In the early days of the Haihan occupation, Yan Chujie personally served as the military commander, and later this position was taken over by Luo Jie, who had just returned to the military from the Ministry of Industry at that time. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 After the situation in northern Qiongbei stabilized and Roger went south to Anbuna Island to take up his post, the command of the northern Qiongbei defense area, including Haikou City and Danzhou, was taken by Yan Chujie and Wang Tom on a half-year cycle. However, both of them have recently returned to Sanya for the upcoming founding celebrations, and the supreme command of the local area is temporarily exercised by Qiu Yuan.

Of course, in the current peacetime, it is not very likely that Qiu Yuan will be required to use his command, and he should not even be involved in the daily operation of the garrison. Today, also to welcome the arrival of the inspection team, Qiu Yuancai transferred a team of cavalry to put on a pomp and circumstance -- this pomp was not for Ning Qi to see, but for the Dutch who were traveling with him.

Van Dimen did notice the small armed cavalry, not because of the cavalry muskets in their saddles and the sabers they carried at their waists, but because of the special horses they were riding. The horses were tall and clearly not of the Far East, and Van Dimen was sure that they belonged to Arabian horses and Andalusian horses from Europe, or were a hybrid of both. It must have taken a lot of effort for Haihan to be able to get such good horses in batches, and he must already have a considerable population to deploy a cavalry team in a place like Haikou City.

The cavalry's ability to maneuver on land and the tactics of charging and killing on the battlefield are parts that every commander will pay special attention to, but while having strong capabilities, the cost of training and maintaining a cavalry is also very high, the daily cost of a war horse is at least equivalent to three or four infantrymen, and the amount of food and grass required is far more than that of the infantry, not only to feed forage, but also to feed black beans and other concentrates, and to feed salt when the combat intensity is high. Of course, salt is not valuable in Haihan, and it can be filled at any time, and the difficulty is mainly in the logistics supply in wartime. Although the cavalry has high mobility, the logistics troops may not be able to keep up.

Therefore, in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, the cavalry unit must not only have war horses, but also a considerable number of pack horses. A cavalry team of 100 people with 200 horses is considered the norm, and the heavy cavalry may need to be equipped with an additional daily riding horse in addition to the war horse and pack horse, and the Mongol cavalry that swept across Eurasia even reached the configuration of one person and six horses. Of course, the current Haihan cavalry is far from reaching such a luxurious configuration, and just maintaining the establishment of one person and two horses is already very large.

The military expenditure of non-nomads to maintain a formed cavalry was quite staggering, and the East India Company used to have only a cavalry force of 200 men in Batavia. However, due to the severity of the previous battle, the cavalry was also lost in the battle against the Mata Blues, and is currently in the process of rebuilding after the war, along with the other garrisons in the area. However, since the war horses had to be sent to Batavia by sea from a distant place, it was not known when the cavalry team would be reorganized, and Fan Dimen saw Haihan's neat cavalry team, and naturally felt a little pantothenic acid in his heart.

It was about six or seven miles from the military wharf where Ning Qi and others landed to Haikou City, and it took a short time to reach the outside of the city by horse-drawn carriage. The carriage stopped at the edge of the town outside the city, and everyone got out of it. This time, Qiu Yuan did not take his daughter out of the car again, but asked his entourage to take her back to the official residence in the city in a carriage first.

Outside the west gate of Haikou City is not the main settlement area, and the families of the military are mainly resettled here, totaling more than 1,300 households. Because the family backgrounds of these people are relatively similar, the settlement outside the West Gate has also become a small society, with schools, clinics, post offices, grocery stores and other services in the exclusive military system, and law and order is also the responsibility of the military police subordinate to the military.

The town here is as clean as in the barracks, there are no naughty children chasing and fighting in the streets, and there is no smell of livestock manure, and in Van Dimen's opinion, the civilian ghetto outside the city is even cleaner than the Danzhou city that has just been inspected.

