It was unprecedented for Zhao Xin to personally take charge of the training base, which made everyone in Beihai Town nervous. This winter, in addition to the docks and workshops, the entire Beihai Town suddenly turned into a large military camp, with more than half of the population, men, women, old and young, surrounding the training base.
What many people don’t expect is that with large numbers of men being drafted into the military, many jobs are now being done by women. For example, in the cigarette factory headed by Shino, there are now only a group of old men in their fifties and sixties and a large number of women; in the newly established quilt factory and match factory, not even a man can be seen.
In modern history, except for wars that overwhelm the country, the proportion of limited conscription is 2.5 per thousand. If you recruit according to this ratio, it will generally be a high-quality and strong population and will not cause adverse effects on society; extensive recruitment is almost 5%, although the expansion of recruitment has led to a decline in the quality of military personnel, a lengthening of the training cycle, and an impact on industry and agriculture. It’s not a big problem either.
But a recruitment ratio like "drawing one out of five" is life-threatening. Once you lose, it's all over. At present, Beihai Town is basically between "seven draws and one" and "six draws and one".
Zhao Xin has two purposes. First, there are too few industrial workers in Beihai Town, only a thousand in total, and the remaining tens of thousands are agricultural workers; secondly, and the most core purpose, Zhao Xin wants to release women from housework through conscription.
The immigrants in Beihai Town are all based on family units, and women account for more than half of the current population of 50,000 to 60,000. In addition to helping with sowing and harvesting during the busy farming season, these people spend most of their time on the stove and the edge of the kang.
After setting up the logistics headquarters, Zhao Xin's second measure was launched. He set up "suggestion boxes" throughout the training base and informed the entire army that problems and opinions during training can be appealed through the "suggestion boxes" at any time.
It's a good idea, but the problem is how dare these guys who led the Qing Dynasty to rule the people last year and the year before last dare! So after a month or two, except for a few who took advantage of the darkness and no one noticed to insert a note, most of the "suggestion boxes" had no other use than eating dirt. But that’s all for another day.
In October, Liu Sheng was sent to Fuldan City to take charge. Sheng Haizhou, Hu Ji and other regimental and battalion-level officers all returned to Beihai Town to participate in a seven-day crash course. Zhao Xin planned to select suitable candidates from these people and set up the airs of the Beihai Town General Staff Headquarters first.
The schedule of the first batch of training officers is as follows: get up at 5:30 in the morning and go out for exercise, and run five kilometers around the large playground of the training base; bring them back before 6:30, organize housework and have breakfast; start physical fitness and queue at 8:00 Training; meal at twelve o'clock; class starts at one-thirty in the afternoon.
In order to set an example, Zhao Xin had to ask the orderly to wake him up every day, otherwise he would really not be able to get up! As a result, Zhao Xin almost broke his intestines after running five kilometers on the first day. After running for four or five days in a row, I gradually got used to it. It's easy to talk about setting an example, but you really have to participate personally. Only you know the pain and suffering.
Zhao Xindu participated in the drill in person, and those battalion-level officers who originally wanted to be lazy did not dare to slack off anymore, and returned to their original days of being the leading soldiers.
Just a few days after the training class started, there was a lot of discussion among the recruits. They originally thought that the officials in Beihai Town were like the officers who led the Qing Dynasty. They enjoyed themselves and were beaten to death by their subordinates. Who would have thought that the officers would get up earlier than them every day and eat three meals a day in the large canteen of the training base. They would eat whatever they wanted and the officers would eat, without even a bottle of wine. This made many recruits from Henan stare blankly.
The courses and teaching materials of the training class were all extracted by Zhao Xin from military textbooks from another time and space. An outline was distributed before class every day, and everyone had to take notes.
After spending a day explaining the purpose of war, what is national liberation and other broad concepts, starting from the second day, Zhao Xin's course entered the substantive stage, and Wang, who was freed from heavy logistical affairs, Yuanfang and Wu Siyu also took advantage of their free time and ran over to listen.
"In terms of strategy, no matter how advantageous the offense is, during the entire war, no party can attack endlessly. No one in the world dares to say that only offense can not defend. Then defense can be divided into inert defense and active defense. ..."
In the classroom, everyone except Zhao Xin, who was standing in front, was immersed in taking notes.
"Therefore, a qualified general must master the transition between offense and defense, especially seize the initiative on the battlefield during defensive operations."
Zhao Xin put down the chalk in his hand and said to everyone in the room: "Take a ten-minute break now, and continue to talk about military operations research in the next hour."
In setting up the course of military operations research, Zhao Xin actually wanted to cultivate and discover junior staff talents. If we really talked about "operations research" step by step, everyone present would probably be blinded.
