The reason why Marin set the rank like this is obviously an inadvertent expression of ambition - he retains the rank of general and marshal, isn't it a hint that he wants to go further in the future? Otherwise, why deliberately leave two ranks empty?

Of course, Marin himself will not admit it if he is killed. Moreover, in this era when most of the nobles are the children of gentlemen, there are very few people who can see this. It's not that he wasn't smart enough, but no one could have imagined that a knight's son of a lowly birth like Marin would dare to covet the position of king or even emperor. After all, 16th-century Europe was a region of rigid class, and there was little such thing as a commoner counterattacking to become a king.

If it were in China, after five generations of chaos, there would have been princes shouting, "The emperor would rather have a kind of yes?" The strong soldier and the strong are the ears". Those in China who are familiar with history must be suspicious of Marin's intentions. And there are no cases in Europe where a small person counterattacks as king, so no one generally guesses Marin's ambitions.

In addition, while developing the military merit medal and rank system, Marin also wanted to reform the military establishment, so that the army of Beihai State would adopt the military division, brigade, regiment and battalion establishment of later generations.

However, when trying to promote it before, it was resisted by the army. Why? First, the soldiers of the Beihai Kingdom are now accustomed to the old establishment, and they are not very happy to change it rashly. In addition, the current military tactics are very different from those of later generations.

In later generations, because rear-loading repeating guns were used, a squad composed of several people could rely on trenches and fortifications to block fire. But this era was different, because the smoothbore guns were used, and the loading was slow. Therefore, in order to form combat effectiveness and resist the charge from the cavalry, it is generally necessary to line up the soldiers in a phalanx to meet the enemy.

If it is lined up in a phalanx, a company of 250 people and a phalanx of 1,250 people have become a more suitable formation.

Therefore, on the premise of not changing the general policy and mode of operation, the current military establishment is the most reasonable. As for the establishment of divisions, brigades, regiments and battalions in the future, it is actually suitable for the establishment of the era of post-loading guns.

Of course, the way it was compiled in later generations must have been more scientific. However, on the premise that the big tactics could not be completely changed, Marin was too lazy to revise the army formation.

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In fact, even in the military rank system, Marin felt that the 20 ranks of private, private, private, corporal, sergeant, sergeant, master sergeant, second lieutenant, lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, colonel, brigadier general, major general, lieutenant general, general, general, general, and marshal were too much. Because, at present, the Beihai army only has four major ranks (the number of cavalry is less), and there are less than 20 promotion levels.

Because, the modern military rank system of 20 levels actually corresponds to the needs of the era of the large corps in later generations. Since the beginning of the French Revolution, the French Jacobins were the first in Europe to develop a compulsory military system of "all the people are soldiers". Since then, the size of the European armed forces has skyrocketed, and the number of armies of the great European powers has generally risen from tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, to hundreds of thousands. By the time of the war after the Citizen Revolution, Napoleon's army had reached the size of 570,000 troops during the expedition to Russia.

By the time of World War I and World War II in the 20th century, the size of the armies of European countries had generally reached a terrible size of several million people.

In this context, the system of knights, barons, viscounts, counts, marquis and dukes in the past can no longer meet the needs of rewarding soldiers for military merits. Therefore, I had to come up with this system of up to 20 military ranks to replace the knighthood system. Otherwise, there would be tens or millions of troops, so many officers, and there would not be so many titles to be rewarded.

What's even better is that these 20 ranks, with a total of 7 ranks, including private, private, private, corporal, sergeant, sergeant and non-commissioned officer, are completely set up for civilian soldiers. These 7 ranks alone are enough to fool civilian soldiers. At the top, the lieutenants were basically used to deal with the children of the nobility. Only a colonel-level officer can be considered a real aristocratic rank.

In this way, there are so many military ranks, enough for the soldiers to slowly rise one by one, and they are not worried about the proliferation of high-ranking nobles. Moreover, there is no need to pay any fiefdom.

Therefore, although the size of the army of the North Sea State was less than 20 ranks, Marin still implemented the 20 rank system to meet the needs of a larger army in the future.

In other words, the Qin Dynasty in ancient China also seemed to implement a 20-level military merit title system...... But when Ma Lin thought about it, it seemed that the Qin Dynasty also implemented the system of "all people are soldiers", more than 1800 years earlier than Europe...... No, from the beginning of the Shang Dynasty reform to establish a 20-level military merit title system, it was probably more than 2,100 years earlier than Europe. And when the Qin Dynasty sent Wang Jian to destroy Chu, under the premise that Li Xin's 200,000 troops were wiped out by the Chu State, the Qin State could still put together 600,000 troops to Wang Qian...... It seems that the number of troops in the Qin State is as good as the 20-level military merit title system......

All in all, the 20-level military rank system was actually created to cooperate with the army of the large corps. Although the current army size of Beihai Country is only tens of thousands, it is also a rainy day to come up with the 20-level military rank system in advance. Even if the army later developed to a scale of more than 100,000 or 200,000, the 20-level military rank system was enough. It is always necessary to give hope to the soldiers, and it is better to give them a 20-level military rank and let them rise slowly than the knighthood system where it is difficult to see the hope of rising......

