Chapter 538: The China Threat
Hainan.
Unlike the frozen world in the northwest, Hainan is still as warm as spring and summer.
Zhu Heying is the director of the education bureau like Xu Xing, and he, the director of the education bureau in Changhua, is only a county-level director, but looking at Zhu Heying's style of going in and out, the four-wheeled carriage, and the clerks in front and rear, this frame is bigger than the prefect of Jiuquan.
Zhu Heying didn't care about the old county school in Changhua at all, his thinking and Xu Xing were two extremes, his eyes had long since shifted from the county school to the new school, and even looked at the enrollment rate of local school-age children and the education level of local poor children. These will be the two magic weapons for the future officials of the Department of Education!
Today, he came to inspect the school field of the county school, and it was completely a matter of sightseeing, and people who sat in the carriage would never let their feet touch the ground without getting out of the carriage.
The school field of Changhua County has not been expanded, and it is still the original 500 acres. However, these 500 acres of land are no longer fully planted with grain. As one of the pillar industries of Hainan's economy, Changhua is home to the Shilu Iron Mine, and the density of workers and laborers living here is incomparable to that of the capital city of Qiongzhou. Moreover, the opening of Shilu Port has also given an incomparable impetus to the local development of Changhua.
The county school is in the old county town of Changhua, and the school field is outside the county seat, close to Shilu Port.
Therefore, while looking at the county school, it still holds the old style of the pre-Qing Dynasty in academics and courses, and it keeps pace with the times in the use of school fields. The annual income of fruits and vegetables is several times more than the county's allocation. Therefore, although the county school is not valued by Zhu Heying, its own funds and consumption are abundant.
Zhu Heying took one last look at the courtyard at the north end of Xuetian, the big tiled houses one after another. Very translucent. There are drying grounds, toilets, livestock sheds and wells, and everything you need is a living facility. And the layout is very reasonable, and the convenience of use is unimaginable in the former Qing Dynasty. It was inhabited by tenants of Gakuda. There are more than a dozen of them.
The carriage gurgled forward, and on the way came across an old carriage, the old horses pulling the carriage were about to lose their hair, and there were two large wooden barrels with lids sealed on it. There was an indescribable smell wafting from afar, and Zhu Heying immediately covered his nose, he knew what that thing was.
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When Zhu Heying inspected the old county school, he didn't know that an Englishman had come to Shiluzhen Primary School, one of the five primary schools in Changhua.
Abt has been in the Far East for five years, but he has been in Hong Kong. The foreign company where he works. In addition to the original opium and chips, the largest annual trade with China was the transportation of bicycles and tricycles produced by the Qin army to Nanyang and further afield India.
He came to Hainan this time because he heard that the rubber grown by the Chinese in Hainan had been successful. This is the third year of the Hainan Rubber Plantation, and the survival rate of rubber seedlings is still above 97%, which is of course a success.
Today's rubber is a necessity for high-end bicycles and tricycles. After the opium and chip trade with China was completely cut off, the car trade became a major support point for the foreign bank, and it was necessary to pay attention to it.
So Abt came to Hainan and came to Changhua. Because Changhua's rubber cultivation is the first in the whole Hainan.
As an opium and chip dealer in the past, Abt is deeply disgusted with the current Chinese government. He is even more reluctant to accept China's current status.
The British are in a very bad situation in Afghanistan, and a new round of negotiations between China and Britain is about to begin.
Abt could not accept this fact. A few years ago, China was a bunch of 'pigs', but now it has the capital to bargain with the British, and to make Britain respect its interests. What an irony!
On the way back after visiting the plantation. Abt passed by the primary school in Shilu Township. This town is very prosperous, and from Abt's point of view, the prosperity of the streets of Shilu Town is better than that of Changhua County.
A nation. The strength of a country is inseparable from the inheritance and dissemination of knowledge. Abt walked into Shilu Township Elementary School. The principal of the elementary school saw a foreigner come to visit. He was also very happy to send someone to guide Abt.
"Stand up!"
"Hello teacher!"
"Sit down, students!"
Abt came at the right time to see the whole process of elementary school classes. This Shilu Town Primary School is only four years old. So they only have four grades, and the oldest is only one class of more than 20 students.
