The appointment of the governor of the colonial district could not be decided directly at the meeting, and the purpose of the meeting was only to gather the opinions of the high-ranking officials.

But in this case, Marenleg is basically inevitable.

Even if something goes wrong in the future, Vina controls the heaviest vote.

....

At this point in the meeting, only the last two topics remained, namely, the mobilization of the army and colonial policy.

After soliciting Xia Feng's opinion on "no need to rest", the meeting continued.

Next, on the issue of the mobilization of the emperor's ** team, Xia Feng no longer has any position to express his opinion, and it is impossible to even give suggestions.

To be honest, it was already very face-saving if he didn't let him avoid it.

According to the original colonial treaty with the Yan Kingdom, Victoria had the right to station troops in the colonial area, and the number of troops could not exceed 300,000.

Of course, in the initial construction, it was impossible for the army to station 300,000 people, because it was useless, and the south coast is currently a primitive village.

....

Subsequently, representatives of the military department, headed by the chief of the general staff of the military department, participated in the discussion of the meeting.

At present, the four major military regions of Victoria, the Frontier Military Region, the Southern Military Region, the Northern Military Region, and the Central Army, with a total strength of 1.6 million.

Coupled with the police force of the Royal Knights and the Inspectorate, it is even close to 2 million.

This kind of powerful military force can be said to be worry-free inside and outside in a short period of time, and it can also be easily deployed in military mobilization.

Compared with the initial planning of the colonial area, the National Assembly and the General Military Department immediately discussed the corresponding deployment of the army.

At the meeting, it was decided that the Southern Military Region and the Northern Military Region would each transfer 50,000 troops to form a 100,000-strong garrison force in the colonial region, and that an additional 50,000 new troops would be recruited from within the country to join the new military region, for a total of 150,000 troops.

Since it was decided to recruit new soldiers, it represented the military spirit of building this army.

That is, this was not a temporary force, but the fifth largest military district officially created by the Victorian Empire.

....

In fact, just as Xia Feng thought, this unit was set up as the permanent military region of the Yandong Colonial Region, and was named [Yandong Military Region].

To be honest, the name of this military district is somewhat confusing.

The meaning of the Yandong Military Region is that the military troops of the Victorian Empire stationed in the Yandong Colonial Area, so it is called the Yandong Military Region, but if it is taken literally, it is as if it is a private army in the Yandong Special District.

Of course, those who are confused are the people who eat melons.

All countries in the world know that the Yandong Special Administrative Region under the command of the Yan State does not set up any army, and the current governor has no military power at all.

.....

In this way, the question of the deployment of the army was quickly discussed, and as for the subsequent candidate for the commander-in-chief of the Yandong Military Region, it was necessary for the General Military Department to appoint it itself.

The meeting had been going on for a long time, and it was already afternoon.

At this point, the meeting finally left only one last issue to be discussed, and that was the specific colonial policy of the Empire.

Based on the current relationship between Yandong and Victoria, colonization here is not plunder and conquest, enslavement and expansion, and according to the international agreement with Yanguo, there is no cultural invasion of the strong and the weak.

The colonial policy here refers to the simple domestic colonial solicitation, and to put it bluntly, it should be called the "immigration policy".

To establish an imperial colonial zone, it cannot just set up an army, otherwise it will not be called a colonial zone, but a military base.

And the people, refers to the citizens of Victoria, that is, to transfer some of the residents of the country to Yandong to live, study, build, develop, and reproduce.

....

There is no enslavement and oppression between the transferred citizens and the local citizens of Yandong, and there is no distinction between upper and lower, and they all uphold the principle of friendly cultural exchanges and jointly build their homeland.

This principle can be guaranteed by the summer breeze, and will be overseen by the Victorian hierarchy.

Of course, having said that, there are still difficulties in the issue of immigration.

The biggest difficulty is that for the Victorian nationals with a superior standard of living, no one will willingly leave their homeland, cross the sea, and run to live in a new environment.

In response, the empire could offer economic or policy compensation, such as direct money, or open preferential conditions to enterprises, encourage the construction of large factories, or trading companies.

However, this is still not an appropriate approach.

According to the information provided by Xia Feng, there are only a few thousand original residents in the colony area on the south coast, and that is the dozen or so villages.

In this regard, the National Assembly asked Xia Feng for his opinion, saying whether Yandong could be allowed to provide labor in the form of employment.

.....

