Chapter 498: The arrival of the envoy of the expulsion kingdom and Mrs. Maria
Chapter 498: The arrival of the envoy from the expelled kingdom and Lady Marya
The kingdom’s envoy brought new conditions this time, which can be said to have met the requirements of the overseas autonomous territories to a large extent. The king promised that the overseas autonomous territories can maintain their administrative measures, personnel promotions, finance and taxation, economic finance and military strength.
It has a certain independent status, but it must apply to the royal capital for approval and verification before the relevant policies of the overseas autonomous territories are promulgated and implemented. Only policies that have been approved can be officially promulgated and implemented in the autonomous territories.
Regarding the ocean trade between the two continents that the dominion councilors were concerned about, the king only agreed to the terms of free trade of goods between the two places, allowing goods produced by the overseas dominions to be sold in the kingdom, but refused to change overseas
High customs taxes on goods produced in the Dominion.
According to the Kingdom's special envoy, it is because the Kingdom is currently facing war, economic difficulties, and lack of funds. It can only find ways to collect property to support this anti-aggression war. However, goods produced in overseas autonomous territories pay high taxes and fees when entering customs.
, accounting for a large proportion of the kingdom's fiscal revenue, so it cannot be cancelled. Perhaps we can wait until the war is over to discuss it slowly...
Except for the clause that allows the goods of this overseas autonomous territory to be traded freely within the kingdom, the king has not agreed to other clauses on ocean trade. It just evades the excuse by saying that the conditions do not allow it and that it is not suitable to discuss the situation at the moment.
The kingdom's envoy suggested that the goods produced in the overseas autonomous territories could be cooperated with powerful families and firms in the kingdom, and the sales part should be entrusted to these families and firms.
This actually means that the overseas dominions become producers, and the products are manufactured and shipped to the Kingdom, and then handed over to the agency houses raised by established aristocratic families or business aristocrats for market sales. As long as powerful families in the Kingdom control the pricing power
and exclusive rights, then everyone knows who is the most advantageous party in such a cooperation.
Parliamentarians related to the manufacturing industry in the overseas dominions also split into two groups over this, arguing endlessly. One group believed that as long as they could make some money, it didn't matter who they cooperated with. The main thing was to open up the kingdom's local market, and they would think about it later when they had a firm foothold.
Change the status quo. The other faction is not willing to let the goods produced in their own workshops be reduced to processed products of the old aristocratic families and commercial aristocrats in the kingdom. The majority of profits will be taken away by these nobles, so they ask the royal capital to open up the access to goods from various local counties in the kingdom.
Entry pass allows free commercial competition.
The so-called commodity access pass refers to the customs clearance fees during the transportation of commodities and the tax payment license for local sales. It is aimed at the purchase and sale of bulk commodities and plays a role in protecting the local commercial economy.
To give a simple example, for example, a large amount of white linen from the overseas autonomous territories has been shipped to the Kingdom. After paying a high customs fee, it is intended to be shipped to the royal capital for sale. It needs to go through ten local counties, and each local county has customs fees.
It is 1% of the total value of the goods, which adds up to an additional 10% cost. After subtracting the transportation costs, there is still about 20% profit after shipping to the capital.
As a result, during the transportation process, it was discovered that a certain local county was in urgent need of white linen. If it was sold here, it could earn an additional 20% profit. But unfortunately, the purpose was already marked on the entry tax bill for this batch of goods.
The land is the royal capital, and the owner of this batch of white linen has no right to sell it locally. He can only transport the goods to the royal capital. If he insists on selling it locally, the local administrative office can punish him according to the price of the goods.
A fine of two to three times the total value will be imposed. In the end, this businessman is doing a loss-making business, and the gain outweighs the loss...
Therefore, what the parliamentarians from the overseas dominions want is for the Kingdom to open up this commodity access pass. With this certificate, the goods produced in the dominions can be sold anytime and anywhere, and specialty products can be purchased locally without the need to go to
The royal capital bargained with those families and firms that monopolized the local county business, and allowed them to shave their hair for free. However, the royal capital was unwilling to open this commodity access pass because it was worried about damaging the families and firms that controlled the local county business.
The interests of the business.
Another problem is pricing power. The right to determine the purchase and sale price of a certain product is in the hands of the old aristocratic families and business aristocrats. They use the commercial exclusivity of the trading houses and local counties they control to monopolize the purchase and sale price of a certain product.
