The eight overseas territories in the war zone, the three territories of Port Vibato, Cromwell, and Beringana, do not need to worry about the Nikancha people at all. Among the three territories, except for those Nikancha people brought over by merchants, Except for the servants, there are no settled Nikancha people.
As for the three direct jurisdictions of Tiersim, Mormali, and Arturas, after Claude's "purification operation" and the preparation of the regulations to control the Nikancha people, the Nikancha people living here in the future will There will only be fewer and fewer Cha people. It can be said that these three directly governed territories have lost the environment for the Nikan Cha people to survive and develop.
There are many Nikancha people in the Robisto territory, but these Nikancha people have no settlements. They have been servants in the households of the kingdom residents for many years and can only stay in the territory after being sponsored. Moreover, the Robisto Territory was also the first to implement regulations to control the Nikancha people, so there was no need to worry about the future status and development of the Nikancha people.
But as General Beach Kerin said, the Nikancha settlement in the Amphiston Territory is the party that gives Claude the most headache. The mining and business associations that used to be friendly and cooperative in the past have now become the most determined opponents of the implementation of the Nikancha people control regulations in the war zone. The reason is very simple. The implementation of the regulations will harm the interests of those mining owners, and the mining workers they employ are basically Nikancha people.
To a certain extent, the Nikancha miners in the Amphiston Territory are the most highly qualified of all the Nikancha people in the overseas territories. Under the hard discipline of the Mining and Commerce Association for many years, these Nikancha miners have developed good habits of being disciplined, caring for their families, and loving to learn. Among ten young Nikancha people, at least one or two will have elementary school knowledge. Ability to understand newspapers, documents and notices, as well as boring instructions for mechanical equipment.
All this is due to the training and preferential treatment given to Nikancha people by the Mining and Business Association. In the mines, the treatment of immigrants from the Kingdom who work as miners is no different from that of young Nikancha miners, except for an additional welfare subsidy, which is the same as the treatment of local miners in the Kingdom. Because of this, the Nikancha settlement in Amphiston's direct jurisdiction is the most law-abiding and law-abiding. They can live a good life as long as they guard the mines.
Therefore, after the news of the independent establishment of the Nikancha people in the mountainous area north of Vibato Port reached the Amphiston Direct Territory, except for some carefree Nikancha people who wanted to move north to their own country, Most of the Nikancha settlements are not interested in migration. They are now living a very prosperous life relying on the mines, and there is no need to move north to suffer.
Just as an elder of the Nikancha settlement said, why did they move there? For so many years, the settlement has been mining for a living, and it is impossible to carry out large-scale farming if the land is given to them, because most of them don't know how to farm. The ground is gone. Even if there are mineral resources in the territory, what's the use? If they dig it out and sell it to anyone, it's better to stay in the direct territory safely and eat and drink. As long as you have money, you can buy some things that the immigrants of the kingdom can't afford. of good stuff.
This is the current situation of the Nikancha people in the direct jurisdiction of Amphiston. If the regulations on the control of the Nikancha people are to be implemented in the war zone, it will be a disservice to both ends. But Claude doesn't want to deal with this mess, so this matter will be left to General Bolognik and General Skerry. He does have an idea of drawing money from the bottom of the pot, but the current conditions are not suitable. It may be implemented in another two years.
Claude stayed in the Direct Territory of Tilsim until mid-May of the Holy Light Calendar 592 before leading the three light cavalry field regiments and the 131st Battalion of the Thunder Legion back to Lan in the Direct Territory of Anphiston. The affairs of the three direct jurisdictions of Lake Town, Tiersim, Mormali and Arturas were all handed over to General Beach Kerin. He will sit at the Port of Corbichus and supervise the remaining more than 800,000 people. The Nikancha people migrated north.
These three directly-administered territories have been completely brought under the jurisdiction of the war zone. It has been almost more than a year since Claude sent troops last year and returned now. The only thing that made him regretful was that after the interruption of ocean-going trade with the kingdom, not a single ocean-going ship from the kingdom had arrived in the entire overseas territory. He didn't know how the two kings' fight for the throne was going so far, and which prince took the throne? gain the upper hand or wear the crown.
General Bolognik looked for the owners of several ocean-going smuggling ships, hoping that they could go to the kingdom to inquire about the news. It is a pity that these ocean-going smuggling ships disappeared as soon as they left. Nearly a year has passed and they have not returned. What's even weirder is that not even ocean-going smuggling ships from other countries have visited the overseas territories. It's as if the entire war zone has been forgotten by the kingdom itself, and all news from the Farea continent has been interrupted.
