Chapter 570 Loan and Three Requests from the Royal Court
Chapter 570: Leasing and Wang Ting’s Three Requirements
After seeing off General Muriel's armored fleet and ocean-going transport fleet, Claude, accompanied by King Avitley I of the Kingdom of Breault, inspected the entire Port of Patkara and spent three days.
It took time to explore the surrounding terrain. Finally, Claude signed a lease agreement with Avitley I on behalf of the overseas dominions, leasing the Port of Patkara from the Kingdom of Breault for fifty years, with an annual rent of 100,000 gold crowns, and every ten
Annual increase of ten percent...
Although he is not interested in the territory of the Kingdom of Hicks, Claude believes that the Dominion Military Region should not just pat the butt and leave, but should maintain continuous military pressure and economic influence on this region. Therefore, the Americus in the previous life
The empire's approach is worth learning from. The existence of a military base can make people in this region respect the rights and interests of the American Empire and dare not ignore its right to speak.
Leasing is more cost-effective than forced occupation. After all, it is inappropriate to forcibly occupy a port in a lonely place and turn it into an enclave of an overseas autonomous territory. What is popular in the Faslan world is loud fists and loud voices, which makes sense.
The model mainly focuses on occupying land. However, this approach can leave endless troubles in the future. For example, if the occupying country's revenge to regain the lost land, disputes in the future will involve overseas autonomous territories and make it impossible to escape easily.
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The dispute over the ownership of the occupied territories is on the one hand. The resistance of the people above will also make the overseas autonomous territories miserable. It is not known how much money needs to be allocated to invest in this bottomless pit. Increase troops and military power to protect this enclave and suppress the resistance of the people at the same time.
We must also implement preferential treatment and appeasement to make them accept the rule of the Dominion Military Region. The cost of all this will become an astronomical figure in the future, and in the end it will eventually overwhelm the fiscal revenue and expenditure of the Dominion Military Region.
If you think about the so-called glory of the Empire in the previous life, you can know how failed this occupation method of planting flags everywhere was in the end. Apart from India and Hong Kong, colonies all over the world can bring certain economic income to the Empire on which the Sun never sets.
, the rest of the colonies that were resource producing areas and commodity distribution centers all launched a wave of national independence. In the end, the empire collapsed and huddled on the British Isles. The centenary naval celebrations could only be held on yachts.
Make up the numbers...
The American Empire's lease of military bases perfectly avoided the colonial trap. In fact, the roles of the two were not much different. In some places, they were regarded as protectors by the local people, which was completely different from being treated as colonial rulers.
.So when Claude made a request to the Kingdom of Breault to lease the Port of Patkara as a military base for the overseas dominion, King Avitelli I was so surprised that he was so happy that he offered to rent it for one penny a year.
For Avitelli I, the Overseas Dominion Military District was indeed a reliable ally. He knew very well that the Overseas Dominion Military District had no intention of occupying the territory of the Kingdom of Hicks, so he was able to generously transfer the territory of the Kingdom of Hicks to those
Surrounding vassal countries. The Breault Kingdom originally only had fourteen mountain counties. This time it recaptured three counties of the Manori Plain and occupied four eastern counties. It can be regarded as an upper-medium-sized kingdom in the Farea continent.
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Now Claude's request to lease the Port of Patkara, in the view of Avitley I, was to help him consolidate his rule in the newly occupied territory. There are overseas autonomous military regions stationed here, and the Port of Patkara is used as a military base, then
He does not need to worry about the safety of the three counties of Manoli Plain. Even if the Hicks Kingdom is reunited in the future, it will not be able to make a new request to the Breault Kingdom for the return of the three counties of Manoli during the lease period...
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If possible, Avitley I even really wanted not to charge rent. The total tax revenue of Patkara Port is less than 50,000 gold crowns a year, but now the Dominion Military Region has proposed a rent of 100,000 gold crowns a year, and still has no money.
It is too kind to increase the lease fee by one-tenth for ten years. Although the Breout Kingdom lost its jurisdiction over Patkara Port during the fifty-year lease period, this does not mean that it sold Patkara.
