Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 163: Chief Felidos

At the beginning of July, a pedestrian horse arrived from Wang Du, one of the one-armed noblemen to assume the position of director of the upgraded White Deer City. According to Lutheran Butler, this is Felix. The Viscount of K. Finyadi is also an old friend of Lady Maria and a distinguished war hero in the kingdom.

In the second war between the kingdoms of Ovieras and Nasseri, in the final stages of the battle for the victory of the Nabilek Mountains, the name Felidos. The noble officer of K. Finyadi, who held the post of Commander of the Seventh Cavalry of the Guardian Corps at the time, took the courage to lead his Seventh Cavalry Corps to occupy a key strategic location behind the Royal Nasri Army, the Kepiso Hills, blocking the exit route of the Royal Nasri Army.

In order to seize the escape route, the Royal Nasri Army invested all its reserves in the uninterrupted assault tactics of its former servants on Mount Kepiso, ranging from the foot of the mountain to the corpses of the mountain, with the cries of the corpses and wounded of members of the Royal Nasri Army. And Felix. The cavalry regiment led by Captain G. Finyadi also struck out all the ammunition, causing extremely heavy casualties.

They nevertheless remained on the last line of defense, losing ammunition and driving the enemy down with bayonets at a time. Later, the Royal Nasri Army, which had lost the courage to relaunch the offensive, took countless manpower to pull up a Memphida cannon, bombarded the cavalry regiment's defensive line at close range, attempted to destroy the Royal Army's fighting will with artillery fire and abandoned its defensive line to retreat.

In the fierce shelling, this is Felidos. The cavalry leader of K. Finyadi was seriously wounded and his left arm was blown up. But all he did was tear down his uniform and wrap his broken arm around him, and still command the battle with intense pain. Encouraged by his encouragement, the remaining soldiers remained on the defensive line, culminating in victory.

Nearly 110,000 members of the Royal Nasri Army were besieged and surrendered in this service. And Felix. More than 2,400 cavalry members, led by Captain Finyadi, eventually left only 374 survivors, all wounded. But the victory of this battle forced the Kingdom of Nasserli to send envoys to seek peace, ceded the land of the three counties to the Kingdom and made the Kingdom of Auveras the ruler of the eastern part of the Farea continent.

Felix. Commander K. Finyadi was also named Viscount of Sterling X for his service as a blood war hero of Kepeso.

Lourdes Butler thinks Felix... Viscount Finyadi is a standard Iron Blood soldier and a rare military expert specializing in cavalry raids and position defense. His only drawback was his extraordinarily hard work, his repeated propaganda of the doctrine of the reunification of the eastern continent at the royal banquets in Wangdu, demanding that the entire eastern part of the Farea continent be included under the rule of the Sterling royal family.

Felix. Chief Inspector Fenyadi was not surprised that he was now the highest official in White Deer City, and even the Governor of the Storm Fleet, who had begun to assemble, had to pay tribute to him. However, the first thing Chief Felidos did after taking office was to upgrade the town hall to the White Deer City Administrative Centre, and to upgrade the judiciary, finance and patrol police departments to bureaucratic units, reporting directly to him.

The second thing is to assemble the entire guard force and tell them the good news and the bad news. The good news is that the guard battalion will be expanded into a White Deer City guard battalion, and the bad news is that the planned guard battalion will be dispatched to a stone outpost far from White Deer City to reconstruct the abandoned military camp there and make it a future garrison for the guard battalion. As for the security of Bai Lu City, it will be the responsibility of the expanded Patrol Police Department, and in case of emergency, a Marine Battalion can be dispatched from the naval base to support it...

Immediately after these two events, Managing Director Felidos inspected the Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation, scrutinized the micromodel landscape and architectural layout drawings of the entire community and conducted detailed quality inspections and price accounting for the first phase of the building under construction, while questioning some of the more concerned building and auxiliary facility pricing issues.

Just after Lutheran Butler and small shareholders of Normanly Real Estate Development wondered what went wrong, Director Felidos finally closed the investigation and smiled satisfactorily.

Managing Director Felidos told us quite frankly that he had received an anonymous tip-off letter stating that there was an unspeakable mismatch between the Navy Department's cooperation with Normanly Real Estate Development. The purchase of the entire community built by the Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation by the Ministry of the Navy at a huge cost of 300,000 gold kroner is clearly a bargain to the public and private sector. The letter also appended the price of the acquired real estate in the East Side of the Poor, bearing the notarial seal of the town hall...

However, at first sight, following an on-site investigation by Chief Felidos, it was found that the information reported in the anonymous letter did not correspond to the facts and could even be said to distort them. The community built by Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation has excellent layout, advanced facilities and easy access, while also taking into account the location of shops and setting up small gardens and squares between buildings, which is almost the most considerate and secure community.

Managing Director Felidos appreciated that it would be ridiculous if, in Wangdu, such a community building suite could be bought at least twice or three times the price, measured in terms of the low price of the acquisition. The Ministry of the Navy took advantage of the fact that it was able to buy such a secure neighbourhood of nearly 500 rooms for only 300,000 gold kroner. However, it also shows that the shareholders of Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation are willing to contribute to the country's boxing efforts. Needless to say, we just hope that Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation will thrive in the future and do better.

