Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 587: A Lot of Trinkets

On 13 December, the ocean convoy again transported members of the Hicks army to the Overseas Autonomous Territories. Only more than 90,000 members of the entire Legion of Thunder were transported, and according to the arrangements of the Autonomous Territory, the Legion of Thunder generals would have three months' leave to reunite them with their own families and then move to the Pamigal National Republic at the end of March next year.

Soon, however, Claude himself issued a military order requiring four divisions of the Legion of Thunder to be stationed in each of the four Overseas Autonomous Territories, Aturas, Tyrsim, Mormali and Robisto, while the Legion headquarters were stationed at Langhu City Camp in Amphiston. Rock Regiment troops originally stationed in these four states were stationed in Beringana, Cromwell, Port Vibato and Rocky Hills, while Regiment headquarters went to Lake Lang...

With the exception of Amphiston, each of the nine Overseas Autonomous Territories has a divisional presence. Together, the immediate units of the headquarters of the two regiments are almost one division, and all units have been deployed. Immediately after the New Year's Eve, on January 10, 607, the Autonomous Council, together with the Autonomous Territorial Regions, issued an order for severe action against local organized gang crime, known as "Operation Strict."

This new year has not been very good for many overseas self-governing territories and, in general, local administrations will not begin to function properly until the 15th of the new year. However, by the tenth day of the new year, all local administrative public officials had been notified that they were required to travel to another local town for official duties, to cooperate with the forces of the Autonomous Territory and to place the performance of their duties on the official checklist.

For the official hat on his head and the gray, black, these hidden revenues, even local administrative public officials with a strong temper, had to be handled well, they were just off-site cases, which had long been the case, and administrative public officials in all local towns and cities had been relocated, not targeted specifically at individuals. So no one would suspect anything. At most, it would be a few words of scolding the food on top, come up with this idea, make everyone have a bad New Year...

It was only when these local administrative public officials arrived at their destination that it was discovered that this was a heavily guarded military camp. Before they settled in, investigators claiming to be from the Autonomous Territories Bureau of Investigation came to the door and took some of them, saying that they wanted to know about the crimes committed by their local gang, but that the people who had been taken had never come back.

Not surprisingly, other local administrative public officials can only be thankful that they did not collude with gang organizations, as the people who were taken away are very close to their own local gang, even though he himself is a member of one. And by that time, everyone already knows the hard work, so it's inevitable that these guys will suffer...

As a result of the intensive operations, a number of administrative public officials were taken away and not returned, reportedly in collusion with or for the benefit of local mafia organizations. The more gangster members are now on the Internet, the more they confess, and the more unknown information they conceal, some of which also provide physical evidence such as book dividend signatures. It is understood that most local administrative public officials collaborate or use each other with local mafia organizations...

Harsh operations in all local towns and cities were not surprising, as each state had a Thunder Regiment or a division general of the Rock Regiment stationed in the autonomous territory and blocked all traffic routes. The arrests of members of local gang groups are led by local guards, most of them by a quasi. The bosses of the gang that were notified of the dark line could not escape today. Tomorrow, the whole place has been sealed off. Instead of trying to escape, they exposed the dark lines they had handed over.

There are also some gangsters who are prepared to lay their hearts and minds together to kill me, gathering their men for recalcitrance, causing some casualties to the people who captured them. However, there is little resistance to the light infantry field artillery brought about by the officers and soldiers of the two regiments, with two or three guns remaining either to collect the corpses or to receive the prisoners. After all, the gang can't resist the regular army, the biggest violent group...

The progress and gains of the intensive operations throughout the region were soon assembled and arrived at the hard-hitting command formed in the Autonomous Territory through the Eagle Letters. According to reports from officers and soldiers on mission, there is very little collaboration between the local commanders in charge of armed forces and local gang groups, with only 45 cases in nine counties.

However, a small number of patrol police departments in local towns and cities are complicit. More than a third of them are informed of the action plan to inform local gang organizations. It is conceivable that the patrol police department needs a major rectification and clearance. Shazorak, the executive councillor in charge of overseas self-governing patrol police affairs, is angry and feels ashamed...

However, the successful arrest of members of mafia organizations did not mean the end of the campaign, which was immediately followed by the rehabilitation and mapping of the entire administration of the overseas autonomous territories. All local administrative public officials who have been transferred off-site to deal with serious operational matters will be investigated, and those corrupt officials with clear evidence will be taken away directly, waiting for their families and families to be sentenced to prison terms in hard labour camps, where undue happiness was enjoyed and now all will pay the price.

This time, Marshal Bolognick was determined to address the issue of the governance of overseas autonomous territories. By mid-February, the entire operation had reached its final stage, when a number of members of Parliament had come to speak for their captives, who had a kinship around the corner. It's just that General Bolognick refused and denounced these sympathetic senators for a moment, clearly telling them that the arrests were damaging the cornerstones of the Autonomous Territories, that sympathy was digging the corners of their own homes, and that one day the walls would fall without knowing...

