"...This is the opposite bank of Lanhu Town, separated by Lanhu, and the triangle area where the Tuoma River flows into Lanhu. This land is very fertile and is very suitable for reclaiming wasteland and turning it into fertile farmland. In the past, there was a lack of manpower, but now
With these immigrant families, it only takes two years for our Amphiston Territory to be self-sufficient in food. Of course, it is not enough to ensure food consumption in the entire war zone, but the food needs provided to the four mountain towns should be more than enough.
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We will set up Tuoma Town here, and set up six to seven towns along both sides of the Tuoma River. This triangular area will be enough to accommodate more than 70,000 immigrant families engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry, making this area directly under the jurisdiction of Amphiston
Half of the plain area has been thoroughly developed.
However, we estimate that not many of these 100,000 immigrant families are willing to engage in agriculture and animal husbandry. Like the first batch of more than 17,000 immigrant families this time, in addition to the more than 1,000 families recruited by the mining and business associations, there are still more than 2,000 families.
Because of their own skills, immigrant families are willing to accept interest-free loans from us to open small workshops and shops. These immigrant families are arranged in Lanhu Town and four mountain towns..."
Claude is currently stationed on the other side of Lanhu Town, listening to Sir Bennett, who is in charge of civil affairs in the war zone, explaining the resettlement of immigrants. Fortunately for Claude, Sir Bennett is not a politician who only talks rhetoric. On the contrary,
He was a technical civil servant with rich administrative experience. The work of distributing the property of immigrant families under his supervision was in an orderly manner, which saved Claude a lot of trouble.
"Sir Bennett, do you have any difficulties here?" Claude asked.
"Yes, our biggest problem now is the lack of labor." Sir Bennett nodded: "Although we only need to allocate wasteland to these immigrant families as their fields, they will build their own houses and reclaim the wasteland themselves.
We don't need to worry about it. But we still need to build underground drainage pipes in the planned town addresses and build roads connecting the towns. We are responsible for the construction of these public facilities.
But currently we lack labor to build these, and we don’t have the funds to hire labor. Although Marshal Michelchi ordered more than 30,000 Rangers to participate in the construction, they are currently responsible for the expansion project of Lanhu Town, and they can only spare one at most.
He will help build the underground drainage pipelines in Tuoma Town in a month, and then he can break camp and return to the kingdom. Without the more than 30,000 soldiers of the Ranger Corps to do the labor, the infrastructure construction of the six or seven towns will continue.
It can’t be completed…”
This is really a problem. The arrival of immigrant families does not mean pointing at a piece of land and saying to them that this is your home and leaving it alone. Towns must be built, roads connecting various towns, and daily necessities and various types of materials needed to meet the needs of immigrant families.
Daily groceries. However, what the war zone can currently provide to these immigrant families is food and temporary shelter. There is a lack of funds to hire labor to build urban infrastructure and road construction.
"Then do you have any solution? Sir Bennett..."
"Yes," Sir Bennett nodded: "But I need your help."
"Then tell me, what is the method?" Claude asked.
"Don't each of these immigrant families have a retired soldier who wants to re-enlist in the army?" Sir Bennett said: "After they enlist in the army, let them be like the soldiers of the Rangers, who first come to help us with the infrastructure construction for half a year.
Then there will be no problem with the settlement of these 100,000 immigrant families..."
Haha, it turns out that Sir Bennett had this idea. One hundred thousand immigrant families and one hundred thousand retired and re-enlisted soldiers are one hundred thousand free young laborers. But Claude thought about it and rejected Bennett.
Sir's proposal.
"No, Sir Bennett. After these retired soldiers re-enlist, they have to undergo recruit training again to familiarize them with military camp life. You should know that they were all drafted into the army during the five-year Eastern War and received a short military service.
After training, he went to the battlefield. After the war, he was forced to retire. Five or six years have passed now.
For a soldier who has received long-term training, it will take some time to re-adapt to life in the military camp after leaving the army for such a long time. And these soldiers who have only experienced short-term military training and been forced to retire from the battlefield need to
It will take longer to train to become a qualified soldier again. This is the main reason why they are regarded as a source of local instability by the local counties in the kingdom and are willing to help their family immigrate to us.
The most important task at present in the theater is to form five reinforced divisions with combat effectiveness to cope with the colonial war initiated by the Kingdom of Hicks. However, in addition to the more than 20,000 veterans transferred from the Ranger Corps, two overseas
After the field corps has been reduced and eliminated with more than 100,000 troops, only a quarter of the remaining qualified soldiers are less than 30,000. The five reinforced divisions require 160,000 troops, but we still lack more than 100,000 qualified soldiers.
