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Chapter 587: A bunch of trivial matters
On December 13, the ocean-going transport fleet once again transported Hicks' military dependents to the overseas autonomous territories. However, more than 90,000 people from the entire Thunder Legion will be transported this time. According to the arrangements of the Dominion Military Region, the soldiers of the Thunder Legion will have a three-month holiday so that they can reunite with their families, and then set off for the trip at the end of March next year. Garrisoned by the Pamigal Nation Republic.
But soon Claude personally issued a military order, requiring the four divisions of the Thunder Legion to go to the four states of the Overseas Dominion, Arturas, Tilsim, Mormali, and Robisto. The army headquarters was stationed in Lanhu City, Anphiston State. The troops of the Rock Legion originally stationed in these four states were sent to Beringana, Cromwell, Port Vibato and Rocky Mountain States, while the Legion headquarters went to Lanhu City...
In this way, except for Amphiston State, each of the nine states in the Overseas Dominion has a division of officers and soldiers stationed there. The total troops directly under the headquarters of the two legions are almost the strength of one division, and all troops have been deployed. So just after the New Year's Eve, on January 10, 607 in the Holy Light Calendar, the Dominion Council together with the Dominion Military Region issued an order to severely crack down on local organized underworld crimes, referred to as Operation Crackdown.
This New Year is not an easy one for many people in overseas autonomous territories. Generally speaking, local administrative offices in various places will not start normal operations until the 15th day of the new year. But this time, before the 10th of the New Year, all local administrative officials were notified, requiring them to go to another local town to handle official duties, cooperate with the troops of the autonomous military region in carrying out severe crackdowns, and include the execution of official duties on the official assessment list .
For the sake of official hats and hidden incomes such as gray and black, no matter how bad-tempered the local administrative officials are, they have to obey the orders obediently. They are just handling cases in other places. This has long been the case, and they are administrative officials in all local towns. All are mobilized, not individuals specifically. So no one would suspect anything. The most they could do was scold the superiors for coming up with such an idea to make this New Year difficult for everyone...
It was only when these local administrative officials arrived at their destination that they discovered that it was a heavily guarded military camp. Before they could settle down, investigators from the Dominion Investigation Bureau came to their door and took some of them away, saying they wanted to learn about the criminal situation of their local underworld organization. However, these people who were taken away could never be seen again. Didn't come back.
Other local administrative officials were not surprised. They could only secretly be glad that they had not colluded with the underworld organization, because these people who were taken away were closely related to their local underworld, and they were even members of the underworld themselves. Become a member of the organization. At this time, everyone already knew about the crackdown, so these guys would suffer as a result...
As the crackdown continued, some administrative officials were taken away and never returned. It is said that these people secretly colluded with local underworld organizations or worked for underworld organizations. Nowadays, more and more gang members are being arrested, and the more they confess, the more they confess, and some of them also provide physical evidence such as signatures on account books and dividends. It is understood that most local administrative officials have colluded with local underworld organizations or taken advantage of each other...
Since each state has soldiers from a division of the Thunder Corps or the Rock Corps under the Dominion Military Region stationed there, and all traffic arteries have been blocked, the crackdown in all local towns has been carried out smoothly. The arrests of members of local underworld organizations are led by local security forces, and most of them are accurate in arresting them. Even the bosses of the underworld organizations who were notified by the secret wires could escape today but not tomorrow. The whole place had been blocked and they could not escape even if they wanted to. Instead, the secret wires they had made were exposed.
There were also some gangsters who were determined to fight to the death and gathered their subordinates to resist, causing certain casualties to their captors. But no matter how much they resisted, they couldn't resist the light infantry field artillery brought by the officers and soldiers of the two legions. After two or three cannons, the rest were either collecting corpses or taking in prisoners. After all, no matter how powerful the underworld organization is, it cannot resist the regular army, the largest violent gang...
