MTL - Black Iron’s Glory-Chapter 518 Appointment and escrow
Chapter 518 Appointment and Trusteeship
The demise of the kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Kanas has caused a stir among the nations of Valeria, because the news means that the kingdom of Ovilas at least nominally ruled the entire eastern part of Valeria and became a veritable one Hegemonic power in mainland China. While military experts and war historians of various countries studied the new weapons and military changes brought by the two regiments of the Overseas Dominion, they also called this war the Second Eastern Regional War.
It is undeniable that the kingdom of Ovilas can defeat from the brink of perdition to victory. The reason for unifying the entire eastern region is the participation of two legions of overseas autonomous command zones. With the passage of time and the hard work of secret agents from various countries, the new rifles and new artillery equipment equipped by the Thunder Corps and the Rock Corps have attracted more and more attention.
The loss of damaged weapons on the battlefield during the war is inevitable. The fragments and wreckage of many new rifles are enticed to fall into the control of secret agents sent by many countries. In fact, with the appearance of new rifles, it is not difficult to infer the mechanical structure of the entire rifle based on the wreckage of these rifles.
Just like the Kingdom of Resnia in the south of the mainland, it soon announced that it had developed a new rifle. This is a new rifle that needs to pull the bolt and reload a bullet after firing a round of bullets. The ninety-one new rifle is very similar, and it is called a single shot rifle with a smile ...
But the problem is that although the Kingdom of Resnia was the first country on the mainland to announce the development of a new rifle, it did not announce when it would replace the rifle with a new rifle to equip the Kingdom's army. Obviously, like other countries studying new weapons, new rifles are easy to handle, but the propellant of the bullet becomes the biggest problem.
Even if several rifle bullets produced by overseas dominions fell into the hands of other countries, those countries were unable to study and analyze the formula of the propellant from the small amount of propellant at the bottom of the bullet. There is no substitute for propellant. Just like the revolver pistol and revolver shotgun produced by the four military industries of the Kingdom of Ovilas, the propellant at the bottom of the bullet is made of fire chips, which is very expensive.
If the Kingdom of Resnia wants to equip two legions of 120,000-30,000 horses with new rifles, and each Kingdom soldier is equipped with 50 rounds of rifle bullets fired with fire chips as bullets, then Kingdom of Resnia can He declared bankruptcy directly. Excluding bullets, the cost of a new rifle is about five to seven times that of a rifle. This is a heavy financial burden for any country, and it is not as cheap and practical as a rifle without a new rifle.
Just like the old aristocratic families of the Kingdom of Ovilas, they also concentrated their efforts on imitation of a new type 600 rifle called Tigerston, which was also stumped before the rifle bullets. However, they went the other way. They wrote to General Boronick, who was more talkative, hoping to buy the necessary rifle bullets from overseas dominions. The first batch needed 10 million rounds, and they asked the overseas autonomous regions to give a reasonable price.
After discussing with General Bolognik and Claude, he paid a high price for a riaso bullet. Ten million rounds of new-style rifle bullets are ten million riassos, which is equal to one million silver towers, which is 200,000 kronor. If it is a fire rope gun, then 10 million guns and gunpowder will probably get 10,000 or 200,000 silver towers. Now Claude's quoted price makes the old noble family dilemma, but the overseas autonomous region refuses to bargain with them ...
In addition, the Holy Light's New Year's pilgrimage in the Kingdom of Ovilas in 601, when the discussion went to replace Claude as the official in charge of managing the Nasseri area, Wang Ting made a big noise Storm. No Minister of the Kingdom was willing to go to the Nasseri region as a competent official, and even the ministers and officials who were forcibly appointed quickly sought excuses to resign to the Nasseri region.
