Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 495 Assistance

“What did you say?” Claude looked at Caffrey amazingly.

It's Claude's day back at Fields Manor, and in five or six days he'll be back for two nights. He built another estate as a residence on the western outskirts of Langhu City, and the news of a beautiful woman named Sheila should have been in Kaifani's ears long ago.

It's just that Kevin doesn't say anything, pretends he doesn't know anything, takes care of Claude more thoughtfully and more tenderly on the day he comes home. That's what Kevin is so smart about, she won't be a jealous woman, causing Claude more resentment and disgust...

But Claude didn't expect to come back today to hear Kevin say that her mother was up, that she was recovering well, and that she had been resting for more than a month. It's just that she had Claude's eldest son, Tess O'Lee, taken over and told Kevin she was going to bring up a qualified Fields family owner. From now on, it was decided to educate Tess Aurey in a noble way and to spend money on inviting celebrities to teach Tess Aurey aristocratic etiquette, knowledge and style.

Tess Ole is 16 years old, too. Time flies. Claude didn't pay much attention to his eldest son, because Tess Aurey was never very close to him, but had the best relationship with the old lady. In Claude's eyes, his eldest son is a bear child, and every three turns, something pisses him off. It's just that whenever Claude or Kevin wanted to teach him a lesson and save him a deep souvenir, his mother would always come out and shelter him, and in the end, Claude didn't like his eldest son very much.

“Didn't Tess Aurey just graduate from Langhu City Elementary? Is he going to go to China next? Didn't he say his grades weren't very good and he was often sued for bullying his classmates? What does a mother mean, she can't read the country?” Claude originally wanted to wait for his eldest son to graduate from his country and throw him into the army for a few years to exercise, and his naughty personality would be sharpened during his military career, depending on his own efforts in the future.

But what does a mother mean now? Tess Aurey should have gone to school when she was twelve years old, and the result was that her mother stopped him from playing at home for an extra year, and her personality became more and more greedy. Since he was a year older than his classmate, he often bullied his classmates because of his strength. He became the first major player in Lanhucheng. Mother offered Tess Aurey a lesson of nobility, which would keep him out of the country?

“Mother means that there is no need to go to China, anyway, the teaching is not a very famous teacher, except for the confession, nothing, white delayed the child's gift. Just let Tess Aurey teach nobility at home, don't mix with the messy kids, and the bad things that get on them are over..." Kevin said.

“Humph...” Claude laughed. Why is it that elementary school only tells you and your mother don't have points? If I hadn't been at the top of my ranks, a naughty country like Tess Aurey would have been hung up by the teachers and badly educated. Claude's memory also retains his body as the original owner, and when little Claude didn't cross, he was in Bai Lu Town in the first grade of Little and Middle China, where he was tortured by his teachers.

At that time, Mr. Morsan, the father of the original owner of the body, Mr. Claude Jr., was also the chief administrative officer of White Deer Town, but the teaching at the school remained corporal punishment as usual, with no apprehension, and Mr. Morsan knew that Claude Jr. was to be beaten for a second time when he returned home. Now, Tess Aurey had done bad things at school, and the teachers were worried about themselves, afraid to go straight to corporal punishment, and had to come home to complain.

Kevin and his mother always spread the word, saying that the reason why the child grew up and naturally understood was to shelter Tess Aurey, which led him to bully his classmates even harder at school, to become the little bully everyone feared, and even Claude was scolded in the back as an asshole parent. This is an example of the many defeats of the Mercy Mother, who drowned excessively.

Sister Anna had also tried Tess Aurey's magical gift, which unfortunately was so inferior that Claude couldn't give her eldest son to her sister Anna for education. His younger brother, Little Booker, was similarly ruthless, but his sister, Anna, was forced into discipline as a talent. But now that Caffrey and her mother are here, it's not my sister Anna's turn to educate Tess Ole, especially now that Anna has three more babies to take care of, Claude can't go to trouble with her.

“Whatever you want.” Claude was too lazy to worry about it, and he wanted to see what his mother's so-called aristocratic education could do to Tess Aurey. Only Mother thought of Tess Aurey as a treasure, saying that his talent had been delayed by teaching in the country, and worried about what was wrong with mixing with her classmates in the country. Bullshit talent. Bullying talent? I wouldn't have thought if Claude hadn't been his father, Etsuore's integrity would have been taught in minutes...

Claude was very impressed with a proverb in his previous life: three years old, seven years old. This is what his grandfather used to say in his ears when he was a child in his previous life, which meant that he would learn well, develop good living habits, cultivate courtesy of reception and good manners of diligence, which would greatly help his future.

That's also the main reason Claude didn't like his eldest son, who grew up in Tessuore fighting outside and couldn't care less about the trivial things at home. It was only when he was reunited with his family in the overseas administration that he discovered that his eldest son had been spoiled by his mother and Kevin. So he didn't look forward to Tess Aurey's future, and thought it would be great if he lived his life in peace.

