Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 406: Problem Solved

I have to admit, Claude had a sadistic idea. For the inhabitants of any of the kingdoms of Ovieras, an individual property is the guarantee of a happy and peaceful life for the family, or can be left to future generations to pass on as a property for the extended family. In the Kingdom itself, however, it is not so easy to set up an individual household estate, and even if it were purchased from local administrations, the prices would not be affordable to the average person.

To give a simple example, Claude's sister Anna wanted to buy a permanent property for her family, and she fell for the woodland. So she bought three private small forest plantations, then used Claude's position as captain of the kingdom to acquire all the surrounding public forest plantations, synthesized over 4,000 acres of Field Forest Farms, spent 8,000 gold kroner on the sale of her new building, and more than 3,000 gold kroner on the national bank account that Claude gave her.

Of the three types of land traded in the Kingdom of Auvellas, farmland, pasture, and forest farms, all are among the lowest priced, basically in the wilderness. Sister Anna bought the public woodland in White Deer City, she had cut off all the wood she could use, so she sold it to Claude for half the price, but the price was also two gold kroners per acre. Together with those three already bare private woodlands, it can be said that sister Anna spent nearly 12,000 gold kroner to buy more than 4,000 acres of mountain woodland that no longer had trees.

It was also later that sister Anna, in order to develop and build a family forest farm, had to borrow 6,000 gold kroner in forest building funds from the National Bank for the construction of forest roads and the cultivation and transplantation of tree seedlings, and it was not until five or six years later that the results became apparent.

This example shows how much it costs to own an individual or a family business in the Kingdom itself. Forest farms are mountainous, with the lowest prices, followed by pastures, valued at around 10 gold kroner per acre, with river waterways passing at twice the price. As far as agricultural land is concerned, the best fields are not to be expected, and very few people sell them. In general, an acre of land held in the hands of the local government requires a selling price of 30-40 gold kroons.

So when the families of the 100,000 retired soldiers heard that the war zone was willing to give every immigrant soldier ten acres of good land and an industry of equal value, they were unwilling to migrate to the overseas territorial war zone. Because they know that in the kingdom itself, even their families can't have ten acres of land for the rest of their lives. Claude also sought inspiration from the immigrant families of these soldiers and figured out ways to keep grassroots officers ready to retire willingly in theatre and volunteer as volunteer officers.

In the case of a grass-roots officer who was about to retire, for all his years in the military, food, shelter and clothing were provided free of charge in military barracks, coupled with his own saving money and not spending too much. So, fifteen years of military service, coupled with the personal rewards of two wars, and the wartime welfare allowance, he saved up to about 200 gold kroner.

With the savings of 200 gold kroner, he could return to his hometown to marry and buy a house, but it was not enough to buy 10 acres of good land for a small farm. In the future, there will be relationships, and the cost of having children will not be very good unless he can find a public office in his home town. It's not about not being able to live, it's about not being able to have a decent life.

Just like Claude's best friend as a teenager, Uncle Kubrick, the father of Velikro, also had a national identity and had been discharged from the garrison for fifteen years to return home, only hunting to sustain a family. Later, after offending Mayor Robert for forming the Town Guard, he instructed the members of the Black Snake Society to struggle every day and eventually had to leave White Deer Town with their whole family.

Uncle Kubrick's tragedy is that he doesn't have a personal estate, even if he calls himself the best hunter in White Deer City, and he eats with his luck, his luck hits his prey, his bad luck travels in the mountains for nothing, and he wastes his time not to mention risking his life. If he has ten acres of good land, he can simply ignore the town hall's need to form a guard force and focus on his own estate. There was no personal property, which is why he wanted to seek public office in the Guard, clash with Mayor Robert, and eventually leave Wangdu.

Although the prices of pastures in the overseas territories of the continent are not as high as those of the kingdom itself, there is also a considerable price to be paid for a civilian officer. If they were to be paid to buy it, everyone would take into account the remoteness of the two continents, the inconvenience and difficulty of emigrating from their homeland, and so on, which might dispel the idea of this immigrant.

Just like Claude paid McJackie to buy more than 1,800 acres of wasteland for his sister Anna in the hills not far from Lake Lane Town, even if he was a lieutenant general in the kingdom, and was given preferential and discount treatment, this more than 1,800 acres of grazing land also cost Claude one acre a gold krone.

