MTL - Black Iron’s Glory-Chapter 547 A secret letter from General Scree

Chapter 547 The Secret Letter From General Scree

Claude knew very well that overseas dominions would intervene in the West Coast colonies, and the only thing that could be obtained without any worries was this Rodex Bay colony, which belongs to the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. The reason is simple. The first is that this colony connects the eastern and northern mountains of the Rocky Mountain State, just to fill the gap in the map of the previous state. With this Rodex Bay colony, the Rocky Mountain State looks much more complete.

The second reason is that there is no indigenous population in this Rodex Bay colony, which greatly facilitates the jurisdiction of overseas dominions. The west and south sides of the mainland of Nubia are demarcated by Cape Morox, which is a small peninsula part that belongs to the mountainous region of Rocky Mountains. The colony of Rodex Bay is A gulf plain surrounded by the mountains of Cape Morox and inland mountains.

At that time, the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands used the Rodex Bay Colony as its fourth colony on the west coast. As a result, it was found that this colony had little room for expansion and was not interested in developing it. Therefore, the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands did not transport the Nikancha settlements as the object of labor, so that the Rodex Bay colony only established a Rodex Bay city next to the bay, and the residents in it were all Foxes. The immigrants from the United Kingdom of the Islands are at most hiring one or two Nikancha servants and maids ...

The autonomous region led by Claude prefers to provoke the tide of the free liberation and independence of the indigenous peoples in the colonies of the West Coast countries, rather than letting the overseas autonomous territories directly send troops to occupy the colonies of the West Coast countries. The main reason is to avoid trouble and sequelae. There are nearly 60 million people in the colonies of the West Coast countries, and the proportion of immigrants from indigenous countries and the Faroe continent is about ten to one. That is to say, there are about 55 million indigenous people, and about 5 million white immigrants from various countries in Valeria.

Judging from the map, the southern coastal area of ​​the mainland of Nubia is the overseas dominion, and behind the Cape of Morox is the mountainous state of Rocky. Divided by Cape Morox, the part of Rocky Mountain State that belongs to the west coast is a gap, and the gap is the Rodex Bay colony. Adjacent to the Rodez Bay Colony is the Kingdom of Ressonia, which is the second colony of the Kingdom of Ressna 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 that the Pamigars in this colony have launched an armed uprising, they will soon regain independence and establish the country. Adjacent to the colony of the kingdom of Morosík is the colony of the Duchy of Vasilico, and further away the colony of the Opsaro city-state. On the other side of the Opsaro City-States Colony is the third colony of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands.

The Overseas Autonomous Region can annex the Rodex Bay Colony and make it part of the Rocky Mountain State, mainly because this colony has no indigenous tribes, is quiet, easy to manage, and integrates with the Rocky Mountain State. The transportation of mineral resources produced by the Rocky Mountain State is extremely convenient. At the same time, Rodex Bay will also be the home of the Iron Armored Fleet of the Overseas Autonomous Leading Area, so that the coastal areas of the Autonomous Territory need not worry about the threat from the west.

If you continue to extend your hands to occupy the colony of the Kingdom of Resnya, the colony of the Kingdom of Morosík, and the colony of the Duchy of Vasilico and the colony of the Opsaro City Union, it will be a headache. How to manage the indigenous tribes in these colonies, the so-called ethnic groups split from the Nikancha ...

For example, the colony of the Kingdom of Resnia, a semi-desert, half-hill area, lives more than 3 million Rusmans. In the colony of the Kingdom of Morosík, there are five million Pamigars. There is also a colony of the Duchy of Vasilico, living with two indigenous peoples who claim to be Scolo and Gist people, each with a population of more than two million.

Imagine that when Claude took advantage of the opportunity of the establishment of the Nikatsa nation, he carried out a purification operation on overseas autonomous territories and directly packaged the more than two million Nikatcha people living in the area of ​​the Dominion to the forced migration to the Nikatcha nation. Make the overseas dominion a world of immigrants in the kingdom of Ovilas. Today, although the Dominion still has the lives of the Nikancha people, it is a very small minority, and it cannot pose any threat or influence to the Dominion.

Therefore, the autonomous command zone can provoke the indigenous peoples in the colonies of the West Coast countries. In order to obtain national liberation and establish an independent nation for an armed uprising, they have no desire to occupy those colonies on the West Coast. For overseas dominions, there is enough land already occupied, and even after another one or two hundred years, there is enough land to be developed. There is really no need to go to the West Coast to plug in, let alone these colonies close to overseas autonomy are also average ...

This is also the goal of the Wildfire Plan hosted by Claude. The goal is to use the West Coast as a back garden for overseas dominions, dumping goods, and find a long-term sales market for overseas dominions. As long as these indigenous peoples can establish their country independently, the commercial goods and manufacturing industries sufficient for the self-governing territories will be able to last longer.

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"Come in," Claude said.

The office door was pushed open, and in came the new Lieutenant, Captain Fahselin. He was originally an executive officer of the Logistics Department, responsible for implementing specific measures formulated by the Logistics Department. There are many executive officers like him in the logistics department, and he himself did not know how to get into the eyes of Colonel Mason Hughes, and recommended him to Marshal Claude to take over as a lieutenant. I have been in the job for half a month, and the performance is not bad.

