On November 26, the 594th year of the Holy Light Calendar, the first autonomous election meeting of the overseas territories was held in Lanhu City of the Amphiston Territory. In the eyes of later generations of historians, this conference was of extraordinary historical significance. It marked the beginning of the transition from autonomy to independence for the colonies in the Nubisian continent.
In fact, what is not recorded in the history books is that the two hundred or so so-called candidates who represented the public opinion of the entire overseas territories who participated in this autonomous election meeting were all shareholders of Overseas Minsheng Bank. Even if they hold 0.1% of the shares, they are worth more than hundreds of thousands of gold crowns. Each representative is a person with status, status and financial resources in an overseas territory...
In the first half of the month, King Sterling XI's decree on how to deal with the war zones in the territories has been published in various newspapers in the territories overseas, arousing the anger of the people in all the territories. Because this fatuous King does not regard the immigrants from the Kingdom directly under the Overseas Territories as his own subjects, but as slaves who can squeeze out wealth at will. No one would like such a monarch who is interested in his own family property.
More than two hundred public opinion representatives, the richest immigrant class in the overseas territories, and the shareholders of the Overseas Minsheng Bank knew very well that the real agenda of the Kingdom's special envoy this time was their group of people. The reason is simple. The wealth of those people who are incited to anger is actually the banknotes in their pockets. The Overseas Minsheng Bank has been blocked and banknotes have been abolished. The people have become paupers. They cannot squeeze out a few taels of oil and water even if they want to squeeze them. They can only take money. They, the wealthy people in the overseas territories, can perform operations to satisfy Sterling XI's desire to collect wealth from the overseas territories.
Therefore, no one among the more than two hundred public opinion representatives objected to the plan proposed by the directly-administered war zone to oppose the emperor but not the kingdom. Under the auspices of General Bolognik, the representatives voted for half an hour and approved with 199 votes. Seven The vote gave up, and there were zero votes against. It was decided that from now on, the overseas territories will break away from the direct relationship with the Kingdom and be renamed the Overseas Autonomous Territory of the Kingdom of Overas. They will implement an autonomous policy and declare that they will no longer accept any orders from Sterling XI. .
The first thing to do is to change the name, because judging from the current situation, the colonial war with the Kingdom of Hicks has come to an end, and there will no longer be a war situation for the time being. Therefore, the directly-administered territory war zone was renamed the autonomous territory military region, and it still assumed the military and security garrison responsibilities of the entire overseas autonomous territory.
The supreme commander of the military region is still General Bolognik, with Claude and four other generals serving as deputy commanders. It's just that General Bolognik is responsible for more aspects of the administrative affairs of the overseas autonomous territories and the exchanges with the autonomous territorial parliaments. The commanding power of the two legions and the local garrison has been transferred to Claude, who is responsible for the actual work of the military district headquarters.
The second step is to establish the Overseas Dominion Parliament. There is nothing else to say about this. More than two hundred public opinion representatives have become members of the parliament, and Claude is no exception. He has the title of Dominion Member on his head. In name, the Dominion Parliament is the highest authority in the overseas autonomous territories and represents the interests of the people of all overseas autonomous territories. But in fact, members have very few rights. They only have the right to supervise and propose. Real administrative authority was divided between military district commands and the executive committee of the parliament.
After the establishment of the Dominion's Parliament, the one-armed Sir Bennet lived up to expectations and was elected as the first Speaker of the Parliament for a period of five years and could be re-elected for four terms. The next step is to elect members of the executive committee. The so-called Executive Committee is the highest administrative body of the overseas autonomous territories, and all civil affairs are included in the jurisdiction of the Executive Committee.
Not surprisingly, General Bolognik was elected as the first president of the Executive Committee, and the four generals Claude were also elected as members of the Executive Committee. In addition to the five generals, there are also twelve members of the parliament who have become members of the executive committee. Even Mr. Veblen has a quota. They will each be responsible for certain aspects of the civil affairs of the overseas autonomous territories. Five years later, according to their The governance situation is again subject to elections in Parliament.