For these guys who only have elementary school mathematics level, linear programming, integer programming, etc. are completely equivalent to the Bible. Except for Zhao Xin himself who is enjoying himself on the podium, others may not understand a word.
Therefore, Zhao Xin can only talk about Tian Ji's horse racing, Cao GUI's debate, the Battle of Maling, etc. from cases, and then make a detailed analysis based on Sun Tzu's Art of War and Tang Shunzhi's "Martial Arts". After each class, students were assigned homework to write their own analysis of the cases discussed. When we return to the dormitory in the evening, we will have group discussions.
In short, with the beginning of the first short-term officer training class, the prototype of a modern army began to slowly take shape in Beihai Town.
There’s a long way to go!
By mid-October, it was snowing heavily in Beihai Town. A group of battalion and regiment-level officers who completed their training returned to their respective units after completing their exams, and then replaced the next wave of deputies to continue their classes. Those who failed the exam were retained and continued to participate in the next training class.
As expected, Sheng Haizhou was retained. Among the people who participated in the first training session, he was the only one who could barely meet the qualifications of a staff officer. He has read books, worked as an accountant for the feudal lord, and fought in several battles; as for the others, they haven’t even learned all the words yet!
What surprised Zhao Xin the most was that the children in the Junior Military Academy were all very curious about knowledge. According to the evaluation of later generations, these children have just completed the fourth grade of elementary school, but they are just ordinary people and can barely use them.
So Sheng Haizhou took a dozen and a half-year-old men with him every day and began the arduous process of forming the staff of the Northern Navy.
Since you want to be a consultant, you must first have a map, otherwise you won’t even be able to do map work. Sheng Haizhou really couldn't get over this matter. He went to Zhao Xin and asked for help, and Zhao Xin recommended a person to him-Lin Ziping.
It is said that although Zhao Xin has a map of later generations in his hand, he does not want to take it out. Firstly, the topography above has undergone many changes. Secondly, it is not enough to always use ready-made things from another time and space. Beihai Town must have its own measurement team.
Let’s talk about Lin Ziping. Because of his solid sinology foundation, the old man took Sato Shinbuchi to study Mandarin for more than ten days and was able to conduct some simple conversations.
But when Sheng Haizhou came to see him, the old man fell silent when he heard that he was making a map.
"I can't do this alone. It requires someone who is proficient in astronomy and calendar. If Zhao Dian can support all the people, I estimate that it will take several years to complete this matter."
Sheng Haizhou rolled his eyes when he heard this. How many years? ! The cucumber vegetables are cold!
He had heard of Lin Ziping's name a long time ago. At this time, he behaved like a primary school student. He bowed and asked: "Can you please explain me, sir?"
"A few years ago, I told Noichi Matsuoka and Noritsu Asada about this. We all hope to make a new national map. The problem is that the observation equipment is insufficient. If it is a simple ground measurement, the farther away it is, the greater the error will be. Mr. Asada’s opinion is that it is best to measure the distance on the ground through observations of Beichen.”
Lin Ziping The two people mentioned above were both mathematicians and astronomers in the mid-Edo period. As for measuring the height of Beichen, we actually need to observe the height of the North Pole and then calculate the latitude of the earth.
These are all divine horses and divine horses! But when Sheng Haizhou went back to report the problem to Zhao Xin, Zhao Xin laughed. He then found a piece of white paper, thought for a while, then scribbled a few lines on it, then put it in an envelope and asked Sheng Haizhou to take it to Lin Ziping.
When Sheng Haizhou handed Zhao Xin's letter to Lin Ziping, the old man opened the letter and was stunned!
"A line of monks have clouds. The length of the north and south poles is 80,000 and 18 miles, and one mile is 500 meters long in Beihai Town. The length of the equator is 80,000 and 152 meters. One degree of latitude is about 222 miles. One minute is about 1,850 meters.”
"This..." Lin Ziping stood there for a long time, then suddenly grabbed Sheng Haizhou's arm and asked excitedly: "Where is Zhao Dian? I want to see him right away!"
Was it difficult to measure longitude and latitude in ancient times? It’s quite difficult! When a group of monks organized a geodetic survey in the Tang Dynasty, they sent a total of thirteen people to the southwest of Kulun in the north and to central Annan in the south. In addition to the surveying and mapping team, Chang'an City also has a dedicated group of people to calculate the data sent from various places.
The island country's most famous late Edo scholar, Ino Tadayaka, spent eighteen years and ten measurements, claiming to have walked 40 million steps, throughout the entire island country in order to create a high-precision national map. The surveying and mapping data took twenty-one years from the first observation to the final map.