Claude had many things to deal with when he returned to the theater headquarters this time. First, he had to transfer most of the veterans of the Thunder Legion to local garrison regiments, reorganize six local garrison regiments and send them to garrison in various directly-governed territories, and then recruit new soldiers to regroup. Form an army of thunder. Fortunately, two of the twelve local garrison regiments that were last reorganized in the war zone have been dispatched to the territory directly under the jurisdiction of Port Vibato, replacing the Thunder Legion troops stationed there, freeing General Albert.
After a brief meeting at the theater headquarters, Claude learned from General Skerry that the Mining and Business Association had been settled by him and General Bolognik and decided to support the implementation of the Nikancha control regulations in the theater. The reason is simple. The lost benefits are nothing more than balancing with greater benefits. The war zone is preparing to open overseas livelihood banks in all directly-governed territories. If the mining and business associations want to become shareholders, they must support all policies issued by the war zone.
The equity capital of the entire Overseas Minsheng Bank is five million gold crowns, with War Zone accounting for 50% of the shares. Each of the five theater giants, General Bolognik, Claude, General Skerry, General Albert Lund and General Beechlin, automatically owns 2% of the shares. The remaining 40% was subscribed to 20% by the Mining and Commerce Association, and the other 10% was subscribed by powerful people in each demesne, such as Sir Bennett, who was promoted to govern the eight demesnes in the entire theater. Patrol Superintendent Mr. Xia Zolak and others subscribed. Another 10% of the shares are reserved as rewards for future distribution.
There is simply no such money in the war zone. The 50% stake in the Overseas Minsheng Bank and the 10% stake of the five generals are actually nothing, not a penny. The Mining and Commerce Association's 20% shares did not contribute any money, but only transferred the scrap plates for casting gold, silver and copper coins to the bank. The real money came from powerful local people who subscribed for 10% of the shares.
According to Viscount Goodich, the general manager of the Overseas Minsheng Bank, opening a bank does not require so much capital. The war zone only needs to be given policies and minting rights. By the way, there is also the right to print money. Everything below Silver Taller The silver coins, copper coins and black iron coins were all changed into paper money, that is, vouchers. They were guaranteed by the credibility of the war zone and could soon be circulated in the eight directly governed territories.
In addition, the war zone also transferred the annual tax settlement from the National Bank to the Overseas Minsheng Bank. Viscount Goodich has resigned from the position of head of the Overseas Territory Branch of the Nubissia Continent of the National Bank and has been transferred to the position of the first general manager of the Overseas Minsheng Bank.
The National Bank branch was helpless. First, it lost the support of the Kingdom's local head office, and the two continents had severed maritime transportation links. Another reason is that Overseas Minsheng Bank wants to issue banknote vouchers, which is not recognized by the National Bank, so the tax settlement can only be transferred to Overseas Minsheng Bank. Because the war zone announced that paper money vouchers can be used to pay taxes, and as long as they are worth one silver thaler, they can be exchanged for a real large silver coin from the Overseas Minsheng Bank.
The establishment of the Overseas Minsheng Bank means that the war zone will have enough funds to invest in the economic development of the directly-governed territories, and it also solves the dilemma of currency shortage in the overseas territories. However, Claude was not interested in this. He left all the reorganization of the Thunder Legion and the recruitment of new soldiers to General Albert. He even rejected General Skree's discussion with him about the expansion and upgrading of Lanhu Town into a city. He ran directly back to Veblen Manor.
After staying in the Tiersim Direct Territory for more than a year, Claude didn't even go home. His second son, Byrgacy, didn't even recognize him as his father. His mouth opened up when Claude hugged him. Crying, making Claude extremely embarrassed. After resting at home for a night, Claude led the guards to his sister Anna's ranch early the next morning. Claude hadn't seen the new rifle when it came out, and he didn't know how it performed.
Anna Ranch now seems to have become a small school. Claude adopted one hundred, fifty or sixty orphans in the ranch, and hired seven teachers to teach these male and female orphans elementary and junior high school courses, including liberal arts and physical education. Guidance as well.
Only sister Anna is in the laboratory. She is teaching five new students. These are children selected from more than a hundred orphans who have magical talents and are worthy of training. Lady Sonia's son, Malex, was among them.
Claude ruffled Mallex's hair: "Where is your mother?"
Little Mark replied: "Mom went out of town."
Sister Anna came over: "Master Bird recruited her to the Weibato Port Direct Territory, and planned to open the gun manufacturing workshop there. I heard that Master Bird found a black flint mine there, and he planned to open it there. A workshop was set up next to the mine, so that he would not need to consider power issues when converting those hydraulic machines into fire-powered machines, and would have enough black flint for burning. He needed Sonia to help, so he left little Mark in my care. "
The world calls coal mines black flint.
Claude looked at the other four children: "They are all your students."
Anna nodded: "Yes, except for little Mark, the four of them have similar magical talents to little Booker, so after I checked, I asked them to start practicing meditation two years early. This way, they can reach at least the third level by the time they reach adulthood. It can come in handy."
