Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 524: Choosing and Heating the Hug

“Have you designed your family badge yet?” Claude looked at the insignia of the nobility of the territory that was all over the map of the Nasseri area and asked.

Marshal Bolognick walked up to Claude, looked at the map, and sighed: “Find someone to design it, a formal three standby, and when you go to King's Register, review it so that it doesn't coincide with the emblems of other nobles. But I think there's always one of these four badges that works. If it doesn't work, we'll figure it out later. If it's too expensive, just ask someone from the Royal Badge Registry to get me one..."

Claude laughed: "Don't worry, you're a hereditary Viscount, and you can cut a pattern on the bottom half of the family badge, which is more prominent than the bare family badge around those hereditary barons. As for symbols, flowers, birds, animals, fish, grass, mountain water, sun, moon, stars, you can choose whatever you like, even if you're like others, you can deform the pattern, as long as it's different from others. You see, there are thirteen family badges on the map, and they all look different. ”

“Well, I chose the musketeer's pattern. Marshal Bolognick said:" Soldiers with guns are meant to commemorate my first battlefield experience when I was young, and to remind future generations that their ancestors were from a civilian soldier, not much more noble than others. It was through its own efforts that it gained its place today, gaining its title and territory... "

Claude turned his eyes on the spot: “Pull it down, you graduated from the Royal Military Academy as a lieutenant rank, bullshit. What civilian soldiers are you from? Civilians who come from no false origins can be soldiers, which makes it a little more tragic. Who would have a lieutenant line up in a soldier's regiment to attack enemy positions? I've been through this before, but luckily I survived..."

Marshal Bolognick shook his head with a smile: "I've really had the experience of arraying guns and soldiers in enemy defensive positions. I remember that attack had more than 800 people, and less than 300 survived the invasion of enemy positions. I was lucky, like you, to be one of the surviving officers and soldiers.

In fact, the enemy also had a large defensive force at the position, but they defeated eight of our battalions, and most of the soldiers fell on the way to the attack. Had it not been for their artillery and ammunition, four light infantry field artillery would have been muted three times, and perhaps our attack would have failed. By the way, how many territories are on the map now? ”

“Nearly 600 homes..." Claude picked up a folder next to the table and looked a few times: “As of yesterday, there are already 456 registered Heritage Baron Territories of the Kingdom, 61 Heritage Viscount Territories of the Kingdom, 43 Heritage Count Territories, 17 Heritage Marquis Territories, and three Heritage Duke Territories. A total of five hundred and eighty aristocratic hereditary territories, I don't know if there are any more today..."

Marshal Bolognick was somewhat envious: “These aristocratic families are supposed to be relatively wealthy, first and foremost occupying the best part of the Nasserli region as a family territory..."

“The best place in the Nasserli region should be in and around the Royal City of Polyvisia, where we are now located, but His Majesty and the King would never have taken it out to seal it. These aristocrats, who have acquired hereditary lands, are also intrigued and do not want the royal city as a family territory without their own strength. It is clear to them that His Majesty will not agree to any more land choices and will even question his loyalty, so no one will choose here.” Claude said.

“They all paid?” Marshal Bolognick asked curiously.

Claude nodded: "Yes, at least 100,000 gold. A message from Wang Du said that His Majesty and Wang Ting had earned tens of millions more gold kroner in the Neku and Treasury. Her Majesty is also said to have lent money from the inner treasury to honorary aristocrats and members of the National Assembly who have mismatched their fees for the marquis and land selection. There is also news that in fact, the royal fee and the folding fee can also be discounted in relation to His Majesty...

The five hundred and eighty royal aristocrats, most of whom are hereditary aristocrats, who today have acquired a satisfactory patrimonial territory by paying a land selection fee of 100,000 gold kroner. The rest are rich honorary aristocrats and III aristocrats, who have paid a martial fee to promote themselves to hereditary barons and paid a land selection fee to acquire family heritage territory. It is estimated that His Majesty and the King have earned nearly 30 million gold kroner from these two charges.

Now the Kings are said to have seven or eight hundred royal nobles who have yet to acquire territory, all III nobles and honorary nobles. If you think about it, His Majesty gave all the members of the National Assembly the honorary Baron status, and all of a sudden there were more than 300 honorary barons in the kingdom. At present, all these honorary barons are raising money in order to obtain a family patrimony from His Majesty. His Majesty's lending business is in full swing. This hand lends out. That hand is in vain! ”

These are the information gathered by the agents of the overseas autonomous territories who opened their offices in Wangdu, who reported rumours circulating at the end of Wangdu's street alley. Of course, the fact that Her Majesty the Queen lent money to the King was almost semi-public, as many of us know. When Claude saw it, he just said the last two words, but he couldn't say he was jealous...

It's just that Marshal Bolognick doesn't want to be behind anything but the royal family, and he shifted the subject: “Claude, do you think if all the nobles in the kingdom had a family territory, would the entire Nasserley region be distributed? ”

Claude shook his head: “That's not possible. Even the hereditary dukes occupy only half the county territory, and the territory of the traditional barons of the kingdoms is a village, and lucky enough to occupy a small town. Sixteen local counties in the central Nasseri region, five counties in the northeast and seven counties in the south-west, as well as the Royal City of Polyvisia and the surrounding territories, are not much smaller in size than the Kingdom itself.

