The name Foreign Legion Headquarters sounds quite lofty, but in reality it is indeed extremely short, poor and ugly.
In the entire Foreign Legion headquarters, there is not a single house with more than three floors. Looking at it, almost all of them are one-story bungalows. However, because they are built on the mountain, the houses look scattered and seem to be a bit large.
People in this era did not have the concept of tourism, let alone the concept of city image. The exterior walls of the houses were almost unpainted. When looking at the past in the evening, it was gray and unclear, and everything seemed to be hidden in the mist.
For safety reasons, there are almost no trees in the military camp, which ensures a wide view to the greatest extent, but it also leads to a very serious problem.
Standing on the spiers in the churches outside the military camp and looking at the Foreign Legion headquarters, it is really unobstructed.
I really don’t know if those former commanders-in-chief had their brains kicked by donkeys for actually allowing these locals to build buildings outside the military camp that are higher than the walls of the Foreign Legion. Is this to prove their honesty?
Frankly speaking
You bunch of war hounds, why do you want to be honest? If you really want to be honest, you might as well tear down the wall.
The first thing Qin Zhiyuan did after entering the Foreign Legion headquarters was to build an airport. Perhaps because airplanes had just appeared and the Foreign Legion did not have such an organization, there was not even an airport in the military camp. This made Qin Zhiyuan, who was used to transport aircraft, intolerable.
, it is imperative to build an airport, even a simple airport.
Building an airport requires people. After Qin Zhiyuan made this request to Marco, he actually got a very unexpected answer.
Of course we can build an airport, but we don’t have enough manpower or funds. Marco looked calm.
No one has no money, so it’s just a waste of time.
Why is there no money? Doesn’t Congress allocate funds every year? There is no share for our Foreign Legion. Qin Zhiyuan was curious.
Like Corsica, Algeria also enjoys financial subsidies from the French government. Before the discovery of oil fields in Algeria, this was the Algerian government's largest income. But as France's largest overseas territory, Algeria's position in the French government is obviously much more important.
, and received more financial subsidies.
Corsica's annual subsidy is about two to three million francs, while Algeria and the French government's financial subsidies here are in units of hundreds of millions.
These financial subsidies are used to pay the salaries of civil servants, and will also subsidize agricultural products. Of course, a larger part will be used for social infrastructure construction, such as the railway from Sidi Bel Abbas to Oran, and Oran and Kebir.
The port group was built using these subsidies.
Under normal circumstances, after these financial subsidies are allocated to Algeria, 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 tasks, but also has internal stability maintenance tasks.
Originally there was, but now the situation is special. You know, now we have too much time to deal with the war in the mainland, and it is really difficult to take care of it here. Last year, the situation was a little better. This year, the allocation is even less, and we can only maintain basic personnel salaries.
For this reason, we have to cut back on food and clothing. The manpower at the legion headquarters can only maintain normal operations. Many locals have been laid off, and we have no more money to buy things from those locals, so the contradiction has further intensified. Mar
Ke struggled to tell a cruel fact.
Although the French government has always wanted to assimilate Algeria, the effect does not seem to be very good. So far, Algerians still insist on their culture and religion, and there is no sign of integrating with France. Instead, some have migrated from Europe
Europeans who arrived in Algeria converted to local Algerian fetishism.
From this point of view, France's assimilation of Algeria is simply a joke.
It is now during the World War. In order to maintain the war, the French have already owed a lot of debt to the Americans. Naturally, they have no time to take care of Algeria, so the release of financial allocations is neither timely nor sufficient.
It’s not just Algeria. The French government’s allocation to Corsica this year is also shrinking. However, Qin Zhiyuan doesn’t care about this. Unlike Algeria, Corsica under Qin Zhiyuan’s rule is very dependent on these allocations.
It's very low. It's nice to have it, but it doesn't matter if you don't have it. Anyway, the annual allocation is not enough to pay the salary of Qin Zhiyuan's people for one month. It's really just drizzle.
If it were in the past, 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 establish a project, do a feasibility study, then make a project cost, and then report it to the Governor's Mansion. The Governor's Mansion will send people to verify it. After passing it, we will ask Congress for additional appropriation. Then we get the money and go to the locals to put it into practice.
The project is handed over to them, and we only need to do the acceptance. Marco is quite proficient in business.
This process will probably take a long time, Qin Zhiyuan asked.
Just listening to this program, Qin Zhiyuan felt that it was really complicated. After this cycle, Christmas might have passed.
