Arknights is too real, right?

The appointment of the colonial district chief cannot be decided directly at the meeting. The purpose of this meeting is only to collect the opinions of senior officials.

But judging from this situation, Mullenleg is basically bound to win.

Even if something goes wrong later, Wei Na still controls the most important vote.

At this point in the meeting, only the last two topics were left, which were army mobilization and colonial policy.

After soliciting Xia Feng's opinion that "there is no need to rest", the meeting continued.

Next, Xia Feng had no position to express any opinion on the issue of mobilizing the imperial army, and it was impossible to even give suggestions.

To be honest, it was a huge honor not to let him avoid it.

According to the original colonial treaty with Yan Guo, Victoria had the right to station troops in the colonial area, and the number of troops could not exceed 300,000.

Of course, in the initial construction, it is impossible for the army to station 300,000 people, because it is of no use, and the south coast is currently full of primitive villages.

Subsequently, military representatives headed by the Chief of General Staff of the Military Department participated in the meeting discussion.

Victoria's current four major military regions, the Border Military Region, the Southern Military Region, the Northern Military Region, and the Central Army, have a total strength of 1.6 million.

Coupled with the police force of the Royal Knights and the Inspectorate of Supervision, the number even approaches 2 million.

This kind of powerful military force can be said to be worry-free both internally and externally in a short period of time, and it can also handle military mobilization with ease.

Comparing the initial planning of the colonial area, the National Assembly and the General Military Headquarters immediately discussed the corresponding troop deployment.

It was decided at the meeting that the Southern Military Region and the Northern Military Region would each deploy 50,000 troops to form a 100,000-strong colonial garrison. In addition, 50,000 new troops would be recruited from the country to join the new military region, for a total of 150,000 troops.

Since the decision has been made to recruit new soldiers, it means that the military spirit of this army must be established.

In other words, this is not a temporary force, but the fifth military region officially established by the Victoria Empire.

In fact, just as Xia Feng thought, this force was established as the permanent military region of the Yandong Colonial Region, named [Yandong Military Region].

To be honest, the name of this military region is somewhat confusing.

The meaning of the Yandong Military Region is the military force of the Victoria Empire stationed in the Yandong Colonial Area, so it is called the Yandong Military Region. However, if you understand it literally, it is like a private army of the Yandong Special Zone.

Of course, those who are deceived are the masses.

All countries in the world know that the Yandong Special Administrative Region under Yan State does not have any army, and the governor currently has no military power at all.

In this way, the issue of military deployment was quickly discussed. As for the subsequent candidate for the commander-in-chief of the Yandong Military Region, the General Military Headquarters needed to appoint it itself.

This meeting lasted for a long time, and it was already afternoon.

At this point, the meeting finally had only one last issue left to discuss, which was the empire's specific colonial policy.

Based on the current relationship between the Yandong Special Zone and Victoria, colonization here is not about plunder and conquest, slavery and expansion, and according to the international agreement with the Yan Kingdom, there is no cultural invasion by the strong to bully the weak.

The colonial policy here refers to the simple domestic colonization-related solicitation. To put it more bluntly, it should be called "immigration policy."

To establish an imperial colonial zone, you cannot just set up an army, otherwise it would not be called a colonial zone, but a military base.

The people refer to the citizens of Victoria, which means that some residents of the country are to be transferred to Yandong to live, study, build, develop, and reproduce.

There is no slavery or oppression between the transferred citizens and the native citizens of Yandong, and there is no distinction between superior and inferior. They all adhere to the principle of friendly cultural exchanges and jointly build their homeland.

Xia Feng can guarantee this principle, and Victoria's top management will also supervise it.

Of course, having said that, there are still difficulties with the immigration issue.

The biggest difficulty is that for the local citizens of Victoria who have a superior living standard, no one is willing to leave their homeland, cross the sea, and live in a new environment.

In this regard, the empire can provide economic or policy compensation, such as direct money, or opening up preferential conditions to enterprises and encouraging the construction of large factories or trading companies.

However, this is still not a good solution.

The first thing that cannot be solved is the problem of grassroots labor force. According to the information provided by Xia Feng, there are currently only a few thousand original residents in the South Coast Colonial Zone, that is, those dozen villages.

In this regard, the National Assembly asked Xia Feng for his opinion, asking whether Yandong could be allowed to provide labor force on a hiring basis.

