In this way, the old dwarf was settled, and he was asked to continue to contribute to the prosperity of the empire and sell his youth and descendants. otbnkotgt Speaking of which, although he very boldly announced a majestic railway network plan with three horizontal, five vertical and eight railways.
But in fact, it is due to insufficient funds, technology, and labor.
So in fact, at the very beginning, the railway network that William expected was only the most important, one horizontal and one vertical railway running through the Moscow Capital District.
Moreover, because there are no internal combustion engines, no diesel engines, and no heavy machinery such as excavators, forklifts, and cranes in this era, almost all railway projects must be laid manually.
Under these circumstances, construction progressed very slowly.
In addition, there is another point that makes William a little worried.
That's because of the large-scale procurement of sleepers, rails, gas engines, wagons, etc.
Coupled with labor costs, etc., so now, in the first year of the establishment of the empire, there is a fiscal deficit.
A large amount of funds have been invested in the Ministry of Railways.
Of course, in addition to this, the hundreds of thousands of railway workers are mainly recruited from the refugees who escaped from the empire, and they all need money for food, drink, and toilet.
Construction in winter is extremely difficult.
William doesn't want to be like the bastard Americans who treat Chinese workers like a corpse buried under every sleeper, so these workers' winter clothing and cold-proof supplies must also be distributed in place.
However, even so, there were still many problems encountered during construction.
This was mainly due to the frozen soil and swamps scattered throughout the Slavi world.
It is almost impossible to lay railways in areas that freeze in winter and turn into large slush in spring.
Therefore, the preliminary surveying and mapping, as well as the selection of the railway route, made the Hereford family suffer enough.
But even so, the railway project is still proceeding in an orderly manner.
And rumors about the stability, prosperity, and employment of the Russian Gothic Empire triggered a larger wave of immigrants within the empire.
Conservative estimates put the entire empire's population loss at close to nine million from the beginning of the Old and New Religious Wars to the present.
Among them, at least five million people died due to war, famine and other reasons.
Millions of people died in the bloody massacre of the Empire in Jutland.
There were another million people.
With the fall of several small states in the empire, they became the population of the central and northern regions of the Russian Gothic Empire.
The remaining two million became refugees.
The first choice of these refugees was the Russian Gothic Empire.
In other words, it used to be the Kingdom of Wende under the control of the Hereford family.
Because of the distance and the Hereford family's policy of absorbing the population, the refugees were taken care of relatively well.
So the number of deaths among these refugees is not too high.
Nearly two million people came.
It brought huge population gains to the Hereford family.
Just saying that, a population of two million sounds like a lot.
But in William's previous life, this small population in China probably couldn't support even a decent city.
In this era, a population of two million is also not much.
Not to mention anything else, Ruthenia, which is vast and sparsely populated, can cover it all and still have a huge surplus.
In fact, the original Russian Kingdom remembers those large areas, which were equally sparsely populated.
Even because of the series of reform measures implemented by the empire in the Wende Kingdom recently, the Wende Kingdom also has a labor shortage problem.
In this way, the two million refugee population has become fat in the eyes of various departments and district chiefs.
The head of any region and the minister of any department want to allocate more labor.
Not just on the government side.
The Imperial military was also very interested in these refugees.
The Imperial Army is currently preparing to expand.
William prepared to expand the standing army to one hundred thousand.
That is nearly doubled.
In this case, recruiting soldiers became the most troublesome thing.
Because the land is vast and sparsely populated, and because there are so many jobs of all kinds.
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Therefore, for the residents of the Russian Gothic Empire, although joining the army is a good choice, it is not the best or the best choice.
They can choose and think.
I wonder which profession makes more money.
Especially now, the Imperial Guard adopts a professional soldier system.
The length of military service is fifteen years.
With the stabilization of the Imperial Army at the grassroots level, and the emergence of the Imperial Army's Army Noncommissioned Officer School and Military Academy.
It was even more difficult for ordinary soldiers to get ahead.
As it was in the beginning, it was rare for a veteran to be promoted to a military academy, study at a military academy, and be awarded the rank of captain after graduation.
As a result, the recruitment work will be very difficult to carry out and unfold.
Under this circumstance, these refugees became the most important source of soldiers for the imperial military.
Their requirements are very low, because they have nothing, so they only need to give them a little benefit, that is, the minimum right to survive.
As long as they can get a bite to eat, these guys will obey orders wholeheartedly.