The port is just a lease, and the ownership of this seaport city still belongs to the Breault Kingdom.
Therefore, the grateful Avitley I packed up the fifty miles around Patkara Port, including the entrance to the mountain pass in the Manoli Plain, and rented it to the Overseas Dominion Military Region, and signed the "Patkara Port Lease Agreement." Claude directly
The rent of more than 5.6 million gold crowns for fifty years was transferred to the Kingdom of Breault. This made Avitelli I very excited. He hugged Claude tightly with tears and called him the Kingdom of Breault.
The most sincere friend.
After renting the Patkara Port, Claude can move the hundreds of thousands of idle military families of the Hicks Returning Division officers and soldiers gathered in Wangjing Saint Hyprian City to the Patkara Port, waiting to be transported overseas.
In the two or three months of the Dominion, it is better to earn a little money from the project of rebuilding the Patkara Port than to let hundreds of thousands of military dependents eat and sleep in Wangjing Saint Hyprian City all day long.
Be good...
The future Patkara Port will become a commercial seaport city located in the southern part of the Falea continent, echoing the northern Gulf of Karnars Prairie, forming a golden maritime trade route. Through maritime transportation between the two, the mainland will be
By connecting the products produced in the south and the eastern part of the continent, as well as the specialty goods from the Nubisian continent, it is conceivable how prosperous maritime trade will be in the future and how profitable it will be.
Therefore, the leased Patkara Port needs to be renovated and expanded. According to the design plan of the Dominion Military Region, almost the entire Patkara Port must be demolished and rebuilt. It is just now that there is sufficient manpower to carry out engineering infrastructure construction. This is a win-win situation.
According to the plan, the Dominion Military Region obtains a commercial seaport city where troops can be stationed, and these military families can earn some money during this period before going to overseas Dominions as immigrants...
Claude stayed at Patkara Port for nearly a month. After sorting out the reconstruction matters, he saw that the military relatives had arrived, and then he handed over the follow-up matters to Siegfried Mo., the director of the Logistics Department of the Dominion Military Region.
General Vincent is in charge. When General Siegfried became the logistics director of the Thunder Division, he was only a lieutenant colonel. Unexpectedly, he has now become a major general of the kingdom. As a logistics technical officer, he knows very well about promotion
It is difficult for him to be a general, but after following Claude for so many years, he still easily passed this promotion barrier.
Claude, who returned to the royal city of Saint Cyprian, was engaged in busy military affairs again. He discussed with General Albert the battle summary report sent by General Bichklin. As a result, General Albert
General Lin was very envious that he could return to the overseas autonomous territories to stand alone. By the way, he and Claude conducted a sandbox exercise on the Pamigal National Republic on the west coast to fight against the southern colonial three-nation coalition, and discussed the progress of the war...
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Claude wasn't too worried about whether General Beachkerin would take his own advice and delay the war. Although General Beachkerin didn't look outstanding, he was a very thoughtful person.
Claude's reply, he naturally understood what he should do. The current war on the west coast, the three colonial countries of the Kingdom of Morosik, the Kingdom of Resnia and the Principality of Vasilko are trying to make a fool of themselves, but in fact they are
There is no stamina. The Dominion Military District wants to delay this war, and the three-nation coalition can only be at the mercy of General Beach Kerin.
You must know that before Claude handed over the Dominion Military District Headquarters and the execution of the Wildfire Plan to General Beach Green, he had already taught these three colonial countries a profound lesson and annihilated the expeditionary force they sent to the west coast. Claude
Germany originally thought that such a loss would make these three colonial countries calm down, swallow it in their stomachs, and forget about this loss. Unexpectedly, just after he left, these three colonial countries here once again sent an expeditionary force.
Recover the colonies.
However, it seems that the three southern colonial countries have tried their best. If they fail this time, they will no longer be able to touch the west coast of the Nubissia continent. Because Beach Kerin said in the report that the total number of expedition troops coming this time is
Of the eight legions, the Kingdom of Morosik and the Kingdom of Resnia each sent three legions, while the Principality of Vasilko sent two legions, with a total strength of nearly 400,000.
