“… Then, Mr. Hummel went from one thing to another, to the French Chinese. He said that the Chinese language is the most beautiful language in the world, the most clear, and the most accurate; And we must keep it in our hearts and never forget it, and that the people who have died and become slaves as long as they remember their language is like holding a key lesson that opens the door of a prison."

This French short story was first translated into China in 1912 and has been selected as a Chinese middle school textbook for a long time. In the French schools of the French Federation of French Indochina, the original French version of "The Last Lesson" was also selected as a textbook, and all Vietnamese who received a French education read this famous passage in their textbooks. Of course, in the article firmly engraved in their minds, "French Chinese" must have been replaced with "Vietnamese language". But these people probably never dreamed that their "Last Lesson" would be coming soon!

Now every Vietnamese in the cabinet and parliament of the Republic of Indochina may be the most painful and dilemma person in the world, probably more ・・・・・・painful than Teacher Hamel in the novel "The Last Lesson", because the order to teach Chinese in Vietnamese schools is only allowed to be given by them!

Moreover, they also know that the plot in Dude's novel "The Last Lesson" is fictional, because Alsace and Lorraine are originally German-speaking areas, and in Alsace, with a population of 1.5 million, there are only 50,000 French-speaking people, and in fact, most of these people migrated to France after the Franco-Prussian War. But in Vietnam today, more than 30% of the population speaks Vietnamese, and only 30% of the population can speak Chinese! And France did not perish, even if they had lost to Germany again not so long ago. So when you become a slave, it is not the French who need to memorize their language, but the Vietnamese! They died in France, and now in China. But the French didn't want the Vietnamese to forget their language (just eliminate their script), and the Chinese are planning to do just that.

The members of the Indochinese Republic Legislature and the GCD, the Kuomintang, and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Association have all received instructions from their respective parties to vote in favor of a local ordinance called the Compulsory Education Act of the Republic of Indochina. According to this law, from September 1, 1936, a six-year compulsory education system will be implemented throughout the Republic of Indochina. All citizens of the Federation of Greater China who have reached the age of 6 and live in the Republic of Indochina are obliged to receive a free education for a period of 6 years, and the required education funds are allocated by the Republic of Indochina. The Federal Ministry of National Education will be responsible for supervising the implementation of the Act in the Indochinese Federation and providing the necessary assistance, such as the provision of teaching materials and teachers. In addition, the Act specifically stipulates that from September 1, 1935, all secondary schools and universities in the Republic of Indochina will be taught Chinese, and the teaching of Vietnamese will be abolished (first in French, and gradually changed to Chinese).

Vietnamese politicians who have read "The Last Lesson" know of course that this is the language that the Federation of Great China wants to eliminate the Vietnamese and take away the key to open the prison door! The situation, which had calmed down, seemed to have suddenly become volatile, with some clamoring for a non-violent campaign to boycott it; Others are preparing to quit their original party to form the Dúlì Party of Vietnam; Others were busy writing to Nanjing, hoping that their respective parties would retract their orders and formulate a compulsory education bill that would suit the actual situation of the Indochinese Republic. However, Phan Peizhu, who sat in the position of Prime Minister of the Republic of Indochina, acted as if nothing had happened. Neither did they take a position on the bill, nor did they instruct the Kuomintang caucus in the Indochinese parliament to put it to a vote, and it seems that they have a procrastination trick and want to delay it for a day. Anyway, his old man's health is getting worse day by day, and when he kicks his legs, he can't see or be upset, in short, he won't do this sinner who has eradicated the Vietnamese language.

On the contrary, the deputy prime minister of the Republic of Indochina, Ngo Dinh Yan, is like an ant on a hot pot, he has already seen that Pan Peizhu has not many people, and now the old guy refuses to see a doctor even if he is sick, and he is clearly preparing to ascend to Bliss early and not to be a sinner of this nation.

But he, Wu Tingyan, is still young, only 34 years old this year, and he still has a good future. What high positions of Indochinese prime minister, federal parliamentarian, and federal cabinet minister are still waiting for him! Their Wu family is a family of six brothers, and now they are either rich or expensive; His eldest brother, Ngo Dinh Kwe, is now a federal legislator from the Co-Prosperity Party; The second brother, Dinh Dinh, has just been appointed Archbishop of the Catholic Diocese of Hue by Federal President Mao Zd; The fourth brother (Wu Tingyan is the third in line), who graduated from the French National School of Literature, was also elected as a member of the Indochinese Republic; The fifth brother, Ngo Dinh Jin, who was only 24 years old, was appointed deputy director of the Jǐng Affairs Department in Annam Province; The sixth brother, 21-year-old Wu Dinh Lian, was admitted to the Department of International Politics at Nanjing Zhōngyāng University, and it is no surprise that he will become a senior diplomat of the Federation in the future. What a steaming rì on the political zhì family! According to the current rules of the game of the Great China Federation, the glory of the Wu family has just begun. It is not known how many Indochinese prime ministers, federal parliamentarians and federal cabinet ministers will be produced in the future, and are they ready to abandon the Indochinese Compulsory Education Act in order to oppose the elimination of the Vietnamese language?