So now Claude is going to attract these grass-roots officers who want to retire to Cromwell, Bering Ghana, who are best suited for agro-pastoral development, to voluntarily migrate to these two places, and let them volunteer to respond to the calls of the two regiments, convert them into volunteer officers, and remain in the service of the troops, and the lands of these two territories become a very appealing temptation for them. Hundred acres of good land and a thousand acres of grazing land, for those grassroots officers, are two big pies descending from the sky.

A hundred acres of good land can form a small and medium-sized estate, a grass-roots officer, not only can immigrate his own family to take care of the estate, but can even bring his wife and family to help in the estate, enough to keep food safe.

Of course, it may be harder to grow all the food, but now farms have basic ways of reaping the benefits, such as 10 acres of vegetable fields and 10 acres of blueberries, which are seasonal fruits that yield good returns and feed 20 to 30 people. Even a chicken, duck, pig, and sheep can be farmed in the estate, which makes a good profit...

Cromwell, the former inhabitants of the two direct jurisdictions of Bering Ghana, immigrated essentially because of poverty in the kingdom itself. The struggle to earn some money here in the Overseas Territories before purchasing some land to build their own farms and farms is a very small scale. This is also the most basic model of colonization in the Overseas Territories. It is allowed to develop independently, so that the immigration is so small that the Immigration is slow to develop.

In some ways, Cromwell, Bering Ghana's two overseas territories are public property in theatre, and it would be an astronomical numerical gain if someone were willing to pay for it. But if no one wants to pay for it, it's a wasteland that's been in the wind for thousands of years, worth nothing. Claude was going to use the land to attract those grassroots officers who were going to retire to the two jurisdictions to emigrate, and it seemed like the war zone had lost a lot of money to acquire the land, but on the other hand, he didn't try to add value to these otherwise worthless wastelands...

The generals of the theatre command unanimously adopted Claude's proposal to use freely given land as personal property and access for immigrants from two direct jurisdictions to attract these grass-roots officers ready to retire, to allow them to emigrate voluntarily, and to be voluntarily recruited as volunteer officers to remain in the force.

Of course, the treatment remains unchanged after being recruited as a volunteer officer, but preferential treatment can be obtained in the personal industry. For example, grass-roots officers in every captain's rank can get 100 acres of good land or a thousand acres of pasture free of charge to build a ranch or pasture. And a lieutenant officer can only get 75 acres of good land or 750 acres of grazing land for free. He can apply for the same 100 acres of good land and 1,000 acres of grazing land as a captain officer, but he needs to remain active in the army until he is promoted to captain officer or serves another five years...

Several generals in theatre headquarters spent the night studying the regulations for the replacement of personal industrial land and immigration eligibility for over 10,000 retired officers. They have also deliberately given more heartbreaking preferences in order to attract these officers who are preparing to emigrate.

A retired immigration officer who returns to the mainland of the Kingdom and brings his family back from the mainland of the Kingdom may be subsidized for travel expenses up to 10 gold kroner depending on the number of immigrants. This is not cash, but the replacement of it with a variety of livelihood goods upon return, which addresses both the needs of new immigrants for livelihood and production goods and provides a way out for the products produced by the newly established family workshops in theatre.

After a busy night, the generals instructed their subordinates to post even the announcement prepared for the night, and then decided to comfort themselves. During this time, they worried about worrying that all kinds of cautions were exhausted. Finally, the matter ended. Take two days off to make everyone feel comfortable, rest for two days, and then come back to work.

However, a dozen hours later, several generals of theatre command gathered together again to face each other. No one expected this announcement, which had just been posted in the morning, to have such a resounding effect. Not only did the grassroots officers who were about to retire rush to register for immigration, but even the grassroots officers in the two regiments who were not prepared to retire also made a great deal of noise. Their group protested to their superiors, meaning that if they did not qualify for immigration for personal property land replacement in both jurisdictions, they would also be ready to submit a retirement application...

It cannot be said that this was unexpected by several generals, who thought only of the more than 10,000 grass-roots officers who were ready to retire, but forgot that there were more than 10,000 more grass-roots officers in the two regimental units who were not ready to retire. The so-called lack of widowhood and inequality prompted the dissatisfaction of grass-roots officers who were still in the ranks of the armed forces, who were also demanding equal treatment, by obtaining such excellent immigration eligibility conditions for those preparing to retire. The battlefield command could not find the generals and rushed to the generals' quarters, which is why Claude met them again at the battlefield command.

