Chapter 867: Fifth Anniversary Celebration
Today is the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Somali Federation, and at the behest of Li Lan, a celebration will be held in Bagua City, the capital of the Federation, and a military parade will be held to celebrate the founding day of the Federation.
For Somalis, today is even more special in that it is the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Somali State, in addition to the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Federation.
Unknowingly, Li Lan has been living in Somalia for more than ten years. In more than ten years, it is not easy to grow from a small warlord to today. It is difficult to sum up the sad process of building a country with nothing into the world's fourth largest economy, the world's fourth military power, and a country that has begun to show the demeanor of a great power.
Even if there is no mind-control device, Somalis cannot ignore Li Lan's cunzài, and it is even more impossible to forget his dedication to the country. Perhaps, he used Somalia as his own tool, but there is no denying the qiē he has brought to the country. Without him, Somalia would never be where it is today.
When the government announced that today's federal anniversary celebration would be held, various groups began to sign up enthusiastically, and those who came to Bagua City to participate in the celebration also set off early. And those who did not apply for guò can only regret to experience the celebration at home on TV.
After the registration was completed, thousands of tribes with traditional programs in the Somali Federation successfully applied through guò, and they will bring the most traditional programs of their tribes to celebrate their homeland today.
Of all the celebrations, the most eye-catching was the military parade, which was the first military parade held in the Somali Federation. It is also a military parade to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Somalia.
At half past nine in the morning, all the celebration teams were ready. The military parade procession was also lined up neatly on the main road of the square, and Li Lan after the conclusion of the Supreme Military Conference. Then he took the top of the federal government and the top of the federal guard to the second-floor viewing platform facing the central square of Bagua City.
Under the viewing platform of the base, the five international guest podiums were already full of guests from all over the world, and Li Lan, who walked up to the viewing platform, first nodded to everyone on the podium.
At this time, the official start of the celebration has not yet arrived, and the entire central square is filled with all kinds of discussions. Everywhere you go, you can hear the sound of Si Suo's chatting.
It wasn't until Li Lan and the others stood on the viewing platform and the ceremonial troops fired a 21-gun salute that the entire square fell silent. At this time, Somali state television also announced the official start of the celebration on live television.
After the salute ended, Mohammadi officially announced the start of the celebration, and after the flag-raising ceremony, Li Lan stepped forward to stand in front of the microphone that had been prepared on the viewing platform, and said in a loud voice:
"Once upon a time, we lived in dire straits, and we longed for change. But like a stone sinking into the sea, the cry had to be sounded more and more intensely again and again, to persevere in the struggle with life, but there was not a day that was not controlled by others. We are forced to give in, and we must be willing to endure the unstoppable orders that we must obey, and we are further and further away from the life we think about day and night.
All nationalities, tribes, and classes throughout the country are united. It has become a great signal of faith for the Somali Democratic Alliance and is the most symbolic country on the African land. It has become the measure of the African people, and it is an important asset for the world to promote the development of civilization.
A great era is coming. The will of the country has awakened, we have won the respect of the world, and no one dares to treat us as an inferior nation anymore. Today, we could have gotten what we wanted. ”
Facing the hundreds of thousands of people in the square, Li Lan shook his head, his expression slowly became excited, and he continued in a raised voice: "However, my thoughts are too naïve, the struggle for interests in the world is too cruel, and the normal life we think about day and night is unbearable for the enemy.
Today, Somalia has become a thorn in the side of the enemy, because we have a strong army, a people's army that has sacrificed their lives to protect us, so that we will not be slaughtered and powerless to fight back, as we were at the beginning.
In fact, we just want to live a normal life, to be able to have a safe environment like people on other continents, to be able to rest from sunrise to sunset, and to hold up the sky of our own life with our own hands.
Is there something wrong with that? Isn't this what a normal person should be like?
But why don't you let us live a good life? Economic sanctions, political encirclement, denial of one's own crimes, reversal of right and wrong, and swaying public opinion, is this the so-called civilized world? Blacks are inherently inferior? Is it a naturally lowly race? Are white people born to be the masters of the world? ”
Speaking of this, Li Lan took a deep breath, as if to control his excited feelings, but his tone rose again and again: "Today, I want to tell the whole world that good and evil will be rewarded in the end, if this world is still so disappointing, and there are still people who deliberately destroy our normal life, then no matter who it is, we will fight to the end, even if we end the so-called civilization that is now full of darkness and blood."
