Steel, Guns, and the Industrial Party that Traveled to Another World

Paul Graman summoned the senior military and political personnel in the territory and asked Mellon to repeat the specific process at the meeting. Everyone present was angry at the shamelessness of the traitors.

Then he explained to everyone that he was going to inform the entire Northwest Territory after the fall, expose the conspiracy of those traitors, and send troops to Bayerding.

General Manager Ford suggested: "Should we appeal to the Duke of the Northwest first and let him judge the right and wrong of Bayerding."

Oh? There is another trick. But Paul will not adopt it. Let's not talk about whether the Duke of the Northwest is fair or not. If others are allowed to solve it, what will happen to Bayerding's coal and iron mines and Paul Graman.

"I don't know how long it will take to argue back and forth. Are we going to let those traitors continue to get away with it for a while?" Paul disagreed with this plan.

Old Ford was a little worried: "But, after all, the Duke is the biggest vassal in the northwest of the kingdom. If we just bypass him and act on our own, will it cause his dissatisfaction?"

Paul looked indifferent: "We are not vassals of the Duke of the Northwest. If I remember correctly, since the establishment of the kingdom, the Graman family and the Garnard family have always been direct vassals of His Majesty the King. Our titles were given by His Majesty the King, and there is no need for outsiders to say anything."

Seeing that the lord was so persistent, Butler Ford said nothing more.

"Then from now on, all affairs in the territory must give way to the autumn war. Cecil must try to find out the opponent's strengths and weaknesses, the General Staff must formulate a battle plan, and have relevant plans for any possible situation. The Logistics Department should prepare sufficient supplies, and the Equipment Department should supervise the production of muskets and cannons, and strive to equip a company of musketeers before the war."

The meeting finally made the above resolution.

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A few days later, a birthday party was held in the Lord's Mansion in Lake Heart Town to celebrate the Earl's 15th birthday. Except for the special guest, Myron Garnard, none of the other invited people came, but some families still sent gifts and birthday greetings. Paul didn't care, and had a big meal with his subordinates and Myron happily.

After the birthday, Butuya sent someone to invite Myron back. Paul and Myron certainly wouldn't agree, "Your Earl is very happy in Lake Heart Town, and he will stay with me for a while longer."

The messenger showed a trace of panic on his face. He looked at Myron and said, "Please consider it carefully, the Lord's Mansion has a mountain of official documents. Without the Earl, the people below don't know how to deal with it."

"Ah! I'll go to your "official documents"!" Myron Xin, who was standing aside, almost cursed out, and he was furious when he thought of being fooled for so long.

After the death of old Graman, Myron, in view of the fact that his father's series of actions during his lifetime had caused "the wrath of heaven and the people" in the territory, was determined to be a diligent, excellent, and satisfactory lord to restore the image of the Garnard family in Bayerding. He learned from what his subordinates taught him, and tried his best to do what his subordinates suggested him to do.

Because his father had offended the church, he donated a large amount of money to the church at the suggestion of the chief steward Angelo and went to the church to pray for two hours every day. Because his father wanted to "publicize the cultivated land", he greatly reduced the taxes that the landlords had to pay at the suggestion of Viscount Abbott. Because his father wanted to abolish the privileges of the nobility, he granted more fiefs to the vassals at the suggestion of the chief steward Miles to restore their loyalty.

As everything in the territory "returned to normal", Angelo and others said that Bayerding, which had been tossed around by his father, finally prospered again. However, the consequence of "prosperity" is the increasing number of government affairs. Every day, there will be a lot of official documents waiting for him to sign, a lot of reports waiting for him to review, and a lot of lawsuit files waiting for him to review.

An Qiluo and others said that an excellent lord should be involved in all matters, big and small, in the territory. I did what they said. Although the official documents seemed to never be approved, the reports seemed to never be reviewed, and there was no time to go out and play like before, he lived a fulfilling life. Whenever the retainers reported how many acres of cultivated land had been added and how many new shops had been opened, he felt extremely happy.

It was not until that night when he overheard the conversation between An Qiluo and the butler that he realized that he had been sidelined, and those complicated official documents and reports were just fabricated to fool him. He was full of enthusiasm, but a puppet in the eyes of others, a fool, and a fool who was about to be dealt with.

He was angry and regretful, but only then did he realize that the soldiers loyal to him were far away. Now he thought that this was all part of the conspiracy of the traitors. When Mailon took advantage of his remaining spare time to go out for a walk, he found that the private soldiers of the traitors had already taken control of the entire Butuya without realizing it.

There were still a group of personal guards left in the lord's mansion, but what was the use of such a small number of people? Considering the series of personnel adjustments presided over by the butler before, it is estimated that there are not many people left who are truly loyal to the Ghana family.

Why didn't I notice it before? Mailon wrote a secret letter for help to his former good brother. Fortunately, the traitors didn't know that the conspiracy had been exposed, and the letter was successfully delivered to Huxin Town. Now that he has finally escaped from the wolf's den, how could he go back?

According to Paul's prior advice, Mailon did not get angry. He tried to calm himself down and said to the messenger with a pleasant face: "Let the general steward Anqiluo handle those official documents for the time being. I grant them this power."

"This..." The messenger seemed to want to persuade.

Mailon showed the majesty of a lord and was about to explode: "Huh? What? Are you going to disobey the will of your lord?"

The messenger was frightened and apologized repeatedly, and immediately said goodbye and left in a hurry.

Several vassals of Butuya panicked after learning that Mailon would not come back. Abbott immediately accused Anqiluo: "Look! Look! What a good thing you did, that kid must have noticed something!"

Anqiluo pretended to be calm: "Why panic? The child has been stuck at home for so long, and suddenly he is allowed to go out and play. It's normal for him to want to stay at his friend's house for a few more days!"

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After saying that, it seemed that even he felt that this was the case. But he continued, "The sky won't fall. If he doesn't come back for a long time, we will lead the soldiers to Arda to ask for him. We will tell the public that the boy from the Graman family tried to seize the mineral resources of Bailding and tricked his blood-sworn brothers into imprisoning them in the lake town under the pretext of inviting them to a banquet. With Graman's connections in the northwest, how many people will help them?"

"You guys, go back to your own territory to recruit soldiers and train them quickly. If Mellon doesn't come back after the fall, we will go and rob him."

The two barons nodded one after another, only Viscount Abbott looked reluctant, but he didn't have any good way now, so he acquiesced to Anqiluo's plan. He said, "If you hadn't let him go, there wouldn't be so much trouble now!" Then he left in a huff.

Angiluo looked at Abbott's departing back, his face uncertain.