C1684 Governors Privileges (2/2)

”My lord!” Looking at Akson's decadent face, he was enraged. ”Stop fantasizing, it's not that you have not fought against these Chinese before, but they are extremely powerful and cunning, do you really think that Fajeev can reverse the situation?”

”An army without any logistics supplies is urgently moving thousands of kilometers without any wind or snow. What kind of fighting power is this? ”The Chinese who are just waiting for them will be able to kill them even if they block the waves and mountains...”

Before he could finish, Akson's face changed greatly as he roared, ”Then what do you think I should do? Order the army to surrender in the name of the Eastern Governor? Don't forget that you are just officers, and your surrender orders are limited to your own troops.

”My full powers as Governor of the Far East, I already have the power to sign treaties with an independent State, can I use that power? That bastard Xiao Letian is waiting for my signature, I know his plan! ”

”This bastard, not killing us is just surrounding us to fight in court. They want to defeat us in legal matters!” Damn it... Why would there be such a damned bastard in the East? How does he know so much?! ”

Akson panted heavily. His words shocked everyone within the treasury so much that they turned silent. Even the officer who was fighting lowered his fist and looked at him blankly.

What Akson said was not wrong, before the appearance of the telegraphic technique, human information transfer techniques were extremely backward.

Including the British Empire, as long as the territories were to become globalized, they would have to introduce the Governor System. It might not be the same, but the basic principles would be the same.

It was precisely in the territories beyond the empire's capital and core region that the governor was dispatched to manage. Due to the slowness with which the people, goods, and information from the era of sail were transmitted, the administrative center of the empire was completely unable to control the distant colonies at all. This meant that the governors had to be given special privileges.

Sometimes countries even gave merchant privileges, such as the East India Company when the Netherlands was thriving, and the King of the Netherlands gave them the power of overseas warfare, so that a company could go to war with a country that was independent and independent, depending on the circumstances.

As one might imagine, even the authority for war was delegated, let alone the power for peaceful negotiations. Sometimes, a single sentence from the colonial governor could determine the direction of the borders of many countries.

In fact, this was a good thing that the lazy governors and special commissioners had done. For example, the two English and French countries had drawn a straight line on the map: ”The one to the east is the British territory, the one to the west is the French, what do you think?”

”No!” Move another fifteen dimensions, okay? ”

”No, I'll give you twelve more. This is the bottom line …”

After much bargaining, the border that divided the colony appeared, and in the long years that followed it formed the boundary of the nation.

Akson's worry was not unreasonable, because he knew that as long as he surrendered and landed in Xiao Letian's hands, god knows how arduous negotiations would be waiting for him.

It was easy to see how much pressure the young governor was under.