For Lorist, the hundreds of thousands of refugees in the three provinces of the Principality of Fakel are not a big trouble, but a huge gift package. Just as Fatty Shi and Baron Camorra proposed to him, not only Windbury King City, but also the Northland still needs a large number of immigrants to fill the lack of human resources for the development of the territory.
Why the Norton family's armed forces have a different retirement policy than other nobles' private armed forces in other territories, it is to better transform those captives and make them loyal citizens in the family's territory. Basically, the huge force of the Norton family's armed forces is not recruited from the territory, but the prisoners of war who have undergone three years of hard labor are recruited into the family's armed forces, and after five years of service, they will have a sense of belonging to the Norton family. Thus, he would willingly become a member of the Norton family territory.
Three years of hard labor can make the hostility in the hearts of these prisoners disappear, and then let them join the family's armed forces. The prisoners who have gone through hard labor will only accept the arrangement obediently. But then the generous treatment and strict discipline will make these captives have a sense of belonging and solidarity with the Norton family. After five years of retirement, they will be reunited with their families or arranged or re-established for those single retired soldiers. , then all the people will become loyal citizens of the Norton family.
This was Lorist's transformation strategy, so the Norton family's armed forces reached hundreds of thousands. If this method is not adopted, and these young men who were once hostile forces are allowed to disperse into the family territory, then they will become the most unstable factor in the territory. It was also thanks to the huge amount of seizures and funds obtained from the destruction of the slave kingdom of Haneyabada that Lorist was able to stick to this strategy.
But this strategy takes time. After all, it takes at least five years to retire from the military. Then another way to quickly expand the population of the family territory is forced immigration. For Lorist, after the Principality of Madras and the Kingdom of Iberia were destroyed, the only force that could be hostile in the northern land was the Feisabrun family that occupied the three provinces of the Northeast Grassland. However, the three provinces of the Northeast Grassland were more desolate than the Northland, and the lack of population was the most troublesome problem for Duke Feisabrun. Lorist could not rob many people even if he wanted to rob them.
This is also the result of everyone busy moving the population after the capture of the Principality of Sabaji, turning the Principality of Sabaji into a thousand miles of uninhabited people. In the twenty years since the civil war between the three kings of the former Krissen Empire broke out, almost all the nobles in the territory know Knowing that the population of the territory is related to the importance of the family's strength, in addition to looting property, young and strong labor has also become a scarce resource.
Lorist promised His Highness the Second Highness that he was willing to send troops to the four central duchies to fight for a large number of immigrants. Now the population of the Northland is only 1.67 million. It is unknown how many years it will take to reach the goal of having 3 million people. . However, the three million citizens were the minimum manpower requirements that Fatty Shi and the others had calculated to meet the development of the Northland. It takes too long to rely on childbearing. It takes more than ten years for a person to grow from a baby to an adult, and there are many risks in the process of growth. And the large-scale immigration from the four principalities in the middle is much faster.
Although the four duchies in the middle claim to be rich, Lorist understands that the four duchies' financial revenues are not rich due to the constant wars in the past ten years, especially in the southern province three years ago to support the Feisabrun family and the four duchies in the north. The loss of 60,000 to 70,000 elite infantry is a very loss-making business for the four principalities in the central part. They have just recovered in the past three years and are facing the invasion of the second highness, so they want to plunder a huge amount from the four principalities in the central part. Money and property are unlikely, and the only possible idea is forced mass immigration.
It is a pity that after the capture of the Sabaji Principality, except for the 100,000 residents of Meishan Castle and the relocation of 150,000 to 60,000 refugees whose homes were destroyed, the rest of the refugees were almost captured by the Fesabrun family, the Felim family, the Shah The Xin family and some knowledgeable nobles in the territory divided it up cleanly. Among the three provinces of the Sabaji Principality, Limad Province is monopolized by the Norton family, Meishan Province is divided with the Shaheen Family and the noble coalition forces, and Chikses Province is under the control of the Feisabrun Family and the Felim Family. There are nearly 800,000 citizens of the Principality of Sabaji. After the Second Highness issued an order to prohibit all nobles from forcibly relocating the citizens, there are less than 300,000 left.
For His Royal Highness, he must forbid such forced relocation of the people, otherwise, after occupying the four central duchies, what will he use to restore the economic development of the territories and restore their strength? Because what he will face next is the Ford Business Alliance, which has become a behemoth. Fortunately, Lorist and the others also knew that they had gone a little too far. Looking at the current tragedy of the Principality of Sabaji, one can understand that if the Second Highness does not prohibit it, there will be no people in the three provinces.
