Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 523: Expenses for Promotion to Title

Claude really couldn't figure it out.

According to the saying, human nature is selfish, such as seeing wealth want to acquire, seeing beauty want to possess, desiring to have power, making oneself superior, this is the desire that is hidden in everyone's heart. Only the sober mind can restrain their desires, take one step on the ground, and finally succeed. And some people don't want to try, but they want to satisfy their desires, so they go the wrong way and end up with nothing...

General Bolognick had proposed whether to unite all those who had been awarded the title and the enclosed territory and to hold the enclosed territory in one piece, which would amount to an additional enclave for the Overseas Autonomous Territories on the Farea continent.

But Claude shook his head, and that wasn't even possible. If a Member of Parliament from an Overseas Autonomous Territory were to be declared an honorary nobleman, he would not have had such a high conscience to entrust the family territory he had acquired after spending 300,000 gold kroner's fees to become a hereditary nobleman of the Kingdom and having been granted a family territory by His Majesty.

Instead, he is likely to draw resources from overseas autonomous leaders to build his family territory, because at that moment, the importance of his family territory had surpassed his status and status in overseas autonomous territory, which was the foundation of his family's heritage to future generations, and there was nothing more important to him than a patrimonial family territory.

Obviously, the solution to this feudal territory, which is hereditary to the nobility, is masculinity, which is often the hardest to decipher. It lets you know if it's a pit or a willingness to jump in. As Claude is now, it is clear to himself that the programme will have a great impact on overseas self-governing territories, but there is nothing he can do about it. He can restrain himself, but he can't influence what others think...

More than a month later, the plan to seal the hereditary feudal territory of the nobility boiled down in kings. According to reports from overseas autonomous territories on hawks' letters sent by their offices in Wangdu, His Majesty, Frederick I, is said to have agreed to the proposal submitted by Prime Minister Blancat. And the House of Lords passed unanimously, but the National Assembly is still arguing, but the number of people who agree and disagree is similar...

There is also news that His Majesty intends to give all members of the National Assembly the seal of the Honorary Baron of the Kingdom. It appears that Frederick I took the idea of implementing this programme to seal the kingdom's noble territory. Simply put, if the members of the National Assembly were to become the Honorary Barons of the Kingdom, they would be able to become heirloom barons of the Kingdom by simply raising money to pay for their promotion, and would similarly receive a sealed patrimonial territory from Frederie I, so that they would have no reason to oppose the programme.

The days that follow are a little busy for General Claude and General Bolognick, and more than a dozen emissaries from the royal nobility of the kingdom come to visit the two generals every day. Many of the visitors were kingdom nobles as family brothers or sisters, bringing precious gifts and smiling faces, and all that was required was for the Legion of Thunder to send troops to escort them to the Nasserli area to protect their physical safety.

In fact, all these people are front-line for their families, want to see the real situation in the Nasserli region and pick a good family territory for their families. Claude and General Bolognick, though annoying, reached out and didn't smile. Besides, the families of these visitors are also influential in Wang, and the contradiction between the overseas autonomous territories and the kingdom's old aristocratic family power is not obvious, and everyone maintains superficial courtesy.

After the visitors were willing to pay for the soldiers of the Legion of Thunder as their temporary escort, Claude nodded to their request and sent a force to escort the visitors' wanderings in the Nasri area. Claude was easier than General Bolognick, and at least not one of his elders would make it to the Royal City of Polyviria, nagging beside his ears every day to get him to pick a good place to be a family territory.

As Claude had anticipated, General Bolognick's father, despite his old age and weakness, was almost seventy years old, escorted by two younger relatives, in a long-distance carriage from the King to the Royal City of Polyvisia, with the same aim of choosing a family territory. General Bolonik's wife and children live in Langhu City, the capital of the Overseas Autonomous Territories, but his relatives, parents and brothers and sisters still run farms on the outskirts of Wangdu.

Upon learning that General Bolognick would be granted a family territory, parents who had never wanted to be associated with him could not sit down, and came a thousand miles to let General Bolognick choose a family territory sooner rather than later. His father, the old man who disgusted Claude, taught General Bolognick a lesson in the presence of two men, saying that General Bolognick would continue to live in the Overseas Autonomous Territories, a family territory where his brothers could help him.

In the end, Claude came forward and told the old man, in all honesty, to stop dreaming. As part of the senior general of the Overseas Autonomous Territories, General Bolognick's family territory would be entrusted to the Overseas Autonomous Territories for jurisdiction, which was the decision of the Autonomous Councils. As for the choice of family territory, the Autonomous Territorial Assembly also had uniform arrangements, which were not his own choice. If General Bolognick disagrees, he will leave the Executive Committee of the Autonomous Territories to run his own family territory, and the Overseas Autonomous Territories will have nothing to do with him in the future...

Although General Bolognick's father was angry that the Overseas Autonomous Territories Council had intervened in his family's territory, he was not confused to know that General Bolognick had relied on the Overseas Autonomous Territories to gain today's status, which, together, had brought considerable benefits to their family farms. So he didn't flip his face either, he just knocked a fortune out of General Bolognick and brought some precious gifts back to the King in a carriage.

