Father of France

Chapter 258 This Hatred Is Incompatible
The sheikhs of these tribes were overjoyed. Koman didn't need to understand it too much; he just needed to understand that his income had doubled.

The income gap between European immigrants and locals in Algeria is still very large, generally by a factor of two. Doubling one's income is enough to make the Haqs cheer, and history has repeatedly proven the importance of pay.

The most recent example being proven is Chang Gong. I wonder how much the legal tender has depreciated recently, and whether the gold yuan has been put on the agenda.

The sheikhs, including Bujama Sheikh, Tabat Sheikh, and Omar Sheikh, all left with smiles on their faces, seemingly full of expectations for the future, believing that better days were yet to come.

When Lucar entered, Koeman was sitting there with his sword at his waist, seemingly lost in thought. He tentatively asked, "Commander, is everything settled?"

"Hmm." Koman then came to his senses and said, "After the reorganization of the Railway Corps Division is completed, the next step is to take back the right to education for the children of officers and soldiers. No rush, take it one step at a time."

Once the reorganization of the Railway Corps is complete, the authority of the military can be directly used to remove the families of the Railway Corps members from the tribal political environment and re-form a controllable group under the military.

Just like Coman said, take it one step at a time, and cut the sausage slowly.

“Taking away the right to education for the children of officers and soldiers is more important than creating a new branch of the military. Algeria must be Frenchized.” Koeman stood up as if to persuade Rucard, but in fact he was mainly persuading himself. “The life of chanting scriptures is over. France lacks people, but it does not lack burdens. The locals cannot continue to be burdens.”

“Arabs have always thought of themselves as great. We have no right to teach them anything,” Lukar explained to Koman, having served in the overseas provinces for a long time and being well aware of this mentality.

“I understand this mentality very well. Those who think they have a long history are like this.” A hint of helplessness flashed across Koman’s face. “They all think they have the most cultural heritage, and that European countries are just nouveau riche. If the gap between them and reality is too big, they will say that Europe also went through a long Middle Ages. In fact, they have missed the point.”

"What's the problem?" Lucar became interested. Actually, it was quite amusing to hear his superior subtly belittling other ethnic groups.

"These so-called victims of modern colonization should not be overthrowing the Bible, which is actually no better than the Quran. What they should be overthrowing are the formulas of Euclid, Archimedes, and Pythagoras."

Koman said lazily, "What's the Bible? Is it better than the Quran or the Analects?" He really didn't think so.

But then Koeman thought about it again, and it seemed that ancient Greece was also a major area of ​​pseudo-historical theories. Pseudo-historical theories are published every year, claiming that European mathematical knowledge was transmitted from their own country.

Internet firewalls should indeed exist. Such remarks that challenge the mathematical system are actually far more serious than the indiscriminate claims of ancestry made by Türkiye, Mongolia, and South Korea.

Claiming ancestors arbitrarily is at most a matter of idealism, but challenging the mathematical system is tantamount to challenging materialism.

In the era that Koman lived in, due to short videos, the people who expressed their opinions were inevitably of varying quality, and false materials emerged one after another. For example, the claim that New Delhi was the newly established capital of India in 1962 was false.

People who don't know the situation might think that New Delhi is much farther away from Delhi. In reality, it's just a distinction between the old and new city areas. It was a new city built by the British next to Delhi for their own residence. Due to the hype in short videos, it became a story from 1962, and many people still believe it.

"This is the first time I've heard of this, but even without those Greeks from thousands of years ago, Newton, Euler, and Gauss still proved the strength of Europe." Rugal's state of mind at this moment was completely different from that of people in 21st-century Europe and America who had been deeply immersed in decades of happy education.

"Don't be so confident." As far as Koeman knew, Newton's existence was indeed doubted because he himself was unmarried and had no offspring, so this was used to argue that Newton was a fictional character.

Rugal now knows these mathematical physicists by heart, and he has also proven that civilization can indeed degenerate.

Koeman recalled an incident where Trump's second son was interviewed. The reporter asked a multiplication question, but Trump's son evaded the question and refused to answer. Trump quietly reminded his son of the correct answer.

This shows that the knowledge that the over-eighty-year-old Trump received during his education was definitely completely different from that of his son. Trump could still calculate the correct answer at eighty, but his son did not.

How terrifying is "happy education"? I wonder if one day the West, including the United States, will really be dethroned, and whether "happy education" will end up like the rigid, formulaic examination system, being written into the history textbooks of this great Eastern country as a lesson. It's entirely possible that this will happen.

Not to mention Europe and America, Russia's science and engineering level has also declined significantly since the Soviet era. During the Cold War, Eastern European countries were frequent winners of Olympic gold medals.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, apart from the benefits being absorbed by Europe and the United States, and the fact that physics professors from Eastern European countries were relegated to gatekeeping, the United States could no longer attract new talent from Eastern Europe. Otherwise, how could Indians have become so important?

