Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 582: The Failed Bok Al

Half a month later, Claude visited the shipbuilding base at the military port of Patrez, where he stayed for a month and a half and had a close and friendly exchange with the ship design department headed by Master Byrd and the Power Development Centre. and held more than a dozen academic meetings, successfully launched super large passenger ships made of iron shells, ocean freight forwarders ships, large whaling vessel design, let the four shipyards of the shipbuilding base receive more than a dozen orders before these three civilian boat drawings were finalized, all laughing, everyone knows that the profits from the construction of civilian boats are much higher than those of Ironclad...

Claude's private discussions with Master Byrd about the design of watches also attracted his high attention, and he believed that the development of timekeeping machines such as watches would greatly improve the level of precision instrumentation production in overseas autonomous territories. However, he entrusted the development of the clock to his grandson, Mallex, who believed he was well placed to do so. Claude naturally doesn't keep secrets from his illegitimate son, and he tells Malex everything he can remember about the clock in his head and draws several different patterns of the clock and pocket watch, the look of the watch.

In addition, Claude explored the possibility of establishing an Polytechnic University with Master Byrd, but was thrown a pot of cold water by Master Byrd. Simply put, the scientific and technological development of the Farsian world is based on the Alchemy Magic Array, and the Syntax Magician who can carry out various experiments in the Alchemy Magic Array is the main force driving the technological development, which can be called a practical research type of technological magic system.

And, as Claude called for, building a university where ordinary people could learn about these technologies would be like pushing down this magic building and rebuilding a new one, not impossible, but expending time and energy, with too much money to pay off. Normal people don't understand alchemy magic experiments, even if they learn magic knowledge, they won't practice without magic. It's all in vain.

To give the simplest example, a scribe can perform tests in the alchemy magic array, understand the process of change of the test article, and understand the principle of two metals synthesis. And ordinary people can't do any alchemy magic experiments, and to achieve the same test results is to re-establish a training and testing system so that they understand why the two metals together become another brand new metal, which requires a new synthetic theory that will make people see clearly, and also carry out real-world experiments at a cost that is not a small amount...

Claude knew exactly what Master Byrd meant when he said that the world was not devoid of knowledge of physics and chemistry, but held in the hands of magicians, called alchemy, and was neither systematic nor communicative. Like Master Byrd, he moved from being a master gunman to studying fire engines and steam engines, and then to mechanical power, and now to ship design, which is arguably a random change of direction based on his hobby...

Most other scripture magicians are the same, and their apprenticeship methods are very different. Either handheld instruction or watching the teacher's alchemy magic experiment and then understanding themselves. Without discussing the system, it is often the East Hammer West Hammer where to teach, learning or not learning depends entirely on the magic apprentice himself. This educational method and efficiency is actually very backward and inefficient.

And even if they learned anything about doing magic experiments, they hid them and refused to communicate with other magicians, which contributed greatly to the delay and stagnation of the world's scientific and technological level. If it weren't for this unexpected variable of overseas autonomy, Claude would have discovered that over the past two decades, there had been no progress in the world's technology at all...

However, since the type of technical university that Claude had previously lived through could not be accomplished, it was not feasible to run a magic college to train qualified scriptures for overseas autonomous territories in bulk, but also to provide a forum for exchanges with scriptures who were effective in overseas autonomous territories. Claude hoped that the scribes of the Overseas Autonomous Territories would present their discoveries and experimental principles to other magicians, drawing useful things from others' experimental results and further advancing technological development.

If such a magic academy could be established, the Autonomous Territory could propose the establishment of an association of magicians, with annual salary and welfare subsidies, the opening of an alchemy academic journal to publish papers and reward them, and so on. Master Byrd's proposal for Claude is a little touchy, but he still doesn't like academic exchanges between scribes. After all, many magicians see their discovery in the alchemy experiment as an opportunity to make their own profit, and it's really hard to convince them to abandon this traditional habit...

Master Byrd concluded by saying that he could try to convince those grammars who worked for the Overseas Autonomous Territories. He had doubts about the establishment of a magic academy. After all, the impression of magicians in the minds of ordinary people for centuries was evil. Even if they were magicians working for overseas autonomous territories, they hid their magicians' identities from the outside world, and experimenting with alchemy was hidden, not experimenting openly. He had difficulty imagining how the public establishment of a magic school would make a difference to overseas autonomous territories and magicians...

Master Byrd has repeatedly said that Claude is too anxious. He does not think it would be good to open up a magic academy so that the identity of those who teach magic and apprentice magic can be exposed to the public. It is difficult to guarantee the physical safety of teachers and students in this academy in case of provoking popular opposition and popular exclusion. He thought it might be better to covertly choose and train magic apprentices, just like the Magic Academy, but under a different name.

