At the official beginning of the meeting, Liu Pu handed Li Mingyuan a thick record book and said: "Shizi, according to the size of the combat exploits and the rank of the meritorious personnel, the statistics of the merits are divided into four categories, the first category is the statistics of the military merits of those with the rank of general and above, the number of people at this level is relatively small, only the four division commanders of the Chinese Independent Army, the commander of the cavalry brigade, the first mixed brigade, the second mixed brigade, the commander of the special command, and the general staff including subordinates, nine chief officers.

The second category is colonel-level officers, including battalion and regiment-level commanders, and adjutants subordinate to divisions and mixed brigades, with 585 meritorious contributions, the third category is captain-level officers, with 2,647 meritorious contributions, and the last category is ordinary soldiers, with 50,000 meritorious contributions. ”

"It is an effective method to divide the categories of military merits according to the rank of soldiers, but just because the rank of soldiers is low, it is too unfair to divide soldiers who have made major military merits and ordinary soldiers together, I think it is better to do this, under the General Staff Department is specially divided into a combat merit examination department, and the statistics of combat merits reported by each unit are reviewed and judged by the audit department, and at the same time, according to the significance of the soldiers' combat merits to the battle, the size of the merit obtained by the soldiers is judged."

Li Mingyuan took the four record books of combat exploits handed over by Liu Pu, first opened the one that recorded the combat exploits of ordinary soldiers, read the first few sections of the records of meritorious soldiers, and then roughly looked at the other three previous meritorious records.

said: "Sniper sergeant sergeant squad leader Wang Chenglin killed one Brazilian major officer and three captains in the storming of Olsin, and killed the Brazilian officer on duty who wanted to report the news when he captured the ironclad warship, avoiding the failure of the unit's sneak attack:

In the pursuit of Garcia, he killed a Brazilian colonel and two majors.

So much work adds up to greater significance than destroying a battalion of the enemy, and Wang Chenglin, who has made great contributions, is ranked with ordinary soldiers, and the merit reward is lower than that of most colonel-level officers, which is too unfair to Wang Chenglin, and the artillery brigade corporal Gao Dahai blew up the enemy headquarters with one shot in the Ollisyn siege, so that the Brazilian defenders lost their command and were finally annihilated by our army, there are many such examples, I will not list them one by one.

The role played by Wang Chenglin, Gao Dahai and others in a certain battle has a huge impact on the battle situation, and we cannot reduce their merits because of their low positions, which is unfair to those soldiers who fought bravely, and is also very unfavorable to the development and growth of the entire Chinese Independence Army. ”

There are more than 100,000 people up and down the Chinese Independent Army, Liu Pu is only responsible for evaluating the general standard of war merits, and the specific work is in charge of the staff officers below, and some mistakes are inevitable in the accounting work of more than 100,000 people.

Liu Pu listened carefully to Li Mingyuan's question, and said embarrassedly, "It is not fair for some soldiers to evaluate the size of their combat exploits purely according to the rank of officers and soldiers, but the two soldiers mentioned by Shizi just now, their merits had a huge impact on the battle at that time, and it stands to reason that according to their merits, it is not an exaggeration to promote them to be battalion commanders and regiment commanders, but their strengths are particularly excellent in a certain aspect, such as Wang Chenglin, his sniper skills are among the best among the 100,000 Chinese troops, and there is no problem at all for him to perform sniper missions. However, if he is promoted to battalion commander according to his merits, his advantages will not be brought into play, and it will be difficult for a battalion to give full play to its original combat effectiveness under his leadership. ”

Liu Pu's words are also very reasonable, not according to their military ranks, it is not reasonable to promote them to the command position mountain, these words are useful, but Liu Pu is the chief of staff, his duty is to give advice to Li Mingyuan, Li Mingyuan's problem has not been solved, no matter how reasonable the statement he gave, he is still a little embarrassed.

Li Mingyuan did not complain that Liu Pu was unfavorable, but thought about the difficulties encountered by Liu Pu in the practical operation of approving the size of the soldiers' combat exploits.

"The chief of staff is still here, I have come up with a way to say it to everyone."

Li Mingyuan paused for a moment and said, "A soldier like Wang Chenglin has special skills, but it is not appropriate to promote him to a command position, so I want to design a medal system to be awarded to individual soldiers or officers who have made important military achievements." ”

The medal was implemented relatively late in the mainland, but the senior generals of the Chinese Independence Army, who had a lot of dealings with the descendants of Europeans, were no strangers to the medal.

"I have come up with some general grades for the design of the medals, which are divided into four classes and thirteen levels, respectively

First Class Taiping Medal: The highest medal of honor, implying that the Chinese Independent Army developed from the Taiping Army and was made of precious jade

2nd Class Cloud Dragon Medal: It is divided into 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class Cloud Dragon Medals, which are made of gold.

Order of Revival 3rd Class: Divided into 3rd class, made of silver

Fourth-class Baoding Medal: It is divided into three classes, and the material is copper.

As for the specific criteria for the awarding of each type of medal, the General Staff will be responsible for developing them later. ”

"It is very appropriate to reward meritorious soldiers like Wang Chenglin with medals, and after the meeting, the subordinates asked the staff officers of the staff department to formulate a medal plan."

