Although the senior generals in the overseas war zones were labeled as Prince Hansback's influence, the reserve crisis that occurred in the royal capital was too far away for them. Just like Claude.
, he is a civilian grassroots officer who was favored and promoted by the eldest prince, and he also won the favor of Marshal Michelle Qi. He relied on his military exploits in the king to reach the current point step by step and became an official major general of the kingdom.
Even if he learned the news about the royal capital from Mr. Veblen and knew about Marshal Michelci's injuries, there was nothing he could do for Claude and he could not help much. The continent of Nubisia and
The continent of Farea is separated by an ocean of silence, which is too far away. Moreover, Marshal Michelich was assassinated more than five months ago, but there is no knowledge here. It is possible that the marshal deliberately concealed the news and was unwilling to let people here know.
Everyone will be distracted.
From a certain point of view, the five reinforced divisions in the directly-administered theater are the direct troops of Prince Hansback. To be more precise, the division commanders and most of the senior officers of the five reinforced divisions are
He was a student of Marshal Michelch. He was born as a commoner and joined the Royal Armed Rangers. They followed Marshal Michelch and were loyal to Prince Hansback.
It is precisely because of this that the Kingdom's Army Department and other armies of the Kingdom do not want to see the Ranger Division. It happened that the Kingdom of Hicks launched a colonial war again, so the Ranger Division was welcomed by everyone and was naturally transferred to the overseas jurisdiction of Nubisia Continent.
Lead to resist the invasion of the colonial garrison of the Kingdom of Hicks.
To everyone's surprise, the Ranger Regiment showed its prowess in the directly-administered war zone, winning two colonial wars and annihilating seven standing armies of the Kingdom of Hicks. The Kingdom's most important military merit, the Kingdom's Army Department
He had no choice but to pinch his nose and expand the Ranger Division into a legion, and promoted a large number of meritorious officers, and General Michelchi was promoted to the rank of Marshal of the Kingdom.
In view of General Michelich's huge prestige in the Ranger Corps, other members of the Sterling royal family and the Kingdom's Ministry of War formulated a strategy to recall Marshal Michelchi and the Ranger Corps, but at the same time removed the backbone of the Ranger Corps.
Officers and elite soldiers remained in overseas territorial theaters and were reorganized into five local second-line reinforced divisions.
Then the Ministry of War of the Kingdom incorporated a large number of senior officers who were related to the Sterling royal family into the Ranger Corps, which was called a real royal armed force. In fact, it cut off Marshal Michelci's influence in the Ranger Corps.
Influence, while handing over the command of the Rangers to the Sterling royal family, it also abolished the combat effectiveness of the Rangers.
It’s not that Marshal Michelich doesn’t understand the tricks of the Kingdom’s Ministry of War and the Stirling royal family, it’s just that he is magnanimous and selfless, and has no intention of controlling the Rangers. His thoughts are focused on resisting the Kingdom of Hicks in the direct-administered war zone.
This colonial war was launched. Therefore, since the Kingdom’s Army Ministry adopted the strategic deployment proposed by him after leaving office, he also cooperated and resigned from the position of commander of the Ranger Corps and became a senior counselor of the Kingdom’s Army Ministry.
And a staff member next to Prince Hansback.
As for the overseas theaters directly under the jurisdiction of Marshal Michelic after he left office, in the eyes of the Kingdom’s Ministry of War and the Kingdom’s senior officials, they are already destined victims and cannot escape the fate of cannon fodder. It’s simple. The Kingdom of Hicks has declared that it will establish
Ten standing legions were transported to the mainland of Nubisia, vowing to carry out this colonial war to the end and not give up until the goal was achieved.
If the Kingdom of Overas had not experienced the five-year war in the eastern region, it might have been able to compete with the Kingdom of Hicks on the continent of Nubisia. But less than eight years after the war ended, the kingdom's treasury was empty.
During the five-year war in the eastern region, three principalities were occupied, but these territories were full of vicissitudes of life and needed investment of time and funds to slowly recover.
The Kingdom also had to form three standing corps to guard the newly occupied territory, so military expenditures were very tight, and there was not much spare power to support this colonial war that took place on the Nubisian continent. Therefore, in comparison, the Kingdom's Army Department
The high-ranking officials and powerful figures in the kingdom all have a pessimistic attitude towards this war in the colonies, as the bottom line they handed over to the territorial war zone is to defend the territory of Amphiston and ensure the territory of the next three overseas territories.
But no one could have imagined that the Kingdom's Major General Honorary Baron Claude Hanfield, who took over from Marshal Michelchi as the supreme commander of the theater, would be so fierce. This scapegoat who was originally the scapegoat in the eyes of the king's senior figures actually brought his Thunder Division with him.
It was a copycat version of the Rangers, and it took the initiative to attack the colonial garrison of the Kingdom of Hicks.
