Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 481: Attacking the Mainland of the Kingdom

The First Congress of Autonomous Elections of Overseas Territories was held in Lake Lang, Amphiston, on 26 November 594. In the eyes of future generations of historians, the Conference was of extraordinary historical significance, marking the opening of a curtain from autonomy to independence for the colonies of the countries of the Nubian continent.

In fact, it is not documented in the history books that more than 200 so-called candidates representing the interests of the entire Overseas Territories participating in this Autonomous Electoral Congress are all shareholders of the Overseas Minsheng Bank. Even if it is zero percent of the shares, it is also home to hundreds of thousands of gold kroner and each representative is an identifiable and financially powerful person in the overseas territorial area...

In the first half of the month, Sterling XI's intentions regarding the disposition programme for the war zones of the Overseas Territories had been published in various newspapers of the Overseas Territories, provoking anger among the population of all the Territories. Because His Majesty, the unconscious King, did not regard the emigration of kingdoms under overseas administration as his own people, but rather as slaves who could squeeze their wealth at will, and no one on the stand would like a monarch who had a crush on his own property.

More than 200 public opinion representatives, the wealthiest immigrant classes in the Overseas Territories, and the shareholders of the Overseas Minsheng Bank are all aware that this time the Kingdom's envoys really hit their ideas. The logic is simple: the wealth of the angry people is actually the banknotes in their pockets, the overseas people's livelihood banks are sealed, the banknotes are abolished, the people become poor, and they cannot squeeze out a few or two oils of water. Only the rich people in their overseas territories can open their knives to satisfy Sterling XI's desire to scrape wealth from overseas territories.

So no one in the more than 200 public opinion representatives objected to the anti-hypocrisy no-kingdom formula proposed by the war zone under the direct jurisdiction. Under the auspices of General Bolognick, after a half-hour vote, the delegates voted in favour of it by one hundred and ninety-nine votes, seven abstentions, and zero votes against it, and decided that, from now on, the Overseas Territories would be removed from the direct jurisdiction of the Kingdom, renamed the Overseas Autonomous Territories of the Kingdom of Ovieras, and that they would implement an autonomous policy, declaring that they would no longer accept any will from Sterling XI.

The first step would be to change the name, since, in the current situation, the colonial war with the Kingdom of Hicks had come to an end and the situation of war would not be faced for the time being. Therefore, the area of direct jurisdiction has been renamed an autonomous territorial military region, which still assumes military and security responsibility for the entire overseas autonomous territory.

The commander in chief of the military region is still General Bolognick, and four generals, including Claude, are deputy commanders. Only more of General Bolognick's responsibility lies with the exchange of administrative affairs between the Overseas Autonomous Territories and the Autonomous Territorial Assembly, with the two regiments and the local commander-in-chief of the armed forces shifted to Claude, who is responsible for the actual work of the military regional commands.

The second was the establishment of the Overseas Autonomous Territories Council, which, it goes without saying, had more than two hundred public opinion representatives who had become members of the Assembly, and Claude was no exception, adding the title of an autonomous consular member to it. The Autonomous Territorial Assembly is nominally the supreme authority of the Overseas Territories and represents the interests of all the peoples of the Overseas Territories. In practice, however, parliamentarians had fewer rights, and they had only one right of oversight and one right of proposal. Genuine administrative authority is divided between military regional commands and executive committees of parliament.

Following the establishment of the Autonomous Territorial Assembly, one-armed Sir Bannett was elected as the first Speaker of Parliament for a period of five years, renewable for four consecutive terms. The next step is to elect the members of the Executive Committee. The so-called Executive Committee, the supreme administrative organ of the Overseas Autonomous Territories, is within the jurisdiction of the Executive Committee on all civil matters.

General Bolognick was not surprised to be elected as the first President of the Executive Committee, and four General Claude were similarly elected as members of the Executive Committee. In addition to the five generals, twelve members of parliament have become members of the Executive Committee, and even Mr. Viberon has been mixed up, who will each be responsible for some aspect of the civil affairs of the Overseas Self-Governing Territories and will again be elected in parliament in five years, depending on their governance.