To be honest, this request is not excessive and can even effectively improve the current economic situation of Yandong residents and solve the employment problem.

But from a long-term perspective, Xia Feng couldn't agree.

If you just hire 1,800 people, then you can do it as you wish. Xia Feng is even willing to be an "intermediary".

But if Governor Yandong was to officially supply a large number of laborers to help Victoria establish a colonial area, this would go against something.

First of all, this seriously goes against the wishes of the top leaders of Yan Kingdom.

Secondly, this also goes against Xia Feng's own wishes, because for him, Yandong will make a "big move" next, which will require a lot of manpower.

Not only could he not provide labor for Victoria, he even wanted to borrow labor.

In this way, after being politely rejected by Xia Feng, the National Assembly immediately began to change its thinking and continue internal discussions without forcing it.

This matter seems to have nothing to do with him.

At this point, Xia Feng's mission to Victoria has been theoretically completed, and Zhou Liang has even begun to pack up the information on the table.

He picked up the tea cup in front of him and saw that the tea in it had reached the bottom.

Xia Feng quietly waved to the staff in the conference hall, asking for help to add some water. As for the content of the ongoing meeting, he no longer cared.

The teacup was quickly filled with hot tea, and Xia Feng picked it up leisurely and took a sip.

But at this moment, the content of the meeting that he had ignored had changes that made him instantly refreshed.

After several plans were rejected, the parliament speaker took out another document and said helplessly.

"Since there is no new feasible solution for the immigration issue, we can only consider His Majesty the King's previous proposal."

Referring to the previously compiled information, the speaker of the parliament spoke in a low voice.

"It is difficult for ordinary citizens to accept immigration requirements, and even economic compensation is not worth the loss. In this case, we should reconsider the immigration target group of infected people in the country."

This final plan was approved by some MPs.

"This is the only way. Although our country treats infected people equally with ordinary citizens, the living standards of infected people in the country are still relatively poor. Moreover, the establishment of infected cities cannot satisfy all infected people in the country. There are still Many infected people live in concentrated areas of infected people in various cities."

Another MP took over.

"Yes, if the immigration target is selected as a group of infected people, it should be agreed. The empire can even provide a certain degree of economic compensation. At the same time, it can also solve the labor problem in the construction of colonial areas."

However, there are still some concerns about this proposal, and the focus of the concerns is very straightforward.

"What if the infected people don't want to do it? Or it could become a polarized state, with some people agreeing and some people not agreeing, and the people who agree cannot meet the number of immigrants needed. The empire cannot force infected people to immigrate under any circumstances."

This is indeed a very real problem. To put it bluntly, for today's Victoria, poverty is not a reason for people to be resettled.

For example, there is a smelly pile of rubbish on the road in a community, and a rich man says, "I will pay, and I will give 500 yuan to anyone who cleans up this pile of rubbish."

At this time, in the eyes of the public, the poorest family in the community should take over the job, because it seems reasonable and a win-win situation.

But in reality, this poor family just doesn't work. There is no reason. I just don't work. I don't want to earn your money. No, how can you shoot me?

In an equal country, this is neither against the law nor against morality. Whether people do it or not has no direct relationship with whether they are poor or not. This is called freedom.

I'll go if you ask me to. Aren't I very shameless?

Although infected people live in poverty in the country, they are very happy. This cannot be a reason for forced immigration.

At the meeting, the concerns raised by the congressman were very valid.

However, he seemed to have overlooked something.

Regarding his concerns, everyone in the conference hall focused their attention on Xia Feng's face almost at the same time.

The Speaker of the Parliament pushed up his glasses, his tone slightly helpless.

"Your concerns should not exist. At least the infected people in our country should agree to immigrate without hesitation, as long as the immigration place is Yandong."

Xia Feng was not surprised to suddenly become the focus of the meeting, but was thinking about something with his brows furrowed.

Soon, with his brows relaxed, he figured it out.

[At tomorrow’s meeting on the establishment of the Yandong Colonial Zone, the National Assembly may have an unexpected arrangement for you]

At this moment, he finally understood what Wei Na said to him last night.

In other words, for the establishment of the Yandong Colonial Zone, the National Assembly will eventually select the immigrants as the infected people within the country!

To be precise, it was the black wave that followed the banner of [Black Wings] and fought for justice for the infected from southern Victoria to the city of Londinium in the north.