After these major events were passed, the Dominion Parliament began to enter the wrangling stage. For example, some members proposed to change the Dominion to a state and county system to show the difference from the mainland of the Kingdom. After a day of heated debate, the proposal passed parliament by a slim margin. In the future, each demesne will be called a state. For example, the demesne of Cromwell was renamed the State of Cromwell. If it is further subdivided, below the state is a certain county, not a certain county.
Claude took this opportunity to propose a proposal, which was to change the color of the military uniforms. Claude has been dissatisfied with the bright red military uniforms of the Kingdom of Overas for a long time. The straight military hat and black trousers are tolerable, but the bright red military uniforms are really conspicuous on the battlefield. Especially when countries in the Falea continent pay more and more attention to precise aiming and shooting, if they don't change the color of their military uniforms, they will simply let their soldiers die on the battlefield.
Fortunately, Claude had a lot of face, and the parliament passed the proposal smoothly. As for the color and style, it will be decided internally by the military region headquarters. The congressmen are very clear-headed and will not dictate to Claude on military issues. Of course, some people think that this is the five generals of the military region looking for extra money for themselves. After all, replacing military uniforms for a force of 200,000 people is not a small expense, and those who handle it have plenty of opportunities to do it.
Next, it had nothing to do with Claude. He, General Albert, and General Bichikerin left early and began planning a counterattack against the kingdom and Sterling XI. It's just that this time he can only entrust General Albert to lead the team. At present, the overseas autonomous territories have just been established, and Claude himself must sit at the autonomous territory military headquarters to calm people's hearts.
Murray Ed's ocean cruising fleet, Thunder Legion, except for the 1303rd Regiment of Diavid's 1st Division, all the rest of the troops were dispatched. General Albert will be the commander-in-chief, with McJack and Belklin as his deputies. His younger brother, Major Blovik's Wolf Fang Brigade will also dispatch two squadrons, and Colonel Bockal from the Intelligence Department will also set off as the chief of staff of the corps. Claude mobilized all the elite soldiers and generals in the military region for this operation.
"In addition to all the warships and transport ships of the ocean-going cruise fleet, I also mobilized nearly a hundred ocean-going ships to gather at the Port of Copicius. Last time, Colonel Bokoal returned with more than 60,000 refugees and more than 40 An ocean-going ship has also been renovated and joined this transportation. The ship is filled with military supplies such as grain, weapons and ammunition. Food and grass are used to relieve the refugees, while weapons and ammunition are used to defend and counterattack.
This is not a military operation that can be completed in one round, but a military occupation plan that may last for half a year or even more than a year. Gathering the refugees from the Kingdom's mainland, the number must reach at least one million to fill the lack of human resources in the overseas autonomous territories. This is your first goal.
Secondly, our overseas autonomous regions gave the fatuous monarch above a slap in the face, telling him that our overseas autonomous regions are not chess pieces that he can manipulate at will and slaves who squeeze out wealth.
Third point, after you arrive at White Deer City and land, immediately send troops to capture Barevia County in the three southwest counties, because the fifth largest military production workshop in the kingdom is located here. I need you to evacuate all the large-scale military machinery and equipment in this military industry, and bring the technicians and their families in this military industry back to overseas autonomous regions. Our military region needs mechanical equipment and technicians from this military industry to expand our military production and master the special steel forging production process.
Although we can produce new rifles now, we are limited in scale and can only produce 30,000 pieces a year. The manufacturing of artillery is also very backward. At the same time, we still lack a large-scale special steel refining and forging furnace. This is mainly the result of the kingdom's previous production restriction policy on overseas territories. They hope that overseas territories will always be the kingdom's resource exporter, and no advanced machinery, equipment and production processes are allowed to enter.
So I hope that your attack this time can make up for the biggest shortcoming of the Shanghai Overseas Dominion. In the next few years, the Dominion will enter a stage of major production development, and railways and trains will become the first large-scale means of transportation to be promoted and applied in the Dominion. It's just that we are limited to the scale of the large-scale steel refining and forging furnaces in the Dominion and cannot mass-produce standard rails. We can only pin our hopes on your attack this time.
