Volume 4: White Devil Chapter 306 New Life
Computer practitioners throughout the United States or even the world were disgusted by Tommy Hawke. This bastard turned the formal reunification of East and West Germany, a major historical moment of this century, into an advertising feast like the Super Bowl. Compaq laptops and AmigaOS installed on laptops often appeared in the live broadcasts of VOX News Network.
Obviously everyone knows that this bastard is advertising, but you can only call AmigaOS disgusting, but you can't directly point out that it is an advertisement because that would constitute defamation.
As the Berlin Wall was officially demolished, a large number of German people poured into West Germany. They had no West German marks, no legal West German identity, no telephones, and had been separated from their relatives in West Germany or other places by the East German wall for decades. Their children didn't know where to continue their education, and their elderly didn't know where to buy their common medicines. How should all this be solved?
The American Peace Corps, which has been rooted in West Germany for decades, is dedicated to serving you.
Although many countries define the Peace Corps, an independent volunteer organization, as a US spy organization, and even the Peace Corps does not deny that they provide the US federal government with certain information about their country, it has to be said that even if everything is for intelligence or cultural infiltration, the surface work is done very well.
The Peace Corps officially started operating in 1961. Sargent Shriver was the initiator and first head. The initial target was actually Africa, which was heavily influenced by France. The hope was to send a large number of recent college graduates who were absolutely loyal to the United States to various African countries to do volunteer work, such as teaching English in local schools, or engaging in medical, religious and cultural work, and gradually influence the citizens of those countries in terms of culture and language.
The first batch recruited 7,000 outstanding American university graduates. Sargent originally hoped that at least half of the first batch of volunteers would be black, so that they could more easily integrate into African countries where blacks were the majority. However, the status of blacks in the United States was low at that time, and few blacks could become college students. After much difficulty, a few black college students were found, but when they heard that they were going to Africa to help their ancestors, they chose to reject Sargent without hesitation.
In the end, almost all of the 7,000 people were white people, and 40% of them were brainwashed. The American saintly white girls who were eager to go to Africa to help the poor and teach were fooled by Sargent and Kennedy to go to Africa. As a result, within three years, nearly 3,000 female volunteers of the Peace Corps encountered more than 2,000 XX cases in Africa.
The most outrageous case was that a female volunteer from the American Peace Corps was supposed to help a man's wife give birth, but before the man's wife's baby was born, while the woman's water broke and she was about to give birth, the American female volunteer was assaulted by the black man's entire family...
Even though this situation has occurred many times, the two major parties in the United States have rarely been united in their thinking. For many years, they have been determined to promote the Peace Corps volunteer program around the world, and it has gradually expanded from Africa to South America, Asia, Europe, and even in the past two years, it has entered some Soviet republics with unsteady positions.
Many female relatives of American presidents have served as volunteers in the Peace Corps. To show the importance the Peace Corps attaches to these volunteers, the Peace Corps has now deployed more than 100,000 American "volunteers" to more than 50 countries that it believes need help.
These volunteers cannot seek profit in the local area. Their food, lodging and basic living expenses are all paid by the Peace Corps with special appropriations from the U.S. Congress. All of this is to make those countries believe that Americans are sincerely helping them without asking for anything in return.
Most volunteers truly believe that they are doing a selfless and great job. They teach the locals English, impart more advanced agricultural knowledge to them, and even treat the locals for free, similar to religious ascetics.
It's not that there are no eccentric geniuses. A few years ago, after a thorough investigation, the US Drug Enforcement Administration finally discovered that a major Colombian drug lord they were targeting was actually just a puppet, and the real boss behind the scenes who controlled the entire network was just a male American Peace Corps volunteer in his thirties.
After graduating from college and joining the Peace Corps, he was sent to Colombia to teach local people agricultural knowledge. As a result, he started from scratch and used the meager money given to him by the Peace Corps to buy several cheap weapons in the local area, distributed them to the villagers, and led the villagers to fight off another group of drug dealers who were exploiting the villagers. He led the villagers to stand up and become bigger and stronger, taught the local people how to grow coca leaves properly, how to use fertilizers to increase production, and how to standardize the processing of coca leaves into caffeine. He successfully allowed Americans to enjoy higher purity caffeine, and also allowed the Colombian villagers to live a good life, killing two birds with one stone.
