"... ... From Monknade City in Vibato Port State, commonly known as Silver Castle, to the country of the Nikancha people, and then to its inland border, there is already a road that can pass four-wheeled freight carriages. road. It took the Nikancha people four years to build this road. Otherwise, the gold and silver mines they mined would not be able to be transported outside to trade with us, nor would they be able to trade the materials from us. Transported to the territories of various settlements in its interior...
We can borrow this road from the city of Monknad to the inland border of the Nikancha country, but when we reach the mountainous border of Lomonk, we can only use packhorses to carry goods along the path. There was no way for wagons to pass there unless we mobilized our own labor to build it. As for the Nikancha people, it's best not to put your hopes in them. They are really too lazy. Asking them to build roads and be skillful is asking for trouble for yourself.
Therefore, if you want to continue to build a passage along the small road to the interior of the colonies on the west coast that can pass four-wheeled freight carriages, it is best to hire additional personnel and labor yourself instead of recruiting Nikancha people on the spot, otherwise this passage will be After ten or eight years of cultivation. Our autonomous military region and the Nikancha country have reached an agreement. When we pass through the inland highway built by them, we need to pay tolls, and one thousandth of the total value of the goods will be used as customs expenses... "
The head of the Military Intelligence Department, General Forderus Wei Kreidler, has taken over the meeting with Congressman Andros Le Joyester, and he is introducing the so-called secret land passage in detail. It’s not that the Dominion Military Region doesn’t want to take charge of this secret passage, but that the military region does not have the budget to build a secret passage, and the cost of using packhorses to transport supplies through small roads is too high, and the horses’ chews during transportation will take up at least half of the supplies. amount.
Therefore, if you want to achieve the purpose of transporting supplies to the colonies on the west coast for the wildfire plan through this secret land passage, it is best to find a partner who is willing to pay the huge cost of road construction. Congressman Anderkolos Le. Joyster became the first choice. Fortunately, this Congressman immediately understood the pros and cons and accepted the job immediately.
Congressman Andros Le Joyster knew very well that although this secret overland passage would require huge expenditures to build a road that could accommodate four-wheel freight carriages, it would also require hiring road construction personnel from overseas autonomous territories. and young and strong labor force, and also need to complete the material delivery tasks delivered by the Dominion Military Region. But at this time when smuggling ships are extinct in the offshore, having such a secret passage on land is like mastering a golden road flowing with countless wealth.
If smuggling was not possible at sea, they would go inland, while the colonies on the west coast focused their attention on the coastal areas and ignored their inland borders. Therefore, Representative Andekoros Le Joyster believes that as long as the goods from the Dominion are transported to the colonies on the west coast through this secret land passage, it will be equivalent to restoring the prosperity of the offshore smuggling trade... .
Congressman Anderkolos Le Joyster left the military headquarters with confidence and went back to recruit people and materials to prepare for going to the Nikancha country to explore this secret smuggling channel. People from the Ministry of Military Intelligence will provide him with comprehensive assistance and companionship, hoping to assemble a batch of military supplies as soon as possible and send them to the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik.
Claude is holding a meeting to discuss the next step of military reorganization in the Dominion Military Region. The Overseas Dominion Military Region originally had 22 local garrison regiments, which were stationed in the autonomous states. However, eight local garrison regiments were transferred to the eastern region of Falea continent. Currently, there are 14 local garrison regiments under the Dominion Military Region, each with 5,500 troops.
The executor of this army reorganization plan is General McJack. He will lead the personnel transferred from various departments of the military region headquarters to reorganize and reorganize the local garrison regiments in the Dominion. Eliminate the old and the weak, retire the garrison officers and soldiers who have expired, and reorganize the 14 local garrison regiments into a regiment-level establishment of 3,500 people, which is the same as the latest establishment of the two regular corps under the military region, reducing the number of troops in peacetime. military spending.
However, Claude also pointed out at the meeting that the ultimate goal of the Dominion Military Region is to have twenty local garrison regiments of 3,500 people in the entire overseas Dominion to undertake the daily garrison tasks of the Dominion. Currently, the fourteen local garrison regiments left behind by the autonomous territories are being reorganized first. As for the eight local garrison regiments and two regular army units that have been deployed to the eastern region of Falea continent, they need to wait until the overseas autonomous territories complete the reorganization task. Will be rectified separately.
