Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 144 Action Code
"Ah-choo! Ah-choo..." Zhao Xin, who was teaching the children, suddenly felt his nose itchy and sneezed several times. "Who is this 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 men's padded robe and a small melon cap, and was writing on a whiteboard with a carbon pen.The distance between Zhao Xin and Shen Xuan was only [-] meters. From the side, Shen Xuan wearing a cotton robe could not see anything except her bright and charming face.

"It's boring!" Zhao Xin thought to himself.

Shen Xuan, who was writing, turned her head to look with feeling, only to see Zhao Xin was wiping his nose with a handkerchief with his head down.She seemed to think 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 word..." Shen Xuan put aside her wild thoughts, picked up the pointer on the table, pointed to a simplified word and the pinyin next to it, and began to explain.

Speaking of which, when Shen Xuan first started class, when she saw the "simplified characters" that had been cut out of shape in the textbooks Zhao Xin gave her, she was very angry.Can this still be called a word?
But when Zhao Xin came up with a set of "Chinese Pinyin Scheme", Shen Xuan was confused at the beginning, and finally became extremely admired by Zhao Xin, and even had some admiration.

In the history of later generations, at the end of the 50s when the literacy campaign was at its climax and most effective, the biggest contributor was actually the "promotion of Chinese Pinyin", rather than the "simplification of Chinese characters" as generally believed by later generations.

(Take Wanrong County, Shanxi Province in the 50s as an example. Like many places in the country, it has been doing literacy work. But after several years of hard work, there has been little effect. Because farmers can only use slack time to do literacy, the rate of literacy recovery is very high When the "Chinese Pinyin Program" was adopted, Wanrong County found a good way to eliminate illiteracy. According to the report at the time, the average farmer could master Chinese Pinyin in 15 to 20 hours, use Chinese Pinyin to learn characters, and be able to read in 100 hours 1500. Entering the 60s, the national literacy campaign is coming to an end, and the illiteracy rate has dropped from over 1949% in 80 to about 33%.)
As for why children must be taught to simplify characters, Zhao Xin explained that they are easy to remember and easy to write.In fact, what he really thought was that it was too tiring to write traditional Chinese characters!For example, the word "Feng" requires eighteen strokes in traditional Chinese, but only four strokes in simplified Chinese.Even if Zhao Xin could write, there were only sixteen classes in his area, and he couldn't lift his wrist after writing for a day.

At first, more than 800 children, through the unremitting efforts of Zhao Xin, Liu Zheng and Zhang Bo, basically half of them have mastered the listening, speaking, reading and writing of [-] simplified characters; Taught them basic mathematics, physics and chemistry.He plans to start junior high school training after these children have mastered [-] 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 was the best (smelly) one time. He only scored 26 points in high school chemistry and 43 points in physics.In a fit of anger, he transferred to the liberal arts class.

He decided to return to modern times and ask his cousin to help with this matter.Still use the old method, online recruitment. There are more than 1000 children, no matter what they have to find (tied) [-] teachers to come over, even if they are just graduated from normal school.

"Teacher, are you uncomfortable?" Eight-year-old Xu Shounan raised his hand and asked Zhao Xin when he saw Zhao Xin sneezing.

"Teacher, I'll go to A Miao and give you an injection." Wan Zao's son Wan Haiyang didn't wait for Zhao Xin to speak, and got up quickly to run outside.

"Come back and sit down!" Wan Zao, the son, could not be idle all day long, leading a group of refugees' children either climbing trees or going to the house.

Ten minutes later, the bell for the end of get out of class at noon finally rang.The children stood up and saluted, and then dispersed after Zhao Xin, Shen Xuan and others successively ordered "get out of class is over".

"Mr. 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, blushing and walked away quickly.

After class for half a day, after class to tease the little girl, life should not be too beautiful~~
After a hasty lunch, Zhao Xin went to the other side of the river to look for Zhao Liang.

Zhao Liang has been trying to make saltpeter these days, but has failed several times.He didn't bother to eat lunch, and was busy with a young man.

The young man is Zhang Fang, 19 years old, from Haizhou, Jiangsu Province, and was once one of the prisoners of the Qing army.Before being exiled to Ninggu Pagoda, his family had opened a pyrotechnic workshop.

