Under Chen Rongnan's push, the Fifth Interstellar Fleet's senior officers passed the resolution to promote Xia Chujian to the position of Legion Commander of the Fourth Combat Regiment, though some of them did so unwillingly.
Meanwhile, at the Military Headquarters in the Beichen Empire's Imperial Capital, a heated debate also unfolded over Xia Chujian's military rank.
In the end, just as Chen Rongnan had predicted, they compromised. Rather than immediately awarding Xia Chujian the rank of Colonel, they granted her the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
In the Beichen Empire, the rank of Lieutenant Colonel was already more than sufficient.
At the very least, a Lieutenant Colonel was more than qualified to hold the highly powerful position of Legion Commander.
When Empress Tantai Zijun saw that the Military Department had submitted Lieutenant Colonel rather than the Colonel rank she had proposed, she smiled faintly.
It suited her perfectly.
She had deliberately proposed granting Xia Chujian the rank of Colonel, knowing that the Military Department would certainly change it to Lieutenant Colonel in order to assert its presence.
And Lieutenant Colonel had been the rank she intended to grant Xia Chujian all along.
She was not so radical as to grant an ordinary person the rank of Colonel right from the start.
But she also knew that her subordinates would not obey her every command simply because she was the Empress.
Under the legal constraints of Constitutional Monarchy, she could not simply do whatever she pleased.
So she had to ask high first, then let the other side bargain her down a level.
As the saying went, ask an exorbitant price and bargain on the spot.
When dealing with these people, she had to take a roundabout path too...
Thinking of this, Empress Tantai Zijun felt that being Empress was truly too