Everyone in the room was laughing, and Chief Felidos' remarks had led to the conclusion of a community deal between Normanly Real Estate Development and the Navy Department, almost stamped on the deal. If anyone else talks about this deal in the future, it's not just Mrs. Maria and the Navy Department that he's guilty of, it's also meant that Chief Felidos will be his dead enemy.

Lutheran Butler took the opportunity to introduce Claudella to Chief Felidos, who said that Claudella was heavily weighed by Mrs. Maria and became a disciple of her pharmacology. The establishment of Normanly Real Estate Development was also a major effort by Claude, with extraordinary talent and ability in planning and layout for the entire community…

Unfortunately, Chief Felidos didn't dare to be interested in it, and he just handled Ludhan's butler with a polite smile. However, when he learned that Claude was Bai Lu Town, oh, now that he was the first to graduate from Bai Lu City National Secondary School, he suddenly became enthusiastic, clapping Claude's shoulder to praise Claude for being a good seedling for being a soldier, and thought that if Claude was to be a soldier at an early age, a good boy should build a worldly decoration for his kingdom in the army, so he seemed reluctant to escort Claude himself to the military camp...

Claude could only laugh bitterly that his current involvement in the family was not suitable for early enlistment, but that once a war broke out in the kingdom, he was definitely on the battlefield for his country. At last, this rhetoric eased the face of Chief Felidos, but it was unfortunate that Claude could not join the forthcoming expansion of the White Deer Town Guard Battalion, given that Claude had been implicated by his late father, Mr. Morsan, the former White Deer Town Administrator, who had been dismissed.

If Lutheran Butler hadn't seen the situation badly and found an excuse to separate Chief Claude from Chief Felidos, Claude wondered if Chief Felidos would have written a letter of recommendation on the spot to designate him to serve in some field regiment. After all, the person who recommended himself would be brilliant in the military. Chief Felidos, who had already left the army, believed that Claude, the first graduate from the country in physical science, was eligible for recommendation.

Aside from that little thing, Chief Felidos visited Normanly Real Estate Development and sealed the entire community takeover deal with the Navy Department. The news appeared on the front page of the White Deer Morning News the following day.

With the assurance of Chief Felidos, Ludhan Butler quickly reached a package agreement in the next few days with Viscount Venice, the head of base construction at the Navy Department, to provide land and funds, labour and construction programmes on the one hand, and Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation to contract reconstruction plans for the Old Street and the West Side of the Slums on the other…

“Over the next three or four years, we will not be saddened by inactivity…” Ludhan's butler boasted. During his meeting with Viscount Venice, Viscount Venice revealed that the Department of the Navy planned to complete the construction of the White Deer City Naval Base within two years, and then to begin excavating the artificial canal of Lake Beringa to Sharkmouth Bay in the third year, which was already surveying the geographic environment.

If the Ministry of the Navy is satisfied with the Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation's engineering projects over the past two years, then the Ministry does not mind splitting a spoon in the major works of excavating artificial canals, and Viscount Venice has indicated his willingness to be a nominee and guarantor of Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation.

“Can we get on with the pier project?” Uncle Thomas asked somewhat less greedy.

“This Viscount Venice never mentioned it.” Lutheran Butler shook his head: "Basically, the battleship terminals inside the naval base will be built by their own labor, like shipyards, repairs to the docks, and there is no precedent left to outsiders to contract. The current mobilization of labour camps from all over the Kingdom is not yet possible to reach Bai Lu City in a short period of time, which is also the main reason why our company is able to successfully plan and build the western district of the poor.

So the most important thing for us right now is to accelerate the building of the entire community. Claude, you have to hurry up with the planning and design of that functional area of the West Side Navy. When your design is approved, we can send some people to work first and occupy the land, so that even if the Navy dispatched labor camps arrive, they will be fine... ”

“I understand.” Claude nodded.

Another important thing for Claude in July was that he received another letter from Mrs. Maria. The enormous gains that the Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation has brought to Mrs Maria have almost driven Mrs Maria crazy. This is what she herself said in her letter, and she never thought that it would only take a few moments for her to get 70,000 gold crowns in return.

Mrs. Maria said that she had never had so much money in her life. She received a letter from Lutheran butler and went to Wang Du's National Bank to inquire. After discovering that 70,000 gold crowns had really been remitted into her account, she kept rolling in bed when she came home. What was she planning to buy? Even when her two disobedient children came to ask for money, she threw ten gold crowns directly at them, causing her two children to be suspicious and afraid that she would suddenly go mad...

It took Mrs. Maria three days to calm herself down, and she was very grateful for everything Claude had done for her. So, in her letter, she told Claude that she had written to the Lourdes Butler to go to Sir Fox and pay off that 500-kilogram debt owed by Claude's brother, and to go to the administrative center and bring back to Claude the two notarized certificates of borrowing.

At the same time, Mrs. Maria stated in her letter that she believed Claude had an extraordinary economic mind. It would be an absolute waste of talent for the kingdom if Claude were to serve as a soldier, so she was willing to ask Sterling X for a pardon from Claude's military service. For the Kingdom, however, military service is an obligation of every adult man and a policy of the State, for which Mrs. Maria cannot vote, and she can only say she will try it herself.

Finally, Mrs. Maria said she would come to White Deer City in September and spend more than half a month in the woods, hoping to bring good news to Claude by then...