Chapter 477 The bloody case caused by roast suckling pig
Chapter 477: The murder caused by roast suckling pig
"This place looks very wealthy..." Baron Foglie sighed with appreciation while looking at the street scene, but the three envoys sitting in the same carriage could all hear the greed in his words.
and the desire to plunder.
"Haha, the Tiersim Territory has not gone through war, or it can be said that the territory's war zone is well managed. The market here is very prosperous. In the past few years, this was the shipping place and sea port for ocean trade. It seems that in recent years
The interrupted ocean trade seems to have had little impact on the Port of Copicius..." Viscount Angelink also expressed that he was satisfied with the prosperity here.
The four kingdom envoys sitting on this carriage are all emerging business nobles who are closely trusted by Sterling XI. They came to the Overseas Direct Territory of Nubisia Continent to not only shoulder the expectations of His Majesty the King, but also to search for overseas direct jurisdiction for him.
At the same time, it also has the important task of integrating the entire overseas directly governed territories into the emerging commercial aristocratic power.
If it weren't for the lack of enough ocean-going ships, then the governors and admirals of the six direct territories were accompanied by the kingdom's envoys this time. They all belong to the emerging commercial aristocracy. Unfortunately, they can only wait for the next batch.
The ships are ready, and they will not be able to take office until the kingdom's special envoy who comes first this time brings the combined fleet back to the kingdom's mainland. After all, without fleet escort, the route between the two continents is really dangerous, and one has to risk his life by being robbed by pirates.
Take office.
"It's not like the Direct Territory of Tiersim has gone through some wars." Viscount Oribut said gloomily: "If you have read the report sent to the Kingdom's Army Department from the Territory War Zone, you will know that the Storm Fleet in White Deer City was
He rebelled and took refuge with Prince Hansback, interrupting the ocean-going trade with the port of Corpicius.
The governors and admirals of the three direct territories of Tilsim, Arturas and Mormali here in the Nubisian continent were also prepared to join the prince, and they even imprisoned the supreme commander of the war zone who came to discuss military expenditures.
General Bolognik. However, the direct-administered territories responded quickly and immediately sent troops to quell the rebellion. As a result, the three directly-administered territories were included in the jurisdiction of the war zone..."
"You mean..." Baron Fogle and Viscount Angelink showed expressions of ecstasy on their faces in the carriage.
Viscount Oribut nodded reservedly: "I have brought over a copy of the report on the directly-administered war zone. It said that in order to stabilize the situation, the direct-controlled war zone only punished the rebellious governors, admirals and others, and punished those who accompanied the rebellion.
The personnel did not carry out much investigation. And we all have the position of ambassador of liquidation and accountability. It is our duty to trace and punish all the rebels who followed the great prince. Therefore, when we take over the power of the war zone, we can come to investigate
Those rebels of the great prince’s group who are hiding among the people..."
"Haha, I was wondering if the governors and admirals of Tiersim and other three jurisdictions earned taxes from the private sector when they rebelled. Did all the immigrants from the kingdom in the three jurisdictions pay this tax?" An
A sinister smile appeared on Viscount Linke's face.
However, Viscount Oribut and Baron Fogle were not surprised why Viscount Angelink would ask this question. This was a method they were accustomed to using in the kingdom. Regardless of whether those local counties were forcibly conquered by the eldest prince's troops,
In the eyes of these ambassadors of accountability and liquidation, those who served in the army or levied taxes were all supporting the rebellion of the eldest prince, for which many families were ruined. Unless it satisfies the appetite of these ambassadors of liquidation and accountability,
Offer them gold and silver wealth or family treasures that satisfy them...
"This is really not written in the report." Viscount Oribut answered honestly: "But it is very simple for us to find their handle. We only need to check the tax collection records of the direct jurisdiction. As long as there is a tax collection
Since the tax was during the rebellion, we can reasonably conclude that they supported the great prince's rebellion."
"You are a little too happy too early." At this time, Count Davarnel, who had been looking out of the car window, said quietly: "Don't you feel that the attitude of the local officials in the direct jurisdiction towards us is strange? They have been treating us in the past two days.
They seemed unwilling to deal with us in private, and everything was business-like. Our accommodation and food, as well as the carriages and horses they bought for us, were all the same as the hospitality terms stipulated in the territorial war zones, and they did not exceed the standards or standards.
