my british empire

Chapter 543 Military Discussion
Soon, under the arrangement of His Majesty the King, under the Palace Affairs Office, the Retired Soldiers Placement Office was quickly established, and the person in charge was also arranged.

The establishment of the resettlement office is to resettle the retired soldiers, eliminate their worries, and let the soldiers feel at ease.

Not only the army, but also the navy, as long as they are legally retired from the army, they can be arranged for resettlement.

Of course, when it comes to this, we have to talk about the current military system of the entire United Kingdom.

First of all, in combination with the traditional compulsory militia system, the entire United Kingdom government has implemented a national winter training system.

Every able-bodied adult male who has reached the age of 16 must undergo a month-long military training under the leadership of the local county lieutenant in December of winter and is not allowed to go home.

These 30 days are obligatory, mandatory and all citizens must participate.

In other words, this is the nature of the obligation of the whole people, replacing the simple tradition of working and military service for His Majesty the King.

In this regard, the county lieutenant received this task, and his salary naturally increased a little, but the hard work involved made them unable to avoid it.

This kind of one-month military training every year can not only grasp the adults of the right age in the country, but also recruit them in time. With this data,

Will make more contributions to the kingdom's military strength.

In the past, the recruitment of the army and navy was either to catch unlucky people from the side of the road, drunks, or refugees. In short, not many people wanted to be soldiers.

His Majesty the King carried out a series of military reforms to improve the system of deficiencies in the army.

First of all, in the recruitment of the army, it is no longer the army itself that captures and envies. Instead, the local militia leads the county lieutenant, and cooperates with the military appropriation committee to go to the local area to recruit.

Of course, there are also those who sign up by themselves. Every county has a recruitment office. Although people are welcome to sign up independently, there are not many responders.

In the payment of salaries, the bad habits have also been changed, and the officers are no longer paid independently.

Instead, let each soldier have his own bank account. In the Bank of England, it is straightforward to transfer to the account on time every month.

The distribution of salaries has different standards, which has led to the development of the military rank system.

After a series of discussions, in 1560, the United Kingdom's military rank system was officially promulgated.

Army and Navy military ranks are divided into 9 grades and 22 grades, namely:
Field Marshal: Field Marshal

General: general, lieutenant general, major general

Brigadier General: Brigadier General

Colonel: Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, Major

Lieutenant: Captain, Lieutenant, Second Lieutenant

Warrant Officer: Warrant Officer [-], Warrant Officer [-]

Non-commissioned officers: regiment sergeant, company sergeant, team sergeant

Sergeant: Sergeant, Sergeant, Corporal

Privates: privates, privates, recruits

There are two types of army rank marks: officer shoulder badges and soldier (including warrant officers and non-commissioned officers) armbands.

Field Marshal: crown, crossed scepter surrounded by laurel branches

Admiral: Crown, four-pointed star, crossed scepters, and sword
Lieutenant General: Crown, crossed scepters, and sword
(to be perfected)

Major General: Four-pointed star, crossed scepter and sword
Commodore: crown and three four-pointed stars (the rank symbol before 1918 was crossed scepters and swords)

Colonel: Crown and two four-pointed stars

Lieutenant Colonel: A crown and a four-pointed star
Major: Crown

(to be perfected)

Captain: three four-pointed stars
(to be perfected)

Lieutenant: two four-pointed stars
(to be perfected)

Second lieutenant: a four-pointed star
Warrant Officer [-]st Class: A crown surrounded by laurel branches
(to be perfected)

Warrant Officer [-]: Crown

(to be perfected)

Master Chief: British coat of arms surrounded by laurel branches

(to be perfected)

Battalion Master Chief: British coat of arms and streamer (indicates battalion honorary title)
(to be perfected)

Master Chief Company: Great Britain Coat of Arms

(to be perfected)

Staff Sergeant: Crown and three stripes (corners down)

Sgt: Three Stripes

Corporal: Two Diagonal Lines

Private First Class: A Diagonal Line

Second Class: No military rank marks (wearing cap badges, arms symbols, troop armbands and other identification marks)

Recruits: No identification marks
Recruits are no more than four shillings a month, all the way to private and non-commissioned officers, the three are increased by four shillings for each rank, and finally when it comes to sergeant, it just reaches one pound.

Although the wages are relatively low, this is pure wages. Clothes, food, and weapons are all provided by the army. This little money can be used as pocket money, and it can barely support a family.

From the non-commissioned officer to the lieutenant officer, the starting point is very different, and a new level has been stepped on.

Captains started at £[-], increased by eight shillings per level, and reached £[-] a month for captains.

This salary is enough to support the family and live in the middle class.

For school officers and brigadier generals, the starting point for majors is five pounds, and each level increases by two pounds. When it comes to brigadier generals, it is eleven pounds a month, and the annual salary is hundreds of pounds.

As for generals, major generals start at 480 pounds, and each level increases by [-] pounds. When it comes to generals, they get [-] pounds a month and an annual salary of [-] pounds, which is enough to buy a small manor.

The marshal's monthly salary is ninety pounds, and his annual salary is thousands of pounds, which is more than the annual income of some barons.

Of course, these are just ordinary salaries. In wartime, there must be allowances. It can be said that the living standards of soldiers have risen linearly.

The salary is higher, and the number of soldiers is more, so the number of years is naturally higher.

In five years, if you don't reach the level of a lieutenant officer, you will all retire, unless you have made outstanding contributions.

The reason for this is that under the setting of this set of military ranks, the royal family and the United Kingdom really cannot afford to support too many soldiers.

Take the current standing army of the United Kingdom of 3 people as an example.

There are about [-] troops stationed in various places. Although the local government will share half of it, the Army Appropriation Committee still needs to issue nearly [-] pounds a month.

For [-] in Normandy and [-] in Brittany, the monthly appropriation was close to £[-].

In addition to the thousands of guards in London, the London City Government paid half of it, but still needed to allocate [-] pounds.

In other words, the monthly army expenditure has reached [-] pounds.

The number of the navy is only more than [-], but since the military expenditure is only shared by the seaport, the government and the royal family still need to spend [-] pounds.

Added together, the monthly military expenditure reached [-] pounds, and the royal family needs to share close to [-] pounds.

This is a huge number, which means that the annual military expenditure is 16.2 pounds, and the total amount that the royal family needs to spend on military expenses each year has reached [-] pounds.

Fortunately, the sale of land in Normandy and Brittany gave the coalition government and the royal family a blood transfusion, otherwise it would be really difficult.

After all, the coalition government's central finance is currently only 20 pounds a year, and officials' salaries already account for half of it. Bridges and roads, education and health, and economic subsidies all need money.

And setting up a resettlement place is tantamount to an extra expense, supplementary pension, and resettlement fees are also required, and the sum of these is not a small sum.

It's too much to let the royal family do it all the time!

(End of this chapter)