Chapter 497 Three-District System and 1453
Farewell to Pettier, Horn returned to Castle Joan of Arc.
After entering the city, he did not ride a horse, but led the horse slowly along the canal.
After winning over Pettier, Horn will have to consider the next step of territorial development.
Unlike his hometown, what he inherited was not a large unified force, nor enclaves deep in enemy territory.
He is a unified force deeply trapped in enemy territory. It is only temporarily safe due to internal disputes among the enemy, but it is unable to export the Holy Path sect.
Compared with the former, he has two unique advantages - holy power and ether.
Unlike his hometown, Horn was the one who mastered advanced productivity from the beginning, but he just didn't have the scale and market to cash in the dividends.
In other words, he can complete industrialization on his own initiative. As long as the enemy cannot move away from Qiu Mu Island, he will always be in the first echelon of the industrial revolution.
He doesn't need to rush for time like he did when the country was first founded.
The feudal power of the church and the land is indeed difficult to eradicate. This is a long-term project that transcends the life span of an individual.
If you take your time, once the leader dies, if the transfer of power is not done well, or if the successor is weak, it is very likely to form a tug of war between the left and the right.
This is how the royalists and republicans in Britain and France took turns coming to power. The wheel of history sometimes moved forward and sometimes reversed.
This process of innovation must be controlled by people with sufficient authority and ability to ensure the smooth progress of the innovation.
But life will always come to an end. In order to ensure the results of innovation, all kinds of impatience and rashness are inevitable.
Amid the deafening shouts of killing, Horn looked down at his hands without any scars, and showed a half-helpless, half-satisfied smile.
The injuries I suffered in the previous war did not leave any scars.
Except for the scars on his neck and the pre-existing scars, he seemed to be fixed in this time.
Since his resurrection, his body has undergone this special change.
Could he, like other witches, have a lifespan beyond that of mortals?
As a witch man, Horn is even younger than most of the leaders of the forces. He is only 19 years old.
The death of the people and the death of the government that the reformers fear is not a problem for Horn. He can guarantee that he is not dead even if the first generation of opposition is dead.
Not only is he not dead yet, the witches who are his main team are not even dead either.
Even after the first-generation team members such as Jeshka, Madeleine and other old people broke up, the second-generation boy army will take over immediately.
So Horn can be careful and slow, and he can afford to delay the fifty-year innovation process into a hundred years.
This is not to say that Horn pursues a bloodless revolution. Revolution will definitely be bloody.
If it is necessary to use machine guns to suppress the riots, he will not hesitate to give the order. He just hopes to reduce the pain of internal friction and industrialization.
After all, as a pioneer, in addition to pioneering the process of the Salvation Army, he also wants to pioneer the process of the world.
I remembered Ludvik and the secret party forces in Black Snake Bay who were said to have arrived in mid-September, but were so entangled within the forces that they didn't even arrive in mid-October.
Horn finally made up his mind: "Even if there are glass shards hidden in this piece of meat, you have to swallow it. The three-zone system must still be implemented."
The so-called three-zone system was born to reduce this internal friction.
To put it simply, three legal systems are implemented in a country in the Papal States.
After conquering a territory, if it is possible to sanctify the land, then sanctify the land. If it is not possible, do not push it forward but implement a simple reform policy.
In this way, the land in the hands of the Salvation Army has three states.
The first type is the pious area, which fully abides by the "Holy Kingdom Land Edict" and all relevant laws. The typical ones are Daze Township and Hongfeng Township (Kush Territory).
The second type is the Holy War Zone, which partially complies with the "Edict of the Land of the Holy Kingdom" and carries out reforms similar to the Juanoists. It deprives the lords of their tax collection rights and uses the army to collect taxes and distribute land rent to the lords.
Typical examples of this are Yibei Township in the south and the following two townships in the east of Kasha County.
The third type is the missionary area, which surrenders diplomatic rights and the right to declare war, reduces rent and interest, and is not allowed to block the mission of the Holy Doctrine. The rest remains as it is.
Currently there is only one missionary area and that is Jinhe Township in the south.
The future development process will be the process of the mission area slowly turning into a holy war area, and finally into a pious area.
