On March 12, after a full week of liquidation and verification, the merits of the officers, soldiers, and officials and subordinates of the military, government, and civil affairs under the command of Yat finally came up with a rough ranking and corresponding promotion rewards.

It took a lot of effort to make this five-sheet birch paper book, because every name recorded in the book and every ranking had to be checked and considered. For example, there are two squadron leaders, both of whom led the squadron soldiers to kill a total of thirteen enemy soldiers in the Northern Expedition, but one is mainly to kill the enemy in the field wave battle, and the enemy army is menacing and strong, and the other is to attack the city and conquer the land to kill the enemy, the enemy city is high and strong, and our army is difficult to conquer the city, as for the military discipline and command talents, the two are almost the same, and when encountering such a situation, it is necessary to control the two flag captains of the two squadrons to negotiate; Another example is a squadron leader like Rig, who once served as the flag captain (squadron level) of the Prisoner Soldier Legion on the eastern border, and the military discipline of the prisoner soldiers is definitely not as good as that of the Welsh Legion soldiers, and he has also sent out several escaped prisoner soldiers under his command, and the flag team under his command killed nineteen enemy soldiers in the battle to block Landi's reinforcements, and more than 20 soldiers were killed and wounded. For example, the difference in military merit between the defending army and the attacking army, the Kazak banner team who was ordered to garrison Vaal City and several teams later stationed in Walloon Fort, their military merits in killing the enemy in formation are definitely not as good as those armies that take the initiative to attack, but since it was Yate who ordered to defend the city, they all obeyed the military order, such a military merit gap seems reasonable, but for soldiers and officers who are in urgent need of meritorious service, they will not want to defend the city in the future; Another example is the garrison of border posts, border patrol teams, and peasants and soldiers at all levels who remain in the south, and their military merit calculations are also relatively complicated.

As for the merits of civil officials at all levels, it is relatively simple, and Art completely delegated authority to several civil affairs officials led by Cooper to calculate, and he only needs the final result.

For a week, the nuclear officers and officials of the Chinese army's command camp were brain-broken, and the gate of Yate's camp was also broken by the officers who could not argue.

In the commander's barracks exclusive to Arter in the North Pass Military Fort in the valley, Otto, Angus, Bass, Kazak, and Ron, Art's bodyguard, sat around the official table, looking at the birch barks in Art's hand with a serious expression.

Yateyang raised a few birch barks covered with dense symbols in his hand, and looked at several high-ranking officers in front of him, "This is just made by the command camp of the Chinese army, it stands to reason that this military merit book only needs me to decide, but you brothers are the first people to follow me, and they are also the people I rely on and trust the most, I need to communicate with you, and I also need your support." ”

After speaking, Art glanced at a few people, and their eyes were full of excitement.

"According to the authority granted to me by the court, I can nominate a leading baron among the officers of the Welsh Legion, and personally canonize three knights of the Inner Palace, fifteen ordinary knights, and eight probationary knights. There is only one baron leading the soldiers, and it is difficult to give it to anyone, so I will not nominate it for the time being. For the other knights and trainee knights, I plan to take out one knight of the inner house, eight knights, and all the knights of the apprenticeship as a reward; I will try to divert the remaining vacancies of trainee knights from Viscount Galvin. ”

"The two brothers Bas and Kazak have been promoted to lead the knights, and Ron has been promoted to the knights of the Inner Palace, and the canonization of the three of you has been decided."

"Odo, Sergeant Major, the two of you will maintain your original titles, but you will be given a banner to become a knight of the banner, and you will also be granted a fief of a fief each."

As for the reward of the five people at the official table, Art had already talked about it in private, and they had known about the result for a long time, so they were not excited.

Art put a few birch barks on the table and continued: "Today's main purpose is to let you discuss the military merits of lower-level officers and soldiers, these five birch barks are the military merit rankings of ordinary soldiers (including miscellaneous soldiers), squad leaders, squadron leaders, flag captains, garrison regiments, and garrisons in various places.

With that, Art folded his hands and leaned back into the leather chair.

Otto took the lead and gave a few birch barks to a few people to exchange and discuss

"My lord, isn't the task force too far ahead?"

"My lord, isn't the difference in military rewards between second-class military merit and third-class military merit too big?"

"Adult"

On March 13, the sky was clear.

In the training ground outside the Beiguan Military Fort, more than 600 officers and soldiers of the Welsh Regiment (including representatives of garrisons and patrol teams from all over the country) stood solemnly under the general stage of the training ground, and the soldiers and officers all stared at each other with round eyes and pricked up their ears.

