"...At present, four of the five fortress-type castles we originally planned to build have been completed. Wickham Castle in the Cromwell Territory and Rumbichuk Castle have been completed. The Beringana Territory has been completed.
The Bek Hill Castle and Harold Castle have also been delivered, and the remaining one is the Galicia Castle which is under construction and is expected to be completed in June next year.
After the completion of the five fortress-type castles, we still need to build traffic arteries and coastal defensive sentries directly to Vibato Port in the two direct jurisdictions of Cronwell and Baijingana to improve early warning and protection against attacks from the sea.
Defense. Consideration is also being given to building a fixed stone bridge over the Dolinibara River to replace the two small pontoon bridges.
However, it seems that these infrastructure projects need to be postponed. Monknade City in the Vibato Port Territory needs to be rebuilt, and the silver mines there also need manpower to excavate and produce. That is the wealth that belongs to our War Zone Territory.
After the Nikancha people rioted, they almost completely destroyed the city of Monknad. Now we have to make this silver city run again.
The Mining and Commerce Association has sent experts to investigate. If there are sufficient manpower, it will only take two months to get the silver mine up and running again. It is estimated that it can produce silver worth 150,000 gold crowns per year.
The mine will make up a great deal for the financial constraints faced by our war zone today.
In addition, Monknad City is located in the vast eastern interior mountainous area of the Vibato Port Direct Territory, and is only a hundred miles away from the country established by the Nikancha people. If we do not send people to garrison this abandoned silver city, once it is occupied by the Nikancha people,
The Cha people occupied an area equivalent to one-third of the inland eastern area of the Vibato Port Direct Territory.
My suggestion is that we should take advantage of the fact that the Nikancha people have just established a country and still need our military assistance and conduct various transactions with our war zone. We should first demarcate a clear border line with them to prevent them from being directly under the jurisdiction of our war zone due to the national border in the future.
The unclear border lines of the territory have caused disputes between the two parties. Because now there are often wandering Nikancha people entering the territory directly under the jurisdiction of Vibato Port in groups until they are expelled by our patrol team...
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This is the year-end summary meeting of the territorial theater. General Skerry, the commander of the theater, will give a year-end summary report. The meeting will be attended by Claude, General Bolognik, General Albert, General Beachlin, and the independent
Sir Bennett, as well as Mr. Chazolac, the newly appointed patrol chief of Cromwell and Beringana. To put it bluntly, they are still the same leaders from the original war zone, but one less one was assassinated.
General Severit.
The city of Monkenard needs to be rebuilt and built into a fortress like Wickham Castle. This is not only because of the large silver mine next to it, but also because it is less than a hundred miles away from the national border established by the Nikancha people. It used to belong to
When the Kingdom of Hicks was a colony, Monknade City was surrounded by colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks, so protection did not matter. Even after the Nikancha people rioted, they immediately attacked the Silver City and rescued those Nikanchas.
The miner slaves killed almost all the slave owners and overseers, and set fire to the Silver City.
Immediately afterwards, Claude led the Thunder Division to sweep across the Colonial County of Port Vibato. The Hicks Kingdom was left with only one standing army huddled in Port Vibato, and the city of Monkenard was abandoned as a result. Now the Colony of Port Vibato is
The county has become the eighth overseas territory directly under the Kingdom of Ovelas. According to the original map demarcation, Monconade City and the Silver Mine also belong to the territory directly under the Port of Vibato. General Skerry was driven crazy by the money.
I decided to focus on this silver mine.
"Our theater's fiscal deficit this year is close to 1.45 million gold crowns. The main expenses are the resettlement of immigrant relatives and the construction of Cromwell and Beringana." General Skerry continued.
Report: "Currently, nearly two million immigrants have been resettled in the two directly-governed territories, and 23 new towns have been built. According to statistics, on average, each officer and soldier has 18 relatives who have migrated, with the highest number being as many as 67.
There are at least six people, which is the main reason for the lack of funds in our war zone...
Fortunately, most of the officers and soldiers of the two legions have already moved their relatives to the two directly governed territories, and the remaining estimated number of two to three hundred thousand people will arrive one after another next year. The problem is caused by such large-scale immigration.
Many local civilians in the kingdom have followed suit. In order to avoid the civil war in the kingdom, they are also willing to follow the relatives of our officers and soldiers to migrate to overseas territories directly under the jurisdiction.
The Storm Fleet in White Deer City only cares about earning high transportation fees, and does not care whether our overseas territorial theater can withstand so many immigrants. It just knows how to transport boatloads of immigrants. In addition, Tilsim, Morma
The governors and admirals of the three jurisdictions of Li and Arturas did not care about the lives of these immigrants and only sent them to the jurisdictions under the jurisdiction of the war zone. Those who have been registered now have nothing to do with the officers and soldiers of our two legions.
