Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 572: Albert's past

When Claude was declared Baron Emeritus of the Kingdom by his predecessor King Sterling X for his work in overseas self-government, he chose the word Han to commemorate his previous life. Of course, the external statement was not to forget the promotion of Prince Hansburg, which chose the first word of the great prince's name as a gift. From that moment on, Claude's full name was Claude. Baron Han Field, a member of the royal family of kingdoms.

As Claude's relatives, his mother, wife, sister, and brother all share Claude's glory, because they are immediate family members, so they can also add this gift to their names. With the advancement of Claude's status and title, this Chinese character has become the symbol of the Fields family, even Claude has made a badge for his family, and has chosen only one Chinese character in the middle of a Phnom Penh shield, which looks simple and clear.

But now Albert comes to visit, and the poster he submits says it's Albert. The full name of Viscount Sandfield, which surprised Claude so much, when did the family of Fields change to Sandfield, how did they not know? Besides, as an honorary nobleman of the kingdom who pays royalty and land selection fees, didn't you promote yourself to the title of hereditary baron? So how did Albert put the title on the name tag as Viscount, and what happened to it?

“Oh, Claude, that's what Mother meant...” Albert smiled and replied in a glamorous manner: "Mother said it was Father's honour to open a new route for the kingdom that gave us the Family of Fields today, so she asked His Majesty the King to change the word of gift to san in Father's name to commemorate our Father. But His Majesty said to change the word you must first ask your permission, so my mother only changed her and my word..."

Claude smiled and looked cold: "Understandably, Mother, this was supposed to be a plan, perhaps in her view, to bring the Fields back to normal. After all, now that you have your eldest son, you can succeed to the family business with good words. I believe she should be very satisfied. Come on, what are you looking for? ”

Albert looked at Claude and lowered his head sincerely to apologize: "Claude, because I was young, I didn't do my elder brother's duty, and I treated you brothers and sisters very harshly. After all these years, I regret it. But I'm glad to hear you're doing well. This visit is to admit to you the mistakes you made when you were younger, and to ask me for your help..."

Claude shook his head with a smile: "Come on, what does Mother want me to do for you? I knew she wouldn't think of us without it. As for you admitting you were wrong, forget it, we're not honored to have an elder brother like you. Albert, you can cheat on your mother, but you can't cheat on us. In fact, Mother changed the words to make it easier for us, and now we are no longer family with you..."

Claude was right. Mother changed her words to mean in her heart, Son. Fields is home, and Han. Fields is a division. Different words mean that the Fields are artificially divided, and Claude is convinced that both his sister and brother are willing to follow him, and that they will not change the words. By the way, my brother could be a man again. Fields' last name, the last time he gave up his family name and title because his mother killed Adele, now Claude can ask him to come back.

“No, no, no, Claude, people change.” Albert hastily said, "I did apologize to you, but it was because I was young and I didn't see it, and I thought of White Deer Town as my whole world. After many years of travelling to the Farea continent, it was finally understood that it was his brothers who depended most on him. Even if we give words differently, our blood ties are still there because we all have our father's blood...”

Claude stretched out an index finger and put it in front of Albert, indicating that he didn't want to talk nonsense: “I'm busy, I don't have time for this nonsense, just say what Mother wants you to do...”

As the supreme head of the Autonomous Territory, Claude had his own authority, and with the royal marshal, the halo of the hereditary Count, Albert was afraid to climb any more brotherly affection in front of Claude. He kept smiling, but his shape began to shrink, and when he came in, his body was pulled out and he was a gentleman.

“Yes, here's the thing...” Albert said with a smile: "Mother wants you to pay a million gold kroner in debt to Her Majesty, and then give some support to the family territory. She also wrote a list for me to give to you..."

Albert pulled a fine parchment out of his arms and placed it in front of Claude.

Claude was laughed at: "I wonder why other people's martial fees and land selection fees add up to 500,000 gold kroner, while mothers ask for a million. ”

“Because her mother said her father's impoundment was an honorary Viscount, she spent another 500,000 gold kroner to help Her Majesty elevate the title of the hereditary Baron to Viscount, so that the acquired family territory could be larger...” explains Albert.

Can you still do that? The King and Her Majesty are so rich. Claude was impressed that he had mobilized the Thunder Corps and the Storm Corps to rob money from the Kingdom of Hicks, and that eight Hicks Return Division Corps had conspired with the Kingdom of Breot to develop the Kingdom's offensive plan, wasting so much human and material resources, and that the cooperation of such a large ocean transport fleet and the Ironclad fleet would make it possible to obtain tens of millions of gold kroneers' worth of money.

