The Norman hierarchy was everywhere, in the same camp, at lunchtime, the whole camp canteen was actually divided into seven parts, ordinary soldiers, corporals and corporals ate together, sergeants and sergeants ate together, sergeants and sergeants ate together, ensignants and ensigns ate together, lieutenants and lieutenants ate together, Major Guderian and Lieutenant Colonel Reinhardt ate together, and everyone ate clearly when eating.
There was a slight difference in the quality of the food and the food at each level, and at the rank of lieutenant, each person even had a piece of fruit before the meal, and the captain actually had a glass of aperitif in addition to the fruit, while Guderian and Reinhardt were served by the chef of the canteen himself.
Zhang Tie was an eye-opener.
"With such a strict hierarchy, even when eating, it is carried out according to the rank, isn't the empire worried that this will cause the separation of the hearts of the troops" Zhang Tie asked the second lieutenant who was eating with him a little strangely.
"No" The second lieutenant officer who was eating with Zhang Tie gave Zhang Tie a strange look, "Then to be honest, what are you thinking now?"
"I was thinking if only I could have a pre-dinner fruit," Zhang Tie replied honestly.
"That's right, because that's what I think too, the lieutenants and company commanders who eat fruit must be thinking that they can have an aperitif, and the guys who drink the aperitif must be envious of the boss's treatment, and the soldiers below are the same, the corporals want to have the same meat in their dishes as the sergeant, and the sergeants want to have the same soup in their dishes as the sergeant, and the sergeants are thinking about opening a small stove like us, wanting to live in the officers' quarters, and wanting to have beautiful slaves to warm their beds, Everyone has immediate pursuits, and if they want better treatment, in the army, there is only one way, to make meritorious service and improve their strength, so every time you eat, it is a stimulating process for everyone" Zhang Tie thought about it and found that this was really the case, this ubiquitous hierarchy was stimulating everyone's upward motivation all the time, reminding everyone of their position all the time, such a Norman Empire was really a bit terrifying.
Hierarchy is order, and order is beauty Zhang Tie thought of the famous quote that Hans Staff had told him that everyone in the Norman Empire was familiar with.
A country where even the materials used in officers' weapons are divided into grades is really a bit incredible, Zhang Tie thought in his mind, maybe the people of this country have been unmistakably labeled with different grades and treatment from the moment they are born, and many people are estimated to have been working hard to improve their social status and rank since they were teenagers.
The Norman hierarchy is very famous throughout the Blackson Terran corridor.
Everything in this country, from the cities to the people, is hierarchical.
The cities of the Norman Empire were divided from level 1 to level 9.
And the people of this country are also divided into many classes and ranks, the lowest level is the criminal slave class, followed by the criminal class, above the criminal people is the civilian class, above the commoners is the scholar class, above the scholar is the Xun family, above the Xun family is the nobles, above the nobles is the royal family, the most noble of the royal family is the royal family, and the emperor of the Norman Empire stands at the top of the golden tower of power in the whole country.
This is only the most superficial class division, and specific individuals, such as sin slaves, are still divided into several classes.
In the Norman Empire, the lowest rank of people was a third-degree sin slave, and if a third-level sin slave did not break the law in his life, their children were second-class sin slaves, and third-level sin slaves were lifelong, but if they could make a meritorious service, their children could change from second-level sin slaves to first-class sin slaves.
In the same way, second-level criminal slaves have one more power than third-level criminal slaves, as long as they make meritorious contributions, they can become first-class criminal slaves, and after becoming first-class criminal slaves, as long as they do not make mistakes, the children they give birth to can be promoted to the first level, become criminals, get rid of slave status, and begin to have certain social rights.
When it comes to the criminal class, they and their children and grandchildren can only become commoners unless they have made meritorious contributions to the country, and the common people have more social rights and promotion paths.
In the Norman Empire, if a person or a family was beaten as a third-degree slave, it would take at least three generations for the family to be allowed into mainstream society.
Take Zhang Tie as an example, after becoming a second lieutenant officer, Zhang Tie in the Norman Empire, in fact, has become a low-level scholar clan, in the Norman Empire, only people from families above the noble clan can become officials of the empire, and Colonel Leibniz is also a scholar.
Only when you reach the rank of major general can you become a clan.
The structure of the social pyramid throughout the Norman Empire was as precise as a difference machine.
And to become an aristocracy, not only in the Norman Empire, but also in the entire human society, the standard it follows is only one human noble, only in the war with the demons can be produced, only those who prove themselves with the corpses and blood of the demons, only those who have made great contributions in the war with the demons will be recognized by everyone.