They are not based on old age and inability to serve, or because of sudden illness or falling from the horse and the stairs, injured and lying in bed, unable to go to office. Several newspapers have even issued gambling announcements. First, betting on the number of executives Wang Ting cannot afford to go to the Nasseri area, and second, what are the reasons and excuses for not selecting those officials? For the use of it, the whole Wang people are very excited to watch Wang Ting's joke ...
No one is a fool. If there is a lack of administrative officers in a county in the kingdom, there are people who break their heads in order to **** this position. Go to the Nasseri area to be the local administrative officer, and that's okay. Because this position is difficult and unpleasant, and it may even be a terrible position. The executive in charge of this place is sitting on a gunpowder barrel that has been lit by a fire rope, and I don't know when it will explode.
Anyone with a clear mind knows that taking a job in the Nasseri area at this time is risking their lives. First of all, the Kingdom of Nasseri has been a deadly enemy state of the Kingdom of Ovilas for hundreds of years. Five wars between the two sides have resulted in deep blood and enmity. The attitude of hostility and hatred towards the kingdom of Ovilas in the Nasseri region will not end with the demise of the Kingdom of Nasseri. On the contrary, it will likely become more and more fierce.
Secondly, civilian administrators were appointed, not military positions, and were not protected by guards. You should know that the Nasseri area has just started, and those local counties that are not native to the Kingdom are fine. You can take your family members to work. As a local administrative officer, even if you pay for your own security and hire a guard to take up your post, when you arrive at the place, you are equivalent to exposing yourself to the hostile Nasseri people. You will soon become the target of assassination and murder ... ..
The third and most important point is that thousands of miles are only for wealth. The problem is that at this time when going to the Nasseri area, not only did not have a lot of money, but there was also a danger of life, so it is understandable that no one wants to take office. Although both kingdoms are in the eastern region, their national conditions are different. The Kingdom of Ovilas is an enlightened parliamentary cabinet system, abolished the territories of the territories, formed the aristocratic parliament and the national assembly, referred to as the lower and upper houses, and popularized civilian education in the kingdom.
The kingdom of Ovilas implements a policy of organizing the upper house, monitoring by the lower house, and the king's central mediation policy, which can basically guarantee the stability of the kingdom's political situation. Because the kingdom's military power is nominally in the hands of the king, the military and the government are separated, and the administrative affairs of the kingdom are handled by the prime minister of the cabinet. The Prime Minister is in charge of the Noble House and accepts the supervision of the National Assembly. Such a political pattern has a very significant role in promoting the economic development of the entire kingdom in peaceful times. Of course, except for encountering strange kings like Sterling XI.
The Nasri Kingdom is completely different. The ancient feudal lord system is implemented, or it can be said that the Nasri Kingdom is an alliance of feudal lords of all sizes. It was the great lords who settled it through consultations, and the Nasseri royal family was just the most powerful nobleman in the territory. In this respect, the kingdom of Nasseriya is the same as that of several destroyed duchyes such as the Kingdom of Hicks and the Principality of Kanas, so they will hostile and target the Kingdom of Ovilas and form an anti-Austrian alliance.
In the whole Nassari kingdom, except for the Nasrily-owned territories, the people in the other nobles' territories practiced the serf system. Except for the free people, most of the leaders and civilians are actually very poor and miserable. To put it awkwardly, their lives and deaths are in the hands of the lord. The lord had the final say, and it was impossible for them to decide for themselves.
The Thunder Corps can be said to have almost swept the entire Nassari kingdom, targeting the nobles of these territories and their appointed local officials and the private armed of these nobles of the territories. That's why so many property items and gold and silver utensils were seized. Only in the Battle of Polynesia could these seized gold and silver utensils be stored everywhere in the western part of the King City, and the allied army officers and men who had lured into the city were chaotic in order to get rich. It became the annihilation of Wuhe people easily.
