After the celebration banquet, the police officers began to work with the shipwrights to repair the damaged warships. Even if there was no damage, they would drive the ships into the newly dug dry docks for careful maintenance. This would ensure that the warships were in the best condition for the next battle.
Of course, during this period, the ship did not need so many people. Except for the warships on combat readiness duty, the police officers and police officers on most of the docked ships began to take turns to take leave.
According to the Regulations, in addition to holidays such as the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival, police officers and sergeants also have fixed holidays of varying lengths each year. Senior police officers at the level of police inspector can enjoy two months of paid leave; intermediate police officers at the level of police superintendent can enjoy fifty days, superintendent and major sergeant can enjoy forty days, and sergeant can enjoy thirty days.
Police officers, who currently account for 90% of the total number of officers, do not enjoy fixed holidays, but they can redeem them with points.
The points system is an important part of Mr. Zhao's quantitative management of the Coast Guard. The winners of daily training and housekeeping evaluation will receive precious points, and there will be a fixed bonus of points when patrolling at sea. Excellent performance in combat will naturally be reflected in the points with great weight.
For example, in this punitive operation, because the voyage lasted more than two months, all police officers and soldiers could earn 50 long-distance points. In addition, if they won consecutive battles, everyone could also earn 100 victory points. Police officers who performed well in the battle could also earn up to 200 additional personal military merit points.
This is because the difficulty of this battle is relatively low and there is no bonus for points. If the battle difficulty is rated as Class B or above, there will be significant bonuses for the battle and personal points.
It is said that a certain staff officer Liu who wishes to remain anonymous said that fortunately the Battle of Kanmon Strait was fought heroically, otherwise the final evaluation of this punitive operation might have fallen to Class D, which would not only not add any bonus, but would also reduce the points by a quarter. Terrible!
Points are what police officers value most because they can be exchanged for promotion qualifications, allowing police officers to get promoted early.
For example, a reserve police officer originally had to serve in the army for one year before he could be promoted to a regular police officer, but after accumulating 100 points, he can apply to the police department at any time and consume 100 points to be promoted to a third-level police officer in advance.
Originally, you had to work as a Level 3 police officer for two years before you could be promoted to Level 2 police officer. However, if you have accumulated 200 points, you can apply for promotion to Level 2 police officer in advance. If you have accumulated another 400 points, you can be promoted to Level 1 police officer in advance, which normally requires another three years.
In addition, points can be exchanged for vacations, but it's a bit too unfair. 50 points are exchanged for one month, 150 points are exchanged for two months, and 300 points are exchanged for three months. The maximum amount in a year cannot exceed three months.
Of course, who would be willing to squander hard-earned points like this?
Although the police officers generally accumulated more than 200 points through disciplinary operations, they must give priority to exchanging for promotion qualifications... 200 points are enough for a third-level police officer to be promoted to second-level. If the remaining points are enough for 50 points, they will consider whether to exchange them for a month's vacation and go home to show off.
After all, along with the points, there are also generous bonuses. Even reserve police officers can get 100 taels, and formal police officers generally get more than 150 taels. Those with outstanding military achievements can even get 200 taels!
If you don't return home when you are rich, it's like walking in the night in fine clothes...
In the end, half of the people chose to take a month off to go home for the Spring Festival. However, they chose to take their leave from half a month before the New Year, so that they could spend the Lantern Festival at home before returning home, plus the ten-day holiday for the Spring Festival.
Another half of the police officers chose to just take the money home, continue to stick to their posts, and save points to strive for early promotion to police sergeants. By then, they can have regular vacations like police officers without consuming precious points.
Only a few people spent 150 points to redeem a full two months of vacation so that they could go home and have fun. Naturally, this attracted the envy and jealousy of their peers, who all said that these people were too damn arrogant!
Who knows, the old guys said, what is this? Our artillery king spent 300 points and got three months of vacation. The police officers immediately felt that he was worthy of being the artillery king, and his capital was really thick! I can't envy him, I can't envy him...
Who is the cannon king? Wu from Canada... Oh no, it's Chu Liuxiang from Shandong.
But contrary to what everyone imagined, Chu Liuxiang was actually quite depressed during this voyage. He fought continuously for two months, but he didn't get a chance to show up like he did the previous two times. In the end, he only got 200 points... Although this was the highest score on a blood ship. But on a battleship with a score starting in the 20s, it was common to get 300 points, and 200 points was just an average.
This made him realize that in future battles, small ships can only play supporting roles. If they want to be the protagonist and have meat to eat, they must go to the main ship. I think I was so stupid and naive at the time that I actually rejected the captain's invitation to go to the flagship as the gunner.
Now that I have come to my senses, I don’t have the face to ask the captain for help again.
Alas, it’s too late to regret…
What made him even more upset was that after the guidance of the red-haired ghost Mr. Ping, the shooting skills of the gunners around him improved rapidly. His artillery skills were no longer as outstanding as before. Although he was not lost to the crowd, Chu Liuxiang, who was used to being the leader, was very disappointed.
