Chapter 422 Pre-War Meeting
Castres, in the new meeting room of the cathedral.
The main part of the church was completed during the Deep Sea War, but to say it was finished would be an understatement.
At that time, the entire church was almost a rough building, with a simple concrete floor and even the walls were just painted with a layer of white paste.
Banshees often complain about having their scales scratched.
Now that the situation is basically stable, the cathedral has also been renovated. At least a layer of floor tiles has been laid and some spaces have been separated out, such as this meeting room.
Previously, Xiu Si adhered to the idea of holding as few meetings as possible, and discussed things directly in the office. However, there were too many people coming today, and his small office was too small to accommodate everyone, so he came to this newly built conference room.
Today we will hold a pre-war meeting for the entire Castel.
Several clerks hurriedly carried in several boxes of documents, and handed them out to the people sitting around the long table, sorted by category.
Almost all the heads of important departments of Castel came, including Gaia, who was in charge of military factory production, Richard, who was responsible for weapons development and the establishment of the medical system, Tata, who was in charge of the shipyard, Nini, who was in charge of agricultural production, and Finel, who was in charge of the newspaper (official newspaper).
Why do we have to mark it as official? The main reason is that unofficial newspapers, which theoretically do not exist, have an influence several orders of magnitude greater than official newspapers.
These are mainly production departments. The commander-in-chief in combat is Ash, Erwin is her deputy, and as for Alexei, he now leads the affairs of the Church of Imperial Truth.
Church affairs may sound simple, but they basically include everything except religion, including the coordination of scientific researchers, the logistics and management of the crusader army, the allocation of technical priests and combat priests, and the formulation of various plans.
Even the political commissar system was under his direct jurisdiction, and he could be said to be the chief executive of the Castell bureaucracy.
These were the main personnel. Most of them brought their deputies with them, and some even brought clerks to take notes. There were quite a lot of people in the room.
Xius sat at the head of the long table, looking at the people on both sides, and had a sense of déjà vu for a moment - why did it look so much like the Golden Throne Room? He moved his butt slightly, making sure he could still move, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
The meeting hadn't started yet. People in the room were talking in low voices. Tata and Ken were gesturing with the blueprint, Alexi and Gaia were arguing until their faces turned red, and Ash was staring at the flowers on the table in a daze.
Nini and Finnel were playing rock-paper-scissors - you know what, it was quite shocking to see twelve hands playing rock-paper-scissors at the same time.
Nora and Chloe were talking quietly at the table.
Looking at the noisy conference room, Hughes was a little dazed for a moment. Mortals, extraordinary people, living souls, dead people, churches, and aliens were sitting together in the same room for a meeting. The sunlight fell through the stained glass of the dome, vaguely reflecting the heavy machine gun on the roof.
Lowering his head to avoid a flying holy book, Gaia and Alexi's fight has turned from verbal to physical, while Nini and Finel started free fighting, with fists falling like rain.
So heartwarming.
“Guess who I am?”
"Monica."
"??? How did you know!?"
Hughes moved the six hands that covered his face away and sighed.
Better start the meeting quickly.
"Well, I say."
There was a lot of noise in the conference room, and Xius's voice was instantly drowned out.
Bang bang bang!
The room fell silent, and everyone looked at Hughes, who was tapping the table with a shoe in his hand. "Quiet! The meeting begins!"
After saying that, he pointed at Alexei and said, "You start reporting first. How is the recruitment of the expeditionary force going?"
Alexei straightened his torn collar and calmly picked up a crumpled report. "My Lord, the first phase of recruitment for the expeditionary force has been completed. A total of 1,350 people have been recruited, including 20 combat journalist teams, four medical teams, and several logistics teams."
"So many?" Monica asked in surprise.
The total population of Castel is about 9,000. If all of these 1,000 people are combatants, that would be a very scary conscription ratio.
But in fact, the composition of these personnel is quite complex, and not all of them have to go to the battlefield, but to participate in the construction of the Blood Harbor.
Alexei put the document aside. "Castel is an island. It is very difficult to project troops directly to the mainland. The lord and the prince have held many consultations and decided to build a complete set of infrastructure in Blood Harbor."
Zoe also took over the conversation: "We have opened a literacy class in Blood Harbor, and we have already started construction of a new dock and several freight railways. These are all preliminary preparations for the Great Expedition and are also the current work of the expeditionary force."
Seeing that no one asked any more questions, Alexei continued:
"Most of these people are drawn from the Skitarii, and a small number come from various factories. All of them have completed advanced class training. According to Miss Zoe's requirements, many of them have teaching experience."
"Yes, we are in great need of teachers in Blood Harbor."
Xius frowned and looked at the person in charge of each factory: "Will this have any impact on the production on the island?"
Several people discussed in low voices for a while: "The impact is not significant. The workers that the expeditionary army has transferred are all from non-critical links, and our current production capacity is a bit too much."
Xius rubbed his forehead with a headache. Overcapacity has been an old problem, and he had known about it before.
The industrial distribution in Castres was extremely unreasonable, with almost all productivity invested in heavy industry and military industry.
There was no other way around it. During the deep sea war, Castel was about to sink, and these supplies were urgently needed, so production capacity had to be increased.
But now, these industries have become a burden.
Hughes originally planned to shut down some of them directly, but the Blood Harbor Rebellion that broke out not long ago and the upcoming expedition to the North made him change his mind.
"We'll discuss this later. Zoe, let's talk about Blood Harbor first."
The expeditionary force is mainly led by Alexi, but everything is just beginning. Blood Harbor is setting up literacy classes and selecting a factory site.
Zoe had managed a school before and was familiar with the local situation in Blood Harbor, so Hughes simply let her run the literacy class.
"The literacy class at Blood Harbor has already started. This is the first session. Since we provide free meals, the enthusiasm for registration is still very high."
She flipped through the information in her hand: "There are a total of 3,452 people who signed up for this batch, and more than 2,800 people still came to class three days later."
After saying this, she raised her head and said, "Among them, young and middle-aged people can account for about 40%, and all of them can become industrial workers in the future!"
(End of this chapter)
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