My people and army will never slacken, never get tired, never lose courage, never abandon their faith, and we will always fight to the end and fight a sky of our own.
Somalia is not a war-loving country. It is a valiant country, we do not want war, but we are not afraid of war, it loves peace, but it also loves its honor and freedom......
The State does not belong to any stage or group, but to all the people of the Somali Federation. It will help the people who are willing to live in peace with us. It will make them more willing to do their part. The Somali political party, the State, the armed forces and the economy are a weapon and a utility that can be assessed as a means to an end. Somalia will be judged by history for its contribution to the achievement of the goals. But Somalia's goal has always been to serve the people.
I now ask Allah to bless our work, our deeds, our vision, our determination in the days to come. Pray that the Lord Almighty will not let us suffer from arrogance and groveling. May it help us find the way Somalia should go, and that it will give us the courage to do what we have to do. May it help us not to be cowardly in the face of evil forces and cowardly in the face of danger. ”
There is no prescriptive reasoning, and there is no emphasis on loyalty and patriotism. In Li Lan's view, these are all false, and he is facing the whole world, not his own people.
As soon as his voice fell, accompanied by the sound of a cannon salute, the dove of peace and a million balloons rose into the air at the same time, and hundreds of thousands of people also burst into warm applause at the same time.
Thousands of doves of peace were also released over various cities in the Somali Federation at the same time, and hundreds of millions of people were boiling on this land.
In five years, every citizen of the Somali Federation has seen too many of the President's achievements. In the first year, under the order of their sole president, hundreds of inspection teams conducted a carpet investigation of the entire federation, and in just one year, thousands of officials in the federation were dismissed, even if they were only a little corrupt, and they did not escape the investigation.
Even if the Seven Kingdoms were once vice presidents or prime ministers, they didn't have any chances, and they didn't have a year. Tens of billions of dollars of embezzled money have been recovered alone, and all officials' assets abroad have been confiscated.
At that time, the entire federation saw Li Lan's iron-faced ruthlessness. Every federal government official. All trembling, a year, thousands of corrupt officials. Died under the verdict. Li Lan has shown the world the corruption of officialdom in Africa and his tough methods to combat corruption.
The most corrupt of these is the vice president of South Sudan. The vice president even wanted to resist with arms, but only became one of the victims of Li Lan's tough hand. The troops that were originally loyal to the vice president were all disarmed before a single shot was fired, and the vice president became the first case of death under Li Lan's gun.
In short, a year later, thousands of Roman officials were finally executed under federal law, and the shock to the entire federation reached its peak, and in the next few years, all officials who embezzled a little bit did not escape the punishment of the law, until last year, the public has rarely seen the news of the fall of officials on the news, and in the second half of the year, there was not a single one.
Li Lan has maintained the cleanliness of the federal government with practical actions, and in his words, it is better not to be an official just to make money. Ordinary people naturally have more trust and respect for Li Lan.
Now, in the Somali Federation, which official dares to abuse his power for personal gain? As soon as I saw the gift, the most direct reaction was to arrest the giver and send it to the clean government department, and all kinds of state funds were used to the decimal point, and there was no difference in a penny. The style of officials is straight to the original Somalia.
In five years, even the poorest Principality of South Sudan has begun to take off, and the road network and railway network, as well as the construction of basic livelihood, have completely changed the face of this poor country in five or six years.
As long as the hard-working people want to find a job to support themselves and their families, it is not difficult in the federation, many traditional handicrafts in Africa have driven tens of millions of laborers, and the traditional African handicrafts exported by Somalia are very popular in the international market and have become the backbone of many regional economies.
The gradual popularization of light industry in the federation has made great changes in the lives of federal citizens, except for those primitive tribes that have been affected, almost every tribe that has integrated into the society can clearly feel that the people around them are constantly making progress and developing.
As for the many primitive tribes in the Federation, Li Lan's policy is not to change these tribes, but to strive to promote the traditional customs of these tribes, carry out tourism projects related to the primitive tribes, draw the circles of primitive tribes into protected areas, and maintain the living habits and tribal habits of the primitive tribes.
At the same time, the implementation of the Wildlife Protection Law, taking into account the situation of the region, to maintain the original ecological environment, especially the tropical rainforest area, has been hung up with a sign that development is prohibited forever.
The economy and industry have gone up, the people's lives have improved markedly, and the greatest man in the hearts of the Somali people has become the greatest man in the hearts of more than 200 million people in the entire federation.
