After the wise man reminded him, Chu Jungui immediately looked up all the information about Hathaway, and was shocked after checking it.
Hathaway has indeed done many great things. The earliest one was the final battle across the line. She led a levy fleet to withstand the attack of an ace squadron under Xu Bingyan, forcing the opponent to lose 30% of its troops. retreated under the circumstances, and then in the second stage, she was the first to break through the defense line of the dynasty fleet, becoming the last straw that broke the morale of the dynasty fleet. After the post-war review, Hathaway scored a battle loss ratio of 2:1. You must know that the levied fleet is a ragtag army at best, while the opposite side is the dynasty's well-tempered ace force. Being able to exchange two for one is nothing short of a miracle.
After this battle, Hathaway was promoted to lieutenant general due to his merit, becoming one of the youngest lieutenant generals in the Federation. It is also the dividing line between genius and pillar of empire. Many core children of ancient families can become major generals as long as they achieve some decent military exploits, and a few can become major generals in the regular army. This is the limit of genius. And if you want to truly become a member of the core decision-making team in the military, a lieutenant general is the starting point. If you want to be promoted to lieutenant general, family background or anything else doesn't matter. Everyone has a background, so it's almost like having no background. Therefore, the promotion of Lieutenant General depends only on merit, and it does not just require hard work, it must be merit that is meaningful to the entire federation. Therefore, countless children of powerful people have been stuck in the major general position throughout their lives, unable to make any progress. Some of them chose to retire early to avoid embarrassment, while others focused on developing family fleets or private mercenary groups, so that the upper limit of their military rank was major general.
The second major thing Hathaway did was to refuse to take over the Federation's ready-made fleet. Instead, she integrated the conscripted fleet subordinates who had followed her through the dynasty's defense line, returned to the Jolly Roger, and chose to rebuild the Jolly Roger.
In various private legions, the upper limit of federal military rank is major general. This has been the practice for many years, and even the ancient families of the Ring of Roses are no exception. But convention is not absolute. There are still exceptions in the Federation, and that is military giants like Billind. There are only three such warlord groups in the entire federation. Now that Hathaway is rebuilding the Jolly Roger as a lieutenant general, it is actually equivalent to the federation's acquiescence that she can establish a fourth military giant.
With the end of the Battle of the Vertical Line, Hathaway has become the most dazzling star of the Federation. Her previous deeds after leading the pirate flag to break up in the battle of the Third Theater were also retold. The scene of the flagship ship rushing forward and brazenly charging into the dynasty fleet was played repeatedly and moved countless people. Therefore, the reconstruction of the Jolly Roger has received unanimous support from the federation from top to bottom.
In the Federation, Hathaway's achievements are not actually the greatest, but only among the top ones. In terms of commanding ability, she can't be said to be the best. She may not even be in the top three. However, Hathaway's reputation and popularity are the highest among the emerging generals, so high that all other generals combined are not as much as her. There are countless fans of hers throughout the Federation, and many people who recruited the fleet were originally planning to go home, but now they have decided to continue their military career and join the Jolly Roger. Suddenly, the number of registrations for Jolly Roger increased sharply, reaching 50 times the number of people to be recruited!
Chu Jungui was quite speechless about this. After all, the Jolly Roger could only be regarded as a semi-military. Most of the military ranks were reserve military ranks, and only a few high-ranking officials had active military ranks. In other words, if these people stay at the Jolly Roger for a year or two, it is like serving in the reserve force and getting nothing. If it weren't for the fact that the Winton family would provide a certain subsidy after three years of retirement, this kind of private army would really have no talent attraction.
For this crazy phenomenon, the wise man has only one simple explanation: "Ms. Hathaway's military achievements may be a little bit behind, but who can make you look good?"
"What's the use of looking good?" Chu Jungui was also speechless.
"Looking good is of great use!" A wise man analyzed. "Data shows that under the same conditions, people who are obviously good-looking have 11 times more opportunities than ordinary people. The good looks of adults are not ordinary good looks, they are unique beauty!"
Chu Jungui had a headache: "That's not how data is used..."
"In terms of data usage, I am quite authoritative." The wise man said this with confidence. After all, it is different now, and the people on the entire planet combined do not have as much computing power as it.
The wise man was obviously very confident in himself and continued: "Without relying on family wealth accumulation, there are only two ways for human beings to move up. One is to be particularly smart or to be particularly good-looking. Both of these are actually brought about by genes. It depends on rebirth. So the human species mainly depends on reincarnation technology."
Chu Jungui couldn't laugh or cry, but he couldn't refute the wise man's fallacy for a while.
But the wise man is right about one thing. Hathaway's beauty is both appearance and temperament, which is almost perfect. Even in an era of rampant genetic technology and plastic surgery, her beauty is rarely rivaled.
Hathaway did not waste her advantage in appearance. After the war, she attended as many public events as possible or accepted exclusive interviews to convey her ideas and pursuits to the public. The three major political parties in the federation are trying their best to win her into their own camp, and the Winton family's momentum has also increased, and they have won many large projects.
Hathaway's latest big thing was to lead the new Jolly Roger to defeat a squadron of the Dynasty, adding a lot to her credit book. However, this news has not been made public yet, and wise men judged it from countless battle reports.
Now the dynasty is also looking for ways to create its own new God of War to replace the huge void left by Xu Bingyan's death and boost morale. The dynasty launched a large number of war heroes, dozens in total. These heroes are distributed in all aspects and have their own characteristics, including several of Xu Bingyan's original subordinates. Lin Xi was originally on the list, but during the final selection, some military veterans felt that she was still junior and had insufficient military exploits, so they took her off the list and replaced her with another senior general.
However, this batch of generals from the Dynasty caused controversy as soon as they were launched. The controversy mainly came from several of Xu Bingyan's old subordinates. These people had records of attacking civilians, which suddenly caused a fierce backlash from public opinion.
"Look, more than 50 of the influential media reports yesterday questioned Xu Bingyan's subordinates. Haha, humans are really interesting creatures." While sorting out the information, the wise man sent several reports to Chu Jungui.
Chu Jungui read it at a glance and asked, "If it were you, what would you do?"
"The result is more important than the means. Now as long as we can win the war, it doesn't matter what the civilians are. Even if those questioning media are not on the side of the enemy, they have bad intentions. If it were me, they would be arrested and released after the war is over."
