Chapter 1503: Strange Village (Part 2)

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Halfway through the war against the Frankish Empire, Su Cheng knew that the empire's center had recruited another group of young laborers to transport supplies.

Although before the war began, the general staff headed by Su Cheng drew up a breathtakingly detailed battle plan and made precise calculations of the number of civilians needed to launch the war, the plan was always Can't keep up with changes.

After the war begins, accidents may happen at any time.

And these accidents that may happen at any time will completely disrupt the original plan.

For example - it rained heavily for several days, making the roads muddy and making it difficult for the transport team to move.

Another example - a sudden outbreak of an epidemic in a certain transportation team not only cost a large number of transportation personnel, but also prevented supplies from being delivered to the front line as scheduled.

Even more extreme - an earthquake suddenly occurred, and the location of the earthquake happened to be the base area of ​​the logistics force...

After the "Watch the Rhine" project began, although no major accidents occurred, small accidents occurred every day.

The continuous occurrence of these small accidents caused the originally formulated combat plan to continuously deviate from the originally planned track.

Before they could attack the city of Beloux, the Britannia army was running out of civilians.

Faced with this situation, Ilsa urgently issued a mobilization order and recruited a group of civilians across the country to send to the front line.

Su Cheng knew that there was another recruitment of civilian husbands, but he didn't know how many new civilian husbands had been recruited.

Because the matter of recruiting civilian husbands is not under Su Cheng's control at all.

Not only was the matter of recruiting civilian men not under Su Cheng's control, but also the matter of directing civilian men to transport grain was not under Su Cheng's control.

According to the military regulations of the Britannian Empire, those in charge of frontline operations generally do not care about logistics and transportation, and those in charge of logistics and transportation generally do not direct frontline operations.

In the "Watch the Rhine" plan, the person in charge of the logistics force is the deputy commander of the Gabriel Knights.

Su Cheng only knew how many civilians were involved in logistics and transportation at the beginning of the war.

After the war started, Su Cheng didn't quite understand how many civilians had been reduced and how many new civilians had been added.

Su Cheng never expected that the central government would mobilize so many young and strong laborers to the front line in the middle of the battle...

Generally speaking, the central government will first mobilize young adults in poorer areas.

Every civilian who is mobilized to the front line will receive a monetary reward. This monetary reward is fatally attractive to young adults in poor areas, so they will be more active in the matter of being recruited to the front line. .

Mobilizing people in poor areas first, and then mobilizing people in wealthy areas - this has become the practice of the Britannia Empire.

This is Soma County, the richest county in the southern part of the Britannia Empire.

Even the young adults in Soma County have been recruited... Su Cheng can no longer imagine what other poorer areas will look like...

Just before Su Cheng could recover from what Kefu had just said, Kefu let out another sigh.

"Fortunately, our country has built a large number of plantations in the western region in recent years."

"Thanks to the plantations and the indigenous people in the New World, we have had a lot of tax reductions over the years."

"Fortunately, the current taxes are not as heavy as before. Otherwise, with the current lack of young and strong labor, we may not even be able to pay the taxes."

Kefu didn't notice Su Cheng's slightly narrowed pupils, but continued to talk to himself:

"Our Majesty's policy of building plantations and seizing the natives of the New World as slaves is really wise."

“I don’t know how many farmers from poor families have benefited from this policy.”

"With these New World natives helping us farm the land, the pressure on us farmers has been reduced a lot, and the taxes we have to pay every year are only half of what we used to do."

“I heard that when His Majesty decided to implement this policy,

Many people expressed opposition and felt that this policy was too cruel. "

Speaking of this, Ke Fu's face was full of disdain.

He turned his head and spat heavily on the ground at his feet.

"Let me tell you, those who think His Majesty's policy is cruel are a bunch of bastards."

"When the natives of the New World were not captured to farm the land, the central empire was very cruel to us ordinary farmers."

"But now that we have captured the natives of the New World to farm the land, we have become very cruel to the natives of the New World, while ordinary farmers like us have become more relaxed."

"Your Majesty seizes the natives of the New World to farm the land. Those big shots think it's cruel."

"Then when we set such high taxes on ordinary people before, why didn't those big shots stand up and say, 'This is cruel to farmers?'"

"To put it bluntly, it's not because those big guys are used to riding on us, and they don't think it's wrong to be so cruel to us poor farmers."

"When His Majesty decided to capture the natives of the New World, he was overflowing with kindness and said this was cruel and that was cruel."

"The more I think about it, the angrier I get!"

"Riding on the heads of us poor people and accusing His Majesty of cruelty in a condescending manner - this is the face of those big shots who oppose His Majesty's 'Plantation Plan'!"

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Britannia Empire, Pendragon, Baiyang Palace, Ilsa's study.

In the study, Ilsa stood in front of a large map hanging on the wall with her hands behind her back.

This large map is the map of the continent.

To be precise, it is a new map specially drawn by cartographers for Ilsa.

The most eye-catching part on this new map is naturally the large area of ​​red.

This large area of ​​red is the territory of the Britannia Empire.

A few years ago, the territory of their Britannia Empire was only huddled on the west side of the continent.

Now, after successively conquering the Roland Empire and the Frank Empire, the territory of their Britannia Empire has expanded to more than twice its original size.

South to the southernmost part of the continent.

West to the ocean.

East to the prairie.

North to the Aighar Mountains, bordering the Holy Hilan Empire.

Currently, there are only two conspicuous colors left on the map.

One color is the red representing the Britannia Empire.

The other color is the blue representing the Holy Hilan Empire.

After annexing large tracts of territory from the Roland Empire and the Frank Empire, the current territory of the Britannia Empire is no less than that of the Holy Hilan Empire.

The red and blue colors touch each other, and the north and south face each other.

Looking at the entire continent, only the Holy Hilan Empire is qualified to be the opponent of the Britannia Empire.

At the same time... only the Holy Hilan Empire is still hindering Ilsa from fulfilling her dream of unifying the continent...

Looking at the large area of ​​blue on the map, Ilsa's eyes flashed with a chilling light.