Chapter 285: Imminent

"Civilian ownership of guns is a huge threat to public security, bad people used knives to not necessarily kill, but now with guns, it is more convenient to kill people and set fires, I think it is imperative for people to ban guns, and it is urgent."

"If the bad guys want to own guns, even if the law does not allow them, they will have a way to get guns, good people if they don't have guns to defend themselves, they will be in trouble in the face of bad guys with guns, and after ordinary people have guns, bad people have to weigh it up, the vicious bandits and weak women and children, once they have guns at the same time, the contrast between the strength of the two will be infinitely narrowed, and the people have guns not only will not affect public security, but will be more beneficial to public security??? Moreover, the law stipulates that firearms can only be purchased if the local resident does not have a criminal record. ”

"Like you just said, if the bad guys want to have guns, they must have a way, even if the law does not allow people with criminal records to buy them, they can also get guns by stealing and other means, good people don't necessarily dare to shoot even if they have guns, and bad guys don't have a psychological burden, they have no scruples about killing people, so guns must be banned"

"What you both said makes sense, but you don't talk about the key, the people's possession of guns is naturally a heavy burden on public security, but this is within the range of bearing, the real purpose of the people having guns is to prevent the political axe from infringing on the people, once the political axe becomes the enemy of the people, the people have guns to resist, which also forces the political axe not to persecute the people, at least not to exploit the people too much, the bad people hurt the good people This is a case, compared to the political axe persecuting the people, the harm is much smaller??? I think this is the biggest reason for people to own guns! ”

Standing outside the window of the school, listening to the words inside, Liang Qichao's hair stood up, he couldn't believe his eyes, these people in it were all childish, and they were still half-grown children??? A second-year junior high school student is discussing such a heavy social topic?

"Ren Gong, please, go to the front high school and take a look." The principal led Liang Qichao with a smile on his face.

Liang Qichao couldn't hide the horror in his heart, the "Civics Lesson" of the students in the Jianghuai area was so extensive and in-depth that the content was so extensive, and the teacher just laughed on the side and never interjected casually.

Liang Qichao followed the principal to walk around the campus of Anqing Public No. 8 Middle School, and saw that the students of the high school had organized various clubs, such as literature club, drama club, photography, and football??? The list goes on and on.

More students walked out of the campus with red armbands embroidered with the word "volunteer" on them.

"Ren Gong, our school's grades account for seventy and a half, club activities and social activities account for two and a half, high school social activities account for a score directly related to university admission, our school cultivates students, creativity and leadership as the first priority, the score is second??? Without a sense of social responsibility, an indifferent and ruthless bookworm, no matter how good his grades are, he cannot become a pillar of the country! The headmaster said triumphantly.

Liang Qichao bowed solemnly: "Mr. is talented, Liang admires it so much!" If all schools are like this Anqing No. 8 Middle School, why worry that I have no talents in China? ”

The principal hurriedly returned the salute: "Don't dare, don't dare, how can I afford to be a public servant?" Killed, killed! ”

Liang Qichao said with a straight face: "I am not Mr. Jing alone, it is really Mr. Jing who has worked hard for my Chinese education, ten years of trees and a hundred years of people, if our people can care about the rise and fall of the country and cherish their compatriots, let me ask me why China cannot dominate the world?" ”

The principal smiled: "My No. 8 Middle School is a pilot in Anhui Province, and if the law is implemented, it will be implemented throughout the province, and it is still effective at present." Half of last year's junior high school graduates went to technical schools, half went to high school, and the high school graduates who went on to university were all excellent in character and learning, and they were also active in college, and they were very popular with university professors. ”

Liang Qichao was even more shocked: Chinese scholars generally despise craftsmen and regard manual labor as a cheap job, but Anhui does not have this kind of atmosphere, and almost half of the junior high school graduates apply for technical schools, and nearly half of the high school graduates apply for higher vocational education. Graduates of technical schools are awarded the degree of "craftsmen" after passing the examination, which is recognized in the areas controlled by the Jianghuai Army, and many courses in technical schools and ordinary comprehensive universities recognize each other's credits, and if they want to apply for universities, they can also be exempted from taking a few courses, so as to avoid their worries.

The Anqing Military Advisory Office has invested a huge amount of money in vocational education, spending three times as much financial allocation on each technical school student as the average high school student, and the students are often looted out by various enterprises before they graduate, and the income of the technician is even more than that of the civil servants, especially the senior technicians with the title of "technician", and the income is even more staggering to the average civil servant.