The King and Her Majesty stayed in the palace and touched her upper and lower lips, pulling out half a million more gold kroner from her mother. If this information comes out, it is believed that more barons in the Kingdom will be willing to pay half a million gold kroner to promote their title to Viscount. Because the hereditary family territory granted by the Viscount consists of one town and two villages, while the Baron's hereditary family territory has only one village, like the Squirrel Village of that year, if it is not lucky.

“I will not pay for this money, and I will not have a million gold kroner in all my household assets.” Claude turned down his mother's request outright: "Since you're going to inherit this Son, Viscount Fields' title, then you are responsible for this debt, which has nothing to do with us! ”

Is there a way to crash a son's mother? Claude wanted to look up and sigh, and he remembered himself when he spent the money. And who cares if his father, Mr. Morsan, opens a new route to the kingdom without his own struggle and current status? Perhaps she tolerates too much of her mother's nonsense, and she has become the joke of the kingdom without knowing it.

Whoever had the debt of one million gold kroner on his head was uncomfortable, Claude even doubted that the Viscount's annual output would be sufficient to repay the interest of that million gold kroner. Albert was in a hurry: "Why didn't you, Mother, say that you could easily get two or three million gold kroner by mortgaging the shares of the tobacco factory, and that the tobacco factory was not family property? Mother is now also paying off the debts of the family territory..."

“Oh...” Claude grinned. “What's this tobacco factory got to do with my mother? Has she done anything about it? And this tobacco factory belongs to Han. The Fields' estate, not Son. The Fields family industry, I hope Mother understands this...”

Claude grabbed the parchment paper on the table and smiled once again: "Why would she use 3,000 new rifles to stop a hijacking? Ten thousand sheep, a thousand cows, two luxury carriages, eight beautiful palace utensils and two carriages of luxury decorations, and I give her ten thousand gold kroner a month's allowance. What does she think of me as? The National Bank? ”

“Well, the nobles who came back from the Kingdom of Hicks said that you had made a fortune this time, taking away the kingdom of Hicks in the Wangjing area and the city of San Hiplian in Wangjing, unlike they could only be tormented in the western county of Bighaha. They say you can get at least tens of millions of gold kroner, so the mother only asks you to make a small profit…” Albert was scared in the face of Claude's anger and quickly explained.

“Is this a small profit share? Claude Bang slaps on parchment paper:" This is a lion opening, you understand? Do you think those seizures belong to me? I'm telling you, if I give this stuff to my mother, I'm going to military court tomorrow! ”

“But aren't you the royal marshal, the supreme commander of the autonomous military region?” Poor Albert does not understand the rules and regulations of the Autonomous Territory, and in his view, since Claude is the Supreme Commander, he is in charge, and what is needed is only a matter of words. If it were true as he thought, then Marshal Bolognick would not have stepped down because he had promised to trade arms with the kingdom itself.

“Forget it, I can't make it clear to you, you don't understand anyway.” Claude ignores the blushing Albert: “Come on, what do you want 3,000 new rifles for? ”

What's behind the parchment list is understandably nothing more than a mother trying to show off, but the demands of the 3,000 new rifles in front are strange, which can't be what she meant, but what Albert claimed. Claude wants to know why he wants a new rifle.

“This, this,” Albert stuck around for half a day: "I just wanted to form a family escort so that I could get some money on the battlefield like those aristocrats in the future..."

“Huh...” Claude laughed again, never mind, it's pointless, send this Albert away sooner: “Do you know how much it costs to raise a soldier? Three thousand new rifles, you're trying to rebel. A Viscount Territory has formed a battalion of more than 200 people, the territory can't be eaten. Do you still want to raise thousands of soldiers to wage war? You think a colonial gunshot is a qualified soldier? Don't you worry that your usual abuse of them will make him hate you and give you a shot in the back? Beautiful thought...”

Claudella pulled Lin by the desk, and soon Captain Faherring pushed in: "Marshal, what can I do for you, please direct..."

“Captain, you have my salary and everything. How much is it?” Claude asked.

“From last year until now, I have your payroll benefit subsidy and year-end bonus, totaling 13,528 gold kroner, and I have detailed billing records here.” Captain Fahselin replied.

“Go get ten thousand gold kroner bills. ”

“Yes." Captain Faherring went out for a while and quickly returned with ten bills denominated in thousands of gold kroner.

“Albert, this 10,000 crowns was my last grant to my mother.” Claude rubbed his temple and felt tired: “Now that my mother has decided to split up, I won't say anything, so let you inherit Son. The Fields have nothing to do with me anymore. As for this list, I'll make it up to you to go back to the past. ”

“Captain Faherling, you take him," Claude pointed to Albert: “Go to Logistics, pick one out of the captured Royal Carriage, and get two beautiful sets of court utensils and utensils. Then go to the Armaments Department and get him a thousand pieces of ammunition from the firewire guns produced by the captured Kingdom of Hicks. All expenses are deducted from my payroll, I believe that more than 3,000 gold kroner should be enough to pay this bill..."

