The name "Foreign Legion Headquarters" sounds quite lofty, but in reality it is extremely short, poor and ugly.

In the entire Foreign Legion headquarters, there is not a single house with more than three floors, and when you look at the past, almost all of them are one-story bungalows, but because they are built on the mountain, they look like the houses are scattered and look like they are a bit of scale.

In this era, people do not have the concept of tourism, let alone the concept of urban image, the exterior walls of the house are almost not painted, and the gray and gray look at the past in the evening is not very real, everything seems to be hidden in the fog.

Due to safety reasons, there are almost no trees in the barracks, which ensures a wide view to the greatest extent, but it also leads to a very serious problem.

Standing on the spires of those "churches" outside the barracks and looking out at the headquarters of the Foreign Legion, it is really unobstructed.

I wonder if the former commanders-in-chief were kicked in the brains by donkeys, and allowed these locals to build buildings higher than the walls of the Foreign Legion outside the barracks, is this to prove their honesty?

Honest fart!

You war hounds, what do you want to be honest, if you really want to be honest, you can even tear down the wall.

The first thing Qin Zhiyuan did after entering the headquarters of the Foreign Legion was to build an airport, perhaps because the plane had just appeared, and the Foreign Legion was not so organized, and there was not even an airport in the barracks, which made Qin Zhiyuan, who was already accustomed to transport planes, unbearable, and it was imperative to build an airport, even if it was an airstrip.

The construction of the airport is an important person, and after Qin Zhiyuan made this request to Marko, he actually got a very unexpected answer.

"Of course, we can build an airport, but we don't have enough manpower and money...... "Marco said calmly.

No one has no money, so it's a joke.

"How can there be no money? Doesn't Congress have to allocate money every year? Don't have our share of the Foreign Legion? Qin Zhiyuan was curious.

Like Corsica, Algeria also enjoys financial subsidies from the French government, which was the largest revenue for the Algerian government before the discovery of oil fields in Algeria. But as France's largest overseas territory, Algeria is clearly in a much more important position in the French government and receives more financial subsidies.

Corsica's annual subsidy is about two or three million francs, while the financial subsidies of the Algerian and French governments are in the unit of 100 million.

These subsidies are used to pay the salaries of civil servants, but also to subsidize agricultural products, although much more is used for social infrastructure, such as the railway from Sidi Bel Abbas to Ålan, and the port clusters of Ålan and Kebir.

Under normal circumstances, after these financial subsidies are allocated to Algeria, a part of them will definitely be allocated to the Foreign Legion, and it should be a considerable part, after all, the Foreign Legion not only undertakes foreign combat missions, but also internal stability maintenance tasks.

"Originally, there were, but now the situation is special, you know, it's really hard to juggle the war on your own soil right now. Last year's situation was a little better, and this year the allocation is even less, and only basic staff salaries can be maintained. For this reason, we had to cut back on food and clothing, and the manpower of the legion headquarters was only able to maintain normal operation, many locals were laid off, and we did not have more money to buy the things of those locals, so the conflict was further intensified. Marco struggled to tell a brutal truth.

Although the French government has always tried to assimilate Algeria, it does not seem to have worked very well, and the Algerians have so far insisted on their culture and religion, and there is no sign of integration with the French. On the contrary, some Europeans who migrated from Europe to Algeria converted to the local fetishism of Algeria.

In this way, the assimilation of Algeria by France is simply a joke.

It was the time of the World War, and the French had already owed a lot of debt to the Americans in order to maintain the war, and naturally Algeria had no time to take care of it, so the financial allocation was neither timely nor sufficient.

Not just for Algeria, but also for Corsica this year, the French government is also scaling back in size. However, Qin Zhiyuan doesn't care about this, unlike Algeria, Corsica under Qin Zhiyuan's rule has a very low dependence on these appropriations, it is good to have them, it doesn't matter if they don't, anyway, the annual appropriations are not enough to pay a month's salary for those under Qin Zhiyuan, it is really a drizzle.

"If it was before, what would you do if you wanted to build an airport with a 1,000-meter runway?" Qin Zhiyuan didn't know much about the procedures here.

"First set up the project, do a feasibility study, then do the cost of the project, and then report it to the Governor's Palace, and the Governor's Mansion will send someone to verify, and after it is passed, it will ask the Congress to allocate additional funds, and then we will get the money and then go to those locals and hand over the project to them, and we need to do just acceptance." Marco is quite proficient in business.

"How long will this process take?" Qin Zhiyuan asked.

Just listening to this procedure, Qin Zhiyuan felt that it was really complicated, and if he walked down this circle, maybe Christmas would have passed.

"I don't know how long it will take, it depends on the efficiency of those officials, it may be five months, or it may be half a year. The point is that on our side, these locals are extremely lazy, working less than six hours a day, and they have to perform three religious ceremonies a day, each time for half an hour, and if we ask them to hurry, they will strike, saying that we do not respect their habits and traditions. Marco was also helpless, it seems that he has broken his brain when dealing with these locals.

