The reason why Malin sets military ranks like this is obviously because he accidentally showed his ambitions - he kept the ranks of generals and marshals, wasn't it just that he would go further in the future? Otherwise, why would he deliberately leave two levels of military ranks empty?
Of course, Marin himself would not admit it even if he was beaten to death. Moreover, in this era when most of the nobles were playboys, very few people could see this. It was not that they were not smart enough, but that no one could think that the son of a knight like Marin dared to covet the position of the king and even the emperor. After all, Europe in the 16th century was a class-consolidated area, and there was basically no case of civilians counterattacking and becoming kings.
If it had been in China, after chaotic Five Dynasties, some princes had already shouted the slogan "Would the emperor have a good life? The strong soldiers and horses are the ones who are familiar with history must have doubted Marin's intentions. There are currently no cases of small people in Europe counterattacking and becoming kings, so no one can guess Marin's ambitions.
In addition, while developing military merit and military rank system, Malin also wanted to reform the military organization, so that the Beihai Kingdom's army would adopt the later military division brigade battalion organization.
However, when I tried to promote it, I was resisted by the army. Why? First, the soldiers of Beihai Kingdom are accustomed to the old organization and rashly change it, and they are not very happy. Also, the current military tactics are very different from those in later generations.
In later generations, because they used rear-mounted continuous guns, a team of several people could rely on trenches and fortifications to block fire. But this era was different because they used smoothbore guns and were loaded very slowly. Therefore, in order to form combat power and resist the charge from cavalry, soldiers were generally required to line up to meet the enemy.
If it is arranged in a square array, a company of 250 people and a square array of 1,250 people will become a more suitable organization.
Therefore, without changing the general policy and combat methods, the current military organization is the most reasonable. As for the organization of military brigade battalions in later generations, what is suitable is the organization in the post-fixing era.
Of course, the organizational methods in later generations must be more scientific. But under the premise that the major tactics cannot be completely changed, Marin was too lazy to modify the army organization.
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In fact, even in the military rank system, Marin felt that the ranks of the 20th level of the army were a little too high, because the Beihai Army currently has only a small team (25 people), company (250 people), square formation (1250 people), 1250 people) and 10,000 troops (10,000 people) and 10,000 troops (10,000 people), and less than 20 promotion levels were used.
Because the modern military rank system at level 20 actually corresponds to the needs of the later era of the corps. Since the beginning of the French Revolution, the French Jacobins took the lead in Europe to develop the conscript system of "everyone is a soldier". From then on, the scale of European troops immediately soared, and the number of troops in European powers generally increased from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of troops. By the Nazhni period after the Civil Revolution, the number of troops mobilized by Napoleon once reached the scale of 570,000 troops during the expedition to Russia.
By the time of World War I and World War II in the 20th century, the military scale of European countries generally reached a terrible scale of millions of people.
In this context, the past system of knights, barons, viscounts, earls, marquis and dukes had obviously no longer met the need to reward soldiers for military merits. Therefore, this system of military rank as many as 20 levels had to be developed to replace the system of titles. Otherwise, dozens, millions of troops, so many officers, there were not so many titles to be awarded.
What's even better is that the 20th-level military ranks include the 7 levels of the 20th level, the private, the first-level private, the corporal, the sergeant, the sergeant and the chief officer, which are completely set for civilian soldiers. These 7 levels alone are enough to fool civilian soldiers. Further up, the lieutenant is basically used to deal with the children of the nobles. Only the school-level officers are considered real noble ranks.
In this way, so many military ranks are enough for the soldiers to slowly rise one after another, and they are not worried about the proliferation of high-ranking nobles. Moreover, they do not have to pay any fiefdoms.
Therefore, although the military scale of the Beihai Kingdom still uses less than 20 military ranks, Marin still implemented the 20 military rank system to meet the needs of larger-scale troops in the future.
Speaking of which, the Qin Dynasty in ancient China also seemed to have implemented a 20-level military merit and title system... But when Ma Lin thought about it, it seemed that the Qin Dynasty also implemented a "all people are soldiers" system, more than 1,800 years earlier than Europe... No, starting from Shang Yang's reforms to establish a 20-level military merit and title system, it was probably more than 2,100 years earlier than Europe. When the Qin Dynasty sent Wang Jian to destroy Chu, under the premise that Li Xin's 200,000 army was eliminated by Chu, the Qin State could still gather 600,000 troops to Wang Jian... It seems that the number of Qin State's army is quite compatible with the 20-level military merit and title system...
