It is worth mentioning that all the biochemical soldiers fully share the language and script that Li Hui has mastered, so they do not need to spend time learning Hanyu Pinyin and simplified characters, and can immediately start their literacy work.

What's more, Li Hui's recruitment requirements are relatively high, in addition to hard-working, honest and obedient, young and strong, but also must be smart and studious (but because the mountain people generally have no cultural education, so the recruitment time has lowered the requirements in this regard, as long as there is an average IQ, and at the same time there is no obvious aversion to school. ), which further increases the efficiency of literacy.

The three prerequisites are actually nothing when drawn separately, but together not many people can meet them, but because Li Hui's recruitment conditions are very generous, not only did he offer an unimaginably high salary for the poor mountain people, but also paid three months' salary to the family of each worker (who passed the recruitment examination), and gave the family food, salt, cloth and other daily necessities, such conditions are very tempting for the poor mountain people.

In addition, the biochemical soldiers sent out to recruit workers are not afraid of hard work, and go directly down to the village level to work at the bottom level, which further accelerates the speed of recruitment.

By the beginning of May 1894, Li Hui had recruited more than 70,000 workers, a staggering number given the poor mobilization capacity of the late Qing government, but it was not so noticeable that Li Hui had expected to scatter so many people into the many construction projects that had been dismantled.

Li Hongzhang, on the other hand, was busy with important matters at hand, such as the sea parade, and in particular, the increasing tension in the DPRK situation involved most of his energy, so that he had no time to pay attention to the details, so he was not able to be alert in time.

Li Hui thus gained valuable time to calmly conduct a secondary selection of workers through militarized management and elementary literacy, and then organize those who met the requirements.

Although there was no real military training, the team had acquired the most indispensable qualities of a strong army by sending down to workshops and squads and winning the approval and support of the workers by leading by example and waiting peacefully

During this period, the cavalry team sent by Li Hui earlier also sent back good news, although there was not much advantage in weapons and equipment, but the more than 80 biochemical soldiers proved with invincible performance that the system's explanation was not "Wang Po selling melons".

In April, this team won nine battles and nine victories, killing more than 300 enemies, while the cavalry team only suffered two dead and six wounded, and at the same time they also faithfully carried out the policy set by Li Hui for them, and always focused their work on "fire and merger", and in April alone, they annexed or eliminated (the evil deeds were too great to be worth absorbing) seven bandits, expanding the team to more than 500 people, as if they were already the most powerful bandits in Shandong at present

Moreover, these "Liangshan heroes" never infringed on ordinary people, but only targeted their peers with a bad reputation or local tyrants and gentry who were rich and unkind, and gradually won themselves the reputation of "grand thieves".

What's more, unlike the Liangshan heroes who lack ideological guidance in "Water Margin", these "Liangshan heroes" already have their own beliefs and began to spread outward, even earlier than Li Hui's side, because anti-thieves don't need to have so many scruples

Soon after the crossing, Li Hui was clearly aware that because China's foundation was too weak, even with systematic help, the Chinese army would still be dominated by light infantry for at least two generations in the future, because even if enough advanced technology weapons could be obtained, there would not be so many people to control them.

The idea of building an army with light infantry as the core can give full play to China's advantages in human resources, and at the same time avoid the major defects of the country's backward industrial science and technology as much as possible, which naturally became Li Hui's first choice.

However, Li Hui still hopes to reduce the sacrifice of Chinese youth as much as possible, so he needs to do everything possible to improve the combat effectiveness of the light infantry, the stronger their combat effectiveness, the better the exchange ratio, and the better the exchange ratio, the fewer Chinese soldiers died during the war

Strict training is something that every modern country would do, and it cannot be ignored, but it is difficult to rely on it to open up a gap with the armies of the Western powers; In order for China's light infantry to have a powerful combat power that completely surpasses its Western counterparts, it must rely on some means that the Western powers cannot use.

For example, advanced tactics that were ahead of their time, which, if used well, could be a one-sided massacre, at least in the early stages of the war; For example, the lofty belief that can make officers and men sacrifice their lives and forget their deaths has a limited impact on elite troops, but it can comprehensively raise the lower limit of the combat effectiveness of all troops, and ensure that it will not be too bad to pull out a single unit at will, and it will be of great effect on a populous country like China, whose army is not suitable for taking the line of elite troops.

The modern armies of the West will become weaker and weaker with the attrition of elite veterans in the brutal and long-term war, especially when the war situation is unfavorable; But if it is an army of faith, it will be like a sharpened blade, sharpened and strengthened.

For this point, there is a most obvious example, the lightning storm in Germany in the early days of World War II was mainly fought by the high-quality Wehrmacht, but from the beginning of the reversal of the tide of the war, the morale of the Wehrmacht continued to decline, and the performance was not as good as day by day.

It would undoubtedly be even more terrible if it were replaced with a belief that is more popular and more sceptical, and that builds a highly organized party as the core of leadership

Although Li Hui is not a thinker, as a time-traveler from more than a hundred years later, he has many predecessors (in fact, "descendants") wisdom crystallization and countless lessons in history for reference, it is not difficult to come up with a kind of thinking that meets the requirements.

After repeated comparisons and trade-offs, Li Hui unexpectedly found that National Socialism, which had a bad reputation in history, was the closest to his expectations, and that by removing the dross of racism and filling in the missing philosophical ideas, this improved version of "nationalism" would be a clear line with the notorious Nazism in history.

At the same time, because the Chinese bourgeoisie is still extremely weak, an improved version of the "nationalist" government does not need to compromise with it, but can be more inclined to the lower classes of the common people, and it is naturally easier to gain their support and faith