In Anhui and Jiangxi, the major that high school graduates are most willing to apply for is business management, and "first-class talents entering enterprises" has become the mantra of college students, and elite intellectuals are willing to devote themselves to industry, and it is their ideal to compete in the business world, and those who become officials are second- and third-rate talents.

Liang Qichao found two major characteristics of youth here in Anqing, the first is that his thinking is obviously more active than his peers in other places, and the second is that the martial spirit is quite strong, and after school, students go to the gun hall to practice shooting and go to the equestrian club to ride horses is their favorite pastime. After getting off work, workers often carry the guns they bought to the gun shop to put a few shots to soothe the nerves of a busy day.

Liang Qichao deeply felt that Anhui, Jiangxi and other places did not raise many troops, and the two provinces together were only five divisions, but as long as the military advisory office gave an order, a million troops could be summoned in an instant, and they were all trained in formal military training, and they only needed a little training to be elite soldiers.

Educate the army with the people, hide the wealth from the people??? Chai Dongliang's strength far exceeds the numbers on paper, and the potential of the Jianghuai Army is no longer the same as that of Beiyang.

Liang Qichao felt more and more that Chai Dongliang was unfathomable, and the policies implemented by the Anqing Military Advisory Office were somewhat similar to those implemented by Bismarck in Prussia, free education, welfare system, and insurance system, which condensed national sentiment and pride by giving tangible benefits to the people, but it was more flexible than Prussia and was not entirely for military service.

Rewarding industry and commerce, emancipating the people's minds, the four books and the five classics and modern scientific knowledge in the school go hand in hand, the old master who shook his head and the international students in suits and leather shoes started their own classes, Confucius and Newton gathered together, and Chinese and foreign knowledge can be taught at will, which is like the United States, but it is more human and fairer than the United States. Taken by the American elite and Theodore. The "corporate politics" that President Roosevelt and others regarded as a cancer could not have appeared in Anhui, and no big capitalist dared to openly interfere in the administration and the judiciary.

It restricts the development of provincial assemblies, but encourages the development of county and district assemblies, gives full freedom to public opinion in newspapers, and restricts the power of legislators at all levels. At the same time, the parliament and newspapers were encouraged to supervise the political axe, and at the same time, the "Independent Commission Against Corruption" was established, and many corruption cases were dug up by the "Independent Commission Against Corruption" before public opinion could be discovered, and corrupt officials and corrupt officials were brought to justice. Although the public opinion in the newspaper is relaxed, there is no criticism of the political axe throughout the article.

Liang Qichao couldn't figure out which set Chai Dongliang was engaged in, and which country's system and system he was studying.

In the area ruled by the Jianghuai Army, only the law is supreme, and no system and no one can be above the law. In Anqing City, children are used to obeying the system, let alone adults.

Liang Qichao felt more and more that he had come to the right place, and he became more and more interested in Chai Dongliang and the system he implemented.

??? Dividing line ???

Outside Baotou City, a vast white snow was dazzling, and only this empty white was left between heaven and earth, and the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army changed into woolen winter combat uniforms. Winter military uniforms are two colors, the wool is facing inward, and the outside is earthy yellow mixed with black camouflage, and it only needs to be reversed on snowy days, and the white wool is facing outward, and people lying on the ground are excellent camouflage.

Several soldiers on horseback planted some colorful flags on the vast snowfield, most of which are green, in a piece of white, these colored flags are very conspicuous, this is the Mongolian tradition, in the winter snow to plant some colorful flags can make the eyes can focus, can effectively prevent the occurrence of "snow blindness".

When the Jianghuai army first came to Mongolia, in addition to feeling cold and not adapting to the diet, the biggest problem was the appearance of a large number of "snow blindness", initially thought that it was a factor of snow reflection, Kuang Haishan equipped the soldiers with a large number of sunglasses, but the effect was almost none, and a large number of "snow blindness" patients were still sent to the field hospital.

