The first update on the shelves

Along with the process of industrialization, urbanization, countless farmers put down their hoes, walked into factories, and became a member of the assembly line. In the south, and indeed in today's China, where there is an almost wasteful labor force, and assembly line work does not require a high level of education, these predominantly young workers, although illiterate, are quick to accept new things and can meet the needs of factories with simple training.

Moreover, whether in factories, workshops, the army, or schools, there are places for free learning such as literacy classes and cultural training classes, and these places are crowded with people all the time, from middle-aged and elderly people over half a hundred years old to young people as young as 17 or 8 years old -- and even younger children must enter schools to study in accordance with the requirements of the compulsory education law, and in order to get better job opportunities or gain greater room for progress in their work, they have taken the initiative to participate in cultural studies. Money is their best motivation, and of course, there are also people who are content with the status quo and find some drudgery jobs with much less pay, which will gradually turn into a gap. It's not that the new society doesn't offer room for growth, but it's full of opportunities, it's just that those people don't grasp it.

For people with a certain cultural foundation, they have less time to learn about new cultures and have easier access to opportunities. Unfortunately, according to statistics, about 33 percent of the literate people chose to apply for the civil service examination of the revolutionary government, 17 percent chose to teach in various schools, and less than 10 percent chose to go to the factories. In total, it was in the factory that the salary was the highest, but they thought that working in the factory would be despised.

The revolutionary government has done everything possible to strengthen the influence of corporations in society, from wages and health care to learning environments to housing, but traditional ideas are not so easy to change, and traditional knowledge knows are not numerically advantageous compared to those who are silent and have a grudge against the new society.

Therefore, Lu Liang prefers the cultural class that he has cultivated. The traditional literati had inherited too much garbage and were stubborn, and if they wanted to transform them, the amount of work was too large, and Lu Liang did not have so much time and patience. Besides, those literati were not as important as they thought they were.

As a result, universal education became one of the most important tasks of the new government, and in 1904 the education sector received one-sixth of the expenditure. There is a blank space in the new Guangfu area, everything has to be sketched out from scratch, and education can receive one-sixth of the funding, which shows that the new government attaches great importance to education.

It turns out that the biggest support is money. With sufficient funding, education has blossomed everywhere in the newly recovered areas of the south. In particular, after the prime minister's wife, Wu Yue, returned to the education department and served as the minister of education, the revolutionary government's request to the education department has never been rejected or discounted, which makes other departments envious.

In fact, at this stage, the group of people with the highest level of education is in the army. All soldiers have undergone cultural learning, and those who have not passed the assessment will be dismissed, and this single-vote veto system allows all soldiers to have a certain cultural foundation. It's not just literacy. There are also mathematics, history, geography, and so on, which all require them to study non-stop. Mathematics is conducive to the improvement of the fighting qualities of soldiers. History has made soldiers understand the root causes of the country's backwardness, geography has made soldiers no longer blind to the outside world, and politics has filled soldiers with love and loyalty to the motherland. These learnings eventually gave them faith, and soldiers with faith are the strongest in combat.

With ideological arming, soldiers also need advanced combat equipment, a vibrating **** that emphasizes the priority of firepower. It never hesitates to equip its soldiers with the most powerful infantry firepower, and also has the ability to provide these equipment and ammunition. Therefore, when the commander of the Marine Corps, Lu Deng, got the weapons and equipment receipt form, he was understandably furious.

Genetic people rarely get angry, but that doesn't mean they don't have tempers. Emotional catharsis requires opportunity. Since the formation of the Marine Corps, it has always been a marginal role in the Zhenguo Army, however, there are not many marginal roles in Zhen****, and the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force have not played much of a role in previous battles. Obedience to strategic needs has always been the rhetoric of the commanders of the gene people to appease their subordinates, and in the Marine Corps, they all know that the big brother of the Navy has no business to do, so don't be aggrieved.

Things began to turn around in early 1904, when the Marines were to expand from one brigade to three Marine divisions in one corps, totaling 45,000 troops, by order of the General Staff. This made the navy ecstatic, and finally waited for this day, which shows that the next war will focus on landing operations, and it is natural that there will be a place for the navy.