Only such a person can become a nobleman among human beings and gain the respect of all.
After the First Holy War, the Magna Carta of Humanity Brightness formulated by all human continents, major forces, and religious groups clearly put forward the law of conferring titles on human nobles that "among the human race, only demon slayers can be knighted", which was unanimously recognized by all people, all countries, and all forces.
Because he has not exterminated the demons, even Marshal Lin Changjiang, the governor of the northern Xinjiang of the Norman Empire, is only a lord of the empire, not a nobleman.
The human aristocracy of the Black Iron Age, which is the representative of the real elite and heroes of mankind, is absolutely different from all the so-called "nobles" that appeared in human history before the cataclysm, one in the sky and one underground, which cannot be compared at all.
After only one morning in the Iron Blood Camp, Zhang Tie found that he seemed to have a little liking here.
The treatment of soldiers in the Norman Empire was originally very high, and as a more special "iron-blooded battalion" in the Norman army, the treatment of officers here is simply outrageous.
In non-wartime, the salary of all the people in the Iron Blood Battalion is 15 times that of other troops, and in wartime, the salary of all people in the Iron Blood Battalion is 2 times that of other troops.
This is only one of the privileges of the officers of the Iron Battalion, and the others, in addition to the gold coins, the officers of the Iron and Blood Battalion can also receive some fixed labor supplies every month, these labor materials, the most important are cigarettes and candy, and some other small things, which are in demand everywhere.
In addition to the abundance of material treatment, the accumulation of seniority of soldiers and officers serving in the Iron Blood Battalion is also very valued by the above, and in the Iron Horn Regiment, all regimental and first-level combat commanders must have at least three years of experience in any Iron Blood Battalion to be competent.
From this, Zhang Tie also understood why there was a saying that he came here to "gild" in the Iron Blood Camp.
The Iron Blood Battalion of all divisions and regiments in the entire Norman Empire, there is another double high called the Double High Battalion Iron Blood Battalion, one refers to the highest casualty rate here, and the other refers to the highest chance of breaking through the bottleneck of each section of the Iron Blood God Fist here.
Because of the "double high", there are basically only two types of soldiers in the Iron Blood Battalion.
There are two kinds of people, one is the thorns, bastards and ruffians in the army, and those who are not treated well by the commanders and are unruly, they are generally thrown into the Iron Blood Camp and left to fend for themselves.
In addition to these guys, there is also a kind of people in the Iron Blood Camp who are the kind of true violent and war maniacs who dream of breaking through the bottleneck of the Iron Blood God Fist through hard training and fighting again and again in the Iron Blood Camp.
These two kinds of people are the people Zhang Tie saw when he first came to the Iron Blood Camp, the first type of people lazily took a cool ride under the tree and fell asleep on a hot day, and the second type of people practiced Crouching Tiger Gong on the training ground one by one under the scorching sun, and their skin was cracked layer by layer by the sun and turned upside down.
In the Iron Blood Battalion, except for the one-hour drill in the morning, the rest of the time, for ordinary soldiers, there will basically be no training arrangements, everyone can do what they like to do, if they want to train, if they want to sleep, no one will care what you are doing.
Because the battles that the Iron Blood Battalion has to go through, just like a sieve, every time you will sift out those unqualified guys, your ability is your own, if you don't have the ability to save your life and kill the enemy, it is normal to be eliminated, don't blame others.
The soldiers are so relaxed, Zhang Tie, as a grassroots officer, of course, is more relaxed, big things can't be his turn, and he doesn't have to worry about small things, on the first day of reporting to the Iron Blood Camp, Zhang Tie found that in the afternoon, he actually had nothing to do.
The 39th Division of Heiyan City is now in a state of second-level combat readiness, and this second-level state of combat readiness, in the iron-blooded battalion, that is, all soldiers are not allowed to leave the camp without an order after the end of the rest, while the officers are implementing the "principle of morning, noon, and evening reporting", the so-called morning is that the officers must go out with the soldiers for morning exercise training for an hour in the morning, the so-called middle is to eat at the station at noon, and the so-called late is that they must return to the dormitory to sleep before 12 o'clock in the evening, and they are not allowed to spend the night outside.
In addition, the Iron Blood Battalion had no other constraints on Zhang Tie.
In this way, Zhang Tie found that in fact, life in the Iron Blood Camp was not as boring as he imagined, and before leaving for Karur, he had almost two weeks to do a lot of things in Black Flame City: