Claude knew very well that when the overseas dominions intervened in the colonies of various countries on the west coast, the only one they could get without any worries was the Rodex Bay Colony, which belonged to the United Kingdom of Fox Islands. The reason is simple. First, this colony connects the eastern and northern mountainous areas of Rocky Mountain State, which just fills the map gap of this state. With this piece of Rodex Bay Colony, the Rocky Mountain State seems much more complete.
The second reason is that there is no indigenous population in this Rodex Bay colony, which brings great convenience to the jurisdiction of overseas autonomous territories. The west and south sides of the continent of Nubisia are separated by Cape Morox. Cape Morox is a small peninsula deep into the sea of the Rocky Mountain Continent. The colony of Rodox Bay is The bay plain is surrounded by the mountains of Cape Morox and the mountains of the interior.
At that time, the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands made Rodex Bay Colony its fourth colony on the west coast. It turned out that there was little room for expansion in this colony and there was no interest in developing it. Therefore, the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands did not transport the Nikancha settlement as labor objects, so that the Rodex Bay Colony only established a Rodex Bay City next to the bay, and the residents in it were all Fox Islands. Immigrants from the United Kingdom of Islands can only hire one or two Nikancha servants and maids around them...
The Dominion Military Region presided over by Claude would rather stir up a wave of free liberation and independent nation-building for indigenous peoples in the colonies on the west coast than let the overseas autonomous territories directly send troops to occupy the colonies on the west coast. The main reason is to avoid trouble and sequelae. There are nearly 60 million people in the colonies of various countries on the entire west coast. Among them, the ratio of indigenous people to immigrants from various countries in Farea is about ten to one. That is, there are about 55 million indigenous people, and there are about 5 million white immigrants from various countries in the Falea continent.
Judging from the map, the southern coastal area of the Nubisian continent is the Overseas Dominion, and behind Cape Morox is the Rocky Mountain State. The portion of Rocky Mountain State that belongs to the west coast is separated by Cape Morox, and the gap is the Rodox Bay Colony. Adjacent to the Rodex Bay Colony is the Resnian Kingdom Colony. This is the second colony of the Resnian Kingdom on the west coast and is smaller than the first colony.
Next to the colony of the Kingdom of Resnia is the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik. Now the Pamigal people in this colony have launched an armed uprising and will soon regain the entire territory and establish an independent country. The area adjacent to the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik is the colony of the Principality of Vasilko, and further away is the colony of the Opsaro City-State Alliance. On the other side of the Opsaro City-State Alliance colony is the third colony of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands.
The Overseas Dominion Military District can annex the Rodkers Bay Colony and make it part of the Rocky Mountain State. This is mainly because this colony has no indigenous tribes, is quiet, easy to govern, and has no influence on the Rocky Mountain State after being integrated into one. The transportation of mineral resources produced in the Rocky Mountain State is extremely convenient. At the same time, Rodex Bay will also become the garrison of the armored fleet of the overseas autonomous military region, so that the coastal areas of the autonomous region do not have to worry about threats from the sea to the west.
If the Overseas Dominion Military Region continues to reach out and occupy the colonies of the Kingdom of Resnia, the colonies of the Kingdom of Morosik, and the colonies of the Vasilko Principality and the colonies of the Opsaro City-State Alliance further away, it will be a headache. How to manage the indigenous tribes in these colonies, the so-called various ethnic groups that split from the Nikancha people...
For example, in the colony of the Kingdom of Resnia, there are more than three million Rusmans living in a semi-desert and semi-hilly area. There are five million Pamigal people in the colony of the Morosik Kingdom. There is also the Vasiliko Principality Colony, home to two indigenous peoples who call themselves the Skolos and the Gisdes, each with a population of more than two million.
I think that Claude took advantage of the good opportunity of the establishment of the Nikancha people's country to carry out a purification operation on the overseas autonomous territories. He directly packaged and forcibly moved more than two million Nikancha people living in the autonomous territories to the Nikancha people's country. The overseas autonomous territories became the world dominated by immigrants from the Kingdom of Orvilas. Although there are still Nikancha people living in the overseas autonomous territories today, they are a very small minority and do not pose any threat or impact to the autonomous territories.
