Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 162 Confusion and Change

If Sir Fox and Mayor Robert knew about what Navy officers called a cooperative plan, they would have been willing to throw up blood if they had paid for all the community buildings that Normanly Real Estate Development was building. In fact, the head of base construction at the Navy Department had already met with Lutheran Butler, two acquaintances who had known each other since King.

In the face of the miniaturized model landscape of the entire community being built by the Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation, the Naval Base construction officers greatly appreciated how much time and energy the Navy Department saved, and the layout of the entire community was fully in line with the family residential areas of Navy officers who became the new storm fleet, and even surpassed their unexpected excellence. Needless to say, even now that the entire community has just begun to build, the naval authorities still wield a large sum and KK 200,000 have been transferred to the accounts provided by Lutheran housekeepers.

This is only the first payment, and when the entire community completes the delivery, there will be an additional sum of 80,000 gold kroner as proceeds from Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation. For the Ministry of the Navy, it is worth it to have an entire community with beautiful facilities at a cost of just 300,000 gold kroner. Knowing that the house and land prices are one third cheaper than the family quarters attached to the naval base at Port Neru, the only military port in the Kingdom, the layout and facilities are not known to be many times better, which is a huge amount of money.

For Lutheran Butler and the rest of the shareholders of Normanly Real Estate Development, the house has not yet been fully sold out, and the total income of KK 280,000 has left everyone unsettled. Of course, the 20,000 difference with the Navy Department is a human affair, nobody counts.

The total investment is only 20,000 gold kroner, plus 18,000 gold kroner borrowed from the National Bank as mortgage loans on the entire community's land, plus 38,000 gold kroner, which has not yet been exhausted, and the return reaches 280,000, how many times the return? Almost all shareholders have a golden light in their eyes.

“In this way, KK 100,000 will be capitalized in the company's account, and the next building and sewer excavation, street planning and other construction costs will be allocated from here. At the same time, those loans of the National Bank were repaid, and no debt was owed and no interest was paid to them in vain on a monthly basis. The other 100,000 will be dividends to be distributed according to the proportion of shares. As for the final proceeds of 80,000 gold crowns, it will take at least half a year to receive them, so let's not do that plan now, and then, what do you say? ”

Claude's distribution plan for the 200,000 gold kroner was unanimously endorsed by all shareholders present. It's only a matter of time before everyone gets ten times the return on equity and laughs.

“We can't just do this neighborhood and dismantle the company, Lutheran Butler. You can walk around a lot with the chief officer in charge of building the naval base, the Viscount of what's called, and maybe contract the planning for the Old Street and the West Side of the Slums from him. If it doesn't work, we can also work with the Navy Department on development and construction, which only requires 50% of the proceeds. ”

Claude's idea gave Lutheran's butler a quick glimpse, and he slapped his thigh: "Yeah, who does it differently is doing it? I'm going to ask, try to get the West End plan out of him. ”

Compared to Claude's great harvest and joy, Black Snake will boss Bidrill. Brunch thinks he's become the worst man in White Deer Town, not one of them. Things are simple, his territory is gone, not only the black snake will be in the slum area, not even the place of duty under the control of the fourth guard squadron, all are classified within the scope of the construction of the naval base, it has become a military restricted area, the Marine Corps is responsible for the guard, he even has to go home to be inspected by the guard...

This is outrageous, Bedrill. Brunch feels like an abandoned orphan, helpless. Even Sir Fox and Mayor Robert expressed sympathy for what happened to Bedrill, but there was nothing they could do to help. That's the truth. One is a politician, one is a local bureaucrat, and there's really not much we can do about the Royal Navy.

In terms of compensation for expropriation, Bidrill suffered a great loss. In slums and lakefront, he has a lot of real estate, such as a lakeside fishery processing plant, the Black Snake Club headquarters compound in slums, and half of the estate on Old Street is in his hands, the Black Snake Club boss. However, these were within the confines of the Naval Base, while compensation was based on market prices prior to May 15, as almost all real estate prices in the town had tripled as soon as the Bai Lu Town Development Programme was launched.

Best of all, Bedrill. What Brunch suffered was the underground casino built in the West End of the Glades, a place he had spent a lot of money working on, which he wanted to use to provide the Black Snake with constant funding, but now had to be abandoned. Even if the old warehouse covered as a cover had been collected by the Navy with minimal compensation, he would not dare mention that there was still such a large underground space.

It's simple. The kingdom forbids private casinos. If the Navy finds out about this underground scene, it's up to Bidrill. Brunch didn't know if he could save his life, and he had to pretend he didn't know anything. Fortunately, the owner of that dilapidated warehouse above is the name of a disabled father of one of his men, so long as he doesn't say it, nobody knows the real owner is Bidrill. Sergeant Bronch...

As for the Black Snake Club, it's gone. On that day, the Navy dispatched a battalion of marines anchored in the sub-fleet at Lake Beringa to disembark, blockaded the entire ghetto, took over the alert powers of the Fourth Guard Squadron, and then carried out a forced drag-in operation in the ghetto. Their goal is the unemployed travellers, gangsters and rogues, which is an effective way to supplement the naval fleet, while clearing up local security issues and making a difference.

Bedrill. On that day, Brönch could only stand on the street in the ghetto, watching those army soldiers, like wolves, break into the door, bring men out of the house and gather them together for questioning, and those with legitimate jobs are pulled out to stand on the other side, waiting for their bosses to come and prove it. And those who do not work properly or work as handymen, as well as those who work on fishing boats, are forcibly recruited into the Navy and become the lowest ranking soldiers...

One third of the nearly a thousand people who were taken that day were members of the Black Snake Society, and they did not work officially. Several murders were bravely fought by wanted men, but they were immediately hit by glittering bayonets and rifles, spraying blood all over the street. Immediately after that, he was dragged away and chopped off his head. Soon, seven or eight bloody heads hung on a row of straws erected on the old street. The screams of those who were unwilling to join the army dropped and the noisy crowd quickly became orderly.

Bedrill. Brunch remembered handing over a bag of cigarettes to a lieutenant in the navy who was on a vigilance mission on the street, and the two of them ripped in a pipe. Bedrill. Brunch wondered what the fate of his men who had been forcibly recruited would be like, and asked Lieutenant Navy if the forcibly recruited soldiers would soon be assigned to the battleship...

The lieutenant said with disdain that these forcibly recruited men would be formed into a labour camp, which would be responsible for the construction of the naval base for a period of three months. Within this three-month period, experienced conscription officers will then select suitable recruits from among them and conduct basic military training until the training is completed before they are assigned to the ship.

“What will happen to the remainder of those not selected by the conscript officers and let them go home?” Bidrill. Brunch remembered asking himself that, and he believed that his black snakes would surely try to escape the military service by sneaking around.

But that naval lieutenant answered coldly and completely dismissed Bidrill. Brunch's fantasy of revamping the Black Snake's banner. That's how he answered. Spit out a long cigarette and turn around and stare at Bedrill. Brönch's eyes: "Believe me, Squadron Leader, the Royal Navy's bayonets and whips will make every one of them qualified, disciplined and ruled Navy soldiers...”

That's it, the land is gone, the men are taken for military service, and the family estate has been drafted to build a naval base, former head of the Black Snake Club, Bidrill. Brunch suddenly found himself an example of a broken country. Apart from the existence of a large sum of compensation on the National Bank account and the original men of the 40-odd Black Snake Club of the Fourth Guard Squadron, Bidrill found that he had nothing left, had no place to live, and had to move to the barracks.

Perhaps out of guilt for him, after Sir Fox and Mayor Robert had spoken to Viscount Venice, the head of the naval base, the Navy Department deliberately convened a congress at the town hall in recognition of Bidrill. Brönch awarded a Medal of Excellence and a model military award. Bedrill. Although Brönch lost everything, he completely cleansed himself of his identity, but for him, such a change of identity was not known to be cost-effective.

The biggest news in June in Bai Lu Town was the fall of the mayor of Robert, and when auditors rushed in from Wang Du to audit the town hall's finances for nearly two years, they found that when the town hall mayor had taken power, the books of the finance department began to look confusing, with more than a dozen disbursements of varying sizes of money unaccounted for, and the documents later filled were incorrect. Even though there was no difference in the end, it was clear that the marks had been made.

These treasurers from Wangdu Audit Department are very insidious, visibly silent and secretly impoverished. Soon after, Robert's mayor uncovered the fraudulent accounts of the town's finance staff, Wang Dulai's judicial officers appeared before Robert's mayor, detained him and deprived him of his position as mayor.

Poor Mayor Robert did take the opportunity to go further after the announcement of His Majesty's White Deer Town Development Program. Whether it was the expropriation and construction of the naval base or the handover of personnel from the various departments that Wang came from, he did not have any flaws and cooperated perfectly.

But what he didn't expect was that in the months after the arrest and dismissal of the three powerful township chiefs, the chief administrator, the chief financial officer and the chief of the patrol police, for the opening of a new route, he had done something ridiculous in a town hall with great pride, using the town hall's finance department as his own little vault, wasting and embezzling some of his belongings.

When the Bai Lu Town Development Program was announced, he was shocked and rushed to make up for his mistakes. But over time, he couldn't remember where he was spending a lot of money, so he had to fill in the total amount. If County City still governs White Deer Town, then Mayor Robert may be able to get over it easily. A few small gifts for the auditors down in the county, please.

But the financial auditors who came here were all sent by Wang. For them, finding the problem is their own credit. The set of Robert Mayor doesn't work in front of them at all. One more seat, one pit, no one in the king knows how many people have targeted the position of this directly administered Forces nouvelles port. Mayor Robert has to give up his seat...

Claude had no feelings about the capture of Mayor Robert, but former patrol chief Uncle Thomas and former treasurer and two other people who had been removed from public office had been very happy and intoxicated at night...