"Director Qiu, you didn't do this to deal with the inspection, right?" Ning Qi was also slightly surprised by this scene, so he teased Qiu Yuan: "This is not a score and two are not evaluated, so you don't need to spend so much effort." ”

Qiu Yuan cried and laughed: "Mr. Ning, you have wronged me, this is really not the result of a surprise attack, but it has always been so." It's not me Qiu Yuan bragging, if you come to see it again at any time, it must be at this level. ”

"Oh, then the social work here is well organized!" Ning Qi knew very well that maintaining this sense of cleanliness was not just a matter of sweeping the floor quickly, but also on the level of literacy of the people, or strict enough rules and regulations to provide protection.

"In the past, there was chaos here, but since Tom Wang transferred Yu Tiezhu to take charge, he has taken up the work of the city's appearance and environment. Qiu Yuan explained the reason to Ning Qi: "In the first six months of his tenure, there were not a few people who ate military sticks because of the crime of misconduct. Most of the neat and orderly streets you see now are the result of his hard work with military sticks. ”

"It turned out to be Yu Tiezhu! What about the others?" As soon as Ning Qi heard that this person was not an outsider, he immediately wanted to meet the person concerned.

Yu Tiezhu was one of the first veterans in the local fishing village to sign up for the army after Haihan landed in Yulin. Relying on the accumulation of combat exploits over the years, he has also been promoted all the way, and now he is a major battalion commander. In the case of Yan Chujie and Wang Tom both returning to Sanya, Yu Tiezhu was the officer with the highest rank and position here, although he still had to obey Qiu Yuan's orders, but in fact, the troops stationed in Haikou City were directly managed and commanded by him. As for the military enclaves outside the West Gate, the land is allocated to the military, and local affairs are naturally up to him. Because of its good management and remarkable results, Qiu Yuan basically does not interfere in the affairs here, and it is all handed over to Yu Tiezhu and the army battalion headquarters to take care of.

Not long after, Yu Tiezhu was sweating profusely and trotted all the way to arrive, and after saluting, he quickly explained the reason why he was not waiting here in advance - his wife gave birth to a child at home, he couldn't rest assured, so he went back to take a look, but he didn't expect that the people from the inspection team would arrive at this moment.

Ning Qi heard that there was nothing to find fault with when he heard this reason, and quickly stopped Yu Tiezhu's words: "Okay, don't ask for guilt anymore, I now order you to take a vacation on behalf of the Executive Committee, and hurry back to guard your wife and children! ”

After Yu Tiezhu thanked him repeatedly, he trotted away again. Qiu Yuan said with a smile: "This guy hasn't said anything about the family at all, if you don't come here, he will probably pass by so quietly." ”

Ning Qi smiled: "Anyway, I have been his teacher for a few days, and this teacher-student friendship is still there." ”

When Haihan started to run literacy classes, Yu Tiezhu stayed under Ning Qi, and it was not a lie to say that there was a teacher-student friendship. It's just that Yu Tiezhu's talent in reading and literacy is limited, and the army was in urgent need of employment at that time, Yu Tiezhu's learning career did not last too long, and he could read and write seven or eight hundred commonly used words. However, in the past few years, I have been promoted all the way, and there are more written reports to be written.

Qiu Yuan nodded and said, "I'll ask someone to send some condolences to his house later, Yu Tiezhu is a good person, so let him fully feel the warmth of the organization." ”

Everywhere Ningqi goes, he will visit local educational institutions, and coming here is naturally no exception, mainly asking Qiu Yuan to lead the way to the primary school here.

The military primary school outside the west gate is a requisitioned house of a local landlord, of course, the landlord's family has already been sent to other places to resettle, and there will be no disputes over property rights. There are four halls in the courtyard, which are divided into three grades according to the progress of the course, and the girls are organized into a separate literacy class because of the small number of students. There are more than 200 students in the military-affiliated primary school, and the sound of reading aloud can be heard from the courtyard from afar.

The textbooks used here are also the basic textbooks compiled and distributed by the Ministry of Education of Haihan, because it is a primary school directly under the Ministry of Education, so there is no content of the Four Books and Five Classics in the general private school academy, and the teaching content is mainly literacy and common sense. The teachers here have basically received special teacher qualification training in Sanya, and Ning Qi has seen a few classes, and he has actually met several students who have studied under him and are now teachers here, so it is natural that there will be some warm greetings at the moment.

