Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 498 Expulsion of the Special Envoy of the Kingdom and Lady Maria

This time, the Royal Envoy introduced new conditions that could be described as largely satisfying the requirements of the Overseas Autonomous Territories. Wang Du promised the Overseas Autonomous Territories to maintain some independence in the areas of administrative initiatives, personnel promotion, fiscal taxation, economic and financial, and military forces, but must apply to Wang Du for approval and verification before the relevant policies of the Overseas Autonomous Territories can be implemented, and only those policies that have been approved can be formally promulgated and implemented in the Autonomous Territories.

With regard to ocean trade between the two continents of concern to the Autonomous Councillors, Wang promised only two free trade provisions for goods and goods produced by the Overseas Autonomous Territories, allowing goods and goods produced by the Overseas Autonomous Territories to be sold on the mainland of the Kingdom, but refused to change the high import tariffs on goods and goods produced by the Overseas Autonomous Territories.

According to the Special Envoy of the Kingdom, because the Kingdom is currently facing war, economic difficulties and a lack of funds, all it can do is scratch its possessions in support of this war against aggression. On the other hand, the high taxes paid on the entry into customs of goods produced by overseas autonomous territories represent a large proportion of the Kingdom's revenues and therefore cannot be cancelled. Perhaps after the war, we can discuss it slowly...

Apart from the clause allowing the goods of this overseas autonomous territory to be freely traded in the Kingdom's mainland, none of the other clauses on ocean trade were accepted by the King, but a euphemistic refusal was made on the grounds that the conditions were not permissible and that it was not currently appropriate to discuss the situation. In this regard, the Special Envoy of the Kingdom suggested that commodities produced by the overseas autonomous territories could work with powerful families and comptoirs in the mainland of the Kingdom, entrusting part of the sales to these families and comptoirs.

This is actually to make the overseas autonomous territories the producers, manufacture the products and ship them to the mainland of the kingdom, and transfer them to the old brand aristocracy families or to the commercial aristocracy agencies that raise funds for marketing. As long as powerful families in these parts of the kingdom hold pricing rights and monopolies, everyone knows who is the cheapest party to such cooperation.

Parliamentarians from overseas autonomous territories associated with manufacturing are also divided into two factions, and the debate continues. It doesn't matter who the faction thinks it is to make some money, it mainly opens the market in the kingdom itself, and then the heel will be stable before thinking about changing the status quo. The other party was unwilling to let the goods produced by its own workshop fall into the processing products of the old aristocracy and commercial aristocracy in the mainland of the kingdom. The profits were taken away by these aristocracy, so Wang Du was required to open commodity access passes for all counties in the kingdom to allow free commercial competition.

The so-called commodity access pass refers to customs clearance fees in the course of the transport of goods and tax payment permits for local trade. They are all aimed at buying and selling commodities and serve to protect the local commercial economy.

To give a simple example, for example, a large shipment of white linen from an overseas autonomous territory to the mainland of the Kingdom, after paying a high customs clearance fee, is going to be shipped to Wang Du for sale, and it needs to pass through 10 local counties, each county's customs clearance fee is one percent of the total value of goods, which, taken together, equals 10 percent more cost, minus transportation costs, and then there's about 20 percent more revenue after shipping to Wang Du.

As a result, in the course of the shipment, it was found that a local county was in desperate need of white linen, where it could make an extra 20 percent profit if sold. Unfortunately, however, the entry tax form for this shipment indicated that the destination was Wang Du. The owner of this shipment of white linen had no right to sell locally, and he had to transport the shipment to Wang Du. If he insists on selling locally, the local administration can punish him and impose a fine of two to three times the total value of the goods, and finally the merchant is selling at a loss without compensation...

So the members of the Overseas Autonomous Territories asked the Kingdom to open this commodity access pass. With this certificate, the goods produced by the Autonomous Territories can be sold anytime, anywhere, and specialty goods can be purchased locally. Instead of having to go to Wang to bargain with families and comptoirs that monopolize local county commerce, let them flatten their hair. However, Wang was reluctant to open the commodity access pass, fearing that it would harm the interests of the families and businesses in charge of local county commerce.

