Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 200 Letter

Claude's mood was somewhat twisted after it became clear that the two letters sent by Mrs. Maria to the barracks were the main reason for the regiment to treat herself so favourably, which was another difficult one to repay. Compared to giving away 300 acres of mountain forest, the company's 10% share dividend, and self-proclaimed repayment of debt on behalf of his younger brother, Brooke, Claude felt reassured that he didn't think it was a human condition.

Lady Maria would not have spent so much effort on Claude without the capital to be invested and used. The gift of 300 acres of woodland and woodland cabins can be seen as Mrs. Maria's reimbursement for the four forbidden arts that Claude had given her, because she didn't have much leisure money at the time and couldn't get the spells Claude needed to compensate for it with her own woodland and woodhouse. From this point of view, Mrs. Maria is a man of good character, not greedy enough to ignore Claude's four forbidden arts, but to give a good account.

That's why Claude helped her butler, Mr. Ludhan, acquire property in the West Side of the Glades, set up a real estate development company, planned to build a whole community, and took advantage of the information to make a step ahead of Mrs. Maria's unexpected wealth.

It was also through this series of business operations that Mrs. Maria saw Claude's business talent, which took the effort and the money to bring Claude together, not just to keep a pharmacy teacher in touch with the students and to keep their name. But what she didn't expect was that Chief Felidos had stepped in, and a letter of recommendation sent Claude a conscription order for the Blue Feathers.

So even when Claude joined the army, he never wanted to use Mrs. Maria's name to gain anything for herself in the barracks. After meeting Mrs. Maria, Claude did not turn to Mrs. Maria's thoughts, apart from the fact that her late father had spoken of her, held her thighs tight, and said a few words about how much she had earned King Sterling X's trust and royal relationship.

Respect for Mrs. Maria is due to her selflessness and her pharmacological teachings to Claude. Moreover, as a transcender, Claude had his own arrogance in his heart, reborn into this alien world, and he had never wanted to give power to a walking dog, and even when his family turned into his father's suicide, he wanted to avenge himself instead of begging for the mercy and care of Mrs. Maria.

It was also Mrs. Maria who later found Claude's business talent and wrote to him, deciding to ask Sterling X for a pardon from military service. As a result, Claude received the letter in a very contradictory mind, and it was a good thing to be exempt from military service, without having to go to war as cannon dust. But accepting this pardon order will tie him up with Mrs. Maria and make him a member of the Normanly family, which is something he deeply resists...

Fortunately, Chief Felidos' letter of recommendation spared Claude the dilemma of choosing to leave his hometown and come to the Blue Feathers Corps. It turned out unexpected that even in the army, he had been taken care of by Mrs. Maria, and that the Corps of Revenge and Injury had given him a completely biased approach, and it had to be said that Mrs. Maria's two letters had played an invisible role, which also showed Mrs. Claude the immense energy she had at the top of the kingdom's power.

Claude laughed and thought he would face a minimum of five days in solitary confinement, but also watch out for future revenge from Sergeant Fitney. But now these shadows have swept away. Former Sergeant Fitney was ordered to retire home. After his wounds, he will take over as sergeant. It seems that no one will dare to provoke himself in the military barracks in the future...

Almost everyone I know envied Claude's good fortune, and Medical Officer Bell said that if he could be a sergeant, he would rather be beaten to death and lay in bed for two or three months. Being a soldier at the grass-roots level, he didn't understand the truth of the matter. He just thought it was fair and clear on this regiment. He used it well to dispose of a group of veterans who were used to bullying new recruits in the regiment and to clean up military discipline. Claude was just lucky to make it.

Now that he was able to sit in bed, Claude asked the medic Bell to go to the reception desk of the battalion and fetch all the letters sent to him. He sent nine letters, but now he has received 14. In addition to the two letters sent by Mrs. Maria, both her mother and sister wrote him two letters. Two letters were more surprising to him. One was sent by Vericulo from Wang Du, and he did not know where he could find his address. The other is Kevin's brother-in-law, Gerard the Shark Society, and I don't know what he's gonna say to himself.

Read Mrs. Maria's letter first, dated after she returned from her holiday at Norman Ridge Forest Farm in White Deer City and received Claude's greeting letter. The letter told Claude that she had appointed Claude's mother to take over the position of forest manager that Claude had left behind since he left. Second, she discovered the talent of Claude's sister Angelina, and was pleased to accept her as her own disciple, stating in her letter that her sister Anna's pharmacological talent was much stronger than Claude's brother, who spent two days fishing nets.

Mrs. Maria regretted that she had wanted to bring her sister Anna back to Wangdu to nurture herself, but her sister Anna refused. Because her mother was ill and her younger brother, Brooke, was still young, she needed to stay with her. Luckily, sister Anna is still in the first grade of the country, she is only fifteen years old. Some times, Mrs. Maria thought twice before deciding to let sister Anna finish the country in Bai Lu Cheng, rely on self-study to lay the foundation of pharmacology, and then take her to Wang Du to teach.

Claude was very pleased that her sister, Anna, was valued by Mrs. Maria and accepted as a disciple, arguing that she had no further concerns. No matter what happens to me in the future, in case there is a good thing or something on the battlefield, or if my magician status has to be revealed, as long as my sister Anna is in the care of Mrs. Maria, no one can move her mother and brother, Little Book...

