Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 173 Yubo

Claude whistled gently as Viscount Venice and Detective Joseph's wagon left. At last, even after killing Sir Fox, he was expected to become a suspect. After all, the fact that his father was forced by Sir Fox to jump off the floor was well known to the White Deer family. But Claude didn't expect anyone to come to the door so soon, and he thought it would take another couple of days for someone to question him.

Claude looked back calmly, making sure he didn't have any negligence or blemishes before turning back to his office. It seems that no world should underestimate the intelligence of others. If it weren't for its own reasons, it would have caused trouble for itself and gone to great lengths to carry out this murder, perhaps it would have itself been arrested and identified as a murderer.

Detective Joseph was very calm, watching himself silently while listening to himself and Viscount Venice, and not letting go of the look on his face. Fortunately, those commercial negotiation experiences that followed the boss in his previous life helped him to play a successful, unknowingly innocent role, removing his suspicions.

Viscount Venice is also a simple colour, seemingly big-handed, but works great with that detective Joseph, flanking him. It's just that they don't know that Claude is taking the opportunity to talk about his arrangement and dispel their suspicions. And Claude was also telling the truth, so long as they investigated it, they could see that Claude was behind the series of nationals preparing Sir Fox to fail.

After a better avenge, no one would suspect that Claude had killed Sir Fox, which Claude wanted and was most helpless. It's not that he doesn't want to take revenge, it's just that he doesn't have time. In more than a week, he's headed to Cafelezt County to join the Bluefeathers. It is the practice of the Royal Army that it is not possible for a recruit or a trainee to take leave to visit his family for three years prior to enlistment.

What Claude fears is that after he leaves, the way he plots his revenge will change. Sir Fox, who has been a member of the National Assembly for 24 years, has become deeply rooted in White Deer Town, forming a political force on his side. Although his suicide by borrowing was cold and notorious among the people, the election of the members of the National Assembly was next year, long overdue. And man is forgetful, when Sir Fox throws a few bones, and only a few nationals who break their promises for the sake of their interests are afraid that they will not be...

In the unlikely event that Sir Fox is re-elected, even if there are three National Councillors in White Deer City, the two newly elected National Councillors will not be able to compete with Sir Fox, who possesses political power, but will at best give him a little trouble. Perhaps there will also be unexpected changes as a result of Sir Fox's repression, which Claude did not want, and the consequences of herbivorous snakes could be the repetition of venomous snakes.

That was Claude's consideration when he finally decided to kill Sir Fox, and he couldn't have a better choice for his own family. He could not imagine what would happen if he were not in White Deer City and if Sir Fox decided to target his mother, sister and brother. Don't look at them staying in the Normanly Forest Farm, but Lady Maria is far from Wang Du, the whip is too long. If anything unexpected happens, Claude will regret it...

And Claude was going to join the army, inevitably going to war. He can't be sure that he is the son of fate, lucky, unable to get in, not afraid of 10,000, just in case. If she had a bad feeling, Mrs. Maria might look after her mother, sister and brother in a situation, but this affair can only last a while and not rely on me for a lifetime...

Killing Sir Fox is actually simple, as Viscount Claude and Vinicius and Detective Joseph just said, finding a chance to crawl into Fox Manor, finding that old thing while no one's around, and giving him a few knives will be all right. That way, Claude promised to be on the list of the top three suspects, and even if he had an alibi, that would only delay for a moment, and the more detailed the investigation, the more likely he would be to be exposed.

The best kind of murder is the more complicated the more contradictory the better, confusing all the detectors. There are also cracks in the bloom, the deeper the dig, the more clues, until the end it is discovered that it has been circling and wasting time. The original intention to find the murderer had long been replaced by other political objectives, which were the best option for dealing with those politicians. For example, in previous generations, the so-called World Freedom Beacon, those presidential assassinations that took place in the exemplary democracies, were the result.

That is what Claude did, because of Mrs. Maria's letter informing him that that special division in the kingdom would also send someone to set up a branch in White Deer City, which had been upgraded to the city, so he abandoned the use of magic to help himself accomplish Sir Fox's assassination. Instead, he approached the target in disguise, completing the entire assassination process, inadvertently avoiding the fate of being pursued by that special department, and at the same time confused Detective Joseph, who was responsible for solving the case, freeing himself from the suspected killer.

All the news in White Deer City over the next two or three days revolved around Sir Fox's murder. Like Uncle Thomas, he was happy, had a good reward, had a bad reward, and this old man should have died a long time ago. Uncle Thomas, the former chief of patrol in White Deer Town, did not contradict his concerns about Sir Fox, saying that the old man had deep connections in the county and even had any administrative initiatives to develop into White Deer Town, and that if the town council did not forward the report to him in advance for approval, his application for assurance to the county council would be rejected.

Though Claude and he have planned to pull this old guy off next year's National Assembly election, the truth is Uncle Thomas doesn't have much confidence. His biggest fear was that he would run for office next year, and that the old man would be ready to push him against his will and not be elected. Now, this old guy was killed, and he was so lucky to get out of trouble for everyone.