In addition, he was already a first-class police officer. If he wanted to be promoted to a police sergeant, in addition to having a higher score, he had to go to the Marine Police School for further training in the preparatory non-commissioned officer class... I heard that he would have to take an exam after the training. This made Chu Liuxiang even more afraid.
Although he had learned basic literacy through night school during his two years in the army, he was only able to read and write, and asking him to write and calculate was more painful than being tortured.
For all these reasons, Chu Liuxiang was inevitably a little discouraged, and thought that he would not make any progress and would just be a police officer until he was old. So he exchanged all his points for a vacation, took the three hundred taels of silver he had saved over the past year, and prepared to go home to buy a house, land, marry a wife, and practice his other gun.
Try to hit the target in the first round and give birth to a fat boy. Hehehahaha…
Thinking of this, Chu Liuxiang's heart was hot. He calculated that the garrison area would arrange a boat to take them back, but they would have to wait until the 15th day of the twelfth lunar month, and it would be the end of the year when they got home, so they would definitely not be able to get married before the New Year. So he might as well leave early.
There happened to be a ship from the Gapa Island Water Police Station that was heading back to Xingang in the afternoon. Chu Liuxiang couldn't wait any longer, so he immediately applied for leave, put on his backpack and took the ship to Xingang.
But I didn’t ask when there would be a ship from Xingang back to the mainland?
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Back to Mr. Zhao, he took a day off at the base and attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the "Tamra Coast Guard School" on the 25th.
After much deliberation, Jinke finally decided to place the Coast Guard School on Chengshan Sunrise Peak. First of all, Sunrise Peak is large enough, with thousands of acres of flat land on the top of the mountain, enough to build a school that can accommodate thousands of people. Moreover, Sunrise Peak is the commanding height of the entire base, facing the vast sea, and the name also has a very good meaning - the sun rises in the east, and the Coast Guard will rise from here!
In addition, although the Sunrise Peak is less than 200 meters high, it is very inconvenient to go up and down whether it is used as a barracks, warehouse, workshop or office building. Even fresh water has to be fetched from the bottom of the mountain. It is better to allocate it to the Coast Guard School, so that they can torture the trainees who come here for training... Oh no, it can better hone the trainees' will.
After listening to Jin Ke's report, Mr. Zhao agreed with it and approved the construction of the "Tamra Maritime Police School" on Sunrise Peak, and personally wrote the name of the school.
Don't laugh. After several years of practice, his handwriting has improved greatly. His regular script is neat and tidy, catching up with Liu and Zhao.
Well, at least that's what everyone around him says. They wouldn't lie, would they?
After the groundbreaking ceremony, Mr. Zhao held a mobilization meeting for the Coast Guard School. At the meeting, he pointed out to all the construction personnel that they should continue to give full play to the Xishan Island spirit of "going all out and working hard", take small steps to save time, cross the river by feeling the stones, and teach while building. They should strive to use one year to find the most suitable teaching methods and content, and complete the remedial classes for the existing Coast Guard officers and soldiers.
The navy is a technical branch of the military. How can a group of illiterate people dominate the seven seas?
In terms of faculty, in addition to Jin Ke, the executive vice president who is fully responsible for school construction, he also appointed Tong Zigong as the dean of academic affairs and Pinto as the chief professor.
Pinto was born into a Portuguese seafaring family and studied at the navigation school founded by Prince Henry. In addition to knowing how to fire a cannon, he also knows map surveying, meteorology, oceanography, shipbuilding, and navigation. He is an absolute treasure old boy.
Although the navigation techniques he mastered were not advanced, the advantage was that they had been tested in Portugal's navigation industry for a long time. For example, the quadrant for measuring altitude and the horizontal scale for measuring latitude had guided the Portuguese in their circumnavigation of the world, so they would not mislead the young people and were very suitable for laying the foundation for the marine officers and soldiers.
In fact, Mr. Zhao had already asked Bei Peijia and Hua Bozhen to study more scientific navigation instruments such as sextants in Nanjing, and to conduct research on surveying and ballistics. This time they will probably have some results. However, given the cruel reality that the marine officers and soldiers can't even do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, it is better to complete the basic geometry and algebra education first, and then access advanced knowledge.
After a period of discussion, it is tentatively planned to offer four public courses in mathematics, oceanography, meteorology and surveying to police officers next year. In addition, different courses such as sailing, gunnery, logistics, damage control and lifesaving will be offered for different positions.
In addition to these courses, police officers also have to study specialized courses such as military thinking, ship command, and fleet coordination.
Although these courses may sound impressive, the content is actually very simple. Except for mathematics and surveying, a course can be taught in ten days or half a month.
Because if it is more in-depth, not only the police officers can't learn it, but Mr. Zhao Heping can't figure it out at the moment. So as long as the police officers study hard, it will not be a problem to complete the course in one year.
In Mr. Zhao's words, we need to build the skeleton first, and then we can enrich the course content slowly after solving the problem of building something from nothing.