Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 159: Sister Anna's Secret

No one could refuse Mrs. Maria's passing of the old olive branches, such as former patrol chief Thomas, former treasurer, and Boquer's father, Rubiewell, all of whom promised to mortgage their home ownership shares. Just because the merchant fleet is losing a fortune, they can barely claim 1 percent or 2 percent of their shares. Rubiewell is a big businessman in White Deer Town, and now they can only accept five shares, one of the largest.

But this was expected by Claude, and no one had a good life. Not only did the merchant fleet make these friends of his father lose money, it didn't even work to talk in White Deer Town. The loss of public office is on the one hand, and most importantly, White Deer Town is now at the discretion of the mayor, Baron Robert, who speaks at the town hall.

Coupled with the fact that the new 4th Squadron of the Guard Battalion had become his claw teeth, backed by Congressman Sir Fox, the mayor of Robert's town issued a new tax scheme in early April, adding two taxes, one on market management fees and the other on policing throughout the town, named the day-to-day cost of maintaining the Guard Battalion.

Both taxes are targeted at all traders in White Deer Town, whether they are large businesses or street vendors, who are required to pay these two additional taxes. From this point of view, the mayor, Baron Robert, is quite sober, knowing that he should be dealing with the merchants, who have more oil and water. Without having all the households in the town pay any policing fees, it can easily provoke popular resentment.

While it is unclear why Lady Maria would mortgage her Normanly Forest Farm to set up a real estate development company, everyone was overjoyed when Lutheran Butler came to the door and thanked Claude for the introduction. Like former patrol chief Thomas, he slapped his chest and said he was mortgaging all his property and then subscribed for two percent of the shares.

In April, the biggest news story in White Deer Town was Maria, who was famous in Wangdu. Baroness Fong Normanly entrusted her butler, Mr. Ludhan, to mortgage her Normanly Forest Farm at the National Bank, investing 20,000 Kim Kroner to form the Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation. In addition to her, the company has eleven shareholders, all of whom are locally renowned people who were originally involved in the new route to Bai Lu Town, who started buying properties in the slums under the slogan of "For Sangzi".

Although I don't know what Mrs. Maria was up to, the price in Bai Lu Town went up by 30% for a while. In the meantime, Mayor Robert and Sir Fox have repeatedly requested a meeting with Lutheran Butler in the hope of finding out the truth. But Ludhan Butler has always deduced that Mrs. Maria was saddened by the slum's defeat, which decided to invest to change the scenery of her hometown...

With the assistance of former patrol chief Thomas and others, real estate acquisitions in the slums went well. The Old Street divides the slums into two districts, east and west, and Lutheran housekeepers mainly acquire properties in the East Side, which covers two thirds of the entire slum area. Of course, the acquisitions occasionally hit nail households.

“The reason these people are reluctant to sell their property is because they have nowhere else to live and, for them, they have no home after they have sold it, so they will not sell any more money.” Uncle Thomas is still very reliable and well investigated.

Claude nodded, and it was long anticipated: "Since they were reluctant to sell the property for that reason, the simple solution was to give them another home. Do you remember that big piece of public land I had Lutheran Butler buy in the West Side? We'll build a few rows of houses there, sign a contract with these reluctant residents, and let them move there as soon as they're done, so we can just subsidize them a little bit more. Anyway, the entire East End estate is in our hands so that we can have a holistic plan and build a middle- and high-end community. ”

“Why don't you say yes to those people and give them a room later when this house is built so we don't have to build another building on the west side.” Another objection was raised.

Claude shook his head: "The building we built on the west side of the public land could be a little smaller, just sturdy and durable. And the whole community needs gardens, squares, shops, so it can raise the price of the entire community. If we build houses here and distribute them to the original residents, we lose a lot...”

There's nothing more convincing than having to do with your own earnings, and everyone at the venue understands what Claude means.

“Okay, that's it. I'll go back to the tenants.” Uncle Thomas turned around and was ready to go out.

“Wait, Uncle Thomas.” Claude, call him. "If those people are still hesitant, you can use the shop on the ground floor of the building there to attract them. We don't get involved in the shop over there, it's all for sale. And this neighborhood builds the last floor of the shop, and we don't do it, we collect the rent. ”

“Understood.”

White deer townspeople are more curious and puzzled about the Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation's massive civil work in the slums. Just like after the acquisition of the entire East Side, Normanly Real Estate Development also drew a huge post-construction effect map on the streets that attracted countless people to watch, and what they didn't understand was who to sell to when such a good community was built? The rich in Bai Lu Town own a house, the rich can't afford a house, Baroness Maria will never send a set to each of those poor households...

Claude was very busy. Fortunately, her mother's health was almost fine. She had taken over the chores, and Claude was no longer needed in the family. And Claude was basically ready to let go of the company, and Ludhan was in charge of the financials, and Claude pulled Kevin over to be Ludhan's housekeeper's assistant. After all, Ludhan's housekeeper is a little older, and a personal help can help him relieve some of his work and mental stress.

Twenty thousand Golden Kroner, after the acquisition of the entire East Side of the Glades, plus several rows of four-story houses built on that vacant lot in the West Side, are basically almost as expensive. The next step is to demolish the dilapidated houses and flatten the land, all run by Uncle Thomas. Claude has privately instructed him to take advantage of this opportunity to solicit useful talent in the Glades in preparation for the future formation of a construction team, property management and security personnel.

