For Claude, time passed very quickly. In the blink of an eye, it was the 592nd year of the Holy Light Calendar, and more than half a year passed like this. Claude has been staying at the port of Kaubicius in the direct jurisdiction of Tiersim, watching the offshore transport ships full of Nikancha people heading north one after another.
"Zacharasen, how many Nikancha settlements in the three direct territories are unwilling to move?" Claude asked, looking at the bustling Nikancha settlement in the outer city in the distance.
Standing next to Claude, old man Zach Karassen is now dressed like a decent gentleman, and he no longer has the sleazy and cunning feeling he had at the beginning. He took out a document from the folder and looked through it before replying: "General, there are about one million Nikancha people in the three territories who are not willing to move north. They all live on the borders of the territories. The territory occupied by the Nikancha people can be said to be relatively good, and the products are rich enough to maintain a good life for them.
According to my investigation, the main reason why they are unwilling to move is that their settlement is the largest here, and if they move to the Nikancha country, they will become vassals of other settlements. Therefore, these settlement leaders and elders who are unwilling to migrate are the most determined opponents. On the contrary, it is the ordinary Nikancha people who hope to migrate to their own country. "
Claude nodded. It was beyond his expectation that two million Kancha people voluntarily moved north. At present, nearly one million Nikancha people have been moved northward by offshore transport ships in more than five months. They are all small settlements living near towns and making a living by working. They are the most willing Nikancha people to move.
Because of the interruption of ocean trade with the kingdom, the livelihood of these Nikancha people who relied on the towns to make a living was difficult. Therefore, the envoys of the Nikancha country encouraged them to establish their own country and hoped that they could move there and Guaranteed to allocate territory to each of their settlements, these small settlements immediately packed their bags and prepared to go north with these envoys.
The second group of people who are willing to relocate are the Nikancha settlements in the wild whose territory is not very good. They do not mind becoming vassals of the larger settlements. As long as they can ensure that their territory is not invaded by other settlements, they are satisfied. Their life in the directly-administered territory is not very good. They are often raided by local garrison forces, and there are often conflicts between two Nikancha settlements over the allocation of rivers for game or fishing.
Finally, there are the Nikancha settlements that old man Zakkarasen said are unwilling to move. The characteristic of these settlements is that they are far away from the center of the direct-administered territories. Most of them live in the border areas. This border area does not refer to the boundary between the two direct-administered territories. , but the boundary between the direct territory and the interior. For example, the inland boundary of the Tiersim Direct Territory is bounded by the Obenmuk Mountains, and the settlements of these Nikancha people live at the foot of the mountains.
In the past, the last thing the local garrison armed forces of the three directly-administered territories wanted to do was to attack the Nikancha settlements living on the border. It took them three or four days to rush there. As a result, all the Nikancha settlements that heard the news had already Fleeed into the mountains. The time-consuming and labor-intensive local defense force was in vain, and over time, these Nikancha settlements began to grow.
The number of Nikancha settlements near the center of the directly-administered territory basically does not exceed 5,000. The local environment and harassment by local garrison forces have restricted their development. However, the largest of these Nikancha settlements living on the border has more than 10,000 people. Adding four or five vassal settlements, the total number can reach 30,000 to 40,000, and the young and strong force they can pull out is about 5,000. Therefore, their leaders and elders are very satisfied with their current life and are unwilling to move to the Nikancha country in the north to become vassals of other large settlements and lose the power they hold.
The old man Zacharasen was very capable. Claude asked him to take care of the special envoys from the Nikancha country. The special envoys he served before and after were very satisfied. By the way, he also followed these envoys to visit all the Nikancha settlements in the three directly-administered territories within half a year, and secretly found out the location, number of people, products, etc. of each settlement.
When these envoys could not persuade the leaders and elders of the Nikancha settlements to move north, he also hinted that the envoys could use the local force of the direct jurisdiction to forcibly move the Nikancha people in those settlements, and only needed to pay a small reward. If a few clear-headed special envoys hadn't resolutely stopped it, maybe most of the members of the special envoy who were annoyed by the rejection would have agreed to the old man's suggestion.
However, even if there is no agreement, Claude will still use force to expel them. He is not willing to let the Nikancha settlements still exist in these three jurisdictions. For war zones, these are unsettling factors and must be completely eliminated. At the same time, it is also necessary to ensure that the regulations on the control of Nikancha people formulated in the war zone can be implemented smoothly in these three directly governed territories. Only in this way can these three directly governed territories truly become the territory of the Kingdom's immigrants.
It's just that Claude currently doesn't have enough troops on hand. A direct-administered territory only arranges a light cavalry field regiment. In addition to the troops stationed in various towns, most of the troops are devoted to escorting and monitoring the Nikancha people heading to Tiersim. On the way to the port of Copicius. Although the Nikancha people have been transported northwards for three or four months, the Nikancha settlements in the three direct jurisdictions that are willing to move are still gathering in a steady stream at the port of Kaubicius, providing services to Claude and Sk. General Li brought a lot of mental pressure.
