Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 576 Documents and Litigation

For Claude, the Six Kingdoms offensive has been completed, and the rest of the military is all trivial and boring. General Albert is presiding over the handover of the 10 western counties by transferring ownership and jurisdiction of those 10 western counties to the three surrounding countries. While the Storm Regiment suppresses the resistance of the local population, it helps the Hicks Return Division officers and soldiers to find their families and relatives. Another thing is to capture local officials, territorial nobles and wealthy businessmen and rob families...

Claude was relieved that General Zigfitt, head of the Department of Logistics, was responsible for all matters relating to the lease of Port Patcala from the Kingdom of Breot. General Zigfitt is currently making ambitious plans to use adequate human resources to reclaim the wasteland outside the city of Port Patcala as the future granary, vegetable garden and pasture of Port Patcala. Nothing here requires Claude to break his head, and Claude expressed great satisfaction.

The only thing related to the fighting was also taken over by the Ministry of Military Intelligence, where Colonel Boquer personally took hostages at the Grand Duke Sunset camp to increase mutual trust between the two sides. However, the resulting battlefield confrontation will continue for two or three months, during which time the two sides harass each other's camps, small-scale indiscriminate and wasteful ammunition will be consumed and gunfire will be loud, with few casualties. And the Grand Duke of the Sunset River is everywhere preaching that he is resolutely resisting attacks by invading enemies against his Legion Defense Front...

The Red Dragon Regiment has packed its bags and is ready to go home. Claude also needs to send a division of the Thunder Regiment to escort him, which is actually surveillance. Claude instructed the Kingdom of Breot to send a note to the Red Dragon Regiment in preparation for closing this passage from the Kingdom of Dombamak to the Kingdom of the Hicks. Forcing the Red Dragon Army to unite to end its journey to the Kingdom of Hicks and to leave early was a source of dissatisfaction for the officers and soldiers of the Red Dragon Army.

A division of the Legion of Thunder was sent to escort the Legion of Red Dragons away, and Claude was also there to guard against irreparable disputes over the passage of the Legion of Red Dragons who were reluctant to be forced to withdraw. Fortunately, the Red Dragon Corps, which attacked four counties in the central part of the Hicks kingdom, also harvested as many as six hundred various wagon cattle trucks filled with loot they had seized and scratched. With these gains, the Red Dragon Regiment Sergeant performed fairly honestly on the way back and did not harass the local towns much...

The Grand Duke of the North maintained his credibility, and since the Ministry of Military Intelligence had sent all the persons on the list he had requested, together with the relatives who had been arrested, to the North, 11 counties in the North had merely tightened border guards, admitted refugees who had fled some of the counties in the West, and had not mobilized local guards with movement and signs of troop movements in the North. Agents' debriefing allowed Claude to put his guard down...

This is not Claude's fear of rivalry with the Grand Duke of the North, but his perception that the invasion of the Kingdom of the Hicks is nearing its end and that there is no need to make any further waves. Fortunately, the Grand Duke of the North was a wise man and did not wish to waste his strength on the autonomous military region. Both sides maintained silent tacit agreements. Claude was confident that, once the autonomous territories had begun to withdraw, the Grand Duke of the North would immediately mobilize war in order to maximize post-war gains.

But this has nothing to do with the autonomous military region, and the rest is to see if the forces of the national army can withstand the attack of the Grand Duke of the North. Currently the head of the Guardian Army, Muriels. Count Jack Christer has broken up the Facklin Legion and recruited young men from the locality to form the First and Second Corps of the Guardian National Army, bringing new recruits with veterans and maintaining local social order for the first time. For more than six months, the National Guard has been in strong control of its ten local counties.

