Winston's eldest son was a noble child after all, so after deciding to confess, he was very calm. In his opinion, everything was because Baron Winston was obsessed with the family fiefdom, and he did not suspect that Lear was doing anything at all.

Quite a few people let out a disdainful laugh, and if this is not harmful, it is simply ridiculous. Everyone, like Winston's eldest son, did not suspect Lear.

Lear looked helplessly at Winston's body split in half. Magical messages are sealed so that even the members of the Magical Guild branch of the message cannot see the contents. Since it is a letter from a big man, it is impossible to show his feet.

Lear gritted his teeth and scolded: "Brute! I still don't give up! I can't find the murderer for a day, and I won't be safe for a day! I will definitely not let them go!"

Mur immediately knelt on the ground and said, "My subordinates originally swore to follow the adults for revenge!"

The family knights around Lear swore on their knees.

Lear sighed and said, "Get up." The more chaos in Port Lear, the happier my enemies become. For the sake of better revenge, Port Lear must be back in action. Baron Winston is dead and we need a new financial secretary. I propose that the Honourable Baron Humphrey, former Treasurer of the Empire, be the Treasurer, and that this proposal be submitted to the Guildhall tomorrow. ”

He did not directly issue a mandate, first, he said that he would not expand the attack and would not interfere excessively in the administration of Port Lear, and second, he planted a landmine, and whoever stepped on it and rejected his proposal would be the second Baron Winston!

Baron Humphrey couldn't cry or laugh, if he really wanted to be an official, he would at least be a deputy minister-level official when he returned to the imperial capital, and he had no intention of becoming an official at present.

Ness knew her father best, she walked up to her father, her head up, her black hair hanging down like a waterfall, her blue eyes looked at her father, and pleaded, "Father, will you promise Brother Lear?"

Lady Elena also advised him: "Anyway, this is not the imperial capital, you are just helping temporarily, and when everything is normal in Port Lear, you can retreat." ”

Humphrey could only nod helplessly, the women in his family were all trapped by Lear.

Moore stood up, glanced at the eldest son of Winston who was tied to his chair, and said, "My lord, Sherlock is right, I also think that Baron Winston's usual justice and incorruptibility are pretended, please appoint me to search his mansion." ”

Lear secretly praised in his heart: "Moore is really a usable talent. As he had said on the road, Winston was a good politician and a good showman, and many civilians in Port Lear thought he was a good financial secretary. If I kill him today, even if it is revealed that he murdered me for the sake of the fief, the commoners will not necessarily hate him, because they are not nobles, do not understand the importance of fiefdoms, and will even suspect me of fabricating false evidence, although this is also one of the facts to some extent. But if Winston's house was raided, his family's fortune was revealed, and the commoners knew that Winston was a big moth, then I would get a good name. ”

"If people love someone very much, but suddenly find that this person has a small mistake, then they will actively demonize this mistake, and they will magnify this mistake or even push the mistake of others onto him. On top of that, there is also me, the person in power, who is behind the scenes pushing for this. But I'm going to make a bigger fuss! I'm going to bring all the nobles over, so that I can attract the crowd and deter them, so that they know that I am not a child to be kneaded casually!"

After Lear figured it out, he immediately said: "Okay! I now announce that all the property illegally obtained by the Winston family will be auctioned off by the garrison and the court, and the money and property will be used to improve the living conditions in the civilian areas! If the money is not enough, I will make up for it with my own money!"

Although he did not study economics, he also knew that increasing investment in infrastructure could drive economic development, which was equivalent to a shot in the arm for Port Lear after the plague. The life of the commoners is good, and they will naturally thank him as a lord. Most of the private soldiers, garrisons, and even many family knights and their families were commoners, and those noble officials could not afford to make waves if they controlled the commoners.

To the applause of the crowd, he said: "In order to ensure the fairness of the process, I ask everyone present to supervise and go to the mansion of Winston together!"

The applause was even greater. Winston's children made a lot of money by relying on their father's power, and they made more, and those nobles and merchants who were not as powerful as Winston made less.

So hundreds of carriages sailed back to the city to Baron Winston's mansion.

The convoy was so spectacular that when they entered the city, the civilians heard that the Financial Secretary, Baron Winston, was dead and was to be investigated, and immediately became interested and followed the convoy. These people called friends, and it didn't take long for the convoy to follow thousands of people, and there was more and more trend. It's night, and if it's daytime, more people come.

Some rival nobles will plunder each other's wealth directly through battle, while nobles like Lear and Winston rarely make a thorough investigation and at most make them pay a fine. But this time, Winston's murder of the lord was the most hated act of all the fiefdom nobles, so no matter what means Lear used, the nobles would not resent him.

When they arrived at Baron Winston's mansion, countless lanterns lit it up, with nobles and merchants in the inner circle, and the untruthful masses in the outer circle, began to watch the rare inventory of Port Lear—the old Earl and the second Earl had done the same, but not as exaggerated as Lear, and so many people watched.

The Winston House consisted of three private homes, with him living in the middle and his children and grandchildren living in the left and right houses.

Moore hated Winston very much, thinking that he would be a man who could obviously become the captain of the garrison and even become a lord, and if he was slapped in public, even if his status was high, he would become a stain on his life in the future.

He rushed into Baron Winston's mansion with the guards and Lear's private soldiers like wolves, first arrested everyone, broke their legs if they dared to resist, and then began to search. These guards and privates usually dare to hide with their hands and feet, but now each one is more incorruptible than the other, and not a penny dares to embezzle—they know that those mages and swordsmen are not ornaments.

Soon, the Winston family's luxuries were moved out of the mansion and placed on the street, where they were counted and recorded by the clerks of the City Hall.

Winston's children and grandchildren, some of whom were big businessmen in Port Lear, and some of them were officials of key departments, and they made great fortunes during the fifteen years he took charge of the Financial Department. In the end, those luxury goods were put on a street, not counting the most valuable title deeds and house deeds, and the estimated value was about 300,000 gold carats.

Lear originally thought that this was the end, who knew that a mage used a probe-like magic guide to detect the secret chamber of the Winston family, which actually contained a large number of gold carats and silver pounds, and even a half-human-high, pure gold cast ball, weighing a ton and a half - there was no way to take it away without a magic bag, and they couldn't stop it if they could take it away empty-handed.

There are also six magic guides worth 10,000 gold and some magical equipment used by swordsmen in the secret room, the most precious of which is a replica of a famous sword, with advanced sword washing skills.