110 days
Sitting in the office, the government employee in charge of commercial diplomacy put down the documents in his hand, looked curiously at his colleagues, and asked, "What is this?" The Kingdom of Higgs agreed that we would explore for oil on their side? Didn't they always disagree with this? β
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A small clerk beside him raised his head from the stack of documents, nodded and said, "Yes, the news just sent yesterday was that the other party gave us quite favorable conditions, and agreed that we would set up a company on their side to be responsible for oil exploration and exploitation." β
The expression on the face of the department director who was holding the document was very exciting, and he grinned and sighed: "I suddenly changed sex." This King Capecastner is kind of funny. β
"In addition, they have relaxed import restrictions and allowed our merchants to enter the territory of the Kingdom of Higgs." There was a clerk over there who raised the document in his hand, shook it twice above his head, and showed off.
Hearing this news, the director of the department was even more surprised and surprised: "Hey! We beat the Arrant Empire so badly, they are not willing to agree to these terms, this Higgs Kingdom has not fought with us yet, so this is agreed? β
"Who's to say it isn't. I didn't hear that the Higgs Kingdom was a soft persimmon, but I heard that there was a fight with the Arrant Empire back then. The first clerk to speak said with an incomprehensible expression.
The colleague next to him who had just accosted him nodded: "But now that I look at it like this, it seems to smell like a broken jar." Did they know they couldn't beat us and gave up resisting? β
"That's a good feeling, we fought in the province, you know, no matter how many battles are won, the war will still die......" The director of the department picked up the water cup in front of him, took a sip of boiling water, and said with great emotion.
In fact, as long as it is a war, it is necessary to die, and behind those glorious victories, there are all piles of bones.
Alan Hill's casualties were still in the tens of digits when he attacked Tubao, Beijun and Hanhai, and when he went south to Naru, the casualties were also controlled to about a few dozen, and at this time everyone didn't think there was anything wrong with the war.
After all, in this day and age, the death of dozens of people is actually not something that is worth making a fuss about. But by the time Bud, Fallen Dragon City, and Volavo were attacked, the casualties had risen to a surprising level.
Because of the encounter with the opposing dragon knights, the steppe cavalry lost about 15,000 people, and Elanhill also lost more than 2,300 people, and the entire 3 garrison battalions were completely wiped out by the dragon knights, and 2 regiments were disabled and incapacitated.
Later, during the defense battle of Seris, the elite 1st Regiment and the anti-aircraft artillery unit also lost more than 400 people, not to mention the heavy damage to Diderick's dragon knight troops, and also killed him, but the losses were still very heavy.
After a series of fierce battles, Iran Hill has lost nearly 3,000 soldiers, which is very precious to veterans, and Iran Hill, who is frantically expanding his army, this number is already very painful, but everyone still selectively ignores such a price.
The dividends of war are so impressive that they can make people forget their pain. Every soldier who died in battle received a condolence payment from Chris's cabinet, and even more interestingly, they even received a subsidy from the arsenal and an insurance pension from the army......
Then, unexpectedly, under the auspices of Desel, the companies that had profited from the war set up a private incentive fund and raised a large sum of money to privately give to the families of the dead, resulting in an unexpected situation.
In the family of each fallen soldier, he actually received four pensions at the same time, totaling more than 100 gold coins, and put it two years ago, such a huge amount of money can make an ordinary family squander it for a lifetime.
At that time, Chris, as a lord, couldn't even take out a tax tribute of 1,000 gold coins. And on this day two years later, the allowance for each fallen soldier in Iran Hill was already 100 gold coins.
For this compensation alone, 200,000 gold coins were used in cash, and more than 100,000 gold coins were also distributed in kind, including daily necessities such as food, cloth and utensils.
What makes people laugh and cry is that because the pension is too tempting, Iran Hill actually set off a craze for joining the army. The hundreds of thousands of Iran Hill troops expanded to nearly one million in one go, and then finally stabilized.
This is not a small number, the air defense force has expanded from less than 10,000 to 100,000, these units are under the management of the air force, and anti-aircraft artillery units are deployed in every city, but there are more or less differences.
Similarly, another 100,000 engineering units attached to the Air Force are working frantically every day to build airfield facilities, building 35 large-scale field airfields and 10 backup secret airfields in one fell swoop near the borders and cities.
