Catching Grant is indeed a great luck for Li Fei, because it means that he has earned a great credit, and this great credit can be exchanged for a lot of military merit.

As mentioned earlier, the Imperial Chinese Army has implemented a model similar to quantitative management on the issue of the promotion of officers, and not to mention the quality of this model, at least to a certain extent, it has put an end to the traditional vice of many factions and factions within the army.

In this case, whether it is training or combat, it is almost quantified as a kind of military merit value, and the military merit value has become a rigid standard for the promotion of officers.

Due to Li Yongji's personal preference, corruption and dereliction of duty are the strictest crimes in the imperial army, and military law is implemented, not secular law, so once a soldier is corrupt or dereliction of duty, it is much heavier than secular law.

In the case of corruption, for example, in the military, the lightest sentence is dismissal from the military, and no immediate family member within three generations can enter the military system.

If it is corruption with severe consequences, such as embezzlement of more than 10,000 Chinese yuan, then it is usually the maximum sentence.

In the highest sentencing standard, regardless of the position, unless the emperor pardons, all of them must be shot, and at the same time, the relatives of the person within five uniforms are not only unable to enter the army for three generations, but also have to be responsible for paying off corrupt debts.

This repayment may not be just the original price, but a new repayment amount, usually three to ten times the actual amount of corruption, based on the actual amount of corruption and the impact it caused.

If the relatives of the parties cannot repay it for the time being, then they owe, repay the debt little by little, and they cannot afford to pay it in this life, and if they die, the children of the offspring will continue to repay, and if there are no offspring children, then the spouse or other relatives of the party will have to pay it back. If you don't have any relatives at all, you are alone, it doesn't matter, you always have neighbors or colleagues, and neighbors and colleagues will be responsible for repayment.

This move can be said to be quite ruthless, because once someone is strictly corrupt, it is equivalent to the whole family being affected, which is not much different from the nine clans in the past.

In this way, relatives and friends will generally spontaneously supervise each other in order to avoid being implicated. Because according to the regulations, if relatives and friends can report before the military court arrests the other party, then they can avoid being implicated and held accountable, and even if the person commits a crime afterwards, you will not be held responsible.

To put it simply, this is a very undemocratic method of severe punishment, that is, it is necessary to restrain officers and soldiers through the strict punishment law, so that they will feel frightened and dare not stretch out their hands indiscriminately within the army. Strict management and punitive measures were used to restrain the officers and men of the troops.

However, it is not enough to have strict punishments and strict laws, and it is necessary to give some sweetness to the officers and men. Otherwise, who would still work with you, so the treatment of the Chinese Imperial Army under Li Yongji's control is also quite good.

Whether it is the Praetorian Guard, the Wehrmacht or the National Guard. It doesn't matter if you are a compulsory soldier or a volunteer, as long as you belong to the Chinese Imperial Army, then you can be included in the welfare system of the Chinese Imperial Army. Enjoy the corresponding benefits.

The welfare benefits of the Imperial Army are basically divided into three categories.

The first type is the basic salary, which is mainly determined according to your military rank, so this basic salary is the same, whether you are the Praetorian Guard or the National Guard, or the National Guard, as long as you have the same rank, then the basic salary is the same.

The second type is called the military allowance, which is a salary increase based on the nature of the unit you are in. For example, if you are a Praetorian Guard, then your military allowance will be paid according to the rank of the Praetorian Guard. If you are in the Wehrmacht, your service allowance is paid according to the level of the Wehrmacht. Since the allowances of various services vary greatly, this allowance is the main factor in the income gap between different units. For example, the main reason why the Praetorian Guard is enviable is that their military allowances are high enough.

The third type is called military subsidy, which is generally a subsidy issued according to the nature of your work. For example, if you are also a second lieutenant, you are fighting on the front line and you are a stable orderly in the rear, and the military subsidies you receive are completely different.

In short, the treatment system of the Chinese Imperial Army is quite complicated, whether you are a compulsory soldier or a volunteer, or in the National Defense Force or the Praetorian Guard, or whether you are fighting in the front line or serving in the rear, the treatment is completely different.

However, even the worst treatment, such as a newly enlisted Wehrmacht conscript, not only includes food and accommodation, but also gets a salary of 2 yuan a month, which is equivalent to 2 taels of silver. And once this conscription is going to go to the battlefield, then the military subsidy will be immediately doubled a month, that is, you can get 4 yuan a month.

