Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 18: Big News

Claude slept very deeply, and even the bell ringing at Wargod Temple at six o'clock in the morning did not wake him up from his sleep until his mother found out that it was a little late for Angelina to go upstairs to wake him up.

The face was wiped out, and two white breads, Claude, were picked up by the bag and rushed out of the house. The time for class is coming soon. If you are late in the morning, the stern Weckham teaching does not mind letting him stand in the classroom and have three classes.

Breathlessly rushed into the classroom, luck was good, the bell of the class just sounded, and the first class of mathematics, Mr. Vincent, had not yet entered the classroom. This situation is not late.

"How come you come so late?"Eriksson next to him asked: "The three of us waited for a long time at your door, thinking that you had already left, who knows that you didn't come to school."

Claude replied while looking for a textbook from his bag: "Don't mention it, I overslept in the morning, just ran all the way."

"Your eyes are a little red, your eyes are black, your face is pale, and you slept very late last night?"Borkal looked at Claude's face.

"Do I?"Claude touched his face: "I was not hosting a party last night. After the end, my father and the guests discussed something in the study. It was very late. When I want to sleep, I don鈥檛 know where the two wild cats come from the spring on the roof. You know that I live in the attic, which makes me sleep, and I finally drive the two wild cats away. I can't sleep, and when I fall asleep, I can't get up in the morning…"

"Oh, you are bad luck."Welikro laughed: "This is the season when the wild cats are springing. The voice is very troublesome. But there is a way, as long as you kill a wild cat on the roof of your house, there will be no other wild cats coming to the roof of your house. Do you want me to take the gun from home and lend it to you? In fact, cat meat is also very delicious, and it is tenderer than chicken…"

"Pull it down."Claude despised him: "You think my father will agree that I will blast with a musket on the roof. When the wild cat is not hit, the roof will be repaired again." I want to eat wild cat meat and go hunting in the wild. 鈥?/p>

鈥淲elikro, are you saying that the cat meat is more tender than the chicken?鈥滶riksson was successfully biased by Welikro.

"Of course, I told you, that time…"Then the two of them rushed into the discussion about the quality of cat meat and cooking methods. If it wasn't for class, Claude wondered if the two guys would go home immediately to get a musket and then go to the town to find a wild cat.

"Claude, I know what they are talking about…"Borkal whispered.

They got neither, the diplomat said. Who

"Your father, they, my father was there last night, they discussed the opening of a route from Whitestag town to the Tyrussim collar of Nubissia. If this route can be successful, then Whitestag town can be upgraded to the port city, no longer accepting the jurisdiction of Baromiese County, and can obtain independent budget and distribution power in administrative and financial terms, and is directly under the jurisdiction of Wangcheng. , the position is comparable to Port Neru…"

The more boring Borkal said, the faster his mouth touched Claude's ear.

"Oh, this is a big deal."Claude understands why Borkal is so careful. If the news is now passed out to ensure a sensation, the father planned this time for this big event.

Port Neru is the only big harbour of the Kingdom of Aueras and a military port. The only naval fleet in Kingdom is there. The navy of the Dreadnought Fleet is the security of the eastern coastal waters of Kingdom. Its mission is to resist the invasion of the enemy sea by the enemy navy, to sweep the pirate gangs along the coast, to maintain the sea trade routes and so on.

The Kingdom of Aueras is located in the eastern part of Freia Continent. Although there are nearly a thousand miles of coastline, there are no two places suitable for the harbour. In addition to Port Neru is a deep-water port and there are several shallow sea fishing ports, other places are not beaches or tidal flats, or cliffs, not suitable for the anchorage of ocean-going vessels.

After Sterling X ascended the throne, he changed the pre-emptive strategic oppression of the kings in the eastern part of the continent, eased relations with various countries, dredged trade routes, exchanged and exchanged, and vigorously developed trade with other countries.

In a way, Sterling X is actually a businessman with a crown. He loves money and pays attention to interests. But that doesn't mean that Sterling X didn't do the job of his king. He just turned his eyes to the Numissia continent.

The Nubissia continent is large, at least twice the size of Freia Continent. Freia Continent Half of the countries, or coastal countries, have sent more or less troops, occupying sites in the coastal areas of the mainland of Nubissia as overseas colonies, and waiting to expand into their interior.

Compared to Freia Continent, a country armed with teeth, a battle of tens of thousands of casualties, even a small border conflict can cause nearly 1,000 casualties. The expansion of the Kingdom of Aueras in the mainland of Nubissia was smooth sailing. In just over seven years, it has laid an overseas territory that is more than twice the territory of the Kingdom, and has set up seven Nubissia mainland governors.

Most importantly, the loss of casualties in Kingdom, which has opened up such a large overseas territory, is not high. It is said that so far only three or four thousand people have been injured, and the number of troops dispatched by King to the mainland of Nubissia is only over 100,000.

The main reason is that the Kingdom Army is dealing with indigenous tribes with bows, arrows and javelin, which reminds Claude of the colonial era of the past Western colonies. The modern army armed with muskets dealt with the tribal armies of the primitive society. The war, the gap between the two eras, gave the Kingdom Army an effortless victory.

