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Hota Yoshimasa was a little disappointed that they, the twenty Japanese students, could not go directly to the main campus of Jinling University to study.

As the number of students in Jinling University's literacy classes increased, a branch campus was established in the suburbs. All classes are small, with no more than 25 students in each class, because there are too many students to teach at all.

They wandered around Nanjing for half a month and then were arranged to study in school.

Students from different places were divided into classes. There are only six Japanese in the literacy class where Hota Yoshimasa is in, five more are from Mongolia, two are from Tibet, four are from the southwest, six are from the northeast, one is from North Korea, and one is from overseas.

Anyway, no matter where they come from, they all wear the Confucian uniform issued by the school.

A teacher walked into the classroom and asked, "Who can speak Chinese? Raise your right hand."

In an instant, a quarter of the students raised their right hands.

The teacher wrote on the blackboard again: "Who can write Chinese characters but can't speak Chinese? Raise your right hand as well."

All the Japanese students, as well as the Korean student, raised their right hands in unison.

The teacher muttered to himself: "This class is okay. The last class was too tiring."

For the next time, the teacher talked and wrote, teaching these students to read and write 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Of course Hota Yoshimasa can write numbers, but he can't read them.

It’s okay if you can’t read at all, but the pronunciation of Japanese numbers is somewhat similar to the pronunciation of Chinese numbers. As a result, I learned it very quickly, but my accent after learning it was worse than even that of Mongolian students.

For a whole day, Hota Yoshimasa was so bored that he almost fell asleep after only teaching these five numbers.

He likes the school cafeteria the most. You can get meat every meal here, which is much better than the food in Edo. The dormitory conditions are also good, better than those at Jinling University. Who makes international students pay more for accommodation?

Tuition fees for foreign students have already increased.

Hota Yoshimasa's annual tuition is 120 taels of silver, and the accommodation fee is 40 taels of silver per year. He also has to pay for meals himself.

In comparison, ethnic minority students in China are given super preferential treatment. Tuition and accommodation fees are free, and you can also receive meal tickets every year. You can also take the shuttle bus back home for free.

There was a Tibetan student in Hota Yoshimasa's dormitory, and it took more than three months for them to have simple communication.

This is because Tibetan students speak a small amount of Chinese.

"Are you a Tibetan noble?" Hota Yoshimasa asked.

The Tibetan student's name was Langga. He replied: "I'm not a noble. My father was a slave."

Hota Yoshimasa felt uncomfortable instantly. He actually lived in the same house with a slave for more than three months. He suppressed his unhappiness and asked curiously: "Can the son of a slave study in Nanjing?"

Langga explained: "The imperial court occupied Kham for a year, and many chieftains rebelled. My father helped the army as a guide. After the chaos was settled, he was appointed as the mayor of the town."

However, Tibet was divided into Kham and Snow areas, with Kham being under the jurisdiction of Sichuan and the Snow areas practicing ethnic autonomy.

As soon as the decree for the complete liberation of slaves in Kham was promulgated, the chieftains rebelled collectively. It took the Datong Army two and a half years to completely quell the rebellion, killing all the chieftains in Kham in one fell swoop, and arranging Tibetans who were close to the Datong Army to serve as officials.

There were also chieftains in the snowy area who followed suit and killed all those who caused trouble. Then the Datong Army built three cities in the snowy area. There are 1,500 troops stationed in Lhasa and 1,000 troops stationed in each of the other two cities. Prisoners exiled from Tibet are given priority to be placed around the three cities.

By killing all the chieftains, freeing the slaves, and allocating pasture and farmland, the Datong Army gained a high prestige in the Kham region, and the majority of Tibetans supported the imperial court from the bottom of their hearts.

"After you study in Nanjing, can you become an official when you return to Kham?" Hota Yoshimasa asked.

Langga has an honest and honest character, and he poured out all the beans from the bamboo tube: "My father can't write, and all the Tibetans in the town can't write. My brother has learned to write, and he went back to work as his assistant, but after two years My ex-sick man died. Shangguan was very unhappy and said that every time he delivered an official document, he would have to arrange for someone to read it out to my father in Tibetan. After my brother died, he sent me to Nanjing to study and to be my father's assistant when I returned. .When my father dies, I can be the mayor."

Hota Yoshimasa had a general understanding of the situation and knew that this was the ruling method of the Nanjing court.

Langga continued: "There is also a school in Kham District, but it is too far away from our town. It takes five days to get there. I heard from my father that our town will also build a school, and it will be completed in twenty years at most. This is Shangguan told my father."

The main reason is that Kangzang is vast and sparsely populated, making school construction very troublesome.

The so-called town is just a piece of pasture and several settlements, unified and divided into administrative districts. If the distance between the townspeople is relatively long, it would take a day or two to visit each other.

Arriving in the classroom again, Hota Yoshi was subconsciously looking at the map.

The world map is posted on the classroom wall. Before it could be updated, the newly occupied territory, including Ezo Island, was not marked.

But that's big enough!

There is a geography class every ten days to teach students how to recognize the map of China and cultivate the national identity and pride of ethnic minority students. At the same time, it also cultivates the respect and fear of China among foreign students.