In addition to manufacturing muskets and artillery and refining and forging special steel, the military industry in Pahlavia County also has a large woolen production workshop and a dyeing workshop. Don't miss these two workshops. Those technologies The personnel must also be collected and brought back to overseas autonomous regions. You all know that my proposal to change the military uniforms was approved by the parliament. Whether your military uniforms will be good or bad depends on your actions this time.
Do you understand what I mean? The purpose of your attack this time is to gather the refugees and give Sterling XI a slap in the face to fight back. It is actually not important. The important thing is to capture and evacuate Barevia County. Colonel Murray, the first target of your ocean cruising fleet is these large military and industrial machinery and equipment, not refugees and refugees. You can organize the young people among the refugees to help you transport these things..."
Claude finally ended the conversation, hugged and saluted General Albert, and then watched him and his comrades lead the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion to board the ocean-going ship, set sail, and disappeared into the sea and sky.
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For Sterling XI, there is nothing worse than receiving a report of an attack on the kingdom on the New Year's Eve. He has prepared an extremely grand banquet for the New Year's Eve in the evening. The all-night party spent a lot of money on the royal family's internal treasury. Now he only hopes that after the New Year arrives, the envoys to the overseas territories can quickly deliver a sum of money to fill the increasingly empty royal treasury.
The 594th year of the Holy Light Calendar was not a good year for Sterling XI. The local counties in the kingdom can no longer extract much wealth. On the contrary, there are more and more refugees and refugees, and corpses of starved to death can be seen on the roadside from time to time. Bandits and bandits are emerging in endlessly. The reports sent to the royal capital by the officials in charge of the local counties do not have any good news. They are either saying that they have been robbed by bandits or bandits, or there is a wave of refugees. They are requesting either military support or relief for the refugees. , which all costs money from the national treasury.
The Ibiniste Plain where the royal capital is located remains calm and orderly. However, the ministers and local officials of the kingdom became increasingly dissatisfied with him as the king. Many people complained that the wrong person was chosen to put him on the throne. If everyone hadn't bothered, the kingdom wouldn't be like this now. His Majesty, the new king, has no ability to govern the country...
Sterling XI was very angry, and he was not really a fool. Although he has many shortcomings, such as being lively, keen on holding various banquets and dances, having private trysts with those beautiful noble ladies, being romantic by nature, etc., this does not mean that he does not want to be a good king. Doesn't he just want to stabilize the kingdom? But he is really powerless. Not to mention that the ministers and nobles below are vying for power and profit. Even if he wants to cheer up, there is nothing he can do. There is no money in the treasury...
A minister persuaded him to stop holding banquets and dances, which made him furious and reprimanded the minister on the spot. Is it impossible that the situation in the kingdom will improve by stopping these banquets and dances? What role does the little money held by banquets and dances play in state affairs? Everyone knows very well that it will have no impact at all. What's more, as a king, he only has this hobby and enjoyment. If he does it well, he can expand the reputation of the Sterling royal family.
Maybe the situation in the kingdom will calm down after this winter. Those refugees and refugees will be frozen to death, and the kingdom will be less burdened, and there will be no need to spend money on relief. When the kingdom's envoys return from the overseas direct jurisdiction, if they get too much money, as the king, he will naturally use part of it to appease the local counties and resume production. Everything will get better in two or three years... ...
It’s just that Sterling XI never expected that he would receive a report of a large-scale invasion of the Thunder Legion from overseas territories on the New Year’s Eve. This was a slap in the face to him as a king, and it also meant that he was sent overseas. It is impossible for the kingdom's envoys in the direct jurisdiction to complete the tasks he assigned them. They don't know whether they are dead or alive and can only be listed as missing.
"How could you ignore them? How dare they rebel?" The furious Sterling XI went into a rage in the palace and smashed his palace to pieces. Because along with the invasion report came a notice of autonomy issued by the overseas territories, which explained to the people of the kingdom why the overseas territories rebelled against Sterling XI instead of the kingdom. It also contained a copy of Stirling's instructions. The decree of King Trin XI regarding the disposal of the territorial war zone.
