New Elles City on the west coast of Normandy

This is a small and up-and-coming town on the northwest coast of Normandy, with a population of 30,000 people, and in the afternoon the streets are a little deserted, with only patrols lazily walking around the newly renovated streets, leaving a series of short figures.

On the spire of the city's town hall fluttered the flag of the Falcon Kingdom, probably because it was too calm, it seemed listless, there was no wind, the flag was tightly wrapped around the flagpole, and from a distance, it looked like a huge red tassel gun.

The guards of the local cities, mostly composed of the citizens of the city, the main responsibility of these city militias is to maintain law and order in the city, they take two shifts, one during the day and one at night, there are few affairs during the day, and the patrols will only go on the road after dark,

There are only 30 people on duty during the day, most of them are arranged at the city gate, or standing at the city gate to chat, or registering the goods in and out, because of the limited manpower, many city militias, also concurrently serve as the internal duties of the chamber of commerce, new areas, new life, a qiē is the same, at this moment it is evening, the sun is projected from the gap in the distant mountains, reflecting the whole city is a golden yellow

In a chamber of commerce carriage that the city guards had just released, a middle-aged man with flaxen hair was looking at the small city in front of him.

"It doesn't feel good!"

The middle-aged man patted the dust on his body, he had been in Normandy in the northwest for three days, and everything he saw along the way was full of novelty, and the winter sun was unobstructed on the rough stone slabs, reflecting a white glow.

After some time ago, a connecting road has appeared between cities on the west coast.

Although the road surface is very rough, there are obvious traces of rushing to the construction site, and some of the edges of the stone fields have not even had time to be cut and leveled, and they are piled up, like children building blocks, which cannot give people enough security, but after all, it is a road traffic line that connects the entire northwest coast. From this route, you can go north to a military port of the Falcon Empire's navy

The carriage stopped at the door of an old tavern in the city, and the middle-aged man got out of the carriage and looked up at the tavern in front of him.

The most famous tavern in the city of "Four Wine Barrels", the huge room structure covers an area of more than 20 meters, and the wooden structure is solid.

The owner of the tavern is said to be a native of the Dongting grassland, and the tavern is famous for its refreshing and fiery black ale wine, a grass-stemmed plant that grows on the grassland, and is dry and bitter in the mouth.

Generally in the grassland is the favorite food of wild horses, wild horses that have eaten black wheat often become very irritable, and later the Dongting people rely on this, found that the mouth is bitter, can only be used as famine food black wheat, but it is an extremely excellent wine-making material, the grassland people rely on this, brew the world's most beautiful and strong wine "grassland drunk".

It took more than a month to complete the construction of this tavern, which was supposed to be the town hall due to lack of money. The town hall can only sell the half-built building first,

The owner of the tavern was built improvised from the remaining wood and built the tavern according to the existing structure, and in order to make his own sign, the clever boss also placed four huge wooden barrels on the outside of the tavern, which could not only be used as a place to store wine, but also attract the attention of passers-by to the greatest extent. As long as you are an alcoholic, you will not be indifferent to the aroma of four wines,

Of course, few people would have thought of it. The true meaning of the four barrels is actually the responsibility of the Fourth Division and the Fourth Division of the Imperial Supervision Department. Mainly to monitor the comments and discussions from the merchant class, the special tavern, so that every merchant who comes and goes, is deeply attracted by this characteristic building.

With his back to the sun, the middle-aged man with a somewhat tall figure lowered his head and walked into the tavern.He was wearing a uniform of the Chamber of Commerce in the city, and he didn't look much different from the ordinary Chamber of Commerce staff, there were too many such people, so when he came in, the mainland guests in the tavern didn't pay much attention to him, only a few people who drank looked up, although they were a little strange, but they didn't care very much,

There are not many people in the tavern today, only three or three people, but there are people at all the tables, these people are dressed, there are merchants, mercenaries, and even Svenwen, clean and clean, the clothes and fabrics are very good nobles, most of these people are nobles from within the Falcon Empire,

"Boss, send four glasses here!" The middle-aged man was about thirty years old, with a very high nose and deep eye sockets, his eyes were a little red, and soon, four glasses of black-skinned ale wine with white foam were delivered to him, and he tasted it with a slight frown, and the middle-aged man's eyes flashed a trace of fine light, good wine, I didn't expect such a small town to really have such a good thing, and it can be regarded as an unexpected joy of this mission

"Have you heard? The navy has been moving on a large scale recently, and it seems that it is going to be ......" There were a few businessman-like people at the adjacent table talking in a low voice, the middle-aged man's ears immediately pricked up, after listening for a while, he gradually lost interest, most of the businessmen talked about hearsay, none of them were seen with their own eyes, he cleaned up his mentality, he put down the half-drunk wine glass, picked up the second glass of wine, drank it again, and half again, put it down, picked up the third glass of wine,

It was close to the Falcon Kingdom's military port, and it had the most naval intelligence, but it was clear that the middle-aged man wanted to obtain more information than the businessmen were talking about it.

