Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 337 Governor's Issues

Claude did not attend a dinner hosted by Governor Viscount Cruise, and the two Dean Commanders, as Colonel, were the chief officers of the first Rangers' reinforcements to arrive and had to attend. The refusal to attend the Governor's dinner party could easily offend these headserpents, as they needed logistical supplies and reserves for the Rangers under Tyrsim's administration.

The problem now is that Baron Strasson, the supreme military commander of the Tyrsim administration, is not able to sleep in the door under the pretext that he is ill, and what he learns about local defenses is also a mess. In such circumstances, the Rangers need to consult with the Governor, Viscount Cruz, on how to resolve the issue of armaments in the direct jurisdiction.

The two presidents took a third of the senior officers to the dinner, while Claude sat in a town camp, urging the soldiers to set up camps and set a cordon. To be honest, Claude was uncomfortable with those Aboriginal mixed residents who were spying on the barracks far around the camp because he found that the heavily guarded barracks seemed to be fat in the eyes of these Aboriginal mixed residents, and their eyes seemed very greedy...

The Governor, Baron Strasson's closest deputy, Captain Sinks, came to the barracks again this evening. Claude spoke of the Aboriginal mixed residents around the camp, but Captain Sinks was not used to it, and he replied that the Aboriginal mixed residents were just looking for a gainful job, such as running errands, introducing young women to the camp to sell meat, etc. In fact, they don't need much money. A slice or two of black bread is enough to keep them busy.

Of course, be careful about letting these mixed indigenous residents run their own errands, because they are thieves and liars, and if you don't pay attention to them a little, you lose the trinkets and money you carry. Captain Sinks said that when the local guard regiment of Port Cobichous was stationed here, almost every soldier followed a little Nikanca to serve them. After all, some servants enjoyed it much more than they did...

The word Nikantha, which means hybridization, hybridism and the insulting designation of hybrids, Captain Sinks said that in the Nubian continent these indigenous hybrid inhabitants were known as Nikantha, a people that was not officially recognized. And the real indigenous people of the Nubian continent are called Etat, meaning the dark red ones.

The Nikanchas, the mixed indigenous peoples and the original indigenous people of Etat, are easily separated. Because of the hybrid, Nikantha's skin is lighter, not brown red, and turns dark when exposed to the sun. Yet the Etat people of the pure Nubian continent could not be tanned and were always brown and red. In the sun, it looks like a thin layer of red light covering your body.

After a half-day of nonsense with Claude, Captain Sinks said he was surprised, simply hoping that Claude would sell him some of the spare guns for the 131th Battalion and rearm the local guard regiment in Port Cobichous. Claude's euphemism refused, but Captain Sinks offered to double the price, suggesting that Claude could have overstated some of his losses during the war, so that the money sold for firearms and ammunition could fall into his personal pocket...

Claude was inexplicably surprised that Baron Strasson, as the local military chief of the Tyrsim administration, should not lack weapons and equipment, such as firearms. Although the Kingdom does not have gun workshops in overseas jurisdictions, each overseas jurisdiction has 20,000 firearms configured to equip the local guard forces, and damaged firearms can be replaced every three years.

But when this Captain Sinks first met this afternoon, he made a request for firearms and ammunition to the two Dean Commanders. After being denied, he came to the barracks in the evening to ask for it, and there must be some fame in it. Claude wondered what Captain Sinks' real purpose was in asking for guns and weapons.

But Captain Sinks, unlike a soldier, was a qualified businessman with a tight mouth, saying that Kumu was aiming for a firearm with precise shooting performance and wanted to replace the Governor's Guard with a new Obash Type III, rather than a Kingdom-assigned Obash Type II. Claude certainly wouldn't really sell him the guns he had in his camp because of his high price, and Captain Sinks would eventually have to go back for nothing.

