Chapter IX Encouraging Childbearing
The time goes back to the end of June 139 in the new calendar. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Towards the end of the battle, Mel sent a letter to the city of Byrons. He knew that the Kingdom of Byron did not have enough people to immigrate to Chaoxin Kingdom, so he immediately thought of the Taeyong goblins, who had a large population. He asked the Tairong goblins to immigrate to the territory of Chaoxin and establish a settlement there, so he asked Liu Xiu to help him convey his thoughts to the Taerong goblins.
Establishing a settlement in Taeyong Fairies is not a big deal, nor is it a small matter. It is not difficult to establish a settlement, but the Taeyong Elf Settlement contains too many secrets that cannot be known to foreigners, such as the breeding methods of Taeyong Elves, which cannot be known by outsiders.
Mair promised to give all the land of Chaoxin to the Taeyong elves, so that they could establish settlements and live freely according to their own habits and preferences. During this time, the army of the Republic of Bujin would stay behind to protect the settlement.
This will be the first official exchange between the Tajon elves and the Ilibi, and the Ilibian army will always keep their distance from the settlement, and a special camp will be set up between the army station and the settlement for the two tribes. The Ilibi army remaining in the kingdom of Chaoxin must make a guarantee that they will not step into the guarded area of the settlement without the permission of the Taeyong elves.
The 30,000-strong Taeyong Fairy Legion is deployed in the settlement, which has completed its training. This army is the last defense force of the settlement, and it will not attack unless it is absolutely necessary, so as not to expose its strength prematurely.
With the protection of 30,000 of the same clan, the Taeyong goblins have no worries. They accepted Myr's offer and began recruiting immigrants within the Tajon elf colony and among the scattered Tajon elves.
The number of the first batch of immigrants was 100,000, and with the addition of 30,000 Taeyong elf legions, it was 130,000. Without exception, they came from makeshift settlements near the city of Byrons, where news of immigration was first heard.
In the next few years, millions of Tairong goblins came to the territory of Chaoxin to reclaim the wasteland, and the number of immigrants increased every day, but that was all for later.
On August 20, 139 New Calendar, the Byronic Army, the Egus Army, and the Taeyong Kingdom Army withdrew their troops from Chaoxin. In order to alleviate the economic pressure of the Bujin Republic, all the grain and grass of the Bujin army remaining in the Chaoxin Kingdom were provided by the Byronic Kingdom. The last thing that the Byron Kingdom lacks now is food, but the Byrons Kingdom is in urgent need of manpower, so it is the Bujin Army that is responsible for transporting grain and grass.
Now in addition to the outlaws and spies who have fled from other countries, only the Bujin people and the Taerong goblins are left in the territory of Chaoxin Kingdom, and the grain route is very safe, and the grain transportation team only needs a small number of troops to escort it. The food and tools of the Taejon goblins are also provided by the Byron Kingdom, but this is only a necessary initial investment, as long as the settlement is formed, the Taeyong goblins will be self-sufficient, and they can also provide enough food and grass for the Bukin army, so that the Bukin army will not have to transport food from the Byron Kingdom to the station.
On 15 September, the Byronic Army returned to its original position.
The losses in this battle were too great, and the kingdom of Byron lost thousands of its elite population. Maier allowed regular army soldiers to return home in batches to visit their families, and encouraged unmarried soldiers and officers to find their other halves and add to the kingdom.
This order was given not only in the regular army, but also in the Guards and the King's Guard. There were a large number of unmarried young men in the Guards and the King's Guard, and Mel simply suspended all the unmarried among them, and drove them home to find a partner.
As the captain of the personal guard, Tal was not spared, and Maier called Yan Zhiheng and Tal to the office and gave them a death order: for the future of the kingdom, you must find a fiancée.
Myr knew how effective the two men were, so he gave them an additional order: if they didn't complete the task within the year, he would remove them.
This task has to be accepted, and if it is not accepted, it must be accepted, which makes Tal and He Yanzhiheng extremely depressed. After the suspension, the two stayed together for three days, discussing solutions day and night.
