December 7, 1867.

East African colony, Mlandizi Cultural School.

Today the First Town (Mlandiz) Cultural School welcomed two special "students", Massimiliano I and his wife Queen Carlotta.

A month earlier, Queen Carlotta had arrived in East Africa, and for the safety of her future mother-in-law, Ernst had personally arranged for her own ship to free up a boat and come to East Africa with the fleet.

Seeing Massimiliano I safe and sound in Tanga, East Africa, Queen Carlotta and Massimiliano I hugged each other and wept.

As the person who instigated Massimiliano I in the first place, after Massimiliano I was arrested and imprisoned in Mexico, Empress Carlotta washed her face with tears every day in Europe and suffered a lot.

The catastrophe in Mexico made Queen Carlotta abandon her fantasy of becoming an empress, and now she only wants to spend the rest of her life with her beloved.

After Tanga and Massimiliano I had a romantic affair, Empress Carlotta offered to spend some time with Massimiliano I in East Africa.

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Massimiliano I was also visiting the first town (Mlandizi), the seat of the central government of East Africa, for the first time.

As the earliest developed city in East Africa (towns, some of the cities in Europe are small, in fact, they are towns), the scale of the first town is a little less than that of Dar es Salaam, but the planning and facilities are significantly better, and the architecture and culture reflect the style of the German region.

Slightly different from Europe is the natural landscape, the climate and some of the facilities of East African cities planned by Ernst himself.

Street trees and green belts, for example, are rarely seen in European cities at the moment, but of course, the green belts in the East African colonies are very rudimentary, that is, a dirt clearing is reserved in the middle or on both sides of the road for wild grasses to grow on their own.

The most important thing in the East African colonies is land, so the urban planning is very wild, and the pursuit of big is good everywhere, although the current road scale and grade are not up to it, but the places that should be reserved are reserved, and they can be directly used to upgrade urban roads in the future.

Therefore, there is still a large open space on both sides of the masonry road, except for the green belt, and the houses and buildings on both sides are separated by the road very far, making the first town (Mlandizi), which is already relatively small in population, look even more empty.

The houses on both sides are mainly built on one floor, and many of them are still civil structures, but the open space between the yard and the house is almost 100 square meters, which is also convenient for subsequent renovation and upgrading.

The drains are mainly at the back of the house and are currently open-air, and the strange law in East Africa prohibits residents from discharging sewage in the public drains behind the houses, and the drains are mainly used to cope with the precipitation during the rainy season.

This is done to prevent the drainage canal from becoming a stinky ditch, you know, the environment of East Africa, especially the coastal plain of the first town, the temperature is relatively high throughout the year, and the sewage ferments, fortunately it can be washed away by the rain in time in the rainy season, and the dry weather in the dry season can only stay in the canal, breeding all kinds of bacteria and attracting flies.

Of course, it doesn't matter if the open water canal is paved with cement pipes in the future, but in this era, East Africa must put hygiene first, and the hotbed of tropical diseases is not a joke.

Massimiliano I and his wife, when they first arrived in the first town, saw the first town cultural school, the first town Wenhua school was built on the outskirts of the town because it was built late.

Both husband and wife were interested in the educational content of the East African colonies, and they wanted to know how what was taught in such a backward place (compared to Europe) was different from Europe.

In Mexico, Massimiliano I simply did not have time to show his ambitions, the whole country was in chaos, and there was no energy for education.

Although the conditions in East Africa are relatively poor, compulsory education can still be provided, which naturally interests the couple, so Massimiliano I offered to experience the schools in East Africa.

The colonial government of East Africa sent people to arrange for the two to visit the First Town Cultural School.

At the First Town Cultural School, the classrooms of the first grade were full of students, and the couple were placed in temporary seats in the back.

There were about thirty or forty students in the class, both children of Chinese immigrants and children of Austro-Hungarian immigrants (Paraguayan immigrants needed a separate Spanish teacher), and the teachers were graduates of the Heshingen Military Academy.

As the seat of the central government in East Africa, the faculty of First Town Cultural School is unrivaled in East Africa.

You must know that the Heixingen Military Academy and other schools run by the Heixingen royal family are actually crash courses, so the level of the cadets is uneven.

Many students, by the end of the year, are able to converse in German and master some German words.

But there was a shortage of people in East Africa, so even the worst ones would be sent to teach in the East African colonies.

If the brain is smart and learns a lot, the upper grade will be led, and if the less smart and the poor learner will be brought to the lower grade.

Fortunately, the textbooks in colonial schools in East Africa are relatively low-level, and most people only need to read the textbooks according to the textbooks.

This is a history lesson, and Massimiliano I opened the textbook of the East African colonies and read it with relish, and kept whispering to Queen Carlotta.

And the Heixingen graduates, who teach, automatically ignored the petty actions of Massimiliano I and his wife, after all, they knew that these two were honored guests invited by the government.

Because of the diversity of immigrants in the East African colonies, teachers had to use bilingual teaching in the first grade, and later, from the second grade onwards, they switched to German instruction, so Chinese children had to overcome the language barrier if they wanted to achieve results.

The first chapter, unsurprisingly, is a celebration of the Hohenzollerns, emphasizing the status of the Hehingen royal family as rulers of the East African lands, as well as the long history of the Hehingen royal family and the Hohenzollerns.

These young children naturally don't feel awkward when they look at it, they just listen to it as a story, history textbooks are actually extracurricular reading, and they don't even have exams.

This is also a small trick played by Ernst, when a course needs to be examined, there will always be a group of people who will be disgusted (tired of learning).

And reading extracurricular books (in fact, books that don't take exams), the younger you are, the more addictive you are, just like novels, the more you read, the more addictive you become, but taking novels as exam content will greatly frustrate the enthusiasm of readers.

Massimiliano I and Empress Carlota forced a smile to read the last of the first chapter.

After all, in terms of history and inheritance, many European families are more prominent than the Hohenzollerns, especially the Habsburgs, the Hohenzollerns are still some behind.

Of course, every aristocratic family in Europe advertises its own prominence and long history, so this is not the reason why Massimiliano I broke the defense, and if he blows about the Habsburgs, he is definitely more exaggerated than what is written in this book.

What amused Massimiliano I and his wife was the final depiction of the Heichengen royal family, which was no different from a savior.

This is not to blame Ernst, but the final content is the use of religious narratives, the myth of the royal status of the Hashingen.

It's just that Ernst is more subtle and doesn't explicitly mention any gods, gods and the like, such as the so-called descendants of Amaterasu of the Japanese imperial family, the self-proclaimed son of the sun god of Egypt, and the ...... of the Far Eastern royal family Taishan Fengzen.

Instead, they used rhetoric (yes, the Blue Sky Project) to make the Heixingen royal family look solemn and majestic, and the reason for this was to avoid religion.

The immigrant in East Africa now has a variety of beliefs, but there are no churches and clergy, and the inhabitants, whether God or the Orthodox, can only rely on ancestral experience to engage in spontaneous prayer and other activities.

Ernst is secularizing, and it is very difficult to force these adults to give up their faith, but it is still easy to change the minds of these children.

It is not necessary to go too far, as long as it is not implanted with religious overtones in education and sports (many religious schools in Europe) as is currently the case in Europe.

If it is not studied and repeated, people's memories will slowly fade away, and relying on the spontaneous transmission of those religious traditions by the people of East Africa will never be worth the exposition and transmission of a professional organization (i.e., the church).