Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 410 End of Year Summary Report

“... four fortress-style castles have now been completed, including Wickham Castle under Cromwell and Rumbechuk Castle, which we had planned to build. Buck Hill Castle, under the direct authority of Bering Ghana, and Harold Castle have also been delivered, with the remaining Castle of Gasilia under construction, which is expected to be completed by June next year.

After the completion of the five fortress-type castles, we will also need to complete the early warning and defense against attacks from the sea by constructing a main road to the port of Vibator and a defensive coastal outpost in the two direct jurisdictions of Cromwell and Peking Near Ghana. Consideration is also being given to the possibility of constructing a fixed stone bridge on the Dolinibara River to replace the two pontoons.

However, it appears that all of this infrastructure work needs to be postponed to a later date, and the city of Monknade, under the direct authority of Port Vibato, needs to be rebuilt, and the silver pits there need to be manned for excavation production. That was the property that belonged to our war zone, almost completely destroyed the city of Monknard after the Nikancha riots, and now we have to make this silver city work again.

The Mining and Commerce Association has sent experts to look into the silver mine, which, if adequately staffed, would take only two months to get it back into operation, with an estimated annual output of 150,000 gold kroner, which would make up for the current financial constraints in our theatre.

In addition, the city of Monknard is situated in the vast eastern inner mountainous area of the port of Vibato, just 100 miles from the country established by the Nikancas, and if we do not have a presence in this abandoned Silver City, once it has been occupied by the Nikancas, it will be one third of the area of the eastern interior of the port of Vibato territory.

My suggestion is that we should take advantage of the fact that the newly established Nikanchas need our military assistance and, in the case of all kinds of dealings with our theatre, first delineate a clear border with them in order to prevent their future engagement with the two sides as a result of the blurring of the border with our theatre of operations. Because now there are often roaming groups of Nikantha who enter the direct jurisdiction of Porto Vibato until they are expelled by our patrol... "

This is the year-end wrap-up conference for the battlefield under the direct jurisdiction, with General Scully, the commander of the battlefield, making a year-long wrap-up report, which was also attended by Claude, General Bolognick, General Albert, General Bitchclin, the one-man Sir Bennett, and Mr. Shazorak, the newly appointed commander of the two central patrol police in Cromwell and Bering Ghana. Quite frankly, the heads of the original theatre are only missing a General Sevicht who was assassinated.

The city of Monknard is to be rebuilt, just like the castle of Wickham, not only because of the large silver mine next to it, but also less than a hundred miles from the national border established by the Nikanchas. Previously a colony belonging to the Kingdom of Hicks, Monknard was surrounded by a colony of the Kingdom of Hicks, so it didn't matter to protect it that the Nikanchas attacked the Silver City for the first time after the riots, freed the Nikancha miners, killed almost all the slave owners and supervisors, and set the Silver City on fire.

Immediately after Claude led the Thunder Division to sweep through Port Vibator's colonial county, the city of Monknard was abandoned when only one standing army of the Kingdom of Hicks was turtled in Port Vibator. Now that Port Vibato Colonial County is the eighth overseas direct jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Ovilas, according to the original map, the city of Monconade and the Silver Pit are also under the direct jurisdiction of Port Vibato, and General Scully, driven mad by the funds, struck the silver mine with an idea.

“Our war zone's fiscal deficit this year has approached 1.45 million gold kroner, mainly at the expense of the relocation of immigrant relatives and the construction of two direct jurisdictions in Cromwell, Bering Ghana.” General Skerry continues to report: "Currently, nearly two million immigrants are resettled in the two direct jurisdictions and 23 new towns have been built. According to statistics, an average of 18 relatives of one officer and soldier migrated, the highest number being 67 and the lowest six, which is the main reason for the lack of funds in our theatre...

Fortunately, most of the officers and soldiers of the two regiments have now relocated their relatives to the two direct jurisdictions, and the remaining estimated 230,000 will arrive next year. The problem is that such large-scale immigration has led to the replication of many of the citizens of the kingdom itself who, in order to avoid a civil war in the kingdom itself, are also willing to follow the relatives of our troops and soldiers to their overseas jurisdictions.

And the White Deer City storm fleet knows how to bring in a boat of immigrants, regardless of whether they can afford so many in our Overseas Territories, just because they earn high transportation costs. In addition, the governors and governors of the three direct governorates of Tyrsim, Mormary and Arturas, disregarding the death and survival of these immigrants, knew only to send them to the direct jurisdiction of the theatre. Nearly 200,000 of these immigrants, now registered and unaffiliated with our two legions, are placed under Robisto's direct authority...

