Strictly speaking, the current army of Beihai State can only be regarded as a semi-feudal and semi-modern army. The reason for this is that most of the officers and men in the army are illiterate and have old-fashioned ideological concepts. Many modern military reforms are difficult to carry out in such an old-fashioned army. If nothing else, the level of education of the soldiers in the army can dispel many of Marin's thoughts.

And these young non-commissioned officers and students are different, the education they received since childhood is the kind of education of later generations, and the way of thinking is different from that of Europeans of this era, closer to later generations, and smarter. After all, all of them have a certain level of education.

Moreover, each of them has a particularly solid foundation in military skills, no less than a veteran. The only drawback, presumably, is the lack of actual combat experience.

However, such a non-commissioned officer is also extremely malleable. Because of their high cultural quality and more than 10 years of militarized education, these children have the potential to be trained into elite soldiers.

On top of that, these teenagers have been brainwashed for more than a decade, and they have absolutely no problem with loyalty - this is the main reason why Marin wants to train them to be the best of the best.

With a good cultural foundation and special loyalty, this is definitely an excellent elite material!

In fact, it is only by traveling to this era that Marin can deeply feel the historical generation gap between modern and ancient people for hundreds of years. The vicissitudes of several hundred years have led to completely different concepts of consciousness between modern people and ancient people. The huge difference in education level also led to the poor plasticity of the ancients.

Marin has actually always been very strange, those who have made contributions through ancient times, the protagonist has traveled through the past, and it is easy to train a complete ancient person into a modern elite soldier. How can hundreds of years of conceptual differences be so easy to resolve?

Perhaps, the difference between ordinary soldiers and soldiers is not so obvious in ancient and modern times. But the difference in the quality of officers is very different. Without a certain cultural foundation, some slightly more complex commands are difficult to understand.

Therefore, in this era, an uneducated officer does not have the ability to lead troops to perform tasks alone. The kind of casual training of an ancient person into an excellent modern officer is also too nonsense. Especially the casual training of domestic slaves into independent generals is the most nonsense.

Marin also tried to train all 5 of his squires to become generals, but as a result, only Schwartz, who came from a knight family, became a general because of his good foundation and culture. A brainless man like Karn, Marin can only use him as a fierce general like Dianwei, and it is impossible for him to be the boss. And Garland and Tara, who can only go to the colony to open up wasteland, are not as good as Albert. As for Sauer, he can't get the naturally intelligent Kohler by engaging in intelligence, but he is better than loyalty and dedication, and he is also deeply valued by Marin.

But no matter what, it's best to find a professional person to do professional things. It is too whimsical to want to train people with no foundation, even illiterate, into a boss who is in charge of himself. Unless, it is educated from an early age.

Those ancient peasants who were adults could only be trained to be a warrior with good execution ability at best. However, it is too difficult to become an important officer with the ability to think independently.

Don't think that by opening a literacy class in the army, you can cultivate a great character. Of course, there are also cases. But the characters who can be trained to become powerful characters in the literacy class may be peerless geniuses who have been delayed!

Marin had lived in the countryside all his life, but he had never seen a literacy class in the countryside. In fact, most of the illiterate peasants enter literacy classes to eliminate illiteracy, and the end result is that P is not used. It should be a big old coarse, or a big old coarse. Only a small number of people who are themselves gifted will have an effect.

This is because, as adults, many people have a stereotyped way of thinking. And most importantly – they're used to thinking without their brains! Although the IQ is not necessarily low, the brain has become an ornament. It is no less difficult to educate such a person into a person who is good at thinking.

Only the kind of genius who is very gifted and usually accustomed to using his brain, but is only delayed by family conditions, has the ability to stand out in the literacy class. Most of the rest of the people, at most, learn to write their own names in literacy classes, and then know a few more common words and place names, so that they don't get on the wrong bus or something.

