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Chapter 634 - 634 155 Investigation Team vs Warehouse Fire Case_2

634: Chapter 155, Investigation Team vs Warehouse Fire Case_2 634: Chapter 155, Investigation Team vs Warehouse Fire Case_2 Coming across an unconventional player, Duke Aefero was unsure whether to be glad or annoyed.

There’s always a trick when things are abnormal.

Intuition told him that there was certainly something wrong with the young Commander in Chief before him; but reason told him that since Hudson had dared to remove all restrictions to let them investigate, surely nothing would come up now.

Based on the information he had collected before, he knew that even if Hudson had smuggled military supplies in the past, he had already remedied the issue.

Not being able to find a problem with the Commander in Chief would undoubtedly be good news for the Alpha Kingdom, meaning the accusation was mere fabrication.

However, for the royal family, it was a different story.

Hudson was someone who had struggled to come up in an era of upheaval.

He was not someone handpicked and groomed by the King.

Without catching the other party in the act, it would be practically impossible to slowly beat down and recover their dominance after wearing off Hudson’s rough edges.

After contemplating for a moment, Duke Aefero calmly said, “Let’s go along with Earl Hudson’s suggestion!”

Even if he couldn’t find anything to hold against Hudson, he didn’t really want to play the part of the villain.

After all, given Hudson’s age, he had enough time to spend many years in the military.

He personally didn’t care about offending people, but he had to consider his descendants.

The tedious work of checking accounts began, one warehouse after another was opened, each one overflowing with supplies.

Under the inspection of various detection magic, not the slightest anomaly was found.

Not to mention embezzlement or military supplies being sold off, even the normal consumption of supplies had been well controlled.

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The investigation team arrived early and started checking the accounts.

If it’s like a storm, it quickly swept through the entire logistic department.

It was a situation where some were happy while others were worried.

The nobles who had filled the gap had turned into onlookers, ready to laugh at the jokes of their peers.

Nobles with a large deficit, unable to fill the gap, were now stomping their feet in anxiety.

Various methods of dealing with the inspection were being invented left and right, hoping they could withstand scrutiny.

The Northern Noble Faction currently had a group of nobles with gloomy faces.

They had to watch with their own eyes as their fellow nobles gathered supplies, or were in the process of doing so, while they were the only ones facing troubles.

This situation was indeed uncomfortable.

After pleading with others for help and exceeding the market price by 30%, the merchant guilds finally agreed to take their order, but unfortunately, they were put at the end of the sequence.

In simple terms, if there were any remaining strategic goods, they would be sold to them; if not, it’s just their bad luck.

This round, they didn’t suspect that Hudson was involved.

Mainly because the Dalton Family also managed to purchase enough strategic goods.

From an outsider’s perspective, if Hudson was in control behind the scenes, he wouldn’t benefit his enemy.

As a competitor, the Dalton Family would certainly be targeted.

The current passive situation seemed more like the major merchant guilds’ deliberate revenge on them.

“The current situation is very disadvantageous to us.

I’m not sure how much each of you lacks.

As for the Felix Family, all the connections we could use to bridge the gap have been used.

I’ve even sent people to collect strategic materials from mercenaries.

Unfortunately, it’s like trying to put out a fire with a cup of water.

Although we’ve reached out to the front-line army, they prefer to cooperate with those cunning merchants.

Unfortunately, those cunning merchants harbor grudges against us and have not taken our orders seriously.

This is also my responsibility.

I underestimated Hudson and the power of merchants before, leading to the current situation.”

Duke Cavadia confessed with an upset face.

This was indeed a hard lesson.

Before this happened, he never thought that the culprits would be the merchants.

He initially thought that with their power, they could completely bypass these middlemen and directly trade with the major front-line forces.

Unfortunately, everything was too idealistic.

The Continental nobles were indeed a family, but everyone had their own agenda and wouldn’t follow their plan.

If it had been before, everyone would have collaborated if the price was right.

But now that the Union Investigation Team was about to arrive, no one wanted to touch that brow.

Even if they connected with one or two Major Nobles, and falsified battle losses which basically could allow strategic supplies to be traded, there was essentially not much available.

If they were found out, it would lead to ruin and disgrace.

In contrast, having the merchants to handle the turnover changed everything.

“Check”, it would have to come from the rear.

The merchant guilds could even provide the source of the goods.

All the ports of different countries could provide export data.

As for how they managed to transport loads of strategic goods to the front line through the vast prairies, well, that was their commercial secret.

“Cavadia, it’s too late to hold someone responsible now, and it won’t solve any problem.

If the Felix family can’t offset the deficit, we naturally can’t help.

The medium and small nobles who are affiliated with us are even worse off.

They’re either already slagging off, or on their way to do so.

If the Koslow Family didn’t lack in resources and power to extend their hands to the Frank Kingdom, I would suspect that Hudson planned all this to lure us into a trap.

Consider the transportation tasks our families have carried out.

They’re all filled with hardships; none of them was easy.