"Has Senator Anderkolos' packhorse team returned?" Claude asked.
Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes, the adjutant, replied: "No, a few days ago, after they transported the military supplies to the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik and handed them over to Colonel Bokoal, the packhorse team returned to the border of the Lomonkdo Mountains and rested for two days before loading some more. The smuggled supplies set off.
Representative Andkolos and his smuggling association built a large camp on the border of the Lomonkdo Mountains. They first transported the goods from Monknad City through the inland of the Nikancha country by horse-drawn carriages. The goods were transported by road to the camp on the border of the Lomoncoto Mountains, and then the goods were smuggled to the interior of the colonies on the west coast by packhorse teams.
In addition, the smuggling chamber also ordered a large number of light rails from the rail manufacturing workshop, saying that they would be laid on the secret passage. I thought they were going to build a railway, but after asking around I found out that they were going to build a horse-drawn track, which would save half the journey time and the number of pack horses.
In addition, the smuggler will build three storage camps on the secret passage to store smuggled goods, which will speed up the delivery time of materials. However, their road construction brigade had several fights with neighboring Nikancha settlements, all over trivial matters, but they all used fists and feet instead of weapons... "
Claude was very satisfied with his adjutant. He could at least have a clear grasp of the current trends of the smuggling association organized by Senator Anderkolos: "Send a notice to Senator Anderkolos, saying that they named it The name of the Smuggling Association is too ugly, let’s change it to the Free Trade and Transport Association from now on.”
"Yes." Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes wrote down Claude's request in his notebook.
"How much time does it take for General McJack to come back?"
Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes picked up a folder from the table, read it and answered: "It may take about ten days. The Falcon sent a message the day before yesterday saying that General McJack has completed the reorganization of the local garrison in Vibato Port State. Finally, His itinerary is to Rocky Mountain Prefecture. He can only return to Lanhu City after the two local defense regiments in Rocky Mountain Prefecture are reorganized."
Claude nodded, took out a cigar from the cigarette box on the table, lit it and took a deep breath: "Is there anything else that needs to be dealt with?"
"Yes, you haven't approved the application document from General Derivick yet. Today is the third day." Adjutant Mason Hughes reminded.
General Derivick was responsible for recruiting the freed Hicks prisoners to join the so-called volunteer division. Unexpectedly, 50,000 to 60,000 people came at once. This has exceeded the scheduled number of divisions. The defeated and later Hicks people were very unconvinced and gathered around the barracks every day to make noises. General Derivic had to send someone to tell Claude the news and ask for instructions on what to do...
Claude gritted his teeth: "Forget it, let's form another Hicks division and let General Xibelos Tower Borriot serve as the commander of this new division. I considered Pa If the Migar people can really seize the colony of the Molossik Kingdom and establish an independent country, then the Molossik Kingdom will probably send an expeditionary force to the Nubisian continent. By then, the newly-established Hicks will be the second choice The division will come in handy..."
Anyway, the military expenses of the two Hicks volunteer divisions were advanced by the Dominion Military Region. After the Pamigal established an independent country, they could be converted into loans or repaid with interest. So Claude didn't care about forming an additional volunteer division, and he couldn't chill the hearts of those Hicks prisoners who volunteered to join the army. No matter what their personal motives are, their willingness to shed blood and sacrifice for overseas autonomous territories cannot be easily let down.
No one knows what the Pamigal people will encounter after the armed uprising, and whether the Morosik Kingdom will counterattack is unpredictable. Perhaps after the Pamigals establish an independent country, the two neighboring countries and colonies will even send troops to intervene. By then it is better to be prepared than not to be prepared. One more division means more combat power for counterattack. Otherwise, there will be a shortage of troops and it will be too late to regret the defeat. We cannot let the autonomous military region go into battle naked.
Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes took notes and continued to report to Claude on the official business he had to deal with: "Master Bird and General Murray Ed sent people to deliver documents, saying that they were the first batch of iron-clad battleships delivered to the Royal Capital. The decoration has been completed. Please take some time to inspect it in the next few days... "
Claude nodded: "Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, we will go to Patres Military Port in the afternoon of tomorrow, and we will come back after two days."
Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes nodded and wrote down Claude's itinerary in his notebook: "Mr. Veblen reported that the first batch of new matchlock guns and other weapons and ammunition, as well as the old-fashioned throwers produced by Hicks Kingdom, are all It has been transported to the barracks, and Hicks’ First Volunteer Regiment can immediately begin musketry training.”
"Let General Derivic be responsible for checking the advantages and disadvantages of this new matchlock gun. If there are no problems, this Veblen Zero-2 standard matchlock gun can be mass-produced and equipped. In addition, a small batch will be shipped to Boquear, give it to the Pamigar people to try first, so that they can test the performance of the new musket." Claude thought for a while and said.
"Yes, Marshal." Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes started taking notes in his notebook again.
"Is there any new news from the Kingdom?" Claude asked.
"It's still old news from four days ago," Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes said: "The border territory of the Nasseri area was plundered by bandits from the Monbamak Kingdom, and small-scale conflicts broke out. The kingdom sent a special envoy to visit the Monbamak Kingdom to seek a solution to the ongoing situation. The problem of border bandits is becoming more and more serious. The kingdom's three main field ace legions began to equip new rifles, General Albert once again annihilated a nomadic tribe in the Karnas Prairie, Beibu Gulf began to plan the expansion of new territories, etc... . ..”
Claude sighed, these are all old news, he has already seen them.
Colonel Mason Hughes took notes, saluted, and was about to leave the office when he stopped again: "Marshal, I want to join the army..."
"Huh?" Claude looked up and looked at Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes: "Do you want to go down and become a unit commander? Where are you going?"
"General Drivick said he would leave me the position of regimental commander if you agree." Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes replied.
"This bastard, you've already poached me." Claude cursed and looked at Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes: "Okay, I promise you, but I'll give you three days to find a better one. The adjutant will come. Otherwise, you won’t be able to become the leader..."
"Yes, follow your orders." Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes saluted again excitedly: "I will find it for you right now, and I will ensure that I find you a satisfactory adjutant."
"Hey, take care of the official business I asked you first!" Claude shouted at the closed office door and shook his head with a smile. This guy has been with me for several years, and it’s time to put him down there and go out on his own. Speaking of which, of the adjutants I had followed, Mike Jack and Mason Hughes were the most convenient and considerate, and I was really reluctant to leave them.
On October 14, 602 of the Holy Light Calendar, a Pamigal rebellion broke out in the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik on the west coast. It is said that the cause of the incident was that the authorities of the city of Ubilis, a colony of the Kingdom of Morosik, forcibly levied a self-spun linen tax on the local Pamigal people. That is, they levied a high tax on the linen spun by the Pamigal people themselves. As a result, The Pamigals rioted.
The Kingdom of Morosik was rich in linen, and most of the linen was shipped to the colonies and sold at high prices. The Pamigal people in the colony were unwilling to be taken advantage of, so they grew their own burlap and weaved it into cloth. Then the linen merchants of the Morosik Kingdom colluded with local officials and issued a strict ban on the use of farmland to grow burlap in many towns in the colony, so that the fine linen from the kingdom could be sold throughout the colony.
It's just that these businessmen and local officials thought too simply. If they don't allow burlap to be grown in farmland, it can be grown in the wild. Anyway, burlap crops have very simple land requirements. The Pamigal people often take a handful of burlap seeds and scatter them while walking in the wild. In about half a year, the wild fields will be covered with burlap. They can harvest and take home, soak and remove the glue, and collect hemp silk for spinning and weaving.
So these linen merchants and local officials were very angry, and they issued another ban. That means whoever has a textile machine at home will have to pay a high tax on self-spun linen. This means that if you have a textile machine at home, you will spin burlap and trade privately, which will harm the interests of the colony. There were only two options, either pay money as taxes or confiscate the textile machines.