A few days ago, Zhao Xin discovered him when he was looking through the interrogation records of the prisoners.Asked if he would make gunpowder, Zhang Fang said that he had done it several times with his father seven or eight years ago.Most importantly, Lu Shoushan said that he knew Zhang Fang when he was in Ningguta, and that he was an honest man.Now that Lu Shoushan had guaranteed him, Zhao Xin took Zhang Fang out of the labor camp and sent him to the workshop.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Fang is also a two-handed knife.When he was at home, he just collected human urine and made plant ash with his father, and his father alone operated how to make it.

Although he didn't know how to make gunpowder, Zhao Liang saw that the young man was very honest and meticulous, so he didn't let him go back to the labor camp.

Zhao Liang's family lives in the countryside, and he has heard people say how to collect and make soil nitrate.But hearing about it and doing it yourself are completely different things.Ancient folk pyrotechnics craftsmen usually use plant ash, quicklime and collected human urine to obtain white nitrate crystals through mixed fermentation.And some craftsmen living in the north will also use it to scrape the surface layer of the soil in saline-alkali land, and then mix it with water to heat and evaporate it, and can also obtain low-purity yellow soil nitrate.This kind of soil nitrate can be used to make fireworks and firecrackers, but it is too far behind to make black gunpowder.

In fact, Zhao Xin can buy black gunpowder or yellow dynamite, but he feels that everything cannot be solved by purchasing from another time and space, and he still has to master the production method in the eighteenth century.In the future, there will be too many places where gunpowder is needed. In addition to combat, it will be used in large quantities in mountain construction and road construction; and the technology tree must be climbed after all.

The workshop for making gunpowder was more than a mile away from the cigarette workshop, the main reason being that the fermented urine in those large vats stinks to the heavens!
Zhao Xin walked over holding his nose, and said in a strange way: "Good guy! The smell is strong enough!"

"Hey, Mr. Zhao came to inspect again. I said you don't mind coming to see it every day." Zhao Liang wore an industrial gas mask and spoke in a low voice.

"I have other business with you. I have to go back in two days. What tools do you need here?"

"Then buy a few more sets of boring cutters and milling cutters, which are needed for processing gun barrels and runners. The previous models are not hard enough. I will write you a list later." In addition to bringing Zhang Fang to make soil nitrate these days, Zhao Liang, The rest of the time is spent making revolvers according to the blueprints and antique sample guns given to him by Zhao Xin.

Considering the temporary unavailability of modern bullets, 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, and the propellant is black powder.Except for the flash cap, which needs to be purchased separately from another time and space, other materials can be found in the eighteenth 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 this is a time-traveling weapon that can shoot six times in a row. The muzzle velocity of the Model 1851 is 256 meters per second. When fighting or guarding against wild animals, it has a good killing effect within 50 meters.

"How many have you done now?"

"I made three and tried a few times, but I still have to change it."

The two walked towards the workshop along the path, while Zhang Fang followed far behind.

"I heard how many blacksmiths are among the captives?"

"Yes, there are three of them, all of whom are repairing muskets and bows with the army."

"Then I'll go to the labor reform team in the afternoon to have a look, and if it's okay, I'll transfer to the workshop."

"You'd better go to Katayama first, and read their interrogation records first."

The two talked while walking, and soon arrived at the cigarette workshop.Zhao Liang took Zhang Fang to lunch, while Zhao Xin went into the workshop to check the progress.

He called the person in charge of the cigarette workshop, asked about the situation, and looked through Zhao Liang's records.Since they sent Shen Jingdan away, 20 cigarettes have been produced, and thousands of cigarette boxes have been produced; the progress is not bad.

Deng Fei and Liu Sheng took Jiuzang's company to Ezo to see if Tuka needed help.As for sending troops to station, Zhao Xin thinks it's better to wait until the first phase of training is completed.Wang Yuanfang mentioned to Zhao Xin yesterday that this batch of 2000 recruits is still far from qualified fighters even after the first phase of training.

Zhao Xin's daily life now consists of running and exercising with the soldiers in the morning, and then going to class until noon; after lunch, he takes Lu Shoushan to inspect various construction sites in Beihai Town, and handles some difficult things by the way.Sometimes he would sneak back to another time and space and call his parents to inquire about his body.

