African Entrepreneurship Records

  Chapter 160 Innovation

  Professor Anton Perutz's ideas will be verified in East Africa in the next few years, but while continuing his own scientific research, he must also take into account the important task of finding ways to increase agricultural production and improve crops for East Africa.

   This is the task Ernst assigned to Anton Perutz's team, otherwise who knows how far these scientists' research directions will go.

  It is okay to engage in scientific research, but it must also be done to make contributions to the East African colonies. Ernst’s funding of agricultural research institutes, in the final analysis, is to serve his own colonies, and he does not really want to contribute to the cause of human science.

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   November 7, 1868.

  Europe, Prussia, Hechingen.

   With the passage of time, the scale of Hechingen Military Academy has also become larger and larger, and various facilities and teaching staff have become increasingly complete.

  At present, the number of students in the school is as high as more than 3,700, and the main sources of students are from Europe, the Far East and South America.

  Originally when the Hechingen Military Academy was established, Ernst’s original intention was to develop into a professional military academy.

  The result was counterproductive, because the development of the East African colonies required a large number of language translators and military technical personnel, making the Hechingen Military Academy a crash German school.

  The East African colony has developed to the present, and it is no longer necessary to equip immigrants with language translators to implement instructions and policies.

  With the substantial increase in the number of European immigrants and the initial success of German education in East Africa, many non-German-speaking immigrants have learned to communicate in German, while forcing the rest to actively learn German.

  In addition, in the past two years, the Hexingen Cultural School has begun to replace the Hexingen Military Academy, providing East Africa with professional low-education talents, and the East African regular army has no desire to expand, so the demand for the Hexingen Military Academy in East Africa has been greatly reduced.

  These combined factors led Ernst to want to bring the Hechingen Military Academy back on track, making it truly a cradle for training professional military talents for himself.

  In order to restore the Hechingen Military Academy to what it should have been, Ernst planned to start from four aspects.

  The first is the school system, cancel the crash course, restore the normal teaching order, and change it to a three-year system.

  Military talents in East Africa are currently saturated, and the enemies they fight are all indigenous, so there is no need for so many professional military talents.

  In addition to the establishment of the Hechingen Cultural School, it began to provide German students for the Hechingen Military Academy, so the Hechingen Military Academy no longer needs language education for non-German students.

  If the Hexingen Cultural School is the primary school, and the Hexingen Military Academy is the middle school, the students adopted by Hexingen in the past two years have been thrown into the Hexingen Cultural School for preliminary training.

  Students who graduated from the Hexingen Cultural School can be divided into three grades. Those with particularly excellent grades in the first grade can apply for or be assigned by Ernst to enter the German education system for further study, which is usually the treatment only for true geniuses.

  The second class, excellent grades, but only outstanding students in the Hexingen Cultural School, enter the Hechingen Military Academy to study or do internships in companies under the Hechingen Consortium.

  The third tier, students with average or poor grades are sent to the East African colonies to engage in education and translation work.

  The students of the Hechingen Cultural School provide a relatively excellent source of students for the Hechingen Military Academy.

  The second is to innovate teaching materials, looking for professionals to modify the teaching materials of Hechingen Military Academy, adding more professional knowledge and courses.

  The first edition of Hechingen Military Academy textbooks was edited by Ernst himself, and they are not very professional. Of course, the set of things that he brainwashed students in the textbooks cannot be deleted, but the content of the professional part can be modified.

  The third is the teaching staff, hiring a group of professional retired non-commissioned officers from the Prussian army to teach at the school.

  The current teaching staff of the Hechingen Military Academy is still too weak, and a group of senior teachers with real talents are needed.

  The fourth is to build a professional training place.

  A military academy naturally requires a lot of training. Currently, the Hechingen Military Academy is limited to the campus and lacks professional training venues.

  Ernst planned to coordinate a large area in Hechingen with relatively complex terrain to establish a training ground for students to use for training.

  The place is located in the west of Hexingen, where the population is relatively sparse, and the hills and plains intersect, and there are large forests, which is very suitable.

   Just do it, and Ernst, who had just returned from France, began to reform at the Hechingen Military Academy.

  First sort out the students of the Hechingen Military Academy. Because of age, some students of the Hechingen Military Academy were not promoted from the Hechingen Cultural School, so the quality of the students of the Hechingen Military Academy is uneven.

  Ernst thoughtfully prepared an exam for them. Those who passed the test will continue to stay, and those who failed the test will be divided into two batches.

  The younger ones were sent back to the Hexingen Cultural School for reconstruction, and the older ones were sent directly to East Africa for employment.

  Students left in this way basically have similar educational levels, and their physical fitness is relatively healthy, which is convenient for the subsequent unified teaching.

  In terms of building materials and teachers, Ernst intends to start from the German states, and it must be more difficult to dig into the corners of Prussia.

  But some talents in small states can still be discovered, especially after Prussia integrated the military forces of the northern countries.

  Some ideas that are different from those of the Prussian army will definitely be removed from the army. Although the military ideas are different, their military literacy is still good. Ernst intends to initiate a relationship and hire them to teach in Hechingen.

  It doesn’t matter if the military philosophy is different. Hechingen Military Academy is a school, not an army. It is a place where Ernst specializes in training backbone military talents. As long as the military philosophy does not involve the ideological field of students, Ernst can tolerate it.

  The training ground is the best solution. The whole Heixingen is nominally owned by the family, so you don't have to be polite, let your father divide the land for you.

  Then, pull up the cordon and match the supporting facilities, so that the students can engage in drills with live ammunition.

  No matter how much he trained in school, Ernst couldn't have built a shooting range and other facilities in the Hechingen Military Academy. It was originally for the convenience of materials and construction.

  The Hexingen Military Academy chose to be located on the outskirts of Hexingen Town, not too far from the residential area, so it was impossible to issue weapons for them to let go of training.

And at that time, speed was the main thing, and the professional level of the students was not valued, so there was no need to engage in live ammunition drills and the like. If you learn a lot from textbooks, you can shoot. If you are healthy, you can go directly to East Africa to seek a job in the army. .

   Now, Ernst wants to turn the Hechingen Military Academy into a professional military academy, so he naturally needs to conduct actual combat exercises.

  Actual combat is always the only criterion for testing the combat effectiveness of an army. Students of the Hechingen Military Academy naturally have no chance to come into contact with real wars, so they can only resort to conducting some exercises to simulate the battlefield environment to improve students' military literacy.

  (end of this chapter)