Chapter 1330 The heyday of the Britannia Empire
March 1, 298, the Imperial Calendar of the Britannian Empire.
Britannian Empire, Pandragon, General Staff, Conference Room.
The layout of the General Staff Conference Room is very simple.
There is only the mainland map hanging on the north wall, the Britannian Empire hanging on the south wall, the huge floor-to-ceiling windows on the east, several doors on the west, and the long table in the center - a simple layout.
If there are any characteristics of the conference room, it should be big.
After all, on normal occasions, 24 staff officers from the General Staff Department held meetings in this conference room.
Sometimes people from other departments will come to attend the meeting, such as the General Cost of the Department of Finance, the General Administration of Foreign Affairs... Therefore, in order to accommodate so many people, this conference room is designed to be quite large, and even the long table in the center is specially lengthened and widened.
There were only 2 people in the huge conference room at this time.
A young man with black hair and a white-haired old man.
This young black-haired man is Su Cheng, who is 26 years old this year.
The gray-haired old man was Humphrey, who was transferred to the head of the General Course Department two years ago.
Su Cheng was holding a few sheets of paper filled with various numbers in his hand, frowned slightly, and looked at it seriously.
Humphrey sat silently beside Su Cheng, quietly drinking the black tea in his cup while waiting for Su Cheng to browse the data of the papers in his hand.
After carefully reading every word on the paper in his hand, Su Cheng put down the paper in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's amazing..."
Su Cheng said with a wry smile.
"I didn't expect... the baggage that our country can mobilize quickly is so amazing..."
As soon as Su Cheng finished speaking, Humphrey next to him smiled bitterly and continued:
"I was shocked after my subordinates counted the number of various supplies and presented them to me."
Humphrey took another sip of the tea in the cup, then sighed softly, and said with emotion:
"It's really...it's like dreaming... It took us just three years to heal the pain we suffered in the Battle of the Patriotic Kingdom three years ago."
"The comprehensive national strength has surpassed the heyday at the beginning of 295."
Originally, all the subjects of the Britannian Empire, including Ilsa, agreed that the heyday of their country in the past 10 years was the period when the War of Prefecture in the early 295th year of the Imperial Calendar was not yet out.
After the end of the War of Defense, most people thought about it - as long as the country could be restored to its heyday at the beginning of 295.
Everyone thought so.
Until - Camille took over the position of palace prime minister.
Until - Camille assisted Ilsa and implemented a series of new policies.
In just three years, their Britannian Empire not only completely emerged from the haze of the Great Defense War three years ago, but also surpassed the heyday of the early 295th year of the Imperial Calendar.
After listening to Humphrey's words, Su Cheng looked at the sheets of paper that had just been put on the table with a complicated expression.
Su Cheng strongly disagrees with the two major policies of "land harvesting order" and "building plantations" led by Camille.
But Su Cheng had to admit that these two cruel and ruthless policies of Camille did indeed increase their country's national strength in a short period of time.
Especially the construction of plantations.
In the two years since Camille took over as the Prime Minister of the Palace, the ships sent to the New World have never stopped.
Fleet after fleet headed to the New World.
Then the Aboriginal people and gold from the New World are brought back batch after batch.
These indigenous people who were captured in the Britannian Empire were all driven to the plantations built in the western part of the empire, allowing them to act as slaves to farm.
They will no longer have any brilliant life, and they will only have one job for the rest of their life - helping the Britannians farm.
The food that they have worked hard to grow will not belong to them.
More than 90% of the food they have worked hard to grow will be confiscated by the central government.
Only a very small amount was left, with only enough food to feed them for their survival, and then continued to help the Britannians farm.
This policy of capturing people as lifelong slaves is extremely cruel.
Su Cheng was extremely disgusted with this.
But this cruel policy has really made the national strength of the Britannian Empire leap forward.
Last year, the amount of grain storage in the 297th year of the Imperial Calendar was three times that in the 296th year of the Imperial Calendar.
Such income is not qualified by just using the adjective "amazing" to describe it.
The establishment of plantations not only guarantees the country's food income, but also guarantees the country's soldiers.
With a large number of slaves from the New World for them to farm, the Britannian Empire naturally did not need so many farmers to stay in the fields to farm.
These liberated farmers are all high-quality soldiers.
In the 297th year of the Imperial Calendar last year, the palace prime minister Camille personally led the team and built a group.
This group is commonly known as the "household registration group".
Because this group has only one main job - reorganizing the national household registration.
After becoming the palace prime minister of the Britannian Empire, Camille gradually discovered that the household registration information of the Britannian Empire seemed to be a bit outdated.
All are some information from several years ago.
After Camille checked it carefully, he realized why the household registration information was so outdated - because since several years ago, the Britannian Empire had some major things to do almost every year.
These major events after another made the central government of the Britannian Empire unable to update the country's household registration information.
In Camille... no, it should be said that in the eyes of all the knowledgeable people on the continent, the Britannian Empire now has three huge advantages that far exceed other countries.
The first advantage - the Britannian Empire is currently the only country capable of sending ocean fleets.
Therefore, the Britannian Empire can monopolize the New World and the resources of the New World.
The second biggest advantage is the "straight road" connecting all important places in the country.
The existence of the "straight road" not only promoted the commercial development of the Britannian Empire, but also made the Britannian Empire's military deployment speed and the distribution speed of the baggage allocation to a state that was jaw-dropping.
The third biggest advantage - also in the eyes of many people, including Camille, the biggest advantage of the Britannian Empire is far better than that of other countries.
The perfect household registration system allows the central government of the Britannian Empire to clearly know which places have more young and middle-aged people, which places have fewer men, and how many newborns will be there in the next year...
Knowing how many young and middle-aged people in their country can farm and join the army - this is an extremely terrifying ability.
Camille has always believed that if the Britannian Empire could really defeat the Three Kingdoms in the future, the greatest contribution would be to it, it would definitely not be because of its powerful four major knights or its material advantages far beyond those of the countries.
Chapter completed!