In this way, the old dwarf was settled, and he wanted this guy to continue to contribute to the prosperity of the empire, and sell his youth and children and grandchildren. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info William ended the meeting with great pleasure.

Speaking of which, although he was very bold in announcing three horizontal, five vertical and eight railways, the domineering railway network plan. But in fact, because of the lack of funds, technology, and labor. In reality, in the very beginning, William envisioned the construction of only the most important railway network, a horizontal and a vertical railway running through the Moscow Capital District.

Moreover, because there were no internal combustion engines, no diesel engines, no heavy machines of all kinds of excavators, forklifts, cranes, etc., in this era, it is said that almost all railway projects have to be laid by hand.

In this case, the progress of construction is very slow.

In addition, there is another point that makes William a little worried. That's because of the large-scale purchase of sleepers, rails, as well as gas engines, wagons, etc. Coupled with labor costs and so on, so at present, in the first year of the establishment of the empire, it has ushered in a fiscal deficit. A large amount of money was invested in the Ministry of Railways. On top of that, of course, the hundreds of thousands of railroad workers—mostly recruited from the refugees who had fled from the Empire—all needed money for their food, drink, and lazar.

The degree of difficulty of winter construction is very great. William didn't want to be like a bastard American, treating Chinese laborers, with a corpse buried under every sleeper, so these workers' winter clothes and cold supplies had to be distributed.

However, even so, there were still many problems encountered during construction - mainly because of the permafrost and swamps that spread throughout the Slavic world. Where it freezes in the winter and turns into large patches of silt in the spring, it is almost impossible to lay a railway on such sections.

Therefore, the early surveying and mapping, and the choice of the way of the railway, made the Hereford family suffer enough.

But even so, the railway project is still proceeding in an orderly manner. Rumors of stability, affluence, and jobs in the Russian-Gothic Empire led to an even larger wave of immigration within the empire.

Conservative estimates suggest that from the beginning of the war between the old and new sects to the present, the number of people lost throughout the empire is close to nine million. The number of people who died in war, famine and other causes was at least five million. There are also millions of people who died in the bloody massacres of the Reich in Jutland.

Another million people, with the fall of several small states of the empire, became the population of the Russian-Gothic Empire. The remaining two million went to refugees.

The first choice of these refugees was Russia, the Gothic Empire. Or once, the kingdom of Wende under the control of the Hereford family before that. Because of the distance and the Hereford family's policy of absorbing the population, the care for the refugees is relatively good. So the number of deaths of these refugees is not too great.

Nearly two million people poured in. Huge demographic gains for the Hereford family.

Just to put it that way, two million people sounds like a lot. But in William's previous life, this small population in China may not even be able to support a slightly decent city.

And in this day and age, two million people are also not much. If nothing else, a vast and sparsely populated Ruthenia can be plugged all, and there is still a huge surplus. In fact, the original Russian kingdom remembers those regions, which are just as sparsely populated. Even because of a series of reform measures implemented by the empire in the Kingdom of Wende in recent times, there is a shortage of labor in the Kingdom of Wende.

In this way, the 2 million refugee population has become fat in the eyes of the heads of various departments and regions. The head of any region, the head of any department, wants to allocate more labor.

It's not just the government. The Imperial military was also very interested in these refugees. At present, the Imperial Army is preparing to expand. William was ready to expand the standing army to 100,000. That is, it has almost doubled.

In this case, recruiting soldiers becomes the biggest headache.

Because the land is vast and sparsely populated, and because there are so many jobs of all kinds. Therefore, for the inhabitants of the Russian-Gothic Empire, although it was also a good choice, it was not the best and the best choice. They will pick and choose, they will think. I wonder which profession makes more money.

Especially now, the Janissaries of the Reich adopted a professional soldier system. The length of military service is fifteen years. And with the stabilization of the grassroots level of the Imperial Army, as well as the emergence of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School of the Imperial Army, the Military Academy. It is even more difficult for ordinary soldiers to get ahead. Like at the beginning, it was rare for a veteran to be promoted, to study close to a military academy, and to hang up the sign of a captain after he came out.

As a result, it is very difficult to carry out and carry out the recruitment process.

In this case, these refugees became the most important source of soldiers for the imperial military.

Their demands are very low, because they have nothing, so they only need to give a little benefit, that is, the minimum right to live. As long as they can give a bite to eat, these guys will follow orders wholeheartedly.

