Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 150 Arrears

Sharks and black snakes will fight. It's none of my business. I wish it was clean. That's what Claude thought. After returning to the woodland, he spent his usual 3: 00, touring the woodland, practicing magic, trying to make shotguns, picking up mushrooms and other mountain goods occasionally to go home, while buying some good food for his brother, stuffing his sister with pocket money, so that his parents could play poor and involve them.

Mr. Morsan and the investors also paid pensions and compensation to the families of all crew members of the merchant fleet, while harvesting a great deal of prestige. Apart from Captain O'Truney's house, because Eriksson and his mother refused to let them in...

On 12 March, Bai Lu Town rarely arrived with a logistics supply vessel belonging to the Royal Navy Department and a maritime survey vessel, the so-called Marine Reconnaissance Rapid Battleship. The two boats docked in the common dock area and many people used to watch the bustle. Several naval officers stepped off the boat, went to the town hall and handed over official documents, saying that it was necessary to stay in Bai Lu town for a period of time, hoping that the town hall would do the corresponding logistics.

The mayor, Baron Robert, took a sigh of relief and promised to provide fresh vegetables and livestock to two naval battleships, guaranteeing a reassuring and satisfactory meal to the naval officers of the Kingdom. But when he tried to ask what two naval warships were doing here, the answer was military secrecy. However, as the Navy officers left, it was likely that the Royal Navy would then send some warships to assemble at Lake Beringa in order to conduct a clandestine military operation.

Over the next two days, the marine survey vessel had been roaming around Lake Beringer, and many fishermen had seen the boat's sailors lay down ropes from time to time to measure the depth of the lake's bottom, as well as some naval officers drawing terrain along the lake with people. As for the other logistics marine vessel, two units of Marines were brought down and outposts were placed in the common dock area, equivalent to de facto takeover of jurisdiction in the common dock area.

On March 15, this was a big day for Bai Lu Town, as the newly formed guard brigade, after two months of training, could finally be declared officially integrated. This means that in the next two or three days, the guard battalion from County City will hand over the task of preparing White Deer Town to the guard brigade to be pulled back to County City, and the military pipeline in White Deer Town will be terminated.

The square in front of the town hall was once again dressed up as new, the colored flags were flying and the drums were noisy. Two hundred and twenty-four trained members of the garrison wore dark blue high-barrel caps with white feathers on their heads, dark blue military uniforms on their upper bodies, dark black military trousers with white stripes on their lower legs, black high-barrel leather boots on their feet, and Camille 3-type firerope guns on their backs, with neatly lined teams entering the square for audience inspection.

Claude didn't go to the festivities, and Verricolo didn't go to the town march that the guard team was going to do, and he ran to the woods to fight Claude for the shooting. Had it not been for his father, Kubrick, who had offended the mayor, Baron Robert, and was pushed out of the formation of the guard corps, he would have been a member of the guard corps that had been examined.

Two people played for half a day, and Verricolo finally got a little depressed, talking to Claude about what happened at the Ericsson house.

“You know, that dock doesn't belong to the Alexanders anymore.” Villicro said.

Before he led the merchant fleet, Captain Otruni mortgaged his family's private pier to a smuggler, loaned a large sum of money to work with several friends to collect merchant cargo, and now egg fights. The smuggler came to the door with a debt note that matured, either to repay the money and interest, or he took the private pier as collateral.

This arrears, together with interest amounting to 150 gold kroner, cannot be repaid even if Mrs. Elena sells her own house. Nor did she dream with Alexon that Captain O'Trunnie would take the private pier as collateral, and eventually had no choice but to take the private pier to cover the debt. Knowing that this private pier, worth at least 200 gold kroner, is now being cheaply transferred to someone else, Mrs. Elena is in a bloody coma on the spot.

“She won't mortgage the private pier to the National Bank and get the money to pay off the debt?” Claude is strange, why eat this loss clearly.

“Time is running out and the mortgage to the National Bank will take at least half a month to process. Captain Otruni signed a six-month loan with a high interest rate, doubled interest on the day after maturity, and delayed the loan from the bank for half a month without even paying interest. In fact, Captain Otruni loaned only 120 gold kroner and paid 150, of which 30 gold kroner was interest. ”

Well, a private pier worth more than 200 gold kroner actually sells only half the price, which is why Mrs. Elena is so angry. This suggests that a universal universe of truth, no matter what the world, is untouchable by high-interest loans. However, Mrs. Irena was at an impasse, paying her debts directly at the private terminal, and averting the consequences of continuing to be haunted by shark lending. Everyone knows that if you get caught up in shark lending, you'll only be carrying higher and higher debts, and by then you won't be clear for eight lifetimes.

Now that Eriksson's body has not recovered, his mother, Mrs. Elena, has fallen again, while losing her family's biggest real estate. Knowing that a private pier can also receive a good rent when it is not needed to dock with other seacraft is a life-saving entry for the Erickson family who have lost their own fishing boat.

Claude could only sigh, and now he was coming to visit and would still eat a closed-door spoon. Alexon was stubborn and would not accept that he was trying to help him.

“Is there any other news?” Claude asked.

Villicro shook his head: "No, now even the Shark and Black Snake clubs in the Glades and the Pier have stopped fighting. The communal dock area has been taken over by soldiers from the two warships, who can't even fight if they want to. Also today is the day the guard brigade takes over the White Deer Town guard, butcher Bill has left the barracks with his fourth squadron, and the shark will consider how to escape the Black Snake hunt.

