Claude rode the black horse Jamie around the town, and soon learned that the security battalion from the county had arrested a total of nine people in the town. Like Boker's father, a famous big businessman in Bailu Town
Lubiwell Boardman was also among them. If Claude remembered correctly, these arrested people were guests at the family banquet held by his father, and they were also planning a new route from White Deer Town to the Nubisian continent.
The main planner and investor in the unreturned merchant fleet.
Obviously, something must have happened if the merchant fleet has not returned, and the arrest of his father and the others is inseparable from the merchant fleet. But Claude didn't know whether the merchant fleet was seized by the kingdom or if there was some accident.
, I can’t figure out why my father and the others would be accused of endangering the security of the kingdom.
Even if a merchant fleet is organized to conduct trade with the several overseas territories directly under the Nubisia Continent Kingdom, it is at most involved in smuggling and tax evasion. How could it endanger the security of the kingdom? Could it be that the merchant fleet is in Nubisia Continent?
Did an overseas territory cause a big disaster? Only then did my father and the others get implicated and arrested on this charge?
Perhaps this guess of his is the closest to the truth... Claude knows very well that if things really happen to this point, he will have no ability to rescue his father. The top priority is to get news about his father and understand his current situation.
, so that he can only look for those who can help.
At the back door of the old tavern, Pied shook his head and said to Claude: "I can't help. I only know that the security camp arrested a lot of people this time. But you can go find Kubrick. I heard that the town
To organize a garrison, this is an order from the county. The mayor, Baron Robert, summoned Kubelik and others..."
The Kubrick that Pied was talking about was Vericro's father, the number one hunter in White Deer Town, and the honorary president of the town's Hunters Guild. The Hunters' Guild is a very loose organization, or a self-service one.
Group. Hunters in the town are basically registered in it. Their main business is to hold hunting activities, go into the depths of the mountains to hunt down prey, and then distribute everyone's income according to harvest and contribution.
Since many hunters are accustomed to hunting alone, and due to the decrease in game in the mountains and forests around Bailu Town in recent years, there are fewer and fewer registered hunters. Viricero once said that his father was drunk and complained there.
, saying that in the future there may not even be ten hunters in White Deer Town, and young people are no longer interested in becoming hunters. If someone hires hunters to hunt those ferocious beasts in the Kermida Swamp or deep in the mountains, they may not be able to recruit them locally.
to the hunter.
But after all, if Bailu Town organizes a garrison, then hunters are the best candidates to recruit. First of all, they are all nationals, and many of them are veterans of the army. As long as they are organized, they will be a team with certain combat effectiveness.
Second, the kingdom has made very detailed regulations on the establishment of local garrison. Retired veterans are given priority and serve as officers. Secondly, children of good families, that is, young civilians with a clean background and no criminal record, enter the garrison and serve in the garrison just like the army.
National status can be obtained after fifteen years. The kingdom strictly prohibits the local garrison from recruiting rogues and gangsters to join, and if found, the punishment will be strictly enforced immediately.
Therefore, if White Deer Town wants to form a garrison, it cannot bypass the town's Hunters Guild. Otherwise, the mayor, Baron Robert, just needs to speak to the leaders of the Black Snake Guild that he supports behind the scenes, and the White Deer Town garrison will be able to immediately
If it is established, the town may not need to pay a penny. But Baron Robert cannot bear the consequences. Once someone reports it, his life and fortune will be completely ruined.
Claude turned his horse and rushed to Verricro's house. His home was not in the town, but at the foot of the mountain to the west of the town. Verricro was at home, disemboweling two rabbits, with some piled beside him.
The pine wood seems to be used to make smoked rabbit.
He was a little surprised to see Claude galloping towards him on horseback. He had gone to the mountain to catch these two hares in the morning and had just come back. He didn't know what happened in the town, so when he saw Claude's hurry, he thought something was wrong with him.
I came here to find myself.
"Has your father come back?" Claude's first question was to ask Vericro's father.
"My father?" Verricro shook his head: "I don't know, sister, is my father at home?"
"I went up the mountain early in the morning. My father was still sleeping at that time. I didn't know if he was at home. Do you have anything to do with him?" Viricero asked curiously.
"Well, I..." Claude was about to explain the whole story to Vericro, but he saw his sister sticking her head out of the window on the second floor.
"Oh, it's little Claude. My father was summoned by the mayor this morning, and he hasn't come back yet. I think he probably came back drunk after having lunch in the town and stuffing himself with cat urine.
.How about you come back at night, I think he will have woken up by then..."
"By the way, little Claude, is it true that your father was arrested this morning?" Verricro's sister asked curiously with her hands on the window railing.
Claude could only nod with a wry smile. This is why good things don't go out and bad things spread thousands of miles. Except for Vericro who went up early in the morning and didn't know about it, even his sister knew about it.
"Why do you want to arrest your father?" Viricero was shocked.
Claude shook his head: "The crime is endangering the security of the kingdom. I don't know the real reason, but it was not only my father who was arrested, but also Bok'ar's father. A total of nine people were arrested, all for the same crime.
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Viricero looks strong on the outside, but his mind is still very sharp: "You mean, something happened to the merchant fleet?"
Viricero had already heard about the investor of the merchant fleet that had yet to return, and he immediately linked the two things together.
"I think so too, but I don't know what happened to the merchant fleet, and my father and the others were involved." Claude was very distressed. The lack of smooth information in this world was what made him feel most uncomfortable.
, he really missed the era in his previous life when he had a mobile phone in his hand and knew everything about the world.
"Then you came to my father to ask about the situation?" Verrica immediately understood Claude's intention: "But what can he do to help?"