However, this American brother who took the initiative to apply for an extension of his leave and continued to shine in the Peace Corps for many years actually abided by the Peace Corps regulations and never shared a penny of the villagers' drug earnings. He still lived on the meager funds allocated by the Peace Corps, lived in a wooden house built by the villagers and himself, traveled in a tattered pickup truck, still gave English lessons to children regularly, spread the faith of Christ Jesus, and occasionally bought discounted tickets when he returned to his country to visit his relatives during holidays. By the way, he brought back a bunch of old clothes donated by fellow church members from the domestic church and distributed them to the poor. He was not greedy or corrupt, and was like a saint.
He is spontaneously revered as the godfather by thousands of local villagers. There was even a news report about a young man who cursed him behind his back. His father heard it and tied him up and took him to the church, where he was going to shoot him in front of the godfather. This shows his reputation in the local area.
If the undercover agent of the DEA had not witnessed with his own eyes this simply dressed and upright old man standing on the pulpit in the church holding a meeting with the backbone members of his gang, teaching them how to ship goods to the United States, how to build a sales network from scratch in a new city in the United States, requiring them not to forget their hometown after making money and settling in the big city, and to raise funds to build hospitals, schools, and roads, and if the drug lords, big and small, who were so feared that their photos were hung on the whiteboard in the DEA office, were sitting in the audience and listening respectfully like Jesus' disciples, no one would have believed it was true.
When the intelligence was passed back, the US Drug Enforcement Administration even thought that this was a deliberate frame-up by the drug dealers to shirk the charges, because many drug dealers in this gang had been arrested before, but no one had ever mentioned this guy's name.
If the Peace Corps had not believed that this scandal would seriously affect its international image and had not refused to authorize it to several film companies, Hollywood would have adapted this legendary experience into a movie long ago.
However, the life of the Peace Corps in West Germany was not as hard as that in Africa or South America. The total number of Peace Corps members in West Germany was about 2,300, and most of them were engaged in cultural communication, education, youth development and counseling. Simply put, almost all universities, colleges and elementary and secondary schools in West Germany had American Peace Corps volunteers teaching, helping West German students understand the United States, Americans and American culture.
The dual invasion of the Peace Corps and the U.S. Army caused a contradiction in the Germans' perception of the United States. On the one hand, the devout ascetic volunteers of the Peace Corps demonstrated the good virtues of not being greedy for fame and fortune and selfless dedication. On the other hand, the furry beasts of the U.S. Army could create thousands of single mothers in West Germany every year.
Therefore, generally speaking, well-educated Germans who have interacted with Peace Corps volunteers have a very good impression of the United States because of the indoctrination of the other party. They believe that it is a real Garden of Eden where everyone is polite and civilized.
However, the lower-class Germans living near military camps had a completely different impression of the United States, probably because the Peace Corps had no poverty alleviation work options in West Germany.
How could the Peace Corps be absent at such a significant historical moment? When a group of East Germans who had been carefully selected before the wall was demolished entered West Germany, they were warmly welcomed by the Peace Corps. Vox News Network followed the entire process. The Peace Corps helped those people find housing, contact schools, provide small amounts of cash, etc., and most importantly, find relatives who had lost contact for many years.
Then VOX's global paying subscribers were forced to hold their noses and watch the AmigaOS advertisement, which was about Peace Corps members turning on their computers, opening their browsers, and entering a message board and family search website that Susie had someone set up in advance, to help East German people leave messages to find their relatives abroad.
In fact, the relatives of those East German people had already started contacting them in advance when Susi had people selecting actors. The display in the news was a reflection of efficient technology and American humanistic care. It often didn't take long for someone to reply to those messages looking for relatives, telling their phone number and address, and then VOX reporters would quickly capture the touching scenes of East German people holding long-distance calls with tears in their eyes.
Smart people can tell at a glance that this is fake, but fortunately, there are many sentimental idiots in the world. Use these heartwarming news to make those idiots remember AmigaOS, remember Midas, a graphical web browser software developed by Stanford University's Linear Accelerator Center, and remember the European American Peace Corps Message Board website.
