Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 126 Guards

Claude rode the black horse Jamie around town and soon found out that the guard battalion from County City had arrested nine people in the town. Like Boc Al's father, Rubiewell, a famous businessman in White Deer Town. Portman was among them. If Claude remembers correctly, these arrests were guests of his father's family banquet and the main planner of a new route to the mainland of Nubian in White Deer Town, an unreturned investor in the merchant fleet.

Obviously, the delay in the return of the merchant fleet must have been an accident, and the arrest of the fathers was inseparable from the merchant fleet. It's just that Claude doesn't know if the merchant fleet is being held by the kingdom or if there's been an accident, and he can't figure out why the fathers are being crowned with crimes against the kingdom's security.

Even if organizing a merchant fleet to trade in the overseas jurisdictions of the Kingdom of Nubian Mainland is, at best, a little involved in tax evasion by smuggling, how can it endanger the security of the Kingdom? Was it the merchant fleet that wreaked havoc in the overseas territories of the Nubian mainland? Father, that's why they're being arrested for this?

Perhaps his guess is the closest thing to the truth... Claude knows very well that if things do happen to him, he doesn't have the ability to rescue his father, and it is imperative that he get the father's information first and understand his current situation so he can only look for those who can help him.

At the back door of the old tavern, Pied shook his head and said to Claude, "I can't help you. All I know is that the guard camp caught a lot of people this time. But you can go to Kubrick. I hear the town is going to organize a guard team. This is an order from the county. The mayor, Baron Robert, has recruited Kubrick and others...”

Pierre said that Kubrick was the father of Villicro, the first hunter in White Deer Town, and the honorary president of the Town Hunters' Guild. The Hunter's Guild is a loose organization, or a self-help group. The hunters in the town are essentially registered inside, and their main business is to conduct hunting activities, go deep into the mountains and hunt for their prey, and then distribute their earnings according to harvests and contributions.

As many hunters are accustomed to hunting alone, and as a result of the decline in mountain prey around White Deer Town in recent years, fewer and fewer hunters are registered. Velricolo once said that his father was drunk and complained there that the hunters in White Deer might not be happy with even ten of them in the future, and that the young people were not interested in being hunters anymore. If a hunter is hired to go to the Khmeda Swamp or to hunt those beasts deep in the mountains, it may not be possible to recruit hunters locally.

But anyway, if Bai Lu Town were to organize a guard team, the hunter would be the best recruit. At first, they were all nationals, many were veterans of the army, and as long as they were organized, they were a combatant force.

Secondly, the Kingdom has made very detailed provisions for the establishment of local guard units, with retired veterans taking precedence over military officers, and secondly, good families, i.e. innocent young civilians with no criminal record, entering the guard units, who, like the army, can be granted national status for 15 years of service. The Kingdom strictly forbids local guards from recruiting criminals of rogue and hooliganism from the land, and strictly enforces penalties if found.

So if White Deer Town is going to set up a guard, it's not going to be able to get around the town hunter's guild. Otherwise, the mayor, Baron Robert, just needs to say to the head of the Black Snake Club that he supports, that the White Deer Town Guard will be set up in no time, perhaps without a penny in town. Baron Robert simply couldn't afford the consequences, and once someone reported it, his life would be ruined.

Claude turned his horse toward the Villicro family, not in town, but at the foot of the mountain west of town. Vericulo was at home, ripping open two rabbits and piling them with pine wood, as if they were ready to be smoked rabbits.

He was somewhat surprised to see Claude riding on horseback. In the morning, he went to the mountains to catch these two rabbits and had just returned. He didn't know what was happening in town, so he saw Claude in a hurry and thought he was looking for himself.

“Is your father back yet?” Claude's first sentence was to ask Verricolo's father.

“My father?” Villicro shook his head: “I don't know, sis, is my father home? ”

“I went up the mountain early in the morning, and my father was still asleep, and I didn't know if he was home. What do you want with him?” Villicro asked curiously.

“Well, I...” Claude was trying to explain what happened, but saw his sister poking out the window on the second floor.

“Oh, it's little Claude. My father was called in this morning by the mayor. He hasn't come back yet. I think he probably came back drunk after eating lunch in town and urinating cats. If you don't come back at night, I think he'll be awake by then...”

“By the way, little Claude, is it true that your father was arrested this morning?” Verricolo's sister's two-handed column curiously asked on the window bar.

Claude could only nod his head with a bitter smile. That's why good deeds don't go out the door, bad deeds spread a thousand miles. Even his sister knew about it, except that Villicro didn't know about it the first morning.

“Why did you arrest your father?” Villicro was shocked.

Claude shook his head: "I don't know the real reason for the crime of endangering the security of the kingdom, but it wasn't just my father who got caught, it was Boquer's father, who caught nine people, all on the same charge. ”

Verricolo looked rough, but his mind was still sharp: "You mean, something happened to the merchant fleet? ”

Vericulo, the investor in the long-overdue merchant fleet, had already heard of them, and he immediately linked them.

“That's what I thought, but I don't know what happened to the merchant fleet, involving my father and all of them.” Claude was distressed. The lack of information in the world was the most distressing part of him, and he really missed the time when the cell phone was in his hands and everything was known.

