Chapter 132: The Nation (2)
Hundreds of people have been able to assimilate and transform these immigrants from different cultural backgrounds, and the achievements so far are enough to be proud of. After all, this thing is still too difficult after all, so let's take it slowly.
After arriving at the pre-selected location, several Ministry of Internal Affairs officers who were guarding them gathered the horses together and waited for the designers of the architecture schools to begin mapping and planning back and forth. In the distance, several teenagers slowly approached on horseback, wearing some fat old military uniforms, many of which had been washed and faded, and looked like they had been passed down to them by their fathers.
The teenagers whistled and made all sorts of movements on their horses, so that even a child who didn't look more than ten years old could ride a foal back and forth in all sorts of amazing ways. They seem to be the children of the herdsmen who graze their cattle in the neighborhood, and they have been working with horses since childhood, and they are already so proficient in riding at a young age.
"Jacobson, it's been a long time since I've seen you bastard, is old Jacob okay?" A middle-aged policeman from the Ministry of Internal Affairs asked with a smile when he saw the leading teenager.
"My father is very good, Uncle Yaroslav, and yesterday he hunted an ostrich." The boy rode a Turkmen horse, and as if he were about to show off his riding skills, he suddenly grabbed the reins in front of the middle-aged policeman, and the horse raised its front hooves high and let out a painful neigh.
With a smile on the corner of his mouth, the middle-aged policeman stepped forward and pulled the boy off, and after slapping him with a few horsewhips on his buttocks, he scolded with a smile: "You kid has itchy skin, isn't it?" You're about to graduate from junior high school, have you figured out where to go next? ”
"I'm going to Dingyuan Military Academy. Their cavalry instructors have already come to test me. As long as I get a score of 60 or more in the next culture test. You can go to military school. The boy broke free from Yaroslav's arms, carefully dusted off his old military uniform, and said in a proud tone.
The middle-aged policeman smiled silently, but his right hand patted the young Jacobson on the back, as if full of appreciation for his choice. In fact, in today's Eastern Republic, military and scientist are two of the most respected professions. Under the propaganda and agitation of various propaganda organizations, most of the young students tend to become honorable soldiers, of course. Some students with excellent academic performance or special talents are also persuaded by teachers to go deeper and become scientists and engineers. As for artists, musicians, etc., do you have such a thing on the East Coast?
As a middle-level police officer in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the middle-aged policeman knows a lot of unknown things, so his praise actually implies another meaning. That is, a mixed descendant of a Livonian and a Ming like Jacobson will have a smoother career than a pure Ming or European. And this is a by-product of the interracial policy that the East Coasters are vigorously promoting today. In order to achieve ethnic integration, cultural unification alone is not enough, and it is also necessary to vigorously intermarry and mix blood. Because if two people have very different appearance characteristics, it is equivalent to reminding each other that you are different all the time. This is very detrimental to assimilation.
And in view of the cultural backgrounds and aesthetic differences of different races, they must give preference to their own ethnicity when they marry. Therefore. In order to achieve the goal of mixed marriage, the East Coast people divided the domestic population into three categories from the beginning: Europeans, Ming, and Tu, and introduced incentives to encourage interracial marriage. Later, after stabilizing the domestic situation, they introduced a more "severe" secret policy of interracial marriage, that is, restricting the use of those who refused to engage in interracial marriage, and the opportunity for promotion was left more to those who responded to the policy of interracial marriage.
Although this secret policy was never found in any legal letter or government document, it was not a secret to Yaroslav, who had been involved in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for many years. As a mid-level police officer trusted by the Crossing Crowd, his superiors did not hide any of his intentions, and he himself responded to this policy and was one of the hardcore followers of the Crossing Crowd.
Duncan smiled beside him and didn't speak. Now the new generation of East Coast is gradually growing up, these people have received the nationalist education of East Coast people since childhood, and they are the most comfortable group of people who cross the crowd, and they are also their core basic plate. They grew up in an environment on the East Coast, where the country's prosperity and victories in foreign wars gave them self-confidence and bravery. As they represent the future of the East Coast nation, this quality will also be deeply endowed with the national character of the East Coast people.
