Professor Anton Peruz's ideas will be tested in East Africa for the next few years, but he will continue his scientific research while also taking into account the task of finding ways to increase agricultural yields and improve crops for East Africa.

This was the task that Ernst gave to Anton Peruz's team, otherwise who knows how far these scientists' research would have been crooked.

Scientific research is possible, but contributions to the East African colonies must also be carried out, and Ernst's funding of agricultural research institutes is, in the final analysis, to serve his own colonies, not really to contribute to the cause of human science.

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November 7, 1868.

Europe, Prussia, Heisingen.

Over time, the Heshingen Military Academy has grown in size, with facilities and faculty available.

At present, the number of students in the school is as high as 3,700, and the main students come from Europe, the Far East and South America.

Originally, when the Hexingen Military Academy was established, Ernst's original intention was to develop into a professional military academy.

The result backfired, because the development of the East African colonies required a large number of language translators and military technical personnel, so that the Heshingen Military Academy became an accelerated German school.

The East African colonies now have developed to the point where there is no longer a need for language interpreters for immigrants to implement directives and policies.

With the significant increase in the number of immigrants in Europe and the beginning of German education in East Africa, many non-German immigrants have learned to communicate in German, while forcing the rest to learn German on their own.

In addition, in the past two years, the Heixingen Cultural School has begun to replace the Heixingen Military Academy to provide East Africa with professional low-educated talents, and the East African regular army has no desire to expand, so the demand for the Heixingen Military Academy in East Africa has been greatly reduced.

These factors led Ernst to put the Heshingen Military Academy back on track and make it a real cradle for the training of military professionals for its own family.

In order to restore the appearance of the Heshingen Military Academy, Ernst was ready to start with four aspects.

The first is the school system, which will cancel the crash course, restore the normal teaching order, and change it to a three-year system.

East Africa is currently saturated with military talent, and the enemies are all indigenous, so there is no need for so many professional military personnel.

In addition, the establishment of the Heixingen Cultural School began to provide German-speaking students for the Heixingen Military Academy, so that the Heixingen Military Academy no longer needs to provide language education for non-German students.

If Heixingen Cultural School is a primary school, Heixingen Military Academy is a middle school, and the students adopted by Heixingen in the past two years have been thrown into Heixingen Cultural School for initial training.

Students who graduate from the Heixingen Cultural School can be divided into three grades, the first class is particularly excellent, and can apply or be assigned by Ernst to study in the German education system, which is generally treated as a real genius.

In the second tranche, students with excellent grades, but only outstanding students in the Heixingen Cultural School, enter the Heixingen Military Academy to study or intern in the enterprises under the Heixingen Foundation.

In the third tranche, students with average or poor grades are sent to the East African colonies to work in education and translation.

The students of the Heixingen Cultural School provide a relatively good source of students for the Heixingen Military Academy.

The second is to renovate the teaching materials and find professionals to revise the teaching materials of the Heixingen Military Academy and add more professional knowledge and courses.

The first edition of the textbook of the Heixingen Military Academy was compiled by Ernst himself, and the professionalism was not strong, and the set of things in the textbook that he brainwashed the students naturally could not be deleted, but the content of the professional part could be modified.

The third is the teaching force, employing a number of professional retired non-commissioned officers of the Prussian army to teach at the school.

The current faculty of the Heixingen Military Academy is still too weak, and a group of senior teachers with real talents and practical learning are needed.

The fourth is to build professional training venues.

A military academy naturally has a large amount of training, but at present, the Heixingen Military Academy is confined to the campus and lacks a professional training ground.

Ernst was going to set up a training ground in Heichengen, a large area with relatively difficult terrain, for the training of students.

The place is in the western part of Heixingen, which is relatively sparsely populated, with hills and plains and large jungles.

Shortly after returning from France, Ernst began to carry out reforms at the Hařingen Military Academy.

First of all, the students of the Heixingen Military Academy were sorted out, because of their age, some of the students of the Heixingen Military Academy were not promoted from the Heixingen Cultural School, so the quality of the students of the Heixingen Military Academy was uneven.

Ernst intimately prepared an exam for them, and those who passed the test continued to stay, and those who failed were dealt with in two batches.

The younger ones were sent back to the Heixingen Cultural School and rebuilt, and the older ones were sent directly to East Africa for employment.

The students left in this way basically have the same level of education and physical fitness, which is convenient for the next unified teaching.

In terms of building materials and teachers, Ernst intended to start with the German states, and it would certainly be more difficult to dig into the corners of Prussia.

But some of the talents of the small states could still be discovered, especially after Prussia integrated the military forces of the northern states.

Some ideas that were different from those of the Prussian army were definitely eliminated from the army, and although the military concepts were different, the military literacy was still good, and Ernst planned to use his connections to hire them to teach in Heixingen.

It doesn't matter if the military philosophy is different, the Heshinggen Military Academy is a school, not an army, it is a place where Ernst specializes in cultivating backbone military talents, and as long as the military concept does not involve the ideological field of students, Ernst can tolerate it.

The training ground is the best solution, and the entire Hei Xinggen is nominally his own, so you don't have to be polite, let your father give it to him.

Then, pull up the cordon, with supporting facilities, you can let students carry out drills with loaded guns.

No matter how much training was done in the school, it was impossible for Ernst to build a shooting range and other facilities at the Heichengen Military Academy, in order to facilitate supplies and construction.

The Hexingen Military Academy was chosen on the outskirts of the town of Hexingen, not too far from the residential area, so it was simply impossible to issue weapons to them to train freely.

Moreover, at that time, he became the main player quickly, and did not pay attention to the professional level of the students, so there was no need to engage in live-fire exercises and the like.

Now, if Ernst wants to turn the Heixingen Military Academy into a professional military academy, it is natural to engage in actual combat exercises.

Actual combat is always the only criterion for testing the combat effectiveness of the army, and the students of the Heixingen Military Academy naturally have no chance to come into contact with real war, so they can only retreat to the second best thing to conduct some exercises and simulate the battlefield environment to improve the students' military quality.

(End of chapter)