At the end of May, just after sending off the guests who had come to congratulate them, the storm of attacking Baron Bazel of the Ryan Manor "Bǎng Jià" began to blow into the Barony of the Valley.

However, the turmoil was not as violent as the people in the valley feared.

First of all, the "unresponsive" county of Tignets sent a coordinating team led by Sir Jerry, the personal chief of the personal guard of the county magistrate, Viscount Pierre, to the valley.

Art still maintained enough respect for Viscount Pierre, so when Sir Jerry and his party arrived in the valley, Art and his henchmen gave Jerry a banquet and allowed Jerry to visit the dying Bazel in the prison of Wooden Castle.

Respect is respect, when Jerry conveyed Viscount Pierre's intention to settle this "dispute between lords", Art retorted on the spot, insisting that he was faithfully performing the duties entrusted to him by the palace as a patrolman, clearing out bandits, and maintaining law and order in the county, and Bazel was captured back to the valley by no means a dispute between lords, but because Bazel colluded with bandits in the county to rob past merchants and harm the civilians in the county, he was detained by Art in the name of the patrol officer, and Art threatened that he had all the incriminating evidence of Bazel and was waiting to be sent to the court.

How big is the difference in the nature of the two terms "lord strife" and "suppressing bandits and reassuring the people", Yate is stable.

In the end, Jerry and his entourage, who came to mediate, had to eat and drink in the valley for a day or two, and then left the valley with Art's tough attitude......

Then, on the third day after Jerry and his party left the valley, several stewards and stewards of Barony Bazel's domain and the large manor and several knights under his command formed a "peace negotiation mission" to Boulder Town, and Boulder Town immediately sent troops to detain five or six people who came to the peace talks, and then quickly returned to the valley.

When Art received the news, he sent Otto and Angus to Boulder to meet the "messengers" on his behalf.

Those guys did come to negotiate with Art, and they hoped to ransom Baron Bazel, who was imprisoned by Art, for a ransom of 50,000 Fenni.

Art had already guessed the purpose of these people, so Odo and Angus, who went to negotiate, insisted that they would get the court to severely punish Bazel on the charge of colluding with bandits, and also sent part of Bazel's incriminating evidence collected by Art to the "Peace Mission".

Of course, the "mission" was also given a second option, which was to buy the incriminating evidence in the hands of Art with 200,000 fennigh before the court convicted Bazel.

Of course, without the incriminating evidence, the Border Inspector Art would also release Baron Bazel......

After another week, the court sent a court baron under the command of the Minister of Justice to the Valle Barony with the court's principle of "calming things down".

Now that the whole of Burgundy is suffering from internal and external troubles, and there are endless border territorial disputes and various internal strife that cannot be dealt with every day, where can we spare energy to deal with the arrest of a little border baron who has no support and is annoying.

But after all, it was a vassal and noble, and it would be unreasonable for the court to ignore it completely, so this reluctant court baron was arrested and sent to the south to deal with the matter.

Art picked up the reception again. As soon as the court baron arrived, Arte greeted him desperately with wine and food, and his officers took turns to fight, and Arte kept pushing the glass and changing the lamp, praising the court baron and his party.

At Art's kind invitation, the court baron and his entourage temporarily put aside the task of traveling south, and were escorted by the army into the mountains and forests during the day to chase bears and deer or fish and catch shrimp, and at night they were accompanied by Art and carnival all night.

The people who have been trapped in the court of the national capital for many years have experienced these pleasures, and after a few days, the court barons, who were still a little self-assured, quickly put down their shelves and became close friends with Art for many years.

But friendship is friendship, and the problem must be solved after all. After three days of merry, the court baron finally began to dispose of Bazel's affairs.

The court baron first came to the prison of the wooden castle to visit and interrogate Bazel in person, and of course Bazel refused to admit to the crime of colluding or even pretending to be a bandit to rob the merchant traveler, and put all the blame on the fat butler of Ryan Manor, who had turned into mud and bones.

However, Art had already obtained evidence that Bazel had colluded to pretend to be bandits, and had dragged out those former subordinates of Bazel who knew about it, and explained to the court barons the crimes that Bazel had committed with them.

The court baron interrogated several people in succession, and even killed two of Bazel's subordinates, and the conclusions reached confirmed Bazel's crimes.

On the fifth day of coming to the Barony of the Valley, the court baron left the valley with a few witnesses with the conclusion that the guilt was true, and the final result of Bazel's disposal had to be decided by the court, but the court baron also hoped that Art could release Bazel home first and wait for the court's results......