These are all seen by Marin in later generations, not just boasting. Literacy classes or something, it will fool people who don't know how to do it. The real effect is actually not very good. However, when it was publicized afterwards, at the suggestion of the above, it was all excessive boasting of the effect of literacy. People who don't know the truth read the report and think that all the members of the literacy class have been trained to become doctors......

Of course, this depends on the age group. For juvenile literacy, the effect is very good. After all, the worldview of minors has not yet been finalized, and it is more malleable. For adults, the older they are and the more so-called life experiences they have, the closer the literacy effect is to zero......

For example, in the early years, when agricultural technicians began to appear in the countryside to teach farmers to farm scientifically, many old farmers did not think so. They said, "Lao Tzu has been farming for decades, isn't he more knowledgeable than your little doll?" ", refusing to accept new agricultural technologies. It is only after the results of the experimental plots that these old people are willing to accept the new technology. Therefore, in later generations, there was a term called "agricultural demonstration field", which was to show the actual effect to those stubborn old farmers.

In short, the older you are, the less valuable you are. Because, their worldview and cognitive ability have been solidified, and it is difficult to make breakthroughs. Only minors, because they have not yet formed a complete world view, can be easily transformed.

As for the film and television works of later generations, our army carried out literacy eradication of illiterate soldiers...... Well, the screenwriter will never tell you that it only works for a small number of people......

Just like Ma Lin's uncle in later generations, he was a scumbag, he entered our army as a soldier for several years, took a lot of literacy classes, and returned still a scumbag! Although he had made meritorious contributions on the battlefield in Vietnam, because of his hopeless scumbags, even if he acted as a platoon commander for a period of time after the platoon commander was injured, he could only be arranged to work as a worker in the factory after changing jobs (at that time, the workers were quite popular). Otherwise, it would have been mentioned a long time ago......

Moreover, what needs to be seen is that many famous generals in our army before the founding of the People's Republic of China actually graduated from Whampoa. For example, among the 10 marshals, He Lao, who has the worst culture, has also studied in private school for 5 years, which is equivalent to the level of graduating from primary school. And Zhu Lao, Chen Lao and others directly studied abroad.

In addition, during the Anti-Japanese War, many college students in the Beijing-Tianjin area, after the fall of North China, went south to participate in the anti-Japanese resistance, and were absorbed by our army and became important military commanders. There are also many people who have studied at Kang University.

Therefore, although the main force at the grassroots level of our army are farmers, at the commander level, there are actually many high-level generals. Otherwise, it would not be possible to deal with Jiang Guangtou's army of millions. Just give you a statistic - there are more than 60 of my D generals who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, and this does not include Zhou Lao's capable faculty and staff......

This is just a Whampoa Military Academy, and it doesn't include those martial arts halls in various places. There are also generals with a low level of education like Li Yunlong, but there are not many who can really mix to the top level. Moreover, they also studied from those bigwigs who graduated from schools such as Huangpu. Without the guidance of professionals, how can you understand so much?

Also, in the worker-peasant union, why is it that the minority of workers predominates? Because many of the workers are literate......

You let an illiterate command an army of tens of thousands? I'm afraid that I can't even remember the number of the troops, and I can't count the grain and grass, let alone command the war, and I can't do the daily management.

Therefore, a soldier can compromise, but an officer cannot compromise. Those who traveled through ancient times and relied on a group of illiterate people to build a modern army are also a bit too nonsense.

Of course, that's pure YY, and it doesn't pay attention to rationality. If you really have to think about it, most of them have various bugs. After all, the threshold for online articles is very low. Many people who don't understand history at all and have only watched a few nonsense costume TV series dare to write history......

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In fact, the ancient ancestors of China knew about this problem. Therefore, there is a saying that "a thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is difficult to find". That is, the quality of the officers determines the ceiling of the army.

It is precisely because of this that Marin has to wait for the growth of those children's non-commissioned officers. Because, the previous generals couldn't keep up with the cultural and ideological level......

And these teenagers who have grown up with a new type of education have also become the basis for Marin's modern military reform!