Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 103 Military Restructuring Plan
After completing the reform plan of the pioneer territory's private militia into a regular military system, Harvey immediately devoted himself to the territory's development plan.

Ever since the last unexpected assassination in the laboratory, Reiner can no longer accept the idea of relying solely on Alchemymon to ensure Harvey's personal safety.

At present, whether he is going out on a daily basis or just moving around in the castle, Harvey is always accompanied by two humanoid alchemy beasts. These are giant ape beasts trained by Reiner specifically for 24-hour close personal protection.

In addition, the castle, the interior and exterior of the castle and the laboratory are equipped with fifty refugee soldiers carefully selected from the regular army, with clean identities and who are among the first batch to join the territory, serving as Harvey's second layer of security defense force.

Even the previously neglected locations such as the sewer ventilation pipes leading to the castle were patrolled by special soldiers in shifts.

Harvey sat in the warm study room with a burning fireplace and hot water pipes connected to the walls. While organizing and writing his work plan, he chatted with Tommy, the newly promoted captain of the lord's guard, a young officer nicknamed "Smart Guy".

"Does the Northern Wasteland often experience such heavy snowfall in previous years?"

Tommy nodded and answered honestly and sincerely, "Sir, the Northern Wasteland is basically like this every winter. Heavy snow turns the entire wasteland into a pure white hell, and large numbers of people and animals freeze to death or starve to death..."

Harvey sighed upon hearing this. No wonder the evil orcs would go south to plunder every winter. Even a race like them who lived at the top of the food chain in the wilderness had such a hard time, not to mention the refugees.

Over the past month since winter arrived in the territory, work and production accidents have frequently occurred due to the cold and snowstorms. The simply compacted and hardened roads have become incredibly muddy due to the accumulation of snow, and even the Alchemy Camel beasts have been frequently stranded and required rescue. The underground drainage in residential areas has completely frozen overnight, repeatedly backing up into homes and causing chaos.

Fortunately, the HVAC project that I planned to implement in advance before winter was not delayed. Now every household has a thermal boiler driven by a large alchemy beast, which directly heats the house through metal water pipes. Otherwise, relying only on the simple fireplace in the house, many people would probably get frostbite or get sick this winter.

After winter passes and the snow melts, we have to consider paving all the roads in the territory with cement and gravel to avoid a repeat of this winter's mistakes.

However, the most important priority now is to truly implement the previous reform plan of the regular army and issue a series of detailed organization, rules and regulations, and reward, punishment and promotion standards.

Harvey had been exposed to many military-related war games when he was a child, but he had never really been exposed to this kind of knowledge in reality. He could only rely entirely on a modern person's cognition and understanding to make up a new military reform plan.

The Pioneer Territory currently has a total of 3,000 trained and combat-experienced soldiers.

Therefore, Harvey did not want to set the regulations of the army too high, and temporarily divided them into two independent organizations, named the Guard Army and the Northern Army respectively. One was responsible for the defense and guarding of the territory, and the other was responsible for external offensive operations.

The team's composition framework is composed of battalions, teams, and groups. Ten people form a group, ten groups form a team, and ten teams form a battalion, totaling one thousand people.

In this world, except for spellcasters, the overall combat level of ordinary people of all races, in his opinion as an Earth traveler who is familiar with the history of world wars, is basically at the level of a village brawl.

Even the battle between spellcasters is at most a magical version of a village brawl.

The Federation and the Wizard Kingdom's coalition forces in the Evil Moon Mountains formed a mage regiment with only 500 mid-level spellcasters, which was already the top spellcaster combat cluster in the southern continent.

His civilian soldiers, who had undergone combat training and were extremely experienced in the use of mana spears, could, in a sense, rival the mage regiments, the only difference being the method of releasing their magic attacks. The energy beam bullets from the mana spears were no less damaging than the instant fireballs of a mid-level spellcaster.

It's just that one is a single-target penetrating attack, and the other is a single-target range attack.

As for the military rules, regulations, laws and discipline, they are very simple. It goes without saying that one must be absolutely loyal to the lord, obey the orders of superiors at all times, not escape in battle, not betray, etc.

But Harvey particularly emphasized one of them - private looting and arbitrary disturbance of the people are absolutely prohibited.

Any aristocratic knightly order, or conscripted army composed of civilians and mercenaries, in this era had a common problem: in order to boost morale during battle, they were often keen to indulge their men in looting and harassing the people.

Although Harvey's main enemy target at present is still the alien evil orcs, this rule must first draw a clear red line to avoid irreversible bad situations in the future.

There will always be a time when the army needs to cross the Divine Spine Mountains and step into the Southern Kingdom and the noble fiefdoms, especially when he has completely offended the Grizzli Lord, Earl Fagan.

However, the primitive greed in human nature cannot be completely eliminated or changed by a piece of regulation alone. Discipline and punishment alone are not enough. It must be accompanied by corresponding reward measures and honor systems to provide full material and spiritual comfort to these soldiers who strictly abide by the rules and regulations and exercise self-discipline.

The rewards must be in the form of real money and fixed assets, and they must actually fall into the hands of those who are willing to abide by the rules of the game. These people will stick closely to him for their own interests and assets, and take root in the frontier territory. Anyone who wants to harm and overthrow Harvey will be met with fierce resistance from this interest group.

The blessing of honor is a positive form of moral kidnapping. It can be the cheers and support of the people in the territory, or various false names and titles within the army. In short, as long as it can satisfy the vanity of the soldiers, it is enough to motivate them to actively become moral role models.

The content of the rewards is fixed on construction industries such as real estate and shops, mainly because Harvey believes that the current farmland still needs to be cultivated in a concentrated manner using alchemy beasts to maximize production. If they are dispersed and rewarded to individual families, it will easily lead to a decrease in farming efficiency, which will not be worth the loss.

Moreover, he did not want to cultivate a group of military nobles who came from the army and owned a large amount of private land, so that these people would gradually become separated from the ranks of the people and become a new group of aristocrats, forming an opposition to the ordinary people in the territory.

Therefore, rewarding them with houses and shops is the most appropriate thing to do. It is equivalent to giving him or his family an additional fixed asset in addition to the military salary, so that the soldiers themselves can also receive a generous pension after retirement.

"This is a social form that directly skipped the feudal system and headed towards the embryonic stage of capitalism..."

Harvey put down the quill he was using to write the article and couldn't help but mutter to himself.

In the future, there will no longer be traditional feudal nobles in his own territory, but a large number of people with fixed industries - rentiers will emerge.

The landlords and landladys whom he hated the most in his previous life were actually pushed onto the stage of history by himself in this life.

(End of this chapter)