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Chapter 495 Assistance
"What did you say?" Claude looked at Kaifani in surprise.
Today is the day for Claude to return to Field Manor. In five or six days, he will come back and stay for two nights. He built another manor as his residence in the western suburbs of Lanhu City, and the news that a beautiful woman named Sheila appeared next to him should have reached Kaifni's ears long ago.
It's just that Kaifni didn't say anything, pretending that she didn't know anything, and took care of Claude even more thoughtfully and gently during the days when Claude came back to live. This is the cleverness of Kaifuni. She will not be a jealous woman, thereby arousing more resentment and disgust from Claude...
However, Claude didn't expect to hear Kaifani say when he came back today that his mother had gotten up and that she was recovering well. She was almost fully recovered after lying down for more than a month. It was just that she had someone pick up Claude's eldest son, Tesiore, and told Kaifni that she wanted to train a qualified head of the Field family. It was decided to implement aristocratic education for Tesore from now on, and spend money to hire some famous teachers to teach Tesore to be familiar with aristocratic etiquette, knowledge and style.
Tesore must be sixteen years old this year. Time flies so fast. Claude didn't pay much attention to his eldest son, because Tesore had never been very close to him, but had the best relationship with the old lady. In Claude's eyes, his eldest son was a naughty kid who would do something irritating every now and then. It's just that whenever Claude or Kaifuni wanted to teach him a lesson and leave a deep memory for him, his mother would always come out to protect him, so that nothing happened in the end, and Claude didn't like him very much because of this. eldest son.
"Didn't Tesore just graduate from Lanhu City Elementary School? He will go to junior high school, right? Didn't he say that his grades were not very good and he was often sued by his teacher for bullying his classmates? What did mother mean? She still told him that he couldn't go to school. Claude originally wanted to wait for his eldest son to graduate from junior high school and then join the army to train for a few years. Even the most stubborn character will be tempered in the military career. It will be up to him whether he will be successful in the future. His own efforts.
But what does it mean that his mother is interfering now? Originally, Tesore was supposed to go to elementary school when he was twelve years old, but because his mother stopped him, he was allowed to play at home for one more year, and his temper became more and more casual and playful. When he entered elementary school, he often bullied his classmates because he was one year older, taller and stronger, and became a bully at Lanhu City Elementary School. His mother proposed that Tesiore should receive a noble education, but this would not allow him to go to junior high school.
"What mother means is that there is no need to go to junior high school. Anyway, those teachers are not famous teachers. They have no ability except to complain, and they have wasted the child's talent in vain. Let Tesiore receive the lessons of the nobles at home, and don't talk to those The messy children mix together and it’s over if they catch their bad habits..." Kaifani said this.
"Humph..." Claude laughed angrily, why would the elementary school teacher only complain to you and your mother? If you weren't in a high position, like Tesore Naughty people have long been hung up by the teachers in elementary schools and given a hard lesson. Claude's memory still retains the original owner of his body. Before he traveled back in time, little Claude was in the first grade of elementary school and middle school in Bailu Town, and how he got into trouble and was corporally punished by his teachers.
At that time, the original owner of the body, Mr. Morsand, the father of little Claude, was still the administrative director of Bailu Town, but the teaching in the school was still corporal punishment without any scruples. Mr. Morssant knew that little Claude returned home and wanted to punish him. He was beaten with corporal punishment for the second time. Now, Tesore has done bad things in school, and the teachers are concerned about themselves and dare not directly punish him with corporal punishment, so they have to come home to complain.
Kaifani and her mother always tried to deal with it, using the excuse that the child would become wiser when he was still young. As a result, he even intensified his bullying of his classmates at school and became feared by everyone. The little bully, even Claude was called a bastard parent behind his back. This is an example of a loving mother's failure, the result of over-indulging her child.
His sister Anna also tried Tesore's magical talent, but unfortunately it was very inferior, so Claude could not leave his eldest son to his sister Anna's education. Back then, his younger brother Booker was equally naughty, but his younger sister Anna forced him to become a talented person. But now that Kaifni and her mother are here, it's not her sister Anna's turn to educate Tesore, especially since her sister Anna now has three more babies to take care of, Claude can't trouble her sister.
