The help is inexhaustible, and since Hudson solved the problem of the shortfall of the first group of relatives and friends, his battalion has not been idle.

Some relationships that can't be beaten by eight poles have all shown their magical powers. People come and go every day, and it's an endless stream.

Business is always done, but it seems to be a lot more difficult. In many cases, there is a shortage of materials, and everyone needs to find a way from other places.

The more difficult it is to show this thing, the more you can gain gratitude. Hudson, who is familiar with people's feelings, would not have taken it all upon himself at such a time.

The urgency of the shortage is also constantly stimulating the nerves of the aristocracy. The nobles who placed the order first were the first to fill in the hole.

The aristocrats who reacted one step slower were miserable, and against the background of the "out of stock" in the market, they had to come up with their own tricks.

If there is a shortage of food, let the soldiers under his command eat less; If the number of armor is insufficient, then it will be drawn from the army under his command.

In order to make up the number, some nobles even went through the relationship and advanced the food and grass of the soldiers under their command for the next three months in advance.

For these small actions, Hudson directly chose to open one eye and close the other. No matter what you say, everyone's spirit of making up for the deficit at any cost is still commendable.

"Earl, the members of the Kingdom Investigation Team have arrived in the camp. This time the leader of the team is the Minister of War, the Grand Duke of Efiero, and I am afraid that the posture is not good! ”

Tom reported a little nervously.

Without saying a word, he went directly into the camp, obviously trying to hit them with a surprise attack.

Hudson was not surprised by this situation. Now that he has been accused of being greedy for ink and reselling military supplies, the investigation team naturally wants to be expensive and fast.

It's hard to figure out the current team, it's just on the surface. There is also a team secretly that has already come to the front line to intervene in the investigation.

"Please!"

As he spoke, Hudson got up and walked out of the camp. The Minister of War personally led the team, and he had to give enough face.

……

Looking from afar, he saw a familiar figure in the crowd, and Hudson immediately greeted him.

"Dear Grand Duke Ephiero, welcome!"

Looking at the enthusiasm, it doesn't look like being investigated at all, but more like an old friend meeting.

This was the result of a surprise attack, and if it had been announced in advance, the main generals of the army would have come to greet it.

"Earl Hudson, you're so kind! I really don't dare to accept this sincere welcome.

Come here now, but I'm here to find fault with you. If something goes wrong, don't blame me. ”

Archduke Efiero said with a smile.

The hearty voice is hard to make people feel bad. Even if he knew that he had come to investigate himself, Hudson was not angry.

"Grand Duke, you are laughing. Hudson has been conscientious since he took office, and he did not dare to be negligent at all, and he was not afraid of investigation!

The Grand Duke came to investigate this time, just to return my innocence and wash away the dirty water splashed by the evil villain.

However, after the problem of reselling munitions is clarified, I hope that the Grand Duke can investigate deeply and find out the villain behind the scenes.

My personal honor and disgrace are nothing, but hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the front line cannot bear this humiliation! ”

Hudson said righteously.

Losers don't lose, and everyone has begun to fill the deficit at this time. Dragging the investigation team here first can be regarded as buying time for everyone.

Although this is his own investigation, which is of little practical significance, as the commander of the army, Hudson still hopes that the problems exposed by his command will be smaller.

"Earl Hudson said it well!

The principle of the investigation team this time is: not to wronged a good person, not to let go of a bad person.

No matter who is responsible, we will investigate to the end, and we will never let go of any people involved!

In order not to leave an opportunity for the corrupt to take advantage of, and to trouble Earl Hudson to bring the accounts up, we immediately began to check the accounts and check the inventory! ”

Archduke Ephiero said undoubtedly.

The smell of gunpowder at the scene suddenly became stronger. I didn't even participate in the banquet, so I started to check the accounts directly, obviously to do something.

Hudson had expected this kind of change. Not being envied is a mediocre talent, and a young coach like him is destined to be hated.

For the king, his handsome talent must not only be reused, but also constantly polished to remove the edges and corners.

Now the Grand Duke of Ephiero is playing the role of a wicked man, and when the problem is really investigated, the king will come out and be a good man to pull him to buy people's hearts.

