J���M��{���u%tC�$/n.��:/�H e�n; I 1AK 3 3 !m ~ turn, when the spring renders the northwest land, a national defense army from the south and the north of the world also began its own westward journey.

The Russians insisted on fighting, and they undoubtedly had the support of the British and even the French behind them. Chen Ming didn't know if the Europeans would play such a trick as the Volunteer Army, but it was certain that when the Sino-Russian War reached a new stage, it would be very difficult to rely only on the strength of the Northwest Military Region to support it.

Therefore, Chen Ming mobilized troops to support the Northwest Military Region, the first batch only had 100,000 people, and the second batch was ready, but due to the logistical transportation capacity, they had to set off again in the summer.

But before summer arrived, the leaders of Britain, France, Prussia, Austria, Russia and other countries in Europe were already aware of the great changes that had taken place in China.

So, an Englishman came to the East. He did not stop in Myanmar and came straight to Singapore. Burma was too close to India, and the situation there was already in the hands of the British.

The mood of the Chinese immigrants and the indigenous people is very hot, but if the social mood of the students and workers here is as hot as that of Burma, and the students and workers here are just as hot as Burma, then the information obtained by the British this time is not false.

Michelle has been in India for five years, but he has always stayed in Kolkata. In addition to Indian cotton, sisal and a prescribed quantity of opium, the largest annual trade with China is to transport tea produced by the Chinese, bicycles and tricycles to India and further afield.

Michelle's firm is seriously unbalanced in the amount of transactions with China, and if the value of the goods that the Chinese step into from them is 1, the value of the goods they buy from the Chinese is at least 2, or even 3. This is a dire situation that many British comptoirs are facing, but they are powerless to change.

The Chinese hardly lack any large quantities of bulk goods other than high-quality cotton, and without the support of Indian cotton, the business risks of their commercial banks would be even greater. Because their interests lie solely in the profits from the sale of Chinese goods.

Needless to say, the value of those teas is that Michelle's other major business center, bicycles and tricycles, as long as they are shipped to Europe, are at least three times the profit, after paying a lot of taxes.

He came to China for two reasons, the main reason was, of course, the task given by His Excellency the Viceroy of India to find out the reality of China; And the secondary task is because he has heard that there are huge fluctuations in the rubber market in China.

Nanyang is very suitable for growing rubber, the land here is fertile, with plenty of light and rain, suitable for the growth of rubber trees, generally speaking, rubber tapping can be done in five or six years, and the yield and quality are very high. Rubber can not only be made into raincoats and rubber shoes, but also a necessity for many equipment and high-end bicycles and tricycles. It can be said that every rubber plantation is a cash cow. The car trade is a major support point for their foreign companies, which must be paid attention to, and the Chinese now do not want foreigners to make large-scale investments in the country and Nanyang, and the trading objects of rubber plantations are not only Chinese, foreigners can buy as long as they have money. Michelle's boss is thinking just that.

So Michelle came to Nanyang for legitimate business reasons, and his first stop was Singapore, which is logical. Is Singapore the center of the South Seas?

As a proud Britishman, Michel was extremely disgusted with the current Chinese government and the Chinese emperor, and he was even more reluctant to accept China's current status in the world.

Now China is like the world hegemon, and the entire East, including the Ottoman and Persian worlds, are subservient to the feet of the Chinese emperor, and only the Western world remains.

Michelle did not dare to imagine what it would be like when Great Britain also fell at the feet of the Chinese, and his heart was cut as long as he thought about it.

But China's strength is so obvious, they put their strength on the bright side, so that every British person of insight is sad. The Chinese occupied Nanyang and Nanmingzhou, they invaded India and half of Africa, and took most of the Americas, and half of the earth already belonged to China. This is a formidable and discouraging enemy!

Any country that confronts China is to challenge a strong man with the body of a baby, just like David is challenging the giant Goliath, but there is no blessing from God in the real world.

The European form is not good, just like the British in India today, and the situation is very bad for them. With the intensification of the contradictions between the East and the West, China and Britain are about to start a new round of negotiations on the Indian issue.