Following the adoption of these major events, the autonomous consular assemblies began to enter a phase of peeling, such as a parliamentarian proposal to change the autonomous territory to a cantonal system in order to show the difference from the Kingdom itself. After a day of intense quarrel, the proposal was adopted in Parliament with minor advantages. Each jurisdiction will henceforth be referred to as a state, such as Cromwell, or Cromwell. If we subdivide it further down, there is a county, not a county, under the state.

Claude took the opportunity to come up with a proposal to change the color of his uniform. Claude's discontent with the Great Red Army uniform in the Kingdom of Orvillas was long overdue, and the straight hat and black pants were all tolerable, but the Great Red Army uniform was a remarkable target on the battlefield. Especially at a time when the countries of the Farea continent are increasingly focusing on precise shooting, it is simply a matter of letting their soldiers die on the battlefield without changing the colour of their uniforms.

Fortunately, Claude had a great face, and Parliament had successfully adopted the proposal. The colour styles to be changed are defined by the Military Regional Command. The senators were clear minded not to finger Claude on military matters. Of course, there are also those who believe that it is the five generals of the military region who find themselves faster. After all, changing uniforms for 200,000 troops is not a small expense, and the handlers have the opportunity to get their hands on it.

The next thing you know, it's not about Claude. He left early with General Albert, General Bitchlin, and started planning a counterattack on the kingdom itself and Sterling XI. He can only be entrusted to General Albert for this departure, and now that the Overseas Autonomous Territories have just been established, Claude himself must sit in the peace of mind of the Township Autonomous Territories Command.

Muried's ocean cruise fleet, the Legion of Thunder, all but the 1303 regiment of the first division, Diavid, were deployed. General Albert will be commander, Major McJackie and Berklin will be deputies, Major Browick's Wolftooth Brigade will be two squadrons, and Colonel Bockard of the Intelligence Service will be leaving together as Legion Chief of Staff. Claude mobilized all the elite generals in the military region for the operation.

“In addition to all the battleships and carriers of the Ocean Cruiser fleet, I have mobilized nearly 100 ocean vessels to converge in the port of Cobichous. The last time Colonel Boquer returned with more than 60,000 refugees, more than 40 ocean-going sea-going vessels had also been refurbished to join the convoy. The ship is filled with armaments such as grass and weapons and ammunition. Grass is used to help the displaced, while arms and ammunition are used to persevere and fight back.

This is not a military operation that can be accomplished in one round trip, but a military occupation plan that could last six months or more. Bringing together displaced refugees from the mainland of the Kingdom, with a minimum number of more than one million, to fill the shortage of human resources in the overseas autonomous territories is your first goal.

Secondly, we in the Overseas Autonomous Region slapped the unconscious monarch above and told him that our Overseas Autonomous Territories were not slaves to the chess pieces and wealth he could lay at will.

Thirdly, when you landed in White Deer City, you sent troops to capture Balevian County in the three southwestern counties, because the Kingdom's fifth largest military production plant was here. I need you to empty all the large military machinery and equipment in this industry and bring the technicians and their families back to the Overseas Autonomous Region. We in the military region need mechanical equipment and technicians from this military industry to expand our military production and master our specialty steel forging production process.

Now, while we can produce new rifles, we can produce only 30,000 guns a year on a limited scale, and the manufacturing of artillery is very lagging behind, and we lack a large specialty steel refinery and forging furnace. This was mainly the result of the former Kingdom's policy of production restrictions on overseas territories, which they hoped would remain the Kingdom's resource exporter and would be inaccessible to any advanced machinery and production processes.

So I hope that this attack will make up for the biggest shortcut in the Shanghai Autonomous Territories. In the next few years, the Autonomous Leader will enter the production phase, and railways and trains will become the first major means of transportation for the Autonomous Leader to promote their applications. It's just that we're limited to the size of the Autonomous Territory's large steel refinery and forging furnace, and we can't produce a batch of railroad tracks, so we can only put our hopes on this attack.

