Chapter 164: Total Control

"Blue Jay! Blue Jay! Zone C requests support! ”

Brush......

Along with the call for help, a Su-27 fighter quickly approached the battlefield, of course, it was not the blue bird in the mouth of the call for help, the blue bird is a new generation of Nord gunship, named because of the all-over blue color of the first generation of Sao Bao. Naturally, at this point it was already camouflage, and the blue was just too eye-catching.

The Su-27 fighter did not show its effect at all and was used as an AWACS aircraft, which several presidents of the Nord Royal Company had brought from the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union was already showing signs of fatigue at this time, some countries were already extracting its vitality, and the Nords were not trying to make money, but were just staring at the huge armaments.

Something like an aircraft carrier is still too conspicuous, and it is very difficult for some Nord businessmen to get one back, even if they have close ties with the Soviet Union, but the Su-27 fighter is not too difficult, although it has only been in service for two years.

Da Da ~

The Blue Bird arrived just in time, and the machine guns were firing wildly at the armed men below, and the richer warlords had rockets, anti-tank guns and other threatening weapons, but the poorer ones had to be slaughtered.

"Surrender, we surrender!"

This is not the first case, many of the previous ones are examples, the most important thing is that they are not armed with the Nord Principality at all, and it is only a matter of time before they surrender.

The war had been going on for several months, and the local small battles did not alarm any country at all, after all, the total strength of both sides did not even exceed a regiment.

To be precise, the Duchy of Nord used a total of three regiments, but two of them belonged to mercenaries, they were the seeds planted by the Duchy of Nord early on, and they came into play at this time, and most of the war was going on.

By early November 1987, Nord had completed the rule of the entire Western Sahara region, with a small number of armed elements fleeing Western Sahara, and most of them surrendering or being executed. Of course, the executions were not reported, and Nord announced that the death toll on both sides was less than three hundred.

As a matter of fact? In fact, the Nord army lost 32 killed and more than 100 wounded, while the armed forces of the autonomous Western Sahara lost more than 3,600 killed and wounded more than 60.

The armed men of Western Sahara did not have much resistance, and often the artillery shelled for half an hour, the helicopter gunships strafed in a circle, and then the war was cleaned up.

Civilian casualties? How could there be civilian casualties, they were already notified in advance to leave, and all who did not leave were militants, so there were no civilian casualties.

The restoration of Western Sahara autonomy is only the beginning, and how to develop it is the main thing to do, but in the process, some things have changed.

After a month's count, the population of Western Sahara is close to 700,000, which is much more than the previous estimate of 400,000, mainly because they are all under the rule of armed elements and do not have very clear demographic information.

The population of 700,000 is indeed a big problem for the Nord Principality, first of all, the lack of management and law and order, after all, the population is chaotic all over the place, under various rules, how to standardize and manage peacefully is a matter worth discussing.

For this reason, the Secretary of State for the Interior, Smith, has once again come to the province of Western Sahara, and he will temporarily act as the governor of the province of Western Sahara, where he will remain for the next two years until things are basically settled.

A province with a population of 700,000 could not rely on more than 10,000 soldiers, so the expansion of the army was inevitable, and Joseph's initial number was 30,000, a full three royal defense divisions.

The Duchy of Nord will abolish the establishment of the First National Defense Army and change it to the Royal First National Defense Division, the Royal Second National Defense Division, and the Royal Third National Defense Division, which will be stationed on the border of Mauritania and Algeria respectively, while the Royal First Defense Division will be stationed in Laayoune as a garrison.

The army will be reformed and the administrative structure will also have to be changed, and Laayoune, as the administrative center of Western Sahara, will have about 150,000 local residents, not counting newborns. In addition to Laayoune, Nord plans to expand five large cities in Western Sahara with a population of 500,000 to 100,000, which will be spread across northeastern and southern Western Sahara.

These cities will accommodate about 500,000 people, and the remaining 200,000 or so will be settled in 1,000 oasis towns, and the population of Western Sahara will definitely increase in the future, so these towns are built according to the standard of 1,000 people. The town is directly under the Nord administration, but in some ways they are also subject to the constraints of the nearby city.

Every year, these town councillors go to the city council for a meeting, and the mayor also has the right to summon the mayors of nearby towns to come to the city for a meeting, but they only have the right to make suggestions and not orders for the construction of the towns below. The Nord tax department is directly under the central government, so the mayor does not have the authority to deduct the tax revenue of the town for the construction of the city.

Cities are not much different from small towns, or they are just larger towns, and the same is true of Laayoune, who is only the temporary administrative center of Western Sahara, which will sooner or later be abolished, and the Nord cabinet will have direct administration of Western Sahara.

Because of the problem of loyalty, small towns and cities will be mixed together, and some of the former surrendered members of different organizations may now live in the same city (small town), and they may even be neighbors. Although this puts a lot of pressure on law and order, in some respects it cuts off the possibility of previous organizations contacting them.

Joseph did not have the luxury of expecting eternity or the absence of a traitor, but he believed that with the passage of time and the stability of life, no one would yearn for the previous life.

Garment processing workshops and large heavy industry groups have been relocated to Western Sahara one after another, while some local companies and groups have also increased their production capacity with the help of the government to obtain orders, and it is not very difficult for 700,000 people to achieve no job vacancies.

At first, they may only be paid a few hundred euros a year, but even this is something they could not have imagined before. And with the economic growth of NORD itself, it is not difficult to achieve an annual per capita income of two or three thousand euros in a few years.

At present, the hottest positions in every small town and city are small town sheriffs and urban police, especially in cities, which have large populations and complex identities, which are quite difficult to manage. Sheriffs and police officers are perhaps the only jobs that correspond to Nord's salary, and even small town mayors and mayors are paid according to the construction of the city.

Due to the precarious law and order, the new town of 200 people will have five to ten sheriffs, while the city will have hundreds of police officers and some retired soldiers patrolling special police with helicopter gunships.

The special police are not like ordinary police, they belong to the direct management of the mayor, and they are the only armed forces in the hands of the mayor, but the number of this armed force is under the control of the council, and the range of 100-500 is decided by the council.

The council represents almost exclusively the interests of the common people, and if the local security is poor and the taxes are good, then they may agree to the mayor's request of 400 or 500 SWAT. If law and order is good and taxes are poor, then it is reasonable to refuse the request. Such a thing can be re-elected in three years, and the mayor can vote on it at any time if the mayor allows it.

To put it bluntly, the parliament and the government are mutually contained, but if both parties agree, then the rules can be changed at any time (rules are not the same as laws, and laws can only be changed by the House of Lords, provided that the Grand Duke allows them to change). ), which is set up for flexible management.