Chapter Thirty-Six: Nationality and Faith

  Liu Jinshan's purchase of two million catties of cotton this time can be said to be a big deal. Last time he returned to Jiangsu, he contacted several Huishang merchants, borrowed some money from them, and bought these cotton through their channels. However, it is not the season for cotton to mature now, so there are only so many.

  After sending the telegram, Liu Jinshan transported the cotton from the port to outside Fuzhou City and piled up the goods outside the city. However, just a few hours later, a platoon of security guards arrived, fully armed, guarding the goods by the roadside.

  The next day, the tractor team also arrived, with these tractors loaded with paper. The paper mill had expanded its production capacity to 100,000 tons, and with three shifts working around the clock, it was producing 300,000 tons. The expansion was very rapid, and in just one month, they had already produced 10,000 tons of paper.

  These papers are enough to exchange for the cotton that Liu Jinshan bought, and after settling accounts, Liu Jinshan still needs to pay more.

  This time, Liu Jinshan brought nearly 500 students and teachers from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, as well as more than 30 Western doctors.

  Liu Jinshan's batch of goods arrived, and the delivery of cotton not only reduced Xia Jun's financial pressure a bit, but also provided raw materials for the textile mill.

  The teachers and students took a tractor directly to Xixiang.

  All along the way were armed escorts, and when they saw the checkpoints set up by local officials, they hurriedly let them pass, not wanting to get shot.

  When they arrived in Xixiang, they were quickly absorbed into the school. Among them was a student named Zhang Cheng who studied chemistry, which made Xia Jun very happy. With a chemical expert on hand, it would be possible to try producing some of the chemicals used by the factories under certain conditions.

  At the same time, there was also a Western doctor named Yang Xingye who had returned from studying abroad. In addition, there was an American doctor named Carol, all of whom were dug up by Liu Jinshan in the hospital.

  With these doctors, Xia Jun can cultivate his own doctors and establish a field hospital.

  At the same time, there were two returned engineers in this group, one named Guo Kun and the other Zhang Peiyuan. Their arrival finally allowed Xia Jun to build openly, otherwise Xu Wenbo alone could not cope with it.

  Xia Jun gave these talents high salaries, and the 100,000 yuan in school funds was still there, so salary was not a problem for the time being. Moreover, the Medical College of Jianzhou University was established, and those more than 500 students were also absorbed into middle school and university.

  These students came to Jianzhou University, mainly because the tuition fees were exempted and there were subsidies. These people were not all brought by Liu Jinshan, many of them gathered at the port after receiving the letter and arrived with Liu Jinshan's cargo ship. For example, those two engineers were also brought by Xu Wenbo.

  There were more students from Guangfu Hui, with over 80 of them among the more than 500 people.

  The arrival of these students and teachers has gradually improved the science and engineering departments of Jianzhou University. The Military Academy has also absorbed 50 more students, bringing the total number of students in the first class to 100 people, which is already the maximum capacity for teaching at present. It will have to wait until next year to expand enrollment again, when excellent students from the first class can be selected as assistant instructors.

  At the same time, Jianzhou University also added 'College of Law and Politics', which is also a very important link.

  Xia Jun will need administrative and judicial personnel in the future. They should be trained as soon as possible, otherwise when the territory expands, there will be no one to manage it.

  Xia Jun then established the 'Jianzhou Technical School', which was divided into departments of transportation, engineering, electrical engineering, maintenance and production.

  Moreover, he transferred more than a dozen teachers who spoke Chinese well to form the "Chinese Popularization Office", but unfortunately, Xia Jun's teacher resources were not enough, otherwise, they could have been used for military literacy.

  The Minbei region speaks the Minbei dialect, which is mixed with a large number of Chinese pronunciations and also belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family. For example, the pronunciation of words such as "have" and "small" are consistent with Mandarin Chinese. In terms of pronunciation, it has a relatively fixed tone translation with Mandarin Chinese. For instance, in Minbei dialect, when referring to an item being beautiful, they use the word "yǎ shì", which is derived from ancient Chinese. Locals who do not carefully ponder over it often think it means "beautiful", but when translated into Mandarin Chinese according to its fixed tone, it becomes "elegant style".

  In terms of word formation, it retains some ancient Yue language word formation methods, such as "mother hen", which is formed by the words "hen mother".