These days, a wooden loom is already a dowry treasure for a Pamigal woman. With the loom, she can support herself. Even if she has no money, she can spin good burlap and use it as currency. Some ingenious Pamigal women can weave burlap into fabrics that are as good as fine linen.
If the linen shipped from the Morosik Kingdom could be sold at a low price, maybe the business would be good. It's a pity that the linen merchants in the Kingdom of Morosik were too greedy and wanted to use linen cloth to plunder the wealth of the Pamigal people. The price was five times higher than the price of linen shipped from the kingdom to other countries. As a result, these linen cloth became unsaleable. Not many people in Pamigal are willing to buy it.
Originally, the reason could be that there were too many fine linens smuggled in from the overseas dominions and the price was too cheap. However, after the Morosik Kingdom colony also implemented a trade ban on the overseas dominions, the smuggled goods and cloths were no longer available. The fine linen produced in the Kingdom of Rosik is still unsaleable. In order to force the Pamigal people to come to buy these high-priced linen cloths, these linen merchants and local officials set aside the tax on self-spun linen cloth, thinking that without the looms, you would always buy our linen cloth, otherwise you would have to go naked. Already...
At the beginning of the riot, the weapons used by the Pamigal people were stones, daggers, spears, homemade bows and arrows. They were easily dispersed by the colonial garrison and local garrison armed forces with muskets. The streets were littered with the corpses of the rioters. Colonial officials and garrison troops from the Morosik Kingdom thought that this riot was just like the past and would be put down within three days.
But none of them expected that the riot would last for half a month. The weapons in the hands of the Pamigal people who appeared at the end had been replaced by a new type of matchlock gun. They seemed to have undergone strict military training. A battalion of garrison troops and a brigade of local garrison troops in the colony of Eubilis City soon suffered heavy losses, and the entire city was lost.
The fall of Ubilis City surprised the colonial authorities of the Kingdom of Morosik. It was not until then that they learned that the organizer of the Pamigal people who initiated the rebellion was the bastard Baron Tezzinger No. who had been ridiculed. La Taganem, he announced the formation of the Parmigal National Liberation Front in Ubilis City, dedicated to the national liberation and independent nation-building of the Parmigal people. Countless Pamigal people went to the city of Eubilis...
Claude was actually very annoyed, because the Pamigal rebellion that occurred in the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik was an unexpected situation and was not planned. The Hicks First Volunteer Division that had been formed here was still there. He stayed in the military camp outside Lanhu City for training and did not leave for the colony of the Morosik Kingdom.
"They are almost two and a half months ahead of schedule, and most of the young Pamigars who participated in the riots have not even completed three months of military training. Nikancha people are Nikancha people, and their unorganized and undisciplined habits have It's integrated into their blood. They can't change this bad habit just by changing their name to Pamigars!" General Netas Barra Vagues, the head of the staff department, was very annoyed. He hated that everything was not in accordance with the rules. A person who plans things.
"The Falcon message sent by Colonel Bockal stated that the reason for the early start of the armed uprising was that many Pamigals were killed in Ubilis City, many of whom were young relatives and relatives of those Pamigals who were in training. When the family members heard the bad news, the young men could not help but feel angry and resentful. They secretly returned to Eubilis City with weapons and ammunition to participate in the riot.
For this reason, they had no choice but to launch an uprising in advance. Fortunately, the Morosik Kingdom's colonial garrison and local defense forces were weak and had low combat effectiveness. They were no match for these Pamigal people who had undergone brief military training. When the city of Ubilis fell into the hands of the Pamigal National Liberation Front, Tezsingh Nora Taganem had to stand up, otherwise he would be deprived of his title of chief rebel and his qualifications as commander. .. ... "
McJack looked at the Falcon Message in his hand and explained that the incident happened suddenly, and even Colonel Boquear over there could only go with the flow and could not stop the young people of Pamigal from avenging their relatives and stopping this riot.