General Bolognick finally relieved himself and expressed his deep gratitude to Claude for his war break. The family had a hard time remembering, and he was well aware that his parents did not like his second son, even in order to clear up their relationship with him, he had declared in the Wang Dynasty that he had severed his blood ties, cursing him for treason in the kingdom. Of course, General Bolognick understands that his parents did so in order to preserve their family farm and not to be associated with his relatives by what he did in the Autonomous Territories.

After sending troops from overseas autonomous military regions back to the mainland of the kingdom, the Rock Regiment acquired Ambrizeshire Dajie, his parents changed their words to claim that he was a pride of their family. At the same time, they sent his elder brother to talk about the looting of the family farm by the coalition forces, asking him to give some support to the family and take a lot of money from him.

Today, for his sake, his parents and brothers are preparing to expand their family farms by purchasing land around the farm at great prices while their neighbours are in a difficult situation. Many of their neighbours who were forced to sell their land dared not speak out, and his parents' and brothers' reputation in that part of the country was very poor, limited to his current status and status, and even local officials were reluctant to offend his parents and brothers, which was reported to General Bolognick by agents of the Wangdu office.

General Bolognick knows very well that if he gets his family territory and lets his parents get involved, soon his parents will force him to turn this patrimonial territory that belongs to him into an entire family territory, and then they'll think of him to give his brother's son a title and give his parents the most precious grandson the right to inherit the family territory...

Don't assume that this will not happen, for the sake of the inheritance of the family territory, there are stranger and more shameful things happening in the families of the aristocracy of those territories. If General Bolognick's wife and children remained in the Overseas Autonomous Territories, they would be safe. But if General Bolognick's wife and children want to live in the national territory after his parents and brothers manage his heritage on their behalf, there will be plenty of “accidents” waiting for them.

General Bolognick could not believe the character of his parents' brother or elder, otherwise he would not have been sent to Royal Military Academy by his parents when he was twelve years old, a free schoolbag and packaged treatment, only to go home once a month. When he grew up, he had to report to the Royal Army, which sold him to the Royal Army. Unlike other needy learners, his parents were not without money, they just didn't like him, and Bolognick was really a mune when he was a kid.

Look at the noble brothers who are roaming the Nasserly area, and the kings who have been in a lot of chaos about this, and know how much this program to seal the noble patrimony has provoked in the kingdom of Auvellas. Even General Bolognick's old father wanted to get involved in it, and as you can imagine, the acquisition of hereditary family territory is simply desirable. This programme will inevitably be approved by the National Assembly and successfully implemented.

The planning of Frederie I and the Prime Minister, Marquis Blancat, was very successful, and at least His Majesty finally had at his disposal an instrument of leverage against the royal and prestigious aristocratic family. No royal nobleman will now offend His Majesty because the power to seal the family territory is in his hands, and to be satisfied with the family territory must be granted His Majesty's permission...

Ridiculously, it took Sterling IX six years of civil war to abolish the kingdom's aristocratic patrimony, hoping that future generations would own the entire kingdom instead of decreing that it would not leave the Ibnister Plains. As a result, the hero of the Renaissance kingdom did not expect to lose his hereditary family territory to allow the old aristocratic families to shift their energies to the commercial interests of the kingdom.

Over the past hundred years, these old-fashioned aristocratic powers have grown into a huge economy that has brought the kingdom to its tail, with all its military and industrial industries in their hands. This is probably the dependence of misfortune and happiness. There is also a lot of disagreement in the noble families of all kingdoms without family territory. Most of them are more polite when competing for the position of head of household. Some noble children who do not want to be heads of household even give up the right to inherit the head of household in exchange for a fortune are at large...

The plot to grant the royal and aristocratic family territory to Frederick I is now a resounding feat, which will give him the power to govern very easily. At the same time, it has eased the constraints imposed on the Royal Court by old-fashioned aristocratic family forces, and has been able to raise enormous sums of money from the nobles of these kingdoms to solve the financial crisis of the Kingdom, while adding to the congestion of the overseas self-governing territories. The plot had to be admired, as many eye-catchers, like Claude, knew there were pits and had to jump in.

Sometimes Claude felt that it was his fault, and if it was only necessary to expel the Allied forces from the kingdom itself, why should he do more to recover the new occupied territories and destroy the kingdoms of Nasri and Kanas, so that he now finds himself in a dilemma. And of course, it was just a thought in his mind, and he knew very well that there had to be consequences for beating a snake.

If only the Allied forces were to be driven out of the kingdom itself, the two regiments of the Overseas Autonomous Territories would remain at the kingdom's borders and the Allied armies would be entangled. No one can afford to fight a shitty battle like that for years. Rather than beating all enemies to death with a stick like this, the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion can only deter enemies inside and outside.

