"Mr. Kuang, you are in time for the rain, I am preparing to split the machine bureau and prepare to build a Fengtian Arsenal, you helped find talents, I am really grateful!"

"It's not easy to build an arsenal!" Kuang Rongguang sighed: "It is said that the republic is good, but as a result, we have established the republic for more than four years, but the heavy industry has not developed at all, and the arsenals are still the ones established by the former Qing Dynasty, such as the Ning Factory, the Shanghai Factory, the Sichuan Factory, and the Han Factory, and there is no improvement in the machine technology, and the output is not even a fraction of that of the foreigners, which is really chilling." ”

"Mr. Kwong, you are right, but the more this is the case, the more we have to catch up, otherwise we will be even further behind. I have prepared sufficient funds, starting with maintenance little by little, and then seize the opportunity to purchase equipment from the West, as long as the development is persistent, sooner or later Fengtian Arsenal can become a well-known factory in the whole of China, and even the whole Shijie! ”

"Hehe, humble words, I appreciate your drive, most of us who came back from the United States were like this, but we wasted most of our lives, and we didn't make a name for ourselves, I'm really ashamed!"

Kuang Rongguang smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "The two people I recommend to you, one is named Chen Qiming, his father Chen Ronggui and I are fellow countrymen, and they are both classmates in the United States, and this child also went to the United States to study, majoring in chemical engineering. The other one is called Xiong Mengyuan, a distant relative of mine, who was born in Nanyang and later went to study in the UK. These two children have lived in the West for a long time, and I am afraid that they are not used to the country. ”

In fact, these two people are in their early twenties, much older than Zhang Tinglan, but it is very natural for Kuang Rongguang to say this. Zhang Tinglan's means made him no longer able to regard this person as a junior.

"Mr. Kwong, I only have one requirement, that is, to have real talent and real learning. If you can get the real ability, you can naturally be reused, if you can't take it out, it's useless to say anything! ”

"Well, in three or five days they will be able to arrive in Mukden, and then I will bring them to visit!"

Sending Kwong Rongguang away, Zhang Tinglan continued to supervise the training of the new army, and these days, under the threat of sticks, the soldiers were gradually able to walk the queue in order. Physical fitness has also been greatly improved, and the most important thing is that these people have gradually adapted to the discipline of the barracks, and there are rules for walking, sitting and lying down.

Soldiers take obedience as their duty, this sentence is not an empty slogan, but should be embodied in every detail. Eventually, it goes deep into the bone marrow. From the moment you enter the barracks, you will be cultivated bit by bit. Watch the recruits gradually metamorphose. Zhang Tinglan is also very pleased, these boys are the capital of their foothold in the Feng army, they are their own courage, they are their own face!

The Forces nouvelles train during the day and spend two hours in the evenings studying, half of which is spent studying the discipline rules of the barracks. The other hour and a half is mainly literacy, learning some simple drawing operations.

In the past, the literacy of private schools was based on the teacher reciting a sentence and the student following a sentence, which was not very efficient. After Zhang Tinglan took over. First of all, the blackboard and chalk were promoted, and the combination of literacy and writing, looking at the eyes, reading in the mouth, and thinking in the heart, the speed gradually increased.

In addition, Zhang Tinglan also tried to promote pinyin, which is also a good way to speed up literacy. Chinese is a highly developed language that has huge advantages over alphabet writing, the most obvious being that Chinese characters are two-dimensional encoding on paper, while letters are only one-dimensional.

In this way, Chinese characters convey more and richer information, so Chinese vocabulary has the characteristics of introverted, for example, the train is a new thing, we first know that this is a kind of car that transports things, and then this kind of car smokes and clatters, all of which are naturally called trains.

The same goes for computers, which use electricity, are able to calculate, and when combined they are computers. And there is no need to give a new name to every new thing like Westerners, even if there is a root, but the complex changes, there is also a great trouble, many professional names, except for people in this discipline, others do not know at all, and Chinese does not have this problem, as long as you can read, a little association, you can guess a eight or nine is not far from ten.

Therefore, when Zhang Tinglan taught Chinese characters, he first promoted pinyin. Pinyin is not a strange thing, as early as the Ming Dynasty, Western scholars came to China, first used letters to phonetize Chinese characters, to the end of the Qing Dynasty, many scholars have pointed out that Chinese characters are complicated and difficult to recognize, is an important factor restricting Chinese learning, so began to appear a large number of pinyin schemes.

However, most of them are not mature, and can only be circulated in a small area, Zhang Tinglan directly used the more mature pinyin scheme in later generations, and also specially made a literacy wall chart. The combination of pictures, text, and pinyin will seem to be a child's thing in later generations, but now, it is still a very novel teaching tool and very interesting.

Each barracks hung a few sheets, many soldiers as long as they have leisure, will carefully study around the wall chart, Chinese are not stupid, on the contrary, many studies in later generations have shown that the average IQ of Chinese is at the forefront of shijie, as long as there is an opportunity, Chinese can burst out of strong learning ability.

These soldiers are like this, after more than a month of study, they are a little basic, and they can basically know more than 500 words, and others can also reach 2 or 300 words. Zhang Tinglan simply posted the multiplication formula in the barracks, and then subscribed to some newspapers and magazines.

Under his toss, the second regiment almost became a school, and the recruits of the first regiment did not understand at first, and often made fun of the second regiment, saying that they were not doing business. As a result, after a period of time, a group of soldiers gradually realized a trace of mystery.

Those soldiers of the Second Regiment, who were just like themselves and couldn't read big characters, were already able to read books and newspapers. When training some new subjects, they also understand faster than themselves, and after getting the weapon, they can read the operation manual, understand various parameters, and get started faster.

