Chapter 498 Increase the population
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On the eighth day of July, Xining Primary School officially opened, and Li Zicheng took Liang Wencheng and others to visit the school.
Xining Primary School covers an area of 50 acres, in the noble area between Ximen Street and Nanmen Street, the land was originally expensive, but Xining Mansion has done a lot of work, most of the wealthy households in order to help students, are donating their own land, a small amount of land is purchased by Xining Prefecture.
Entering the gate, on the right is four large classrooms of blue bricks and tiles, which look very magnificent, and the back of the classroom and the left side of the gate are open spaces, ready to build the second, third, and fourth grades in the future.
Facing the gate, is a wide gravel avenue, Li Zicheng originally planned to build a cement avenue to facilitate the children to move around the campus, but also to add some sensational effects to the campus, but the time was too late, so he had to start classes first.
Behind the predetermined classroom, there is also a large open space, cut in half by a path, which is a playground for students to play on, surrounded by bricks, and the playground is overgrown with weeds, and there is no sports equipment, so they can only run on the weeds.
At the end of the campus, there is a large flat piece of land, on the right side of the middle, there are three individual tiled houses, and then there are several integral tiled houses, in the middle is a large vegetable garden, and on the far left, near the corner of the courtyard, there is a low tiled house, which is the toilet.
The vegetable garden has just been ploughed, and the dishes have not yet been planted, Li Zicheng agrees, eating vegetables is secondary, the key is to let the students in the city know all kinds of vegetables, and really feel the difficulty of farming.
Three tile rooms, that is the new house of the principal Sun Lin, in order to better take care of the children, he just married Li Dan, so he took her to move to the campus to live, those tile houses near the left, are the dormitories of the rest of the teachers, except for Sun Mengjie, Chen Qiudie, Mu Sirong, at least seven or eight teachers live in these collective dormitories.
On the far right side of the campus, there is also a large open space, which is reserved for the future development of the school, and maybe some laboratories and music rooms will be built in the future.
Accompanied by Liang Wencheng and Sun Lin, Li Zicheng walked around the campus, and when he saw that the students were quietly attending classes in the bright classroom, he showed a knowing smile, and the aircraft carrier of new-style education had finally set sail.
Xining Primary School, carrying too many expectations of Li Zicheng, in order to open this primary school, he spent more than three years, personally trained ten qualified teachers for her, and also translated and compiled textbooks and dictionaries.
With the guarantee and support of all parties, Xining Primary School opened smoothly, and Li Zicheng finally breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the Mandate of Heaven Army was not destroyed, she would train talents for the Mandate of Heaven Army and the Mandate of Heaven Governor's Mansion in batches, and train qualified talents and teachers for senior schools.
Li Zicheng was temporarily idle, so he went to the Firearms Bureau, which, in addition to stepping up the production of rifles, also produced 10 howitzers and 20 mountain guns, and it was a complete waste to let them stay in the Firearms Bureau.
Thinking about it, Li Zicheng divided the twenty mountain cannons equally between the Song Wenbu and Ma Youshui, the ten howitzers, or the Qin Danian Department that was transported to Jingyuan County, and the pressure on the three of them was even greater, and they needed long-range strike weapons such as artillery and flowering shells.
Leaving the Firearms Bureau, Li Zicheng went to the barracks and summoned Song Wen, now Xining, there are only his 7,000th households.
"The Grand Duke!" Song Wen bowed in.
"General Song doesn't need to be polite, get up quickly," Li Zicheng looked at the soldiers who were training, "How about it, are they okay?" ”
"Back to the Metropolitan Governor, the soldiers provided by the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion are better than the original soldiers, and the training is much lighter."
Li Zicheng thought for a moment, the strong combat effectiveness of the Heavenly Mandate Army mainly relies on superior firearms, and the combat effectiveness of soldiers does not have an absolute advantage, if the opponent on the battlefield is the cavalry of a nomadic tribe, once he leaves the firearms, what is the combat effectiveness, he really has no bottom in his heart.
During this period of time, there should be no large-scale battles, just to rectify the army, the Song Ministry of Culture is stationed in Xining, so start with him, "General Song, the veterans of the Heavenly Mandate Army, are all soldiers of Xiningwei, at that time, the choice of soldiers was limited, and there were not many opportunities to be selected. ”
"Ideological education?" Song Wen believes that the soldiers in the headquarters have withstood the test of World War II, their morale has risen, and the combat effectiveness of the army is strong, and they do not understand why ideological education is being carried out, and he still does not know how to carry out ideological education for soldiers.
Although Li Zicheng knew the general direction, he did not know much about how to carry out ideological education for the soldiers, and what work should be done in addition to strict military discipline.
If only there were political commissars for later generations!
It is impossible for the time being, how can it be possible to train political commissars without specialized talents and institutions?
But it is obviously unrealistic to leave such a problem to Song Wen himself.
On the one hand, in the selection of soldiers, try to select honest and pure peasants, and on the other hand, during the interval between drills and training, strengthen the popular military discipline of "Three Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention" and cultivate the spirit of obedience among soldiers.
In addition, and most importantly, it is to train all the soldiers into an army with ideals, and this ideal is to save the people of the whole world.
With the people in their hearts, the soldiers will not disturb the people in the future, and they will also get the support of the people on the ground.