Anyone with a sound mind who reads this autonomy notice will understand why the overseas territorial war zones have no choice but to do this. The two legions of the Overseas Directly-administered Territory were ordered to defend the overseas colonies of the Nubisia Continent. They did not receive any support from the Kingdom, so they worked hard and relied on themselves. They finally won the colonial war with the Kingdom of Hicks and brought the Kingdom back to the throne. The seven overseas territories directly under the Central Government were expanded to nine, which contributed to the kingdom's expansion of territory.
The war was finally over. As a result, Sterling XI not only did not reward these heroic soldiers who made contributions and sacrifices to the kingdom, but instead punished these generals and officers and soldiers with unfounded charges. Let the five generals in charge of military affairs in the war zone and the senior officers of the legion be demoted and retire, disband the two second-line legions that have made great contributions to defending the country, and take away their spoils. At the same time, they also want to search for wealth in overseas territories directly under the jurisdiction of the country. They simply do not regard the immigrants from the kingdom as their own subjects...
Look at the decree obtained from the kingdom's envoys. It requires the kingdom's envoys to collect taxes and tributes in overseas territories that have not been paid to the treasury and the royal family in the past five years, and impose a fine of ten times. This article alone gives the people of the kingdom the feeling that His Majesty the King has gone crazy from poverty and is biting everywhere like a hungry dog.
The nobles of the kingdom all know that the taxes and tributes from the overseas territories have been allocated by the late King Sterling X to the two legions in the war zone as military expenses to support them in resisting the invasion of the Hicks Kingdom. This was the Kingdom's Army Ministry at the time. The clearly issued announcement instructions also had the seal and autograph of the late King Sterling X.
Sterling XI, who has now succeeded to the throne, has gone back on his word and refused to recognize the previous king's will. He wants to collect taxes and tributes for five years in overseas directly administered territorial war zones, and then impose ten times the fine. A simple calculation can show that this is a huge amount. Can that poor overseas territory hand over this wealth? This is clearly a living force to revolt the people of the entire overseas territory. No wonder the Thunder Legion raised it. The flag was raised to oppose Sterling XI but not the kingdom.
I have to admit that Sterling XI was very unpopular. Immediately after landing in White Deer City, the Thunder Legion used the mobility of the light cavalry to sweep and occupy ten local counties, including the three southwest counties, and then gathered the refugees and refugees. Local Qiu made no mistakes and soon received strong cooperation and support from local officials and powerful local people. It was only then that someone sent the news to the royal capital.
No matter how much Sterling XI roared, yelled, and said harsh words in the capital, he accused everyone in the overseas territories of being traitors to the kingdom. But he had nothing to do with the Thunder Legion, which occupied ten local counties, because no one was willing to obey his orders to suppress the rebellion. He did not dare to send out the Guards Corps stationed in the royal capital and the Ibiniste Plain, for fear that his own life would not be guaranteed.
As for the commander of the Griffin Legion and the hereditary marquis of the kingdom, Admiral Jarias Ho Hadero, he said that he would first pay the huge military expenses owed before discussing the crusade against the rebellion. The commander of the Red Dragon Legion, the Kingdom Marshal, Duke Siegfried, although he was the father-in-law of Sterling XI, did not have a good relationship with him, the king's son-in-law, and immediately rejected the order for the Red Dragon Legion to go on an expedition.
No one is a fool. Although the Thunder Legion is a second-line army in the kingdom's establishment, one level higher than the local garrison, its ability to defeat the ten standing armies of the Hicks Kingdom means that its combat power is very powerful. What's more, their entry into the Kingdom's mainland was to help the Kingdom gather refugees and prepare to send them to overseas territories to give them a way to survive. This is a good thing for the kingdom, and there is no need to disturb their actions. Even if it is changed to a dominion now, it is against the king and not against the kingdom, and there is no independence, so why bother to touch such a hard nail
The kingdom's three ace legions sat back and watched the Thunder Legion move freely in the ten local counties they occupied. The only unlucky one was Sterling XI. He once again became a joke to all countries in Farea. No one paid attention to his will, so he could only hide in the palace and numb himself with alcohol...
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