Black Iron’s Glory

Is Chapter 529 really a misunderstanding?

Claude has been thinking about taking over the Kanas area on his way back… Now that the Royal City of Polyvisia is a Rock Corps, Claude can simply order the Rock Corps to detach itself to guard Amis City and the Odin Mountains, plus the Legion of Thunder's control over the Kanas area, the King will never touch the Siddines, Rimodra and Eskirin, plus a Kanas prairie.

That is, as long as the Legion of Thunder and the Legion of Rock in the Overseas Autonomous Territories set up a line of defense in the Odin Mountains and Amis, and then in the Royal City of Polyvisia and the Kanas region, more than a third of the eastern part of the continent will have to say goodbye to the Kingdom of Ovilas, which is the domain of the Overseas Autonomous Territories.

The Odin Mountains are dangerous if Wang wants to attack this line of defense. Only Amis City to the Royal City of Polyvisia and Polyvisia City to the Cannes area will be able to launch the offensive. Unfortunately, however, these two lines of defense are surrounded by noble territories that His Majesty the King has just sealed, and the Royal Army wants to pass through with the prior consent of the Lord and promises to compensate...

This is supposed to be cocoon restraint, Claude. It feels funny. His Majesty and the King must not have expected them to seal so many territorial nobles in the Nasserli region, but they turned out to be the blocking stone to their army's rebellion against the Overseas Autonomous Territories. By the way, can the kingdom really conquer the army? You know, the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion have wiped out nearly 700,000 Allied armies and destroyed the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Kanas...

Claude had a wonderful plan in mind, but could it really be implemented?

In terms of timing and the current situation, the Kingdom of Ovieras simply does not have the strength and the capital to wage war against the Overseas Autonomous Territories. Claude was even confident of the demise of the Kingdom of Ovilas, placing the entire eastern part of the Farea continent under the jurisdiction of the Overseas Autonomous Territories. But is that okay? Claude was very hesitant and skeptical...

If the Overseas Autonomous Territories and the Kingdom of Ovieras are in a state of war now, Claude, in charge of military power, can attack as much as he wants. But now the overseas autonomous territories and kings maintain good relations, which can be said to be normal during the honeymoon. If Claude insisted on attacking the kingdom or cutting off his own land, he would soon be rebellious to the kingdom of Wanfu!

This is the sentiment of the people of the Kingdom of Auvellas, whose rule over the Kingdom of Auvellas for more than three hundred years has allowed all the people of the Kingdom to live as Auvellas, even immigrants from overseas autonomous territories. If you ask an immigrant from an Overseas Autonomous Territory, he will be proud to tell you that he is an Orvillian and that the blood of the Sterling royal family is the king he follows...

So Claude's mind can't reveal any more thoughts, otherwise not only will he be opposed by all ranks of officers, but there will even be instances of soldiers shooting black guns. Even Claude himself, who had fought for the kingdom for more than a decade, had an unconscious military presence in his heart.

Claude met a messenger from General Albert when he walked two days in the middle of nowhere and one day away from Campaster City, the capital of the Northern Gulf region. The messenger brought only a message from General Albert that the kings had changed and that Claude would return as soon as possible to Legion Command Thunder in Campaster City.

Claude had to abandon a large crowd of horses and bring a guard team back to Campaster City with a quick whip. As we entered the Legion Command, General Albert greeted: "We went to the Senators of the King's Landing and to Marshal Bolognick, as well as other marquis officers, such as General Skerry, were placed under house arrest. The 30 million gold kroner's cash was also taken, and the senators who received the Eagle's message are now very angry and are asking us to send troops to attack the King..."

Claude suddenly wanted to laugh. That was a sleepy pillow. That was a good excuse to roll over. He just doesn't understand. Why would Wang Du dare to do something so brainless? As a matter of fact, neither King Frederick I nor the Prime Minister, the Marquis Blancat, are brainless men. How could it be fools to plan a seal, and why would they assume that this would not be retaliated against by the Overseas Autonomous Territories?

For the three newly revamped Guardians, the Red Dragon Corps and the Vulture Corps, they were also equipped with old-fashioned fire rope guns. Even if the fighting power improves, it is not at all an opponent of any regiment in the autonomous territorial military region. The Royal Army Department should be clear on this, but why did it have the nerve to go to the King's councillors and the marquis officers under house arrest? Aren't they afraid that the situation in the kingdom that has just stabilized will be beaten to pieces again?

“Take it easy and tell me what happened.” Claude said.

In fact, the story is very simple, and King Tingsu of the Kingdom of Orvilas has a tradition that on the tenth, twentieth and thirtieth days of the month there will be a grand dynasty meeting, where His Majesty and his wife, together with all the King's ministers, will sum up and decide on the various official duties of the previous ten days. And on normal days, the state matters are handled by the Council of the Kingdoms' Prime Minister, who will also report to His Majesty in the Great Dynasty...