Needless to say, while the colonial war was just over, it was not expected that there would be any fighting within the next six months, and several generals decided, after consultation, to introduce a system of family leave on a large scale. Grassroots officers who are also serving in the army are given monthly leave to return to the mainland of the Kingdom for family visits for six months, to marry and to bring their relatives back to immigration. All immigration eligibility and personal property land substitution regulations, like those of grass-roots officers preparing to retire, controlled the riot.

Grassroots officers of these forces, however, have just left, and soldiers from both regiments have sent representatives to petition the generals of theatre headquarters. The soldiers were also divided into three factions, each with its own representative, and their requests were equally related to the immigration access notice.

The first group, with the lowest base, were conscripts from the mainland of the Kingdom, who were initially replenished into the Rangers and later transferred into the five reinforced divisions of the theatre, and are now the backbone veterans of the two regiments. Their representatives were also claiming immigration status and hoped to receive a gift from an individual estate in both jurisdictions. Of course, they're not greedy, and 20 acres of good land is all they need.

The generals soon made a decision to acquire 30 acres of good land and 300 acres of grazing land as long as they had served in the army for 15 years, even if they had not been promoted to the basic ranks. Now, of course, overseas territories are in dire need of immigration, and battle zones can even give them land to write to their families to go to overseas territories to accept the property and take care of it first. However, the preferential treatment for relocation costs has to be reduced by half, meaning that the theatre will only provide a toll subsidy of half of the relocation costs to their families.

The second-party soldiers, members of the local guard forces of the former Overseas Territories, are the elites left behind after being restructured into the five reinforced divisions of the theatre, eliminating the disqualified members. Although they each have family and family properties in the Overseas Territories, no one would dislike the excess of their personal property, and they would also like to be eligible for immigration on the grounds that they are also part of the two regiments...

This is an irrefutable justification, and the generals are prepared to treat them equally, like the soldiers of the first faction, as long as they have completed their service in the army, they will receive 30 acres of good land or 300 acres of pasture, which can be given in advance to allow their families to take care of the property first.

The last faction has the largest number of soldiers, accounting for almost half of the base of the two regiments. They also demanded access to the immigrant, but the generals reacted differently. General Bolognick was irritated that the soldiers were short of snake swallowing because they were supposed to do their part in both regiments.

The soldiers in this faction were the families of the 100,000 families of demobilized soldiers who had given their families an estate when they moved to the war zone. Like a ten-acre field, or a shop and private workshop industry. As a result, they are now eligible for immigration from both jurisdictions...

After half a day of negotiation, the generals finally reached a decision that, according to the first two groups of soldiers, they would receive 30 acres of good land or 300 acres of grazing land after the end of their service, but could not be given first, and would only be allocated after the end of their service.

Finally, the needs of the soldiers of both regiments were addressed, and the generals were relieved. At that time, General Skerry proposed that the two Immigration Entitlement Regiments, Cromwell and Bering Ghana, were sparsely populated, meaning that families could only be immigrated if they served in both regiments. Why don't we go further and immigrate the families of the sergeants who died in these four colonial wars and give them their personal property for free, believing that this will increase the belonging and loyalty of the officers and soldiers of both regiments...

It was a good idea that the vast territory of the two Territories was fertile, and that the soldiers who had actually lost their lives in the four colonial war zones, coupled with the disabled and retired 20,000 people, would give their families some land that would increase their loyalty and sense of belonging to the two regiments, which was a well-deserved deal. The generals nodded and agreed that it was General Skerry's responsibility to carry it out.

Both regiments were settled, but unexpected local protests came. The reason is simple: when Marshal Michelqi pursued a firm wall clearance strategy in Cromwell and Beringana, he forcibly relocated more than 100,000 inhabitants of the kingdoms and gave them white bars, meaning double compensation.

Now it is difficult for the generals for the inhabitants of the kingdoms to return to the two jurisdictions and to be compensated twice as much for the land of the family estate. Claudeman, however, did not care, and he believed that since immigration eligibility for both jurisdictions had been introduced, it would have to be carried out resolutely. Don't put any of these original kingdom residents back. Anyway, the white bar says double compensation is not designated, so we can compensate them directly under Robisto's administration. Tell them not to invalidate...