"As you wish." Claude was too lazy to care about this matter. He wanted to see what his mother's so-called aristocratic education could teach Tesore. Only his mother regarded Tesore as a treasure, saying that his talent was delayed by the teaching in junior high school, and she was worried that he would get into some bad habits by hanging out with his classmates in junior high school. What a bullshit talent and ability to bully people? I don’t even think about it. If Claude hadn’t been his father, Ites Ole’s temperament would have been taught to be a good person every minute...
In his previous life, Claude was deeply impressed by the saying, "You are older when you are three years old, and you are older when you are seven years old." This is what his grandfather often whispered in his ears when he was a child in his previous life. It means that he should learn well, develop good living habits, and cultivate good manners of politeness in dealing with others and diligent and self-care. These will be of great help to his future. .
This is also the main reason why Claude doesn't like his eldest son. When Tesore was growing up, Claude was fighting outside and couldn't care less about these trivial matters at home. When he reunited with his family in the overseas territories, he realized that his eldest son was being pampered by his mother and Kaifani. Therefore, he is not optimistic about Tesore's future development, thinking that it would be great if he can live his life in peace.
Especially compared with the illegitimate son Malex, whom Lady Sonia gave birth to for him, Tesore was nothing like him. To put it bluntly, he could be described as a bunch of horses. This year, Mallex is eighteen years old and is about to reach adulthood. His magic level has reached the third level. He even decided to join the army after his birthday and receive training in the army like Claude...
It is a pity that Malex wants to inherit the family name of Master Bird and cannot become Claude's successor. He knows that Malex regards his father as an idol. After all, Claude's personal experience can be called A military hero saga. So he also had the idea of joining the army, and he had a big dispute with his mother, Mrs. Sonia. So much so that Mrs. Sonia resented Claude and wanted to squeeze him when they met because she wanted to have a well-behaved child...
Claude shook his head and took back his divergent thinking. He didn't want to have to deal with this anymore. Anyway, no matter how good Tesore's aristocratic education was, he would be thrown into the army when he came of age. After some practice, it's up to him whether he becomes a talent or not. But now it seems that the idea of being superior to others is becoming more and more stubborn in the minds of the old lady and Kaifani. They really regard the Field family as a famous family. I hope they can let Tesiore learn the good aspects of aristocratic education... . ...
"You go to bed tonight and ask someone to prepare some food and drink and put them in the study. I have guests and we may discuss them until very late..." Claude said.
The guests in the evening were General Skree and General Albert. They came mainly to discuss with Claude about providing assistance to the kingdom. Half a month ago, the royal capital sent several special envoys to the overseas autonomous territories. Their arrival was not to discuss the restoration of relations between the overseas autonomous territories and the kingdom, but to hope that the autonomous territories would provide a huge amount of agricultural products and mineral resources to the kingdom. , to reduce the adverse economic impact caused by the outbreak of war between the Royal Capital and the Kingdom of Nasseri.
The debt war that broke out between the kingdom and the Nasseri Kingdom has been going on for more than three months. The Nasseri Kingdom preemptively launched an attack and took advantage of the Ovelas Kingdom's unpreparedness to occupy three of the Ovelas Kingdom's territories. Frontier County. The Kingdom of Ovilas, which had been slapped, was like an enraged hibernating bear, furious and furious. The Kingdom of Nasseri, which had always been defeated by its subordinates, dared to take action first. This was simply the greatest shame of the Kingdom of Ovilas.
So the Red Dragon Legion stationed on the border between the two countries was the first to show off its power. With one against two, it not only made the two standing legions of the Nasseri Kingdom retreat step by step, but also recovered the two lost border counties in one fell swoop. Next, the two sides engaged in a large-scale offensive and defensive battle in the last Ustia County that the Kingdom of Ovelas fell to. With the arrival of the two standing legions reinforced by the Kingdom of Nasseri, the Red Dragon Legion lacked stamina and could only Able to stand by and wait for help.
