After Mo Ming reported back to the State Intelligence Bureau, he only made a brief debriefing, and was given a special task by Jiao Tang, a member of the Central Executive Committee, Minister of Internal Affairs, and director of the State Intelligence Bureau, - to escort the children to the Bingtuan Fort in the Luoqia area.

Mo Ming was one of the few single people in the 500 crossing crowd, and he didn't have any relatives at home, so he readily agreed to this task.

On 11 October, 136 French children from the Gascony region and 29 orphans from their country gathered in the morning light and set out on the road. They lined up in a fairly neat formation, along Highway 1, starting from the West Gate of Dongfang County, and heading towards Dingyuanbao.

Escorting these children along the way, in addition to the two future instructors of the cadet regiment sent by the General Directorate of National Intelligence, there was also a platoon of cavalry troops. The children looked with fear and curiosity at the tall and mighty Lusitano horses, and the horsemen in their crisp uniforms. Many of them had even seen horses for the first time, and they let out a series of exclamations.

It took a while for the two officers of the Intelligence Bureau to stop the confusion and keep the team going.

"In the future, I will be the head of the child, alas, I don't know when this nanny's day will be a head." A young-looking intelligence officer said, smiling at Mo Ming next to him.

"A child's head doesn't have to be so bad." Mo Ming said, "Brother is very kind, I haven't seen you in the General Intelligence Bureau before." ”

"It's only been a few months since I was transferred." The young intelligence officer said, and then stretched out his hand: "Meet Liu Ang, a researcher at the Ethnic and Religious Policy Research Office of the General Intelligence Bureau." ”

"Mo Ming, the head of the Bordeaux station of the General Intelligence Bureau." Mo Ming stretched out his hand and shook Liu Ang.

"You're the legendary local tyrant stationmaster?" Liu Ang said with a look of surprise, "I can't see it." Svenwen's people, I didn't expect it to be so powerful. ”

"What kind of mess?" Mo Ming was a little inexplicable.

"Uh, you still don't know what to do?" Liu Ang was a little surprised, "Even after you came back yesterday to report on your work, the entire intelligence bureau compound went crazy, saying that you were 'planting' people in the French vineyards......"

"Huh." Mo Ming glanced at Liu Ang, smiled, and changed the subject: "The Ethnic and Religious Policy Research Office is a newly established institution, right?" What does it do? ”

"What else can I do?!" Liu Ang said with a big grin, "Of course, I have been thinking about policies and regulations such as racial integration, assimilation, and religious control all day long. I have just been transferred for two or three months, and I am still in the stage of researching data, and the results are still very limited. ”

"That's good, as long as you keep researching, you will always figure out something, our country really needs people like you at present, integration, assimilation of immigrants, there is a long way to go." Mo Ming said as she walked.

"Hehe, I can only say do my best." Liu Ang also seemed to be a talkative master, and it happened that the two were bored on the road, so they chatted without a match.

At present, the integration and assimilation of human races has become a basic national policy of the East Coast Republic of China. To this end, the Religious Affairs Office under the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ethnic Policy Research Office of the State Intelligence Administration were merged under the instruction of the Executive Committee to form a new organization, the Ethnic and Religious Policy Research Office.

The research office is a second-level agency directly under the State Intelligence Administration, which is one level higher than the dispatch stations. Liu Ang, a senior researcher at the lab, is also interested in history as a fellow with a bachelor's degree in law and a master's degree in economics, and his latest research focuses on the ethnic policies of the three major multi-ethnic empires in history: the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Austria, and Tsarist Russia.

Tsarist Russia aside, the country had a strong Juche nation, which did not correspond to the status quo of the Crossing Masses. Liu Ang's research focuses on the historical evolution of the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Austria, the gains and losses of ethnic policies, the cohesion of the people of all ethnic groups, and the sense of national identity.

"The nationalist trend that broke out after the French Revolution gave birth to one nation-state after another, and the word 'nation' in English means both the state and the nation, which shows the social form at that time." Talking about his old profession, Liu Ang's talking spirit became stronger, "Now is the Age of Discovery, and the national consciousness has not yet risen. Whether it is European countries or China in Asia, the common people do not have a strong sense of nationality and statehood, and this is where we can take advantage of it. If we had crossed over two hundred years later, it would have been difficult for us to assimilate the nationalist immigrants of Europe. ”

"It's not easy to assimilate now, so we can only try to make people of different ethnicities intermarry and mix blood, so that everyone's external racial differences are no longer so obvious." Mo Ming said.