Regarding the pricing of these commodities, a pricing alliance was formed accordingly to crack down on those illegal firms and business rivals.
As long as the pricing power cannot be released, the buying firms have the final say on the price at which the goods produced in the overseas dominions will be sold when they arrive in the Kingdom. This has greatly harmed the interests of merchants in the dominions. This is also the biggest reason for the prosperity of the ocean smuggling trade.
, because the goods transported by ocean-going smuggling ships are sold to wealthy and powerful households. After they obtain the goods, they usually hand them over to small traders and sell them in small quantities. They cannot meet the requirements of the Dominion for large-volume bulk commodity transactions.
Perhaps they felt that the Kingdom had made a lot of concessions, so the Kingdom’s special envoys also opened their mouths to the overseas autonomous territories, asking the overseas autonomous territories to provide free grain and other agricultural products worth three million gold crowns to the Kingdom this year and next year, and five million gold crowns.
The kingdom's urgently needed mineral resources, as well as the annual tax and tribute of 1.5 million gold crowns to the kingdom. This may be the last time several royal envoys saw the economic prosperity of the overseas autonomous territories, so this time they increased significantly
The amount of taxes and tributes paid by overseas dominions to the royal capital.
This is only one side of the request. The Kingdom’s special envoy also requested the Dominion Military Region to provide 200,000 new rifles and corresponding bullets to the Kingdom’s Army Department, and requested the Dominion Military Region to provide free production drawings of new rifles and bullets to help the Kingdom in this battle.
Victory in the war against the Alliance of Nations in the Eastern Region.
This time the royal capital really opened its mouth. Even General Bolognik was amused by the request made by the kingdom's special envoy. Why should the overseas autonomous territories agree to such conditions? The so-called concessions made by the royal capital are all
Empty, nominally allowing overseas autonomous territories to maintain a certain independent status in administrative measures, personnel promotions, finance and taxation, economics and finance, and military strength. So what is the approval and verification power issued by the royal capital?
I also don’t think that the kingdom’s mainland and the overseas autonomous territories are so far apart. What needs to be done here needs to be approved by the king, and it takes half a year to go back and forth. If the kings don’t agree to argue with each other, two or three years will fly by. What about the overseas autonomous territories?
Things can't be done. What's the point of such independence? Besides, those ocean-going trade terms promise a sale that allows goods to enter the kingdom. In fact, it's not the overseas autonomous territories that transport the goods to the kingdom and hand them over to families with backers.
With commercial banks, what is the use of pricing and sales power if they are not in their hands?
Besides, asking overseas autonomous territories to provide free grain and agricultural products worth 3 million gold crowns, 5 million gold crowns worth of mineral resources, and 1.5 million gold crowns in taxes and tributes every year is treating the overseas autonomous territories as fat pigs.
Slaughter? I really don’t understand that the heads of the powerful men in the royal capital are all wet. How can they be sure that the overseas autonomous communities will agree to such a whimsical and unreasonable request?
They also asked the Dominion Military Region to provide the kingdom with 200,000 new rifles and corresponding bullets, and then unconditionally presented the production drawings of the new rifles and bullets. Where did the royal capital come from with such a big face, and asked the Dominion Military Region to meet their request?
?Do they know how much the Dominion Military Region spent on these 200,000 new rifles? They still owe nearly two million gold crowns to the Overseas Minsheng Bank for a loan that has not been repaid, and that requires interest...
Not to mention anything else, just one grenade has taught the Dominion Military Region a profound lesson. Back then, Claude sold the manufacturing blueprints and production licenses of the grenades at a low price to five kingdom military manufacturing companies controlled by established aristocratic families in the Kingdom.
Workshop, and ended up fighting a battle with the troops of Prince Hansback. After the victory, the production drawings of the grenade began to fly all over the sky, and almost all countries in the Farea continent began to produce imitations of this grenade.
When the Hicks Kingdom sent the legion to continue the colonial war on the mainland of Nubisia to attack the defensive line set up in the territorial war zone with grenades, according to General Beach Kerin, he was in a state of confusion and dreaming.
I never thought that the throwing bombs invented by me in the war zone would be improved by the enemy to be more powerful than those used by my troops in the war zone. They could be thrown farther and have greater explosion power. There were not a few soldiers in the war zone who were injured or killed by the throwing bombs in the Kingdom of Hicks.
