Xu Ge grew up in southern Africa and did not know how difficult the living environment of the Chinese in the Lion City was.
In order to strengthen its control over its colonies, Britain vigorously promoted a single-colonial economic model, and the Lion City was certainly no exception.
Regarding colonial education, the Straits Settlements government adhered to the British tradition of suppression and misleading. The schools run by the colonial government were missionary schools. The teaching content was mainly theology, and the students were trained to be priests or priests. It was the only middle school run by the Chinese themselves.
He was severely suppressed by the colonial government, and for a time he could not even speak Chinese.
Changi Naval Base is the property of the Indian Ocean Fleet and is not under the jurisdiction of the colonial government. The educational standards in southern Africa are obvious to all. You can imagine how excited the Chinese in the Lion City are.
If possible, Mr. Chen even hopes to build the school in the Lion City. It doesn't matter if he spends more money now. If he can use this money to exchange for the children to receive the best education and have a better future, the business will be worthwhile.
No matter how Xu Ge declined, Mr. Chen still insisted on keeping the money and promised to make more donations.
Never underestimate the enthusiasm of overseas Chinese. During the Anti-Japanese War, overseas Chinese donated a total of nearly 1.3 billion, accounting for almost one-third of the total military expenditure. Including various donated materials, the total value was more than 5 billion. The aircraft alone had 217
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After taking so much money from someone, Xu Ge also knew how to reciprocate the favor, inviting Mr. Chen to visit the construction site and staying to have lunch with the children.
Because the school had not yet been built, Wu Xing found two houses next to the recruit training camp as temporary classrooms for Xu Ge and the children.
Both houses are traditional two-story wooden houses in southern Africa, with people living in the attic, offices on the second floor, and classrooms on the first floor.
Although it is temporary, all the necessary teaching facilities are available. The children finally have brand new tables and chairs, and the textbooks they use are common textbooks in southern Africa. Almost all the children use old newspapers to carefully wrap their textbooks.
His attitude towards knowledge cannot be described as passionate, but as sacred.
After arriving in Pulau Tekong, the children's living conditions have also made a qualitative leap. They finally no longer need to wear patched clothes. Wu Xing got the children the uniforms of the Southern African Boy Scouts, khaki shorts and short-sleeved shirts.
, coupled with the curved brim hat and black round-toe shoes of the same color, this outfit is so addictive for the children that on the first day they got the new clothes, several children were reluctant to take them off when they went to bed.
Mr. Chen heard the sound of children reading loudly from a distance.
"In my early years, I knew that things were difficult. The Central Plains looked to the north and the air was as strong as the mountains. The building boat was crossing Guazhou in the snow at night, and the iron horse was blown away by the strong autumn wind——"
Just four lines of the poem made Mr. Chen burst into tears.
Xu Ge was surprised.
The middle-aged man in a suit explained: "My father has been away from his hometown for a long time, and when he first heard the local sounds, he couldn't help himself -"
"It's funny——" Mr. Chen was very emotional. Lu You's song "Book Anger" perfectly expresses the bitterness and unwillingness of Chinese people in Lion City to live under someone else's roof.
The children were in class. Mr. Chen politely did not enter the classroom. He just stood outside the classroom and listened for half an hour. Xu Ge even brought a chair to him and did not sit down. He was so mesmerized.
The children's lunch follows the usual style of southern Africa. It is large and nutritious, and milk and eggs are essential. The lunch meat that even soldiers in Southern Africa almost vomited is the most popular among the children here.
This is normal. Although lunch meat is easy to get tired of if you eat too much, the taste is not good enough, the starch content is too much, the appearance is not good enough, etc., etc., etc., it has such shortcomings, but apart from southern Africa, which is rich in food, it makes people hate it.
Besides, no one from that country has the right to dislike luncheon meat.
For children, taking a bite of lunch meat with a mouth full of oil is simply too luxurious. Their bodies are in urgent need of nutritional supplements and they can’t get tired of eating no matter how much they eat. Even the skinniest little girl can eat a large portion in one meal.
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There is no such thing as picky eating. In 1925, it was good to have enough to eat.
After dinner, Xu Ge took Mr. Chen to the construction site.
The teaching building was undergoing interior decoration. When he saw the marble floors laid on the classroom floor, Mr. Chen's eyes twitched a little. It seemed that he was indeed not short of money.
“For this school, Umbrella Company gave R100,000, the Indian Ocean Fleet also gave R100,000, my alma mater, Nyasaland University, allocated R150,000, and the alumni association donated R150,000. There is indeed no shortage of money.
I have asked the umbrella company to send an accountant, and it is best to send a principal, so that I can teach the children how to read. How can I teach the children to go to an elite school?" Xu Ge was very distressed. She still didn't realize that her
Destiny has changed, and it is impossible to return to the unknown state of the past.
Mr. Chen had a clear look on his face. He quickly exchanged glances with the middle-aged man next to him, and his eyes fell on the young man in a suit.
"My grandson Chen Yan is majoring in finance at University College London. If Miss Xu doesn't mind, you can ask Chen Yan to come to the school to help - of course it's a voluntary one, without any salary." Mr. Chen volunteered and asked.
Accounts worth hundreds of thousands do indeed require a professional accountant.
I don't think one can do it alone. It will take an accounting team.
I don't think it's enough to have a principal. At least there needs to be a principal's office.
So there are a lot of vacant positions.
"That's great -" Xu Ge is just ignorant of the world, not stupid: "-but this requires the consent of the Indian Ocean Fleet and the Umbrella Company. As you know, this school is the property of the Indian Ocean Fleet and the Umbrella Company."
Xu Ge can still understand this aspect clearly and will not make his own decisions.
"That's natural. I will go back to General Tang Li of the Indian Ocean Fleet." Mr. Chen is very satisfied. He is not greedy for power or money. What Mr. Chen regrets most now is that he did not send his grandson to Nyasaland University.
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God knows what kind of magical school this is, how a little girl can be educated so well.
When Mr. Chen went back to find Tang Li, Tang Li was inspecting the recruit training camp on Pulau Tekong with MacArthur.
"The Lord has promised that Southern Africa will further disarmament on the existing basis, so we need the assistance of the Umbrella Company to better ensure the security of the Changi Naval Base." Tang Li is not impatient, the Indian Ocean Fleet is in the Changi Navy
No matter how weak the base is, it is still much stronger than the Philippine colonial government.
Right in front of Tang Li and MacArthur, hundreds of mercenaries were training in company units. The entire training ground was in full swing, and commands were coming one after another. Some companies were conducting formation training, some were engaging in contact fighting, and there were companies in the distance.
They are running around Deguang Island. The Umbrella Company has always had extremely high requirements for the physical fitness of mercenaries.
It can be seen that the physical condition of the mercenaries is still good.
MacArthur knew the Southeast Asians very well. They were generally short, thin, and dark-skinned, so they were not actually qualified soldiers.
These mercenaries on the training ground are quite good. They already have strong muscle lines on their bodies, their movements are neat and powerful, and the training intensity is very high. In just two months, they have been able to condition themselves to this extent. The Umbrella Company is indeed
Something.
You must know that Southeast Asians, like Indians and Africans, are also notoriously undisciplined. MacArthur, who served as the commander-in-chief of the US military in the Philippines, knew this well.
Although performance on the training ground does not mean everything, even if judged by the standards of the US military, the mercenaries on the training ground can almost enter the ranks of elite soldiers.
This made MacArthur and accompanying Patton feel increasingly heavy.
"This is just the first batch. More recruits will come to the training camp in the future. At least 3,000 mercenaries will be needed to meet the needs of Changi Naval Base." Tang Li is also demonstrating, a recruit of the Umbrella Company,
A considerable number of them come from the Philippines. If there is another friction between the US military stationed in the Philippines and the Indian Ocean Fleet in the future, it would be good to see.
The simplest method is to put these mercenaries back in part of the Philippines, which will cause huge trouble for the US military in the Philippines.
Thinking about Palawan Island, which is completely out of control, you will know how weak the US colonial rule over the Philippines is.
Palawan Island still has militias that have not been strictly trained. If these strictly trained mercenaries are returned to the Philippines, the United States will lose more than just Palawan Island.
"The Indian Ocean Fleet already has one heavy cruiser and five destroyers stationed at Changi Naval Base. Is it necessary to maintain so many mercenaries?" MacArthur was here to spy on intelligence and also to learn.
Everyone in southern Africa knew how to covertly use mercenaries to replace the regular army to avoid the overt demand for disarmament. Of course MacArthur would follow suit. He didn't know how to do homework, so he just copied the workbook of the top academics.
Like southern Africa, the United States also needs to maintain a strong military presence in the Philippines to safeguard U.S. interests in Southeast Asia.
The cost of using mercenaries is definitely lower than using regular troops. The cost of deploying a regular army at Changi Naval Base in Southern Africa can almost hire five mercenaries. The same is true in the United States. MacArthur decided to go back and form an army of Filipinos in Manila.
formed troops.
It seems wrong. The US military stationed in the Philippines is originally composed of Filipinos.
But looking at the wolf-like mercenaries in front of him, and then thinking about the loose Filipinos recruited by the United States, MacArthur was unwilling to believe it anyway.
We are all the same people, so why are the differences so huge!
"Of course, we have to provide protection for southern African merchant ships throughout Southeast Asia, we have to deal with various emergencies, we have to fight against piracy, we have to protect expatriates, and we have to deter some criminals with evil intentions. We don't have enough troops.
No." Tang Li held a gun and a stick, and everyone understood it tacitly.
MacArthur and Patton were very angry. This was not a mockery, but a slap in the face.
Tang Li doesn't care, let alone East Asia. The United States does not have the final say in Southeast Asia yet.