This year our war zone has a fiscal deficit of 1.45 million gold kroner, but we do not have to pay a lot of cash. General Claude's proposal to issue a voucher effectively lifts our lack of funding, but that does not mean that our funding problem has been resolved. We will receive little tax revenue from the Cromwell and Bering Ghana jurisdictions in the following year, and we will need to collect goods from several other jurisdictions to be transported to Cromwell and Bering Ghana for trafficking.

In other words, we only get vouchers issued this year when we send goods purchased with real gold and silver to the Cromwell and Bailingana jurisdictions for sale, and we only postpone the financial problems we encounter this year until the following year. If I may, I wish our war zone would issue golden rolls every year instead of Kim Krone.

One of the two major problems currently facing our theatre is the lack of funds for construction and development, which cannot be filled by the misappropriation of military expenditures. The two jurisdictions of Cromwell and Bering Ghana will not be able to collect normal taxes until two years have elapsed before our battlefield funds can be covered, but this is a long-term process that is expected to take us more than a decade to recover the development and construction funds invested.

Another problem is that the Kingdom does not invest as much cash in overseas jurisdictions, and even our national banks in overseas jurisdictions do not lend as much money, and they do not have as much gold kroner and silver taller. This has had a very negative impact on commerce and investment in construction in the Overseas Territories. As indicated by those manufacturing plants, the goods they produce are needed by some, but are not available in cash and can only be traded in barter, adding to the difficulties of trading.

And the advice of the Mining and Commerce Association is that our overseas territories have their own privately minted currencies. They bought several scrap copies of mints ready to be recast from Wangdu's Mint Market at a private high price, which could be used to cast gold kroner, silver taller, riazo and finney, just short of Sunar and penny. But the lack of Sunar and pennies can be transported in from the kingdom, and the gold and silver copper mines in the overseas territories are enough to cast these gold and silver copper coins, and they are willing to give us 300,000 gold and silver kroner a year in the war zone... "

Claude sometimes had to be surprised at the courage of the businessmen in the mining and business associations, who really did the same thing with the dead end. The laws of the kingdom stipulate that all gold and silver copper coins may only be cast from state-owned mint farms, and that the only way to cast gold and silver copper coins in private is by death! However, restrictions imposed by the Kingdom on overseas territories have stalled economic development in the overseas territories, and mining and business associations have been trying to break them.

Without sufficient currency, there would be no massive revenues. Previously, the Kingdom had resource-plagged overseas jurisdictions, with mining and business associations bearing the brunt, and the mineral resources they exploited could only be extracted into ingots and transported to the Kingdom for sale. The pricing is in the hands of the commercial aristocracy, which monopolizes trade on both continents in the Kingdom itself, which reaps the bulk of the proceeds, leaving only leftovers to mining and business associations.

Gold and silver mines, such as gold and silver mines, can only be delivered free of charge to the Royal Ministry of Finance. Mining and business associations earn less than 10 per cent of their revenues in this regard, which is why they withheld the gold and silver ingots last year for colluding with theatre commands to solicit funds for the construction and development of the direct jurisdiction. I didn't expect them to have even the next arrangement ready, privately casting gold and silver copper coins, and pulling the battlefield into it to make sure it didn't fail.

Claude knocked on the table: "Tell the Mining and Business Association people that our war zone can agree to them privately casting gold and silver copper coins, but we want half a million gold kroner a year. We can hand over the silver mine in Monknard City to them for contracting, and we will help them with the security aspects. It's just that they need to keep it a secret when they make money, don't make a scene all over the city, everyone knows that that will make our battlefield very difficult..."

The emperor of the mountains is far away, but there is still a silent ocean between the two continents, and the kingdom itself is engaged in civil war in the two kings, and there is no time to take into account the development of overseas direct jurisdiction. And this side of the war zone is trapped in funds, you can't bankrupt yourself. Now whether it's illegal or not, a straw is the most important thing to solve when you grab it as a lifeline.