I feel like I shot myself in the foot...
This may be the thing that the five generals in the war zone regret the most. If the production blueprints for this grenade had not been sold to the military industry controlled by the five old noble families in the kingdom, maybe the last colonial war would not have paid such a heavy casualty price.
, it ended early. When the Thunder Legion led by Claude attacked the enemy's defensive camp deployed on the northern mountainous border, more than half of it was damaged and fell short.
Nowadays, the new rifles are the basis for the troops of the Dominion Military Region to be ahead of all the armies of all countries in this era. They are handed over to the Kingdom's Ministry of War for free, and the production drawings of the new rifles and bullets are provided unconditionally. It is a beautiful idea. There is no need for Claude to object.
, the remaining four generals in the military region are absolutely impossible to agree to such a request. They do not want to encounter enemies who are also holding new rifles when they lead their troops into battle...
Even though General Bolognik and others already know that the most important thing about the new rifle is the bullet, and the key to the bullet lies in the propellant at the bottom of the cartridge case. Without propellant, the bullet will easily misfire. But no one can guarantee that the rune magicians under the old aristocratic families
Will they create another similar propellant to serve as a primer for the bullet?
Just like when Claude sold the production design drawings of the revolver to the military manufacturing workshops controlled by the old aristocratic families, they regarded the revolver as an expensive weapon gift and produced revolvers and rotating shotguns.
and other exquisite gift weapons. The bullet primers equipped with these weapons are tiny fire crystals, a kind of fire crystal produced at the bottom of volcanoes. They have always been used as fire magic materials. They were used by rune magicians in alchemy magic.
Small fire crystals are cut into the talisman array and become the primer of the bullet.
The exquisite revolver that Sheila obtained from Prince Hansback used this kind of fire crystal as the bullet primer. Fortunately, this kind of fire crystal is expensive, and it is very troublesome to process it into fire crystals, so it cannot be used on a large scale.
It is equipped with bullets. However, the primers that are equipped with bullets become gift weapons, which correspondingly improves the quality of these weapons as gifts.
As expected, the Overseas Dominion Parliament and the Dominion Military Region rejected all the requests of the Kingdom's envoy. The Kingdom's envoy was so angry that he publicly cursed the parliamentarians and the five generals of the military region for being ungrateful and forgetful of the Kingdom's nurturing grace. The kingdom was facing a critical juncture of life and death.
He also coerces the Kingdom to agree to the harsh conditions for the overseas autonomous territories to become independent. This is simply shameless and forgets the obligations and duties that an Ovelas person owes to the Kingdom...
In the end, the Kingdom's special envoy was ordered out of the parliament hall by General Bolognik. Seeing that the trip had achieved nothing and returned in despair, the Kingdom's special envoy simply gave a speech in the central square of Lanhu City. On the one hand, he described the critical situation facing the Kingdom, and on the other hand,
He denounced the members of the Dominion and the five generals as having no sense of family and country, and sat back and watched as the Kingdom itself suffered the disaster of war and national annihilation again.
For a time, it attracted the sympathy of many listeners who did not know the truth. They voluntarily donated money to save the country. In one afternoon, they raised nearly a hundred gold crowns, but most of them were low-denomination banknotes. The kingdom's envoy took these banknotes and finally
Go to Overseas Minsheng Bank to exchange.
Just when the Kingdom's special envoy was preparing to resume his campaign to smear those congressmen and the five generals of the Dominion Military Region in the overseas autonomous territories, all the newspapers in the overseas autonomous territories published the conditions and demands made by the Kingdom's special envoy to the overseas autonomous territories. Now the entire overseas autonomous territories
The people are boiling. No one can agree to these demands of the Kingdom's special envoy. This is not drawing the blood of the overseas dominions, but directly cutting the flesh of the dominions...
If you agree to the request of the Kingdom's special envoy, then one thing must lead to the other, and the Kingdom itself will make various unreasonable demands on the overseas autonomous territories one after another. These demands will eventually fall on the heads of all the people. It is related to the interests of themselves and their own family.
, no one is willing to give away what they have earned through a year of hard work in vain, everyone has to support their family and continue to live in Hukou.
At present, the overseas autonomous territories have prosperous development prospects, and the people feel that life is gradually getting better. No one wants this beautiful life and hope to be suspended and interrupted...