Therefore, the Dominion Military Region can provoke the indigenous peoples in the colonies on the West Coast to carry out armed uprisings in order to obtain national liberation and establish an independent country, but it has no desire to occupy those colonies on the West Coast. For the overseas autonomous territories, they have already occupied enough land. Even if it takes another hundred or two hundred years, there will still be enough land waiting for development. There is really no need to go to the west coast to get involved, not to mention that these colonies close to the overseas autonomous territories are also very ordinary...
This is also the goal of the Wildfire Plan presided over by Claude, which is to use the West Coast as the back garden of the overseas dominions, a dumping ground for goods, and to find a long-term sales market for the overseas dominions. As long as these indigenous peoples can establish independent countries, the commercial and manufacturing industries in the autonomous territories will be able to develop more sustainably and longer with the goods needed by such a large population.
"Report!"
"Come in," Claude said.
The door of the office was pushed open, and the new adjutant, Captain Fahsselin, came in. He was originally the executive officer of the Logistics Department, responsible for implementing various specific measures formulated by the Logistics Department. There were many executive officers like him in the Logistics Department, and he somehow caught the eye of Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes and recommended him to Marshal Claude to take over the position of personal adjutant. It has been half a month since I joined the company, and my performance is not bad, but not satisfactory.
"Your Excellency, Marshal, this is a falcon message sent by General Skerry, with an eagle feather on it." Captain Fahsselin held a secret letter with an eagle feather attached in his hand.
If there are three eagle feathers on the message, it means it is top secret and urgent and must be dealt with immediately. If there is only one eagle feather, it is forbidden to be spread to the outside world, which means that even if the person who handles the secret letter has read the contents of the letter, it is not allowed to be spread to the outside world. The main purpose is to prevent the people at the Yaoying Pick-up Communications Office from talking too much to the outside world. There is no problem if a message without eagle feathers is spoken to others, but if a message with eagle feathers is posted, it will be subject to military law.
General Skerry is responsible for the construction and unified planning of the hereditary family territories of all kingdom nobles in the overseas autonomous territories in the Beibu Gulf, the coastal area of the Karnas Prairie in the eastern Farea continent. Since the secret message he sent is not top secret or urgent, then naturally You can wait a while before dealing with it. At this moment, Claude was using mental calculations to verify the amount of material delivery on a document.
"Put it on the table first. I'll look at it later." Claude said.
Captain Fahsselin gently placed the secret letter on the table, saluted again, and then quietly exited Claude's private office.
After more than ten minutes, Claude put down the document in his hand, picked up the signature quill, signed the document, and stamped it with his seal. This means that the document has passed his review and can be sent back to the original department to implement the contents of the document. Of course, the documents that Claude can review are all major resolutions related to the Dominion Military Region. For example, this document is about mobilizing the third division of the Rock Corps to the front line, how much transportation capacity, military resources, ammunition, supplies, and uniforms of the Hicks Volunteer Corps are needed, etc.
Although the staff of each department had already calculated the approximate material consumption and ammunition supply quantity on this document, Claude still had to do his own mental calculations to see if there were any omissions. As the top military commander of an overseas autonomous military region, he does not just command the troops on the front lines to fight the war with high spirits. Most of the real energy spent is actually on the collection and deployment of logistics supplies. Fighting is all about logistics. This is indeed a wise saying.
Picking up the secret letter sent by General Skerry, Claude opened it and looked at it. He suddenly understood why General Skerry had attached an eagle feather to this falcon letter. The content of this letter has nothing to do with the construction of the Beibu Gulf territory that General Skerry is responsible for. It may or may not have anything to do with the overseas dominions. It is about what happened to the Hicks prisoners after they returned home.
