"A sneeze! A sneeze..." Zhao Xin, who was teaching the children, suddenly felt his nose itchy and sneezed several times in succession. "Who is talking about me?" He took out a handkerchief and wiped his nose while secretly looking into the classroom next door.
Shen Xuan was wearing a Qing Dynasty male cotton robe and a small melon skin hat, and was writing on a whiteboard with a charcoal pen. Zhao Xin's position was only about twenty meters away from Shen Xuan. Looking from the side, Shen Xuan, who was wearing a cotton robe, could not tell anything about her figure except for her bright face.
Shen Xuan, who was writing, turned around and saw Zhao Xin wiping his nose with a handkerchief. She seemed to have thought of something, and then her face turned red.
"Teacher, what's wrong with you?" A child asked weakly, raising his hand.
"No, it's okay. Come on, read this character..." Shen Xuan put aside her random thoughts, picked up the pointer on the table, pointed to a simplified character and the pinyin next to it, and began to explain.
Speaking of which, when Shen Xuan started class, she became angry when she saw the unsightly "simplified characters" that had been deleted from the textbook that Zhao Xin gave her. Can this still be called a word?
But when Zhao Xin later came up with a set of "Chinese Pinyin Plan", Shen Xuan was confused at the beginning, but in the end she became extremely admired by Zhao Xin, and even had some feelings of worship.
In later history, in the late 1950s when the literacy movement reached its peak and had the most significant effects, the biggest contributor was actually “promoting Chinese Pinyin” rather than “simplifying Chinese characters” as is generally believed by later generations.
(Take Wanrong County in Shanxi Province in the 1950s as an example. Like many places across the country, it has been doing literacy work. However, after several years of hard work, little results have been achieved. Since farmers can only use their leisure time to literacy, the recovery rate of literacy is very low. High. When the "Hanyu Pinyin Plan" was adopted, Wanrong County found a good way to eliminate illiteracy. According to reports at the time, the average farmer can master Chinese Pinyin in 15 to 20 hours, and can learn to read using Hanyu Pinyin in 100 hours. Literate 1,500 characters. In the 1960s, the national literacy campaign was coming to an end, and the illiteracy rate had dropped from more than 80% in 1949 to about 33%.)
As for why children must be taught simplified Chinese characters, Zhao Xin’s explanation is that they are easier to remember and write. In fact, what he really thinks is that writing traditional Chinese characters is too tiring! For example, the character "Feng" requires eighteen strokes when written in traditional Chinese, but only four strokes when written in simplified Chinese. Even if Zhao Xin could write, there were sixteen classes in his area, and he couldn't even lift his wrist after writing all day long.
At the beginning, through the unremitting efforts of Zhao Xin, Liu Zheng and Zhang Bo, basically half of the more than 800 children mastered the listening, speaking, reading and writing of 500 simplified characters; Zhao Xin divided these children into separate classes and has already Start teaching them basic mathematics, physics and chemistry. He plans to start junior high school training after these children master 2,500 Chinese characters.
It's time to find a teacher.
Zhao Xin's mathematics is not bad, which stems from the economics he studied in college; but physics and chemistry are not his strong points. Zhao Xin's most awesome time was when he only scored 26 points in high school chemistry and 43 points in physics. In a fit of anger, he transferred to a liberal arts class.
He decided to return to modern times and ask his cousin to help him with this matter. Still using the old method, recruiting online. There are more than a thousand children, and no matter what, they have to find (tie) fifty teachers to come over, even if they are just graduated normal school students.
"Teacher, are you feeling uncomfortable?" Eight-year-old Xu Shounan raised his hand and asked when he saw Zhao Xin sneezing.
"Teacher, I'll just go find A Miao and give you a shot." Wan Zao's son Wan Haiyang hurriedly got up and ran out without waiting for Zhao Xin to speak.
"Come back and sit down!" Wan Zao's son was busy all day long, climbing trees or going to the house with a group of refugee children.
Twenty minutes later, the bell finally rang for the end of get out of class at noon. The children stood up and saluted, and then dispersed in a hurry after Zhao Xin, Shen Xuan and others gave the order to "end get out of class".
"Teacher Shen, do you want to have lunch together?" Zhao Xin approached with a smile and asked.
"No, no. Aunt Di is going to the clinic in the afternoon, and I have to go back quickly." Shen Xuan lowered her head, blushed and walked away quickly.
After half a day of class, I am teasing the little girl. Life should not be too beautiful~~
After a quick lunch, Zhao Xin went to the other side of the river to find Zhao Liang.
Zhao Liang has been trying to make saltpeter these days and has failed several times. He hadn't bothered to have lunch yet and was busy with a young man.
