Chapter 43: A New Wind in the Troops
Marven's return is, of course, good news, but soon there is even better news, that is, the teachers recruited by Liu Runsheng from the city will also come soon.
There are a total of ten teachers in this group, all of whom are relatively young, the youngest is only twenty-four years old, and the oldest is only forty-one years old, all of whom are from poor families.
Come to think of it, only people of this age and from poor families are willing to come here to teach the big soldiers in the private militia for a salary of twenty oceans a month.
After the ten teachers came, they did not immediately teach the soldiers, but first became students, and the teacher who taught them was Li Zhigao, and the content of their learning was known as the big killer of Chinese language learning -- Hanyu Pinyin.
The power of Hanyu Pinyin is not much to say, with this thing, the learning speed of Chinese characters can not only improve rapidly, but also has a certain role in promoting the learning of English, it is a very good basic pinyin, at least Li Zhigao thinks so, anyway, he is a loyal supporter of Hanyu Pinyin, because he is most familiar with this.
For Hanyu Pinyin, Li Zhigao, who has long been familiar with it, still has no pressure to teach, plus there are a batch of processed Chinese Pinyin learning materials he got from modern society, especially the traditional Chinese Pinyin learning materials, so that these young teachers who already have a large number of Chinese vocabulary skills can learn Hanyu Pinyin, it is simply a thousand miles.
Within five days, all 10 teachers had already mastered the use of Hanyu Pinyin, and then they began to apply what they had learned and taught these things back to the soldiers in the army.
The study of soldiers' cultural classes is compulsory according to the regulations, and everyone must participate, and if they don't participate, they will be driven away!
The textbooks and teaching materials for the soldiers were also processed textbooks for later primary school students, and other blackboard chalk, as well as homework books, pencils, pencil sharpeners, erasers, and so on, were all obtained by Li Zhigao from modern society, and the learning tools were very sufficient. Anyway, Li Zhigao's original batch of board room materials was enough to accommodate 5,000 people, but now there are only more than 1,000 people, and a few more classrooms are more than enough.
Not to mention anything else, these learning materials and learning tools alone amazed the ten young teachers, saying that they were too extravagant, and that many of these things were not even available in the city schools.
Although it is mandatory to learn cultural knowledge, after all, these people are soldiers, and they have to learn combat skills and conduct military training during the day, so the study time is set at night.
Just because of these bulbs, those teachers and soldiers were amazed, and even Marvin and other Americans were very surprised, but those Americans were surprised by the delicacy of the light bulbs, and those light bulbs can actually glow white!
There's no way, not to mention LED lights, even cold light source energy-saving lamps haven't been invented yet, and as a result, energy-saving lamps that emit imitation light have stimulated Americans, which is really embarrassing. Fortunately, the appearance of these LED energy-saving lamps is the shape of a bulb, and after a long period of use, everyone is accustomed to it, so it does not cause any big vibration.
From then on, these soldiers trained as usual during the day, but at night, they had no free time and instead studied cultural knowledge in groups.
In order to let them improve their learning enthusiasm and improve their prestige in the eyes of the soldiers, Li Zhigao also went to the classroom every night as a teacher to give lectures to the soldiers, but in order not to affect the progress of teaching, he always taught the last lesson after the other teachers finished the cultural class.
In order to improve the efficiency of his lectures, Li Zhigao's classes are different from those of other teachers.
Specifically, a podium was built outside the house, surrounded by energy-saving lamps as lighting, and other soldiers, teachers, and Americans who had come from quite fresh to sit on the floor on the podium, and then Li Zhigao used a loudspeaker to give lectures to everyone on the podium.
This kind of lecture given by Li Zhigao is not a cultural course, but a story about some domestic and foreign historical stories and experiences, and the domestic historical stories are nothing more than the majesty of the ancient Han and Tang dynasties in our country, the history of those Han national heroes, and so on, so as to enhance their national pride. The history of foreign countries is nothing more than telling the lives of those famous people, how they succeeded, how they led their country to rise, and so on.
Not to mention, Li Zhigao's popular class in the vernacular, even the soldiers who are not highly educated can understand it, and after listening to Li Zhigao's class, at least they know how the dynasties of the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty were prosperous and powerful, how the Han Chinese led the world for a long time in ancient times, and how the rest of the world later caught up with China, etc., etc., and most of them have a feeling of sudden enlightenment.
After these deceptions, coupled with their own experience, many of them vaguely feel that they are living so miserably now, the country is so weak, it is all Manchurian wrong, it is the Qing State that hinders the progress of China, and it is a big villain!