  This language is a blend of ancient Chinese and ancient Viet languages, the northern part of Fujian province as one of the eight ancient capitals of Minyue, absorbed more Chinese, in northern Fujian promoting Mandarin is relatively easy.

  In addition, the pronunciation of numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in Japanese is the same as that in Northern Min dialect, which was likely spread by Northern Min people who went to Japan for business. Many people from Fujian went to Japan for business in ancient times, so it's not surprising.

  Ethnicity is a combination of ideological and behavioral forms. In ancient times, the Han Chinese were primarily identified by their clothing and headwear, while their language was relatively disordered. A unified language can strengthen the unity of behavior, but this does not mean abandoning dialects; rather, it means understanding both dialects and Mandarin.

  In this era of increasingly intense conflict, people in any region must band together to survive, thus giving rise to ethnic consciousness and forms.

  The historical development of national consciousness in the West is not very long, and it was only gradually formed as a nation in the 18th century. China's national form was established from the Han Dynasty, mainly with the shape of Han people's clothing, relatively uniform in shape, although languages are different, but dressings and customs are similar in various regions, but consciousness is relatively weak.

  The late Qing was a period of awakening of nationalist thought, and the kind of nationalism mixed with bloodline thinking that the Guangfu Hui represented was universally prevalent at the time.

  Around 1905, some people publicized this nationalist idea in rented newspapers, causing a great controversy. The supporters were emotionally excited and shouted slogans to kill all Manchu people. As a result, the opposing side said that the blood of Manchu and Han had already been mixed, and the Manchu people were actually Han people.

  This cognition of dividing nations by blood lineage is actually nonsense, nations have always been divided by ideological form and behavioral form, no matter what your blood lineage is, as long as you identify yourself as a certain nation and achieve a certain degree of unity in behavioral form, then you are that nation.

  In Xia Jun's view, the Manchu must be eliminated, their ideology and behavior must be thoroughly suppressed. Although these Manchus have mixed with the Han in terms of bloodline, their ideology has not changed, and their behavior is different from that of the Han, they can never be assimilated into the Han.

  In the future, on the one hand, we must strengthen national consciousness and unify forms; on the other hand, we must thoroughly eradicate the consciousness and forms of the Manchu Qing.

  It can be eliminated directly from the physical body, or it can be eliminated by implementing a gentle policy, but Xia Jun is more inclined to the former.

  In this era where distances between nations are getting smaller and conflicts are escalating, it is impossible to survive without nationalism.

  Nationalism is about forming cliques, representing faith. In simpler terms, it's a group of people with similar forms and consciousness who propose nationalist ideas, then unite under these ideas to plunder, enslave or resist the invasion of other ethnic groups.

  Why are the Japanese so strong? Later generations of Chinese people generally believe that the Japanese are united, while the Chinese have a weakness for internal strife.

  Such a view is also incorrect, Chinese people will infight, that's because although the nation has been formed, but faith has not been formed.

  Japan advocates absolute nationalism, that is, fanatical nationalist ideology, so they have faith and unite.

  Why did China's national ideology wither in its formation, while Japan succeeded?

  This is mainly due to the long-standing feudal remnants in China, where the feudal society was primarily based on enslavement. Although Japan was also a feudal society in the past, its feudal system was not as powerful as that of China.

  China's feudal system has been perfected to a stubborn extent. Once the common people unite and awaken, can they still be enslaved?

  Chiang Kai-shek was the first to cut off nationalist thought, his "revolution" belonged to halfway out of the house, his thinking is still traditional "fighting for the world", once the ruler has no faith, it evolved into a "modern feudal rule" with a sheep's head and dog meat, after Chiang Kai-shek...

  The faith is XXism, after the collapse of XXism, the faith is banknotes, letting the whole nation into the eyes of money, not to mention what unity, people's hearts are scattered and chaotic.

  The awakening of national consciousness in China is still in its infancy and is very immature, but also very radical.

  When Xia Jun saw those students passionately advocating for nationalism and mentioning the issue of blood lineage, although he did not agree with it, he acknowledged their radicalism.

  At this point, China has reached a critical juncture of life and death. If the Han people don't unite, there will be no opportunity for resurgence.

  Thinking of future generations, his radicalism was gradually beaten into despair and numbness, and he couldn't help but make a vow in his heart that he would not let these radical students down in the future.

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