Chapter 1899 Officer Cadet
Providing military training and further education for foreign military personnel has always been an important part of Haihan's foreign military assistance. The number of foreign military personnel studying in Sanya has always been over a hundred every year, and these are only the senior officers carefully selected by various countries to send to Haihan for further training, and do not include the large number of combatants trained locally by Haihan's military advisers. .
For North Korea, it is a rare opportunity to send its elite military personnel to Haihan to study and then bring advanced military experience back to North Korea. It is a pity that the military budget limits North Korea's performance. If it were not for funding issues, North Korea would probably not send only 18 officer cadets.
North Korea has pinned its hopes of forming a new army command team on these eighteen trainees, but Haihan's senior officials have more ideas about this. Based on past operational experience, the Executive Committee believes that it is entirely possible to indirectly control these forces attached to Haihan by influencing the ideology of high-level military officials. They will rely on Haihan for a long time in terms of military equipment and combat systems, and this will be brought about by Haihan. The long-term benefits are considerable.
Although the study abroad program arranged by Haihan for North Korea goes far beyond the military field, there is no doubt that both Haihan and North Korea regard military training as the essence of the study abroad program. It is precisely because of this that Ahn Do-seok and other eighteen North Korean military cadets became the focus of attention second only to Li Bo at this welcome dinner.
For Andoshi, from the moment he was selected as a government-sponsored study abroad student, the experience of the past two months has been like a dream. While waiting for departure arrangements in Seoul, An Daoshi was actually worried every day that he would be kicked out of the study abroad team, because compared to those generals with prominent family backgrounds, he was just an ordinary person from an Orion background, and they were going to squeeze him out. He might just have to move his fingers. It wasn't until the day he set off from Seoul that Andoshi was convinced that his good luck had really come. Regardless of whether this is the arrangement of the Haihan people, or whether there is no better candidate than him in the Bingcao Yamen, in short, his destiny has changed from the moment he left North Korea, and he needs to grasp this situation well. Opportunity.
During the voyage south, Andolshi was almost idle for a day. Whenever he had time, he went to the captain, first mate and bosun on the ship to ask them for navigation knowledge. Although he is not a naval officer, he has learned a lot along the way, and even started to write his own voyage diary according to the captain's instructions - of course, given his limited education, the content of this diary is very brief. .
But these silent efforts are not in vain. Not to mention the various knowledge and skills Andao Shi has learned in the process, his performance on the way will naturally be paid attention to in secret, collected and reported to the superiors.
As for the performance of these North Korean officers on the way, the one who is most concerned about this is the Haihan Ministry of National Defense. Several military officers with civilian backgrounds, such as Andao Shi, were initially targeted for training and wooing by Wang Tom and Qian Tiandun in North Korea, but this does not mean that these people are worthy of the Ministry of National Defense's trust or that it should be given more resources. It still requires a long period of observation and continuous ideological indoctrination to change some of their original deep-rooted concepts.
Of course, the senior officials of the Ministry of National Defense do not have that much time to observe these North Korean officer cadets, so they can only treat them as tasks and leave them to their subordinates to carry out. But after this kind of tasks are handed down layer by layer, it is difficult to say how much the final executor can understand the intentions of the orderer, and how much of the information fed back to the top is truly meaningful. So on today's occasion, senior military officials can directly observe these North Korean students at close range, and this first impression may determine the level of support they can receive from Haihan in the future.
After drinking for three rounds, under Yan Chujie's proactive inquiry, Li Bo asked the eighteen officer cadets to leave the banquet hall and gave him a general introduction to the situation of these people.
This group of officer cadets selected by North Korea have one common characteristic, that is, they all participated in the war this summer and have experience in cooperating with the Haihan Army. This was actually a condition Haihan put forward on his own initiative to prevent some people with connections who had never been on the battlefield from getting into the study abroad team. And this condition has indeed set a very high threshold for the selection work, so that many wealthy and powerful children who are interested in taking this opportunity have no choice but to give up.
