After seeing off General Muriel's armored fleet and ocean-going transport fleet, Claude, accompanied by King Avitley I of the Kingdom of Breault, inspected the entire Port of Patkara and spent three days. Time surveyed the surrounding terrain. Finally, Claude signed a lease agreement with Avitley I on behalf of the overseas dominions, leasing the Port of Patkara from the Kingdom of Breault for fifty years, with an annual rent of 100,000 gold crowns, and an increase of 10% every ten years. .. ...
Although he is not interested in the territory of the Kingdom of Hicks, Claude believes that the Dominion Military Region should not just pat the butt and leave, but should maintain continuous military pressure and economic influence on this region. Therefore, the practices of the American Empire in the previous life are worth learning from. The existence of a military base can make people in this region respect the rights and interests of the American Empire and dare not ignore its right to speak.
Leasing is more cost-effective than forced occupation. After all, it is not appropriate to forcibly occupy a port in a lonely place and turn it into an enclave of an overseas autonomous territory. What is popular in the Faslan world is the fist-big-talking-noise model, which makes sense and focuses on occupying land. But such an approach can leave endless troubles in the future. For example, if the occupying country's desire for revenge in regaining its lost territory becomes controversial in the future, the overseas autonomous territories will be involved and unable to escape easily...
The dispute over the ownership of the occupied territories is on the one hand, and the resistance of the people above will also make the overseas autonomous territories miserable. They don't know how much money they need to allocate to this bottomless pit. The cost of increasing troops and military power to protect this enclave, suppressing the resistance of the people, and at the same time providing preferential treatment and appeasement to make them accept the rule of the Dominion Military Region will become astronomical in the future and will eventually crush the Dominion. The fiscal revenue and expenditure of the military region.
Thinking about the so-called glory of the empire on which the sun never sets in the previous life, you can know how failed this occupation method of planting flags everywhere was in the end. Except for India and Hong Kong, the colonies all over the world can bring a certain amount of economic income to the Empire on which the sun never sets. The rest of the colonies, which are resource production areas and commodity distribution areas, all have a wave of national independence. In the end, the sun never sets. The empire suddenly collapsed, huddled on the British Isles, and the centenary naval celebrations could only be completed by yachts...
The American Empire's lease of military bases perfectly avoided the colonial trap. In fact, the roles of the two were not much different. In some places, they were regarded as protectors by the local people, which was completely different from being treated as colonial rulers. . So when Claude asked the Kingdom of Breault to lease Patkara Port as a military base for the overseas dominion, King Avitelli I was so surprised that he was so happy that he offered to rent it for one penny a year.
For Avitelli I, the Overseas Dominion Military District was indeed a reliable ally. He knew very well that the Overseas Dominion Military District had no intention of occupying the territory of the Kingdom of Hicks, so he was able to generously transfer the territory of the Kingdom of Hicks to those surrounding vassal states. The Breault Kingdom originally had only fourteen mountain counties. This time it recaptured three counties of the Manori Plain and occupied four eastern counties. It can be regarded as an upper-medium-sized kingdom in the Farea continent.
Now Claude's request to lease the port of Patkara seemed to Avitelli I to help him consolidate his rule in the newly occupied territory. With troops from the Overseas Dominion Military Region stationed here and using Patkara Port as a military base, he did not need to worry about the safety of the three counties of the Manoli Plain. Even if the Hicks Kingdom is reunited in the future, it will not be able to make another request to the Breault Kingdom for the return of the three Manoli counties during the lease period...
If possible, Avitelli I would really like not to charge rent. The total tax revenue of Patkara Port is less than 50,000 gold crowns a year, but now the Dominion Military Region is offering a rent of 100,000 gold crowns a year, and an increase of one-tenth of the lease fee for ten years. This is really kind. . Although the Breault Kingdom lost its jurisdiction over Patkara Port during the fifty-year lease period, this was not a sale of Patkara Port, but a lease. The ownership of this seaport city still belongs to the Breault Kingdom. .