Well-informed officials of the royal court knew that the destruction of the Thunder Army had made a fortune, and it was said that 20 to 30 million kronor had been credited. But their jealousy is useless, these loot are deserved by the Thunder and the Rock. The seizure of the treasury of the kingdom of Nasri, the royal court has the right to question, and asked the two legions of the overseas autonomous command zone to dedicate this part of the seizure to the royal court. But the property seized from the private aristocracy of the territory and the private territory, that is, officers and soldiers belonging to the two legions, need not be dedicated to the court.
In recent years, the fighting has continued, not to mention that the treasury of the Kingdom of Ovilas even starved his family to death, even the wealthy Nasser Kingdom is almost exhausted. This can be seen from the nearly two million gold crown silver and gold reserves seized by their treasury. For the kingdom of Ovilas, the greatest benefit of annihilating the kingdom of Nasiri was to forgive the huge debt of 8 million kronor. Although Frederick I decided to settle the debt when the debt war broke out between the two countries, he was not as comfortable as slashing his creditors to death. This time, the Nassari Kingdom is gone, and the debt is gone.
Now the territories of the Nasri Kingdom have been cleaned by the Thunder Corps, the biggest fat sheep have been slaughtered, and the rest are the bitter serfs and civilians, and there is no oil in the bones. Come, maybe you have to pay for them. So, it would be okay to go to work in the Nasseri region. There is no chance of getting rich and you need to risk your life. The officials of the Kingdom of Ovilas are very realistic. They have started to boycott the need to go to the Nasseri region. ...
Generally speaking, the best way to destroy a country's newly occupied territories is to implement a military management system. In three to five years, the riots and rebels in the newly occupied territories will be eliminated, and the people who have calmed down in the newly occupied territories will become accustomed to conquest. The reign of the rulers gradually began to implement the kingdom's native policy in the newly occupied territories, gradually assimilating the people's hearts in the newly occupied territories, and gradually turning it into the same local county as the kingdom.
But for the current kingdom of Ovilas, military control is very difficult. The first is that there is no money. However, the deployment of troops in the newly occupied territories requires a large amount of military expenditure to suppress the local area. If the Kingdom of Ovilas did not rely on overseas dominance to provide Wang Ting with a lot of material and military support, it would not have been sustainable.
Just as the royal court now relies on the Thunder Army and the Rock Army to perish the Nasri Kingdom and the Duchy of Kanas, it is powerless in itself. Therefore, like the former Principality of Eskilin, the Principality of Rimodera and the Principality of Seedings, the three areas that were previously recaptured by the Thunder Corps, Wang Ting was unable to send troops to take over because there was no money. As for sending officials, it is also unnecessary to talk about it. These areas are the rebellions of the former kingdoms. It is really dangerous to go to be the local administrative officer in the territory of the Prince of Hansback.
The second is the need for troops to implement military control. The Kingdom now has three legions, the Guards, the Red Dragon, and the Griffins. Although they belong to the old noble family power, they are also divided into three factions. For the Kingdom Army Department, the relationship is different. The Guards Corps is their own son. The Red Dragon Corps and Griffon Corps are disobedient and hybrids, and they need to be suppressed and taught.
Although the old noble families have the same external attitude, there are also great contradictions inside. On the side of the Guard Corps, they believed that the establishment of Frederick I was meritorious and arrogant, and they did not look at the two legions. The Red Dragon Legion and Griffon Legion had a tendency to be independent because they were unseen, and even the orders issued by the Kingdom Army Department were ignored by both legions. I want to instruct us, that's simple, let's talk about supplementing military expenses and armament supplies ...
There was no money to re-establish a new army, and the Guards could not be dispatched. As for the Red Dragon and Griffon, they were two uncles, and they could not move them without money. In addition, it is not reassuring to let them implement military control, for fear that their military control in the Nasseri region will become a real sitting tiger, where they will become their territory, and they will not listen to the announcements in the future, like warlords. There will be a slap in the future.
