out of cage

Chapter 686 Chapter 16.13 All the way to the north

In the year 3228 of the Fire Emblem calendar, the future leaders of the Iron Star Alliance are still in the imperial prison, discussing how to build a new future structure for the empire. Enma, who is much younger than these elders, is already in the periphery of the big city It began to develop towards the Iron Triangle model of agriculture, industry and military.

In the countryside, in order to prevent recruiting teams from the cities from coming to recruit soldiers, the Agricultural Youth Association began to directly help the young and strong to evade.

This kind of "dodging" is not passive dodging, but "disappearing" in terms of the population of the empire. In short, it is the black household of the empire.

These days, being a black household does not need to be cannon fodder, nor does it need to carry a heavy burden for the factory owners.But why do bureaucrats at all levels in the empire cooperate with the Youth Labor Association?In other words, why haven't local organizations done this in the past?
Because in the past, there was no local organization that brought "excess population into play beyond imperial conscripts", in short, no economic power.If the middle-level bureaucrats in the empire do not receive benefits, they will not take the risk of going against the will of the upper echelons of the empire.

In the middle-level bureaucrats of the empire, the benefits given by the young workers at the lower levels, such as "salted duck eggs", "fans", packaged canned food and other holiday benefits, are better than the meager salaries given by the upper levels of the empire and the increasingly meager wages under the rationing system. When the chaff and bread were eaten, the middle-level bureaucratic system of the empire would define the population of the following households who should have fallen into the scope of conscription as "fleeing famine" in the registration book.Yes, I fled to the farm and workshop of the Youth Labor Association.

...the lords of the empire can't see below...

At this time, the Youth Labor Association showed its competitiveness: it began to achieve food self-sufficiency, and produced important light industrial materials such as clothing.

At the same time, due to the cooperation of the imperial military bureaucrats such as Nurat, the Qinglaohui began to arm itself, and gained an advantage in the competition with the old farmers of the same ecological class in the countryside.

It used to be the privilege of a large manor to be a "black household" of the empire.

The empire's recruitment system has always been inefficient. It wasn't "collusion from top to bottom" today, and the bureaucrats who came down had long been selective in their implementation.Only, the old farmer was bypassed in the past.Now it's the turn of the Youth Labor Association.

So Enma described this kind of behavior that violated the imperial law, "The monk (local big family) can touch it, but the master (Qinglaohui) can't touch it?"

And now these big households have begun to be recruited by the imperial bureaucrats, because the young workers will report their private population.

Enma: "It's not that I'm not mean enough, it's that these big households reported the Youth Labor Association first."

In short, the big bureaucrats in the cities have set a series of recruitment targets for the middle class. Under the heavy pressure of the empire, the countryside has been "rolling".All the conscription is allocated to small households, and the "water tax" and "fertilizer tax" are also reduced to small households. These large households can be exempted because they have "channels".After the small households went bankrupt, they became increasingly unable to keep their population.

But now Qinglaohui will follow them. With the advent of small excavators and biogas digester technology, river pond silt and biogas mud have filled part of the fertilizer gap, and light industrial products such as non-staple food have also opened up Channels for nitrogen fertilizers.Now, instead, the Youth Labor Association has the ability to protect the population.

When the imperial conscription department came to the door, they couldn't compete in the past competition mode, and if their mentality was out of balance, they would just play indiscriminately.

And it was at this stage that the Youth Labor Association and the big households reported to each other.

The Youth Labor Association has shown that being "forced to recruit people" has more serious consequences than being "ransacked" by large households.

When the Imperial Gendarmerie entered the village to arrest people, the "Squire" (named Enmadai) led the reserve troops to obstruct the road, and then the entire Imperial Gendarmerie was delayed for a while. With this delay, the target of their raid brought all Machinery and supplies fled.

...Wei Keng: "I'm still worried, how can I get honest young people to take up arms, tsk tsk, oppression is the catalyst for resistance"...

In the middle of the empire, the youths who were forced to evacuate the farms and workshops made a long march to the north where the empire was weaker.

Five thousand young people came here as a unified organization, causing drastic changes.

In just a few months, Enma established a base in the hilly forest area in the northern part of Sky Empire. Rows of log house camps were built in the forest, and observation posts were set up layer by layer on three floors inside and three floors outside.

300 people were responsible for the construction of one camp, and a total of five camps were built.

After getting the machine, the young people who arrived later began to dig tunnels in the mountain, build granaries, and carry out shooting training with rifles.

The military training program includes manipulating combat vehicles transformed from crawler tractors (Enma has obtained eight of them), and even exercises on military subjects such as anti-aircraft guns strafing aircraft.

The conditions are simple, but the ambition is huge.Under the lamp in the hill.The information that Enma input to the instructors through "circulation" includes the classified science popularization of multiple positions such as mechanized infantry assault, battleship power, and fire officer.

This fast-growing team in the northern part of the empire is different from the farmer's private armed forces.

This is a force with ideals and beliefs. The first goal it set when it was established was to "kill the private armed forces of the imperial farmers in the countryside."

Features of the new army: follow orders, execute orders, and think about orders at the same time.

The private troops of the farmers, on the other hand, only follow orders to fire bullets when the wind is down. When the empire is suppressing, they think about the pros and cons and flee.Its combat effectiveness is completely different.

In the low houses of red brick in the north of the empire,
"Our goal at this stage is not to directly collide with the main force of the empire, but we must be prepared for the main force of the empire to suppress us." Enma: "Weakness is not a reason for non-resistance, stupidity is not a reason to kill."

Enma was code-named "Lord" and began to explain the empire's current knowledge of artillery bombardment and armored assaults to these bumpkins.

In this earthen house, the parameters of pure metal land battleships are described on a blackboard, just like discussing aircraft carrier tactics in a sea battle involving millions of tons of steel in the Pacific Ocean in a cave dwelling.

En Ma: "The eyes are limited by congenital myopia, but the eyesight should not be short-sighted!"

The knowledge about imperial armor in the military science and technology course is being explained, but what Enma leads everyone to practice now is still guerrilla warfare and combat against landlord armed forces.

Under the electric lights, Enma said to the young people in the armed camp during his lecture: The main stumbling block to the development and reform forces in the countryside is the armed forces of the landlords.If the landlord group is not resolved, the transformation of the big cities will be completed, and the brutal oppression of the countryside will still not be changed.In the classroom, the young people who have just learned to read take it seriously.

(End of this chapter)