In addition, different officers and soldiers who are injured or killed in battle have military insurance, and they will also enjoy veterans' guidance services when they are injured and discharged.

These things, from the perspective of modern society, are very normal things, and they are not even as good as modern society, but in the current Chinese society, no, even from a worldwide perspective, these salaries of the Chinese Imperial Army are a bit outrageous, and it is no longer as simple as enviable, but outrageous, and incredible.

Because according to the treatment formulated by Li Yongji, once you become a soldier, especially after becoming a regular volunteer, then you will have no worries for a lifetime.

To make a simple analogy, as long as an ordinary volunteer in the Wehrmacht can become a privateer for more than three years (the privates are basically volunteers), then his treatment is much better than that of ordinary small landlords, and his honor and social status are even more incomparable with ordinary landlords.

Because the benefits of being a soldier in China are too great and too great, it can be said that there are all power, money, fame and fortune, so it is quite noble and envied by people, and it is precisely because of this situation that in the current Chinese Empire, the traditional class division of soldiers, farmers, industry and commerce has changed, soldiers have become the first, merchants have become the second, and the soldiers have fallen to the third.

Although this is only a kind of spontaneous division of the people, and the official has never affirmed or denied it, this kind of spontaneous division of the people is still quite clear, and the social atmosphere has basically changed a lot around this division.

Just like many large families marrying their daughters, in the past, they wanted to marry high-ranking officials and nobles, followed by scholars, and finally businessmen, but now, when large families marry their daughters, the first choice is the soldiers of the regular army, and the Praetorian Guard is the best. Secondly, the Wehrmacht, the National Guard, if you can't marry a soldier, then you can marry a businessman, and a businessman can't marry a so-called scholar.

The treatment of soldiers is quite good, and the treatment between different military ranks and positions is also very different, but fortunately, this kind of treatment difference is in the clear, and it also tells you how to get promoted quickly.

Other words. Li Yongji did not engage in any equality between officers and soldiers within the army, but consciously opened up classes among the troops, but he engaged in a set of quantitative management of the military merit value system, which is tantamount to providing a relatively healthy upward channel.

In Li Yongji's military merit value system, whether you strictly abide by discipline or fight bravely, you can get the corresponding military merit value, so as to get a normal promotion. You don't have to play any sycophants or anything like that, so you only need to focus on the requirements of the military merit value, and it's completely fine.

The acquisition of military merit points usually corresponds to some hard indicators. For example, discipline is not deducted, such as completing tactical objectives, such as serious duty, such as killing the enemy and capturing it, etc.

For the sake of value for money. Maintaining the image and other factors, in the Imperial Army, the military merit points that can be obtained by killing an enemy. It is less than the merit gained for capturing an enemy, and the higher the level and the more important the nature of the captured enemy, the higher the merit will be gained.

Grant is a major general, the highest-ranking commander in the US army, and at the same time, his importance is quite important, so just by capturing this Grant, the military merit value obtained is far more than the previous credit for completing reconnaissance missions and even breaking through the enemy camp.

That's right, Li Fei's original mission was just to complete the reconnaissance mission as a striker, and his unauthorized attack was not in his own mission.

In other words, as long as he led his troops to the US camp and ascertained the enemy's situation, he would have completed the task, and if he did not attack afterwards, he would not lose his share of the credit.

However, if Li Fei attacked the enemy without the order of his superiors, he would not have mission points, at most only points such as killing the enemy and capturing them.

Of course, this is the general situation, if Li Fei's attack can be successful, then he will also get an additional reward, this reward is only Li Yongji himself, that is to say, Li Yongji recognizes that your unauthorized attack has merit, that is an additional reward, if not, it is an unauthorized action, and it is okay not to punish you.

Because of this, if the striker is changed to Bai Yunfei or Zhang Long, they will definitely not attack without permission as soon as they come, that is, Li Fei is bold, so he will attack as soon as he comes.

But no matter what, Li Fei's action was an unauthorized action that did not communicate with the rear in advance, and it was good that he succeeded and obtained heavy results, but if he failed, or if the loss was large, he would definitely be punished.

The reason why it was formulated so old-fashioned was entirely because Li Yongji felt sorry for the Dream Division, so he would rather give up some initiative and keep this seed army from losses.

