I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 194 Honor Badge System

The heavy atmosphere in the room just now disappeared in an instant.

"You! Why are you so stingy?" Zhu Houzhao pointed at Zhu Houxun and scolded him with a smile, then took off the commemorative badge on his chest and threw it to Zhu Houxun.

Zhu Houxuan quickly took over, and then said without showing any weakness: "I'm not stingy, I'm principled."

"Okay, okay, I don't want this medal anymore." Zhu Houzhao quickly stopped.

"However, I would like to ask you to do me a favor," Zhu Houzhao continued.

"What help? I will definitely help if I can." Zhu Houxuan looked at Zhu Houzhao in surprise, and then added: "As long as it does not violate my principles."

"It's definitely not against the rules!" Zhu Houzhao said immediately, "Help my brother design and make a batch of commemorative medals."

"A batch? What do you need so many commemorative medals for, brother?" Zhu Houxuan was even more surprised.

Zhu Houzhao took the initiative to step forward, and nudged Zhu Houxuan's shoulder affectionately, saying, "I summoned a group of border troops to the capital for training, but they will not stay in the capital forever. They will leave the capital after a while, and then another group of border troops will come to the capital. I have been thinking about rewarding these border troops who are about to leave the capital. As a result, I saw this commemorative medal here today, and suddenly I think this commemorative medal is the most suitable reward."

Zhu Houxuan looked at Zhu Houzhao in surprise, amazed at Zhu Houzhao's sharpness and how he realized the role and advantages of the medal of honor so quickly.

"The rewards of silver, money, wine and meat will be used up quickly, but I will issue a commemorative medal to every soldier in the border army. When they wear it, they will always remember that I summoned them to the capital for training. Just as you said, it will increase their cohesion." Zhu Houzhao continued to explain.

"Brother, if you have this idea, I will definitely support you with all my strength!" Zhu Houxuan immediately expressed his opinion, "I will start to have people design the commemorative medals you mentioned. In three days, I can send a batch of designs to you for your selection. After you make your selection, I will immediately start trial production. If you are satisfied with the results of the trial production, we can start mass production."

Zhu Houxuan immediately got into work mode and quickly wrote the matter down on a piece of paper.

"Good! Good!" Zhu Houzhao smiled happily.

"But I still want to remind my brother that the awarding of this medal of honor should be strictly controlled, otherwise the value of the honor represented by this thing will depreciate rapidly." Zhu Houxuan couldn't help but remind him.

"I got it! Don't worry, brother!" Zhu Houzhao promised solemnly.

Zhu Houxuan nodded and took the initiative to suggest: "Then today's matter is settled, let's find a place to drink. It's been a long time since I had a drink with my brother."

Zhu Houzhao was very tempted by this proposal, but he still grabbed Zhu Houxun and said, "Don't leave in a hurry, we haven't finished talking about things yet."

"Is there anything else we haven't finished discussing? How come I don't know?" Zhu Houxuan asked puzzledly.

"Hey, didn't you just say 'a three-level honor medal system consisting of medals, awards, and commemorative medals'? I've just seen the commemorative medal, and I haven't seen medals or awards yet." Zhu Houzhao said.

Zhu Houxuan was speechless after hearing this. So it was about this matter. Since he wanted to see her, let him see her.
He found a bunch of beautifully decorated small boxes from the bookshelf and placed them on the desk. These were trial-produced medals of honor for various levels of awards and honors that had been delivered not long ago for Zhu Houxun to choose from. Zhu Houxun made a bunch of suggestions and asked the department responsible for the production of medals to make modifications, but he did not return these trial-produced medals of honor.

In fact, when he was in Qizhou, Zhu Houxuan began to make honorary medals to award those who performed outstandingly in the industries of the Prince of Jing's Palace, because he found that the workers in the industries of the Prince of Jing's Palace had this need.

According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, human needs are divided into a five-level model, usually depicted as levels within a pyramid. From the bottom of the hierarchy upward, the needs are: physiological needs (food and clothing), safety needs, social needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs.

As long as workers have worked in a factory for a period of time, the first three levels of needs will be easily met, and they will begin to pursue the fourth and fifth levels of needs.

To sum up, the workers' material needs were quickly met. After all, humans are social animals, so after their material needs are met, they begin to have spiritual needs.

So the medal of honor came into being, to motivate and commend the workers and to meet their spiritual needs.

However, the honor badge system of the Prince of Jing's Mansion was rather crude before. What Zhu Houxuan is doing now is to improve it on this basis and create a honor badge system for the Ming Royal Group.

Zhu Houzhao opened the small boxes containing medals of honor with great interest. The medals of honor inside were even more exquisite. They were all made of at least copper, and many were silver or even gold. In terms of design, Zhu Houzhao also adopted the more mature design of later generations, which was mainly simple and elegant with visual impact.

Zhu Houxuan then used these medals of honor to begin introducing the medal of honor system he wanted to establish.

In fact, when he designed this system, he referred heavily to the PLA's medal of honor system.

The highest level of honor is the medal, which is divided into three levels from high to low: the Red Dragon Medal, the Red Flag Medal and the Red Star Medal. The medal is to commend those who have made outstanding contributions to the Ming Royal Group.

The Red Dragon Medal is the highest honor of the Ming Royal Group.

The medal is the most difficult to obtain, and its diameter is also the largest among all medals of honor. It is basically made of gold, and no expense was spared in its production. An experienced jewelry craftsman was specially hired to instruct on the production process.

The recipients of the medal would receive preferential treatment in terms of economy and position, and would also have the privilege of meeting Zhu Houxuan directly at any time.

The second level of honor is the medal, which is awarded to recognize individuals and groups who have made contributions to the Ming Royal Group or have outstanding performance in their work.

Medals are divided into three categories, from high to low: Honorary Title Medals, Award Medals, and Commendation Medals.

Honorary Title Medal: It is divided into the Special Model Worker Medal, the First Class Model Worker Medal and the Second Class Model Worker Medal. Recipients of this type of medal have the privilege of reporting directly to Zhu Houxuan.

Award medals: From here on, they are divided into collective and individual medals, namely the First Class Merit Medal, the Second Class Merit Medal and the Third Class Merit Medal.

Commendation Medals: First-level Commendation, Second-level Commendation, and Third-level Commendation Medals.

The bronze advanced individual medal that Zhou Abao received is a third-level commendation medal.

The third level of honor medal is the commemorative medal, which is more numerous and is divided into several categories, such as length of service medal, engineering medal, etc.

After Zhu Houxuan finished his introduction, he felt dry in the mouth and went to drink some water. When he turned around, he found that Zhu Houzhao had all kinds of medals on his chest and was looking at himself in the mirror.
Zhu Houxuan looked at this scene and suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart.
(End of this chapter)