Chapter 285: The Enraged Count Behm
The Earldom of Behm steelworks officially opened for the third day. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Count Behm is worrying about how to write a letter to the Grand Duke's Palace in the West.
"Oh no, my lord! The butler of the Earl of Behm ran over in a panic.
"What's so flustered? Count Behm said with some displeasure. This butler is usually a very stable person, but he didn't expect to encounter something, so he was so flustered, he was used to it! Do you want to change him? Count Behm's mind kept popping up one after another.
"My lord, Wang Canjin, Tong Jianmin, and Yu Chaowei ran away. The butler said in a panic.
The housekeeper knew how much it cost to invite these three people to come, but after only a few days, the other party ran away.
"What did you say? Wang Canjin, Tong Jianmin, and Yu Chaowei ran away?" Count Bem was a little suspicious that his ears had heard it wrong, how could they run? In addition to several times the salary of Red Maple Ridge, and the guarantee that they would be given the title of nobility after the matter was completed, they had no reason to escape? Could it be that they were killed by the people of Red Maple Ridge?
"It's true!" The housekeeper replied affirmatively: "Yesterday, these three people did not come, saying that they were going to buy raw materials, and today they did not come, I sent people to look for them in the place where they lived, and found that they had gone to the empty building, not only these three people, but their family members were also gone." β
"Bastard!" The Earl of Behm was furious, and slapped his palm on the table, and with a 'snap', the table immediately fell apart and shattered to pieces!
"Use the convoy and chase me. β
When he was caught, he had to skin these three people, otherwise it would be difficult to eliminate the hatred in his heart.
However, the butler did not move, and said in a low voice: "My lord, if they escaped yesterday, then they should be out of the county of Bem by now." β
There was a management reminder, and Count Behm remembered.
Even if you are an earl, you can't send your escort to someone else's territory to hunt down, even if that lord's title is lower than his, you can't, otherwise it will be an invasion!
"Well, you go to the convoy and ask them to send three captains to hunt them down, and you must bring them back. Count Bem commanded with a serious expression, this wind must not rise, if this is the case, then where is the majesty of his Bem?
But it's far from over.
The next day, Count Behm received news that instead of the three who had escaped, five more workers from Red Maple Ridge had escaped.
Count Behm angrily smashed another table.
"Keep a close watch on the rest of the people, and if one of them runs away, I'll ask you!"
The Earl of Behm, with his butler, was furious, and went to the steelworks himself to investigate, and he wanted to see why they had run away! Since they came to the Earldom of Bem, they have eaten and drunk for them like uncles, and they have treated him like this?
The Earl of Behm steelworks, outside which a team of guards handle the gates.
The workers were in twos and threes, some chatting, some sleeping, none of them were doing anything.
When Count Behm came in, he saw this scene. The anger that Count Behm had suppressed rose sharply again.
"Can anyone tell me what's going on?" The Count of Behm angrily shouted to the workers, "I have come to ask them to do things, not to ask them to rest, and to come here to sleep and chat with my own salary, and to be a fool?"
Hearing the cries of the Count of Behm, the workers reacted, and those who chatted stopped chatting, and those who slept got up from the ground.
"You come, you come, you come and say that you don't do anything, what are you doing here?" Earl Behm's voice trembled a little, and he pointed to a worker who was closer to him and asked.
This worker chuckled in his heart, and secretly said that it was not good, why didn't he hide far away just now, and now disaster is coming!
Under the gaze of Count Behm, the worker stepped forward stubbornly: "My lord, it's not that we don't do things, we really don't know how to do it, there is no equipment here, and it would be too difficult for us to make the equipment too! β
"You... Then what do I want you to do? Pull it out and cut it off!" The Count of Behm shouted, and immediately two guards stepped forward, one on the left and one on the right, and walked out on the shoulders of the worker.
"Lord, spare your life! Lord, spare your life!" The workers begged for mercy and tried to move towards the Count of Behm, but if they were dragged out, how could they live?
"Drag it out. The Earl of Behm waved his hand, resolutely,
"Lord, spare your life! Lord, spare your lifeγγγ Ah!!h The workers' voices faded away and suddenly stopped.
The rest of the workers couldn't bear to look that way, and their bodies couldn't help but turn away from Count Behm.
"You... You... It's you, you come here. Count Behm pointed his finger at a chubby worker.
