In Weixing City, Osena is accompanied by Patel, inspecting the construction of the factory.

"Your Excellency, please look." Patel pointed to the workers who were carrying the machine, and the engineer who was directing next to him, and said, "This company was originally engaged in electrical production, and it has been instructed and is expected to be converted into the production of electrical components for the Lion tank soon." ”

After a pause, Patel continued: "There are many similar renovations, and it is estimated that we will be able to complete the first phase of the civil reform army project in a month." ”

Osena nodded.

This progress is still about within her expectations.

It's just that Patel next to him is still a little hesitant. He thought for a moment and asked: "Transfer so many factories from civilian to military industry...... Isn't it a bit of a fuss? I'm okay here, originally most of them were basic heavy industry and military industry, but I heard that the changes over there in Fuxing City were big, and many consumer goods and civilian factories have turned to the military industry...... Especially those agricultural machinery, engineering machines, the impact of the reduction in production of these things is very large, and I am really worried that it will slow down the development of the alliance. ”

Osenna's expression didn't change much.

She was relieved, "It's good to carry it out with peace of mind, this is the order of the Governor." And don't worry too much. The change in the production capacity of the civilian transfer to the army is not carried out in one go. The government and the Ministry of Military Affairs have negotiated together and set up a multi-level mobilization order, which includes a plan for the conversion of civilian factories to military use. This is a step-by-step initiation, and it won't all be transformed all at once. ”

"War is still the first priority, and we have to make sure that Mr. survives."

"But...... Isn't the Blackbird Heavy Industry thousands of miles away? They've been no threat to the Alliance, so we don't think we have to do anything to them now, right? The construction of the alliance is in full swing, and a thriving scene is interrupted like this? ”

Osena turned and looked at Patel.

Patel also calmly looked at His Excellency the Prime Minister.

He asked himself if he was loyal, dedicated to the public, and had no selfishness, what was he afraid of?

Osena sighed inwardly.

This is probably not just Patel's own idea, but the whole league's idea.

The inhabitants of the League, at least most of them, still have a great affection for the Alliance and the Governor. The Governor did not lie about what he promised, as long as he was included in the system of the alliance and his rank was determined, then he would be treated accordingly, and he would no longer have to live a precarious life.

This alone was enough to make the civilians, who had come out of the chaos to peace, and who were the vast majority of the total, wholeheartedly loyal to the League and to the Governor.

Not to mention, in the rank system of the alliance, after a year or two of operation, it seems that it is still relatively dynamic, and the opportunities for mobility in the upper and lower classes are also relatively large.

Even the alliance is not a utopia, the alliance needs to collect income in order to develop, and corruption is inevitable under the alliance system, but even so, it is much better than the past life.

Under this premise, a small number of people with bad intentions cannot afford to set off any storms.

However, those who oppose the alliance's move against Blackbird Heavy Industries are not necessarily those who have grievances.

The general public, who support the governor and have a sense of belonging to the alliance, are working hard to build their homes, looking forward to a better life in the future, and watching that good life is being realized step by step, step by step into their hands.

In this case, why is there a sudden war? Or take the initiative.

Of course, Osena herself knows why.

I didn't know it before, but now I know that Blackbird Heavy Industries has violated the ban on smart machines, so of course I have to clean them up. The intellectual machine crisis can't be left to continue to develop, and now it doesn't seem to be a threat, and Blackbird Heavy Industries is honestly staying in the west, but if it doesn't matter now, when they get into trouble, it is very likely that the scale will swell to the point that the alliance can't stop it.

It's hard to say this directly, but it's not like there's no other way to circumvent it.

Blackbird Heavy Industries is a real threat to the alliance. Ignore the information related to smart machinery, which is not easy to release to the public, but just publicize the legitimacy of the war and the good life of Blackbird Heavy Industries for the better life of tens of millions of residents of the alliance, bringing serious impact and disaster.

In essence, the relevant external propaganda work was already underway when the decision was made before.