Claude is now busy bringing together architectural designers to plan the entire community for the most rational and advantageous layout and satisfactory returns for the shareholders involved in this development company. As for construction costs, Claude was not concerned that Lutheran housekeepers and former treasurers were communicating with the National Bank to mortgage property throughout the East End, lending large sums of money to continue subsequent construction.

It's almost May, Verricolo came looking for Claude. After the meeting, Verricolo pulled out a fine sword and placed it in Claude's hands.

“What do you mean, isn't this your favorite collection?” Claude was a little strange.

Verricolo loved collecting the swords and stuff, and he used to buy these dagger swords for the hunting profits. Claude remembers that this sword was picked up by a vendor at a stall in the open market, and Velikoro put out a golden crown for this sword to get into the bag, not to mention play with his friends.

“I'm leaving...” Verricolo sighed softly.

“To where? ”

“Wang Du.” Villicro replied, "You know, my father offended Mayor Robert, and this past month has been provoked several times by the fourth squadron of that butcher Bill, and life is not very comfortable. As soon as my father was angry, he wrote to the old army chief of the year and attached my Chinese transcript. Now the letter came back, and my conscription order, I was conscripted by my father's old army, the SS. Go to the town hall today and arrange a pass. Tomorrow our family will leave for Wangdu, so come and say goodbye. ”

Uncle Kubrick had offended Mayor Robert when he formed a garrison in White Deer Town, and he was pushed out when the garrison was formed. Now the fourth squadron of the Black Snake Club's Big Butcher Bill is responsible for guarding Zhenxi's entrance and exit, while Velikro's home is outside the town, at the foot of the mountain, passing through Zhenxi's entrance every time he arrives.

At the behest of Mayor Robert, the Fourth Squadron always carried out extremely rigorous checks on Uncle Kubrick's entry and exit from White Deer Town, stating that there were no prohibited items in the carry-on. Turning things around in the car is messy, but others easily put it away. Uncle Kubrick has to fight with the Fourth Squadron several times...

No wonder Claude wanted Uncle Lacoupéric to join the Real Estate Development Corporation, but he refused. He was waiting for Wang Du's reply. As a descendant of a retired veteran of the army, he also had such a good record in Chinese Medicine that no force would refuse to recruit recruits like Villicro.

“It is time for me to congratulate you on becoming a glorious guard.” Claude was a little sad, the first to leave was Bok Al, and then Eriksson was leaving because of the merchant fleet and his own backlash.

“Are you all going to Wangdu?” Claude patted Verricolo on the shoulder, this time not knowing when to see him again.

“Yes, my father's elder officer found a job for my father to escort a noble man, and he was well paid. Anyway, Bai Lu Town couldn't stay, so my father decided to go to Wangdu, there are many people there, maybe find me a good brother-in-law. ”

Claude looked at herself and found it sad that there was nothing she could do to exchange souvenirs with Verricolo. I had to stall him and say, "When are you leaving? I'll give you a lift...”

“No, we leave early tomorrow morning, everything is loaded with a wagon, and we don't go through town, we go around, we don't have to get in trouble with those bastards. So you don't have to send me. I'll write to you when I settle down. Just write me back.” Vericulo cracked his mouth and smiled, hugging Claude tightly and turning away.

I picked up my sister at school in the afternoon, and at dinner, my mother said she lived in a forest farm and wanted to go to the open-air market in town to buy some food, but didn't have a carriage, which felt very inconvenient. Claude, think about it. Now there are just two carriages in the woods, and they own one, and there's an old cart that looks at the Theories.

During this time, he was busy in town every day, and Theorie was not idle, picking up rubbish in his wagon in those bought shitty houses, not in the woodland. Mother wanted to go to town and had to walk, see if she had to buy a carriage to put it at home and pick a smooth mother horse to pull the car.

As for Lutheran Butler, since the Real Estate Development Corporation had been set up, the address was in a better house in the Glades, where he lived with a horse. After all, in such a big place, he had to guard Mrs. Maria, so she no longer lived in the woods.

“Well, I'll go to the open market tomorrow and buy you a carriage. Now that the cabin is our home, I can get someone to set up a stable next to it.” Claude decided to buy a step-by-step carriage for his mother.

Claude came to the study after the family slept in the evening, busy with the real estate development, didn't do any alchemy magic experiments, the other was also the mother, they were in, some inconvenience, had to wait for them all to fall asleep before practicing meditation.

But now that the real estate development is over, the rest can be left to Lutheran housekeepers and Uncle Thomas. Like the boats paddling on Lake Beringa, the direction has been set, depending on the efforts of the paddlers, from which point of view Claude is the one who directs the course.

You should be able to spare some time. Claude thought, and then he heard a gentle knock.

Open the door, it's my sister Anna's little pale face.

“Why aren't you asleep? Can you get up to school tomorrow?” Claude asked with a smile.

“Tomorrow, Sunday, I'm not going to school.” Sister said.

Claude, that's when I found out that my sister Anna was carrying that magic recipe.

“Oh, you have the recipe, no wonder I didn't even see it.” Claude, that's when I remembered taking this magic recipe from my father's stall that day, and then I went upstairs to find my sister and brother, and I forgot where she was.

However, sister Anna held onto this magic recipe: “Brother Er, let me tell you a secret. This recipe contains blue text...”