Therefore, after occupying the Principality of Forondo, His Royal Highness was very strict about military discipline, and strictly prohibited the nobles from entering the Principality of Faker. Anyway, Grand Duke Faker had fled to the Principality of Handela, and the towns over there were waiting for the Second Highness to go down. Accept it, why bother these selfish and malicious nobles to go out with their private armed forces
But what I didn't expect was that Grand Duke Faker actually left such a mess for His Highness the Second Highness, so that His Highness had to be in a dilemma. At this time, he knew that Lorist wanted to attack these hundreds of thousands of refugees, but he still had to hold his nose to do so. After all, judging from the current situation, Lorist's relocation idea is the best way to deal with it. Otherwise, we can only watch these refugees freeze and starve to death, and move these hundreds of thousands of refugees to Wendebu The price paid by Liwangcheng was basically borne by the Norton family, which was also the prerequisite for His Royal Highness to be tempted and agree to let Lorist and Earl Felim go to the three provinces of the Principality of Fakel to migrate refugees.
Hehe, His Royal Highness must not know that the general will be away, and the king's order is not acceptable, not to mention that the relationship between the upper and lower lords in the Galintia continent is not that kind of **** feudal system. As the Grand Duke of the Northland, Lorist actually has the right to reject the unreasonable orders of the Second Highness that are detrimental to the interests of the Norton family. After obtaining the consent of His Highness the Second Highness, Lorist is now truly letting the sky fly like a bird, and the sea is wide like a fish jumping...
There are currently refugees in the three provinces of the Principality of Faker, Zamora, Fabusia, and Kribia, but the most concentrated refugee is in Fabusia, because the Grand Duke Faker burned down the city of Falaimoch , creating nearly 100,000 homeless refugees. The refugees in the remaining two provinces were ordered by Grand Duke Faker to burn the food and grass stored in various towns in the two provinces, causing the urban residents to have no food and clothing, but at least they still have a house to live in.
The population of the three provinces of the Principality of Faker is close to one million. How can a few hundred thousand refugees alone satisfy Lorist's appetite. On the way to the province of Cribia, Lorist reached an agreement with Earl Felim, the Norton family would take the lead, and the Felim family would also be able to eat some meat and drink some soup. After all, even if the Philim family moved a lot of refugees, they would still need the support of the Norton family with food, grass and supplies, and the southern province that hadn't developed much could not support them.
But no matter what, the Second Highness is still the king of the Kingdom of Antinac, and the face that should be given must be given. Lorist and Earl Felim discussed whether to turn the three provinces of the Principality of Faker into the miserable state of the Principality of Sabaji , at least face-saving.
That's why Lorist didn't plan to move those towns and farmers who had registered permanent residence, which could be easily found on the registered permanent residence. But those noble manors and noble territories that followed Grand Duke Faker to the Principality of Handela became the targets of Lorist and Earl Felim. Anyway, to the Second Highness, the nobles of these territories are rebellious, and when he takes over The three provinces of Faker Principality still need to be cleaned up, so it is better to let Lorist clean up early, the seized materials can just help the refugees.
This is a very strange loophole. The three provinces of the Principality of Faker have already fallen into the hands of His Highness the Second Highness, but what is handed over to His Highness is only the family territory directly under the Grand Duke Faker and the household registrations of the citizens of various towns. However, the people who were canonized by the Grand Duke Faker as under the jurisdiction of the nobles of the territory were not on this household registration. Just as the Norton family now has a population of 1.67 million in the North, these 1.67 million are considered the Norton family's citizens. In addition, although Dremke Province and Winston Province belong to the jurisdiction of the Norton family, the combined population is nearly 600,000 to 700,000, but these are the territories of the nobles who were conferred on these two provinces. To the Norton family.
Just like the residents of Windbury Royal City, their statistics also belong to the Antinac Kingdom, and although Lorist is the governor, he also has the same disposal rights to the residents of the Royal City as the citizens of the family territory, but he still cannot These residents are treated as citizens. This is because there is a time limit for appointment and dismissal as governor, even if Lorist is the governor for life, he cannot pass on this position to his descendants. But the family territory can be hereditary. This was also one of the reasons why the Second Highness agreed with Lorist to move more than a hundred thousand refugees from the Principality of Faker to the Royal City of Windbury. After all, the meat was rotten in the cauldron of the Kingdom of Antinac.
The three provinces of the Principality of Faker have a population of nearly one million, but the people who really belong to the Faker family account for only half of them. Now, hundreds of thousands of them have become refugees due to the atrocities of the careless Grand Duke Faker. Soon with the arrival of Lorist and Earl Felim, these refugees will migrate with the help of the Flying Tiger Legion and the Pegasus Legion to become new residents of the Southern Province and Windbury City. It doesn't seem to have any effect on the Northland, but what Lorist wants is this excuse to rescue and relocate refugees, and he is using the idea of those territories ruled by the nobles of the Principality of Fakel. He is confident that these territories will The people also became refugees and migrated to the Northland.
Well, save some face for His Royal Highness, nearly 500,000 people under the name of the nobles of the territory also moved 300,000 to the Northland. In this way, this time the raid on the four duchies in the middle of the country, Lorist, added 50% to the Northland. More than 100,000 people, not including the 100,000 refugees who migrated to Windbury. It can be said that the Norton family benefited the most from the four central duchies this time.
