Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 172 Explanation

“But I have a question,” Viscount Venice said, "Claude, how can you be sure that Sir Fox will fail the National Assembly in next year's election? As far as I know, he has served as five members of the National Assembly in Bai Lu Town. He operates Bai Lu Town as his main camp. It is deeply rooted and is known as the boss behind the scenes of Bai Lu Town. Many of the proposals on Bai Lu Town cannot be implemented in the town hall without his consent...”

The term of office of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Ovieras is every five years and is elected by local referendums with national identity.

Claude had calmed down and looked up at Viscount Venice strangely, seemingly wondering how he could ask the question: "If you know what he's capable of, then why are you upsetting him about building a naval base and not giving him any face? ”

Claude stared at Viscount Venice a little blushed: "Well, actually, before I came here, the king had warned me that, with Sir Fox's cooperation, there would be no big problem in White Deer Town. I think the person came up to me on purpose to say something like this. It was strange, so I went to ask Mrs. Maria.

Lady Maria said with disdain that this guy is a dirt dude. She is accustomed to making a fortune in small places. She is arrogant and lucrative. She can only be honest every year when Wang is in the National Council. Let me ignore him and slap him for anything. Don't give him any face. Anyway, I'm a soldier. He's a citizen. He can't get along.

I didn't want to bother him either, but building a naval base here is a strategic arrangement of the kingdom, and it has nothing to do with him. But he was so greedy that after the announcement of the Bai Lu Town Development Program, there was a massive expropriation of land within the base, without any hesitation, and forced the poor people's real estate land to pay only a little compensation in the past. I didn't want to think it was a big deal, and even I'd be involved, so when I got angry, I kicked that real estate development company out of the West End of the Glades under the expropriation ordinance.

After this time he refused to learn the lesson, he came to me privately to contract the construction of the entire naval base, let me increase the cost, he went to someone to start the construction to lower the cost, so that the difference was several times the cost of the project, he could give me 10 percent of the revenue. Boo, do I need that kind of money? This is a naval base, not some public utility building, so of course I didn't give him any face. ”

“Bring a bottle of wine and moisten your voice.” Viscount Venice was aroused: “After this, he also tried to join the old baron mayor to force the farms south of town not to sell us fresh vegetable fruits and meat, so as to force me to van. As a result, he did not expect the mayor's audit, but Guanma was arrested and then Chief Felidos took office, and his plans were completely defeated.

As such, he also came to me face-to-face at the inaugural banquet hosted by Chief Felidos, saying that he could help the naval base with the construction of a quality assurance at a market price. I turned around, ignored him, and embarrassed him in public. Actually, I was shocked to hear he was killed this morning, and happy to hear that the old man deserved to be killed! ”

Claude took a bottle of whiskey out of the box next to the table and took two more glasses, opening the lid and pouring half a glass of Viscount Venice and Detective Joseph, respectively.

Detective Joseph looked at the box and asked, "Why are three bottles missing? ”

Claude pointed to the corner of the wall: "Look, there are two empty bottles, pour some wine in and add some water, and it's easy to attract mosquitoes. A mosquito that smells alcohol just flies in and gets soaked with it, and it's over. A few days ago, it was hot and full of mosquitoes, and a day and a night would wipe out more than 20 mosquitoes. And yesterday Lieutenant Nuit took a bottle, and I forgot to ask him to bring it back. The bottle is stylish, and a deposit is for a Sunar. ”

Detective Joseph got up and squatted down and looked at the two empty bottles at the corner of the wall, and he found several mosquitoes soaked in the bottom of the bottle.

“That's a good idea, much better than the smell of mosquito scent.” Detective Joseph said: "But you have to give Lieutenant Nuit this expensive whiskey...”

“Actually, it wasn't for him, it was Lieutenant Nuit who helped him drink the bottle.” Claude explained, "I opened that bottle of whisky, and if I wanted to taste it, I poured it a little bit. It turned out to be bitter and spicy, not as tasty as blueberry fruit wine. If it didn't suit my taste, I put it next to the table. And then I forgot, put it away for over a week. Worried that the whisky that opened the lid wouldn't last long, Lieutenant Nuit said he was going to meet his little lover at night and let me give him a bottle, so I opened the lid and poured him a little whisky. ”

Viscount Venice had finished his little half cup of whiskey and was pouring the bottle into the cup herself, listening to Claude's words haha laugh: “You're only 18 years old, you're still a little boy, you don't understand the beauty of spirits. Well, now you say, what are you sure about getting that dead Sir Fox off the stage? ”

Claude grinned, "What's the point of saying this now? Anyway, he's dead, and all my arrangements are useless. ”

“It's okay, you can just say it. I just want to know how you arranged it.” Viscount Venice said with all due respect.

“As a matter of fact, this old thing could be re-elected to the National Assembly for five years, and it was my father and Uncle Thomas who brought it up. There were 561 nationals in Bai Lu Town, and basically every national election, except those who were reluctant to come to the polls, as long as there were two hundred and seventy ballots, this old thing could be elected to the National Assembly.

It was said that my father had helped pull the ticket the first two times before re-electing the old man as a member of the National Assembly for 10 years. The next three times, because the old thing had stabilized its heels and no one in Bai Lu Town was willing to come out and compete with him, he just walked out of the game and didn't even count the votes to continue his tenure.

Because White Deer Town was formerly under the jurisdiction of Barromise County, and this old thing was re-elected as a national councillor for 24 years, and he created a huge network of human relationships in the county, so much so that all the administrative initiatives of the town council needed to be presented to the county council through him, my father's relationship with this old thing gradually fell and became his guide behind the scenes to my father's.