The difficulty in reorganizing the 14 local garrison regiments under the Autonomous Territory Military Region this time is that each regiment will have to lay off 2,000 troops. Not every local garrison regiment has so many personnel that need to be eliminated, so Claude instructed to bring the excess troops back to the Lanhu City Military District. Together with the more than 10,000 troops left over from the last reorganization of the Third Division of the Rock Army, they were reorganized into six temporary garrison regiments and sent to the Nikancha country to serve as garrison guards to guard the inland highway, lest the autonomous military region Supplies shipped to the colonies on the west coast to implement the wildfire plan were plundered by the Nikancha people.
The next two months at the headquarters of the Dominion Military Region were extremely busy. First, the local garrison regiments were performing reorganization tasks. The excess troops were continuously gathered at the military camp outside Lanhu City. Six temporary garrison regiments were being formed. Second, the Hicks captured soldiers who accepted the call and voluntarily joined the volunteer divisions also continued to enter the military camp for training, and the number was increasing, and soon exceeded the strength of a division. According to statistics, it was close to more than 50,000. people.
The third is that Congressman Anderkolos Le. Joyster convened a dozen Congressmen and dozens of businessmen from the Dominion to form a smuggling association, and recruited 50,000 to 60,000 young laborers from the Overseas Dominion with high salaries to go there. The Nikancha nation built the secret road leading to the interior of the colonies on the west coast. At the same time, a huge packhorse transport team of nearly 10,000 people was formed to transport a batch of military supplies for the Dominion Military Region to the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik.
Fourth, 300 grassroots officers dispatched by the Autonomous Territory Military Region have arrived in the hinterland of the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik along with the 10,000-person packhorse transport team. They have joined Bokoal and others to form the Pamigal Liberation Army in the wilderness on the border. Armed. It is said that nearly 20,000 young Pamigal people have been recruited and put into formal military training. However, they are still bare-handed and are waiting for weapons and ammunition to be delivered to them from the Dominion Military Region.
Fifth, Mr. Veblen's military manufacturing industry produced a new type of matchlock gun, the performance of which is almost the same as the Obash Type III standard matchlock gun. It is worth appreciating that the bullets of this new type of matchlock gun use a breech device, and the bullets are conjoined paper tube bullets. After being loaded into the chamber, the paper tube can be pierced and the match can be used to ignite and fire. The front chamber device is omitted. The trouble of firing gunpowder upside down from the ammunition box makes the steps of loading and firing simpler and more convenient.
The only pity is that it was born at the wrong time. When new rifles were already available, this new type of matchlock gun became useless, tasteless and a pity to abandon. Mr. Veblen said that several firearms technicians in the military manufacturing industry were inspired by the new rifles to create this new type of matchlock gun. Since the performance was no worse than the Obash III standard matchlock gun, Claude decided that both the Hicks Volunteer Division and the weapons supporting the Pamigal people would use this new type of matchlock gun, and named it Veblen Type 02 standard matchlock gun.
Just when Claude was so busy, two months passed in a hurry. Then Claude received a letter from Chief Swenson from White Deer City. When he opened it, Claude started to have a headache again. Because the letter said that after her mother and Kaifani arrived in White Deer City, they started a lawsuit, and the defendant was Queen Christie...
The Field family has two properties in White Deer City. One is the big red brick house, and the other is the nearly 5,000-acre forest farm purchased by sister Anna for the family. When Claude passed by White Deer City, he knew that his big red brick house had been in ruins during the kingdom's civil war. He didn't have time to let anyone clean it up, so he just left it there as a garbage dump. This was also the reason why he didn't want his mother and wife to return to Bailu City. Their home was gone, so why go back
As for the five thousand acres of forest farm, Claude didn't pay much attention to it. Compared with the properties purchased in overseas autonomous territories, the two properties in Bailu City are insignificant and not worth mentioning. What I didn't expect was that the reason why mother and Kaifani sued Queen Christie was because of the family's 5,000-acre forest farm, because Queen Christie's Norman Forest Farm didn't know when it would start to transfer these 5,000 acres. Acres of the Field family tree farm were privately annexed...