Wu Tingyan walked into his office quickly, thinking about whether to temporarily pretend to be sick to avoid the limelight, but he didn't see his second brother Cardinal Ngai Dinh standing at the door of the office waiting for him, and the brothers almost bumped into each other. Or the archbishop took a step back first, and said with a smile: "The third brother doesn't belong to the mind, what are you thinking about?" Can you sue me, the servant of the Lord? ”

Wu Tingyan let out an "oh", glanced at Wu Ting, and said with a smile: "Second brother, you are already a cardinal archbishop, what a gratifying congratulations!" "Cardinals, also known as cardinals, according to the rules of the Holy See, must not exceed 70 in total and are eligible to elect and run for election (mutual election) of the Pope! He is the second largest person in the Catholic system after the Pope, and his status is much higher than that of a simple archbishop of Hue!

The two brothers smiled and walked into Wu Tingyan's office side by side. Sitting down on the sofa, naturally a secretary brought two cups of coffee. Wu Tingyan waved his hand to let the secretary out, looked at the second brother's red robe and asked, "Second brother, how did you make the cardinal archbishop?" The Holy See didn't delegate this power to President Mao, right? "Of course, the power of the cardinal cannot be delegated, otherwise where is the authority of the pope?

Wu Ting put down his coffee cup and said with a smile: "In Nan, he only accepted the appointment of the archbishop, and when he went to the Vatican to receive the pontifical consecration, he gave the cardinal, it seems that it was the influence exerted by the permanent prime minister." I really didn't expect his influence in the Vatican to be so strong! He took a breath, and a god of worship appeared on his face. In Rome, he also met with Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, who also admired the Prime Minister very much, and called the Prime Minister one of the two leaders of the World Anti-Soviet War, and the President of Germany Hitler (Chang Ruiqing is really a bad guy)! He also said that our Wehrmacht, like the German Wehrmacht, is the most powerful army in the world! Third brother, we are really frogs at the bottom of the well in Vietnam, I don't know that our country is so powerful! Premier Chang is so great again! ”

Wu Tingyan looked at the second brother in a bit of a daze, his second brother is a religious fan, and he only knows that God is the greatest, and the Pope is the second greatest, but he didn't expect to worship Chang Ruiqing again. He shook his head and sighed: "Second brother, I also know that Premier Chang is a great man, and China is a strong country. But now they are proposing a "Compulsory Education Law of the Republic of Indochina", which will treat Chinese as our mother tongue and abolish the status of Vietnamese. ”

"Isn't Chinese just Confucianism? Didn't our father teach us Confucianism when we were young? What's wrong with teenagers in Indochina learning Confucianism now? You can't let French pinyin be taught in schools all the time, right? We are Chinese now, how can we use French pinyin? ”

This cardinal archbishop is full of words, and he also says "We are Chinese", it seems that after becoming a cardinal, he has seen a lot more.

Wu Tingyan sighed: "Don't we still have words?" Although there are not many people who understand...... Moreover, after all, it is Vietnamese in French pinyin, and if it is changed to Confucianism, it will only be able to use Chinese in the future, and there will be no Vietnamese language anymore. ”

"How so? Isn't Vietnamese a dialect of China? It's the same as Cantonese, Hokkien, and Shanghainese. Wu Ting continued to enlighten his third brother and said: "As for the words, it has never been the official language of our Vietnam, we have always used Confucian characters, and Vietnam has been a vassal state of China since ancient times, until it was captured by France after the Sino-French War, and now that it has returned to the embrace of the motherland, of course we must use the language of the motherland again!" How else could it be? Is it going to be with the Nanjing hard top? What's in it for that? Premier Chang even defeated Russia and Rì Ben, how can tiny Vietnam withstand it? I think the last "Indochina Republic of China Compulsory Education Law" must be implemented, so since it can't be stopped, it's better to follow along! Now the Kuomintang and GCD are not looking at the proposal and it is better to put it forward by the Co-Prosperity Association!