Claude wanted to laugh when he saw the total strength of less than 400,000 troops in the report. A traditional standing legion is about more than 60,000 people, so 6848, eight legions would have at least 480,000 troops.
There are about 500,000 troops. But the problem is that the Southern Colonial Three-Nation Alliance used eight legions, but only had 400,000 troops. Obviously they couldn't gather them at all or couldn't recruit new soldiers, so they had to leave the legions dissatisfied.
Editing situation...
The difference between these three countries and the Kingdom of Hicks is that the colony of the Kingdom of Hicks on the mainland of Nubisia was purely occupied by the nobles of the kingdom for mining, so after landing, they would go inland along the mountains.
They went deeper and deeper, and eventually lost all the coastal territory, because the colonial team found gold and silver mineral resources of varying sizes in the inland mountainous areas.
Therefore, even if they did not occupy territory in the coastal areas, decades of continuous excavation and mining in the inland colonies still brought endless gold and silver mineral resources to the Kingdom of Hicks, accumulating countless wealth. Even Mechid
Even though the Third World was defeated by the Autonomous Territory Military Region many times and suffered huge losses, he still gritted his teeth and refused to admit defeat until the country was destroyed by the Autonomous Territory Military Region.
The problem is here. Although the Kingdom of Morosik, the Kingdom of Resniya, and the Principality of Vasilko have occupied colonies on the west coast, the colonies are all in the coastal plain area with poor mineral resources. That is, they rely on planting and breeding.
The annual income comes from catching fish, cutting down, hunting and collecting rare animals and plants. What really makes the domestic nobles and businessmen support the colonial policy is to take advantage of the scissor difference in commerce between the two places to reap benefits from the colonies...
Compared with the gold and silver mineral resources that the Kingdom of Hicks has continuously transported back from the inland colonies, the benefits of more than a hundred years are simply not worth the wealth that the Kingdom of Hicks has gained from the inland colonies in ten years. Therefore, these three countries are serious
It's hard work to say the least, but they really tried their best to organize the second expedition to recover the colonies. If these 400,000 troops were to die again, then these three countries would really have to say goodbye to the colonial policy.
Regarding the fact that the Dominion Military Region acted as the commander of the Pamigal armed forces and the Rusman light cavalry troops behind the scenes, and even sent volunteer corps to support the liberation and independence of the indigenous peoples in the colonies of these three countries, this west coast war did not have much influence on the Gramps.
What caused a stir in Lord's heart? Everything is being carried out according to the plan. Now Claude has to be busy building the Patkara Port that he just rented, and then gradually transfer Wang Jing's spoils, military families and prisoners.
Transfer to Patkara Port Military Base.
After being busy for several days, Claude received a report that the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, the Marquis Blancart, came uninvited again. This time he was accompanied by Baron Connert, a member of the Dominion Parliament. Claude remembered
This Baron MP is a shareholder of the Dominion Railway Company, and is responsible for contacting the Kingdom on matters such as the survey and design of railway lines in the Kingdom. So when he accompanied Prime Minister Blancart this time, is there any additional change in the railway construction in the Kingdom?
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Prime Minister Blancart was successfully received by Claude. After the meeting, Prime Minister Blancart also explained his purpose of coming very politely. The first was to increase troops, the second was to build railways, and the third was to lease, a total of three things.
In addition, he also gave Claude an unexpected surprise. Claude's eldest brother, Viscount Albert Thornfield, followed his mother's orders and came to find Claude, intending to get some support from Claude.
Come to help the construction of the family territory...
Let’s talk about the increase in troops first. This is the request of the Red Dragon Legion. It is impossible not to ask for more troops. The Thunder Legion swept through the entire local county and packed away those local officials, territorial nobles, wealthy merchants and landlords who were in the upper class of the local area.