The young man's name is Zhang Fang, a nineteen-year-old native of Haizhou, Jiangsu Province. He was once a prisoner of the Qing army. Before being exiled to Ninggu Pagoda, his family had a fireworks workshop.
Zhao Xin discovered him a few days ago when he was looking through the prisoners' interrogation records. When asked if he knew how to make gunpowder, Zhang Fang said that he had done it several times with his father seven or eight years ago. The most important thing is that Lu Shoushan said that he knew Zhang Fang when he was in Ninggu Pagoda and said that he was an honest man. Since there was Lu Shoushan's guarantee, Zhao Xin transferred Zhang Fang from the labor reform team and sent him to the workshop.
What I didn't expect was that Zhang Fang was also a second-hand swordsman. When he was at home, he just collected human urine and made plant ash with his father. The specific production was done by his father alone.
Although he didn't know how to make gunpowder, Zhao Liang saw that this young man was very honest and meticulous in his work, so he did not let him go back to the labor camp.
Zhao Liang's family is in the countryside, and he had heard people talk about how to collect soil saltpeter before. But I heard that getting started on your own are completely different things. Ancient folk pyrotechnics craftsmen generally used plant ash, quicklime and collected human urine to make saltpetre, and mixed and fermented it to obtain white saltpeter crystals. Some craftsmen living in the north will also scrape the surface layer of soil in saline-alkali lands, mix it with water, heat it and evaporate it, and they can also obtain low-purity yellow soil nitrate. This kind of soil saltpeter is fine for making fireworks and firecrackers, but it is too far behind to make black powder.
In fact, Zhao Xin could buy black powder or yellow explosives, but he felt that everything could not be solved by purchasing them from another time and space. He still had to master the production methods in the eighteenth century. There will be too many places where gunpowder is needed in the future. In addition to fighting, it will be used in large quantities to open mountains and build roads; and the technology tree will eventually have to be climbed.
The gunpowder making workshop is more than a mile away from the cigarette workshop. The main reason is that the large vats of fermented urine are so stinky!
Zhao Xin walked over holding his nose and said angrily: "Good guy! The smell is quite strong!"
"Hey, Mr. Zhao is here to inspect again. I said it's not annoying for you to come here every day." Zhao Liang wore an industrial gas mask and spoke in a loud voice.
"I have something else to do with you. I have to go back in two days. What other tools do you need here?"
"Then buy a few more sets of boring tools and milling cutters for processing the barrel and runner. The previous model is not hard enough. I will write you a list later." Zhao Liang, in addition to taking Zhang Fang to make saltpeter these days, The remaining time is to make a revolver according to the drawings and antique sample guns given to him by Zhao Xin.
Taking into account the problem that modern bullets cannot be produced for the time being, Zhao Xin chose the Colt 1851 Navy revolver. The bullets used in this gun are lead 5.2-gram spherical projectiles or 7.1-gram conical projectiles, and the propellant is black powder. With the exception of the torch, which had to be purchased separately from another time and place, all other materials could be found in the 18th century.
Although it is a little troublesome to reload each time; the gunpowder gas leaks when firing, and the high-heat airflow that will be ejected may burn your hands, but after all, this is a weapon that can shoot six times in succession across time and space. The muzzle velocity of Type 1851 is 256 meters per second. When fighting or guarding against wild beasts, it has a very good killing effect within fifty meters.
"How many have you made now?"
"I made three of them, tried firing them several times, and still had to make changes."
The two of them walked along the path towards the workshop, with Zhang Fang following from a distance.
"I heard how many blacksmiths are among the prisoners?"
"Yes, there are three of them. They all repair muskets and bows with the army."
"Then I'll go check out the labor camp in the afternoon. If it works, I'll transfer him to the workshop."
"You'd better go to Katayama about this matter first and read their interrogation records beforehand."
The two talked as they walked, and soon arrived at the cigarette workshop. Zhao Liang took Zhang Fang to have lunch, while Zhao Xin went into the workshop to check on the progress.
He called the person in charge of the cigarette workshop, asked about the situation, and looked through the records made by Zhao Liang. From the time they sent Shen Jingdan away until now, 200,000 cigarettes and thousands of cigarette boxes have been produced; the progress is pretty good.
Deng Fei and Liu Sheng took Jiuzang's company to Ezo to see if there was anyone in Tuka who needed help. As for dispatching troops to station, Zhao Xin thought it would be better to wait until the first phase of training was completed. Wang Yuanfang mentioned to Zhao Xin yesterday that even if this batch of 2,000 recruits completes the first phase of training, they are still far from qualified soldiers.