By the way, the last time I saw Caffrey fishing by the lake, she said she worked as a cashier at the Mermaid's Tavern, purchasing and paying for supplies. I asked about you, and I said you were still in the woods, and she told me to tell you that if you have prey in the future, you can get it for sale at the Mermaid's Tavern, and she promised you a good price. ”

“See, that's what reading is all about.” Claude sighed, "If Kevin didn't go to school, she might as well be a waitress at the tavern as her sister. But once she graduated, she became a cashier at the tavern. This is a senior employee, equivalent to the manager of the tavern. ”

Verricolo was silent. He said I was talking to you about women. Didn't you tell us you liked Kevin? Now to help you pull together, you're exclaiming at reading to change your destiny, and this day we can't talk, so Vericulo gets up, finishes his last glass of rye, and goes back to kissing his ass.

Yet another few days later, Claude received a letter from Boquer stating that he had become a member of the Bongilia County Security Battalion in Siromique County. Bok Al used two pieces of paper to complain about the mistreatment he had suffered during his two-month recruit training and the difficulty he had in surviving the two-month training period, which he could say was full of bloody tears.

At the end of the training period, however, because of connections or the money paid by the family to buy the way, Boquer was assigned to the logistics department responsible for the management of weapons and various types of ordnance. Although he had not yet become an officer, he was confident that he would become a one-sided supervisor within two or three years and perhaps be in control of the entire logistics component.

I really don't understand where this guy's confidence came from. I didn't know how to pretend to be a grandson at first. It took me a long time to figure it out... Claude threw up the tunnel and turned to the last piece of paper before I realized that the news that the merchant fleet had been overrun by pirates had reached Bok Al's ears.

Bok Al said he was very shocked to hear of the incident in the merchant fleet and was very worried about Claude and Eriksson's family situation, hoping that it would not have any negative impact on both of them. In the first two months, I was unable to communicate because I was conducting the training, so I wrote to my friends immediately after the training to let them know where my future mailing address was.

Claude laughed bitterly with the letter, and the impact had already occurred, at least Ericsson no longer recognized himself as a friend, and there was no way to get angry with Claude, who called his father Mr. Morsan one of the leaders of the whole new route program. By the way, so did Bock-All's father, just wondering if Ericsson would tear up Bock-All's letter as well.

As usual, Claude wrote back to Boquer, and then basically stayed in the woods and rarely went to town.

This day, he was washing a basket of freshly picked mushrooms and preparing to take them home after a few days of drying. I had no idea that sister Angelina had come to the woodland.

“What happened?” Claude was shocked because her sister Anna had tear marks on her face and gasped, as she walked and ran.

“Two, Brother Er, you, you go home, home, there are many people in the house, look fierce, with guns, said to make Dad pay back the money. Dad was angry, arguing with them, saying he didn't owe them money. Then they took out a piece of paper, and Dad looked pale and said it couldn't be like this. He had to go out and find someone, but those people wouldn't let Dad go, they had to force Dad to pay back the money...” Anna said angrily.

Didn't the father say that he had paid off all his arrears, even the compensation and pensions of the sailor's crew members, how could he still owe others money? Claude had some doubts. Did Father forget who was in arrears?

As for those who appeared fierce with guns, Claude did not care that there was always a root for holding guns and that civilians could not take guns to the streets unless they were sponsored by nationals. Claude didn't believe that those people dared to shoot at his father, and how could he say that his father was a national, that he still had a great reputation in town, and that nobody dared to mess around at home?

“How did you get here, running all the way here?” Claude asked the sister.

“No, I'll take the car down the hill before I come up. Brother Er, go home, those people are really scary...” My sister seems anxious.

“Not in a hurry, not your second brother. All right, I'll go check it out with you now. ”

Claude went to the stables, drove the carriage, and drove home with his sister. It's just that he's a little late, and the people that sister Anna says look mean are gone.

“Father, what's going on?” Claude broke into the study and Mr. Morsan sat behind the desk in a pale face.

Claude had never seen his father this depressed look.

“I, I seem to have had a moment…” Mr. Morsan held out for half a day.

In his intermittent account, Claude finally understood the true course of the whole thing.

It turns out that one of the merchant ships in the merchant fleet, along with the cargo, belonged to Sir Fox. If Mr. Morsan is behind the scenes, then Sir Fox is behind them. It was only an obstacle to his status as a member of the National Assembly, and he was unable to come to the stage and could only offer some assistance behind Mr. Morsan's men.

After the success of the new route, Sir Fox was the one who insisted most strongly on concealing the information. He hoped to organize his own merchant fleet, which was formed at his discretion, to make a few trips to earn enough money before reporting the new route to Wang Du. The best person to help him with the merchant's boat and cargo became Mr. Morsan because he was not good enough to show up.

Sir Fox offered 500 gold kroner to entrust Mr. Morsan with the handling of merchant vessels and cargo, and Mr. Morsan should have given a receipt. But he made a mistake here, taking Sir Fox's advice and writing it into a borrowing note. Anyway, the idea was that when the merchant fleet returned, the merchant ship would be mortgaged to Sir Fox in the name of having no money to repay, so that no one would accuse Sir Fox of concealing the new route of smuggling goods.

It was purely a whore and a chastity troupe, and Claude used to wonder why Sir Fox, the biggest national congressman in White Deer Town, had not intervened in the matter of the new route, and now he knew that he had not only intervened, but that even his father had instructed them.

However, what Mr. Morsan did not expect was that something had happened to the merchant fleet, Sir Fox would let the Black Snake Club boss, butcher Bill took his guard 4th Squadron with him and borrowed his own notes to the door, as if the merchant fleet had nothing to do with him...