As for how to relocate, Lorist is not worried. The Norton family armed forces have extremely rich experience in helping them relocate to the Northland, and Earl Felim, who is in charge of cooperating with them, is not a novice. He is very familiar with this kind of forced relocation. familiar. After the Flying Tiger Legion and the Pegasus Legion arrived in the province of Cribia, the Principality of Fakr, the Pegasus Legion left a regiment to cooperate with the Flying Tiger Legion to collect and take care of the refugees, and the remaining three regiments continued to Fabucia Province and Samora Province, they are light cavalry, marching fast, one step ahead to provide relief to refugees and maintain order.
The Flying Tiger Legion, under the leadership of Tiger Ross, followed the order of Lorist to clean up all the aristocratic territories in the province of Cribia that followed Grand Duke Fakr to the Principality of Handela. The order is very simple. The property in these noble territories Food and supplies will be collected to help the refugees migrate, and in order not to die in this winter, the people of the aristocratic territories who have lost all their supplies can only embark on the journey northward like those refugees...
This is also the reason why Lorist only asked the Second Highness for food and supplies for more than 100,000 refugees for 15 days to ensure that these refugees can move to Windbury City smoothly. Grand Duke Faker only burned the food and supplies stored in the towns under his direct control, but did not implement the same decision to fortify the walls and clear the wilderness for the noble territories under his command. In the past few years, the weather was good, and the warehouses of the nobles in the Principality of Faker were not all filled with food and supplies. For Lorist, the secret agents of the Volibear Intelligence and Investigation Bureau, a family lurking in the Principality of Fakel, have already investigated the information of the nobles in these territories, and even marked the amount of food and supplies in reserve in detail. out the amount.
With this information and even the guidance of the leading party, the Flying Tiger Legion has gained a lot. Except for letting go of a dozen territorial nobles who did not follow Grand Duke Faker and paid a large amount of protection fees to Tiger Ross, a total of Thirty-four aristocratic territories were wiped out by the Flying Tiger Legion. Unlike Grand Duke Fakr who set fire to the city of Falemuchy, the Flying Tiger Legion's cleanup was more reasonable. They took away all valuable or Available materials, this is not difficult for them with rich robbery experience. As a result, more than 100,000 refugees immediately appeared in Crimea Province.
For other families or armies, winter is a very deadly season. Apart from spending the whole winter in the dormitory with nothing to do, no one wants to go out to perform missions in the snowy winter. The Norton family's armed forces are different. Even in winter, they still have to perform missions and conduct training outside. It has solid cold protection and long-distance trekking experience. Even the bigger the wind and the snow, the more helpful it is for them, as long as there is a thick enough layer of snow on the road, then the skis and sleds will come in handy.
With the sled, refugees can be easily and quickly transferred to the next location in winter. Through the eagle message, Lorist has commanded Fatty Shi and Baron Camorra to establish a complete transport line, and set up a transport line in Meishan Castle, the Southern Province, and King Windbury to provide refugees with rest and comfort along the way. The supply camp is convenient for the refugees who have gone through the long-distance snow transportation to get off the sled and move their hands and feet until they reach their assigned resettlement site.
When the third blizzard subsided, the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Legion who had already prepared put refugees one by one on the sleds and started the long journey to the Northland. For the Norton family's armed forces, the biggest convenience of using winter to carry out migration operations is that they don't need to send many personnel to strictly guard these refugees. Because no sane refugee escapes the sled or disobeys the rules on the migration road. Leaving a warm, weatherproof sled in such a cold winter means a dead end.
At present, more than 400,000 refugees have been collected in Fabucia Province, and the Flying Tigers have already cleaned up the province and are preparing to go to Samora Province to complete the final cleanup task. The order Lorist gave Tiger Ross was a quota of 80,000 refugees. As a province that has been newly owned by the Duchy of Faker for less than seven or eight years, it may be difficult to meet this refugee quota, but Tiger Ross said, No matter how difficult it is, he will definitely find a way to complete it.
The aristocratic territories in the two provinces of Cribia and Fabusia that have been cleared have harvested the most food and materials, and the rest of the cash, such as Jinford, is not much, only more than 300,000 to 400,000, and more They are exquisite luxury goods and various collections of some territorial nobles, and these properties are worth a million gold dollars. After discussions between Lorist and Earl Felim, the cash went to Earl Felim, while the rest of the property was accepted by Lorist.
On January 32 of the new year, the refugee relocation operation has been going on for nearly 50 days, and the refugees in Fabucia Province have been transported, which means that there are still 30,000 to 40,000 remaining in Zamora Province. Lorist estimated that all the refugees could be transported to the resettlement site by sled before the snow began to melt on February 15th. After a month of rest during the rainy season, they will be able to make due contributions to the development of the Norton family's territory.
At this moment, Bodfinger, who had received a secret order to lead the three regiments of the Rock Legion to Fabucia Province quietly, walked into the big tent in the snow house, and saluted Lorist: "Your Highness, we are ready, we can Have you started to act?"
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