He Yan Zhiheng has Yanmeng by his side, and Tal has Milan by his side, if the two are willing to let go of the obsession in their hearts, it is not difficult to find a partner. But they refuse to let go of their obsessions, and the problem becomes complicated.
As I said before, there is no shortage of women around Yan Zhiheng and Tár, and it is not difficult for the two of them to solve lifelong events at all. But the problem is that the number of women who have a crush on them is a bit large, which directly increases the difficulty of other unmarried young people to find a partner. Tal is too critical of women, and Yan Zhiheng's inferiority and self-blame make him not want to find women, and they drag others down.
On October 2, 139 AH, Maier, who had learned of the situation through the Ombudsman, called the two to his office again.
"You two let me tell you what's good about you?"
There were no outsiders in the office, so Mel was angry at them without any shrouds.
"Do you think you're amazing, and that ordinary women aren't worthy of you? What exactly do you want from a woman? Or do you not like women at all? I tell you! The national situation is urgent! Even if you're both bent, you'll have to find me a woman to marry!" ”
"I gave you a chance, and I gave you a lot of opportunities, so that you can choose freely, always think about you, and do not interfere with your choice, but what about you? Have you guys thought about it for me? Even if you don't think about me, as a soldier, you have to think about the country! In his position, he must seek his own government! If you don't want to get married, get out of the army!" Don't drag others down! ”
During the war against the state of Korea, Maier has been anxious. The huge losses in the first battle were the source of his anxiety, and the 20,000 soldiers were broken by a quarter in the first battle, and the losses were too great. After that, every time the Byronic army suffered losses, Mel's anxiety increased by a point, and there was no easing after the withdrawal.
Until the time came, the main combat force of the Kingdom of Byron was the regular army of the Ministry of Defense. Although the regular army is not entirely under the control of Mair, it is certainly more loyal than the city defense forces, which are more loyal than most of the regular army of the Tairong Kingdom. If you don't count the Tairong Fairy Legion, the military strength and war potential of the Tairong Kingdom are much higher than that of the Byron Kingdom, and if the Ilibi Alliance is not integrated into a unified country, the Byron Kingdom can still control the situation.
The problem, however, was that the Ilibi League had to be integrated into a unified nation as soon as possible, and the Ilibian people had very limited combat power during this period. Once something happens to the Tairong Kingdom, it will be difficult for the Byron Kingdom to control the situation with its existing military strength.
On the side of the Tairong Kingdom, Chunshan City and Yaolin City are already under the control of Tengyuan. The combined population of the two cities exceeded five million, and it was possible to mobilize 100,000 troops for war in a short time. But don't forget, whether it is the people of Chunshan City or the people of Yaolin City, they are all Tairong people, and the Tairong people fighting the Tairong people is a civil war. Mel is a foreigner, and even if he waives the slogan of "liberating the Tayyongs", it is impossible for the Tayjongs to fight for him.
In response, Maier has already thought of a countermeasure. In case of a rebellion in the kingdom of Taejong, and the kingdom of Byron is powerless to interfere, he immediately abdicates to Tengyuan and makes him the king of the kingdom of Taeyong. This can at least ensure the loyalty of the people of Chunshan City and the people of Yaolin City, but this practice is also a palliative rather than a cure.
The rebellion of the local forces is purely for the shuffling of power, and as long as they don't get what they want, or if Maier and Tengyuan don't kill them all, the rebellion won't end.
In response, Tengyuan's solution was to expand and grab land from the Taeyong nobility. No matter what kind of attitude the Taeyong nobles put on, and no matter what the international situation is, the Taeyong Kingdom just will not make a truce with the Taeyong nobles. Teng Yuan wants to use the land he has seized from the Taeyong nobles to exacerbate the contradictions between the local forces, and he will appropriately suppress the local forces in the newly occupied areas, and transfer the benefits from these people to the original local forces, so that they will not be able to unite with each other.
But this is still not a long-term solution. The land of the Taeyong nobles is limited, and as the Taeyong Kingdom expands, the struggle between local powers will intensify. The small forces will be swallowed up by the big forces, and the big forces will become stronger and stronger, and when the strength of many big forces exceeds Tengyuan's forces, they will definitely rebel.