Just two or three more days later, the subject of Sir Fox's murder suddenly stopped in White Deer City and disappeared. Uncle Thomas came back mysteriously to tell Claude that Chief Felidos and Viscount Venice had searched Fox Estate for extensive evidence and agreements regarding illegal proceeds from private transactions between Sir Fox and some of the county chiefs, allegedly amounting to tens of thousands of gold kroner.

This is an appalling piece of data, and even the envoy King came to for Sir Fox's murder no longer pressured Chief Felidos and the newly formed Patrol Police Department to find the murderer, but to dig up the details of these agreements and deals. All public works files of the former town hall for nearly a decade were sealed and awaited inspection by a special agent of the Wangdu Audit Office. The two directors of the National Bank, who had disbursed the funds for the works, had been arrested and imprisoned, awaiting their indefinite interrogation until they had confessed.

Claude was finally relieved, and the impact of the incident was over for him. The sudden murder of Sir Fox and his housekeeper, Wolfe, allowed them to preserve all the evidence of the illegal transaction and the agreement in their possession. He pushed only one hand slightly, just to remind you that Chief Felidos and Viscount Venice would surely turn their attention to this area, and that there was no better way to divert the King's attention from those big figures, while at the same time reducing their responsibility for the murder of the National Assembly member...

When my father taught Albert this stuff at the dinner table, he talked about all the public works in Bai Lu Town East Expansion being held by Sir Fox, not even going through the town office, but directly negotiating with some of the county commissioners to set a goal, and then getting approval from the county council for the proposal to forge the town council, and then appropriating funds from the National Bank to remit them to Sir Fox's account, and how Sir Fox split the fence with the county commissioners, that's not what Mr. Morsan knew.

At that time, Mr. Morsan, the chief administrative officer, most hated the sudden receipt of a note from the county to the effect that the East Expansion Project in Bai Lu Town had been completed and required the signature of National Assembly member Sir Fox to prove that he was responsible for overseeing the project, guaranteeing its quality and its effectiveness. And what exactly is this East Expansion project, the cost, the geometry, when it starts, when it completes the town hall, all Mr. Morsan can do is forward the county note to Sir Fox and let him handle it himself.

Let his eldest son, Albert, be Lord Fox's personal secretary, and Mr. Morsan looks forward to gathering perhaps some evidence against Sir Fox in order to reverse the unfavourable situation in the town hall in the future. Sir Fox is impossible because of his vast, well-connected crossing of the county, and White Deer Town is just a small town under the county's jurisdiction, with a little wind in Sir Fox's ears.

Fortunately, Sir Fox loved to have a monodiet. He held the Bai Lu Town East Expansion Project in a dark box operation, and did not give the Town Hall a spoon. All the cooperation of the Town Hall on several occasions was in cooperation with the official documents sent by the County Hall, which is documented in the archives. So the former patrol chief, Uncle Thomas and the former treasurer, were not involved in any of the dismissals, and he stood there laughing and watching the noise. Several of the county chiefs have reportedly been arrested and numerous people implicated, a case that has been ranked as the number one case of corruption in the southwest by the Kingdom.

The largest Fox estate in White Deer Town has been sealed, and the families and relatives of all Sir Fox have either been arrested or placed under house arrest in the estate. Uncle Thomas' old man, who was involved in the estate's blockade, was drunk and revealed that Sir Fox had the audacity to invent two small projects worth nearly a thousand kilograms, and actually did nothing, so he greedily disbursed the construction funds allocated by the county.

This is just one of many agreements and deals that haven't been reviewed in time, but I hear Sir Fox has an account book that records every illegal gain he makes, even on the list of confessions, and involves several of Wang Du's big personalities, the more shocking it is...

It just doesn't make sense to Claude anymore, he took the old man's life himself and cleansed himself of his suspicions. Now the only remaining enemy is Bill, the old Black Snake Club butcher. I just don't know if this butcher Bill is lucky or unlucky, lucky he was ordered to be stationed at a military camp on the side of a stone post, far from White Deer City, Claude couldn't have gone that far to kill him and had to let him go for a while.

Bad luck is that this butcher Bill lost all of his roots in White Deer City, the Black Snake will be gone, the land will be expropriated by the Naval Base, and he now has only one defensive squadron leader left. He should have been promoted to the White Deer City Guard Battalion, but Felidos, who was a soldier in charge, wanted to kick him out at first sight because he was older than himself. Only after hearing about his glorious deeds as a country, he was impatient to retain his Squadron Leader, but no longer led the army, but transferred to the logistics department...

Looking closer and closer to Claude's departure, thanks to Viscount Venice's attention on Sir Fox's embezzlement, the design plan for the West End of the Naval Base was finally not picked up by Viscount Venice's hair-blowing defects and passed smoothly. Lutheran housekeepers rushed to the West Side to flatten the land, demolish dilapidated houses and build the land with firm grip.

And Claude has finally completed all his work at Normanly Real Estate Development and is ready to rest at home for two days before leaving White Deer City and embarking on a new journey.