Another problem is the pricing power, where the right to determine the purchase and sale price of a commodity rests in the hands of established aristocrats and commercial aristocrats, who monopolize the pricing of the commodity goods by exploiting the commercial exclusivity of the dominated commercial firms and local counties and, accordingly, form pricing alliances against those who violate the rules of trade and commercial rivals.

As long as pricing rights cannot be freed up, the prices at which goods produced by the overseas autonomous territories are sold when they arrive in the mainland of the Kingdom are up to the comptoirs of these acquisitions, to the great detriment of the self-governing traders. This is also the biggest reason for the boom in pelagic smuggling trade, as pelagic smugglers ship commodities for sale to wealthy and powerful landlords who generally deliver commodities to small traders for sale in small quantities. Failure to meet the requirements of self-governing territories to trade in bulk commodities.

It may seem that the Kingdom has given way to many steps, so the Special Envoy of the Kingdom has also spoken to the Overseas Autonomous Territories as a lion, demanding that the Overseas Autonomous Territories provide food and other agricultural commodities worth 3 million gold kroner to the mainland of the Kingdom free of charge this year and next year, 5 million gold kroner of the Kingdom's much-needed mineral resources and 1.5 million gold kroner in taxes and contributions to the Kingdom each year. This may be the last time several Wang messengers saw the economic prosperity of overseas autonomous territories, so this time it significantly increased the amount of taxes and contributions paid by overseas autonomous leaders to Wang Du.

This is only one aspect of the demand that the Royal Special Envoy simultaneously request the Autonomous Territories to provide 200,000 new rifles and corresponding ammunition to the Royal Army Ministry, and that the Autonomous Territories provide free production drawings of new rifles and ammunition to help the Kingdom win this war against the Association of Eastern States.

Even General Bolognick was amused by the request made by the Kingdom's envoy. Why should an overseas self-government accept such a condition? The concessions made by the so-called Kings are empty and nominally leave the overseas autonomous territories in a position of independence in the areas of administrative initiatives, personnel promotion, fiscal taxation, economic finance and military power. So what about the approval and verification powers issued by Kings?

Nor do I want to think of the distance between the mainland of the Kingdom and the overseas autonomous territories. It will take six months for everything to be done here to be approved by the King. If Wang refuses to pee each other again, two or three years will pass. There is nothing the overseas self-government can do. What's the point of such independence? Besides, did those pelagic terms of trade promise a deal that would allow commodities to enter the kingdom itself? In fact, what good would it be if overseas autonomous territories delivered commodities to the kingdom itself to families and commercial firms with mountains behind them, and pricing and marketing rights were not in their hands?

Besides, let the Overseas Autonomous Territories provide free food and agricultural supplies worth 3 million gold kroons, 5 million gold kroons of mineral resources, and 1.5 million gold kroons of taxes and tributes a year. Is this slaughtering the Overseas Autonomous Territories as fat pigs? I really don't get it, Wang Du, the powerful men are in the water, how can they be sure that the Overseas Autonomous Leader will agree to such an unreasonable request?

There are also 200,000 new rifles and corresponding ammunition supplied to the Kingdom by the Autonomous Territories, accompanied by unconditional production drawings of new rifles and ammunition. Where did Wang Du come from with such a big face that the Autonomous Leadership District could satisfy their request? Do they know how much the Autonomous Zone paid for these 200,000 new rifles? Until now, the loan owed to the Overseas Minsheng Bank of nearly 2 million gold kroner has not been repaid. That is interest...

Needless to say, throwing bombs alone has already taught the autonomous military regions a profound lesson. When Claude sold the projectile manufacturing drawings and production permits at a low price to five Royal Military Manufacturing Workshops under the control of the old royal nobility family of the kingdom, he fought with the forces of the great Prince Hansburg and the production drawings of the projectile began to fly after a great victory, and almost all the countries of the Farea continent began manufacturing and producing copies of the projectile.

When the Legion of the Kingdom of Hicks sent to the mainland of Nubicia to continue that colonial war, using projectiles to attack the defensive front set up in the direct territorial battlefield, according to General Bitchklin, he was in a state of obsession and could not have dreamed that the throwing sheets invented by his own battlefield would have been improved by the enemy than those used by his own battlefield troops, thrown farther, exploded more powerful, casualties in the battlefield dropped by the Kingdom of Hicks. There were not a few soldiers in the battlefield who threw bombs, and it felt like they had been stoned and smashed in their feet...