Like this time my father, who planned to open a new route to the continent of Nubian, was also instructed behind the scenes by this old thing, who hid behind his back and asked my father to help them raise funds for the adventure. After the opening of the new route, they stopped my father from reporting the news. They thought that they would start by organizing a merchant fleet to trade privately with overseas territories, and everyone would make some money first. My father was lured by him to prepare merchant ships and cargo for him, and wrote a note... ”

Claude's hateful punch on the table scared Viscount Venice and Detective Joseph to jump.

“I don't deny I hate this old thing, this old bastard ruined my home. But I won't kill him so easily, I want him to lose everything, nothing. If Bai Lu Town still hasn't changed much, then I may have to endure a long time to find a chance of revenge, but now the kingdom is going to develop Bai Lu Town, build a naval base, upgrade to a city, and come under King's authority, so I discovered a good opportunity. ”

Claude looked at Viscount Venice and said, "Lord Viscount, how many National Councillors can you have if White Deer Town is upgraded to the city? ”

Viscount Venice immediately understood: "Three, three seats in the National Assembly. ”

Claude nodded: “Nobody used to want to compete with this old thing. After all, he was deeply rooted and well-connected in the county, and even if we proposed a new national councillor, he would most likely be vetoed by the county council for various reasons. But now that White Deer City is under the King's authority, Mrs. Maria has promised me that she will have the National Assembly approve the nomination of new members of the National Assembly.

In addition, the trap he set to lure my father into signing that borrowing note, which eventually forced my father to jump and commit suicide, is well known in this White Deer City, and Uncle Thomas will be running for the National Assembly this time. This old thing has been arrogant for a long time and has forgotten what he really is, notorious among the people of White Deer City, what else can he rely on to get votes? Spend money buying? How much is he going to pay for a ballot?

I have 5,000 gold kroner this time, and no matter how much this old thing pays, I'll double it. So what I'm waiting for is the moment of next year's National Assembly election, and I'd love to see the look on this old thing's face when he can't be a National Assembly member. And once they are elected, Uncle Thomas will put forward a bill to review the public works that White Deer Town carried out over the years in pursuit of the town's eastern expansion.

My father said before he was born, this old thing has been carrying out public works projects by the town council for more than a decade, faking contractors, raising costs, depressing wages, eating up and down, making a lot of illegal profits, and none of those projects are qualified. If he were to be approached in this regard, it would be almost impossible to find a match, when he would not be able to break up at all, and even to be sentenced to prison for hard labour. ”

“For me, that's the best revenge.” Claude's face is filled with regrets: “Unfortunately, this old thing died so fast that he didn't even get a chance to find a back account. I'm unhappy...”

“By the way, Viscount, can you tell us how he died? I hope the worse the better, maybe this will comfort my disappointed heart a little...”

When Viscount Venice looked at Detective Joseph, and saw that he had no objection, he described Sir Fox and his housekeeper's death warrant, repeating Detective Joseph's autopsy report and his general judgement of the killer's actions.

Claude glanced at Detective Joseph amazingly and said the guy didn't really see a set. Fortunately, I performed perfectly and scored.

“Do you have anything to say?” Viscount Venice asked if Claude had any other ideas, and the little guy had designed the revenge plan very carefully.

Claude shrugged for a moment and said with some hesitation: "Perhaps you have misjudged the direction...”

Detective Joseph stared closely at Claude.

“The Viscount just said that Detective Joseph thought the killer was most likely a professional killer or assassin and I think it makes sense. But if that were the case, the killer would have left White Deer City long ago and couldn't have stayed here waiting for you to find him.

Also, what motivated the killer to kill that old thing, and it was suspicious that he pretended to be a Navy officer asking for that old thing in the name of handing over urgent documents, because if I were the killer, I would just take a chance to crawl into his manor and find the old thing and stab him with a few knives and it would be over. It would not have taken so long to knock on the door and shock servants and housekeepers.

So I wonder if this killer doesn't know that old thing, and that's why he pretended to be an officer, so he wouldn't get the wrong target for the assassination. And after killing him, he left without looking for any belongings or documents, and such assassinations were more like silence or exasperation.

If I was in charge of this murder, I wouldn't go to the killer, but I would look for motive for killing in the estate, looking for documents and diaries for that old thing, see if there was any clue, if there was offense to someone, or if something was unevenly divided, I think if it was really hiring people to kill, it would most likely be the people over there who ordered it... ”

Claude pointed to the side of the guide, which is the road to the county.

“Why do you think that?” Viscount Venice asked.

“Because the White Deer City will be under the King's authority in the future, old things don't have to rely on the county side.” Claude replied.

Viscount Venice suddenly realized that Detective Joseph had thought about it.

“But in the unlikely event that we find out anything, we fear it will have a great impact on many people…" Viscount Venice muttered.

Claude shrugged: "But then you're less involved with Chief Felidos...”

Detective Joseph got up and went outside, Viscount Venice followed him, and Claude hurried up to escort them. Outside the office building, the people they brought were standing by the carriage.

Detective Joseph came to Bid and Sherna and said softly, "Look at this young man who sent us out. Does he look anything like Lieutenant Abraham last night? ”

Bid shook his head: “Not at all. ”

Sherna did support her own boobs: “This is a little wolf, staring at me all the time, and blushing, ha, interesting little guy...”

Detective Joseph turned around and went into the carriage: "Come on, you two, back to the manor. ”