"That's just the first step." Liu Ang snapped his fingers and continued, "The next second step is to create a new nation, the East Coast Clan. We can draw on the Ottomanism that emerged from the Ottoman Sultan Abdir Mejid I, who ascended the throne in 1839 after the 'Edict of the Garden'(1) – that everyone in the empire was an Ottoman, not a Turk, a Greek, a Bulgarian, an Armenian, a Jew, a Bedouin, a Berber, or anything else. Turkish politicians hoped that this trend of thought would counteract the dangerous tendencies for national independence everywhere and induce all citizens to pledge allegiance to the imperial government and preserve the territorial integrity of the empire. ”

"Sounds like a good idea. However, it still failed in the end, right? Mo Ming asked, although his history was not very good, but he also knew that the Ottoman Empire had been in a state of slow collapse before World War I, and completely collapsed after World War I.

"Yes, this policy ultimately failed, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have merit. On the contrary, it is worth learning from and studying. "The young Ottomans in Turkey(2) criticized the autocratic rule of the imperial upper echelons, and on the other hand, they tried to instill in the people a sense of pride in their country, and they vigorously promoted the idea of the 'motherland,' and believed that the Arab caliphs and Persians in the Middle Ages were Ottomans." The entire Ottoman Empire belonged to all Ottomans, not just Turks. ”

"Well, instill in the people a sense of national pride, weaken the concept of the nation, and promote the concept of the motherland." Mo Ming thought about it and said, "You go on, I think it's quite interesting." ”

"To put it bluntly, a country must be based on a nation in order to be long-lasting. This nation can be original or created. "The reason for the Ottoman's failure was that she was not able to solve the problem of national integration in her heyday, and by the time she was weak, more than a third of the country's population was Christian, the largest ethnic group was Arabs, and the proportion of the population was not very large, and then the problem was very difficult." It is inconceivable that she was so gentle with the peoples she conquered that she allowed them to retain their cultures, traditions, and beliefs without thorough Turkization. At its peak, nationalism surged and Western powers repeatedly instigated ethnic uprisings in their territories, plus she was on the wrong side in both the First Balkan War and the First World War. The collapse of the empire, then, is not so surprising. ”

"So......" Mo Ming looked at Liu Ang and asked suspiciously.

"Therefore, our most urgent action now is to persistently and vigorously promote our 'East Coast Doctrine' for a long time!" Liu Ang said categorically, "The previous ethnic policy was vacillating, and it was a bit too conservative and too cautious to assimilate the indigenous people and erase the national color of European immigrants. Many Europeans still speak in their own language; Some of the Charuya still live their primitive, traditional lives; What's more, it is not surprising that the Guarani people in the north still live in separate tribes that resemble reservations. ”

Mo Ming smiled and continued to listen to Liu Ang's speech. To be honest, he actually agrees with the other party's opinion in his heart.

"Fortunately, some of the policies and measures recently introduced by the central government have allowed me to see signs of putting things right." Liu Ang changed his tone and began to praise the central government's policy, "The promulgation of the Land and Resources Law has legally deprived the indigenous people of their legal right to occupy land, and provided a legal basis for our actions. Recently, Dongfang County has introduced measures requiring one town and two townships in the county (the county seat is Chengguan Township, Dingyuan Township, and Ranch Township) to strictly ban the primitive religion worshiped by the Charuya, all Chaluya must live in the residence provided by the government and wear the clothing provided by the government, all European immigrants and Charuya people are not allowed to converse in a language other than Chinese at any time, violators will be fined or detained, and those who repeatedly refuse to change will be sentenced to imprisonment or exile. ”

"It's a high-pressure policy." Mo Ming was a little surprised, "Is it appropriate to use such a policy at this stage, will it cause any incidents?" At the critical moment when the country is developing, there can be no chaos at this time! ”

(1) "Garden Edict": The Ottoman Sultan Abdir Mejid I issued a reform edict on November 3, 1839, announcing the beginning of the "Tanzimat" (meaning reform) movement in Turkey. It was named after the place where the edict was read in the Imperial Garden of the Sultan's Palace.

(2) "Young Ottomans": This was a group of liberals who opposed the autocratic rule of the Ottoman Empire and demanded freedom and a constitutional monarchy. Their organization did not have a name at first, and it was only in 1867 that the name of the Young Ottoman Party was officially established.

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