-
Add Bookmark | Recommend this book | Back to the book page | My bookshelf | Mobile Reading
Free Web Novel,Novel online - All in oicq.net -> Historic -> New World 1620 Text Chapter 29 The Future of the Army (2)
Previous page Return to Catalog Next page
- Different from the explosive propaganda that used the Jamestown bombing to intervene in the Irish War ten years ago, the Chinese and American mainstream propaganda media after the Nantes massacre almost unified the tone of "courtesy before fighting" this time.
It seems that as long as the French sincerely admit their mistakes and provide compensation, China and the United States can still seek reconciliation based on the long-term friendly trade cooperation interests between the two parties.
This kind of news makes many young people a little angry, but it also makes some older people feel relieved. After all, not everyone is a war fanatic, especially after the war with Britain ten years ago that affected personal income. The older generation of citizens.
It is exciting to be able to dig out another war reparations, but the direct benefits that really fall on ordinary citizens may not be seen much.
As time enters the last month of the year, the annual winter break and intensive holidays are coming. After some people shouted "Where is our fleet?", the media's attention began to shift, and the emotional fluctuations in several big cities first eased. Then, news about the new local council elections began to dominate newspaper headlines.
And the remote cities with weaker liquidity and relatively shorter national immigration history, the Nanda tragedy could not touch the depths of the people's soul. Therefore, most people have returned to a wait-and-see state as to how the country will handle its future relations with France.
After all, peace and living and working in peace and contentment are still the themes in people's minds most of the time.
¡¡
In the conference hall of the Ministry of National Defense in Manchester, the regular year-end summary meeting chaired by Defense Minister Zheng Quan is in progress.
The recruitment of new recruits for the army and navy in 1645 has long been completed, and the training of new recruits is in good condition. The complex and cumbersome replacement and deployment of officers and soldiers in various overseas garrison units is about to begin. This year's infrastructure construction and maintenance of local and overseas military bases have basically completed expectations. schedule¡¡
Two school-level officers, representing the Army and the Navy respectively, took the stage one after another to explain the annual work content of their branches. Among them, the Navy is still Captain Catalina, who has been unbreakable for many years.
But in one month, Catalina, who has served in the Chinese and American Navy for many years, will retire. This also means that the Chinese and American military, which has not added women for many years, will lose another popular female soldier.
To commend Catalina for joining the military when the Chinese and American Navy was most lacking in talent, and for her significant contribution in the initial stage of the Chinese and American Navy. Catalina will be promoted to Commodore one week before she retires, becoming the first female senior general in name since the founding of the Chinese and American military.
When the respective representatives of the army and navy delivered their year-end summaries, all officers, including Catalina, exited the conference room, leaving only Defense Minister Zheng Quan and four senior army and navy officers to continue the closed-door discussion.
They are, in order: Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Wang Tiechui, Chief of the Navy General Staff, Lieutenant General Sun Yang, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, General Chen Liwen, and Chief of the Army General Staff, Lieutenant General He Yu.
By convention, Admiral Zhang Chunrui, who is the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Personnel Supervision, must attend the core closed-door discussion every year, but this year his seat is empty.
As most time-travelers are privately worried, 57-year-old Zhang Chunrui, who is in the prime age of a senior general, has been hospitalized again, and has become a fellow patient with former President Chen Yuanyuan, who is in poor health.
Starting about four years ago, Zhang Chunrui noticed that his health had been declining. Several months a year they have to be away from work to recuperate or even be hospitalized. At the beginning of this year, Zhang Chunrui was finally diagnosed with lung cancer, which cast a shadow over most people.
With Huamei¡¯s current medical technology, although it is proud of the entire era, let alone cancer treatment methods, even testing methods are almost blank. Former President Chen Changyuan, a leading figure in Chinese and American medicine, could only make a judgment on Zhang Chunrui's condition based on decades of clinical experience even though he himself was seriously ill.
Zhang Chunrui was absent again at the moment the conference room door closed. There was another period of silence. As Army General Chen Liwen coughed, the people present had to cheer up again.
"Old Chen, how are you thinking about the army and navy military education reform plan that I, Lao Wang, Lao Zhang, and Lao Bao put together last time?" Zheng Quan was the first to break the dullness. He took out a few pieces of paper from the folder, with a hint of hope on his expression, "We are all old, and we can still last fifteen to twenty years if we work hard. So we must consider the follow-up development layout of the army in advance, especially the officers. The stability of the team is an issue.¡±
"From the perspective of controlling the next fifty years, I approve of your plan. However, copying the aristocratic system of the British and German officer corps is contrary to the long-term development of the country and the general direction of national expectations. After all, we are immigrants. The country should let more young people see the hope of joining the army."
