18th century total war

Chapter 201 Centralized Management
boom!
Li Wei threw a document on the table and let the cabinet officials present circulate it among themselves.

"Our front line is tight, but the labor offices behind us are repeatedly attacked. If things go on like this, our material advantage in the confrontation with the French revolutionary government will be wiped out by these troublesome guerrillas sooner or later!
No matter how difficult it is now, I think it is time to pursue a strategic plan for labor concentration camps. "

As soon as Li Wei's voice came out, the cabinet officials present suddenly felt a chill rise from the soles of their feet.

The concentration camp plan was naturally not proposed by Li Wei just now. After the Li Wei regime went south, because of the growing scale of the labor service, there was this backup plan.

It was only after the collation and deduction of officials from various departments of the cabinet that a very bad result was obtained.

Concentration camps mean that laborers are evenly distributed to various towns and cities, and the laborers are forcibly concentrated near big cities and strongholds where soldiers are stationed to facilitate management.

But there are three downsides to doing so.

First, in this way, it is necessary to abandon the place where the original laborers worked, and even need to establish a new workshop-style production base in the concentration camp, which will undoubtedly add an additional burden.

Moreover, the gathering of a large number of laborers will also cause serious population pressure on the local area, requiring a large amount of supplies such as food.

Obviously, this is impossible, and the Li Wei regime cannot invest too much money here.

Since it cannot be compensated with money, the only way to reduce operating and management costs is by reducing the quality of life of workers in concentration camps...

This also leads to the second major drawback!

Because the quality of life of laborers is greatly reduced, the death rate of laborers in concentration camps will far exceed the previous model of small strongholds of labor offices scattered in various places.

In the short term, it may be nothing. In the long run, this is equivalent to greatly accelerating the blood loss of the labor force in the labor service. More labor must be recruited to ensure that the productivity of the concentration camp does not decline.

The third major disadvantage is political. Concentration camp management is very inhumane even in this era. These well-informed cabinet bosses can imagine that there is not enough supplies and they need to work continuously without seeing it with their own eyes. How many human tragedies will be caused by labor in concentration camps...

You know, most of the workers in the concentration camps are French (many Spanish prisoners of war were added later, so that the proportion of French workers is no longer 100%). The concentration camp management is simply abusing French compatriots, and such a large-scale concentration camp , There is no way to hide the news.

When the tragedy of the concentration camp spreads throughout France, the French revolutionary government will not only have a large amount of historical evidence to criticize Livy's regime, but it will also cause great panic among the people within the Livy regime.

Although there are no crimes against humanity in this era, the concept of anti-humanity still exists.

If Li Wei is labeled as anti-human, it will inevitably cause a certain political impact on the internal rule of the Li Wei regime.

Perhaps the Black Dragon Legion will not be affected, but the fighting enthusiasm of the officers and soldiers of the garrison and standing legions will definitely decrease.

After all, no one really wants to work for a butcher demon...

Of course, the benefits of concentration camp management are also obvious, and the key one is what Li Wei values ​​most now——

It can prevent those workers from being "rescued" by the guerrillas, thereby strengthening the strength of the guerrillas and weakening their own logistical productivity.

Only this one advantage is needed, in Li Wei's eyes, it is enough to make up for the above three disadvantages.

So what if there is no popular support?
The tragic deaths in the human world are all white-skinned pigs. If they were people Li Wei knew well, Li Wei might not be able to bear it, but those who died were all low-level labor service workers. In Li Wei's eyes, they can only be regarded as cold numbers.

Although the cabinet officials present had countless reasons in their minds to refute Li Wei's concentration camp plan, the loyalty of these officials who had been enlightened by the administration was unquestionable. After seeing Li Wei's determination this time, everyone naturally did not dare to Speak out your objections.

Relying on administrative enlightenment, Li Wei's cabinet team has many officials, but they are truly eloquent.

Externally, the cabinet government of the Kingdom of New France is one of the highest authorities, and even compared with Li Wei, the regent minister, it is on an equal footing.

But internally, the cabinet government was actually a yes-man who assisted Livy in executing decrees. Livy was the brain of the New France Kingdom, and the cabinet was the trunk of the New France Kingdom.

"Your Excellency is wise and far-sighted, and the concentration camp plan is the best remedy to deal with the current predicament!"

The director of the Labor Dispatch Department took the lead in responding, and then echoes echoed in the conference room.

Li Wei waved his hand lazily. Li Wei had long been used to this kind of collective response. By solving the problem of the labor camp stronghold being attacked, most of the hidden dangers in the rear areas of the Li Wei regime in the directly-administered areas in southern France were eliminated. .

Although those guerrillas were making a fuss, but because there was no reporting relationship between them, and there were even regional conflicts, the French revolutionary government was unable to lead them deep behind enemy lines, so the strength of the guerrillas was always very weak, even if the Livy regime The front is tight, and the guerrillas are unable to attack large cities and transportation points.

The three basic areas of big cities, transportation points, and labor service production bases will not be attacked, and the Li Wei regime will be able to maintain the front line.

No matter how lively the guerrillas in other places were, they could not harm the foundation of the Li Wei regime's rear.

After all, the guerrillas in this era are fundamentally different from the guerrillas in Li Wei's previous life in the history of the world, during the 20th century war.

After solving this problem, Li Wei looked at Manid who was in charge of the General Administration of Military Intelligence.

"Have you checked out the task I entrusted to you?"

"Returning to my lord, I have already found out the reason why the revolutionary army for national salvation suddenly surged in combat power compared to the army before the French revolutionary government.

Before Robespierre reformed the Revolutionary Army for National Salvation, the French revolutionary government suffered serious internal conflicts. Except for the revolutionary army organized in some revolutionary cities, most of the regular army was not much different from the old army of the Kingdom of France.

This is one of the reasons why we can continue to win in the early stage.

However, after Robespierre came to power, he not only inherited the original land distribution policy, but also greatly strengthened it to include the property of the church.

And no longer conduct large-scale auctions of land, but distribute the land to local farmers to win people's hearts!
The Jacobin members led by the National Salvation Committee headed by Robespierre would send recruiting officers to recruit troops while allocating land! "

(End of this chapter)