Chapter 698: Wounds of War (1)

Due to the current environment, the teaching curriculum is far less complex than the various courses of modern education, and only includes literacy and hyphenation and mathematics, as well as natural science courses. Simple physics has been added to the middle school hall and university hall, and the course capacity is concise and the class time is extremely substantial.

Thanks to the slow pace of life, the content of life is simple, and the school system is greatly shortened, and the school system of Erlang School is four years, which is equivalent to primary school. The juvenile school and the middle school are equivalent to junior high school and high school, with a two-year school system and a university hall of three years, which are equivalent to junior colleges and this course, basically improving the education system.

The university hall was established last year to integrate the balance between the left and right departments of the Gonggong school, and temporarily opened nine departments, including mathematics, simple physics, education (i.e., teacher training), mechanical engineering, metallurgy, medicine, shipbuilding, commerce, finance and taxation, civil engineering, and agriculture.

Fresh graduates of secondary schools are accepted to apply for the examination, and those who are recommended by the work supervisors, construction officials and workers who meet the literacy and basic mathematics skills, or who have eight years of experience in the industry, can also lower the requirements to enter the university hall for further study.

In addition, members of the public can also apply for the examination, as long as there is a skill, even if there is no department, they can be enrolled in further study.

Among them, medicine is a six-year system, divided into herbal medicine and internal surgery, the teaching location is in Yicaotang, six years after three years of internship, a total of nine years to practice independently, the Department of Medicine also accepts social Lang Middle School application and further study, and is also one of the few enrollment majors open to the society.

Chenling now first run five Erlang schools, four years later and then two juvenile schools, waiting for the first batch of Chenling students to graduate from the juvenile school, and then run two middle schools, and then increase the number of schools year by year, expand the scale of enrollment, and then institutionalize, regular enrollment every year, go on to higher education, within ten years, Chenling will be a set of culture, education and business as one of the commercial political center.

At that time, the scale of middle and senior education in Yongxing Industrial Center will be several times that of the present, and the two cities will be the center and gradually promoted to the whole country, and all the political resistance that we are facing today will fundamentally and completely break the shackles of the times under the impact of the educational trend of thought, and the autocratic era of the old aristocratic power class will be completely shaken.

This is a chronic poison prescribed by Bailiyan to the old aristocracy, since it is impossible to change the existing political evils by political means, it can only be used to moisturize things silently and softly, and unconsciously boil frogs in warm water.

When this force penetrates into every corner of social administration, the revolution will inevitably come to the front of the stage from behind the scenes with its historical fate, opening the prelude to the forward development of the times, and all individuals and groups that obstruct the times will eventually be wiped out in the vast river of history, leaving no trace.

Ji Jinsheng was prescient, with his thinking, he only saw the tip of the iceberg behind the education institute, Xihuan wantonly recruited disciples to plot the court, but he didn't know that Baili Yan's disciples were all over the world in the future, with the power of one person, with the people of the world.

On January 31, the Wubei Battalion boarded a boat at Yongxing City, entered the Milong River through the Yongxing River, and then entered the Tong River and landed south of Suicheng in Chunan County.

Suicheng has the reputation of "the hometown of grain and ears" in ancient times, Qiunan County is named after the sudden increase in the altitude in the south of Qiunan County, the average altitude has reached more than 1,500 meters, affected by the inland climate and altitude, the local climate is warm, the summer is not too hot, and the winter is not too cold, occasionally frost and snowfall.

The local area can grow a season of rice every year, and then plant another season of wheat in winter, and the wheat yield is much more than that of the North Sea region, and the local area is also the main source of cotton in the Xian country, although the quality of cotton is not as good as that of the inland areas, but it solves the raw materials of part of the domestic textile industry, and will not be completely cut off from raw materials after the blockade during the war.

Chen Qu and Chen Dian's father and son were skillful in running boats, and they remembered that they were sailing in Posong and Songdia provinces back then, and they couldn't be compared at all. If the Chen family father and son were to command the naval army, it would probably be smoother, and the tactics would not be constrained by the terrain.

In recent years, more than 60 large ships of 5,000 stones built by the Ligong faction have been launched one after another, and the shape has inherited the traditional structure without much change, but most of the warships in the Central Plains are big heads and buttocks, and the problem of inland river ships is not big, and the waves of the sea are high, the wind is fast, the resistance is great, and the speed is much slower.

Referring to the sail warship and the modern streamlined water structure, Bailiyan hand-painted a few sketches the year before last, and asked the shipyard and the Ligong faction to tackle key problems and build two 3,000-stone ships for sea testing, while continuing to inherit the traditional shape and structure and build a 10,000-stone ship to accumulate experience in large ship manufacturing.

After seizing the "Heavenly Boat," the Changsun Navy used the Central Plains ship as the mother plate to build two imitation gunboats of 5,000 stones, each equipped with more than 30 11-pound guns and 17-pound guns, and was divided into two decks to install the guns.

The gun windows on the left and right sides of the Tianchuan are round holes, and Changsun Jun naturally imitated them into round hole gun windows, but the square gun windows are more conducive to human vision, and the round gun windows are obviously another species, designed for their own convenience.

Bai Li Yan and the Chen family father and son did not have many opportunities to meet, Chen Qu and Chen Dian ran in the inland river all the year round, and before the alliance, they fought pirate training in the North Sea for half a year, and they were extremely impressed by the two gunboats of the Changsun Water Army.

There are no more than three reasons, one of which is that the current focus is on digesting the occupied areas, the treasury and money are just a little rich, and there is not so much money and grain to make artillery, and the focus is still on stabilizing the people's livelihood and developing the domestic economy.

