I have to admit that Claude had a crazy idea. For any resident of the Kingdom of Ovilas, a personal estate is a guarantee for a happy and peaceful family life, or it can be passed down to future generations and become the property of an expanded family. But in the Kingdom itself, it is not that simple to buy a personal household property. Even if you buy public properties from the local administrative department, the price is not within the reach of ordinary people.
To give a simple example, Claude's sister Anna wanted to buy a long-term property for her family, and she chose a forest farm. So she first acquired three small private forest farms, and then used Claude's status as a captain of the Kingdom to acquire all the surrounding public forest farms, forming the Field Forest Farm with an area of more than 4,000 acres, and spent all the money she got from selling the new building. Eight thousand gold crowns, and more than three thousand gold crowns in the national bank account that Claude gave her.
In the Kingdom of Overas, among the three types of land sales transactions: farmland, pasture, and forestry, forestry is the cheapest, and they are basically located in barren mountains. The public forest farm that my sister Anna bought in White Deer City had already cut down all the usable wood, so it was sold to Claude at half price, but the half price was only two gold crowns per acre. Including the three private small forest farms that were already bare, it can be said that my sister Anna spent nearly 12,000 gold crowns to purchase more than 4,000 acres of mountain forest farms that had no trees.
Later, in order to develop and build the family forest farm, my sister Anna had to borrow six thousand gold crowns of forest farm construction funds from the National Bank, which was used for the construction of forest farm roads and the cultivation and transplantation of saplings. It has not been until now that five or six years have passed. Initial results have been achieved.
From this example, we can see how much it costs to own a personal or family property in the kingdom. Forest farms are mountainous and are the cheapest, followed by pastures. The estimated price per acre is about ten gold crowns, and the price is twice as much if there are rivers and waterways passing through it. As for farmland, the best fields are forgettable and rarely for sale. Those not-so-good public fields in the hands of local governments generally cost thirty or forty gold crowns per acre.
Therefore, when the families of the 100,000 retired soldiers heard that the war zone was willing to give each immigrant soldier ten acres of fertile land and an industry of equal value, they were all willing to immigrate to overseas war zones directly under the jurisdiction without hesitation. Because they knew that in the kingdom, even if their family worked hard all their lives, they would not be able to own ten acres of land. Claude also found inspiration from the immigrant families of these soldiers, and thought of ways to make those grassroots officers who were preparing to retire willingly stay in the war zone and voluntarily become volunteer officers.
Take a junior officer who is about to retire as an example. During his many years in the army, his food, accommodation and clothing have been provided free of charge by the military camp. In addition, he lives frugally and does not spend recklessly. So after fifteen years of military experience, plus the private rewards he received from the two wars, as well as wartime welfare subsidies, he only had about two hundred gold crowns in savings at most.
With these two hundred gold crowns in savings, he could get married and buy a house when he returned to his hometown, but it was still not enough to buy ten acres of fertile land and start a small farm. In the future, there will still be favors and the cost of raising children. Unless he can find a public job in his hometown, life will not be easy. It doesn’t mean that life is unbearable, but that it is impossible to achieve a decent life.
Just like Claude's boyhood friend, Vericro's father, Uncle Kubelik, who also had national status and served as a soldier in the Guards for fifteen years, retired and returned home. He could only rely on hunting to support his family's livelihood. . Later, the mayor Robert was offended by the establishment of the town's police force, and he instigated the members of the Black Snake Society to make things difficult for him every day. In the end, he had to leave Bailu Town with his whole family.
The tragedy of Uncle Kubrick is that he has no personal property. Even though he is known as the best hunter in White Deer City, he relies on luck to make a living. If you are lucky, you can catch prey. If you are not lucky, you will go to the mountains in vain and waste your time. Risk your life. If he had ten acres of fertile land, then he could completely ignore the town hall's plan to form a police force and concentrate on taking care of his family's farm. He just didn't have any personal property, so he hoped to get a public position in the police force, clashed with the town mayor Robert, and eventually left the royal capital.
Although the prices of fields and pastures in the Overseas Territory of Nuxicia Continent are not as high as in the Kingdom, they still cost a lot for a civilian officer. If they are allowed to spend money to buy it, then everyone will consider the distance between the two continents, the inconvenience and difficulty of leaving their hometown to immigrate here, etc., and may give up the idea of immigrating.
Just like Claude paid Michael to acquire more than 1,800 acres of wasteland in the mountains not far from Lanhu Town as a pasture for his sister Anna, even though he was a lieutenant general in the kingdom, he received preferential treatment and discounts. However, Claude also paid a gold crown per acre for the more than 1,800 acres of pasture land.