Another hour later, the officers attending the Governor's Dinner returned. Instead of those officers who drank red and red and rejoiced, the heads of the two Seniors had a somewhat frowned and angry look on their faces. After entering the Chinese army's large accounts, Claude asked, and it became clear from what the two presidents had said, why this Captain Sinks had come so impatiently to purchase guns and weapons for the Rangers' reinforcements.

Bandits! Terrible! It turns out that Baron Strasson, as governor of the direct administration of Tyrsim, the chief military officer, has, over the past few years, massively sold out 20,000 guns and weapons equipped with the kingdom and embezzled military spending. The so-called local guard corps at Port Cobichous has less than two battalions, each of the remaining four towns, which was originally one battalion, was reduced by the Governor to about two squadrons. The paper is full of troops. In fact, the excess soldier places are eaten by this Governor...

“How is that possible?” Claude has some disbelief: "Didn't the Royal Army send people to overseas jurisdictions every two years to conduct a census? If such a thing had been discovered, could it have been left to this Baron Strasson? Besides, even if he's selling guns and ammunition, he needs a buyer. Who's he selling it to? ”

Colonel Bolognick said only one thing: "Baron Strasson is the nephew of His Majesty the Queen...”

“Uh...” Claude stopped talking at once.

"Baron Strasson, the beloved nephew of Her Majesty the Queen, has been under Her Majesty's care for eight years now when he came to the Governorship of Tyrsim," added Colonel Sevicht, leader of the Mount 034 Regiment. During the five years of the Eastern War, the Army sent men to census the local guards, who were confused by the Queen because of his reluctance. In the three years since the end of the war, the kingdom has been abandoned, and the Army Department has not paid much attention to the guarding of seven overseas territories for a while...

Baron Strasson tried to take the position of Governor of Viscount Cruz, and the two never reconciled. So the Governor, Viscount Cruise, conducted a private investigation to defend himself, and found that Baron Strasson had swallowed up the pay gap and sold the stockpiles of the armoury for sale. As for the buyers, all over the city, the civilians who opened farms outside the city basically had guns that they had bought from the local guard corps, and some had bought several... "

“How dare he sell guns to civilians?” Claude really didn't think of that possibility, because the Kingdom of Ovilas regulates guns very strictly, that non-nationals cannot buy guns, and that civilians are caught in the streets without a national guaranteeing guns.

“This is a direct overseas jurisdiction. Colonel Bolognick reminded Claude of the reality next to him:" Civilians who come to the Overseas Territories do have the right to bear guns to protect themselves and their families from indigenous violence. However, all civilians who purchase firearms are to be integrated into the reserve security patrols under the direct authority as local reserves for the armed forces.

Baron Strasson used that as a pretext for selling stockpiles of firearms and armaments in the armoury, while cutting down the ranks of the local guard corps so that he could eat more empty salaries. Since the majority of the civilian population under the direct authority had guns in their homes, he had no need to worry about indigenous riots. Because in the event of an indigenous riot, the first to lose is the civilian population.

Lieutenant Colonel Evelard, the big fat head of the local guard regiment, was his belly, and all firearms and weapons were sold by hand, in the name of the armed forces that strengthened the reserve. Moreover, two to three battles to suppress indigenous riots are falsely reported each year, taking the opportunity to report the loss of thousands of firearms and the deaths and injuries of nearly 100 guard soldiers, while the supplementary firearms are resold again each year by them, and pensions are paid into their waistbags… ”

“Then why is Captain Sinks here now asking us for spare firearms?” Claude still doesn't get it.

“Simply, they need to replenish the local guard corps. The Royal Ministry of the Army requires no less than 3,500 troops per local guard corps overseas, but now the local guard corps in Port Cobichous has only 1,5600 troops, leaving a shortfall of nearly 2,000. The requirement for the local guard battalion in the remaining four towns is 800 men, and now together there are more than a dozen squadrons. There are also more than 2,000 troops missing...