As a military community, in addition to the ordinary curriculum, the teaching here naturally has some content unique to the military. For example, in addition to teaching general knowledge of literature and history, teachers will also tell students about the previous battles in which the Haihan militia has participated, so that these children can feel the strength of the Haihan army from an early age and be proud of the emerging country in which they are located. According to Qiu Yuan, there will also be guest lecturers from active military officers and retired veterans from time to time to teach students basic military knowledge.

Although this military knowledge will not turn these half-grown children into soldiers, it can at least allow them to establish a preliminary understanding of the words mission, responsibility, obedience, and courage, and their perception of the military profession will be greatly improved. It is no exaggeration to say that the proportion of students who graduate from such schools who choose to join the military in the future is much greater than that of ordinary schools. Ning Qi could fully imagine that if Yan Chujie or Wang Tom were here, he would definitely boast with a smug face that this was the non-commissioned officer reserve school of the Haihan army.

"Don't you think it's a little difficult to accept?" Qiu Yuan saw that Ning Qi's face was solemn, so he asked him in a low voice.

Ning Qi nodded slightly and said: "It's always not good for the military to interfere in educational institutions so obviously, and I have to report this matter to the Executive Committee after I go back." ”

Qiu Yuan persuaded: "The reflection may not be useful, the parents of these students are not soldiers but also military families, if they do not follow the will of the military, I am afraid that the teaching of this school will not be very smooth." ”

Ning Qi turned his head to look at him and said, "Is it possible that the military will threaten educational institutions with force?"

"My Teacher Ning, you really haven't been at the grassroots level for too long, and you don't understand the situation below!" Qiu Yuan had to explain patiently: "Think about it, all the students in this school come from military families, if the military is dissatisfied with the change in teaching content, it is possible to empty this school in minutes." We don't have compulsory education now, so are you forcing parents to send their children to school one by one?"

Ning Qi couldn't help frowning when he heard this, the situation that Qiu Yuan said did exist objectively, and the education department really couldn't come up with any effective ways to deal with it. In fact, a powerful department like the military already has its own complete system of institutions, and if the military wants to, even educational institutions ranging from literacy classes to national defense universities can be set up on their own. At present, the reason why only high-level educational institutions such as military academies are listed as vertical units of the Central Military Commission is mainly due to the waste of resources that may be caused by the duplication of institutions, so all primary educational institutions are still under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education.

However, this division of institutions does not mean that the education department can fully control the grassroots educational institutions, and similar to the military-affiliated primary schools here, Ningqi really can't come up with any way to change the teaching methods and content here. And watching the teaching here "turn sour" will make him feel as if he is a bit derelict in his duties.

Thinking of this layer of stakes, Ning Qi was in no mood to visit this small campus anymore. After leaving the elementary school, looking at the neat streets and orderly people, Ning Qi suddenly felt a little bored: "Let's go, let's go into the city to rest." ”

The layout of Haikou City is not much different from Danzhou and Yacheng, but most of the Ming Yamen stations here have been requisitioned by the Haihan, and the original prefect's yamen has become the location of the management committee, and the office space of the six rooms of the subordinate household rite soldiers and criminal workers is difficult to meet the needs of the Haihan official institutions with more subdivided functions, so some official residences and private residences in the city have also been officially requisitioned and become the offices of various departments. Even the former residence of Dongchang and Jinyiwei in the city door-to-door now serves as a pharmacy and hospital in the city.

Qiu Yuan did not set up a reception banquet in the restaurant in the city, but directly set up a family banquet, which made Ning Qi feel a little at home. Probably because most of the local landlords and wealthy gentry were moved away, there were no local figures like the previous stations to accompany guests, only a few close subordinates of Qiu Yuan were present. They are all people in the system, but there is nothing to taboo about. When the banquet was about to start, Yu Tiezhu, who went back to take care of his wife and gave birth, also arrived in a hurry. (To be continued.) )