Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 164 Good Will to Do Bad Things

What good intentions do bad things, Mrs. Maria's letter made Claude understand the meaning of the phrase. It is true that the dividend of 100,000 gold kroner, Mrs Maria, is only 70%, so she is really happy. It never occurred to me that in just two or three months, 70,000 gold kroner would have been gained. You know, she had put together more than 300 gold kroner and sent Lutheran housekeepers to White Deer Town to buy real estate, thinking it would be satisfying to earn more than 1,000 gold kroner.

As soon as Claude got involved, things got bigger, first mortgaged the woodland, then founded the Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation, surrounding the slums. A set of properties acquired by 20-30 gold kroner were consolidated into a large community, levelling out dilapidated bungalows and building four floors of large buildings, calculated in terms of 12 to 16 large suites of a building, which could accommodate 500 families in just over 40 buildings.

Mrs. Maria was not merely delighted, but recalculated and tested to confirm the legitimacy of the entire incident and community real estate transactions with the Navy Department. Seriously, her Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation also suffered a slight loss and sold a little cheaper. That's exactly why Mrs. Maria discovered that Claude had an extraordinary economic mind, and that he had found himself a financial path that had never been discovered before...

Lutheran Butler and the rest of the small shareholders of Normanly Real Estate Development only looked at the construction of the White Deer City Naval Base, but unlike Lady Maria, she had wondered whether the model of real estate development could be transplanted to Wangdu, or to other cities in the kingdom. If possible, the Normanly family will jump to the top of the kingdom and own the wealth of their own family.

It was also aware of the importance of Claude that Mrs. Maria had instructed the housekeeper Ludhan, on her own initiative, to go to Sir Fox and forward the 500 gold kroner loan he had in his possession to Claude for return. I had no idea Claude needed it. She would like to see greater human interaction with Claude, which would have been better if Claude had been grateful.

Claude also has a 10 percent stake in Normanly Real Estate Development, with a dividend of 10,000 gold kroner, which is more than enough to repay the 500 gold kroner. It's just that Claude didn't want to pay it back, but he had other plans, and unfortunately his thoughts were ruined by Mrs. Maria. Not only could he not blame Mrs. Maria for that, but he had to accept her forcible gift, which made Claude cry.

Claude had some inconsistencies with regard to Mrs. Maria's letter concerning her intention to obtain a pardon for Claude from military service. Generally, most pardons from His Majesty's military service are granted to recognized talented people, such as young talents such as painters, writers and artists.

Claude thought he was just offering Mrs. Maria a a rich idea, and Mrs. Maria had given her 10 percent stake to get the Normanly family to take care of her.

But now Lady Maria says she wants a pardon from Sterling X, which makes Claude really wonder what to do. Exemption from military service is a good thing, and Claude doesn't want to do any dirt. But the pardon order also had a negative impact, namely, that the exemption from military service could be granted only as a civilian and not as free as national status. And in that way, I could only tie myself to Mrs. Maria's big tree for the rest of my life. Though it doesn't look bad now, Claude's mind is a little reluctant.

The kingdom of Ovilas has always been a martial arts, even the sons and daughters of nobility, who were born with national identity, but basically enlisted in the army as adults. Although on the battlefield they will not be burned to death like the civilian soldiers, they are risking their lives after all. The long list of noble officer casualties after each war proves their courage and fearlessness, which is also a major factor in the expansion of the frontier map of the Kingdom of Auvellas over the years.

For the younger noble children, enlistment into the army is a journey of life, and even the noble children who did not join the army, in any noble circle, were ridiculed because they did not have the courage to face the threat of death, and they were cowards. In the noble parliament of the kingdom, nobility without military service is unlikely to be one of them, and it is essentially military nobility who can sit there in the service of the kingdom on the battlefield.

Claude did not believe that Mrs. Maria's assertion that she had an extraordinary economic mind would allow Sterling X to grant herself a pardon from military service, which the Kingdom had always exercised with great scrutiny and caution.

Just like the young painter I saw in the White Deer Morning News, what was his name? He won the first prize of the Kingdom Youth Painter Competition. Didn't his teacher exaggerate him like a painting god? Because he couldn't get the recognition of ten famous artists, he finally received a conscription order to go to the Painting Brigade of the Guard Corps with the painting clip behind his back.

Forget it. Fortunately for me, losing my life doesn't help now. There must be a way to get to the mountain. Let's talk about it then.

Mother was happy to be home at night. It was only after questioning that Lutheran Butler had sent back the 500 gold crown debit and both certificates of the town hall, which meant that Little Booker's huge debt to Sir Fox was gone.

“You have to work hard for Mrs. Maria. She's so nice to take care of our family. Big deal. Little Booker won't have to worry about the debt in the future. It's just that it would be nice if your father were still alive..." Mother was sad again.

Claude sighed, that's not what he wanted! However, this will have to comfort the mother first, otherwise no one will be able to settle down for this dinner...

