Chapter 1715 - Preferential Rewards and Purchase Restrictions
The assassination of the English was a desperate fight, after all, Edward wanted the rebel group in England to collapse so that England could have a stable domestic environment. And if Tudor's Margaret "mother and son" are killed, whether it is England or Scotland, the domestic resistance forces will have no spiritual support and no need to resist.
This time, England sent a full 100 men, all of them martial artists, and all of them dead. They all use a cutlass and are very adept at fighting in tight spaces. To put it bluntly, they were the best of the sailors, and they were also a specialty of England, where pirates were numerous.
These men had come to Paris with the determination to die, and in order to keep them from worrying, Edward promised that if they died in battle, their sons would be canonized as knights of the fiefs. Moreover, as long as there is no heir, the title will not be withdrawn. Of course, the premise is that they succeed in killing Margaret's mother and son.
They don't really want to die, though. If you can complete the mission and still manage to escape, then it would be great. So, when the North Sea spies contacted them, they agreed to cooperate. In addition to having a chance to live, the Beihai Kingdom's promise to bring down the city guards in the barracks with poisoned wine was also the main reason why they agreed to cooperate. After all, if they storm the thousand-man barracks, there is a good chance of failure and all of them killed.
It's just that they mistook the mysterious spy organization of the North Sea Kingdom for the Spaniards. Because, the English felt that only the Spaniards had the ability to have such a powerful underground power in France. However, Memphis was reluctant to reveal his identity, and the leader of the Assassins in England, Shore, did not care. Anyway, just get the job done.
However, Shore and his fellow English Assassins were skeptical that Memphis would be able to take down all the city guards with a medicated drink. Because, this is thousands of people, it's impossible to drink one drink at the same time, right? Moreover, even if thousands of city guards drank the wine of this tavern, the drugged wine was only provided on the day of the operation, and not everyone else drank it. What if someone bought a drink the day before?
Memphis smiled at the question, very confident, and just let Shore wait and see......
About ten days later, because of his frequent visits to the city guard headquarters, John. Raffi finally quietly wrote down the night watch of the city guards and sent a message to Memphis.
Memphis sprang into action, and the tavern on the edge of the barracks, renamed the "Tavern of the God of War", was grandly reopened......
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The new tavern owner, Barders, has made it public that the Aares Tavern is dedicated to the soldiers of the nearby City Guard barracks. As long as you have a military number plate, you can enjoy the benefit of selling alcohol at the God of War Tavern within ten days before the tavern opens. The discount level is a 7% discount, however, it is limited, and the limit is one pound per person per day......
It's not even a pound of a pound, and under normal circumstances, it's hard to get drunk with this bit of beer or wine. However, the wine at the Aares Tavern is clearly different......
The tavern directly adopted the blending method, and every time before selling wine, whether it was beer or wine, it was mixed with two pots. It's definitely not good to keep it like this, but it's okay, because the soldiers of the city guard will drink it when they buy it, and it won't last long.
And this measure of limiting the purchase of one pound at a time is to prevent the soldiers of the city guard from buying a lot at a time and drinking slowly. And the amount of a pound of wine is calculated. If it is not mixed with the second pot head, this bit of beer or wine can basically be drunk as a drink, and it will not be saved for the next day. In this way, when the next day is poisoned, there is no need to worry about these guys not drinking the poisoned alcohol of the day......
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Of course, this is also problematic. For example, those soldiers of the city guards who drank a lot of alcohol were dissatisfied with the tavern's limited behavior, so they made trouble in the tavern and even beat people......
In this regard, Memphis strictly ordered the staff in the tavern to be beaten if they are beaten, but never to increase the amount! As for the reason? Let's just say that the purchase channel of new wine has not yet been negotiated, and the inventory is not much, so it can only be limited for the time being. Wait until the new purchase channel is negotiated, open the supply for three days, and the same 7% discount......
Relying on this gimmick, the soldiers of the city guard in the nearby military camp made a few fuss and then stopped. Moreover, they were very satisfied with the beer and wine offered by the new tavern with the addition of two-pot heads.
This much-stronger blend may not be to the taste of the nobles and clergy, but it is definitely to the taste of these reckless soldiers.
