279: Chapter 153, Mobilization_3 279: Chapter 153, Mobilization_3 The troubles within our Southeastern Province alone are so many, relying on Governor Piers to forcibly distribute tasks to barely get things done.
The other provinces are probably not much better, the Capital is faced with even more problems.
How can they coordinate so many provinces across the country?
How could the reinforcements reach the frontline and quickly integrate to form a combat force in the shortest possible time?”
In the era of feudal cold weapons, it’s considered a massive undertaking to mobilize an army of a million for war.
Hudson finds it’s beyond his imagination.
Especially, the performance of the kingdom aristocrats doesn’t look too smart, which is a cause for his concern.
Should there be any organizational oversight, the mobilization of a million-strong army would become a joke.
Not only would it fail to strengthen boundary power, but it might collapse the defense line.
“Hudson, you think too much.
Whoever is in the vicinity, there’s always a moment they want to wipe out their neighbor.
In the past few hundreds of years, we’ve faced several wars of national annihilation and possess the ability to mobilize in a short period of time.
The Koslow clan has fallen long ago; you, being raised in a small noble house, aren’t seeing the truth of this world.
The previous suppression of the Skeleton rebellion doesn’t reflect our Noble Consortium’s real strength.
Alphonse, was just an accident.
If it weren’t for his bad luck and the Dalton family’s main force not being around, the Skeletons wouldn’t have taken over so easily.
The kingdom has a Standing Army in the Northern Border, you should’ve heard of it.
But do you find it strange that this mysterious army rarely recruits small nobles?
In fact, the nobles of considerable power within the kingdom, including my Hollis family, have members serving in this army.
Or you could say that this Standing Army is essentially controlled by a group of nobles in the kingdom.
The only difference is the strength of their voices.
In addition to guarding the frontiers, this army serves another function of training troops for us and refining the younger generation.
Right now, they’re only calling for soldiers because our people are already on the front line.
We’re not only accumulating battle experience in our constant encounters with the Orcs, but we’re also storing a lot of field officers.
These were all forced out by the Orc Empire.
In order to survive, we had to learn survival tactics from the war.
Not allowing the small nobles to join is both a protection and restriction for them.
For ordinary people, knowing too much is not always a good thing.
With limited resources, the upper class has limited capacity.
There isn’t enough benefit to feed everyone at the top, let alone allow newcomers to join the scramble.
Hudson, your luck is good.
You just happened to arrive at a time when the situation in the Northern Border is tense and a great war is imminent, the kingdom needs to replenish fresh blood.
Otherwise, even if the Dalton family were to maneuver for you, you could only become an honorific viscount, not a Fiefdom Viscount.”
At that moment, Hudson suddenly saw the light.
It wasn’t the entire Noble Consortium that was useless, but the lower stratum of small nobles that were deliberately blocked by the upper class.
It’s normal to think about it.
As a kingdom that has been fighting Orcs for hundreds of years, their wars and military might not have made any progress whatsoever.
With the mystery solved, the Noble Consortium is indeed progressing.
But it’s the middle and upper-class nobles who are progressing, and the lower-class nobles were marginalized.
It’s all due to class rigidity.
From the fact that the children of the Nobles of the North want to go south to snatch fiefdoms, you can see some clues.
If interests aren’t enough to share among everyone, and if these small nobles enter the army, gain a lot of military merits on the front line, but have nowhere to be placed in the end, it’ll inevitably provoke their discontent.
Rather than that, it’s better to let them live in blissful ignorance from the start.
When war breaks out, just let them go as cannon fodder.
For the small nobles, war is the only chance to change the distribution of benefits and break class rigidity.
But it is also the beginning of disaster.
For most people, what they lack is not only opportunity, but also the ability to seize it.
Without systematic learning, without experiencing the test of war, the probability of possessing exceptional combat leadership skills is too low.
This was initially a chance to change their fate, but due to their own incompetence, most small nobles can only play the role of cannon fodder.
At this thought, Hudson secretly congratulated himself.
Luckily the Koslow clan’s ancestors have been glorious.
Leaving behind some military knowledge is justifiable.
Theoretically, self-taught success does exist.
If other people don’t succeed, it’s their own fault.
The outside speculation perfectly explains why he would train soldiers.
As for the unusual method of training, who knows how the Koslow ancestors trained soldiers after hundreds of years.
Being well-born and coming from a clean background, and happening to coincide with the outbreak of war.
Hudson was only able to achieve class mobility without affecting everyone’s interests.
As a military genius with great fortune, and able to self-teach, who also possesses an Earth Bear as a bodyguard, it’s normal for this individual with maxed-out battlefield survival capabilities to be popular.
From this perspective, it seems reasonable that Hudson was able to defeat so many competitors and marry into the Hollis family.
“Value”!