There are nearly 200,000 immigrants, all of whom have been resettled in the Robisto Territory...
Although the fiscal deficit in our theater this year is as high as 1.45 million gold crowns, we do not need to pay a lot of cash. The vouchers proposed by General Claude effectively relieved our lack of funds, but this does not
It means that our funding problem has been solved. In the next year or so, we will not be able to collect much tax revenue from Cromwell and Beringana. At the same time, we still need to mobilize goods from several other territories to be transported to Cromwell.
Trafficked in Renwell and the Dominion of Beringana.
In other words, after the goods we purchased with real money were sent to Cromwell and Beringana for sale, all we got were the vouchers we issued this year. We just transferred the financial problems we encountered this year.
It's just postponed to next year. If possible, I really hope that our war zone can issue vouchers every year to replace gold crowns.
The two major problems currently facing our war zone are: first, the lack of construction and development funds. Even if military funds are misappropriated, this big hole cannot be filled. It will take two years for the two direct jurisdictions of Cromwell and Beringana to carry out normal operations.
Only by collecting taxes can the funds in our theater be replenished, but this is a long-term process. It is estimated that it will take more than ten years to recover the investment in development and construction funds.
Another problem is that the Kingdom has not invested so much cash in the overseas territories. Even the National Bank of the overseas territories cannot borrow so much money. They do not have so many gold crowns and silver thalers. This is very important to the overseas territories.
This has had a very negative impact on the commerce and construction investment among the leading people. As indicated by those production workshops, there are people who need the goods they produce, but they cannot provide cash and can only barter, which increases the number of transactions.
difficulty.
The Mining and Commerce Association's suggestion is that our overseas territorial war zone privately mint currency. They privately purchased several waste coins from the mint in the royal capital at a high price to be recast, which can be used to mint gold crowns and silver pagodas.
Le, Riazor and Fenni are all short of sunars and pennies. However, the lack of sunars and pennies can be transported from the kingdom. The gold, silver and copper mines in the overseas territories are enough to mint these gold, silver and copper coins. They are willing to
Provide our theater with an annual income of three hundred thousand gold crowns..."
Sometimes Claude had to be surprised by the courage of the merchants in the Mining and Commerce Association. It was true that some people did the business of beheading, but no one did the business of losing money. The laws of the kingdom stipulated that all gold, silver and copper coins could only be minted by the state.
There is only one consequence for casting gold, silver and copper coins privately, and that is death! However, various restrictions imposed by the Kingdom on overseas territories have stalled the economic development of overseas territories. Mining and business associations have been trying to break these restrictions.
Without enough currency, there will be no large-scale profits. In the past, the kingdom used resources to plunder overseas territories. Mining and business associations were the first to bear the brunt. The various mineral resources they mined could only be refined into ingots and then transported to the kingdom's mainland.
The sale and pricing are controlled by the commercial aristocracy that monopolizes trade between the two continents in the kingdom. They obtain most of the profits, leaving only scraps for the mining and business associations.
For example, gold and silver mines can only be transported to the Royal Capital for free and handed over to the Kingdom's Ministry of Finance. The Mining and Business Association's income in this area is less than 10%. This is why they colluded with the theater headquarters last year to obtain construction and development funds for the direct jurisdiction.
After buying these gold and silver ore ingots, I didn't expect that they had already prepared the follow-up arrangements. They secretly minted gold, silver and copper coins, and even involved the war zone to make sure nothing went wrong.
Claude knocked on the table: "Tell the people from the Mining and Commerce Association that our war zone can agree to them privately minting gold, silver and copper coins, but we want an annual income of half a million gold crowns. We can use the silver from Monkenad City to
The mine is contracted by them, and our war zone will be responsible for their safety. It's just that they need to keep it secret when making currency, and don't make a fuss in the city. Everyone knows that it will make our war zone very embarrassed...
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The mountains are high and the emperor is far away. Anyway, there is still an ocean of silence between the two continents. The kingdom itself is engaged in civil war as the two kings compete for the throne and has no time to take into account the development of overseas territories. And the war zone is strapped for funds and cannot give itself to
Let's go bankrupt. Now, no matter whether it is illegal or not, if there is a straw, it should be grasped first and then the problem can be solved. The most important thing is to solve the problem.
General Bolognik nodded: "After the Chinese New Year, I will go to the three direct jurisdictions of Tiersim, Mormali, and Arturas to discuss with the governors and admirals to talk about the difficulties we face in the war zone and ask them to help.
For a moment, don’t deduct the 30% of tax military expenses, so that the war zone can increase its income by about 100,000 gold crowns."