The army's medical officers were also helpless against the situation, and Zhang Shuyang, who was also Tumut's concubine, found a cure and prevention from the Mongols. Sick soldiers, with boiled fresh milk dripping their eyes, will be cured in three to five days, and then every time they train in the snow, they have to plant a five-color flag. Kuang Haishan and others were skeptical at first, always thinking that planting a few flags could prevent "snow blindness," which was simply too unbelievable, but after experimenting with the idea of using a dead horse as a live horse doctor, they received immediate results, and the proportion of soldiers suffering from "snow blindness" was reduced from 95 percent at the beginning to less than 5 percent.

In the snow, Zhang Shuyang and a regiment of soldiers were training, and the Jianghuai cavalry wearing white uniforms and windproof goggles galloped on horseback, but their training subjects were not to slash or shoot immediately, but to pull out the studs of the railway and cut off the telephone and telegraph lines.

Zhang Shuyang was only a company commander when the advance army left Saibei, and now he has been promoted to the brigade commander of the Mongolian cavalry mixed brigade, and in less than a year, he was promoted by rocket, and his military rank has changed from captain to major general, and he married the Tumut princess Wuyunzhu as his wife, became Tumut's concubine, and was also the only legal heir of the future Tumut Khan.

Life is so proud, what more can a husband ask for?

But there is still something unhappy in his heart, that is, the current training method is difficult for him to accept. Cavalry has always been an aristocratic arm and enjoys a high status. In their minds, the battle on the horse is to see the blood of the sword, with the speed and impact of the horse, the collision of steel and the rush of blood, is the eternal aria of the cavalry.

However, the current training is almost all about destroying the enemy's electricity, water supply, communications, and transportation, so that some people began to mutter: "Pick up the railway, pull out the electric pole, and you will be sent to the sea to overturn the steamer, do you want to put a Taoist rune on everyone's body?" The cavalry of our Jianghuai Army is about to become a boxer in the year of Gengzi! ”

Zhang Shuyang also heard a lot of this kind of voice, in the past, the cavalry looked down on the infantry, but now the infantry is angry, and the cavalry has become a small second, it is really a quick retribution!

The head of the Jianghuai army is heavy on military discipline, he is depressed but he can't disobey the order, so he has to pinch his nose every day to lead the soldiers to practice, and he has to pretend to be confident, which is really aggrieved!

Although the cavalry was unhappy, they did not dare to slack off in the slightest in training, and almost everyone already understood in their hearts that the Jianghuai Army and Beiyang would definitely start a war in the near future??? One mountain can't tolerate two tigers!

Sweating more in peacetime and shedding less blood in wartime is the creed of the Jianghuai Army, which has been firmly engraved in the hearts of every officer and soldier. What's more, the food will be much better during training, the mutton of Xilin Gol is fat and beautiful, and the Mongolian sheep grew up drinking mountain spring water and eating Chinese herbs, which is not the same as the mutton in the mainland.

Zhang Shuyang sat on the snow-treading horse given to him by Tumut Khan, wearing black goggles, looking around at the soldiers in training. The cavalry swept across the snow quickly, then jumped off their horses, took out the steel scabbard of the Hanfeng I rifle, and with a short bayonet, a pair of wire pliers were assembled in an instant, and they crawled in the snow to cut the barbed wire, climb the telephone pole like a monkey, and cut off the telephone, telegraph, and transmission lines.

Another group of soldiers were trained to bury explosives under the railroad, and the rails laid in the snow were easily hollowed out of the roadbed and stuffed with explosives wrapped in oiled paper, and a section of the railroad was blown into the sky as the distant buttons were pressed down.

Zhang Shuyang is quite satisfied with the results of this training, after all, there are many people here who are from Mongolian herdsmen, and they can't even understand Chinese at the beginning, let alone complete various technical actions.

Now the minimum technical maneuvers can be completed smoothly, and their equestrian skills are far better than those of the cavalry from Anhui.

There was a strong wind blowing on the grassland, the powdery snow was swept up by the wind, and a burst of white between the sky and the earth hit his face and hurt, Zhang Shuyang closed his glasses habitually, but remembered that he was wearing goggles, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly, southerners still don't adapt to the climate here!

Although the soldiers were staggered by the wind and their horses were wailing, they continued to train and would not stop until they were not ordered.

Many of the officers of the Jianghuai Army had been trained with the Gurkha Guards, and they were deeply influenced by the traditions of this Himalayan mountain people, who would fight endlessly without orders.

After the wind and snow, a round of lazy sun reappeared overhead, Zhang Shuyang secretly thought in his heart, spring is about to begin, and war is imminent!

(To be continued)