The most exaggerated advertisement came from Zoe's live interview with Hans Joachim Meyer, the last Minister of Education of East Germany. In order to get the Minister of Education and Art of East Germany to help with an advertisement, Tommy needed to ask the American MCI company that provided telecommunications services in West Germany to pull a dedicated line into East Germany, and also to purchase several artworks from the other party's collection and a total of 20,000 copies of the other party's published works, because the other party was worried about his family's livelihood after the merger . After all, after the merger, he might be unemployed and would no longer be the high-ranking Minister of Education.
This was already the highest-ranking person Tommy could approach for public relations, because this position was barely a low-paying job. The more popular ones, such as the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, the Minister of Economy, the Minister of Labor, the Minister of Construction, the Minister of Energy, the Minister of Health and other senior officials of the last cabinet, looked down on Tommy's gift. After all, many American industrialists had long been eyeing the East German market that was about to open its doors. Big companies like General Motors, Chevrolet, John Deere, Johnson & Johnson and others had generously used various means to show goodwill to those East German bigwigs who wanted to make a final fortune since the night the Berlin Wall fell last year, and to seek various interests in East Germany through the time-limited rights in the hands of the other party.
The only people Tommy could get in touch with and discuss cooperation with were pitiful characters that big companies looked down upon, such as the Minister of Education, the Minister of Sports, and the Minister of Family and Women.
Minister of Education Hans said in a live interview that his biggest headache at the moment is that with the reunification of the two Germanys, a large number of primary and secondary school students in East Germany will have their classes suspended, because the German Joint Education Committee jointly established by the two Germanys has not yet given a curriculum arrangement after reunification. Children and teachers in East Germany do not know what courses to start tomorrow, where are the textbooks and teaching aids, and according to previous plans, a group of high school graduates this year were supposed to go to Moscow and other places to attend university, but now it is obvious that the wishes of the students must be considered. They want to go to West Germany or other non-Soviet countries to attend university, but are not sure whether their previous high school grades will be recognized.
Then, another American actor arranged by Charles, Ted Sanders, a personal friend of Al Gore, former president of Tennessee State University, and current Under Secretary of Education of the United States, appeared on the stage. He asked his secretary to call VOX News Network and asked VOX to help him contact Zoe. He made a telephone call with Zoe and said that after watching the news, he discussed the current problems in East Germany with the Minister. The Minister and he were very willing to show the goodwill of the United States. The U.S. Department of Education was considering providing transnational higher education certification and pre-certification to those East German students who were facing the risk of suspension of classes or even dropping out of school. In other words, as long as these East German high school students passed the certification, their scores would be recognized by major American universities. After recognition, they could apply to study in the United States and might be admitted by American universities.
Then he sent the cumbersome text documents of the United States' certification requirements to Zoe in Germany via email one by one. Zoe asked her assistant to print them out and gave them to Hans. Hans was very moved and choked up a little. He thanked the United States for its help on behalf of the students and thanked the magic of American technology. He asked Zoe why her laptop could do all this. Finally, he envied the American children for being so happy to be able to use such convenient technology to spread news and knowledge.
Then Zoe also contacted Vox headquarters immediately with the same emotion. Vox headquarters expressed its willingness to purchase one thousand AmigaOS laptops and give them to Zoe. The Peace Corps members present also expressed their willingness to set up a computer training school.
At this point, the advertisement ends. The reason why this interview is called an advertisement is that on the surface, the help provided by the United States sounds good. After all, the Deputy Minister of Education of the world's largest country called personally during the live broadcast, and it is impossible to lie. But in fact, those words have no effect. They are just an opportunity to move a wave of American people watching the news.
Apart from a fake email that appeared to send a bunch of information required for transnational education certification, there was no formal commitment.
As for when the certification will be passed, it depends on the mood of the minister. However, the tone and statement of the Deputy Minister of Education in the live call made it seem that high school students in East Germany could come to the United States and enjoy a free college life as long as they filled out a form, which made the audience in front of the TV have a better impression of the United States.
A little understanding will make you realize that even American high school students have to take out loans to go to college, so how could a group of guys from East Germany easily enjoy such benefits? Not to mention, who knows if there are East German spies among them.
Similar advertisements continued to appear in the following days, including but not limited to a large number of photos of East German beauties being posted on the website in the name of finding relatives, looking for relatives who had gone to France, Italy, the United States and other places. The website also asked the East German Minister of Family and Women to help endorse it. To be honest, the website was more like a transnational matchmaking website than a family search website. Figures, heights, and contact information were all posted.
Then, the love story between the East German beauty who had just arrived and had no relatives and the gentle, kind and helpful American Peace Corps male student was reported in newspapers in the United States. The parties even went back to the United States to register their marriage in a high-profile manner.
These constantly emerging news suddenly made Americans realize that AmigaOS was much more practical than ordinary game consoles. Buying an Amiga OS would give them the opportunity to marry a gentle and virtuous East German beauty who was not picky about ordinary American rural life. Many young white Americans in rural areas or young people from the lower classes in cities held this wonderful idea and bought AmigaOS and MCI's telecommunications services specifically, just to log on to the family-finding website. Even the subsequent chain reaction led to people in other Soviet republics realizing that technology could change their destiny after seeing the happy life of the young East German girl. So they began to spontaneously learn how to use AmigaOS and Stanford Midas browser, trying to log on to the Internet and change their way of life. However, it was very difficult because those countries basically had no access to the public node network dominated by the United States. They might have to wait until the Soviet First Lady and the American First Lady were settled before they would have the opportunity to go online.
And those American users who initially entered the Internet world out of curiosity only realized, after mastering simple surfing skills, that quitting it might be more difficult than quitting smoking.
Open the Midas browser and the software will pop up a navigation page. Although there are not many websites on it, the categories are complete enough, ranging from art and culture, world situation, political news to supermarket discounts, celebrity gossip, and pimp prices. As long as you have a hobby and want to find someone to communicate with, you can find the place you should go. There is always a website message board where someone is willing to discuss with you why a street girl charges 50 yuan per time in Queens, New York, but 70 yuan per time in Brooklyn.
There are always fans from two different cities leaving messages on a certain website BBS to discuss the performance of their favorite singers at concerts in their cities.
After AmigaOS used historical events to attract users' attention, sales began to gradually recover.
When 44% of the last one million computers sold in the United States were purchased by home users, of which AmigaOS installations accounted for an astonishing 63%, Microsoft decisively abandoned its overseas layout in the UK and, together with a group of companies, submitted a detailed report to the US federal government Congress and the Federal Department of Education on Stanford University's malicious holding of various patents for graphical browsers that were suspected of hindering the development of the industry.
The content can be summarized in one sentence: Stanford University must hand over the key to the Internet. The Internet is free.
Stanford will definitely lose this round, but if it drags on, it can probably be delayed for two to three years. Microsoft obviously cannot wait that long. It, or they will definitely do some very covert actions to enter the Internet as soon as possible, such as finding a few small overseas companies or domestic companies to disregard patent rights and develop browser software for users for free.
However, dealing with Microsoft is no longer Tommy's job, because on the day Microsoft submitted the report to Congress, he officially announced his resignation from his current position at the board meeting. He only retained his director status and equity, and handed over the management of the company entirely to Susie and Jason. The shareholders agreed with Tommy's decision based on the company's sales data during this period. After all, Susie has been at the forefront during this period, and sales have been rising.
Tommy liked Susie's decisiveness and her determination to achieve whatever ends necessary. Susie had already considered and arranged countermeasures for Microsoft's common tricks. In fact, it was very simple. She bundled some of Stanford University and company's graphic browser patents with some more cutting-edge patents and authorized them to the military research and development institutions under the Department of Defense. If those companies infringed on the rights, they would be attacked by the special forces with the excuse of damaging or leaking military confidential technology. If the military found out that those companies were instructed by Microsoft, those people in the Pentagon would understand extortion better than Susie.
As for Tommy Hawke, there are more important things waiting for him. The Hawke family is about to welcome a new life.