Ordinary officers and soldiers did not know the strategy of the upper echelons, and those genetic officers knew very well in their hearts that the next stage of the battle was against Japan, so it was too late to expand the Marine Corps now. What makes Lu Deng angry is that all the recruits used by the expanded Marine Corps are recruited from the coastal areas along the rivers and know how to deal with the water, and you must know that when the new units of the Army are formed, soldiers and officers will be transferred from the old units to the new units, so as to form combat effectiveness more quickly. The combat mission of the Marine Corps is relatively special, and there are certain requirements for soldiers, well, this is also a reason, it is reasonable to say, Lu Deng is also willing to train talents by himself, and besides, there is still more than a year to train these recruits into excellent soldiers. But why is the equipment provided to the Marine Corps so poor?

The recruitment of soldiers is very smooth, there are many ordinary people with water nature, and joining the army is the most honorable thing now, and the salary of soldiers is also very high. By early March 1904, the Marines had completed their recruitment, and the next step was training. The General Staff General Armament Department has provided the Marine Corps with rifles, machine guns, and other light weapons, but there are only more than 20,000 pieces, which cannot meet the current training needs at all, and there is still a gap in bullets, and there is no heavy firepower equipment, which makes Lu Deng anxious to get on fire, the training time is already insufficient, and the combat tasks faced by the Marine Corps are also very heavy.

The lawsuit reached Lu Liang, and the General Armament Department was also helpless, and their reason was that not only the Marine Corps, but also the Army was also expanding. In accordance with the requirements of the General Staff Headquarters, in 1904 the army will continue to expand by two armies to form nine armies and three group armies, with a total scale of 430,000 troops. At present, the production capacity of the military factories under the jurisdiction of the General Armament Department is simply not able to meet the needs of such a large-scale expansion of the army, and the expansion of production capacity takes time, the training of workers takes time, and the output of steel also takes time.

This is a fact, and Lu Liang is also very clear, and this is also what he is doing with all his strength now. The opening of new factories and the addition of new production lines almost made Lu Liang collapse. Now the training of soldiers alone keeps the ammunition production line of the military factory running, and there are not a few ammunition stored in the arsenal, and in the event of war, it is still a question of whether there are bullets to fire.

Emphasizing firepower means a huge amount of ammunition consumption, but this article cannot be changed, this is Lu Liang's greatest confidence, he cannot exchange human will and life for victory in the war. The potential of Guangdong has been almost tapped, and if you want to expand production capacity, you have to look at other newly recovered provinces. In fact, large-scale construction had already been carried out, especially in the Wuhan area, which had become a second heavy industrial base, and it was expected that in July 1904 the new factories and production lines would be almost up and running, and by September they should be able to make up for the lack of production capacity and provide more equipment and ammunition.

Until then, it has to be focused. The army already has mature combat units, and the need for new units is not so urgent, so Lu Liang focuses on the Marine Corps and the Navy, which are the focus of the next stage of operations.

Lydon returned satisfied, he received a promise from the chief, the marines would have sufficient weapons and training ammunition, the requirement was that they must be formed in combat at the beginning of 1905 and be able to defeat all enemies! One can imagine the brutal training that the Marines will endure for the next nearly a year.

The main reason for the lack of production capacity of heavy industry, especially military enterprises, is the navy, and in recent times, most of the resources have been invested in the navy. The deficit in the navy caused by the previous few years, Lu Liang intends to make up for it all in this year's time, from battleships to transport ships, and the shipyard began a critical year of outbreak.

The deficit of the Navy is mainly reflected in the lack of warship construction, but the foundation has been laid very solidly, and the long-term plan has made the current outbreak a reality. This foundation is mainly reflected in the training of talents, including sailors, shipbuilders, and middle and lower rank officers.

By training sailors from existing warships, two or even three sailors in one post, they will take turns to take up their posts, and these measures have allowed the sailors to endure the painful living conditions of warships, in exchange for the navy's abundant skilled sailors, more than 40,000 skilled sailors, who can form combat effectiveness in a short period of time just by waiting for the new warships to be launched. The Naval Academy has also provided the Navy with more than 1,000 mature officers, who have gone through nearly three years of study, have been on ships from time to time, and have combined theory and practice, and cannot be said to be compared with the navies of the great powers that have been crisscrossing the sea for hundreds of years, but they will not show their timidity in front of the navy of any country with advanced weapons and advanced education. (To be continued.) )

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