There was a big gap in the quality of the soldiers in a short period of time, so that the commander of the regiment, Sun Anhu, had to go to Zhang Tinglan's side to learn from the experience, and by the way, he borrowed a few soldiers with the most learning effect, and also took away a large number of wall charts.

Yang Yuting is also responsible for the education of soldiers, but as soon as he saw that Zhang Tinglan was getting thriving, he simply only taught things like tactical movements, and the foundation was all pushed to Zhang Tinglan.

On this day, the soldiers were training on the school grounds, and the weather was getting cooler in October. The real autumn wind blows on the body, cool and comfortable. On the school field, however, you can only feel a lively atmosphere that can only be found in the middle of summer, the soldiers are sweating like rain, they are running desperately, and after the physical training, they will carry out target training.

The captain had promised that whoever had the best grades would get a delicate dagger knife. Perhaps out of men's nature, there is no such thing as a dislike of swords, and everyone is working hard.

At this time, Kuang Rongguang took two young people to the outside of the Nanda camp. These two people are twenty-four or five years old, one of them is relatively tall and very stout, he is Xiong Mengyuan. The other is of medium stature and appears very thin. The bookish air on his face is Chen Qiming.

"Uncle. I have long heard that the three eastern provinces are wickedly cold in winter. I can freeze my ears off, and I wonder how you are willing to go to the border to suffer. Now that the situation is different, just looking at this Nanda Battalion, it is very different from other places! ”

Xiong Mengyuan is obviously very talkative, and he tells Kwong Rongguang about his feelings, but in fact, after arriving in Mukden. He felt a little different. Compared to other regions, Mukden is more orderly and busy, with construction sites everywhere. There are construction teams everywhere.

The train station is surrounded by the North Market, and although it has not yet been built, the road is wide, lined with shops, street lights, green trees, and even special garbage bins.

Just looking at this pattern, it even exceeds the ten-mile ocean field in Shanghai, and compared with Western cities, the gap is not very large. Seeing this, they gradually understood that Kuang Rongguang was willing to run outside the gate, and Fengtian did have unlimited potential.

After arriving at Nandaying, the feeling was even more profound, the entire barracks building was neat, cleaned clean, and almost spotless. A special cordon was set up at the camp gate, and there were soldiers patrolling and standing guard, and these soldiers were all in straight uniforms and solemn expressions.

Every action is neat and standardized, which is very different from the armies in other parts of China, and Kuang Rongguang also introduced that these are all built by Zhang Tinglan, and Xiong Mengyuan and Chen Qiming have a strong interest.

After the guards reported, Kuang Rongguang took them into the barracks, at this time Zhang Tinglan still had a little training task to complete, so he simply asked others to take Kuang Rongguang to visit the barracks first.

Kuang Rongguang was also very interested, he followed Zhang Tinglan from Beijing to Fengtian, because he had confidence in this young man and could accomplish great things. Now that it's Zhang Tinglan's territory, it's just a good time to see what this young man's real level is.

As soon as he walked into a row of barracks, Xiong Mengyuan suddenly grew his mouth, revealing an incredible expression, only to see a row of beds, all neat white sheets, the quilts were folded like knives and axes, and neat tofu blocks. All kinds of supplies are placed in a fixed position.

There were more than thirty beds in the barracks this time, and each position was almost identical, the only difference was the number plate on it, and there was no doubt that the commander of the army must be a capable person to achieve such uniformity. Chen Qiming's eyes also fell on the various literacy wall charts hanging on the surrounding walls, and even Kwong Rongguang became interested.

Especially after seeing those pinyin, although Kuang Rongguang didn't fully understand, he also saw the clues, and said with great emotion: "Zhang Shuyan, he is not very old, his knowledge is amazing, I am afraid that he made these things." The two of you still have a lot to learn, don't think that studying in the West will make you arrogant and underestimate others. ”

While he was talking, Zhang Tinglan also rushed over, and he said to Kuang Rongguang with a smile: "Mr. Kuang, these two are the talents you recommended!" ”

"Humble words, this big man is Xiong Mengyuan, this is Chen Qiming, they are all my sons and nephews, they all came to you to beg for food!"

"Mr. Kuang, if you say that, I'm afraid that Brother Xiong and Brother Chen don't like to hear it, people are here to earn food by relying on real skills."

"Hehe, what Uncle Mr. Zhang said is to be energetic, we have long been ready to make a career."

"Mr. Zhang, I would like to ask a question." Chen Qiming suddenly asked: "These wall charts are all designed by you, presumably to help soldiers become literate, why do soldiers need to learn culture?" ”

"It is precisely because of being a soldier that more cultural knowledge is needed, weapons are becoming more and more advanced, and the battlefield situation is becoming more and more complicated, and without sufficient knowledge, it is simply impossible to adapt to the changes in war. And they can't be a lifetime, now they can read a few more words, and when they leave the barracks in the future, they can also learn some jishu and become a worker, in fact, they need to learn in every line, and what the Chinese lack most now is knowledge. ”

"Clumsy words and far-sightedness!" Kuang Rongguang said with great emotion, Chen Qiming and Xiong Mengyuan were also thoughtful. After a brief chat, Zhang Tinglan found that these two young people were indeed a little level, and their professional knowledge was not weak at all, and he was very satisfied, so he took them directly to the Fengtian Machine Bureau.

As soon as I arrived at the door, I saw a worker being hung in front of the door, a guy in his thirties with a meaty face, who was beating the worker with a command, and kept scolding in his mouth, Zhang Tinglan immediately frowned. (To be continued......)