When Liu Ming heard that His Majesty agreed, he was very excited: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty Shengming, the ministers must strictly control the gates, and absolutely not let anyone have the possibility of indiscriminately filling the numbers, and Bi will screen out the best soldiers for Your Majesty." ”

"At this point, I have never doubted the ability of the Great General. Li Quan nodded, employing people without suspicion, not to mention that he could see their loyalty.

"By the way, since there is a new type of starfleet, then the old style of the Celestial Army should be reduced, so let's keep only three full of the old Celestial Army Corps. Li Quan ordered, then thought for a moment and continued:

"The new and old styles are not good, so let's do it, the new fleet will be called the Class A Heavenly Army in the future, and the old style will be called the Class B Heavenly Army. ”

"The remaining 25,000 people of the B-level Heavenly Army will also participate in the training, and the assessment and reformers will be directly promoted to the first-class fleet, and the remaining unqualified ones will be ranked according to their strength, and after the three B-level legions are replenished, the remaining personnel can be retired, but the empire can't let these soldiers chill, arrange jobs for them, and they can be directly arranged into the royal interstellar exploration group. ”

According to Ling'er, the pass rate of the remaining 25,000 people may only be about 55%, and even if it is calculated according to 55%, there will be 13,750 qualified people, even if it is 14,000.

The full number of a full-fledged A-class fleet is 11,920 people, and 2,080 soldiers in the first batch of qualified soldiers trained are temporarily out of the A-class fleet.

Counting these 14,000, it is about 1.6 qualified interstellar soldiers, which seems to be enough to form another Class A fleet, but unfortunately it will still be a fleet that cannot exert its full strength.

After this assessment, he plans to replace an unsuitable class in the Tianzi fleet and let them join the Dizi fleet, although this fleet has no shadow yet, but with the first production experience, it will be faster below.

But at the same time, there are also 17,000 unqualified celestial troops who cannot become interstellar soldiers.

The B-class Celestial Army, also known as the original Kunpeng Legion, had expanded its army again in the previous decade, expanding its four corps into five legions.

A corps consists of 27 squads, each with five second-generation Kunpeng aerospace fighters, one armed civilian spacecraft, and a total of 4,320 combatants.

The five corps have a total of about 22,000 combatants, 8,000 logistics personnel, and the remaining 15,000 are all reserve forces, which will be on top in the event of war or expansion.

If you calculate it this way, keep three corps, which is about 12,960 combatants, and have been planning to streamline logistics personnel over the years, and this is just an opportunity, if you count the logistics personnel, the B-level corps can probably retain about 15,000 people.

Then the remaining 2,000 people with the worst results can only retire, because they can't even be in the reserve for the time being, but for the royal family's interstellar exploration group or the exploration group of private enterprises, they are still elite.

The Class A Fleet will be the main force of the Empire in the future, while the Class B Legion will mainly defend the homeland and act as a reserve.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister will arrange it as soon as possible. Liu Ming agreed very simply.

If he had cut so many troops at once before, he would definitely argue with His Majesty, but now he doesn't need to, because there will be better soldiers, and these veterans will have a place to go, and they will have no worries.

"Have you heard, His Majesty aims to recruit interstellar soldiers from the future starfleet across the country, and is preparing to hold an interstellar soldier knockout tournament in the second world now, the registration time is only one month, and there is no restriction this time, as long as you are at least thirteen years old. ”

The reason why it is enough to be at least thirteen years old is because the training of interstellar soldiers is much more complicated and difficult than that of ordinary soldiers, and it will take at least four or five years to complete the whole training process.

With such a long period of time, these teenagers have all reached adulthood, and there is another reason, there are many children in the age group of thirteen to eighteen, and they happen to be the future of the empire.

The reason why there is no upper age limit is because the people of the empire have basically been injected with genetic drugs, and there is no age disadvantage, and it will not take many years to launch two-star genetic drugs in the future, even if they are now one hundred and forty or fifty years old, as long as they use two-star genetic drugs, their age is not a problem.

As long as they have the talent to become interstellar soldiers, Li Quan will not be stingy.

"See, and I've signed up. ”

"Don't be happy too early, the more this kind of seemingly undifficult it is, the more difficult it is, why did Your Majesty suddenly recruit troops across the country, it's very simple, many people in the current Heavenly Army are unqualified, and they can't become real interstellar soldiers, you think about how big the gap is between yourself and the Heavenly Army, so the elimination training in this half year after signing up is the key, and it is estimated that at least eighty or ninety percent of people will be eliminated. ”

There are still smart people, and indeed as he said, this is to cast a wide net, and in this way, find out all the people in the country who have the potential to become interstellar soldiers.

A month passed quickly, and it was exactly the day before the Spring Festival holiday, and the registration deadline.

"Xiao Ming, look, Your Majesty's Zongheng account has been updated. ”

"Really, I'll take a look. ”

I saw Li Quan post a message on Zongheng:

"As of the 163rd year of the New Tang Dynasty, at 24 o'clock on the 15th day of the 12th lunar month, a total of 15,264,456 players signed up for the interstellar soldier knockout tournament, because the next month is a statutory holiday for the Spring Festival, so the knockout tournament was postponed to 164 years, and the twentieth day of the first month officially began, during which there will be players who continue to be eliminated until the end of the first phase of the knockout competition half a year later, and all players who can stick to the first round and pass the assessment will receive a reward of 50,000 Tang Yuan. ”

"I'll go, more than fifteen million people will participate, this is too terrifying, is there so many qualified people in the empire?" Xiao Ming wondered.

The reason why there is such a doubt is because the New Tang Empire is a very young country, and there are more women than men.

The number of minors under the age of thirteen alone was about 50 million, accounting for half of the people of the empire.

There are more boys and girls than 40 years old, almost close to 1:3, while people between the ages of 13 and 40 are relatively balanced between men and women, and it is only relative, in fact, there are still more boys and girls, but the ratio is not as exaggerated as before, only about 1:1.4.

That is, one boy corresponds to 1.4 girls, and ten boys correspond to fourteen girls, as long as they have the ability, these extra four girls are everyone's opportunities, plus Li Quan is still considering excellent women of appropriate age to immigrate from all over the world.

"According to the latest statistics of the empire this year, I just roughly calculated that the male population over the age of thirteen in the empire is about 19 million, so now there are 15.2 million people who have signed up, the proportion is as high as 80%, and this does not exclude those who are already soldiers, or special departments, etc., if these people are subtracted, the proportion is likely to exceed 85%, and even close to ninety percent of the people. ”

"It's terrifying, that's what it means for the whole people to participate. ”

It's really like this, such a mobilization ability, to be honest, scares the countries of the world quite a lot.

This New Tang Empire has nothing to do with what it is doing there, it already has a fleet, don't you think it's enough, it seems that the solar system has no enemies for them.

Then it is obvious that the New Tang Empire is preparing for a war with foreign countries, could it be that they have found out the situation of Proxima Centauri.