With Claude's support, Marshal Bolognick is not afraid that these sympathetic senators will get angry. In fact, the members of parliament of the Autonomous Territories are allied in their interests and share in each other's autonomous monopoly industries, such as railway companies and tobacco factories. Private also includes shipyards, the winemaking industry, the paper industry, the mining industry, etc., all of which are highly profitable industries.

Parliamentarians are the ruling class of autonomous territories, and with enough gain, they take more account of local reputations and family reputations, all of which interfere with kinship or family pressures. Immediately after being rejected and reprimanded by Marshal Bolonik, they expressed their support for the rectification and inventory and published articles in the major newspapers of the Autonomous Territories, appreciating the harsh operation and the rectification of the inventory...

Marshal Bolognick had no choice but to arrest his relatives and associates against the Executive Committee, let the Executive Committee kill an example of a monkey and cancel his seat. It was unfortunate that no one had given him the opportunity to become a member of parliament, which meant joining the ruling class of autonomous territories. No one would give up this eye-catching position and become the enemy of Marshal Bolognick and Claude for the sake of alienation.

The intense operations and governance checks that ended at the end of February left the entire Overseas Autonomous Territories with a large shortage of administrative civil servants, almost three quarters of whom were lacking, and many local municipal administrations could even be described as paralysed. The security situation at the local level is not bad, thanks to the harsh operations that have just taken place. And the patrol police is not as bad as imagined, and half of them are still in office after the survey, which can maintain the most basic social order.

Marshal Bolognick urged Claude to finalize this year's list of veterans as soon as possible, as members of the inspectorate under the Executive Council conducted civil service examinations in local towns. He was prepared to select a veteran of excellence from among the veterans to fill a vacancy in the civil service and, for a short time, was busy, both in the Executive Committee and in the military sector headquarters. Fortunately, Claude didn't forget to order a rotation of time off for the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Corps who ended the operation, otherwise there would have to be a mess...

The greatest task of the autonomous military region in the month of March 607 of Holy Light was to realize the rewards. Most of the tremendous gains from the invasion of the Kingdom of Hicks have been returned to the overseas autonomous territories and the rewards due to the officers and soldiers need to be realized. This means not only the Thunder Corps, but both the Storm Corps and the eight Hicks Return Regiments, with proportional reductions based on battlefield performance and battle achievement rates.

Generally speaking, if a Hicks Return Division soldier receives 10 gold kroner cash rewards, a Storm Regiment soldier receives 20 to 28 gold kroner, while a Thunder Regiment soldier receives 35 to 40 gold kroner rewards, because the rules of reward distribution are published on the walls of the barracks, and more rewards are allocated to any Regiment soldier who experiences battle...

The ocean convoy arrived again in the Overseas Autonomous Territories in late March, and General Muried sent General Albert's report to Claude. General Albert's Storm Regiment is currently stationed in Port Patcala, leased by the Kingdom of Breot to the Autonomous Territory, where the rest of the Storm Regiment, eight Hicks Return Regiments and 560,000 Hicks, are now immigrants.

After two more trips by the ocean convoy and the return of eight Hicks Return Regiments and military immigrants to the Overseas Autonomous Territories, the rest of the Port of Patkara is the Storm Regiment and the captives of over 100,000 Hicks kingdoms. According to the plan, the Storm Regiment will need only one division of more than 18,000 horses stationed in the port of Patkara and another 34,000 young and powerful prisoners to reclaim the wasteland outside the port of Patkara. The remaining three divisions will escort all selected prisoners to the northern bay territory of the Kanas Prairie for stationing...

In his report, General Albert stated that the departure of the Thunder Corps had left the situation in the Kingdom of Hicks somewhat uncertain and that the Grand Duke of the North had formally formed a family armed group, reportedly of four standing legions. On the other hand, armed clashes between the protective forces and the Grand Duke of the Sunset River, who occupies Wang Jing, continue on the border, with frequent and small-scale exchanges of fire. As for the Waffen Front or something, they're killing each other, annexing each other's territory, the first fight...

To put it this way, the three largest forces in the Hicks kingdom are not officially fighting, but rather little shrimp rice like the Front de défense. It appears that they want to wait until the troops of the autonomous territories do withdraw, so that when the three forces are unable to fight, the forces of the autonomous territories suddenly appear behind them and strike a deadly blow, so that they are really finished.

Does General Albert mean to ask Claude if he really has only one Storm Regiment stationed in Port Patcala? He felt it would be better to leave the entire Storm Regiment here, so that it would be a threat to all three forces in the Kingdom of Hicks, and perhaps the war could not be fought. General Albert fears that the three major separatist forces in the Hicks kingdom will affect the construction and development of Port Patcala...