“So you came to my father to ask about it?” Verricolo soon understood what Claude was coming for: "But what could he do? ”

“I heard that the town is going to build a guard force, and I don't know why. But building a guard can't get around your father, their hunter's guild, and this morning the mayor, Baron Robert, sent someone to recruit your father. Must be to talk about it.

If a guard force is established, then your father can enter and leave the barracks. My father, they were all caught in the barracks, so I want to ask your father if he saw them, what their current situation is, they don't know for themselves, why they were caught... "

“Okay, my father's back. I'll definitely ask for you.” Listen to Claude, Verricolo says in a delightful way, "Why don't you wait at my house for him to come back? How about we eat this roasted rabbit at noon? ”

“No, I have to go back.” Claude climbed on horseback again: “It was a mess at home in the morning, my mother was in bed because of it, and my brother and sister had to go back and watch, and I had to feed them at noon. Vero, if you're all right this afternoon, help me go to town and see if anyone knows if there's a direct connection between military control and the merchant fleet in this town, or if anyone knows the real reason my father was arrested...”

“Well, I'll check it out for you.” Villicro nodded seriously.

Claude's legs clamped, and the black Marjamy under his crotch began to run away: “Then I'll come back to your house at night, please. ”

When you get home, remove the saddle for Jamie Black, then feed and drink it. After that, she went to the kitchen to make noodles, cooked the noodles and served the mother another bowl.

Her mother was still lying in bed, and Claude briefly told her what she had heard. Claude comforted Claude when she heard that a total of nine people had been arrested and that her mother had finally sat up a little spiritually, more often than not. If fathers were caught alone, they might not know the truth, but now more than they, the families of those who were caught, would be anxious to find out why, much better than their own families trying.

Claude plans to visit the families of those arrested this afternoon to see if they know anything. But then the mother got worried. Is this an illegal party? Mr. Morsan was arrested on charges of endangering the kingdom, and now Claude says he's going to recruit the families of those arrested.

Claude couldn't help laughing, her mother didn't go to school, she was literate and could do the math, which was taught by her family when she was a kid, to train a qualified housewife, so she didn't know the laws of the kingdom. And Chlorde graduated from middle school, and one semester in grammar class is teaching students how to understand grammar and understand what can and cannot be done.

After half a day of patient communication with her mother, Claude finally made it clear to her that she was not breaking the law, but rather that she was human and would not be implicated in her father's case.

It was just that Claude spent one afternoon visiting the remaining eight arrested, and he regretted it. The families of the eight people arrested at the same time, like Claude, did not know why their relatives had been arrested on such a serious charge.

His father had been arrested and his mother had written several letters inviting him to rescue his husband. Several other households are in turmoil, and two relatives of the family have had a bloodshed in order to compete for the property. The most outrageous is that a man was arrested in the morning, and his wife, who was in her twenties, ran off with a servant at noon...

Claude finally saw what a tree fell apart and ran all afternoon for nothing. He had to go home and cook dinner so that his mother, sister and brother could fill their stomachs and ride Jamie the Black Horse to the house of Verricolo.

By the way, Albert, this shit never came home. At dinner, the mother also lamented that he hadn't come back and must have been trying to run away to ask about his father.

To his mother's exclamation, Claude whispered and rolled his eyes. He was just too lazy to reveal the truth. It was better for his mother to expect it than to be disappointed. His father had already been arrested and his mother could not stand any more excitement.

It's just that when Claude arrived at Velikro's house, he cursed Velikro's father, Kubrik, when he asked about the guards. Of course it wasn't Claude, it was the mayor, Baron Robert.

Kubrick said that when he arrived at the town hall this morning, the mayor, Baron Robert, said he had been ordered by the county to set up a guard brigade of 224 people in White Deer Town in order to prevent pirate attacks on White Deer Town.

This is a joke, White Deer Town is at the bottom of Sharkmouth Bay, more than a dozen miles from the Bay to White Deer Town. Even if the pirates don't see it anymore, they won't drive his pirate ship into Lake Beringa, so that as long as the waterway is sealed, he becomes a rat in the tank and can't run away.

So the people who were recruited thought this order from County City was just an excuse to recruit to prepare for the war. After all, relations between the Kingdom of Ovilas and the five anti-Olympic alliance countries of the eastern part of the continent are becoming increasingly tense, and guns have been fired on several occasions. These stories can be seen in the White Deer Morning News, where the kingdom protested to the anti-Olympic alliance or the anti-Olympic alliance strongly warned the kingdom that the clouds of the Great War had begun to gather over the eastern part of the continent.

Build a guard team. Build a guard team. Even if the war did break out, they wouldn't be the first to go to war. Generally speaking, local guards are responsible for the transport and guarding of logistical heavy goods, guarding prisoners and other auxiliary services, which are not the main forces of war.

The Guard is a good messenger for a veteran like Kubrick.

It's just that after the mayor, Baron Robert, said his plan to form a guard unit, almost everyone who had been recruited in the past got angry. Kubrick broke out on the spot, scolded him, and threatened to report the mayor, Baron Robert, and eventually broke up unhappily...