As for the establishment of the Autonomous Territorial Sorcerer's Association, Master Byrd believed that that was a good thing, and that those scribes would be happy to join in, which, moreover, was also an acknowledgement of their status as self-governing leaders, coupled with an impressive annual salary and welfare subsidy, and that none of the scribes would refuse such an invitation.

The only difficulty is convincing them to come up with their own experimental findings, but this can be solved with a heavy gold reward. Just like an autonomous military region or a shipbuilding base, there are technical difficulties that cannot be solved, you can ask the scribes in these associations for rewards, who solve the problem who or the bonus...

Something was really urgent, and Claude listened to Master Byrd before realizing that he was too anxious. In fact, the cooperation with the autonomous territorial military districts of the grammar divisions working for the autonomous territorial military districts is going well at the moment. It is now the Autonomous Territory that allocates direct funds to these scribes to experiment with alchemy magic. This is what General Beechlin said at the last military conference about the more than 400 technologies that need to be kept secret at the shipbuilding base, which is actually an alternative reward, but it's a bigger waste of money.

Returning to Lake Lang City, General Bockard was the first to report to Claude, this time to report on his contact with Ericsson's Black Sail pirates. The so-called cold-ass encounter with Hot Face is Bok Al's current scenario, and he intends for Ericsson, only that Ericsson has not blindly agreed to Claude's request because of his friendship as a teenager. Instead, on behalf of the Black Sail pirates, he offered the Autonomous Territory a series of conditions, such as delivering the six Ironclad warships first, delivering the six after the completion, and so on...

“What did you tell him?” Claude asked, "Did you tell him why our Autonomous Navy couldn't do it? ”

Bok Al nodded with some frustration, and he contacted Eriksson several times over the past two months, writing six letters alone. It was also exciting to hear from Eriksson at the outset that he was willing to work with the Autonomous Territory Navy's Ironclad Fleet to attack the United Kingdom Navy fleet in the Fox Islands and pillage it ashore.

But when Bok Al found out that he had misunderstood, he hurriedly wrote to him again, telling him that instead of his Black Sail pirates joining the Ironclad fleet of the Autonomous Navy, the Black Sail pirates were independently tasked with the attack, and that it was time for the six Ironclad warships to reward him. As soon as the second letter was over, Eriksson's response cooled down, and he questioned Bok Al, the Autonomous Territory and Claude if it was a bad idea to watch his Black Sail pirates, which deliberately set up a trap for them to die?

Bok Al could only write back to Eriksson and tell him that Claude didn't mean it that way, this time it was an opportunity he was fighting for to give Eriksson and Blacksail pirates. The Autonomous Territory will consider targeting Ericsson's Black Sail Pirates for support and cooperation only after it has demonstrated its strength and determination to attack the United Kingdom naval fleet in the Fox Islands, and this is indeed the best opportunity for Ericsson.

And then Eriksson replied, asking Bok Al to clarify why he thought it was an opportunity on Black Sail Island? In his view, leading his own Black Sail pirates to attack the United Kingdom naval fleet in the Fox Islands was purely a search for death. Unless the Autonomous Navy borrows more than a dozen or twenty Ironclad ships first, he can be confident that the formation will launch an offensive against the United Kingdom naval fleet in the Fox Islands...

In order to persuade Eriksson, Bok Al had to divulge some information and insights about the military conference, so that Eriksson could understand the real reason he was looking for him, principally by allowing the Black Sail pirates to make good deals with the Autonomous Territory and also by satisfying Eriksson's desire to acquire an Ironclad warship. However, when Ericsson learned about the situation, the lion opened his mouth and asked the Autonomous Territory to provide six Ironclad warships first and then six more. He did not guarantee that the attack would be completed, he could only guarantee that the Black Sail Pirates would launch an attack on their own initiative, and that the Autonomous Territory would pay millions of kilograms worth of armaments as pensions for the Black Sail Pirate attack...

Bok Al then wrote two more letters in an effort to persuade Eriksson, but Eriksson bited his terms in reply. Bok Al found that the task was not so well accomplished that he could not agree to Eriksson's request on behalf of the Autonomous Leadership Region and had to come to Claude's rescue, admitting that he had failed to pull the Black Sail Pirate and Eriksson's plot.

Claude wasn't angry at all, but instead he laughed and went up to the wine cabinet to grab a bottle of fruit wine and fill Bok Al with a glass. Then tell Bok Al that he had long anticipated that Bok Al would fail. To be honest, in the case of Eriksson and Blacksail pirates, Bok Al was confused by his childhood friendship with his intuition and judgment, acting like neither a businessman nor a soldier.

If Bok Al had kept the businessman savvy, he would have found out long ago that Eriksson and his correspondence were not for friendship as a teenager, but to find out from him some information about autonomous military districts. Meanwhile, turning Bok Al into a spokesperson for Blacksail pirates in the Autonomous Territory, Bok Al, in his capacity as the Autonomous Territory, can easily procure armaments and tight commodities that need to be monitored. It is clear to Eriksson that neither money nor identity can impress Bok Al, but friendship can only bring Bok Al together...

