Chapter 686 Chapter 16.13 (Part 1) All the way north
In the year 3228 of the Fire Emblem calendar, the future bosses of the Iron Star Alliance were still in the imperial prison, discussing how to build a new future structure of the empire. Enma, who was much younger than these elders, was already in the big city.
The surrounding area began to develop towards the iron triangle model of agriculture, industry and military.
In the countryside, in order to prevent the recruitment teams from the cities from coming to recruit soldiers, the Peasants' Youth Association began to directly help young people to escape.
This kind of "avoidance" is not passive avoidance, but "disappearance" from the empire's population. In short, it means becoming a black account of the empire.
These days, as a gangster, you don’t need to be cannon fodder, and you don’t need to work hard to support the factory owners. But why do bureaucrats at all levels in the empire cooperate with the Youth Labor Association? In other words, why were there no local organizations in the past?
What to do?
Because in the past, there was no local organization that put the "surplus population into play beyond the empire's recruitment" value. In short, there was no economic power. If the middle-level bureaucrats in the empire did not receive benefits, they would not take the risk of going against the will of the upper echelons of the empire.
risk.
In the middle-level bureaucrats of the empire, the benefits provided by the Youth Labor Association at the lower levels, such as "salted duck eggs", "fans", canned food and other holiday benefits, are better than the meager salaries given by the upper levels of the empire and the increasingly dull life under the rationing system.
When bran bread was made, the middle-level bureaucracy of the empire would define in the registration book the population of the following households that should have fallen into the scope of conscription as "fleeing famine". Yes, they fled famine to the farms and workshops of the Youth Labor Association.
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…The men of the empire cannot see below…
The Youth Labor Association showed its competitiveness at this time: it began to achieve self-sufficiency in food and produced important light industrial materials such as clothing.
At the same time, thanks to the cooperation of imperial military bureaucrats such as Nulat, the Youth Labor Association began to arm itself, gaining an advantage in the competition with the old farmers of the same ecological class in the countryside.
Being a "black household" in the empire used to be the privilege of large estates.
The empire's conscription system has always been inefficient. Instead of "colluding" today, the bureaucrats who came down have already selectively implemented it. However, in the past, they bypassed the old farmers. Now it is the turn of the Youth Labor Association.
So Enma described this kind of behavior that violated imperial laws, "The monks (local big business) can touch it, but I (Young Labor Association) can't touch it?"
And now these big business owners are being recruited by the imperial bureaucrats because the Youth Labor Association will report their secret population hiding.
Enma: "It's not that I'm not interested in this matter, it's these big business owners who reported it to the Youth Labor Association first."
In short, the big bureaucrats in the city set a series of recruitment quotas for the middle-level people. Under the heavy pressure of the empire, the countryside has been "recruiting". In the past, large households were recruited to the death of small households. All conscriptions were allocated to small households.
The "water tax" and "fertilizer tax" are also reduced to small households. These large households are exempted from tax because they have "channels". After small households go bankrupt, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain their population.
But now the Youth Labor Association has joined them. With the advent of small excavators and biogas digester technology, river pond sludge and biogas mud have filled part of the fertilizer gap, and light industrial products such as non-staple food have also opened up connections in the city.
Nitrogen fertilizer channels. Now it is the Youth Labor Union that has the ability to protect the population.
When the Imperial Recruitment Department came to the door, they couldn't compete in the past competition mode, and their mentality was unbalanced, so they just started playing dirty.
It is during this stage that the Youth Labor Association and big business owners report to each other.
The Youth Labor Association showed that being "forced to recruit people" would have more serious consequences than having a large family's house "ransacked."
When the Imperial Gendarmerie entered the village to arrest people, "Squire" (code name Enma) led the reserve troops to block the road, and then the entire Imperial Gendarmerie was delayed for a period of time. During this delay, the target of their search took all the
The machinery and supplies escaped.
...Wei Keng: "I am still worried about how to get honest young people to take up arms. Tsk tsk, oppression is the catalyst for resistance"...
In the central part of the empire, young people who were forced to evacuate their farms and workshops went on a long march to the north, where the empire's power was weaker.
Five thousand young people came here as a unified organization and caused drastic changes.
In just a few months, Enma established a base in the hilly forest area in the northern part of the Sky Empire. Rows of log house camps were built in the forest, and observation posts were set up on three floors inside and three outside.
Three hundred people were responsible for the construction of one camp, and a total of five camps were built.
The young people who arrived later received the machine and began to dig tunnels in the mountain, build granaries, and conduct shooting training with rifles.
Among the military training projects, they include operating combat vehicles modified from tracked tractors (Enma obtained eight of them), and even conducting exercises on military subjects such as anti-aircraft guns strafing aircraft.
The conditions are simple, but the ambition is huge. Under the electric lights in the hills, the information Enma input to the instructor through "circulation" included information on mechanized infantry assault, battleship power, firepower officer and other positions.
This rapidly growing team in the northern part of the empire was different from the farmers' private armies.
This is a force with ideals and beliefs. The first goal set when it was established was to "kill the private armed forces of the imperial farmers in the countryside."
Features of the new army: obey orders, execute orders, and also think about orders.
The farmers' private troops would only follow orders and fire bullets when the wind was favorable, but when the empire suppressed them, they would consider the pros and cons and flee. Their combat effectiveness was completely different.
In the low red-brick houses of the northern empire,
"Our goal at this stage is not to directly collide with the main force of the empire, but to be prepared for the main force of the empire to suppress us." Enma: "Being weak is not a reason not to resist, but being stupid and killing at the slightest advantage is."
Enma, codenamed "Lord", began to explain the empire's current knowledge of artillery bombing and armored assault to these bumpkins.
In this earthen house, using a blackboard to describe the parameters of a pure metal land warship is like discussing the tactics of aircraft carriers in a naval battle in the Pacific where millions of tons of steel collide in a cave dwelling.
Enma: "The eyes are limited by the congenital condition of myopia, but the vision cannot be short-sighted!"
The knowledge about imperial armor is taught in the military science and technology course, but currently what Enma is leading everyone to practice is guerrilla warfare and battles against landlords' armed forces.
Under the light of electric lights, Enma told the young people in the armed camp during his lecture: The primary stumbling block to the development and transformation of the countryside is the armed landlords. If the landlord groups are not solved, the big cities will complete the transformation, but the countryside will still not be changed.
Rough oppression. In the classroom, the newly literate young people took it seriously.