But they are the seeds of the integration of the ancient land of Changhua into the new era, and the future elite and backbone of Hainan.
The simple white wood, the simple teacher, the teacher on the podium was no more than thirty years old, and wore a blue homespun short. Very few teachers in the new primary schools wear Hanfu, although they will definitely have Hanfu at home. But on weekdays, it's definitely short.
The class is silent! This gave Abt his first impression of this elementary school, which was strictly disciplined!
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 will not be able to overcome the shackles of 2,000 years. China needs 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.
Abt also saw portraits and slogans hanging around the classroom, which were famous Chinese sayings that he did not recognize. He could only recognize a few of the Chinese characters, and he couldn't connect them at all.
When the bell rang at the end of the lesson, Abt was surprised to see a man wearing a Qin Army uniform appear on the school's playground.
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 playground facilities are rudimentary, but the area is spacious. There is also a flagpole stand with a ten-meter-high wooden flagpole.
Abt'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 to the playground, and all the students march according to the rhythm of the slogan from the class leader's mouth. The pace is in unison, and the formation is neat. It looks like a completely miniature version of the army.
The leader of one of the classes held a red pennant aloft - Abt didn't know what it was. But his trading partners and teachers around him knew that this was the banner of the overall score of the weekly discipline. Classes can get one chance to improve their meals during the week.
Each class follows a certain route. The marching columns of the classes entered the playground from the east, west, north, and south directions, and after entering the playground, the teams merged into a phalanx that was not very regular. The reason why it is irregular is because of the number of people in each class.
Abt looked at the playground in shock, nearly twenty classes were moving at the same time, so many columns, and they were traveling in multiple directions, they could cross each other on the playground and the road, without colliding with each other and twisting together. Even the Hong Kong garrison can't fight at this level, right?
Although the British army will definitely be able to achieve this kind of Chengdu after targeted training. But these people in front of them are just children. The oldest of them is only eleven or twelve years old, and the youngest is only six, seven, or eight years old.
"It's an army!" Abt shouted inwardly. The armies of Europe have just come out of the era of queuing to be shot, and for Europeans, the neatness of the queue can represent the level of an army. How could this qiē in front of him calm Abt.
All of the new schools are paramilitary and students have physical education classes. From the beginning of the school day, they began to drill their queues, just like in the original time and space, and over time, each student would be fucked very maturely.
Lined up, walked in unison, ran in unison, and stood in a military posture, even the first-year students who had just entered the school, after several months of practice, they are now very decent.
If it is a middle school, there will be a military training before the start of school. If conditions permit, they will also be pulled to the nearby garrison camp for live firing.
If Abt had gone to Hanzhong, Guangxi, and the old base of the Qin army, and after seeing the level of the middle school students there, he would have shouted that this was a military school.
"The first set of broadcast gymnastics! Prepare ......"
With the password in the loudspeaker, "one-two-three-four, two-two-three-four, three-two-three-four......"
Hundreds of people danced the radio gymnastics, which instantly diluted the shock that Abt had just received in his heart. After all, this is an ordinary elementary school, not a junior military school.
After school in the afternoon, Albert politely declined the principal's invitation to dinner, and watched the children walk out of the school gate in a neat line at the school gate, and then the waiting parents took the children from the teacher's hands. A large group of people under the pressure of black crushed scattered at a rapid speed.
The crowd at the school gate spoke and chatted loosely, but there was also a kind of discipline in the looseness.
Abt was stunned in his heart. China's new government has just been established for three years, and if this time becomes 30 years, as it is now, it is still all over the land of China, and the country's war heritage is really strong and incomparable. Abt is well aware of China's huge population base.
Once the whole country is mobilized to fight a fateful national war, it will represent a huge army with 'tens of millions' as units.
Abt came to Changhua silently and left Changhua silently. None of them seem to have changed. Only the people around Abt knew that after Abt's trip to Hainan, the whole person suddenly stopped despising and despising China, but turned into a kind of hostility of red fruits!
Abt became one of the staunch proponents of the 'Yellow Peril' theory. Sees China as a more threatening existential force to the Old Continent than the Americas. Is this the 'China threat theory'? (To be continued......)