In addition to manufacturing guns and refining and forging specialty steel, the military industry in Bareville County also has a large woolen production workshop and dyeing workshop, both of which you should not let go, and the technicians should bring them back to the Overseas Autonomous Region. As you all know, my proposal for a change of uniform was approved in Parliament, and the next step in your uniform will depend on your actions.

Do you understand what I'm saying? It doesn't really matter what you're doing this time, gathering up the displaced and giving Sterling XI a face fight back. It is important to occupy and empty the county of Barevia. Colonel Muried, the first objective of your cruise ship back from the ocean is these large pieces of military machinery, not displaced persons and refugees. You can organize the youth of the displaced to help you transport these things... "

Claude finally ended the conversation, hugged and saluted General Albert, and then saw him and his own comrades leading the Thunder Corps on a ocean boat, sailing and disappearing into the sky.

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For Sterling XI, there was nothing worse than receiving reports of aggression against the kingdom on New Year's Eve, and he had prepared an extraordinarily grand banquet for the evening's New Year's Eve, where he could spend a great deal of money on the royal vault overnight. Now he only hopes that when the New Year arrives, envoys to overseas jurisdictions will soon be able to deliver a sum of money to fill the increasingly empty royal vault.

The year 594 was not a good year for Sterling XI. Local counties in the mainland of the kingdom are no longer able to scratch any wealth, on the contrary, there are increasing numbers of displaced persons and refugees, and from time to time starving corpses are seen on the roadside. Bandits and bandits are even more numerous. The reports sent to Wangdu by the responsible officials of the counties have not been good news. Either they have been robbed by bandits and bandits, or there has been a wave of displaced persons. Either military support or relief for displaced persons is requested, which requires spending the money of the State Treasury.

The Ibnister Plains, where Wang Du is located, remain calm and orderly. But the kingdom's ministers and local officials were increasingly dissatisfied with him as a king, and many complained that the wrong man had been chosen to push him to the throne. If we don't torment everyone, then the kingdom won't be like this now. His new king has no power to govern or anything...

Sterling XI was very angry, and he wasn't really a fool. Although he has a lot of flaws, like enjoying the liveliness, the enthusiasm to host all kinds of banquets and dances, the intimate meetings with those beautiful aristocratic ladies, the raw wind, etc., that doesn't mean he doesn't want to be a good king. Doesn't he want to settle the kingdom? But he is helpless, not to mention that the ministers and nobles below are fighting for power, he can't help but cheer up, there is no money in the treasury...

A minister persuaded him to suspend the banquet or something, which made him angry and blamed the minister on the spot. Can the suspension of these banquets make the kingdom better? That's impossible! It is clear to everyone what role money can play in the affairs of a banquet. Besides, as a king, he enjoys this hobby and, if well done, expands the prestige of the next Sterling royal family.

Perhaps the past winter will calm the situation in the kingdom, and the frozen death of the displaced refugees and all that will ease the burden on the kingdom without having to pay for it. When the royal envoy returns with money from overseas jurisdictions, if he does much more, he will naturally take out a portion as king to appease those local counties, resume production or something, and in two or three years everything will turn around...

It was just that Sterling XI had no idea that he would receive a report of a major offender from the Legion of Thunder in the Overseas Territories on New Year's Eve, which was a beating to the face of his king, but also meant that the Kingdom envoys he had sent to the Overseas Territories would not be able to accomplish the tasks entrusted to them, either dead or alive, and could only be included on the missing list.

“Damn it! They, how dare they rebel!” Sterling XI, burned in anger, thundered in the royal palace, smashing his own sleeping palace to pieces. Since the invasion report was accompanied by an autonomy notice issued by the Overseas Territories explaining to the people of the mainland why the Overseas Territories were rebelling against Sterling XI and not against the Kingdom, the intention of Sterling XI to dispose of the war zones under its direct jurisdiction was also published.