And the other day, at the Great Dynasty meeting on November 10, Marshal Bolognick, General Skerry, Speaker Bennett and President Henderman represented the parliaments and military districts of the overseas autonomous territories in the Great Dynasty. They then bid farewell to His Majesty King Frederick I and Queen Christie at the Great Hall, saying that they were ready to leave the King the following day and return to the Overseas Autonomous Territories.

His Majesty is shocked. Ask them if they want their ancestral lands. Speaker Bennett said it was too expensive and they couldn't afford it, so don't. Prime Minister Blancat hastily set out to tell Marshal Bolognick and General Skerry that they had been promoted to hereditary nobility by war and that they could gain hereditary family territory at no cost...

But what did not occur to the King's ministers present was that Marshal Bolognick and General Skerry, in the presence of His Majesty the King, smiled and refused the free sealed hereditary family territory. They said that Marshal Claude, General Albert and General Beachcline had made the same decision, and that they would stand with all the members of the Overseas Autonomous Territories, the marquis officers and the honorary nobles of the Kingdom, or that they would either all have a territory or none, as a sign of the close solidarity of all the Overseas Autonomous Territories.

The atmosphere was said to be very embarrassing at the time, when Queen Christie opened her mouth at an inappropriate time, and she said that if you had no money, I could lend it to you, so that you could all get a patrimonial family territory.

Speaker Bennett stood up and argued that our Overseas Autonomous Territories were not without money, just that we felt that the deal was not worth it. For a patrimonial territory, we pay a price of 500,000 gold kroner. So even if this patrimonial territory could give us 5,000 gold kroner a year, it would take us a hundred years to get it back.

And it is not fair to our overseas self-governing territories that we have learned that almost all the kingdom nobles who have acquired territory have discounts and benefits, even free of charge. Especially those kingdom nobles who borrowed from Her Majesty the Queen, who were given a 50% to 60% discount. But there is no discount for our overseas autonomous territories, so we refuse this unfair deal...

How dare you call His Majesty's gift a deal? Queen Christie was almost disheartened, as were His Majesty the King and the Prime Minister present, and the King's ministers.

This is indeed a deal. Chairman Henderman also stood up. Isn't it a deal, he said, that we paid for the inheritance of the family from His Majesty the King? The only difference is that the object of the transaction is the king, the commodity is the land, the name is the seal, that is, the notional beauty, but the real essence is still a transaction. It's just that as a buyer we don't think it's a good deal, so we just refuse to buy...

Damn it! Queen Christie is furious, no money is no money, a bunch of poor bastards, overseas buns, you are the only ones who will see the royal gift to you lowlife merchants as a deal! It's the greatest insult to the royal family to have you standing in this noble court, Guard, and throw these cheap merchants out!

General Skerry stood up, and he said with all due respect, Your Majesty, don't forget that it was our bunch of dirt buns from overseas, lowlife merchants, who paid 10 years of taxes and tributes in advance to the Overseas Autonomous Territories during the critical time of the demise of the Kingdom, which supported the Kingdom. It is precisely these two regiments formed by our overseas clans that swept across the eastern part of the continent, destroying the kingdom's dead enemies, the Kingdom of Nasserli, the Principality of Kanas, the Principality of Siddines and the Principality of Rimodra, recovering the loss of land and allowing you and His Majesty the noble King to return to the capital.

We, the lowly businessmen, have concluded an agreement with His Majesty, the noble King, to destroy the Allied armies and to extend the Kingdom's territory to the entire eastern part of the country, which is now stationed for free in the new occupation of the Kingdom. We are truly grateful to the royal family for the grace it has bestowed upon us. So come to Wangdu this time, we also bring full sincerity, you can check on the balcony to see if we don't have money...

The palace lobby of the King's Palace is built on a stone hill, about five metres from the square below. The square is a waiting place for ministers who come to deliberate, except today it is occupied by sixty large iron wooden boxes brought by overseas autonomous parliamentarians. Each of the big iron boxes stood next to four tall court guards, who were responsible for the King's security, and the big iron wooden boxes were locked, unable to open and inspect, and had to be guarded by the boxes.

If Speaker Bennett insists on moving these large iron wooden boxes into the deliberation hall, he must first open them for inspection by the King's guards. But putting it in the square more than twenty metres from the upper chamber is fine. It's just that a lot of the lively minister waitresses around the square and the servant maids in the palace are speculating about what's in these big iron crates, so heavy...

“It is said that the overseas buns are to be kept here for His Majesty's sake, wondering if they are filled with gold coins?” A servant has guessed the truth, but he doesn't know it.

Indeed, his guess was ridiculed and cynical by his peers: "Pull it down, how can it be filled with gold coins? There are hundreds of thousands of gold coins in a box this big. How can those overseas buns be so rich? Look at these 60 big boxes. ”

“The last time I followed my lord to the treasury, I saw those iron suitcases with gold coins that were twice the size of this one. They said they could contain a million gold kroner. It's just that I've never seen a box filled with gold coins, and it's all filled with gold coins underneath, and the guy in the vault used a big iron spoon to get gold coins in an iron suitcase..." another lively waiter said.

“Hey, you said you could hide two or three soldiers in a box this big. Do you think the overseas packs are trying to rebel, hiding soldiers in these big boxes, ready to rush out and murder His Majesty the King and his ministers?” The speculation has begun to be outrageous.

At this time, the side doors of the Hall of Proceedings exited four representatives of the Overseas Autonomous Territories, as well as several curious ministers. This side door comes out on a very large balcony, where several ministers sometimes drink afternoon tea and take a break from the warm sun. Standing on the balcony you can clearly see the grass and trees in the square below...

“Open the box!” General Scully drinks on the balcony.

Five or six guards in brown and grey uniforms from the autonomous military region came to the square with a string of keys in their hand, and went to the side of the big iron wooden box to unlock it, and said to the guard of the palace standing next to them: "Brothers, I'll open the box cover. You all watch out, don't be taken advantage of, otherwise you can't assume this responsibility..."

A guard was about to turn his lips against each other, but by then the guard with the key had unlocked the lock and lifted the box lid, which was shining a bright golden glow as the sun approached noon. The guard, along with his three companions, was stunned at the moment, and the shouts that came around them reached their ears: "Gold, all gold coins, all gold kroner, for God's sake, how much is this? ”

“Not one case. These boxes are full of gold kroner! Oh, my God, I'm not crazy! Are all these 60 big boxes filled with gold coins? ”

Congratulations, that's correct, unfortunately no reward...

To be honest, it is not that no minister of the kingdom has not seen enormous sums of money. As Prime Minister of the kingdom, the Marquis Blancat has handled 10 million gold kroner denominated national bank exchange papers, not one or two. It's just this huge face value exchange volume dedicated to the revolving accounting of the various administrative departments of the Kingdom. It feels light to get more. It's nothing more than a few pieces of paper with exaggerated face value. Even if you take it outside, it won't be used as money...

But now it's in these sixty big iron wooden boxes in the square below, filled with bright, shiny golden clones. Under the sunlight, the whole square seemed covered in golden light. Whether it's the king and queen, the prime minister of the kingdom and the royal ministers who look down on the balcony above, even the surrounding audience and palace guards around the square are almost completely obsessed with this charming golden light...

“Pfft! Pfft!” Two crisp applause sounded, and the guards who stood at the edge of the square ran up again, this time one by one, putting the boxes under cover and re-locking them. After all the sixty large iron wooden boxes in the square have been recapped, you can still see the intriguing look on everyone's face and eyes.

“Here are sixty large boxes of iron and wood filled with gold kroner, each containing half a million gold kroner in cash, for a total of 30 million gold kroner.” Speaker Bennett said, "This is all the reserves in our Overseas Autonomous People's Living Bank, and we brought all the gold coins to show our sincerity.

Unfortunately, we had no idea that so-called martial fees and land selection fees would be so expensive that it would mean nothing to us to get a patrimonial family territory at such a high price. Parliamentarians from our overseas autonomous territories do come from shitty businessmen, but we businessmen also have our own vision.

Perhaps we will never be noble kingdom nobles, but we agree that instead of investing so much wealth in the acquisition of any hereditary family territory, it would be more meaningful to invest in an overseas self-governing territory, run an extra manufacturing workshop, build an extra school, and buy an extra Ironclad warship than a hereditary family territory.

Therefore, Your Majesty, we have placed on this square sixty large boxes filled with gold coins, not to show our riches, but to express our sincerity. It is just unfortunate that we are unable to reach an agreement. Tomorrow we are on our way back. How do we get these big boxes? How do we get them back... "

After placing a spectrum in front of everyone, Speaker Bennett, Marshal Bolognick, Chairman Henderman and four representatives of the Autonomous Territory, General Skerry, bowed down and escorted the sixty large boxes filled with Kim Krone back to the offices of the Overseas Autonomous Territories Defending the King.

“But that evening, the guards of the palace, by order of Queen Christie, seized all the members of the Overseas Autonomous Territories' legislators and marshals, not even Marshal Bolognick. They were all taken to the Red Rock Fortress in the Royal Court, which, as everyone knows, is the prison dungeon in the palace. Those royal guards came to arrest the senators and the marquis officers on the pretext that they had slandered the honour of the king and queen behind their backs and were treacherous..."

General Albert wrote with a message from Eagle: "This is a message from another dark line in Wangdu. Our overseas autonomous territory's resident Wangdu office has been sealed off. The 30 million gold kroner has also been transported by the guards of the palace, all of which should be transported to the palace. ”

“Have the senators heard the news?” Claude asked.

“Yes,” General Albert laughed bitterly, "the legislators and honorary nobles of the kingdoms who stayed here have seen the news from the Kings and are outraged, demanding that two regiments from our military region immediately deploy to the Kings. At that time, however, we received an autographed hawk message from His Majesty the King and a hawk message from Prime Minister Marquis Blancat.

The two of them wrote that it was just a misunderstanding, because the 30 million gold kroner our legislators were carrying was exposed to the square, and the whole king's people knew it. In order to ensure the safety of all personnel, they even invited the guards of the Night Palace to enter the Palace, even the funds were shipped over, mainly because they didn't want Xiao Xiao's younger generations to have a chance... "