All Claude was thinking about was public security, maintaining order, ensuring that the more than one million Nikancha people gathered in the outer city of Corbichus Port did not cause trouble or riots, and waited for the return of the transport ship. General Skerry is responsible for providing the more than one million Nikancha people with food, clothing, housing and transportation. This is an agreement reached in advance with the special envoys of the Nikancha country. After all, they provide food, clothing, housing and transportation for the three million Nikancha people who have migrated north. The police paid mineral resources and gold and silver reserves worth millions to the war zone.
In February of the 592nd year of the Holy Light Calendar, General Beach Kerin finally arrived at the Port of Corbichus with six local garrison regiments and a main field regiment of the Rock Legion. The main reason why it took so long was After returning to Lanhu Town, General Bolognik and General Beachlin first transferred the veterans of the Rock Corps to the establishment of local garrison forces, and organized and trained twelve local garrison regiments. ..Then he recruited more than 50,000 recruits from the two direct territories of Cromwell and Beringana, completed the recruit training of the Rock Legion, and now that he had a certain combat effectiveness, he hurriedly rushed to the Tiersim Direct Territory. collar.
The six local garrison regiments are all veterans of the Rock Legion. One direct territory can deploy two regiments of troops. One of the local garrison regiments is deployed in the capital of the territory directly under the Central Government, and the remaining local garrison regiment is split up and garrisoned in a town in the territory directly under the Central Government with a battalion of troops. In this way, with the troops directly under the regiment headquarters, the troops can be stationed in the territory directly under the Central Government. Territory of five important towns can basically maintain the security and order of a directly governed territory.
The direct jurisdiction of Tiersim requires two regiments of troops to be stationed, and a local garrison regiment is responsible for the garrison tasks of the inner city and the outer city. The newly formed and trained main field regiment of the Rock Legion needs to be stationed in the dock area to deal with threats from the sea.
However, with so many troops on hand, Claude was not in a hurry to send the local garrison regiments to their respective garrison areas, but was preparing to forcefully relocate the Nikancha settlements living in the inland border areas. , Claude calls it "Operation Purification."
The whole operation was nothing to praise. It was nothing more than the rapid advance of the three light cavalry field regiments of the Thunder Legion. They took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Nikancha settlement to set up a warning and defensive front between the Obanmuk Mountains and blocked the attack. The retreat route for those Nikancha settlements was to flee to the mountains. Then Claude and General Bichlin led the three local garrison regiments and the main field regiment of the Rock Army to attack from the front, clearing out all the Nikancha settlements in the three directly administered territories from north to east. Clean.
"Operation Purification" inevitably resulted in bloody violence. A dozen or so Nikancha settlements rose up to resist. However, in the face of musketry, their young and strong force became a turkey on the shooting range. Although the chickens flew away The dog jumped, but it could only cause very slight casualties to the attackers. However, these brave Nikancha people, who were young and strong, wielding spears, short knives, and hunting bows, were shot to death in rows on the battlefield defending their homeland.
There were also settlements of Nikancha people who evacuated to the Obanmuk Mountains, but they were all ambushed and surrounded by the Thunder Legion. Perhaps a few young and strong people among them could break away from the encirclement and escape into the mountains, but their family members and relatives could not escape. As a result, most of these Nikancha settlements were escorted back obediently after finding that the road was impassable. The few who wanted to resist quickly They were brutally suppressed by the Thunder Legion.
The leaders and elders of all the resisting Nikancha settlements were hanged under the big trees. After clearing the supplies, their settlements were set on fire and burned to ashes under Claude's order. Almost all the Nikancha people were crying and carrying big and small bags, their simple and sparse belongings on their backs, and their children in their arms as they embarked on the journey to the port of Kopichus.
"I think your treatment of these Nikancha people is a bit too much. After all, this is their homeland where their ancestors have lived here for generations." Bichklin looked at the forcibly relocated Nikancha people and said with some unbearable sadness: "If If they are unwilling to move, it is no big deal to let them stay here. The direct jurisdiction is so large that it can accommodate these Nikancha people to survive. I think it doesn't matter as long as they abide by our laws and implemented policies. "
Claude sighed and shook his head: "I don't think so, and I don't want to give such an order, but in order to avoid causing trouble to our descendants, I can only do this, even if my hands are bloody, I don't care . Do you know why I call this forced migration a purification operation? Because I want to leave a clean direct territory for our kingdom immigrants.
