Chapter 398: Lao Maozi runs a military school
Big Peter went to Europe and the United States, in addition to the introduction of shipyard technology, arms sales, and the purchase of stallions, there was also a non-business task, he had to recruit excellent professors from all over the world for Goshinga. Guoxinga does not distinguish between disciplines and nationalities, as long as it is a scholar with a certain reputation in the world, except for European and American literature and art, as long as it is a practical discipline and a capable person, Guoxinga will not refuse. The good salary is basic, as long as you are willing to come to North Manchurian to teach, the conditions can be mentioned casually.
Although it has already gone to recruit people, there is still not a ghost in the schools that are already a little like North Manchuria, there are neither teachers teaching nor half of the students who come to study. The only thing that has a bit of a look is the military school, the main body of the teaching brigade was directly changed to the army school, which is responsible for training officers at the rank of platoon and above, and the branch inherits the name of the teaching brigade, which specializes in training recruits in the troops. In order to reserve enough officers for future expansion, the army school was also divided into two parts, namely, the army non-commissioned officer school in Harbin and the army officer university in Jilin for advanced education. The non-commissioned officer cadets who have just passed the examination and the generals who have returned to study have made these two schools a rare school for people in the whole of North Manchuria.
For the full names of the two schools, Guo Xing'a, Pi Runmin and others argued for a long time, and finally in a state of confusion, Guo Xing'a arbitrarily decided on the name of Lu University. According to the ideas of the cabinet officials, and also borrowing some European names, it was planned to name the two schools the Manchurian Imperial Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy and the Manchurian Imperial Army Military University respectively. But Guo Xing'a has some historical knowledge that others don't have, and as soon as he saw the words Manchurian Empire, Guo Xing'a wanted to add a pseudo-word in front of it. It has always been called the Northeast of Manchuria, why it was renamed the Northeast, Guo Xinga can't figure it out, but Manchuria, especially the empire, is definitely very unlucky.
When Beijing and Yi Xin talked about forming an autonomous government, Yi Xin and others came up with the name of the Manchurian Autonomous Government. One is that the area outside the wicker border ditch has been called Manchuria since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, and the other shows the identity of Manchuria, which can make Guoxinga unable to draw a line with the imperial court. Guo Xing'a couldn't respond at that time, and he proposed to call it the Northeast Autonomous Government, but Yi Xin and others didn't do it, and they had to have the word Manchuria. Yi Xin and others were afraid that Guo Xing'a would throw away the word Manchuria and engage in separatism, but Guo Xing'a really couldn't stand the name of this puppet regime. In the end, he could only compromise, Manchuria was left, but the words of the Qing Empire of China were added in front, and Guo Xing'a also emphasized that he was North Manchuria, not Manchuria.
The matter of the school title, in fact, comes back to this question, Guo Xing'a responded to the name of the puppet regime from the bottom of his heart, but others can't understand it, they don't even know who Pu Yi is. Pi Runmin and others wanted to call it Manchuria because the territory of Manchuria was actually larger than the control area of Goxinga, and if it was called Manchuria, they could also get Shengjing over in the future. Guo Xing'a also understood their thoughts, but he just couldn't accept the words Manchuria. The final plan could only be prefixed, and the names of the two schools became, the Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy of the Manchuria Region of the Qing Empire and the Army Officer University of the Manchuria Region of the Qing Empire. Except for Guoxinga, there is no one who is not troublesome, so the abbreviation is still the Manchurian Army Non-commissioned Officer School and the Manchurian Army Military University. Guo Xinga had to admit defeat, because he could not change the habits of the entire people by responding to certain things alone.
In addition to the army school adapted from the teaching team, Goxinga also has a naval school, and what is more ridiculous is that this naval school was actually run by the army with a group of prisoners. After the news broke that Gohinga was going to set up a shipyard in Vladivostok to build a navy, Acton sent people to start focusing on the maintenance of the port of Vladivostok. After the rise of the school-running style, Acton contacted Tan Shaoguang again and set up a local naval school. Vladivostok Naval College is really a bit of a hard work, all the faculty and staff are prisoners of war of the former Tsarist Russian River Fleet, and they themselves are not the navy in the real sense, at most they can be regarded as sailors. The students are also hard to pull out, and there are only three assessment items to go to school here, knowing words, being able to swim, and not being seasick. Because the captive ships of the river fleet really couldn't sail to Vladivostok, the students of the naval college could only build their own boats for training.
Prisoners teach, fishing boats are trained, and no one believes that the seeds of the navy can be planted here, but there is a real possibility of miracles here. First of all, the teachers are very serious, not only teaching each other, but also daring to take out some theories that they have only heard or seen in books. These clergy are not very good in Tsarist Russia, otherwise they would not have been sent to Siberia, and after being captured, they also suffered a lot of abuse, and Tan Shaoguang almost every day found a reason to clean them up. But since they began to teach people to sail boats, their treatment has improved greatly, they no longer have to be coolies, and they can eat, drink, and have wine and meat. And because of the Chinese tradition of respecting teachers, since they became teachers, everyone has respected them very much, and they have basically found their own value in life. If you return to China, you will continue to drink the wind, it is better to stay here as a teacher, at least the treatment is good. So while they were teaching, they also talked to Acton and others about naturalization. Because of poverty, they really have no feelings for their motherland, and it is good to go to China, which has wine and meat.