Second, at present, the firing range of artillery is becoming shorter, and due to the constraints of industrial mining and steelmaking, the price of iron cannot be reduced, the cost is still expensive, the infantry army is still insufficient, the naval army cannot take care of it at all, and the treasury cannot come up with so much cash.

Finally, in the long run, artillery steel and new ships are expected to break through the bottleneck within three to five years, and now they are buyers, and after five or six years, the technical indicators will be completely outdated, and then new ones will be added, which will not only cost the people and money, but also lose more than they lose.

The two gunboats of Changsun Kingdom have nearly 70 guns, and the cost is more than 1.5 million inches of silver or equivalent goods or copper coins, and they will build two ships in more than 10 years.

At present, the Central Plains as a whole is in the bronze farming age of the old aristocracy of slavery, and it is obviously impractical to directly cross the two eras of iron feudalism and industrial iron and steel to build products in the middle of the first industrial revolution.

The navy arrived at Yongcheng Harbor, 120 miles south of Suicheng, 15 days later, and traces of the artillery bombardment of the Xian army could still be seen among the ruins and broken walls.

The Black Turbans followed the example of the Xian army and hung grass and mud bags on the surface of the city wall to absorb the damage caused by projectiles to the city wall, and dug a moat to prevent the Xian army from digging holes to blow up the city wall.

But the Black Turban Army did not expect that the Xian Army was equipped with a military attache who was proficient in mathematics, and formulated a detailed firing table, only according to the firing table and the landing point of the cannonball, you can roughly calculate the fixed intersection point of the projectile and the city gate, at that time the artillery advanced to two hundred steps away, aimed at the city gate for a salvo, several rounds or even dozens of rounds of salvo, even if the city is repaired strong, the city gate can not block the bombardment of iron eggs.

Of the original 70,000 people in Yongcheng and the villages and counties under its jurisdiction, there are now less than 14,000 left, most of whom are old, weak, sick and disabled, persecuted by cults and died, or have been sent to the front line.

After the defeat of Yongxing and Beihai, the Black Turban Army sprinkled all their anger on the heads of the Xianguo people, and carried out inhumane persecution and massacre of the Xianguo occupied areas, and the whole county of Qiunan did not count the hidden households, and the original registered population was 800,000 15 years ago, but now the local people of Xianguo are less than 180,000, and there are nearly 200,000 emigrants, the population has been cut in half, and the structure has undergone great changes, which has caused great trouble to re-rule the local area.

Bailiyan led the army into the city for two days to repair, visited the local area and the surrounding areas, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is ten rooms and nine emptiness.

Young men and young women are hard to find in the area, and the population between the ages of 16 and 45 is almost disconnected, and the actual situation is more serious than that of the northern and southern counties of Khu.

Yongcheng was regained around October last year, and it should be able to grow one crop of wheat in winter, but in fact, after the distribution of farm tools, less than one in ten can work workers. Zhao Xun implemented a policy of supporting the people and distributing relief food, but it was far from enough to solve the problem.

Bailiyan then sent an urgent report to Chenling, with an additional allocation of 400,000 yuan, 500,000 stones of grain, 200,000 horses of cloth, and tax exemption for five years.

There are Yunxia in the east of Yongcheng, there is Tuoxiang in the south, the situation is only bad, Bailiyan is in a hurry, can not spare time to inspect one by one, after two days of repair, immediately go to Chuanyang Pass, go to Pengyuan County through Chuanyang to see Zhao Xun.

Chuanyang Pass is the gateway to the westward expansion of the Xian Kingdom, and the north-south mountain range rises above the plain at an altitude of 1,500 meters, blocking the road of the Sun Kingdom to the east, and has always been an important town for the Xian Kingdom to resist the invasion of the Sun Kingdom. Sun Guo can use this to attack Xianguo in the northeast and enter Zhiguo in the south, which is of great strategic significance to the three countries.

Sun Guo had fought for Chuanyang Pass and Xianguo for more than 50 years, and also changed from prosperity to decline because of Chuanyang Pass.

Sun and Xian are bounded by Sichuanyang, and eighty miles west of Chuanyang Pass is the border between the two countries. More than 600 miles to the west, it is the Shuotian City, the capital of Pengyuan County.

Since the Black Turban Army uprising, the old land of Sun Guo is the only territory where the population has not decreased but increased, because Sun Guo is the nest of the Black Turban rebels, and a large number of people have been taken away from abroad, and the local population situation is much better than that of Xian, Xu, and Changsun, and the population is much more than at the beginning of the war.

After more than ten years of high-pressure policies, the local population has generally intermarried, forming a new population pattern.

Previously, it was estimated that the population of Wanchuan and Pengyuan counties was more than 3 million, of which Pengyuan was the terrain of the Great Plains, and there should be more than 1.7 million people, and the rough statistics after the occupation of the Xian army showed that the local population reached nearly 1.9 million, and Wanchuan was about 1.3 million, of which about 150,000 were Xianguo, more than 600,000 Zhiguo, more than 400,000 Xu Guoren and more than 200,000 Changsun Guoren.

Before the war, the population of Wanchuan and Pengyuan counties was about 2.3 million, and now there are less than 1.8 million local Sun people, and considering the problem of black households, the actual local Sun country population has decreased by at least 600,000 or more, but the total population has still increased.

The population structure is dumbbell-shaped, with two large ends and a small middle, and there are significantly fewer men between the ages of 18 and 45, while the situation of unmarried and widowed women in this age group is much better than that of Xianguo.