Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

Of course, this kind of thing can only be implemented in the base areas. If you talk to people in other places about nutrition and the balance of meat and vegetables, you will probably be regarded as mentally ill.

Ordinary people outside can only eat meat once a week. It was only in the last year, when we built a large number of farms and Kong Hao also brought back a large number of canned meat and fish from abroad, that we were able to barely manage to do so.

In the past, many ordinary people wouldn't eat meat even once a year. If you tried to talk to them about eating less meat, you'd probably get beaten up with a carrying pole.

Putting everything else aside, Lieutenant Sun's usual treatment was quite good; he held the rank of major and was a confidant of Commander Chu.

Even so, his performance was still like a vegetarian bun not tasting as good as a meat bun—that's reality.

After the two finished dinner, just as they were about to stretch their legs and get in the car to leave, they suddenly noticed a line of children passing by them.

There were about forty little ones, around five or six years old, walking slowly forward, led by two adults. The surrounding vehicles also stopped and watched the little ones with smiles.

They stood in a somewhat disorderly line, wearing clothes of the same color and carrying the same style of small bags, forming a beautiful scene on the street.

Chu Yunfei was also extremely surprised to see this scene and hurriedly asked what was going on.

Upon hearing this, Section Chief Ma smiled and said:

"Commander Chu, these are primary school students from our base area. Judging by the time, it should be their school start time, so the teacher has come to pick them up to go to school."

"These children are wearing school uniforms, which are distributed by the school and provided by the base area. They get two sets in the summer and two sets in the winter, all free of charge."

"The bag you carry is called a schoolbag. It contains books and stationery, and it's what students use to study."

"According to the latest regulations in our base area, children must start school at the age of six and continue until they graduate from primary school."

"During the children's school years, all tuition and book fees are waived, only a small miscellaneous fee is charged, and three meals a day are also free."

"If a family is really struggling financially, they can apply for tuition reduction or exemption. In short, we want to ensure that all children have access to education."

Upon hearing this explosive news, Chu Yunfei and his adjutant Sun felt a chill run down their spines. Such a massive investment of resources in primary education was unimaginable to them.

We haven't driven the Japanese invaders out of the country yet; the real priority should be to concentrate our efforts on fighting the Japanese devils.

However, the leaders of our base area did not think that way. They were confident that they could drive out the Japanese invaders.

If the Japanese devils lose their minds and choose to invade Southeast Asia, there is only one fate awaiting them: annihilation, it's just a matter of time.

After driving out the invaders, we will need a large number of knowledgeable and cultured people to rebuild this devastated country.

However, frankly speaking, China's current education system is simply not capable of supporting subsequent industrialization.

Based on the industrial scale of the base area alone, the highly educated talents of several surrounding provinces were all poached.

Ultimately, it comes down to China's weak foundation; a primary school graduate is considered an intellectual.

When there was no other option, we had to invest huge resources in primary education to alleviate the tension among intellectuals at its root.

Although they won't be needed for the next few years, if we wait for more than ten years, and these elementary school students grow up, even if only a portion of them can get into junior high, high school, and university.

But as long as they can graduate from primary school smoothly, they are more than capable of being ordinary workers, which is much better than their parents who couldn't even write their own names.

Of course, apart from a few leaders, everyone else was just an executor of such a massive plan and had no idea about the inside story.

Current investment in education accounts for roughly 10% of the profits generated from our industrial and daily life. Apart from free primary school education, the rest consists of a large number of literacy classes, night schools, and vocational training schools.

By the way, we are also promoting literacy among all soldiers in the army. Even the most ordinary soldiers must be able to recognize 100 characters to be considered qualified.

Many quick-witted soldiers were able to read books and newspapers, and even write letters home, in just six months.

In the Independent Column, there was a soldier whom everyone called Xiao Wuzi. He had only a blind old mother, a younger brother, and a younger sister at home.

Even though Xiao Wuzi worked hard and rented more than ten acres of land from the landlord, he still couldn't feed his family of four.

They faced a life of poverty where they often didn't know where their next meal would come from, and the whole family frequently went hungry.

The landlord's family even wanted his foolish son to marry Xiao Wu's sister, which was utterly ridiculous.

Fortunately, that area was quickly recaptured by our troops, and the landlord fled to Taiyuan with his traitorous son.

After we recovered this area, we mobilized a large amount of resources to build roads, factories, and water conservancy projects.

In order to take care of the local residents, it was stipulated that each household could provide one able-bodied person, and instead of giving money directly, supplies were distributed directly.

They can process rice, dough, oil, salt, canned goods, soy sauce, vinegar, clothes, and so on.

These newly recovered areas need tangible things to stabilize people's hearts. Things that can be seen, touched, and used are the most popular.

Sure enough, when many people who had gone out to work returned home carrying rice, flour, and canned meat, the whole village was filled with the aroma of meat, and everyone settled down.

Xiao Wu's younger brother also went to work on the road construction, and the pay he received was enough to support his mother and sister.

He is quick-witted, and because he is a military family member, he has received some preferential treatment. He is now a squad leader, in charge of more than twenty people.

My younger sister is not yet an adult, but she has already joined the village's women's rescue association, doing some work within her capabilities and taking care of our blind mother.

In this way, Xiao Wuzi's family improved at a visible speed. More than half a year later, they even hired someone to demolish their thatched house and build two large tiled houses, and they were finally living a good life.

After learning about his family's situation while in the army, Xiao Wuzi secretly resolved to fight bravely against the enemy and never let the enemy take away his happy life again.

Such examples abound in the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. Many soldiers stationed in the base areas trained desperately even in peacetime, all in order to kill the enemy and serve their country.

The four characters "defend the homeland" were completely embodied at this moment.