The progress and results of the crackdown operations in various places were quickly summarized and sent to the crackdown headquarters established by the Dominion Military Region through falcon messages. According to reports from officers and soldiers on duty, there is very little collusion between the commanders in charge of the local garrison and local underworld organizations, and there are only four or five cases in nine states.
However, there are not a few patrol police departments in various local towns who are complicit. More than one-third of them learned about the crackdown plan and tipped off local gang organizations. It is conceivable that the patrol police departments need a major rectification and purge. Responsible for overseas Director Xia Zolak, a member of the executive committee of the Dominion Patrol Affairs, looked angry and felt very embarrassed...
However, the successful arrest of members of the underworld organization does not mean the end of the crackdown. The next step is the rectification and investigation of the entire administrative affairs of the overseas autonomous territories. All local administrative officials who are dispatched to other places to handle the crackdown operations must be investigated. Those corrupt officials with clear evidence will be taken away directly. What awaits them will be that their homes will be raided and their entire families will be sentenced to hard labor camps to serve their sentences. They have enjoyed what they have enjoyed in the past. The undeserved happiness now all comes at a price.
Marshal Bolognik was determined to rectify the administrative issues in the overseas autonomous territories this time. By mid-February, the entire crackdown had entered its final stages. By this time, many members of parliament had come to intercede for those arrested who had oblique relatives. It was just that General Bolognik refused and rebuked these intercessors, and told them clearly that these arrested people were damaging the cornerstone of the Dominion, and interceding with them was poaching for his own family. One day The wall fell down without even realizing it...
With Claude's support, Marshal Bolognik was not afraid that the congressmen who came to appeal would become angry. In fact, the parliamentarians of the Dominion are allied with each other in terms of interests, and they have stakes in each other's monopoly industries in the Dominion, such as the two giant industries of railway companies and tobacco factories. Privately, there are also shipbuilding workshops, brewing industry, paper industry, mining industry, etc., which are all industries with huge profits.
The MPs are the ruling class of the Dominion. After making enough profits, they consider more the local reputation and the reputation of the family. The only reason they come to favor is due to relatives or pressure from the family. After being rejected and reprimanded by Marshal Bolognik, they immediately expressed their support for the rectification and inspection of officials, and published articles in major newspapers in the Dominion praising the crackdown and the inspection of officials...
They are all human beings. Marshal Bolognik is still hoping that one of the congressmen will be fooled and confront the Executive Committee because of the arrest of his relatives and connections, so that the Executive Committee will scare the monkeys and cancel his membership quota. It's a pity that no one gave him this opportunity. Being a member of the parliament meant joining the ruling class of the Dominion. No one would give up this coveted position and become the enemy of Marshal Bolognik and Claude for the sake of a relative who was estranged from them and made a big mistake.
The severe crackdown and administrative crackdown that ended at the end of February left the entire overseas autonomous territories with a huge gap in administrative personnel, with almost three-quarters of the civil servants missing. Administrative offices in many local towns can even be described as paralyzed. However, due to the recent implementation of the crackdown, the local security situation is pretty good. The patrol department is not as bad as imagined. After the investigation, half of the personnel are still on duty and can maintain the most basic social order.
Marshal Bolognik, while leading the inspection agency personnel under the Executive Committee to hold civil service examinations in various local towns, urged Claude to complete this year's list of retired soldiers as soon as possible. He was planning to select outstanding veterans from retired military personnel to fill the vacancies in the civil service. All of a sudden, both the executive committee and the military region headquarters were very busy. Fortunately, Claude didn't forget to order the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion who had ended the crackdown to take a rotational make-up leave, otherwise there would be trouble...
In March 607 of the Holy Light Calendar, the biggest task of the Dominion Military Region was to cash out rewards. Most of the huge profits captured from the attack on the Kingdom of Hicks had been shipped back to the overseas Dominion and needed to be cashed in to give the officers and soldiers the rewards they deserved. This does not only refer to the Thunder Legion, but also the officers and soldiers of the Storm Legion and the eight Hicks Returning Divisions. However, the distribution ratio is reduced accordingly based on battlefield performance and combat merit acquisition rate.