To be honest, this requirement is not excessive, and it can even effectively improve the current economic situation of residents in Yandong and solve the employment problem.

But in the long run, Xia Feng is unlikely to agree.

If you just hire 1,800 people, then you can do it as you like, and Xia Feng is even willing to be an "intermediary".

But if it was to officially supply a large number of laborers in the position of the governor of Yandong to help Victoria establish a colonial area, this would be somewhat contrary to something.

First of all, this is a serious violation of the wishes of the top leaders of the Yan Kingdom.

Secondly, this is also against Xia Feng's own wishes, because for him, Yandong will have a "big move" next, and it will require a lot of manpower.

Not only could he not provide labor for Victoria, but he even wanted to borrow it.

In this way, after being politely rejected by Xia Feng, the National Assembly did not force it, and immediately began to change its thinking and continue internal discussions.

....

It doesn't seem to have anything to do with him anymore.

At this point, Xia Feng's mission to Victoria this time has been theoretically completed, and Zhou Liang has even begun to pack up the materials on the table.

Picking up the teacup in front of him, the tea in it had bottomed out.

Xia Feng beckoned and quietly motioned to the staff in the conference hall, wanting someone to help add some water, but as for the content of the meeting that was still going on, he didn't care anymore.

The teacup was quickly filled with hot tea, and Xia Feng leisurely picked it up and took a sip.

But at this moment, the content of the meeting, which had been ignored by him, had a change that made him instantly refreshed.

....

After several plans were rejected, the speaker of the parliament took out another piece of information and said helplessly.

"Since there is no new feasible solution to the question of immigration, we can only consider His Majesty's previous proposal."

Referring to this previously compiled information, the Speaker of the Council had a low voice.

"It is difficult for ordinary citizens to accept the immigration request, and even if they provide financial compensation, it will not outweigh the losses, so let's reconsider the selection of the target of immigration as the infected group in the country."

This final plan was endorsed by a number of parliamentarians.

"This can only be done, although China has adopted equal treatment with ordinary citizens for the infected people, the living standards of the infected people in China are still relatively poor, and the establishment of infected cities cannot meet the needs of all infected people in the country, and there are still many infected people scattered in the infected concentration areas of various cities."

Another MP took over.

"That's right, if the target of immigration is selected as the group of infected people, it should be agreed, and the empire can even give a certain degree of economic compensation, and at the same time, it can also solve the labor problem of colonial area construction."

However, there are still concerns about this proposal, and the focus of the concerns is very straightforward.

"What if the infected person doesn't want to? Or it can be polarized, some people agree, some people don't, and the people who agree can't meet the needs of the number of immigrants, and the empire can't force the infected to emigrate. ”

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This is indeed a very real problem, and to put it bluntly, for Victoria today, poverty is not a reason to be resettled.

For example, there is a pile of garbage on the road in a community that smells bad, and the rich man says, "I will pay, and whoever clears this pile of garbage will give 500 yuan."

At this time, in the eyes of the public, the poorest family in the community should take the job, because it seems reasonable and belongs to a win-win situation.

But in reality, this poor family just doesn't do it, there is no reason, Lao Tzu just doesn't do it, I don't want to earn your money, can't you, can you still shoot me?

In an equal country, this is neither contrary to the law nor against morality, and whether people do it or not, and whether they are poor or not has nothing to do is directly related to it, and this is called freedom.

If you ask me to go, I'll go, I'm not very faceless?

The fact that infected people live in poverty in the country but are happy does not justify forced emigration.

At the meeting, the parliamentarian's concerns were well founded.

However, he seemed to have overlooked something.

....

For his concern, everyone in the conference hall focused their eyes on Xia Feng's face almost at the same time.

The Speaker pushed his glasses and spoke in a slightly helpless tone.

"Your concerns should not exist, at least the infected people in our country should not hesitate to agree to immigration, as long as this immigration place is Yandong."

suddenly became the focus of the meeting, Xia Feng was not surprised, but frowned and thought about something.

Soon, his brow furrowed, and he figured it out.

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[At tomorrow's meeting on the establishment of the Yandong Colonial Zone, the National Council may have an arrangement that surprises you]

At this moment, he finally understood what Vina had said to him last night.

In other words, for the establishment of the Yandong Colonial Zone, the National Council will eventually select the immigrant population as the infected people within the country!

To be precise, it was the black wave that once followed the banner of [Black Wings] and fought all the way from the south of Victoria to the city of Lentinium in the north in order to fight for the justice of the infected.