This is the fifth transaction between the two parties, but it is the first time they have met,

Under the temptation of the Southwest Consulate General's Intelligence Department, finally a senior officer of the Falcon Navy Fleet expressed his willingness to provide a certain amount of information in exchange for money, in order to show that he has such ability, he first provided the Southwest Consulate General intelligence personnel free of charge, provided the name of some Falcon Kingdom Navy warships to the name of the captain, after careful verification by the Southwest Consulate General's Intelligence Department, proved the authenticity of the information, the Southwest Intelligence Department immediately reported the information, and reported this huge breakthrough to the Southwest Consulate General, which was praised by the Southwest Consulate General on the spot, which made Reels feel very uplifted,

And this time, the other party put forward a request for personal delivery, and said that this intelligence is related to the movements of the Falcon Dynasty Navy in the past half a month, and the intelligence officer Reicles was immediately excited, if he can get the action route of the opponent's fleet, he can calmly arrange the ambush site and annihilate the main force of the opponent's navy in one fell swoop, under such a huge temptation, even if the other party proposed a sky-high intelligence fee of 500,000 gold coins, Reicles did not hesitate to choose to agree.

He sent his most trusted henchman, Bemeth, an experienced and cautious veteran spy, to go there in person.

From the moment he walked into the tavern, Bemeth was quietly observing everyone, who was most likely the guy nicknamed "Fishbone", the scruffy drunkard sitting in the front four rows, or the gloomy young man drinking in the dark corner on the left.

But he was disappointed, and when he prepared the fourth half cup of black-skinned ale wine side by side on the left side of the table, a young man about five meters away from his position finally stood up from the table, hesitated, and then walked towards Bemeth, and the middle-aged man also looked up at him suddenly, it was him! This is a young naval officer with a somewhat unruly appearance, and the reason why Bemeth excluded him in the first place is because in the first few encounters, the caution shown by this man named Fishbone shows that the other party will not be stupid and run out wearing a sensitive naval officer's uniform

"May I sit down?" the young naval officer asked, a little drunk

"Of course!" Bemeth glanced at the markings on the opponent's naval uniform, and said with a solemn face, he was thinking about whether the other party was intentional or accidental?

"I'm a fish bone! You're the one they sent to get the information?" The young man took a sip of the fourth glass of ale on the table, and sat down opposite Bemeth, his face looked a little depressed, his eyebrows frowned slightly and hesitated, and he said with blazing eyes, "It's really a good wine! Although it is bitter and sweet, it reminds people of the beautiful green of March on the grassland!"

"Are you really a fish bone?" Bemez's eyes were bulging, and the other party's code words were completely correct, but it was still unbelievable, "Whether you believe it or not, it doesn't matter, what matters is whether you bring money or not!" The young naval officer grinned at the corner of his mouth, unimpressed by Bemez's questioning, groped with the cuff rolled up on his left with his right hand, and then took out a small cloth roll from it and placed it on the table. He said softly, "I know you still don't fully trust me, this is the Falcon Navy's activities in the last ten days, you can stay at the corresponding port to observe, you can prove that what I said is true or false! This time it's free, if you're satisfied, after ten days, we'll connect here again, then please bring enough money!" "Why don't you give it all to us all at once?" Bemez's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he seemed to be worried, "What if you don't give it to us next time?" It's only ten days, this is too short!" Ten days, just to prove my ability, because I'm afraid that if I give it to you all at once, I will be killed early!"

The young officer smiled and patted the cloth roll on the table with his hand: "Don't tell me that you haven't thought about it like this, so it's better to be safe, no matter how much money you don't have to spend your life, it's all in vain! I'm asking for money, not death!"

So be it, if you don't believe me, the sale can be canceled at any time, and it will be as if it never happened.

With all due respect, this month, the Falcon Navy will have a big move against you!" The young officer rose from his seat, turned and walked out of the tavern, leaving Bemeth and the strip of cloth on the table alone (to be continued......