It's a pity that Li Fei is different from others, he is a person who doesn't care about it for a while, in other words, he thinks it's right, so he does it first and then talks about it, and then he wants to deal with it afterwards.

In other words, although Li Fei launched an attack on Grant's military camp, because he thought it was right, he was not without apprehension afterwards, but now that it is good, Li Fei actually caught Grant, and with this one credit, I believe that all the Yiqiē is not a problem, at least Li Yongji will not blame him for this.

It can be seen from this that Li Fei does have an evil in his bones, and he is completely enjoying the war, so he has this kind of behavior.

"Hahaha, God help me." After confirming Grant's identity, Li Fei laughed, "Now, my position is stable, and there must be a lot of military merit value, even if I can't be promoted to brigade commander immediately, it's always okay to change a little bit of expectation, hehe, now Lao Bai and Lao Zhang are going to die of envy." ”

Indeed, although military merit is a hard indicator of promotion, but that is only a number given by the computer, whether you can really be promoted, in the final analysis, depends on the person, and for now, whether you can really be promoted, the key is to see Li Yongji's attitude.

Li Fei is now a regiment commander, and he is the commander of the Dream Division, in terms of treatment and status, he is no longer inferior to a division commander of the Praetorian Guard, and is much stronger than the brigade commander.

Therefore, Li Fei did not expect that he could go further because of this and become a brigade commander or division commander, because that was unrealistic, after all, his qualifications were not enough.

However, although Li Fei was unable to capture Grant through Guò and go further, because the military merit value can be accumulated. Moreover, it can be exchanged for huàn things on a certain chengdù, so military merit value is quite scarce.

That is to say, in addition to military merit points, they can also be used for promotion, and if necessary, they can also be exchanged for money, which is all obvious.

Therefore, if you have extra merit points that you don't want to use to accumulate promotions and move up to a higher rank, you can exchange these accumulated merit points for money. In this way, you lose the opportunity to be promoted, but you can get the corresponding material rewards.

However, ordinary people will not choose to exchange money unless they have to, because after the military merit value is exchanged for money, it is quite difficult to accumulate to the stage of promotion, and once you are successfully promoted, you will become a higher-level officer. Then, for a maximum of three years, the normal income you get can exceed the total amount of money you have exchanged for military merit points in the first place.

Therefore, military merit is more scarce than money, normally speaking. If a person has enough military merit points, but cannot be promoted, most of them are saved first, and few of them are directly exchanged for money. Unless you are sure, you can continue to gain a large amount of military merit points that are enough for you to be promoted in the future. Or maybe you're about to be discharged from the army, and the military merit points you have accumulated are no longer useful.

Obviously, Li Fei had no intention of retiring from the army at all, but he was sure that there should be a battle in the future, so there was still a chance to obtain military merit points, so he planned to exchange the military merit points obtained from capturing Grant directly for money.

In this way, he can not only turn his credit into more tangible money, but also not suffer the jealousy of Bai Yunfei and other colleagues, lest they have a pimple in their hearts, which can be regarded as killing multiple birds with one stone.

Of course, Li Fei himself couldn't think of these ideas, and these were all suggestions proposed by Hao Yonghui to him.

Hao Yonghui's insight can naturally see this, so why did he tell Li Fei this? This is naturally Hao Yonghui's thoughts.

Hao Yonghui is actually a good young man who likes to be motivated, and he already plans to work hard in the army and climb up as much as possible, but Hao Yonghui has no foundation, and with his own strength, he knows that it is difficult to make progress in the short term.

In other words, the company commander of the armored company is estimated to be his highest position at present, and in the short term, it may be difficult for him to have a greater upward channel.

In the past, he worked under Li Yongji, although it was quite beautiful, but because Li Yonghui used Li Yuanzheng's pseudonym, and the position he claimed to be a commissioner belonging to the Eastern Bloc, Hao Yonghui did not know that Li Yuanzheng was actually the emperor's majesty Li Yongji.

As the founding emperor, but ran thousands of miles away to be a general, this matter seems too absurd to ordinary people, it is absolutely unimaginable, and will not believe in one thing, the same reason, Hao Yonghui also does not believe it, he also thinks that the emperor is still in the city of Nanjing, China.

In other words, due to the good secrecy measures, on the bright side, the guy named Li Yuanzheng, although his identity and status are not simple, should have nothing to do with the imperial government.