Since the occupation of Fuldan City, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has actually lost almost all of its jurisdiction over the east of Fuldan City. Therefore, in terms of the occupied area, the outer northeast plus Kuye Island and Ezo Land, the actual area is larger than the island country. big.
Lin Ziping said that it would take a few years to get all the manpower ready, and that was the best estimate. If there are insufficient measuring tools, it may not be possible to complete it in more than ten years!
Moreover, after measuring the plane distance, there is also elevation measurement! You said this mountain is 500 meters high. Why? ! Don't talk about the cliff. How many feet is it? If I can't tell you, I can't get up...
Some people say altitude. This is very easy. You only need to measure the vertical distance from the point to the sea level.
What? Do you want to measure altitude? Which sea level is it? How do you measure how many thousands of kilometers away from the sea Daxinganling is?
Moreover, the waves on the sea are floating, and the sea level is also swaying...
In fact, the theoretical resting sea level cannot be measured at all. Hence the concept of mean sea level, which can be measured by tide gauges.
Once we get the mean sea level data, can we measure the altitude?
Not yet. In terms of elevation alone, there are orthometric height, normal height, and geodetic height, which correspond to the geoid, pseudo-geoid, and reference ellipsoid respectively.
why? Because there is an angle between the plumb line from a certain point to the geoid and the geoid (gravity line), and there is also an angle from this point to the reference ellipsoid.
To put it simply, the geodetic height is equal to the normal height plus or minus the geoid gap, or the geodetic height is equal to the normal height plus or minus the elevation anomaly.
So you know why modern countries have a Bureau of Surveying and Mapping. The altitude mentioned in later generations in China was measured through the 1985 National Elevation Benchmark Elevation System, based on the sea level data of the Yellow Sea.
Altitude, altitude, longitude and latitude are all related to military affairs, ranging from mortars to scale parameters of howitzers and rocket launchers. If you don't have this foundation, you can add rifles to Xiaomi, and then build a few front-loading smoothbore cannons!
Therefore, the essential artifact for time travel is not soap steelmaking or system robots, but mathematics. At worst, if you fail to rebel, you can still go to Qintian Prison to make a living, or at worst, you can become a bookkeeper.
Of course, Sheng Haizhou couldn't take Lin Ziping to the training base on the east coast. Instead, he reported to Zhao Xin using a magnet phone. Two hours later, Zhao Xin brought the military students under Sheng Haizhou to Lin Ziping's residence.
Lin Ziping couldn't wait to ask as soon as they met: "Zhao Wangdian, do the masters of the Tang Dynasty already know the exact length of the North and South Poles? Why haven't I seen it when I looked through the classics before?" The old man followed him. I have read through the "Collection of Ancient and Modern Books" bought in the Qing Dynasty.
"Royal secrets." Zhao Xin blocked Lin Ziping's question with one sentence. Of course he can't say that he calculated the length of the prime meridian, the equator and the latitude by himself. This is too ridiculous! In front of a geographer like Lin Ziping, just a few questions will reveal everything.
Since Zhao Xin's excuse was that it was a secret treasure of the former Ming Dynasty royal family, everything can be explained easily, and Lin Ziping did not dare to say that he borrowed it casually for reading.
At this time, I only heard Zhao Xindao: "I also wrote down this book when I was reading it accidentally when I was a child. Later, it was changed and changed, and the original book has been lost."
"Oh!" Lin Ziping was heartbroken, shaking his head repeatedly and sighing that it was a pity.
Zhao Xin smiled and said: "The data I wrote must be exactly the same as the original book. Mr. Lin can measure and verify it on the spot. In this way, will the production time of the Beihai Town map be accelerated?"
Lin Ziping calmed down, thought for a while and said: "If the measurement numbers are correct, the only thing left is to send out a survey team to check and record the terrain of various places. If you calculate this, it can be completed in one year."
"No, I will send four times the manpower to sir. How long will it take?"
"The mountains are now blocked by heavy snow. If we set out in spring, it will take half a year."
"Okay!" Zhao Xin slapped the table and said to the dozen students he brought with him: "Bring the things here."
Soon, the floor and tables in the room were filled with various instruments and tools, and Zhao Xin introduced them to Lin Ziping one by one. What sextant, level, level rod, spirit level, protractor, and a small astronomical telescope.
In fact, levels, leveling rods and spirit levels have been used in the civil affairs system of Beihai Town from the beginning. Without this, the construction team can only measure based on experience and plumb bobs, and the error will be very large. The rough small map made in Fuldan City last year was also completed using these tools.
"Mr. Lin, please familiarize yourself with how to use these equipment first. If you don't understand, you can ask a few teachers at the school. They are actually more proficient than me. After Zhengdan, the position of director of the Beihai Town Surveying and Mapping Department will be yours. Got it!"
