Chapter 361 – Military Uniforms Must Be Handsome 2
Chapter 361 – Military Uniform Must Be Handsome 2
“Military uniforms must be handsome! “
Lord Earl’s words resounded through the hall.
“Only if the military uniform is handsome can we attract more young people to join the army.”
The crowd was attracted by the two teams of models that had just come in. Indeed, these two sets of clothes were exaggerated enough in style and bright enough in color, and when you look at these soldiers, each one of them looked like a big, proud rooster.
Paul had worked every bit as hard for the army’s new uniforms; morale was important in the age of lined-up shootings, and uniforms were a very important factor in maintaining morale.
Referring to the memory of his previous life, and with the help of Winthrop, Paul restored the uniforms of Britain and France in the Napoleonic era on earth. Of course, this so-called restoration must be put in quotation marks, basically equivalent to recreation. After all, that era before and after the span of several decades, and different military types have their own uniforms, even if the same military types will have several sets of uniforms, the emperor’s cavalry unit even has 10 different uniforms, battle dress, marching uniforms, field uniforms, regular clothes, duty uniforms, stable uniforms, social clothing, plain clothes, parade uniforms, grand parade dress … … …it’s a head scratcher.
It was impossible to expect Paul, a half-baked military fan, to remember all the details of the uniforms, and he could only figure out some common styles based on the impressions left by some movies.
Paul’s cottage modern military uniforms really shocked the natives of the other world, although this shock was not the shock he imagined.
“Paul, are you sure you want our troops to wear these costumes? “
His allied brother, the Earl of Bairdine, Myron Garnard, asked with some hesitation.
Paul asked back, “What, do you think the uniforms I designed aren’t pretty enough?”
“It’s bright enough color-wise, it’s just …… that’s what you call handsome? “
Myron rubbed the back of his head, not knowing what to say.
Paul was a little offended, “Really, what is there to say quickly and straight! “
McLoon had to say, “Well …… this style of clothing doesn’t seem to have come up. “
“Hey! What’s this? ” Paul threw his hands in the air, “Let’s be ahead of the times and start a new trend, no? “
“Ahem!” Myron reminded him, “The Northwest Bay isn’t a fashion capital like Horn Bay, you’ll be treated like a freak if you go out in those ……”
Bryce picked up on his words, “We’ll be treated like country exploders with good clothing thrown together ……”
Paul retorted, “Outrageous, that’s historically proven …… Forget it, think about it, if we had money or more guns, even a batch of ragged linen would go out as fashionable.”
Mellon spread his hands and said, “That’s the problem, we’re not rich enough and the force is not strong enough, at least the outside world doesn’t think so yet.”
“So, gentlemen! Let’s work together! Let’s have more money, let’s have more guns. Imagine our soldiers walking majestically down the main road in such clothes, everyone will be intimidated by the force.”
Paul said decisively.
The crowd understood that it seemed that the Earl-sama was determined to use the clothing he designed.
Well, he was the supreme commander of Arda’s army, he said what he wanted.
“Earl-sama, if I heard correctly, you were talking about soldiers? “
Logistics Minister Ron noticed a certain word in Paul’s words.
Paul nodded to him, “That’s right, soldiers!” It wasn’t, was it? The room was taken aback!
The military uniforms designed by Lord Earl were a bit odd in style, but they were made with considerable care and splendor, and at a glance the cost of the craftsmanship was definitely not low. Although there are looms now, but sewing clothes still needs to be sewn by a tailor, stitch by stitch.
They previously thought that Paul made such gorgeous clothes for the officers to wear.
“Mr. Winthrop!”
Ron asked the tailor, “If we give it to a civilian workshop to mass produce these two kinds of military uniforms, how much would it cost roughly per piece?”
Winthrop pinched his fingers and did some math, “Let me think for a moment ha, this …… that …… and that …… would cost about 10 to 15 silver coins per piece based on our Northwest Bay prices.”
10 to 15 silver coins? Lord Earl is going to shell out that much money to add a set of clothes for each soldier?
O great Lord of Light! Quickly save Earl Gleiman whose brain is going to burn out.
You know that even veteran army executives such as Schroeder, Bryce, Austin, etc. are only officially paid 5 to 6 silver coins per month. (Of course they also have additional income such as country estates, in addition in order to ensure the loyalty of the officers, Paul also divided a large number of shares from the new family estates in the past few years, the army’s salary is basically the icing on the cake for them)
If you rely only on salary, a colonel would have to save up for two or three months to acquire such a set of clothes? That’s crazy. And soldiers have to change their clothes, surely there must be more than one set a person.
“Lord Earl, shouldn’t you reconsider? Soldiers just need to have clothes to wear, I think the clothes they have now are enough.”
Ron felt that it was time for him to fulfill his responsibility as the logistics minister, and he carefully made a suggestion to Paul.
“No!” Paul rebuffed him in a single breath, his tone was not to be questioned, “I’ve said it before, that set of clothes is just a transition, once the conditions are in place, I’m going to let the soldiers wear better clothes that can scare the piss out of the enemy across the street with their aura alone.”
Paul shot the board, as the Council of State General Manager of the old Ford secretly grumbled, with the size of the current Alda army, another tens of thousands of silver coins to increase the expenditure.
Well, now the general direction has been clear, the army uniform basically in accordance with the lord lord design style to come.
Paul gave the basic style there are two kinds of, after the crowd’s evaluation, finally selected to the blue and white color tone of the main one, that is, the kind of class French army style.
Then again, under Paul’s suggestion, the colors of the different troops were slightly changed, the army retained the blue color, the navy was changed to white, and the internal guards were changed to green.
However, in the face of the reality of financial insufficiency, the count also made a compromise, and then in the final finalization, the grade of the fabric was lowered by a few grades, and the soldier’s shoes were changed from full leather boots to short boots with a long sleeve.
The Council of State also intended to let the change to the previous linen shoes, but then Paul and Schroeder and other military senior opposition did not succeed, because the quality of the shoes seriously affect the troops’ ability to march.
Paul announced to the crowd, “This changeover I intend to find uniform contractors by means of a tender.”
“Bidding?” The crowd wondered.
Paul explained, “Yes, the nature of the items to be purchased and their quantity, quality, delivery time, and other requirements are released to the civilian population, in the case of military uniforms, for example, as long as the three places of Alda, Bairdin, and Emden or even clothing workshops in other territories satisfy our requirements, they will be qualified to become our suppliers, as for choosing which one to go with, it will be up to whoever quotes the cheapest price, the least amount of time spent, this is called bidding.”
Bryce was a bit skeptical, “No workshop can take on thousands of uniforms, right?”
Paul replied, “We can break it up into several bids, so our eggs aren’t in the same basket.”
He added with a smile, “Not only uniforms, but in the future, but anything that doesn’t involve secrets can be accomplished with the help of the civilian force, this can save us a great deal of effort yet, and it can also stimulate the development of civilian commerce.”
(End of chapter)