Chapter Seventy-Six: Grass on the Edge
Eighteen-year-old Jonas is the youngest recruit at the Recruit Training School, which is located north of Megan, on the border between Lucerne and the cantons of Schwyz and Zug.
Since there are only a small number of regular soldiers in Switzerland, the training of recruits is made up of a team of veteran volunteers.
Every year, Switzerland recruits a team of 1,800 volunteers, who are responsible for the training of new recruits during the year.
The training of recruits is divided into four phases, a total of 16 weeks, and everyone can freely choose the training time, which can be 16 weeks of service at a time, or it can be divided into several stages.
However, before the age of twenty-two, basic training for recruits must be completed.
In the first four weeks, the training of recruits mainly includes military posture training, receiving orders, shooting, and these basic trainings.
The Swiss army does not require a soldier to be a brave and good war machine, but only to be trained to become a qualified soldier with a certain military foundation and proficient in military skills.
Because in general, every soldier is actually an ordinary citizen in military uniform.
Moreover, in the training of recruits in Switzerland, it is strictly forbidden to shout loudly, and every soldier will learn military skills in a scientific way of training, and then turn into a screw.
Therefore, this kind of training is actually not heavy, especially for soldiers like Jonas who have very good qualities, and they don't feel the pressure at all.
Jonas's favourite training is of course shooting, and he has been practicing at the range since he was less than 10 years old, and his accuracy is very good.
Ten guns and eighty rings are not very difficult for a new hand to achieve, let alone him.
However, he will not waste his quota and will be able to play a thousand rounds of ammunition for free, and he will also reduce the pressure on the Swiss army's inventory a little.
Switzerland has arguably the highest average percentage of arms reserves in the world, and the country is full of defensive positions, and at every junction, pass, there are hidden artillery positions.
The fort, like the one in Jonas's house, was built during World War II. In addition to a 105-mm M1939 L52 semi-mobile armored battery, a machine gun fortress could also be formed.
In the early years, the shells were stored directly in the caves, and it was not until the 70s that the shells were removed for daily safety reasons.
However, in the event of a war, it only takes fifteen hours for men and shells to be in place and form a defensive position.
In addition to these, Switzerland has numerous underground fortresses in the mountains.
Just in Holf, where he practiced fencing on a daily basis, a section of the five-kilometer-long road tunnel built in the mountain has complete electricity and living facilities, which can accommodate 100,000 people to live in it for a month.
And there are dozens of underground living quarters like this in Lucerne alone. This is terrible, because the population of Lucerne is less than 100,000, and the population of the entire state is less than 500,000.
Training Björnas was as easy as he imagined, and training in all kinds of basic knowledge was like going to school.
Over the course of a month, Jonas learned various skills such as marching, gathering, hiding, receiving orders from his superiors, and more.
Although he is not yet a qualified soldier, if he is left on the battlefield, he will not be a bewildered lamb and will be able to find his place quickly.
The physical training of the army is mainly based on endurance, which is very useful for Jonas.
His current strength and explosiveness are far beyond the average person, but his stamina is insufficient. This is because his body bones and muscle groups are innate, although because of the crossing, he has the physical blessing of two people, but how to give full play to his potential still needs to be scientifically trained.
By the end of the month's training, he had gone from being able to do less than a thousand leaps to more than 4,000.
Running 10 kilometers was originally a great burden on the body, but now, I don't feel tired at all.
The young body has good recovery, and the day before training is tiring, the next day it is full of vitality.
In addition to training during the day, Jonas continued to study mathematics every night.
In his previous life, he had a university foundation and was a good student. Although I have forgotten most of the knowledge now, I can quickly grasp it when I relearn it.
Sequences, Limits, Calculus, Spatial Analytic Geometry and Linear Algebra, Series, Ordinary Differential Equations.
Jonas was not greedy for these subjects of advanced mathematics, and mainly focused on calculus and number sequence, which he used to know, and tried to get enough credits in these areas as soon as possible, and then focused on his weaker spatial analysis.
He has a very strong purpose, which is to focus on the mathematical knowledge required for finance.
Take building a financial model as an example, in fact, this thing is not very high, it is the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
You make a simple table that is a financial model, and the entry is actually very low. However, it is very difficult to become proficient.
The financial model is a method of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of the four operations to calculate various reference values in a period of time, but not only the four operations are very simple and low, but there are actually a lot of logical judgments, exchange rate conversions, time difference conversions, value storage corresponding to each point in time, and so on.
So, it's hard to get an effective financial model.
Coders in the financial industry are similar to coders in the software industry, both require huge manpower and material resources to fill in the content, and even more need architecture engineers to build the entire framework.
If you get the slightest mistake in one place, the model may become useless.
Jonas has an advantage over the others, not only because he went to college, but also because he has a bank at home.
Banks' investments, fund purchases, etc., all need to be calculated using financial models. He wanted to learn, and Hannah not only sorted out many previous investment cases for him, but also arranged for bank experts to teach him individually.
Osberg, the general manager of the bank, grew up watching Jonas, and for a long time, in front of Jonas, he even took the place of Yannick's father.
Jonasken learned, and of course he would not hesitate to teach.
It's just that Jonas is still in the basic learning stage, and he only needs to have cases, and he has not yet reached the general stage of living learning.
In the software industry, Jonas is still learning to code, not at the architecture stage.
On July 30, Jonas finished his four-week training, and the next day, Hannah organized a cocktail party for him.
In Switzerland, it is normal to have a drinking party, and it is mainly through the reception that people socialize.
It's summer, the vacation season, the drinks are not too intensive, and in the autumn and winter, not attending four or five drinks a week means that your social circle is too narrow.
When Kostler and Dinah return from vacation, they don't choose to start their military service at the age of eighteen like Jonas did, and they are still enjoying their youth.
However, it took them half a month to learn to drive.
Kostler bought a Porsche sports car, while Dinah liked the big G Jonas bought and bought one that was exactly like Jonas.
Just from the preference for buying a car, Jonas is pessimistic about Kostler's life. In this life, he was eaten by Dinah.
But he didn't know it, he was still alive without heart and lungs, and he didn't have a heart at all.
As soon as he arrived in his little sports car, he secretly stuffed Jonas with an envelope.
Jonas saw Dinah's disdainful look and asked, "What is this?"
"It's a shame that I secretly took a photo at a naturist beach in Spain and you didn't go. ”
What a good buddy, don't forget to leave him soup when you eat meat.
But why do rabbits eat grass next to their nests......
The weather was already in the hottest season of the year, and Jonas tied two ropes to a tree on the edge of the cliff and hoisted an eight-meter-long plank.
The planks protrude about six meters from the cliff and are also five or six meters above the lake, forming an improvised jump.
When the invitation was sent and the phone was called, Jonas reminded everyone to bring their swimsuits, and this jump was really popular, and most of the people came here to play in the water.
Plov has been sitting on the trestle to prevent accidents.
Lake Lucerne is a lake formed by the melting of the snow-capped mountains of the Alps, and the water is very cool. The cold-water fish produced in this lake is one of Switzerland's famous delicacies, and the meat is very tender.
However, because the water is cold, it is easy to get cramps when swimming in the lake even in the summer.
In addition to the jump, Jonas also assembled his own sailboat, two air beds, a few big tires, and everyone had a lot of fun.
Yannick is also rarely at home, and he has a lot of fun with several elders who are worth billions of dollars, as well as young people.
He even used the privileges of his elders to grab two air mattresses with his juniors, and then found two double-headed oars and played a game in the lake.
To Jonas's surprise, Paler's parents also came over and brought Jonas a bronze dagger made of cannonball shells as a gift.
Because they are peers and have business competition, the relationship between the Jonas family and the Liszt family is not good. The juniors are good friends, but the elders rarely get together, and their coming over this time can be regarded as a small news in this circle.
Only Jonas and a few of them know that this is because of the money borrowed from them last month.
"Brother Jonas, do you look at my swimsuit?"
Jonas turned his head, and Neuer blushed as he struggled to straighten his chest, which had just heaved a little.
Her father and brother didn't come today, she was the only one who came.
Jonas had always treated her like a little sister, smiling and rubbing her head with her swimming cap. "Be careful when diving and remember to warm up first. ”
"I know, now I'm the main swimmer on our school swimming team!"
"Awesome. Jonas gave a thumbs up. Neuer attended an aristocratic school in St. Gallen, as her father was good friends with the principal of that school.
Neuer pouted unhappily, patted Jonas on the arm, and turned away. "You still treat me like a child. ”
Jonas thought to himself: You are a child.
Although Neuer is very beautiful and matches his aesthetics, Jonas would never be interested in a thirteen-year-old.
Because, she is also a grass on the edge of the nest.