Governor Swenson said in the letter that during the invasion of the Kingdom by the Union Army, His Majesty the King and His Majesty the Queen lived in the large white palace-like house at Norman Lane Forest Farm in White Deer City. For this reason, the surrounding area was under military control. The Field Family Forest Farm It also became a place for garrisoning troops. Queen Christie once said that the mountain forest farms here belong to the boundaries of her private Norman Forest Farm.
Because during the kingdom's civil war, the administrative center of White Deer City was burned down and all the files were lost. Therefore, in order to flatter Her Majesty Queen Christie, later local administrative officials assigned all the hilly areas in the southwest suburbs of White Deer City to the Norman Forest Farm. So the Field Family Tree Farm was annexed by the Norman Tree Farm.
If it were an ordinary person, they would just consider themselves unlucky when encountering such a thing, and go to the local government to ask for compensation, whatever the compensation can be. But her mother and Kaifani were unwilling to do so. They took the land deed, purchase and sale documents of the 5,000-acre forest farm, as well as the notarized real estate documents and made a fuss at the Bailu City Administrative Office. Local officials are at a loss as no one is willing to wade into this muddy water.
What should we do? On one side is Her Majesty Queen Christie, and on the other side are the wife and mother of Lord Claude, the marshal of the kingdom. In particular, Marshal Claude is not one of those empty-minded earls of the kingdom. He holds the military power of the overseas autonomous territories. In the second half of last year, he once commanded an army to directly attack the royal capital, marched on the city, and almost changed the dynasty. Who can offend him... ...
The mistake is a fact, and it is also a fact that the Norman Forestry Farm secretly annexed the Field Forestry Farm. But the problem is that there are many reasons for this error. One reason is that all the previous industrial documents in White Deer City were lost during the Kingdom’s civil war. Another reason is that the Field family has been in the overseas dominions and has not come back to replace them. The former local administrator took a picture of Her Majesty the Queen. It's also a reason why Yingying arbitrarily determined the ownership of the forest farm without investigating, and it's also a reason why Her Majesty the Queen didn't clearly explain how big her forest farm is...
But how to deal with this problem now? Her Majesty the Queen's Norman Forest Forest Farm has already demarcated its boundaries. If you want to rectify it, you have to go to the royal capital to summon Her Majesty the Queen to confront you again. Who has the courage? But the documents in the hands of Marshal Claude’s wife and mother are also genuine. You can’t just say that they are fake. If Marshal Claude is angered and leads his troops to White Deer City, who can bear the responsibility?
Some people suggested that Marshal Claude's wife and mother should be replaced with a forestry farm or something else on the outskirts of Bailu City. However, the mother was extremely stubborn as she got older and insisted that the original five thousand acres of family forestry should be used. Even though the local officials put forward a lot of additional conditions, such as rebuilding a large red brick house for the Field family for free, allowing mother to choose replacement forest farms and farms, even if there were more than a thousand acres of land, it didn't matter, but mother just insisted. If I die, I must have the original five thousand acres of forest farm...
Then mother and Kaifani took Queen Christie to the circuit court.
The Circuit Court is a new product of the Kingdom. It is also a new measure to benefit the people launched by Frederick I and Prime Minister Marquis Blancart. The purpose is to strengthen the local legal system, tour the local counties, inquire about the cases and penalties of all local governments, and let the common people of the Kingdom There is a place to file complaints and redress grievances.
Just as the circuit courts of the three southwest counties arrived in White Deer City, my mother and Kaifani went to file a lawsuit. So the local officials in Bailu City breathed a sigh of relief. The trouble was pushed to the circuit court. It had nothing to do with them. They only needed to appear in court to prove it...
This case involved the noble Queen Christie and Marshal Claude of the Overseas Dominion. The judges of the circuit court also sat on their knees for a moment, only regretting that they should not have come to White Deer City at this time. But the case has been accepted, and there is no way to shirk the case. Finally, it was decided to hand the case over to the Royal Court and let His Majesty the King and the Queen personally decide how to judge.