If the losses of the Byronic army were not so large, Maier and Tengyuan would have adopted another plan, which was the aforementioned "forced rebellion". But now the losses of the Byronic army are too great, and after the "forced rebellion", the rebels will definitely point the finger at the Byronic Kingdom, which seems to be much weaker than Tengyuan's forces. When the time comes, the Kingdom of Byron will have to fight, and if it doesn't, it will have to fight, and if it loses a few thousand more people, the Kingdom of Byron will definitely be greatly damaged.
Some people may ask, there are a million or hundreds of thousands of people in the Kingdom of Byrons, even if there are less than one percent of the dead of 10,000 people, how can it be a great loss of vitality?
The accounts can't be counted like that. You must know that the soldiers who die on the battlefield are all young adults, between the ages of sixteen and forty, and the average male has the strongest fertility at this age. Suppose there are 10,000 war dead and 10,000 are fertile and they find a spouse and marry them, and the spouse is not fertile, then they will usually have their first child in three years at the latest.
If the child is a boy, then even if the father dies in battle, after fourteen years he will become a reserve laborer, and in another two years he will be a regular laborer, or be drafted into the army, and the male population of the Kingdom of Byron will not decrease. If the war dead had two or more sons, the male population of the Kingdom of Byron would increase in a few years. Conversely, if the war dead do not have children, then within twenty years the male population of the Kingdom of Byron will lose one. If the sons he might have born are included, the kingdom of Byron would have lost even more of its male population.
If twenty years is counted as a cycle, what about forty years? Sixty years? What about eighty years? What about a hundred years?
In addition to immigration, a country can only multiply its population in this way. For the current New World, the impact of population on national strength is considerable. In the case of the Kingdom of Byrons, for example, the population of one hundred and a half thousand limited the number of armies, and in troubled times, the army was vital to a country. The state is not something that can be had or dispensed with once, as long as it is not destroyed, it will continue forever.
Mair doesn't know how long it will take to integrate the Ilibi Alliance, and if he could, the Tayyong Elves would be integrated into the unified nation, which would take more time. He also did not know when the rebellion would come, perhaps in a few years, perhaps a dozen years from now, and in order to be presumptuous, he would have to further encourage marriage and childbearing in order to deal with a rebellion or other event that might occur in a decade or so.
As for now, Maier is powerless. He couldn't turn a baby into an adult in a short period of time, and there was no such miraculous means in the world. And fertility is not paper data, and it is not something that people can control. Two healthy couples, one may have a child in the second year of marriage, another in the third year, and the other may have waited three years without a child.
The most obvious examples of this are Daisy and Erin, both of whom have a talent for Leyting's magic and have a low chance of having children. The former became pregnant in a few months, and the latter is still not pregnant. Erin knows that the probability of pregnancy is low, so she never shy away from those things when she cheats, and even enjoys them.
Since pregnancy is an uncontrollable condition, the only way to increase your chances of pregnancy is to increase the number of intercourse. In order to allow married soldiers to have more children, Maier issued a new order on September 25. He indicated that for the next twenty years, the regular army units of the Kingdom of Byron would be given 10 days off every three months in non-war times. Leave is based on the squadron unit, each squadron rotates leave, and soldiers without squadron establishment will get a "vacation system", with a certain squadron on leave, and officers and soldiers are treated the same.
Originally, soldiers in the regular army were entitled to 10 days of free leave per year, and if they wanted to take leave, they had to apply for it in advance and be approved by the officers at their discretion. Officers were given more holidays, three days of free leave per month for officers of the regular army, and five days per month for officers of the Musket Regiment and the King's Guard.
In addition, Maier also promulgated other measures to encourage childbearing, such as food subsidies for the birth of more than two children, bonuses for the birth of more than two boys, and honorary titles for the birth of three boys. All in all, Maier did everything he could to encourage childbearing, but that didn't make him less anxious.
In addition, the war against Chaoxin made Maier physically and mentally exhausted, and the two pressures added up to make Maier even more anxious. Now Heyan Zhiheng and Tal are making trouble for him when he is most stressed, and it is strange that he does not break out.