Therefore, the grateful Avitley I packed up the fifty miles around Patkara Port, including the entrance to the mountain pass in the Manoli Plain, and leased it to the Overseas Dominion Military Region, and signed the "Patkara Port Lease Agreement." Claude directly transferred the fifty-year rent of more than 5.6 million gold crowns to the Kingdom of Breault. This made Avitley I very excited. He hugged Claude tightly with tears and called him... The most sincere friend of Breault Kingdom.
After renting the Patkara Port, Claude can move the hundreds of thousands of idle military families of the Hicks Returning Division officers and soldiers gathered in Wangjing Saint Hyprian City to the Patkara Port, waiting to be transported overseas. In the two or three months of the Dominion, it is better to earn a little money from the project of rebuilding Patkara Port than to let these hundreds of thousands of military dependents eat and sleep in Wangjing Saint Hyprian City all day long. Be good...
The future Patkara Port will become a commercial seaport city located in the southern part of the Falea continent, echoing the North Bay of Karnars Prairie, forming a golden maritime trade route. Through maritime transportation between the two, the products produced in the southern and eastern parts of the continent are connected, as well as the specialty goods from the Nubisian continent. It is conceivable how prosperous maritime trade will be in the future and how profitable it will be.
Therefore, the leased Patkara Port needs to be reconstructed and expanded. According to the design plan of the Dominion Military Region, almost the entire Patkara Port must be demolished and rebuilt. It is just now that there is sufficient manpower to carry out engineering infrastructure construction. This is a win-win solution. The Dominion Military Region gets a commercial seaport city where troops can be stationed, and these military families can earn some money during this period before going to overseas Dominions as immigrants...
Claude stayed at Patkara Port for nearly a month. After sorting out the reconstruction matters, he saw that the military relatives had arrived, and then he handed over the follow-up matters to Siegfried Mo., the director of the Logistics Department of the Dominion Military Region. General Vincent was in charge. General Siegfried was only a lieutenant colonel when he became the logistics director of the Thunder Division. Unexpectedly, he was now a major general of the Kingdom. As a logistics technical officer, he was well aware of the difficulty of being promoted to general, but following Claude for so many years, he still easily passed the promotion barrier.
Claude, who returned to the royal capital of St. Cyprian City, was engaged in busy military affairs again. He discussed with General Albert the battle summary report sent by General Bichklin. As a result, General Albert agreed with Bichklin. General Lin was very envious that he could return to the overseas autonomous territories to stand alone. By the way, he and Claude conducted a sandbox exercise on the Pamigal National Republic on the west coast to fight against the southern colonial three-nation coalition, and discussed the progress of the war... ...
Claude was not too worried about whether General Beachlin would take his own advice and delay the war. Although General Beachlin didn't look outstanding, he was a very thoughtful person. After reading Claude's reply, he naturally understood what he should do. In the current war on the west coast, the three colonial countries of the Kingdom of Morosik, the Kingdom of Resniya and the Principality of Vasilko are trying to make a fool of themselves, but in fact they have no stamina. The Dominion Military District wanted to prolong the war, and the three-nation coalition could only be at the mercy of General Beach Kerin.
You must know that before Claude handed over the execution of the Dominion Military District Headquarters and the Wildfire Plan to General Beach Green, he had already taught these three colonial countries a profound lesson and completely annihilated the expeditionary force they sent to the west coast. Claude originally thought that such a loss would make the three colonial countries calm down, swallow their teeth, and forget about the loss. Unexpectedly, just after he left, the three colonial countries here once again sent an expeditionary force to recover the colonies.
However, it seems that the three southern colonial countries have tried their best. If they fail this time, they will no longer be able to get their hands on the west coast of the Nubisia continent. Because Bechklin said in the report that the expedition force coming this time consisted of eight legions in total, with the Kingdom of Morosik and the Kingdom of Resnya each sending three legions, while the Principality of Vasilko sent two. The total strength of the legion is nearly 400,000.
Claude wanted to laugh when he saw the total strength of less than 400,000 troops in the report. A traditional standing army is about more than 60,000 people, so 6848, the eight legions must have at least 480,000. About half a million troops. But the problem is that the Southern Colonial Three-Nation Alliance used eight legions, but only had a strength of 400,000. Obviously they couldn't get them together or couldn't recruit new soldiers, so they had to leave the legions understaffed... ..
The difference between these three countries and the Kingdom of Hicks is that the colony of the Kingdom of Hicks on the Nubisian continent was purely occupied by the nobles of the kingdom for mining, so after landing, they would go inland along the mountains. They went deeper and deeper, and eventually lost all the coastal territory, because the colonial team found gold and silver mineral resources of varying sizes in the inland mountainous areas.
Therefore, even if they did not occupy territory in the coastal areas, decades of continuous excavation and mining in the inland colonies still brought endless gold and silver mineral resources to the Kingdom of Hicks, and accumulated countless wealth. Even though Melchid III was defeated by the Dominion Military District many times and suffered huge losses, he could still grit his teeth and refuse to admit defeat until he was destroyed by the Dominion Military District.
The problem is here. Although the Kingdom of Morosik, the Kingdom of Resniya, and the Principality of Vasilko have occupied colonies on the west coast, the colonies are all in the coastal plain area with poor mineral resources. That is, they rely on planting and breeding. There is an annual income from fishing, hunting and collecting rare animals and plants. What really made its domestic nobles and businessmen support the colonial policy was to take advantage of the scissor gap in commerce between the two places to reap benefits from the colonies...
Compared with the gold and silver mineral resources that the Kingdom of Hicks has continuously transported back from the inland colonies, the benefits of more than a hundred years are simply not worth the wealth that the Kingdom of Hicks has gained from the inland colonies in ten years. Therefore, these three countries are serious It's hard work to say the least, but they really tried their best to organize the second expedition to recover the colonies. If these 400,000 troops are destroyed again, then these three countries will really have to say goodbye to the colonial policy.
Regarding the West Coast War in which the Dominion Military Region acted as the commander of the Pamigal armed forces and the Rusman light cavalry troops behind the scenes, and even sent volunteer corps to support the liberation and independent establishment of the indigenous peoples in the colonies of these three countries, there was not much concern in the war on the west coast. Something stirred in Lord's heart, and everything was going according to plan. Now Claude is busy building the newly leased Patkara Port, and then gradually transferring Wang Jing's spoils, military families and prisoners to the Patkara Port military base.
After being busy for several days, Claude received a report that the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, the Marquis Blancart, came uninvited again. This time he was accompanied by Baron Cornell, a member of the Dominion Parliament. Claude remembered that this Baron was a shareholder of the Dominion Railway Company and was responsible for contacting the Kingdom about the survey and design of railway lines in the Kingdom. So when Prime Minister Blancart is accompanied this time, is there any additional change in the railway construction in the Kingdom
Prime Minister Blancart was successfully received by Claude. After the meeting, Prime Minister Blancart also explained the purpose of his visit very politely. The first is to increase troops, the second is to build railways, and the third is to lease. There are three things in total. In addition, he also gave Claude an unexpected surprise. Claude's eldest brother, Viscount Albert Thornfield, followed his mother's orders and came to see Claude, intending to get some support from Claude. The construction of family territory...
Let’s talk about the increase in troops first. This is the requirement of the Red Dragon Legion. If we don’t ask for more troops, it won’t work. It is different from the way the Thunder Legion swept through the entire local county, taking away local officials, territorial nobles, wealthy merchants and landlords from the upper class, and then ransacked their homes to seize their property. It is also different from the style of the aristocratic coalition's sweeping away the ground. The Dragon Legion's occupation method is the most formal and traditional. It is nothing more than that those who obey will prosper and those who rebel will perish. The Hicks who have taken refuge will govern the place, and the Red Dragon Legion will send troops to garrison.
