Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 532 Needlepoint Conversation

The atmosphere in the tent calmed down when Claude's mouth said that after the war, there would be no more Sterling royal phrases. Chancellor Blanchard just smiled and watched Claude not speak, while General Albert looked at Claude, and at Chancellor Blanchard, and couldn't say what he wanted to say. As for Claude, keep a close eye on Prime Minister Blanchard's face and watch his face change...

I don't know how long it took, it seemed long, it seemed short, and just as General Albert was so desperate to shout in this repressed atmosphere, Prime Minister Blanchard finally put an empty cup on the table: "One more..."

As if the balloon had been needled and the air had leaked out, Prime Minister Blanchard said that there was no longer that tension and repression in the tent. Claudette quietly opened the remaining bottle of fruit wine and slowly poured the orange yellow clear drink into Prime Minister Blanchard's empty glass.

Chancellor Blanchard picked up the glass slowly, Claude didn't speak, filled his glass with fruit wine, and placed the remaining half bottle of fruit wine in front of General Albert, indicating his convenience. General Albert didn't pour the fruit wine into his empty glass, he grabbed the bottle and poured it down his mouth...

Instead of finishing his fruit wine this time, Chancellor Blanchard looked at Claude with just a few sips: “What do you think would happen if the Kingdom of Orvillas lost the Sterling royal family? ”

Claude shook his head: "I don't care about the consequences, even if the kingdom gets worse, it's none of my business. Because we were all back in the Overseas Autonomous Territories, we couldn't control the future of the kingdom...”

“In fact, these things can be deduced.” Prime Minister Blancat laughed: “First of all, your army of overseas autonomous leaders will become foreign aggressors because you took over the capital and lost the Sterling royal family. Then all the noble factions of the kingdom will renounce strife, unite and call upon the people of the kingdom to resist your invaders from the overseas autonomous territories, as well as the crimes of killing the king and his wife and the Sterling royal family.

From victory over the Allied armies, you will help the kingdom unify the heroes of the eastern region, become rebellions in the hearts and minds of the people of the kingdom and the culprits who will once again bring the kingdom into the midst of war and bloody storms. You will not be able to stay in the eastern part of the country for long, even if you use your strength to suppress a sudden uprising of the people of the Kingdom. Because you have only two regiments, you have no control over a territory as large as the kingdom is now.

I can't imagine under what name and under what pretext you would rule such a great kingdom after you took possession of Wang Du. With the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion, the only thing you can control is the kingdom itself, and you are faced with this tumultuous rebellion. So, the Kanas Prairie, Eskirin, Remodela and Siddins, are you ready to give up? So what's the point of winning the Second Eastern World War?

We in the Kingdom of Ovilas have not had time to rejuvenate our kingdom since the end of the First Eastern War. From the colonial wars provoked by the Kingdom of Hicks to the civil wars in the kingdom in which the two kings fought, to the debt wars and the Second Eastern War now taking place following the mutiny of His Majesty Frederick I, the people of the kingdom have endured the ordeal of war, and they are eager to live in peace and tranquillity and no one wants to continue the war.

So His Majesty maintains the utmost goodwill and tolerance for you soldiers entering the kings, and he trusts that your overseas autonomous leaders will not undermine this hard-won peace, which is why I am here as Prime Minister of the Kingdom to welcome your army. If you use a small misunderstanding as a pretext for waging war and undermining the peace situation in the Kingdom, I am confident that the people of the Kingdom will be disappointed and angry at your overseas autonomous territories, who will spontaneously rise up to resist.

The kings of today are for you an unprotected city. You can totally rush in, kill, rob, set fire, commit adultery. Just as the Allied armies have done evil, you can do it again, so that the entire people of the king can once again fall into a tragic world of water and fire. If this is your wish, then I congratulate you, you will soon be able to achieve it. Your Majesty, the King's Majesty, His Majesty the King's Majesty, including myself, and the people of the King's capital will be at your disposal... "

“Uh..." General Albert jumped directly from the chair: “My Prime Minister, our Thunder Regiment is not an enemy of the kingdom, please do not describe us as that coalition army, we the generals of the Thunder Regiment will never do anything against the King's people that violates military discipline. We are soldiers of the Overseas Autonomous Territories, not criminals...”

Claude could only shake his head and smile in silence for General Albert's poor political intelligence. Can't he hear that it was Prime Minister Blanchard's intimidation, responding precisely to Claude's statement that after the First World War there was no more threat from the Sterling royal family?

