"This is the opposite bank of Lanhu Town, separated by Lanhu, and also the triangle area where the Tuoma River flows into Lanhu. This land is very fertile and is very suitable for reclaiming wasteland and turning it into fertile farmland. In the past, there was a lack of manpower, but now with these immigrant families, In just two years, our Amphiston Territory will be self-sufficient in food. Of course, it is not enough to ensure food consumption in the entire war zone, but the food needs provided to the four mountain cities should be more than enough.
We will set up Tuoma Town here, and set up six to seven towns along both sides of the Tuoma River. This triangular area is enough to accommodate more than 70,000 immigrant families engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry, making this area directly under the jurisdiction of Amphiston Half of the plain area has been thoroughly developed.
However, we estimate that not many of these 100,000 immigrant families are willing to engage in agriculture and animal husbandry. Like the first batch of more than 17,000 immigrant families this time, in addition to the more than 1,000 families recruited by the Mining and Business Association, there are still more than 2,000 immigrant families who have their own skills and are willing to accept interest-free loans from us to start small businesses. These immigrant families were placed in Lanhu Town and four mountain towns.”
Claude is currently stationed on the other side of Lanhu Town, listening to Sir Bennett, who is in charge of civil affairs in the war zone, explaining the settlement of immigrants. Fortunately for Claude, Sir Bennett was not a politician who could only talk and talk, but was a technical civil servant with rich administrative experience. The work of distributing the immigrant family's property under his supervision was in an orderly manner, which saved Claude a lot of trouble.
"Sir Bennett, do you have any difficulties here?" Claude asked.
"Yes, our biggest problem now is the lack of labor." Sir Bennett nodded: "Although we only need to allocate wasteland to these immigrant families as their fields, they will build their own houses and reclaim the wasteland themselves. We don't need to worry about it. But we still need to build underground drainage pipes at the planned town addresses and build roads connecting the towns. We are responsible for the construction of these public facilities.
But currently we lack the labor to build these, and we don’t have the funds to hire labor. Although Marshal Michelich ordered more than 30,000 Rangers to participate in the construction, they are currently responsible for the expansion project of Lanhu Town. They can only spare a month at most to help build the underground drainage pipes in Tuoma Town, and then You can break camp and return to the kingdom's mainland. And without the labor of the more than 30,000 soldiers of the Ranger Corps, the infrastructure construction of the next six or seven towns will not be completed."
This is really a problem. When immigrant families arrive, you don’t just point at a piece of land and say to them, this is your home and just leave it alone. It is necessary to build towns, roads connecting various towns, as well as daily necessities and various daily groceries to meet the needs of immigrant families. However, what the war zone can currently provide to these immigrant families is food and temporary shelter, and there is a lack of funds to hire labor to build urban infrastructure and road construction.
"Then do you have any solution, Sir Bennett?"
"Yes," Sir Bennett nodded: "But I need your help."
"Then tell me, what is the method?" Claude asked.
"Don't each of these immigrant families have a retired soldier who wants to re-enlist in the army?" Sir Bennett said: "After they enlist in the army, let them be like the soldiers of the Ranger Regiment, first help us with the infrastructure construction for half a year, then There will be no problem with the settlement of these 100,000 immigrant families.”
Haha, it turns out that Sir Bennett had this idea. One hundred thousand immigrant families and one hundred thousand retired soldiers re-enlisted, that is one hundred thousand free young and strong labor force. However, Claude thought about it and rejected Sir Bennett's proposal.
"No, Sir Bennett. After these retired soldiers re-enlisted, they had to undergo recruit training again to familiarize themselves with military camp life. You should know that they were all drafted into the army during the five-year war in the Eastern Region and received a short military service. After training, they went to the battlefield. After the war, they were forced to retire. Five or six years have passed now.
For a soldier who has received long-term training, it will take some time to readjust to military camp life after leaving the army for such a long time and then returning to the army. And these soldiers who have only experienced short-term military training and been forced to retire on the battlefield need longer training to become qualified soldiers again. This is also the main reason why they are regarded as a source of local instability by the local counties in the kingdom and are willing to help their family immigrate to us.
The most important task in the theater at present is to form five reinforced divisions with combat capabilities to cope with the colonial war launched by the Kingdom of Hicks. But at present, in addition to the more than 20,000 veterans transferred to the Ranger Corps, the remaining qualified soldiers after the reduction and elimination of more than 100,000 troops in the two overseas field corps are only a quarter of less than 30,000. The five reinforced divisions require 160,000 soldiers, but we currently lack more than 100,000 qualified soldiers.
