Chapter 8: The Trick of Pretending to Be Rich

Over the next two days, Sinampe began his journey to throw money in Lelan City. Not for anything else, but to deter the small ones in the city.

Sinampe understands that if you want to make a real difference in Lelan City, then sufficient deterrence is essential. Even if you don't have that much strength, you have to make the local businessmen think that you have talent.

Regardless of the use of force and politics, the local merchants were not even qualified to fight Theresa in this regard.

For a big aristocrat like Theresa, the merchants cannot match her in terms of political or military influence, even if she is only an exile now, nobles are nobles, merchants are merchants, and the class attributes they carry determine how much power they can have in this era.

The only thing the merchants could rely on was their financial resources and their advantage as the local landlord.

Therefore, Sinampei is ready to attack the aspect that the businessmen are most proud of and completely break their self-confidence.

He wants to use the money to stun the merchants.

Actually, he and Theresa don't have that much money at all, but it doesn't matter. As long as he can fool around, it's no problem, he's ready to come up with a shocking scam.

As for how to carry out this deception, Sinan Pei already had a case. The night before the official operation, Sinampe instructed Red to secretly prepare twenty carriages, and then took advantage of the middle of the night to drive out of Lelan from the south gate, which was already under his full control.

The carriages were stuffed with stuff in advance.

It turned out that Si Nanpei thought that such a seemingly sneaky action was not easy to keep secret, but it was only at the end of the matter that he discovered his worries. The heavy snow closed the road, whether it was ordinary citizens or merchants, they all hid in their homes, and no one would be idle to come out in the dark at night.

Sinampei is ready to use these carriages to run it well.

The next morning. The citizens of the city were awakened by the sound of an urgent trumpet, a sound they were all too familiar with in an age when warfare was commonplace, alerting them to the enemy attacking the city.

Sinampei didn't mind playing the role of a tyrant for the time being, and then let Red go door to door to catch strong men and go to the south gate to guard the city...... The townspeople are not fools, if there is an enemy. Probably won't be in the south, right?

Besides, Saranyi is not a rural place like Capet or the Emperor's domain, Odisia, how can the noblest ancient Roman descendants be used as cannon fodder for no reason?

And isn't there a mercenary? In any case, there is no reason for the enemy to levy the citizens after just besieging the city for a day? Is this lord so cowardly?!

The walls of Eugenia differed from the Celestial Empire in many ways, and were by no means the wide, thick, and tall rammed earth walls, although they were not as strong as the walls of the Celestial Empire's contemporaries, but in many cases, it was not necessary to fill the battle line with a large number of troops, and the width of the battlefield between the warring sides was not at all as large as that of the Celestial Empire, which had long been accustomed to fighting in large armies...... After all, the national conditions are different, so the various military viewpoints and operational ideas will not be the same.

Is it really okay for those old men to invite such mediocre people back to be lords? Many citizens are quite puzzled by this, compared to other places. The independence of the Saranyi people is second to none, and the literacy rate is also the highest.

In other words, the Saranyi people are not interested in allegiance to the lord, they are interested in profit. If the lord is brought back, it is better than when the merchants are in power, they will definitely not care about driving the lord away again.

However, under the intimidation of the mercenaries, such arguments are actually useless. Quite simply, the mercenaries are not locals at all, they don't care what the citizens think, and they don't mind killing people if they annoy them...... The Saranians are the most knowledgeable people on the continent of Ugina. A lot of people can only put on a casual coat. Then he carried a dung fork and something like that up the city wall.

"Oh, our new lord won't be so timid, will he? There are only four hundred people outside the south gate. This person can't even make a splash when he puts it in the city. Is there really anyone who would have the whimsy to take four hundred men to take over Leland? Such people are either crazy or stupid. There are many people who muttered after going up the city wall, "Sure enough, it's just a little girl, although it's quite eye-catching, but it's really a mistake to invite such a child back to be in power." ”

"Yes, I saw it from the first time I entered the city, a little girl who can only use brute force. He is not qualified to be the ruler of this Lelan City! Huh, why don't those guys outside have any intention of attacking? The cannon is also placed on the carriage and not put down. ”

"The guy in front of you seems to be shouting? Tsk, I don't understand, isn't this what those northerners are saying?"

"I can understand a little, but I don't know if it's correct. The guy seemed to be angry and yelling at our noses. and told us to open the gates......"

"Open the city gates? hahaha, the guys under the city can't have their heads burned, right?"

“...... That, gentlemen, I'm quite sorry, because the soldiers defending the city are inexperienced, and they mistake the friendly troops who came to deliver supplies for the enemy......" Si Nanpei climbed the city gate at this time, and said stupid things that no one would believe in a serious manner, "Those outside are actually friendly soldiers, open the city gate quickly." ”

Everyone was speechless, and they all looked at Sinan Pei with the eyes of a fool. They couldn't believe that there was anyone in this world who could commit such a two-way oolong.

Of course, the citizens would not listen to him, but the mercenaries listened enough, and the four hundred people outside the city entered Lelan City along with the twenty carriages that had sneaked out of the city last night.

Afterwards...... After that, the first carriage was knocked over in a push.

Not many Saranyi people can stand such a cold winter, let alone at sunrise in the coldest part of the day? The resentment of being pulled up from the bed in the early morning can be imagined, and it is normal for a series of coincidences to overturn one or two carriages, and it is not normal for nothing to happen.

"Gold!" exclaimed, and after the first carriage or two had been knocked over, a large amount of yellow gold rolled down from the carriage!

The scene was chaotic, and some people even began to play the idea of a carriage behind.

However, the mercenaries are not locals!

Next...... (To be continued......)