Of course, if these guys don't obey orders, then the instructor's whip, leather boots and wooden sticks will make them understand what it means to work hard.
As for these refugees, the problem of physical weakness caused by long-term malnutrition can be better solved.
Hereford family, the Russian Gothic Empire is currently the largest meat and grain production base in the world.
In addition to the basic meat and wheat flour, the dairy products, eggs and soybean oil produced by the empire are also the most suitable food for soldiers.
During the first few moments of the procession, the army soldiers could only eat black bread.
For those travelers who enjoy braised meat and potatoes, the days of sour grapes are completely over.
The Hereford family's vast territory and developed agriculture and animal husbandry are enough to provide adequate food and reasonable nutrition for a hundred thousand troops.
And these meals will replenish all the lost vitality of these refugees in the shortest possible time, allowing these guys to become the most qualified soldiers.
That's it.
Of the two million refugees, excluding half of them who are women and weak, some of whom are young and old, and some who are weak, there are only so many qualified young and middle-aged men who can actually serve as qualified soldiers.
Adding up to one-tenth, that is, two hundred thousand is as high as the sky.
To expand the army by 100,000, almost 50,000 will be taken away.
That's a quarter.
The other ministers and regional chiefs, who were counting on these people to mine and cultivate the land and work as workers to build railways, suddenly became anxious.
You Qiu Ba simply don't follow the rules.
I put all the best parts into your bowl in one go, so what else can others eat?
In this way, what was originally a dispute between local governments and the central government, and disputes between various departments of the central government, now has another dispute, that is, a dispute between government departments and the military.
In disputes like this, the final quarrel rarely leads to anything.
At present, there is no suitable arbitration method between government departments and the military.
So in the end, these guys could only tell the matter to William, hoping that His Majesty, the great emperor, would give them clear directions.
William had very mixed feelings about the situation.
On the one hand, he hopes that the empire can continue to operate properly after leaving him, but on the other hand, he also enjoys this pleasant feeling of being needed and being able to arbitrate everything.
Of course, this does not prevent him from thinking about political reform while taking sole power.
The current public awareness of the Hereford family is still too low.
However, the soil for partisan politics is still insufficient within the empire.
Under such circumstances, if we forcibly hold a parliament or hold an election, we will end up with a farce, or shoot ourselves in the foot.
Therefore, the current progress of the empire's political reform is only in terms of advocacy.
That is to carry out propaganda, provide basic education, and open up people's wisdom as much as possible.
At the same time, patriotism, nationalism, and national socialist ideas were propagated on a large scale.
He hopes to transform this empire into the state and model he desires.
Of course, all this needs to be done bit by bit, step by step.
It's like this now.
In the end, William personally arbitrated these disputes.
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He decided to give the army priority in selecting refugees for recruitment.
But the number of refugees enlisted was not the fifty thousand they had expected, but twenty thousand.
This is not only to balance the various factions, but also to hope that the army can attract more citizens.
Although the military has always promoted their neutrality and their purity.
But at the same time, William still expected the army to have its own ideas.
As a great being once said, thought is a position.
If you don't occupy it, your enemy will.
At the same time, William naturally did not want to be like a certain Qing Dynasty who trained hundreds of thousands of troops.
As a result, because he was unable to grasp the thoughts of these troops, these troops became the vanguard of overthrowing the rule.
When you think about it, this is simply a joke.
Speaking of which, Zhang Xiangshuai once persuaded the political king Yixin to hurry up and establish the constitution, otherwise the world would be doomed.
Yixin said happily at the time, "Don't be afraid.
I have hundreds of thousands of new troops under my command.
There are soldiers who are afraid."
Zhang Zhidong sighed deeply at that time, what he was afraid of was that there were too many soldiers.
What do you do if the pawn turns a?
But in the end, there was no cure for brain damage, and the Qing Dynasty took the pill.
This kind of thing is indeed very pleasant and very correct from the perspective of justice.
It will be a good influence within two hundred years.
But if we put it in the history of thousands of years and extend this historical span, then this incident will have a bad impact.
Soldiers participate in politics.
It can be said to be one of the crises and most fucked-up things that a country needs to avoid.
This is the same no matter which system the country adopts.
Although William feels that his abilities, the country he will create, and his nation are much stronger than that pill anyway.
But things all have something in common.
So, William wanted to prevent this kind of bastard thing from happening.
This vicious dog must be reined in. 160420oshow7: