Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 358: Truth and Excavation

Sometimes the truth is unexpectedly simple, and to be honest, General Van Snick made Claude a suspect target in an attempt to find the vast military outlay for the flawed Kingdom of Hicks. Like the proof submitted by Claude, the day after the occupation of Wickham Castle, Claude was too busy running to pee, all the action was in front of the public and there was no private time at all...

It's not just Claude alone, like the five battalion commanders under him, his deputy, his security guards, etc., who are busy directing and monitoring the caravans carrying the goods in the warehouse, and arranging the distribution of the various items and the sequence of departures. On that day, everyone was so busy that General Van Snick, no matter how he questioned the vetting of the Rangers, could give indications that Claude and his loyal men had indeed failed to pay attention or had visited the ammunition, firearms and materiel warehouse area.

In fact, Claude was unaware of the existence of a further sum worth more than half a million Kim Kroner in the Kingdom of Hicks, and when he knew about it, he had withdrawn from the castle of Wickham and set up a camp on that hill. If it hadn't been for my brother Browick's initiative to confess, Claude wouldn't have thought he'd have had the good fortune of falling. Only then would it be inappropriate to register this huge sum for capture on the battlefield, and all Claude had to do was keep it hidden...

All suspects, headed by General Fansnik, could be said to have ignored the presence of Private Blovik, who was attending the training of officers at the headquarters of the Rangers. There are only a few people who know about the enormous amount of military money he pulled out of the ammunition, firearms and ammunition warehouse area at Wickham Castle, and even Claude, Berklin and Mike were concealed beforehand by them, except for Muriel, Diavid and the big three Gemmies who cooperated with him in transferring the enormous amount, without knowing that the enormous amount exists.

Nearly 5,000 troops, one man from Brovik, travelled through the entire ammunition, firearms and ammunition warehouse area, looked at the types of materials stored in all warehouses, and naturally discovered the enormous amount of military expenditure. Then he used his magical hand to move the box full of gold and silver coins to the corner of the material warehouse by the fence wall, and then another polished man greeted the guard soldiers who were standing guard and left the perimeter empty-handed.

Blovik then went to Muriel and deployed a four-wheeled wagon to drive the wagon outside the walls of the ammunition storage area where he stacked his own cash boxes. The magic hand then moves the cash boxes from the fence to the carriage and hides them with some groceries before heading outside the castle. Finally, he greeted Diavid, who guarded the castle gate, and told him not to check and not to register, so he drove his wagon out to find a place to bury the cash box. Blovik ran five times that day...

Blovik is a very special presence in the Range One Trinity. He was a corporal in rank, he was a hard-working soldier, but he was Claude's brother. Even Claude's most trusted personal deputy, Michael, is his brother-in-law. Although in his capacity he is under the authority of the regimental guard squadron, the guard squadron leader listened to him very much, and consulted him on everything. So he was able to eat well in the regiment, and even Lieutenant Colonel Schneck and Lieutenant Colonel Siegfried, the logistics chief, gave him the honor of responding, arguably.

However, due to the usual tight claude, coupled with Blovik's traditionally low profile, he was not impressed by the ranks in the Rangers. Those who know his identity will give him a score, those who do not know his identity do not need anything to make him, anyway, Blovik will not be angry and use his identity to bully anyone. There's basically nothing to do with Claude, and Muriel or Berklin jumping out one of them is enough for the other guy to have a headache.

Similar to Claude, Blovik's military skills are quickly acquired and even stronger than Claude's. When Claude was newly recruited and bullied by the veterans, he suffered two defeats, while Blovik challenged the entire regiment to tie the ranks with the veterans in both combat and bayonet shootouts. Even aiming at the shooting, the accuracy within a hundred meters ranks among the top twenty or so in the entire regiment, and he is arguably more like a natural soldier than Claude.

After occupying Wickham Castle, Blovik heard that a warehouse containing an honorary knife from the Kingdom of Hicks had been discovered in the area of ammunition, firearms and materiel warehouse, and went to see the bustle. Just as his corporal rank, the Knife of Honor didn't have his share, and at most he had to take the addiction assigned to Claude. But Browick remembers what Berklin said about luck on the battlefield in capturing those fine weapons that were personally customized by senior enemy officers. For example, hollowed gold and silver knives and long swords, these are more valuable. They can be considered works of art. They are not military weapons and do not need to be handed over.