But now it seems that it is not good enough, and even a person like Patel, who can be considered a high-ranking official, has not done it.

On the one hand, he verbally comforted Patel and asked him to take care of things, and on the other hand, Osena also secretly made a note in her heart.

When she returned, she would summon the people of the Propaganda Department, urge them to do their jobs well, and even punish some of those who were responsible for management.

……

Weixingcheng was only the first stop of Osena's inspection work, and then she rode the wind falcon and went around several surrounding industrial bases.

Other regions of the Central Province, the North Central Province, and the High Tower Province...... The work of turning people into the army in response to local governments is being carried out in an orderly manner.

It's not too big, but it's a rehearsal.

It is not yet time to fully unleash the potential of war, and as Patel said, Osena, as the prime minister of the alliance, does not want to interrupt the current thriving development trend of the alliance too much because of a war.

However, the alliance must have this mobilization capacity.

At present, it is a second-level mobilization order, and it should not affect the lives of residents very much, and the corresponding benefits and allowances will not be cut, and the corresponding consumer goods market and food industry market will be affected to a certain extent, but it is not large, and the types will be less.

But when you go to the next level of mobilization order, then it will be difficult to remain unaffected.

When the time comes, I am afraid that there will be a large conscription; will open up the wartime economy, cut benefits and allowances; It will go one step further and convert civilian factories into military factories.

As for the general mobilization order, it means that almost the entire alliance will respond to the war with all its strength. All the population, all the productive life, all revolve around the war. Almost all young men, and even a significant number of women, are drafted into the army; The rest of the population, from the old to the young, will do war-related work, and it is good to rub one more bullet out; All non-war consumption is compressed to the extreme......

Since the establishment of the alliance, no general mobilization at this level has been initiated. But Osena was confident that the system she had built according to the Governor's general expectations would be able to do that and exert great potential for war.

It was her handiwork, but she would rather never use it. She knows that if the alliance mobilizes to that extent, the damage to economic development will be too great.

Worried, she returned to Fuxing City, and she was going to report to Governor Gu. When I arrived at the door of the conference room, I was stuck at the scheduled time.

The alliance attaches great importance to practicality, and does not pay attention to those who are false, even if they come to see the governor, and do not even make an appointment when they are not busy; When you are busy, you will also say a good time, do not ask people to wait for a long time, and do not need to come early.

Osenaka went to the place, but learned that the governor was meeting with the two generals, Yan Fangxu and Tadius. The time they made an appointment was before Osena, and it stands to reason that the matter should have been finished at this time, but it may have been delayed because there was some accident, or some topics were not discussed thoroughly and not finished.

She waited outside peacefully, but she didn't want a voice to ring in her head:

"Come in, let's listen and share our opinions."

This is the voice of the Governor.

Osena quickly gathered her mind and walked forward.

The guards outside did not stop them, and apparently they were also convinced.

Inside, the two men were arguing about something, and the Governor sat at the top and did not participate in the discussion, but listened attentively.

Osena was not in a hurry to speak, she found a random place to sit and listened carefully.

After listening to it for a while, I probably understood what was going on.

The mobilization of the alliance as a whole is prepared for war, and war, of course, is fought by the army.

At present, the Angry Bear Legion, which was established by the alliance and is about to receive the official name of the Astral Army, has been mobilized. An army of 140,000 people crossed a distance of 500 kilometers from the original gathering place of the central province to the west, and reached the Western Desert.

Also going with the Central Army.

Of course, this Central Army is no longer the one that fought in the three eastern provinces in the past. The original Central Army was split into three, and part of it formed the Black Arrow Star Army, which was defended in the colony; A part was assigned to the Raging Bears.

Only the 1st Brigade remained, which, together with the newly created 46-50 Divisions, formed the new CIMC.

Recently, the newly established garrison divisions of the 39th and 40th Eastern Group Army, as well as the 21st and 25th garrison divisions of the former Qinggu Group Army, have also been brought in.

At this point, the Central Army now has 13 divisions and brigades, with a total of 100,000 people.