The remaining 10 local counties in the centre, with the withdrawal of the Red Dragon Corps, have also handed over local jurisdiction to a small team of the Road Party, even in Lupucis County, where the Hicks Return Division and Grand Dukes of the Sunset River confront each other, the battlefield is in the mountains and cannot affect the town. As for the future development prospects of this organization called the Front national pour la défense, it depends on the individual capabilities of that small group. They have been given free assistance in the form of funds, grass, weapons and armaments by the autonomous military regions, which will then be abandoned.

All of this was taken over by MI, and Claude only presided over the next big strategic layout, and how the process and steps were implemented was of little concern to Claude, who just had to accomplish his purpose. On the big side, Claude is now all right and everything has been decentralized and his department is in charge. But on the small side, Claude became busier, and countless documents he needed to sign for his purpose flocked in and fought all day against these trivial and boring official duties...

When Claude returned to St. Hiplian City, Wang Jing, after having once again sent a pelagic convoy full of immigrants and supplies, he received an official letter from the Royal Army Department and a private letter from Prime Minister Blancat. The Royal Army Ministry's letter states that the Autonomous Territory needs to report the names of those who attacked the Royal Hicks Medal of Merit so that the Royal Army Ministry can verify that the battle will be promoted and rewarded as soon as possible and not disappoint the officers of the combat forces of the Autonomous Territory.

Claude knew exactly what the Royal Army had meant by sending the letter, and in fact the plan to attack the Kingdom of Hicks was entirely handled by the Autonomous Territory, planned and implemented by Claude, and completely set aside the involvement of the Kingdom of Orvilas. It can be said that it was a war waged by the autonomous military region alone. The mainland of the Kingdom sent a corps of red dragons to divide a cup after learning of the success of the plan. It also showed that the mainland of the Kingdom also means to participate in the war...

Now the Royal Ministry of the Army is doing this again in an attempt to regain control of the invasion of the Kingdom of Hicks, meaning that the autonomous territorial military region, under the direction of the Royal Ministry of the Army, carried out the strategic plan of the Kingdom of Hicks, which is putting gold on their faces. After all, autonomous territorial military regions are nominally subordinate units of the Royal Army Ministry. Now that the Autonomous Territory has left the Royal Army Ministry alone to wage war against another kingdom, it makes the Royal Army Ministry look bad.

Well deserved, Claude wanted to laugh, and he had warned Prime Minister Blancat before the plan went into effect that the Autonomous Territory was going to attack the Kingdom of Hicks. But those fools in the Royal Army did not believe in this fact. They also conducted a sandbox drill to believe that it was impossible for the Autonomous Territory to attack the Hicks Kingdom. They thought that the Autonomous Territory would surely encounter a bloodshed, so they watched in preparation for the disaster, and were beaten alive in the face by the Autonomous Territory...

So now that the Autonomous Territory has not been withdrawn from the Kingdom of Hicks, the Royal Army Ministry jumped out of the yell to reward and promote successful generals, which is why they came out to show their presence. Claude believed that after reporting the list of successful soldiers, the Royal Army Department would hold a big celebration or something to express the importance of the Royal Army Department in this attack on the Kingdom of Hicks.

Let them dry before the dust settles, at least until the entire army of the Autonomous Leading Military Region withdraws to the port of Patkara before this kung fu can be agreed upon and fulfilled. In fact, don't look at the autonomous military region that wiped out the kingdom of Hicks, the ruler of the North. It's really not a big credit to the generals. Because of the invasion of the Kingdom of Hicks, no casualties have been experienced in battles that have a serious bearing on the strategic landscape.

Two slightly decent breaking battles, one to annihilate the Iron Guard Legion and the other to annihilate the two standing legions of that prince, were easy winners. It was to overthrow the city of San Hiplian in Wangjing, and there was no very fierce resistance. Instead, after occupying Wang Jing, an infinite number of spontaneous rebels became a major problem in the autonomous military region...

