Chapter 1018: Emergency Mobilization Order
In the fourth lunar month of the 35th year of Chengtian, the season has just entered the summer, the sun is shining, the temperature is neither hot nor cold, it is a good time for primary and secondary school students to study. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoEspecially for graduates facing the college entrance examination, in the last two months, almost every self-motivated student is racing against time to study.
But at this time, in Central America, an urgent mobilization order made the entire high school community uneasy. Chen Han's war with the Lighthouse Country has also been going on for half a year. Time has proved that the combat effectiveness of Chen Han's army is far greater than that of the lighthouse country.
However, the shortage of personnel made Chen Han have to stop his pace every time after defeating the American army, and the problem of defensive troops prevented them from freeing up more troops for pursuit and attack. Therefore, the feudal states and Tokyo, Hanjin and other places launched an emergency mobilization order.
The mobilization order covers the age of 18, which already covers many school students.
In this era, there are many people who are still studying hard in high school at the age of 20, and even the phenomenon of children coming to deliver meals without going home at noon is endless.
The times have developed for more than 30 years, and the gap between high school students and college students has widened. Now there is a saying in society that going to high school is like taking the exam in the past, and going to college in high school is like relying on people in the past.
Even if a person is poor after graduating from university, he is not really 'poor'. That's just the 'poor' in the thick of the rich.
So this high school student still has some capital in society. As for the army, high school students are innate candidates for the professions of propaganda officers, ideological counselors, teachers, and clerks, and of course artillery also needs soldiers with a high level of education. Anyway, no matter how many high school students enter the army, the latter is not too much. There are also vocational high school students who are also included.
But this makes many people in the education industry can't see it.
High school students, in the eyes of many people, are already the seedlings of college students, how can they be harvested with an emergency summoning order?
However, many students who are old enough to be 18 years old in schools are enthusiastic about joining the army, shouting 'war, war'!
There may be a lot of additional factors involved, but the perseverance in China's primary and secondary schools and the persistence of the patriotic education and martial spirit that have always been promoted have certainly played a huge role.
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Tokyo No. 8 High School has an old school name, called Goldmine Children's School. Secondary School No. 8 was renamed after it was incorporated into the civil service education system.
California Gold Mines are home to a large number of immigrants. Gold mining schools are available not only in California and Hanjin, but also in many places, as well as vocational high schools from elementary school to gold smelting, prospecting, and mining techniques. It is only formal higher professional education that must be returned to the country.
It's just that there are still many first-generation immigrants in the Americas, and these people are no strangers to their hometowns on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
Early in the morning, the school's principal Zhang stood in front of the school with the teachers on duty and several school security guards to welcome the students to the school.
There are really not many students who choose boarding schools in high schools in this era, and the reason has been said before, they can get married at the age of 18. North America is not the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty, and some of the rules and regulations in the law are not so strict.
But there are many people who are 18 years old and have not yet married.
Now Chen Han officially sets the age of marriage at 20 for men and 18 for women. It's really influencing society little by little.
In the early morning, when the sun had just crossed the sky, the sky was still a little dark, and a few remnant stars hung there in the western sky, like pebbles without the slightest luster.
In the family area of the North American branch of the Second Gold Company under the Ministry of Mines, the pale blue smoke slipped out of the kitchens of each house, and a faint blue-gray mist gathered over the family area, which also filled the humid air blowing from the sea with the fragrance of breakfast. Around the playground in the family area, the voices of women shouting at their throats were heard calling for breakfast. The old and young masters finished their pre-dinner activities after the people in the house called and called each other, and returned to their respective homes one by one.
Zhu Min's father, Zhu Yishan, is a small section chief of the American branch, although his position is not high, but he also allows the family to live in a second-class house with a separate courtyard. In this family area, the first-class houses with independent courtyards and small buildings must be at the director level to be eligible for purchase, while those at the section chief level are eligible to purchase the second-class houses. The third type of room is the suite in the residential building, whether it is a two-bedroom, three-bedroom or four-bedroom house, and it is unified as a three-type room. The worst four types of rooms are the tube building, also known as the single dormitory.
The morning sun shines through the half-open door, illuminating half of the room, and the light envelops the whole room. Zhu Min, Zhu Min's younger brother Zhu Jiang, father Zhu Yishan, mother Bai Mei, a family of four are sitting around a square table eating. Rice porridge, pickles, stir-fried greens, fried fritters, plus a few siu mai, meat buns and two salted duck eggs with four slices.
If you do it in the pre-Qing Dynasty, such a breakfast is definitely a luxury for the common people, because in addition to rice porridge, pickles and vegetables, fried dough sticks, buns and siu mai have to be bought outside, and many people with this money will be more cost-effective to sprinkle a handful of rice in the rice pot, not to mention that there are two salted duck eggs with egg yolks and orange red flowing oil on the dining table. But in Tokyo today, this can only be said to be average.
Because Zhu Min and Zhu Jiang also have an elder brother named Zhu Peng, who is now studying law at Jinling University in Nanjing. It's always going to take money.
With Zhu Yishan's income, he has to save family expenses while supporting his eldest son. You must know the previous Zhu family, where the duck eggs and eggs were placed in bowls and bowls, and whoever wanted to eat them could reach out and take them. How can two duck eggs be cut in half like now?