, the method of ransacking homes and seizing property is different, and it is also different from the style of the aristocratic coalition's sweeping away the ground. The Red Dragon Legion's occupation method is the most formal and traditional. It is nothing more than those who follow the rule will prosper, and those who rebel will perish. Hick will take refuge in it.
The Si people came to govern the place, and the Red Dragon Legion sent troops to garrison it.
Thanks to the newly equipped new rifles and the traditional combat effectiveness of the Red Dragon Legion, the local garrison forces in the three central counties they were responsible for attacking were unable to withstand the Red Dragon Legion's attack. They either surrendered or were destroyed. Against the Red Dragon Legion
Generally speaking, the only shortcoming is that the new rifle consumes too many bullets. After occupying three local counties, the five million rounds of ammunition originally prepared were only about one million rounds...
Generally speaking, when the Thunder Legion swept through a local county, the property they plundered from those local upper-class families was only between one million and two million gold crowns. However, the noble coalition was able to raid the western counties they occupied.
The wealth of five to six million gold crowns was plundered, which was so vicious that they even sold young men and women as slaves.
The property that the Red Dragon Legion plundered from the occupied local counties amounted to more than three million gold crowns. This was because the central counties were richer, and secondly, the Hicks who had taken refuge with them were working as a provocateur to intensify their attacks on local people.
The intensity of tax collection. If the Red Dragon Army wants to obtain continuous tax revenue from these occupied local counties, it must implement garrisons in various places to intimidate and frighten the people not to resist the occupation of the new conquerors.
Each of the three occupied central counties has about a dozen towns. If a town requires a battalion of troops, and the local county capital city needs a main field regiment to garrison, then the 60,000 Red Dragon Legion
With more troops and more troops, they found that they had no extra mobile troops. Now the Red Dragon Legion became anxious. Capturing a local county had a profit of two to three million gold crowns, and immediately asked the kingdom to increase troops to garrison on their behalf, so that they could
They continued to attack other local counties.
The second thing is the railway. The original plan was to build a railway in the kingdom itself, like a circle, covering all the local counties in the plains to the royal capital, and then build a railway from the royal capital to the Nasseri area directly to Porivi.
The Royal City of Western Asia, and then branched off from the Royal City into two railway lines, one leading to the Beibu Gulf, then passing through the Karnas Prairie to the Eskiline region, then to the Rimodra region, and then to the Sidings region.
Another railway line leads from the Royal City of Polyvisia to the Sidings area, connected to the railway line that bypasses three areas...
The plan was good, but the cost of the railway line was underestimated. At that time, Prime Minister Blancart believed that the planning and construction of the entire railway line could be completed with a huge sum of 22 million gold crowns. As a result, the entire railway line was planned and constructed in the past two years.
After surveying, mapping and construction budget, it was discovered that this amount of money was only enough to build the kingdom's main railway line, as well as the railway from the royal capital to the royal city of Polyvisia.
The remaining railway line that circumvented most of the eastern region would cost at least 30 million gold crowns to build, so Wang Ting turned to the overseas autonomous territories again. Anyway, they thought that the autonomous territory military region's strategy this time
The Kingdom of Hicks has made a fortune, and there is a lot of money. So Prime Minister Blancart came here to persuade Claude and get him to agree to the Dominion Military Region to invest all the capture of the Kingdom of Hicks in the construction of this railway line.
, the Kingdom is willing to share the proceeds of this railway line equally with the Overseas Dominions...
The third thing is leasing. The royal capital heard that the overseas autonomous territories spent huge sums of money to lease Patkara Port from the Kingdom of Breault. The total rent for fifty years reached 5.6 million gold crowns, and they had to pay it off in one lump sum.
, it is simply a crazy and wasteful behavior.
So the royal ministers used their brains and thought that they could copy the gourd. Anyway, the Rimodra region and the Eskiline region are now entrusted to the Autonomous Territory Military Region. There are also seven or eight seaport cities in these two regions. It is completely possible.
Following the Patkara Port's leasing model, leasing these seaport cities to overseas autonomous territories would make the rent alone equal to the kingdom's total tax revenue for ten years...