Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 188 Penalties

“I'm a little weird, like you said, the veterans are so bullied in the barracks, they don't care? Isn't there a gendarmerie and a military judge?” Claude finally swallowed a sip of porridge and asked Belle.

“Whatever it is, it doesn't matter.” Bel Yin's face looks like he's also been bullied: “The problem is that they make no big mistakes, keep making small mistakes, let you wash his socks, let you buy him some alcohol and tobacco, and beat you up if you don't want to. The arrival of the gendarmerie can only be a few reprimands, a minor matter that falls short of the standard of punishment.

But when they leave, you'll be unlucky. A bunch of people come up and beat you. You don't know who did it. They won't admit it anyway. There's no evidence against who! I don't feel comfortable letting you sleep at night, maybe throw a scorpion spider four-legged snake or something in your bed, make a scene in the middle of the night or you're unlucky, the gendarmerie will come and sentence you to jail in violation of military order... "

Claude understood that, like the high-interest lenders of online lending companies he had seen in his previous life, he was on the edge of the law. It's not a big deal to say it's illegal, and there's nothing the police can do to get to the point of detention. It's not illegal, but it's disgusting, the phone keeps ringing, the paint throws doors, the walls are full of curses, and even more offensive, they will harass your friends and family, making your chicken dog uncomfortable.

So the boss in his previous life warned him that he would rather sell his house and sell his kidneys than borrow any Internet loans. Speaking of smallpox, it was actually a sharp loan, just a coat for national relief. And if you borrow only $10,000, maybe you'll pay a million in debt that you owe them.

Although the veterans did not lend sharks in the barracks, they acted as disgusting as the debtors. As Bell has just said, big mistakes do not make small mistakes, and it is not counted as forbidden, but as minor violations of military discipline, which do not reach the point of being punished for going online.

“If they bully and bully you in the barracks, you won't sue and your superiors won't be able to handle it?” Claude asked again.

“Whatever it takes, we can only demote them at most, and we can't kick them out of the barracks.” Bell sighs: “In fact, these veterans have been in the barracks for five or six years and have a bit of fighting to do. They were already sergeants and sergeants, but they were demoted to Corporal and Sergeant because they were always bullying people. Like Engel, who broke his wrist, was a sergeant two months ago, and the blackmailer was caught positively and demoted to Corporal.

This cadet training is actually their best chance, but because of their usual bad reputation, there are so many offenders in the barracks that no one is willing to speak for them. Although there is usually no way to take them, this will eliminate them early on for reasons of poor morale and unserviceability. It is also a cause of the trouble they have been having with you recruits attending officer training. ”

Claude can only laugh helplessly, and as a transcender and reborn, he just wants to live a simpler, happier, freer life. So he can be a perfect 16-year-old and enjoy his rebirth as a teenager, not wanting to consider too many questions. Even if there was a change at home beyond his control, it was only at the moment that he managed to change his situation.

Now that I joined the army on the first day, I had an unexpected fight with a few rogue veterans. I thought it was a simple thing, but I didn't expect so much inside. Think of a phrase on the Internet in the past life, who can't remember, the simpler it looks, the more complicated it gets inside, the simpler you want to deal with, the more things will become involved until you collapse.

And he swallowed another spoon of porridge that Bell fed him, and Claude asked, "By the way, what do you mean, you said there was a little war on these veterans? I don't recall any wars in our kingdom in the last few years. Where did they come from? ”

Bell replied with a smile, "It's not war that makes war work. To be honest, these veterans are out of luck. Two years ago, there was a popular riot in Kafirezt County, and I remember I had just enlisted, and there were many people marching in the streets demanding that the Kingdom return Kafirezt County to the Kingdom of Nasri. Of course I can't do this. That time our battalion was ordered to go to the town of Gonidad to suppress the rioting people, I thought I was dead...

As a result, no one thought that the veterans, James, were standing in the first platoon shooting at more than a dozen people, leaving tens of thousands of march insurgents throwing their stick flags and stuff on the ground, scattering like birds and animals. Then our battalion easily took control of the situation in the city of Gonidad, and the veterans, Jim, had a fight because of a single shot, and the officers in the barracks let them go, so that it became a habit for them to bully the recruits in the barracks. ”

Claude was amazed: "No way, this Kafirezt county has been in our kingdom for more than 20 years. How come there are still indigenous people who want to return to the kingdom of Nasri? ”

“I don't know about this,” Bell fed Claude another bite of porridge, frowned, "I've been in the army for almost three years, here, and sometimes on vacation I go to Gonidad City. I don't know, it feels like people here don't think of themselves as part of the kingdom and seem to exclude us. And I hear that the town order is a little better, so you have to be careful in the wild and not be left alone. Otherwise, perhaps any native indigenous people, whether farmers or fishermen, traders or hunters, will be ready to become our assailants, which is, of course, what I have heard from the veterans..."

How did that happen? Claude was somewhat puzzled by the fact that more than two decades ago, the Kingdom of Nasserley lost its second two-State war with the Kingdom of Auvellas and had to cede three counties to the Kingdom of Auvellas for reparations before it could claim and succeed. It's amazing how many years have passed since the kingdom of Ovilas has not really taken control of these three counties.

