Chapter 416 Incorporated into the jurisdiction of the theater
Chapter 416: Incorporated into war zone jurisdiction
Claude soon met General Bologna, but General Bologna didn't look very good. No matter who was shot in the right rib, he would be very uncomfortable. Moreover, the governors and admirals of the three direct territories did not give Bologna any advice.
General Ke provided the best treatment medicine and medical environment, so that more than half a month had passed, and General Bolonik's injuries had not fully recovered.
There is nothing to say about the process of capturing the Port of Corbicius. When the Thunder 131 Regiment entered the outer city of Port of Corbicius, the enemy was not aware of it. Only when they reached the inner city, the gate guards hurriedly closed the door. Then three people
The governors and admirals of the demesne hurriedly rushed to the city wall with their guards, only to find that they had become caged birds.
Originally, the governors and admirals of the three direct territories wanted to threaten Claude with General Bolognik's life and ask him to withdraw. However, Claude called the old messenger over and wrote a letter on the spot asking him to take it with him.
Enter the city and hand it over to the governor and admirals. After the old messenger was hung up on the city wall, the governor and admirals were dumbfounded when they saw the letter written by Claude.
Claude wrote a few words in the letter, and the meaning was just as he said to General Skerry before sending out the army. If anything happens to General Bolognik, it would be very simple. All governors and admirals should report to the kingdom of the God of War.
Claude swore that once something happened to General Bolognik, Claude would definitely order these governors and admirals, as well as their families and relatives, to be hung on the trees on the roadside, and he would do what he said...
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It was only then that the governors and admirals on the city wall discovered that the reality was completely different from what they had imagined. Even the imprisoned General Bolognik had become a hot potato. This is what is called being afraid of being stunned and being stunned.
Unfortunately, General Bolognik's life and safety became Claude's basis for threatening them.
While the governors and admirals on the city wall were still arguing about what to do, Claude had ordered the 131st Battalion of Thunder to throw grenades on the city wall. As a result, when the grenade exploded, few people were still standing on the wall.
Yes, immediately after the city gate was blown open, the soldiers of the Thunder Legion rushed into the city, and the governors and admirals of the three direct territories were all taken prisoner.
Claude's side went smoothly, but there were some setbacks when Muriel's attack on the harbor dock was used. As a military port, a small fortress was built in the dock area, and the Storm Fleet dispatched a battalion of naval stormtroopers to guard it.
In order to prevent the naval port from being attacked by pirates. Originally, the naval stormtroopers of this battalion were not under the jurisdiction of the governor and admiral, but the governor of the Tiersim Territory convinced the battalion commander of the naval stormtroopers to swear allegiance to Hans
Prince Buck.
So when Murray Ed led the troops into the dock area, they were blocked by the naval stormtroopers. However, the artillery on the fortress on the dock was aimed at the sea rather than the land. The 1302nd Thunder Regiment immediately launched an attack.
After three rounds of grenades, the defenders of the fortress raised the white flag and surrendered.
The Direct Territory of Tilsim fell into the hands of Claude, and General Bolognik was unable to stop Claude from doing anything wrong. Because Claude said that this was a crusade against rebellion, and then began to attack the three
The direct-administered territories carried out a purge. Anyway, all the military and political officials and local families in the three direct-administered territories who signed the oath of allegiance to Prince Hansback were within the scope of Claude's arrest. Ten years are waiting for them.
Labor.
Different from the direct-administered territories under the jurisdiction of war zones, the local forces of these three direct-administered territories are intertwined. The governors and admirals can only effectively manage the territorial capital and a few large towns. Other local towns are managed by those powerful people.
and controlled by local forces. Claude had heard about this from the two generals Albert Lund and Beach Kerin. Now that these three directly-administered territories will be brought under the jurisdiction of the war zone, Claude simply cuts through the mess quickly.
, and took advantage of this rebellion to wipe out all the local forces in these three directly-administered territories so that the orders in the war zone can be fully implemented in the future.
It took twenty days for General Skree and General Beechlin to arrive at the Tiersim Direct Territory with their troops. By this time, General Bolonik's injuries had almost recovered and he could get up from his bed and move around. Eberron
General Special has not come over, and he still needs to stay in Vibato Port. There is no way, the territory of the eight overseas territories is too big. Starting from the Arturas Territory, even if you ride to the Vibato Port Territory,
A normal itinerary also takes a month.
General Bolognik, Claude, General Skree and General Bichklin held a discussion meeting in the Tiersim Direct Territory on the future of the eight overseas territories. At the meeting, it was decided to transfer Tiersim, Al
The three direct-administered territories of Turas and Mormali were brought under the jurisdiction of the war zone. At the same time, it was decided to cancel the disarmament order, maintain the total strength of the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion of 130,000, and establish 18 troops in eight overseas directly-administered territories.
A local garrison regiment with a full strength of 5,600 people serves as a reserve supplementary force for the local garrison troops and war zones in each directly-administered territory.