Li Lan, who has never changed his attitude towards the people from beginning to end, even if he does not have a mind-control device, he will still have a very high support rate, and in his mind-control is only an auxiliary means to let those who support him. More resolute.
And in the federation, handmade products about Li Lan are the most popular. By now, it has evolved into a majority of the people of the Federation. The object of faith became Li Lan. If Li Lan hadn't deliberately forbidden the deification of his image, the current Somali Federation would probably have become an absolute theocracy with Li Lan as supremacy.
Even those Chinese who immigrated to Somalia were greatly affected, and those atheists also regarded Li Lan as a religious being. So much so that now, most of the citizens of the Somali Federation are Chinese-speaking. Even in many business situations, Mandarin is the only language, and many companies also regard Mandarin as one of the important admission criteria when recruiting.
And Somalia has the highest Chinese language penetration rate. Almost every young person here speaks Mandarin, and more than half of the TV channels are Chinese. This also makes Somalia the country with the most travel choices for the Chinese population, as there are almost no communication barriers here.
And Li Lan has been able to express his meaning in Mandarin on many occasions, instead of speaking the very raw Somali language to communicate with others.
At the top of the federal government, Mandarin has become the language of communication for everyone, and Mandarin has been spoken for more time than in their native language, even now. It is only when speaking to the outside world that the Chinese language is used. In the written book report, Chinese characters have begun to replace the Somali script.
Mandarin is fast becoming the number one language in Somalia, and it may not take long. It can replace the complex local language and become the official language of the Federation.
The outside world has always said that Chinese culture will completely replace the African culture of the Somali Federation sooner or later, but as a citizen of the Somali Federation. But they turned a blind eye to such statements. Many of these attempts to provoke discontent among Africans have been fruitless.
Maybe in the eyes of the outside world. Li Lan is deliberately replacing Chinese culture with native African culture, but Li Lan himself knows it very well. He didn't deliberately accomplish this, but the power of example was so great that the people who had worshipped him to the point of blindness were deliberately trying to learn from him.
However, he supports this kind of expression, which can obviously strengthen the existing ties with China. Somalia is naturally close to China, but he also hopes that in the future, even without his existence, Somalia can be like a family with China, and it will no longer be a better help to integrate into the relationship between the two countries than the same culture.
Five years can change a lot, but some things cannot be changed, the current population of Somalia has more than 200 million, of which tens of millions of Chinese have settled in Somalia and become Somali citizens, and there are still one or two million Chinese applying to immigrate to Somalia every year.
Among them, Bagua City has a population of 15 million, one-third of which are Chinese who have settled here, covering an area of 1,800 square kilometers.
The name of Bagua City comes from the fact that the architectural layout of the city comes from the famous Bagua Array in Chinese culture, which makes it the most valuable city for aerial photography. It has also become the best proof of the friendship between China and Somalia.
At today's celebration, festive banners fluttered throughout the Bagua City, and hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the square in the center of the city to cheer and applaud in unison for Li Lan's just-concluded speech.
The people's reverence for Li Lan has been fully expressed in the just-concluded second presidential election, and Li Lan's support rate has made him known as an unsurpassed president.
"The Federation has made too many commendable achievements in the past five years, and as an example for the whole of Africa, our economy and national strength today are no less than those of most developed countries, which is the pride of our common wealth. We can loudly proclaim to the whole of Africa and the world that we have succeeded, that we have created miracles......
However, our achievements today are far from enough, because there are still many African compatriots living in misery, and I hope that more and more African countries will be able to see our success, and the arms of the Federation will always be open to all African countries to realize the great long-cherished aspirations of the whole of Africa.
We have the ability to save the whole of Africa, we have the ability to lead more African people to prosperity and prosperity, and our army will protect more African people and safeguard their personal safety and freedom rights, but we also need more understanding, we will not force anything, and do things with conscience......"
Standing in front of hundreds of thousands of people, facing hundreds of millions of viewers in front of the TV, Li Lan's heart was unprecedentedly excited, on this stage, he is the absolute protagonist, hundreds of millions of people, far from his ultimate ideal, the stage he wants is to face all mankind, after today, every qiē will be very different, there is not much to make him worry.
"Today is the great day of the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Federation, and it is also the day when the citizens of the Federation review our great army, more than ten years of ups and downs, the people's great army has never let us down, in the long run, we will still face all kinds of difficult challenges, the country needs every soldier to defend our dignity and freedom with his life. I hope that every member of the Federal Guard will still be able to unswervingly fulfill the sacred mission entrusted by the country and every people. (To be continued......)