Albert wanted to say something else, but Claude didn't give him a chance to just let him go.

Colonel Boquer pushed in and went to the liquor cabinet to pick his own wine: “What's wrong with you, you look tired..."

“Heartbeat...” Claude leaned against the back of the chair with his eyes closed: “You bastard came back to steal wine and drink again, didn't you notice that you were getting fat again? ”

Colonel Boquer poured himself a glass of fruit wine: "Wasn't that Albert? I looked so far away...”

As Claude's teenager friend, Colonel Bockard naturally knew Albert, the big brother who was not in harmony with Claude.

Claude nodded and whispered Albert's intention.

“Your mother, alas...” Colonel Bockard shook his head: "I don't know what to say, but if we split up, they won't bother you anymore. But, Claude, I want to remind you that Albert may cause you trouble. I remember that Similoch County had issued a wanted warrant against him and it should not have been cancelled by now..."

Claude stunned and opened his eyes: “What are you talking about? Albert is wanted. What did he do? Why would Similoch want him? ”

West Milloch County is one of the three southwest counties, and Balearia County, separated from White Deer City, is remote and conservative. Claude remembers Bok Al's aunt marrying him to this county, and his uncle's family was very promising in West Miloque County, sort of a local ho.

“Didn't I go to West Milloch County to serve in the Bungellian Guard Battalion? Subsequently, the first regional war broke out in the east, and we were the second group of armed guards to be deployed to the front line. Just days before departure, there was a fraudulent marriage in the county city of Bongilia, where the Baroness Audrey, who had been single for many years, had been swept away from most of her estate by a fraudster, causing a great deal of wind and became a well-known local case.

The liar, Captain Gerard, is said to be a logistics officer from the Royal Army Department, who came to West Miloque County to investigate the quality of the supply of frontline armaments. Then he met Baroness Audrey, 34, and fell in love. A month later, they decided to marry, but waited for Captain Wang Dugelat's parents and relatives to come to the wedding. At this point, Baroness Audrey took out half of her household assets to advance due to a shortage of funds for the procurement of armaments...

As a result, two days before the marriage, Captain Gerard suddenly disappeared. At that time, Baroness Audrey thought he had urgent military service and rushed to contact the Royal Army Department, but the reply was that no such person had been identified. That's when everyone noticed something was wrong, and after a closer look they all fell for it, this Captain Gerrard was a liar and took half of Baroness Audrey's property. So this con artist's portrait was on the wanted list, and I went to check it out and found out that he was Albert.

And then I went to the front line, and after the First Eastern War, I went back to West Miloque County to be the battalion commander of the Banguilia Guard Battalion. On one occasion, at a banquet, the con man was told that the Baroness Audrey was ashamed and, three months after the warrant was suspended, she voluntarily withdrew the warrant, but was secretly pursuing the con man Captain Gerrard... "Colonel Bockard told a story more than a decade ago.

“Are you sure that Captain Gerard is Albert?” Claude frowned and asked.

“You should know what I'm looking at.” Colonel Boquer said, "I look at people and see things with great precision, and I can't go wrong. And I've known Albert since I was a kid. Don't you know what he looks like? Although there was a little distortion in the portrait of Captain Gerrard on the warrant and he was still in uniform, I knew he was Albert at first glance.

And Albert had been out of White Deer for exactly two years, and you mentioned it in your letter that year, and he left you without knowing where you were, that is, your mother asked people to look around for information about him. Nobody noticed him in White Deer Town, he became the personal secretary of the Fortune Jazz, stayed in the estate every day, the average businessman didn't remember him, so he was wanted in West Millock County and nobody knew his roots.

But the Baroness Audrey is still here, and if they meet, she'll recognize Albert. I have heard that Baroness Audrey has no intention of obtaining family territory from His Majesty the King and has been staying in a manor on the outskirts of Banguilla County, where she is likely to spend the rest of her life. As for anyone else who has seen Captain Gerrard, perhaps he has forgotten about it, so Albert is fine now, but just in case... "

Claude nodded and understood Colonel Boquer's reminder that, in the unlikely event of this breaking up, the eldest brother of the royal marshal was a wanted man for fraudulent marriage, which would still be a scandal...

“Stop talking about it.” Claude shifted the subject: “Didn't you come to me just for a drink? ”

“Oh, I almost forgot.” Colonel Boquer said, "I just got word from the North, and I'll be right back to report to you. ”