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He lowered the curtains and walked back and forth anxiously, Cooper frowned, and stabbed the ground with his sword in his hand, and a loud bang disturbed Richard, who had fallen into some kind of inexplicable state, and forced him to come to his senses.

"Regret is not the way to do now, the first thing we have to do is to take care of everything before Rennes comes back. Otherwise, ......", Cooper did not say the rest.

After Rennes was forced to return to the imperial capital from the province of Bell in September, the affairs of Ortlenburg were left to the so-called "Big Three". Richard is responsible for basic government affairs and finance, and the most important thing in a city's system is finance, and if the money bag is tightened, it is equivalent to choking the throat of other departments. In this environment where everything is easy to say if you have money, and it is difficult to move an inch without money, Richard has been very nourishing.

The monopoly of goods brought huge profits, and Wren choked the trade route between the Orlando Empire and the Byron Empire, Ortlenburg became more and more prosperous day by day at a speed that was almost visible to the naked eye, and the city's income increased day by day.

Then there is Cooper, who is the captain of the garrison and controls the official organ of violence. Perhaps the Ortlenburg garrison before the Wren era was an ornament, but after the Wren era, the deterrent effect of the guard has been unprecedentedly improved. Any crime must be punished, and the status of the garrison has been rising, and sometimes the garrison has to make a cameo role as the manager of the city's face, and Cooper has become one of the big three of the new era.

And the rest is Alma, who was left in the small place of Ortrenburg by Wren because of her soft-heartedness, and the environment in the imperial capital is not suitable for soft-hearted people. Alma, who has all kinds of eyeliners, monitors the entire province of Bell, and no disturbance can leave her sight. In her eyes, there were few secrets in the entire province of Bell.

The triumvirate represents Rennes' interests in the province of Bell, controls the daily life of Ortlenburg, and oversees any unexpected that may arise.

But no one expected that the first thing to happen was not the forces and cities that were swept away by Rennes, but Ortlenburg and the Big Three themselves.

Ortlenburg has amassed a lot of wealth, and no one dares to beat the idea of even a copper plate for this money until Wren leaves. Wren's brutal methods will make those who spy understand what Thunder Fury is, and although cruel methods can cause some harm to society, they can also bring more benefits.

When Wren leaves, it is inevitable that there will be a wave of fluctuating people's hearts. After all, the Great Demon King has left, and his influence will decline, which is an irrefutable fact. Ortrenburg has never been a perfect place, it's the city of sin, the capital of chaos, and its inhabitants have their own bizarre stories. When the pressure is gone, some people will inevitably sprout in a solid state.

If one were to ask who would benefit the most from Wren's departure in the city, the answer would undoubtedly be directed at the privileged class. With Wren there, they were not much different from the commoners, and once Wren left, the peculiarities of the privileged class began to increase day by day.

Faced with the mountain of goods and money in the warehouse, Cooper was the first to resist the temptation. He is a declining nobleman, and he also wants to revive the former family and glory, so he needs capital. He's just a captain of a guard, how much money can he make by embezzling or receiving a little favor?, so he quickly set his sights on the silver coins that Wren hadn't had time to cash, and the uncertainty of the exchange rate caused these coins to fluctuate out of thin air.

No one can guarantee that all silver coins will be exchanged for gold coins at the highest point of the currency exchange rate, not even Richard, so Cooper impressed Richard for a simple reason.

Sarcomo became a nobleman, Alma was promised a knighthood by Wren ten years later, and although Harvey did not get any promise from Wren, he was enough to make a barony with his black head. So from the current point of view, the whole of Ortlenburg has not received any benefits and future, and there may be only two people, Cooper and Richard.

Inciting one's anger and hatred sometimes doesn't require rhetoric, just a piece of real evidence. In the face of Cooper's persuasion, Richard also had a trace of psychological ups and downs, especially after he heard that the imperial capital was about to appoint a new city lord to Ortrenburg, which turned into dissatisfaction.