The slightly chubby worker's face suddenly turned pale, his legs couldn't help but weaken, and he collapsed to the ground. The chubby worker had only one thought in his heart, he was doomed, he was dead, he was dead, he was deadγγγ
"Tell me, without equipment, can you make the equipment, to be honest!" Having just killed someone, Count Behm's anger finally gave vent to himself.
The chubby worker was constantly struggling in his heart, and to be honest, the man in front of him was a lesson from his previous experience! Telling lies, saying that he could make equipment, and he could delay his death by a few days.
"My lord, we can give it a try. The chubby worker whispered, if he said that he would definitely make equipment, Count Behm did not necessarily believe it, but could only say that he would give it a try.
"Okay, I'll give you a month, if you can't even make a device, then there's no need to live. These were said by the Count of Behm to all the workers present.
Count Behm had worked hard to dig them up, and it didn't matter if one or two died, but if they were all dead, it wouldn't work.
"Yes, yes. "The worker didn't know what Count Behm was thinking, and knew that he would not die immediately, so he hurriedly said yes, as for whether he could make equipment, that would be later.
Count Behm nodded, and walked away satisfied.
Half a month later, an explosive news reached the ears of the Count of Behm, and more than forty workers had fled.
The Count of Behm came to the steel mill again, and compared to the last time, nothing had changed in the steel mill, not a single piece of equipment had been manufactured.
"I need to know why. Count Behm asked softly to the remaining less than ten workers, didn't they look a little angry, or did they have already become too angry? The workers who had escaped had not yet escaped from the county of Bem because they had found it early, and the Count of Bem had already sent a guard to arrest them.
"My lord, we have been researching for the past ten days, but we really can't make those devices. One of the leading workers said.
"Then why don't you run. Count Behm asked.
The leading worker showed a wry smile: "We also want to run, but my family is in Bem City, and if I run, they won't survive." β
As long as you don't run, even if you are killed, it will not affect your family, and the rest of the workers present basically think so.
Count Behm pondered for a moment: "You go back and wait for the news. β
The arrest lasted for three days, and more than half of the more than forty people who ran away were captured, and the Count of Behm was originally going to hang all these people at the city gate for public display, but considering that doing so would make it difficult to recruit people in the future, this idea was cancelled.
Just let them go, and Count Behm was not reconciled.
The Count of Bem decided to take the lead and hang him at the gate of the city, while the others each made fifty boards, and the benefits that had been promised were halved. Even if this is the past.
However, the impact of this incident on Hongfeng Ridge is far more than that.
Some of the workers who managed to escape chose to return to Red Maple Ridge, bringing the workers to a tragic fate in the county of Behm, but the mill would not re-admit those who had left. This made the workers who had been vacillating rejoicing! Fortunately, they did not resign, and the treatment in the steel mill was not easy to find.
And thousands of miles away in the Western Grand Duke's Palace.
The Grand Duke smashed the documents on the desk with one palm, and said to the steward standing in front of him: "This is your idea, to borrow a knife to kill someone? The benefits are given, the knife is borrowed, but if you don't kill people, what do you say you should do? And these pieces of information are almost identical, what do you say is the reason for this?"
The steward standing in front of the Grand Duke was still confused at first, and the more he listened, the colder his heart became!
The steward bent his legs in fright, knelt on the ground, and said in a panic: "It's a poor job under the subordinates, and the lord forgives me!"
"I'm so stupid to take your word for it. The Grand Duke of the West shook his head, not blaming the steward much, but sulking himself.
At the beginning, Ding Changqing ambushed Lin Feng outside the Grand Duke's Mansion in the northwest, but he listened to the words of the steward in front of him, recalled Ding Changqing, and then sent an envoy to lobby several territories near Hongfeng Ridge, promising rich revenge and letting them assassinate Lin Feng.
As a result, the gift was accepted, and there was no movement at all about the assassination, and almost all the information given was carved out of a mold, and there was a problem at first glance.
"Okay, I'll deal with this matter, you go down and call Jingxiang here." The Grand Duke of the West commanded.
Jingxiang is the worship of the Grand Duke's Mansion of the West, and he is a congenital master who is good at assassination, and only when this matter is handed over to him can the Grand Duke of the West rest assured. If it weren't for the fact that the Grand Duke of the West himself was injured and couldn't easily leave the Grand Duke's Mansion in the West, he really wanted to personally avenge the murder of his son.
"You won't be away for a few days!" The Grand Duke of the West sneered at the north.