The Third Colonial War not only annihilated its three main legions, but two of them were also the main legions hired by the kingdom's mortal enemies, the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karrnath. This outcome completely changed the strategic situation of the entire overseas territorial war zone, and even
It also forced the Kingdom of Hicks to have civil strife, which made it impossible for the Kingdom of Hicks to provide effective military support to its colonies on the mainland of Nubisia for half a year or even longer.
Realizing that this was a very good strategic opportunity, the Kingdom's Ministry of War and the Kingdom's senior officials sent the Kingdom's general, hereditary earl General Algeske Osmolin, to serve as the Supreme Commander of the Territory War Zone, preparing to give Hicks
The kingdom struck a fatal blow by capturing the port city of Vibato, cutting off its transportation and shipping lifeline with the inland colonies, and completely ending this colonial war.
Claude understood the intentions of the Kingdom's Army Department and the Kingdom's senior officials through the royal capital newspapers sent by Mr. Veblen, handwritten gossip and oral messages, but he could not change the established result. He was in Nubicia.
In Mainland China, even though he could be promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in the kingdom soon, he would not have access to the powerful elite of the kingdom. In the eyes of the people above him, he was just a relatively brave high-level thug.
Mr. Veblen came here not only to send information, but also to discuss with Claude the business of two joint iron ore workshops. The success of throwing bombs has already earned him a large number of business orders.
, Claude decided to let each division have 10,000 grenades. Half of them were used for live-fire training, and the other half were reserved for combat. So Mr. Veblen's headache now is just how to complete it in the shortest time.
This order for 50,000 grenade bombs.
In terms of profit, the internal price of a grenade is one gold crown, and its cost is no more than one silver thaler at most. In other words, you can earn four silver thalers by selling one grenade.
This profit is already comparable to that of robbing a bank. Now Mr. Veblen has even handed over the management of his family's mining business to others. He wholeheartedly wants to run this workshop jointly established with the Field family. After all, the profit of this arms
, so exciting
The current war zone is not in the state of financial difficulty and tension when Marshal Michelich left office. Thanks to Claude's victory in the Third Colonial War and battlefield captures, the war zone command already has tens of thousands of gold crowns in its account.
The balance. Since the new supreme commander of the theater will take office in a month, Claude will naturally not leave this money in the public account for his successor to waste. So he asked the theater logistics department to purchase it with a stroke of his pen
In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the five divisions in the theater, the purchase of grenades was ranked first.
In addition to the production of grenades, Mr. Veblen also wanted to discuss with Claude the imitation and sale of the hot air balloon machine, which Claude called a firepower machine. After Claude led the Thunder Division to attack
, Mr. Veblen recruited mechanical talents from many sources and continued to improve and imitate this kind of fire-power machine in the iron ore mine. According to him, the iron ore mine currently has five types of fire-power machines of different sizes and models.
machine, and this kind of firepower machine is very popular among mine owners and workshop owners. Now he has orders for more than 100 pieces.
Mr. Veblen hoped that Claude would not take away the profit share of the iron ore mine within the next three years, but invest all the profit share in the expansion and completion of the iron ore mine. He promised to build an iron ore mine within three years.
The largest iron ore machinery workshop in the overseas territories, it would be time to enjoy the dividends. Claude was very happy and agreed to Mr. Veblen's request.
The next morning, Claude continued to go to the theater headquarters to handle official business. At noon, he was going to have dinner with General Scree, the head of the logistics department, and exchange views on the funding for the reconstruction of Wickham Castle. He was walking to the office building of the logistics department.
There, I heard a loud voice shouting something, and then General Skerry's kind words to persuade him. Finally, the loud voice calmed down, and he said a few words of dissatisfaction and unwillingness before leaving.
Claude entered General Skree's office and saw him rubbing his temples, so he smiled and asked him what made him feel so embarrassed, with a sad look on his face.
The two are good friends and naturally don't see each other very often. General Skerry said with a wry smile: "The person just now was not from our war zone, but an inspector sent by the Kingdom's Army Department to supervise the firearms repair workshop. This time he
The reason for the commotion is that the newly appointed director of the gun repair shop consumed more than 800 gun barrels in half a year during an experiment. He could not bear the responsibility for such a large loss of barrels and asked us to warn the gun repair shop.
The new supervisor will also issue a certification document for these lost barrels."
Claude was curious: "Why is the kingdom's management of gun barrels so strict?"
"This is very simple, because each barrel can be assembled into a musket, and the muskets of our Kingdom of Overas are the most advanced muskets in the entire Farea continent. As long as you control the musket, you are equivalent to controlling a musket.
The lifeblood of the legion." General Skerry picked up the tea cup: "Although the five reinforced divisions in our theater are powerful in combat, as long as the Kingdom's Army Ministry controls weapons and equipment such as muskets and artillery and does not provide us with supplies, then we will not be able to last long.
