Chapter 686 Chapter 1613 (Part 1) Heading North

Chapter 686 Chapter 16.13 (Part 1) Heading North

In the 3228th year of the Fire Emblem Calendar, the future leaders of the Iron Star Alliance were still in the Imperial Prison, discussing how to build a new future structure for the Empire. Enma, who was much younger than these elders, had already begun to develop in the vicinity of large cities towards the iron triangle model of agriculture, industry, and military.

In the countryside, in order to prevent the city's conscription teams from coming to recruit soldiers, the Agricultural Youth Association began to directly help the young and strong to avoid.

This "avoidance" is not a passive avoidance, but a "disappearance" in the population of the Empire. In short, it is to become an illegal household in the Empire.

These days, being an illegal household does not require being cannon fodder, nor does it require carrying heavy loads for factory owners to toast. But why should bureaucrats at all levels in the Empire cooperate with the Youth and Labor Association? In other words, why didn't local organizations do this in the past?

Because in the past, no local organization has made "surplus population play a value beyond the Empire's conscription", in short, there is no economic power. If the middle-level bureaucrats in the empire did not receive any benefits, they would not take the risk of violating the will of the upper echelons of the empire.

In the middle-level bureaucrats of the empire, when the benefits given by the Youth and Labor Association to the lower echelons, such as "salted duck eggs", "vermicelli", canned food and other holiday benefits, were better than the meager salaries given by the upper echelons of the empire and the increasingly bland bran bread under the rationing system, the middle-level bureaucratic system of the empire would define the population of the lower echelons that should have fallen into the scope of conscription as "fleeing from famine" in the registration book. Yes, they fled to the farms and workshops of the Youth and Labor Association.

...The masters of the empire could not see below...

The Youth and Labor Association showed its competitiveness at this time: it began to achieve self-sufficiency in food and produce important light industrial materials such as clothing.

At the same time, due to the cooperation of the military bureaucrats of the empire such as Nulat, the Youth and Labor Association began to arm itself and gained an advantage in the competition with the old farmers in the same ecological class in the countryside.

Being an "illegal household" in the empire used to be a privilege of the big estates.

The empire's conscription system has always been inefficient. If it were not for the "collusion between the upper and lower echelons" today, the bureaucrats who came down would have already had the choice to execute it. However, in the past, the old farmers were bypassed. Now it is the turn of the Youth Labor Association.

So Enma described this violation of the imperial decree as "the monks (local big households) can touch it, but the master (the Youth Labor Association) cannot touch it?"

And now these big households have begun to be recruited by the imperial bureaucrats because the Youth Labor Association reported their hidden population.

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

In short, the big bureaucrats in the city set a series of recruitment targets for the middle level. Under the heavy pressure of the empire, the countryside has always been "rolling". In the past, the big households have killed the small households. All conscriptions are all shared by the small households, and the "water tax" and "fertilizer tax" have also fallen to the small households. These big households can be exempted because they have "channels". After the small households go bankrupt, they can no longer keep their population.

But now the Youth Labor Association has joined them. After the small excavator and the biogas digester technology, river and pond sludge and biogas mud have filled some of the fertilizer gaps, and light industrial products such as non-staple food have also opened up the channels for nitrogen fertilizer in the city. Now it is the Youth Labor Association that has the ability to protect the population.

When the imperial conscription department came to their door, they could not compete under the previous competition mode, and their unbalanced mentality led them to play dirty tricks.

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

The Youth Labor Association showed that the consequences of being "forced to recruit people" were more serious than the "house raids" of the big households.

When the imperial gendarmerie entered the village to arrest people, the "squire" (code name Enma) and the reserve troops blocked the way for a while, and then the entire imperial gendarmerie was delayed for a while. This delay allowed the target of their search to escape with all the machines and supplies.

…Wei Keng: “I was just worrying about how to get the honest young people to take up arms. Tsk, oppression is the catalyst for resistance.”…

In the central part of the empire, the young people who were forced to evacuate farms and workshops marched long distances 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 north of the Sky Empire. Rows of log house camps were built in the forest, and observation posts were set up in three layers inside and outside.

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

The young people who arrived later, after getting the machines, began to dig tunnels in the hills, build granaries, and conduct shooting training with rifles.

The military training program includes operating tanks converted from crawler tractors (Enma got eight), and even military exercises such as anti-aircraft guns shooting at aircraft.

The conditions are simple, but the ambition is huge. Under the electric lights in the hills. The information that Enma input to the instructor through "circulation" included the classification of mechanized infantry assault, battleship power, firepower officer and other positions.

This rapidly growing team in the north of the empire is different from the private armed forces of farmers.

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."

Characteristics of the new force: obey orders, execute orders, and think about orders at the same time.

The private forces of farmers will only obey orders to fire bullets when the wind is favorable, and when the empire suppresses them, they will consider the pros and cons and flee. Their combat effectiveness is completely different.

In a low red brick house in the north of the empire,

"Our current goal 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: "Weakness is not a reason not to resist, but foolishness is to give in."

Enma, codenamed "Lord", began to explain the empire's current knowledge of artillery bombardment and armored assault to these bumpkins.

In this mud house, using a blackboard to explain the parameters of pure metal land warships is like discussing aircraft carrier tactics in a naval battle of millions of tons of steel in the Pacific in a cave.

Enma: "My eyes are shortsighted due to my congenital conditions, but my vision cannot be short-sighted!"

The knowledge about the empire's armor is being explained in the military technology course, but what Enma is leading everyone to practice now are still guerrilla warfare and battles against landlord armed forces.

In the light of electric lights, Enma said to the young people in the armed camp during his lecture: The primary stumbling block for the development and transformation forces in the countryside is the landlord armed forces. If the landlord group is not dealt with, even if the big cities have completed their transformation, the brutal oppression of the countryside will not change. In the classroom, the young people who have just learned to read deeply agree with this.