“Since kings are unprotected cities, believe that we will not encounter resistance tomorrow when we enter the city. This is a good thing, and I am sure we will soon be able to accomplish our task of escorting parliamentarians and representatives of the marquis officers of our overseas autonomous territories, as well as the enormous sum of KK 30 million on the way home.” Claude looks at Prime Minister Blancard and raises his glass:

“If our Members of Parliament and the representatives of the Duke's Officers have not been physically harmed and the sum of 30 million gold kroner is not bad, I am sure that the misunderstandings that His Majesty the King said in his letter are true. Her Majesty also transferred them and their funds to the royal palace in the interest of the physical safety of our parliamentarians and officers' representatives. It's understandable that a little mistake should be made during this period, don't you think, my Lord Prime Minister? ”

Now the smile of Chancellor Blanchard became bitter. He dodged Claude's eyes, lifted his glass and swallowed all the fruit wine with a big mouthful of mouth, and said with a reluctant smile: “Actually, the palace guards sent to help him that night were in such a hurry to fulfill His Majesty's orders, did not explain clearly to your people, so much so that there was a little conflict with your senators and officers' representatives that several people were injured, but I assured them they were not in any danger of life..."

Claude snorted coldly and put the glass on the table: "Let's be honest about what happened that night, and we all know what the excuse is, don't mention it. All I want to know is how many of us have been injured, how many are safe and how many are still in prison.

You can say nothing now, but tomorrow when we get into town, we'll find out the truth soon, and then don't blame us for revenge without saying hello. Because first of all, you lied to us and hid the truth... "

“Marshal, we in the Farea mainland have a saying that you have heard.” Prime Minister Blanchard said very sincerely:

“This sentence does not mean that you, as a prince, cannot blame the king face to face for his fault. Instead of accusing the king of making such a mistake after his mistake, it is his duty as a prince to respond positively to this situation and to minimize and eliminate the serious consequences of his mistake.

As you and I both know, what His Majesty has said in his letter is indeed an excuse, but he is also helpless. After all, it was Her Majesty the Queen, his wife and the Prince's mother who made the mistake, and now she is pregnant and cannot be greatly stimulated.

So even if she made such a big mistake, His Majesty could only put up with her anger and tidy up for her. Like a normal family, there are conflicts and quarrels between husband and wife sometimes, but this time things get a little bigger...

I know that your overseas autonomous leaders are very dissatisfied with the refusal of His Majesty to grant you discounts and benefits, but what you do not understand is that it is not His Majesty and the Prime Minister of this kingdom who do not give discounts and preferences, but that we have no choice.

Do you know how many royal aristocrats are strongly opposed to giving the same treatment to your overseas autonomous territories after they have gained hereditary family territory? For His Majesty and the Prime Minister of my kingdom, the pressure is so great that it is not easy to qualify your overseas autonomous territories for a seal without discounts and preferential conditions.

In one way or another, the benefits to His Majesty and to the Treasury of a sealed order are so great that many royal aristocratic families are blinded. By the time we have easily repaid the enormous amounts owed over the years, as well as the loans made from various noble families, there will be little money left in the treasury.

This is not enough for the new kingdom to support the implementation of my Kingdom's economic recovery programme, so we can only focus our ideas on the traditionally wealthy Overseas Autonomous Territories, hoping that the martial fees and land selection fees obtained from you will solve this funding challenge.

Frankly, this is the best time to revive the kingdom, and His Majesty used the seal to lift the economic, political and military constraints imposed on the kingdom by the old-fashioned aristocratic family forces.

Remove a large number of old noble family members from the army, truly and accurately control the Red Dragon, the Lion Vulture, guard the direct authority of these three regiments, and don't worry about another mutiny or anything. The only lack is the substantial funding for the implementation of the Royal Economic Recovery Programme.

But what we can't imagine is that your parliamentarians and representatives of the overseas autonomous territories consider this so unfair that they refuse to accept the seal of a hereditary family territory and place the enormous sum of money that they carry in the small square in front of the palace, which shook up the entire king.

His Majesty and I, the Prime Minister, have no idea about this money, although we are blind to your enormous sums. Only when Her Majesty was angry at the disrespect of your four delegates at the King's Majesty's dynasty meeting and tried to solve His Majesty's plight and lack of funds, did he make the mistake of sending his own palace guards to your office in the King's capital... "

“You Shut Up 1” Claude Yang stopped General Albert, who was about to speak, and this guy was almost suddenly ignored by the truly full words of the Prime Minister. Claude was terrified of what he promised when his brain slapped his chest...

Watching General Albert shut his mouth with grief, Claude turned to Prime Minister Blanchard, and his eyes slowly turned sharp: "My Lord Prime Minister, as a soldier of the Overseas Autonomous Territories, I wonder how much mistake our esteemed Queen made that night, and how much harm did her royal palace guards inflict on our legislators and officers' representatives of the Autonomous Territories?

