After the majestic military parade, all the soldiers of the "Flying Dragon Army" lined up again at the review stand, ready to accept the team's awards and awards to the meritorious personnel of the "Temper No. 1 Operation" -- Yang Xin was assigned by the committee and studied it for several months, and finally designed a series of medals and medals with the support of other brothers. With the efforts of the mechanical department, these medals and medals that originally only existed on Yang Xin's manuscript paper were produced one by one.

This series of medals and medals is mainly divided into two categories. The first category is awarded to soldiers who have made meritorious contributions in battles and directly participated in battles. Chief among them are the Meritorious Service Medals of the Special, First, Second and Third Classes awarded for their military exploits. In addition, there are medals and medals used to praise the performance of soldiers in a certain aspect, such as the Warrior Medal and Medal for commending soldiers who are not afraid of a strong enemy and dare to fight to the death with the enemy; a blood medal for soldiers who have been wounded in battle; the Medal for Courage and Courage in recognition of the sacrifice of fallen soldiers;

The other category is awarded to soldiers who are responsible for logistics and have performed well in peacetime or in wartime. In addition to the meritorious medals of the third class, which are similar to those of combatants, there are other medals that are different from those of combatants. For example, the Medal of Merit for non-combatants who work conscientiously and meticulously and successfully complete the tasks assigned by their superiors; Medals and medals for courage used to reward non-combatants for their courage in the face of danger and for assisting combatants in combat.

In addition, although it took only three years from the initial establishment of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" to the current "Flying Dragon Army", Yang Xin also designed medals such as "three-year service medal" and "ten-year service medal" based on the standard of service period out of precautionary considerations. The minimum length of service requirement is three years, and the highest is 25 years.

Among all the medals and medals, as the highest honor of the "Flying Dragon Army", Yang Xin also designed a "Flying Dragon Medal" to recognize the personnel who have made extremely outstanding contributions to the "Flying Dragon Army" and the crossing team - at this stage, the medal will only be awarded to the crossing team members. After discussion between the committee and the Ministry of Military Affairs, the first recipients of the medal included Wang Kunjun, Xu Shao'an, Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin, Tang Chao and Muttle.

In addition to these general medals and medals, Yang Xin also designed commemorative medals for specific battles or battles. For example, the "Medal of Operation Temper No. 1" designed to commemorate the "Operation Temper No. 1"; the "Medal for Operation Temper 2" designed for the upcoming "Operation Temper 2"; "Service Medals" designed for all soldiers who have participated in the "Wyvern Pioneer Battalion" or "Wyvern Army", etc.

As the people who crossed the country, especially the brothers of the Military Department and the Ministry of Defense, agreed that a sense of honor was essential to an army. Therefore, although all meritorious officers have received material rewards from the team after each previous battle, it is still indispensable to award medals or medals to meritorious officers and soldiers in public.

According to the relevant information reported by the Ministry of Military Affairs, a total of 106 officers and men of the former "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" should be commended and awarded medals or medals during the entire "Operation Temper No. 1." According to the previous decision, these 106 meritorious service recipients will come to the stage one by one to receive the awards. As the nominal supreme commander of the "Flying Dragon Army," Wang Kunjun personally presented awards to all officers and men who had won medals, while Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin, and other members of the military department were responsible for presenting awards to officers and men who had won medals.

Due to the large number of officers and men who received the awards, the entire award ceremony lasted for a long time, even exceeding the time when the military parade was held before, and the atmosphere at the venue was even better than the atmosphere during the military parade. After receiving the ideological education and edification of Qian Yuanshan and other crossing soldiers for a long time, the officers and men of the "Flying Dragon Army," especially those veterans of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion," have a strong sense of honor. Therefore, it is their greatest wish to be able to have their supreme leader or immediate boss pin a beautiful medal or medal to their chest.

At this moment, the officers and men who had received their wishes were naturally elated, and many of them even cried tears of joy. And those officers and soldiers who failed to get medals or medals are holding back their strength and secretly making a wish that at the next award and medal ceremony, their figures must appear on the high review platform, and those masters also have something on their chests. ,

After awarding awards to 106 meritorious officers and men of the "Flying Dragon Army," the climax of the award ceremony came immediately -- Wang Kunjun once again went out to present awards to the first batch of winners of the "Flying Dragon Medal" -- Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin, Tang Chao, and Muter.

When Wang Kunjun personally hung the huge and beautifully designed "Flying Dragon Medal" embedded in the extremely exquisite silk on the necks of Qian Yuanshan and others, both the traversers on the review stand and the officers and soldiers of the "Flying Dragon Army" under the review stage applauded warmly to celebrate their brothers (commanders) being able to win this honor. Qian Yuanshan and others repeatedly clasped their fists and bowed their hands to their brothers and saluted a standard military salute to the more than 3,000 brothers in the audience to thank everyone for their trust and support.