Michelle had a hard time accepting this fact. Although Chen Han had already been established when he was born, by the time he grew up, Chen Han's strong national power and growing influence on the West had spread the fame of the Celestial Empire throughout Europe. But there are some people who are always 'self-respecting', and Michelle is such a person. He had never been to the Americas, and his family was not a rich man with slaves, so I really don't know how he came up with a 'white supremacy' view.

How ironic that an Englishman of lower middle class origin has done more than the ass of countless aristocratic upper classes - he is a Westerner.

Michelle, of course, doesn't reveal his true attitude in business, he visits a rubber plantation like a shrewd businessman, asks N questions in detail, and then doesn't utter a single exact word. On her way back to the city early the next morning, Michelle passed by a small town's elementary school. The town is quite prosperous, and in Michelle's eyes, the street prosperity of this town is better than that of a small town of its size in England. And he knows that Singapore's history is short.

Michelle naturally made a request to visit the school, and said that the strength of a nation and the strength of a country are inseparable from the inheritance and dissemination of knowledge. As a great empire like China, the school must also have its own uniqueness. Then Michelle walked into the town's elementary school with ease. The principal of the elementary school saw a foreigner coming to visit, and was very happy to send someone to guide Michelle.

"Stand up!"

"Hello teacher!"

"Sit down, students!"

Michelle came at the right time, and he saw the whole process of this elementary school class. This town primary school is only 10 years old, and there are more than 200 teachers and students in the school, and the average class is less than 40 students. It's obviously a very ordinary, very ordinary school.

But they are the seeds of a new era in this old and new land of Singapore, where every student is the hope of the future.

Humble white wooden desks, simple classrooms, and male teachers on the podium, probably no more than thirty years old, dressed in short blue cotton clothes. Nowadays, very few teachers in new-style primary schools wear Hanfu to teach, although they must have Hanfu in their homes. But on weekdays, it's definitely short.

The class is silent! This gave Michelle the first impression of this elementary school, the discipline is strict! In fact, such strict discipline has only been in place in school for two or three months.

There are no female teachers in this school, and there are no female students in the class.

In China, female teachers are as scarce as female civil servants, female staff in shopping malls, and girls' schools in the education system. China is changing, but it cannot step beyond the 2,000-year-old shackles. China needs more time.

The teachers of this elementary school are very similar to the rural primary schools in the underdeveloped areas of the Celestial Empire in later generations. Humble white lime walls, wooden windows, unpainted white desks and chairs. Even the simple black-lacquered wooden board at the back of the classroom, which was used to produce blackboard newspapers, was so similar.

Michelle also saw portraits and slogans hanging on all sides of the classroom, which were famous Chinese quotes and historical figures, but he only recognized the portrait hanging in the center of the classroom, which was the portrait of the Great Emperor of China. He didn't know anything else, and he could know a few Chinese characters, but he couldn't understand them when they were connected.

And when the bell rang after this class, Michelle was surprised to see a person wearing a Chinese army uniform appear on the school playground, although he did not have an epaulette rank, but looking at the person's posture, this was obviously a soldier.

He walked up a few steps and was about to say hello, but the person who accompanied him and the teacher of this school stopped him and motioned for him not to speak. Because the following is a daily morning and afternoon courseware exercise.

The facilities in the school playground are simple, only horizontal bars, parallel bars, balance beam, sand pit and so on, all accumulated in the west corner of the playground, but the area is wide. There is also a flagpole stand with a ten-meter-high wooden flagpole.

Michelle's eyes widened the next moment, and he rubbed his eyes in disbelief, God, what did he see? At the door of each classroom there were students marching in double columns. A class is a column, like a long dragon, neatly coming to the center of the playground!

The columns of each class are led by the class leader, and one by one they march towards the playground, and all the students march according to the rhythm of the slogan from the mouth of the class leader. The pace is in unison, and the formation is neat. It looks like a completely miniature version of the army.

This is a school, an elementary school.

The leader of one of the classes held a red pennant aloft — something Michelle didn't know it was. But the agents and teachers around him know that this is the banner of the overall score of each school's weekly discipline. Each class that receives the flag can be given a pencil or a notebook, and more importantly, the honor, which is a spiritual encouragement.

Each class follows a certain route. The marching columns entered the playground from the northeast and northwest directions, and the teams merged into a less regular phalanx after entering the playground. The reason why it is irregular is because of the number of people in each class.