Infrastructure Construction (Eleventh Update)

"Your Majesty, the General Staff Headquarters planned to commit the 9th Army Corps, 10th Army Corps, 11th Army Corps, and 12th Army Corps to the campaign to wipe out the eastern guerrillas. Four army corps, more than 800,000 men—this should be enough to eliminate them. However, according to the intelligence we have gathered, many of these guerrilla forces are backed by the Russian Bolshevik Party. Some of them even take their orders directly from them," Field Marshal Falkenhayn said.

"Then we have even less reason to spare them. Those guerrillas must all be wiped out. Only then can we develop the east without reservation. In governing the eastern territories, we must adopt the method of dividing and breaking them apart—win over some and strike down others! Those willing to pledge loyalty to the Empire and serve it will be treated well. Those who oppose the Empire will inevitably be destroyed. Or sent to farms and mines as hard laborers!" Oscar said.

Many lands in the Empire's eastern territories were ownerless. The German government directly took them into state ownership, establishing state-run farms and mines. The labor they needed mainly came from prisoners of war. The next step was to clear out the entire east and throw everyone who opposed the Empire into farms and mines as hard laborers. That way, they could be put to full use.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Falkenhayn nodded.

"How is the transportation network for the eastern territories that I had the Cabinet plan coming along?" Oscar asked.

The territories Russia had ceded to Germany possessed extremely poor transportation infrastructure. Otherwise, after the war broke out, the Russian armies would not have had to endure so many hardships just to assemble at the front. Poor transportation posed a major obstacle to the Empire's development plans. As the