Opened the second letter from Mrs. Maria, which stated business, mainly that the entire community had been built and handed over to the naval base, and the balance had been cleared. Mrs. Maria was pleased to state in the letter that this time the profits were about half as high and that the remaining balance profits, after deducting the costs, were also distributed to the shareholders. As for Claude's share, it was handed over to Claude's mother.

Profit seems a little low... Claude frowned. The real estate developers in their past lives, who were not white wolves with empty gloves from the start, turned from bank loans, were more than a dozen times more profitable. Until later, when the state began planning to reorganize the real estate development market and put in place a series of regulations and policies, the real estate development market was not on track, but those real estate developers still had a profit of 34%...

How can the world be half profitable if it doesn't have a precedent like its own for holistic community development in slums? It is impossible for Mrs. Maria to conceal this, most likely because the cost of building a community after her departure has increased. The total transaction value for the entire community was 300,000 gold kroner and 280,000 was collected, and Claude's estimated profit was around 170,000 gold kroner, so he decided to give 100,000 dividends to all shareholders upon receipt of an advance payment of 200,000 gold kroner from the Naval Base to enhance their confidence.

In fact, at the beginning of the operation, there was some suspicion that the Normanly Forest Farm and other small shareholders raised a total of 20,000 gold kroner to acquire properties and properties in the slums, and then used the acquired properties to go to the bank for further mortgages to continue the acquisition. When the bank's total loan increased to more than 60,000 gold kroner, Claude acquired real estate and real estate for the entire West End of the Poor when the company had only more than 10,000 gold kroner left on its books.

If the entire community were not developed as a whole and the entire estate in the West End of the Slum was resold to the naval base, the profits would be up to twice as high and the company would earn 34,000 gold kroons. Claude asked for a community to be built just to make more profits. The price of a flat property acquired by KK 230, three or four properties can be put together to build a four-story building with more than a dozen suites, and the price of a flat selling KK 450 is enough for a family of five, which is already very affordable. But for the company, the profit almost doubled ten times.

Of course, the price can't be calculated like this, the company can't just build houses to sell, and there needs to be auxiliary utilities to upgrade the community. Streets, garden greenery, fountain pools, streetlight fences, seating, etc., are all equipped, which is the main reason why the community was seen by the naval base as deciding to make a deal as a family home community for naval officers.

Obviously, Claude speculated that he must have spent a lot of money after his departure in order to catch up and build those utility packages, and that the higher costs had led to a loss of 20,300 gold kroner in profits. But there was no way, given the character of Lutheran housekeeper, to pay particular attention to the door shelves, which he considered to represent a noble style. If he was still overseeing the project in Bai Lu City, it would have been a good idea, especially since the deal with the naval base had been concluded and it was not necessary to put his own money on these doors.

Indeed, Mrs. Maria mentioned in her letter that she had visited the near-finished community while on holiday in the woods and had made a request to Lutheran housekeepers in the hope that he would decorate the community's public environment with more beauty and charm. Viscount Venice, the head of the naval base, said it would be better to build another small square with stone sculptures to invest in building this community for Lady Maria. Mrs. Maria was happy to say yes and let Ludhan's housekeeper do the job.

Poor Lady Maria, when she made a little money, it swelled. No, Viscount Venice said so lightly, without any burden, but the company had to pay so much more to do what was ordered. If she wanted to come, Lady Maria must not know that this pleasure made her profit so few tens of thousands of gold kroner less...

But Claude doesn't want to meddle, he makes less money, and there's no need to argue over that profit. But Lady Maria ended the letter by asking if the prices in Port Neru were falling during this time and if it was possible to buy something like White Deer City...

Mrs. Maria should have known that all letters she sent to the army would be reviewed, so her queries were somewhat vague. But Claude immediately understood what she meant, and she was asking Claude, could a real estate development like the construction of a whole community in White Deer City do the same in Port Nero?

Combined with the news of the fall in house prices in Port Neru mentioned in her letter, Claude understood that the Kingdom had invested in the development of White Deer City, the construction of a naval base, the division of the fearless fleet stationed in Port Neru into two, leaving only one sub-fleet stationed in the eastern waters of the Kingdom, the transfer of two thirds of its battleships to Lake Beringa, the formation of a storm fleet and the security of the new route from White Deer City to the mainland of Nubia.

Since the break-up of the fearless fleet left many people unaware of the prospects of Port Neru, they believed that the trading centre with mainland Nurbisia was likely to move from Port Neru to White Deer City, so many merchants withdrew from Port Neru and house prices began to fall. Madame Maria, in the royal court, naturally knows some inside information. It is helpless to split the fearless fleet. The kingdom will soon reopen and replenish the warship to restructure the fearless fleet, and Port Neru will be buzzing again.

Claude, however, did not like the port of Neru, and everyone knew that the war between the Kingdom and the anti-Olympic alliance was imminent and that if the Kingdom prevailed, it would surely occupy several eastern seaports. Then, even if the Dauntless fleet were to reorganize the stationed military port, it would no longer be arranged in Port Neru, which would then become only a commercial transit port and would no longer restore the prosperity of the only military port in the Kingdom.