On the podium, Art, Otto, Angus, and other high-ranking commanders stood on top of it, and the six guards of the guard were repeating Arte's words in unison so that the soldiers in the distance could hear them.

"This military merit is divided into three categories, and the award method is divided into four categories."

"First-class military merit fiefdom mining, second-class military merit promotion knighthood, third-class military merit award; Military merits of the third class and beyond have corresponding financial and military rewards"

"Next, I announce the third-class military merit winners and commendations."

"Five first-class military merits."

"Leader Knight, Otto? Fernando, promoted to Knight of the Banner, granted a manor of the fiefdom, 300 acres of land, and 50 households; Another five gold coins (7,200 pfennigs) were given. ”

"Leader Knight, Angus? Doyle, promoted to the knight of the banner, granted a manor, 300 acres of land, and 50 households; Five gold coins were also given. ”

"Cadet Knight, Bass, promoted to lead the knight, and granted a fiefdom, fifty acres of land, and ten households; Two gold coins (2,880 pfennigs) were also given. ”

"Trainee knight, Kazak, promoted to lead knight, specially granted a fiefdom, fifty acres of land, and ten households; Three gold coins (4,320 pfennigs) were also given. ”

"Trainee Knight, Ron, promoted to Knight of the Inner Palace, granted a special fiefdom, fifty acres of land, and ten households; Three gold coins (4,320 pfennigs) were also given. ”

As soon as the canonization of the first-class military merit came out, everyone was taken aback, according to the gossip that had been circulated countless times before, only the two most qualified and meritorious lieutenants of Otto and Angus were the real fiefdoms, and the rest were fictitious lords, but now they gave five people real fiefdoms, although the fiefdoms of Bass, Ron and Kazak were more symbolic, but they were already great rewards for these people.

Everyone is looking forward to the next awards.

"Second-class military merit, Jin Knight."

"Cadet Knight Lusignan, knight of the rank of knight; and a reward of two thousand five hundred pfennigs. ”

"The wandering knight Rejek, the knight who leads the army; and a reward of two thousand pfennigs. ”

"The knight's squire Jafar, the knight's apprentice; and a reward of two thousand pfennigs. ”

"The knightly squires Spencer, Klaus, Jason, Colin, Wesz, Bangada, Tridok, Andrew, eight people, promoted to cadet knights, and a military reward of two thousand three hundred pfennig."

"Patus, the former captain of the Fourth Banner of the Wells Legion, was posthumously appointed as a probationary knight, and the son of Enzhun Paster inherited the rank of probationary knight; and a reward of 3,000 pfennigs. ”

"The knight squire Obot was promoted to a probationary knight, and another army was rewarded with 1,800 pfennig."

"Simon, the knight's squire, will be promoted to a trainee knight, and a thousand pfennigh will be rewarded."

These are the rewards of the flag-level officers, and these are all serious lords, who can be called "knight" after their names, and the commoners should bow when they see them.

"The following is a third-class military merit, awarded a meritorious land."

"Fifteen Stanley, Passat, Dawson, Rig, Redogan, Benson, Benjamin, and Smith were bestowed knightly squires (not lords) with lands ranging from one acre to five acres; He also gave a reward of 500 fingers and 1,500 pfennigs. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, in order to motivate those who have attained the rank of Lord or promoted to the rank of knight, in addition to the normal military salary, the knightly squire shall receive a monthly salary of twenty pfennigs, a cadet knight's salary of fifty pfennigs, and a knight's salary of one hundred pfennies."

"Finally, there are people who have won military awards outside of the third-class military merits, this list is too long, I won't read it one by one, and the secretary of the Chinese army will post it later, you can check it for yourself"

The next three days were even more busy, honoring military rewards and making canonization documents

This time, not to mention the high-level commanders of those who were promoted to the fiefdoms, basically ordinary soldiers can get military rewards of 600 per capita, 1,000 squad leaders, 1,400 squadron leaders, and flag captains per capita of far more than 2,000 plus the accumulated military salary, everyone in the Wells Legion is rich.

After the military reward, the European Continental Firm, which smelled the fragrance, once again sent personnel to the army to publicize the firm's shareholding, hoping that the soldiers and officers with surplus wealth would voluntarily join the Continental Firm.