This debt war is indeed not good news for the Kingdom of Ovilas, which is undergoing economic revival. This was an unexpectedly imposed war that plunged the kingdom's newly recovered economy back into a downturn, causing widespread agricultural product failure. The kingdom needs to reorganize its arms to face this war, and it also needs a large amount of food and grass to relieve local counties with poor harvests of agricultural products to avoid another wave of refugees.
The envoys who came to the overseas dominions this time were not sent by the new King Frederick I, but by the new prime minister of the kingdom, the Marquis Blancart, a representative of an established aristocratic family. He hoped that the overseas dominions could support the kingdom's huge amount of agricultural products. and grain and grass are used to relieve those local counties in the kingdom that are in deficit in food production, and then use a large amount of mineral resources to help the kingdom's four major military industries produce enough military supplies to cope with this debt war.
Of course, the royal capital is also willing to agree to a few small conditions for the sake of the strong support from the overseas autonomous territories, such as no longer sending governors and admirals, etc., but only to restore the name of the overseas autonomous territories. The establishment of the military districts and parliaments of the directly-governed territories can be retained, but the taxes and tributes paid by the overseas directly-governed territories to the kingdom must be resumed. The royal capital will dispatch tax commissioners to supervise the tax collection of the overseas directly-governed territories. At the same time, the personnel of the overseas directly-governed territories must be Return the power to the royal capital, etc...
If General Skerry hadn't stopped him quickly, General Bolonik would have almost agreed to all the requests made by the Kingdom's envoys. For General Bolognik, the Royal Capital has taken a big step back this time and has given the overseas autonomous territories ample face. Changing the name doesn't matter. What's important is to retain the military region and parliament. This means that everyone's rights are guaranteed and they can fully accept the conditions of the royal capital.
General Skerry, however, has a clear mind. Wangdu's idea is to cut the flesh with a soft knife and use time to slowly regain the dominance of the overseas autonomous territories. If General Bolognik agreed, he would have to be coaxed out of office by the members of the Dominion Assembly.
It's very simple. The Royal Capital retains the military region and parliament, but the return of personnel rights to the Royal Capital means that the future election of Dominion members must be approved by the Royal Capital. It doesn’t matter if you are a member of the current Congress, but if an older member of the Congress wants a junior member of his family to inherit his position, and the king does not approve it, then his family will be squeezed out of the top power class in the overseas autonomous territories. This is intolerable for any MP.
No one wants to have more than one mother-in-law in charge of them. If the personnel rights are taken back by the Royal Capital, then the members of the Dominion Assembly will have to go to the National Assembly in the Royal Capital to report their work and accept the questioning and review of the National Assembly. They may even be stripped of their membership. Qualifications, which are now unacceptable to members of the overseas dominions.
They are now the top figures in the Dominion, and have the power to supervise and advise on the policies implemented by the Dominion Executive Committee, as well as the power to review. They are both masters of human beings and are highly respected by the nearly seven million people in the entire overseas autonomous region. Now that it has reached this point, of course no one is willing to go to the royal capital to pretend to be a good grandson, and is discriminated against by members of the National Assembly as an overseas bumpkin and a nouveau riche.
In addition, the royal capital sends tax commissioners to supervise the taxation of the autonomous territories, which means that they will intervene in the financial affairs of the autonomous territories. This will have a great adverse impact on the finances of the entire overseas autonomous territories and will also have a negative impact on the military expenditures of the autonomous military regions. serious consequence. Not to mention anything else, just exposing the tax situation of the entire overseas autonomous territory will arouse the covetousness of the royal capital, and it is not impossible to ask for a larger proportion of tax revenue from it.
General Bolognik was sweating profusely after he figured it out, and was almost tricked by the envoy from the royal capital. So he excused himself as the military region and the executive committee were busy with affairs, and the royal capital's request needed to be carefully considered and studied. Then he just pushed it aside until now, leaving these envoys from the royal capital in the dark for half a month. Anyway, the war is taking place in the Kingdom itself, and the overseas autonomous territories are not in a hurry at all. They have plenty of time to deal with the envoys from the Royal Capital.