"I heard that a garrison was going to be established in the town. I don't know why it was established. However, the establishment of a garrison cannot bypass your father's and their hunter's guild. Didn't the mayor of the town, Baron Robert, send someone to recruit your father this morning? It must be a discussion.
this matter.
If a garrison is established, then your father can go in and out of the military camp. My father and others were all captured in the military camp, so I want to ask your father if he has seen them and what their current situation is like.
Do they know the reason why they were arrested..."
"Okay, I will definitely ask you about the situation when my father comes back." After hearing what Claude said, Viriclo agreed boldly: "How about you wait for him at my house? We will eat this roasted rabbit for lunch.
How about it?"
"No, I have to go back." Claude climbed on the horse again: "The house was a mess in the morning, my mother was already in bed because of this, and I have to go back and watch over my younger brothers and sisters, and I have to get them food at noon.
Vero, if you have nothing to do this afternoon, help me go to the town and ask around to see if anyone knows if there is a direct connection between the implementation of martial law in the town and the merchant navy, or if anyone knows that my father and the others were arrested.
The real reason..."
"Well, I will go and find out for you." Verricro nodded seriously.
Claude clamped his legs together, and Jamie, the dark horse under his crotch, began to trot: "Then I'll come to your house again in the evening, please."
When I got home, I first unsaddled the black horse Jamie, and then fed and drank it. After finishing my work, I went to the kitchen to make noodles. After cooking the noodles, I brought a bowl to my mother.
Mother was still lying on the bed, and Claude briefly told her what he had learned. Hearing that a total of nine people were arrested, mother finally felt a little energetic and sat up. It is better to have more people than less people, Claude
This comforted her. If her father alone was arrested, they might not know the true situation, but now that there are more people arrested, it is not just them, but the family members of other arrested people will also be anxious to think about it.
There are ways to find out the cause, which is much better than trying to do it as a family.
Claude planned to go to the homes of those who were arrested in the afternoon to ask if they knew anything. But his mother immediately became worried. Is this an illegal gathering? Mr. Morsant was charged with endangering the kingdom.
Those who were arrested, and now Claude is talking about recruiting the family members of those who were arrested, will this also implicate him?
Claude didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Her mother had never gone to school. She only knew how to read and calculate accounts. This was taught by her family when she was a child. The purpose was to cultivate a qualified housewife, so she did not understand the laws of the kingdom. And Claude was in middle school.
After graduation, one semester of the grammar class is to teach students to understand the law and understand what can and cannot be done.
After patiently communicating with his mother for a long time, Claude finally made her understand that what he did did not violate the law, but was humane behavior, and he would not be implicated in his father's case.
It's just that Claude spent an afternoon visiting the other eight families who were arrested, and the result made him very regretful. The family members of the eight people arrested at the same time, like Claude, didn't know why their relatives were crowned.
Arrested on such a serious charge.
For example, Bok'ar's family is relatively well. His father has been arrested, and his mother has written and sent out several letters asking for people to rescue her husband. There is a lot of commotion in other families, and two relatives of the family are trying to save her husband.
The fight for family property has been bloody. The most egregious one was that he was arrested in the morning, and his wife, who was about twenty years younger than him, took away the family property and ran away with a domestic servant at noon...
Claude finally saw what it means to see a tree fall and the hozen scatter. He spent the afternoon running around and found nothing. He had no choice but to go home and make dinner for his mother, sister and brother to fill their bellies, and then rode the black horse Jamie.
Run to Verricro's house.
By the way, Albert never came home. During dinner, my mother lamented that he must have been trying hard to find out about his father.
In response to his mother's sigh, Claude curled his lips and rolled his eyes. He was just too lazy to reveal the truth. It was better for his mother to have hopes for that guy than to be disappointed. His father had already been caught, and his mother couldn't stand anything anymore.
Stimulate.
It was just that after Claude arrived at Vericro's house, when he asked about the garrison, Vericro's father Kubelik cursed loudly. Of course, he was not cursing Claude, but the mayor, Baron Robert.
Kubrick said that when he arrived at the town hall in the morning, the mayor, Baron Robert, said that he had received an order from the county to require Bailu Town to establish a garrison of 224 people in order to prevent Bailu Town from being attacked.
Pirate attack.
This is really a joke. Bailu Town is located at the bottom of Sharkou Bay. From the bay to Bailu Town, you have to pass through a narrow waterway of more than ten miles. Even the most uneducated pirate will not sail his pirate ship into Bering.
Add a lake, so as long as the waterway is blocked, he will become a rat in a vat of oil, unable to escape even if he wants to.
Therefore, everyone who was recruited thought that this order from the county was just an excuse to recruit troops, and the purpose was to prepare for war. After all, the relationship between the Kingdom of Ovilas and the five countries of the Anti-Austria Alliance in the eastern part of the mainland is becoming increasingly tense. It has been several times
The gun went off. These news can be seen in the "White Deer Morning News", where either the Kingdom protested to the Anti-Austria Alliance or the Anti-Austria Alliance sternly warned the Kingdom. Everyone knew that the dark clouds of war had begun to gather over the eastern part of the continent.
If you want to form a garrison, just form one. Anyway, even if a war does break out, the garrison will not be the first batch of people to go to the battlefield. Generally speaking, during the war, the local garrison is responsible for nothing more than logistics and supplies.
They perform auxiliary tasks such as transportation, guarding, and guarding prisoners, but they are not the main force in the war.
For a retired veteran like Kubrick, the garrison was a good job.
But after the mayor, Baron Robert, revealed his plan to form a garrison, almost everyone who was summoned became angry. Kubrick even broke out on the spot, cursed, and threatened to report the mayor, Baron Robert,