But even if he already felt the economic pressure, Zhu Yishan resolutely disagreed with his son's desire to become a soldier. Although this soldier does not need to win the consent of his parents, how many people can insist on joining the army despite their parents? Of course, Zhu Min also has his own reasons.
First, he didn't study well, unlike his eldest brother, who didn't get past the top ten in the top ten in three years of high school. And the last time Zhu Min was in the top ten in the exam was in the third grade of primary school ten years ago. There was only one class in each stage of his elementary school, and he was the tenth in the class, so he was naturally the tenth in the whole school.
Zhu Min's current grades are difficult to pass the vocational high school exam, his math is good, but his Chinese and Gewu are too high.
Facing the college entrance examination that will be held soon, Zhu Min's inner pressure is very great. What he is most afraid of is that his score is too low and hurts his parents' hearts, not what will happen to him in the future. Zhu Min's family is not poor, he doesn't need to be in charge as early as a poor man's child. For more than ten years, his only task was to study.
The huge pressure of the college entrance examination made Zhu Min can't help but escape, and at this time, the emergency conscription order is simply a rain, so that Zhu Min, who has been in drought for several months, has a new way out. It's a pity that Zhu's father and mother firmly disagree.
"Mother, the teacher said that we are going to the martyrs' cemetery to sweep the graves on the eighteenth, you can give me some money." Zhu Jiang put all the egg whites into the bowl, drank the rice porridge in a big gulp, and muttered vaguely in his mouth. As he spoke, he raised his head, stared at his father, who was sitting on the side drinking porridge and reading the morning newspaper, and said, "Dad, give me that porcelain kettle, I can bring some water." "He's already aiming for his father's pretty kettle. On the front is the name of the company, on the back is a map of the world, the location of the second gold ore mine is fully marked, and the outside is a layer of porcelain, which is a high-end goods at a glance. It was a souvenir of the 30th anniversary of the Second Gold Company.
"No." Zhu Yishan, who was reading the newspaper while drinking porridge, said without raising his head. "Where do children learn so well?" What is on the mind of the youngest son, can you be a father and not know? One of his classmates brought a porcelain kettle like that, and the little guy was angry. Therefore, Zhu Yishan's refusal was straightforward.
"This kid, why do you want such a good kettle?" The mother also raised her son, and the kettle could only be bought for one or twenty yuan in the mall, so she was reluctant to use it for her careless little son. I gave it to him, and in less than a week, the beautiful layer of porcelain outside was all knocked out.
"When the day of your tomb sweeping comes, my mother will give you money." The last sentence directly rejected Zhu Jiang's initial request. It's not that Bai Mei doesn't believe her son and thinks Zhu Jiang is talking nonsense. Now that the war is still going on, and the war with the Americans is coming to a critical juncture, it is normal for schools to organize students to visit the graves of martyrs and lay wreaths in the martyrs' cemetery.
The war seems to be far away from the lives of ordinary people, but in fact it has been deeply linked to thousands of families in China. Throughout the land of Central America, countless factories are working day and night to produce products in shifts, and batch after batch of materials are loaded and transported to the far west.
Countless workers swept the market and all kinds of products with more wages than in the past, greatly stimulating the growth of consumption in the North American economy. This fluctuation and influence even spread to the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty, which in turn drove thousands of factories and changed the fate of millions of people.
Zhu Min came out of the house sullenly, his wish was not fulfilled, and he didn't say a word when he ate in the morning, so he was naturally unhappy. But his 'ambition' has not been broken.
It's the same thing in Tokyo, it's the same company, it's the same family area.
"Grandma Li, where is my father?" Zhu Min's classmate + Zhou Zhen at the front table took the napkin from the dining table, quickly wiped the corners of his mouth, threw it into the garbage basket, and asked casually without raising his head.
"Second young master, the master has already gone out. As soon as dawn broke, Secretary Liu in the factory came to the door, saying that there was a batch of goods in addition to something, and the master listened to Secretary Liu's words, and rushed to the factory without eating. Standing behind Zhou Zhen was an old woman in her fifties and sixties, who put a cup of hot cocoa on the dining table, and took a step back and said. Zhou Zhenchao likes to drink this thing.
It's almost half past seven, and Zhou Zhen's wife hasn't gotten up yet. Zhou Zhen frowned slightly with some dissatisfaction, stood up with his hands on the dining table, and complained softly: "Leaving so early? I still have something to tell him! "It's a common problem for children to always feel that their own business is important.
Many employees in the gold mine are actually about the same age as Zhou Zhen and Zhu Min, but compared with Zhou Zhen and Zhu Min living in sugar tanks, their lives are much harder and more mature.
"Grandma Li, is my schoolbag ready?"
"Ready. I'll let Lao Wang carry it for you. "The living conditions of the Zhou family are not comparable to those of the Zhu family, and there are two carriages in the family, one of which is dedicated to transporting children to and from school. Zhou Zhen's eldest brother has returned to China to study at university, although it is private, this carriage has become Zhou Zhen's special car.
"No, I'll just take it myself. You ask someone to go and tell Uncle Wang, I don't need a carriage today, and you don't need to bring me food at noon. At noon, my classmates and I went out for dinner. Zhou Zhen took the schoolbag and ran outside.
Zhou Zhen never thought of joining the army, and at worst, he could enter the company's affiliated high school. As the deputy head of the class, Zhou Zhen is now thinking about the grave sweeping activities in a few days. High school is coming to an end, and there are fewer and fewer such school activities.