The noble sons and envoys of the families roamed the Nasseri region for two months in a fantastic fashion, and came back to the Royal City of Polyvisia after counting, thanking General Claude and General Bolonik for sending troops to escort them, before embarking on a journey back to Wangdu. At that time, Viscount Dombagiro came again as Special Envoy of the King Ting, this time with the aim of promoting and awarding to all General Likung of the Overseas Autonomous Territories.

Not surprisingly, this time Frederick I and the Royal Court were very generous in the promotion and award of the two regimental generals. Both General Claude and General Bolonik were promoted to the Royal Marshal, General Albert, General Bitchcline, General Skrey to the Royal Admiral, Major General Berklin, Muriel, Diavid, Major General McJackie of the Legion of Thunder, and Major General Four Major General of the Rock Regiment. In addition, 22 colonels were promoted to Major General of the Kingdom in both regiments.

Mr. Viberon's son, Colonel Derivique, is also in the rank of Major General, which is also part of the general dream he had as a child. Claude and Marshal Bolognick can only smile at each other. It's like the general's wholesale. This promotion will be followed by a reform of the regional structure, otherwise two regiments of overseas autonomous military regions, one general with one regiment, will not be able to accommodate so many generals unless a local guard regiment also arranges for a Major General of the Kingdom to reign...

The promotion to the military ranks is normal. After all, this time the Thunder Corps and the Rock Corps established the cause of extermination and unified the entire eastern part of the continent for the Kingdom, which cannot be overrewarded. Only for the money reward of the two regimental generals, Sir Dombagiro apologized for the need to wait another two or three months, then the royal court will have the money to send, I hope you will be more patient.

Finally, Frederick I sealed the title of a successful sergeant. Claude, originally a hereditary baron, was this time sealed as a hereditary count. Originally Viscount III, General Bolognick was awarded a hereditary Viscount this time, only a lower rank than Claude. And General Scully, General Albert and General Bitchklin, originally Baron III, were given hereditary barons this time. It also seems that His Majesty is ashamed to let the five giants of the Autonomous Leadership pay the price of a martyr and simply give it to the hereditary baron.

Claude felt funny, and even General Scully, who was not involved in the kingdom itself, was given a hereditary title for raising logistical armaments to ensure that the Front Line troops had enough grass and ammunition to supply them. In addition to the five giants of the Autonomous Leadership Region, nineteen senior officers of the two regiments that had previously been honored barons, such as Berklin, Mike and others, were promoted from honorary barons to Baron III, and forty-seven other successful generals were awarded honorary titles, ranging from honorary barons to honorary counts according to military merit...

Viscount Dombagiro then told Claude and others that, since His Majesty had bestowed the title of Baron Emeritus on all members of the National Assembly, for the sake of fairness, he had similarly bestowed the title of Baron Emeritus of the Kingdom on the members of the Overseas Autonomous Territorial Council, which had previously been automatically promoted to the first level. For example, Sir Bennett and Mr. Viberon, who turned out to be the Baron Emeritus, were promoted to Viscount Emeritus...

Well, it seems His Majesty won't let go of even a member of Parliament from an overseas autonomous territory, knowing that they have money, which is why he gave everyone an opportunity to acquire family territory. Claude did not have to wonder and knew how welcoming and grateful Parliamentarians from the Overseas Autonomous Territories would be for Frederie I's decision, which would inevitably empty the family for promotion to a hereditary title, thus obtaining a hereditary family territory. It can be said that the wealth accumulated by these parliamentarians over the decades of overseas self-government will soon become His Majesty's sacrifice.

“What exactly is the cost of that promotion?” General Bolognick asked on behalf of the nobles of the new kingdom who are interested in this issue.

“Yes,” said Viscount Dombagiro, ready to wave at his secretary, pulling out a document from the briefcase he had with him: "In the case of an honorary title, starting with an honorary baron, it would be necessary to pay 10,000 gold kroner for promotion to the honorary Viscount, and then 20,000 gold kroner for promotion from the honorary Viscount to the honorary Count. The promotion from Count Emeritus to Marquis Emeritus would require 30,000 gold kroner, and the promotion to Duke Emeritus would require 40,000 gold kroner in martial fees. The final promotion from the Duke of Honor to Baron III entailed a contribution of 50,000 gold kroner.

In other words, promotion from Baron Emeritus to Baron III is subject to a total of 150,000 King's Kroner's fee for promotion. If Baron III were to be promoted to Viscount III, he would also be required to pay a martial fee of 10,000 gold kroner, and in doing so he would have to pay 150,000 gold kroner in order to be promoted to the hereditary baron. From the Baron of Honor to the Baron of Heritage, a total of 300,000 Golden Kroner will be required to receive a patrimonial family territory bestowed by His Majesty... "

Claude wanted to scold his mother, and if all these members of Congress from the Overseas Autonomous Territories wanted to acquire a patrimonial family territory, the martyr's fee would be paid. A total of 112 members of parliament from overseas autonomous territories, Frederick I can easily scrape out of their pockets with huge sums of nearly 30 million gold kroner...