So Browick suddenly wondered, in this ammunition, firearms, materiel warehouse area, which warehouse houses the finely tailored weapons of those high-ranking officers of the Hicks kingdom? So he started looking at a warehouse, and he quickly discovered that the door lock was two more than the other warehouse size one. Of course, it's hard to beat Browick, and with the help of magic hands and precise controls, the door locks don't take long to unlock. Then Blovik saw the money box stacked in the warehouse, filled with gold and silver coins.

Claude did ask Blovik, why would he hide this huge sum? Blovik confessed that he thought the report looked too ill-conceived, handed in 70% of the legions, and the remaining 30% of the riders were divided into one, one, three, one group, and each officer and soldier received about one hundred gold kroner. This is an unexpected treasure for other soldiers, but for Claude and Blovik, it doesn't do much for their families...

Claude is now a poor man, living on his own salary and wartime benefits. Of course, he eats and stays in the group now and usually doesn't have to spend much money. But Blovik is different. He is now the head of the Fields family and is well aware of the difficulties faced by the family, especially the fact that the family still owes the National Bank of White Deer City a loan of thousands of gold kroner, which is in the name of his owner.

The root of all this lies in the forest estate my sister Anna runs for her family. The acquisition of the nearly 5,000 acres of forest has emptied almost all the households, and even Claude's savings in his private account have contributed. But the acquisition of the plantation is only the first step, and according to Claude's design plan, more money will need to be invested in the plantation to get the plantation on the right track. Road planning, building houses, and Anna's drug fields, all require more money. So Blovik was forced by Anna to borrow a 6500 gold kroner forest development fund from the National Bank in the name of the Fields' owners...

Although the loan was heavily concessional due to Claude's relationship with the development of the forest farm, the monthly rent received from the big red brick house also paid interest on the loan. Forest farm output did not work so quickly, and for the next five or six years, it was still the result of only inputs not being produced.

In a way, his brother Browick was bolder and more unscrupulous than his brother, Claude. When he saw that material warehouse with so many boxes full of gold and silver coins, he had this idea.

He bluntly told Claude that even in his current capacity as Baron Emeritus and Colonel, Claude earned no more than 300 gold kroner a year. It is sufficient to maintain a decent and affluent life after his retirement, but if anything happens, pension funds need to be used. Needless to say, it's those aristocratic dealings that may make Claude feel overwhelmed by the scarcity of money. Not to mention, he already has a son, and his sister-in-law, his mother, and his sister Anna are all coming to the mainland of Nubicia for some time, and it takes Claude a lot of money to arrange their living accommodation...

Claude was soon persuaded by his brother Browick, and there was no way, and several of his loyal men knew about it, and he and his brother Browick were willing to conceal the huge sum. Although he is not greedy, there is no need to surrender this wealth against your will. Not to mention, more than half a month later, now that the military expenditures of the Kingdom of Hicks have been reported, it is more suspicious, and perhaps even more so, that Claude does not have the courage and courage to surrender himself the man responsible for concealing the enormous military expenditures.

Only no one thought General Van Snick, the head of logistics of the Corps just sent in, was a mad dog, and he bit Claude when he learned of such a huge amount of military spending from the logistics chief of the captured Kingdom of Hicks. His argument is very simple, because the Rangers took over the castle of Wickham, and then Claude had to make a statement, even though Claude had proven that he did not know that the cost of the Hicks Kingdom existed, but General Fansnik still refused to give up...

So when Claude announced that he was going to lead a cruise to the castle of Wickham to dig up that rubble and find the huge military expense of the missing Hicks kingdom, many in the Rangers also took it as a farce and a joke. You know, General Fansnik sent a logistical battalion to look for more than a week on the ruins of Wickham Castle, and only found a handful of copper fennies in the Hicks kingdom.

But after a half-month of excavation on the ruins of Castle Wickham, they soon reaped their harvest, and they found three coins, the silver shield, the silver keller and the copper fenney, which were trapped in the muddy ashes, and many pieces of metal that had been shattered by the explosion, roughly estimated to be worth nearly 10,000 gold crowns. This result surprised those who watched the crowd. Obviously, Claude and the Rangers didn't lie. They did miss such a huge military expense in the Kingdom of Hicks...

