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Chapter 518 Appointment and Trusteeship

Chapter 518 Appointment and Trusteeship

The demise of the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karrnath caused an uproar in the countries of Farea Continent, because this news meant that the Kingdom of Ovilas ruled the entire eastern region of Farea Continent at least in name, and became a veritable power.

The dominant power in the mainland region. Military experts and war history scholars from various countries, while studying the new weapons and military changes brought about by the two overseas armies, also called this war the Second Eastern Regional War.

It is undeniable that the reason why the Kingdom of Overas was able to turn defeat into victory from the edge of destruction and unify the entire eastern region was the participation of the two legions of the Overseas Dominion Military Region in the war. With the passage of time and the hard work of spies from various countries, about Thunder

The new rifles and artillery equipped by the Legion and the Rock Legion have attracted the attention of more and more countries.

It is inevitable to lose and damage weapons on the battlefield during the war. The fragments and wreckage of many new rifles have fallen into the hands of spies sent by many countries under the inducement of high prices. In fact, with the appearance of the new rifle,

It is not difficult to deduce the mechanical structure of the entire rifle based on the remains of these rifles.

Just like the Kingdom of Resnia in the southern part of the continent, they soon announced that they had developed a new rifle. This is a new rifle that requires you to pull the bolt to reload a bullet after firing a bullet. It looks similar to Sonia in appearance.

The new Type 91 rifle is so similar that it is jokingly called a single-shot rifle...

But the problem is that although the Kingdom of Resnia is the first country in the Falea continent to announce the development of a new rifle, it has yet to announce when it will replace the matchlock gun with the new rifle to equip the kingdom's army. Obviously, just like other research

Like countries with new weapons, new rifles are easy to get, but the propellant for bullets becomes the biggest problem.

Even if a few rifle bullets produced by overseas autonomous territories fall into the hands of other countries, those countries will not be able to study and analyze the formula of the propellant from the tiny bit of propellant at the bottom of the bullet. It is not that there are no substitutes for propellant.

Like the revolvers and revolver shotguns produced by the four military industries of the Overas Kingdom, the bottom propellant of their bullets is made of fire chips, which is very expensive.

If the Kingdom of Resnia wants to use new rifles to equip two legions with 120,000 to 30,000 troops, and each kingdom soldier is equipped with fifty rounds of rifle bullets that use fire chips as bullets to fire primers, then the Kingdom of Resnia can

Directly declared bankruptcy. Not counting bullets, the cost of a new rifle is about five to seven times that of a matchlock. This is a heavy financial burden for any country, and a new rifle without bullets is not as good as a matchlock.

The gun is cheap and practical.

Just like those old noble families in the Kingdom of Overas, they also concentrated their efforts to imitate a new type of rifle called Tygerston 600, but they were also stumped by the propellant of the rifle bullets. But they left

Another way is to write a letter to General Bolognik, who is more talkative, hoping to purchase the required rifle bullets from the overseas autonomous territories. The first batch will require 10 million rounds, and ask the overseas autonomous military regions to give a reasonable price.

After discussing with Claude, General Bolognik offered a high price of one riaso for a bullet. Ten million rounds of bullets for a new rifle would be 10 million riyaso, which is equivalent to one million silver thalers, that is

Two hundred thousand gold crowns. If it is a matchlock gun, ten million guns and gunpowder can be purchased for about ten or twenty thousand silver talers. Now the price quoted by Claude and the others puts the old aristocratic family in a dilemma, but the Overseas Autonomous Territory Military Region

Refuse to bargain with them…

In addition, in the 601st year of the Holy Light Calendar, at the New Year's Court meeting of the Kingdom of Orvelas, when discussing the candidates to replace Claude in managing the Nasseri region, the royal court caused quite a stir.

Troubles. No minister of the kingdom was willing to take up the position of official in charge of the Nasseri region. Even the ministers and officials who were forcibly assigned quickly found excuses to resign from their posts in the Nasseri region.

They either cited old age and infirmity as the reason for not being able to take up their posts, or they were suddenly ill or injured after falling from horses or stairs and were bedridden and unable to take up their posts. In fact, several newspapers in the royal capital published notices about gambling. One was gambling on the royal court.

The number of administrative officials who could not afford to go to the Nasseri area, and secondly, what other reasons and excuses could there be that had not been used by the selected officials? The people in the entire royal capital were very excited to watch Wang Ting's joke.

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No one is a fool. If there is a lack of administrative officials in a local county in the kingdom, then there will be people who will break their heads to grab this position. But if you go to the Nasseri area to serve as a local administrative official, there is no need to talk about it. Because of this position

It is a thankless job, and it may even be a fatal position. Being the administrative director of this place is like sitting on a powder keg that has been lit with a match. You don't know when it will explode.

Anyone with a clear head knows very well that taking office in the Nasseri region at this time is risking one's life. First of all, the Kingdom of Nasseri has been a mortal enemy of the Kingdom of Ovilas for hundreds of years, and there have been many incidents between the two sides.

Five wars resulted in a bloody feud. The hostility and hatred among the people in the Nasseri area towards the Kingdom of Ovilas will not end with the demise of the Nasseri Kingdom. On the contrary, it is likely to become more intense.

Secondly, those appointed are civilian administrative officials, not military positions, and are not protected by guards. You must know that the Nasseri area has just been acquired, and the local counties that are not in the kingdom are peaceful and can take office with their families. As a place

Even if an administrative official pays his own money to hire escorts to take office, when he arrives at the place, he will be exposed to the people of Nasseri who are hiding their hostility, and he will soon become the target of assassination and murder...

Third, and most importantly, being an official for thousands of miles is just for money. The problem is that if you go to the Nasseri area at this time, not only will you not make money, but your life will be in danger, so it is understandable that no one wants to take office. Two

Although the kingdoms are all in the eastern region, their national conditions are different. The Kingdom of Ovilas has an enlightened parliamentary system, which abolishes the territorial aristocracy and establishes a noble assembly and a national assembly, referred to as the upper and lower houses, and popularizes civilian education in the kingdom.

The Kingdom of Ovilas implements the policy of forming a cabinet by the upper house, supervising the lower house, and mediating by the king, which can basically ensure the stability of the kingdom's political situation. Because the military power of the kingdom is nominally in the hands of the king, the military and political affairs are separated, and the administrative affairs of the kingdom are

It is handled by the prime minister who forms the cabinet. The prime minister is responsible to the House of Nobles and accepts the supervision of the National Assembly. This political structure has a very obvious promotion effect on the economic development of the entire kingdom in peacetime. Of course, when encountering someone like Stirling XI

Except for the weird king.

The Kingdom of Nasseri is completely different. It still implements the ancient feudal lord system. In other words, the Kingdom of Nasseri is an alliance country composed of large and small feudal lords. The large and small lords hug together to keep warm, and no matter what major national affairs are,

It was settled through negotiation between the great lords, and the Nasseri royal family was just the most powerful territorial noble. This was the same as the Nasseri Kingdom, the Kingdom of Hicks, the Principality of Karnas and other destroyed principalities, so they

They will be hostile to and target the Kingdom of Ovelas and form an anti-Austria alliance.

In the entire Nasseri Kingdom, except for the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Nasseri royal family, the subjects in other noble territories practice the serf system. Except for the free people, most of the subjects and civilians are actually very poor.

Poverty, to put it bluntly, their life and death are in the hands of the lord. Even what they plant and do this year and whether they can fill their stomachs are all decided by the lord. It is not their turn to make the decision at all.

It can be said that the Thunder Legion has almost wiped out the entire Nasseri Kingdom, targeting these territorial nobles, the local officials they appointed and the private armed forces of these territorial nobles. That is why so much property and gold and silver utensils were collected.

, in order to use these collected gold and silver utensils to store in the west area of ​​the royal city during the Battle of Polivisia, luring the officers and soldiers of the alliance army who entered the city into chaos in order to make a fortune, and they became a mob and were easily annihilated.

The well-informed officials and ministers of the royal court naturally knew that the Kingdom of Nasseri had made a fortune after the Thunder Legion was destroyed. It is said that there was a profit of 20 to 30 million gold crowns. But it was useless for them to be jealous. These trophies were obtained by the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion.

For example, the royal court has the right to intervene in the seizure of the treasury of the Kingdom of Nasseri, and requires the two legions of the overseas autonomous military regions to donate this part of the seizure to the royal court. However, the property seized from the private armed forces of the territorial nobles and private territories

, that is, the officers and soldiers belonging to the two legions do not need to contribute to the royal court.

In the past few years, wars have been raging. Not only the treasury of the Kingdom of Ovilas has caused rats to starve to death, but also the wealthy Kingdom of Nasseri is about to be exhausted. The nearly two million gold crowns seized from their treasury

This can be seen in the gold and silver reserves. For the Kingdom of Ovelas, the biggest benefit of destroying the Kingdom of Nasseri is to get rid of the huge debt of eight million gold crowns. Although the debt war broke out between the two countries, Frey

King Delhi I decided to default on the debt from now on, but it was not as satisfying as killing the creditor with a knife. Now, the kingdom of Nasseri was gone, and the debt disappeared.

Now the territorial nobles of the Kingdom of Nasseri have been purged by the Thunder Legion. The biggest fat sheep have been slaughtered, and the rest are the miserable serfs and civilians who can't squeeze even a few ounces of oil from their bones.

Come, you may have to pay for them out of your own pocket. Therefore, you can avoid going to work in the Nasseri area. There is no chance of making a fortune and you need to risk your life. The officials of the Kingdom of Ovilas are very realistic.

They began to boycott the demand to serve in the Nasseri region...

Generally speaking, the best way to destroy a country in a newly occupied territory is to implement a military control system and clear out the riots and rebels in the newly occupied territory within three to five years. After calming down, the people in the newly occupied territory become accustomed to conquest.

Then gradually began to implement the Kingdom's local policies in the newly occupied territories, gradually assimilating the people's hearts in the newly occupied territories, and gradually turned them into local counties like the Kingdom's mainland.

But for the current Kingdom of Olvelas, it is very difficult to implement military control. First, there is no money. To station in the newly occupied territories requires deploying troops and spending a lot of military expenditures to suppress the local areas. If the Kingdom of Olvelas did not rely on overseas autonomous territories

It has provided a large amount of material and military support to the royal court, but it has long been unable to sustain it.

Just like how the royal court now relies on the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion to destroy the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karnas, it is powerless. Therefore, the three principalities of the original Eskiline Principality, the Rimodra Principality and the Sidings Principality

The reason why the royal court has been unable to send troops to take over the areas that have long been recaptured by the Thunder Legion is that there is no money. As for sending officials, that is out of the question. These areas are the territory of the former kingdom's rebels and the influence of Prince Hansback.

It's really dangerous to be a local administrator...

Second, the implementation of military control requires troops. The kingdom now only has three capable legions, the Guards Legion, the Red Dragon Legion and the Griffin Legion. Although they all belong to the old noble families, they are also divided into three factions, which have no influence on the kingdom's army.

From a military point of view, there is a difference between closeness and distance. The Imperial Guards are biological sons, while the Red Dragon Legion and the Griffin Legion are disobedient treacherous sons and bastards who need to be suppressed and taught a lesson.

Although the external attitude of the old aristocratic families is consistent, there are also great conflicts internally. The Guards Corps believes that it has contributed to the rise of Frederick I, and is arrogant and does not take the two legions seriously.

Here. The Red Dragon Legion and the Griffin Legion have a tendency to become self-reliant because of their unpopularity, so much so that the orders issued by the Kingdom's Ministry of War have been ignored by these two legions. If you want to order us, it is simple, just spend the military expenditures and armament supplies.

Let’s talk about it after it’s completed...

There is no money to reorganize a new legion, and the Guards legion cannot be dispatched. As for the Red Dragon and Griffin legions, they are two uncles, and they cannot be used without money. In addition, asking them to implement military control cannot make people feel at ease.

I'm afraid that if they maintain military control in the Nasseri area for a long time, they will become real territorial tigers, and that area will become their territory. From now on, they will listen to orders but not propaganda, just like warlords, and they will be in trouble in the future.

Therefore, both Frederick I and the Prime Minister of the Royal Court, the Marquis Blancarte, were in a dilemma and did not know what to do. The conditions for military control were insufficient, and the dispatch of local administrative officials was met with resistance. They thought that sending them to serve there was just a matter of time.

Death. At the moment, I had no choice but to send a falcon message to General Bolognik and Claude, which meant that all newly occupied territories would be temporarily guarded by the two legions of the Overseas Dominion Military Region, waiting for the royal court's subsequent arrangements.

Claude couldn't help but laugh when he received the falcon letter from the royal court. He didn't expect that a majestic kingdom could be so poor and disadvantaged. This was also true. But it was really a big deal that the Rock Legion and the Thunder Legion left the kingdom.

It is a good thing. They have avoided the power whirlpool in the royal capital, and since they have contributed to the destruction of the country, they no longer have to worry about their own status. Now what the two legions of the overseas autonomous military regions have to do is to rule by inaction and let nature take its course.

In fact, in the Nasseri area, the territory formerly under the direct jurisdiction of the Nasseri royal family was easier to deal with. Thirty percent of the tax was collected, and the rest was handled by the local elders themselves, which was enough for the residents of those towns and villages to be happy. Because in the past tax collection

The Seri royal family's tax rate is half, and there is still one month of hard labor every year. Now that the hard labor is abolished, and the tax rate is reduced by 20%, it is indeed a benevolent government for those people who are very honest and only care about their families.

But in the other aristocratic territories in the Nasseri area, this matter is not easy to handle. The civilians and subjects there are like serfs. Without the lords, they cannot even support themselves. Because they have no production tools and no land.

Without seeds, they belong to the extremely poor class. In addition to the Second War in the Eastern Region, many young men in the territory were forcibly recruited and sent to the battlefield. The remaining old, weak, women and children were unable to support themselves and their families.

Without the lords, the lives of these people could not be guaranteed. So despite the fact that Wang Ting and Frederic I entrusted the entire Nasseri area to General Bolognik and Claude, they actually placed a heavy burden on them.

burden. The best way to deal with it is to distribute production tools, food seeds, etc. to these people, so that everyone can support themselves.

However, Claude did not do this because he did not have the power to allocate the lands that originally belonged to the territorial nobles to the territorial citizens and commoners. Without the lords, these lands belonged to the Stirling royal family without the permission of Frederick I.

, Claude couldn't do that. So Claude could only send troops down, and each noble territory randomly found an original local official and designated him to be responsible for arranging production and taxation responsibilities in the territory.

However, Prime Minister Blancart sent another private letter to General Bolognik, which revealed the rewards for General Bolognik and Claude. Both Claude and General Bolognik will be promoted to marshal of the kingdom, and Claude

At the same time, he was granted the title of hereditary duke of the kingdom, while General Bolognik was granted the title of hereditary earl of the kingdom. As for General Beachlin and General Albert, they were also promoted to one level in military rank and were granted the title of hereditary baron of the kingdom.

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Unlike the overjoyed General Bolognik, Claude was not excited at all. This was all expected. His Majesty the King has no money in his pocket now, so he can only win over them with these honorary and honorary benefits.

He is waiting for someone. Just like he promised that the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion will also receive generous rewards, but because the treasury is short of money, these rewards are temporarily deposited in the Kingdom's Army Department until military expenditures are sufficient in the future.

Issue.

It's as if he didn't say it, just like Claude was given the title of hereditary Duke of the Kingdom, so what? It's just an extra name, a hereditary title that can be passed down to future generations. When Claude was still alive, he could still

The royal family received a generous annuity. When it dies, his descendants who want to inherit the title must pay an inheritance fee to the royal family every year. Otherwise, the title will be downgraded, from duke to marquis, then to earl, etc.

Of course, the inheritance gold is not that much...

This is actually like a business deal between the royal family and its nobles. If you make a great contribution, the royal family will confer you a title and give you a generous annuity. But in order to keep this title, your descendants will have to pay the royal family every year.

The inheritance gold is like a loan from the royal family, but your descendants are repaying the loan. If this hereditary title can be maintained for three generations, then the annuity issued to you by the royal family will have been recovered from your descendants with interest.

Already......


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