Those high-ranking officers were aware of the future momentum of the European Commercial Bank, and they invested their money in the European Commercial Bank;

However, ordinary soldiers believed that the European Continental Comptoir had suffered serious losses last year and was very risky and unwilling to invest, and they used more money to build houses or eat, drink and have fun

In order to reduce the loss of monetary profits, Yat began to deploy early, on the one hand, he ordered the Chinese army and the baggage team to cash in the military rewards one by one in batches within a few months, and on the other hand, he arranged for the civil affairs and the European merchant houses to urgently allocate goods for the consumption of officers and soldiers, especially the valley brewery was working day and night to brew beer and wine

Beiguan Military Fort, in the barracks of the corps commander.

In front of Art's desk was a birch bark that had been modified countless times, and he was still revising on it.

The dense text on the birch bark is clearly Yat's vision for the army-

miscellaneous military service and conscripted peasant soldiers have no rank;

Warrior - Ordinary soldier

Sergeant – Squad Leader (Iris Shield Forkspear Armband)

Sergeant Major – Squadron Leader (Iris Shield Sword Armband)

Officer rank (must be from the Military Academy):

Knight Squire – Flag Captain (pennant armband)

Cadet Knight - Company Captain (Dovetail Banner Armband)

Leader Knight (Knight) - Commander of the Sub-Regiment (Banner Heraldic Armble)

Viscount of the Court Frontier, Art? Wood? Wells – Commander (Special Heraldic Armble)

(Auxiliary officers and clerical clerks are demoted by one rank)

Flags: Infantry Shield, Cavalry Pegasus, Archer Zhang Xian, Chariot Wheels, Baggage Axe and Hammer.

The above are field troops.

The garrison troops in various places should add the prefix of "garrison" before their military ranks, and downgrade them by one level.

Military Establishment Affiliation:

Six-person squad (including sergeant squad leader);

two squads + medics + trumpeters + squadron leaders, a squadron of fifteen people; Weapons and armor are equipped with a chariot (including a large military tent, two small and three tops, copper pots and cooking utensils), two pack horses, mules and donkeys;

Three squadrons + herald pro-soldier + flag bearer + military lawyer + medical soldier (in charge of two miscellaneous soldiers and one baggage reorganization) + flag captain, fifty-man flag team;

Three flag teams + four-person personal guards + five-person baggage team (including one doctor and two full-time doctors; Jurisdiction over a number of miscellaneous soldiers) + three bannermen + one military judge (who governs all military judges in the company), one ideological and political officer + company captain; One hundred and seventy people, company;

Three companies + 20 cavalry teams + 40 crossbow teams + full-time baggage teams + sub-regiments command camp tents of the Chinese army (clerical clerks, military priests, ideological and political officers, military justice teams) + ten-man guards + sub-regimental commanders; 600 people, regimental divisions;

Two sub-regiments + direct cavalry corps + bow corps + task force + chariot convoy + reserve corps + corps command camp tent of the corps, fifteen hundred people, the Welsh corps.

Combat team: special establishment, flag team level, merged into each infantry squadron, with a full-time tank captain and 10 tank soldiers (maintenance of combat vehicles, training vehicle formation, command)

Art repeatedly changed a few places, but it was always unsatisfactory.

At this time, Ron pushed open the barracks door and invited Otto, Angus, Bass, and Kazak in.

Yate hurriedly got up and asked a few people to sit down, "There are two things for the two of you to come, one is that I have conceived the next step of the army's establishment and rank restructuring in the past few days, and you will take it down and study it in a while and propose amendments to me; Second, I heard the political and political officer Dunnis say that you have something to discuss with me about the fiefdom of the fief? ”

Otto and Angus looked at each other and nodded, and Otto spoke, "My lord, I would like to discuss with you about the territory of the fief, the sergeant major and Baskaczakron. ”

Art looked at Odo, "Well, you say. ”

"My lord, we are all grateful for the gifts that your lords have given us, but we also know that now is the time for you to expand your army to fight, we are the commander of your army, our task is to command the battle for you, we are still barely competent in marching and fighting, but we are not at all able to manage the fiefdom of the fiefdom."

Angus took over the conversation, "So we want you to send an official from the civil administration to manage the estates for us."

Art lowered his head and pondered for a while, raised his eyes to look at several henchmen in the room, and said meaningfully: "Ron has also talked to me about this matter before, since you have brought it up, I will not talk to you." Every year, half of the wealth of the fiefdom is completely owned by you, and the remaining quarter is used as a tax to pay to me, and the remaining quarter is used to build your fiefdom, and when one day you want to quit the army and live as a lord, I will give it to you completely."

Looking at a few satisfied henchmen, Art smiled knowingly.

"Ron, tell the Chinese army camp account, give Dunnis another account of military merits, and reward a wooden castle homestead."