"Reed, I suggest you choose the Eleventh Infantry Brigade, which is based in Monasan City, just over a hundred miles from my county of Bayonne, and is connected by the Adur River between the two cities, which is easily accessible and can be reached by boat in half a day.......

"Charles, I think the Ninth Cavalry Brigade is a better choice, although they are nearly three hundred miles away from Bayonne, but the speed of the cavalry movement far exceeds that of the infantry, as long as I say something on the western coast, no one dares to fight Bayona's idea, pirates also have to go ashore, the goods they loot must be handed over to the forces behind their backs to sell, pirates without backing would have starved to death......."

Charles took out a map of the western region of the Kingdom of Florens, and compared it with Reed and planned how to harm the public and private interests, but the two had a disagreement on the choice of cavalry or infantry.

In Reed's cognition, the cavalry unit is still in the position of the king of the battlefield in the vertical and horizontal battlefield, and no infantry unit can withstand the impact of the cavalry unit, even if the infantry adopts the defensive formation of the Sbayan bullfighting formation, it will eventually be dragged down and defeated by the cavalry with high movement.

But the charr did not think so, with the rapid development of muskets, the cavalry units will soon lose their former glory, and the current level of muskets has reached this bottleneck, as long as rifled guns appear, the position of cavalry will be seriously hit.

"Reed, you have been fighting the Rus' on the Eastern Front for so long, have you noticed that the cavalry is gradually declining, and a few decades ago, the number of cavalry even exceeded the infantry, but how many cavalry troops are there in the kingdom now?

Reid was surprised that Charles would ask the question, and he was silent for a moment before he said, "Now......... It's true that there are fewer cavalry troops, but because there are fewer cavalry troops, this kind of opportunity cannot be missed, do you know the Charles, how precious is the command of a cavalry unit......"

"Charr, I have seen with my own eyes the bravery of the Gesar cavalry, the fearlessness of the Bruce cavalry, and the blood of the Flensian cavalry on the battlefield of the Eastern Front, only the cavalry is the king of the battlefield, and when hundreds or thousands of cavalry rush over, even the transcendent can only choose to retreat......."

"Alas......"

Charles was a little stunned, after all, Reed was just a lieutenant colonel officer who had risen from the bottom, and although he was quite sensitive to changes in the composition of the army, he could not have known about the changes in the mode of warfare as he did.

Reed only saw the fantastic achievements of the cavalry troops, but he never thought that the combat effectiveness of the cavalry had not improved much for hundreds of years, and the development of the infantry in the past few decades could be described as coming in by leaps and bounds.

"Reed, the Ninth Cavalry Brigade is the main combat force of the kingdom, even if you can get his command, the control will not fall into your hands, and the king can transfer this force at any time......."

"But the 11th Infantry Brigade is different, it is a garrison force, itself is responsible for clearing the area around Bayona, pirates, and most of the soldiers are civilians, if you can be the commander of this force, it will be the greatest help to the city .......of Bayona."

Without waiting for Reed to speak, Charles pulled out another document.

"This is my plan for Bayona's improvement and construction, you take it back and take a look, I really need a credible person to help me take care of the territory, and when I marry Fani, I will return to Bayonna, and if you still insist on your idea, I promise to give you another cavalry unit, what do you think?"

Reid nodded a little dejectedly, although he thinks he is a military professional, but in this kind of matter, you must obey Charles's arrangement, the original intention of the family to lift you up is to better serve the family, and your own personal wishes must not conflict with the needs of the family.

In fact, he also understood that what Charles said was reasonable, most of the commanders of the cavalry brigade were members of the noble lineage, and his identity as an illegitimate son was a hard wound, even if he barely sat in the position of brigade commander, it was difficult to completely control a cavalry brigade in his own hands.

Reed opened the stack of papers handed over by Charles, cheered up and looked at them, but before he could read two pages, he was shocked and said, "Charles, are you going to follow the example of Prus and make Bayonne an alchemical city like Ruhr? Do you know how much it costs? Don't you ask for ...... Borrowing ......"

"Alchemy City?"

"Reed, have you been to the Ruhr, can you tell me what it's like there?" Charles almost said that he didn't know if the Ruhr was in the south or north, but decided to listen to Reed's explanation first.

"I passed by the Ruhr this spring on my way to the Eastern Front, and it was an amazing city, and outsiders thought it was just a city full of small workshops, but if you have actually been to the Ruhr, you know what a great place it is, and the Prussians have spent twenty years building an incredible miracle. ”

Reed's eyes became a little confused, and his focus was blurred, as if he was not looking at Shire, but the Ruhr City he had been to.

"The sky is always gray and there is always a layer of soot on the ground, because there are dozens of newest steel mills there, and they produce more steel every month than the Principality of Lucerne can produce in a year, and they have so much steel that they can pave roads on the ground........"

"The Ruhr is a small town smaller than Aurelian, but it has a much larger population than Aurelian, and if you walk the streets of the Ruhr and look around, you will always see crowds, all of them workers in factories and workshops......."

"No one in the Ruhr will go to farm, and the various workshops that cannot be seen at a glance are always making the roar of machinery, making armor and guns, and the armies of many principalities and princes fighting on the Eastern Front are now starting to use weapons made by the Ruhrs, because their weapons are good and cheap......."

“........”

Reed's ability to describe the situation is average, and he can't describe the whole picture of Ruhr City for a long time, but Charles can fully imagine what the Ruhr that he has never been to is like.

What an alchemy city, isn't it a modern heavy industry city!

Steel, forging, machining, all kinds of factories and workshops are built in one place, forming the earliest industrial cluster model, bursting out of strong heavy industry production capacity, and laying a solid foundation for a country's strength.

On the mainland, the "alchemy" industry covers a very wide range, chemicals, metals, and extraordinary items are included in the "alchemy", in Florence, the best alchemy craftsmen belong to the royal family, and the royal workshop is actually the top alchemy workshop and the most advanced industrial group.

"The Prussians are already ahead of the curve......"

In fact, this model of Ruhr City is the long-term goal of Shire, but now he is far behind, and it is extremely difficult to catch up.

"Shire, a city like the Ruhr is not something we can build personally, I heard that Queen Pruss gathers most of the nobles and wealthy merchants in the kingdom every year and pays them a huge amount of bonds to support the construction and development of the Ruhr city, Shire...... How much money do you have now?"

Seeing Reed's worried look, Charles smiled and said, "Reed, you don't have to worry, I won't borrow like I used to, and besides, I haven't thought about building a city like Ruhr, I just want to build a few workshops......."

Reed looked at Charles suspiciously, and after a long time, he lowered his head and continued to read the papers, but he only turned a few pages and couldn't sit still.

"Charles, you still want to build a navy? You only have one county of Bayonne, this ...... Is it necessary?"