After sending Bockaar away, Claude lost sleep and sat alone in the study, deep in thought. He didn't care much about the promise he had just made to Bockaar. Anyway, in the next year, the Dominion Military Region would not
Prepare to go to war in the colonies on the west coast. Instead, we need to shrink the front, strengthen the defense force of the Pamigal National Republic, and solve the people's livelihood problems and land distribution conflicts caused by the war...
At the same time, in the next more than a year, the Autonomous Territory Military Region will also sort out the internal affairs of the Rusman Chiefs Alliance and deal with the violent disputes among the various Rusman tribes in the country, so that it can become an alliance that provides services to the Autonomous Territory Military Region.
In addition, the Dominion Military District also needs to resolve the armed conflict between the two indigenous peoples, the Riscolo and the Gisdians, in the colony of the Principality of Vasiliko, which is a headache to say the least.
In fact, the Dominion Military Region will be unable to do anything to deal with the colonies on the west coast in the next more than a year. Even if there is any idea, it can only be postponed. Unless there is another war, the colonial countries on the west coast form a coalition to invade the Pamigal nation.
Republic, by then the autonomous military region will have to bite the bullet and keep this indigenous nation state...
Because in the next more than a year, the Dominion Military Region will focus on internal adjustments, gathering the military families of the officers and soldiers of the Hicks Returning Division in the Patkara Port leased to the Dominion Military Region in the Breault Kingdom.
, more than two million people will be transported back to the overseas autonomous territories, and the eight Hicks Returning Divisions will also come back to disband and settle down. The Dominion Military Region needs to cooperate with the local administrative offices of the autonomous territories to settle these immigrants from the Hicks Kingdom
, so that they can successfully become members of the people of the overseas autonomous territories.
Since the kingdom has already prepared two standing corps, these two standing corps will soon take over the newly occupied areas of Rimodra and Eskiline. The autonomous military regions were originally responsible for dispatching these two areas.
The eight local garrison armies also need to be withdrawn to overseas autonomous territories. There were originally eight local garrison regiments, but due to the formation of the Storm Legion, suitable soldiers were selected from these eight local garrison regiments. Now the remaining ones are all retired.
Veterans, most of whom are about one or two battalions in strength, can be arranged to retire and then be disbanded.
However, the military workshops of the Dominion Military District that were originally set up in the three southern counties of the Eskiline region to manufacture new rifle bullets and new artillery shells, as well as to repair new rifles and artillery, need to be relocated to the Beibu Gulf Territory in the Kannas region. These things have their own problems
General Skerry is in charge. Since the Storm Legion, Thunder Legion, and eight Hicks Returning Divisions are all gathered at Patkara Port, it is said that the situation in the Hicks Kingdom is still very calm, and it is not as good as Claude said.
As imagined, as soon as the autonomous military region evacuated, several separatist forces started fighting...
It seems that the situation on both continents will be calm for a while. The Dominion Military District needs to wait until the resettlement of immigrants is completed, the eight Hicks Returning Divisions and the evacuated local garrison forces are reduced, demobilized and disbanded, and the Thunder Legion returns to the overseas Dominions.
Only after they are free of internal worries will they turn their attention to the colonies on the west coast. As for the several separatist forces in the Kingdom of Hicks in the northern region of Farea continent, it is likely that they will have to wait until the withdrawal of troops from the Dominion Military District in Patkara Port is completed.
Start a civil war.
That’s why Claude gave Bock Al a private promise to contact Erikson to see if his Black Sails Pirates had the guts. Since the Dominion Military Region will cease to exist in the next year or so, then
It is also a good idea to let the pirates look for trouble in the United Kingdom of Fox Islands. Anyway, Claude was not prepared to pay any reward or property. What he promised was that Erikson's Black Sails Pirates would kill a United Kingdom of Fox Islands.
After the maritime fleet, six armored warships will be handed over to him.
These six armored warships are actually the same as the armored fleet transferred to the Kingdom. They are all first-generation armored destroyers. They have just been decommissioned and are stored in the military port base in Port Patres. They have not yet thought about what they will be converted into.
