Chapter 281 Officer Training Course and Map Production
It was unprecedented for Zhao Xin to personally take charge of the training base, which made Beihai Town tense. This winter, in addition to the docks and workshops, the entire Beihai Town suddenly became a large military camp, with more than half of the population of men, women, old and children.
Walking around the training base.
With a large number of men being drafted into the army, many jobs are now done by women. For example, the cigarette factory headed by Shino now only has a group of old men in their 50s and 60s and a large number of women; the newly established clothing factories and match factories are even more
Not even a man can be seen.
In modern and modern countries in history, except for wars that overwhelm the country, the ratio of limited conscription is 2.5 per 1,000. According to this ratio, the population will generally be high-quality and strong and will not have a negative impact on society; for widespread conscription, the ratio is almost 5 per 1,000.
Although the expansion of recruitment has led to a decline in the quality of military personnel and a lengthening of the training cycle, the impact on industry and agriculture is not a big problem.
However, a recruitment ratio like "drawing one out of five" is a life-threatening situation. Once you lose, it will be completely over. Beihai Town is currently between "drawing one out of seven" and "drawing one out of six".
Zhao Xin has two purposes. First, there are too few industrial workers in Beihai Town, with a total of only a thousand people, and the remaining tens of thousands are agricultural residents. The second and most core purpose is that Zhao Xin wants to recruit soldiers through conscription.
Women are freed from housework.
The immigrants in Beihai Town are all based on family units. Among the current population of nearly 100,000, adult women account for one-third. Apart from helping with sowing and harvesting during the busy farming season, these people spend most of their time working in the kitchen.
Go up to the stage and the edge of the Kang. It is really a huge waste to continue like this!
After setting up the Logistics Command, Zhao Xin's second measure was launched. He set up "opinion boxes" throughout the training base and informed the entire army. Problems and opinions during the training could be raised through the "opinion boxes" at any time.
Box” complaint.
The idea was good, but the problem was that how dare these guys who led the docile people under the Qing rule last year and the year before that dared! So after a month or two, except for a few who took advantage of the dark and no one paid attention to insert a note, most of the "suggestion boxes"
"It has no other use than eating dirt. But that's a story for another day.
In October, Liu Sheng was sent to Fuldan City to take charge. Sheng Haizhou, Hu Ji and other regiment and battalion-level officers all returned to Beihai Town to participate in a seven-day crash course. Zhao Xin was going to select suitable candidates from these people and bring them to the army.
The Beihai Town General Staff Headquarters was put up 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, 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 training at 8:00
; Dinner is served at twelve o'clock; classes begin at one-thirty in the afternoon; dinner is served at six o'clock in the evening, group study and review are held from seven-thirty to nine-thirty; lights are turned off at ten o'clock and go to bed.
In order to set an example, Zhao Xin had to ask the orderly to wake him up every day, otherwise he would 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, he gradually got used to it.
It's easy to talk about setting an example, but you have to personally participate. 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 thought that the officers in Beihai Town were like the officers who led the Qing Dynasty. They enjoyed themselves and the others were beaten to death. Who would have thought that the officers would be compared with each other every day?
They were still early, and they ate three meals a day in the large dining hall of the training base. They ate whatever they wanted, and the officers ate whatever they wanted. They didn't even have a bottle of wine. This made many recruits from Henan Province stare.
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 the 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 beneficial the attack is, no party can attack endlessly throughout the war. No one in the world dares to say that they can only attack but not defend. Then defense can be divided into inert defense and active defense.
....."
In the classroom, except for Zhao Xin who was standing in front, everyone 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."
Zhao Xin actually wanted to cultivate and discover junior staff personnel talents by offering a course in military operations research. If he were to teach "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, no one else can understand a word of it.
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 "Wu Bian". He also has to assign homework after each class.
, you have to write your own analysis of the cases that you have talked about, and you have to discuss them in groups when you go back to the dormitory in the evening.
In short, with the beginning of the first short-term officer training course, the prototype of a modern army began to slowly take shape in Beihai Town.
There’s a long way to go!
In mid-October, it snowed heavily in Beihai Town. A group of battalion and regiment-level officers who had 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.
After that, continue to participate in the next training class.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Sheng Haizhou was left behind as expected. Among the people who participated in the first training period, he was the only one who could barely meet the conditions of a staff officer. He had read books and had been a feudal lord.
The accountant has fought in several battles; as for the others, they haven’t learned all the words yet!
What surprised Zhao Xin the most was that the children in the Youth Military Academy were all very curious about knowledge. According to the evaluation of later generations, these children had just completed the fourth grade of elementary school courses, but at the moment they were just generals, and could barely use them.
So Sheng Haizhou started the arduous process of forming the Northern Navy staff team with a dozen and a half-year-old men every day.
Since he wanted to be a consultant, he had to have a map first, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to do the map homework. Sheng Haizhou really couldn't handle this, so he went to Zhao Xin to ask for help, and Zhao Xin recommended a person to him - Lin Ziping.
It is said that although Zhao Xin has the map of later generations in his hand, he does not want to take it out. First, the topography above has undergone many changes. Second, 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 he has a solid foundation in Sinology, the old man took Sato Shinbuchi to the Mandarin training class 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 this will take several years to complete."
Sheng Haizhou rolled his eyes when he heard this. How many years?! The cucumbers and vegetables have become cold!
He had heard of Lin Ziping's name a long time ago. At this time, he behaved like a primary school student, bowing and asking: "Can you please explain me, sir?"
"A few years ago, I told Matsuoka Noichi and Asada Taketachi 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.