Generally speaking, if a soldier of the Hicks Returning Division can receive a cash reward of ten gold crowns, then a soldier of the Storm Legion can receive twenty to twenty-eight gold crowns, and a soldier of the Thunder Legion can Obtain a reward of thirty-five to forty gold crowns, because the rules of reward distribution are posted on the wall of the military camp. Which legion soldiers have experienced more battles will be allocated higher rewards...
In late March, the ocean-going transport fleet once again arrived at the Overseas Dominion, and General Murield sent a report from General Albert to Claude. General Albert's Storm Legion is currently stationed at the Port of Patkara, which was leased by the Kingdom of Breault to the Dominion Military Region. The only ones left there are the Storm Legion, eight Hicks Returning Divisions and 500,000 to 600,000 Greek troops. The family members of the army immigrated.
After the ocean transport fleet makes two more trips to transport the eight Hicks returning divisions and military immigrants back to the overseas autonomous territories, the only ones left in Patkara Port are the Storm Legion and the hundreds of thousands of Hicks Kingdom prisoners. . According to the plan, the Storm Legion only needs to leave one division of more than 18,000 men to garrison at Patkara Port, and another 30,000 to 40,000 young prisoners to be responsible for reclaiming the wasteland outside Patkara Port. The remaining three divisions will All the selected prisoners were escorted to garrison in the Beibu Gulf Territory of Karnas Prairie...
General Albert said in the report that the departure of the Thunder Legion made the situation in the Kingdom of Hicks somewhat unstable. Anyway, the Grand Duke of the North had officially formed a family armed force, which was said to have the size of four standing legions. The protective forces also had constant armed conflicts on the border with the Grand Duke of Rui Rihe who occupied Wangjing, and small-scale firefights often occurred. As for the SS front that leads the way, they are killing each other and annexing each other's territory. The first one to start fighting...
Let's put it this way, even the three largest forces in the Kingdom of Hicks have not officially launched a war. Instead, it is the little shrimps like the Patriotic Front who are dancing the most happily. It seems that they want to wait for the troops from the Dominion Military Region to evacuate before starting the war, so that when the three parties are fighting fiercely, the troops from the Dominion Military Region suddenly appear from behind and give them a fatal blow, and then they are really finished.
General Albert meant to ask Claude if he really only left one division of the Storm Legion stationed at Patkara Port. He thought it would be better to keep the entire Storm Legion here, which would be detrimental to the three major forces of the Hicks Kingdom. There is a threat, maybe this war won't start yet. General Albert is worried that the fight between the three separatist forces in the Kingdom of Hicks will affect the construction and development of Patkara Port...
Claude could only shake his head and write a reply to General Albert. In his letter, he told General Albert to resolutely implement the plan formulated by the Dominion Military District. It would be better if the three separatist forces in the Kingdom of Hicks fight each other. Only when they have a war can Patkara Port rest easy. The longer they fight, the more they will rely on the blood transfusions from the Dominion Military Region. Only then will Patkara Port truly develop and become another development market blessing for the Dominion...
General Albert is a pure soldier. When he sees the enemy, his first thought is how to destroy the enemy to protect his own people, rather than using these enemies to achieve any purpose. What Claude and the Dominion Military Region hope is that the three separatist forces in the Kingdom of Hicks can fight fiercely and fight a civil war in the kingdom for several years. The Dominion Military Region will support the weak and restrain the strong, prevent any force from perishing, and maintain the balance of power among the three parties. That way The Kingdom of Hicks has truly lost hope of unification, and may be able to split into three small countries...
