Academy Genius Commander

59 – The emperor just spread (3)

Two months after the end of the war with Czechia.

The officers and soldiers of the Jaeger Battalion, including myself, returned to the capital of the Reich Empire and enjoyed their free time very eagerly.

To be precise, thanks to the complete rest order given to our unit after entering the capital, all alerts and duty duty were exempted.

Except for the days when there was a very important event, such as a review ceremony, free drinking and drinking were allowed from morning to night.

Officers from cadre officers often took their soldiers to Changgwan to relieve fatigue.

However, the officers who left the academy did not play with dignity, but went to more expensive and luxurious places to enjoy nightlife.

On the other hand, I didn’t even think about going to such a place, fearing that it would cause trouble for an unmarried guy to go to such a place.

Instead, I and Laura took care of the chores that the other officers had to do at night.

Even if it was a chore, it was written in the roll call log, ‘Soldiers, noncommissioned officers, and officers are resting well and leading a healthy life.’ It’s at the level of writing, so it’s all over in an hour.

Even today, officers drinking and chattering to the point where you don’t know whether they are soldiers or gangsters in the neighborhood, an administrative officer in luxurious clothes appeared at our battalion headquarters.

Judging by how he’s come this far, he must have been of a lower rank than me, but given the circumstances, it must have been the guy who brought the papers with His Majesty’s achievements written on them.

“The whole battalion. Salute to the magistrate!”

Then, a few seconds ago, they were officers in the shape of gangsters in a drunken neighborhood, but they immediately saluted with an angle like a knife as a reward for rolling over in training.

“I am Helmut von Groger, Director of the Military Department. Today at 12:00 p.m., I received an order to deliver awards to each unit that made an achievement, so I came all the way here.”

It seems that the person who is too high-ranking to do the job of reading and handing over documents related to non-professional activities to the director of the imperial military.

If he were a director, he would be the same as a brigadier general in terms of military rank.

So the officers, who were already in a state of angle, corrected their posture thoroughly to the point where they wondered if they would get cut if they brushed against them.

Of course, as a battalion commander, I was frozen like a wooden man in front of the majesty of a single star.

The High Director approached me with an expression that he was not at all familiar with this sight.

“Jaeger Battalion Commander, Major Peter Jaeger, come forward and accept the reward order from His Majesty the Emperor.”

At those words, I knelt down on one knee and bowed my head in front of the director, as if I were an emperor.

The director now smoked the scroll with a chillak sound, and read it in a voice loud enough for everyone in the room to hear.

“Emperor of the Reich Empire, Fernando von Reich was deeply moved by the performance and loyalty of the Jaeger Battalion, and as your monarch, he intends to reward you generously as befits your dedication.”

This is honestly a word always attached when the emperor gives a reward, not 1 gold, but 1 copper (which has a value of about 1/10,000 of gold).

The size of the achievements made by our unit would be similar to that of an 8,000-strong division without adding a single exaggeration.

“First, each soldier belonging to the Jaeger Battalion will be given 4 gold, and soldiers belonging to the detached unit or pursuit unit will be given an additional 4 gold. If you served in both units, I will pay you 8 more gold.”

If 1 gold is the cost of living for a family of 4 to 6 serfs for a year, then 4 gold is a lot of money to buy a land that can support the entire family with just harvests, assuming that they have citizenship.

Considering that with 12 gold, you can buy a land that you can live in in a corner of the countryside without exaggeration.

It’s such a big reward that I wonder if the emperor is crazy because he really wants to give it to us.

“The noncommissioned officers will be paid 2 gold each more than the soldiers, and an allowance of 6 gold will be applied. All of them will be promoted to the first rank, and noncommissioned officers who are sergeant or higher will be given the qualifications to enter the cadre officer academy.”

Usually, even if you come out of the cadre academy, it is because it is a huge status upgrade for noncommissioned officers, who are mostly commoners or wealthy citizens.

Even if there is a unit that has made a big contribution, most of them do not grant admission qualifications, but only privileges to the extent of preferential treatment in the entrance examination.

Besides, this type of reward is for the soldiers below, and the higher you go, the more generous it is.

What will be the rewards given to officers who are classified as real nobility?

