"A sneeze! A sneeze..." Zhao Xin, who was teaching the children, suddenly felt his nose itchy and sneezed several times. "Who is talking about me?" He took out a handkerchief and wiped his nose. While squinting at 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 was only about twenty meters away from Shen Xuan. Looking from the side, he was wearing a cotton-padded cap. Apart from Shen Xuan's bright and charming face, nothing can be seen about the curves of her figure.
"It's boring!" Zhao Xin thought to himself.
Shen Xuan, who was writing, turned around and saw Zhao Xin lowering his head and 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 was furious when she saw those "simplified characters" that had been deleted from the textbook that Zhao Xin gave her. Can they still be called characters?
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 admired Zhao Xin very much, and even had some feelings of worship.
In the history of later generations, when the literacy movement reached its peak and achieved the most significant effects in the late 1950s, 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. Gao. 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. Using Hanyu Pinyin to read and write, Wanrong County can learn Chinese in 100 hours. Literate 1,500 characters. In the 1960s, the national literacy campaign was about to come 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 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" takes eighteen strokes to write in traditional Chinese. , there are only four strokes in simplified Chinese characters. Even if Zhao Xin could write, there were sixteen classes in his area at the time, and he would not be able to lift his wrist even after writing for a whole day.
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 He began to teach them basic mathematics, physics and chemistry. He planned to start junior high school training after these children mastered 2,500 Chinese characters.
It's time to find a teacher.
Zhao Xin's math is okay, 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 go back to modern times and ask his cousin to help with this matter. He still used the old method of recruiting online. With more than a thousand children, he had to find (tie) fifty teachers no matter what, even if they were just graduated normal school students. OK.
"Teacher, are you feeling uncomfortable?" Eight-year-old Xu Shounan saw Zhao Xin sneezing and couldn't help but raise his hand and asked.
"Teacher, I'll just go find A Miao and give you an injection." 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 rush after Zhao Xin, Shen Xuan and others gave the "end of get out of class" order one after another.
"Teacher Shen, do you want to have lunch together?" Zhao Xin approached with a smile and asked.
"No, I can't. 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 has not bothered to have lunch and is 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.
A few days ago, Zhao Xin discovered him when he was looking through the prisoners' interrogation records. When he asked if he could 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 He said that he knew Zhang Fang when he was in Ninggu Pagoda and said that he was an honest man. Since he had Lu Shoushan's guarantee, Zhao Xin took Zhang Fang out of 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 only collected human urine with his father and made plant ash. 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 didn't let him go back to the labor camp.
Zhao Liang's family is in the countryside. He had heard people talk about how to collect and make saltpeter before. But he heard that it was completely different from making it himself. Ancient folk pyrotechnics craftsmen usually used plant ash, quicklime and collected human urine to make saltpeter. Mix and ferment to obtain white soil nitrate crystals. Some craftsmen living in the north will also scrape the surface of the soil in the saline-alkali land, and then mix the water with heat and evaporate to obtain low-purity yellow soil nitrate. This kind of soil nitrate is used for It's okay to make fireworks and firecrackers, but it's too far behind to make black powder.
In fact, Zhao Xin can definitely buy black gunpowder or yellow explosive, but he feels that everything cannot be solved by purchasing it from another time and space. He still has to master the production method in the 18th century. There will be too many places that will need gunpowder in the future. , in addition to fighting, they must 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 told you to come here every day, don't worry." 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 gun barrels and runner. The previous models are not hard enough. I will write you a list later." Zhao Liang, in addition to taking Zhang Fang to make clay salt these days,
The remaining time is to make a revolver based on the drawings and antique sample guns given to him by Zhao Xin.
Taking into account the problem that modern bullets are temporarily unavailable, Zhao Xin chose the Colt 1851 Navy revolver. The bullets used in this gun are lead-made 5.2-gram spherical projectiles or 7.1-gram conical projectiles.
Black gunpowder is used for medicine. Except for the torch, which needs to be purchased separately from another time and space, other materials can 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 cross-time and space weapon that can fire six times in a row. The muzzle velocity of the 1851 type 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 been 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 to now, 200,000 cigarettes have been produced, and thousands of cigarette cases have been made; progress.
It's ok.
Deng Fei and Liu Sheng took Jiuzang's company to Ezo Land to see if there was anyone in Tuka who needed help. As for sending 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. Sometimes he will sneak back to another place.
Time and space, call your parents to inquire about your health.
Ten days later, Liu Sheng and Deng Fei returned from Ezo. According to the reports from Liu Sheng and Jiuzang, we learned that the progress on Tuka was very good.
After receiving the gift from Sakawabe, the leader of the Sapporo tribe has agreed that in the future, when the team of "Hokkai Trading Co., Ltd." passes through the Sapporo tribe and goes to North Senzhou, he will send people to follow and protect him. However, the tax office of the Matsumae clan in the Sapporo tribe is still there.
I heard from Tuka that a lot of manpower was 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 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 these fifty people, only three are responsible for the exploration, and the rest are all ronin samurai and warriors they hired.
Craftsmen. These people have built warehouses in Sagawa and exchanged the Katsuyama's sake with the local Ainu for leather goods and wood.
Liu Sheng's last suggestion 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 there would be in the future. Zhao Xin carefully calculated the time and left for Flower and Bird Island now.
There is still more than a month left for delivery, so there is almost enough time.
So he asked Liu Sheng to go to Wang Yuanfang and the others to formulate a battle plan. If there was a fight with Matsumae Domain this time, then troops would have to be stationed in Ezo, and outposts and military stations would also be built in the plain area to protect the coal.
transportation routes.
What Zhao Xin didn't know was that because they bombarded Matsumae Castle, the news of Matsumae Michhiro's death 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 to be carried out in February next year. After the detailed information of the Nagasaki incident was transmitted back to Edo, some interested people in the shogunate had already removed Matsumae Castle.
These two events were considered together with Nagasaki.
In real history, because the Matsumae clan had evil intentions and wanted to monopolize control of the Ezo Territory, it 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, the Matsumae Domain had 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 going north to cross the sea to land on Kata Island (ie Sakhalin Island).
The plan was hastily withdrawn from the mainland.
Three days later, Liu Sheng threw the battle plan on Zhao Xin's desk. 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?"
"I'll give you, a fan of the puppet army, some knowledge." Liu Sheng said proudly.
"This operation 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 PLA soldier, you want me to use the old and American naming rules? That's an insult to me!"
Well, Zhao Xin had nothing to say. Just cross it, it would be nice to taste it carefully. So he continued to read the contents inside.
This "Across the 1784 North Sea" 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 one
Reinforced company of 150 men.
The general commander of the operation is Zhao Xin, the deputy commanders 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