Sitting in the office, the government employee in charge of commercial diplomacy put down the documents in his hand, looked at his colleagues around him curiously, and asked: "What is this? The Kingdom of Higgs agrees to our exploration and extraction of oil there?
Haven’t they always disagreed with this?”
A clerk next to him raised his head from a pile of documents, nodded and said: "Yes, the news just sent yesterday, the other party gave us quite favorable conditions, and agreed that we should set up a company there to be responsible for
Exploration and extraction of oil.”
The head of the department, who was holding the document, had a wonderful expression on his face. He grinned and said with emotion: "He suddenly changed his gender. This King Cape Castena is really interesting."
"In addition, they have relaxed import restrictions and allowed our merchants to enter the Kingdom of Higgs." A clerk over there raised the document in his hand, shook it above his head twice, and showed off.
Hearing the news, the director of the department was even more surprised and said in surprise: "Hey! We have beaten the Arant Empire so badly that they are not willing to agree to these terms. The Higgs Kingdom has not fought with us yet, so this is
Agree?"
"Who says it isn't? I've never heard that the Higgs Kingdom is a soft persimmon. I heard that it even had a fight with the Arant Empire back then." The first officer to speak said with an incomprehensible expression on his face.
The colleague next to him who just talked to him nodded: "But now it looks like a broken jar. Did they know they can't defeat us and gave up resistance?"
"That's a good relationship. It saved us the fight. You know, no matter how victorious you are, war will still kill people..." The director of the department picked up the water glass in front of him, took a sip of boiled water, and said with great emotion.
In fact, as long as it is a war, people will die. Behind those glorious victories are piles of bones.
When Ailanhir attacked Tubao, Beijun and Hanhai, the casualties were still in the single digits and tens of digits. When they went south to Naaru, the casualties were also controlled at around dozens. At this time, no one felt that there was anything wrong with the war.
After all, in this era, the death of dozens of people is not something that is worth making a fuss about. But when they attacked Bude, Dragonfall City, and Volavo, the casualties increased to a surprising level.
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Due to the encounter with the opponent's dragon knights, the prairie cavalry lost about 15,000 people, and more than 2,300 people were killed in Elland Hill. Three entire garrison battalions were wiped out by the dragon knights, and two regiments were maimed and lost their combat capabilities.
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Later, during the defense battle in Seris, the elite 1st Regiment and the anti-aircraft artillery unit also lost more than 400 people. Not to mention that they severely damaged Didric's Dragon Knight unit and killed him himself, the losses were still very heavy.
In successive fierce battles, Ailan Hill has lost nearly 3,000 soldiers. Veterans are very precious and for Ailan Hill, which is frantically expanding its army, this number is already very painful, but everyone still selectively ignores this.
price.
The dividends of the war are so impressive that seeing them can make people forget their pain. Every soldier who died in action received condolence money from the Chris cabinet, and what’s even more interesting is that they even received a subsidy from the arsenal.
, got a military insurance pension...
Then, what is unexpected is that under the auspices of Des, companies that made profits during the war established a private encouragement fund and raised a large amount of money to privately donate to the families of the fallen. As a result,
This created an unexpected situation.
Each fallen soldier's family actually received four pensions at the same time, totaling more than 100 gold coins. Two years ago, such a huge amount of money could allow an ordinary family to squander it for a lifetime.
At that time, Chris, as a lord, could not afford 1,000 gold coins in tax tribute. But on this day two years later, the subsidy for each fallen soldier in Eiland Hill was already 100 gold coins.
For this compensation payment alone, cash reserves of 200,000 gold coins were used, and more than 100,000 gold coins were also distributed in kind, including food, cloth, utensils and other daily necessities.
What makes people laugh or cry is that because the pension was so attractive, Ailan Hill actually started a wave of military recruitment. The hundreds of thousands of Ailan Hill troops expanded to nearly one million in one go, and then it finally stabilized.
This is not a small number. The air defense force has expanded from less than 10,000 to 100,000. These forces are all managed by the Air Force. Anti-aircraft artillery units are deployed in every city. The difference is more or less.
Similarly, another 100,000 engineering troops affiliated with the Air Force are working frantically. They are building airport facilities every day, and have built 35 large-scale field airports near borders and cities, as well as 10 backup secret airports.
