Chapter four hundred and eighty first attacking the kingdom
Chapter 481 Attack on the Kingdom Mainland
On November 26, 594th year of the Holy Light Calendar, the first autonomous election conference of the overseas territories was held in Lanhu City, the territory of Amphiston. In the eyes of later generations of historians, this conference was
It has extraordinary historical significance. It marks the beginning of the transition from autonomy to independence for the colonies in the Nubisian continent.
In fact, what is not recorded in the history books is that the two hundred or so so-called candidates who represented the public opinion of the entire overseas territories who participated in this autonomous election meeting were all shareholders of Overseas Minsheng Bank. Even if they only held 0.1% of the shares
, that is, the net worth is more than hundreds of thousands of gold crowns, and each representative is a person with status, status and financial resources in the overseas territories.
In the first half of the month, King Sterling XI's decree on the plan to deal with the war zones in the overseas territories has been published in various newspapers in the overseas territories, arousing the anger of all the people in the territories. Because this fatuous King did not
Immigrants from the kingdom under the direct jurisdiction were regarded as their own subjects, but as slaves who could squeeze out wealth at will. No one would like such a monarch who was interested in his own family property.
More than two hundred public opinion representatives, the richest immigrant class in the overseas territories, and the shareholders of the Overseas Minsheng Bank knew very well that the real agenda of the Kingdom's special envoy this time was their group of people. The reason is simple. Those who were incited
The wealth of the angry people is actually the banknotes in their pockets. The Overseas Minsheng Bank has been blocked and banknotes have been abolished. The people have become paupers. They cannot squeeze out a few taels of oil and water even if they want to squeeze them.
Only the money man's operation can satisfy Sterling XI's desire to collect wealth from overseas jurisdictions.
Therefore, no one among the more than two hundred public opinion representatives objected to the plan proposed by the directly-administered war zone to oppose the emperor but not the kingdom. Under the auspices of General Bolognik, the representatives voted for half an hour and approved with 199 votes, seven
The vote gave up, and there were zero votes against. It was decided that from now on, the overseas territories will break away from the direct relationship with the Kingdom and be renamed the Overseas Autonomous Territory of the Kingdom of Overas. They will implement an autonomous policy and declare that they will no longer accept any orders from Sterling XI.
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The first thing to do is to change the name, because judging from the current situation, the colonial war with the Kingdom of Hicks has come to an end, and there will no longer be a war situation for the time being. Therefore, the direct-administered territorial theater was renamed the autonomous territorial military area, and it still bears the responsibility for the entire overseas
Military and security garrison duties of the Dominion.
The supreme commander of the military region is still held by General Bolognik, with Claude and four other generals serving as deputy commanders. However, General Bolognik is responsible for more aspects of the administrative affairs of the overseas autonomous territories and the exchanges with the autonomous territorial parliaments. The two legions and
The power to command the local garrison has been transferred to Claude, who is responsible for the actual work of the military district headquarters.
Secondly, there is the establishment of the Overseas Dominion Parliament. There is nothing else to say. More than two hundred public representatives have become members of the parliament, and Claude is no exception. He has the title of Dominion Member. In name, the Dominion Parliament
It is the highest authority of the overseas autonomous territories and represents the interests of the people of all overseas autonomous territories. But in fact, the rights of the members are pitiful. They only have the power of supervision and proposal. The real administrative jurisdiction is controlled by the military command and the executive committee of the parliament.
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After the establishment of the Parliament of the Dominion, the one-armed Sir Bennet lived up to expectations and was elected as the first Speaker of the Parliament for a period of five years and could be re-elected for four terms. The next step was to elect members of the Executive Committee. The so-called Executive Committee is overseas
The highest administrative body of the Dominion, all civil affairs are brought under the jurisdiction of the Executive Committee.
Not surprisingly, General Bolognik was elected as the first president of the Executive Committee, and four generals, Claude, were also elected as members of the Executive Committee. In addition to the five generals, there are also twelve members of the Parliament who have become executive members.
Members of the Council, including Mr. Veblen, will be included in the quota. They will each be responsible for certain aspects of the civil affairs of the overseas autonomous territories. They will be elected again in the parliament five years later based on their governance.