The new textbooks on Mediterranean history will be distributed in Algeria's overseas provinces in the second half of the year, after the summer holidays, so the Hatzig community still has some safe time. Once the textbooks for the new school year are ready, the second half of the year will begin to provide comprehensive education to the overseas provinces.

Koman left the room and went to headquarters to report to General Juan about the entire process of his communication with the sheikhs of Hakis, including their attitudes, inclinations, and all their reactions.

With the approval of the headquarters, the establishment of the Railway Corps officially began. The Hakis people who had already served in the railway construction received orders to become full members of the Railway Corps. The vacancies were filled by selections from various tribes within the Hakis community.

The military police directly dispatched teams to the areas where the Haqs lived to conduct selections. Healthy men came out to be selected, and young men gathered in front of the recruitment office.

Karim saw the neighbor's boy pressing his bloody handprint on his hand, while his five sisters peeked from behind an olive tree.

Many men saw this selection as an opportunity to change their fate. The doubled income and the benefits of becoming a railway soldier were extremely attractive to most people.

French gendarmes fluent in the local language continued to shout, "France has built a railway school in Setif, where the sons of railway soldiers can study and their daughters can learn piano. Modern life is within reach, and the transformation of the overseas department begins in your hands."

This is not propaganda. The education system is a top priority for the Paris government. The French military command in Algeria is making every effort to improve educational facilities. Apart from Coman's intervention in banning English education, the gendarmes' announcements are all true.

As for the ban on Arabic education, is that also a problem? Shouldn't it be banned?
Each selected man received a set of military uniform and identification, and had his portrait taken by the French gendarmes.

The uniforms they received were identical to those of the French Army. There will be special railway corps uniforms later, but France is too busy to provide them now.

In the distance, trucks of the French Foreign Legion were rolling over the dry riverbed, the tricolor flags fluttering in the truck beds. This would be their future home. The selected railway recruits would be transported to the assembly point and integrated with the Hakis who had already been involved in railway construction.

“It certainly won’t be able to form combat capability in less than a few months.” Rugal held the reports from various places, looking at Koeman with some surprise. Why wasn’t the battalion commander strolling around the Jewish community today? Should he wait a while before going?
Koeman, of course, had no idea what Lucar was thinking. He had already figured out the situation in the Jewish community, so there was no need for him to go there again. "I have a friend who is going to Algiers tomorrow. In the next few days, unless it is something particularly important, you just need to keep an eye on things."

The next morning, Eva Gardner appeared at the port of Algiers. To adapt to the North African climate, she wore her hair down like an Arab woman, and huge sunglasses hung on her nose.

If it weren't for the information about her clothing and appearance left on the telegram registration, Koeman wouldn't have recognized her. After meeting, the femme fatale didn't follow Koeman. "I brought a custom Citroën. It just came off the factory because it was modified to be bulletproof. You'll be riding in this car from now on."

"How could someone as hard-hearted as me be so easily moved? What am I going to do?" Koman joked carelessly, trying to hide her genuine emotion. How could an American girl be so good at this?

"You're very touched, aren't you?" Ava Gardner took off her sunglasses, ignoring Koman's denial, and said, "I'm pretty good at judging men, just like how you wanted to pin me down on the bed the first time you met me."

"Be serious, I'm a soldier," Koman said, stopping Ava Gardner from talking nonsense and changing the subject, "Why did you suddenly want to come here?"

“Washington invited me to Rome to promote American culture.” Ava Gardner saw Coleman smirk and gave the man a shove. “I know you Europeans think America has no culture.”

"When I was in Italy, I was thinking about whether to hold a beauty pageant. Since Italy is not far from North Africa, I asked for your opinion. I didn't come here just to see you."

Listening to Ava Gardner's insincere words, Corman didn't mind and gave his own fair opinion: "It is indeed important to grasp the definition of beauty. Considering the reality in France, it is indeed necessary to be prepared. Moreover, it cannot be limited to white people. There are different races in the French Federation, and they should all have a fair opportunity."

“You’re going to talk about French progressivism again,” Eva Gardner said with some approval. “But I agree that beauty pageants in the United States are generally limited to European immigrant groups.”

“You Americans are prone to doing this kind of thing.” When Koman thought of the monsters and demons produced by the aesthetics of the liberal left, which were just the opposite of the current America that Ava Gardner described, he said, “Let me talk to you about the definition of beauty pageants. The most important thing about beauty pageants is beauty. If they are mixed with racism and deliberately uglify, it is better not to hold them at all. If a beauty pageant is successful, it will also be a huge boost to France’s cultural influence.”

He still takes this matter very seriously. Koeman's mouth may lie, but Koeman's Rockets will not.

Those beauty pageants when the Democratic Party was in power in the United States were just fooling Corman's Rockets; I have an irreconcilable hatred for them.

"Let's call it the International Beauty Pageant. This should be the first major competition in Europe since the war. If you have the power to organize it, wouldn't that be much more meaningful than just being a pretty face?"

(End of this chapter)