Of course, it was impossible for Art to let the extremely hard-working court barons and his party go empty-handed, and on the next trip south, they could really have a bag in their pockets.

Soon after the departure of the barons sent by the court, the steward of Barony's domain and several servant guards also arrived in Boulder Town with a carriage carrying gold and silver coins, salt, spices, silk, raw silk and other precious goods.

Due to Bazel's extravagance and profligacy, and the fact that he was too late to sell it, Bazel's barony only raised a "ransom" worth 90,000 fennigs.

Art reluctantly accepted the goods, and then returned the half-dead Bazel to the "messenger" who had come to ransom him.

Evidence? Sorry, there wasn't enough money, and it was too late.

Bazel could only consider returning to his own territory and then trying to satisfy the appetites of the court magnates in order to alleviate his guilt, but the punishment of demotion or even taking away the title is probably indispensable.

Bazel had been tortured to the point of being inhuman when he left, but the murderous intent in his eyes had not diminished in the slightest when he looked at Arte......

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In the official room on the second floor of the Lord's Mansion in the Wooden Fort Valley, Ron, Jafar, and Stanley {Guards Soldiers} sat straight on the low bench opposite Art.

Art swept the eyes of the three and said coldly: "Bazel must die!"

The three of them waited silently for Art's next step.

"I let him go because I don't want that bastard to die in my territory or to be known that I killed him, which will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble, and sooner or later our opponents will use this against me."

"But if you fight a snake, you won't die but be bitten, and Bazel is definitely a poisonous snake, so we must kill him."

"Now that Bazel has left my territory, it's time for him to go to hell."

"After much deliberation, I have decided to pick the three of you to complete this task. Calling you over today is to make a proper plan together. ”

"I have two ideas, one of which is to let him die in his own territory, he usually harms a lot of enemies, so that our suspicion is a little smaller, and it will not cause too many waves. The second idea was to have Bazel die at Wincheston Manor......"

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On the third day of his release, Baazel had no time to recuperate from his injuries, and he was busy clearing his name.

Bazel was a tyrannical man, but he was not a fool, and the most important thing now was not to seek revenge, but to raise enough money to send to the court magnates in the hope that they would be driven by gold cakes and silver coins to exonerate themselves.

However, on weekdays, Bazel has always spent money in extreme luxury, so there are not many reserves in the vault at all, and in order to redeem himself, he gave all the valuables that were easy to sell and discounted to the Inspector, and now Bazel has not taken out money that does not fill the appetite of the palace magnates for a while.

However, Bazel thought of his "allies", and they were also involved in these things......

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At Wincheston Manor, Bazel and Dean Sr. are arguing fiercely.

Bazel smashed the wine glass in his hand with a clatter, and shouted in pain all over his body: "Old bastard, you didn't lose any money when you robbed on weekdays, and now I need your help, but you tell me I have no money?" I'll tell you, don't think less about 100,000 pfennigh a copper coin, if you really provoke me, I will directly poke you out, and when the time comes, I will at most take the honor and cut the land after the palace punishment, I'm afraid your Dean family will have to be destroyed! ”

Old Dean was really worried that Bazel's mad dog would bite people, so he quickly got up and helped Bazel to apologize repeatedly, "Lord Bazel, don't be angry, I definitely don't mean to sit idly by, we are allies, your safety is the safety of our Dean family, how can I not contribute money and efforts?" ”

"Humph! Contribute money and effort? Why didn't I hear the slightest movement from your Dean family when I was being detained by that mad dog patrolman? You're really not afraid that I'll poke you out? Bazel stared at old Dean with round eyes.

Old Dean was silent.

"Alright, don't delay here, if the court condemns me, it will be too late to try to operate. I have had to rush to the palace for the last two days, and it will be more dangerous to delay it for a day. ”

"One hundred thousand Fennig, hurry up!" Bazel reached out to Old Dean.

Old Dean looked up at Bazel for a moment and explained, "Lord Bazel, I am a merchant, it is impossible for a businessman to put money in the vault and rust, and you suddenly asked me to take out a hundred thousand pfennigs, how can I take it out." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, how much money can you come up with right now?"

Old Dean stretched out two fingers, "20,000 pfennigs, I only have 20,000 pfennies in my hand, and I will find a way to raise the rest of the money and send it to Besançon for you." ”

Bazel untied the sword at his waist and slapped it on the table in front of Old Dean with a "snap", threatening: "Fifty thousand pfennigs, prepare them for me before dark, otherwise I will take them myself!" ”

Dean Sr. shook his head and went to prepare money for Bazel......