After these major events were passed, the Dominion Parliament began to enter the wrangling stage. For example, some members proposed to change the Dominion to a state and county system to show the difference from the Kingdom. After a day of fierce arguments, this proposal passed the Parliament with a slight advantage.
Passed. In the future, each direct jurisdiction will be called a state. For example, the Cromwell Territory will be renamed the Cromwell State. If it is further subdivided, the state will be a certain county instead of a certain county.
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Claude took this opportunity to propose a proposal, which was to change the color of the military uniforms. Claude had been dissatisfied with the bright red military uniforms of the Kingdom of Overas for a long time. A straight military cap, black trousers, etc. would be fine.
Tolerate it, but the big red military uniforms are really conspicuous on the battlefield. Especially when countries in Farea continent are paying more and more attention to precise aiming and shooting, if you don't change the color of the military uniforms, you will simply let your soldiers go to the battlefield.
Die.
Fortunately, Claude has a lot of face, and the parliament passed the proposal smoothly. As for what color and style to change, it will be decided internally by the military region headquarters. The congressmen are very clear-headed and will not criticize Claude on military issues.
Pointing fingers. Of course, some people think that this is the five generals of the military region looking for extra money for themselves. After all, changing military uniforms for 200,000 troops is not a small expense, and the people who handle it have plenty of opportunities.
Next, it has nothing to do with Claude. He, General Albert, and General Bichikerin left early and began to plan a counterattack against the kingdom and Sterling XI. Only this time he led the team.
He could only entrust it to General Albert. Currently, the Overseas Dominion has just been established, and Claude himself must sit at the Dominion Military District Headquarters to calm people's hearts.
Except for Diavid's 1303rd Regiment of the First Division, all the rest of the Thunder Legion's ocean cruising fleet were dispatched. General Albert was the commander-in-chief, and McJack and Belklin were his deputies.
, his younger brother Major Blovik's Wolf Fang Brigade will also dispatch two squadrons, and Colonel Bockal from the Intelligence Department will also set off as the chief of staff of the regiment. Claude has mobilized all the elite soldiers and generals in the military region for this operation.
"In addition to all the warships and transport ships of the ocean-going cruise fleet, I also mobilized nearly a hundred ocean-going ships to gather at the Port of Copicius. Last time, Colonel Bokoal returned with more than 60,000 refugees and more than 40
An ocean-going ship has also been renovated and joined this transportation. The ship is filled with military supplies such as grain, weapons and ammunition. Food and grass are used to relieve the refugees, while weapons and ammunition are used to defend and counterattack.
This is not a military operation that can be completed in one round, but a military occupation plan that may last for half a year or even more than a year. The number of refugees in the kingdom must be at least one million to fill the shortage of overseas autonomous territories.
Human resources, this is your first goal to achieve.
Secondly, our overseas autonomous regions gave the fatuous monarch above a slap in the face, telling him that our overseas autonomous regions are not chess pieces that he can manipulate at will and slaves who squeeze out wealth.
Third point, after you arrive at Bailu City and land, immediately send troops to capture Barevia County in the three southwest counties, because the fifth largest military production workshop in the kingdom is here. I need you to empty out all the weapons in this military industry.
Large-scale military machinery and equipment, as well as bringing technicians and their families in this military industry back to overseas autonomous regions. Our military region needs mechanical equipment and technicians from this military industry to expand our military production and master special steel forging production
Craftsmanship.
Although we can produce new rifles now, we can only produce 30,000 pieces a year due to limited scale, and the manufacturing of artillery is also very backward. At the same time, we still lack large-scale special steel refining and forging furnaces. This is mainly because the kingdom used to have direct jurisdiction over overseas countries.
As a result of the territorial production restriction policy, they hope that the overseas territories will always become the Kingdom's resource exporter, and no advanced machinery, equipment and production processes will be allowed to enter.
So I hope that your attack this time can make up for the biggest shortcoming of the Shanghai Overseas Dominion. In the next few years, the Dominion will enter a stage of great production development, and railways and trains will become the first large-scale means of transportation to be promoted and applied in the Dominion. It’s just that
We are limited to the scale of the large-scale steel refining and forging furnaces in the Dominion, and cannot mass-produce standard rails. We can only pin our hopes on your attack this time.