Li Mingyuan solved the problem he raised, which saved Liu Pu from trouble, and at the same time, he couldn't help but admire Li Mingyuan's resolute thinking, and for a while he thought of borrowing Westerners' medals to reward soldiers with outstanding military achievements, but others did not think of this.

"The medal system is not only unique to the West, in the Han and Tang dynasties, the python robe and sword that the monarch rewarded his subordinates were essentially similar to medals, but the python robe and sword were awarded to the ministers of the court, unlike the medals that faced all the soldiers."

"Medals made of gold and silver are a good thing, and there will be no wars in the future, and it is not bad to have the medals rewarded by the prince as heirlooms." Chen Guozhu said with a smile.

"The medal made of gold is good, but it is not so easy to get, although the Chinese Independent Army has not fought for the time being, but Brazil will not sit idly by and watch us occupy Rio Glan Sul, and future wars are indispensable, if you want to get a medal made of gold, you have to work hard to obtain military merits."

Li Mingyuan made a joke with the generals seated, and waited until the laughter of the generals below had passed, and then continued: "It will take a while for the medal to be designed, but the matter of dividing the land cannot be delayed, 12,000 Paraguayan women are placed in the western district of Porto Alegre, and the soldiers outside the city run towards the western district several times a day, I think that if they don't find husbands early, the overexcited taxis will make mistakes." ”

"The 12,000 women of appropriate age are still less than those of the Chinese Independence Army, and the equal distribution cannot be divided, so it is better to determine the number of people who have received various types of medals, and then the soldiers who have obtained the medals will give priority to the women they like, and then according to the size of the military merit and rank, they will retire in order from high to low, until the 12,000 women of appropriate age are distributed."

Liu Pu suggested.

"The design of the medal and the selection of candidates for the medal should be completed as soon as possible, and the Paraguayan women who marry home should be treated well, and they should not be beaten and abused for no reason."

"Rest assured, men and women in the world are the children of the Heavenly Father, and it is too late for the brothers to marry them home and hurt them, how can they abuse them."

"When I was in Heaven, many sisters fought side by side with my brothers, especially Su Sanniang, her women's army was not inferior to men, and our old Taiping Army brothers did not look down on female sisters like the Qing Demon."

"The Qing Demon is so hateful, more than 100,000 sisters in the Kingdom of Heaven were abused and tortured to death by Zeng Shaved's subordinates, such a big revenge cannot be avenged!"

"The Manchu Qing Dynasty has no way, and the Qing demons and traitors kill the brothers and sisters of the heavenly kingdom, and one day they will be made to pay for their blood debts."

More than half of the high-level leaders of the Chinese Independent Army are the remnants of the former Taiping Army, and when it comes to the Manchu Army, the topic can't help but turn away, from discussing Paraguayan women to the Qing Army's mutilation of Taiping Army women, although Li Mingyuan did not really experience the tragedy of the death of Taiping women, but from the mouths of the old Taiping Army around him, he can also experience the brutality and bloodiness of the Manchu Dynasty, he doesn't understand how many innocent people the Manchus have mutilated, and when they raise their butcher knives, there is no trace of pity at all, in the face of such a group of Tunguska wild boar skins with Han blood on their hands, The experts and professors of later generations sang praises for them!

Tweet Lao Qin, restore my rivers and mountains. The blood does not run dry, there is no truce to die, and there is Daqin in the west, like the sun rising. A hundred years of national hatred, the sea is difficult to peace.

You don't see, the end of the Han army, the weak crown is the captive, please Changying,

You don't see, Ban Dingyuan, the peerless light cavalry urges the battle clouds!

The smoke and dust of the Han family are in the northeast, and the Han will quit his family and break the thief.

Men are self-respecting, and the Son of Heaven is very colorful!

Tweeting about Daqin, Zheng Zheng is a strong man, and the bloody Tang Dynasty, where is the dignified Han family who was confident and masculine, angry and angry, who kept the enmity of his parents and righteous in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Time passes, thousands of years of time change, maybe the Zheng Zheng warriors have been buried in the yellow sand, and the place where the Han soldiers who went out of the expedition to bury the soil has also become the territory of other countries, time has worn away the civilization and spirit of the distant west, and the weak sheep are left to whisper and call themselves slaves to talk about barbarians, Li Mingyuan can't change the entire Chinese Han nationality, but he will never allow such slaves and slaves to appear in the Chinese Independent Army under his rule.

Waving his hand to stop the excited officer, Li Mingyuan said, "The enmity of the brothers and sisters of the heavenly kingdom is not the same as the heavens, and none of the Tatar traitors such as the Manchu Tartars and Zeng Shaved will not let them go, waiting for our Chinese Independent Army to be strong, I will definitely lead the brothers to catch the heads of the Manchu Tartars and the heads of Zeng Shaved, how they deal with the brothers and sisters of the Heavenly Kingdom at that time, how to use it on them!" ”

"Skinned the Tartar emperor alive, Ling Chi once shaved his head." An old Taiping officer shouted, and the others roared in response.

The crowd was indignant, and the atmosphere of the ensuing division of land was not as enthusiastic as it had been at the beginning, and the land scope of each ministry was roughly divided, and the meeting ended subsequently.