Zhao Xin's daily life now consists of running and exercising with the soldiers in the morning, and then attending classes until noon; after lunch, he takes Lu Shoushan to inspect various construction sites in Beihai Town, and handles some difficult matters along the way.
Sometimes he would sneak back to another time and space and call his parents to check on his health. There was a phone number that he hesitated several times whether to delete or not, but finally gave up.
Ten days later, Liu Sheng and Deng Fei returned from Ezo.
According to the reports from Liu Sheng and Jiuzang, the progress on Tuka's side is very good.
After receiving the gift from Sakawabe, the leader of the Sapporo tribe has agreed to send people to follow and protect the team of "Beihai Trading Company" when passing through the Sapporo tribe on their way to Beisenzhou. However, the tax office set up by the Matsumae clan in the Sapporo tribe is still there, and I heard from Tuka that a lot of manpower has been mobilized.
Yubari and Ishikari also received replies from the two tribes. The other side agreed that Tuka would exchange grain and iron tools for the mining rights of local coal mines; they also put forward specific remuneration requirements for members of their own tribes to participate in coal mining.
The first exploration team of fifty people sent by Denzo Katsuyama and Jiroemon Murata has arrived in Sagawa by boat. Among the fifty people, only three were responsible for exploration, and the rest were all ronin warriors and craftsmen they hired. These people have established warehouses in Sagawa and exchanged the Katsuyama's sake with the local Ainu people for leather goods and wood.
Liu Sheng's final opinion was to fight a battle and completely drive all the Matsumae clan back to the Toshima Peninsula, otherwise there would be no telling how much trouble would be caused in the future. Zhao Xin calculated the time carefully and found that there was still more than a month before leaving for Flower and Bird Island to deliver goods, so the time was almost enough.
So he asked Liu Sheng to go to Wang Yuanfang and the others to formulate a battle plan. If a war begins with the Matsumae Domain this time, troops will inevitably be stationed in Ezo; and outposts and military stations will also be built in the plains to protect the coal transportation routes.
What Zhao Xin didn't know was that because they bombarded Matsumae Castle, the death of Matsumae Michhiro had spread throughout the Kanto and Mutsu areas.
After receiving the news, the shogunate was shocked and temporarily suspended the "Ezo Exploration Plan" originally planned for February next year. After the detailed information of the Nagasaki incident was transmitted back to Edo, some interested people in the shogunate had already considered the two incidents of Matsumae Castle and Nagasaki together.
In real history, because the Matsumae clan had evil intentions and wanted to monopolize control of the Ezo Territory, it had always hindered the actions of the shogunate's exploration team.
At that time, Tsarist Russia had already intended to invade the south. Under such a critical situation, Matsumae Domain has been delaying the survey process for various reasons during the exploration process, and encouraged the shogunate feudal lords to retreat due to poor weather conditions.
The shogunate's exploration team knew almost nothing about the geography and climate of Ezo. Under the intimidation of the Matsumae clan's mischievous advisers, they had to end the exploration, and finally gave up the idea of crossing the sea north to land on Kata Island (ie Sakhalin Island). plan and hastily withdrew from the mainland.
Three days later, Liu Sheng threw the battle plan on Zhao Xin's table. When Zhao Xin saw the words "Across the North Sea 1784" on the cover, he couldn't help but curiously joked: "What does this mean?"
"Let this puppet army of yours gain some knowledge." Liu Sheng said proudly.
"This action codename is named according to our army's military exercise codename rules. The composition format of our army's exercise codename is in the order of 'theme, time, location, stage'. For example, crossing means that it is a cross-over War zone, and an operation to test the mobility of the troops at the same time. As for the plan, we named it according to the three stages A, B, and C."
Zhao Xin asked curiously: "Why can't you come up with something exciting, such as a storm like the old Americans?"
Liu Sheng gave Zhao Xin two "mothballs" and said disdainfully: "Bah! As a former People's Liberation Army soldier, you ask me to use the old and American naming rules? That's an insult to me!"
Well, Zhao Xin has nothing to say. Just take the leap, and it will sound good if you taste it carefully. So he continued to read the contents inside.
This "Across the North Sea 1784" action plan is divided into three stages. Since the current total strength of Beihai Town is only 2,000 people, this operation will use seven companies, that is, two battalions and six companies, plus a reinforced company of 150 people.
The commander-in-chief of the operation is Zhao Xin, the deputy commanders-in-chief are Liu Sheng and Wang Yuanfang, and Deng Fei is responsible for the maritime fire support; Chen Qingsong sent an engineering logistics team of 1,000 people; Hong Tao sent a medical team to accompany the army (all It’s female.)
(End of chapter)