Even those local counties that swept up the Hicks kingdom were attacked by the forces of the Autonomous Leadership Zone as a real security battle, annihilating the defensive armies everywhere. In the assessment of military merit, the standard of prayer for the elimination of local armaments and the elimination of standing armies of enemy countries is different, and there is no comparison between the battle of security and the battle of the field, and the battle merit of attacking a city. For example, General Albert led the Storm Regiment to sweep six local counties in the west, and these awards, taken together, would be better than his destruction of a regular legion of enemies.

If a careful assessment of merit is made, most of the senior officers in the Autonomous Leadership Region will not be promoted to the ranks of the military for this attack by the Kingdom of Hicks, up to a maximum of once. After all, Claude's planning was too delicate, and no one would have thought that the Kingdom of Breot would betray the autonomous military region by opening its doors to the forces of the autonomous military region to enter the Kingdom of Hicks. The equivalent of the cruelty behind the Kingdom of Hicks was stabbed by the Kingdom of Breot, and thus beheaded by an autonomous military region.

The city of St. Hiplian in Wangjing suddenly fell into the hands of the autonomous military region, and even King Machid III and the Royal family of Hicks, as well as the Kingdom's ministers, were taken prisoner, thus depriving the entire kingdom of the ability to command and coordinate a unified resistance to the invaders. Counties everywhere can't come up with any orally spoken leaders, torn to the end or fought alone, and then swept away by the troops of the Autonomous Territory...

Originally the Grand Duke of the North was a good candidate, as was his prestige. But the problem is that King McKid III didn't like it, so many local county officials and territorial nobles lost that resolve when they thought about electing the Grand Duke of the North and finally thinking about how to fix it. In addition, their luck was not very good, the Grand Duke of the North needed time to feed his wounds and was temporarily unable to send troops from the North against attacks by the forces of the autonomous territorial military region, so the Kingdom of Hicks remained a scattered sand in the end.

This is one of the reasons why the Autonomous Territory attacked the Kingdom of Hicks and the generals of the two regiments did not receive much credit. As for the eight Hicks Return Teachers, their aim was to emigrate to overseas autonomous territories for family reunification. By the end of this war, the eight Hicks Return Regiments will likely be disbanded from the Overseas Autonomous Territories, and the officers of these eight Hicks Return Regiments in the Autonomous Lead Regions will also receive managerial merit, rather than how much credit they will have...

Contrary to the war effort, this attack on the Kingdom of Hicks was the most rewarding, but it had nothing to do with the Royal Ministry of the Army. The so-called promotions and rewards of the Royal Ministry of the Army refer to the promotion of the ranks and the award of lords to opposing generals, while the bonuses are symbolic in this respect. The Autonomous Territory, however, has prepared a cash reward for all generals, and this time even a soldier from the ordinary Hicks Return Regiment will be credited with 10 gold kroner bonuses.

It had to be recognized that the Kingdom of Hicks was a North Titan and that, even after four colonial wars with autonomous military regions, the Kingdom's treasury was stockpiled with all kinds of armaments, grass and sufficient funds. The gold and silver and cash seizures in the autonomous consular zone alone are not less than 50 million gold kroner in the city of St. Hiplian and the district of Wangjing, and more than 100 million gold kroner would not have been possible if all kinds of materials and goods collected by the people had been added.

Claude disbursed 10 million gold kroner in cash to General Skrey, who was in charge of building the territory in the Gulf of the North, and 20 million in immigration funds to the Autonomous Territorial Assembly, and then increased the financial reserves of 30 million gold kroner to the Autonomous Territorial Regions. The remaining nearly 30 million in gold and silver reserves and possessions he's going to use to reward the generals below. This time, each of the eight Hicks Return Division generals of the two regiments will receive a generous cash reward.

In addition to this, there are nearly tens of millions of antiques, jewellery, magical objects and so on that will be divided between the Autonomous Territories and senior members of Parliament. Claude himself could get hundreds of thousands of dollars from it, which is also a war dividend. As he said, there is no more money to buy or sell than robbing a kingdom, provided, of course, that the kingdom is wealthier, otherwise poor countries like Menbamak will be wiped out with little revenue...