Perhaps this is the final regret of the five generals in the war zone. If they did not sell the production drawings of this projectile to the military industry controlled by the five old aristocratic families of the kingdom, perhaps the last colonial war would not have cost so much in casualties and would have ended long ago. Claude-led Legion of Thunder will not hurt more than half of the enemy's defensive battalion deployed on the northern mountain border, and will lose all its credit.

Today, the new rifles are the forces of the Autonomous Leadership Army region that are ahead of the forces of all the national armies of this era, handed over free of charge to the Royal Ministry of the Army, and unconditionally supplied with the production drawings of the new rifles and bullets. Without Claude's objection, the remaining four generals in the military region are absolutely unlikely to agree to such a request, and they would not want to meet the same enemies with new rifles when they lead their troops into battle...

Even if General Bolognick and others already know that the most important thing about the new rifle is the bullet, the key to the bullet is the launcher at the bottom of the shell casing, without which the bullet is prone to mutilation. But no one can guarantee that the legend magicians of the old aristocracy will make another similar launcher to serve as a base for the bullet.

Just as Claude used to sell design drawings for the production of revolvers to military manufacturing factories controlled by old noblemen, they used revolvers as an expensive weapon gift, producing exquisite gift weapons such as revolvers and revolvers. These weapons are equipped with a bullet-bottom fire, a tiny crystal chip, a crystal stone from the bottom of a volcano that has traditionally been used as a magic material for fire systems. Cut into small flare chips in the alchemy spell array by a spell magician, it becomes the bottom fire of a bullet.

Sheila's beautiful revolver, obtained from the Grand Prince of Hansburg, uses a bullet base fire like this. Fortunately, these crystal stones are expensive and very cumbersome to process into flare wafers, so they cannot be used on a large scale. But the bullet-filled base of gift weapons increases the compulsion of these weapon gifts accordingly.

The Overseas Home Rule Council and the Autonomous Territory unexpectedly rejected all the demands of the Kingdom's envoys. The envoys scolded the senators and the five generals of the Region in public, forgetting the Kingdom's cultivation, facing the critical threshold of life and death, and coercing the Kingdom to agree to the harsh conditions of independence for the Overseas Autonomous Territories. It was simply shameless, forgetting the duties and duties it owed to the Kingdom as an Oweras...

Finally, the royal envoy was ordered by General Bolognick to cross out of the Lobby of Parliament. Seeing this move return without a trace of ashes, the Royal Special Envoy addressed Langhu City Centre Square, on the one hand, describing the critical situation facing the Kingdom and, on the other, denouncing the lack of a sense of statehood among the parliamentarians and five generals of the Autonomous Territories, sitting on the face of yet another scourge of war and annihilation on the mainland of the Kingdom.

At one point, it also attracted a lot of sympathy from an unknown audience. Voluntary contributions were made to save the country. Nearly one hundred gold kroner were collected after coming down one afternoon, although most of them were low-denomination notes, which were finally exchanged by the Royal Envoy at the overseas Minsheng Bank.

As the Special Envoy of the Kingdom prepares to continue to discredit those members of Parliament and the five generals of the Autonomous Territories in the Overseas Territories, all the newspapers of the Overseas Territories have published the conditions and demands of the Special Envoy of the Kingdom for the Overseas Territories. Now the whole people of the Overseas Autonomous Territories have boiled down, these demands of the Kingdom's envoys are unacceptable, not to draw the blood of the Overseas Autonomous Territories, but to cut the flesh directly on the Autonomous Territories...

If the requests of the Kingdom's envoys are accepted, then there must be two, and the Kingdom itself will make unreasonable demands on the Overseas Self-Governing Territories, which will eventually be dispersed among all the people. It is in my own interests and that of my family. No one is willing to give their own personal gains for a year in vain. Everyone must continue to live at the mouth of the family lake.

At present, the overseas autonomous leaders are proud of the development prospects, people feel that life is gradually getting better, no one wants this good life and hope to be suspended and interrupted...