So now Claude wants to use the land of Cromwell and Beringana, which are most suitable for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry, to attract these grassroots officers who want to retire to voluntarily immigrate to these two places, and let them voluntarily respond. The recruitment of the two legions was converted into volunteer officers and they continued to serve in the army. Then the land of these two direct territories became a very attractive temptation for them. One hundred acres of fertile land and one thousand acres of pasture, these are two big pies falling from the sky to those grassroots officers.
A hundred acres of fertile land can be used to build a small or medium-sized farm. A grassroots officer can not only immigrate his family to take care of the farm, but can even bring his wife and family to help in the farm, enough to ensure food and clothing. No worries.
Of course, life may be more difficult if all food is grown, but today's farms have basic ways to benefit from planting. For example, if there are ten acres of vegetable fields, and ten acres of seasonal fruits such as blueberries are planted, there will be good returns. And feed twenty or thirty people. Even if you can raise chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep in the farm, you will make a very good profit...
The former residents of the kingdom, Cromwell and Beringana, basically immigrated when the kingdom itself was extremely poor. After working hard and earning some money in the overseas territories, I bought some land and built my own farms and farms. They were all small-scale. This was also the most basic mode of colonization in the overseas territories. They left it alone to develop independently, as well as the scale of immigration. It is very small and the development of the direct territory is very slow.
From a certain perspective, the land in the two overseas territories of Cromwell and Beringana is public property in the war zone. If someone is willing to pay for it, it will be an astronomical profit. But if no one is willing to pay for it, it will be a wasteland that has been exposed to wind and rain for thousands of years and is worthless. Claude plans to use these lands to attract low-level officers who are preparing to retire to stay in these two directly-administered territories for immigration. It seems that the war zone has lost a large amount of land acquisition funds, but from another aspect, it is not that these original The worthless wasteland has increased in value...
The generals of the theater command unanimously approved Claude's suggestion, using free land as personal property and two directly-administered territory immigration qualifications to attract these grassroots officers who were preparing to retire, allowing them to voluntarily immigrate, and to be voluntarily recruited. Recruited as a volunteer officer and stayed in the army to continue serving.
Of course, after being recruited as a volunteer officer, your salary does not change, but you can get preferential treatment in your personal industry. For example, every junior officer with the rank of captain can receive 100 acres of fertile land or 1,000 acres of pasture for free to build a farm or pasture. However, a lieutenant officer can only get 75 acres of fertile land or 750 acres of pasture land for free. He can apply for the same treatment of 100 acres of fertile land and 1,000 acres of pasture land as a captain officer, but he needs to be in the army. Continue to serve until he is promoted to captain or until he serves for another five years...
Several generals at the theater command stayed up all night and finally studied the personal property land replacement regulations and immigration qualification methods for the more than 10,000 retired officers. In order to attract these retired officers to immigrate, they also deliberately gave even more crazy preferential treatment.
He is a retired immigration officer. He can be subsidized for his travel expenses when he returns to the Kingdom and brings his family and relatives back from the Kingdom. The maximum subsidy can be ten gold crowns depending on the number of immigrants. This is not cash, but to be replaced with various living and production materials after returning. This not only solves the needs of new immigrants for living and production materials, but also finds an outlet for the products produced by the family workshops that have just been established in the war zone.
The generals, who had been busy all night, ordered their subordinates to post the notices they had prepared overnight, and then decided to comfort themselves. During this time, they were exhausted from all the worries and worries. Finally, the matter came to an end. Let's take a two-day holiday. Everyone, please relax and take a two-day break before returning to work.
But about ten hours later, several generals from the theater headquarters gathered together again and looked at each other. No one expected that the notice just posted in the morning would cause such a big response. Not only the junior officers who were preparing to retire rushed to register for immigration qualifications, but also the junior officers in the two legions who were not planning to retire were also in trouble. There was a big commotion, and they formed a group to protest to their superiors, meaning that if they were not eligible to obtain immigration qualifications for personal property land replacement in the two directly-governed territories, then they were also prepared to submit applications for decommissioning... .
This cannot but be said to be something that several generals did not expect. They only thought of the more than 10,000 junior officers who were ready to retire, but they forgot that there were more than 10,000 junior officers in the two legions who were not ready to retire. As the saying goes, it is not a matter of scarcity but of inequality. The fact that those junior officers who were preparing to retire were given such excellent immigration admission qualifications immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of those junior officers who were still in the army, and they also formed a group to demand the same treatment. The theater headquarters couldn't find the generals, so they all made a fuss to the generals' residences. This is why Claude and the others met at the theater headquarters again.