Below standard, completely different from the warm hospitality we received in the local counties of the Kingdom...
Also, take a closer look at the eyes of the people in the market when they see our group of carriages and horses. I always feel that they are not afraid that we are the kingdom’s special envoys, but rather disgusted with our presence. The marines who were protecting us just now
Some soldiers took a few apples from a fruit stall on the street without paying them. The stall owner was not begging, but scolding, and even wanted to catch up with him. In the end, someone next to him stopped him and gave up.
I'm very surprised, isn't he, a fruit seller, afraid of the muskets in the hands of soldiers?"
"I think what you said, Earl, is actually easy to explain." Viscount Oribut thought for a while and replied: "We have all seen the hospitality clause stipulated in the territorial war zone. It is indeed very detailed and thoughtful. This is very good.
It may be that the rules were formulated by the war zone to prevent local officials from taking advantage of the entertainment expenses to benefit themselves. Without the opportunity to make a fortune, of course those local officials would just go about their business, just like us. If they can't make some money for themselves, then
We have no motivation to offend others and act as ambassadors of reckoning and accountability.
In addition, this is an overseas territory directly under the Central Government, and those local officials are under the jurisdiction of the territory's war zone. They don't know that we are here to take over the power of the war zone, so there is no need to flatter us. For them, they just put us in the car and go to Lanzhou.
Hucheng has fulfilled its duty. I believe that when we take over the power of the war zone and return here again, those local officials promise to serve us as diligently as their biological parents. Then you can even let their wives and daughters come over
When we warm the bed, they will obediently wash our wife and daughter and send them to our bed...
As for the fruit vendor, I can only say that he has little brains and is just a rough guy. When we start to track down the traitor here, come and have a look. Don't say that you just eat some of his fruit for free, he will kneel down on his own.
He offered us the freshest and most delicious fruits on the ground for our soldiers to taste. We just asked that we not accuse him of being a traitor. Now to them, we are just passers-by, envoys of the Kingdom who go to the theater headquarters to perform official duties, so they do not
Not afraid of us."
Viscount Oribut's analysis won the admiration of the three nobles in the car. This was the third day they arrived at the port of Kaubicius, directly under the jurisdiction of Tiersim. The seven kingdom envoys who got off the ship only rested for two days.
They asked the local officials who received them to prepare carriages and horses for them, preparing to set off for Lanhu City, where the theater headquarters was located. The local officials at Copicius Port, who regarded them as plague gods, also wanted them to get out early, and quickly mobilized
The carriages, horses and supplies allowed the envoys from the seven kingdoms and the battalion of marines to set out on the road.
After leaving the city of Corpicius Port, there were farms and farms on both sides of the road. Soon, a group of five- and six-month-old piglets having fun in the fence in front of a farm caught the eyes of several kingdom envoys, and they called a halt.
carriage.
"Go to a team of people and catch all the piglets from the farm in front. When we camp at night, the adults will eat roasted suckling pig with honey." Naturally, the Kingdom's special envoy's subordinates had talents who knew their master's preferences, and a steward directly designated them.
He summoned several small groups of Marine soldiers around him and asked them to carry out the order to catch the piglet.
The Marines in this battalion were all recruited later and were not the main marine force of the original Storm Fleet. After the dozen or so ocean-going warships of the original Storm Fleet returned to the Kingdom from overseas jurisdictions, they were destroyed by Sterling Eleven
Shi arranged for the sea area near the Ibiniste Plain to guard against attacks from the sea, so that the royal capital would not be caught off guard again. At the same time, he also gathered several ocean-going ships for these warships to form a naval squadron.
Generally speaking, a complete naval fleet has four to five squadrons, each squadron has about twenty ocean-going sailing battleships and ocean-going transport ships, and also has a Marine Corps battalion. And a complete naval fleet basically has
It has more than a hundred warships and ocean-going ships, and a marine regiment. It also needs a deep-water port as a military port base for the fleet to maintain the ships and allow the officers and soldiers on board to go ashore to rest.
One of the two major fleets of the Overas Kingdom, one of the Fearless Fleets, was annihilated by the rebellious Great Prince and the Sea King Fleet and Combined Fleet of the Kingdom of Hicks. The other Storm Fleet rebelled and took refuge with the Great Prince. Now the remaining ones are
There were only about twenty battleships and seagoing ships. So there was no need to choose a large seaport. Instead, we found a town and fishing port on the coast of the Ibiniste Plain as a base. This Marine Corps battalion was recruited near that town.
