National Gardener: I can choose the evolution path of spiritual plants.

Chapter 51 Honorary Ranks
"you……"

Among the ragged crowd, a sturdy man stared angrily at the arrogant guy with his eyes wide open.

If there hadn't been someone holding him back, the axe in his hand would probably have hit the other person's head.

"Let me tell you, my young master is the second son of the current head of the Wen family. Wen Qingyu, you are blocking the way here and delaying my young master from changing the fire. Can you afford the compensation?"

"Captain, we can't let him change. I heard that there are less than 100 fire seeds left in the warehouse, and he wants to change them all by himself." The strong man who was stopped shouted

Then, a middle-aged man walked out from the ragged crowd, clasped his fists towards the fair-faced young man and said, "Master Wen, can you give us some leeway in this matter? A member of our Yanqi team was injured and urgently needs fire to keep him alive. Please..."

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the young man, "I am at a critical moment in the evolution of the spiritual plant. If I delay time, you will only lose one team member, but I will lose the future of a spiritual plant! I can still tell which is more important."

"You..." The sturdy man struggled and swung the axe to hit him.

"Haha, impotent rage. I have locked these 100 fire seeds for half a month using my honorary military rank, and no one has ever been able to exceed my authority. Why don't you go and change them?"

The pale-faced young man sneered, "They are just some useless people who don't work hard to improve their honorary military ranks! They don't even look at what kind of people they are. They have been practicing for decades and the strongest among them is only at the peak of the Red Moon Realm. Even the gatekeeper in my house would despise this level of cultivation."

The young man with a pointed chin and monkey cheeks beside him also echoed: "Master, even if they work hard all their lives, they are still trash. How can they compare to your family's thousand years of hard work?"

"Damn it, during the war, the military resources were locked up for half a month just to reserve materials for upgrading spiritual plants, you bastard!"

The strong man cursed.

"I have an honorary military rank, and there is no law that prohibits me from occupying military resources during wartime. But you... went to the Red Fire Desert to complete a reconnaissance mission, but it took you three days to complete it. Do you still have the nerve to come and exchange fire to save people?"

……

Through the conversation and the explanation of the person next to him, Lin Zhi finally figured out what was going on.

The two parties in the dispute were the fair-faced young man, the second son of the current head of the Wen family, a third-rate family in Yu County, named Wen Qingyu. His elder brother Wen Baiyu was an elite genius and a classmate of Lin Zhi.

Wen Qingyu's talent is even worse. He is a genius with only 63 pieces of source soil. He did not get admitted to Yujun University, but with the help of his family connections, he inherited an honorary military rank and entered a military academy in Yujun.

Then, through family connections, he was transferred to the Wild Beast World Army for internship and training, and after graduation, he could at least get a battalion commander position.

The so-called honorary military rank is a rank awarded by the alliance to soldiers who have made great contributions. It has no real power, but the soldiers can enjoy corresponding treatment and can be inherited from generation to generation.

This policy is actually very good, but its disadvantage is that it is hereditary. No matter how great a person's contribution is, how can it last forever?
In other words, how much contribution does a person need to make to ensure the eternal welfare of the people?

Relying on his honorary military rank, Wen Qingyu locked up the 100 fire seeds in the warehouse in the city gate, preparing to exchange them for use when his spiritual plants needed to evolve and break through.

Fire is a strategic material and is widely used in mechanical spiritual plants. It is difficult to buy it from outside except by exchanging it for military merits in military camps.

There is an unwritten rule in general alliances that the fire needs of frontline fighters should take priority over logistics personnel, and then over ordinary people.

After all, sometimes fire can save a warrior's life.

But this unwritten rule is not written into the law, and according to the law, officers with military rank can indeed lock up their military pay for a period of time.

The original purpose of enacting this law was to enable military commanders to control the distribution of logistical materials to prevent everyone from scrambling and exchanging them indiscriminately, causing logistical problems.

Times have changed, things have changed, and today, this law has become a cancer.

However, although the alliance seems strong, its various institutions are becoming increasingly bloated and inefficient. This "small problem" cannot be easily changed.

Thus, a conflict arose. On this side, the ragged men belonged to the Seventh Squadron of the Flying Swallow Corps that was previously stationed at the Great Wall.

The team was on a reconnaissance mission before, but due to some accident, they returned three days late. The Flying Swallow Corps had already switched shifts with the Sparrow Corps and left.

A member of Yan Qi's team was injured during the mission and urgently needed fire to heal his wounds. He came to exchange for fire, but was told that the fire had been locked by Wen Qingyu.

Hence the conflict.

"How can we get them to switch to fire?"

Lin Zhi asked the person next to him.

"Of course, the military rank is higher than the other side. In fact, Team Yan 7 has made great contributions this time. It should not be difficult to change the fire source. After all, they have detected important intelligence.

But it will take at least half a month for the news to be transmitted back to the headquarters, and then confirmed, and finally the rank upgrade process to update the information in all manuals. But time waits for no one. If it is delayed for a few more days, the member will die. "

"Where's the battalion commander?"

Lin Zhi thought of Mu Yuan. He was the battalion commander, so his authority should be enough, right?

"Hey, Wen Qingyu's honorary military rank is also battalion commander!"

"What the hell!!!"

Lin Zhi was stunned. My goodness, have the Wen family gone mad? Letting a second-generation rich man inherit the rank of battalion commander?

"What's so surprising about this? There are so many detached soldiers in Yu County. Sparrow, Flying Swallow, and Blue Bird are all funded by these noble families. Although the Wen family is only a third-rate family, it is also a thousand-year-old family that ordinary people can hardly reach!"

"With him in the city, Captain Mu's control over logistics and supplies will be very weak."

"Not entirely. Honorary military ranks still have certain restrictions, but these 100 flames really can't do anything to him."

The person next to me said.

"Is there no other way?" Lin Zhi asked unwillingly.

Emotionally, logically and conscientiously, he really didn't want to see Wen Qingyu's ugly face.

As a member of human civilization, he would never want to see a blood-sucking parasite that lives on civilization hurt the hearts of the soldiers defending their country.

"Are there any solutions? Maybe there is, and that is military merit. The military merit system is controlled by the intelligent computer, and it is difficult for outsiders to interfere. The most important thing is that the increase and decrease of military merit are all in real time.

100 military merits can be exchanged for a lifetime honorary captain, 1 military merits can be exchanged for a lifetime honorary battalion commander, 100 million military commanders, 1 million military commanders, billion military commanders, and if the military merits reach trillion, the alliance will allow you to establish your own legion. "

"In other words, as long as I can get a million military merits, I can directly become a lifetime honorary captain?" Lin Zhi suddenly thought of the Scale Fire Magnesium Extraordinary Metal Ingot worth tens of billions that Meng Xingchen left for him.

I wonder how much military merit I can get from Scale Fire Magnesium?
At Yujun University, due to its welfare nature, only 1 point is needed to exchange for a piece of Scale Fire Magnesium.

In the outside world, extraordinary metals are strategic materials, and one piece is worth tens of thousands of credit points.

Curiously, he opened his watch, connected to the military network manual, and checked the military merit redemption list.

Soon, the exchange price of Scale Fire Magnesium appeared before him.

(End of this chapter)