Chapter Thirty-Six: The Only Great Power in East Asia
In later generations, there will always be comparisons between China and India. www.biquge.info Both are countries with large populations, and India's international environment is clearly better than China's. In particular, after India's GDP surpassed that of the old suzerain, the United Kingdom, the rhetoric of Indians catching up with China began to ferment and increase.
One of the most critical points is that India has a large population similar to that of China.
The strength of the population is great, and the advantage of low human rights is undoubtedly a huge resource, which can also undertake the transfer of labor-intensive industries, so as to start the economic take-off.
However, if you only think about it this way, you are inevitably ignoring one crucial reason.
That is education
Illiterate means that you can only do the most basic coolies, and you can't do even the most complicated work. Moreover, there are few industrious and patient nations like the Chinese. The Indians are indeed patient, but it is clearly a conscience to describe them as industrious.
The reason why China, with its large population, has a demographic dividend is that a sufficient labor force is indeed the foundation. But without education, the population cannot be a dividend, but a burden.
It's the same back here.
A group of uneducated soldiers, that is not qualified to complete combat missions. Training is also a kind of education.
And on top of basic combat training, there is clearly a higher level of education. For example, everything you learn here at the Army School.
An army in which all its soldiers are literate is undoubtedly an army that has undergone a high level of education.
Such an army is obviously not a burden, but a combat effectiveness.
In fact, although according to the standards of later generations, it is only illiterate to recognize only a few big characters. But for people of this age, if they can read and write, they are already cultural people.
This is especially true in Japan, which is more culturally and educationally backward.
For Abe Tadaaki and Zong Yoshinari, the impact was even more intense.
It's as if, in the same way, there is a better conductive material than copper, and that is silver. But silver is too expensive, and if you want large-scale industrial production of electrical appliances, it is obviously unacceptably high cost to use silver as a conductive material.
As a result, most people have to settle for copper.
And the Ming Dynasty, who is so rich that it is completely beyond the imagination of the Japanese, is to use silver as the material for wire conduction. Moreover, this is not because Da Ming is showing off his wealth, but because Da Ming is really strong to another level.
After all, whoever thinks that using cultural people to be soldiers is too much to exalt these red guys. Ke Daming...... That's what I did. I even think that soldiers should be educated, knowledgeable, and more dignified and honored!
"Alright. It's a coincidence that a few of them came here, and today is the offensive and defensive drill of the new battle mode. The drill started an hour later, and after we had lunch, let's go and watch. Fu Rugui said, a different color flashed in his eyes.
Abe Tadaaki had a premonition that something different was going to happen, but after thinking about it for a moment, he decided to stay and continue watching.
Lunch is very simple, enough white rice, fatty braised pork, green vegetables, and a small salted fish per person.
The lunch in the military academy made Abe Tadaaki sigh again. For the Japanese who eat white rice and have a rice ball, three meals a day of white rice and fine noodles are fish, meat, meat and vegetarian, such a level of food, it is really not difficult to understand the strong military strength of the Ming Dynasty.
The style of the soldiers' meals was also capable and concise, there was no nonsense, and after lunch, everyone set off for the exercise camp in Xiliu Village.
Originally, it was a small village at the foot of the mountain.
It's a pity that the Jiannu soldiers arrived, and there was no grass, and no chickens and dogs remained. When the Army School moved here, several times of training even found a lot of bones in the grass.
Such a deserted and somewhat gloomy place made the surrounding villagers dare not approach, so the army school simply cleaned up and worshipped and used this place as a training camp.
As usual, the soldiers were divided into two sides, and the battle began quickly.
The prelude is omitted, when the battle is going on at a critical point.
The blue side used the wild boar formation, and the wild boars found out of nowhere caused them to be collected in hundreds, driven to one place, and made a surprise attack on the red side's position.
At this time, the red side on the high ground discovered the anomaly.
A hurried whistle sounded, and Abe Tadaaki's gaze followed the whistle to the place where the cover was lifted.
"It's a cannon! Bronze Cannon! Copper's ......," Abe Tadaaki said in a deep voice.
Boom Boom Boom ......
The roar of the artillery did not frighten Abe Tadaaki, and in Japan, he knew that the red-coated artillery was sharp and the ships were strong. But he soon heard the difference.
The difference is in the shells.
After the artillery fire tilted, hundreds of wild boars covered the flames, and the barrage of barrage set off a metal storm that wiped out all living things.
The Red Army burst into cheers.
But Zong Yicheng's face was ugly. Abe Tadaaki was the same, although it was only a wild boar that died, he seemed to remember...... The sight of Japanese warriors being torn into blood in such artillery fire.
If, alas, the Ming Dynasty also poured such weapons in the war to resist Japan and aid Korea, I am afraid ......
"The end of the Japanese will be even more tragic than everyone thinks...... No, it's a fiasco......" Abe Tadaaki muttered, his eyes burning as he watched the new artillery one after another, especially the tightly wrapped shells. He understood that the artillery was certainly powerful, but this time it seemed that the more important thing was the technology of the shells.
He was a little puzzled.
Da Ming, how did you come up with these things?
You know, the Europa artillery is powerful, the ships are strong, but there is no such cannon to explode a large area of shells.
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"Your questions may be answered here." In the hall of Beijing Normal University, Chen Jianhong said hesitantly: "But be careful, don't be taken as a spy." If you dare to do anything, don't blame me for not being able to spare you! ”
"I understand...... Please rest assured. Abe Tadaaki took a deep breath.
After Abe Tadaaki visited the military academy's live military exercises, he seemed a little distracted, but it was Zong Yoshicheng, and after asking if these weapons were for sale, he didn't open his mouth in a funny way.
No one took the topic at all.
But when Zong Yicheng had a little hope in his heart, at least Mingren did not reject him.
For Tadaaki Abe, this is destined to be an unforgettable day.
Here, he felt a deep powerlessness as if an earthling had seen the black technology of aliens. Such powerlessness made him feel a deep trepidation.
Da Ming's change was too fast, and such a change made him uneasy.
Disturbed by the Ming Dynasty is obviously moving towards greater prosperity, which makes Japan more and more unable to resist. In this life and in the Hereafter, there will always be only one powerful nation in East Asia.
Now, the country is the Ming Dynasty.