When Claude first returned to the overseas dominions, he also dealt with the application of Hicks prisoners to return to the country. The main reason was that nearly half a million Hicks prisoners had served five to eight years in the overseas dominions and were granted freedom. However, because the Kingdom of Hicks has not yet signed an armistice and peace agreement with the Kingdom of Ovelas, these 500,000 Hicks prisoners cannot return to the country and can only stay in overseas autonomous territories and work to make a living.
Of course, it is impossible for the overseas autonomous territories to release these 500,000 Hicks prisoners back. These are all veterans who have been on the battlefield. They are a powerful force when they put on military uniforms and pick up weapons. In the Kingdom of Hicks and the Kingdom of Overas, the overseas autonomous territories are still in a state of war, so naturally these Hicks prisoners cannot be released back home.
The funny thing is that the Kingdom of Hicks is not adjacent to the Kingdom of Ovilas, and the two sides are not at war. But the Kingdom of Hicks refused to send envoys to sue for peace in order to win a fight. As the victor, the Kingdom of Ovelas, of course, cannot take the initiative to send an envoy there. In the past, King Melchid III of the Kingdom of Hicks had insulted the envoy of the Kingdom of Ovelas. Who knows if he will do it this time? Going crazy again. Therefore, this strange state of war has remained in a stalemate until now.
As a result, the more than 500,000 Hicks prisoners stranded in the overseas autonomous territories were in dire straits and could not return to their country. The Dominion Military Region was a little surprised at first, why the Kingdom of Hicks ignored these more than 500,000 captured people. After all, it was an armed force belonging to the Kingdom of Hicks. How could they not even send an envoy to ask about the situation of the prisoners
As a result of the investigation, it was discovered that these 500,000 captured people belonged to the territorial noble faction in the Kingdom of Hicks. They were either the private armed forces of the territorial nobles or the local garrison forces of the territorial nobles, or they were forcibly recruited from the noble territories. Young and strong. For King Melchid III, without these 500,000 captured people, the territorial nobles would have no force to oppose him, and the entire Hicks Kingdom was in his hands...
By now, including their service periods, the earliest batch of Hicks prisoners have been living in the overseas autonomous territories for nearly ten years. Some of them want to naturalize and settle in the overseas autonomous territories, and some want to return to the country to visit their families and take them back overseas. Dominion life. While more Hicks prisoners who were freed were working to earn money, they also hoped that the two countries would end the war as soon as possible and sign an armistice and peace agreement, so that they could directly return home to reunite with their relatives.
Claude received a report that more than 100,000 Hicks prisoners had written applications, hoping that they could be released to return to the Hicks Kingdom to reunite with their families. He decided to make an opening first and settled on two thousand quota of people. Half a year ago, the two thousand Hicks prisoner representatives who were allowed to leave the overseas autonomous territories were sent back to the Farea continent. They first arrived in the Beibu Gulf, and then sent them to the Kingdom of Hicks via ships from other countries...
Claude still remembered that when the two thousand Hicks prisoners took the train from Lanhu City to the port of Copicius to board the ship, each of them carried a bulging bag of letters that other prisoners had asked them to take back. Letters from home. At that time, the train station was crowded with people who came to see off the Hicks prisoners. The two thousand Hicks prisoners who boarded the train also patted their chests and said that they would send everyone's letters home to their relatives so that they could We know everyone is still alive...
This letter from General Skerry told Claude a somewhat cruel news. After the two thousand captive representatives returned to the Kingdom of Hicks, they soon attracted the attention of the local authorities, and the news was soon reported to King Mai. In front of Kidd III. As a result, Melchid III issued a notice announcing that these captive representatives who returned home were traitors. It was precisely because they were greedy for life, afraid of death, timid, and even surrendered without a fight that the Kingdom of Hicks lost its territory in Nubicia. The mainland's colonies have also become the object of ridicule by other countries.
Therefore, the Kingdom of Hicks declared that these returned captive representatives had committed treason and began to arrest them. It was also announced that after the local authorities captured these traitors who returned to the country, they could be hanged from a big tree by the roadside without trial. The family members of these traitors would also be sentenced to hard labor and all their property would be confiscated.
