The establishment of a regular military academy was approved under Li Mingyuan's strong advocacy.
The battalion academy was renamed the Army Officer Academy, and the academic duration was tentatively two years. The first batch of trainees were mainly junior officers at the company and platoon level who had outstanding performance in the army. After subsequent formalization, the recruitment of trainees was changed to a self-examination model, with the recruitment scope ranging from
The army has been expanded to the point where all young people of school age with a certain foundation in reading can sign up to take the military academy examination.
In terms of the organization of the military school, it has established five major departments: the Military Affairs Department, the Instructor Department, the Training Department, the Munitions Department, and the Military Law Department. At the same time, there are three positions on top of the five major institutions: the Principal, the Chief of Education, and the Provost, who are responsible for managing the overall operation of the military school.
The position of principal is of great importance, and Li Mingyuan plans to hold it personally, while the responsibility of the provost is to replace the principal in managing the military academy when he is absent.
Among the National Defense Forces, the most suitable candidate for the post of provost is Liu Pu, but Liu Pu made it clear that after retiring from active service, there is no suitable candidate for the time being.
The chief of education is the third person in the military academy after the principal and provost. The scope of responsibilities involves all aspects of military academy training. It requires generals with excellent military skills and rich military experience to serve. The National Defense Force has only been established for a short time, and military officers
The general population is young and there is a lack of generals with sufficient military background. Therefore, Li Mingyuan plans to invite a Prussian army general to be the candidate for the chief of education.
After completing a large-scale industrial transaction, Rio Grande do Sul and Prussia established formal official contacts. In the new capital, Prussia merged the old commercial representative agencies and military liaison agencies into the Prussian Embassy in Rio Grande do Sul.
, and dispatched specialized diplomatic officers to handle matters such as commercial and military exchanges between the two countries.
In the Wehrmacht, there are two hundred Prussian officers helping the Chinese train the army in accordance with the trade agreement. Since December last year, more than two hundred Prussian officers who have participated in the training of soldiers on the front lines of the army have been working for nearly ten months.
There are only two months left until the deadline.
More than two hundred Prussian officers were assigned to nearly 40,000 Wehrmacht troops. On average, one Prussian officer was responsible for managing the training of two hundred soldiers. In actual training, due to differences in language and cultural customs, many conflicts occurred between Wehrmacht soldiers and Prussian officers. These
After the conflicts were reported, they were all suppressed by Li Mingyuan. With the support of Li Mingyuan, more than 200 Prussian officers also conducted training on tactics, formation, march and other aspects of the Wehrmacht in accordance with Prussian army standards.
The transformation process of accepting new military education was painful and difficult. More than a thousand soldiers of the National Defense Force were punished for resisting the instructor's training during training. Another 300 soldiers seriously violated training military regulations and were expelled from the field force and transferred to the garrison force.
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The emergence of any new thing has an adaptation process. Li Mingyuan relied on the majesty he established during the war to suppress the opposition in the National Defense Forces. After ten months of training, the National Defense Forces, which were originally disorganized and relied on soldiers to fight to the death, completed their transition to modern times.
The first step in the transformation of the country, tactical drills such as squad, platoon, and company small-scale unit combat tactics, and battalion and regiment-level medium-scale combined operations have become the basic tactical literacy requirements for all units of the National Defense Forces. Division-level and battle deployments with more than 10,000 people are directed towards
, coordination and other tactics are also imitated.
In Li Mingyuan's eyes, the training results of the National Defense Forces are very effective. When inspecting the military exercises of the troops, the Prussian officers in charge of training often praised the obedience and tenacity of the Chinese soldiers, believing that in terms of the overall combat effectiveness of the troops, the National Defense Forces had the ability to become as good as the Prussian Army.
The potential of a powerful army.
Regarding the Prussian officer's self-praising affirmation, Li Mingyuan just smiled and did not express any further opinions.
It is true that the Chinese have the national characteristics of being hard-working and obedient. At the same time, due to more than two hundred years of Manchu rule and the brainwashing education of corrupt Confucian gentry, the lack of martial and bloody national spirit is also very serious.
Troops armed with money and high-quality equipment can only guarantee one aspect of combat effectiveness. A mobile social upward path and a firm sense of national identity and patriotic belief are the fundamental guarantees of combat effectiveness.
After the entire army divided their fields, the Chinese who followed Li Mingyuan had the foundation to start a family and start a business, and their economic and daily needs were fully guaranteed.
In terms of culture, Rio Grande do Sul prohibits braids and bound feet, abolishes the prostitution system that has been around for two thousand years, and prohibits forced prostitution of women.
Among the three reform systems, the abolition of money rat-tail hairstyle and bound feet did not encounter much resistance. The National Defense Force was established in Rio Grande do Sul. There was no need to worry about the restrictions of the Manchu government. There was no psychological pressure in shaving off braids, but there were not many in Rio Grande do Sul.
The women are all of white European descent, and they do not have the custom of binding their feet. The abolition of foot-binding will have no impact on them. However, the abolition of the prostitution system has aroused opposition from most Chinese, including some officers in the National Defense Forces, who believe that food and sex are also human beings.
By nature, the sex ratio between men and women in Rio Grande do Sul is already high. If we declare a ban on sex, it will cause problems for those young Chinese who have not married wives.
Li Mingyuan could not ignore the raging opposition in the country. Finally, after careful consideration, he made a certain compromise, and the decision to abolish the prostitute system remained unchanged. From the day the decree was issued, Han, Miao, and Dong all belonged to the Chinese branch.