General Bolognik decided to expand the town of Lanhu, upgrade it to a city, and use Lanhu City as the seat of the theater headquarters. The original plan to move to Wickham Castle was scrapped because the war zone included Tilsim, Mormaley and Al
After the three direct-administered territories of Turas, Lanhu City is in the center of the eight overseas direct-administered territories, so it can take care of both.
Claude proposed to establish a garrison fleet for the overseas territories. The personnel were the more than a thousand naval officers and soldiers who came back from White Deer City and were unwilling to be loyal to Prince Hansback. Although most of the warships they drove back were light ocean cruise warships and
Transport ships, but also six light fast cruising warships, plus two medium-sized warships and one large warship, as well as four light cruising warships captured from the Kingdom of Hicks anchored in Vibato Port
, enough to form a cruising garrison fleet to maintain the offshore security of overseas directly-governed territories and protect the safety of offshore transportation between directly-governed territories.
However, General Bolonik and General Skerry seemed a little hesitant, because although the establishment of a cruise fleet can bring more security to overseas territories, it also means that the theater will bear an additional military expenditure. And a navy
The fleet's expenditure is greater than the army's military expenditure. Don't look at just a fleet of more than ten light fast cruise warships, their expenditure is already comparable to that of a second-line army.
Claude laughed, and then showed the Thunder Legion's harvest from the three direct territories in the past half month, property worth 12.3 million gold crowns, including the governors and admirals of the three direct territories.
, contributed more than 400,000 gold crowns. Claude believes that the annual cost of setting up a cruise fleet is only about 300,000 gold crowns. Now that the three direct-administered territories are under the jurisdiction of the war zone, the officialdom can be eliminated
, without all kinds of exploitation, the tax revenue of the three direct-administered territories will naturally increase significantly, and the military expenditure of an additional cruise fleet will not be a big deal...
As the director of logistics in the war zone, General Skerry was satisfied that Claude had collected so much property from the three direct territories to fill the military deficit in the war zone, but he did not agree with Claude's idea. He was very straightforward.
Bai De told Claude that the fiscal and tax situation of these three directly governed territories in the next few years is unlikely to increase, but will decrease. The reason is very simple. The tax revenue of these three directly governed territories is based on ocean trade. Every year
The trans-oceanic trade with the kingdom's mainland made the commerce of these three jurisdictions prosperous and ensured the tax revenue.
Now the kingdom has cut off trade with its overseas territories. This is the main reason why the governors and admirals of the three territories have sworn allegiance to Prince Hansback. Their purpose is to restore cross-ocean trade with the kingdom and earn money from it.
Huge profits. Now that Claude has captured these six governors and admirals in the name of fighting against rebellion, he no longer has any hope of conducting ocean-going trade with the kingdom.
Without cross-ocean trade, the commerce of the three jurisdictions of Tilsim, Mormali, and Arturas will be severely hit and affected. In the future, they can only turn to commercial trade within the overseas jurisdictions, so
In the future, it is very likely that the war zone will not be able to collect as much tax revenue from the three direct territories as military expenditures. For this reason, General Skerry does not advocate the establishment of a cruise fleet.
Another problem is that eighteen local garrison regiments will be formed in the war zone to reduce the original local garrison forces. The soldiers of these eighteen local garrison regiments are all composed of older soldiers from the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion.
The garrison regiment has a full strength of 5,600 people, and the 18 local garrison regiments require a total of about 100,000 troops. This means that in addition to leaving 30,000 grassroots officers and elite veterans, the Thunder and Rock Legions also need to recruit 100,000 people of suitable age.
Young men enlisted in the army.
This is indeed what General Claude and Bolognik meant. The main purpose is to reduce the life pressure of the relatives of the officers and soldiers in the two direct territories of Cromwell and Beringana. As long as one hundred thousand recruits are recruited, then the direct relatives of these one hundred thousand recruits
Their families can obtain 30 acres of fertile land or 300 acres of pasture. It is estimated that 6 to 700,000 relatives of officers and soldiers without property will no longer have to let the war zone bear the burden of their lives and work. This will reduce the war zone’s investment in public facilities and infrastructure.
Financial pressure on construction.
The second reason is that Claude believes that most of the officers and soldiers of the two legions are too old, which is not conducive to the construction of the legions and the enhancement of their combat effectiveness. Just like the Thunder Legion, the average age of the officers and soldiers is about thirty-one years old, although
He still maintained a strong combat effectiveness, but Claude felt a little tired and became a little stuck in the development and application of tactics.
So Claude decided to simply demolish them all and rebuild them, and start to form a young army while the older officers and soldiers transferred to the local garrison and still maintained their combat effectiveness. In this way, after the veterans of the local garrison have retired in a few years, there will be exactly two
The re-grown legions will take over. Otherwise, if the veterans retire in a few years and the two legions recruit new recruits, they will not be able to have the same strong combat effectiveness. This is very detrimental to maintaining the security of overseas war zones directly under the jurisdiction.
