Kai Fu Han

Chapter 146 The Talent of the Unicorn
In addition to the hat, there is also a hat on the plate, two sets of epaulettes, two sets of armbands, and two sets of breastbands.

Use different logos in different contexts.

For formal occasions such as meetings and ceremonies, epaulettes, armbands, and chest badges must be worn.

Wear training uniforms and use epaulettes and armbands during training.

During combat, since you need to wear armor, weapons, etc., you mainly use badges. Officers are required to have both badges and armbands.

These three symbols, the armbands and epaulettes are made of cloth, and the breastband is made of iron.Iron badges can be embedded in iron armor.

Liu Xinqi assigned Liu Xinang the title of major.

According to the "Xinghan League Title Law", the team leader in the army is a private or first-class soldier, the squad leader is a first-class private or corporal, the squadron leader is a sergeant or sergeant, and the group leader is a sergeant or second lieutenant. The battalion commander is a lieutenant or captain.

The requirements for deputy-level officers, logistics officers, and reserve officers will be reduced by one level.

The military rank required to hold the position is the minimum requirement, and the requirements for special circumstances and special forces will be higher.

In other words, if a soldier does not reach the rank of private first class, he cannot hold the position of squad leader.

If a person's military rank has been promoted to the sergeant major level, but due to lack of management ability, he has not been able to cross the officer level and be promoted to a lieutenant. At most, he can only serve as a battalion captain, even if he is a first-class sergeant major.

Because Liu Xin'ang was the director of the Infantry Division, he was specially awarded the rank of major. There will definitely be very few such exceptions in the future. Only in the initial stage of building the army can someone like him reach the top in one step.

"Gaoyuan!" Liu Xingang continued to read.

Gao Yuan was the director of the Naval Division, and Liu Xinqi also awarded him the title of major.

After receiving the titles for these two people, the next step is to award the titles to the battalion commander-level officers, basically the rank of lieutenant.

Then there are the captains, mostly with the rank of sergeant.

The final team leader and team leader will be awarded the title by the officials of the Military Selection Department after the meeting, so as to avoid too many people being awarded the title and the meeting taking too long.

After the captain-level officers were awarded the title, Luo Cheng continued to shout:
"Now we move on to the third agenda item of the conference, which is to confer knighthoods to outstanding contributors."

After Liu Xinqi was awarded the military rank, he did not sit back and still stood where he was.

Luo Cheng directly called out the name of the first knight:
"Liu Zhimu!"

Liu Zhimu stood up from the crowd of officials in front of the stage, walked quickly onto the stage, and stood in front of Liu Xinqi.

Liu Xinqi took another plate from the staff. There were only two hats and a badge on this plate.

The shape and composition of the cap badge on the hat is basically the same as that of the previously commissioned officers, except that the animal on the pattern is replaced by "Qilin", with "Qilin" on the left and "Lin" on the right, with the regular script "Han" in the middle. Character.

The ancients believed that wherever the unicorn appears, there must be auspiciousness.

Qilin is often used to describe people with outstanding talents and both political integrity and talent.Therefore, Liu Xinqi chose the "Qilin" pattern to form the hat badge of the title.

Different from the sergeant's badge, the title badge is made of copper and is smaller. It can be worn on the chest or hung around the waist.

Liu Zhimu was awarded a second-class baron in recognition of his contribution to scientific research, training a large number of new scientific researchers, and developing a flintlock.

"Thank you, leader!" Liu Zhimu thanked him.

"mutual encouragement!"

Luo Cheng continued to shout:
"Liu Xinshi!"

Liu Xinshi was awarded a third-class knighthood in recognition of his contribution when he was in charge of the kiln. Liu Xinshi not only fired glass, but also built a small blast furnace and made steel.

Another researcher at the kiln who fired cement was also awarded a first-class knighthood.Then various ministers and department heads were also knighted.

As one person after another came to the stage to be honored, a total of 32 knights were born in this ceremony, of which there were only two barons, and the remaining 30 were knights.

After the three agenda items, the commendation meeting officially ended, and the officers and soldiers began to return, followed by the common people who participated.

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"A second-class baron gets a monthly subsidy of five hundred pounds of food stamps. Isn't that a lot?"

After the meeting, Liu Xinqi sat down with Luo Cheng, Zhou Xinyuan, Lu Ren, Liu Lisheng, Liu Lizhen and others to chat. Luo Cheng asked:
"If there are more people with titles in the future, the monthly title subsidy will be a huge expense."

Liu Xinqi replied:
"That's not too much. If there are more people with noble titles in the future, our power will definitely increase a lot, and our financial revenue will naturally increase. And the number of people with noble titles is still under our control. As long as Budget well and it won’t be a financial burden.”

"On the contrary, conferring knighthoods to outstanding contributors will greatly increase other people's enthusiasm for research and development and work, and the benefits will be huge, far exceeding the expenditure of the knighthood subsidy."

After Liu Xinqi finished answering, Luo Cheng stopped asking, and Liu Lizhen continued:
"The Jin troops who went south to attack Zhao may return at any time. I think all the land and water forces of the Xinghan Alliance should be fully prepared and ready for battle, instead of allocating a large number of manpower and material resources to sea trade?"

Liu Xinqi replied:
"The current finances of the Xinghan League are very unhealthy. The remaining money can support the operation for at most half a year. Even if we can collect taxes again in the autumn, it will be a drop in the bucket. Therefore, we must go overseas to trade and increase our income. Otherwise, even if the troops of the Jin Kingdom do not come to attack us , we ourselves will also be consumed to death due to lack of money and food."

"The navy of Jinxi Port in Jin Kingdom has been basically wiped out by us at Shizikou last time. The navy in other ports in Jin Kingdom combined is not as many as the warships in Jinxi Port. And even if the two fronts carry out trade this time, half of them will be left. The navy warships are in Dengzhou, so there is nothing to worry about on the Jin Kingdom Navy side."

"Excluding the influence of the navy, the only thing left is the army. The infantry and cavalry battalions will not participate in our overseas trade, and all will stay in Dengzhou for defense."

After Liu Xinqi finished explaining again, Liu Lizhen stopped asking, and Zhou Xinyuan continued:
"Do you have to go on this overseas trade trip? Jin's troops attacking Zhao from the south may return at any time. Your absence will greatly affect our defensive operations."

Liu Xinqi thought about it for a moment before responding:

"First of all, I believe that our current system can still exert its greatest combat effectiveness without me, so my presence or absence will not have much impact on the military's external operations."

"Secondly, this foreign trade is divided into southward and eastward. I am in charge of the eastward route. Dengzhou is only two days away from the Koryo Peninsula. Even if the fleet enters the Dongying Sea, the sea journey will only take five or six days. And we The spies of 'Listen to Truth' have already extended their tentacles to Yingtian Mansion in Nanjing, discovered the enemy's movements and rushed back to report the news, giving us at least ten days to prepare."

(End of this chapter)