Of course, if these guys don't follow orders, then the instructor's whip, boots, and sticks will make them understand what hard work is.

As for these refugees, the problem of physical weakness caused by long-term malnutrition is better solved. Hereford, Russia-Gothic Empire is currently the world's largest production base for meat and grain. In addition to the basic meat and wheat flour, the Empire's dairy products, poultry eggs, and soybean oil were also the most suitable food for the soldiers.

At the beginning of the procession, the soldiers of the army could only eat brown bread. For those who travel happily, braised pork and potatoes can't eat grapes, the era of saying that grapes are sour has completely passed.

The vast territory of the Hereford family, with its well-developed agriculture and animal husbandry, was enough to supply an army of 100,000 men with sufficient food and nutrition. And these diets will replenish all the lost vitality of these refugees in the shortest possible time, so that these guys can become the most qualified soldiers.

That's it, two million refugees, of whom women are cut off by half, the old and the young are cut off a part, and the weak chickens are cut off a part, and there are actually so many qualified young and middle-aged men who can serve as qualified soldiers. It can add up to one-tenth, that is, 200,000 to the sky.

The army expanded by 100,000 troops, and almost 50,000 people were taken away. That's a quarter.

The others, who were counting on these people to mine and cultivate the land, and to be the ministers and regional governors who were working to build the railways, were suddenly anxious. You Qiu Ba are simply unruly. Pull all the best parts into your bowl in one go, and what else will everyone else eat.

In this way, what was originally a dispute between the local government and the central government, and a dispute between various departments of the central government, has now been added, that is, a dispute between government departments and the military.

Disputes like this end up with little to no result. At present, there is no suitable means of arbitration between the government and the military.

So in the end, these guys can only poke the matter to William, hoping that His Majesty the Great Emperor will be able to give them a clear point.

William had mixed feelings about the situation. On the one hand, he hoped that the empire would continue to function properly after leaving him, but on the other hand, he also enjoyed the pleasure of being needed and being able to arbitrate everything.

Of course, this does not prevent him from thinking about political reform while he is in power.

The current awareness of the Hereford family is still too low. And the soil of partisan politics is still insufficient within the empire. In such a situation, if any parliament is forcibly held and what elections are held, then in the end it will only reap a farce, or shoot yourself in the foot.

Therefore, the current progress of political reform in the empire lies only in the aspect of propaganda. That is, to carry out propaganda, carry out basic education, and open up the wisdom of the people as much as possible. At the same time, there was a massive propaganda of patriotism, nationalism, and the ideas of National Socialism. I hope to be able to transform this empire into the state and model I want.

Of course, it all takes little bit, step by step. It's like this. In the end, William personally arbitrated these disputes. He decided to give the army the right to select refugees on a priority basis.

But the amount of refugees enlisted in the army was not the 50,000 they expected, but 20,000.

This is not only to balance the various factions, but also to hope that the army will attract more citizens.

Although the army has always preached their neutrality and their purity. But William, at the same time, still expected the army to have its own ideas.

As a great being once said, the mind is a position, and if you don't occupy it, your enemies will occupy it.

At the same time, William naturally did not want to train hundreds of thousands of troops like a certain Qing Dynasty, but because he could not grasp the ideas of these armies, he made these armies the vanguard of overthrowing the rule.

When you think about it, it's a joke.

Speaking of which, Zhang Xiangshuai once persuaded Wang Yixun to make a constitution quickly, otherwise the world would be over, Yixun said happily at the time, don't be afraid, I have hundreds of thousands of new troops under my command, and there are soldiers who are afraid of something. Zhang Zhidong sighed at the time, afraid of the many soldiers. What do you do if the pawn turns a.

But in the end, there was still no cure for brain damage, and Daqing Guo still took the pill.

This kind of thing is indeed very pleasant and correct from the perspective of righteousness. It's a good influence in two hundred years.

But if you put it in the history of thousands of years and extend this historical span, then this matter will have a bad impact.

Military participation in politics. It can be said that it is one of the most crises and the most fucked up things that a country needs to avoid. This is the same regardless of the system adopted by the State.

Although William felt that his ability, the country he was going to create, and his own nation were much stronger than that pill anyway. But things are all in common.

So, William in order to prevent this kind of bastard thing from happening. Be sure to keep the of this vicious dog.