"What's wrong with little Mark?" Claude asked concerned.
My younger sister Anna raised her thumb and said, "Absolutely the same as me."
Claude understood that little Mark's magic talent was the same as his sister Anna's. They were both geniuses. The reason why sister Anna didn't want to say it clearly was because she was afraid of putting pressure on the other four children. Among the three siblings, sister Anna has the best magic talent, followed by Claude and brother Blovik the worst. Although those four children have magic talents, their magic talents are not very good. However, it is lucky to choose these four out of one hundred fifty or sixty orphans. If you can cultivate them, try your best to cultivate them.
The last time Claude was assassinated by the Gray Tower Mage, his sister Anna felt that the Field family must master a secret magical power as the family's heritage, so she was willing to personally guide and train these children with magical talents. But she didn't expect that little Mark's magic talent was almost the same as hers, which was already an unexpected surprise.
"By the way, I came here today to see your prototype rifle. I haven't seen the new rifle until now." Claude looked at the laboratory and found no trace of the new rifle.
"I put it next door. I'll take you over to take a look. This rifle has been named, Sonia 591 new rifle. You allow it. To be honest, without sister Sonia, it would be impossible for me to create you. She is really a genius in firearms design for the rifle she requested..." My sister Anna is very lucky to have Mrs. Sonia to preside over the design of this new rifle. She is a pharmacy student, and she is simply incomparable in terms of mechanical design. On the talents of Lady Sonia.
In the small wooden room next door, there are five new rifles placed side by side against the wall, which look similar to the rifles Claude drew before. Claude picked up one and weighed it. It felt like it was a little heavier than the Obash Type III standard matchlock gun.
"The butt is 1.45 meters long, and the total length including the bayonet is 1.8 meters. The whole gun weighs 8.7 kilograms, which is about a kilogram heavier than the Obas III standard matchlock gun you are currently equipped with. But try The guard soldier who owns the gun believes that this weight is completely bearable. Compared with the advantages of this new rifle, the Obash Type III standard matchlock gun can be thrown into the garbage."
Sister Anna walked up to Claude proudly, picked up another rifle and introduced it to Claude: "This new rifle fully meets the design goals you requested. After lengthening the bullet shell by two centimeters, the range can be improved." Reaching a distance of about 480 meters, the hit rate of precise aiming and shooting within 200 meters can reach up to 91%.
The guard soldier who shot believed that it was his poor performance or continuous shooting that affected the accuracy of the hit, and it was not a problem with the gun. In addition, according to your request, we opened a hole in the wooden stock under the gun body and designed a magazine that can hold five rounds of bullets. After each shot, when the bolt is pulled, the bullet shell will eject from the opening on the gun body. The bullet in the magazine will automatically rise and reset. Then close the bolt and you can aim and shoot again... "
"Let me try the gun first." Claude couldn't put it down and looked at the rifle in his hand. It's so pitiful that fourteen years have passed since he graduated from junior high school and tried to make a flintlock gun in the forest farm. Now, he finally has one. With the advanced new rifle, you no longer have to deal with the matchlock gun. Ever since he got the revolver, the more he looked at the matchlock gun, the more alienated he felt. Now he finally had the opportunity to build the Thunder Legion into the most elite armed force in the world.
Claude consumed more than thirty bullets in one breath on the shooting range behind the wooden house, and each one hit the target. Claude felt very satisfied. The big man Germi and the other guards who came with him were also addicted to guns. They were full of praise for this new Sonia 591 rifle and wished they could have one right away.
"Did you find any shortcomings of this new rifle during the testing and manufacturing process?" Claude asked his sister Anna.
"Yes." Sister Anna replied: "Sister Sonia calculated the cost when she started designing large-scale mechanical production after the rifle was finalized. She said that the cost of producing 100,000 new rifles would be about seven to eight gold crowns each. Then the sales price will be more than ten gold crowns. If one million new rifles are produced, the cost may be reduced to about five gold crowns. In other words, this is the cost of equipping this new rifle in your war zone. It will be unbearable.”
Claude smiled bitterly. Among other things, the equipment price of the Obas III standard matchlock gun shipped from the Kingdom was only two gold crowns and three silver thalers. This new rifle was almost as good as four The price of matchlock equipment has been reduced. However, considering the increase in combat power, it feels like it is more cost-effective to equip this new rifle.
"There is another bad news. What I just talked about is only the price of the rifle. Don't forget that you also need bullets. If one million rounds of rifle bullets are produced, the cost price of each bullet will be about three sunars. If you multiply At ten times, each rifle bullet can be reduced to two sunars, which is already the lowest cost. No matter how much production is produced, it cannot be reduced," said sister Anna.