Seeing that Zheng Quan was repeating the same old topic about the reform of the Army's military education institutions, Chen Liwen became a little impatient. Because once he agrees to this plan, it means that the image of the gorgeous army and the cultural spirit of the army that he has invested so much effort in creating will undergo earth-shaking changes.
The aristocracy of the officer corps is a long-standing tradition in European countries. It is a manifestation of the state machine's control of the military being always concentrated on the aristocratic class. In Chen Liwen's mind, the perfect army he understands should be a pan-nationalized officer corps with a high degree of professional ethics and national enterprising spirit, rather than a group of stubborn interests and lawful groups that control military command based on social status or wealth.
"It's too idealistic, Lao Chen. I know your ideals. Why don't old guys from all walks of life practice their ideals in their own fields?" Wang Tiechui patted his companion on the shoulder, and his face no longer looked like that. He often quarreled with the other party over military expenditures, "But no matter how we understood it in the first half of our lives, we are now the aristocracy of this country, what you call a stubborn interest-abiding group."
According to the vision of the Navy Headquarters, first of all, starting from the autumn of 1646, the Long Island Naval Academy was renamed the "Long Island Naval Higher Military Academy". It will no longer become a comprehensive teaching institution for naval non-commissioned officers and junior and senior officers at all levels, but will become a comprehensive teaching institution. A specialized intermediate and advanced military education institution.
Those who can enter the Long Island Naval Higher Military Academy will be active naval officers at least captain or above, providing advanced training for outstanding mid-level and senior naval officers.
Secondly, the Navy has re-established a full-time closed management "Qingcheng Naval Officers Academy" in Qingcheng City, Haizhou, equipped with the best military instructors, and officially recruited students from the public.
The college specializes in recruiting students of two age groups. One is students who are over 16 years old and have reached the level of middle school graduation. The second is fresh graduates from local universities. The former lasts for six years and the latter lasts for three years, and both will obtain the rank of lieutenant in the navy after graduation. However, judging from the actual situation, due to the shortage of college students, most of the future students of Qingcheng Naval Academy are still the former.
Not only that, the college¡¯s admission assessment method is also very interesting, divided into two types: one is a high-threshold cultural assessment, which is for outstanding talents from ordinary national families; the other is ¡°high tuition supplementary points¡± admission. Within a certain range of assessment score differences, extremely high tuition fees are allowed to make up points.
?That is to say. While continuing to attract outstanding talents, this brand-new naval academy provides an additional, more convenient channel for the elite children of wealthy families. This set of rules completely plagiarizes some unspoken rules that have been implemented in some domestic universities for many years.
Although the monetary price of "top-up points" is not low and can prohibit most ordinary families, for truly wealthy families, this is precisely the setting with the lowest threshold. To put it bluntly, this is an aristocratic military education institution with naval military education as its core.
Unless he is really a fool who is too stupid to complete the final academic examination, any naval lieutenant who graduates from here will be the top elite in this country. They will become the core source of future mid-level and senior officers of the Chinese and American Navy.
Finally, a "Jiangcheng Naval Officer School" was established in Jiangcheng City, Jiangzhou, which would focus on the application of ordinary citizens and the selection of active soldiers in the navy, and the cultural assessment threshold was low. The duration of study also ranges from one to three years.
This place will focus on training professional naval petty officers and junior officers, which can be regarded as taking over the original teaching function of the Long Island Naval Academy. In comparison, the faculty will not be as good as the first two naval educational institutions, and its graduating naval officer cadets will only be awarded the rank of second lieutenant.
??Continue operating in this mode. In ten years' time, the Chinese and American Navy will not only have the most sophisticated warships in the world in this era, but will also have a thoroughly aristocratic officer corps.
¡¡
"Old Chen. What are you thinking about?"
There was another dull moment that lasted for a few minutes, and He Yu couldn't help but pat the army general's arm.
"What are you talking about? What's your opinion?"
After coming back from his thoughts, Chen Liwen had to turn his head towards his good partner for many years when he faced several looks.