Then put it out for sale. The Navy's suggestion is to convert it into a fast passenger ship for passenger transportation between the two continents. The effect is to shorten the half-month sea journey to ten to twelve days.
At present, the Dominion Navy's ironclad fleet consists of second- and third-generation destroyers and cruisers, as well as ocean-going transport ships. The ship design department led by Master Bird is enthusiastically designing the fourth-generation ironclad warship. It is said that the latest marine steam power has already
After the manufacturing and verification was completed, it was ready to be installed in the fourth-generation iron-clad battleships. General Murray even issued a report requesting the elimination of all second-generation iron-clad battleships...
I have to admit that the emergence of iron-clad battleships has greatly improved the technological level of overseas autonomous territories. Whether it is steam power, material technology, or basic production technologies such as metallurgy, refining, forging and welding, they have all developed and progressed rapidly. Even
Even the chemical industry has shown its signs, such as a highly toxic paint applied to the bottom of ships, which was developed to prevent the growth of epiphytes such as oysters on the bottom of iron-clad battleships, so that these marine organisms on the bottom of the ship must be cleaned every three or four months.
Renovation work on periphyton treatment extended to one year...
The only difference from the previous life in Claude's memory is that most of the technological development in this world is concentrated in various magic laboratories. Just like the development of a new ship steel plate, rune mages are doing various things in the alchemical magic array.
After obtaining satisfactory results in the metal synthesis test, the reduction test steps and the calculation of the added metal composition will be re-carried out, and then it will be taken to the smelting site for metallurgical refining, and finally the forging and welding tests will be carried out to obtain a successful marine steel plate.
Finished product.
General Beach Kerin mentioned at the military meeting yesterday that during the year and a half during Claude's campaign against the Hicks Kingdom, the new technologies, new materials, and new processes listed as top secret by the Dominion Military Region amounted to as much as 400,000.
There are many, mostly concentrated in the shipbuilding industry, which is like a blowout. Thanks to the development and progress of ship steam power, the locomotive steam engines in the Dominion have now been replaced by seventh-generation steam power, and the speed can reach forty or fifty miles per hour.
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But while technology is advancing, General Beachlin is also complaining that the shipbuilding industry is burning too much money. The problem is that the Dominion Military Region's current armored warships are already outstanding, and other countries can't even see the first generation of armored warships.
In the shadow, the Dominion Military District has developed to the fourth generation. So he suggested that the Patres Military Port Shipbuilding Base should consider developing civilian ship manufacturing. Just building armored warships would cost money like water.
The big hole...
Claude has considered going to the Patres Military Port Shipbuilding Base for an inspection some time ago. The upgrading of armored warships will indeed slow down. In the future, we can adopt the method of design and verification, build a test warship, and then store the technology
If we want to improve, we should make improvements on experimental battleships. Instead of starting full-scale mass production after the new generation of battleships are finalized, we should try our best to modify the old iron-clad battleships. The issue of upgrading should be taken into consideration when designing.
, when building a battleship, leave room for future modifications...
The ship design department and four large-scale shipbuilding workshops of the Patres Military Port Shipbuilding Base can turn to the construction of civilian ships. Iron-hulled ocean liners, transport ships, and large fishing boats are the most popular in the market. As long as they are manufactured
There is no need to worry about being unmarketable. Each shipbuilding workshop only needs to leave a dock that can manufacture or rebuild iron-clad warships, and realize a self-generating market operation as soon as possible, instead of just focusing on the two to three million gold allocated by the Autonomous Territory Military Region every year.
Krona's armored battleship manufacturing costs...
Silla pushed the door open and came in. Seeing Claude sitting alone behind the desk in a daze, she couldn't help but be surprised and said: "What's wrong, Claude, what happened? Did your fat friend bring you some bad news?"
Claude came back to his senses, laughed dumbly, and shook his head: "No, I was just thinking about the next military schedule. There are many things that need to be handled by me personally. I have to go to Patres Military Port in a few days.
A trip. By the way, why are you here..."