"Lord Marshal, this is a message from a hawk hawk sent by General Scree, with an eagle feather on it." Captain Fahselin held a secret letter with an eagle feather in his hand.

If there are three eagle feathers in the message, it means top secret and urgent, which must be handled immediately. If there is only one eagle feather, it means that it must not be circulated, which means that the person who handles this secret letter has seen the content of the letter and cannot spread it to the outside world. The main reason is to prevent people from talking and talking at the Yingying Shuttle Office. There is no problem in saying that there is no hawk's message, but the hawk-posted message says that it must be dealt with by military law.

General Scrie is responsible for the construction and unified planning of the hereditary family territories of all kingdom nobles in the Overseas Autonomous Territory in the northern Gulf of the Kanas prairie in the eastern part of the Vale continent. Since the secret letter he sent is not top secret and urgent, it is natural You can wait for a while. Claude was mentally checking the amount of supplies shipped on a document.

"Place it on the table first, and I'll see it later," said Crowder.

Captain Fahsselin gently placed the secret letter on the table and saluted again before quietly exiting Crowder's private office.

It took more than ten minutes for Claude to put down the document in his hand, pick up a signed feather pen, sign the document, and stamp his own seal. This means that the document has passed his review and can be returned to the original department to implement the contents of the document. Of course, the documents that Claude could review were all major resolutions concerning the autonomous region. For example, this document is about mobilizing the third division of the Rock Corps to the front line, how much capacity, military resources, ammunition, supplies, and uniforms of the Hicks Volunteer Corps are needed.

Although this document already has the staff of the various departments to calculate the approximate material consumption and ammunition replenishment amount, but Claude still has to do some mental calculations to see if there are any omissions. As the chief military officer of the overseas autonomous leadership area, it is not just how the frontline commanding troops fight. The majority of the real energy is actually spent on the logistics and the allocation of logistics. Fighting is just logistics.

Picking up the secret letter sent by General Scree, Claude opened it and stared at it, and suddenly understood why General Scree was going to put an eagle feather on this eagle eagle message. The content of this letter has nothing to do with the construction of the Beibu Gulf Territory under General Scree's responsibility. It has nothing to do with the overseas dominion, and it is about the experience of the Hicks prisoners after returning home.

When Claude returned to the Overseas Dominion, he also dealt with the application of Hicks captives to return to the country, mainly because nearly half a million Hicks prisoners had served in the Overseas Dominion for five to eight years of labor. Freedom. However, because the Hicks Kingdom has not signed a truce peace agreement with the Kingdom of Ovilas so far, these 500,000 Hicks prisoners cannot return to China and can only stay in overseas dominions and work for a living.

Of course, it is not possible for overseas dominions to return these 500,000 Hicks prisoners. These are all veterans who have been on the battlefield. Putting on military uniforms and picking up weapons is another powerful force. In the case of the Hicks Kingdom and Ovilas Kingdom, the overseas dominion is still in a state of war. Naturally, these Hicks captives cannot be released back to China.

It is ridiculous that the Hicks Kingdom is not adjacent to the Kingdom of Ovilas, and the two sides are not at war. But in order to fight, the Hicks Kingdom did not send messengers to seek peace. As the victor of Ovilas Kingdom, of course, it is impossible to take the initiative to send a messenger to the past. The former King of the Hicks Kingdom, McKid III, has insulted the special envoy of Ovilas Kingdom. Who knows if he will Go crazy again. So, this strange state of war has been deadlocked to this day.

As a result, the more than 500,000 Hicks prisoners stranded in the overseas dominion are miserable, and some countries cannot return. The Autonomous Military Command was a little surprised at the beginning, why the Hicks Kingdom turned a blind eye to the more than half a million captives. Anyway, it is also an armed force belonging to the Hicks Kingdom. How could it not even send a messenger to ask the prisoners?

As a result of an investigation, it was discovered that the 500,000 or more captured persons belonged to the territory aristocracy faction in the Kingdom of Hicks. They were either the private aristocrats of the territory aristocrats or the local guards of the aristocrats, or they were forcibly recruited from the aristocratic territories. Young and strong. For King McKid III, without these half a million captives, the territories nobles had little force to oppose him, and the entire Hicks kingdom was in his hands ...

With the service period up to now, the earliest batch of Hicks prisoners have lived in the overseas dominions for almost ten years. Some of them want to settle in the overseas dominions, and some want to return to visit their families and take them back overseas. Dominion life. More free Hicks captives, while earning money to work, are looking forward to the early conclusion of the war between the two countries and the signing of a truce peace agreement, so that they can return directly to their country and be reunited with their loved ones.

Claude received a report saying that more than 100,000 Hicks prisoners had written an application, hoping to release them when they returned to the Hicks Kingdom to gather with their family, and decided to let go of it first and set a limit of 2,000. Quota of people. Half a year ago, he sent two thousand Hicks prisoner representatives who were allowed to leave the overseas dominion to return to the land of Valeria, first arrived in Beibu Gulf, and then transported them to the Hicks Kingdom by ships from other countries ...