Hudson had seen similar imperial routines countless times in the history books, so he naturally would not be angry with Archduke Ephiero.

"Okay, just do as the Grand Duke wants. However, there are too many accounts in the army, and each major army has its own logistics and transportation area, and the accounts are also accounted for separately.

If you move all of them, you won't be able to check them for a while. Let's start with the area I'm in charge of, and Tom will send someone to get the accounts of the headquarters.

In addition to a small amount of inventory at a few transit stations on the front line, eighty percent of the logistical materials directly transported by the personnel of our headquarters are in this camp.

For the sake of convenience, I suggest that the team simply take the photo album and check it with the supplies in the camp. ”

Listening to Hudson's words, many members of the investigation team were directly dumbfounded. It's rare for a manager to be so cooperative.

Aristocrats are arrogant, and not being trusted and being investigated is a shame in the eyes of many nobles. Even if there are no problems, they will resist the investigation to vent their frustrations.

Suddenly encountered a master who did not play according to the routine, and the Grand Duke of Ephiero also did not know whether to be happy or annoyed.

When things go wrong, there must be demons.

His instinct told him that there must be something wrong with the young manager in front of him; But reason had told him that since Hudson dared to let go of all the restrictions for them to investigate, he would definitely not find out anything now.

Combined with the information he had gathered before, he knew that Hudson had even resold military supplies, and now he had filled the hole.

Not being able to find out the problem of the coach is definitely a good thing for the Alpha Kingdom, which means that the report is a fictitious thing.

But for the royal family, it's a different story.

Hudson was born out of his own hard work under the stormy circumstances, not "his own people" cultivated by the king.

If you can't catch the opponent's handle, you want to remove the opponent's edges and corners by knocking and polishing, and then find a way to slowly subdue it, which is basically not operable.

After pondering for a moment, the Grand Duke of Ephiero said with a calm face: "Just do what Earl Hudson wants!" ”

It doesn't matter if he can't get the handle, he doesn't want to be this villain anyway. After all, Hudson's age is enough to mix in the army for many years.

If he really offends someone to death, he himself does not care, but future generations cannot ignore it.

The tedious audit work began, and one warehouse after another was constantly opened, all of which were stuffed with supplies.

Under the inspection of the detection of magic, no anomaly was found. Don't say that it is greedy for ink to resell military supplies, and even the normal material loss is very well controlled.

……

The mission arrived ahead of schedule and began to audit the accounts. Like a storm, it quickly swept through the entire logistics department.

A typical few families are happy and a few are sad.

The aristocrats who filled the gap have turned into melon-eating masses at the moment, just waiting to see the jokes of their colleagues.

The nobles, who had too much deficit and were unable to fill the gap, were already in a hurry to stomp their feet at the moment.

All kinds of means of coping with inspections are constantly being invented, and it depends on whether they can stand the test.

In the Northland aristocratic camp, the faces of all the nobles at this moment were gloomy and terrifying.

It's unpleasant to watch a group of colleagues gather supplies, or rather be in the process of putting together supplies, only to be in trouble.

After making peace with the favor and paying the price of a premium of 30% on the basis of the market price, the chambers of commerce were finally willing to accept the order, but unfortunately they were ranked in the last sequence.

To put it simply: in the end, if there are surplus strategic materials, sell them to them; No, even if they are unlucky.

This wave did not suspect Hudson. Mainly the Dalton family has also procured enough strategic materials.

In the eyes of the outside world, if Hudson was behind the scenes, he would definitely not do the business of the enemy. The Dalton family, as a rival, will definitely be targeted to death.

The passive situation in front of them is more like a deliberate revenge on them by the major chambers of commerce.

"The current situation is very unfavorable for us. I don't know how much of everyone's gap is, anyway, in order to make up for the material gap, the connections that the Felix family can mobilize have already been activated.

Even I sent people to collect strategic materials from mercenaries, but unfortunately it was still a drop in the bucket.

Although the relationship between the front-line coalition forces is connected, they are more willing to cooperate with the gang of profiteers.

But those profiteers still hold a grudge against us, and none of them take our orders seriously.

