As for the high renewal fee, as long as you can be admitted, it will naturally not be a problem, and a large number of businessmen and gentry are willing to sponsor a promising Imperial University student, well, by the way, they will marry a daughter to you.

Even if you have high self-esteem and are reluctant to accept financial aid, there are many other ways to solve the problem of tuition fees, such as applying directly to the Royal Bank or several other commercial banks, which are more than happy to provide loans to outstanding students who are destined to become imperial officials or managers of large corporations.

In the contemporary empire, reading is the best way to change the fate of oneself and one's family, and this is the same for the children of poor families and powerful families.

Because even if they are the children of the powerful, if they want to follow in the footsteps of their parents in politics or the army, they must also be admitted to the Imperial University or two military academies.

For example, among the students studying at the Imperial University, although the children of the poor have accounted for more than 70 percent, there are still 30 percent of the students who are born in powerful families.

The upper class accounts for less than 1/10,000 of the country's total population, yet they account for 30 percent of the high-end educational resources.

And this proportion is also a clear feature of the current deformity of the development of the empire!

Throughout the sixties, the empire was actually in a rather chaotic state. Rapid development and ignorance and backwardness coexist, and fairness and injustice coexist. While people were clamoring for a huge fleet comparable to one-third of Britain's strength, the vast majority of the people in the country were still struggling to make ends meet.

The Bund Avenue is home to well-dressed elites. The decisions they made were enough to affect the whole country, and maybe even recorded in the history books, but the same Shanghai, Huijia Road, less than five kilometers from the Bund Avenue, was lined with small houses crowded with migrant poor people from all over the country, who lived in the worst conditions, ate the cheapest bread, and did the hardest work. However, even then, they can't save much money throughout the year.

With such an empire, even Lin Zhe is not easy to judge, is this considered the completion of the industrial revolution?

Of course, this is not only the case with the Empire, but in fact most of the so-called powers, including Britain, are the same as birds, and the situation of the city of London is no better than that of Shanghai, which has a glamorous side. But there's a dirtier side to it.

In the nineteenth century, there was a classic term for the Victorian period, although the Victorian period generally referred to England specifically. However, it also applies to other contemporary powers, and everyone has their own problems, which is very fair.

For example, many literary works describe the Japanese text of the Meiji Restoration. The peasants lived very hard, and it was common to sell their sons and daughters. There are often plots like this, where a peasant boy has a childhood girlfriend. Then this kid is very good at reading, and has been admitted to Lu Shi or the Emperor, and after graduation, he excitedly returned to his hometown and wanted to marry his childhood sweetheart, but he found that she had been sold by her parents, and one day, this kid will find this childhood sweetheart in a brothel.

Contemporaneous England was no better than that, and similar descriptions can be found in many literary works, such as dirty and muddy streets, child labor, fourteen or even sixteen hours of work, and when a coal worker dies, the mine owner will not pay a dime, and as a result, the family is helpless, and finally the wife becomes a prostitute and the son becomes a thief.

The Victorian period represents the beginning of modern civilization, and both good and bad came together.

It was also during this period that there were frequent conflicts between various countries, and the wars did not stop, such as the Crimean War, the Prussian-Danish War led by Prussia, the Austro-Prussian War, and the Franco-Prussian War a few years later.

There was the American Civil War in the Americas.

China's rise to prominence was accompanied by the Taiping Rebellion, the War of Unification, and then the Second Opium War, the ongoing border wars between China and Russia, and the Hawaiian Wars.

At the same time, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Japan are also in turmoil.

The whole sixties were extremely chaotic, which also caused the general emphasis on the development of the armed forces in various countries.

At the same time, the technological progress brought about by the industrial revolution has also made the mode of war continue to change, and it is difficult for the soldiers of various countries, especially the older generation of soldiers, to adapt to this huge change, which also brings about the existence of various tactics in the same period, and it is not like the first and second world wars in later generations, the tactics are relatively unified.

However, between China and Russia, due to the continuous war between the two countries, both sides are relatively familiar with each other, so there is still a certain routine for fighting.

After so many years of border warfare with the Chinese Empire, although the scale of the battle was not large, it still allowed the Russians to model and learn a lot of tactical routines of the Chinese Empire.

For example, now, the Russians do not line up directly with rifles to fight against the armies of other countries, but hide behind the mountains to intercept and fight.

Don't look at this tactic as very ordinary, but for the army of the era of the line line, it was a great change.

Second Lieutenant Xu looked at the Russian army in front of him and couldn't hide, and he didn't rush to attack, his task was not to defeat the enemy in front of him, but to cover the follow-up troops for landing, as long as the enemy did not rush over, then it would be considered a complete task.

In this way, the two sides each leaned on the low hill, and then fired at each other, Liao Dashan lay on the ground, and then put a Russian soldier on the opposite side with his head into the crosshair, took a deep breath and held his breath, and then pulled the trigger.