A lot of things are connected and constantly changing. As Uncle Thomas said, if we didn't go for new routes and merchant fleets, but rather directly for real estate development, we would have sent out a long time ago, and there would not be so many messy worries, and your father would be fine...

This is actually ridiculous. If Father and Uncle Thomas didn't plan to open a new route, White Deer Town wouldn't have the opportunity to do so. It's still the same. It's just a gateway town that leads to the outside world in three southwestern counties.

Once the new route has been opened, it will only be possible for everyone to achieve good results if they are persuaded to abandon the greed in their hearts, face the unknown risks of piracy and hand over the new route to the Navy Department. But is that possible? Until no one realized the threat of pirate attacks, everyone was stirred by the profit from trade that singled out this new route.

This is a new secret route between the two continents, almost ten times the profit, who can give up? Rather than being unlucky, the failure of the merchant fleet has been targeted by pirate gangs, and this is the inevitable fate. Without knowing the opposite, the merchant fleet was organized and delivered to the door.

It was the failure of the merchant fleet that attracted piracy that attracted the attention of the Navy Department. By the end of the day, the Kingdom had also revised the strategic plan it had developed to invest funds in Bai Lu Town for its opening up. And because of the big development, the Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation took the first step in packing and selling the entire community to the naval base, and everyone finally made a huge profit.

Everything has evolved step by step that has led to the development and change now in White Deer Town. Otherwise, go to the ghetto and open up real estate. That's a stupid thing to do when your brain is kicked by a donkey. Not to mention, who are you going to sell your house to when you're done with the neighborhood?

Managing Director Felidos issued his first executive order after clearing the working relationship between the various administrations, without him, only to recruit. The conscription was for the expanded White Deer City Guard Battalion. The original guard battalion was two hundred and twenty-four, while the battalion was full of eight hundred and sixty-four, so more than six hundred recruits were required.

However, the conscription order issued by Chief Felidos was neither a voluntary enlistment at the time of recruitment into the garrison nor a mandatory enlistment by the Marine Corps in the slums, but rather a distribution system. In other words, a civilian family with two young adult men of appropriate age who meet the conscription regulations is required to have a soldier in the guard battalion, whether or not he has a proper job.

But then Uncle Thomas had a headache, and his thousands of architectural squadrons were suddenly recruited by more than two hundred people, all of whom complied with the conscription regulations and had been notified of the experience. If the experience passes, they will enter the guard battalion for recruit training, which is a huge loss to the Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation, which is building overtime.

Claude couldn't help it, he couldn't influence the decision made by Chief Felidos, so he asked Lutheran Butler if he could let Chief Felidos loosen up a bit, recruit fewer people from the building brigade, things are busy now, everyone is in a hurry...

But Ludhan's butler shook his head and, quite frankly, he couldn't change Chief Felidos' decision. Originally of military origin, Chief Felidos has always had the tightest grip on the military, and his first executive order after assuming the post of Chief of White Deer Town was to enlarge the guard battalion to recruit new recruits. In such a case, let's not say it was him, but Mrs. Maria herself had no such face. His prestige and dignity are at stake when the first fire after taking office will burn in any event.

“Forget it, get ready to recruit some more workers...” Claude can only say to Uncle Thomas: “This time we can recruit some older people. Didn't a lot of people want to join our company's construction team after the Marine Corps was forced into the Glades last time? Let's do more this time, as long as we can do our job." The number was a little higher, so that they wouldn't be conscripted for a long time... ”

That forced enlistment in the Glades had a significant impact on the Normanly Real Estate Company, and the Marines, among the young men captured in the Glades, were released unconditionally as soon as the Normanly Real Estate Development Company's worker registration card was lit, without even waiting for the company to send someone to claim it. Those waiting for their owners to claim it were so jealous that shortly afterwards, Normanly Real Estate's job site was squeezed out of water.

Uncle Thomas was really cheerful at the time. He had to choose one of three or four jobs. He had to be honest and capable, young and smart. Wherever you think of it, you are now dressed for the guard battalion, and all of a sudden you lose more than two hundred youthful labor, which does have a very negative impact and delays on the progress of construction.

It was unclear whether Chief Felidos would recruit Claude for the rest of his life, but what he didn't expect was that Chief Felidos hit him with the idea.

Less than a few days later, Chief Felidos sent his deputy to recruit Claude to the administration center, where Chief Felidos handed out a document to Claude with three big black letters on it: a conscription order.

“Claude, this is an opportunity for me to write you a letter of recommendation. The Blue Feather Regiment is to conduct a training session for officers, all of whom are veterans with outstanding performance who have been enlisted for more than five years. After the training, they will officially become sergeant chiefs of the troops. This is the most important starting point for a soldier to become an officer, and it only takes three years for you to become a good lieutenant officer. I'm sure you won't let me down. I look forward to your future. As long as you give credit to the kingdom, then this opportunity I have asked for for you is not in vain. Try your best! ”

Director Felidos enthusiastically slapped Claude's shoulder with his unique right hand. It was still a surprise on his fucking face. Hurry up and thank me for my expression...