Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 136 Reply of Lady Maria

Claude didn't know that he had been mistaken for hiring a homicide for making a scene at the Black Snake Casino, and of course he couldn't explain it. The day went on, and he decided to settle down and play the role of responsible forest manager and second son of the Fields. So, for the next few days, he was still running on both ends, visiting the woods every day, then going home to be a filial child and a brother who loved his brother and sister.

By the afternoon of January 8, Boric, who had sent a letter to Wang Du, had finally returned, dressed in his new clothes, and brought back Mrs. Maria's letter in full red light. According to him, this trip to Wangdu was very smooth and lucky. Soon after sending the letter to Baron Norriman's residence, Baroness Maria summoned him to ask him about what had happened in White Deer Town and was very concerned about Claude.

Finally, Lady Maria asked him to stay at the Baron's for a few days, to write back to Claude after she had finished her business, and to ask the Lutheran housekeeper to treat him well. So Boric stayed in the Baron's Palace delicious and delicious. During that time, he walked around Wang Du several times, and saw Wang Du's prosperity.

Waiting for the new year, for another two days, Mrs. Maria again summoned Borik, handed him a reply and asked him to set up new clothes and give him a gold crown. He was only on his way home, hurrying a whip, and despite the snow and wind, it took him only five days to get back.

Claude now regrets why he didn't think of his own financial problems that night at the big casino, and the last Silver Tall around him was awarded to the two Black Snake members who showed him the way. When he came home, he realized that he had no money, although he had found a few riazos in the cabin, but that money was not worth it. As for the eight silver tallers for my sister, because the time spent on home and mother medications and supplies was almost exhausted.

It would have been nice to have known to grab a hand in the casino that night. Although the casino table was full of chips, not cash, you could find that exchange place in the casino, where you should be able to make a fortune. Anyway, I am so poor, I can totally rob the rich for the poor. I just blame myself for not thinking about it at the time. It's not good enough to fight for nothing.

Claude, there's no moral threshold. He doesn't think he made a mistake robbing the Black Snake Club casino. Anyway, it's all unjust wealth, grabbing it and spending it on alchemy magic experiments doesn't feel guilty at all, which is much stronger than being trapped by money now. Unfortunately, I didn't think of that at all. I felt frustrated entering the treasure trove empty-handed.

That's why Claude was waiting in line for money at the National Bank with Boric, and that's why Claude regretted not robbing the Black Snake. He had to pay Borik a gold crown, which reminded Claude of the reality that he had no money left.

I didn't expect so many people to line up in the National Bank just after New Year's Eve, and the bank only has one counter to collect money, the cashier moves slowly, the team is elderly, and many people complain there. Claude remembered his mistakes later, and if he robbed them, he wouldn't have to wait here in line.

Fortunately, Lady Maria opened an account with Claude at the National Bank, otherwise Claude would most likely run back to the Black Snake Club casino at night. Last time I checked with Albert, it was probably a real robbery. For the sake of money, Claude doesn't mind finding trouble with Black Snake. Even if it's an adventure, it's better than being ashamed of yourself and not paying for it...

The line came to an end, and Claude advanced three gold kroner from his account this time. Paid a Golden Kroner for waiting beside Borik, which was the agreed reward, and he said goodbye after a few words of thanks. The remaining two Kim Kroner go home to their sister, one for household use and the other for occasional needs.

Claude had time to sit down after everything was done, put away the idea of going to the Black Snake Club casino to rob, come up with Mrs. Maria's reply, open it and see what it said.

Claude wrote to Mrs. Maria detailing the changes that had taken place at home and the arrest of her father on charges of endangering the security of the kingdom, as well as the plans of the route they had known to their father, who had plotted to open White Deer Town to the direct administration of Tyrsim in the mainland Nubian kingdom, and finally to open the route to successful fathers, who had organized a merchant fleet to trade.

Claude is well aware that at this time, only the most sincere gesture can get Mrs. Maria's help. He did not have to hide his father's plans and tell Mrs. Maria everything he knew and guessed, so that Mrs. Maria could be asked to understand what was going on, thus preventing the merchant fleet from returning on time, and the father was arrested...

Mrs. Maria did not disappoint Claude, and her reply was also full of several sheets of paper. In addition to the unfortunate sympathy expressed for the Claude family at the beginning of the letter, the conversation followed, describing what she had heard.

The merchant fleet was really in trouble, but it wasn't Claude's imagination of a shipwreck or offense to a certain authority, it was unfortunately the target of pirates.

