"According to the laws of the Empire, the commander of the county garrison is a high-ranking officer at the rank of commander, which is a breakthrough promotion for a non-military guy like you. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

But for an officer at the rank of commander in an ordinary army, you have even more real power in your hands. ”

Su Ya paused before slowly explaining: "Generally speaking, the five thousand garrisons in the county town of Sadland are just some regular troops, although the number is more than the strength of the flag regiment in the regular army of the empire, but they are all second-rate troops in some places, not the front-line soldiers of several main battle legions.

However, it is also for this reason that it is impossible for a county town to have only a permanent army of a few thousand people, and there are large and small towns and areas under a huge county town. The soldiers in charge of public security management, quartermaster inspection, trade and transportation, and so on are also under your jurisdiction, so if you count them, there are actually seven or eight thousand people.

There is also the special situation of Moxi itself. Unlike other provinces in the empire, the northwest has always been the poorest and most backward place in the empire, and you have seen it along the way, even the Tulan Province of Moxi is much richer than Moxi.

However, although the northwest is poor, the population is one of the higher provinces in the empire, and the Moxi province alone has a population of more than one million. Rather, it is far from the hinterland of the empire in the northwest and close to the Hangai Mountains of the steppe people, so it has not been peaceful for many years.

If war comes, according to the laws of the Empire, you can recruit troops in Sadrandshire, and there are even a few towns where the main occupation is to be a soldier, so I guess that if you pay more attention to these things in normal times, even if war breaks out, you can easily pull up a team of more than 20,000 people.

Although the combat effectiveness of the improvised team in this way will not be very strong, because it is fighting on the mainland, there is no need to worry about morale. Coupled with the military and political powers granted to you by His Majesty the Emperor, you don't have to worry about any problems that the decree will encounter in the county.

But I think that since he has put such an important town in the northwest into your hands, he should not let others deliberately empty you again, anyway, your immediate boss Sistine is also His Majesty's henchman. His Majesty the Emperor is rewarding you like this, I am afraid that it is also to test your ability. If you can make some political achievements in Sadland, no, as long as the power of the Northwest Army is weakened, the military department will naturally have the confidence to take back Moxi. ”

Listening to Su Ya's explanation, Qiao Se understood a lot in his heart.

It seems that this emperor's expectations for himself are not small, although they are not sincere, but this emperor's test is more like a huge opportunity in Jose's eyes!

He lived in the county town of Sadland for more than ten days, and he also walked through the Qianli River Valley Corridor, and the northwest place was far away from the emperor in the sky, if he could really do a career, it would be a heartwarming thing......

However, after Su Ya said this, she glanced at Qiao Se again, but there was a little more worry in her eyes.

Qiao Se naturally noticed the girl's expression, frowned, and couldn't help but look at Su Ya with some doubts: "I see that your expression is a little strange...... What's the matter, is there anything wrong with this?"

Su Ya shook her head and looked at Jose with a somewhat serious expression: "Although I trust your ability, I always feel a little uneasy when I think of you being appointed by His Majesty to take up a position in Moxi. The war in Moxi has just ended, but the situation is not much better than in wartime.

Soldiers, bandits, horse thieves, and rebellious soldiers are everywhere, and I really don't feel at ease if you go to such a place to take office.

Although I only stayed in Moxi for a little more than a year, my grandfather stayed in the northwest for several years when he was fighting in Macedonia and pacifying the war in the northwest.

He left me a lot of useful information and experience, and now that you are about to take up your post in the northwest, I have a few points I would like to explain to you. ”

When José heard her say this, he couldn't help but feel a little moved in his heart, and nodded seriously.

"Since you are going to Moxi to take up a post, you must first understand the situation in the northwest. The northwest region is extremely large, but there are only two provinces, of which Moxi is the largest province in the empire.

In fact, in addition to the vast area, one of the biggest characteristics of the northwest is the ...... Barren and backward!"

Su Ya sighed: "In the entire northwest, except for the river valley corridor, there are almost no large-scale agricultural reclamation areas. Most of the sub-regions of Moxi Province, especially the land within Moxi Pass, are even inferior to the river valley corridor outside the Pass. It's barren and barren, and there are no mineral deposits, and what's even more troubling is that Moxi is at the end of the Hang Ai Mountains, and the river valley corridor almost passes through the mountains.

This geography means that in the event of a war breaking out, the valley corridor will be the first to be destroyed. And as I said, the most important grain producing area in the northwest is in the river valley corridor, so once this place is sacked by foreign armies, there will be problems with the food supply of the entire northwest!

Twenty years ago, in that battle, due to the fall of the valley corridor, my grandfather and his family finally attracted the foreign army directly to Moxi Pass, set it up as a battlefield and annihilated the enemy army. Because the value of the inside of the pass is far less than that of the outside of the pass, fighting here, even if the battle is messy, the center will not feel distressed. ”

"Use the Guannei as a battlefield for combat?" Qiao Se couldn't help but be a little surprised in his heart, it seemed that Moxi really didn't have anything to attract the attention of the empire except for the river valley corridor.

"Yes, that's it. Su Ya shook her head and smiled bitterly:

"Now you can imagine the value of Moxi in the eyes of the empire...... In fact, His Majesty does not pay much attention to the Northwest today, even if the Northwest War has been fought for more than a year, many parts of the empire do not even know about this war, and the few who have heard about it are only because a Macedonian prince was killed in this war.

If it weren't for that, I'm afraid no one would have paid attention to it at all, because most people have the impression that the war in the northwest has never stopped. Therefore, the so-called war in the northwest is just a topic of conversation after dinner. ”

"Minzhi has not opened......" Jose couldn't help but sigh, shook his head and said:

"Actually, when I was in Moxi, I also looked up a lot of local information. The land of Moxi Province is barren, and most of the population is concentrated in the river valley, so it can be said that the reason why the empire set up a province in Moxi is that in addition to blocking the eastward expansion of the power of the steppe people, it is because of the population and military resources of this land, right?

The only characteristic feature here is the frequency of wars, and the fact that the river valley corridor is right on the remnants of the Hang Ai Mountains. Hey, hey, the most salient point here...... I'm afraid it's just that:

Whether it is the Macedonians or the steppe people, as long as a pair of northwestern wars are launched, there must be the earliest battlefield first, and it is also the only way for foreign armies to enter the northwest!"