Lord Harland

It has been more than thirty years since the Viscounty of Cisse was established, and there are now 120,000 people in the territory.

More than 90,000 of them were serfs, more than 10,000 yeoman farmers, and 10,000 citizens living near the castle. The remaining more than 10,000 people are territorial bureaucrats, garrison troops and their families.

Elena Castle is the main castle in the Viscounty of Cisse. The castle occupies a large area and is slightly smaller than Fort William, including the garrison families. This castle is home to 20,000 people year-round.

The castle with a population of 20,000 is already a big city in the northern Xinjiang region.

The population of Gascoigne Province is even smaller than that of Gedda Province, with a population of only 1.2 million. The city that is more prosperous than Elena Castle is only two or three counties directly controlled by the royal family.

Richard followed the caravan to Elena Castle. Because of the bottle of starlight, they apparently did not carry any prohibited materials and easily sneaked into the castle.

After booking a hotel, Richard took out the enchanted armor, weapons, and alchemy bombs from the bottle of starlight, preparing to take action at night.

Intelligence support was needed before the operation, and Hayden, who was in charge of intelligence, also participated in the operation.

Richard has always attached great importance to intelligence work and established an intelligence department very early.

Hayden has placed personnel in important cities in northern Xinjiang.

There are also intelligence agents from Harland Territory lurking in Elena Castle.

The lurkers in Elena's Castle are two groups, with a total of more than a dozen people.

One group is public and mainly sells goods from Haaland territory.

Because the liquor craft was leaked, the intelligence team on the surface was no longer trusted by the Haaland territory.

The other team is lurking in the dark, with a single line of contact and directly taking orders from the head of Gascoigne Provincial Intelligence.

This team consisted of three main intelligence agents, one of whom even lurked into the home of Viscount Cisse and became the chef of the Viscount's palace.

Hayden has figured out the situation in Elena Castle through the intelligence agents lurking in the dark.

After receiving the information, Hayden immediately reported to Richard: "Through intelligence inquiries, the person in charge of the liquor business is Luo Ning, the fourth son of Viscount Cisse. Luo Ning is also the business leader of the Cisse family. According to what we have According to the intelligence, Luo Ning should have bribed the liquor salesperson in January and obtained the technology for making liquor."

“How do liquor salespeople master the brewing process?”

"The brewing process of liquor is very simple. The sales staff should have a rough understanding of it when they enter the winery to pick up the goods."

"Can you determine who leaked the craft?"

"Not sure yet?"

"After the operation is over, we will find a way to bring the sales staff back and interrogate them with torture if necessary."

"Should we attack Luo Ning?" Hayden made a gesture of wiping his neck and asked Richard in a low voice.

"If we attack Luo Ning, Viscount Cisse will immediately suspect us. We will not attack Luoning for the time being. Is there any other target that can attack Viscount Cisse without making people suspicious?"

"You can take action against the casino run by the Viscount Cisse family, rob the casino's funds, and undermine the reputation of the casino. The Elena Castle casino can earn eight thousand gold coins every year, which is very important to the Cisse family. Crush this casino. , it will cause the Cisse family to feel pain in their bones."

Richard nodded and continued to ask: "Can you find the vault of the Cisse family? If you rob the vault, it will be a heavy blow to Viscount Cisse."

"Viscount Cisse's treasury must be in the viscount's mansion. The attack on the viscount's mansion will cause too much noise, and I'm afraid it will alarm the royal capital. Once the royal capital's investigation team comes down, it will be very troublesome."

"You thought well. You will attack Viscount Cisse's casino tonight. He wants to steal my liquor business, so I will shut down his casino. The action should be controlled within a certain range. Even if the Royal Capital Investigation Team comes, we will still have revenge. reason."

When night came, the action team put on armor, carried weapons, put on a layer of black night clothes, and left the hotel with masks on, appearing in the night.

Night walkers appeared on the street, which immediately alerted the castle patrol.

Just as the patrolman was about to blow the whistle to warn, he was shot by a crossbow and died on the spot.

Someone on the street saw this scene and hurried home, closing the doors and windows tightly, not daring to make any sound.

Before the large garrison could react, the action team had killed the casino guards and controlled the casino's main gate and secret door.

Lost and Jennings led the action team into the casino and killed the gamblers and casino security personnel who dared to resist, killing thirty or forty people in an instant.

Among these thirty or forty people were five or six officers and veterans of the Wild Lion Legion.

These officers and veterans are not weak in combat effectiveness, but they have no armor on their bodies and no weapons in their hands. They cannot compete with the attackers who are armed to the teeth.

Seeing how ferocious the murderer was, the remaining gamblers and casino managers were like frightened quails, not daring to move.

The action team members were very fast and asked the gamblers to hand over all the cash in their hands, wiped out the casino's funds, and evacuated the casino cleanly.

When leaving, he even used an alchemy bomb to blow down the casino door.

After leaving the casino, the action team members went straight to the nearest Doxi Gate, directly killed all the Simon defenders, and left Elena Castle.

This operation was very clean and efficient, and successfully damaged Viscount Cisse's casino reputation.

A casino that cannot protect gamblers cannot continue to operate.

Suffering this blow, Elena Casino basically closed its doors.

It swept through the casino, emptied the casino's reserves of funds, and wiped out the coins of more than 200 gamblers. After the war, Richard counted his funds and found that he had robbed 5,200 gold coins from the casino. More than half of this was the money staked by more than 200 gamblers.

After the operation, Richard, Sophia and the operation team members traveled overnight and walked for a day and a half to return to Harland Territory.

After the attack, Viscount Cisse was very angry. He immediately sealed the city gate, arrested the outsiders, interrogated them strictly, and investigated the cause of the attack.

Vitas, who is in charge of intelligence work in the Viscount of Cisse, is a very capable person. Although Richard made a lot of cover-ups, clues soon fell into Vitas' eyes.

"Has the matter been cleared up?"

"Basically, we have found out everything, but the enemy is very capable and has not left any clues."

"Who is the attacker?"

"It should be Viscount Richard."

"Are you sure?"

"It's basically certain. Although there is no direct evidence, the caravan we captured revealed information that the mercenaries they hired disappeared. These mercenaries were hired through Soros. Soros is the uncle of Viscount Richard. , is now an important officer in Haaland territory.”

"When did we offend the military strongman of this Gedda province?"

"It should be that Luo Ning bribed the Harland family's liquor sales staff, obtained the liquor brewing technology, and started selling liquor to compete with Viscount Richard."

"Just because of this, he openly broke up with us?"

Vitas nodded and said: "Liquor sales are very profitable and are an important trade income for the Haaland family. The Haaland family has three thousand regular soldiers, and the financial pressure is very high. When we sell liquor, we will inevitably compete with Haaland Conflict breaks out in the family.

Today is just an attack on the casino. If the trouble cannot be resolved, the conflict may become more and more serious, attacking caravans, looting commercial sales points, killing commercial sales personnel, attacking members of the nobility, assassinating the heirs of lords, and pretending to be bandits to rob the people. The conflict between the two families may last for a long time until the winner is decided and the loser throws up his hands and admits defeat. "