"Your Excellency, Marshal, what should we do now? Should we suspend the training of the Hicks First Volunteer Division and let them prepare their weapons and set off immediately to support the colonies of the Kingdom of Morosik?" General Fodeles, the head of the Military Intelligence Department asked .
Claude waved his hand and asked McJack: "Did Colonel Bock'al request immediate military assistance from our Dominion Military Region in this Falcon letter?"
"No, he just explained the reason for launching this armed uprising in advance. He didn't say anything else." McJack answered.
Claude laughed: "Then let's forget about the riots of these Pamigals. General Netas was right just now. The Nikanchas are the Nikanchas. If they don't change their name to the Pamigals, they will be gone." Those bad habits of the Kamchat people. I think it will be difficult for Colonel Bokoar and the officers we sent there, because the Parmigals will get carried away just because they easily captured the city of Ubilis. ... ...
It is said that in the past two hundred years, the Pamigal rebellion has never been successful, nor has it captured any city. I believe that the fall of Ubilis City into their hands this time will definitely make them confident in themselves. Next, they will sweep through most of the Morosik Kingdom's colonies, and countless towns will fall into their hands.
They have no shortage of people. Didn't Colonel Bokoal say that there are countless Pamigar people who have come to seek refuge with Tezzinger Nora Taganem, plus more than 20,000 people who have undergone short-term military training and learned how to use matchlocks? Pamigal is young and strong, and the colonial garrison and local defense forces of the Morosik Kingdom are no match for them... "
"Then the plan we made and such a large capital investment were not in vain?" General Senanov, the head of the Finance Department, was a little anxious. If the Pamigars alone seized the colonies of the Morosik Kingdom and established an independent country, then the formation of the Dominion Military District would be The military expenses of the two Hicks Volunteer Corps have to be borne by themselves.
General Fodeles, the head of the Military Intelligence Department, laughed: "Don't worry, Marshal Claude's words are still full of meaning. The Pamigal people can sweep over half of the colony of the Morosik Kingdom, but they cannot occupy the entire colony alone. Wait for Morosik The Kingdom of Croatia reacted and dispatched a legion from the Kingdom's mainland to suppress it. These Pamigal people suffered a lot. We can be patient and wait until they are defeated and ask for our support before taking action. In the end These Palmigal people will be willing to pay a higher price in return for our help."
General Netas, the head of the staff department, nodded: "General Fodeles is right, it will not be too late for us to take action at that time. But what I am most worried about is that the Reese adjacent to the colony of the Morosik Kingdom Will the colonies of the Kingdom of Nia and the Colony of the Principality of Vasiliko intervene in this rebellion of the Pamigal people
If the colonial garrisons of these two countries help the Morosik Kingdom suppress the Pamigal rebellion, I doubt that the Pamigal people can persist until the day when our support arrives... "
Claude shook his head: "This situation will basically not happen, because the Kingdom of Morosik and the Principality of Vasilko were originally enemy countries, and there have been several wars whether on the continent of Farea or in the West Coast Colony. If If it were not for the support of the Opsaro City-State Alliance behind the Vasiliko Principality, the Vasiliko Principality would have been destroyed by the Morosik Kingdom long ago.
As for the colonies of the Kingdom of Resnia, they are the main targets of the colonies of the Kingdom of Morosik. The two countries have had several conflicts over the colonial borders, and their relationship is not very good. Now that the Parmigals are rioting in the colony of the Morosik Kingdom, the two colonies can only rejoice in the misfortune, wishing that the Morosik Kingdom would be unlucky and the Pamigals in the colonies would establish an independent country.
Because only in this way can they send troops to the Pamigal country to seize this colony afterwards, so they will never send troops in the early stages of the Pamigal rebellion, and may even provide private support to the Pamigal people... ..."