Crowd still remembers that when these two thousand Hicks prisoners took a train to Lake Cobicius in Lanhu City to take a boat, everyone had a large bag of letters beside them, which was taken by other captives. Home letter. At that time, the train station was crowded by those Hicks prisoners who came to see him off. The 2,000 Hicks prisoners who boarded the train also patted their chests and said that they must send their family letters to their loved ones. We know everyone is alive ...

The letter from General Scrie told Claude a bit of cruel news. The 2,000 captive representatives returned to the Hicks Kingdom shortly after they were brought to the attention of local authorities. The news was quickly reported to King Mai Before Kidd III. As a result, McKid III issued a notice announcing that these returning captive representatives were all traitors. It was because of their greed for life, fear of death, cowardice, and even surrender that they did not fight, causing the Hicks kingdom to lose in Nubia. The mainland's colonies have also become the object of ridicule by the nations.

As a result, the Kingdom of Hicks declared that these returning prisoner representatives had committed treason and arrested them. Furthermore, it was announced that after the local treasoners were arrested by the local authorities, they could be hanged on the roadside tree without trial. The families of these treasoners were sentenced to hard labor and all property was confiscated.

General Scrie said in the letter that the two thousand returned prisoner representatives were lucky enough to escape and returned to Beibu Gulf with only two hundred, of whom only a dozen were brought home and relatives. These dozens of people still occupied their hometown not far from the national border, or they were cheap and helped by friends and neighborhood folks to avoid the local officials who came to arrest them.

Now more than two hundred lucky people who escaped are very angry. They asked to return to the overseas dominions to tell their comrades all these things, and hope that the overseas dominion authorities can help them form an army to return to the Hicks Kingdom to revenge. This is the reason why General Scrie sent a secret letter. He did not know if the news would cause bad turbulence among the more than 500,000 Hicks prisoners overseas, so he added a letter to the letter. Biography ...

Claude's first thought was that King McKid III of the Hicks Kingdom began to go crazy again, but if you think about it, you will understand why Hicks Kingdom did it. Quite simply, the more than 500,000 captured people belonged to the territory nobles. If they returned, it would be equivalent to regaining the minions and armed forces of the honest land nobles in the Hicks Kingdom. The dictatorship of Germany III.

Therefore, McKid III simply cut off the thought of returning to the country with more than 500,000 captives with the most severe treatment. He was unwilling to let them come back to increase the power in the hands of the land nobles, and once again triggered the Hicks and the land nobles Power struggle. Compared to the Hicks Kingdom ’s population base of 30 million, the more than 500,000 young and non-Hicks royal forces and veterans who have been on the battlefield are discarded. It is a pity to let them return to China. .

Claude tapped his finger on the table and thought for a long time, and decided to write to General Scree, asking him to return the two hundred lucky people who had escaped back to the overseas dominion. The Hicks Kingdom has become a security hazard and must be resolutely cracked down. Therefore, these Hicks prisoners can come in handy and increase the immigration population to overseas dominions.

Since the Kingdom has strictly controlled the number of immigrants heading to overseas dominions, the population growth of overseas dominions has become extremely slow, and there are still only more than 7 million residents. The area of ​​overseas autonomous territories is very large. According to statistics, the area of ​​urban land that has been developed is only a quarter of the total area of ​​the territories, which is very lacking in labor and immigration.

Even if the Rock Corps and Thunder Corps return to the overseas dominion, the officers and men will bring their wives and wives in the newly-occupied area in the eastern part of the mainland back as new immigrants, and the total population will not exceed 8 million. The reason is that for more than a decade of war in these newly-occupied areas, young people have suffered heavy losses, and most of the rest are women, children, old and young. Many officers and soldiers look for widows who are either orphans or widows. They have very few relatives, and some are also elderly and young children.

If more than half a million Hicks prisoners can return to Hicks Kingdom, then at least they can bring back two or three million relatives and immigrants to overseas dominions. However, this requires the autonomous autonomous regions to create conditions for them, such as sending troops to attack the Hicks Kingdom. The more than half a million Hicks prisoners will become the most reliable aid force and the most loyal party leader in the autonomous region, as long as they want to deal with themselves. If your family is reunited ...

Therefore, Claude needed the more than two hundred prisoner representatives to return to the overseas self-governing territories, telling more than half a million Hicks prisoners their experiences, and the misfortune of those captured prisoner representatives, arousing all Hicks The anger and revenge of the captives. Only in this way, the autonomous region will treat these Hicks prisoners as their own, safely arm them, command them, and send their troops to attack the Hicks kingdom.

Of course, at present, Claude has to clean up the mess that has been spread on the West Coast. At the very least, the first stage of the wildfire plan has been completed, the Rodex Bay colony in the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands has been annexed, and the Kingdom of Resne The colonial Rusmans tied the carriages of national liberation and independence and helped the Pomigals in the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik to establish an independent nation and stand up to the attacks of neighboring enemies ...