Chapter 670 Boiled frog in warm water

Muhammad? Ibrahim? (Blah) Avel is the Minister of Education in Somalia. For an underdeveloped country with an economic downturn that has just experienced a civil war for more than a decade, education is a very headache.

Education is the foundation of a strong country. Every developing country has never ignored national education.

As one of the underdeveloped countries, Somalia was also the target of assistance from the United Nations Education Fund and humanitarian organizations during the civil war. In Somalia, there are more schools funded by the United Nations and civil society organizations, but it is far less than sending two million school-age students who should be educated to the classroom.

After the establishment of the New Deal Axe, both the Political Axe Department and the Somali Invisible Power Star Group have never relaxed on the issue of education in Somalia. This makes Aville's work easier than that of other African ministers of education similar to Somalia.

However, Avel knows that basic education in Somalia can only be compared with a few African countries with similar economic conditions. Even in Africa, education investment exceeds that of Somalia.

Poverty is an important factor restricting the soundness of the basic education system. The country's insufficient investment in education has prevented Somalia from including millions of school-age children in the free education system.

But today, just after attending a national education conference, Awell received a report from the secretary, and the president invited him.

President Yusuf invited, and the news surprised Aville. Because he knows that in the presidential ministerial meeting, he, the minister of education, is probably the least popular minister, for no other reason, because every time he attends the ministerial meeting, he raises a topic: increasing education funding.

A minister who only knows how to ask for money is very unpleasant. Even if this minister's work is all for the future of the country.

President Yusuf usually tries his best to avoid him, but this time he offered to see him. It makes Aville feel incredible.

Although Avel didn't know the reason, he didn't dare to neglect it. And he is also ready to take the opportunity to make a proposal to increase investment in education. Even he doesn't have expectations in his mind!

However, what really surprised Avier was that he met other people in the presidential palace.

He also knows these two people and has even had a lot of contact. One is Li Mo, deputy commander, and the other is Zhang Fuming, chairman of Xingchen Group.

Star Group has a good relationship with him as the Minister of Education because it takes out part of the funds to build some schools every year.

After a few words of greetings, before Aville put forward his proposal, he heard an inexplicable news that surprised him.

Star Group plans to spend 100 million US dollars to fund education in Somalia.

This number is several times more than the annual allocation of the political axe. As far as he knows, although Star Group has often funded education in recent years, it has never exceeded 10 million US dollars a year.

Avel was stunned by the news, but he quickly realized that his first reaction was not to thank, but to immediately plan in his mind how to allocate 100 million dollars, how many primary schools were added in which state, which city added a middle school, and the education department owed two months' salary payment...

Li Mo and others smiled and said nothing when they saw the distracted Avier. Although this little old man is stubborn, his energy and painstaking efforts into the cause of education in Somalia are huge, which is worthy of the admiration of all Somalis.

"Minister Aville, our company plans to hold a press conference with the Ministry of Education in three days to announce this important news." The expert coughed twice and said with a smile.

"Oh...Okay, I'll arrange this little thing. Chairman Zhang, thank you very much for your support and help in the cause of education in Somalia. I don't think Somalis will forget you. Aville stood up and bowed solemnly to the expert and said gratefully.

"Don't... Minister Aville, you forgot. I am also a member of Somalia now, and it is my duty to support national education as a Somali citizen. The expert quickly stood up and waved his hand. My affection for this little old man is getting deeper and deeper.

However, experts know that taking out 100 million US dollars to support education this time is not purely to support the country's education cause and development. Another purpose is to improve the cultural level of Somali people and gradually reverse the ideas in the minds of Somalis whose "tribes are greater than the country".

And it is not without requirements for Star Group to fund education funds. In addition to being partially used in accordance with the planning of the education department, this fund should also be used to develop technical education. The purpose is to train a group of technical workers, and Star Group will also cooperate with the Technical College to accept all graduated students. This has one more benefit from establishing a technical school to train skilled workers, that is, prestige!

In the plan formulated by the organization, the strategy for those tribes that bring hidden dangers to peace and stability in Somalia is to attract a group of open-ed people, isolate a group of stubborn and conservatives, and crack down on a group of great ambitions. In this regard, Li Mo has reached a preliminary consensus with President Yusuf.

Although Yusuf has deep scruples about the tribal issues raised by Li Mo, he also knows that the tribal system will do more harm than good to the unity and stability of Somalia. He supported Li Mo's rectification of the hidden dangers in this regard, but he did not agree with the drastic reform. Instead, he unified the concept of 'state' implanted the concept of 'state' into the minds of 13 million Somalis. Imperceptibly let all Somalis know that 'the country is greater than the home'.