Marshal Michelich has been urging us to complete the task of forming five divisions as soon as possible, but we are powerless without qualified sources of troops. Now everyone is pinning their hopes on these 100,000 retired soldiers, hoping that they can arrive as soon as possible to replenish the troops for reorganization and training. Therefore, I cannot agree to your request. Allowing these 100,000 retired and re-enlisted soldiers to participate in the construction will delay our reorganization plan."
Although he was rejected by Claude, Sir Bennett had already expected it. He knew that Claude was telling the truth. The most important thing in the war zone now is not to settle the immigrants, but to form five reinforced divisions to ensure that in this colonial war, they can resist the invasion of King Hicks and at least defend the Amphiston Direct Territory.
After frowning and thinking for a while, Sir Bennett spoke again: "Your Excellency, Commander, if these retired soldiers who have re-enlisted cannot be used to do labor, can you ask the theater logistics department to allocate more food, grass and daily groceries? Maybe. You can use these materials to hire young Nikancha people to build public facilities and road foundations, but in that case, you will need to pay extra to hire manpower to oversee their construction."
This is considered a last resort. The war zone lacks funds and does not have the budget for construction. Just as Sir Bennett said, the young people of Nikancha were hired to work with grain supplies and the daily groceries captured in the Kingdom of Hicks. It's just that the Nikancha people are really muddy and can't stick to the wall. Just one work efficiency can make you despair. If they don't hire a large number of supervisors for strict supervision, they can build a 100-meter-long road for three or four years. Anyway, they will always find ways to be lazy and cut corners when doing work.
Claude nodded: "Okay, the food and grass are provided by the three direct territories behind us. We can report some more losses. The daily groceries in the warehouse were originally intended to be sold to these immigrant families, but are now used to hire Ni It’s okay for the Kancha people to work. However, Sir can also use these daily necessities to hire immigrant family members without any effort from them. Supervising those Nikancha people should be an easy job, right?"
Sir Bennett thought for a while and agreed: "This is a good idea. I think the immigrant families will be happy to accept the employment. They have just moved here and are short of these daily necessities. They use these things as payment. We don't have to go out to buy, which also saves us money. Maybe we can also use dried meat, furs and grain as employment fees. Winter is coming soon, and I believe these immigrant families also need to reserve certain supplies."
After solving this problem, Claude rode back to Lanhu Town. As soon as he entered the theater headquarters, he saw Colonel Xazolak sitting in the reception room waiting for his return. Claude quickly approached him and apologized, saying he was sorry for keeping him waiting for so long. On the other hand, Colonel Xazolak saluted Claude respectfully as a subordinate and signaled that what Claude had told him had come to an end.
After entering Claude's office, Colonel Chazolac took out three documents from the briefcase he carried and placed them in front of Claude. The first document was a confession, which was what Claude wanted. The businessman who came to purchase a large amount of military supplies confessed that he was a secret agent of the Hicks Kingdom and came to investigate the war readiness information of the overseas territories. He used women and money to bribe General Vansnik and obtained a large amount of military intelligence from him. Finally, he wanted to use General Vansnik to purchase back the military supplies captured by the Rangers in order to save time and resources for the next colonial war. transportation reserve cost
Claude was very satisfied. With this confession, General Vansnik's charges were completely confirmed, and he no longer had to bear the same charges as the following. Marshal Michelich also has steps to go down, and he can use this confession to drive away the useless general Vansnik from the Rangers.
What surprised Claude the most was that he could not tell that this confession was fabricated. There were all the witnesses and physical evidence, including the three maids who accompanied General Vansnik when the businessman entertained him at the Grand Tavern of the Castle of Greno. Their testimonies are attached. They heard General Vansnik say with their own ears that he did not care about the identity of the person who purchased these military supplies, as long as he paid for them, he could sell them to anyone.
The second document is the real confession. Compared with the first confession, the second confession is more fake. In fact, the businessman who purchased military supplies was indeed from the Hicks Kingdom, but he was just a smuggler. The purpose of his visit to the direct territory was to purchase a batch of grain and grass and sell it to Vibato Colonial County. Since the Kingdom of Hicks focused on the development of mineral resources in the Nubisian continent, it had never paid much attention to agriculture and animal husbandry, so it needed to start from Food is purchased in large quantities outside.
Since the outbreak of the colonial war with the Kingdom of Overas, seven overseas territories have cut off food transactions with the colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks, causing the price of food in the colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks to rise rapidly. Although some people have already started farming and opening up wasteland, after all, the large investment requires a lot of effort and the harvest time is long. A small amount of money cannot make up for the huge food gap. Many smugglers have come to overseas direct-administered territories to purchase grain and then traffic it to Vibato County. This has been It has become a lucrative maritime financial route.