Although Li Zhigao himself knows that it is not exactly a matter of a while, after all, the Ming Dynasty lagged behind the West, but at least these soldiers did not have much culture, but they believed Li Zhigao's words that the Manchus misled the country and misunderstood China.
Li Zhigao openly told these things, especially those stories that satirized the Manchu Qing, the soldiers did not care, but listened to it very enjoyable and excited, and the Americans did not care, when watching the excitement, most of them could not understand anyway, after all, they were all Chinese stories, but the ten teachers were different. It's just about foreign affairs, and those teachers don't understand much either, but when it comes to the affairs of this dynasty, they know a little, at least they know that it is wrong to satirize this dynasty, and something will happen. It's a pity that among them are either angry young people who complain about the political axe, or conservatives who dare not refute it openly, so this kind of lesson continues to be taught like this.
In addition to telling historical stories and character comments at home and abroad, Li Zhigao also used a stereo hidden in several wooden boxes to play music as an accompaniment and personally taught the soldiers to sing.
The content of these songs are patriotic songs, inspirational songs and military songs, such as "Great China", "Men Should Be Self-Improvement", "Real Men", "The Great Wall Will Never Fall", "The Big One is China", "Return from Target Shooting", "A Good Man Is to Be a Soldier", the revised version of "Three Disciplines and Eight Attentions" and so on.
Not to mention, since teaching everyone to sing these songs, the soldiers' learning enthusiasm immediately exploded, and every time they sang it, they burst into tears, and they began to complain to each other spontaneously without Li Zhigao's sensational push, which is completely different from the situation in the past when they always hid and did not tell outsiders about their own affairs.
Those who can come here to be soldiers are either forced by life, or desperate, which one does not have a history of blood and tears, such an opening, and then it can't be stopped, but it scared ten teachers a lot, and immediately left four, all of whom are older and have more concerns, and the remaining six are all young teachers who are no more than thirty-five years old, and they are also very excited, and they seem to be infected by the atmosphere of the army.
After such a few days of lectures, by talking about history, talking about characters, teaching singing, and living a regular group life, the soldiers' active learning and surname can be regarded as completely mobilized, and many times they do not need to be supervised, and they themselves are hungry to read books and learn culture.
For example, now all soldiers have textbooks, pencils and homework books with them, and once the training subjects of the day are over, they immediately take advantage of the rest time to get together and work hard to learn cultural knowledge.
Seeing this situation, Li Zhigao couldn't help but sigh, what a simple person, if future generations see their active learning surname, they won't die of shame? If you don't talk about others, you will be ashamed of yourself.
These soldiers learn to actively have a high surname, and the high is a bit outrageous, but it is easy to understand if you think about it carefully, after all, this is not the era of cultural explosion in modern society, and all kinds of entertainment projects are quite poor, and the process of learning cultural knowledge can actually be regarded as a kind of entertainment for these people, let alone broaden their horizons.
Even if they don't listen to Li Zhigao's lectures, just reading the texts in the textbooks is very attractive to these soldiers, after all, the texts in the primary school textbooks are all simple stories, and by learning these stories, they can not only read and write, but also learn many new things that they don't know, and this sense of curiosity and freshness is the main motivation for them to study hard.
Think about it, it seems that when the kindergarten children first started school, they were also all kinds of excitement and all kinds of studiousness, but later they learned more and more, but they became more and more slack.
In addition, when Li Zhigao first taught everyone to sing, he just wanted to improve his positive surname, but he didn't expect that the power of these songs was so great, and many soldiers were very emotional when they sang, and they often changed with the change of the melody and content of the songs.
For example, when they sing "Great China", they are always happy, singing "Men Should Be Self-Improvement" will roar with red faces, and they can't be excited, and when they sing "The Great Wall Will Never Fall" and "The Big One is China", they are even more tearful, almost without exception.
In this way, through a series of literacy lectures, teaching and singing inspirational patriotic songs, and their spontaneous complaints to each other, the atmosphere and outlook in the army quickly changed significantly!
In the past, when this team was training, although it couldn't be said to be lifeless, it was just what you said and what they did, it was very rigid, and what they wanted most every day was to end the training as soon as possible, and then go to the canteen to eat, because the food in the canteen was very good.
In other words, eating was what they craved the most at that time.
But now, after some initial literacy education, telling some of the great achievements of Chinese history and the history of the rise of foreign countries, and singing some modern inspirational songs, they have changed immediately!