So when the Kingdom's envoy went to the square again to give a speech, he no longer received cheers from the audience, but rotten eggs and rotten apples, as well as angry curses from the audience. Immediately afterwards, several patrol officers arrived and declared the Kingdom's envoy persona non grata as an overseas autonomous territory.
He and his entourage will be escorted to the port of Corpicus and deported within the shortest possible time.
However, while expelling the Kingdom's envoy from the country, the Overseas Dominion Council announced that it would once again provide the Kingdom with food and agricultural products worth one million gold crowns free of charge to support the Kingdom's just war against the invasion of the Alliance of Nations in the Eastern Region.
Immigrants from the Kingdom of Overas to the Overseas Dominions have obligations and duties to the Kingdom...
The Dominion Military Region also announced at the same time that it would provide 200,000 Obash Type III standard matchlock guns and 1,000 old muzzle-loading light infantry field artillery pieces to the Kingdom’s Ministry of War to resist the enemy’s rearmament. Anyway, these things are
The replaced ones will take up space in the warehouse and are not suitable for selling to other countries. They are all active equipment for the Kingdom's local legions, so it is better to send them back to the Kingdom's mainland.
In addition to the replaced matchlock guns and infantry artillery, the Dominion Military Region also announced that it would donate 20,000 medium and heavy grenades and 1,000 throwing devices to the Kingdom's Ministry of War. This is also useless, now there is a new light infantry field artillery
, the longest range is 1,500 meters, so the medium and heavy projectiles are no longer useful. It is better to give them to the kingdom and let them hit the invading troops of the five countries in the Eastern Regional Alliance...
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The kingdom's envoy was expelled back to the kingdom in despair. Immediately afterwards, the food and military supplies donated by the overseas autonomous territories to the kingdom were also accepted by people sent by the royal capital. However, the official letters submitted by the overseas autonomous territories to the royal capital were never received by the king.
Du's reply. I don't know if it's because of the unfavorable battle situation on the front line, but the capital is already making preparations for a large-scale evacuation...
Two months later, the overseas autonomous territories received news from the West Coast Colonies that the Kingdom's defensive fronts deployed in four border counties had been breached, and the two divisions of the Red Dragon Army and the Guards Army had suffered almost all casualties. Currently, the eight Eastern Region National Alliance
The legions arrived at the Ibiniste Plain and were about to reach the royal capital city.
On August 17, the 599th year of the Holy Light Calendar, the royal capital fell.
Frederick I gave a speech before evacuating the royal capital, vowing that as long as he still had a musket in his hand, the kingdom would resist to the end and would never enter into surrender negotiations with the invaders...
On August 25th, the five kings of the Eastern Alliance of Nations came to the royal capital and held a grand military parade in the most famous city in the eastern region of Farea. Soldiers from the five legions of the five countries showed off their might.
Walk through the famous Stirling Royal Street. This was originally the location where the Kingdom of Overas held a triumphal military parade, but now it has been trampled under the iron hooves and boots of the invaders.
King Melchid III of the Kingdom of Hicks appeared at the military parade with the other four kings. He once again repeated his old tune, claiming that the main reason for the continuous war in the eastern part of Pharea in the past hundred years was because of the ambition of the Kingdom of Orvilas.
He hoped to unify the eastern part of the mainland, and for this reason he repeatedly provoked wars with neighboring countries.
This time, the Eastern Regional National Alliance has taught the Kingdom of Ovelas a profound lesson and occupied the royal capital. The current king, Frederick I, has become a bereaved dog. Melchid III hopes that the troops of the Eastern Regional National Alliance will continue to work hard, unite sincerely, and eliminate Austria.
The remaining armies of the Kingdom of Veras will completely bury the birthplace of the war, destroy the Kingdom of Overas, and gain permanent peace and tranquility in the eastern region of Farrea...
In this speech, Melchid III clearly proposed the destruction of the Kingdom of Olvilas. At this time, fifteen of the twenty-seven local counties of the Kingdom of Olvilas had fallen into the hands of the alliance army, and even the kingdom
The most important areas, the Ibiniste Plain and the heart of the kingdom, the capital, have also been occupied by the invaders. Frederick I moved to White Deer City and announced that he would resist here to the end...
On November 8th, Lady Maria came to the Overseas Dominion as the special envoy of Frederick I...