Thanks to the newly equipped rifles and the traditional combat effectiveness of the Red Dragon Legion, the local garrison forces in the three central counties they were responsible for attacking were unable to withstand the Red Dragon Legion's attack and either surrendered or were wiped out. For the Red Dragon Legion, the only shortcoming is that the new rifle consumes too many bullets. After occupying three local counties, only about a million rounds of the originally prepared five million rounds of ammunition were left... ...
Generally speaking, when the Thunder Legion swept through a local county, the property they plundered from those local upper-class families was only between one million and two million gold crowns. However, the coalition of nobles was able to plunder five to six million gold crowns in the western counties they occupied. It was simply a heinous and vicious scrape, and in the end they even sold the young and strong as slaves.
The property that the Red Dragon Legion plundered from the occupied local counties amounted to about three million gold crowns. This was because the central counties were richer, and secondly, the Hicks who had taken refuge in them were working as a provocateur to intensify their attacks on local people. tax intensity. If the Red Dragon Legion wants to obtain continuous tax revenue from these occupied local counties, it must implement garrisons in various places to intimidate and frighten the people not to resist the occupation of the new conquerors.
Three occupied central local counties, each with a dozen towns. If a town needs a battalion of troops, and a local county capital city needs a main field regiment to garrison, then the Red Dragon Legion's more than 60,000 troops will find that they have no extra mobile troops. Now the Red Dragon Legion was anxious. Capturing a local county would bring in two to three million gold crowns, and they immediately requested additional troops from the kingdom to garrison on their behalf so that they could continue to attack other local counties.
The second thing is the railway. The original plan was to build a railway in the kingdom itself, like a circle, covering all the local counties in the plains to the royal capital, and then build a railway from the royal capital to the Nasseri area and directly to Porivi. The Royal City of West Asia, and then branched off from the Royal City into two railway lines, one leading to the Beibu Gulf, then passing through the Karnas Prairie to the Eskiline region, then to the Rimodra region, and then to the Sidings region. Another railway line leads from the Royal City of Polyvisia to the Sidings area, connected to the railway line that bypasses three areas...
The plan was good, but the cost of building the railway line was underestimated. At that time, Prime Minister Blancart believed that the planning and construction of the entire railway line could be completed with a huge sum of 22 million gold crowns. As a result, after conducting surveys, drawings and construction budgets for the entire railway line in the past two years, it was discovered that this amount of money was only enough to build the kingdom's own railway line, as well as the railway construction from the royal capital to the Royal City of Polyvisia.
The remaining railway line that circumvented most of the eastern region would cost at least 30 million gold crowns to build, so Wang Ting turned to the overseas autonomous territories again. Anyway, they thought that the autonomous military region's strategy this time The Kingdom of Hicks made a fortune, and there was plenty of money. So Prime Minister Blancart came here this time to persuade Claude and get him to agree that the Dominion Military Region would invest all the Hicks Kingdom's seizures in the construction of this railway line. The Kingdom is willing to share the proceeds of this railway line equally with the overseas Dominions. ... ...
The third thing is leasing. The royal capital heard that the overseas dominions spent huge sums of money to lease Patkara Port from the Kingdom of Breault. The total rent for fifty years reached 5.6 million gold crowns, and it was paid off in one lump sum. , It is simply a crazy and wasteful behavior.
So the ministers of the royal court used their brains and thought that they could follow the gourd's example. Anyway, the Rimodra region and the Eskiline region are now entrusted to the Dominion Military Region. There are also seven or eight seaport cities in these two regions. It is completely possible to imitate the leasing model of Patkara Port and lease these seaport cities overseas. Dominion, the rent alone would be worth the kingdom's total tax revenue for ten years...