Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 308: Intended Purchase of Forest Farms

No wonder Claude hasn't received Maria on the front since the end of the third year.

Lady's letter didn't even answer the letter of greeting sent. Originally thought it was because the military postal service and Claude were isolated from the rear on the front line, now that doesn't seem necessarily the case. It was Mrs. Maria who didn't know how to reply to Claude, because she didn't know if her sister Anna had told Claude about it, and she would be ashamed to say so.

Her beloved son, Heltinger, was beaten to death on the spot for plotting against Claude's sister, Anna. But Miana was the daughter-in-law she wanted. What Claude would think of her if something like this happened, and someone like your son was trying to harm my sister, it was so deceptive. And her daughter, Christie, took the opportunity to rob Claude of her cabin and 300 acres of woodland and kicked his mother, sister and brother out of the Normanly Woodland.

Perhaps in the eyes of others, Claude was attached to the Normanly family and was cared for by Mrs. Maria before the Fields could emerge from the shadow of Mr. Morsan's suicide jump and thrive, as at least her two children thought. But in fact, Mrs. Maria herself understands that she and Claude are only working together on an equal footing, and that she may have gained more from Claude.

This is most likely why Mrs. Maria did not write to Claude to point out the business of the Commercial and Real Estate Development Corporation. She didn't have the face to ask for Claude's help, and almost everything her two children did was vengeance, which also left her very disappointed with her two children and completely lost confidence that Claude would be able to serve her family in the future.

For Claude, he was very proud of what his sister Anna had done and did not regret her beating Mrs. Maria's eldest son, Heltinger. Anyway, in his heart, the guy should have beaten his sister's idea, and beat him a little too lightly, better break his limbs. At the same time, I was glad that I had decided not to serve Mrs. Maria. I was lucky enough to be a soldier and not become a member of the Normanly family.

Admittedly, Mrs. Maria is a good person, a trusted friend and takes care of her own family. But as I feared at first, if I served the Normanly family, I would be driven at the same time by her two children, something that the arrogant Claude could not bear. Mrs Maria will naturally repay him for her instruction and care, but that does not mean that her two children will be able to ride on their heads as they please.

“Are you listening to me? Brother..."

Claude returned to God: "Anna, go on, I'm listening...”

That was the third year after the outbreak of the war, and the impact of the war was very small for the White Deer City, which was undergoing expansion work, except for families who received conscription orders. Instead, the storm fleet opened up a new route to the continent of Nubian, offering tremendous commercial prosperity, which has become the first cargo catchment site from the continent of Nubian specialties, with constant commercial exchanges between the two continents and a flourishing area.

And that's why investors from all over the kingdom are here, hoping to get a share of the commercial hot soil. The highest record ever was the establishment of thirteen new businesses in White Deer City within a month, all of which invested countless funds in pelagic trade between the two continents. Every day merchant ships are loaded with cargo to the mainland of Nubian and cargo ships from the mainland of Nubian dock on shore…

This is also where Viscount Felidos, head of White Deer City, announced a three-fold expansion of White Deer City. But by the end of the year, the real commercial crocodile from Wangdu had appeared in White Deer City, a business group called Fenix, which had caused a bloody storm in the mall as soon as it arrived in White Deer City. Nearly sixty small and medium-sized firms have been annexed by them, and the remaining ten major firms have had to cooperate with them.

In just six months, this group called Fenix has pricing rights for goods on both continents. All trade in specialties from the continent and commodities destined for the continent will have to go through their trials, and no ocean merchant vessel without their permission will be able to disembark in White Deer City or even be detained by storm fleet warships in the name of smugglers.

“... even Uncle Rubiewell's family business was forced into 30% of the shares by this Phoenix Chamber of Commerce..." sister Anna said.

“Director Felidos doesn't care?” Claude asked what a shock it was, and what was the origin of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce?

