu pouted.
"What a bunch of people who don't know how to cherish!"
Eating meat is not encouraged in Japanese tradition. The reason for this is not because they like to eat vegetarian food, but because... they can't afford it.
It is difficult to persuade people to eat vegetarian food, but it is very easy to persuade them to eat meat.
Everyone knows that meat is a good thing, but it is very expensive. For most Japanese people who come from poor families and can't even get enough to eat, the nutritious lunch at school with meat, rice and milk is the only meal they can eat every day. Whether it is weekends or holidays, they dream about nutritious meals.
Now I hear some people complaining that nutritious meals are not good.
How could this be tolerated? The boy couldn't tolerate it, but the nine-year-old Xiaofeng Hefu didn't dare to complain loudly. He just muttered something in Japanese. Just when he thought he was the only one who understood.
There was a student with a discipline committee armband on his sleeve. He walked up to him and spoke loudly.
"Were you speaking dialect just now?"
In an instant...all eyes in the cafeteria were on him.
The dialect... is Japanese!
"Report, I, I just couldn't help it."
"School rules stipulate that students are not allowed to speak dialect. Kurokawa, bring the sign over!"
Soon, a one-foot-wide paper sign was hung on Xiaofeng Hefu's chest with five big words written on it.
“I love speaking Mandarin.”
Then he was ordered to stand in the middle of the campus.
Sun Wen and others looked at this scene with some confusion.
"Principal Xu, what's going on?"
Xu Chengcai is the principal of an elementary school from the empire. Facing questions from his classmates, he said apologetically.
"Oh, sorry to make you all laugh. It's all because of Mr. Xu's lack of education. Students learn and write in Mandarin at school, but some of them are influenced by their families and can't help but speak some dialect. That's why I asked them to hang up the sign to reflect on themselves..."
Whether it is the mainland, overseas provinces or colonies, the Ming Dynasty has only one official language, which is Chinese.
However, because there were millions of men and women living in the Ming Dynasty, Japanese inevitably left some traces in the Ming Dynasty. Words like "Nani", "Ma Ya Die", "Kai Mo Ji" and so on were more or less inevitably retained, especially between couples, who knew the mood. Even some teenagers in the empire often spoke some Japanese suitable for driving.
In the Ming Dynasty...no one has ever banned these things.
But in Japan, speaking the "native language", that is, Japanese, in school is a taboo. Appropriate punishment is always necessary. This is an elementary school, so it's just a sign hanging up and a few hours of reflection. If it were a middle school, it would be a spirit injection stick, which would directly inject spirit.
"One empire, one language, one writing system, the sun and the moon will shine forever, and the country will prosper forever..."
When Principal Xu was explaining the importance of Chinese, he suddenly seemed to have thought of something and said to the students.
"Classmates, let us sing a song together for our empire with the seniors from the Empire Wing State..."
After that, he took the lead in singing.
"The sun and moon flags flutter in the wind..."
After the principal's singing ended, the students all stood in the cafeteria and sang the song "Singing the Motherland".
"The national flag of the sun and the moon flutters in the wind, and the song of victory is so loud. Let us sing to our dear motherland, hoping it will always remain prosperous and strong. Let us sing to our dear motherland, hoping it will always remain prosperous and strong, crossing the mountains, crossing the plains, crossing the vast oceans, and the broad and beautiful land. It is our powerful empire..."
On campus, in the cafeteria, passionate songs echoed there...
I am so tired, I don't know if I can update five chapters...
(End of this chapter)
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