"No, no, then I won't become a historical sinner who has been stinking for thousands of years?" Ms. Goh's head shook like a rattle.

Wu Ting sneered: "Third brother, the six brothers of our Wu family are the smartest among you, why don't you even understand this thing?" What do you mean by a historical sinner? It's the bad guys who are written in history, but who will write this history? Chancellor or Trotsky? ”

Wu Tingyan was stunned suddenly, and there was a sudden feeling of enlightenment in his head. History is written by the victors, and the infamy of national sinners through the ages belongs to the losers! Therefore, if you want to be a good person in the history books, the most important thing is to stand on the side of the winner!

At the same time, a collective meeting of the GCD parliamentary groups of the Indo-Chinese Republic of China and the Legislative House was being held in the Governor's Palace of Hanoi. More than a dozen Chinese parliamentarians returned to their senses and calmed down, holding tea cups and drinking them without taking a sip. There are also dozens of Vietnamese parliamentarians, but they are solemn, as if the disaster of extermination (the country has died, but the species has not yet been destroyed) is just around the corner. Governor Huang Baopei Huang glanced at the faces of the Vietnamese parliamentarians, frowned silently and said: "Comrades, you are all GCD members, many of you are still Zhōngyāng members of the GCD in Indochina in the past, and you still don't know the discipline of the GCD?" As a party member, you must first obey the instructions of the party, the subordinates must obey the superiors, and the whole party must obey zhōngyāng! ”

Hearing this, the Vietnamese present nodded frequently, but the Chinese looked at Huang Baopei with their mouths wide open, as if trying to recall where in the party constitution there were so many obedience?

Of course, Huang Baopei ignored the Chinese parliamentarians, who were definitely in favor of the "Compulsory Education Law of the Republic of Indochina", and there was no need to oppress people with the big hat of zhōngyāng, and the target of his persuasion today was the Vietnamese in the GCD parliamentary group. He paused and said, "Now that the instructions of zhōngyāng have come down, that is, you should vote in favor of the Compulsory Education Law of the Republic of Indochina. Saying that, his face and voice were already deepening: "As party members and cadres in Zhongg, what you have to do now is to be consistent with the party!" Otherwise, it is an anti-party clique! I won't say much about what the consequences are! ”

Anti-party bloc!? The Chinese present were even more confused, what is this? What are the consequences? The highest disciplinary punishment stipulated in the party constitution is expulsion from the party! If a member of the council who is not in the district is expelled from the party, it is a bit troublesome, and the qualifications of the councillor are immediately gone. If you are elected by yourself, you are not afraid of being expelled, but it is a big deal to transfer to the Co-Prosperity Association or the National Socialist Party... ・・・

The same charge sounded to the Vietnamese comrades, and they all felt a cold wind blowing from the back of their necks. The history of GCD in Indochina is not long, but there have been several anti-party groups! Didn't Tek be dispatched to arrest and kill people that time, and it was bloody? As for the few comrades who stayed in the Soviet Union, they are now trembling all over, anti-party! Or a group! This crime is gone! Not only can't I keep it, but even my wife and children have to fold it in・・・・・・ the Hades Hall at Lubyanka No. 2 is not a good time! I heard that there are also zhōngyāng security bureaus, state secrets bureaus, and national intelligence bureaus in Nanjing, and it is estimated that they are all engaged in this business!

By the way, Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Cheka, and Zhang Guotao, the number one executioner of the Cheka (Trotsky), are now in China!

Ah! Why did you get blinded to lard and dare to do the right thing with the party? I wonder if it's too late to get lost? I don't want to keep my current glory, as long as I don't go to labor reform, I'm grateful! Thinking of this, the mighty and unyielding Vietnamese fighters stood up with pale faces and trembling faces・・・・・・

Let's take a look at the current situation in the Indochinese Party Department of the Kuomintang, which is indeed a chaotic scene.

Soong Meiling, head of the Overseas Department of the Kuomintang who had arrived by plane from Nanjing, knocked the table in front of her, but the congressmen of the Kuomintang in Vietnam did not give any face and were still shouting loudly. Most of the Chinese members of the Kuomintang gathered around the rostrum where Chiang was and loudly quarreled with the Vietnamese. However, both sides spoke Vietnamese, and Soong Meiling, who had just formed a counter-revolutionary partnership with Lao Chiang not long ago, naturally did not understand a word.