Maybe that’s why the officers in my unit just don’t talk, but they are holding back the cheers that are about to burst out by pinching their thighs.

Normally, it would be against the law to giggle in front of the emperor’s order being read, but the director here today is a flexible person.

I pretended not to hear and continued reading.

“The knight company commander is a former officer, but he is specially given the qualifications for admission to the staff college, 50 gold, and weapons and armor. The 1st company commander and wizard company commander are granted admission to the Staff College, 40 gold, and weapons, armor, and warhorses made at the imperial blacksmith’s shop. The 2nd and 3rd company commanders were given the Gold Cross, 35 gold and horses. Each platoon leader will be awarded 10 to 30 gold depending on their rank and achievements.”

Hearing this, I was inwardly shocked.

Because in just one war, there were as many as three people in one battalion who declared that they would give stars in the future.

In particular, Werner, the commander of the knight company, was involved in both the detached squadron and the pursuit squadron, adding a little bit of exaggeration and rolling around like a dog, making a huge achievement.

I couldn’t have imagined that I would be qualified for admission to the Staff College and that I would be able to bloom all at once.

Also, judging from the fact that the commander of the 1st company and the commander of the wizard company were given horses, they will officially be promoted to major after graduating from the staff college.

With this feat, the rest of them also gained a foothold to rise one step higher than their limits.

The company commanders and officers are in a situation where they are barely holding back their tears because they are so thrilled that the director’s words have not yet finished.

In particular, Werner’s lips are bleeding because he bit his lip so hard.

“In the case of Lieutenant Laura, taking into account that she personally captured Brigadier General Mikhail of Czechia, was active in the detached unit, and made a great contribution to the decapitation operation of the deputy commander, we will allow her to enter the Staff College as a special exception. Instead, I will not pay a bounty.”

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Laura was not given a bounty of 1 gold… Anyway, since she is the only daughter of Count Benner’s family, money is not in a hurry unlike us, so instead of not giving it.

It is a reward that reveals the ulterior motives of Earl Benner and the head of the personnel department, who want to send him to the staff college and get him promoted as soon as possible.

It is mainly for captains and majors to go to the staff college, but according to the law, even lieutenants can enter, so there is no problem with the procedure.

Since you have made enough achievements there, you will be promoted to captain in the first year of the staff college, right?

And now, when it was my turn to announce my reward, the brigadier general level suddenly added the subtitles Strict, Stern, Serious.

With a very solemn expression and serious voice, he took out a scroll that was decorated much more luxuriously than other scrolls and read it down.

“Major Peter Yeager is ordered to be promoted to the first rank to lieutenant colonel and appointed professor at the Staff College. In addition, a reward of 3,000 gold is given. Here, I will confer the three territories of Salzburg, Rainer, and Schwarz, and grant him the title of baron, recognizing him as a high-ranking noble of the empire.”

….. the f*ck? This is enough to spread the president crazy level in Korea.

The reason can be explained at an extremely long length, but the mandatory 2-year attendance at the staff college is also considered as a central work experience when you become a professor, so it is advantageous for promotion.

In addition, among officers, there is an established theory that if you have a career as a professor at the Staff College, you can rise to the rank of director with just a breath.

Besides, if you have three estates with the title of baron, even after you go beyond colonel and attach a star, you won’t be blindly pushed out of the political battle due to lack of wealth and influence.

So, can’t it be that the emperor is crazy?

Meanwhile, the director who gave me the news of my promotion changed his attitude to a sincere congratulation and said flatteringly.

“I sincerely congratulate you, Baron. Earning the title of baron at the age of 21. It is an honor for me to share this news with you. I wish you well in the future.”

Within the military, rank takes precedence over title, but rank is much more important when belonging to different affiliations.

So, this nobleman, who is like a star among administrators, must be flattering me.

Having said this, the director hurriedly left.

Even though the battalion commander, I was appointed as a professor at the Staff College, even though the Jaeger Battalion was disbanded, everyone had a smile on their faces.

As battalion commander, I cried out to do my last job.

“Gather the battalion members. Burning it for the last time today Rent several inns and drink as much as you want for each company and charge me for the price! more!”