Five hundred and eighty royal aristocrats now have territories scattered throughout these twenty-eight local counties, occupying less than a quarter of the entire Nasserli area. And the seven or eight hundred kingdoms nobles of Wangdu, at most, are only promoted to the hereditary baron, and they add up to as much territory as the five hundred and eighty kingdoms nobles, and there should still be half the land left in the Nasserley region for His Majesty to seal later, or for us, the members of the Overseas Autonomous Territories Council, and for us, the leaders of the military seals, to choose... "

Marshal Bolognick was somewhat disgusted: “Those remaining territories have been chosen by others to give us, and none of our overseas autonomous territories are any better..."

Claude grinned, "If I go first with you to choose a good place to be a part of my heritage, what do you think of Allen, Bick and Scully, what do the senators of the Overseas Autonomous Territories think, what do the leaders of the honorary nobility of our new kingdom think? Will they still believe we're in charge? Perhaps His Majesty and the King would like us to do so. Without the Overseas Autonomous Territories, do you think anyone would take us seriously? ”

Marshal Bolognick implicitly stated that this was also his dilemma, and that he would not have been a royal marshal without the Rock Corps, one of the two major regiments of overseas self-governments. And if he separates from the Overseas Autonomous Territories, nobody sees him, whether he is the royal marshal or the hereditary Viscount of the Kingdom, because he has today's status and status because of the overseas Autonomous Territories as his backing.

“Wait another month, and when the Ironclad fleet escorts the autonomous councillors to Florrick Harbor in September, we will also set sail to Pasteur City, the capital of the North Bay. At that time, all the parliamentarians of our Overseas Autonomous Territories and the leaders of the honorary nobility of the Kingdom will meet there for a general meeting on how to deal with His Majesty's enclosed family territory. Speaker Bennett has written to me that he wants us to be united and not give the Royal Court the chance to destroy each other, to stand on its own feet..."

Claude reached over Marshal Bolognick's shoulder and, of course, he was the only one qualified to do so: “No one would have expected this to happen before we left the army, and His Majesty's gesture overwhelmed our overseas self-government. Skerry wrote to us and told us not to act rashly, preferably by hugging us all through the crisis. Didn't he warn us in his letter that if the response to the failure led to negative results, it could even lead to the collapse of the entire Overseas Autonomous Territories? Distraction is the hardest thing to regain. ”

Marshal Bolognick smiled and patted Claude on his shoulder, pointing to a map of the Nasserly area marked with the emblem of a royal nobility: “I understand what you're saying, but there are some unhappy places where it's not our turn. As lords of all recognized rich and productive places in the Nasserli region, which are now lords, they can earn a fortune without effort.

You see the area where the seven small and medium-sized gold and silver copper mining bases are located, it was first marked with the family emblem of the old noble families of the kingdom. They are now said to have manpower stationed in the mines to liquidate our daily ore mining until the end of the half-year mining period next month. Even sent a private messenger to ask me if we could sell some Hicks prisoners to them to continue as miners... "

The overseas autonomous territories of the seven small and medium-sized gold and silver copper mining bases were granted mining rights for a period of six months, because the Nasseri area was to be sealed as an aristocratic territory by His Majesty, and Claude was too lazy to assign more than 100,000 of the captured Hicks prisoners to work as labourers in repairing national highway traffic, excavating and refurbishing irrigation channels and selecting from among them some to dig for the seven small and medium-sized gold and silver copper mining bases, the rest of which were busy in and around the Royal City.

The production of gold and silver copper mines in the first five months was not bad, and the ore production of the seven small and medium-sized gold and silver copper mining bases was unexpected due to the absence of corrupt officials from the Kingdom of Nasri. Almost more than twice as many gold and silver reserves were registered in the books of the original Kingdom of Nasri, which, according to this calculation, produced more than 3 million gold and silver in one year, whereas the books of the original Kingdom of Nasri treasury contained only 1,4 million gold and silver reserves and coin casting revenues.

It is conceivable that the officials of the former kingdom of Nasserli, who operated these gold and silver copper mines, corrupted almost half of the production of these mines, but now the Legion of Thunder and the Legion of Rock are cheap. The gold and silver copper mine, which has been produced under mining rights for the past six months, is used as a cantonment fund for both regiments, and only needs to be handed over 200,000 gold kroner to the Royal Court and the Treasury. Thought these ore, which had been mined for six months, could have filled hundreds of thousands of gold and silver reserves that had been taken away by the Special Envoy, and now it has been discovered that it has made a fortune of nearly one million gold kroner...

This is why Marshal Bolognick is upset, with the Thunder Corps and the Rock Corps only having a six-month mining period. Now that the nobility of the territories where the seven small and medium-sized gold and silver copper mining bases are located is in place, they will not take over until the expiration of the next month, after which the minerals will belong to their traditional family territory. Although half of it is also to be handed over to the Kingdom, it is still based on the books of the former Kingdom of Nasri, after which the aristocracy of these territories will have two to three times the mineral returns.

