Chapter 290: Conferral of Titles
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After the parade, an internal award ceremony will begin, which will be attended by senior military officers and some senior government officials.
The Title Conferral Conference, that is, the awarding of military ranks to military personnel.
Military rank is a title awarded to soldiers by the highest organ of state authority according to the position of the soldier, military quality and professional quality, seniority and contribution, as well as the distinction between military arms and services or service, military rank was produced in some countries in Western Europe in the 15th century and 16th century, it is a military system gradually formed with the development of the standing army in the process of the emerging bourgeoisie in Europe against the feudal hierarchy, and in the 17th and 18th centuries, the military rank system was adopted by the armies of most countries in the world.
Although military ranks originated in the Western world, there are many advantages to the implementation of the military rank system, military ranks can represent the rank of military personnel, it integrates the honorary title, treatment level and job factors of military personnel, and has the ability to enhance the sense of responsibility and honor of military personnel, promote the regularization of the army, strengthen the coordination of command, management and support among the various branches of the armed forces, and facilitate international exchanges, of course, the latter can be ignored.
In the sixteenth century, King Louis XIV of France in the war with Spain, because the French army established a complete military rank system, the rank of the soldier began to become a right, much better than family background, and the importance of military achievements rather than ancestral family lineage made the French army invincible.
The advantages of the West, the Chinese Empire can also learn and use.
From Yuanhe City to the Chinese Empire, in the army controlled by Yan Xueyi, the military rank system has not been implemented for the time being, and the soldiers are all called by their actual official titles.
However, the Chinese Empire has been established, Yan Xueyi believes that it is time to implement the military rank system, taking advantage of the National Day parade, to award military ranks to senior military officers, and wait until senior officers are awarded military ranks, after returning to their respective regiments, the commanders of each regiment will award military ranks to the officers under their jurisdiction, of course, military ranks can not be raised and lowered at will, the corps headquarters has certain powers, but in the end they need to report to the military headquarters of the army, navy and air force.
The ranks of all branches of the Chinese Empire are unified, and the subordinate branches of the armed forces include: army, navy, air force, armed police, reserve, and special forces.
In the various branches of the military, the rank does not represent the actual position.
The Imperial Chinese military ranks were divided into three classes and ten grades: general, lieutenant general, major general, colonel, colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, lieutenant, and second lieutenant.
A colonel can actually be changed to a brigadier general, but a brigadier general can already be listed as a general, but Yan Xueyi believes that the number of generals should not be too many, so there is no brigadier general in the military ranks of the Chinese Empire, only colonel.
Generals, colonels, and lieutenants can be seen from their names, although the military rank system originated in the West, their names belong to the traditional Chinese category.
Take the army as an example: a second lieutenant corresponds to a platoon commander, a lieutenant corresponds to a deputy company commander, a captain corresponds to a company commander, a major corresponds to a battalion commander, a lieutenant colonel corresponds to a deputy regiment commander, a colonel corresponds to a regiment commander, a colonel corresponds to a brigade commander, a major general corresponds to a division commander, a lieutenant general corresponds to a corps commander, and a general corresponds to the head of the army department.
In addition, there is a division under the platoon commander, the soldier enlists for three years, after which he can choose to retire and continue to serve as a soldier, the soldier is a private (second class) in the first year of enlistment, a first class in the second year, a senior soldier in the third year, and a non-commissioned officer in the fourth year.
Non-commissioned officers are generally held by those with professional skills or selected from senior soldiers, and non-commissioned officers are divided into sergeants, sergeants, and corporals, and non-commissioned officers mainly serve as chief and deputy squad leaders in the army.
After the Empire. The salary of soldiers will be based on military rank (referring to the same branch of the military), taking the army as an example, the monthly salary of a private is 30 Chinese dollars, the first class soldier is 35 Chinese dollars, the senior soldier is 40 Chinese dollars, and the corporal is 50 Chinese dollars, which means that a soldier has been in the army for more than three years, and the minimum monthly salary is also 50 Chinese dollars, and with the increase of positions, the monthly salary will be higher.