Made up of scoundrels, veterans and dawdling sailors.
After three years of civil war in the Kingdom, high-quality soldiers have become extremely scarce. Even if they do exist, they are controlled by the three ace field corps. It is already very good that this naval squadron can form this battalion of Marines. Due to financial constraints,
Nervous, they have not experienced any strict military training and military discipline education. They are all good at stealing and taking advantage, but when they go into battle, they are just weak-legged characters with weak legs. They basically have silver barrels and wax tips.
This time to protect the Kingdom's special envoy to the overseas territories directly under the jurisdiction of the country, the officers and soldiers of this marine battalion have regarded this trip as a good job. In the name of escorting the special envoy, they have done a lot of things in the port of Corpicius in the past two days.
This is an act of not paying for things. Fortunately, these things were not of high value and were watched by the local patrol police. It was hard for them to do anything that would harm the kingdom's envoys. They managed to restrain their temper and did not cause a lot of trouble.
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This time, as soon as we were on the road and leaving the city, we heard the kingdom’s envoy saying that they would eat honey-roasted suckling pig in the evening, and asked them to catch the group of piglets in the farm in front. Now everyone was fighting bravely, and everyone got off their horses and got off.
Get off the car and swarm to the fence of the farm. They tear open a big hole in the fence and rush in. Those who catch the piglets grab the piglets, and those who don't care about the piglets rush towards the house and the back of the farm.
, prepare to get something for yourself...
Then gunshots rang out, and soon four or five soldiers who had run behind the farm ran out crying in despair as if they had abandoned their weapons and armor, shouting as they ran: "Killing, killing..."
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A battalion of Marines has a full strength of more than a thousand people, but this new Marine Corps battalion only has more than 700 people due to lack of quotas. The local officials of the Port of Corpicus mobilized 70 four-wheeled trucks for them.
The carts and about two hundred pack horses were enough for them to travel on the road, and they could also form a squadron of cavalry escorts. The envoys from the seven kingdoms and the dozen or so naval officers who went to receive the combined fleet naturally sat in six relatively new four-wheeled vehicles.
A box-style luxury carriage.
Just now, there were only about thirty soldiers who followed the order to catch piglets at the farm. The rest of them got off the car and stopped by the road for a while, then sat and watched the excitement. Unexpectedly, before they caught a few piglets, there was a noise coming from the farm.
There was a sound of gunfire, and then I saw five or six people rushing out from behind the farm. The one at the front was a strong man wielding a big shovel, and behind him were four people holding dung forks, poles, and iron rods.
Among the middle-aged men, the last one was an old man in his fifties or sixties holding a matchlock gun. The reason he fell behind was because he was loading the gun while running...
When the strong man with the big shovel saw a soldier holding a piglet in front of him, he hit the soldier on the head with the shovel without hesitation. The soldier lost the piggy and hugged his bloody head.
He yelled and turned around to run away. The four middle-aged men behind him did not hesitate and beat up the soldiers in their own yard. They immediately beat the soldiers until they were crying and running away with their heads in their hands.
Several special envoys from the kingdom who were watching the excitement were furious. How unreasonable they dared to resist the soldiers of the kingdom. They are really unruly people. The people in this farm must be rebels! Immediately issued an order to arrest these traitors and make sure they live or die!
When the five or six people in the farm saw the soldiers' accomplices on the road outside, they immediately retreated to the back of the farm, using the cover of the house to pick up the guns that the pig-catching soldiers had just thrown on the ground, and the soldiers outside.
A confrontation ensued. At the same time, smoke rose from behind the farm, sounding the alarm.
A large group of Marines was sent to attack the farm, but after the first two soldiers rushed into the farm and were killed, one was wounded and the other fell to the ground screaming, the soldiers behind them no longer dared to rush in and hid behind
People outside the fence were shooting muskets at the inside of the farm. After a burst of gunshots, except for a dozen white spots left on the wall of the farm house, no one was hit.
Viscount Oribut once went to the Red Dragon Legion as a military supervisor during the kingdom's civil war. He was the only one among the kingdom's special envoys, apart from the two special envoys from the old aristocratic families, among the five emerging commercial aristocrats who knew some military knowledge.