Fortunately, there was a secretary who could speak Vietnamese by her side, and he roughly translated the content of the quarrel between the two factions of parliamentarians at the scene. In fact, he didn't translate it, Soong Meiling could guess that it was nothing more than the Chinese parliamentarians who supported the "Compulsory Education Law of the Republic of Indochina", the Vietnamese parliamentarians who resolutely opposed it and accused it of the extinction of the Vietnamese language and the Vietnamese nation, and several bigwigs of the Indian branch of the Kuomintang who reacted particularly fiercely even shouted that they would launch a non-violent non-cooperation movement to resist Chinese colonial rule.

Song Meiling's god was embarrassed and didn't know what to do. This time, it was not surprising that the "Compulsory Education Law of the Republic of Indochina" was blocked in the legislation and political participation of the Indochinese Republic of China. She knew that both the CG and the Co-Prosperity Association had prepared a way to deal with it, and Sun Yuexun, the chairman of the Co-Prosperity Association, urgently flew to the Vatican to meet with Ng Ting, who was being consecrated by the Pope there, and then the news came that Ng Ting had been crowned cardinal. As for Zhong G, their party discipline has always been strict, Mao ZD and Chang Ruiqing are not good talkers, who dares to fight zhōngyāng custody without good fruit to eat! Only the Kuomintang has always been loose and crumbling, and anyone who is brought out is a revolutionary veteran, especially the Cantonese faction in the party, which controls the power in Guangdong and Hong Kong, and does not take Lao Chiang as the party chairman in his eyes at all.

At this time, there was a sudden disturbance at the door of the conference room, and I saw several Kuomintang party officials running in out of breath, and as soon as they entered the door, they opened their voices and shouted loudly in Vietnamese: "Van Van Dong and Wu Ting, chief of the Congregation of the Congregation of the Chinese Congress, have just made a phone call and said that they are going to submit the "Compulsory Education Law of the Republic of Indochina" to the Senate tomorrow for voting!

Comrades, the GCD and the Co-Prosperity people are ready to betray the interests of the Vietnamese nation! ”

Hearing this, the originally chaotic meeting hall suddenly quieted down, and all the Chinese showed relaxed expressions on their faces, while the Vietnamese seemed to have lost their souls.

Song Meiling hurriedly seized the opportunity to slap the podium hard, attracting everyone's attention, and then said in a calm voice in a somewhat stiff French: "Comrades, do you think that only the Zhongg and the Gongrong Association have party discipline!" You are all elected members of the Kuomintang with the full help of the Kuomintang, and some of you are still non-district members, and you should obey the instructions of zhōngyāng in the parliamentary voting, otherwise the party zhōngyāng will be punished by party discipline and forever deprived of your party membership! If you are a non-district councillor, you will also be disqualified! Distinguished members and gentlemen, please make your choice now, and if you are willing to be a loyal Kuomintang, then please stay in this room; If you are ready to be an enemy of the Kuomintang, then please leave immediately! You are not welcome in the Kuomintang! ”

After Song Meiling's words were finished, the venue was still silent. Some of the Vietnamese-origin Kuomintang district councillors who have a lot of things in their minds are thinking about it. It seems that this time the KMT is serious, and not only the KMT, but also the GCD and the Gongrong Society are also in unison. If anyone jumps out to oppose it at this moment, I am afraid that it will not only be the enemy of the Kuomintang, but the enemy of the entire federation, and there is no door for him to switch to the GCD and the Co-prosperity Association by virtue of his status as a parliamentarian!

Although the Federation of Great China is a society governed by the rule of law, and the seats of the members elected by the voters will not be deprived, without the political resources of the Kuomintang, can the next parliamentarians still be elected? Without the status of a parliamentarian, isn't his political future coming to an end? If you are not a politician, what can you do? They hadn't thought through these issues yet, and the Vietnamese and Chinese legislators who had no votes were already shouting one after another: "Support the party zhōngyāng!" Support the party zhōngyāng! Then the arms were raised, and the Vietnamese district councillors reluctantly agreed.

The parliamentary struggle over the "Compulsory Education Law of the Republic of Indochina" was finally approved by the GCD, the Kuomintang and the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Association under the joint pressure of the three parties, the GCD, the Kuomintang and the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Association, and the day after the bill was passed, Pan Peizhu, who had worked all her life for the Vietnamese nation, left this world forever with regret because she was seriously ill and refused to seek medical treatment.

Although this event has attracted little attention in a war-torn world, the parliamentary struggle, which some historians have called the "Last Lesson Event," is seen in later history books as the beginning of a true integration of the peoples of Greater East Asia.