According to Mr. O. Asada, it is best to measure the distance on the ground through the observation of Beichen."
Lin Ziping The two people mentioned above were both mathematicians and astronomers in the mid-Edo period. As for observing the North Star, it actually means measuring the latitude of the earth by observing the height and angle of the North Star.
This is all amazing! When the confused 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, and scribbled a few lines on it.
words, 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? Quite difficult! When a group of monks organized a geodetic survey in the Tang Dynasty, they sent a total of thirteen people, ranging from the southwest of Kulun in the north to central Annan in the south. In addition to the surveying and mapping team, Chang'an City also had a dedicated
A group of people perform calculations on data sent from various places.
In order to create a high-precision national map, Ino Tadayaka, a scholar in the late Edo period of the island country, spent eighteen years, took ten measurements, and claimed to have walked 40 million steps throughout the island country to obtain all the surveying and mapping data.
It 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 actual area of the outer northeast plus Kuye Island and Ezo Land is larger than that of the island country.
big.
Lin Ziping said that with all the manpower available, it would take several years, which is the best estimate. If there are insufficient measurement tools, it may not be completed in more than ten years!
Moreover, after measuring the plane distance, there is still an elevation measurement! Why do you say this mountain is 500 meters high? Don’t talk about the cliff. How many feet is it? If you can’t tell me, I won’t be able to roll...
Some people talk about altitude. This is very easy. You only need to measure the vertical distance from the point to the sea level.
What? You want to measure the altitude? Which sea level is it? How do you measure it when Daxinganling is thousands of kilometers away from the sea?
Moreover, the waves on the sea are floating, and the sea level is also swaying...
In fact, the theoretical static sea level cannot be measured at all. Therefore, the concept of mean sea level has emerged, and this mean sea level can be measured by tide gauges.
Can we measure altitude once we get the mean sea level data?
Not yet. In terms of elevation alone, there are orthometric height, normal height, and geodetic height, which respectively correspond to the geoid, geoid, and reference ellipsoid.
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 difference, or the geodetic height is equal to the normal height plus or minus the elevation anomaly.
So you know why modern countries have the Department of Surveying and Mapping. The altitude mentioned in later generations in China was measured through the 1985 National Elevation Baseline Elevation System, based on the data of the Yellow Sea sea level.
Altitude, altitude, longitude and latitude are all related to the military, ranging from mortars to howitzers and rocket launcher scale parameters. Without this foundation, you can just add rifles to Xiaomi, and then build a few front-loading smoothbore cannons!
Therefore, the essential artifact for time travel is not soap-making, nor is it a system robot, but mathematics. At worst, you can fail to rebel, but you can still go to Qintian Prison to make a living, or at the worst, you can become a bookkeeper.
Of course, Sheng Haizhou could not take Lin Ziping to the training base on the east coast. Instead, he used a magnet phone to report to Zhao Xin. Two hours later, Zhao Xin took 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" purchased in the Qing Dynasty.
"Royal secrets." Zhao Xin blocked Lin Ziping's questions with one sentence. Of course he couldn't say that he calculated the length of the prime meridian, the equator and the latitude by himself. This was too ridiculous! In Lin Ziping's case,
In front of such a geographer, a few questions will reveal everything. Since Zhao Xin's excuse is that it was a secret collection of the imperial family of the former Ming Dynasty, everything can be explained easily, and Lin Ziping did not dare to say that he borrowed it casually to read.
What's funny is that Zhao Xin didn't know that the real royal secrets of this era were actually in the House of Internal Affairs of the Qing Dynasty.
During the Kangxi period, the Qing government spent ten years surveying the land's longitude and latitude across the country, and finally completed the "Comprehensive Map of the Imperial Map". Because the Qing government was at war with Galdan at that time, the westernmost part of the map only reached
Hami, Xinjiang.
During the Qianlong period, as the war between the Junggar tribe and the southern part of the Tianshan Mountains subsided, the entire territory of Xinjiang was finally included in the territory and a unified country was formed. So starting from the 21st year of Qianlong, the Qing government began to conduct geodetic surveys of the Yili area. In the 24th year of Qianlong's reign,
The survey of the Huibu area was also completed. Through these two measurements, about 90 longitude and latitude data were obtained from the west of Hami to the east and south of Balkhash Lake.
In the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong's reign, the Jesuit priest Jiang Youren made modifications based on the data from these two measurements, based on Kangxi's "Comprehensive Map of the Imperial Palace", and then referred to the longitude and latitude data of Central Asia provided by missionary Song Junrong, and drew
The huge "Thirteen Rows of Pictures of Qianlong" was later divided into 104 copper plates, each of which was 71 cm long and 46.2 cm wide.
This picture was printed only once in the entire Qing Dynasty. One hundred copies were printed and collected in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Qianlong only used it for personal reference and never showed it to others.
Lin Ziping heard Zhao Xindao: "I also wrote down this book when I was looking through it accidentally when I was a child. Later, it was changed over and over again, 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 topography 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 off in spring, it will take half a year."
"Okay!" Zhao Xin slapped the table and said to the dozen students he brought: "Bring the things here."
Soon, the floor and tables in the room were filled with various instruments and tools. Zhao Xin introduced Lin Ziping one by one. What about sextant, level, level ruler, level ruler, protractor, and a small astronomical instrument?
telescope.
In fact, levels, leveling rods and spirit levels have been used in Beihai Town in the civil affairs system from the beginning. Without them, the construction team can only measure through experience and plumb bobs, and the errors will be very large. Last year in Fuldan City
The rough little map I made 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.