"Why am I here?" Sheila said angrily: "Don't look at what time it is now. It's time for the master to go down for lunch. Originally, I thought you would have dinner with General Boa, but I heard from the servant that General Boa had already left.
But you have been staying in the study with no movement. I just came up to see what was going on. Who knew you were just sitting in a daze like this!"
Only then did Claude know that he was going to have lunch. He looked at the crystal hourglass on the desk and suddenly remembered that he could discuss it with Master Bird. Maybe he could make a beautiful clock, which was also a great source of money. So he stood up
Accompanying Sheila downstairs to have lunch while thinking about the issue of making clocks. Perhaps this can be used as a private property for him to hand over to Mallex. He is the illegitimate son of himself and Mrs. Sonia, and is now learning mechanical knowledge from Master Bird as an assistant.
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After lunch, Claude returned to the bedroom and was about to take a nap, but he heard a report from the servant that General McJack came to visit. His brother-in-law came over, and Claude had no choice but to get up and get dressed again, wondering why.
They all came together in one day.
McJack no longer leads troops. He is in charge of the daily administrative and logistical affairs of the Dominion Military Region headquarters. He plays the role of a butler, just like General Skerry before. As the top person in charge of the Dominion Military Region, Ke
After Lord had handed over his duties to Marshal Bolognik a few years ago, what he needed was a trustworthy confidant to help him take charge of the Dominion Military District Headquarters. After much deliberation, he finally chose his brother-in-law, General McJack.
The first thing that Mike came here this time was about Claude's schedule after the holiday, which was official business. The second was about private matters. The private matters were divided into two parts. The first was to report on the performance of Claude's eldest son Tesore in the military camp.
The other thing was forced by his wife, Claude's sister Anna, that he also wanted to join Claude's family and add Han Field's surname to his name.
Michael was originally a homeless child with no surname. After the outbreak of the First Five-Year War in the Eastern Region, he was forcibly drafted into the army by the local administrative office to fill up the number of soldiers. At that time, he was still a minor, only sixteen years old.
Claude asked him to follow him as an orderly, and then he followed Claude all the time. No one expected that the wandering boy back then had now become a major general of the kingdom and a hereditary baron of the kingdom, and could help Claude on his own.
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As a close confidant of Claude and married to Claude's sister Anna, McJack had originally considered joining the Field family. However, Claude was busy with military affairs at that time, and his mother and Kaifani were constantly acting like monsters. Later,
Another incident occurred when his younger brother Blovik's lover Adele was killed by Claude's mother. The angry Blovik gave up his position as head of the family and his surname and ran away from home. These things also made Michael want to join the Field family.
My mind calmed down...
So Michael sent people back to his hometown to find out his life experience and surname. Unfortunately, his hometown was devastated during the civil war in the kingdom. The original household registration documents of the local administrative office were burned, and the surviving ones
Most people don't know him, and even the old man who thinks of the street kid named Michael can't recall what his last name is.
There are generally only two solutions to this situation. One is to join a close family, and the other is to choose a surname of your own and become the founder of a family in the future. With Mike's current identity and status, he can choose a surname of his own to start a family.
The family is more than enough. It's just that Michael is cautious by nature and feels that he doesn't have enough foundation to start a family. In addition, he is busy with official duties, and he wants to choose a nice and suitable surname. As a result, it has been delayed until now.
Now that the two Field families are separated, Claude has become the head of the Han Field family. When her sister Anna found out, she forced her husband, Mike, to join Claude's family. After careful consideration, Mike felt that he should join Claude.
The family is more suitable, so I came to see Claude today to get the naturalization certificate and consent form. To apply for household registration, Claude, the head of the family, needs to sign and stamp the application form.
In addition to McJack joining the Field family, the big man Germi will also retire and become Claude's retainer. Unlike McJack and others, the big man Germi is now a lieutenant colonel in the kingdom and is forty-six years old.
Years old. Although he, like McJack, had followed Claude since the First Five-Year War in the Eastern Region, he played the role of Claude's personal guard and saved the life of the Gray Tower Master during the assassination.