In addition to manufacturing muskets and artillery and refining and forging special steel, the military industry in Pahlavia County also has a large woolen production workshop and a dyeing workshop. Don't miss these two workshops. Those technologies
The personnel must also be collected and brought back to overseas autonomous regions. You all know that my proposal to change military uniforms was approved by the parliament. Whether your military uniforms will be good or bad depends on your actions this time.
Do you understand what I mean? The purpose of your attack this time is to gather the refugees and give Sterling XI a slap in the face to fight back. What is important is to occupy and evacuate Barlevia County.
Colonel Murray, the first target of your ocean cruising fleet is these large military machinery and equipment, not refugees and refugees. You can organize the young and strong people among the refugees to help you transport these things."
Claude finally ended the conversation, hugged and saluted General Albert, and then watched him and his comrades lead the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion to board the ocean-going ship, set sail, and disappeared into the sea and sky.
For Sterling XI, there is nothing worse than receiving a report of an attack on the kingdom on the New Year's Eve. He has prepared an extremely grand banquet for the New Year's Eve in the evening.
The all-night carnival spent a lot of money on the royal family's internal treasury. Now he only hoped that after the New Year, the envoys to the overseas territories could quickly deliver a sum of money to fill the increasingly empty royal family's internal treasury.
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The 594th year of the Holy Light Calendar was not a good year for Sterling XI. The local counties in the kingdom could no longer extract much wealth. On the contrary, there were more and more refugees and refugees on the roadside.
From time to time, you will see corpses that have died of starvation. Bandits and bandits are emerging in endlessly. The reports sent to the royal capital by the officials in charge of the local counties do not have any good news. They are not saying that they have been robbed by bandits or bandits, or that there is a wave of refugees.
What is requested is either military support or relief for the refugees, both of which require money from the national treasury.
The Ibiniste Plain, where the royal capital is located, remains calm and orderly. However, the ministers and local officials of the kingdom are becoming more and more dissatisfied with him as the king. Many people complain that the wrong person was chosen to put him on the throne.
.If everyone didn't bother, the kingdom wouldn't be like this now. His Majesty, the new king, has no ability to govern the country.
Sterling XI was very angry, and he was not really a fool. Although he had many shortcomings, such as being lively, keen on holding various banquets and dances, having private trysts with beautiful aristocratic ladies, being romantic by nature, etc.
, but this does not mean that he does not want to be a good king. Doesn’t he want to stabilize the kingdom? But he is indeed powerless. Not to mention that the ministers and nobles below are fighting for power, even if he wants to cheer up, there is nothing he can do.
There is no money in the treasury
A minister persuaded him to stop holding banquets and dances, which made him furious, and he reprimanded the minister on the spot. Could it be that stopping these banquets and dances would improve the situation in the kingdom? That is simply impossible! The one who held banquets and dances
Everyone knows very well what role a little money can play in state affairs, and it has no impact. Besides, as a king, he only likes and enjoys this. If he does it well, he can expand the reputation of the Stirling royal family.
Perhaps the situation in the kingdom will calm down after this winter. Those refugees and refugees will be frozen to death, and the kingdom will be relieved of its burden. It will not have to spend money on relief. When the kingdom's envoys return from overseas direct jurisdiction to deliver money, if
If there are more, as the king, he will naturally use part of it to appease those local counties and restore production. Everything will get better in two or three years.
It's just that King Sterling XI never expected that he would receive a report of a large-scale invasion of the Thunder Legion from overseas territories on the New Year's Eve. This was simply a slap in the face to him as a king, and it also meant that he was sent overseas.
It is impossible for the kingdom's envoys in the direct jurisdiction to complete the tasks he assigned them. They don't know whether they are dead or alive and can only be listed as missing.
"This is unreasonable! They, how dare they rebel!" The furious Sterling XI went into a rage in the palace and smashed his palace to pieces. Because along with the invasion report came a document issued by an overseas direct jurisdiction.
The Autonomy Announcement explained to the people of the Kingdom the reasons why the overseas territories rebelled against Sterling XI instead of the kingdom. It also contained the decree of Sterling XI regarding the disposal of war zones in the territories.