After the crisp sound of gunfire, the bullet crossed a distance of more than 100 meters, and then hit the ground next to the Russian soldier, and the smoke and dust stirred up startled the Russian soldier, making him quickly retract his head.

didn't hit the enemy, but Liao Dashan didn't show any disappointed expression, and the distance between the two sides was more than a hundred meters. It's not so easy to get an accurate hit to the enemy's head.

After firing a shot, he also took the initiative to retract his head. Then skillfully unechamber and withdraw the brass eggshell. He took out a bullet from the bullet pouch on his waist and put it into the chamber of the gun, and after completing a series of reloads, he cautiously poked his head out again, and soon aimed at another Russian soldier.

Aiming, shooting, the whole process took less than five seconds, and after another crisp gunshot, Liao Dashan could clearly see that the head of the Russian soldier he was aiming at burst out of blood, and then the whole person lay there motionless. Apparently dead.

Shooting, loading, Liao Dashan repeated his actions like this.

It's not just him, it's dozens of other comrades-in-arms on the front!

In fact, the hit rate of this kind of shooting is quite low, far inferior to the two sides standing in a line to shoot, and it does not take a few minutes to be able to knock down a large area, and this kind of shooting that relies on cover often fires more than a dozen or even dozens of shots and it is difficult to hit an enemy soldier.

But fortunately, everyone uses rear-loading rifles, and the rate of fire is generally dissatisfied. The back and forth between the two sides is also quite lively.

It's just that this calm firing didn't last long, and soon a herald bent over and quickly ran to Lieutenant Xu's side, but said a few words.

After the herald left, Second Lieutenant Xu called several squad leaders and other non-commissioned officers to his side.

Not much. Liao Dashan's squad leader just came back, and then said loudly: "Everyone come with me!" ”

Liao Dashan quickly put away his gun at this time, and then slid down from the bunker. While sorting out the bullet bag, he said, "Lao An." Where do we go? ”

"The company commander has already come up with reinforcements from the other two platoons, and we will attack later!" Liao Dashan's squad leader was a sergeant in his thirties. The surname is Ann.

Sergeant An is not the same as Liao Dashan, Sergeant An is a professional soldier, he joined the army seven or eight years ago, and later passed the examination to become a non-commissioned officer, and then continued to serve and become a professional soldier, if Sergeant An is willing, and there are no other accidents, Sergeant An can serve until the age of forty.

Liao Dashan is an ordinary soldier, this year is his third year of service, most of the soldiers like him will choose to retire after the third year of service, and then be arranged to return to the local government of his hometown as a patrol or low-level government clerk, and those who are willing to go to the big city can also be arranged to work as workers in those factories.

However, Liao Dashan did not plan to do so, he hoped to pass the non-commissioned officer assessment in half a year, and then become a non-commissioned officer, and then become a professional soldier.

After all, for the contemporary imperial environment, the income level of soldiers is still relatively high, and if you become a non-commissioned officer, your monthly salary is enough to keep your family members in a relatively stable life.

The service system of the imperial military is divided into three groups: officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers, and the soldiers are recruited and the service period is generally three years. Non-commissioned officers are selected from excellent soldiers, there is no fixed number of years of service, but there is a maximum age limit, the combat unit is forty years old, the auxiliary force is forty-five years old, and because it is a support service, so according to personal wishes, you can also apply for retirement in advance, and the same as officers, is a professional soldier, soldiers want to become non-commissioned officers, one is to make meritorious service on the battlefield and be directly promoted, the second is to pass the assessment after the three-year service period, and then turn into volunteer service, and become a non-commissioned officer, both of which are more difficult, It was difficult for ordinary soldiers to pass.

Officers are even simpler, all military cadets are born, even if they are ordinary soldiers, non-commissioned officers who have been promoted for meritorious service will generally be arranged to go to military academies to study crash courses to ensure the comprehensive quality of officers.

The relationship between officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers is like a tree, where the officer is the trunk, the non-commissioned officer is the branch, and the soldier is the leaf.

Non-commissioned officers assist officers to complete training, combat and other tasks, which is the link and bridge between soldiers and officers.

This can be seen from the fact that the squad leaders and deputy platoon commanders in the army are usually non-commissioned officers at all levels.

Liao Dashan wants to continue to serve and become a non-commissioned officer, but he is not very confident in whether he can pass the non-commissioned officer assessment in the end, after all, there are not a few soldiers who have the same idea as him, and the number of non-commissioned officers absorbed by the army every year is also limited, so there is a need to compete.

Sergeant An took Liao Dashan and the other twelve soldiers to retreat temporarily, and after replenishing some ammunition from the supply point at the back, Sergeant An led them around the previous hill and then began to maneuver to the left.

When he bent over and trotted, Liao Dashan looked to the right and found that the Russian army on the opposite side of the right was also moving, and it could be judged from the looming figures that there seemed to be more Russian troops on the opposite side than before. (To be continued.) )