In less than half a month, a special envoy from the royal capital hurried to White Deer Town. This special envoy was Claude’s old acquaintance, Viscount Don Bagelo A. Davidlid. There came cordial greetings from His Majesty the King and Queen, a large number of precious gifts, and a personal letter from His Majesty the King.
His Majesty, His Majesty Frederic I, very sincerely told his mother in the letter that he felt very sad because His Majesty the Queen was temporarily confused and did not explain the boundaries of the Norman Forest Farm, which caused such great confusion to the two respected ladies. Sorry. Therefore, Viscount Don Bajiro A. Davidide was specially sent as the mediator in this matter to divide the forest farm according to the mother's wishes and re-register and certify the property.
However, His Majesty the King has another suggestion. He believes that the distinguished Field family should not hide in a small city in the southwest of the kingdom. Because although his ancestor Husby was a farmer, he fought bravely for Sterling IX and exchanged his military exploits for rewards, so that the Field family had its first property.
Then came Mr. Morsan, who worked conscientiously as a local administrator for the kingdom and the late King Sterling X and made extraordinary contributions. At the same time, he also spontaneously raised funds to open up new routes to overseas colonies for the kingdom. His achievements can definitely be awarded the title of noble of the kingdom. However, it was a pity that the officials of the kingdom at that time were jealous of their talents and punished Mr. Morsan on the pretext of attracting pirates, causing Mr. Morsan to eventually sacrifice his precious life for the sake of his family.
His Majesty the King said that after hearing Mr. Morsan's deeds when he was young, he deeply felt the injustice for this unknown hero of the kingdom. However, his status was not high at the time and he was unable to cry out for Mr. Morsan's injustice and could not compensate the Field family. .
Now he has become the king, and Marshal Claude, the third generation of the Field family, has also become the strongest pillar of the kingdom. It was Marshal Claude who wiped out the invading alliance army for the kingdom and destroyed the enemy country. Both father and son have made indelible contributions to the kingdom. As king, he must compensate the Field family for their contribution to the kingdom.
Therefore, His Majesty Frederic I decided to mobilize skilled craftsmen from the royal capital to build a luxurious house for the Field family on the ruins of the big red brick house in White Deer City. The entire cost will be allocated from the royal treasury. At the same time, a bronze statue of Mr. Morsan will be erected in front of his grave to commend his contribution to opening up a new route for the kingdom.
In addition, His Majesty the King is willing to replace the Field family's forest farm of 5,000 acres in White Deer City with a royal manor with an area of 3,000 acres on the outskirts of the royal capital. At the same time, he will give a mansion in the royal capital to the Field family as a part of the Morsan family. Mr. Morsant was posthumously awarded the title of Honorary Viscount of the Kingdom as compensation for his contribution to the Kingdom.
If the respected Mrs. Morsan Field is willing, the special envoy Don Bagelo A. Viscount Davidide will accompany the two ladies and the young master to the royal capital, and help handle all industrial procedures and follow-up affairs... .
Steward Swenson said in the letter that her mother burst into tears after receiving the letter written by His Majesty the King. She was very grateful for His Majesty the King's favor to the Field family and she was willing to do everything according to His Majesty the King's wishes. Therefore, when Manager Swenson wrote this letter to Claude, his mother and Mrs. Kefni were already packing their bags and preparing to go to the royal capital...
After reading this letter from White Deer City, Claude didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and was speechless for a long time. He admitted that he was the biggest thorn in the side of the Overseas Dominions. If His Majesty the King and the ministers of the royal court wanted to deal with the Overseas Dominions, they had to deal with Claude first. The question is, is their mother worth such a big investment? Even his dead father, Mr. Morsan, was brought back to the forefront. Not only was a bronze statue erected, he was also posthumously made a nobleman, and he was even granted a mansion in the royal capital.
If they knew about their mother's current relationship with them, they might regret that they targeted the wrong person. Forget it, never mind, it just depends on how long they will play out this scene. Claude was a little relieved. His mother, Kaifni and the others were not in any danger when they went to the capital city. After all, he was also the largest military leader in the overseas autonomous territories...