When an ocean-going sailboat was full of gold and silver gems from the Nubissia continent, and a variety of specialty raw materials sailed into port Neru, the entire kingdom was alarmed, and almost all the Kingdom people, no matter what class, were praising Sterling X. 's wise decision-making and extraordinary gaze, it is his strength to insist on spending huge sums of money to send more than 100,000 of troops and countless manpower to explore the overseas territories of the Nubissia continent, which now seems to be a windfall investment.

Indeed, Sterling X restored the peace and business prosperity of Kingdom's border with neighboring countries. It also strongly advocates expanding the colonial territories of the mainland of Nubissia, and then from these overseas territories to obtain the various raw materials and gold and silver wealth that Kingdom needs, and enhance its national strength. This series of measures and policies has proven that he is a very good monarch.

At the same time, however, the expansion of Kingdom of Aueras in the mainland of Nubissia also attracted the attention and vigilance of the rest of the country of Freia Continent.

In particular, the Kingdom of Nasri in the eastern part of Freia Continent has always been a deadly enemy of the Kingdom of Aueras. Although Sterling X has finally reached a peace agreement with it after several twists and turns, in fact, several wars with Kingdom have suffered fiasco and internal troubles. I can't keep going, and I took the boat and took the ladder that Sterling X handed over.

Unlike the Kingdom of Aueras's large military and financial resources in the Numissia continent, Kingdom of Nasri has also seized two sites in the Nubian island, but the area is not large, because of its internal power struggle, its colony did not get anything. development of.

As the Kingdom of Aueras continues to expand its overseas territories and continuously delivers property and raw materials to the mainland, the national strength is growing, and the Kingdom of Nasri is finally in a hurry. After more than a decade of this, the development of the Kingdom of Aueras is a difficult task, and the Kingdom of Nasri鈥檚 own experience is terrible.

Even if Sterling X repeatedly advocated maintaining stability and peace in the eastern part of the continent, it also signed a peace agreement. But the Kingdom of Nasri, a deadly enemy, is very self-aware. Now Sterling X said that he loves peace, and when the development of Stellin XI is on the stage, saying that he likes war, what should he do? Peace agreement? Isn't the agreement signed to tear it up? Just find a reason at the moment, and the winner is not condemned anyway.

The Kingdom of Nasri, a few wars on land, failed, and now dare not slam the war. Not to mention the overseas territory of Nubissia, the thousands of troops deployed there are more than a million troops invested in the Kingdom of Aueras. It is a desperate gap, and it is good to be self-protected.

However, one of the biggest weaknesses of the Kingdom of Aueras was seized by the Kingdom of Nasri, which is the lack of armed forces at sea. From Port Neru in the Kingdom of Aueras to the mainland of Nubissia, you need to make a big bend. The ocean-going ship will follow the coastline of the eastern part of Freia Continent, passing through the waters of the Dukedom, Eskilin Dukedom and Rimondra Dukedom. At the top of the eastern continent, the far-sighted corner travels northward through the storm sea and the silent ocean, which reaches the west coast of Nubissia.

The route has a total length of more than 2,400 nautical miles and a flight of more than one month. The route is full of risks. Especially when the Kingdom of Aueras's investment in the Numissia continent finally came to fruition, the ocean-going sailboats that returned with wealth were the targets of countless pirates.

The Kingdom of Nasri unites the remaining four Dukedoms in the eastern part of the continent to form a joint fleet, nominally to combat pirates and maintain the route. It is actually at the seven inch of the Kingdom of Aueras, because he can cut off at any time. Sea route between the two continents.

And in strength and scale United fleet also more than Kingdom's fearless fleet, which is also a reminder that in the event of war, United Fleet can block Port Neru, lock the fearless fleet in the port, and even United fleet can be loaded with the five-nation coalition from kingdom Coastal areas to land at will, as in the kingdom of the belly of the heart straight into a knife in general.

For the Kingdom of Aueras, this joint fleet has become the eye of King's executives. Since the establishment of the combined fleet, many ocean-going vessels between the mainland and the Kingdom Port Neru have lost their lives at sea.

Some of the shipwrecks that were discovered occasionally can only be judged to be pirates, but the top management of Kingdom is well aware, but can't find evidence. The vast sea is the best evidence of the disappearance of the crime, and any crimes committed in the sea can be perfected.

Kingdom The ocean-going ships that are now returning from overseas territories can only be assembled into large fleets, but also with the formation of escorts of ocean-going warships, which makes Kingdom's only deep-water port Port Neru somewhat overwhelmed. After all, Port Neru is not only the only military port of Kingdom, but also the only commercial port of Kingdom, which is responsible for the heavy foreign commercial trade transportation business.

Every time the ocean-going sea-going formation returns or is about to sail, Port Neru's commercial transportation business will be forced to stop for a few days in order to coordinate the task of the ocean-going sea-going formation. Under such circumstances, even King's top executives decided to invest heavily in strengthening the maritime armed forces in order to achieve the purpose of countering or destroying the joint fleet, and had to stop because of the actual situation of Port Neru.