"Being able to come to Sanya today proves that you are all elites in the North Korean military. But in the future, the training you will receive will be very difficult, which may make you regret coming here! But as long as you persevere, you will succeed. Years from now, you will definitely become the most responsible generals in the Korean army!”
Now that they had met each other, Yan Chujie took advantage of the situation and said a few words. While inoculating the North Korean officers, he also boasted to them about the bright prospects for the future and saw what kind of reaction these officers had.
Andao Shi was not particularly excited about this, because in fact, he had already heard similar words when he was at the Datong River base. Moreover, Qian Tiandun and Wang Tom spoke more directly at that time, asking them to receive training arrangements after arriving in Sanya, which would ensure that they could join the new army and lead troops after returning to China. Haihan would then try to arrange for them to go into battle. , use the method of brushing military merit to obtain the opportunity for rapid promotion.
This is not just the boasting of Haikou by the two money kings. When Haihan supported Xu Xinsu to rise to power, he adopted a similar strategy and tried to get Xu Xinsu to use Shibazhi to gain military exploits. Then Xu Xinsu spent money from his own pocket to open up the joints. He was both rich and With a steady stream of military exploits, one can naturally rise to the top at a rocket-like speed.
For North Korean soldiers, there is no need to worry about having no opponents for them to gain military exploits. The Qing Kingdom in the north has always been North Korea's natural enemy. When the time comes, Haihan can find any reason to go to war with the Qing Dynasty, and he can ask North Korea to send troops to help in the war. North Korea will definitely not refuse this opportunity for revenge. It will be logical for them to let these officers who have received orthodox Haihan military training in Sanya go to fight. .
If everything goes well, Ando Shi and others will immediately join the new army as commanders at all levels after completing the training course and return to China. Those who have good military qualities and are willing to cooperate with Haihan will naturally get more opportunity to play. If they want to stand out and rise quickly in the future, a lot depends on their performance during their time in Sanya.
Then Gu Wei, who was in charge of the training and management of the Haihan Army, also stood up and said a few words to the North Korean officers: "I, Gu, will be responsible for your training in the future. I hope you all understand one thing. You are here The skills you have learned will be used throughout your life! As long as you put in 10% of your efforts here, you will naturally get 12% of rewards in the future!”
For North Korean officers, the name Guwei is relatively unfamiliar, and is far less famous than Haihan generals such as Wang Tom, Qian Tiandun, and Harugong who have been fighting abroad all year round. But if you tell them that the Fujian Navy and Annan Navy that sent troops to participate in the Korean War this year, Xu Yuzhuo and Zheng Ting, the leading generals of the two armies, were trained under Gu Wei, it might make them have an impression of this Haihan Army The head coach was even more awe-struck.
Of course, Gu Wei is not as easy to talk to as he seems on the surface. He is even harsh on the training ground. Foreign officers who come to Haihan for further training are often tormented by him. In private, some people even give him an "Ancient Demon" nickname. The speeches of the two military leaders of Haihan made Andoshi feel a little more relaxed. What he was worried about was not how arduous the training content would be, but whether Haihan would really care about training North Korean officers. Can I learn my true skills from here? But now that General Haihan had spoken harshly, he felt much more at ease.
Li Ming took this opportunity to carefully observe the senior officials of Haihan present. Although he had been reminded by Li Xi before, there were some things that Li Xi was not sure about, such as the true attitude of these senior officials towards North Korea.
Before Li Su left North Korea, King Li Zhu mentioned this matter to him. After all, even North Korea's domestic attitude toward Haihan was not completely unified. There were still some officials who believed that introducing Haihan's army was quite risky, and Haihan's domestic Not all of them have good intentions toward North Korea. After arriving in Sanya, they must carefully handle their interpersonal relationships, especially those high-ranking Haihan officials who may not like North Korea.
For this kind of task that requires observing people's emotions and trying to figure out other people's psychology, Li Bo is actually not good at it. In addition, almost all of these senior officials on the Haihan Executive Committee are people with a subtle expression of emotions and anger. It is really difficult to judge the expressions, words and deeds. to infer its true attitude towards North Korea. But fortunately, so far, all the high-ranking officials of Haihan that Li Bo has come into contact with have behaved relatively friendly. Even the unsmiling military generals have a gentle attitude when talking to him.
