Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 522: His Majesty's Mastery

Viscount Dombagiro spent three days in the Royal City of Polyvisia and embarked on a satisfactory journey with that regiment's security officers and soldiers. He was very successful in his mission as the Kingdom's envoy, or could be said to have been unexpected before his arrival. The two generals of the Overseas Autonomous Territories spoke well and, while satisfied that he had taken away a reserve of gold and silver worth 1.5 million kroner, packed all the unnecessary armaments seized in the Allied Coalition barracks for him to take away, and even sent a regiment of light cavalry to escort them back.

Since both General Claude and General Bolognick are so warm and welcoming, treat them sincerely and do not make this envoy difficult for him. Then Viscount Dombagiro also voted for Peach Lee, explaining to General Claude and Bolognick more of what he knew about the change in the kingdom presided over by the Prime Minister, Marquis Blancat, so that the two kingdoms would have a better understanding of some of the details of the Wang Du's political situation, and the three of them were very well together in just three days.

In addition to handing over this seized gold and silver reserve to Claude et al., Viscount Dombagiro, originally as the Kingdom's envoy, had the duty of examining the merit verification established by the officers and soldiers of the Legion of Thunder and Rock. And to check the sealing of property belonging to the original Nasserly royal family, even the seven small and medium-sized gold and silver mining bases should see the real situation...

However, the Special Envoy pushed all of this to General Claude and General Bolognick, who said that he really had no time, and Wang Ting was waiting for this gold and silver reserve to be used urgently. He merely took away the list of prayers and promotions of successful generals from both regiments, saying that, with the strength of the Legion of Thunder and the Legion of Rocks, coupled with two days of contact with General Claude and General Bolonik, he believed that the generals were nothing but false in that regard, and he believed in the character of the two generals.

Claude and General Bolognick were touched precisely by the unreserved trust of Viscount Dombagiro. Therefore, all unnecessary armaments and weapons and ammunition seized in the coalition battalion were handed over to the Special Envoy and returned to the King to enrich the Kingdom's arsenal. These armaments and weapons and ammunition are indeed of no use to the Overseas Autonomous Territories, but for the Royal Court they are the best assistance for the formation of local armed guards.

Claude is not sorry that these seized arms and ammunition worth millions of gold kroner were given to the Kingdom. For him, these things were like chicken ribs, blinded and unfortunately lost. These things like healing agents, bandages, blankets, tents, basin towels, etc. can be of some use, but those uniforms, leather boot belts, military kettles, etc. don't match the regimental generals now in the Autonomous Territory, as well as the locally armed officers and soldiers.

Occasionally, it's okay to take some as a souvenir collection for victory, but if you carry it with you, it's unnecessary, and those weapons and ammunition are even more invisible to legion soldiers. Even if you want to sell these things, it's hard to find the right buyer, and even if you have a major buyer, you will be killed to the lowest price. In that case, it would be better to cheapen the kingdom while selling a favor in front of the envoy. In the future, there will be more than one person in the King who can say a few good words for the overseas autonomous leaders...

Watching Viscount Dombagiro wave his body out of the carriage to this side for the last time, Claude and General Bolognick also raised their hands to greet the departure of His Majesty the Kingdom's envoy, while ordering the military band standing next to him to play a happy song again and wish Viscount Domagiro a safe journey. It was not until the carriage of the Special Envoy, escorted by the guards, caught up with the convoy already far ahead that General Claude and General Bolognick turned around and returned to the Royal City of Polyvisia.

“Go for a walk on the walls.” General Bolognick said.

Claude then escorted him to the city wall, where both deputies and guards were more than 10 metres away from each other in order not to disturb the general's pleasure in walking.

“Take a look at the scenery here...” General Bolognick said, then pulled two cigars out of his pocket and handed one to Claude. After the fire, they slowly smoked on the city wall.

“What do you think of the secret plan that Viscount Dombagiro revealed about Prime Minister Blancat's proposal? Is that the plan to seal the hereditary feudal territories of the nobility?” General Bolognick asked suddenly. These three days, they were either with the Special Envoy or busy on official business and did not have time for private discussions and exchanges. Now that the Special Envoy is gone, General Bolognick is anxious to hear Claude's analysis.

Claude spit out a cigarette in his mouth and watched the smoke go into two circles in the air in front of him, so slowly thinking and answering: “Actually, I always thought another purpose of Viscount Dombagiro's visit was to reveal to us this plan to seal the hereditary feudal territory of the nobility and see how we react..."

General Bolognick nodded: “I feel the same way, just to my surprise, we come from overseas autonomous territories. The Royal Court should, as a matter of fact, be very averse to us. After all, it was we who dominated the autonomy of the Kingdom in the colonies of the Nubian continent, and for the Kingdom we should be considered another rebel. Even if this march to save the kingdom at a time of distress, the King's Court should not have taken the initiative to grant us a sealed territory, which they could well exclude us from the list of hereditary nobles of the sealed territory under the pretext that we come from overseas autonomous territories..."