In this way, in Hao Yonghui's eyes, that Li Yuanzheng is a guy who is not rightly named, although he has pulled up a magical and powerful army, but after all, this is a mercenary army belonging to the Eastern Bloc, not a regular army of the empire, even if the internal military merit value is the same.

Hao Yonghui thought a lot, although he was also shocked by the strength of the armored car, but he knew better that no matter how good the armored car was, it was not as good as the power, so how to use this opportunity to get ahead and take the military merit points obtained from fighting here to exchange for a serious military position within the empire, especially the regular military position of the Praetorian Guard, that was what he wanted to consider.

Because Hao Yonghui felt that only by gaining the approval of the Praetorian Guard or the National Defense Force could he truly enter the imperial system, and that would be the real promotion and fortune with a bright future.

Now that he has this kind of thought, Hao Yonghui's mind is much more active. Before, he asked a lot on the side, and knew that the miraculous commander Li Yuanzheng really had nothing to do with the emperor's majesty, and it was probably the people in the mysterious organization behind his majesty.

It is said that the reason why the emperor was able to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty and recreate China was because there was a secret organization behind him to support it, because this matter was deliberately publicized by Li Yongji on a small scale, and it was no secret in the circle.

It is precisely because of this small-scale news that many people's concerns have been dispelled, because the process of the emperor's start is too legendary, and others can't help but be anxious, because they suspect that this is the support of foreigners, and it is the foreign court that is ill-intentioned.

Well, now that it's backed by a secret organization, it doesn't matter. Secret organization anyway. Knowing the party and gangs and the like is not a thing at all in today's China, not to mention the original Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, even the Ming Dynasty, isn't it also supported by secret organizations.

Hao Yonghui is a person who likes to read books very much, and he likes to read history books very much, and he knows that most of the secret organizations that supported the founding emperor to conquer the world in the past dynasties later became chaotic parties. It doesn't seem to end well anyway.

So, although the current All-Soul Cult, or Human Reform Alliance, is said to still have a close relationship with the Emperor, it is clear that this honeymoon period will not last long, and sooner or later they will have problems.

Therefore, Hao Yonghui did not plan to continue to stay in the expeditionary force, but only planned to use this place as a springboard. Earn enough military merit points, and then return to China to enter the normal imperial army and join the arms of the emperor and the empire.

Originally, Hao Yonghui just had this idea of using the expeditionary force as a springboard, but later when he was in a chance opportunity. After hearing that the three regiment commanders below were all close associates of the emperor, that is, members of the Young Guards Regiment, his mind became active again.

Everybody knows. The Young Guards are the heart of the emperor, and they are also the emperor's most trusted people, but these people have always been mysterious. Ordinary people don't have the opportunity to contact them, let alone defect.

At the beginning, Hao Yonghui didn't believe that Li Fei and the other three were members of the Youth Guards Corps, and his knowledge was skeptical, after all, they were too young.

However, when he was sent by the commander to work under Li Fei, because a colleague who was also a company commander asked why, the commander named Li Yuanzheng explained, saying that they were members of the Young Guards Regiment and a close confidant of His Majesty the Emperor, and asked them to do things with peace of mind.

At this moment, everyone was shocked, although they all kept the secret and did not spread it again, but Hao Yonghui knew that another opportunity for him had come.

In Hao Yonghui's view, as long as Li Fei is attached, then he can go straight to the Son of Heaven, as long as he enters the eyes of the emperor, it is not a matter of people to be promoted to become rich at that time.

Because of this, Hao Yonghui is diligent in everything, and what he has done has long exceeded the position of the commander of an armored company, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is Li Fei's military advisor.

Just like this time, when Hao Yonghui confirmed that the other party was General Grant, he immediately gave Li Fei this idea, asking him not to take advantage of this to invite credit, but to keep a low profile, and it is best to exchange this credit for money, so as to lower the vigilance of others, so as not to cause competition with Bai Yunfei and others in advance.

As for Li Fei, he is as good as a stream, anyway, for him, the military merit value is important, but if there is a misunderstanding with Bai Yunfei, Zhang Long and others because of this, it will not be good, after all, his relationship with these two people is still quite good.

In fact, Li Fei had already made up his mind, and when he exchanged the military merit value for money, he bought a large piece of land in California as a ranch, and then gave it to Bai Yunfei and Zhang Long, and everyone became landlords together.

In this way, people can be hired to maintain the land, and when they have time in the future, they can go there to ride horses, get off the car, or something, which is also a great pleasure in life.