Recruitment may be easier, but the problem is they can't come up with so many firearms to equip new recruits. The Governor, Viscount Cruz, sent a covert inspection of the armoury, reportedly containing fewer than a hundred guns. In peacetime, that Baron Strasson could temporarily hire civilians with guns to impersonate the soldiers of the local guard corps, fool the census personnel sent by the Army Department, with Her Majesty's support and no one willing to offend him.

But now, during the war, temporarily recruited personnel are poorly recruited. Moreover, the census personnel and envoys sent by the Royal Army Department will accompany our Ranger Regiment follow-on troops to the Tyrsim Overseas Territories, who will be responsible for coordinating and forming the Wartime Logistics Command, restructuring and codifying the reserves of the Overseas Territories and supporting our Ranger Regiment in its operations.

So the admiral, Baron Strasson, struck the idea at the reinforcements that we had arrived at, so long as we had enough backup weapons from us and recruited a new group of recruits, they could hide all of this before the army census crew who came along with most of our Rangers arrived... "Colonel Sevicht's answer finally made Captain Claude understand the main purpose of Captain Sinks' request for guns.

“Is this what Governor Viscount Cruz told you?” Claude asked.

Both presidents nodded calmly.

“His personal secretary also presented us with the evidence they found that, according to their statistics, Baron Strasson, as governor of the direct administration of Tyrsim, receives annually over 12,000 to 15,000 gold kroner in military expenses, empty salaries, pensions for the resale of firearms and the death and injury of false newspaper soldiers…" Colonel Sevicht said.

This is a huge sum...

“If this Governor, Viscount Cruz, has found evidence, why didn't he report it to the Royal Court and the Army?” Claude felt something was wrong as soon as he said it, and then when he turned his head, he understood the concern.

“Wow, this old bastard wants us to give him a backpack!” Claude cursed.

The two presidents laughed relatively bitterly, and Claude couldn't figure out what was in their minds, which was the main reason why they came back with some frowning and even some anger.

Well, that old son of a bitch in Claude's mouth, Viscount Cruise, did slip, and he had a brilliant idea, the Overseas Deputy-Administrator, and as Governor, he was only responsible for civil affairs, not military. We found evidence of a crime against the Governor, Baron Strasson, and we can usually blackmail him for good behavior without causing him any trouble. And during the war, he complained about Baron Strasson's own bad luck. He could provide this evidence to corroborate Baron Strasson's guilt, so that he could clear himself of the suspicion of complicity and stand by and watch the fuss...

As for Claude's statement that he should report to the Royal Court and the Department of the Army, the Governor would not kill him. Besides, Baron Strasson has His Majesty the Queen on his back. Who knows if Baron Strasson's embezzled military spending gives His Majesty a share? He sued Baron Strasson very simply, but that meant he became loyal to the kingdom and offended Her Majesty.

After spending so many years in the Overseas Territories, as Governor of the People's Republic of China, he has a better chance of getting himself a little faster or something. If he is really to be pursued by Her Majesty, he will surely be confronted with courage. Troubleshooting him is very simple, and a closer look at the books of the direct administration will always find traces of his inadvertent presence in the hands of the Governor. Perhaps the personal wealth he has accumulated over the years will end.

So even if the relationship with this Governor, Baron Strasson, was any worse, Viscount Cruz would not bring up the evidence of his crime. Now that the Rangers have arrived, as reinforcements to the Overseas Territories against the encroachment of the colonial garrisons of the Kingdom of Hicks, they are themselves tasked with organizing and restructuring the local guard force. Baron Strasson, as Governor, should be responsible for cooperating with them, but he is now on his own and can only pretend to be ill to procrastinate.

The Governor, Viscount Cruise, is now simply asking the Rangers to get into trouble with Baron Strasson. In the future, Her Majesty will only be able to blame his nephew for not arguing, and the Rangers will not give face to him, not to blame him as Governor. After all, during the war, what this Baron Strasson did must have been impossible to hide. He might as well hand over the evidence in his hands sooner so as not to be blamed for incompetence. What happened next to him could not be detected, and he was held jointly responsible...