African Nationhood

As night falls, many candles are lit in the classrooms of Antananarivo Medical College.

Although get out of class has ended, there are still many medical students staying in the classroom to study.

The new Nanhua teacher taught a lot of new knowledge, and they had to review it a lot to avoid forgetting it.

Moreover, teachers at Nanhua place great emphasis on assessment. Assessments are basically conducted every few days, and those who fail the assessment will be punished.

Either he was punished to be used as a teaching tool for all the students to practice, or he was punished to stay next to the "corpse teacher".

Under such punitive measures, everyone has made rapid progress, and they also have to learn Chinese.

There will be rewards for learning Chinese, sometimes it is a notebook, sometimes it is a pen.

……

Young Ai Meili packed up her textbook notes and put them into a cloth bag, then got up and walked out of the classroom.

The classmates next to her didn't pay attention. Ai Meili's grades were very good. It was normal for her to go back to the dormitory after finishing her review.

As Ai Meili walked on the road, she did not forget to check whether there was anyone walking with her. After confirming that there was no one, she went straight to a fork in the road.

This branch road leads directly to a corner door of the school. You can leave the school through this corner door, but the key to this corner door is in the hands of the school staff and cannot be obtained by students.

……

Because she often walks this road, Ai Meili is already very familiar with it, and she can walk as usual without using lighting tools.

"Who?"

"Aika Miari."

The figure in the darkness hummed, and when she came closer, several more figures emerged from the darkness.

"Let's go."

I don't know who said something, and then everyone passed through the corner gate and arrived outside the school in silence.

The group of them kept walking through the darkness, and soon they came to a low door.

“Kunkou~~~”

After three gentle knocks, the door opened.

A man with a lamba covering his face appeared inside. He held an oil lamp, shined it in front of the leading man, and then turned sideways to open the door.

After a few people entered, the caretaker took an oil lamp to shine outside, and then closed the door.

……

Not long after he closed the door, there was movement in the darkness.

A figure stood in front of the house and paused for a while, then carefully reached the door and tried to lean on the door panel to listen, but found that nothing could be heard.

The black shadow simply gave up. He took out the chalk and drew an "X" mark on the low wall. Then he retreated into the darkness and continued to wait.

This dark figure is Li Xiaohua. After he took the evaluation in medical school, he began to constantly look for opportunities to get close to those students who he thought had problems.

After nearly a month of trial and error, he finally confirmed that Ai Meili was a very problematic girl.

After several follow-ups, he finally found out where these people were gathering. He would just tell other teammates the location tomorrow and let them arrest them. He returned to the medical school and continued to lurk.

……

After the door closed, Ai Meili and others continued to walk inside. The room was lit with dim oil lamps.

The group of them walked straight forward and soon arrived in front of the wall. Then they uncovered the lamba hanging on the wall and continued to tap on the wall.

“Kunkou~~~”

Five heavy and two light, the door on the wall opened.

The group of people passed through the door and entered the room, only to find that it was a hidden mezzanine connected to a separate house at the back.

There is a lot of space here and there are many people inside.

After Ai Meili and his party arrived, people in the room came over to greet the oldest man among them.

This man is the janitor of the medical school. He is a middle-aged man with a beard and a dark complexion. His name is Temon Razi. He is also the leader and initiator of "Vivasa".

After a while everyone sat down, and in the bright light, Temon Razi stood up.

"This gathering is the first gathering of our 'Vivasa' this month. Everyone knows that the French are gone and they were driven away by the South Chinese.

But the South Chinese are still colonizers, and I heard that they are very cruel to the indigenous people. "

Temon Lazi's words made the people present somewhat disagree. In their eyes, the Nanhua people were very kind. Not only did they teach them knowledge, but they also promised that they could study in Nanhua.

"Is your source reliable?"

A young boy asked. He has been confirmed to be going to Nanhua to study abroad.

His Nanhua female teacher also promised him that if he studied well, he could stay in Nanhua and engage in medical work.

Therefore, he does not think that the South Chinese are cruel.

Temon Razi did not expect that he would be interrupted as soon as he spoke.

In the past, his speeches would always arouse the indignation of the students present, and then everyone would denounce the brutal French and strengthen their belief in resistance.

This time he was interrupted, and it was telling that the students around him did not reprimand the questioner. "Don't be fooled by the false operations of the Nanhua people. Don't you know? They have already started to clear farmland on the island. By then, many people will be reduced to extreme poverty, and these people will become slaves of the Nanhua people."

“No, I saw with my own eyes that those people lost their land because they did not have property rights certificates.