Killed Claude.
Big Germi's military rank is now the Kingdom's Lieutenant Colonel. Different from Michael Jack, Becklin and others, his military career has come to an end. Two years ago, he found a rich and thick woman and got married. Last year, he had a wife.
He had a child. So Claude did not take him with him when he went to the Kingdom of Hicks, but asked him to stay and serve at the Dominion Military Region Headquarters. After twenty-five years in the army, the big man Germi had begun to get tired of his military career, so
He decided to retire and become Claude's retainer.
Big Germi's real name is Gremet Opus. It's a pity that he has a surname, otherwise Claude would have let him join the Field family because of his life-saving grace. Of course, people like McJack who join Claude will
De's family is considered a branch. The only difference between him and his younger brother Blovik is that he cannot inherit the position of the head of the family. However, the more branches there are, the greater the family's power and influence in the local area.
After talking about the private matter of McJack joining the Field family, Claude and McJack talked about the arrangements for the big man Germi. It happened that Sergeant Kester, who was originally responsible for the security of the family tobacco workshop, followed Kaifani.
In order to protect the safety of their mother and son in the royal capital, Claude decided to let the big man Germi take over the position of the family's security director and re-establish a reliable family guard force.
Michael took out the official document and prepared to confirm the future itinerary with Claude. He was not Claude's personal adjutant and did not need to pay attention to Claude's daily itinerary. Instead, he would handle those matters that Claude needed to handle personally.
Let Claude take a look at his official business, so that Claude can be aware of it.
The most important official task for Claude now is to visit the Pamigal National Republic in three months. This refers to the situation when there is no war in the Pamigal National Republic in three months. Claude will do
As the top person in charge of the Dominion Military Region, he visited this indigenous nation and signed several friendly cooperation agreements with President Tez Singh Nora Taganem, including assistance in armaments, as well as economic and commercial cooperation.
cooperation.
The most important significance of this visit is that the Dominion Military Region has openly expressed its attitude to all countries, which means that our Dominion Military Region has established the Pamigal National Republic. Anyone who can't get along with it is challenging the Dominion Military Region. There is no lack of opposition to the West Coast.
A warning from the remaining colonial countries along the southern coast of Farea...
McJack needs to determine the time of this trip with Claude so that he can contact the Pamigal National Republic and then arrange the entire trip. In addition, it is necessary to determine whether Claude needs to go to the Rusman Chiefs Alliance for a visit.
Visit. However, Claude showed little interest in the alliance of Rusman chieftains, who were constantly fighting among themselves, and refused the arrangement of a drop-in visit.
After settling the official business, McJack then brought up the performance of Claude's eldest son Tesore in the military camp. Claude did not just leave his eldest son in the military camp and ignore it, but secretly ordered McJack to deal with it.
He took care of and made observations. However, more than three years later, McJack did not have a high opinion of Tesore. He thought that this kid had completely turned into a veteran oil man, hanging around in the military camp every day and making no progress.
Heart.
Tesore was a cowardly doormat when he first entered the military camp. After half a year of training for new recruits, his performance was still satisfactory. He also knew that his father would not change his mind and let him out of the military camp, so he had made some progress.
, like a qualified recruit. But in the military camp, Tesore easily got along with a group of veteran veterans. It can only be said that certain people are born with similar habits and tend to gather together.
They cheat and slack off, bully recruits, steal meat from the canteen, drink in the barracks, molest women, etc. Anyway, the veterans in these barracks are all the same. They do big things and small things, and are often put in solitary confinement. This actually affects a soldier's military career.
With a bright future, Tesore soon became a veteran. At the same time, he also went to the West Coast Colonial battlefield twice. His performance was only passable. He participated in four battles and, according to his own boast, killed three people.
an enemy...
However, in summary, his military career in the past three years has been relatively unsuccessful, because he often violated disciplines too much, and his military rank is still only a sergeant, not even a non-commissioned officer. As for Claude and his younger brother Blovik,
After serving as a soldier for three years, he has become a captain of the kingdom...