MTL - The King-Chapter 319 Disarmament
Blood Moon Castle, looking at the conditions offered by Caesar III, stood on the top of the new city, Hudson, looked into the distance and shook his head secretly.
The aristocratic group is not easy to bully. Even if major concessions are made, it is still difficult for Caesar III's plan to pass.
"Tom, tell the high-ranking generals in the army to come over for a meeting!"
Hudson ordered with a blank face.
No matter how difficult it is, you must make a gesture of hard work. It's one thing to be able to do it, it's another thing not to try.
It is estimated that Caesar III himself has no extravagant expectations, and everything is carried out according to his plan.
The royal family may seem majestic, but since the failure of the last Northern Expedition, its influence in the army has begun to decline, which is also an indisputable fact.
A large number of noble officers who were close to the royal family were killed, and the new generation of the royal family had no time to replace them. The king's voice in the army had dropped to its lowest point in decades.
This is also the core reason why Caesar III tried his best to destroy the hill of northern nobles.
Knocking out the largest force in the army does not mean that the royal family's control over the army has been strengthened. Just one Marquis of James can't hold his ground at all.
If no one was available, Caesar III would not have picked Hudson as a slippery man to implement his political plan.
Looking at the results, you can tell that a slicker is a slicker, and he doesn't work hard at all when doing things.
are all determined by status. As a member of the great nobles, it is impossible for Hudson to completely sit on the king's side.
Who made Hudson's superiority purely a coincidence, not a direct descendant of the king's promotion?
In fact, Hudson's current situation is also a bit embarrassing.
In the past, the commander-in-chief of this level of war, even if it was not the king himself, was also a direct descendant of the royal family.
Hudson, who came to power by accident, could neither fully support the king nor the nobles.
I have to play balance in the middle, and if I am a little careless, I will not be human inside and out.
Especially now, when the two sides are at an impasse, he, the middleman, is the most difficult.
If the mentality is not strong enough, it is easy to mistake the whole kingdom and work hard by yourself.
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In Lutetia, the Terran Alliance meeting is once again in chaos. Around the interests of the prairie, the parties have been deadlocked for a long time.
There is no way, the grasslands are also divided into different classes. Some areas with fertile water and grass can completely develop fertile land and develop farming civilization.
In fact, the Orc Empire has already started to do it. In the huge orc prairie, one-fifth of the area is farmland.
This is also subject to the low level of civilization of the orcs. If it is replaced by the human race in the past, the degree of development and utilization will definitely increase significantly.
Theoretically speaking, as long as the water source is sufficient, the terrain is flat, and the soil quality is good, farming civilization can be developed.
Other small problems can completely change nature with manpower. At least for a group of major forces, it is not difficult at all to change the natural environment in a certain area.
But theories are just theories after all. If there are mature and good lands, naturally no one wants to pick up bad lands.
Besides the land issue, there are endless disputes about the rule of the orc prairie.
Some people advocate a complete split into multiple countries, some advocate the establishment of a unified country, and some advocate the establishment of a loose federation.
The major forces all take their own interests as the starting point, and no one is willing to make concessions, which makes the meeting process very difficult.
Faced with this situation, Charles III, as the host, was about to lose all his hair.
"enough!
If you want to quarrel, just go out and quarrel with me!
What's the fuss? Since the controversy is endless, let's vote directly. Everyone is the elite of my human race, how can it be like a vegetable market? "
Charles III's rant seems to be solving the problem, but it is actually a bad idea.
Voting can indeed produce results, but it does not mean that voting is a panacea for solving problems.
In a short period of time, the distribution of benefits can be completed based on the voting results, but the hidden dangers of conflicts cannot be resolved by one round of voting.
It's just that there is no better choice right now. As the initiator of the alliance meeting, it is necessary to give the meeting a happy ending.
As for how many hidden dangers were left and how many mines were planted, Charles III could no longer take care of so much.
Anyway, there are a lot of internal conflicts in the human race, and adding a little more will not hurt.
"Then, as His Majesty said, make proposals separately and directly carry out standards. The proposal with the highest vote rate will be the resolution of the alliance!"
Bishop Montesson added along the way.
The Holy See, as the biggest shit-stirring stick in the Terran Alliance. This kind of work of digging pits and laying mines has always been their favorite.