Sister Anna whispered: “Does he care? The Phoenix Chamber of Commerce is said to have been formed by a group of noble shares of Wang Du, of which I suspect that Chief Felidos also held a stake. Not to mention, you don't know that the two princes and princesses are on the platform for this Fenix Chamber of Commerce. His Royal Highness Prince Widreck and His Royal Highness Princess Adelina both drove to White Deer City, claiming that the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce admired free commercial trade. They came to promote the Kingdom's commercial trade with the continent of Nubicia for better commercial development in White Deer City...

Well, they're not blushing when they say that, but they're here to monopolize trade between the two continents, to monopolize the rich profits. Many people in White Deer City know that many businesses that have been unwilling to cooperate with them in those six months have been struck, either explicitly or covertly, by the White Deer City authorities for tax evasion, or by problems and accidents in their merchants or merchant ships, which can only be solved by compromising with the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce. Uncle Rubiewell's family business firm finally accepted the Phoenix Chamber's request to join the stock when it was discovered during a surprise inspection that a large quantity of prohibited goods had been found... ”

Claude grinned, and this is what Captain Duriolo called a commercial aristocrat, and in fact, there was no difference between their practices and those of the old aristocrats, who were merely hyenas pursuing monopoly profits. Their so-called freedom of commerce is actually their own freedom of trade, and they don't give any other small businessmen a way to live.

Originally, the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce and the Fields had no handover, nor did the Fields trade across the sea. What the Finnix Chamber wants is a monopoly on merchandise trade and priced transport between the two continents, with little impact on the lives of the residents of White Deer City. But the problem is with the four buildings Claude left for her sister Anna to dowry in the future, which is in a great location, in front of the naval base, not under the jurisdiction of the naval base, but very close to the naval base, making itself a small neighborhood at the corner of the street.

So the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce took a quick look at these four buildings, prepared to serve as the headquarters of their group in White Deer City, and could accommodate the families of the group members stationed in White Deer City. They found their sister Anna and said they were going to buy the four buildings at a high price of 3,000 gold kroner.

Of course my sister Anna refused, Claude spent more than 4600 gold kroner on the land and now the Finnix Chamber of Commerce wants to buy 3,000 gold kroner. Isn't that a lie?

But the Finnix Chamber of Commerce was still revitalized, and they compared the price of the house when White Deer City had not yet been upgraded to the city. In comparison, the price of 3,000 gold kroner was indeed high. But these four buildings are new, and the price of the land had already been multiplied several times by the time Krudel bought the land.

Sister Anna didn't want to sell the four buildings, but the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce was constantly involved. For them, forcing the Fields to sell the four new buildings was not difficult. The two women in the family were old and small, and there was a small child who had not grown up. Just a little trick would suffice for them to give in.

It's just that the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce didn't expect the Fields to have a lot of expectations in White Deer City, and the bottom line is still there, and the usual dirty tactics don't work at all. Several batters were found to try to intimidate them, and the batters were beaten by neighbors. Trying to get the official out of trouble, but the Fields had Uncle Thomas, who was a national congressman, on his back, and Chief Felidos. Anyway, Director Felidos is the proponent of Claude's enlistment. Before Claude returns, Director Felidos should take care of the orphan widow of the Fields family. Otherwise, this affects his reputation greatly...

The Phoenix Chamber of Commerce later discovered the details of the lower Fields family and found that Claude, the soldier's brother, and Anna, the sister, were both pharmacological disciples of Baroness Maria Wangdu. They did not find that their sister Anna had fallen apart with a pair of Mrs. Maria's children and even the titles of the cabins and woodlands were returned to the Normanly family. Sister Anna moved back to the big red brick house on the pretext that it was lively in the city and convenient for her younger brother Browick to go to first grade next year.

So the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce asked Chief Felidos and Uncle Rubiewell to come out and talk to Anna and offer to buy these four new buildings at a high price. Mothers, however, had long been under pressure to move out of the woodlands and leave the Normanly family shelter, making her uncomfortable, believing that not selling the four new buildings would bring the family a disaster of extinction. And Uncle Rubiewell and Uncle Thomas came to persuade him that there was no need to leave the four new buildings alone. Even with the help of Lady Maria, it was just not for a lifetime, and the more she used it, the less she used it.

Moreover, the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce is deeply rooted, with two princes and three princesses behind it, and it is difficult to say whether Baroness Maria is willing to offend them. So sister Anna, after consideration, promised to sell the four new buildings, just asking for a fair price.

With the help of Uncle Rubiewell and Uncle Thomas, Managing Director Felidos also spoke for sister Anna and finally agreed that the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce would acquire the four new buildings in her name at a high price of 8,000 gold kroner.

“So this is the only big red brick house in our family's name now?” Claude asked. He himself felt ridiculous. He lived most of his life before enlisting in the army and worked hard to earn his family a good deal of work, thinking that he could live his life without worrying about his family. After five years of hard work on the battlefield, the only thing left to go around the house is this big red brick house.

Claude was not angry that the four new buildings had been bought by the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, and the commercial aristocrats had come up with a fair price, and her sister Anna had nothing to lose. Thanks also to the help of Uncle Rubiewell and Uncle Thomas, as well as to the situation of Director Felidos and Mrs. Maria, the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce did not dare go too far. If you change people with no background, let them die in minutes...

Claude only wanted her sister to have a fixed family business, and being a charterer in the future could live a prosperous life, in case anything happened to her on the battlefield, the family wouldn't be worried about her livelihood. It's just that he forgot, or didn't know much about it. In this era of the world, giving his sister Anna these four new buildings is like a kid's market money, and it's easy for her to become someone else's target. Fortunately, I made some arrangements, and the family had some relationships in White Deer City. Finally, I passed this level.

“In addition to this big red brick house, I bought some woodlands...” sister Anna said, looking at Claude's face secretly.

“Why buy a woodland?” Claude was stunned, unknown, so.

In fact, sister Anna moved back here and found that real magic practice was still convenient, quiet, no one else was there, and not easily discovered. The other is that she can grow herbs in forest farms, which is very helpful for her to learn pharmacology, while also reducing the cost of purchasing herbs. This Claude understands that there was not a small amount of money that he wasted when he did the drug trials.

“How many woodlands did you buy?” Claude asked, and sister Anna's answer made him cry.

Four houses were sold, and her sister Anna had money in her hand, and she was reluctant to deposit the money for nothing in the National Bank. There is no interest on bank deposits in this era, but there are no custodial fees, and people keep their money in the bank for peace of mind.

With over 3,000 gold kroner in the bank book that Claude had previously given her, sister Anna had a huge sum of over 10,000 gold kroner in her hand. According to her sister's calculations, even if the price of the mountain forest around Bai Lu City now doubled, four to five gold kroner a mu, she could buy 2,000 mu, with 20 hectares of mountain forest, enough to build a medium-sized family forest.

Sister Anna has targeted the area around the Normanly Forest Farm, where there are three hundred acres of private small woodland and a public woodland of nearly a thousand acres. If they were all bought up, it would be almost 20 hectares of mountainous land. By then, the northwest suburb of White Deer City will have left a large Normanly Forest Farm and a medium-sized Field Forest Farm.

Three private small woodlands were soon acquired by their sisters and were cheaper, half the price forecast. This is mainly a major expansion of White Deer City, which has allowed the three small woodlands to cut all the timber available for sale. At this time, the sister went to acquire the forest farm and became the culprit in the eyes of the three private forest owners. After all, the wood of the tree takes decades, so they are happy to sell the forest farm to the sister at a reasonable price.

With the acquisition of these three private small woodlands, my sister intends to acquire that near-thousand acres of public woodland. As a result, the administrative department of Bai Lu City declined her sister's acquisition request for a very simple reason. My sister is a civilian, what is needed to acquire a public forest farm is a national identity...

So now, although there are three private woodlands that add up to nearly a thousand acres, they are not connected to each other in the east and west, and there is a public woodland in the middle, so there is no way to put them to use, so we can just leave them there.

Claude Haha laughed and his sister's headache was very simple for him, because he was now an official captain officer of the kingdom or a knight's medal winner, and his status was already a quasi nobleman, and there was no problem acquiring a public forest farm if he came out.