There was a phrase called "Dropstone," and with years of correspondence, Eriksson finally allowed Bok Al to blind his precise businessman's eyes because of friendship, imagining Eriksson as that simple companion as a teenager. For so many years, of course, Blacksail pirates have not let Bockar worry about this through the buffalo dealership run by Bockar's father, whether it be purchasing supplies or selling stolen goods, and this has led Bockar to rely on Ericsson more and more.

As a businessman and a soldier, Bok Al performed very badly. As Claude said, as a soldier, you won't believe a pirate's promise. Just like Eriksson, who is also Claude's juvenile partner, even though the Autonomous Territory did not have much conflict with Eriksson's Black Sail Pirate, for Claude, he remains alert to Eriksson's Black Sail Pirate, regardless of whether he is his own juvenile friend.

Bourke Al trusted Ericsson so much that he fought with Claude to speak for Ericsson and the Blacksail pirates. Just when Claude gave him a chance, he touched a closed-door spoon at Alexon's. Claude gave him a very clear analysis, and instead of spending much money on correspondence with him, Eriksson was able to learn from him what had happened to the Autonomous Territories, which could be considered a source of intelligence. So Eriksson was happy to keep his friendship with Bok Al, and he kept writing.

But when Bok Al asked Eriksson to lead the Black Sail pirates in an attack on the United Kingdom naval fleet in the Fox Islands, Eriksson was bound to consider the cost. He is the leader of the Black Sail Pirate, and if he undermines the power of the Black Sail Pirate in order to maintain friendship with Bok Al, he will certainly reject that friendship. The law of piracy is respect for the strong. This strength refers not only to the strength of the individual, but also to the strength of the pirate group under his command. To undermine his strength for the sake of friendship, his position as a pirate leader cannot be preserved.

Claude comforts Bock-All, and it's good to see who Eriksson really is, so it's better than what Eriksson will ask Bock-All to do in the future to the detriment of the autonomous military region. He asked Bok Al to drop the matter and then he would follow Claude on a mission to the Pamigal National Republic. Claude hopes that during his visit, Bok Ar will focus on the colony of the Principality of Vassilico and find out how the two indigenous peoples, the Skolo and the Gistad, were transformed into armed conflicts...

The first steps in the implementation of the wildfire programme could be described as half-way through the successful occupation of the colony of the Rodex Bay in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland by the autonomous military region, the promotion of the independent nation-building of the Pamigals in the colony of the Kingdom of Morosica, the establishment of the first indigenous nation State on the West Coast and the victory, on two occasions, over the expeditionary troops sent by three colonial Powers, including the Kingdom of Morosic, to recover the colony on the Nubian continent.

The second colony of the Kingdom of Riznia and the indigenous peoples' liberation movement in the colony of the Principality of Vasiliko failed. The Russmans in the second colony of the Kingdom of Riznia became scattered sand after their chiefs were killed by the colonial authorities. While the colonizers were thought to have been driven away in the name of the Great Sheikh's revenge, they also massacred the innocent white people of those immigrants in the colonies, killing each other in chaos in order to deprive the great tribes of their rights.

They were also united in the war against the invasion of the Expeditionary Army of the three colonial Powers under the powerful repression of the Autonomous Territories, but after the end of the war, tribal fighting began again. Even if the Autonomous Territory came out and helped them build a Ruthman League of Chiefs, it was useless, it was just a bright title, in its own country, seven tribal wars, nobody would disagree with anyone, messing up a good country...

Lastly, the colony of the Principality of Vassilico, which caused even more headaches in the autonomous military region. Once the Pamigal National Republic had been established, it had been planned to contribute to the liberation of the two indigenous peoples of the colony of the Principality of Vassilico, the Skolo and the Gistad, and to the establishment of an independent State, following the example of the Pamigals. Of course, the Skolows and the Gistes were also able to mount an uprising against the colonists of the Principality of Vassilico.

The uprising was successful, or even rioting, and the presence of troops from the colonies of the Principality of Vassilico had no control whatsoever over the armed uprisings launched by those two indigenous peoples and had to be accompanied by troops from the neighbouring UPSAL colonies. At a time when the situation was very good, there was a clash between the two indigenous peoples, the Skolo and the Gist, and then the clash turned into a war of extermination between the two indigenous peoples...

The two indigenous peoples of the colony of the Principality of Vassilico can no longer afford to take up armed uprisings, expel the colonizers, liberate the nation and build an independent State. The hotter the fighting between the two sides, the more fierce the animosity between the two communities, whether the invasion of the Expeditionary Army or the armies of the Pamigal National Republic came to help them resist, they ignored each other and knew that this war between the two communities was taking place...