Leaving aside correspondence from the Royal Army Department, Claude opened Prime Minister Blancat's private letter and found it surprising that something embarrassing had happened to him, or that his scandal had spread throughout the King.

In his letter, Prime Minister Blancat told Claude that his mother had sued Claude, her sister Anna, and her brother, Browick, three brothers and sisters, for unfaithfulness because they were unwilling to bear the debts of the Fields family for the costs of martyrdom and land selection in order to acquire their territory, failed to do their part to their own family and failed her mother's support for their three brothers...

The Royal Court of Aristocracy dismissed the petition of the mother at the outset, finding it unreasonable. The Claude brothers and sisters, though children of their mothers, did not inherit Son. There is no reason for the Fields to bear this debt. It would be unfair to apportion the debt owed by the heirs to children who were not heirs if they agreed to hear the case, which would create a dramatic wave among the royal nobility.

But Mother didn't stop, and soon she filed a second petition for recognition by the Royal Court of Aristocracy. The Fields are Han. The heads of the Fields family, who are now in difficulty, must be supported by a division to help them repay the huge debt owed to them by the millions of gold kroner due to their territory.

But the Royal Court of Aristocracy again dismissed the second pleading because of Claude's man. The Fields family was founded at the time of Sun. In front of the Fields, technically, Han. The Fields are supposed to be Sun. Home of the Fields family. But the legal counsel hired by her mother submitted that Son... The title winner of the Fields family is the father of the three Claude brothers and sisters who died. This is a seal granted by His Majesty the King. There is no reason for a child to become the head of the parents. At present, the case of the mother suing the children is still pending before the royal court of nobility...

It is said that His Majesty the King has also deeply regretted doing this to himself, believing that he should not have pursued Claude's father-in-law. He never thought that Marshal Claude's mother would be such a city well woman that such a controversy arose that Marshal Claude became a joke of the kingdom's aristocracy. According to Prime Minister Blanchard's investigation, the reason why the mother brought the Claude brothers to court was because she had no other choice but to preserve her family territory.

This is due mainly to the fact that she owes Her Majesty the Queen one million gold kroner in family territory, which is five per cent interest per annum, which means repayment of 50,000 gold kroner per annum. However, the Viscount Land that Mother and Albert receive, although there is one town and two villages, does not add up to 10,000 gold kroner a year.

Her Majesty was considerate enough to give a three-year interest-free period to allow Mother and Albert to develop the Territory, but after this year, there has been little progress in the people's livelihood in the Territory. No matter how many scratches, there are more than one hundred and eighty gold kroner in return. On the contrary, because of their harshness, the inhabitants have fled and the territory has become even more desolate.

If this continues, the gains of these three years may not even be repayable for the interest on one year's debt. Once the three-year interest-free period reaches the point where all that awaits Mother and Albert is the deprivation of title and territory...

So the mother could only hit the head of Claude's three brothers and sisters. The last time Albert went to Claude, Claude gave him more than 10,000 gold kroner in possession, far from what the mother expected in her heart, so angry that she scolded Claude at home for infidelity. At the end of the day, not knowing whose idea it was, I wrote a petition to the royal court of nobility to sue Claude's three brothers and sisters for infidelity and refuse to bear family debts or something...

In his letter, Prime Minister Blancat euphemistically reminded Claude to get rid of his mother as soon as possible, not to let the incident get bigger and bigger. It is now the King's joke, and will even spread to the entire Farea continent in the future to become another country's joke, which has a great impact on Claude's reputation. As for how to deal with my mother, Claude paid for it.

Claude smiled coldly, he had had enough of it, since the mother was going to fight, then fight with her, if she wanted to make more noise, let everyone know what kind of mother she had as a royal marshal, anyway, embarrass everyone together, see for herself, who would laugh at herself in front of herself...