This is also my responsibility. He underestimated not only Hudson, but also the power of businessmen, which caused the current situation. ”

Duke Cavadia remarked, with a depressed expression.

This wave has really been taught a lesson. Before that, he couldn't have imagined that the last bad thing would be a group of businessmen.

Originally, I thought that with their strength, they would completely skip these middlemen and directly trade with the major forces on the front line.

It's a pity that everything was thought out too well. It is true that the mainland nobles are a family, but everyone has their own little abacus, and it is impossible to follow their plan.

If it was before, as long as the price was right, it would not hurt for everyone to cooperate. But now that the alliance investigation team is about to arrive, no one wants to touch that mold.

Even if the relationship between one or two big nobles is passed, it is just a false report of war losses, and the strategic materials that can be traded are not much.

If you are touched by Shun Teng and found out together, you will be ruined.

In contrast, with more businessmen doing turnarounds, everything becomes different.

"Check", that is, it was transported from the rear. Chambers of commerce can even provide the source of the goods, and export data can be found at ports in various countries.

As for how they were able to cross the vast steppes and deliver large quantities of strategic materials to the front line, that is a trade secret.

"Kavadia, everything has happened, and accountability won't solve the problem.

The Felix family has not been able to smooth out the deficit, and we are naturally powerless.

The small and medium-sized nobles who are attached to our families below, not to mention. One by one, they are either rotten or on the way to rotten.

If it weren't for the lack of background of the Coslow family and the ability to reach out to the Frankish kingdom, I would have suspected that all this was deliberately designed by Hudson, just waiting for us to jump into the pit.

Counting the transportation tasks carried out by several of us, all of them are full of difficulties and obstacles, and none of them have had an easy time.

Every time we ship strategic materials, we only need to sign for them and ship them, and even the most basic demand check is omitted.

Obviously, it is deliberately leading us to reach out to the logistics materials. But as long as the logistics command pays attention to it, everyone does not dare to do it so excessively!

I highly suspect that Hudson was working with a major force to orchestrate this political conspiracy against our Northland nobles.

Judging from the current situation, the most suspicious is our Majesty the King. Otherwise, the Kingdom Investigation Mission would not have come so quickly.

Regardless of the fact that they are busy investigating Hudson at the moment, I bet the final result of the investigation is that he has no problem at all.

In addition to this open-faced investigation team, there is also a secret investigation team that has infiltrated early and secretly collected evidence against us. ”

The more he made up for it, the more Duke Dias felt reasonable.

When the king was assassinated not long ago, Caesar III simply endured it and did not take any strong action.

For a monarch, holding back without moving all the time is holding back his big move.

As the most unstable political group in the kingdom and the number one suspect, Caesar III had more than enough reason to take them under his knife.

Reporting to the Terran Alliance certainly makes the Alpha Kingdom very faceless. But the intervention of the alliance's investigation team also made them lose the confidence to overturn the table.

With so many Terran troops on the front line, no matter what the final result is, they can only choose to bear it.

Several people glanced at each other, and their faces changed drastically. If it is really the king's handiwork, once the other party catches the handle, then they will be unpredictable in the future.

I wonder if Caesar III will take the opportunity to be ruthless and send them to the Lord of the Dawn with dignity on the grounds of reselling military supplies.

If you are not willing to take the initiative to be a decent person, then you will not be able to maintain your decency in the end.

If they dare to make a fuss, the king can completely use the power of the Terran Alliance to uproot the family behind them.

"No!

We can't sit still!

Whether or not this is Caesar III's plan behind the scenes, he will not let us go of such a good opportunity!

The other nobles of the kingdom can bear the charge of reselling military supplies, but a few of us will die if we get involved.

Take extraordinary measures, and at a time like this, you can't care so much.

If there is an accident, at most it will be a few of us who are incompetent. The big deal is to lose his position in the army, receive a huge fine, and then be driven home by him to retire.

After a few years of silence, I can make a comeback. ”

Duke Pias said with a weak heart.

The others were just the suspects in the assassination, but he was the real participant. Although he didn't do it himself, he was manipulated behind the scenes.

Despite the covert work, who can guarantee that Caesar III would not find out about him?