"Tradition? My tradition is concise and efficient, before mentioning it to me, first consider whether his tradition conflicts with mine, I respect him, who will respect me? "Qin Zhiyuan hates those who talk about tradition at every turn.

If we all return to tradition, humans should all go hunting bare-bottomed. If anyone wants that kind of life, let him go, and people who will not adjust themselves because of changes in the objective environment, they can only be eliminated by society.

"But what Paris demands is respect for their traditions...... "Marco is a bit ambivalent.

Intellectually told Marco that what Qin Zhiyuan said was right, but legally speaking, what Qin Zhiyuan said could not be realized. The French for Algeria's ethnic policy, the way they adopted made Qin Zhiyuan feel familiar, this kind of "respect for tradition" policy does not say right or wrong, itself is disrespect for another part of the tradition, the former Qin Zhiyuan can do nothing but passively accept, but now Qin Zhiyuan is different, he has become the one who makes the rules, maybe he can do something.

"They should all be hanged!" Qin Zhiyuan did not specify who should be hanged, but the opposition to this policy is obvious: "Okay, regardless of the old men in Paris, now we have the final say." Marko, your task is to find me a place that must not be less than a thousand meters long and five hundred meters wide, and leave the rest to me. ”

Qin Zhiyuan did not want to build the airport in the "traditional" way, and the thought of using the "train-ship-train" method to return to Paris for a week made Qin Zhiyuan feel deeply disgusted.

If you're flying, it's only about six hours to get from Sidi Belle Abbas to Paris, and the difference between that is significant.

"Yes, Mr. Commander." Marco saluted, then turned to leave.

It was the first night of arrival at the headquarters of the Foreign Legion, and there wasn't much going on. In fact, whether there is a commander or not, the headquarters of the Foreign Legion will continue to operate according to inertia, this is the benefit of the system, as long as there is a strict system, even if a dog sits in Qin Zhiyuan's position, it will not cause any big trouble, at most it will not develop in a better direction, but it will not develop in a worse direction.

The protesting women and children in front of the door had already left, and they had been shouting for a whole day, thinking that they needed to rest their voices. Qin Zhiyuan had a hard day's travel, and his body was also extremely tired, so he slept very heartily this night.

The next day, Qin Zhiyuan officially took office and began to exercise the duties of commander-in-chief of the Foreign Legion.

The Commander-in-Chief's Office is a two-storey single-family villa, a rare duplex structure at the Corps headquarters. The decoration of the villa is extremely wild, you can see the beast head specimen everywhere, as well as the whole beast fur, and even Qin Zhiyuan's office has a huge bull head, these specimens are not handicrafts, they are all genuine real guys, it seems that the former commander-in-chief is a hunting enthusiast.

Qin Zhiyuan's office occupies the entire second floor, with an independent lounge and an entertainment room no less than the office, there are small bars and wine racks in the entertainment room, as well as various entertainment facilities including billiard tables, Qin Zhiyuan actually found a deck of mahjong tiles, it is really speechless, it seems that the former commander-in-chief has a wide range of hobbies.

These things are the "legacy" left to Qin Zhiyuan by the previous commander, and at the same time include a whole cellar of various fine wines...... It is very much in line with the consistent style of French generals.

Sitting in the office with a huge world map, Qin Zhiyuan first paid attention to the current situation of the Foreign Legion, and after reading the information sorted out by Pierre and Gao Hongshi, Qin Zhiyuan could only shake his head and sigh.

The current situation of the Foreign Legion is really not good.

The Foreign Legion originally had fifteen recruiting points in North Africa and West Africa, but after the "Closure Day" incident, these recruitment points were abolished one after another, and now they are all waiting for Qin Zhiyuan to restore them one by one. At the same time, there were only about two companies of troops left at the corps headquarters, and the remaining ones were either killed, serving prison sentences, or had been dismissed.

The number of officers is also not optimistic, the current corps headquarters only has more than a dozen officers headed by Marko, the highest rank is Marko's colonel, and the second highest is actually only a captain.

No wonder Marco was the only one who went to greet Qin Zhiyuan yesterday.

The problem of officers is not serious, and among the people brought by Qin Zhiyuan, there are enough candidates for officers.

The key issue is to restore those recruitment points immediately, if those recruitment points do not return to normal, the Foreign Legion will not be able to replenish fresh blood in time, and the glory of the Foreign Legion will be far away.

It is not troublesome to restore those conscription points, although the conscription points have been temporarily closed, but the staff have not been evacuated, as long as they resume normal work, Qin Zhiyuan ordered that only a part of the conscription points in Central and West Africa be restored, and the conscription points in North Africa will temporarily stop conscription, waiting for Qin Zhiyuan's next order.

Marko's work efficiency was good, and in just one night, Marco found a suitable place to build an airport. This is thanks to the fact that the area of the corps headquarters is large enough.

In other words, there is nothing in Africa, but the land area is large enough.

(To be continued.) )