Chapter 59: 59 being an official
Chapter 59 59Being an official
Solon goes to work and comes home on time every day. He has a wife, a concubine, and three children, and lives happily in the small town of Bunas.
He has more than a hundred city guards under his command. The work of these city guards is similar to that of armed police. They maintain law and order while also taking on part of the garrison's duties.
In fact, this is only a nominal matter. There are only 36 soldiers in Bunas, and the others are "non-existent" soldiers who are paid empty wages.
Since there is nothing really hard for everyone to do on weekdays, raising so many soldiers would only be done by a fool.
Yes, Sauron is the magistrate of Bunas. He manages this town called Bunas together with the mayor and tax collector.
He had almost no social activities. He returned to his home on time every day and enjoyed the peace and quiet. In fact, he did not need any social entertainment. The mayor and the tax collector would hand over his annual profits to him on time. He really didn't need it. To worry about something.
If there are no gangsters fighting at the dock, he doesn't need to worry about the problems of the boatmen and fishermen. Businessmen from afar pay taxes according to regulations, and no one will easily cause trouble in a place like this.
So his life is calm and full of surprises, as if he has recently received a new profit-in the northern suburbs of the town, a weapons workshop that was about to go bankrupt has miraculously revived, and He will be given 3 gold coins every month.
Although this amount of money is not a lot, it is actually available every month. At least he had gotten it for the third time, and he did so with ease and naturally.
The boy named Tang Mo never did anything out of the ordinary, never made trouble or looked for trouble, and almost never even entered the town.
He didn't care what Tang Mo did on the land he paid for. Even if Tang Mo wanted to build a castle with twenty cannons on it, it had nothing to do with him.
What's more, Tang Mo only built a school there and expanded some factories, that's all. He felt very comfortable with such a profit-sharing bribe, so he also had a good impression of Tang Mo.
Even though he knew that in recent days, the workshop that had been renamed Datang Group had suddenly become overcrowded, he had no intention of intervening.
After all, people have given money to them, so as long as they don’t rebel, or even if they rebel, as long as they don’t seek his troubles, he won’t cause trouble for himself.
After all, Tang Mo came to Bunas in person that day and treated him, the mayor and the tax collector to a delicious meal. After three rounds of wine and five delicious dishes, Tang Mo showed his identity as a guardian knight to everyone.
Now, there is no doubt that Tang Mo is Count Fishereau's confidant. In this situation, whoever has nothing to do to trouble Tang Mo would be asking for trouble, wouldn't he?
Perhaps one day, this guardian knight will transform into a new baron. How can he not take revenge on those who once caused him trouble?
So, keeping the matter out of your own hands and hanging on high is the best way to deal with Tang Mo, a young man who is rising rapidly...
Today, Solon was sitting in his office, enjoying the bright sunshine outside. Because Bunas is a seaside town, as long as he opens the window, he can immediately feel the salty sea breeze blowing on his face.
This feeling was really comfortable, so comfortable that it made him feel drowsy. So he couldn't help but praise softly: "Ah... what a wonderful afternoon."
"Sir!" A city guard soldier knocked on Sauron's door. After hearing his order, he opened the door and reported: "A person who claims to be the envoy of the Cyric Consortium hopes that he can See you.”
"Oh? Invite him in quickly..." Sauron adjusted his facial muscles to make his smile brighter. He stood up and walked to the door, just in time to meet the man who just walked in.
"Sir." Sauron bowed slightly with a smile on his face, without any pretense that he was the sheriff, and greeted the man who walked in: "I am really rude for not being able to greet you."
“My name is Becky!” Becky was not polite. She took off her leather gloves, patted the dust on her breeches casually, and introduced herself briefly: “I am Lord Giese’s subordinate.”
After finishing speaking, he looked at Sheriff Solon who was standing there respectfully, and asked: "This time, I want to ask you, has anything happened here recently?"
As he asked, he handed a gold-gilded name card from the Cyric Consortium to Sauron. After Sauron subconsciously took the name card, he immediately lowered his head.
Even the powerful nobles would not dare to offend anyone from the Cyric Consortium easily, let alone the head of the Cyric Consortium in the Kingdom of Wright, Huey Giese.
“Sir, what do you mean by that?” Sauron handed the name card back to Becky and asked nervously.