“Don't forget that our overseas autonomous territories are dominated by gold and silver mineral resources.” Claude warned. Overseas autonomous territories use banknotes for small transactions, which, according to statistics, are worth about 30 million gold kroner, with a significant portion of them being used in the colonies of the West Coast countries.

However, the colonies of the countries of the West Coast did not allow overseas self-governing territories to have branches in their colonies, but gold and silver copper coins could be exchanged in the businesses of the overseas self-governing territories, so banknotes were becoming more and more accessible to the colonies of the countries of the West Coast.

Bai Lu City in the mainland of the Kingdom allowed the overseas Minsheng Bank to open a branch, but none of the kings, but the Wangdu office did play the role of a branch to exchange banknotes and gold and silver copper coins. It's just that the people in Wangdu don't trust banknotes very much. Apart from the businessmen traveling to and from Bai Lu City, it's difficult to promote the application of banknotes among the people in Wangdu.

Ridiculously, in the overseas autonomous territories, they were too lazy to exploit the gold and silver mineral resources of the Rocky Mountain Province to use banknotes. After all, the gold and silver reserves of the overseas Minsheng Bank were sufficient to cover the exchange of banknotes. After the demise of the Kingdom of Nasserli and the Principality of Kanas, the Legion of Thunder and the Rock Army returned the large quantities of gold and silver seized to the Overseas Autonomous Territories, forgetting to set aside more funds for emergency response. It was only here that the purchasing army was best supplied with real gold, silver and copper coins, which nobody wanted to collect.

That's why Marshal Bolognick cares so much about the production of these gold and silver copper mines, where more than 100,000 men and women from both regiments are stationed, and it's not a small sum of money to go out and buy fresh meat-fed fish, vegetable fruit logistics, which costs thousands of gold kroner a month. General Bolognick regretted taking over these duties when he was too generous to let the royal envoy take away so many gold and silver reserves and look at the current royal vault and the royal court, who alone had the most money.

“None of those Hicks prisoners can be sold to the nobles of these kingdoms, and perhaps we will need them to develop our new territory when our parliamentarians from the Overseas Autonomous Territories have come to an end.” Claude said.

On 1 June 601, Frederick I of the Kingdom of Orvilas officially issued a sealed order, approved and implemented by the Lords' Parliament and the National Assembly, granting the kingdom's aristocratic patrimony in the newly occupied Nasserly area. As of 1 August, five hundred and eighty royal nobles had acquired hereditary family territory.

However, the nobles of the Kingdom from the overseas autonomous territories have been quiet and seem to have never heard of this sealing order. The main reason for this is that the Overseas Autonomous Territories are too far from the mainland of the Kingdom for two months. As two regiments of the Autonomous Territory were stationed in the Nasri and Kanas regions and were unable to return to the Overseas Autonomous Territories for a short period of time, the members of the Overseas Autonomous Territories Assembly decided to travel all the way to the northern Gulf of the Kanas region to hold a general meeting in the capital city of Pasteur to discuss the granting of the blockade.

Marshals Claude and Bolognick left the Royal City of Polyvisia only on 20 August to lead the Legion of Thunder to the North Bay. General Albert wrote to Claude in preparation for integration in the North Bay. Since the demise of the Duchy of Kanas, numerous bandits have emerged on the Kanas Prairie, all with large small units, often attacking towns guarded by the Legion of Thunder. General Albert has only one temporary division at his disposal, and he has done his utmost to guard this part of the North Bay.

The Rock Regiment continues to be stationed in the Royal City of Polyvisia, where Claude travelled with all the prisoners and surplus armaments. According to information received from Wang Du, Wang Ting, who has money at his disposal, has joined forces with the United Kingdom Army Department to begin a vigorous integration of the Forbidden Regiment, the Red Dragon Regiment and the Lion Vulture Regiment. His Majesty is said to have compensated the old-fashioned aristocratic power of the three regiments, bringing the Red Dragon Legion and the Lion Vulture Legion back under the control of the Royal Court and the Royal Army Ministry.

His Majesty and the Royal Court paid a heavy price for the retirement of a large proportion of the old-fashioned aristocratic family forces that had acquired hereditary family territory from the three regiments of the Kingdom, who had brought together their close relatives and sons in the Royal Army to form the private arms of their families, so that the influence of the old-fashioned aristocratic family forces had been drastically diminished in the three regiments.

There are rumours that the Red Dragon Regiment will be sent to the Nasserli area after its integration, stationed in the Royal City of Polovicia, replacing the Legion of Thunder and the Rock Regiment. The Legion of the Lizards, on the other hand, will be stationed in the Odin Mountains as a mountain legion, guarding the eastern gates of the kingdom itself. The Guardian Regiment remains in Kingdoms and the Ibnister Plains. There are also reports that His Majesty also wanted to reconstitute the Blue Feather Regiment to guard White Deer City and the coastal zone, but it was objected to by many ministers of the Royal Court who believed that the Blue Feather Regiment was rebellious and should not be reconstituted...