Marshal Michelich has been urging us to complete the task of forming five divisions as soon as possible, but without qualified sources of soldiers, we are powerless. Now everyone is pinning their hopes on these 100,000 retired soldiers, hoping that they can
Arrive as soon as possible to replenish the troops for reorganization and training. Therefore, I cannot agree to your request. Letting these 100,000 retired and re-enlisted soldiers participate in the construction will delay our reorganization plan..."
Although he was rejected by Claude, Sir Bennett had already expected it. He knew that what Claude said was true. The most important thing in the war zone now is not to settle immigrants, but to form five reinforced divisions to ensure that
In this colonial war, if you can resist the invasion of King Hicks' army, you must at least defend the Amphiston Territory.
After frowning and thinking for a while, Sir Bennett spoke again: "Your Excellency, Commander, if these retired soldiers who have re-enlisted cannot be used to do labor, can you ask the theater logistics department to allocate more food, grass and daily groceries? Maybe.
These materials can be used to hire the young Nikancha people to build public facilities and road foundations, but in that case additional efforts will be needed to hire manpower to oversee their construction..."
This can be considered a last resort. Who said that the war zone lacks funds and there is no budget for this construction. As Sir Bennett said, using grain and grass supplies and the daily necessities captured from the Hicks Kingdom
The young people of Nikancha are hired to work for groceries. It’s just that the mud of Nikancha people can’t cover the wall. Just a single work efficiency can make you despair. If a large number of supervisors are not hired for strict supervision, a line of 100 meters
They can build a long road for three or four years, but they will always find ways to be lazy and cut corners when working...
Claude nodded: "Okay, the food and grass are provided by the three direct territories behind us. We can report some more losses. The daily groceries in the warehouse were originally intended to be sold to these immigrant families, but are now used to hire Ni
It’s okay for the Kancha people to work. But the Jazz can also use these daily necessities to hire immigrant families without their input. Supervising those Nikancha people should be an easy job..."
Sir Bennett thought for a while and agreed: "This is a good idea. I think the immigrant families will be happy to accept the employment. They have just moved here and are short of these daily necessities. They use these things as payment.
We don't have to go out to buy, which also saves us money. Maybe we can also use dried meat, fur and grain as employment fees. Winter is coming soon, and I believe these immigrant families also need to reserve certain supplies...
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After solving this problem, Claude rode back to Lanhu Town. As soon as he entered the theater headquarters, he saw Colonel Xazolak sitting in the reception room waiting for him to come back. Claude quickly went up to him and apologized, saying that he should wait.
Sorry for taking so long. But Colonel Chazolac respectfully saluted Claude as a subordinate and signaled that what Claude had told him had come to an end.
After entering Claude's office, Colonel Chazolac took out three documents from the briefcase he carried and placed them in front of Claude. The first document was a confession, which was what Claude wanted.
The businessman who came to purchase a large amount of military supplies confessed that he was a secret agent of the Kingdom of Hicks and came to check the war preparation information of the overseas territories. He used women and money to bribe General Vansnik and obtained a large amount of military supplies from him.
Intelligence, and finally wanted to purchase back the military supplies captured by the Ranger Corps through General Vansnik, in order to save time and transportation reserve costs for the next colonial war...
Claude was very satisfied. With this confession, General Vansnik's charges were completely confirmed, and he did not have to bear the charges of the following. Marshal Michelich also had steps to go down, and he could definitely use this
The confession drove the good-for-nothing general Vansnik away from the Ranger Corps.
What surprised Claude the most was that he could not tell that this confession was fabricated. There were all the witnesses and physical evidence, including the three maids who accompanied General Vansnik when the businessman entertained him at the Grand Tavern of the Castle of Greno.
The testimonies are attached above. They heard General Vansnik say with their own ears that he did not care about the identity of the person who purchased these military supplies, as long as he gave money to sell them to anyone...
The second document is the true confession. Compared with the first confession, the second confession is more fake. In fact, the businessman who purchased the military supplies is indeed from the Kingdom of Hicks, but he is just a smuggler.
The purpose of his visit to the direct territory was to purchase a batch of grain and grass and sell it to Vibato Colonial County. Since the Kingdom of Hicks focused on the development of mineral resources in the Nubisian continent, it had never paid much attention to agriculture and animal husbandry, so it needed to start from
Buying food in large quantities outside.
Since the outbreak of the colonial war with the Kingdom of Overas, seven overseas territories directly under the jurisdiction have cut off food transactions with the colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks, causing the price of food in the colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks to rise rapidly. Although some people have already begun to farm and open up wasteland,
But after all, it takes a lot of investment, a lot of effort, and a long time to harvest, and a drop in the bucket can't make up for the huge food gap. Many smugglers come to overseas jurisdictions to purchase grain and then traffic it to Vibato County. This has become a lucrative maritime industry.
road.