After the high-spirited award ceremony, the traversers did not leave the "Flying Dragon Village" immediately, but stayed to hold the year's general meeting - according to the needs of the work, as well as the habits of the traversers, everyone finally decided to hold the annual general meeting in March of that year. Correspondingly, the annual work schedule of each department of the team has also been changed to from April of the current year to March of the following year.

On the second day of the parade, at nine o'clock in the morning on the sixth day of the third month of the seventh year of the Liao Ying calendar, all the crossing people gathered at the headquarters of the "Flying Dragon Army" to hold the fifth plenary meeting of the crossing team. This plenary meeting was still presided over by Zhang Weixin, and after announcing the start of the meeting, he was the first to come out and report to all the traversers.

On behalf of the committee, Zhang Weixin made a report on the work of the committee in the previous year to the plenary meeting, reported a series of outstanding achievements made by the team in the previous year, and put forward the focus of the team's work in the next year - continue to vigorously enhance economic strength, strengthen the production quantity and quality in glass manufacturing, salt production, smelting and processing, etc.; Continue to expand the various industries of the team, especially the scale of the farmland, so as to absorb more displaced people and landless peasants, and bring them under the control of the team, so that when there is any plan to expand the army in the future, it can be very convenient and quick to obtain the replenishment of troops; We will continue to promote the smooth progress of the "Tempering Operation" and successfully complete the "Tempering Operation No. 2" within the next fiscal year to further prepare for the future development of the team.

After Zhang Weixin finished the work report of the team committee, the first department head to stand up and make a report was Fan Wucheng from the Ministry of Commerce and Trade. He made a report to the plenary meeting on the work of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade in the previous year, and revealed to the brothers that the annual profit of the department was roughly between 460,000 and 470,000 yuan. Although this figure did not reach the target of 30 percent increase in profit this year compared with the previous year proposed by the Ministry of Commerce and Trade at the last plenary meeting, the gross profit of more than 460,000 yuan still made all the participants in the plenary meeting amazed. Some people even suggested that according to the development of this shili head, it will not take a few years for the crossing team to be able to become rich and rival the country - at least within the scope of the Liao country, the crossing team is the absolute No. 1.

However, the actual situation is not what some time-travelers think. After Fan Wucheng made a report, Hong Yan made a report on the team's financial income and expenditure in the previous year on behalf of the Finance Department.

According to the data provided by Hong Yan, the total income of the team in the previous year was 650,000 yuan. More than 460,000 guan of this income came from the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, 150,000 guan came from the spoils of the destruction of Sanzhai, and the rest of the income came mainly from the salt and iron business - according to the agreement reached between the team and Xiao Siwen, most of the salt and iron produced by the crossing team had to be sold to the Yamen of the Left-behind Division in Nanjing. Although the crossing team received special attention from the yamen of the left-behind division and was able to use their own channels to sell the portion that was retained proportionally, the limited number of quotas obtained meant that the salt and iron industry, especially the salt trade, which had been able to bring huge profits to the team, did not play its due role.

Compared with the above-mentioned departments, the income of the Ministry of Agriculture in the six years of the calendar year is much lower, and its annual income is only more than 10,000 yuan. However, considering the yield of crops in this era, it is a good performance to be able to reach this figure while relying on the weather for food.

In stark contrast to a slightly more than 30 percent increase in revenue, the team's expenditure in the previous year reached 140,000 yuan, more than double the previous year. According to Hong Yan, these expenses are mainly divided into two parts - living and production expenses and the cost of maintaining the "Flying Dragon Army".

The two costs are relatively close in amount, accounting for almost half of the team's expenses. The high maintenance costs resulted in the team's net income of only 390,000 yuan for the past six years - a figure higher than the previous year's 350,000 yuan, but compared with the previous two years, its profit growth rate was much lower than the previous two years. Moreover, this figure is also due to the fact that the expansion of the "Flying Dragon Army" occurred at the end of the year, and the time for the officers and men to go to the "Flying Dragon Village" for training is not uniform; except for one or two months, the number of officers and men in the "Flying Dragon Village" has not reached the current scale of more than 3,000 people, and it has little impact on the maintenance costs of the "Flying Dragon Army."

However, now, the "Flying Dragon Army" has officially become an army, and the total number of soldiers under its command far exceeds the original scale, and the maintenance cost for the next year will never be low. This is doomed, and the cost will increase further in the next year. Moreover, as the predicted nine-year war draws closer, I am afraid that the possibility of the "Flying Dragon Army" expanding its army again is very high, and its maintenance costs may increase exponentially.

The question of "a slowdown in income growth and a rapid increase in expenditure" was of great concern to all participants, and everyone was deeply pondered in the hope of finding a solution to this problem.

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