Chapter 204 Joining the Army (2)
The donkey cart drove for about two years and arrived at the gate of the naval base in Dagukou.
The current military camp of the People's Army Navy, which was the former guards of the Qing court stationed in Dagukou, is not only stationed by the People's Army Navy, but also stationed by a battalion of troops. Because the number of people in the People's Army Navy is not large, the garrison of the shore base still needs to rely on the army.
At this time, at the gate of the military camp, there were already special staff waiting to welcome the arrival of this group of new recruits. Zhao Ping got off the car with the other recruits, and was immediately led into the military camp by the staff. He first came to the general affairs office of the military camp to apply for the new recruits to enter and exit the military camp, various registration procedures, and collect his own military uniforms and daily necessities.
The files of the recruits had been sent to the General Affairs Office, and each recruit's items had been prepared. Each person had two sets of military uniforms, shoes, bedding, wooden basins, towels, cups, textbooks, and ink. Because the time travelers now have sufficient supplies and several factories can produce them, the soldiers' clothing and daily necessities can be unified.
Of course, the items received by the recruits are not exactly the same, because the new recruits have different cultural courses, so the books they receive are different. Although most of the recruits who can read and write are conscripted into the navy, in this era, there were not many Chinese people who could read and recognize words, most of them were illiterate and semi-illiterate. Therefore, many illiterate and semi-illiterate soldiers were recruited in the navy.
During the trial training, the new recruits' culture was also tested, and the new recruits' cultural level was divided into four levels: A, B, C and D. Class A was naturally the highest, and it required to be able to read and write normally. However, there were very few soldiers who could reach this level. Among this group of famous recruits, only Zhao Ping could reach Class A; Class B refers to being able to perform relatively normal reading, but the writing is worse, and training in this area is needed; Class C is semi-illiterate, able to recognize a small number of Chinese characters, write a few words such as their own names, but not reaching normal reading and writing abilities; while Class D is purely illiterate.
The Navy is a high-tech and high-tech service. Whether it is a ship soldier or a shore-based soldier, it needs to master considerable professional technical knowledge. Therefore, after the recruits join the army, they must first undergo a certain period of professional training to exert their abilities in each combat position. It is not ≡∴≡∴∴≡∴,m.∨.co≤m In order to learn the professional technical knowledge of the navy, soldiers must have certain cultural knowledge, and at least they must be able to perform basic reading and writing abilities. In the current navy, the ratio of these four levels is roughly 0.4:.6:.9:.1. In the army, this ratio reaches 0.01:0.:6.78:.89.
So the Navy decided to train soldiers with a level of Class A and Class B for naval professional technical knowledge, while soldiers with a level of Class C and Class D for first literacy education, and after they get rid of blindness, they will be given professional training. Since the education soldiers will conduct different, the books and textbooks they receive will naturally be different.
In addition, check whether there are any items prohibited in the military camp among the personal items brought by the recruits. Of course, after the trial training, I told the recruits that they can bring those things after joining the army, and those things are prohibited. Therefore, most of the recruits carry clothes, shoes, a few people will bring a few books, as well as some local dry food, pipes, and other things such as body protection, long-lived locks, jade pendants, and Xiangxiang. These items are naturally not prohibited from being prohibited, and the army does not prohibit smoking, but only smoking indoors or in public places. Of course, it is prohibited to smoke.
Since the time travelers controlled Tianjin Customs, opium and other drugs have been listed as prohibited items. Opium is also prohibited from circulation in the Tianjin market and any private consumption. Once it is discovered, it will be confiscated unconditionally, and the parties will be arrested and tried. Therefore, after arresting several groups of individuals and groups who privately hid opium, Tianjin has now basically eliminated opium.
However, silver and copper coins are prohibited from circulating in the military camp. Although the soldiers of the People's Army have subsidies, the subsidies are distributed in the form of military scrolls and circulated within the military camp. There are not only formal canteens in the military camp, but also other shops. Soldiers can purchase most of the daily necessities without leaving the military camp. Only soldiers can go out to the military camp to engage in activities during the rest day or visit relatives, and can exchange military scrolls for silver. However, as the supplies in Tianjin gradually become rich, the industries controlled by the time travelers are increasing, so military scrolls can also be used in industries controlled by the time travelers, and the price is slightly lower than silver. This is actually a time traveler's trial trial of using paper money to replace metal currency.
When each recruit first arrives at the military camp, he will carry a certain amount of silver or copper coins. Therefore, when entering the military camp, they will either be exchanged for military volumes or stored in the General Affairs Office and taken out when the soldiers go out or visit relatives.