I'm not sure how long it will take. It depends on the efficiency of the officials. It may be five months or half a year. The key is that here, these locals are extremely lazy and work less than six hours a day.
Just for these six hours, there are three religious ceremonies every day, each time taking half an hour. If we ask them to hurry up, they will go on strike, saying that we do not respect their habits and traditions. Marco is also helpless, look
It turned out that he was already having a hard time dealing with these locals.
Tradition My tradition is simplicity and efficiency. Before mentioning tradition to me, first consider whether his tradition conflicts with my tradition. I will respect him. Who will respect me? Qin Zhiyuan hates those who always talk about tradition.
of.
If we all return to tradition, human beings should all go hunting naked. If anyone wants that kind of life, let them go. People who do not adjust themselves due to changes in the objective environment can only be eliminated by society.
But Marco is a bit contradictory in Paris's request to respect their traditions.
Intellectually, I told Marco that what Qin Zhiyuan said was right, but from a legal point of view, what Qin Zhiyuan said could not be realized. The French approach to Algeria's ethnic policy made Qin Zhiyuan feel familiar. This policy of respecting tradition
Putting aside what is right and wrong, it is disrespectful to another part of the tradition. In the past, Qin Zhiyuan was powerless and could only passively accept it, but now Qin Zhiyuan is different. He has become one of those who make the rules. Maybe he can do something.
They should all be hanged. Qin Zhiyuan did not specify who should be hanged, but his opposition to this policy is obvious: Well, regardless of the gentlemen in Paris, we have the final say here now. Marco, your task is
Find me a place with a length of no less than one thousand meters and a width of no less than 500 meters, and leave the rest to me.
Qin Zhiyuan did not want to build an airport according to the traditional method. The thought of having to use trains, ships and trains to return to Paris for a week made Qin Zhiyuan feel disgusted.
If you fly, it only takes about six hours from Sidi Bel Abbas to Paris, and the gap is obvious.
Yes, Mr. Commander. Marco stood at attention and saluted, then turned and left.
This is the first night when we arrive at the Foreign Legion Headquarters. There are not too many things going on. In fact, regardless of whether there is a commander or not, the Foreign Legion Headquarters will continue to operate according to inertia. This is the benefit of the system. As long as there is a strict system, even if it is a
If the 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. They had been shouting for a whole day and thought they needed to rest their voices. Qin Zhiyuan had been tired from traveling all day and his body was extremely exhausted. He slept very soundly that night.
The next day, Qin Zhiyuan officially took office and began to perform his duties as commander-in-chief of the Foreign Legion.
The commander-in-chief's office is a two-story single-family villa, which is a rare duplex structure in the army headquarters. The interior decoration of the villa is extremely wild, with specimens of animal heads and whole beast skins everywhere. Even Qin Zhiyuan's office has
There is a huge bull head. These specimens are not handicrafts, they are all real things. 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 that is no smaller than the office. The entertainment room has a small bar and a wine rack, as well as various entertainment facilities including a billiard table. Qin Zhiyuan actually also
I was speechless when I discovered a pair of mahjong tiles. It seems that the former commander-in-chief had a wide range of hobbies.
These things are the legacy left to Qin Zhiyuan by the former commander, and they also include a whole cellar of various fine wines, which is in line with the consistent style of a French general.
Sitting in an office with a huge map of the world, Qin Zhiyuan was first concerned about the current situation of the Foreign Legion. After reading the information compiled 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 recruitment points in North Africa and West Africa, but after the Seal 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, the Legion headquarters now only has about two
The remaining troops of the company have either been killed in battle, are serving their sentences in prison, or have been demobilized.
The number of officers is not optimistic either. The current legion headquarters only has a dozen officers headed by Marco. The highest rank is Marco's colonel, and the second highest rank is actually just a captain.
No wonder Marco was the only one to greet Qin Zhiyuan yesterday.
The problem of officers is not serious. There are enough officers among the people Qin Zhiyuan brought.
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 restoring the glory of the Foreign Legion will be far away.
It is not troublesome to restore those recruitment points. Although the recruitment points have been temporarily closed, the staff have not evacuated. As long as they resume normal work, Qin Zhiyuan ordered that only some recruitment points in Central and West Africa be restored, and recruitment points in North Africa are temporarily suspended.
, waiting for Qin Zhiyuan’s next order.
Marco's work efficiency is still good. Just overnight, Marco found a suitable place to build an airport. This is thanks to the large enough area of the Legion headquarters.
It is said that Africa has nothing but a large enough land area.