What I didn’t say is that the colonial war has just ended, and it is estimated that no war will happen in the next period of time, that is, within half a year. After discussion, several generals decided to implement a family leave system on a large scale. Let junior officers who are still serving in the army take a group of holidays every month, and use half-year family leave to allow these junior officers to return to the Kingdom to visit relatives, get married, and bring their families and relatives back to immigrate. All immigration qualifications and preferential treatment regulations for personal property land replacement were the same as those of the grassroots military officers who were preparing to retire, and this riot was brought under control.
However, the junior officers in these troops had just left, and the soldiers of the two legions also sent representatives to petition the generals at the theater headquarters. These soldiers were also divided into three groups, each with their own representatives. Their requests were also related to this immigration admission notice.
The first group of soldiers has the smallest base. They are conscripts from the Kingdom. They were originally added to the Ranger Corps, and later were transferred to the five reinforced divisions in the theater. Now they have become the backbone of the two legions. veteran. Their representatives also appealed for immigration admission qualifications, hoping to receive a personal property gift in the two jurisdictions. Of course, they are not greedy. They only need twenty acres of fertile land.
The generals quickly made a decision. As long as they served in the army for fifteen years, even if they were not promoted to junior officers, they could get thirty acres of fertile land and three hundred acres of pasture. Of course, now that the overseas territories directly under the Central Government are in urgent need of immigrants, the war zone can even give them land first, and ask them to write letters to inform their families to come to the overseas territory directly under the war zone to accept this industry and take care of it first. However, the preferential subsidy for relocation costs will be reduced by half, which means that the war zone will only provide half of the travel subsidy for their families' relocation costs.
The soldiers of the second group are members of the local garrison forces of the overseas territories directly under the Central Government. They were reorganized into the five reinforced divisions in the theater and were the elites left after the unqualified members were eliminated. Although they have families and families in the overseas territories directly under the Central Government, Family property, but no one would dislike having too many personal properties. They also hope that they can obtain immigration qualifications because they are also a member of the two legions...
This is an irrefutable reason. The generals are prepared to treat them equally, just like the soldiers of the first group. As long as they complete their service in the army, they will be given thirty acres of fertile land or three hundred acres of pasture, which can be given in advance. , let their family members take care of the property first.
The soldiers of the last faction were the largest, accounting for almost half of the two legions. They also asked for this immigration status, but the generals had mixed reactions. General Bolognik felt very annoyed and thought that these soldiers were unreasonable because they were fulfilling their obligations as soldiers in the two legions.
The soldiers of this group are the 100,000 immigrant families of retired soldiers. When they immigrated to the war zone, the war zone had already given their families an industry. For example, ten acres of land, or a shop and private workshop industry. As a result, they are now coveting the immigration qualifications of the two directly-governed territories...
After discussing for a long time, the generals finally reached a decision. The treatment was the same as that of the first two groups of soldiers. After the service period, they could also get thirty acres of fertile land or three hundred acres of pasture. However, they could not be given first. They could only be allocated after the service period.
Finally, the needs of the soldiers of the two legions were solved, and the generals breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, General Skerry proposed that the two directly governed territories of Cromwell and Beringana were sparsely populated. Since the immigration admission qualification system had been implemented, that is to say, only those who served as soldiers in the two legions could immigrate their families to in. Why don’t we go one step further and immigrate the families of those soldiers who died in the four colonial wars, and give them free personal property corresponding to those soldiers who died. I believe this can increase the sense of belonging and loyalty of the officers and soldiers of the two legions... . ...
This is a good idea. The two territories directly under the Central Government have vast and fertile land. The number of soldiers who actually died in the theaters of the four colonial wars, plus those who were disabled and retired, is only 20,000 to 30,000. Giving some land to their families can increase the number of soldiers’ support for the two territories. The loyalty and sense of belonging to a legion, this is a very agreeable deal. The generals nodded in agreement, and General Skerry took charge of the execution.
The affairs of the officers and soldiers of the two legions were settled, but unexpectedly they ushered in local protests. The reason is very simple. When Marshal Michelch implemented the strategy of clearing out the wilderness in the two territories directly under the Central Government, Cronnwell and Beringana, he forcibly relocated more than 100,000 kingdom residents in the two territories and also gave them a siege. A white note means double compensation.
Now the residents of the kingdom want to return to these two direct territories and receive double the compensation for their family property land, which makes the generals very embarrassed. Claude, on the other hand, didn't care. He believed that since the immigration qualifications for the two directly-administered territories have been implemented, they must be implemented resolutely to the end. Don't let any of these original kingdom residents go back. Anyway, the note says double compensation without specifying a place, so we can just compensate them in Robisto directly under the jurisdiction. Tell them, if they don't want it, then it will be invalid...