General Skerry said in the letter that of the 2,000 captives who returned home, only about 200 were lucky enough to escape and return to the Gulf of Tonkin, and only a dozen of them brought back their families and relatives. These ten or so people still took advantage of the fact that their hometown was not far from the national border, or they were well-informed and had help from friends and neighbors, so they avoided the local officials who came to arrest them.
Now the more than two hundred lucky people who escaped are very angry. They demand to return to the overseas autonomous territories to tell their comrades all this, and hope that the overseas autonomous territory authorities can help them form a large army and return to the Kingdom of Hicks for revenge. This was the reason why General Skerry sent the secret letter. He didn't know whether the news would cause bad turmoil among the more than 500,000 Hicks prisoners overseas, so he added an eagle feather to the letter and asked not to Side story...
Claude's first thought was that King Melchid III of the Hicks Kingdom was going crazy again, but after thinking about it carefully, he understood why the Hicks Kingdom wanted to do this. It's very simple. The more than 500,000 captured people belong to the territorial nobles. Allowing them to return home will be equivalent to allowing the honest territorial nobles in the Kingdom of Hicks to regain their minions and armed forces. It is not good for Mikey. Emperor De III acted arbitrarily when he was in power.
So King Mechid III simply used the cruelest treatment to stop the more than 500,000 captured people from wanting to return to their country. He was unwilling to let them come back to increase the strength of the territorial nobles, which once again triggered the conflict between the Hicks royal family and the territorial nobles. Power struggles. Compared with the Hicks Kingdom's population base of 30 million, it is not a pity to discard these more than 500,000 young men and veterans who are not part of the Hicks royal family. Letting them return home is the biggest bad news. .
Claude tapped his fingers on the table, thought for a long time, and decided to write a letter to General Skerry and ask him to let the more than two hundred lucky people who escaped back go back to the overseas autonomous territories. The Hicks Kingdom has become a security risk and must be dealt with resolutely. Therefore, these Hicks prisoners can be put to use and can also increase the immigrant population of the overseas autonomous territories.
Since the Kingdom has strictly controlled the number of immigrants to the overseas autonomous territories, the population growth of the overseas autonomous territories has become extremely slow, and there are still only more than 7 million residents. The territory of the overseas autonomous territories is very large. According to statistics, the developed urban land area is only a quarter of the total area of the territory, and there is a very lack of labor and immigrants.
Even if the Rock Legion and the Thunder Legion return to the overseas autonomous territories, and the officers and soldiers bring back their wives and wives' families in the newly occupied areas in the eastern part of the mainland as new immigrants, the total population will not exceed 8 million. The reason is that these newly occupied areas have been in constant war for more than ten years, and the young and middle-aged population has suffered a great loss. Most of the remaining people are women, children and the elderly. Many officers and soldiers are looking for wives who are either orphans or widows. They have very few relatives, and some of them are old people and young children.
If these more than 500,000 Hicks captives can return to the Hicks Kingdom, then at least two to three million relatives of immigrants can be brought back to the overseas autonomous territories. However, this requires the Overseas Dominion Military Region to create conditions for them, such as sending troops to attack the Kingdom of Hicks. These more than 500,000 Hicks prisoners will become the most reliable assisting force and the most loyal leader of the Dominion Military Region, as long as they still want to fight with themselves. If the family is reunited...
Therefore, Claude needs the more than two hundred captive representatives to return to the overseas autonomous territories and tell the more than half a million Hicks captives their experiences and the misfortunes of those captured captives, which will arouse all Hicks. The rage and revenge of the captives. Only in this way will the Dominion Military Region treat these Hicks prisoners as their own, arm them with confidence, command them, and send troops to attack the Hicks Kingdom.
Of course, Claude still has to clean up the mess that has been spread on the west coast. At the very least, he must complete the first phase of the wildfire plan, annex the Rodex Bay Colony of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, and annex the Kingdom of Resnia. The Rusmans in the colony tied themselves to the carriage of national liberation and independent nation-building, helped the Pamigar people in the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik to establish an independent nation, and withstood the attacks of neighboring enemies...