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.

Li Cha followed the caravan to the Castle of Elena. Because of the bottle of starlight, on the surface they did not bring any prohibited items, and easily mixed into the castle.

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

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

Li Cha has always attached great importance to intelligence work, and established an intelligence department very early.

Hayden has placed manpower in important cities in northern Xinjiang.

There are also intelligence personnel from the territory of Harland 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 primarily sells goods from Harland's domain.

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

The other group is lurking in the dark, with a single line of contact and directly obeying the intelligence chief of the Gascoigne province.

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 already figured out the situation of 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 did the liquor salesperson master the brewing process?"

"The brewing process of baijiu is very simple, and 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, find a way to transfer the sales staff back, and interrogate them by torture if necessary."

"Do you want to attack Luo Ning?" Hayden made a gesture of wiping his neck, and asked Li Cha in a low voice.

"Attack on Luo Ning, Viscount Cisse will immediately suspect us. For the time being, we will not attack Ronin in this operation. Is there any other target that can hit Viscount Cisse without causing suspicion?"

"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 have thought well. You attacked Viscount Cisse's casino tonight. He wants to steal my liquor business, so I will close his casino. The action is controlled within a certain range. Even if the investigation team from the capital comes, we will have revenge. reason."

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

Nocturnal people appeared on the street, which immediately alarmed the castle patrol.

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

Someone on the street saw this scene, ran home in a hurry, closed the doors and windows tightly, not daring to make any movement.

Before the large group of garrison could react, the action team had already killed the guards of the casino and controlled the gate and secret door of the casino.

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, but they have no armor on their bodies and no weapons in their hands, so they cannot compete with attackers who are armed to the teeth.

Seeing that the murderer was so vicious, the remaining gamblers and casino managers dared not move like frightened quails.

The action team was very fast, making the gamblers hand over all the cash in their hands, wiped out all the funds in the casino, and withdrew from the casino cleanly.

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

After leaving the casino, the action team went straight to the nearest Doximen, directly killed all the defenders of the Ximen, and left Elena Castle.

This time the action was very clean and swift, successfully hitting Viscount Cisse's reputation in the casino.

A casino that cannot protect gamblers cannot continue to operate.

After suffering this blow, Elena Casino basically closed down.

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 was over, Li Cha, Sophia and the operation team members drove overnight and returned to Harland after walking for a day and a half.

After the attack, Viscount Cisse was very angry and immediately sealed off the city gates, arrested outsiders who entered, interrogated strictly, and investigated the cause of the attack.

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

"Is the matter clear?"

"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."

"Can you be sure?"

"Basically, it is certain. Although there is no direct evidence, the caravan we captured revealed a piece of information. The mercenaries they hired disappeared. These mercenaries were hired through Soros. Soros is the uncle of Viscount Richard. , is now an important officer in Harland's territory."

"When did we offend this military strongman in Gerda Province?"

"It should be that Luo Ning bought the liquor sales staff of the Harland family, obtained the liquor brewing technology, and began to sell liquor to compete with Viscount Richard."

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

Vitas nodded and said: "The profit of liquor sales is very high, and it is an important trade income of the Harland family. The Harland family has regular troops, and the financial pressure is very high. When we sell liquor, we will inevitably cooperate with Harland. Clashes broke out in the family.

Today it is just an attack on the casino. If the trouble cannot be resolved, the conflict may become more and more serious, attacking caravans, plundering commercial sales outlets, killing commercial salespersons, attacking noble members, assassinating the heir of the lord, and robbing the people pretending to be robbers.The conflict between the two families may last for a long time, until the winner is decided, and the loser raises his hand and admits defeat. "