These two military-level troops add up to 250,000 people.

This is the main mobile force that the alliance can mobilize at the moment without starting further mobilization and without affecting the defense of each region itself.

At the same time, the 'new barracks' across the alliance added up to about 100,000 new recruits. They are being trained and will be added to the front-line troops at any time according to the course and needs of the war, so as to ensure that the troops of the two western armies are always abundant.

These recruits were brought by the mobilization order, and Osena also knew about it. Although the conscription is not under her control, it belongs to the enlistment office under the Ministry of Military Affairs of Tadius, but after all, it needs to cooperate more closely with the local government.

Under the Second Mobilization Order, the number of reservists will continue to increase. The army's manpower pool is estimated to reach 5 percent of the total population, which means 1.25 million people. In addition to the more than 400,000 who are already serving and the 100,000 in the new barracks, there is still room for about 700,000 people to be recruited.

If that's not enough, then it may have to be a first-level mobilization order, which would have to bring the total mobilization to 10 percent.

And if it is not enough, to the point of the general mobilization order of the alliance, the limit can pull out 20% of the population, but that would be very exaggerated.

The 250,000-strong army gathered in the west, the first phase of the strategic target was the Western Desert region. It doesn't occupy the entire vast Western Desert, it's too big, and more than 200,000 people scatter it, it's just to pour some water on the desert, which is meaningless.

The main goal is to control the 'oasis' in the east of the Western Desert region, which has more contact with the Alliance, and especially to control the main road that runs through the Western Desert to the west of the continent.

This main road is supposed to be a remnant of the pre-war era, and it was originally supposed to be a sturdy paved surface. However, due to changes in the environment, due to war, and due to the collapse of the unified government, the main road is in particularly poor condition without maintenance. Relying on the self-maintenance of business travel and oases along the way, it can barely maintain traffic.

The most important thing is that if you don't go from here, there is no other way to go.

All kinds of heavy equipment and vehicles, although they have excellent off-road ability, but it is still too exaggerated to cross 10,000 kilometers of wilderness and run to the west. This barely usable highway must not only be occupied, but also sappers must be sent to further repair it.

At the moment, the troops are not far from the Western Desert.

The point of quarrel between Yan Fangxu, the commander of the major general, and Tadius, the chief of military and political affairs, is how to deal with the many oasis forces in the Western Desert.

There is no unified government in the Western Desert, and the oases, and the plantation factories below, are like independent city-states. It has its own form of government, it has its own armed forces.

From a military point of view, Yan Fangxu did not want to conquer purely by force, which would put a great burden on the troops, and it would be difficult to complete the task of pushing the battle line to the central region of the Western Desert and establishing the main defense line within a month and a half. His troops will spend a lot of time and energy on the work of rooting out the rebels.

He prefers that diplomacy can be used to keep the oases from causing trouble in the east.

Tadius worries that the situation of the plantation factories beneath the oasis is not at all certain. It is a very dangerous thing to leave too many third-party forces with their own armed forces along the long supply lines.

Both make sense.

Of course, it's not too fierce to say it's a quarrel, and everyone is not stupid, everyone knows that the other party's worries are justified, and they are constantly discussing some solutions.

From the intensity of diplomatic means, to the handling methods of the local armed forces, to which strongholds along the way must be taken for security, and which can be put aside, to how to arrange the deployment of troops and ammunition pressure......

Osena listened and wrote down a lot of things.

She also knew why the Governor had asked her to come and listen to it.

The Federal Foreign Office is a relatively independent body outside the government, and it has not been taken very seriously – after all, there are not many places where diplomacy is needed.

On the contrary, the Ministry of Commerce of the Alliance under Osena is more effective in this regard.

She slowly joined the discussion, mainly in terms of the political attitudes of the oases, the relationship with the alliance, and the way to start.

In between discussions, the plan gradually took shape.

During the process, Gu Hang rarely spoke, but only made a final decision in some unresolved places.

This is exactly the situation that Gu Hang wants.

(End of chapter)