Claude laughed coldly, not answering General Bolognick's question, but shifted the subject: “These two days I was very interested in presenting Prime Minister Blancat's proposal for a feudal collar that was hereditary to the nobility, and I deliberately asked him about it. According to the report collected, Prime Minister Blanchard's full name is Blanchard. Ser Severio, 41 years old this year, was the guardian commander of His Majesty's adolescence and grew up with His Majesty.

Our prime minister comes from the Seville family, another big family of old aristocrats. The Seville Arms Manufacturing Workshop, the third-largest military industry in the Kingdom, was founded under the leadership of their families, uniting the remaining six old noble families. It's just that our Prime Minister is not the only son of the Seville family, but a common firstborn. His mother was only a close maid of his father's and was later taken into her apartment as Second Lady. It was because he was the eldest son that he was placed in the presence of His Royal Highness Prince Frederick the Third.

Nobody knew at that time that the three weak princes would become King Frederick I of today. And Prime Minister Blancat, accompanied by His Majesty for more than two decades, is deeply trusted by His Majesty. Together with his talent and ingenuity, he was soon designated by His Majesty as the new Prime Minister of the Kingdom and entrusted with the task. Because His Majesty had just come to the throne, no one was willing to go against his will. Blancat, in turn, originated from the Seville clan and, in his capacity, was one of them, so the old-fashioned family forces of the Kingdom acquiesced in this result.

That is all there is to know about the Prime Minister, but there are rumours that Prime Minister Blancat and the current head of the Seville family, his half-brother-in-law, have a very poor relationship. It is said that there are many in the Seville family who propose to make our Prime Minister the new head of the Seville family, so that more can be gained for the Seville family. It's just his brother, the current owner, Count Turlake, who refuses to step down...

If this territorial noble feudal scheme was personally proposed by the Prime Minister, then I think it should be certain that he does not belong to the old-fashioned aristocratic family, but is loyal only to our Majesty. If this is not the idea of the Prime Minister, then the person behind this proposal is a very smart one, and at the same time very averse to the power of the old aristocratic family. You're right, this program is aimed at the old-fashioned aristocratic family forces, and our overseas autonomous leaders, who were beaten rabbits by grass, were affected by the pond fish. ”

“Tap," General Bolognick's cigar landed on the floor. He opened his eyes and stared at Claude: "How did you come to this conclusion? ”

“Sometimes the history we know is not the truth, but the way it is dressed.” Claude sipped a cigar long enough to spit out four or five cigarette rings, looking out onto the view of the city wall, and the ghost answered:

“I recall that in the history books of my country, Sterling IX fought a war to revive the kingdom because his sister, Princess Illinia, and his brother, Prince Ernest, had wreaked havoc on the kingdom in order to compete for the throne, and because of the subversive domination of the nobility of the kingdom's territory, the people of the kingdom did not talk...

That is why Sterling IX took the lead in raising the banner of the uprising, crusading against the nobility of a land without a monarch, severely punishing the corrupt local officials, propagating faith in reforming and saving the country, and eventually winning as a generation of heroes. I suppose that's what you read in history books when you went to military school, and we all took the same history classes.

But these two days, I went to the archives in the Royal City where the literature was stored, and I turned over the historical records of the kingdom of Nasserley about our kingdom of Ovillas. As a result, I saw above the real reason for Sterling IX's battle for the renaissance of the kingdom was that there were no more territories in the kingdom to seal up for the new hereditary aristocracy...

I found information on the enclosure of the kingdom in Sterling VIII, and found that all the counties and towns in the kingdom's mainland, with the exception of Wangdu and the Plains of Ibnister, were enclosed territories of great and small hereditary aristocracy. Over 300 years of the kingdom's history, the kingdom has given rise to countless territorial aristocracies. When the kingdom has stopped expanding, there will be no more land available to seal off the new hereditary aristocracy and to give credit to the noble children of the nation.

So when Sterling VIII, the kingdom did not give a new territorial nobility any more, with the consequence that the royal prestige was greatly diminished in the eyes of the territorial nobility, and the king could not command the Ibnister Plains. According to the literature, there was no war between Elder Princess Illinia and Prince Ernest over the throne, and only minor armed clashes took place in the kings.

Only Sterling IX took my hometown, White Deer Town, a hereditary baron's enclosure, and formed an army to start attacking the nobility of those territories. The bigger the result, when the nobles of the kingdom's territories discovered that Sterling IX was going to dig their roots, they rushed to unite against the Reign Army of Sterling IX, and the greater the momentum was gone, and they became losers.

After Sterling IX took office, the territorial seal of the royal nobility was lifted and replaced by a pension system. He may wish to leave his descendants with a complete kingdom. But he did not expect that the lost nobles began to focus their energies on the economy, inadvertently formed the old brand aristocratic family power, took control of the kingdom's military industry, and vigorously cultivated the realm of power in the Royal Army, resulting in the royal family having to snort...

