On Monday, March 2, 1644, the east prairie in early autumn was full of high and low clouds. Duncan, who was nearly forty, walked on the west bank of the Chue River with about 20 interns.

They set out from Merlin Port, went to the Chue River area to investigate the terrain and built residential areas for immigrants in the Far East. At present, there are only dozens of scattered Samojishis in the Chue River area. They live scatteredly in this area with abundant water and grass, and stock a large number of East Coast Bighorn goats that have now been bred to the fourth generation. In addition to goats, each family also has two horses raised by the government. According to the agreement between the two parties, for each horse breeding, they can use this as a basis to receive a very generous reward from the government.

At the same time, these people were scattered in a relatively wide range to grazing, so they were still natural sentinels of the government. Once pirates or enemies were found landing from the sea, they could quickly report to Merlin Port, which was only seven or eight kilometers away from here, and requested militias there to dispatch them to defend them.

With the gradual arrival of Eastern immigration, the East Coast people are also carrying out a lot of infrastructure construction to undertake their arrival. As the deputy director of the Construction Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, Duncan, who has just been in office for one year, went to the Chuyi River area east of Meilin Port to select a site to build immigration resettlement housing. According to the plan of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, one thousand resettlement housing in the first phase of the Chuyi River will be built on the Chuyi River. Like the one in the Meilin Port, after the continuous population will come in the future, the second phase and third phase of the resettlement housing will be continued, and castles, farmland, canals, military camps and other facilities will be built to completely develop this area and serve as the eastern barrier of Meilin Port.

The more than 20 students behind Duncan are students of vocational schools under the General Administration of Communications Construction. They are learning architectural design. These students are only in their early twenties this year. They have them in their youth and entered schools from East Coast people to study. Their origins are very ordinary, basically from ordinary families, but the common point is that they are relatively smart, otherwise they would not be selected to enter vocational schools to study.

After receiving many years of education from the East Coast people, these teenagers were very satisfied with their current status and life. In Europe, if there were no accidents, they would be farmers all their lives, and those with bad luck would even have to live as soldiers or sailors. But on the East Coast, they had the opportunity to study that they had dreamed of, which gave them the skills necessary to maintain a decent life. Moreover, although the entire East Coast society was not good, it was much better overall than Europe. The whole society contained a vigorous and upward atmosphere, and everyone had their own duties and lived in peace and contentment, without arrogant aristocrats, no extortion tax officials, and no stinking streets. Everyone would not look down on you because of your low origins. As long as you have the ability, you could stand out, and no one would set any obvious obstacles for you.

Just as the teachers said, this country is the common cause of everyone. National interests are damaged, and everyone's personal interests will also be lost. Think about the vicious Dutch, British and Spanish. They are corrupt, greedy, extravagant, and always covet the rich East Coast. They want to destroy and annex the East Coast at all times, so that everyone can become their serfs again. This makes everyone gradually realize that they are different from those in Europe. Those people do not know how to respect and love themselves, and do not understand the East Coast qualities of "loyalty, dedication, courage, and self-confidence". They are vulgar and rude but with innate arrogance, which makes people disgusted.

Their political system is corrupt, and it is difficult for civilians without aristocratic blood or poor people to have the opportunity to enter the ruling class. On the East Coast, it is different. Everyone personally participated in the construction of this country and became respected technicians and engineers. Nothing is more pleasant than doing a career. Those so-called my fellow tribes in Europe only have some blood similarities to me, but we are not the same type of people after all, they are them, and I am the "citizen" of the East Coast Republic of China.

These students are the products of typical political nationalist education. They are knowledgeable and cultured, full of idealistic enthusiasm. Their life experiences in the old continent in their youth made them almost martyrically obsessed with breaking the old order and establishing a new world. Therefore, the biggest factor that prompted them to identify with the East Coast Republic was the new political system on the East Coast.

In fact, there have always been many understandings of nationalism in history. That is, in the early pre-agricultural society, humans gradually formed different settlement communities due to factors such as region and living environment, which were the early forms of nations. However, this is at best just a primitive nationalism, and nationalism must be the result of rapid development of industrial civilization. In the agricultural feudal society before industrial civilization developed, humans had a relatively weak sense of national identity, and even their national consciousness was relatively vague. This is very typical in Western Europe.

However, after the bourgeois revolution in Britain, most British people began to awaken their national consciousness, and a unified English nation began to gradually take shape. As the neighbor of the British, France, the Hundred Years War, gave them national enlightenment, and the king wiped out the separatist princes, and the country's prosperity made the French people's pride increasingly stronger, and their national consciousness began to gradually take shape. During the Great Revolution, after the tempering of blood and fire, the French nation, which had self-esteem and self-love and civic consciousness, began to stand tall among the nations of the world.

From the awakening of the British and French national consciousness, it can be seen that they all formed an independent nation after experiencing major social changes, political system reform, and cultural enlightenment, and everything they experienced also gave them their own unique national character. This is actually typical political nationalism.

Now, Duncan's students agree with the various systems of the East Coast people, and that this country is their common cause, and that this country can bring them a sense of pride and honor. In a sense, this is also an awakening of national consciousness. After years of rapid development of the country and the uninterrupted indoctrination of East Coastism, they have become convinced that the system of their country is the most advanced system in the world, and this country is the common country for everyone. As long as everyone is "loyal, dedicated, brave and confident", the new East Coast nation will eventually stand among the nations of the world.

It is difficult to assimilate tens of thousands of 17th-century indigenous people to form a new nation with a new culture brought by 500 travelers, and to form a new nation. Later generations believe that several major factors that can succeed in assimilation: one is a similar cultural background, two is a common language, three is literacy, and four is a lack of characteristics in assimilation. These four conditions may not be too big for Europeans in North America who generally have Protestant backgrounds, but it is a big problem for people in the East Coast.

Whether it is Europeans or Orientals, the cultural backgrounds of the Time Travelers are very different, among which Orientals may be better, but Europeans have very different languages, customs and religious backgrounds. It is extremely difficult to transform them into East Coast people who meet the standards of Time Travelers, and even adults are basically impossible to be transformed. Therefore, the main work of Time Travelers is to strive to create a society with a common cultural background, and to use coercive means to erase the national characteristics of people from different regions, so that everyone can try their best to converge. In this way, a very good environment can be provided for the new generation born in the East Coast, so as to gradually complete assimilation and integration.

It is not impossible for you to not do this forced work, but it may take hundreds of years to naturally integrate. Because human inertia is strong. For some people, even if people around them speak another language, they will still stubbornly speak their own language and communicate in a small circle. Even if your culture is advanced than them and they admire you very much, it does not mean that they will take the initiative to learn your so-called strong culture. If this kind of thing is not forced to be implemented, it will often take a long time to connect with the people around them.

This is absolutely impossible for the East Coast people who are surrounded by powerful enemies, because what they lack is time. Unless you are harboring a powerful kingdom like the British North American colonies, then you have plenty of time to slowly merge. But if the North American colonies broke away from Britain in the 17th century, if you still slowly merged in such a mess, your country will fall apart under the instigation of foreign enemies within a few years. This is by no means an exaggeration.

Now, students from these vocational schools came to the East Coast when they were seven or eight years old. Their cultural background was very weak. In addition, they had long been with time travelers, and their cultural background was already highly similar to those of time travelers. With their common language and relatively rich knowledge, they could be considered real East Coast people!
Chapter completed!