After finishing the reply to General Albert, I received a report from the adjutant Major Fahselin. The Pamigal National Republic sent another special envoy. They came to urge the Dominion Military Region to send the Thunder Legion to garrison as soon as possible to complete the task. Duties of Allies. After all, the Pamigal people accepted the advice of the Dominion Military District and took the initiative to reduce the strength of the two standing legions of the Republic. This time, they felt that they were naked and had no defense power. When they saw the deadline, the Thunder Legion mentioned by the Dominion Military District had not yet arrived. In the past, I anxiously sent a special envoy to urge...
Claude could only apologize helplessly, because the unexpected mission caused the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion to delay their vacation, and now they can only make up for one month of vacation. Claude hoped that the Pamigal envoy would be considerate and give them another month so that the Thunder Legion could gather to garrison in the Pamigal National Republic in late April.
In this month, Claude can guarantee that the Pamigal National Republic will not be attacked by the enemy. This is something Claude is relatively confident about. Because the Dominion Military Region has formed an alliance with the Pamigal people and dispatched elite ace troops, the news that the Thunder Legion is stationed in the Pamigal National Republic has long spread in the colonies on the west coast. No one would imagine that their colonial garrison would attack the Pamigals, thus triggering retaliation from the Dominion Military District.
Fortunately, except for the Thunder Legion, which had to wait for a month before heading to the Pamigal National Republic, the military assistance given to the Pamigal people by other autonomous military regions was in place as scheduled. Training officers, muskets and weapons and other military supplies have already been dispatched, so the Parmigal envoy had nothing to say except that he was worried.
A month has passed in a short time, and the first division of the Thunder Legion has already boarded the ship and set off for Port Philimuz, a seaport city leased to the Dominion Military Region by the Pamigal people. The Pamigal envoy also returned with the ship and thanked Claude desperately before leaving. Claude promised him to deploy the four field divisions of the Thunder Legion within four months at the rate of one division a month.
However, it will take half a year for the Thunder Legion headquarters to set off. Due to retirement and recruitment of new recruits, the two directly affiliated teaching regiments of the legion headquarters, which account for the majority of these recruits, need to complete the six-month training mission for the recruits before they can set off to garrison in the Pamigal National Republic.
After finally finishing all these trivial matters, Claude was looking for a time to take a two-day holiday, but General Boquear came. The purpose of his coming was to ask for money, and his reason for asking for money was very sound and justified. He said that the Security Bureau was responsible for the entire overseas autonomous territories, and the Investigation Bureau was also responsible for the entire overseas autonomous territories. Only the Intelligence Bureau he is responsible for establishing has to deal with the entire country of Falea. The scope is so vast. Why is the funding the same as the Security Bureau and the Investigation Bureau, only one million gold crowns
Claude smiled bitterly and told General Boker that the biggest difference between the Intelligence Bureau and the Security Bureau and the Investigation Bureau is that it has autonomy. This autonomy can be reflected in the collection and utilization of commercial intelligence. For example, in the name of a trading company, you can travel to and from various countries in the Farea continent and smoothly deploy spies to the royal capitals and key cities of each kingdom. As for this business The income from the above is independently owned by the Intelligence Bureau...
In short, in addition to funds allocated by superiors, the Intelligence Bureau can also find extra funds on its own. This is why the Intelligence Bureau covers the largest area, but its establishment funds are the same as those of the Security Bureau and the Investigation Bureau. Claude believes that instead of worrying about how to set up an intelligence bureau, General Bolognik should first form a caravan or organize goods and manpower in the name of a trading company to go to the Farea continent to do business and spy on intelligence. This is better than worrying about setting up an intelligence bureau in the Dominion. It would be better if the funds are not enough.
General Boker suddenly realized what he was doing and was about to leave the office when he was stopped by Claude again. Claude told Bockar that it was better to come early than to come well. In the past two days, I just happened to take a cash order of more than one million gold crowns handed over by Marshal Bolognik. This was the result of the crackdown on officials and the raids on their homes. The total amount was over three million gold crowns. , the Dominion Army has distinguished these more than one million, which can be invested in the intelligence agency's trading company...