When the Royal Envoy again went to the square to speak, he was no longer greeted by the audience, but by the stinking eggs of rotten apples and the outrage of the audience. Immediately after the arrival of several patrol officers, the Royal Special Envoy was declared an undesirable member of the Overseas Autonomous Territories, and he and his entourage would be escorted to the port of Cobichous and deported within the shortest period of time.

However, at the same time as the expulsion of the Special Envoy of the Kingdom, the Assembly of Overseas Self-Governing Territories announced that it would once again provide free food and agricultural supplies worth one million gold kroner to the mainland of the Kingdom in support of a just war between the mainland of the Kingdom and the invasion by the Association of Eastern States, to the extent that the Overseas Self-Governing Territories came from the obligations and subdivisions of immigrants from the Kingdom of Ovieras to the Kingdom...

At the same time, the Autonomous Leadership Region announced that it would provide 200,000 Obash type III rifles and 1,000 vintage front-loaded light infantry field artillery to the Royal Army Ministry to resist the rearmament of the enemy. Anyway, these things have been replaced, they take up space in the warehouse, and it's not appropriate to sell them to other countries. They are all active equipment of the Royal Army, so why not send them back to the Royal Army?

In addition to such replacement rope guns and infantry artillery, the Autonomous Territory announced the donation of 20,000 medium and heavy projectiles and 1,000 projectiles each to the Royal Army Ministry. This is also a chicken rib. Now that we have a new light infantry field artillery with a maximum range of 1,500 meters, medium and heavy projectiles are no longer useful, so why not send it to the kingdom to smash them on the heads of the invading forces of those five countries of the Association of Eastern Nations...

The gray expulsion of the Royal Special Envoy to the mainland of the Kingdom was followed by the receipt of food and armaments donated to the mainland by the Overseas Autonomous Territories, but the official correspondence submitted by the Overseas Autonomous Territories to Wang Du remained unanswered. I don't know if the front line is unfavourable, so Wang is already preparing for a massive evacuation...

Two months later, the Overseas Autonomous Territories received information from the West Coast colonies that the Kingdom's defensive front deployed in the four frontier counties had been breached and that two divisions of the Red Dragon Corps and the National Guard Corps had almost been killed or injured. Eight Corps members of the Eastern League of Nations are now approaching the Ibnister Plains and are about to hit the capital.

On August 17, 1999, the king fell.

Speaking before Frederie I withdrew from the King, he swore that as long as there was a gun in his hand, the kingdom would resist the end and would never negotiate surrender with the invaders...

On 25 August, the five kings of the Association of Eastern Regional Nations drove all the way across the famous Royal Street of Sterling in the most famous city of the eastern part of the Farea continent, hosting a grand parade ceremony. Originally home to the triumphal parade ceremony organized by the Kingdom of Orvillas, it is now trampled under the iron hooves and leather boots of the aggressor.

King McKid III of the Kingdom of Hicks, who appeared at the parade with the remaining four kings, once again repeated his old tone, claiming that the main reason for the ongoing fighting in the eastern part of the Farea continent for nearly a century was the ambition of the Kingdom of Ovieras to reunite the eastern part of the continent by provoking repeated wars with neighbouring countries.

This time the Association of Eastern Nations has taught the Kingdom of Ovieras a profound lesson by taking over the capital and now King Frederick I has become a bereavement dog. Machid III hopes that the armies of the Association of Eastern Nations will continue their efforts, unite in earnest, destroy the remnants of the Kingdom of Ovieras, bury once and for all the origins of this war, destroy the Kingdom of Ovieras, and attain permanent peace and tranquillity in the eastern part of the Farea continent...

At a time when McKid III made a clear proposal to destroy the Kingdom of Orvillas, fifteen of the twenty-seven local counties of the Kingdom of Orvillas had fallen into the hands of the Allied forces, and even the most elite of the kingdom, the Ibnister Plains and the Kingdom's Heart King, had been occupied by the aggressors. Frederie I moved to White Deer City and announced that he would resist here...

On November 8th, Mrs. Maria came to the Overseas Autonomous Territories as Special Envoy of Frederie I...