Don't look at the monthly salary of a private is only 30 Chinese dollars, in Yuanhe City, the highest monthly salary of ordinary workers is only 30 Chinese dollars, and the monthly salary in other areas is only about 20 Chinese dollars, 30 Chinese dollars is enough for a family of five to live a well-off life.
However, if you want to be promoted to the military rank, it is not a simple thing, from sergeant to second lieutenant, captain to major, colonel to major general, it is a "natural moat", if you want to promote the rank, not only need a sufficient level of knowledge, but also need a certain degree of military merits.
It is indeed a difficult thing to let those big bosses in the army learn knowledge, so that there are a large number of non-commissioned officers in the army who are stuck in the management card for the promotion of sergeant to second lieutenant, and their combat achievements are sufficient, but the level of knowledge is not enough.
However, the level of knowledge will become more and more important in future wars, and the imperial army will be equipped with a large number of equipment that is ahead of other countries in the world, and the combat methods of the army will also change more and more rapidly, and it will be difficult to lead the army correctly without a certain level of knowledge.
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At two o'clock in the afternoon of January 1, the Dragon City Hall in the southwest of the palace was full, and most of the seats were sitting in military uniforms of various colors. A grand ceremony for soldiers.
As an empire. The supreme commander of the army, Yan Xueyi, will personally confer titles on the top military officials.
The award ceremony officially began, and Cheng Ying, Minister of the Army, Ding Ruchang, Minister of the Navy, and Yan Ji, Minister of the Air Force, walked to the stage, lined up, facing the audience, and Yan Xueyi and Chang Yuxin were on the side.
Then three female soldiers with wooden plates in their hands walked to the stage, but in the wooden plate were orders in red and gold letters, orders for conferring military ranks.
Yan Xueyi walked in front of Cheng Ying and looked at Cheng Ying carefully.
Cheng Ying is 50 years old, fifty knows the destiny of heaven, Cheng Ying's head has white hair, Cheng Ying has grown from the first guard of the Yan Mansion to the Minister of War of the Empire.
Yan Xueyi picked up the order from the wooden plate held by the female soldier and said to Cheng Ying: "Cheng Ying, I have awarded you the rank of general!" ”
"Wan Sheng!" Cheng Ying made a military salute to Yan Xueyi and took the order with both hands.
Then Yan Xueyi walked up to Ding Ruchang and said, "Ding Ruchang, I have awarded you the rank of lieutenant general!" ”
"Wan Sheng!"
"Yan Qi, I have awarded you the rank of major general!"
Although Cheng Ying, Ding Ruchang, and Yan Ji are all ministers, but the military ranks awarded to them by Yan Xueyi are different, but there is a question of seniority here, if Cheng Ying, Ding Ruchang, and Yan Yi confer the same military ranks, it will definitely cause the army to be dissatisfied with the navy and the air force, and the three will stand side by side in the future, but not yet.
Cheng Ying, Ding Ruchang, and Yan Qi finished conferring titles, and then Yan Yongle, Zhao Gang, Xiao Yao, Niu Dehou, Wang Xinwei, Xu Guangyao, Sun Ran, Fang Jinglong, and Chen Haojie, the commanders of the Ninth Army Corps, walked to the stage and lined up.
"Yan Yongle, I awarded you the rank of lieutenant general!"
"Zhao Gang, I awarded you the rank of lieutenant general!"
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"Chen Haojie, I awarded you the rank of lieutenant general!"
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"Liu Buyun, I awarded you the rank of major general!" (Ding Ruchang is the Minister of the Navy, and Liu Buyun is promoted to Commander of the Pacific Fleet)
"Zhang Zhidong, I awarded you the rank of major general!"
"Li Feng, I will grant you the rank of major general!"
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Yan Xueyi conferred military ranks on the stage for the generals of the empire, and the soldiers sitting in the audience watched this scene feverishly, hoping that one day they would be awarded the rank of general by the gods in their hearts on the stage.