Especially when compared to Marex, the bastard son of Mrs. Sonia, who gave birth to him, Tess Aurey didn't look the same at all, saying that the bad points could be described as a pile of shocks. And this year, Maleks is 18 years old, about to become an adult, and his magic rank has reached three rings. Even he decided to join the army after his birthday and take the experience in the army like Claude did...

Unfortunately, what Maleks wanted to inherit was Master Byrd's family name, and he could not be Claude's heir. He knew that Maleks considered his father an idol. After all, Claude's personal experience could be described as a legend of a military brigade hero. So he also came up with the idea of being a soldier, and there was a lot of controversy with his mother, Mrs. Sonia. So much so that Lady Sonia resented Claude that she had to squeeze him when she met because she wanted to have another good boy...

Claude shook his head and retrieved his divergent thoughts. He didn't want to worry about it anymore. Regardless of how well Tessuore's aristocratic education was taught, he threw him into the army when he grew up and practiced well. If he didn't, it was up to him. But now it seems that the old lady and Caffrey are getting more and more stubborn in their minds. They really think of the Fields as a famous doorman. I hope they can teach Tess Aurey about the good aspects of aristocratic education...

“Rest in the evening and ask someone to prepare something to eat and drink and put it in the study. I have a guest who might discuss it late..." Claude said.

The guests of the evening were General Scully and General Albert, who arrived mainly to discuss with Claude the provision of assistance to the mainland of the Kingdom. Half a month ago, the King sent several more envoys to the Overseas Autonomous Territories, who did not come to negotiate the restoration of relations between the Overseas Autonomous Territories and the Kingdom, but rather hoped that the Autonomous Territories would provide the Kingdom with a huge amount of agricultural and mineral resources and alleviate the adverse economic impact of the war that had broken out with the Kingdom of Nasseri.

More than three months after the outbreak of the debt war between the kingdom itself and the kingdom of Nasserly, the kingdom of Nasserly pre-empted an attack while the kingdom of Auvellas was not ready to occupy the three frontier counties of the kingdom of Auvellas. The kingdom of Orvillas, slapped, is like a hibernating bear, furious. It is the greatest disgrace of the kingdom of Ovieras that the kingdom of Nasseri, which has always been a defeated warrior, dared to do so first.

The Red Dragon Regiment stationed on the border between the two countries was the first to strike back not only against the two Standing Army Regiment Festivals in the Kingdom of Nasserli, but also to recover the two failed frontier counties. The two sides then engaged in a massive offensive against the last defeated Ustia County in the Kingdom of Ovieras. With the arrival of the two standing regiments reinforced by the Kingdom of Nasri, the Red Dragon Regiment was weak and had to stand idly by.

This debt war is not really good news for the Kingdom of Ovilas, which is undergoing an economic recovery. It was an unexpected war of imposition that plunged some of the Kingdom's just recovering economy back into a slump, with massive agricultural crop failures. The Kingdom needs to reorganize its armaments in the face of this war, as well as a large amount of grass to be used to rescue those local counties that have failed to harvest their agricultural produce, in order not to create another tide of displacement.

The emissary to the Overseas Autonomous Territories was not sent by the new King Frederie I, but was commissioned by the new Prime Minister of the Kingdom, the representative of the old noble family Marquis Blancat, who hoped that the Overseas Autonomous Territories would be able to support the huge quantities of agricultural products and grass on the mainland of the Kingdom to help the counties where food production was in arrears in the Kingdom, and to use the vast mineral resources to help the Kingdom's four major military industries produce enough armaments to cope with the debt war.

Of course, Wang Du's side is willing to accept a few small conditions, such as no longer sending a governor or anything, just to restore the name of the overseas sovereign. Direct territorial military districts and councils may be retained, but overseas territorial administrations will resume taxes and contributions paid to the Kingdom, and the King will send tax commissioners to oversee the collection of taxes from overseas territorial administrations, at the same time reverting personnel rights from overseas territorial administrations to the King, etc...

If General Skerry hadn't stopped it so quickly, General Bolognick would have almost agreed to all the demands made by the Kingdom's envoys. For General Bolognick, Wang Du is a big step backwards this time, and has given the overseas autonomous territories full face. It does not matter to change the name, it is important to preserve the military region and the Parliament, which means that everyone's rights are guaranteed and the conditions of the King are fully acceptable.

General Skerry, however, was very sober, and Wang had the idea of cutting meat with a soft knife and slowly regaining control over the overseas autonomous territories. If General Bolognick had promised, he would have been forced out of office by the members of the Autonomous Territorial Assembly.

Simply put, the king retains the military region and the council, but the power of personnel rests with the king, which means that the election of autonomous consulates must be approved by the king. It doesn't matter now, but if the king refuses to approve an older member of parliament who wants his family to inherit his position, his family will be excluded from the upper elite of overseas self-government, which is intolerable to any member of parliament.

It is unacceptable for members of the Overseas Autonomous Territories now that no one is willing to take over more than one of their mother-in-laws and that personnel rights are withdrawn by the King, that members of the Autonomous Territories Council must henceforth go to the National Assembly of the King and be questioned and examined by the National Assembly, or even disqualified.