The rest of the ranks of this downstream cavalry army were unable to sit down and ran to the ruins of Castle Wickham under the slogan of assisting in the excavation. They took over a plot of land and began excavating. All the ashes were washed with water, just like gold, in case the coins were missed. Not to mention that we all have a harvest, more gold and silver coins worth hundreds of gold and silver in a day, and dozens of gold and kroner in fewer.

General Van Snick was soon reported to have personally visited the ruins of Wickham, and Claude did not speak much, ordering only those deformed gold and silver copper coins found on the cruise and the metal fragments created by the explosion to be brought to his attention. Estimating them in front of everyone, these values alone exceeded nearly 10,000 gold kroner. And the officer in charge of the other forces who packed the Wickham Castle in pieces, more or less, took out some deformed gold and silver, copper coins and metal pieces, which, taken together, were worth nearly 10,000 gold kroner...

It has become clear that the so-called military expenditures of the Kingdom of Hicks, valued at more than half a million gold kroner, have not gone unaccounted for, except that, with the big explosion in the ammunition depot material depot area, those gold and silver copper coins were either crushed to pieces or blown up in other areas, mixed in ash and garbage, which can be found by careful search. And General Fansnik was the first to send a logistics battalion to look for it, but he was looking for the military money in the cash box, not paying any attention to the ashes and garbage on those ruins...

But the brilliant General Fansnik soon discovered a blossom, so why didn't he hand over all this gold and silver coins? Claude and the other Force Officers either laughed or pretended not to understand what General Van Snick meant. They merely argued that the items were merely presented to General Van Snick and did not mean to be surrendered. This is the hard work of their troops during this period. It can also be worth a little money to redeem them and give them a welfare subsidy or something.

Claude, they're right, these deformed gold and silver copper coins and the metal pieces formed as a result of the explosion do not have to be surrendered. First of all, it is not property belonging to the Kingdom, but military expenditures of the Kingdom of Hicks. Scattered in the rubble after the explosion, it has become something of nobility, and whoever finds it belongs to whoever gains it. Secondly, six months have passed since the end of this war, and it is not a battlefield seizure to come to this rubble to dig these things up, and there is no reason for General Fansnik to give them to him.

Claude and they held their breath and General Fansnik looked furiously at the crowd, excavating, and he saw a soldier touching a glittering gold gold shield in a piece of garbage, wiping it on his clothes for a few moments, and stuffed it in his pants pocket with a satisfying smile... stuck it in his pants pocket!

General Van Snick suddenly realized why he didn't see the complete gold shields, Silver Keller and Copperfeni, Claude, and they were right, who really found who owned them. He couldn't stay here any longer and rushed back to the Legion Command, and somehow it was hard to get General Michelchi to agree to come up with a plan to rehabilitate the army. Drag all the hard-won troops who buried their heads on the ruins of Castle Wickham back to their respective positions for so-called military discipline, then personally take the logistics battalion to the ruins of Castle Wickham and set it as a place of alert to start digging...

Only General Van Snick was unlucky and lived a month, even if he dug three feet, only found gold and silver coins worth about 10,000 crowns. Now he thinks it was the exhumed troops that took the big heads, lost themselves, and had the face to find the officers in charge of those troops, demanding a profit of one or two from their income. After all, it is a huge military expense worth more than half a million gold kroner. I only got 10,000 gold kroner myself. It seems too little...

Of course, the officers headed by Claude refused to lose. They dug well but were recruited back to the barracks for discipline, and then General Fansnik took over the ruins of the entire Wickham Castle with a logistical battalion. After more than a month of digging, he ran back to say that he had not earned much, and asked everyone to share the military money he had found, thanks to how he came up with it. His face was so thick. And Claude, they suspected that General Van Snick was hiding the big head and deliberately pretending to be poor.

So the whole Ranger Regiment became a bunch because of this military expense, and oddly enough, General Michel didn't seem to think about it. Claude, on the other hand, got rid of the suspicions and could sit down and watch the army officers and General Van Snick continue to get involved...