The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

The wind blows the wheat waves, and the scenery along the river in early June is pastoral.

Grandma Jiang passed away in the summer of the [-]th year of Jingli. Song Yingkui, who had just buried Jiang with his relatives in the old graves of Yangjiabao and Songjia, was returning to Taoyang City with everyone on horseback.

Along the way, Song Yingkui couldn't help but recall every moment of getting along with his grandmother in this time and space, as well as her life.

Grandma Jiang came from a big family. Because of her eye disease, she had to marry into the Song family, a poor peasant for eight generations.In the Song family's more than 40 years, most of the time must have been lived in poverty and depression, right?
I don’t know whether grandma really found her pride and happiness and experienced the sweetness of life during the period when she led the Song family to rise?
At least when she was dying, she said that her life was worth living. She could contribute to the success of the Song family and see her children and grandchildren become what they are today, especially the eldest grandson who became the head of Yungu. .When she got there, she had her merits to account to the ancestors of the Song family. When she saw her parents, she had no complaints. Marrying into the Song family was worth it!
Birth, old age, illness and death are normal in life, but Jiang's death still deeply touched Song Yingkui.It made him clearly aware of the passage of time. In this time and space, he was no longer the young boy he was when he just traveled through time. More than ten years had passed. At this time, the elders in the family were getting older one after another. He was now in his prime and a grown-up boy. The mainstay of Jing’s family!

When a person reaches his prime, the speed of time seems to have accelerated all of a sudden, and Song Yingkui felt a faint sense of urgency in his heart.It felt like there was an invisible beast chasing me behind me, and it was getting closer and closer.

Especially when I saw my old uncle and Yang Shunan next to me, my sense of urgency became even stronger.The second uncle and Yang Shunan are both old in civil and military affairs. It is especially difficult for Yang Shunan to carry out high-intensity military work.The upgrading of the Yungu military government system is imperative!

The military and political systems need to be updated, and the development of science and technology also needs to be further accelerated. Looking back carefully at the past ten years, it seems that a lot of achievements have been made, but in fact there seems to be no breakthrough technological progress?

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"The progress of tire development is quite good. It has basic practicability and preliminary trial production can be carried out according to this style! Let the Government, relying on the technology of the research and development institute, integrate relevant industries and set up factories to carry out tire production. mass production.

Regarding the research and development of tires and rubber, the R&D institute must continue to follow up in order to develop rubber and tires with better performance.Next, the research institute established two major project departments, one is the sewing machine research and development department, the other is the steam engine research and development department, and organized elite personnel to work on these two projects, striving to achieve key progress in a few years. "

Realizing the urgency of time, Song Yingkui immediately went to the Machinery Research Institute after returning to Yungu. One was to inspect and accept the development results of bicycle tires, and the other was to make arrangements for the launch of two key projects: steam engines and sewing machines.

The idea of ​​using sheepskin as wheel inner tubes ultimately failed because the sewn sheepskin could not withstand the pressure.The current tire solution provided by mechanical research and development is to make semi-hollow tires, which is to use rough rubber and cowhide to make hollow outer tires, and then put a semi-circular inner lining made of elastic steel reeds inside to enhance the tire's durability. Shock absorbing effect.

Such tires are definitely less effective at damping than pneumatic tires, but they seem to be more durable than pneumatic tires. At least there is no risk of puncture, so they are quite suitable for military use.With rubber tires, the comfort and adaptability of bicycles to road conditions have been greatly improved, and the traffic capacity of complex road conditions has been qualitatively changed.The previously planned bicycle infantry can be started.

After struggling for several years, Song Yingkui was worried about the more complex industrial facilities such as steam engines that he would build in the future.

At this pace, it would probably take more than ten years to build a serious and usable steam engine.As for complex linkage mechanical equipment like sewing machines, it will be difficult to see results within five or six years.This is based on already having a certain amount of technology accumulation and reserves.If you just let yourself rub it with your hands, it will be difficult to rub it out in this life.

"Official, I would like to give my opinion, can we set up a technical secondary school specifically for girls? At present, the Mechanical Research Institute is all male except for me, and many things are inconvenient to arrange. Another thing, although there are many machines It is physical work, but it may not be something that women can participate in. There are female generals like Tao Dalan in the army, so it shouldn't be a problem to have some women in the machine shop?" When communicating about the work to be done by the machine, Li Guoqian made a personal request .She feels that there is currently only one woman in the office, which makes management difficult.

"Well! This year, we will open a girls' primary school in Taoyang and Wuying each, and prepare to open a girls' technical secondary school next year. When the time is right, Yungu University can also recruit some female students!" Li Guoqian It is indeed necessary to adopt the proposal. Appropriately increasing the role of women in industrial production and their presence in the system will help make more rational use of human resources.Yungu has a small population to begin with, so by neglecting women's education, isn't it just a waste of half of the human resources?
Speaking of education, it seems that another round of restructuring will begin this year to further advance the work of extending the length of primary school education.The three-year universal education is too short, and at most it can only eliminate illiteracy. !
"Let the administrative department issue a clear document to prepare for the establishment of complete primary schools in towns with a five-year schooling system. All primary schools will hold entrance examinations after the third grade. About [-]% of students with excellent grades can enter complete primary schools for free to continue their studies. In addition, they can recruit Twenty percent of fee-paying students have completed primary school. Only students who have completed primary school are eligible to take the technical secondary school entrance examination.

Starting from this year, all foreign candidates who do not have the title of scholar or above cannot take the direct entrance examination to technical secondary schools.The administrative department has established a special pre-reading school for foreign candidates. After studying in the pre-reading school for one year, they can take the technical secondary school entrance examination in Yungu! "

The technical secondary schools run by Yungu have become very attractive to foreign students in recent years. In the exam seasons of the past two years, the number of reference foreign students was close to [-].

With the increase in the number of reference students, the quality of foreign students is not as good as before.In the past, all the students who came all the way to take the exam in Yungu had good basic quality (those who could come all the way to take the exam had good family conditions, and at least they had attended private schools and completed their enlightenment education).But now, even some people who have just learned a few words come to Yungu to try their luck!

Of course, this is also related to the improvement of local basic education in Yungu. Now, not only the number of primary school graduates in Yungu has increased, but the quality has also improved. Naturally, the conditions for selecting talents must also improve.

(End of this chapter)