The only pity is: they are a religious organization, and when they play politics, they are always linked with religion, so that they often make neither fish nor fowl.
In the blink of an eye, as many as a dozen proposals were proposed. It can be seen that everyone still maintained restraint, and representatives of the small forces all chose to turn off the fire with self-knowledge.
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"The war is over. To continue to maintain the existing huge armaments will put too much pressure on the kingdom. After careful research, the command decided to carry out a large-scale disarmament.
Considering that the threat of the orc empire disappears, the military pressure on the future kingdom will be greatly reduced, so the number of standing troops will also be greatly reduced compared with the past.
I personally think that the number of the kingdom's standing army is maintained at 50,000 to 80,000, which can meet the current military needs.
In view of the kingdom's current financial pressure, the number of the kingdom's standing army can be further reduced in a short period of time.
Specific standards, we can continue to study. The top priority now is to abolish the redundant army to reduce the kingdom's military expenditure! "
At the military meeting, Hudson tried his best to promote the theory of disarmament.
After this battle, the Alpha Kingdom's vitality was seriously injured, especially the financial loss, which was the heaviest.
The huge debt pressure has overwhelmed the kingdom. It can be said that the abolition of the army is imperative.
In order to get out of the game between the king and the noble group, Hudson decisively chose-disarmament.
As the commander-in-chief of the army, this happens to be his job. Come out to preside over disarmament at such a time to reduce the financial pressure on the kingdom, that is a proper loyalty to the public.
By the way, it also solved the biggest hidden danger for Caesar III.
Once the noble army disbands and goes home, the next game is a purely political struggle, and there is no need to worry about the parties collapsing midway and turning into a military conflict.
"Dear Earl of Hudson, we have no objection to disbanding the army after the war is over. This is what should be done, and it is nothing more than a matter of time.
But the number of the kingdom's standing army is too small, right?
You must know that the kingdom has maintained more than 300,000 standing troops all year round. How can it match our international status by reducing so many establishments at once?
Especially now, while the kingdom regained lost ground, it also gained a small amount. It is entirely possible for us to maintain a larger army to demonstrate our status as the third most powerful country in the Kingdom! "
Earl Pierce took the lead in objecting.
Intuition told him that there was a conspiracy in Hudson's plan. Although I don't know what this is planning, the direct opposition supported by the enemy is right.
Theoretically speaking, the kingdom’s military pressure has disappeared, and the reduction of the standing army is the right thing to do. But Earl Pierce was very disturbed in his heart.
On the surface, the number of the kingdom's standing army has been greatly reduced, but the number of private troops of the nobles has not been restricted, which is very beneficial to everyone.
But this is for the great nobles whose strength is intact. The aristocratic forces whose strength has been greatly weakened, or are on the verge of collapse, are in urgent need of the kingdom's protection at this moment.
The Dalton family naturally did not fall to this point, but it is an indisputable fact that their vitality has been severely injured.
If there is no threat from competitors, I will slowly recover after going back to recuperate for ten or eight years.
Unfortunately, they are not only threatened by competitors, but also powerful competitors.
Comprehensive strength The Dalton family can easily suppress the Koslow family, but they are unfortunately at a disadvantage in terms of current military strength.
Throughout the ages, countless cases have proved that only the strength transformed into military strength is the real hard power.
With a deep foundation and a strong heritage, it also requires a transformation process. Everything is a dream until it is completely transformed.
"Earl Pierce, your worries are completely unnecessary. The strength of the kingdom has never been represented by a small standing army.
Even the Frankish Kingdom, the most powerful country on the mainland, has only about 200,000 standing troops.
From this war, we can see that the previous war model is constantly being subverted.
The next thing we need to do most is to adapt to the new war mode and cultivate more elite soldiers, rather than just pile up numbers.
50,000 extraordinary troops, the combat power that can be exploded may not be much worse than the original standing army of more than 300,000.
Now that the kingdom is short of labor, we must use the least manpower input in exchange for the greatest combat effectiveness. "
Hudson replied without changing his expression.
This little trouble can't trouble him at all. The background of the large-scale disarmament is that the kingdom's financial resources and labor force have suffered a huge deficit at the same time.
Since the problem has arisen, it needs to be solved. Taking advantage of the trend to launch military system reform is also inevitable.
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