Anyone with a normal mind who reads this autonomy notice will understand the reason why the Overseas Territory War Zone has to do this as a last resort. The two legions of the Overseas Territory were ordered to hold on to the overseas colonies on the Nubisia continent, and they did not receive any support from the Kingdom.
, worked hard and relied on self-reliance, and finally won the colonial war with the Hicks Kingdom, and expanded the kingdom's seven overseas territories directly to nine, making great contributions to the kingdom's expansion of territory.
The war was finally over. As a result, Sterling XI not only did not reward these heroic soldiers who had made contributions and sacrifices to the kingdom, but instead punished these generals and officers and soldiers with unfounded charges. Let the five generals in charge of military affairs in the war zone and the legions
Senior military officers were demoted and retired, two second-line regiments that had made great contributions to defending the country were disbanded, and their trophies were taken away. At the same time, they also searched for wealth in overseas territories directly under the jurisdiction of the country, and did not regard the immigrants of the kingdom as their own subjects.
Take a look at the decree obtained from the kingdom's envoys. It requires the kingdom's envoys to collect taxes and tributes in overseas territories that have not been paid to the treasury and the royal family in the past five years, and impose a fine of ten times. This alone is enough.
It gave the people of the kingdom the feeling that His Majesty the King was so poor that he was like a hungry dog chewing everywhere.
Those nobles of the kingdom all know that the taxes and tributes from the overseas territories have been allocated by the late King Sterling X to the two legions in the war zone as military expenses to support them in resisting the invasion of the Hicks Kingdom. This was the Kingdom's Army Ministry at the time.
The clearly issued announcement and instructions also contained the seal and autograph of the late King Sterling X.
Sterling XI, who has now succeeded to the throne, has gone back on his word and refused to recognize the previous king's will. He wants to collect taxes and tributes in overseas war zones for five years and impose ten times fines. A simple calculation can show that this is
A huge amount of money, can that barren overseas territory hand over this wealth? This is clearly a living force to revolt against the people of the entire overseas territory. No wonder the Thunder Legion raised an anti-Sterling XI
Not against the flag of the kingdom.
I have to admit that Sterling XI was very unpopular. Immediately after landing in White Deer City, the Thunder Legion used the mobility of the light cavalry to sweep and occupy ten local counties, including the three southwest counties, and then gathered the refugees and refugees.
Local Qiu did not commit any crime, and soon received strong cooperation and support from local officials and local powerful people. Only then did someone send the news to the royal capital.
No matter how much Sterling XI roared, yelled, and said harsh words in the royal capital, accusing everyone in the overseas territories of being traitors to the kingdom, he was unable to do anything about the Thunder Legion that occupied ten local counties, because
No one was willing to obey his orders to suppress the rebellion. He did not dare to send out the Guards Corps stationed in the royal capital and the Ibiniste Plain, for fear that his own life would not be guaranteed.
As for the commander of the Griffin Legion, the hereditary marquis of the Kingdom, General Jarius Hohadro, said that he would first pay the huge military expenses owed before discussing the crusade against the rebellion. The commander of the Red Dragon Legion, the Kingdom Marshal
, Duke Siegfried, although he was the father-in-law of Sterling XI, did not have a good relationship with him, the king's son-in-law, and he immediately rejected the order for the Red Dragon Legion to go on an expedition.
No one is a fool. Although the Thunder Legion is a second-line army in the kingdom's establishment, one level higher than the local garrison, its ability to defeat the ten standing armies of the Hicks Kingdom means that its combat power is very powerful. What's more,
This time they entered the Kingdom's mainland to help the Kingdom collect refugees and prepare to send them to overseas territories to give them a way to survive. This is doing good things for the Kingdom, and there is no need to disturb their actions. Even if it is changed to an autonomous territory now,
It is also anti-king, not anti-kingdom, and has no independence, so why bother to touch such a hard nail?
The kingdom's three ace legions sat back and watched the Thunder Legion move freely in the ten local counties they occupied. The only unlucky one was Sterling XI. He once again became a joke to all the countries in Farea. His will was ignored.
He can hide in the palace and use alcohol to numb himself