These big-headed soldiers can't wait to drink spirits! It's just that because salaries are limited, spirits tend to be expensive. As a result, they can only drink a few beer that is as light as water or a low-quality wine.
But cheap liquor is really not good, for example, the cheapest 1 denier a gallon of beer, almost all of them are rancid beer, which is very unpleasant. Wine is more expensive, and the cheaper one costs 3 deniers a gallon. Generally, only officers of noble origin would drink wine. And ordinary soldiers, in general, only drink low-quality beer. Without him, there is no money......
This time the God of War Tavern can be described as quite conscientious, for only 0.75 deniers, you can buy a gallon of beer mixed with two pots. Moreover, it is a good beer without rancidity. It's just that the tavern has a limited number of days and only allows one pound (about a tenth of a gallon) to be purchased at a time, which makes everyone very unhappy.
But what these big-headed soldiers didn't expect was that this kind of mixed wine was refreshing to drink, but it had quite a lot of stamina. Most of the people who don't drink well drink this mixture of beer and liquor are fine at first, but they soon get drunk and get drunk......
But what these reckless big-headed soldiers love most is this state of being drunk to death. After all, it is very happy to live in a barracks, without a wife and children, and get drunk......
For five days in a row, the entire barracks was full of drunks, and only a few people who had a good amount of alcohol could stay sober. At first, the leader of the city guard, Baron Yoguerre, was still a little nervous, and it felt a little wrong. So, he wasn't drunk. But after 5 days, there was no accident, and he relaxed......
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On the sixth day, the God of War Tavern suddenly announced that it would close for a day, on the grounds that the stock was running out and that it would not be able to bring in wine from out of town until the next day.
Now the soldiers in the barracks stopped, and they kicked open the door of the tavern and entered the cellar to search. As a result, no wine was found.
The tavern owner, Barders, said with a smile - once the new wine arrives tomorrow, it will be open for three days, and there is no limit to purchase!
At this moment, the big soldiers left with anticipation. But they didn't know that death was coming......
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The night of the seventh day was the day when this barracks did not have a night mission, and all the means of the previous days were to wait for this day!
Moreover, the door was deliberately closed on the sixth day, also for the operation on the night of the seventh day. Because, Marin needs to get the soldiers in the barracks to drink up the stock of wine first. Otherwise, they would not have immediately drunk the poisoned wine of the day......
In addition, it is only available one day apart, and the next day there will be a discounted offer. In this way, the soldiers in the barracks will wait patiently for a day and will not go elsewhere to buy alcohol. Because, a few days ago, their mouths were drunk, and it was difficult for ordinary wine to get used to drinking for a while......
At about five o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, several wagons brought a lot of wine barrels from outside the city, which alarmed all the soldiers in the barracks at once......
"Haha, it's finally time for wine! Today's open supply, or the old price, this is issued! Many old drunkards couldn't help but lick their lips......
The soldiers then swarmed in, scrambling to buy new liquor, each buying more than a gallon. In order to wait for today, many soldiers borrowed money from their comrades who had plenty of money yesterday.
"Don't squeeze! Don't squeeze! Come one by one, please show the soldier number plate! ”
The guys in the tavern were sweating profusely and waiting for this gang of soldiers, and they were in a hurry. Even the commander, Baron Yoguerre, also bought two gallons of wine. Of course, he took a special passage, and ordinary soldiers did not dare to say anything.
After two or three hours of busyness, the tavern people rested. At this time, the tavern owner whispered to a person next to him who supervised the bookkeeping throughout the whole process:
"Have you counted? How many times? Did they all come and buy it? ”
The bookkeeper nodded:
"Pretty much, out of a thousand people, only 35 people didn't come to buy it. I guess it's not in the barracks! "This is a very normal situation, the huge barracks, not the critical period, often dissatisfied. Because, in normal times, there will always be soldiers who will take leave to go out to run errands or go home to visit relatives or something. In particular, the military discipline in this era was not as strict as in later generations, and it was purely normal for some people to be absent.
And it doesn't matter if those 35 people are there and they're not drinking. Hundreds of English Assassins will chop them into meat sauce......
The tavernkeeper Barders breathed a long sigh of relief and said:
"Alright, mission accomplished, let's withdraw!"