Ten days later, Liu Sheng and Deng Fei came back from Ezo.According to reports from Liu Sheng and Jiu Zang, Tuka is making good progress.

After receiving the gift from Shachuanbu, the leader of the Sapporo tribe agreed that in the future, when the team of the "Beihai Company" passed through the Sapporo tribe and went to Beiquanzhou, they would send people to follow and protect them.However, the tax office set up by the Matsumae domain in the Sapporo tribe is still there, and Tuka said that it has mobilized a lot of people.

Yubari and Ishikari also got replies from the two tribes. The other party agreed that Tuka would exchange grain and ironware for the mining rights of the local coal mines; and put forward specific remuneration requirements for the members of the tribes to participate in coal mining.

The first exploration team of 50 people sent by Katsuyama Denzo and Murata Jiroemon has arrived in Shachuan by boat.Among the 50 people, only three were in charge of exploration, and the rest were hired ronin warriors and craftsmen.These people have set up warehouses in Shachuan, and have replaced the fur and wood with the sake of the Katsuyama and the local Ainu.

Liu Sheng's final opinion was to fight a battle and completely drive all the people in the Matsumae domain back to the Dudao Peninsula, otherwise there would be many troubles in the future.Zhao Xin carefully calculated the time, and there is still more than a month before departure to Huaniao Island to deliver the goods, which is almost enough time.

So he asked Liu Sheng to go to Wang Yuanfang and the others to formulate a battle plan.This time, if there is a fight with Matsumae Fan, it is necessary to arrange garrisons in Ezo; and to build outposts and military depots 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 Michihiro had spread throughout Kanto and Mutsu.

After getting the news, the shogunate was shocked and temporarily stopped the "Ezo Exploration Plan" originally planned to be carried out in February next year.After the detailed information of the Nagasaki incident was sent back to Edo, some interested people in the shogunate had considered Matsumae Castle and Nagasaki together.

In the real history, because Matsumae had a ulterior motive and wanted to monopolize the control of Ezo, he always obstructed the actions of the shogunate exploration team.

At that time, Tsarist Russia had already intended to invade the south.Under such a critical situation, the Matsumae clan has been delaying the survey process for various reasons during the exploration process, and encouraged the shogunate clansmen to retreat on the grounds of poor weather conditions.

However, the exploration team of the shogunate knew almost nothing about the geography and climate of the Ezo land. Under the intimidation of the evil consultants of the Matsumae domain, they had to end the exploration, and finally dispelled the plan to go north and cross the sea to land on Huatai Island (that is, Sakhalin Island). plan, hastily withdrew to the mainland.

Three days later, Liu Sheng threw the battle plan on Zhao Xin's desk.Zhao Xin looked at the words "Crossing 1784 Beihai" on the cover, and couldn't help but quizzed curiously, "What's the meaning of this?"

"I'll give you a little bit of insight for this puppet army fan." Liu Sheng said proudly.

"This operation code name is named according to the code name rules of our army's military exercises. The composition format of our army's exercise code names is in the order of 'theme, time, place, and stage'. For example, crossing means that this is a crossing theater, and at the same time test the mobility of the troops. As for the plan, we named it according to the three phases A, B, and C."

Zhao Xin asked curiously: "Why don't you guys be aggressive, like Lao Mei, what kind of storm is coming?"

Liu Sheng gave Zhao Xin two "mothballs" and said disdainfully, "Damn! As a former soldier of the People's Liberation Army, you asked me to use the old beauty's naming rules? That's an insult to me!"

Well, Zhao Xin has nothing to say.If you cross over, just cross over, and it's very nice to taste it carefully.So he continued to read the contents inside.

The "Across the 1784 North Sea" action plan is divided into three stages.Since the current total strength of Beihai Town is only 2000 people, seven companies will be used in this operation, that is, two battalions and six companies, plus a reinforced company of 150 people.

The commander-in-chief of the operation was Zhao Xin, the deputy commanders were Liu Sheng and Wang Yuanfang, and Deng Fei was responsible for the maritime fire support; Chen Qingsong sent an engineering logistics team of 1000 people; Hong Tao sent a medical team to accompany the army (all female.)
(End of this chapter)