Although they were deprived of their land, the South Chinese employed them to cultivate the land and gave them enough food to feed their families.

Such a move is much kinder than the dignitaries and the French in the past. "

“Yes, I heard from a teacher that Nanhua Mainland plans to transport the landless people to Nanhua Mainland.

There is a large area of ​​land there that no one is cultivating. The teacher said that when you get there, you only need to work for the country for free for three years to qualify for land distribution.

Such measures are the same as those of Chinese immigrants in their country. They do not treat us differently! "

“And I also heard that the South Chinese people plan to set up a parliament on our island so that our representatives can enter the parliament and participate in politics.

This is a great move. Why are we resisting the French?
That is to say, to fight for these rights, now that the South Chinese have promised them to us, why should we resist them again? "

"Yes, Teacher Temon Razi, we should cooperate with them and obey them, otherwise we will suffer more severe blows.

The South Chinese defeated the British and the French one after another. Do we really want to fight against such a powerful ruler? "

Hearing a series of questions, Temon Razi was a little confused. It took him a long time to calm down and asked: "They asked us to change our names to their surnames. They are destroying our customs.

In ten or twenty years, our descendants will forget our traditions and cultural symbols, and we will become a group of people without roots. "

After hearing what Temon Razi said, everyone became a little silent. They cared a little about this.

But facing the powerful and advanced Nanhua, they now want to cater more to the Nanhua people. After all, being strong is a mentality that every nation has.

When Ai Meili heard this, she felt that she should express her opinion.

“Although the South Chinese asked us to change our names, they did not ask us to abandon our customs.

We changed our names to make it easier to communicate with them. People we know well can also call each other by their original names.

Moreover, our tribesmen can change their names at will. Even if they take a name with Nan Hua's surname, it is just one more name. "

Ai Meili's words resonated with the young people present. The natives of Falklands can change their names almost at any time.

Some people just have one name when they are young, another name when they are middle-aged, and another name when they are old.

One student continued, "Yes, we have changed our names, but we can still call them by our real names. The South Chinese people have not asked us to abandon our real names completely.

Although they require Chinese to be the official language, they have not banned our native language.

When the French were here, they directly banned our native language.

Therefore, Mr. Temon Razi, your statement is not correct. I think we should try our best to cooperate with the South Chinese people.

It is more important to learn advanced knowledge to help our people and build our Falklands. "

……

This meeting broke up unhappily, as everyone had different opinions, and the initiator, Termon Lacy, felt frustrated.

Looking at these young students who were deceived by the Nanhua people, he felt sad for them, but there was nothing he could do to change their minds. After all, Nanhua's current actions did not harm the interests of most people.

Not only did the South Chinese people not enslave and kill the indigenous people of the Falklands, but they taught them to save them, so that no one would have any thoughts of resistance.

In desperation, he could only announce that the gathering was over and set a date for the gathering in the future.

However, he knew that this gathering was probably the last one, because everyone's minds had already dispersed, and 'Vivasa' had no basis for its existence.

In silence, Temon Razi returned to the college with other students, and then returned to his dormitory angrily.

He had a bad dream at night, in which he was brutally tortured by some South Chinese people.

Those South Chinese people kept asking him the same question: "Why do you resist us?"

He stiffened and didn't know how to answer, and suddenly woke up in a daze.

When he woke up, he stopped sleeping and washed up casually. He opened the door, and it was a sunny day outside.

He started his routine work as usual, patrolling the college and sorting out items.

While he was making his rounds, a group of Antananarivo police officers surrounded the venue where they had been attending the previous night.

The owner of the house, Temon Lacy's brother and father, were arrested.

They quickly confessed the fact that their son Temon Razi intended to resist the French inciting students to hold a rally.

Through searching the room and hidden rooms inside, we found a lot of written materials about the rebellion against the French, but there is no definite record of the rebellion against Nanhua.

The leader, He Xiaoou, couldn't help but feel a little discouraged, but he still ordered his men to go to the medical school to arrest Temon Razi, and charged their family with hard labor to build the road.

As for the participating students, they are recorded in their files and cannot study abroad in Nanhua, nor can they participate in the recruitment of institutions of the Falklands government.

Ai Meili shed tears of regret immediately after learning about Nanhua's punishment decision.

As regretful as she was, there were many students who all began to hate Temon Razi.

Some students even came to He Xiaoou to express their repentance and hoped to give them a chance.

After He Xiaoou asked Minister Zhong for instructions, he agreed.

These forgiven students are all grateful for Nan Hua's generosity and speak good words of Nan Hua to everyone they meet. (End of chapter)