Fortunately, with the experience of contacting Haihan senior officials at several stops along the way as training, Li Bo is now quite adaptable to this kind of social situation. He even thought that if the Haihan people did not arrange the trip along the way, but took a boat directly to Sanya, he might not be able to deal with it as calmly as he did now.
“I wonder what the prince’s specific thoughts are about this study abroad arrangement after visiting several overseas ports in our country?”
Li Ming was thinking about his experiences along the way, when Tao Donglai also asked related questions. Of course Li Bo knew what Tao Donglai meant, which was to ask him whether he had considered the field of knowledge he wanted to study in Sanya, but this really brought up his dilemma.
Li Bo is more interested in military affairs, but at the same time he also knows that he is not the material to lead troops in war. Even if he studies military affairs here for two years, he will probably only be able to talk about military affairs on paper. Moreover, the two Haihan generals just now made it very clear that the training the officer cadets received in Sanya would be very difficult. This reason was enough to persuade Li Pu to withdraw.
Trade management is naturally a good learning direction, but Li Bo has little interest in it and lacks business acumen. Learning this may have the same effect as learning military affairs. At most, it will only add a little knowledge of trade and finance, which will help North Korea in the future. You can avoid pitfalls in international trade.
As for studying agriculture and engineering, let alone that. In his more than 20 years of life, he has never even worn a needle once, and has never been on a farm to experience farming. It can be said that he has no foundation. There is no point in spending time to learn now. big. Moreover, among the students studying abroad this time, there are already practitioners in these industries, so there is no need for him to become a monk halfway and learn these menial jobs.
While watching "The Rise of the South China Sea" in Hong Kong, Li Pu was already thinking about his arrangements for studying abroad, but he kept going back and forth among these fields, but could not find a study direction that satisfied him.
At this time, Tao Donglai took the initiative to ask. Li Bo hesitated for a moment and then responded honestly: "To be honest with Mr. Tao, I haven't thought about this clearly yet. I hope Mr. Tao can give me more time to think about it again."
Tao Donglai smiled and said: "There is no need to worry about this. If the prince cannot decide for the time being, then he may travel around our country and find a direction that suits him."
In the opinion of the executive committee, it doesn't matter what Li Bo actually wants to learn. Anyway, based on his knowledge base, it is impossible to learn advanced things in two years. It is already very important to be able to thoroughly understand the basics in a certain field. Not bad. The purpose of the arrangement of studying abroad is not to train Li Bo into a high-level talent, but to try to let him stay in Haihan for two years, and use this time to slowly change his ideological concepts so that he can understand North Korea's situation after returning to China. The direction of development will have an impact in favor of Haihan - for example, it will unswervingly regard Haihan as its suzerain country and open more fields to Haihan, including immigration.
Therefore, Haihan generously stated from the beginning that Li Bo could choose his own learning direction without any restrictions. As long as he wanted to learn, Haihan could teach him. However, such generous conditions made it difficult for Li Pu to make a decision. He hesitated all the way from Seoul to Sanya and still did not make a final decision. What he actually wants to discuss now is to discuss with Li Xi and hear whether Li Xi can give him some constructive opinions. However, after arriving in Sanya, he has not yet had a chance to talk with Li Xi in detail, so he has to face Tao Donglai's inquiry first.
Tao Donglai was happy to see the result of Li Bo's hesitation, which just showed that the Joseon prince's mind was not particularly firm, and he still could not make a decision after such a long period of consideration. In this case, let's continue to arrange Li Bo's travels in Haihan. Anyway, Haihan now has a very large territory. It would take several months just to go around the colonies in the South China Sea.
If Li Bo wanted to stay on Hainan Island, it would be easy to arrange it. Nowadays, there are many large-scale industries on the island, and every place is enough to open Li Bo's eyes. During the visit, he will naturally gradually realize the greatness of Haihan's achievements, and it will be easier to instill some Haihan values in him.
(End of chapter)