Chinese women are not allowed to engage in prostitution. Unnaturalized white and other Asian women need to register with the government before they can engage in prostitution. Once a foreign woman chooses to naturalize as a Chinese, she will lose the corresponding qualifications.
In addition to clearly promulgated laws and regulations, in daily life, Li Mingyuan also made many plans with the slogan of reviving the Chinese civilization of Qin and Han Dynasties, such as implementing the reform of Hanfu style, absorbing Western countries and later generations' clothing styles, and transforming Hanfu with wide mouth and long sleeves into convenient
The new style of Hanfu made and worn, while retaining part of the classical Hanfu as national ceremonial clothing, is used as a dress for major celebrations and national sacrifices.
Retired soldiers are also encouraged to breed horses, and August 15th is designated as the Outing Festival every year (in August in South America). Horse racing activities in various parts of Rio Grande do Sul are organized during the Outing Festival. At the same time, a villagers' joint guarantee system is implemented to encourage Chinese
Learn musket shooting techniques and allow the Chinese to keep firearms and weapons for self-defense.
There are hundreds of laws and policies aimed at national rejuvenation. Among them, the one that Li Mingyuan attaches most importance to is the recently promulgated "On My National Belief", which he personally participated in writing.
"On My National Belief" is a professional book written by Li Mingyuan that systematically discusses the transformation and reshaping of national characteristics by absorbing later theories of national formation.
The main contents of the book are summarized in three aspects:
The interests of a country are above all else.
2. A nation, a country, and a leader. The monarch is the representative of the country and exercises state rights on behalf of the citizens. The majority of the people must respect the monarch and obey the leadership of the monarch and the country.
3. Believe in the simple truth of natural selection and survival of the fittest, and establish a philosophical system based on the theory of evolution. Based on the theory of evolution, encourage citizens to establish personal values of martial arts, respect for scientific knowledge, and independence and self-reliance.
The nation is the nation. At the beginning of the 20th century, there was no such thing as internal strife and division among ethnic groups, and there was no strong country that suppressed the dominant nation.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a country dominated by Germans. After the Czechs, Hungarians and other ethnic groups were merged into one country, in order to achieve so-called ethnic equality, the country's rulers stipulated that the languages of each ethnic minority should also be the official language. In the German
In areas where ethnic minorities live together, priority will be given to selecting ethnic minorities as officials and company employees.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire's policy of suppressing the dominant ethnic group and overly preferentially treating ethnic minorities not only failed to win their approval, but instead strengthened their national consciousness: "Don't you say you want ethnic equality? Since it is ethnic equality, we ethnic minorities can manage our own affairs.
Isn’t it too much? The central government cannot interfere with our military and politics. We must have independent autonomy and have our own army and government..."
After the slogan of ethnic equality was shouted, ethnic minorities began to demand more "reasonable" demands. As the central government, should it agree or not?
Trapped by complex ethnic issues, during World War I, ethnic minorities in Austria-Hungary such as the Czechs, Slovaks, and Poland joined hostile countries to fight against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The governments of various ethnic minorities in Austria also defied orders issued by the central government.
, the result is obvious, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was defeated and disintegrated, and various ethnic minorities reached their requirements for the establishment of an independent country. However, the Germans who were originally the main body of the country were left with only a small piece of Austria. The Germans scattered in other ethnic minority areas became the new
ethnic minorities, but the difference is that the newly established countries will not treat the Germans as great masters, but will deport them without hesitation. The two very different results are embarrassing.
Li Mingyuan comes from a later generation and has seen a lot of farces about ethnic issues. The Han nationality is a cultural nation. Promoting Hanfu is extreme nationalism. People who say that they are reviving the Han nationality are angry young fools. All kinds of anecdotes are popular, but there are more than one billion people.
The Han Chinese in the population have become the weak in public opinion.
At that time, Li Mingyuan was just a precarious mercenary. He had neither the ability nor the interest to argue with those people.
Officials are no longer responsible for their positions, and officials are responsible for national affairs. Even if an ordinary mercenary worries about national affairs, it is just a superfluous move. Not only will he not be understood by others, but he will be laughed at by others.
After rebirth more than a hundred years ago, Li Mingyuan became the leader of a country. He had the power to change the destiny of the Chinese people. Naturally, he did not want what happened in future generations to happen again in the country he founded. Therefore, combined with the requirements of the industrial age, he cooperated with
The excellent cultural traditions left by the Chinese ancestors have made it very necessary to transform a national belief that is unified and suitable for the Chinese nation.
"The Theory of Evolution" lasted ten years from 1859 to 1869 when it was published. The theories of natural selection and survival of the fittest mentioned in it were respected by many Western countries, and colonial empires such as Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Spain had been developing for hundreds of years.
The correctness of this sentence has been proved by actions years ago.
"On My National Belief" took about five months from writing to official completion. During the writing period, in order to allow ordinary Chinese to understand the content of the book, Li Mingyuan deleted it three times, removing a large number of complicated and difficult-to-understand parts.
Some professional knowledge was explained in easy-to-understand language. When the book was finally written, only 70,000 words were left in the first draft of more than 200,000 words.
The release date of the first edition was set on August 10. After more than 20 days of release, it aroused good response among the National Defense Forces. Two days ago, Li Mingyuan and senior officers of the National Defense Forces jointly decided to publish "On My National Belief"
As a must-read for the military, it is included in the planned military school textbooks. At the same time, reading is promoted among ordinary Chinese in the country. A preacher is set up in each Chinese settlement village to explain the knowledge of "On My National Belief" to the Chinese.