In her letter, Mrs. Maria stated that the Alliance of Five Anti-Olympic States in the Eastern part of the continent was well aware of the inability to compete with the Kingdom in the Nubian continent, so that, on the one hand, they significantly strengthened maritime forces and controlled the maritime routes of the Kingdom of Ovilas to the seven overseas direct territories of the Nubian continent. On the other hand, it entices and recruits large and small groups of pirates from the islands adjacent to the Nubian mainland to loot and destroy the seven Overseas Territories of the Kingdom of Ovilas on the Nubian mainland, forcing the inhabitants of the seven Overseas Territories to move inland and away from the coastline…

The Kingdom's transport fleet to the seven overseas territories of the continent of Nubian can now be carried out only twice a year, one each in the first half of the year. Each time a two-thirds force of the Kingdom's fearless fleet is required for naval escorts, and the size of the convoy cannot exceed fifty ocean carriers. Even so, every voyage of the fleet is bound to be subject to countless small-scale attacks, with only three or five fewer battleships coming back or ocean-going sea-going vessels. Even if this voyage was very successful, many sailors called this sea route to the Nubian continent a bleeding route...

Under these circumstances, Captain Autruni's Red Sea Shark, which was not brought to anyone's attention when the ocean fishing vessel first arrived in Tyrussian territory, was regarded as a lucky smuggling vessel, fortunately avoiding the siege of the joint anti-Olympic Alliance maritime fleet patrol fleet and attacks by pirate groups active in the coastal waters of the Nubian mainland, but when they returned, they said that there might have been such good luck that no one had noticed that Captain Autruni had opened a new route.

So when Captain O'Trooney arrived with a huge merchant fleet for the second time overseas in Tyrsim, it became clear to everyone there that the red-handed captain was not lucky, but had an unknown secret route.

But Captain O'Trunnie kept his word that his crew and sailors were strictly forbidden from disclosing the secrets of the new route, and the wind soon subsided. In the Tirsim area, no one dared to attack the merchant fleet from the local area, but there were myriad hearts and minds running to contact each other. The situation was like the sea before the storm, unusually calm and repressive...

Mr. Morsan and his friends plotted to open this new route, and they saw only the golden and brilliant way of money, ignoring the imminent risks. In fact, they are a combination of small local officials and businessmen who, although adventurous and speculative, do not understand the whole situation and the reality of the Nubian continent, and it is inevitable that they should follow suit.

That's what Mrs. Maria exclaimed in her letter, clearly a good hand, but they beat the game to pieces by Mr. Morsan. This can only be blamed on Mr. Morsan's greed. Otherwise, they will report to Wang Du as soon as a new route opens, so that a title cannot escape. But they preferred to earn their own money and sent a merchant fleet to the Nubian mainland, so that good things became bad.

Captain O'Trooney also had a feeling that something was wrong, not returning as planned, but sailing quietly in the middle of the night a few days earlier. The pirates, however, have laid down many agents in the Tyrsim Overseas Territories, avoiding the first but the second batch. Five days after sailing, numerous groups of pirates flocked in sea boats and the merchant fleet was besieged. After losing most of his personnel, Captain Otruni had to order his surrender in order to save the lives of the remaining men, and the new route fell into the hands of the pirates.

Captain Otruni and several sailors who were reluctant to join the pirate group were said to have been thrown into the silent ocean on an uninhabited island and the rest of the crew and sailors were forced to become part of the pirates. They took those pirate groups along new routes across the silent ocean to the stormy waters, where they searched for several islands as a foothold and began attacking the merchant ships and convoys looted on overseas routes…

This is also the main reason why the Royal Navy has demanded that Mr. Morsan and his associates be dealt with severely and that they be charged with crimes against the security of the Kingdom.

The inadequacy of the Kingdom's fearless fleet, which was already overstretched by the blockade of the maritime joint fleet of the anti-Olympic S-5 alliance, coupled with the fact that the two-time annual escort mission has drained much of the fearless fleet from reciprocating with pirates, can only barely guarantee the security of the eastern waters of the Kingdom and maintain a strategic confrontation with the joint fleet.

No one had expected that the new route that Mr. Morsan and his associates had planned to open would be so damaging to the safety of navigation in the waters of the central and western part of the kingdom that, in less than half a month, more than twenty merchant and shipping vessels had been hijacked and looted, a knife in the heart of the kingdom.

The Kingdom's fearless fleet had to send a temporary detachment to the waters of the Midwest to patrol and find traces of pirates. Lucky for them, they ran into five pirate ships robbing. After intense naval warfare, pirate ships sank and two prisoners, and several of the pirates captured and surrendered were sailors and crew members of the White Deer Town merchant fleet who were forced to surrender as pirates, so the truth came to light.

Having received the report, the Royal Navy was very angry that Mr. Morsan, the local officials and the merchants of the fleet of investors, did not kill enough to deter those who were greedy and did not take the security of the Kingdom into account. Because the new routes opened by these guys attracted pirates active in the Nubian continent, causing immeasurable loss and harm to the waters of the Midwest of the Kingdom!

If the Dauntless fleet were to separate a sub-fleet from its perennial patrols in the waters of the Midwest, it would result in the Dauntless fleet falling into the wind in confrontation with the AOSIS Joint Fleet due to a lack of force, and could even lose the fragile balance and peace of maritime power, leading to the outbreak of a sea war between the two sides, completely closed by the AOSIS to the maritime route gate to the continent of Nubia, the consequences of which the Kingdom cannot afford…