This smuggler in the Kingdom of Hicks has two shallow-sea flat-bottomed transport ships. This type of flat-bottomed transport ship usually travels along the coastline. The ship has a large load capacity and is slow and cannot withstand the strong winds and waves of the deep sea. However, it is used to transport supplies such as grain and grass.
It was a perfect fit. So he anchored the two boats in the fishing port town and took his entourage to the capital, Greno Castle, to find out where there was a large amount of grain and grass for sale. As a result, he met General Vansnik who wanted to sell armaments.
This is an unexpected surprise for the smuggler. After all, these military supplies originally belonging to the Kingdom of Hicks are more valuable than food and grass. If he can redeem these military supplies back, he can use them to communicate with Vibato Port.
Hicks established a relationship with the military, which would be very convenient for his future smuggling activities. Therefore, he spent a lot of money to manage General Vansnik and purchased all the military supplies stored by the Rangers.
The third document was a detailed list of the intercepted military supplies. When Claude picked it up and looked at it, he was shocked by the red fonts on the front page, because these red fonts were not those marked by Hicks.
The kingdom's armaments are the standard weapons equipped by King Overas' troops, including more than 400 Obash type III standard matchlock guns, more than 3,000 Obash type II standard matchlock guns, and standard gunpowder ammunition.
Several barrels, and even four infantry light field artillery and matching gunpowder pellets, shotgun bags, etc...
"What, what's going on?" Claude asked in surprise, pointing to the list in red font on the page.
Colonel Shazorak replied calmly: "These were all found on that large convoy. We interrogated the soldiers in the logistics camp who escorted the convoy, and they said that these were also sold by General Vansnik. Because the general said,
Since these things cannot be brought back to the kingdom, it is more economical to simply sell them. The general also stamped all these weapons reserves on the logistics supply list as battlefield supplies."
"Crazy! How unreasonable! He actually sells the kingdom's standard weapons and equipment to people of unknown origin. Does he really think that having the blood of the Sterling royal family can do whatever he wants?" Claude stood up angrily and said angrily.
Three days later, Marshal Michelich returned from an inspection in Robisto County and arrived at Lanhu Town. Colonel Claude and Colonel Chazolac immediately handed him the two confessions and the list of supplies. Michelich
After the marshal finished reading, he tore up the second confession, and then ordered the guards to bring General Vansnik, who had been in confinement for a week, to him.
General Vansnik came out of the solitary room in tattered clothes and a gray face. When he saw Marshal Michelchi, he angrily scolded Claude and others for being a culprit, illegally imprisoning him, the logistics director and superior officer, and declared that the lawsuit would be dismissed.
We must also punish several culprits such as Colonel Claude Cree and Colonel Chazolac when we go to the royal court...
Marshal Michelich just asked him if he would resell the military supplies he had stockpiled?
General Vansnik admitted it outright and declared that the disposal of excess military supplies was within the scope of his duties as the logistics director. Everything he did was legal, and the price he sold was also the reserve fund of the Ranger Corps, and
Not stuffed into his own private pocket...
Marshal Michelich just asked his adjutant, Lieutenant Colonel Nieves, to read the confession of the Hicks Kingdom businessman. General Vansnik immediately collapsed to the ground. He knew very well how much this confession would have on him.
After a while, he shouted that this was a frame-up. He did not have any liaison with the enemy's spies. This confession was false!
However, even if it was a false confession, Marshal Michelich would turn it into truth. He called in guards and took off Vansnik's golden sun epaulette on the spot. This meant that General Vansnik's military rank
was deprived. Then he ordered the guards to take the criminal Vansnik back to the solitary room. Marshal Michelich said that he could not punish Vansnik on the spot. He could only deprive him of his military post and wait until he returned to the kingdom to hand him over.
Handled by Prince Hansback himself.
The main reason why Marshal Michelic rushed back from the Robisto Territory this time was that the kingdom's envoy was coming soon. Unlike those immigrant families, the kingdom's envoy needed to inspect the three overseas territories in the rear and communicate with the governor.
The admiral was having a meeting, so the journey was a few days behind the immigration convoy.
Two days later, the Kingdom's special envoy finally arrived in Lanhu Town. He brought a formal notice, announcing that the Ranger Corps would return to the country in early November after the reorganization was completed. He also brought a formal appointment letter from the Kingdom's Army Department. Claude
Was appointed as the division commander of the Thunder Division, the supreme commander of the theater, and was promoted to the rank of major general of the kingdom.bdshare();