Chapter 281 The Great Purge in the Making
Just when the old captain sent someone to deliver the things and slaves that Roland wanted, and also planned to transport a batch of alchemical potions to sell to the coalition army to make more money.

In the land of the committee, following Roland's orders, a new purge was quietly brewing.

Although after two months of suppression and stability maintenance, the War Council has gained a firm foothold.

The land of the commissioners was also divided, with more than two-thirds of the land being incorporated into the Central Province and the rest becoming the Commissioners Province.

In the Central Bank Province, a large number of cities were brought under the management of the Administrative Department. Under the orderly management of the Administrative Department, the Central Bank Province began to gradually cancel military control and restore normal order.

In the commissioner provinces, except for the cities that were originally ruled by the border faction and had a higher degree of stability, which also lifted military control, the remaining cities still maintained strict military control.

In addition, with the integration of all the military forces of the committee, the military also successfully completed the reorganization of the army.

Currently, the War Council has an astonishing number of subordinate military forces.

Roland alone has 200,000 troops under his command, and among the border faction members, the smallest number is only 5,000, and the largest number exceeds 30,000.

All in all, the War Committee can currently mobilize nearly 500,000 troops, but the quality of these 500,000 soldiers is uneven.

Among Roland's 200,000 troops, there were nearly 40,000 recruits who had not yet completed their training. Among the 300,000 troops sent from the border area, only less than 50,000 could be considered reliable. Of the remaining 250,000 troops, half were ordinary elite soldiers who had seen blood, and the other half were recruits who had just been trained for a short time.

Therefore, there are only about 190,000 soldiers who can be regarded as combat forces, and the rest need to be retrained. Even the ordinary elite soldiers sent from the border areas who have been bled need to learn some breathing techniques at least. In Roland's military planning, there is no place for ordinary people in combat soldiers.

Moreover, among these 190,000 soldiers, the soldiers sent from the border areas are not able to fight as a team.

Due to Donnar's combat tradition, they can only fight individually under the command of members of the border area faction. Once they are combined and act together, various conflicts and problems are likely to arise.

When they were in the resistance, no one cared about these conflicts and problems, but Roland couldn't accept it, so they needed to receive further training later.

In summary, the War Council has not yet completely completed the administrative and military integration. As for the vast territories under its new control, its control is currently limited to cities, and the vast rural areas are still under tributary rule.

Moreover, by mobilizing military forces, we suppressed rural forces that attempted to cause trouble or rebel, and eliminated rampant banditry of all sizes.

However, the vast rural areas only chose to remain dormant due to the military pressure of the committee, and did not actually accept the committee's rule.

Local factions and local separatist forces hiding in rural areas are lurking silently. Although the rampant banditry is no longer rampant, they have not all disappeared, but have quietly integrated into the vast rural areas.

They have not accepted the rule of the committee and may stab the committee in the back at any time.

In this regard, Roland naturally had to strike first.

Therefore, after completing the initial integration and confirming that the coalition forces would not send troops to the committee, Roland mobilized the army and prepared to carry out a thorough cleansing of the vast rural areas. As for why Roland did not complete the cleansing of the rural areas before announcing the establishment of the committee.

The main reason was that the local faction was too weak and the civil war ended too quickly. Roland had originally planned to fight the civil war while also carrying out a large-scale cleansing of the rural areas.

Who knew that the local factions didn't even dare to fight and collapsed at the first touch. In desperation, they could only control the city first to maintain order.

Although Roland can continue to maintain military control, the blockade of the entire territory is not good for the development of the War Council. If the War Council wants to develop rapidly, it still needs to maintain communication with the outside world.

Therefore, after completing the basic stability maintenance, Roland quickly announced the official establishment of the committee to the outside world.

The result was also within Roland's expectations. Although the coalition forces had some opinions about the war committee, this did not hinder normal business activities.

By killing and plundering local factions, the War Committee accumulated huge wealth. If these gold and silver treasures are not spent, they will be nothing more than waste.

Therefore, after resuming normal business activities, the wealth of the War Council poured into the United Army and the Chamber of Commerce in Sinnar like water. Correspondingly, a large amount of resources and slaves poured into the War Council, speeding up the reconstruction and recovery of the territory.

It was precisely in order to speed up the reconstruction and restoration of the territory and buy more time to complete administrative and military integration that Roland temporarily suspended the pace of the cleansing of the rural areas.

However, as towns and cities were brought under control, reconstruction and restoration work in various places achieved obvious results, and the committee's administrative and military integration became increasingly perfect, Roland also turned his attention to the vast rural areas.

In this world where extraordinary things exist, although the level of development in cities is slightly higher, the population is still mainly concentrated in rural areas because agriculture is currently the main mode of production.

If the War Committee wants to win the war against the Green Tide, then of course it cannot let go of the population in the rural areas.

Whether it is various large-scale engineering projects in the future, strange machinery factories or the military, a large population will be needed to fill them.

The population of the cities alone is definitely not enough, so it is impossible for Roland to allow autonomy in rural areas and let so many laborers remain tied to the countryside.

A great cleansing of the countryside was the inevitable result.

Whether it was the local factions that fled to the countryside or the various local forces, whether or not they had thought of resisting the rule of the committee, they were all within the scope of Roland's Great Purge.

No matter if they were ordinary feudal landlords, slave owners, patriarchs of large families, or famous rural priests, as long as they had the ability to influence their villages, no matter if they had used that influence or not, no matter if they did it out of kindness or malice, even if they fully supported the committee's rule, they were all within Roland's scope of cleansing.

The purge that Roland was planning was bound to result in rivers of blood.

Roland wanted to take advantage of this great purge to completely destroy the thousand-year-old tradition of rural self-governance in Donnar and integrate the vast rural areas into the control of the War Council.
In the land of the War Council, only one voice can remain.

(End of this chapter)