If Hao Yonghui is replaced, he will definitely invest this money in domestic money to make money, even if he does not speculate on land, he will definitely go to usury, these are the most profitable businesses in China at present.

In short, catching Grant is a great thing for Li Fei and Hao Yonghui, Li Fei originally thought that he would be very satisfied, but who knew that Grant would soon surprise him again.

Because, after receiving Li Fei's personal assurance, that is, he would give them the dignity and treatment they deserved, Grant began to write letters of persuasion to his various military commanders in front of Li Fei and the translator.

Grant's troops here consisted of forty thousand men, a four-legion corps, placed in four directions to Vicksburg.

Placed in the headquarters of the Chinese army where Grant personally sits, that is, near the Heihe Bridge, there is actually only one division of troops here, otherwise, it would not have been defeated by Li Fei's regiment so quickly, even if Li Fei's troops are motorized infantry equipped with a large number of rapid-fire weapons.

In short, although Grant was captured, in fact, he still had at least 35,000 troops that did not suffer much loss, and if they continued to fight, it would be a problem for the Dream Division.

However, Grant, who personally experienced the attack of the Chinese, believed that in the face of such perverted equipment of the Chinese army, no matter how many people there were, it was useless, and if the confrontation continued, it would only make the soldiers of the United States bleed in vain.

Because he really couldn't think of what method to use against the Chinese's ironclad cars and repeating guns. As for the small iron car (assault car), although it is not as good as the iron armored car, it is light and fast, faster than a horse, and it is a rather terrible weapon.

Of course, it wasn't impossible, Grant thought that he could at least engage in a night battle with the other party, so as to offset the advantage of the opponent's strong burst firepower.

But once the night battle is carried out, it is also quite unfavorable to the soldiers of the United States, and the vehicles of the Chinese army have headlights, and their speed is also faster, once the night battle is fought, the victory or defeat is unpredictable, once they find that something is wrong, they can retreat first, and then come back during the day.

Anyway, the confrontation with the Chinese army is completely more than worth the loss, especially when Li Fei and Hao Yonghui discussed in private, he also talked a lot with the translator

Coincidentally, the translator used to be a pig who was sold to San Francisco and suffered humiliation, so after the 926 incident, he was enthusiastic to join the army as a soldier, and he was convinced of Li Yongji's foolish rhetoric, and actually really thought that this qiē was the fault of the Americans, and they came to the United States to fight this time to seek justice and the dignity of the Chinese!

Perhaps because of the translator's impassionedness, coupled with the fact that he also talked a lot about his personal miserable experience, and said that this time he was only trying to get justice, and had no intention of really intervening in the American Civil War.

Grant thought about it, China and the United States have no grievances, geographically separated by a Pacific Ocean, and separated by a great west, which is far greater than Britain and France. And if you interfere with the United States, the Chinese don't seem to have much benefit, unlike Britain and France, which have many interests in the south, so it seems that they are really only involved because of accidents.

Therefore, Grant wanted to simply surrender, at least to save the precious soldiers of the United States, and when the Chinese negotiated with the US government, they could go back, and they could not die for those fools in Western California.

Obviously, in Grant's understanding, the arrival of the Chinese is completely a disaster caused by those hillbillies in Western California, and there is no honor in fighting with the Chinese, and it is not necessary at all.

It's not like fighting a war with the South, it's about maintaining the unity of the country, for the liberation of slaves, and it's all for a noble purpose anyway.

But to deal with Chinese...... Just like the translator said before, if it weren't for the fact that the Americans were bullying people too much, they would just steal things, and they would have killed people, and even killed people, and even hung corpses and wrote insulting words...... If he is replaced, he will not give up, because once this breath is endured, then the Chinese government will no longer want to be a great power.

In short, no matter what, Grant found all kinds of reasons for himself, and then began to write letters, long letters, in which he wrote all his concerns and thoughts, and also wrote about the weapons of the Chinese, anyway, he must ask these people not to resist.

As a result, after receiving the letter, these commanders thought for a while, especially considering the current shape, and decisively chose to surrender.

In this way, before the follow-up troops of the Dream Division arrived, the entire remaining Tennessee Army of the United States, or the Grant Legion, all surrendered to Li Fei's Second Regiment.

At this point, the entire Battle of Vicksburg has come to an end, and the far-reaching impact of this war has just begun. (To be continued......)