But two days ago, those envoys from the royal capital received another letter from the kingdom itself, and then they blocked the doors of the Dominion Military Region Headquarters and the Executive Committee Office Building every day. According to them, there are already signs of a large-scale famine in the Kingdom in the coming year. They hope that the adults of the Dominion will help the Kingdom for the sake of their compatriots and transport a large amount of grain and grass to the Kingdom before the end of the year to help the Kingdom tide over this crisis. Contribute to famine and victory over enemies...
Unable to bear being pestered by these royal envoys, General Bolognik simply handed over the matter to Claude, General Skerry, and General Aprent. If General Bichiklin hadn't been far away in Rodex Bay Colony, he might have come to Claude's house to discuss the need for assistance.
This time General Beach Green went to Rodex Bay Colony mainly because the five-year lease colony agreement signed between the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands and the Kingdom of Hicks will expire at the end of this year. The second division of the Rock Army, which defeated the Hicks Kingdom and forcibly occupied the Rodex Bay Colony, will return to Rocky Mountain State at the end of the year to end the occupation of the Rodex Bay Colony. General Beachlin was there to preside over the mopping up and withdrawal work.
"This year there is really a widespread harvest failure in the kingdom. Will there be famine in many local counties next year? Haven't the weather been good these past few years? How could this happen?" General Albert didn't believe the words of the special envoys from the royal capital.
"The spies we sent to the mainland of the kingdom have all sent news." General Skerry replied: "The situation is exactly as what these royal envoys said. Two-thirds of the local counties in the kingdom have experienced widespread harvest failure. The main reason is that the civil war in the kingdom a few years ago and the refugees and others destroyed the farmland irrigation facilities in these local counties, and they have not been repaired.
It was not obvious when planting was resumed on a small scale last year. This problem was discovered only when large-scale agricultural production was carried out this year. However, due to the shortage of funds, manpower and material resources, and the deliberate concealment of local administrative offices reporting good news but not bad news, the problem became apparent during the autumn harvest. Then it burst out in a concentrated manner. If there had not been this debt war, the royal capital could have gritted its teeth and barely weathered this difficulty.
As long as a sum of funds is allocated to organize manpower to repair these irrigation facilities and dredge the canals in winter, there will be a good harvest next year. But this debt war came so unexpectedly. The limited funds of the royal capital had to be invested in this war, and they were no longer able to deal with the upcoming famine. As a last resort, they could only turn to our overseas autonomous territories for help... . ... "
In fact, there is another reason that everyone knows very well, but they cannot be put on the table. In the past, when the Kingdom of Ovilas was in power during the reign of its late king, Sterling X, situations of this kind or another had not happened in the Kingdom itself, but the kingdom had successfully overcome the difficulties. The main reason is that the overseas territories directly provide blood transfusions to the kingdom, helping the kingdom to survive natural disasters and so on.
The overseas territories at that time were the origin of raw materials for the kingdom to plunder wealth and production resources. Whether it was agricultural products or mineral resources, they were imported to the kingdom at extremely low prices or even less than the cost, maintaining the kingdom for nearly twenty years. economic development. This unfair ocean trade and scissor-like economic plunder enabled the kingdom to finally accumulate enough wealth to cope with the anti-Austrian Five-Nation Alliance.
It was just a five-year war in the eastern region that wiped out the treasury wealth accumulated by the Overas Kingdom in the past twenty years. Although it became a victor that was not worthy of the name, the colonial war launched by the Hicks Kingdom caused overseas The demesne was involved in the war and was no longer able to support the economic revival of the kingdom itself. The civil war in the kingdom triggered by the struggle for the throne between the two kings, and the tyranny of Prince Wedelek after he ascended the throne, eventually led to the kingdom's decline.
When the Overseas Territory War Zone finally won the colonial war, their relationship with the Kingdom was shattered, and they directly implemented autonomy and no longer provided any support to the Kingdom. Even if the fourth prince, Frederic I, ascended the throne and brought order to the chaos, the ensuing war and widespread harvest failure exposed the weakness of the kingdom, which could no longer withstand any storms. This was why they had no choice but to come for help. The main reason for overseas dominions...