They are now the most senior figures in the Autonomous Territories and have the right to supervise and advise on the policies implemented by the Executive Council of the Autonomous Territories, as well as the right to be heard. They are highly respected by nearly seven million people throughout the Overseas Autonomous Region. Now that this has been the case, of course, no one is willing to go to Wang Du to pretend to be a grandson and be discriminated against by members of the National Assembly as overseas dirt bags and outbursts.

There are also tax commissioners sent by Wang to oversee the tax revenues of autonomous territories, indicating that they want to get involved in the financial affairs of the autonomous territories, which will have a significant negative impact on the finances of the entire overseas autonomous territories and will also have serious consequences for military expenditures in the autonomous military regions. Needless to say, exposing the tax situation of the entire overseas autonomous territory alone would give rise to Wang Du's insistence that a greater share of the tax revenue should not be impossible.

Try to figure out that General Bolognick, coming from the sweat, was almost buried by Wang Du's messenger. So he pushed the military district and the executive committee to busy affairs, Wang Du's request needs to be carefully discretioned and considered. Then he pushed it straight to the present, and let the envoys of Wang Du come for half a month. Anyway, the war took place on the mainland of the kingdom, and the overseas autonomous territories were not in any hurry, some of which were envoys of time and kings.

Two days earlier, however, the envoys of the Kings received another letter from the mainland of the Kingdom, after which they blocked the doors of the headquarters of the autonomous territorial military region and the offices of the Executive Council. According to them, the situation of large-scale famine in the Kingdom itself in the coming year has begun, and it is hoped that the adults of the Autonomous Territories will help in the presence of their fellow kingdoms by transporting large quantities of grass to the Kingdom itself by the end of the year to contribute to the Kingdom's survival of this famine and the defeat of its enemies...

Couldn't stand being haunted by these Wangdu envoys, General Bolognick simply left it to Claude, General Scully and General Apollant. Had it not been for General Beechcrin's proximity to the Rodex Bay colony, he might have come to the Claude's house to discuss assistance.

This visit to the Rodex Bay colony was mainly due to the five-year lease colonial agreement between the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands and the Kingdom of the Hicks, which will expire at the end of this year. And the second division of the Rock Corps, which won the Rodex Gulf colony by force by the Kingdom of Hicks, will return to Rocky Hills at the end of the year to end its occupation of the Rodex Gulf colony. General Beechcrin presided over the sweep and retreat.

“This year the kingdom really has a massive failing harvest. Will there be famine in many counties next year? Haven't we all had a good time these past few years?” General Albert has a few words he doesn't believe in.

“The agents we sent to the mainland of the kingdom sent word. General Skerry replied:" It is true that, as the messengers of the Kings have said, two thirds of the counties in the mainland of the Kingdom are experiencing massive failures. The main cause was the civil war in the Kingdom a few years ago and the destruction of agricultural land irrigation facilities in these local counties, including displaced persons, which remained unrepaired.

It was not apparent from the small-scale resumption of cultivation last year that the problem was only detected during large-scale agricultural production this year, but was limited to financial and material shortages, coupled with a deliberate concealment by the local administration that was not appreciative, which led to a concentration of problems only during the autumn harvest. Without this debt war, the king could still bite his teeth and barely survive this difficult time.

With a sum of money to organize the manpower rehabilitation of these irrigation facilities in the winter and the drainage of water canals, there will be a good harvest next year. But this debt war came too unexpectedly, the king has limited funds to invest in this war, has been unable to cope with this impending famine, they have to resort to our overseas autonomous territories... "

Actually, there's another reason we all know it, but we just can't put it on the table. In the past, during the reign of His Majesty King Sterling X, the kingdom itself had not experienced such a situation, but had been smoothly overcome by the kingdom. The main reason is the blood transfusion from overseas jurisdictions to the kingdom itself, helping the kingdom itself to survive natural and man-made disasters and so on.

At that time, the overseas territorial jurisdiction, the origin of raw materials, whether agricultural or mineral, which plundered the wealth and productive resources of the kingdom itself, was imported into the kingdom itself at extremely low or even less expensive prices, sustaining the economic development of the kingdom itself for nearly two decades. This unfair pelagic trade and scissor-like economic plunder has finally allowed the Kingdom to accumulate enough wealth to cope with the anti-Olympic alliance.

It was just a five-year Eastern War that wiped out the wealth of the treasury accumulated by the Kingdom of Ovieras for almost two decades. Although it became an untrue victor, the colonial war waged by the Kingdom of Hicks led to the involvement of the Overseas Territories in the war and was no longer able to support the economic revival of the Kingdom itself. And the civil war in the kingdom caused by the Second Kings' rivalry, and the tyranny that followed Prince Widreck's ascent, eventually set the kingdom on the path to fallen.

When the Overseas Territories' war zones had finally won the colonial war, their relations with the Kingdom had been broken, and autonomy had been exercised directly and no support had been given to the Kingdom itself. Even if Prince Frederick I came to the throne and messed up anyway, the ensuing war and this massive loss of harvest exposed the weakness of the kingdom itself, which was the main reason why they finally had to come to the Overseas Autonomous Territories...