As the saying goes, what kind of environment gives people what kind of character, this is not false at all. In the years since the founding of the East Coast Republic, there have been almost no days of peace, first with the Spaniards, then with the British Colonial Company, and then under the tremendous pressure of the Dutch East India Company.
In fact, thanks to Spain, England and the Netherlands, the enormous pressure they exerted on the East Coasters from the outside did not cause the collapse of East Coast society. On the contrary, they have a certain identification with the country and a relative dislike of the old continent, but they are more united and loyal to the government of the East Bank Republic, which objectively accelerates the integration of the various ethnic groups on the East Bank. It is believed that after the new generation of East Coast people has grown up completely, after several tempering of blood and fire, this loyal quality will also be endowed with the national character of East Coast people.
The teenagers had been fighting for a while and then rode away, and Duncan looked at them, but there was still a knot in his heart. These teenagers have been exposed to aggressive education such as resistance, fighting, and conquest since childhood, and when they grow up, they will inevitably encounter more militaristic and colonial ideologies, and under such an environment and education system, they will undoubtedly cultivate militaristic elements.
For the weak East Coast Republic at this stage, it seems that advocating militarism can inject the expansion gene into the country and the nation, so that the country can continue to advance and expand its territory in the post-time-traveler era, instead of lying on the laurels and eating the old book. In addition, appropriate military and national education also greatly contributes to national integration and assimilation, because every foreign war can enhance everyone's national pride and sense of identity with the country and the collective, so that the East Bank nation can be formed in the tempering of blood and fire again and again.
But as a 21st-century man, Duncan certainly knows that there are two sides to everything. He also knows very well what the consequences of the development of militarism to the extreme will be, and when the time comes, the whole country will be kidnapped by the military, and it will be difficult to say what the final outcome will be. However, the traversers are not immortals, it is good that they can manage their own generation, and even if they are traversers, they can't fully predict and control what will happen in one or two hundred years. Since moderate militarism is in favour of the Republic of the East Coast for the present time and for a long time to come, because of the general circumstances, let it continue as it is, and the Executive Committee will decide in the future whether or not to revise the policy in the light of the actual situation.
In fact, Duncan's heart was also faintly depressed. As a general of the civilian faction, it is not that he does not want to cool down the militaristic atmosphere that is currently a little fanatical in the country, but the problem is that he can't do it. Not to mention the growing influence of the hardliners in the military and government departments, even the power at the grassroots level has begun to be seized by them in large numbers. In other words, the military has the broadest public opinion base in the country, and to put it militantly, the people of the East Coast Republic are now a group of militants, which makes Duncan, who upholds the tone of peaceful rise, very sad.
Forget it, don't talk about these useless things. It's more important to bury yourself in more practical things, and you can do your part for this country. Duncan thought about it, and then he and the interns began to choose a site, plan, design, where to build city walls, those to build reservoirs, where to build canals, where to build roads, where to build housing complexes, and so on.
The first batch of North Korean immigrants from the Far East, about 700 people, arrived at the Wharf of Vostochny a month earlier. According to the Executive Committee's plan, these people will be assigned to the Chow River and become the first residents of the upcoming Fort Chui. They were joined by a large number of Livonians and Poles who had arrived from Riga.
After two consecutive years of large-scale opening of the gates to introduce European immigrants, the pace of the introduction of the East Coast in '43 was slightly reduced, and in addition to 2,000 Livonians, 1,000 Italians, 1,000 Poles and 1,000 Northern Europeans, there were only about 2,000 female slaves from the Balkans purchased from the Ottomans. Coupled with the newly born population, by the beginning of 44 years, the population of the East Coast Republic of China had reached more than 72,000 people, continuing to hit a record high.
What can be predicted is that with the gradual increase in the number of immigrants from the Far East, the population of the East Coast will continue to grow rapidly. Population is everything, and this creed, which is almost a golden rule for East Coasters, is deeply ingrained in everyone's heart.
First occupy the coastal side, develop it, and then use it as a foundation to advance inland. The Duck Lake region in the north will advance inland to hilly areas, while the eastern shore of the south will advance in the direction of the Negro River. Thinking of the grand plan for the future, Duncan suddenly threw some of his original worries out of the clouds, and was full of the momentum to do business. (To be continued......)