Although this process is a bit slow, it doesn't matter. Horn is still young and has a long life. Even if the male witch has the same lifespan as a normal person, he still has Jeanne, so he can definitely afford to wait.
If both sides of Meliati are willing to negotiate a union in the future, the five mountain counties and Hotam County can all be used as missionary areas.
Qianhe River Valley has insufficient manpower and will be blocked for a long time in the future. As long as it does not violate the principles, it is best to kill as few people as possible.
Otherwise, after fighting the foreign war with Prince Condai and the civil war with Meliati, and after fighting the civil war, the rebel army will come again, and there will be no time to recuperate at all.
Meliaty and Horn are in a relationship where both will benefit from cooperation and lose from separation. Horn is just not sure whether the Duke of Herma Stone can unite according to his selfish temperament.
I hope she can be more sensible.
Although Prince Kong Dai is showing off his power in the Thousand River Valley, he is just a subordinate in the entire empire.
Once Qianhe River Valley is truly independent, the people who will welcome Qianhe River Valley are probably the Zhizi Army.
Thousand River Valley is also the site of the Four War. Although Norn and Fran secretly support and guarantee independence, there are no promises between countries, only interests.
Not to mention tactics, with the current strategic situation, although it is difficult to drive away Prince Kong Dai, it will only take two or three years.
It is best not to fight between the two sides in the future, to prevent foreign forces from taking advantage of the situation.
If that doesn't work, let's wait ten or eight years for the Horn industrialization machine to be driven, and then find an opportunity to tear up the treaty and start a civil war.
By then, the first batch of talents gathered by the Salvation Army in ten years should have emerged. There will be no problem at all in taking over the entire Thousand River Valley and fighting against foreign enemies.
Horn didn’t have any psychological pressure at all about going back on his word and breaking the treaty. Wasn’t it just a stain on the history books?
He has a low moral advantage and is not afraid of the many stains he has picked up along the way.
"Four years, four years."
Walking on the hard mortar road, Horn lowered his head and murmured unconsciously.
Currently, because Qianhe River Valley is a small place and Horne’s territory is even smaller, economic development is only carried out according to a four-year preparation plan.
Small and easy to control.
Beginning in 1446, Horne would officially begin preparing for war.
This was the year 1445. Horn wanted to establish a primary administrative network, establish basic road infrastructure, restore agriculture after the war, and ensure that handicrafts and commerce in urban areas returned to normal.
This is to lay the foundation for the next economic development plan.
The result is the current Salvation Military Government and hundreds of households at all levels, as well as the revitalized rural and urban economies.
The following year, we entered the first year of the four-year plan and began to seek development.
The current main goal is to establish a reliable and orderly government system, ensure an increase in agricultural production, and develop primary industries such as agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry, and mining.
We also began to develop and support light industry in urban areas, continue to extend the mileage of mortar roads, and connect several current Salvation Army townships into a line.
When the first four-year plan is completed, the Salvation Army will be able to complete agricultural reform and pro-industrialization in the territory, ensuring a basic exchange of products between urban and rural areas.
In this way, the industrial products of the Salvation Army can be traded abroad to make sufficient profits.
In the second four-year plan, we will begin to gradually develop heavy industry, that is, steel, alchemy, fertilizer and other industries, to form a system framework.
Establish the first factories in the Autumn Island area and develop the entire Salvation Army's manual workshops to their peak.
With enough funds, enough food, enough weapons and equipment, and the political and economic ideological transformation over the past eight years, Horn is confident that the Salvation Army system can withstand the attack of the Xizi Army.
"Be careful! Your Majesty!"
The guards around him suddenly stopped Horn. Horn looked up in shock and saw the sphinx of Huo Ge in front of him.
Had it not been for the guard to stop him, he almost ran into him because he was distracted.
Patting the guard on the shoulder, Horn took a deep breath and walked towards the holy hall.
Eight years. If you survive these eight years, the future will be the salvation of the Papal Kingdom.
Wait, if you calculate it like this, starting from 1445, the two four-year preparations will take 8 years...
Then the time to complete the plan is not - 1453?
(End of this chapter)