Claude secretly curled his lips. General Bolognik was not good at this. He always thought too well of others and was a believer in the theory that human nature is inherently good. He also did not think about the three governors and admirals of the direct jurisdiction who had eaten the meat in his mouth.
Are we willing to spit it out again? Let General Bolognik hit the wall.
Sir Bennett said: “Because the three demesnes of Cromwell, Beringana and Robbinstown have large numbers of immigrants, the workshops and workshops in the demesne of Amphiston have received a large number of immigrants.
For commodity orders, it is expected that the tax revenue will increase significantly next year, and there will probably be an additional 100,000 gold crowns in commercial tax revenue, which should reduce the financial burden on some war zones."
"If we can have an extra 700,000 gold crowns next year, I believe our life in the war zone will be easier." General Skerry replied: "The situation in our war zone is that there is no shortage of food. In November this year, Cromwell and White
The winter wheat planted in the two municipalities of Ghana can be harvested in April next year, followed by the planting of summer wheat, and a crop of potatoes can be planted after the harvest in September. The land in these two municipalities is fertile and suitable for farming and animal husbandry.
In addition, the land development of our five fortress-type castles and the 23 newly built towns is all carried out according to the distribution model of half public fields and half personal industries. All public fields were cultivated and planted by the relatives of the relocated officers and soldiers.
By next year's harvest, the two million immigrant population will be completely self-sufficient in food...
The largest capital investment and expense in our theater this year is here. The construction labor of the five fortress-type castles is the 200,000 prisoners of the Hicks Kingdom. For them, we only need to provide food and clothing to keep them fed and clothed.
, it was enough to provide some medical treatment, and the materials to build the castle only cost 100,000 gold crowns.
However, we spent one million gold crowns to hire relatives of officers and soldiers from two legions to reclaim public fields, build water conservancy facilities and twenty-three new towns, and build road and transportation facilities leading to these towns. Fortunately, Gram
General Lord suggested issuing vouchers, which alleviated our financial difficulties, otherwise we would have been unable to support it long ago.
But next year our theater will need to continue investing in and constructing public facilities in these two territories, and we will also need to build small shipbuilding workshops in the coastal areas and build small fishing boats to fish offshore. This will also bring certain benefits to our theater.
The most important thing is that we cannot let the relatives of the officers and soldiers of the two legions stay in the directly-governed territories doing nothing, as that will have a very bad impact on the public security order of the two directly-governed territories..."
Claude could only smile bitterly. Next year, he would have to continue to invest in the public facilities of the two municipalities. For example, each town would need to establish a patrol team, open national primary schools and middle schools, and town offices and other administrative agencies, so that these new towns could be properly treated.
Implementing effective management requires a large amount of capital investment. It seems that another voucher will be issued next year...
General Bolognik rubbed his brow. As the acting supreme commander of the war zone, the difficulties faced by these war zones were all pressure on him. In just six months, almost half of the hair on his head turned white, and the wrinkles on his forehead
It's also deeper.
"Let's do this for now. Everyone already knows the current situation in the war zone." General Bolognik said: "A civil war has broken out in the kingdom, and we don't know which prince can win the final victory and become the new king of our kingdom. To us
For us, doing our own thing is the most important thing, and it is our responsibility to take good care of the territories directly under our jurisdiction.
General Claude and I discussed that we must reorganize our two legions starting next year. After the civil war broke out in the kingdom, we no longer got news from the Kingdom of Hicks from the royal capital. Last month, a ship came from
From the captain of the smuggling ship docked at Vibato Port to purchase supplies, we got the news that the civil strife in the Kingdom of Hicks has been quelled.
Of course, we don’t know whether this news is true or false, but even if it is false, we must treat it as true. With the character of King Melchid III of the Hicks Kingdom, he will never admit that he lost this
A colonial war. Perhaps while we are talking about this, he has re-recruited and formed a new legion, preparing to attack our direct territory.
I plan to move the theater headquarters to Wickham Castle in the spring of next year. Now the two direct territories of Cromwell and Beringana have become our basic base. Even if the Kingdom of Hicks suddenly attacks and captures the port of Vibato
, we can no longer retreat from these two directly governed territories and implement the strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country. We can only fight to the death with the enemy.
General Albert, you will lead a division of the Thunder Legion to station in Monkenad City next year and strive to draw a clear boundary line with the Nikancha people. General Bichklin, you are in charge of the port of Vibato, Pa.
For the defense and early warning of Port Tres and the coastal areas of the war zone, you will deploy a division of the Rock Army. As for General Claude and I, we will be responsible for the defense and patrol of various parts of the war zone. Once there is a war,
If an outbreak occurs, General Claude will provide reinforcements..."