Minister Avier can say that without knowing it, he will become a 'pawn' in the whole plan, but from the understanding of several people about Avier, even if he knows that he is a pawn, he will willingly act as a 'pioneer of reform'.

Soon, the expert was pulled away by the happy Minister Aville, talking about the handover and use of the funds in detail.

"The country also relies on a group of talents like Minister Aville who put national interests first to enter the normalization of post-war reconstruction and economic recovery in such a short time." Li Mo looked at the disappearing backs of the two and praised from the bottom of his heart.

Yu Sufu smiled and said, "Somalia can't enter normal so quickly without your support."

Li Mo shook his head with a smile. He understood that the 'you' in Yu Sufu's words had to be his star organization.

"I dare not do credit. The Somali people are the greatest credit for the normalization of the country. It is such a group of unknown but persistent people that can overthrow the colonial rule of the imperialist powers, and it is also a group of patriots who pursue freedom and cooks who overthrew the Bare political axe and save more than 10 million Somalis from oppression and exploitation. Li Mo's face slowly became serious and said, "Two years ago, it was your Excellency the President who united with a group of open-ed people to end a civil war that should not have existed. It has rejuvenated the country after decades of hardships.

Yusuf himself is also a 'warlord leader', but unlike those 'earth emperors' who only keep one acre of land and greedily peep at the territory next to him, he has a sense of patriotism and maintains a Somali sovereignty. It is also that people like him, the more he comes into contact with the outside world, the more he invents as a president, which does not bring supreme power, but heavy responsibility.

Modern society, although it is not the colonial era at the beginning of the last century. However, the law of the jungle is still the constant mainstream of the world. Being beaten behind is not the "foolish indigenous" of the colonial powers, but also the "civilized country" against the "backward country".

Nearly a hundred years have passed, and the world is no longer a simple military colonization, but economic control, resource plunder, cultural invasion, sanctions and blockades and other seemingly more 'civilized and legal' ways. The imperialists put away their tusks and claws and put on the cloak of 'civilization', which is not equivalent to changing from carnivores to herbivores, but 'evolution' with more intelligence, knowing how to hide themselves and wait for the opportunity to hit. Instead of fighting with the prey in a brute force.

The way these strong dominate and plunder the weak is more secretive and more difficult to guard against. When the prey wakes up but does not know the means of self-protection, the greedy 'predator' will also tear off his coat and use primitive means to enjoy the prey.

White-headed eagles, wolf kings, polar bears, John cattle, Gallic chickens, etc. put down their internal competition, and the society joined forces to promote the leaders to hunt food together.

Yusuf knows very well that if Somalia wants to survive in a stable society, it must first ensure that it will not be eaten before it evolves into a carnivore. How to ensure that it will not be eaten? Let those secret enemies realize that eating themselves will be difficult to digest and even cause trauma. Let Somalia become a 'toxic' food, so that others can't eat it.

It is difficult to evolve into toxic food, and some special means are necessary. If you endure the pain for a while, you will get long-term peace. In any case, it is cost-effective.

"Li Mo, I heard that there is a batch of new weapons to equip the First Armored Brigade of the Capital Military Region today?" Yusuf may feel that the conversation just now was too heavy and consciously changed the topic.

"Yes, President, the first batch of 'Guardian' tanks of the joint research and development center in Badada Town has been put down the production line. I plan to equip the First Armored Brigade first and let the officers and soldiers use it to see if there is anything that needs to be improved. Originally, this batch of tanks was to be delivered to the other three countries, but it took me a lot of effort to temporarily cut off four tanks. Li Mo said with a smile.

In more than half a month, the first batch of 60 tanks produced by the Second Armored Vehicle Factory would have been delivered to Iran, Syria and North Korea according to the signed agreement, but later the officers and soldiers of the First Armored Brigade made a scene and finally came to Li Mo. After some discussion, Li Mo waved his pen and allocated four vehicles to the First Armored Brigade.

Although the 'Guardian' tank has been comprehensively tested, there is basically no problem, but Li Mo feels that the time is still too short. In addition, because of the need for confidentiality, the people in charge of the experiment are all from the research center. Li Mo believes that the inspection of these people is not as good as using their armored soldiers to test themselves. And persuaded others for this reason.

"Then let's go and have a look. I have been looking forward to this 'guard' tank with the same surname as the third-generation main battle tank of Western countries. Yusuf was very happy that Somalia could make the main battle tanks that only Western countries and those military powers could make, and then put forward his opinion to see them in person.

(to be continued)