Claude could only shake his head and write back to General Albert. In his letter, he told General Albert that he was determined to implement the plan developed by the Autonomous Territory. The three major separatist forces in the Hicks kingdom had to fight, and only when they had a war would Port Patcala be worry-free. The longer they fight, the more they will rely on the Autonomous Territory for their blood transfusion, and then the port of Patcala will truly develop and become another development market blessing for the Autonomous Territory...

General Albert was a pure soldier, and the first thought he saw the enemy was how to destroy the enemy to protect his own people, not to use them for any purpose. Claude and the Autonomous Territory hope that the three separatist forces of the Kingdom of Hicks will be able to strike a big hand for a few years, that the Autonomous Territory will help weaken and strengthen next to it, that it will not let any force perish, and that it will maintain a tripartite balance of power, so that the Kingdom of Hicks will truly lose hope of unification, and perhaps be divided into three small countries...

After completing his reply to General Albert, he received a report from Lieutenant Colonel Fahselin, and a special envoy from the Pamigal National Republic came to urge the Autonomous Territory to send the Legion of Thunder as soon as possible to carry out its allies' duties. Moreover, the Pamigals accepted the proposal of the Autonomous Territory and took the initiative to reduce the strength of the two Standing Regiments of the Republic. This time, they felt that they seemed to be naked and without any defensive force. At first sight, the deadline reached the Autonomous Territory, saying that the Thunder Regiment had not passed, so they sent a special envoy to hasten...

Claude could not but apologize because the sudden assignment had delayed the Thunder Corps officers and soldiers from taking time off and was now only making up for a month's leave. Claude hopes that the Pamigal envoy will understand that in a month's time, the Legion of Thunder will be able to assemble for the Pamigal National Republic in late April.

Claude is more confident that during this month Claude can guarantee that the Pamigal National Republic will not be attacked by enemies. Because of the alliance of the Autonomous Territory with the Pamigals and the dispatch of elite Ace troops, the news of the presence of the Legion of Thunder in the Pamigal National Republic has long been spread in the colonies of the countries of the West Coast. No unexpected one would allow his colonial army to attack the Pamigals, thereby eliciting reprisals from the ruling military region.

Fortunately, with the exception of the Legion of Thunder, which took a month to travel to the Pamigal National Republic, military assistance to the Pamigals from other autonomous territories was on schedule. Instructing officers and armaments such as firearms have been dispatched to the past, so Special Envoy Pamigal has nothing more to say than worry.

A month passed and the first division of the Legion of Thunder had embarked on a boat to Port Filims, a seaport city leased by the Pamigals to the Autonomous Territory. Special Envoys of the Pamigals also took the boat home, thanking Claude desperately before proceeding. Claude promised him to deploy four field divisions of the Legion of Thunder within four months at a rate of one division per month.

However, it will take six months for Thunder Corps headquarters to depart. Due to retirement and recruitment, these recruits occupy the majority of the regiment's two immediate mission headquarters and require six months of training before they can leave for the Pamigal National Republic.

At last, after all these trivial things, Claude was about to give himself two days off, and General Bockard arrived. The purpose of his visit was money, which was well founded and rational, and he said that the Security Service was responsible for the entire Overseas Autonomous Territory, and the Bureau of Investigation for the entire Overseas Autonomous Territory. The only intelligence agency he was responsible for was the entire Farea continent, so vast, why was it financed with a million gold kroner, just like the Security Service, the Bureau of Investigation?

Claude grinned and told General Boquer that the biggest difference between the Intelligence Agency and the Security Service and the Bureau of Investigation was its autonomy. This autonomy can manifest itself in the collection and use of commercial intelligence, for example, in the name of commercial firms, which can wiggle out and out of the countries of the Farea continent, smoothly deploying agents to the kings and major cities of the kingdoms, while the commercial gains are owned by the intelligence services...

In short, the Intelligence Agency's funds, in addition to those allocated by its superiors, can be searched for on its own, which is why the Intelligence Agency has the largest coverage, but the same funding for its formation as the Bureau of Investigation. Claude thought it would be better if General Bolognick, instead of dealing with him, formed an intelligence service by forming a merchant brigade or, in the name of a commercial firm, by organizing cargo and manpower to search for intelligence on the margins of the Farea continent, than by complaining about the lack of sufficient funds to form an intelligence service in the Autonomous Territories.

General Boquer suddenly realized that he was about to leave the office and was called by Claude again. Claude told Boquer that it was a bad time to be here. I took a cash order of more than one million gold kroner handed over by Marshal Bolonik in the last two days, which is the harvest of the corrupt officials who copied the house after the operation and the investigation, plus three million gold kroner, the autonomous leadership has distinguished more than one million and can invest in the intelligence bureau's commerce.....