Chapter 488: Young Military Academy
"This tank is the tank we are currently replacing. As for its specific data, you can go down and take a closer look!"
After Han Ling said some data about the Tianyun Tank above, he looked at the military personnel below and said.
"Okay! Now let's talk about the reserve. Mr. Zhan Ning, how is the reserve in our country going now?"
The national reserve is related to the issue of replenishing troops in the late stage of the war. This is a major event and was managed by Mr. Zhan Ning himself.
"Now the reserve system of our empire has been basically established. However, the establishment of the south was still short and the effect is not great at present. However, because the establishment time was long, the area north of the Yangtze River can provide us with about 6 million reserve troops in service in an emergency. If a war occurs, we can also urgently recruit about 20 million soldiers who have been initially trained.
In the area south of the Yangtze River, we can currently provide us with about three million reserve troops in service. When a war occurs, we can urgently recruit about eight million soldiers who have been initially trained!"
Mr. Zhan Ning said slowly with a document.
These things were counted before. After preliminary training, they only trained soldiers for three months.
This is also the requirement of the Han Empire.
Originally, it was required for one year, but because the Han Empire had too many populations, if it was too long, it would be very unfavorable to the current production and development of the empire.
So it was later changed to three months.
The on-service reserves are soldiers trained from the security area. They have also trained for three months, but they are in training, or those who have just finished training for less than three months, are called on-service reserves.
It will no longer be counted after more than three months.
"Well! Overall, it's not bad. Even if there is a war now, we can still have enough troops to treat the war. However, these are just soldiers who have been initially trained and will pull them to the battlefield. Once a hard battle occurs, they will be equivalent to cannon fodder. This is not possible.
It is said that education should start with children, and so is our military education.
Although there are military classes in the school every week, that's not OK. Some time ago, I thought of a method: Since education starts with children, why isn't our military like this?
So I decided to set up a Youth Military Academy.
A teenager who has been to elementary and junior high school will be recruited into the Junior Military Academy. If some people are determined to be a soldier, as long as they finish elementary school, they can go directly to the Junior Military Academy without going to junior high school.
The Junior Military Academy is full of teenagers under the age of eighteen. They will learn various military knowledge skills and their knowledge. Of course, some essential cultural courses will also be taught.
In addition to taking knowledge theory classes, they also conduct physical training, and start training them since childhood, training them to become a real professional soldier.
All expenses of the Junior Military Academy will be reimbursed by the state finance. In addition, once the teenagers in the Junior Military Academy reach the age of eighteen, they can either enter the military to train or enter other military academies in the empire to study."
After Han Ling finished speaking, he handed the documents to the people below.
While they were looking, they were thinking about Han Ling’s method.
Later they also understood that schools such as primary schools, junior high schools, and high schools can be said to be the basis for cultivating social talents and civil servants.
Although there are North China Strategic Command School, Yanjing Non-Commissioner College, etc., the students they recruit are all over the age of 18.
They are all students who have finished elementary and middle school, and they are all adults.
But there are no military full-time schools below adults.
If a teenage military academy is established, it means that there will be full-time training schools for military officers in the future, and those teenagers will be trained militarily since childhood.
By the time they became an adult at the age of eighteen, they had already experienced six years of military education, and had a great congenital advantage over those students who were admitted to the military academy after graduating from high school.
First of all, these people who came out of the teenage military academy have been marked as the army since childhood. Among the knowledge they know, military cultural knowledge is the richest, and the knowledge reserve is also the largest.
They can be said to be truly professional soldiers. In the future, even if they are a young man in his twenties, he has been receiving military education since he was twelve.
Even if he encounters a difficult ending, his mind will be extremely firm, and his military command ability will be much stronger than that of the military commander in the same year.
Since ancient times, there have been only schools, schools, private schools, etc. that train civil servants.
However, there has never been a school where military officers have been trained since childhood. The method proposed by Han Ling can be said to be a thing that sets a precedent in history.
There are many benefits to creating a youth military academy, but there is also a big problem.
"Your Majesty! The old minister has to say that there are too many benefits of creating a young military academy, but we also have a big problem to solve.
Our military expenditure is only so much. If we follow this, the military expenditure may not be enough.
Even from the perspective of the overall finance of the empire, if we follow this, the empire's finances may not be able to bear it.
My Han Empire has a large population, and even if only a few million young people join the army, it is a huge number. This period is when they grow up, and the food must not be too poor, and the amount must be large.
Just this food expense, the consumption of a day is probably a huge amount.
Moreover, there are knowledge theory classes and training classes in the Junior Military Academy.
These expenses are also astronomical, and I am afraid the empire's finances cannot stand it."
After Mr. Zhan Ning finished reading it, he immediately thought of the issue of finance and military expenditure.
This method is good, but it has high financial requirements, especially these teenagers.
Chapter completed!