The tragedies of Grand Prince Hansburg and Sterling XI have proven the influence of the old-fashioned aristocratic power over the kingdom, and His Majesty's reign has been manipulated by their own hands. Or it could be said that our current Majesty is actually a puppet, a rubber stamp. Fortunately, there are also contradictions within these old-fashioned aristocratic family forces themselves, which maintain the necessary respect for His Majesty and do not dare to force His Majesty to act in accordance with their wishes without undue disobedience. ”

Claude took another final breath and threw his cigar butt on the ground, crushing it with his feet: "I suspect that this plan to seal the hereditary feudal territory of the nobility is actually a response by His Majesty to the forces of the old aristocracy. The most important thing of value to a nobleman is territory, where a hereditary territory is the foundation of a family.

A territory belonging to one's own family can be handed down to future generations, can live and kill in the territory. It is up to one's own hands, one is the true king of the territory and the people, without having to obey the orders of anyone, to do whatever one wants, without any hesitation. I own my territory, and as long as it develops well, I can provide myself and my family with a constant wealth.

When there is no territory, the traditional aristocratic power unites to seize the commercial interests of the kingdom, form a monopoly business alliance, develop its own local power and expand its influence in the Royal Army. So much so that His Majesty is now helpless, so painstaking that the kingdom cannot recover its vitality and develop its economy without their consent.

Now this scheme of feudal territories for the nobility is a plan to divide the power of the old aristocratic family, and when they have their own traditional family territory, the old aristocratic families will at least focus most of their energies on the development of the family territory. It is well known that conflicts and contradictions also erupt between territorial nobles, which affect their alliances with each other.

And of course, there's another purpose of this program, which is to scrape a lot of money off these old noble families. Didn't the Special Envoy mention that if you are dissatisfied with the seal given to your family territory, you can choose a better place as your family territory at your own discretion, but pay the land selection fee? The key is to pay for this choice of land, which is entirely up to His Majesty, his sacred duty as a monarch, and no one can influence his decision.

Beyond that, do those III aristocrats and honorary nobles not want to acquire a hereditary family territory for their children? Simply, pay up, I doubt that His Majesty and the King could easily obtain a tremendous fortune from the nobility of the kingdom with this scheme. The lack of money in the kingdom does not mean that the nobles of these kingdoms have no money, and perhaps the money needed for Prime Minister Blancat's programme to revive the kingdom will be easily collected.

And most importantly, the enclosed territory is all over the Nasseri region, and for the kingdom, it has escaped a burdensome mud pit. Any subsequent civil unrest in the area has nothing to do with the kingdom and is the responsibility of the nobility of the territory that was bestowed upon it. And the aristocracy that is enclosed here needs to form its own armed and repressive place, which will force them to summon the protagonists who have developed in the Royal Army to the past, and disguise weakens their influence in the Royal Army...

It can be said that this time the heavens and the earth are in His Majesty's hands, and that this plan to encapsulate the hereditary feudal territories of the nobility is a masterpiece and a multitude. As for our overseas autonomous military regions, they are also counted. You can think for yourself, what would the five of us, if His Majesty had bestowed a seal on the family territory, then what would the legislators of the Overseas Autonomous Territories think? Can we still control the future direction of overseas self-government? ”

General Bolognick's face was a little pale, and he thought about the half-day period when Al asked, "What if we refused all His Majesty's enclosed territory? ”

Claude shook his head with a cold smile: "Impossible. Would you like your family to? I'm sure your parents' and relatives' congratulations and congratulations will soon be in your hands, and they'll show you how to choose a good family territory. After all, it is the Farea continent that is at the heart of this Francophone world. The development of overseas autonomous territories has been excellent, and it remains an exile and colony in the hearts and minds of the peoples of the Farea continent.

And even if we refuse His Majesty's seal, what about the generals below us? The destruction of the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Kanas, the restoration of the newly occupied territories, can be said to have resulted in the extermination of both our regiments. His Majesty will certainly take this opportunity to offer a great deal of rewards. Believe it or not, there will soon be dozens more nobles in our overseas autonomous military regions. Of course, there will be few hereditary nobles, but there will be many III nobles and honorary nobles...

Perhaps it would be ridiculous if I thought too much, because a large part of what we scraped from the kingdom of Nasseri would soon fall into His Majesty's hands. What should we do when our generals ask to borrow money from us or ask us to pay them a royal fee for loans from the Overseas Minsheng Bank to become a hereditary nobleman and obtain a sealed family territory from His Majesty? Reject their request? So the whole overseas autonomous military region is distracted... "

“So, what do we do?” General Bolognick was also panicked when Claude said so.

“Cool mix!” Claude said viciously and then sighed deeply: “To be honest, I don't have a clue right now, I can't think of any better way to do this, I can only wait and see how this thing goes on, maybe we should wait for the reward results to come out and discuss...”