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The Army has expanded to 600,000 men and is divided into 10 corps, each with 60,000 men and 3 divisions and corps-affiliated artillery and communications units.
Chris imitated the heavy division of the US military to reorganize the ground forces of Elland Hill. Because trucks were in service, the artillery unit was also expanded. The original 75 mm caliber infantry cannon was still temporarily under the direct control of the regiment headquarters, and the brand-new
The 105mm caliber howitzer is equipped with division-level artillery units.
This time, the artillery equipped with 105 mm caliber howitzers truly became a heavy fire support force. After watching a live-fire firing exercise with a 105 mm caliber howitzer, all the officers had a new understanding of their weapons.
Due to limited transportation capacity, Chris has not chosen to equip larger-caliber artillery for the time being, but he is already planning to build a 155mm-caliber howitzer production line, preparing to equip it for military-level fire support troops.
The current Airan Hill force is more like a modern force: with radio communications and field wired telephones, communications have been decentralized to the regiment level, and command and mobilization has never been faster and more direct.
In addition, because they are equipped with a large amount of equipment, the proportion of engineers and engineers is higher, and the number of air defense troops is also larger. Some military headquarters and division headquarters are larger in size, and logistics is also taken more seriously.
The development of the navy is even more interesting. On the one hand, the Marine Corps established by the navy has expanded to a force of 60,000 people. On the other hand, the navy has recruited so many sailors and sailors that it cannot find ships to serve.
In the end, the Navy had to spend 100 knowledge magic balls to strengthen the teaching staff of maritime education, established a naval advanced school, and trained more than 10,000 naval cadets on land. Only then did it use up the quota for military expansion.
In addition, due to the need for port expansion, the Navy also has its own construction team. They are working hard to build the ferry port and strive to turn the ferry into the largest, most efficient and important port on the eastern coastline.
"How to reply to the Kingdom of Higgs? The special envoy who sent the message is still at the inn." Returning to the topic, the section officer classified the documents in his hand into very important categories, looked at his section chief and asked.
The department director didn't even think about it and answered directly: "How else can I reply? We are short of oil here. Please report it to the Resources Department immediately..."
Another clerk stretched and said with a smile: "This is great, the work over there is probably going to be busy again."
The entire department became active. A young man who had finished handling his files rubbed his shoulders and said, "Isn't it good to be busy? It's always better than being idle."
"Yes! We used to be very idle every day, sitting on the ridge of the field with stars in our eyes because of hunger." His words made the section chief agree, and then he recalled his previous hardships.
The clerk who spoke first said quickly: "We are busy now, but we have money to support the whole family... I just bought a fish shipped from the ferry yesterday, and it looks very fresh."
The colleague next to him went even further and made an exaggerated gesture of rubbing his belly: "Forget it, I'm going to buy meat after get off work today. The beef from Prairie Empire used to be sky-high, but now it's better and cheaper. I don’t even want to eat it.”
A colleague in the distance laughed and said, "I'm so crazy about you. You still don't want to eat it? Then go and eat dragon meat!"
The section chief laughed: "Hahahaha! Don't tell me, I heard that many people in the army have eaten dragon meat, and the taste is not very good."
Because of superstition, many soldiers in the army actually tasted dragon meat privately when handling the dragon's corpse. Many people believe that eating dragon meat can strengthen the body and prevent all diseases. Some people believe that eating dragon meat can strengthen the body and prevent all diseases.
They can gain the power of the dragon through this ritual...
As a result, the soldiers who ate dragon meat not only received no benefits, but also suffered from stomachaches because the meat had become stale when the corpses were processed. The dragons transported to the shooting range were already smelly after the experiment.
If you give it away for free, no one may be willing to eat it, so you can only bury it on the spot.
Many dragon scales and teeth were separated as souvenirs, and two specially treated dragon bones were spliced together and placed in the museum. This was Chris's idea, and many children were willing to visit the museum.
Skeleton specimens that have never been seen before.
Just like today's children who go to the museum to see the skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex, children are very curious and are in awe of the huge animal specimens.
Also on display along with the dragon skeleton are the royal flags and weapons of the Arant Empire; the swords and armors of the dragon knights; the first-generation woodworking machinery of Seris City assembled by His Majesty Chris himself...
"In the past, I never dared to think that I would be able to live a life like today." Inside the department, the chief section chief looked out the window and murmured softly.