Secondly, the trainees are also very active, they have all received various political education in the army, and all of them are people who are determined to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Foreign devils can bully the Chinese, relying on strong ships and artillery, and the great generals in land battles have already defeated foreigners, and now they will go to the sea to defeat them again. Therefore, the cadets who can become the Navy are all high-spirited and ready to go to the sea to win glory for the country.
And because no one knows what the navy should be like, the students don't know whether the foreign devil teacher is teaching it correctly or not, and they just do it with enthusiasm. The teachers are also quite vague, and they actually have very little knowledge on their own, so they finish teaching quickly, and the rest can only be actual combat. Because the teachers and students are uneducated, their imagination is almost unlimited, and they are the only ones in the world who can do the work of fishing boats carrying small-caliber army guns and shooting targets at sea.
While the army school is teaching the basic knowledge of the army, the significance of the organizational structure of the troops, the knowledge of weapons, the coordination of strategy and tactics, and the analysis of classic combat examples, the naval school has been playing with its life. The army school has a variety of rich knowledge, and there are all kinds of various cases, so you can study and discuss. The navy only has a group of old hairy people who dare to do anything after drinking, and a group of new recruits, so they are all actual combat drills except for basic teaching.
Ostrovsky, the director of academic affairs at the Naval Academy, who had drunk three pounds and two pots, openly instilled in the cadets that all knowledge in books is nothing, that there is absolutely no possibility of repeating classic combat examples, and that the truth of victory lies in the experience gained in actual combat again and again. Because of this famous saying, the Vladivostok Naval Academy has become the most brutal school in the world, it is impossible to survive here without an iron will, and if you have not been in the hospital for months, you are certainly not a student here.
A year later, when Guo Xinga took time out of his busy schedule to inspect Vladivostok, the Naval Academy had completely gotten rid of it, not only killed more than 40 cadets in teaching, but also privately established the First Rapid Reaction Fleet of North Manchuria without any warships. Looking at the parade ceremony that Ostrovsky prepared for himself in order to naturalize and rank, Goxing Adu was about to smoke, and Lao Maozi, who had drunk too much, was indeed invincible in the universe.
The 1st Rapid Reaction Fleet of North Manchuria has a total of 52 attack ships, all of which were built by the teachers and students of the Naval College, except for the flagship "Long Live the Great General," which is a medium-sized scissor sailing boat, and the rest are small boats not much larger than fishing boats, which are driven by oars and single sails. Because the wood used for shipbuilding is freshly cut trees, which have not been dried and treated technically, all the hulls are not very strong, and the deformation and leakage of the hull can be seen everywhere.
After discovering that Goxinga was paraded, instead of granting himself nationality and military rank, he had the intention of abolishing the Naval College, and Ostrovsky wanted to conduct an exercise to show Goxinga. Guo Xing'a agreed to the drill because he didn't want to dampen the enthusiasm of these students who had gone astray, but when he really saw the drill, Guo Xing'a was almost scared to death. Ostovsky was not engaged in exercises at all, he commanded the fleet to really fight, and 17 of the 52 warships sank on the spot.
Although it went too far, the combat effectiveness of the teachers and students of the Naval College still opened Guoxinga's eyes. They used several medium-sized warships, which were obviously scrapped before, as imaginary enemies, and demonstrated their skills and tactics beyond human imagination, including wolf siege, small boat heavy artillery charge, small boat* with ship-grabbing, the application of heavy machine guns in warship engagement, and a variety of strange tactics such as water ghost suicide bombing of ships. Watching the warship charge while pouring water out, and the boat firing guns while fishing for its companions, Guoxing Adu didn't know what to say.
Probably thinking that Goxinga was not fun, Ostrovsky personally went down and commanded the "Long Live the General" and the boat to a battle. The flagship, which has an auspicious name, was beaten to pieces in Goxinga's wry smile, and after Ostovsky jumped ship, he sank to the bottom of the sea neatly.
After an exercise, three more people were killed in the Naval Academy, and more than 150 of them were carried into the hospital. Looking at Goxinga, who had been petrified, Ostrovsky thought that the general was distressed about artillery, and introduced Goxinga to another unique skill of the naval school. Because of the long-term situation of falling into the water or being injured in the water, all the teachers and students of the naval school have developed extremely high swimming skills, and the harbor is only a dozen meters deep, and they can catch all the valuable things that have sunk to the bottom of the sea in two days.
Goxinga gave the faculty and staff of the naval school flags and corresponding military ranks, and did not abolish this crazy school. Although their behavior is almost insane, it is also the best choice for Goxinga in a weak time. They did find their own routines in the crazy drills, and the crazy playing style was indeed very powerful. With the advantage of the range of artillery, even if the British Far East Fleet suddenly encountered these crazy people, it would definitely suffer a big loss.
Although Guo Xing'a affirmed the achievements of the naval school, he could no longer let them do such nonsense, and no one could be killed or disabled in the exercise, which became a hard indicator. At the same time, the warships that they put together that would fall apart at any time should all be pulled ashore as firewood. The shipyard in Vladivostok had already taken shape, and the naval school should adapt it to the new warships designed for them by Goshinga.
Of course, this is all in a year's time, and Goxinga is busy now, and he has too much to do. The country must not only have military affairs, but also basic education and higher education, and Guoxinga has to be busy writing teaching materials.