He angrily pointed at the officers in charge of the Marine Corps battalion: "Send another squadron and rush in directly from the front. The opponent only has a few muskets and cannot kill a few people. Send another squadron to go around the back of the farm.
, don’t let these rebels escape..."
The officer in charge of the Marine Corps battalion did not agree to Viscount Oribut's request. Instead, he blew the copper whistle to withdraw the troops, which made Viscount Oribut so angry that he almost vomited blood: "How dare you disobey my order!"
An officer pointed around: "Lord Viscount, please take a look around our team first..."
Viscount Oribut looked back. He himself was dumbfounded. At some point, a crowd of black crows appeared around the road, vaguely surrounding the entire team of carriages and horses. What even chilled the hearts of several kingdom envoys was that
, the people at the front of the crowd held muskets in their hands, the muzzles of the guns were pointed at them, and the match ropes on the muskets were burning with sparks...
What's going on? Why do the residents of the direct-administered territory have so many matchlocks? What do they want to do when they come around?
The horn sounded in the distance, and a group of four soldiers from the local garrison in gray and black uniforms ran over neatly. Several officers rode in front: "Who issued the alarm here? Where are the robbers from?
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Several kingdom envoys were overjoyed that they were finally saved. Just as they were about to step forward and sign up for the soldiers to arrest all the people around them, they saw the few who had just confronted the Marines battalion soldiers running out of the farm shouting.
Individually, they rushed to the officers and pointed at the Marines and told them. The officers' faces changed, and with a wave of their hands, the soldiers behind them rushed up and surrounded the entire Marine Corps battalion.
"Bold! We are special envoys from the royal capital, and how dare you be rude to us!" Several envoys from the kingdom were furious.
"Special envoy of the Kingdom? Bah!" A colonel officer with three silver moons on his shoulder straps spat on the ground disdainfully: "We have had special envoys from the Kingdom several times in our overseas territories, but we have never seen them rush in like bandits.
The kingdom’s special envoys who robbed property from the farm. You said you are the kingdom’s special envoys, so please show us the evidence that you are the kingdom’s special envoys. Otherwise, I can only think that you are robbers pretending to be the kingdom’s special envoys, and take measures against you immediately!”
Uh... let us prove our identity as the kingdom's special envoys? This is simple, just take out the decree issued by Sterling XI. Viscount Angelink was about to get on the carriage to get the king's decree,
But Count Davarnel grabbed his arm: "You are crazy. Show them His Majesty's will here. If this content is leaked, we will be finished..."
Only then did several kingdom envoys think that the decree of Sterling XI contained a plan to deal with the five generals and the officers and soldiers of the two legions in the war zone. If they are exposed now and are provoked by someone with ulterior motives, their entire group will die without burial.
Only when it is read out in public at the war zone headquarters can it become a fait accompli. By then, they have already taken over the power of the war zone, so there is no need to worry about any changes. In short, this decree cannot be taken out now...
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"I'm sorry, your Majesty's decree can only be read out in front of the supreme commander of the war zone. We can't show it to you." Baron Fogli stepped forward and greeted several officers with a smile: "We are indeed special envoys from the kingdom.
Look at these carriages and horses, as well as the passes issued by your local officials to our group and the documents proving that we were supplied with food and fodder on the road, it can prove that we are indeed not pretending to be bandits."
The leading colonel officer took the document and looked at it for a few times before ordering: "Disarm all their muskets, and give all those who break into the farm thirty lashes. They have brought shame on the soldiers of the kingdom. If there is resistance,
Executed on the spot!"
In front of the wolf-like officers and soldiers of the local garrison, the members of the Marine Corps battalion were very well-behaved. They handed over their muskets and took the initiative to confess to the thirty or so soldiers who rushed into the farm to catch the piglets. They watched as they were picked apart.
He took his shirt off and was whipped directly on the side of the road.
"There are still two people who were killed and one injured in our farm..." said a middle-aged man who came out of the farm.
"Those are your trophies, and it's up to you to dispose of them. If you can save the injured one, he will do hard labor on your farm for ten years and just go and register. If you can't save the body, you can feed it to the dogs as you like." Colonel officer
He said nonchalantly, then looked around and ordered: "Let everyone disperse. You did a good job in joint defense this time. Next, we will send troops to escort them out of the country and ensure that they will not be harassed."