Hota Yoshi was looking at the land of Japan, a little bit like a pitiful insect.

And China next to it is so vast.

He occasionally wandered into the city or visited Changganli outside Nancheng. China's wealth and power have long been engraved in his bones.

The other Japanese students studying abroad are similar, they are all the children of famous people. Let them work hard to revitalize Japan. To be honest, there is no motivation, because it will cost them their own lives.

After these people return to Japan, they will certainly bring culture, art and science with them. But more importantly, it is to spread their admiration for China. They will be very proud, talk about their experiences studying abroad, and sneer at everything in Japan. If there is friction between Japan and China, they will try their best to reconcile the conflict, because in their minds, China is invincible.

"Hotita-kun, the fight is about to start!" A Japanese international student ran into the classroom.

Hota Yoshimasa quickly asked: "Who are you fighting for?"

"Zhao Fuchen!" the man replied.

Zhao Fuchen was actually a Mongolian student. In today's Mongolian grassland, tribal leaders all have Chinese names. If you look at it, all the surnames are Zhao.

What's even more ridiculous is that if the leader of the small tribes in Mongolia dares to be named Zhao, he will be suppressed by the big tribes - do you deserve to be named Zhao?

The surname Zhao has become an exclusive honor for Mongolian nobles.

On the playground, hundreds of students were watching the game, including even the Kachin from Myanmar. Of course, after the Datong Army occupied it, they did not bother to give it a separate name and classified the Kachin people as Dai people.

The Kachin students are not too outrageous, there is also an Armenian student!

Armenia is located at the crossroads of religion, race and culture in the world. More than a hundred years ago, they were expelled by Persia and followed the Portuguese to Myanmar, becoming an important force in the founding of the Toungoo Dynasty in Myanmar.

The Pingnan Military and Civilian Government built a city in northern Myanmar. Due to the lack of craftsmen, they directly brought the Armenians there. Now, they have become Chinese nationals, and young people with outstanding performance are recommended to study in Nanjing. Learning knowledge is the second most important thing, let them see some of the prosperity and power of Nanjing.

"come on! Come on!"

A variety of accents appear one after another on the playground.

The word "come on" has been around for a long time, and it is now extremely popular at Meizizhou Sports Stadium, and then spread to schools inside and outside Nanjing.

The school has rules and no fighting is allowed.

Fighting in private will be punished, but there is still a chance to change. Those who fight in groups will be directly expelled, and those who use equipment will also be directly expelled.

Therefore, this is a one-on-one battle, with their friends standing around cheering them on.

I saw the Mongolian student Zhao Fuchen. Although he was not tall, he was extremely strong. Naoki Ii from Japan is as thin as a monkey.

"ah!"

Zhao Fuchen cried out in pain, but when he was about to fall down again, Ii Naoxing opened his mouth and bit him hard.

"If you bite someone with your mouth, you are indeed an uncivilized beast!" Zhao Fuchen scolded.

Ii Naoxing argued: "Soldiers have no constant shape, and water has no constant momentum. When we are marching and fighting, you don't allow the enemy to attack at night or defend the city? Do we have to fight on horseback on the grassland with you?"

Zhao Fuchen said: "Dogs bite people!"

Naoki Ii said: "Wolves can also bite people. Wild animals can bite people. I am just learning from wild beasts."

Zhao Fuchen waved his hand and said: "Come on, come on, I'll beat you again, you are allowed to bite, let's see if I don't beat you to death today!"

The two fought again, and the future shogunate, Ii Naoxing, was thrown to the ground like a torn sack by Zhao Fuchen.

The teacher finally came and asked what the fight was about.

But it was Naoki Ii who boasted about how awesome the famous names were in Japan's Warring States Period. He also said that his ancestor Ii Naomasa was not only among the Three Tokugawa Heroes, the Four Tokugawa Kings, and the Sixteen Great Tokugawa Generals, but he was also the youngest among them.

Zhao Fuchen was very disdainful after hearing this and said that Japan's Warring States Period was just monkeys fighting.

Ii Naoki was immediately angry, saying that no matter how powerful the Mongols were, they were blown into the sea by a divine wind to feed the fish, and that Genghis Khan could never conquer Japan.

As a result, a verbal spat quickly turned into a fight.

After hearing this, the teacher immediately said: "You two, copy the new words taught yesterday five hundred times each!"

"ah?"

Both the Mongolian and Japanese students were dumbfounded, especially the Mongolian student. Making him copy words was even more uncomfortable than corporal punishment.

At this moment, a Miao (actually Tujia) student rushed to the playground and shouted: "Great victory in the Western Regions, great victory in the Western Regions, the imperial court has recovered the Western Regions!"

Where is the Western Region?

Hota Yoshimasa didn't realize for a moment that it seemed to be the place where Tang Monk passed by for Buddhist scriptures.

The battle to regain the Western Regions was carried out at the same time as the battle to conquer Japan.

Although two divisions were dispatched to conquer Japan, the sea route was very convenient. Maritime merchants expelled by Japan even delivered military supplies to the court for free.

The money and food spent to recover the Western Regions was more than ten times that of conquering Japan.