So Frederick I and Marquis Blanchard, the Prime Minister of the Royal Court, were also in a difficult position, and they did n’t know what to do. The conditions of military control were inadequate, but the sending of local administrators was met with resistance, thinking that sending them there to serve was to kill them. There was no alternative but to send a eagle to General Bolognik and Claude, meaning that all the newly occupied territories were temporarily guarded by the two regiments of the Overseas Autonomous Leadership Zone, waiting for Wang Ting to arrange matters.
Claude also laughed when he received this eagle eagle message from Wang Ting. I did not expect that a dignified kingdom would be so poor and disadvantaged that this was not correct. It is actually a good thing that the Legion of Rock and the Legion of Thunder have left the realm of the kingdom, avoiding the vortex of power in the capital of the capital, plus the power of national destruction, there is no need to worry about their status. What the two regiments of the Overseas Autonomous Leadership Region have to do is do nothing, and let it be.
In fact, in the Naseli area, the former Nasiri-owned territories were better able to handle some 30% of the tax, and the remaining elders handled it by themselves, which was enough for the residents of those towns and villages to be happy. Because the previous tax rate for the Nasari royal family was half, and there was one month of labor. Now that labor is abolished and taxes are reduced by another 20%, it is indeed benevolence for those who are very honest about their family affairs.
But in the rest of the aristocratic territories in the Nasseri area, this matter is not easy. The civilians and lords there were serfs, and without the lord they could not even feed themselves. Because they have no production tools, no land, no seeds, and belong to the extreme poor. Coupled with the Second Eastern World War, the young and strong in many territories were forcibly recruited and sent to the battlefield, and the remaining elderly, weak women and children could not support themselves and their families at all.
Without lords, the lives of these lords cannot be guaranteed. So don't look at the fact that the court and Frederick I entrusted the entire Nasseri area to General Bolonick and Claude, in fact putting a heavy burden on the two. The best way to deal with this is to give these leaders a share of production tools and grain seeds, so that everyone can make ends meet.
However, Claude did not do so, because he did not have the power to distribute these lands that belonged to the nobles of the territories to those who belonged to them and to the civilians. Without the lord, these lands belonged to the Sterling royal family, and without Frederick's permission, Crowd could not do that. Therefore, Claude could only send troops to go. Each noble territory randomly found an original local official and designated him to arrange production and tax duties in the territory.
Instead, Prime Minister Blanchard sent a private letter to General Bolognik, which revealed the rewards to General Bolognik and Claude. Both Claude and General Bolognik will be promoted to Marshal of the Kingdom. Claude will also be conferred as the Duke of the Kingdom, while General Bolognik will be conferred as the Count of the Kingdom. As for General Beechlin and General Albert, they were promoted to the same rank and given the title of hereditary baron in the kingdom.
Unlike General Bolognik, who was overjoyed, Claude had no excitement, which was all expected. Her Majesty the King now has no money in his pocket, and can only use these glorious honors to win over himself and others. Just as he promised that the officers and men of the Thunder Corps and the Rock Corps would also receive generous rewards, but because the state treasury was short of money, these rewards were temporarily deposited in the Kingdom Army Department, and will be issued after the military expenses become rich.
It ’s like saying nothing, just like Crowd was given the title of hereditary duke of the kingdom. It is nothing more than a name that hereditary titles can be passed on to future generations. When Claude was alive, he could still get a generous annuity from the royal family. When he was gone, his children and grandchildren would have to pay an royal family annuity to the royal family every year. Otherwise, the title will be relegated, from the Duke to the Marquis to the Earl, etc. Of course, this sum of money is not much ...
In fact, this is like a business done by the royal family and the nobles under your authority. You have made great achievements, and the royal family has given you the title and an excellent annuity. But your children and grandchildren have to pay royalties to the royal family every year in order to keep the title, which is like the royal family is lending, but your grandchildren are paying back the loan. If this hereditary title can be maintained for three generations, then the annuity issued to you by the royal family would have been taken back from your children and grandchildren with interest ...