“I heard that someone here has seen a new kind of musket?” Becky asked while looking at the office, which seemed to be well decorated. Solid wood floor, leather shoes can make a nice clanking sound when stepped on it. Decorative paintings hang on the surrounding walls, and there is a functional bookshelf on one wall.
There are some nails driven into the wall of the door, and there is a leather belt with a gun holster hanging on it and a long sword in the scabbard.
"Muskets? Sir, we only have one small arms workshop here that is about to go bankrupt. The muskets of our city guards are all Cyric flintlocks issued by the kingdom...I have never heard of any new muskets." Sauron said. He said, while thinking of Tang Mo's weird weapons workshop recently.
"Workshop? Oh, I remembered, that Tang Qi who died a few months ago, his small workshop?" Becky vaguely recalled the not-so-famous small arms workshop in Bunas.
"Yes, sir, that's the one." Sauron nodded quickly and said, "Where did you hear about any new weapons appearing here?"
"Do you think this matter is related to Tang Qi's weapons workshop?" Becky continued to ask without answering Sauron's question.
"How is it possible? Sir, you know that it is just a small workshop, and the person who inherited the workshop is a teenager. How could he have this ability?" Sauron replied matter-of-factly.
“Tell me everything about the weapons workshop.” Becky walked to Sauron’s office and sat down on Sauron’s chair, indicating that Sauron could find a place to sit wherever he wanted.
Solan frowned slightly, and the smile on his face instantly concealed his dissatisfaction. He did not sit down, but immediately said: "That shop couldn't survive before. After Tang Qi died, his son Tang Mo dismissed half of the workers, causing panic in our small town of Bunas.”
"Tang Mo..." Becky muttered the name, as if he wanted to remember it in his heart.
"Later, he went around begging for help, wanting to see Baron Stella...I heard he was going to curry favor with the Baron." Sauron looked like he was reminiscing, with a face that knew everything and said nothing. Later, it seemed that the road to Baron Stella was not working, so I heard that he went to North Ridge. "
“Beiling?” Becky immediately became interested when she heard this sensitive word. She looked at Sauron and asked in a long voice.
"Yes, Beiling! He didn't know how he deceived the Earl into buying some wasteland north of Bunas. The side next to the Vicious Forest is all wasteland. I guess if the Earl knew about it, he would definitely Kill him."
"Weapons workshop...Vicious Forest...Northridge...Earl...Wasteland..." Becky muttered key words one by one, the sinister smile on her face becoming more and more obvious.
So many familiar words, which were originally unrelated, all appeared in Sauron's words. Is this a coincidence? No! This is definitely no coincidence!
The thing is obvious. It is estimated that Tang Mo must have come up with some new weapons. He first visited Baron Stella, but was kicked out. This is easy to understand. Baron Stella can definitely do it.
Then that **** Tang Mo took his new weapons and went to try his luck with Count Ronin Fisherow in Beiling.
As a result, Fischereau, who was under great pressure recently, decided to invest in this new weapon, so Tang Mo escaped from bankruptcy and became a lackey under the earl.
As for the unlucky group of bandits, they must have accidentally bumped into a carriage transporting new weapons. After seeing the power of the new weapons, they went to find Lord Giese in the hope of a rich future.
With such a connection, Becky felt that she had almost guessed the whole process. In fact, his guess was very correct, as accurate as if he had seen the whole thing develop with his own eyes.
"By the way, he is still expanding his factory and recruiting many workers." Solan really knew everything, because he knew that concealing it was useless. His relationship with Tang Mo was not enough to cover up for Tang Mo.
These things are all information that can be obtained by just asking on the street or looking at the field. If he conceals it for Tang Mo, it will easily implicate himself.
"Very good! It's a pleasure to meet you, Sheriff Sauron! You are a good officer, and I will put in a good word for you in front of Lord Giese." After getting the information she wanted, Becky stood up , walked up to Sauron and patted him on the shoulder.
Then, he walked out of Solon's office, took his closest men, and left towards the north of Bunas Town.
Sauron, who watched them leave, returned to his office, wrote a note, called one of his men, and said, "Change into civilian clothes and send this to Tang Mo."
Watching his men leave quickly, his face turned gloomy: "Do you really treat me like a dog? If I don't cause some trouble for you Cyric bastards, why should I be an official?"
(End of this chapter)