The army has been expanded to 600,000 troops, divided into 10 corps, each with an establishment of 60,000 troops, under the jurisdiction of three divisions and artillery and communications units attached to the army.
Chris imitated the heavy division of the US army to reorganize the ground forces of Iran Hill, because there are trucks in service, the establishment of artillery units has also been expanded, the original 75 mm caliber infantry gun is still temporarily under the regimental headquarters, and the new 105 mm caliber howitzer is equipped with divisional artillery units.
Artillery armed with 105 mm howitzers really became heavy fire support this time. After watching a live-fire exercise of a 105 mm howitzer, all the officers had a completely new understanding of their weapons.
Due to limited capacity, Chris did not choose to equip larger caliber artillery for the time being, but he is already preparing to build a 155mm howitzer production line, ready to equip it with military fire support units.
The current Irlanhill unit is more like a modern force: with radio communications and field wired telephones, communications have been delegated to the regimental level, and command and movement have never been faster and more direct.
In addition, because they are equipped with a large amount of equipment, the ratio of engineers to engineers is higher, the number of air defense units is also larger, and the scale of some military departments and division headquarters is larger, and the degree of attention paid to logistics is also higher.
The development of the navy is even more interesting, on the one hand, the navy's marine corps has expanded to 60,000 people per army, and on the other hand, there are so many sailors and crews recruited by the navy that there are so many ships that cannot be served.
In the end, the navy had to come up with 100 magic balls of knowledge to strengthen the teaching force of navigation education, set up a naval senior academy, and raised more than 10,000 naval cadets on land, which can be regarded as using up the quota for expanding the army.
In addition, because of the need for port expansion, the navy also has its own construction team, and they are working hard to build the ferry port, which is inspired to become the largest and most efficient important port on the eastern coastline.
"How do you get back to the Higgs Kingdom? The envoy who sent the news is still at the station. Returning to the topic, the clerk summarized the documents in his hand into a very important classification, looked at his section chief and asked.
The director of the department didn't think about it, and replied directly: "How else can you reply?" Isn't there a shortage of oil on our side, let's report it to the Ministry of Resources immediately......"
Another clerk stretched his waist and said with a smile: "It's good now, the work over there is probably going to be busy again." β
The whole department came alive, and a young man who had processed his papers rubbed his shoulders and said, "Isn't it good to be busy?" It's always better than being idle. β
"Yes! In the past, we were very idle every day, sitting idly on the ridge of the field with hungry eyes straight to Venus. His words made the section chief agree, and then he opened his mouth to recall his previous hardships.
The clerk who was the first to speak hurriedly said: "Now we are busy, but we have money to make and can feed the family...... I just bought a fish from the ferry yesterday and it looks fresh. β
The colleague next to him was even more excessive, and made a very exaggerated action of rubbing his belly: "Don't mention it, I'll go buy meat after work today, the beef of this grassland empire is still sky-high, but now it's good, I don't want to eat it cheap." β
A colleague in the distance laughed and said, "Look at your madness, you still don't want to eat it?" Then you eat dragon meat! β
The section chief laughed: "Hahahaha! Don't say it, I've heard that many people in the army have eaten dragon meat, and it doesn't taste very good. β
Because of superstition, the soldiers of many units really tasted the taste of dragon meat privately when they were handling the corpses of dragons. Many people believe that eating the flesh of a dragon will strengthen their bodies and protect them from diseases, and some believe that they can gain the dragon's power through this ritual......
As a result, instead of benefiting from the dragon's meat, the soldiers who ate the dragon meat suffered from eating the meat when they disposed of the corpses. The dragons that were transported to the shooting range were already stinky after the experiment, and no one might be willing to move their mouths if they were given away for nothing, so they had to be buried on the spot.
Many of the dragon scales and teeth were taken away as souvenirs, and two specially treated dragon bones were put together in the museum, which was Chris's idea, which led many children to visit the museum to see skeletal specimens that they had never seen before.
Just like children today who go to museums to see the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, children are curious and in awe of the giant taxidermy.
Also on display with the dragon skeleton are the royal banners and weapons of the Arrant Empire; the dragon knight's swords and armor; Assembled by His Majesty Chris, the first generation of woodworking machinery in the city of Serris......
"In the past, I couldn't have imagined that I could live a life like today." Inside the department, the chief looked out the window and muttered softly.