General Bolognick nodded: "In the new year, I'll go back to Tirshim, Mormary, and Arturas to talk to the governors about the difficulties we face in the war zone and ask them to help us not deduct 30 percent of the tax on military spending, so that the war zone can earn another 100,000 or so gold kroner. ”

Claude secretly leaves his mouth shut, and General Bolognick doesn't like it. He always thinks too well of others, believers in human nature and philosophy. Don't even think about it. Will the governors and governors of the three direct governors, who eat the meat in their mouths, spit it out again? Let General Bolognick touch the wall.

Sir Bennett said, "Due to the massive emigration of immigrants from both Cromwell, Bering Ghana and Robisto, Amphiston's workshops and workshops have received a large number of commodity orders, and it is expected that next year's tax revenues will increase dramatically, possibly in excess of 100,000 gold kroner in commercial taxes, which should ease the financial burden on some war zones. ”

“If we can get more than 700,000 gold kroner next year, I'm sure our war zone will be better off.” General Skerry replied: "In our theatre, there is no food shortage, and the winter wheat planted in the Cromwell and Bering Ghana jurisdictions in November of this year can be harvested next April, followed by summer wheat, followed by a potato harvest in September, both of which are fertile and suitable for agriculture and pastoralism.

In addition, the land development of our five fortress-type castles and the 23 newly built towns is all based on a pattern of distribution of half of the public land, half of the individual industries, all of which employ relatives of the emigrants for cultivation and cultivation. By next year's harvest, the food of two million immigrants will be fully self-sufficient...

The biggest investment and spending in our battlefield this year is here, and for the five fortress-style castles, whose construction labor is the captivity of the 200,000 Hicks kingdom, all we have to do is supply them with food and clothing to feed them and warm them up, provide a little medical treatment, and the cost of materials to build the castle is only 100,000 gold kroons.

But hiring relatives of two legions of officers and soldiers to reclaim communal land, build water facilities and 23 new towns, as well as road transport facilities to those towns, would have cost us a million gold kroner. Fortunately, General Claude's proposal to issue a voucher would have alleviated our financial difficulties, otherwise we would not have been able to support it.

But next year our theatre will need to continue to invest in utilities in both jurisdictions, as well as in small-scale shipyards along the coastal zone and small-scale fishing vessels offshore, which will also generate some revenue for our theatre. Most importantly, we cannot leave relatives of those two legions of officers and soldiers to do nothing in the direct jurisdiction, which can have a very negative impact on the order of law and order in the two direct jurisdictions... "

Claude also had to laugh and continue to invest in utilities in two direct jurisdictions next year, such as a patrol force in every town, national primary and secondary schools, townships and other administrative structures in order to effectively manage these new towns, all of which will require significant financial investment, and it looks like another voucher will have to be released next year...

General Bolognick rubbed his eyebrows and, as acting Chief Commander of the theatre, these theatres were under pressure on him. In just six months, his hair was almost half white and the wrinkles on his forehead were deeper.

“Let us begin by saying that we are all aware of the current situation in the theatre.” Civil war has broken out in the kingdom itself, and we have no idea which prince will win the final battle to become the new king of our kingdom, "General Bolognick said. It is most important for us to do our part, and it is our duty to take care of the direct jurisdiction of our theatre.

I talked to General Claude, and starting next year, we have to rehabilitate our two regiments, and after the civil war broke out in the kingdom, we will never hear from the king again about the Kingdom of Hicks. Last month we received information from the captain of a smuggling sea boat docked in the port of Vibator that civil unrest had subsided in the Kingdom of Hicks.

Of course, we don't know if it's true, but even if it is, we have to take it for real. With the integrity of that king of the Kingdom of Hicks, Majid III, he would never admit that he had lost the colonial war. Perhaps, as we speak about it, he has re-recruited to form a new legion ready to attack our direct authority.

I intend to relocate theatre headquarters to Wickham Castle in the early spring of next year, and now both Cromwell and Bering Ghana are our cornerstones, and even if the Kingdom of Hicks suddenly seizes the port of Vibator, we cannot withdraw from those two jurisdictions and implement a firm-walled clearing strategy, but only fight the enemy to the death.

General Albert, next year you will bring the troops of a division of the Thunder Corps into the city of Monknade in an effort to delineate the border between the two sides with the Nikanchas. General Bitchcline, you are responsible for the defense and early warning of the port of Vibator, the port of Patres and the coastal zone under the direct authority of the theatre, with a division of the Rock Regiment deployed by you. As for General Claude and I, we are responsible for the defense and patrolling of all parts of the theatre, and General Claude will reinforce us as soon as fighting breaks out... "