After all, there is no need for tangible evidence for such a thing. As long as there is an indication that he is involved, that is enough.

"That's it, tell the red dragon to take action!"

Duke Cavadia said ruthlessly.

The hat of "incompetence", of course, he does not want to wear. But the Felix family can't afford to gamble now, in case his pillar is broken, the next generation will not be able to support the current family business.

……

Dozens of meters of flames erupted, leaving a sea of fire everywhere they went. The raging flames continue to devour the Quartet.

Countless soldiers guarding the treasury were so frightened by this tragic scene that they scattered and fled, wishing that their parents would have two more legs.

Seeing that the camp fell into chaos, the masters of the army did not appear to stop them for a long time, and even the high-level generals did not come out to organize the soldiers to fight back, completely allowing the red dragon to plunder.

Watching the countless Terran soldiers below flee and set fire to Maxim along the way, he was very satisfied. This is the life of a dragon, and the first few failures were purely accidental.

Deep down, he has despised the Terrans countless times. Because of the internal struggle, someone actually paid him to burn down his own barracks, which is simply a big joke in the world.

But for the sake of the other party's high enough bid, he didn't care. After all, this kind of injustice is really hard to find.

One moment spewing flames, the next throwing a large ball of fire, Maxim was in the camp, having fun.

The five dukes who were hiding in the shadows to watch the battle were distressed blood. They just hired the dragon to burn the warehouse, but they didn't let the dragon come and kill people.

It's a pity that dragons are creatures that are naturally saboteurs. There is no need to do anything deliberately, just a normal arson will bring huge casualties to the defenders.

The dragon in front of the high-level general was hired by his own family to destroy the evidence, but the people below didn't know that they were still trying to drive the dragon away.

Maxim is obviously not a good-tempered dragon, and if there are "reptiles" who dare to come and harass him, he naturally doesn't mind rewarding them with a tail!

The fire dragon burned the warehouse along with the killing, and such a big movement quickly attracted the attention of the griffin cavalry patrolling in the distance, and the news was quickly passed on.

……

"A dragon suspected of being a dragon king has attacked the barracks?

Earl Hudson, are you sure you're not kidding! ”

Greeted by the skeptical gaze of the Archduke Ephiero, Hudson immediately explained: "That's right, Your Excellency.

The news had just arrived, as a massive red dragon had attacked the camp of the nobles of the Northlands, and was currently wreaking havoc in the barracks.

As far as I know, this is not the first time this dragon has appeared. Before that, they had also attacked the Loonard family's lair, but they drove them away.

It's a bit strange to come and attack our barracks now. However, this question needs to be asked to the deputy commander, Duke Cavadia, who has always been in charge of military affairs over there.

Judging by the intelligence of the griffin cavalry reconnaissance, they seem to be frightened stupid. There was no organization to fight back effectively.

Neither the Crystal Cannon nor the Magic Crossbow were used, leaving the dragon to wreak havoc. And the dragon seems to be very fond of setting fires, and every time it catches our warehouses and burns them. ”

He made up for it, and Hudson handed over the rest of the content to Archduke Ephiero to make up for it on his own.

He had long known that the nobles of the Northland would make trouble, but he still didn't expect that these guys would play the classic "Fire Dragon Burning Warehouse".

It's a pity that their experience is still somewhat lacking, and their methods are too crude, and there are loopholes everywhere.

Do a full set of plays, at least the magic crystal cannon will sound, and the masters in the army must also move and make a look of struggling to intercept it.

Of course, there are also great risks. The dragon has never been a good actor, and if he is a little careless, his temper will become a fake show.

"The fire dragon burns the warehouse, but it is a rare spectacle on the mainland. Earl Hudson, let's take someone over to see it, and we should take it as a way to gain knowledge! ”

Grand Duke Ephiero said with a gloomy face.

It could be seen that he was really angry. There will be no accidents sooner, no accidents later, but if an accident happens at this juncture, the approach of those northland nobles is clearly to insult his IQ.

However, in the context of the hole that cannot be filled, no matter how insulting the IQ is, it must be done.

It is better to be suspected of reselling military supplies than to be investigated with conclusive evidence.

……