The battle continues. Because guns and artillery are the biggest consumables on the battlefield."
After taking a sip of tea, General Skerry continued: "I know what you are thinking in your mind. It is nothing more than capturing the enemy's weapons for use. The problem is that if you are used to using the advanced muskets and artillery produced by the kingdom, you will look down on the backwardness of the enemy.
Weapons? Of course, if the enemy is another legion of the kingdom, that's another matter, but you have to think in advance how many people will follow you in rebellion.
Therefore, even though we are far away on the mainland of Nubisia, the Kingdom's Army Department still controls us. This is why they only open a gun repair workshop here, not a gun making workshop. Opening a gun repair workshop can
Using undamaged barrels to assemble new muskets on-site can greatly reduce repair costs. Only the worn barrels need to be transported from the kingdom. And if you open a gun-making workshop, it is possible
It was controlled by the local garrison, causing it to disobey the orders of the Kingdom's Ministry of War and to be in a de facto independent state."
General Skerry put down his tea cup: "It's a very simple control method, but it is very effective. Okay, I won't bullshit you anymore. Just tell me what you want when you come over at noon. I have to go to the gun repairman after dinner.
Let’s take a look and see what the new manager is doing and how he is wasting so many good barrels.”
"I want to have dinner with you and discuss the funding issue for rebuilding Wickham Castle." Claude replied seriously: "I feel that the cost of rebuilding Wickham Castle and the subsequent four castles in the two demesne cannot be funded by our war zone.
Instead of allocating military expenditures, we should ask the kingdom to allocate construction funds. If the above does not agree, I think the gold and silver ore ingots produced in the directly-administered territorial war zones should be withheld. The Mining and Business Association will allocate 60% of the annual
The Kookmin Bank, which handed over the produce to the royal capital for free, is deeply dissatisfied.”
This was the last thing that Mr. Veblen discussed with Claude last night. He was also entrusted by the Mining and Commerce Association. At present, the tax revenue of the seven overseas territories has become the majority of the five divisions in the war zone.
Since the Kingdom's Ministry of War cannot support military expenditures, the war zone is actually in a state of collecting independent expenditures on the spot.
However, 60% of the output of the two large gold mines and several silver mines under the Amphiston Territory Mining and Commerce Association is handed over to the National Bank Head Office in the Royal Capital free of charge every year. This is a value
The remaining 40% of the income of more than 200,000 gold crowns, minus expenses and mining costs, is not much left for the mining and business association. In addition, with the management of various gods, in the end the association members are very
There is very little profit left, very little.
The so-called money moves people's hearts. The Mining and Business Association is also looking for ways to take the profits from the gold and silver mines into their own hands instead of handing them over to the National Bank Head Office in the royal capital for free. Ever since they learned that Claude was handed over to the theater command
After the ministry prepared a plan to rebuild five defensive castles in the two direct territories of Cromwell and Beringana, the association believed that this was a good opportunity to legitimately hand over the 6% free of charge.
Ten of the gold and silver mines produced will be recovered by supporting the construction of overseas territories.
General Skerry had been working with Claude for many years, and he understood what he meant when he heard it. He shook his head: "This matter is easy or difficult to handle. The output of the gold and silver mines is handed over to the National Bank Head Office and belongs to the Kingdom's finance."
It has nothing to do with the Ministry of War of the Kingdom. After all, the annual royal fees are budgeted, and all expenditures are planned and verified in advance. However, we are in a war zone, and we use special war funds. The Kingdom has no money, so we
All tax revenues from overseas jurisdictions are allocated to us.
After all, we don’t need to look at the face of the Kingdom’s Ministry of Finance and the Kingdom’s Ministry of Army. Anyway, when we report to them, they will only reply that they have no money and let us find a way. Since we are left to find a way, then we will
The output of this gold and silver mine will be deducted as post-war urban construction expenses for the two direct territories.
This is a public expense. If the Kingdom’s Ministry of Finance is not happy, let him argue with the Kingdom’s Ministry of War. I believe that the Kingdom’s Ministry of War will issue a document to reprimand us openly, but secretly it will only applaud us. However, the report must be typed in advance.
Of course, the output of this gold and silver mine cannot be mentioned in the report.
We have to wait for the kingdom's Ministry of War and Finance to reply that they have no money to allocate, and then seize the output of the gold and silver mine, so that if we are held accountable in the future, we can confidently let them see the reply that they have no money. And as a
There is a high possibility that the supreme commander of the theater will have to bear responsibility for this matter."
Claude laughed loudly. Anyway, in one month he will no longer be the supreme commander of the war zone. This blame can be shouldered by the general of the kingdom who wants to be promoted to marshal: "Okay, let's go to dinner first, and I'll accompany you after dinner.
Let’s go to the gun repair shop and we’ll think it over on the way.”