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In the evening, the sun sets.

To the northeast of Wincheston Manor, on Bazel's way back, three figures in armor and black scarves lurked in the bushes beside the road, followed by twelve bandits armed with swords, spears, knives and axes.

"Redogan, are these people infallible?" Ron asked Redogan, the bandit leader beside him.

"Little butler, don't worry, these people are my cronies, and they can be trusted." Redogan was respectful to the young man beside him.

The masked young man nodded and amplified his voice slightly: "You guys will show me your desperate skills in a while, and after the matter is completed, my master Dean will definitely not treat everyone badly." ”

As soon as the words fell, a sentry bandit ran back.

"Great Chief, the fat sheep is here! Five riders. ”

"Everyone, prepare!" The people who were lying in ambush by the side of the road lowered their bodies and sank into the bushes and grass......

After a while, the clatter of horses' hooves on the ground sounded in the southwest of the road.

Bazel was really in a hurry, he had to rush to Besançon as soon as possible with enough money, so after getting the money from the Dean family, he jumped on horseback and left Wincheston Manor with a few guards before it was dark, and set out on the road back to his manor.

The horse gallops, and at this moment it is not necessary to cherish the horsepower.

The world looked dark and gray in the setting sun, and Bazel did not notice that the carriage road ahead was covered with a thin layer of fresh earth.

"Hurry up, you must get back to the manor tonight!" Bazel turned his head and yelled at the squires who had followed him.

Several guards also kicked the horses in the belly, and the horses neighed and chased after them.

After galloping dozens of steps, just as the horse was running through a section of shrubs and weeds, the war horse under him suddenly suffered a shock in the front of the horse, instantly lost its balance and lost weight for a while, and the war horse fell into a deep pit......

Several of the horseback guards behind Bazel didn't have time to stop in the face of the sudden situation, and several of the horses tripped and fell, and one of them smashed directly into the pit and pressed against Bazel......

"Rush forward! Leave no mouth alive! The young masked man raised his broadsword and charged at the disorganized Bazel guards.

Two of the traps were scrapped, and one of the remaining three guards fell off his horse and hit his head on a rock, and he fainted with blood.

As soon as the other two guards got up from the ground and drew their swords to defend themselves, a dozen bandits with sharp blades and hideous faces rushed out under the leadership of several masked men.

There was no suspense in the battle, and the two guards had just raised their swords when they were cut into pulp by the besieging men.

The young masked youth and the other two did not join the team battle, they went directly to the edge of the pit, and one of them raised his hand crossbow and nailed the poisoned crossbow arrow into the chest and back of one of the guards, and the guard who was hit by the arrow struggled for a while, and then foamed at the mouth and died of exhaustion.

"Let me go~ Let me go~ I'm rich! I'll give you money~" Bazel, who was seriously injured twice by one fall and one crush, kept pleading in his mouth, and he stretched his hands on the war horse pressed on his body, hoping to climb out from under the war horse.

But the horse was frightened, and writhed and struggled in the pit, crushing Bazel's thighs, causing Bazel to howl for a while.

The masked man who shot the dead guard once again put the poisoned crossbow arrow into the crossbow arrow slot, pulled the bow and stuck it into the buckle, and then aimed it at Bazel's head, and said coldly: "Your money belongs to my Dean family, you don't need to take it for me."

After saying that, he stopped talking nonsense at all, pulled the crossbow suspension, and nailed the crossbow arrow into Bazel's eyes......

Looking at Bazel's masked howl of pain, the masked man with the crossbow had a sense of vengeance in his eyes......

The bandits jumped into the hole, found the bulging money bag containing gold cakes and silver coins, handed it to the three masked men, and then focused their eyes on the young masked man known as the "Young Butler".

The young masked man flipped the money bag in his hand and said to a group of gangsters with shiny eyes: "This money bag must be returned to Master Dean, and the rest is all yours!"

More than a dozen bandits rushed to the corpses and began to loot them......

On the edge of a stone beside the road, the Bazel guard, whose head had been broken and bleeding from the stone, lay motionless on the ground like a corpse, and let the robbers search him.

"Guys, withdraw!" The young masked man commanded the bandits, then walked over to the bloodied guard.

A bandit pointed to the "corpse" crawling on the ground: "Young housekeeper, dead." ”

"Master Dean confessed that he would not leave a living mouth." The young masked man directly raised the broadsword in his hand and chā jìn the back of the "corpse" on the ground......