Quan Yuxun said with feeling, "As private dealings increased, people gradually began integrating this system."
"Thus, an unwritten rule and a private exchange system gradually emerged within the Beichen Empire's Interstellar Fleet."
"In other words, the scale of a Starry Sky Marine's merits could be converted into benefits that Starry Sky Marines could enjoy."
"Then, those who wanted those military merits could use this exchange system to provide the meritorious Starry Sky Marines with a certain amount of material compensation, thereby 'legitimately' transferring those merits into their own names and using them for promotion."
Xia Chujian immediately thought of what Sang Yadi had told her: the military merits they had earned on Senze Star had been traded away in exchange for material compensation.
Although they had not been Starry Sky Marines, they had only been ordinary commoners, and the merits they had earned had simply been too great, making others covet them...
Even though Beichen Empire law prohibited the trading of military merits earned by formal soldiers and officers, that still could not stop some people from taking desperate risks.
However, the other side had offered extremely generous terms. Besides real houses and currency, they had also offered citizenship for their entire families.
That was something Sang Yadi and the others' families simply could not resist, urging them to accept.
At the time, Sang Yadi had not explained it clearly, so Xia Chujian had thought it was merely an isolated incident.
Only now did she realize that it was not an accident, but a routine practice that had already formed into a system.
There was even a privately circulated term for it: the "Military Merit Exchange System."
Xia Chujian could not help asking, "Do the people above know about this?"
Quan Yuxun smiled. "What do you think? With exchange activities