Chapter 161
Japanese classes were a big hit!
The students were scrambling to get to the Japanese class.
This made both Prof. Dai and the principal shake their heads.
The principal’s office was filled with smoke,the principal sat on the sofa and swallowed smoke like a chimney.
Prof. Day stood in front of the open window. He smokes, but is not addicted to it. It was not that cigarettes were bad, but he had not been able to develop one or two extravagant hobbies because of his wallet.
The principal smoked and drank well because it was a “socializing fee” specially granted to the principal by the finance department of the university.
The principal often exclaimed that he was a socialite, a top dog!
“Still careless.” The principal sighed, “I never thought the students would be so interested in the Japanese.”
Prof. Die: “They don’t get much chance to meet foreigners. And the Japanese have a great attitude, better than the Indians in front of the British store.”
It was a peculiar phenomenon. The Indians were colonized by the British, they were slaves in the eyes of the British, but they looked down on the Chinese so much that even when they were on Chinese soil showing the British the door, they looked down on the Chinese.
They looked down on the Chinese, even when they were on Chinese soil looking after the door of the British. They learned that face from their masters.
Most foreigners look down on the Chinese, and compared to those white-skinned, yellow-haired, blue-eyed foreigners, the Japanese are actually the most “polite” group of people.
I don’t mean to say that the Japanese are good people. In the words of Yan Yan, this is called “all rely on peers to set off”.
Dai Yushu remembered and laughed.
This child’s mouth, really better than blue. Occasionally a wonderful sentence pops up, all into the muscle into the bone, particularly delightful.
He opened all the windows to ventilate, and then poured a cup of hot tea for the principal.
He said, “The students know that foreigners are the enemy, but they have never in fact seen the enemy.”
The principal sighed.
Yes. Foreigners lived in the Concession, and even when they came out into the streets, they were either in automobiles or in department stores and cabarets. The steps in these places were made of gold, and the students couldn’t go there.
That’s why their hatred was directed at the gendarmerie and the government, who were also Chinese.
Now that there were ready-made Japanese in the school, the students couldn’t contain their curiosity.
The principal smiled bitterly, “This city has fallen wow!”
It was not only the students, but also the teachers and professors who went to listen to the Japanese lessons.
Dai Yushu said, “That’s not true. Principal, there are some students and professors who have not fallen. They have long been accustomed to foreigners and don’t think Japanese are so rare.”
The principal rejoiced, “Oh! That’s right! I forgot, Professor Zhu!”
Dai Yushu: “And the female students who got in from the Church Girls’ High School, as well as Shi Wuwei and some of his classmates.”
Not everyone was curious about the Japanese.
Taking Shi Wuwei as an example, his thinking was one-threaded. He thinks foreigners are enemies. If a Japanese is a foreigner, that means a Japanese is an enemy. So even if he went to a Japanese class and the Japanese teacher was very gentle and polite, he was not swayed at all.
The students who were as simple-minded as he was were not swayed in the slightest.
Female students like Yang Yucan who grew up going to school, because there were few schools that could accept them, most of them were run by foreigners, so they had long been used to foreigners as teachers.
They didn’t think anything of the Japanese either, and went to class simply to learn about Japan.
Of course, in addition to these two kinds of people, the rest are those who have never seen a foreigner before, who used to be obedient to everyone, defining foreigners as “enemies” and “bad people”, and who were shaken when they saw a Japanese teacher who was so kind and friendly.
This is where Yang Yuyan comes in. She went to every Japanese class during this time, because she was good at Japanese, often she would “help” the Japanese teacher to translate the class content, or take the initiative to ask questions.
Of course, the questions are extremely tricky and odd.
At this moment in the classroom, the Japanese teacher said that the Japanese emperor is a lineage of the world, Yang Yuyan question the Japanese emperor to the emperor of the Ming dynasty to ask for the title of the self-proclaimed son of the matter.
After all, this is a historical fact, Yang Yuyan completely not false, even if the Japanese teacher does not answer, she believes that the students can go to their own teachers to find information after class.
So don’t talk about what the world of one system, the world of one system sounds awesome, but in the past, your family emperor succession counts, but also to ask my emperor to allow it.
Sure enough the Japanese teacher did not answer – he stood there in silence, not saying a word.
Yang Yuyan also did not follow the penalty stand, said a “I finished my question, thank you teacher”, and sat down.
After class, many students naturally went to look up the history of the Ming Dynasty. Ming before the Qing Dynasty, the historical material is quite sufficient, there are many people at home with a large collection of books, do not need to find in school, go back to ask their own parents, or home to raise a gentleman, you can know all.
After class, Yang Yuyan gathered a bunch of students to eat in the cafeteria, while discussing the Japanese teacher.
Holding a lion’s head with rice, she asked, “Have you guys noticed that they love to talk about the emperor? This Kobayashi-san, he’s already lectured on the history of the Emperor for six lessons. What does he mean? Trying to get us to recognize the emperor as an emperor?”
She was just making a customary bar, after all, a bar was meant to be far-reaching and infinitely elevated. It’s best to bar the opponent to the Western Heaven, making sure that the other party can’t even find their way back to the bar if they want to.
But this bar, but for the students opened up a new way of thinking!
A male student immediately said, “Why should we recognize the Japanese emperor? We have our own emperor!”
This was one of the less clear-headed ones.
So someone retorted, “But forget it. How can we call our emperor an emperor now? He is in the hands of the Japanese. Hasn’t he married a Japanese woman as his empress?”
By the way, this is also an event that just happened recently.
The Empress, no more.
The entire circulation of the story had sprung up on the streets in a piece that looked like a strange novel, and unlike the last time the newspapers swore that the Emperor had been poisoned by the Japanese, the matter of the Empress being dead was more like some kind of made-up nonsense, a strange love story written by some third-rate scribe.
There were three rumors circulating.
Rumor one, the Empress eloped with someone. It is said to be her old lover, or her brother, the uncle of state to lead the line. It was said that the uncle personally drove the Empress out of the palace.
Rumor two, the Empress was fornicating with someone and was sent to the Cold Palace by the Emperor.
Why did the Empress have an affair with someone? It was said that the emperor smoked so much that he couldn’t be humane.
It is also said that the Emperor was a celestial castrate and simply couldn’t do it! Because he also had no children with Consort Zhen, no children with the divorced Imperial Consort, and none with the Empress. You can’t have three women who can’t give birth, can you? So the author of that strange article used this reverse proof method to prove out the emperor of the Qing Dynasty – there are difficult to say.
Rumor three, the Empress died.
These three rumors are said to be different, but the result is the same thing. It is that the emperor has no more empress, whether she eloped or went to the cold palace or died, the emperor has no more empress.
What should we do without an empress?
Don’t worry, the Japanese were very friendly, very concerned about the emperor, and were dedicated to the emperor.
They married a Japanese empress to the emperor.
Though the author of that strange situation stated on that article seems to be being sarcastic, and for the sake of being sarcastic, he wrote such an article to be published.
Because of that, it just didn’t seem like it was true!
So, before this male student finished speaking, someone laughed at him, ”Come on, how can anyone believe such a lie? It’s something written in a tabloid newspaper to cheat for money, just read it for fun, it can’t be taken seriously.”
Skipping the topic of the Qing Emperor, we began to focus on why the Japanese teacher kept talking about the Japanese Emperor and kept praising him.
The assumption is that the Japanese are really all very worshipful of the Emperor well, it’s not incomprehensible, after all, before the Qing Emperor ran away from the Forbidden City, they still had to wear pigtails. That wasn’t for a couple years either.
But why boast at them? It’s not like they were Japanese, they didn’t worship the Emperor.
Assuming that the emperor is really some kind of wise man even so.
But now this emperor …… he seems to be a fool, right?
So what the Japanese teacher did makes it hard to understand.
What is the point of praising a stupid emperor all the time?
Yang Yuyan’s bar from the sky was taken seriously.
Yang Yuyan looked dumbfounded at her classmates’ serious discussion:
“Do the Japanese really want us to worship the emperor?”
“Do they think that they are all emperors, and that we can accept the rule of the Aisin Gioro family emperors as well as the Japanese emperor?”
“I’ve heard that the Japanese have been trying to get that Emperor in the Northeast to offer his country to the Japanese Emperor, so that China can become a Japanese vassal state.”
“Do the Japanese really want us to recognize the Japanese as emperor?”
Coming to this conclusion, the students were also dumbfounded.
Yang Yuyan, didn’t dare to speak.