But Bell really didn't know why, he had been in the Blue Feather Corps for only three years, stayed in the barracks very seldom, and was not interested in exploring these things. The middle-aged pharmacist next door knew something, and he told Claude that it was mainly a matter of policy.

More than two decades ago, the Second Binational War broke out between the kingdoms of Ovieras and Nasseri, when Kafirezt, Raston Kron and Berta Arnia were almost all soldiers in the vicinity of the kingdom of Ovieras. After the war, more than 300,000 people were killed and wounded, and almost all their families lost their loved ones on the battlefield. And after the war in the Kingdom of Nasserli, and because the treasury was empty and unable to compensate for its possessions, the three counties had to be ceded to the Kingdom of Auvellas in order to achieve a truce and peace.

The first was to defeat the deaths and injuries of loved ones, and the second was that three counties were ceded by the Kingdom of Nasseri as compensation, so that the indigenous inhabitants of those three counties never considered themselves nationals of the Kingdom of Auvellas. There is also the fact that the Kingdom of Ovieras, during the Second Binational War with the Kingdom of Nasseri, was equally expensive. In order to compensate for the enormous debt owed by the treasury, the scraps had to be targeted in the three newly attached kingdoms of Frontier County.

More than two decades after the war, the three newly attached counties still bear very heavy taxes, on average almost three times more than the rest of the kingdom. For example, the new taxes opened for the Second War, which were stopped in other parts of the kingdom within a year of the end of the war, have been received by the three newly attached counties…

Because of poverty and repeated economic squeezing by the kingdom, the indigenous inhabitants of these three counties are highly centrifugal and highly vocal in their desire to return to the kingdom of Nasri. And the kingdom of Nasserli, after a period of time after the war, also had some visions of revival, and the hearts began to secretly provoke the indigenous inhabitants of the three counties, with the intention of adding a little chaos to the kingdom of Ovilas. Especially in the last decade or so, the Kingdom of Nasseri has been smuggling weapons and equipment into the three counties to arm those resistance and insurgents, which is the real reason why the three newly attached counties have been under military control for so long.

“Murder is not the best way," the middle-aged pharmacist said. "The Royal Army in these three counties simply grabs a man who holds a Royal Nasserley gun or a private firearm and, without saying anything, shoots him. The more people killed and the more people fought as a result, some of the rebel insurgents did not want to return to the kingdom of Nasri, but took up arms against the kingdom because of hatred because their relatives had been killed.

We're all at the bottom. We don't know exactly what's in the big man's head. In fact, as long as the policies are coherent, the indigenous inhabitants of the three counties enjoy the same treatment and tax revenues as the inhabitants of the rest of the Kingdom, and basic education is provided to develop human resources, the indigenous inhabitants of the three counties will feel at home in less than a decade. And the military control system now in place is clearly to treat the three counties as if they were new territories. For more than 20 years, who can withstand such scratches and oppression, especially in terms of personal rights and interests, invisible as a civilian... ”

Claude finally finished a bowl of oatmeal in the middle-aged pharmacist's constant comments. Bell then took a linen towel and rubbed Claude's face while changing the ointment from the several bone lacerations on him and re-wrapping it.

After Bell had all packed up, the middle-aged pharmacist finally stopped criticizing the policies implemented in the kingdom. He shook the tube in his hand and mocked himself: “I'm just saying here that I'm happy with my mouth. Little people like us can't even reverse the policies and measures that came out of my head. Even if the implementation is unfavourable, it is also a mistake in the implementation below, it is not that the policies and measures they envisage are poor...”

Claude had nothing to say, he couldn't get along, and he didn't know how to pick up what the middle-aged pharmacist said. Belle Hippie smiled and said, “It's a shame that Dr. Perente is a pharmacist in our barracks. In fact, you're full of talent. When's your luck going to be bad, otherwise you're more than enough to be governor or prime minister. ”

Originally, this middle-aged pharmacist named Perente, later called Physician, indicated that he had become or was about to become an intermediate pharmacist.

The middle-aged pharmacist glanced at him in disgust: "Are you all set? Well, you can go. ”

Bell smiled and made a ghost face out of the basket, but suddenly stopped walking at the door and turned to Claude and said, "Oh, man, when you get out, watch out for a sergeant named Fitney, who's James' veteran head. You were lucky yesterday, Sergeant Fitney didn't go to the cafeteria with the veterans, so he wasn't there when you were fighting, or you might be worse off. But tonight the kitchen boss in the cafeteria told me that Sergeant Fitney threatened to give it to you when you came out...”

Claude didn't care who looked good to him, and he didn't see this Sergeant Fitney in his eyes, so he blew his thanks.

After Bell left, Dr. Perente, the middle-aged pharmacist, handed Claude's tube over to his mouth for him to drink.

And after that, Claude asked, "Dr. Perente, what do you think would happen to me if that Lieutenant Sderry came back? ”

“No more than thirty whips each.” Dr. Perente doesn't care at all: “My favorite thing about it is that it's muddy, and you can't escape this whip. But considering your wounds are healing, I think you're probably facing three days in solitary confinement. Believe me, you would prefer to be whipped 30 times more directly than three days in solitary confinement, a place where people can't stay, let alone three days. ”