The newspaper is a great force, but just as an unrestrained current can destroy fields and crops, so can an uncontrolled pen. If control comes from the outside, it's more harmful than no control at all. Only inner supervision can be beneficial.

- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)

With limited time and energy, Bai Feng could not have told every upstart of the East who was loyal to him, and all his arrangements and arrangements were conveyed to the upstarts scattered in the towns of Brosiansson and Grenoble through the Nets and the Sophia Chamber of Commerce.

After making this arrangement, Bai Feng stayed in the city of Bronjansson for a few more days, and discussed with Prince Pross how to deal with the other three princes, especially Prince William and Prince Harry, after the future power of the prince rises.

With the full support of the Imperial Military Department and Prince Harry, who has the full support of the Imperial Finance, and the four northwestern provinces and the three southwestern provinces that have not been traumatized by the war, their future development is bound to be rapid, even extremely terrifying!

Prince William had just arrived in Calais Province with his army to formally form the Northwest Governorate, and six Northwest Army Corps had been formed with the support of the Military Department.

Compared with the ambitious enhancement of the strength of these two princes, Prince Pros's practice of spending 30 million gold coins to build the Governor's Mansion to the point of borrowing money from Bai Feng to build three new Eastern Legions is no different from his own initiative to give up the right to inherit the throne.

Fortunately, Bai Feng, who has more financial resources than Prince Harry, took out 50 million gold coins to give to Prince GLP conditionally, and at the same time took out 50 million gold coins for the restoration and development of the Eastern Provinces, which made the development of the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion not inferior to the two Metropolitan Governors.

In order to avoid a situation in the future where the strength of the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is weaker than that of other Metropolitan Governors, Bai Feng and Prince Pros unanimously decided after deliberation: the number of regular troops in the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion should be at least no less than 100,000 troops more than the second largest number of troops!

For example, the Metropolitan Governorate with the largest number of standing armies is the Eastern Metropolitan Mansion of Prince Pros and the Northern Metropolitan Prefecture of Prince Philip, and the Northern Metropolitan Governorate, which is temporarily unable to expand its army, now has 16 standing armies, totaling 320,000 regular troops.

In comparison, Prince William's Northwest Governorate had only 12 standing armies and six Northwest Legions, with a total strength of 300,000, while Prince Harry's Southwest Metropolitan Governorate had only 7 standing armies and four Southwest Legions, with a total strength of 180,000.

The provincial city defense armies and special legions under the control of the major metropolitan governors are not counted in the scope of the regular army, because the Eastern Metropolitan Prefecture and the Northern Metropolitan Prefecture are the two metropolitan governors with the largest number of city defense troops, and at the same time, the Eastern Metropolitan Prefecture is the metropolitan government with the largest number of special regiments.

At present, all the special legions of the empire are combined, and there are only seven in total, namely: Prince Philip's Phantom Legion, Prince Harry's Dragon Slayer Legion, Prince Pros's Blue Bird Legion, White Peak's Wind Legion, Spear Legion, Iron Blood Legion, and Cavalry Legion.

Naturally, there was no need to compare the Eastern Metropolitan Governorate, which had the advantage of both the city defense army and the special corps, with other weaker Metropolitan Governors in this respect; in this way, maintaining absolute superiority in the regular army became the core link for the Eastern Metropolitan Governorate to maintain its military superiority.

The number of standing armies in the Eastern Metropolitan Prefecture is sixteen, and the number of Eastern Legions is five, and even if the three Eastern Legions that are being formed are added, the total strength is only 400,000, which does not meet the minimum requirement of 100,000 more troops than the Northern Metropolitan Governorate.

In view of this, Prince Pross proposed that two more Eastern Legions be formed in order to meet the minimum requirements agreed upon by the two of them, but such a blind expansion of the number of Eastern Legions was obviously irrational and did not cure the symptoms.

Although Bai Feng did not approve of Prince GLP's proposal, Prince GLP himself felt that this approach was effective, because the formation of each Eastern Legion only cost hundreds of thousands of gold coins, and he had enough gold coins to form one Eastern Legion after another.

In Bai Feng's view, instead of wasting gold coins to form an Eastern Legion with weak combat effectiveness, it is better to spend as much limited gold coins as possible on the existing standing army and expand the scale of the standing army.

As soon as he heard that Bai Feng intended to expand the size of the standing army, Prince GLP, who was not very proficient in military affairs, immediately became interested; since Prince GLP was interested in listening to his own opinions, Bai Feng naturally would not refuse to share his thoughts one by one.

Originally, Bai Feng's method was to add nominal reserve soldiers to the existing standing corps, and each standing corps of the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion would be assigned a reserve wing, and the full number of soldiers in this large reserve corps would reach an astonishing five thousand!

In this way, the strength of each standing army of the Eastern Metropolitan Government will be increased from 20,000 to 25,000 soldiers, an increase of one-quarter, and according to this standard, the total strength of the sixteen standing legions of the Eastern Metropolitan Government will increase from 320,000 to 400,000!

Compared to the method in which the Prince of Pross could spend no more than 600,000 gold coins to reach the target, Bai Feng's plan to expand the standing army would cost at least millions of gold coins, however, the results of these two completely different plans were also very different.

If the plan proposed by Prince GLP is implemented, the number of Eastern legions in the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion will increase in the future, but the growth of the overall military strength of the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion will become slower and slower.

Recruiting tens of thousands of young and strong men into an army will, on the one hand, greatly increase the military expenditure of the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Office, and on the other hand, it will also affect the speed of recovery and development of the Eastern provinces; in the long run, it will only lead the Eastern Provinces into a dead end in which the more troops there are, the slower their development.

If the plan proposed by Bai Feng is implemented, then the pressure of one-time capital investment will be much greater, and the early development speed of the eastern provinces will also be dragged down, but the benefits are also very obvious, and the overall military strength of the eastern metropolitan government will become stronger and stronger.

Whether to form more Eastern Legions or expand the existing standing legions, after weighing the pros and cons, Prince GLP finally chose to implement the expansion plan proposed by Bai Feng;

The so-called two parts, that is, the four standing corps directly under the Prince of Pross, which were recruited and expanded by the Prince of Pross in the provinces of Brojansson and Grenoble, and the 12 standing corps under the command of Bai Feng were recruited and expanded by Bai Feng in the three provinces of Montant, Lyon, and Toulon.

Needless to say, this is exactly what Bai Feng wants, he has no idea of interfering in the expansion of the army of the Prince of Pros, and the nine standing legions of his own lineage are unlikely to allow the Prince of Pros to get involved, which is the basic premise for the two to maintain a harmonious relationship.

As for the three legions under the command of Eric's overseer, there is no current situation of war for the time being, so Bai Feng has no suitable reason to descend on these three legions, so before his army has started, Bai Feng has ordered Eric to lead the army to Mengdan Province.