In short, the 20th-level military rank system was actually founded to cooperate with the army of the large corps. Although the Beihai Kingdom currently has only a few tens of thousands of troops, it is better to take out the 20th-level military rank system in advance. Even if the army later developed to a scale of more than 100,000 or 200,000, the 20th-level military rank system was enough. We must give the soldiers hope. Give them a 20th-level military rank to slowly promote them. It is better than a few-level award system that is difficult to see the hope of rising...
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Malin was busy and after racking his brains, he arranged the modern military rank system of the Beihai Army. In particular, Malin was promoted as a new rank system for these 20-level ranks.
For example, the lieutenant corresponds to the rank of noble children (wandering knights) between nobles and civilians; the school-level officer corresponds to the baron class; as for generals, they correspond to the viscount (brigadier general, also including colonel), earl (major general, lieutenant general), marquis (lieutenant general), duke (general), king (general) and emperor (marshal).
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! But what's even better is that although the military rank corresponds to the title, the military rank system is even more rogue. Because having a military rank does not mean that there is a fiefdom that does not have to be paid taxes. Relying on the modern military rank system, Marin can lose a large area of ​​fiefdom. Even if he wants to give a fiefdom, Marin will seal the fiefdom of the officers to the vast Americas. In this way, the local area will no longer have to break the ground and enfeoff the territory.
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After completing the reform of the military rank system and the military medal, Marin suddenly received a piece of information from Rome, which surprised Marin. The information said that on February 21, 1513, Pope Julius II was seriously ill and was rescued by the miracle doctor Tutubuhua (formerly the imperial physician of the Golden Horde) sent by you. But after that, the Pope began to become weak...
Marin realized that it seemed that Julius II died in history at the end of February 1513. In other words, this time he was sick, he should have killed Julius II. However, because Marin sent Tuotuobuhua, the imperial physician who had recruited the destruction of the Golden Horde, to be permanently stationed in Rome, he saved Julius II's life. Otherwise, the blood-blooded and quack doctor treatment in Europe in this era would definitely die...
However, his cheap Pope's father-in-law cannot die. After all, Marin still needs him to help him withstand the pressure of the German church princes. At least, don't die this year. Otherwise, once the pressure from the Holy See is gone, the church princes in Germany who think they are unhappy may really join hands with the secular princes to deal with them...
So, Marin decided to extend his life to his cheap father-in-law...
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Julius II is old and weak. After all, he is almost 70 years old, and there is no way to aging. Therefore, Marin needs a master of Xinglin to help his father-in-law take care of his body.
Fortunately, among the imperial doctors brought back from the Ming Dynasty, there was a master of helping the elderly to recuperate their bodies - Dr. Chen. So, Dr. Chen was invited to Dr. Chen and asked him to go to Rome to help his father-in-law take care of his body. At least, he would have to survive this year...
Doctor Chen stroked the goatee and said:
"Master, it is not difficult to take care of the Pope. It requires a lot of good medicine for tonic..."
"No problem, you can choose whatever herbs I brought back!" Marin did not hesitate.
"I mean, I need treasures..."
Malin clapped his hands and immediately took out an exquisite wooden box. Malin opened the wooden box, and a human-shaped wild ginseng with many tentacles inside was revealed, which shocked Doctor Chen's eyes widened...
"This is the century-old wild ginseng I bought at a high price from the tribute envoy of the Jurchen Yehe tribe in Haixi in Liaodong, Haixi..."
At the beginning, Malin met a tribute envoy from the Yehe tribe of the Haixi Jurchens (the source of the Yehenara clan of later Cixi) who came to the capital to pay tribute. Malin saw the tribute envoy of the Yehe tribe carrying a sack of ginseng, just like a radish. Then, he spent thousands of taels of silver to buy several hundred-year-old wild ginseng with more tentacles from the envoy...
Malin thought he was a plan, but in fact, the envoys of Yehe tribe regarded him as a fool. Because in this era, the old ginseng in the deep mountains and forests in the northeast where Yehe tribe was located was the old ginseng. He could easily collect wild ginseng for decades by sending some experts in ginseng harvesting. As for the old ginseng that is more than a hundred years old, although there are fewer, they are not short of them. Malin became a monk for thousands of taels, which was almost more than the gift given by the court.
After all, these days, the Liaodong tribes, including the Jianzhou Jurchen tribes and the Haixi Jurchen tribes, were still scrambling to pay tribute to the Ming court. Although the old mountain ginseng was expensive, it could only cost one or two hundred taels of silver. It was not until the establishment of the Jin Dynasty in the late Qing Dynasty and the channels for Liaodong to attack the Ming court that wild mountain ginseng became precious...
After seeing this century-old wild ginseng plant, Dr. Chen nodded immediately and said:
"I'm fine. With this wild ginseng plant, I'm sure that the Pope's body will not collapse for more than a year..."
Chapter completed!