Every morning, instead of waiting for the gendarmes to blow the whistle to call people to get up and assemble, they got up early in advance, and then spontaneously formed a platoon, first running and shouting songs, usually shouting a modified version of the "Three Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention". When they finish running, their faces are flushed, and they will spontaneously get together to study the text, often asking each other questions, and it is not the slightest bit that they are active in learning.
This situation is not only for soldiers, even the few young teachers who stayed behind are also with them, and even they will go over during the interval of soldier training to continue to teach them and eliminate illiteracy, it can be said that at this time, Li Zhigao estimates that if these teachers leave, they will not leave, and even if they reduce their salaries, they are probably willing.
When the soldiers really trained, they changed their appearance, no matter how they could or shoot, every process was a real practice at a glance, not lazy at all, and after the training, they would spontaneously get together to discuss the training experience with each other.
In short, it's just a hot one.
If these things are just changes in the style of the eyes, then as time goes by, another change is even more unexpected than Li Zhigao, that is, this army has begun to worship Li Zhigao!
In the past, these people were a little grateful to Li Zhigao, and when they saw their faces, they just nodded and bowed, and the relationship between them was a normal relationship between the boss and the employee.
However, since Li Zhigao began to find someone to eliminate illiteracy for them, personally be their teacher, tell them historical stories at home and abroad, talk about national events, talk about character reviews, and even teach them to sing patriotic songs and inspirational songs, Li Zhigao found that when these people saw him again, their eyes were already full of enthusiasm, and the "adult" called after meeting was even louder, and even once he smiled and took the initiative to say hello to two sixteen or seventeen-year-old soldiers, they actually blushed and immediately stood up and saluted. I was so excited that I almost shed tears!
Li Zhigao is too familiar with this kind of scene, when the red soldiers saw the great man, it seemed like this, and those brainless fans saw their Oba long-legged idols, they were also so crazy, and the fooled MLM personnel in the MLM organization seemed to be the same when they saw the MLM lecturers.
At first, Li Zhigao didn't quite understand, didn't he just teach them to read, tell some historical stories, and teach them to sing some inspirational songs.
But soon he understood that he himself was different from these people, and that he could not compare his own situation with these people.
This is a time of sorrow and depression, and these people are sad and depressed poor people.
Moreover, because of their original recruitment qualifications, these soldiers are all young people who are less than 25 years old, more than 1.65 meters tall, and in relatively good physical condition, even if their education level is low, but the natural impulses brought by young bodies have not been completely wiped out.
At the same time, due to poverty and other factors, this group of young people have been exposed to this [***] dark society too early, they have been suppressed for too long, they have been numb for too long, and they have been lacking entertainment for a long time, and their hearts are dry to death, but they still have their own desires in their hearts.
Now, once these young people live a new life of a group surname without worrying about food and clothing, and come into contact with the demagogic teaching methods of modern society, they will soon find a backbone or idol for themselves, and this person is undoubtedly only Li Zhigao, who has created all this!
To put it bluntly, their lives are very poor, the world is very simple, their hearts are relatively simple, and they are still very easy to be excited and impulsive at an age, and they have no real faith in the past.
Otherwise, young people have always been the vanguard of change, and it is only as they grow older, with the decline of energy and the increase of experience, that they will become less and less passionate.
In short, Li Zhigao found that these people have begun to spontaneously engage in a personality cult, which is a trend of thought that Li Zhigao did not deliberately implement, but naturally formed, and he, the adult and gentleman who created all this for them, has become the psychological sustenance and backbone of these people.
Of course, those Americans will not be affected much, but they also feel that the atmosphere in the military has changed, and they feel that these people are suddenly more active in learning, and they are much more relaxed in training, which makes them very surprised, even Westerners are not so active.
Seeing this change, Li Zhigao secretly sighed, if he knew this, he should have played literacy earlier, so that he would not have to be so tired at the beginning.
Moreover, the power of music is so great, which Li Zhigao did not expect, it seems that he will have to continue to make some sensational songs in the future.
Anyway, this kind of change is what Li Zhigao wants to see, at this moment, he has really mastered this army, and the combat capability of this army has basically formed at this time, and the time for revenge is completely ripe!
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Chapters 41 and 42 have made some changes, notably the reduction of the squad mortar to two, and the change of the French rapid-fire gun to the Krupp 75 mm 1903 field gun. In addition, I would like to thank all readers for their careful faults, as long as it is not unreasonable abuse, I will accept it with an open mind, so I hope you will continue to put forward more valuable comments.