After more than a time of registration, after collecting the items, all the recruits went through various procedures, but they could not go to the dormitory at this time, but they had their hair cut first. That is, they shave their heads, which is also a compulsory condition for joining the People's Army.
Soldiers keep short hair, which was a practice for each team in the old time and space. Because short hair is easy to clean and manage, it can reduce the breeding of lice or other parasites, and can reduce the burden on soldiers during combat. Time travelers require new recruits entering the army to shave their hair first, and after the new hair grows out, they can only keep short hair. In addition to considering the actual combat needs, another purpose is to change directional braids.
When the Qing court first entered the pass, it issued a strict hair shaving order, forcing the Han people to shave their hair and braids according to the customs of Manchus, and even shouted the slogan of "leaving hair but not hair". Now more than 260 years have passed, no one in China has resisted shaving hair and braids. Moreover, shaving hair on the forehead and combed a long braid on the back of the head has become a typical feature of the Chinese people in this era. Therefore, braids have become a symbol of the Qing court.
Time travelers have not yet asked the people of Tianjin to cut their braids. After all, their own strength and prestige are not as good as that, but they must require absolute control over the army and all their ties with the Qing court must be cut off.
Of course, the prestige of the Qing court has plummeted, and the management of shaving and braiding is not as strict as before. Moreover, after the Opium War, with the opening of the country's doors, foreign exchanges are increasing. A group of Chinese people were affected by Westernization and kept their hair and braids and put on foreign shins. The Qing court could not control this and could only pretend not to know. In the time-traveling army, the officers and soldiers basically had the same color of short hair, and most of the others were short hair. In the military camp, they were short hair or soldiers who had just shaved their heads. Therefore, the recruits did not have much resistance to shaving their hair.
Each warship has haircut equipment and soldiers who are specifically responsible for haircuts to facilitate the soldiers' needs to cut hair during their trip to sea, and shaving their heads does not require any technology. Therefore, the recruits shaved their hair shortly after a short time, and they all found it very funny to look at each other's bald heads.
After the haircut was over, the recruits brought the items they received and the staff led them to the dormitory.
The Dagukou Military Camp was originally stationed at 3,000 Qing troops, but now the new soldiers, the army and the crossing army have only more than 2,000 people in total. Moreover, unlike the army, a considerable number of soldiers live on warships, so there are very sufficient accommodations. A group of barracks have been transformed into eight-person rooms, four-person rooms, and double rooms, which are even single rooms, so that soldiers can live more comfortably.
However, the new recruits who had just entered the military camp still lived in a collective dormitory with 60 people. After these soldiers are assigned to formal positions, they will be reassigned to the dormitory.
Zhao Ping and others came to the dormitory and were warmly welcomed by a soldier who moved in six days ago and two instructors. They would form a temporary squadron together to receive formal training and education, and then allocate them to other departments based on their personal abilities, conditions and specialties.
The two instructors responsible for training them were Xing Kuanyu and Wang Huming. They were originally the chief and deputy team leader of the Taihu Ship Radar Department, and their military ranks were both captains. Because the warships of this era did not have radar, after the Taihu Ship was officially sealed, both of them turned to shore-based work.
The two of them first arranged beds for the recruits. The dormitory was long, the bed was a high-bottom bed, a low cabinet at the head of the bed, and a high cabinet at the end of the bed, which was divided into two upper and lower floors, and were used by the two soldiers on the bed. A wooden basin was placed under the bed.
The distribution of beds is based on the principle of drawing lots, and the previous soldier did not fill the lower bunk, but distributed them one by one. Zhao Ping was lucky and drew a lower bunk bed, then sorted out his own items, and at the same time listened to the previous veterans talking about the rules of the behavior of the dormitory. However, when the recruits were in trial training, they also had a group life, so they were not unfamiliar with the rules of the dormitory. Of course, the time travelers have not yet required the recruits to fold the pieces into tofu blocks.
After the recruits had packed their own beds, it was almost time for lunch, so the soldiers in the dormitory went to the cafeteria to have dinner together. The meal rules in the military camp were the same as during the trial training. The dishes and chopsticks were supplied in the cafeteria and were cleaned uniformly. The rice was provided for one serving per soldier for free, and generally three to four dishes were served. Of course, if you want to add a meal or eat better, you had to buy them with your own military rolls, but whether it was the canteen or the food you purchased by yourself, you must finish it. It is absolutely forbidden to waste it.
Although there were many soldiers eating at this time, they were very respectful of order, lined up in neat rows, first taking dishes and chopsticks, and then going to the window to collect their own food. Then they found the spare tables and chairs to eat. After the meal, they all consciously placed the dishes and chopsticks in the designated floor and then left the canteen, which showed strict discipline.
Chapter completed!