This is what General Skerry wants to remind Claude. Recruiting 100,000 new soldiers, retraining and re-arming, and establishing 18 local garrison regiments will require a large amount of military expenditures. Don't look at the Thunder Legion's raids on the three directly-administered territories.
Nearly 1.3 million gold crowns is a huge amount of wealth, but it can only be spent on military expenditures for two or three years.
General Bolognik felt a little embarrassed. What Claude and General Scree said made sense. After cutting off trans-oceanic trade with the kingdom, the business of the overseas jurisdictions could only turn to a self-produced and self-sold model. But the eight overseas jurisdictions
The territorial area is large and the cost of land transportation is very high, so the development of offshore transportation has become the first choice. However, although offshore transportation is close to the coastline, it does not mean that it will not be attacked by pirates. A cruise fleet composed of light fast cruising warships will
It is indeed necessary to bring safety guarantee to offshore transportation.
General Sterling's concerns are also reasonable. Military expenditures in the theater have indeed become a huge financial burden. After the disarmament order is cancelled, he will recruit 100,000 new soldiers, form 18 local garrison regiments, and improve the three seaports.
The defense of the war zone, as well as the construction of infrastructure in strategic locations in the war zones, all mean that the war zone needs to invest a large amount of money, and the war zone's finances are very tight.
After much deliberation, General Bolognik decided to form a cruise fleet of six light fast cruising warships. The remaining warships will be mothballed first and expanded when the theater funds are sufficient. This way, the navy's military expenditures can be reduced
Keeping it at around 150,000 gold crowns per year, the war zone can still squeeze out this little military expenditure.
After discussing the cruise fleet, General Bolognik discussed with Claude and others the personnel arrangements for the administrative officials of the three newly-administered territories under the jurisdiction of the theater. It must be said that Claude did a great job in cleaning up this time.
It has become a bit cleaner. Almost all the local administrative officials of the three directly governed territories have been arrested and imprisoned in the name of rebellion. Currently, the three directly governed territories are under military control. Otherwise, local administrative affairs would have been paralyzed.
General Skerry suggested that suitable personnel should be selected from the grassroots officers of the two legions who are preparing to retire to serve as the officials in charge of the local administrative departments of the three directly governed territories. At the same time, administrative officials should be openly recruited in the three directly governed territories and be appointed after assessment. This suggestion
It was unanimously approved by Generals Bolognik, Claude and Buechlin.
General Bolognik decided to return to Lanhu Town with General Bichklin in two days and sit at the theater headquarters. They first formed six local garrison regiments and deployed them in the three directly-governed territories to strengthen local control. And Claude and
General Skerry is temporarily stationed in the Tiersim Direct Territory to rectify the order and local security here. When the six local garrison regiments arrive, Claude can lead the Thunder Legion troops back to the theater headquarters.
Two days later, General Bolognik and General Bichklin left with their guards, while General Claude and General Skerry stayed in the port of Corpicius to continue their busy work. The three direct territories were included in the jurisdiction of the war zone, and the affairs were complicated.
, not to mention anything else, just checking the family background of the three direct territories kept Claude and General Skree so busy that they even had to grab something to fill their stomachs when eating.
Otherwise, the port of Copicius in the direct jurisdiction of Tiersim serves as a seaport with the kingdom's mainland and has built a vast warehouse area. The specialty resources and commercial materials shipped to White Deer City from the three direct jurisdictions are concentrated in this warehouse.
area. Now that cross-ocean trade has been cut off from Bailu City, the commodities and various resources in the warehouse area must be processed as soon as possible. After all, many agricultural products cannot be stored for a long time.
"Mineral resources and other materials can be stored here. It is useless to transport these things back from the war zone. Overseas territories do not have large-scale alchemy and casting workshops, so these mineral resources cannot be utilized." General Skerry said regretfully.
In Claude's view, the so-called alchemy and foundry workshops are large steel alloy manufacturing plants. The kingdom strictly prohibits the establishment of such large-scale industries in overseas jurisdictions. It would rather transport these ore resources back to the kingdom itself, refine and cast them, and then transport them back.
Even if it increases a lot of costs, we will not hesitate. Perhaps this is also a means to limit the economic development of overseas territories.
"These tobaccos are a specialty of the Arturas Direct Territory. It is said that they can be found all over the mountains and plains there, but they have become expensive luxury goods in the Kingdom." General Sterry felt that it was a pity: "There is no distribution in the Kingdom.
In the land, tobacco cannot be sold at a high price in overseas direct-administered territories. Perhaps it can be sold to the Kingdom through smuggling in the future. The bison jerky and cod jerky accumulated here need to be transported back to the war zone and distributed to the troops as military rations, because the shelf life of this stuff is only
It takes about three months to half a year, and the same goes for those cow hides. If they are not treated, they will easily rot..."