Li Zicheng asked Song Wen to gradually systematize and write down these experiences, and once they matured, they would be popularized throughout the army in the future.
For soldiers who are interested in fame and fortune and are too selfish, whether they are soldiers or officers, they will all be cleared out of the army, and how much they are cleared, the Mandate of Heaven will replenish how much.
Soldiers who have been in the army for too long and cannot be promoted will be forced to retire and return to their native places if they reach the age of 30 or have served in the army for eight years.
During the period of military rectification, it is necessary to carry out uninterrupted ideological education among the soldiers, and it is best to form conditions for firing in them, and to elevate self-discipline to habit.
Song Wen asked his own soldiers to record what Li Zicheng said one by one, and then slowly sort it out after returning to the camp, and then put it into practice in the army.
Although he did not quite understand the role of ideological education on soldiers, the decisions of the Grand Governor were always ahead of his time, and he would only follow orders.
In addition to rectification, Li Zicheng also increased the number of Song Wen Ministries, including the 100 households that Zhao Guangrui brought back from Jingyuan County, a total of 100 households, so that the number of soldiers in the 7,000 households increased to 3,000.
Among them, the original auxiliary soldier Qianhu, after the rectification, immediately trained the rifle, once the shooting skills are qualified, will be promoted to a combat soldier, while maintaining a thousand auxiliary soldiers.
Li Zicheng was not good at strengthening the ideological education of soldiers, so he often discussed with Guo Shijun, and as long as he had a little experience, he would immediately implement it in the 7,000th household.
In the afternoon of this day, Lu Rongda, Yu Xiao, and Liu Taiqing, the captain of the bridge and road construction team, jointly asked for a meeting, telling Li Zicheng that the cement road from Lanzhou to Xining had been completed, and asked for instructions on the next step of the bridge and road construction team, whether to disband on the spot or continue to build the road, and if the road is to be repaired, which section to build next.
Although the Mandate of Heaven Governor's Mansion is in Xining, the new center of the Mandate of Heaven Army has been changed to Lanzhou, which is not only far more populous than Xining, but also closer to the geographical center of the territory, and if it trades with the imperial court, Lanzhou is also more convenient, at least hundreds of miles away from Xining.
Lanzhou should become the new center of the Mandate of Heaven.
Li Zicheng spread out the march map, with Lanzhou as the center and extending in all directions, he always felt that cement avenues needed to be built in every direction.
In the northeast of Lanzhou, along the Yellow River more than 200 miles apart is Jingyuan County, from an economic point of view, Jingyuan County is almost insignificant, but Jingyuan County is the northeast of Lanzhou's barrier, he put the entire 3,000 households here, the military role is very obvious.
Further north, in order to strengthen the connection between the territorial see, there seems to be a lack of avenue connection between the four points of Lanzhou Mansion - Gaolan County - Huizhou Prefecture - Jingyuan County.
To the north along the Huizhou Mansion, there is also Luyang County, which hangs on the outer wall, and there is also a lack of connection with Lanzhou, and Li Guobu is stationed in Luyang County, and it is extremely difficult to transport grain.
In the northwest direction, an avenue connects Liangzhou, Ganzhou, and Suzhou into a line, close to forming, and in the south, there are Taozhou Mansion and Longnan Mansion, which still need a wide avenue.
If these avenues are built, Lanzhou will truly become the center of transportation.
According to Li Zicheng's idea, it is best to build a transportation artery for the development of the economy, strengthen the circulation of materials, cultivate the local market as soon as possible, and reduce the dependence on the imperial court's trade routes.
After the temporary recovery of Lin Dan Khan of the Chahar Department, the biggest enemy of the Heavenly Mandate Army was already the imperial court, and in the direction of Guguan and Jingyuan County, the 1,000th household of Liu Yunshui, the 3,000th household of Qin Danian, the 6,000th household of Ma Youshui, and the 4,000th household of Li Ji who was stationed in Lanzhou as a reserve, more than half of the seven thousand households of the Heavenly Mandate Army.
Therefore, Li Zicheng decided that the next avenue to be built would be mainly in the northeast, first building the avenue from Lanzhou to Jingyuan County, then extending to Talachibao, and then turning north, connecting Lanzhou with Luyang County, the northernmost county.
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This year, the grain in Xining and Lanzhou is bumper yield, and the total output of the "three rural areas in the Americas" has even exceeded Li Zicheng's imagination, and the Heavenly Mandate Army has stored a large amount of coarse grain, and Li Zicheng has continuously recruited displaced people from Guguan and Jingyuan, and in addition to the more than 10,000 people who have been resettled in Huizhou, they have also emigrated in large numbers to the two prefectures of Xining and Lanzhou.
By the end of the year, the population of Xining Province had doubled to 100,000, while the population of Lanzhou had also increased by half to 150,000.
The newly added population, mainly the agricultural population, was distributed land, and a small number of strong men went directly to the factories and became cheap industrial workers.
The increase in population requires a large amount of food, but fortunately, these are hungry people, as long as there is a mouthful of coarse grain to sustain their lives, they are willing to stay, and when the next year, there is a harvest on the land they cultivate, everything will be fine, these hungry people have enough food, and the Mandate of Heaven will also increase taxes.