Anyone who reads this Autonomy Proclamation will understand why it is necessary to do so in the Overseas Territories' war zones as long as their minds are normal. The two regiments of Overseas Territories, ordered to defend the Overseas Colonies of the Nubian continent without any support from the mainland of the Kingdom, struggled hard to be self-reliant and easily won this colonial war with the Kingdom of Hicks, and extended the Kingdom's seven Overseas Territories to nine, awarding the Kingdom credit for pioneering the land.

The war was finally over, and instead of rewarding these heroic generals for their service and sacrifice to the kingdom, Sterling XI punished the generals and soldiers on charges that were unwarranted. Demobilize the five military generals and senior officers of the regiment in theatre, disband the two second-line regiments that established the Patriotic Medal of Merit and take away their trophies. At the same time, we have to scratch wealth in overseas jurisdictions. We do not consider the immigrants of the Kingdom to be our own people at all...

Look at the will obtained from the Kingdom's envoys, who are required to levy taxes and contributions in the overseas jurisdictions that were not paid to the treasury and the royal family for the first five years and to impose a fine of ten times that. This alone gives the people of the Kingdom the feeling that His Majesty is already poor and biting like a hungry dog.

As all the royal nobles know, taxes and tributes from overseas territories have been allocated by the two regiments of the former King Sterling X to the theatre for military expenses in support of their resistance to the invasion of the Kingdom of Hicks, which was a written proclamation order issued by the Royal Ministry of the Army at the time, with the seal and autograph of the former King Sterling X.

Sterling XI, now succeeding him, regretted not recognizing the will of his predecessor to impose a five-year tax and contribution in the Overseas Territories' war zones and impose a further 10-fold fine. It's a huge sum. Can that poor Overseas Territory give it away? This is clearly a living force against the entire Overseas Territories, and no wonder the Legion of Thunder raised its flag against the Kingdom of Sterling XI.

It had to be admitted that Sterling XI was disgusting and that immediately after its landing in White Deer City, the Legion of Thunder had used the operational capability of light cavalry to sweep 10 local counties, including three southwestern counties, and then to bring together displaced persons and refugees, without prejudice to the local autumn, with the prompt and strong cooperation and support of local officials and local figures. It was not until then that the message was sent to Wangdu.

No matter how Sterling XI roared in Wang, shouted, said harsh words, accused all those under overseas administration of treason in the kingdom. But he had no choice but to take the Legion of Thunder, which occupied 10 local counties, because no one was willing to do what he wanted to fight against rebellion. He did not dare send the guard corps stationed in the Kingdoms and the Ibnister Plains, for fear that his life would not be guaranteed.

As for the Legion Leader of the Lizard Legion, the Heritage Marquis of the Kingdom, Jarees. Admiral Ho Hadro, for his part, said that he would pay the enormous amounts owed before discussing the fight against rebellion. And the head of the Red Dragon Legion, the royal marshal, the Duke of Siegfried, although the father-in-law of Sterling XI, had a bad relationship with his king's son-in-law, and refused to let the Red Dragon Legion go.

No one is a fool. Though the Legion of Thunder belongs to a second-line regiment in the formation of the kingdom, it is a higher rank than the local armed guard, but the ability to defeat the 10 standing regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks means that it is very strong. Moreover, they entered the kingdom itself to help the kingdom gather displaced refugees and prepare to send them to overseas jurisdictions to give them a way of life. This is a good thing for the kingdom, and there is no need to interrupt their actions. Even if it were an autonomous territory now, it would be anti-king, no anti-kingdom, no independence, so why do you have to touch such hard nails?

Sitting on the sidelines of the Legion of Thunder's freedom of movement in the 10 counties it occupies, the only bad luck is Sterling XI, who has once again become a joke for the countries of the Farea continent. His will was ignored and he had to hide in the palace to paralyze himself with alcohol...