This smuggler in the Kingdom of Hicks has two shallow-sea flat-bottomed transport ships. This type of flat-bottomed transport ship usually travels along the coastline. The ship with a large load capacity is slow and cannot withstand the strong winds and waves of the deep sea. But it is very suitable for transporting supplies such as grain and grass. So he anchored the two boats in the fishing port town, and took his entourage to the capital, Greno Castle, to find out where there was a large amount of grain and grass for sale. As a result, he met General Vansnik who wanted to sell armaments.
This was an unexpected surprise for the smugglers. After all, these military supplies that were originally from the Kingdom of Hicks were more valuable than food and grass. If he can redeem these military supplies, he can use this to establish a relationship with the Hicks military in Vibato Port, which will be very convenient for his future smuggling activities. That's why he spent a lot of money to manage General Vansnik and acquire all the military supplies stored by the Rangers.
The third document was a detailed list of the intercepted military supplies. When Claude picked it up and looked at it, he was shocked by the red fonts on the front page, because these red fonts were not those marked by Hicks. The kingdom's armaments are the standard weapons equipped by the King of Ovelas, including more than 400 Obash type III standard matchlock guns, more than 3,000 Obash type II standard matchlock guns, and several barrels of standard gunpowder ammunition. , and even four infantry light field artillery and matching gunpowder projectile shotgun bags, etc.
"What, what's going on?" Claude asked in surprise, pointing to the list in red font on the page.
Colonel Shazorak replied calmly: "These were all found on that large convoy. We interrogated the soldiers in the logistics camp who escorted the convoy, and they said that these were also sold by General Vansnik. Because the general said, Since these things cannot be brought back to the kingdom, it is more economical to simply sell them. The general also stamped all these weapons reserves on the logistics supply list as battlefield supplies."
"How unreasonable is this crazy person to sell the kingdom's standard weapons and equipment to people of unknown origin? Does he really think that having the blood of the Sterling royal family can do whatever he wants?" Claude stood up angrily and said angrily.
Three days later, Marshal Michelich returned from an inspection in Robisto County and arrived at Lanhu Town. Colonel Claude and Colonel Xazolak immediately handed him the two confessions and the list of supplies. Marshal Michelich finished reading, tore up the second confession, and then ordered the guards to bring General Vansnik, who had been in confinement for a week, to him.
General Vansnik came out of the solitary cell in ragged clothes and a gray face. As soon as he saw Marshal Michelchi, he angrily scolded Claude and others for being the underlings, and illegally imprisoned him, the logistics manager and superior officer. He also declared that if this lawsuit was brought to the royal court, Colonel Claude Cree and others would also be punished. Colonel Chazolac and several other culprits
Marshal Michelich just asked him if he would resell the military supplies he had stockpiled.
General Vansnik admitted it outright and declared that it was his responsibility as the logistics director to deal with excess military supplies. Everything he did was legal, and the price he sold was also the reserve fund of the Ranger Corps, and Not stuffed into his own private pocket
Marshal Michelich just asked his adjutant, Lieutenant Colonel Nieves, to read the confession of the Hicks Kingdom businessman, and General Vansnik immediately collapsed to the ground. He knew very well how damaging this confession would be to him. After a while, he shouted that this was a frame-up. He had not liaised with the enemy's spies at all, and the confession was false.
But even if it was a false confession, Marshal Michelich would make it true. He called in guards and took off Vansnik's golden sun epaulette on the spot. This meant that General Vansnik's military rank Be deprived of. Then ordered the guards to take the criminal Vansnik back to the solitary room. Marshal Michelich said that he had no way to punish Vansnik on the spot. He could only deprive him of his military position and hand him over to Prince Hansbach himself when he returned to the kingdom.
The main reason why Marshal Michelich rushed back from the Robisto Territory this time was that the kingdom's envoy was arriving soon. Unlike those immigrant families, the kingdom's envoy needed to inspect the three overseas territories in the rear and meet with their governor-general, so the journey was a few days slower than the immigration convoy.
Two days later, the kingdom's envoy finally arrived in Lanhu Town. He brought a formal announcement announcing that the Rangers would return home in early November after the reorganization was completed. At the same time, he also brought a formal appointment letter from the Kingdom's Ministry of War. Claude was appointed division commander of the Thunder Division, supreme commander of the theater, and promoted to major general of the kingdom.
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