"I remember last year, the Army Staff made a very interesting statistics on the Foreign Legion: In the past ten years, in all the Foreign Legion combat records, companies with sons from wealthy families as chief officers were performing the same tactical tasks. In the process, the casualty rate of company officers and soldiers is usually 5% to 10% lower than that of a company where ordinary civilian officers serve as chief officers. In addition, when it comes to the issue of personal merit allowances, ordinary civilian officers usually have more opinions than officers from rich families. A little more. Then I compared the data of several combat companies of the National Defense Force, and the results were roughly the same. Of course, due to the differences in the sources of officers and soldiers,There will also be many officers from the lower-class European nobility in the Foreign Legion. "
"This illustrates a problem: Among the current group of junior and mid-level army officers, officers with better family backgrounds have higher overall quality, more balanced talents, and better loyalty, emotional and thinking stability. A wealthy background makes They are more likely to exclusively pursue the sense of honor and achievement of the military profession; while junior officers who are ordinary civilians have a more simple personality, but their ambition, enterprising spirit, and wealth gained through enlistment are stronger, and they have more talents and potential. . To put it simply, the mental and behavioral differences between the 'rich second generation' and the 'phoenix man' in the army are more obvious. However, these are relative terms. After all, our army is too small, and these examples are not complete. empirical significance."
After a brief thought, He Yu expressed his views on the current middle and lower-level officers of the army. It is not difficult to see that he is also more inclined to the military education reform proposals of the Ministry of National Defense and the Navy Command.
"Yes, for us, what we need is an officer corps that is absolutely loyal, ideologically stable, and mentally healthy. In this regard, children from the wealthy class perform relatively better."
Lieutenant General Zhang Sunyang, Chief of the Naval General Staff, a staunch supporter and practitioner of "the aristocracy of the military officer corps", was also persuading. With the support of Wang Tiechui, Sun Yang personally handled the navy's education reform plan this year, and according to internal rumors, Sun Yang was a veritable second-generation young man before time travel.
¡°Huh, education for all can improve the quality of the people, and it can also significantly reduce the impact of family background on the growth of military talents.¡±
Although he is absolutely loyal to the cause of time-traveling groups, it is difficult for Chen Liwen to accept this concept of "people are divided into groups". This is probably closely related to his own growth experience before time-traveling. Because of this, the army culture Construction and talent promotion are also deeply imprinted on his thoughts.
"Emotionally speaking, we are all the sons of farmers or grassroots, and we want to take a more impartial view on the issues between children of rich families and children of ordinary people. But from a practical point of view, we are no longer simply 'black-bone chickens turning into phoenixes' Group. This country, which was founded only 25 years ago, theoretically has no real aristocracy, but we have indeed achieved a leap from grassroots to the ruling class, and we have reason to incorporate the core construction of the army into our ruling thoughts. And for As for our ordinary people, they have long been accustomed to this well-established order of the times."
"Now, all the construction of the country is still in its infancy, and we cannot and dare not relax our control over the core cultural and spiritual connotations of the military that are in line with the interests of our regime. At this stage, our society does not have sufficient educational resources. It is an indisputable fact that the overall quality of children from rich families is higher than that of ordinary people! Even in the 21st century, the military power of advanced countries is still controlled by the rich and powerful, so what exceptions can we make?"
"Therefore, we must maintain the stability of the core construction of the military for the next fifty years. And I believe that with the country's economic development and ideological progress, the middle class will become stronger and stronger, and our military will usher in a fairer and more scientific future. talent selection system.¡±
Seeing that Chen Liwen had fallen into a deep emotional pit, Sun Yang clenched his hand into a fist and knocked lightly on the table.
"Well, the military is the core of the country's overall interests. Let's have an internal democratic vote. If you agree with this military education reform plan, please raise your hands."
Seeing that the atmosphere at the scene was getting worse and worse, Zheng Quan had no choice but to raise his voice, intending to use his authority to bring an end to this military education reform that had been delayed for many years.
Except for Chen Liwen, everyone else raised their hands. But judging from his expression, Chen Liwen did not refuse at the beginning, but more like he gave up after being persuaded.
"Okay, next, we will continue to discuss the formation plan of the 'First Volunteer Brigade of the National Defense Forces'. According to the reference opinions of Congress, this temporarily formed infantry brigade will be sent to the Far East, and the deployment time is set for the autumn of 1646 .¡±
Seeing that the differences had been smoothed out, Zheng Quan brought up the biggest issue of this closed-door discussion. (To be continued) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
- Previous pageCatalogNext page