I do not want to know how much His Majesty the Wise King has lost in his efforts to revive the Kingdom's economy, nor how much help and significance this enormous sum of 30 million gold kroner brought to the Kingdom by our Autonomous Leaders will have for the Kingdom. In my view, it's actually very simple, as Chairman Henderman said at the King's Day, and it's actually a deal. If the price is too tight today, the deal will naturally fail.

If it is a general commercial transaction, one party offers too much, one party pays too little, and the two sides can only beat each other apart, which is normal, if you like, no one can blame anyone. It's just that we overseas self-governing leaders, this time dealing with His Majesty the King, who, in the absence of a bargain, we believe is too high to abandon the deal. And even to show our sincerity, I wanted to show you the money that we brought.

It did not occur to us that you would meet with financial interests, capture our legislators and representatives of the Duke's officers, rob us of the enormous sum of 30 million gold kroner that we had brought with us, and seal off the offices of our overseas self-governing king's capital. Is that what a king and queen can do? If our Autonomous Lords didn't have a strong army, I'm sure our people would have suffocated to death in their cells, and you'd feel comfortable enjoying our money...

Prime Minister, you have just spoken to us with a lot of hearts and minds, and it sounds like we should forgive you for your mistakes, understand your difficulties and understand your helplessness. But after half a day, you still haven't answered our most important question. Let's open the door and talk about the resolution of this incident. What do you want to do about it?

The first thing we want to know is what happens to our people right now, they're dead or alive, and the Prime Minister has to give us an account of our overseas autonomous territories. Secondly, the wealth that belongs to us must be returned in pennies, because it belongs to the Autonomous Territories. Thirdly, we would like to know whether His Majesty the Queen, who did the wrong thing, will be punished and what kind of punishment. Finally, does His Majesty have a programme of compensation for us? ”

Chancellor Blanchard's smile was going to hang on his face, and Claude simply ignored his words, referring only to the core issues, which made him feel very uncomfortable. But he couldn't help but, since he was ready to come and greet, eventually he couldn't avoid the most critical questions…

“I'm sorry..." Prime Minister Blancat lowered his head with thick brown hair: "The day the guard of the Imperial Palace was ordered to go to your royal capital office, his attitude was somewhat brutal and a little clash ensued with your senators and the representatives of the marquis officers. Both sides used weapons, which were good for stopping quickly and did not cause significant casualties.

Fortunately, only forty-seven of your deputies and representatives of the Duke have been injured and are now receiving the best treatment without any risk to their lives. And the original office personnel and a large group of guard soldiers, stopped by Marshal Bolognick, were not involved in the conflict, they were simply handed over their weapons and are now under house arrest in the military barracks... "

Claude's mouth slowly snapped upwards, revealing a ridiculous smile: "I do not understand, Prime Minister, whether our parliamentarians and officers' representatives were injured in the conflict or by torture after being arrested? We went to nearly a hundred delegates, and almost half of them were injured, and that doesn't make any difference to the little conflict you're claiming?

If injured in the conflict, even Marshal Bolognick would not be able to stop the guards from fighting back, otherwise they would be negligent and subject to military justice. It is only after their capture that they are unable to resist that so many members of Parliament and representatives of the Duke's army are injured, and there is nothing the guards can do... "

“This is mainly because after the arrest of your MPs and officers' representatives, and because of the offense to the words of His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen, which led the guards of the palace to inflict some physical punishment on them in anger, which caused so many injuries...” Prime Minister Blancat explained...

“Huh...” Claude chuckled: “If we hadn't sent a hawk message afterwards telling you that no one would have had the right to use that enormous sum of 30 million gold kroner without me and Alan and Birk signing it, I'm sure we'd have more than 60 of our overseas autonomous hereditary aristocrats fresh out, and that money would have fallen into your backpacks as their martial fees and land selection fees, wouldn't it? ”

“No...” Prime Minister Blancat reluctantly argued: "We do need your enormous sum of money to implement a programme to rehabilitate the Kingdom's economy, but His Majesty and I, the Prime Minister, will not use your autonomous money automatically. His Majesty the Queen has made a mistake, and His Majesty is trying to eliminate the impact of that mistake.

None of us want a war to take place because of this little mistake, thus cutting off the opportunity for the Kingdom to be revived. Even if we need money, we can borrow it from you autonomously, or we can borrow it from you instead of using deception to get your money... "

“So how do you punish the queen who made this mistake?” Claude asked again.

Prime Minister Blanchard opened his mouth to say what he wanted to say and finally lowered his head in vain: “You know, Marshal Claude, Her Majesty the Queen is pregnant, this is her second child with Her Majesty the King, so we can't blame or punish her..."