Will the new city lord kick him out of his former tax collector, will he deprive him of his powers, will he turn him into a mud dog leg again? It's hard to say, it's really hard to say, no city lord will appoint a person who is not a relative or a confidant of the former to take charge of his own money bag. Once Richard is kicked out, he really has nothing, not to mention any future prospects, even if he doesn't even have much money.

The human heart, once it begins to deteriorate, will decay rapidly.

When Wren asked him to cash in the silver coins that had been exchanged for the Orlando Imperial currency during the fluctuation of the Imperial currency at the beginning of the year, he was persuaded by Cooper. By various means, 12,000 gold coins were taken out, of which 4,000 were given to Cooper, and he himself got 7,000, and another thousand gold coins were used in various ways. After all, the silver coins exchanged are calculated in boxes, and they can't hide from the eyes of some people, and this thousand gold coins is the hush money.

After the money is in hand, Richard and Cooper go through an initial period of uneasiness, and when they find that Wren does not seem to be as omnipotent as they had previously thought, a bad thought creeps in. If you take 12,000 gold coins today and you can't find it, then it's okay to take a few dozen tomorrow and one or two hundred the day after tomorrow. Richard, as the big butler trusted by Wren, controls the money bag of the entire city, so naturally no one will question him.

If only these two big people were involved in the whole thing, it might be hidden forever, but this matter is definitely not something that can be done by two people.

When a drunken helper walks into a technical service center and enjoys the skills of a skilled woman, it is doomed that the matter will eventually be revealed. Now among the skilled women in the entire Bell Province, the group with the top appearance and body are all women who have received espionage training, and they all have excellent interrogation skills. When a drunk, who looked like a poor man, brandished a money bag full of silver coins to spend, it was a natural target.

The news was quickly reported to Alma, who broke out in a cold sweat, she had no idea that the other two of the Big Three, known as the Big Three of the New Era, would be complicit and embarrassed. While frightened, she also realized that it was not only these two people who had problems in Ortlenburg, but a group of people who had problems. So she intensified her investigation, and as a result, she felt anger and fear.

It was at this time that some of Alma's girls leaked the news and were immediately detected by Cooper. Without any consideration or discussion, Cooper decided to limit Alma's freedom in life. He wasn't arrogant enough to be out of his mouth, after all, there were still some of Wren's most determined followers here. His purpose was just to silence Alma, and that was it.

However, Alma, who had realized that she had stabbed a hornet's nest, did not give Cooper this chance at all, and she sneaked out and told Marven about it, while she waited for news from a secret stronghold outside the city.

Unfortunately, all she was waiting for was the news that Marven had an accident while drunkenly patrolling the city wall and fell from the city wall to his death.

Cooper is crazy, and so is Richard!

Alma immediately went west alone, and she had to meet Wren and report the matter to Wren, not only because of her allegiance, but also because she didn't want to die.

"Why didn't we leave?", Richard still didn't understand, why Cooper chose to stay here when he could have just left.

Cooper sneered and shook his head, this stupid pig really has no brains at all, Marven is indeed dead, but the city defense army is in its own right, he and Richard want to go, no problem, but what about those gold coins? What about those riches and gems?

The merchants and caravans of the entire city were either people of the industrial and commercial party of Sarcomo or loyal to Rennes, and it was obviously impossible to transfer wealth in this way. If it is to be carried manually, it will take twenty or thirty people, and one more person means that the secret will be made public. They would never have been able to pass through the Weimar Corridor and where could they go in the entire province of Bell? Instead of running around aimlessly outside, it would be better to smooth out some of the books and get rid of some of the people who should be eliminated before Wren knew what was going on here.

Without conclusive evidence, he and Richard were not necessarily at risk as the heroes who helped Wren stabilize his rule.

As long as you can save your life and money, and change places after the turmoil passes, you may not be able to regain power!

Cooper kept telling himself, and Richard, that it wasn't they who betrayed Wren, but Wren who abandoned them first. How could they not compare to Alma in their merits?Why did almost all of the people who followed Wren in the first place get the benefit, but he and Richard got nothing? It wasn't fair to them, they just wanted to get back what was theirs.