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Marin was busy for a long time, and after racking his brains, he was able to arrange the modern rank system of the Beihai Army. In particular, these 20 military ranks, Marin was promoted as a new knighthood system.

For example, a lieutenant corresponds to the rank of a noble child (wandering knight) between a nobleman and a commoner; Colonel-level officers correspond to the baronial class; As for the generals, they correspond to the viscount (brigadier general, also including colonel), earl (major general, lieutenant general), marquis (lieutenant general), duke (admiral), king (general) and emperor (marshal).

But even better, although the rank corresponds to the title, the military rank system is more rogue. Because, having a military rank does not mean that there is a fief that does not have to pay taxes. Relying on the modern military rank system, Marin can rely on large fiefdoms. Even if he wanted to give fiefs, Marin would have sealed the fiefs of the officers to the vast expanse of America. In this way, there is no need to divide the territory of the territory.

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After finishing the reform of the military rank system and military merit medals, Marin suddenly received a piece of information from Rome, which surprised Marin. The information reads that on February 21, 1513, Pope Julius II fell seriously ill and was rescued by the divine physician Totobuhua (formerly the imperial physician of the Golden Horde) sent by the Grand Duke. But after that, the Pope began to weaken physically......

Marin suddenly realized, it seems, that Julius II had died at the end of February 1513. In other words, this illness should have cost the life of Julius II. However, because Marin sent the imperial physician Tokhtabuhua, who had recruited the self-extinct Golden Horde, to Rome in advance, he saved Julius II's life. Otherwise, let the barbaric quack treatment of Europe in this era of bloodletting, and his own pope father-in-law will die ironclad......

However, his cheap pope-in-law can't die yet. After all, Marin still needs him to help him withstand the pressure of the princes of the German Church. At the very least, don't die this year. Otherwise, once there is no pressure from the Holy See, the church princes in Germany who are unhappy with themselves may really unite with the secular princes to clean up their ......

So, Marin decided to give his cheap husband a life......

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Julius II is old and decrepit, after all, he is almost 70 years old, and there is nothing he can do about aging. Therefore, Ma Lin needs a master of Xinglin to help his father-in-law recuperate.

Fortunately, among the imperial doctors brought back by Ma Lin from the Ming Dynasty, there was a master who was good at helping the elderly recuperate their bodies - Imperial Doctor Hu. So, Marin invited Imperial Doctor Hu over and asked him to go to Rome to help his old father-in-law recuperate. At the very least, we have to get through this year......

Doctor Hu stroked the goat's beard and said:

"My lord, if you want to recuperate your body for the Pope, it is not difficult, you need a lot of tonic medicine......"

"No problem, you can pick any herbs I brought back!" Marin did not hesitate.

"Decay means that you need to be born and ...... treasures"

Marin clapped his hands, and his subordinates immediately took out a beautiful wooden box. Ma Lin opened the wooden box, and a humanoid wild ginseng with many tentacles was revealed, which made Imperial Doctor Hu's eyes widen in shock......

"This is a hundred-year-old wild mountain ginseng that I bought at a high price from the tributary envoys of the Jurchen Yehe Department of Liaodong and Haixi at a high price when I was in Beijing......"

At the beginning, Ma Lin met a tributary envoy from the Haixi Jurchen Yehe Department (the source of the Yehenara clan of the later Cixi) who came to Beijing to pay tribute. Marin saw that the tributary envoy of Yehebu was carrying a sack of ginseng, like a turnip. Then, he spent a few thousand taels of silver to buy a few hundred-year-old wild ginseng with more tentacles from the envoy......

Marin thought he had a plan, but in fact, the envoys of Yehebu thought of him as a fool in their hearts. Because, in this era, in the deep mountains and old forests in the northeast where Yehebu is located, the most important thing is the old ginseng. Just send some ginseng pickers, and you can collect wild ginseng for decades. As for the old ginseng that is more than 100 years old, although it is rare, there is no shortage of it. Marin became a monk for a few thousand taels, almost more than the reward given by the imperial court.

After all, in this year, the various departments in eastern Liaodong, including the Jurchen tribes in Jianzhou and the Jurchen tribes in Haixi, were still vying to pay tribute to the Ming court with ginseng. Although the old ginseng is expensive, it can only be done for one or two hundred taels of silver. It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that the Jin Dynasty was established and the channel for Liaodong to attack the Ming court was cut off, and wild ginseng became precious......

After seeing this century-old wild ginseng, Imperial Physician Hu immediately nodded and said:

"There is no problem with old decay, with this wild ginseng, old decay is guaranteed to keep the Pope's body from collapsing for more than a year......

In this way, Imperial Physician Hu took a century-old wild ginseng and a cart of precious medicinal herbs, escorted by hundreds of Beihai cavalry, and went south to Rome to renew the life of Marin's pope father-in-law......

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