Times are progressing, and society will become more and more civilized. We are still in a time of great strife, and muskets and artillery represent our truth. The direct territory is our colony, not our kingdom proper. The land here was indeed snatched from the hands of the indigenous Nikancha and Etat people of the Nubisian continent with our muskets and artillery.
If another hundred years pass, the Nikancha people in the direct territory have developed to a level of civilization similar to that of the immigrants from our kingdom. We put down our muskets and artillery and began to try to use the law to resolve the dispute between us and the Nikancha people. controversy. So now that we allow these Nikancha people to stay in the direct territory, we are causing the greatest trouble to our descendants of immigrants a hundred years from now.
Because these descendants of the Nikancha people will use this as an excuse to inherit the land from their ancestors, and ask the descendants of the immigrants from the Kingdom to either return the land to them or provide them with more aid and subsidies, so that they can enjoy it with peace of mind from now on. Living like a charterer. The one million Nikancha people left now may be several million in a hundred years. I don’t want the descendants of immigrants from the Kingdom to support these millions of landlords, so I’ll expel them all.”
General Buechlin looked a little stunned. He seemed to want to reach out and touch Claude's forehead to see if Claude had a fever and why he was talking nonsense.
"I don't believe the nonsense you said. Nothing like what you said will happen in a hundred years. The direct jurisdiction will always be our war zone and the kingdom's direct jurisdiction. I simply don't believe that these stupid and lazy Nikancha people will develop into Just like the immigrants from our kingdom, if they want to take back their land, they have to ask whether the muskets in the hands of our immigrants’ descendants will agree.”
General Beachlin retorted: "Of course, in any case, the forced relocation of these Nikancha settlements is always a good thing for the municipality. At least those urban residents will be safer in the wild. Maybe we can still If we move some more immigrants from the Kingdom mainland, these three jurisdictions still have a lot of land to accommodate more immigrants from the Kingdom."
Claude could only crack his lips and stop talking. He knew that with General Bichiklin's knowledge, it was impossible to imagine how far human civilization would develop in a hundred years or hundreds of years. This world is just like previous and modern history, except that because certain knowledge is monopolized by high-level officials, the development of this civilization has been stagnated in the age of guns. But no matter what, the wheel of history is always rolling forward, no matter how slow it is, it is still in motion.
Just like the Western colonists in the previous Age of Discovery could never imagine that their descendants would evolve into virgin bitches, the targets they burned, killed, and plundered would actually become the objects that their descendants would willingly kneel down and lick, and they even called them euphemistically. It is to atone for the crimes committed by their ancestors, so that those who were discriminated against will in turn discriminate against other races.
Claude is not a racist or an opponent of humanism. He is just well-informed and would rather have some trouble now than leave more trouble for future generations. No matter what, it is more merciful for him to move these Nikancha people out than to use force to eliminate the existence of these Nikancha people. Without the Nikancha people, a hundred years later, these three direct territories would have truly become the land owned by the descendants of immigrants from the kingdom.
"By the way, are we going to implement the regulations on the control of Nikancha people in these three directly-administered territories?" General Bichklin remembered something, turned his head on his mount and asked.
The regulations for the control of the Nikancha people mean that the Nikancha people are no longer allowed to live in settlements in the directly-administered territories. In addition, the residents of the kingdom who hire the Nikancha people must give guarantees to the Nikancha people they hire. The head tax for the Nikancha people employed was one riyaso per person, which was ten times higher than the head tax for the residents of the kingdom.
In addition, the labor agreement reached between the residents of the Kingdom and the Nikancha people needs to be supervised by the administrative department, and a deposit needs to be paid to the competent department. After the labor service is completed, the competent department will send someone to review it. After the review is passed, the residents of the Kingdom must pay all the labor remuneration, and No fines may be withheld or reduced for any reason.
All in all, it is to cause trouble for the residents of the kingdom who hire Nikancha people and make them give up their intention to hire Nikancha people. This is for the purpose of reducing the number of Nikancha people staying in the direct jurisdiction. After all, the residents of these three kingdoms are very strange. They enjoy the treatment of big bosses here. They are obviously civilians, but they hire Nikancha people to work for them to make money.
They drove these Nikancha people to work as cattle and horses. For example, the farm owners hired a large number of Nikancha people to work in the fields during busy farming hours, and they and their relatives wielded whips as supervisors. After the work is done, they often tear up the labor agreement and only pay half or less of the wages to the Nikancha people on the grounds that the Nikancha people did not do a good job or they have damaged farm tools and need compensation. This is why the Nikancha people often cause trouble. The main cause of the riots.
Claude nodded, and General Beachlin smiled and said: "I guarantee that the regulations on the control of the Nikancha people can be implemented smoothly in these three jurisdictions, but if the Amphiston jurisdiction wants to implement this control regulations, you We have to discuss it carefully with the people from the mining and business association, they are firmly opposed to the implementation of this regulation."