Next...... Next, the mercenaries began to kill people with the crossbows that Sinampei had issued to them. The guys who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to take the gold were all killed on the spot by the mercenaries with hand crossbows, and the scene was immediately calmed. After all, the vast majority of people understand that life is more important than money. The fear of death is a deterrent to those who try to steal the gold while the chaos is taking advantage of the chaos.

Mercenaries weren't knights, and they didn't care about knights' rules, nor did they care about the outdated rule that they couldn't use crossbows to kill and injure Rite Cult followers—in fact, knights didn't care about that either.

Although the crossbow is an extremely dishonorable weapon in Eugenia's culture, its practicality has been verified in both the East and the West. Although hot weapons will inevitably replace cold weapons in the process of historical evolution, Sinampei does not have the idea of becoming a fat man in one bite, he knows very well that in his lifetime, cold weapons are still an indispensable part of the battlefield, and in terms of power, they are definitely not weaker than hot weapons, and an army composed of pure cold weapons may have an advantage in the face of highly firearmed troops - such as the longbowmen of the Caledonians.

Although it was certainly its power that determined the development of thermal weapons in later generations, in these years, thermal weapons were valued because of the cost - the cost of soldiers. The training of a longbowman takes at least five years, and two months for a musketeer.

Let's not talk about these aspects for the time being, let's talk about the crossbows in the hands of the mercenaries. Unlike the two-handed crossbows used by the Jenovas on the frontal battlefield, Sinampei's rations for the mercenaries were all serious one-handed crossbows. Of course, such a weapon has little effect on the battlefield, and the range and power are not satisfactory, only the rate of fire is quite good.

But what if you use them to bounce the place? It's perfect. None of the townspeople knew how to match armor, and attacking them with a crossbow was a good use. If. It's even better if the mercenaries are cavalry. As a matter of fact, after entering the era of thermal weapons, in addition to the battlefield tasks of maneuvering and roundabout operations, maintaining the flanks of the battle line, outflanking and intercepting, and annihilating the enemy's living forces, cavalry also played a very important role in suppressing the locality. For example, Louis XIV's dragoons, who were issued with short spears, were the perfect beaters for persecuting the Protestants.

But now Sinampei needs to be suppressed by a city, not a country. This era is not the era of firearms, so Sinampei's security forces have become mercenaries who are issued crossbows......

Sinampei never thought that one day he would become the kind of unrelenting executioner who suppressed the people in the history books. He had fantasized that with a lord like Theresa, the law and order of the place still needed to be deliberately maintained, but it turned out that he was still too superficial, and things did not develop as he expected.

Now, for the sake of his family's power, he is going to kill the people.

As the old saying goes, the ass decides the head. Sinan Pei is not a saint, and of course he is not exempt from vulgarity.

If Henry was in this position, what would he do? In fact, Sinampei did this because he was trying to get closer to Henry, and not to mention other aspects, Henry still had a set of rights to get closer.

Of course, these citizens who were conscripted here did not have the courage to fight with professional mercenaries, and certainly did not have the strength. Unfortunately, the guys who were injured in the attack of the mercenaries just now. You can also consider yourself unlucky. In this case, it is not an exaggeration to be killed on the spot by the mercenaries. In fact. Red had already ordered the unfortunate killings of the mercenaries to be hoisted in the square......

But word spread, and the new lord they had brought back, the little girl, had brought in twenty wagons of gold from outside the city!

Though...... It may not be all gold, but it is indispensable anyway! A wagon or two of gold alone is enough for the city to tremble!

Such gossip is spreading wildly, and it takes less than half a day. There was no one in the whole city who didn't know about it.

The merchants were shocked. The Auvergne family was very rich, they knew it, but that was with the support of Auvergne's territory! Now that girl had already lost all her territory in Capet, where did she raise the money? Could it be that she had transferred all the cash before she left Capet? But how could this be? No one on the whole continent would have so many precious metals.

Sinan Pei was snickering. In fact, he had so much gold, and all the carriages behind him were filled with a mess of waste, and the first carriage was not gold but brass...... If it is a copper element, it may be exposed all at once. But the brass that Sinampe brought from Roman City is very similar to gold, and if it is not roasted on the fire, ordinary people will not recognize it.

In this age of scarcity of precious metals, many ordinary people have never seen gold in their entire lives – and this is no joke. With the exception of some large transactions, precious metals were more often used for collection as ornamental objects, except for occasional cameos as general equivalents in the years of low productivity...... This is true of all civilizations.

Of course, the mercenaries had long understood Si Nanpei's little trick, so none of them were greedy.

I have to say that the mercenaries recommended by the Pope are quite tight-mouthed and have a high combat quality, which is completely different from ordinary mercenaries, and Si Nanpei suspects that they may have some special background. But because of the tight time, Sinan Pei was not able to investigate anything.

This little trick succeeded lightly, and it was so easy and comfortable that Cheng Dù, who made Sinan Pei smile bitterly.

Those merchants couldn't even figure out how many people they had brought over! If they could really grasp the total number of mercenaries, then Sinan Pei felt that his little trick would immediately go through it, but in fact, they couldn't figure it out at all......

Although this also shows the professionalism of the mercenaries, the most critical issue is the merchants themselves...... Their intelligence network is so bad! It is far from the kind of heaven and earth network that Si Nanpei imagined.

The merchants of this era were far less shrewd than Sinampei imagined. Sinampei regretted a little, should he have followed Theresa in the first place and taken more radical measures? Although it will cause great damage to the city in the short term, in the long run, it will be more beneficial to him and Theresa's rule.

Now, it depends on whether the businessmen dare to jump and how they do. (To be continued......)