The situation in Baiyan City is increasingly moving towards the direction Aly hoped for.

Although, with Alay's personality, he is not good at formulating a meticulous and complete revenge plan, but he can help Fran collect some information in the town;

This is not a difficult thing. Order a drink in the tavern and sit there.

There are people talking about anything in the tavern; it is interesting to hear what the next table is bragging, even if it is useless.

The most useful thing is that there are fewer spies in the city.

At the beginning, Earl Tad relied on the good foundation left by David to exploit and earned considerable income;

He used this income to expand his team and hired spies to lurk in the tavern all day to monitor those who opposed him—

But now he doesn't have that much money to use.

After his operation, Bai Yancheng changed from thriving in his eyes to almost a miserable life;

The taxes that farmers have to pay for farming have increased significantly, even exceeding those of neighboring city-states;

Adventurers either change careers or leave, and the dissatisfaction of the residents in the city is gradually accumulating;

Even the businessman he tried hard to please didn't like him, after all, there was no partner in business - everyone moved away.

In Baiyan City, except for the Rank family becoming rich, the rest became poor.

Including other nobles.

This is not a good thing for the Rank family - because they can't charge much money anymore.

As income becomes limited, some expenditure items naturally need to be removed - for example, hiring a large number of spies is too expensive.

Anyway, those civilians could not defeat the soldiers of the Rank family.

Driven by such an idea, the Rank family changed the way of surveillance - became a reward for reporting;

It was very lively afterwards; anyway, it was very convenient to report it, so it was very suitable to frame it; a large number of innocent people were arrested, including soldiers from the Rank family;

It is obvious that these people cannot be executed all of them; Count Tad chose to punish each person for a certain amount of punishment, and then released them - of course, the method of reporting was naturally gone.

He is not suitable for the position of this city lord - this is a consensus that almost everyone in the city has.

A few days ago, when Ailey went to the Iron Tooth Guild to carry out missions with the people there, the mercenaries began to insult Tad in the carriage after leaving the city. Anyway, even the coachman was a well-known person and would not report it.

While drinking in the tavern, he saw someone openly scolding Earl Tad; in the end he was not punished, even now he was still drinking well.

In other words, you can try to develop some power that can be used...

But I still need to be careful. After going back, I discussed with Fran before making a decision. As Ire thought of this, he drank another drink.

It is impossible to take action at the moment; no matter how decayed the Rank family is, they still have enough soldiers in their hands.

Ailey felt that it would be easy to deal with him by going up together, so it would be better not to act rashly.

Favorable news came from Fran - although it was not good news for the noble family.

A while ago, a funeral was held in the city - it was from the Sey family.

Fran noticed that the Sey family had a watchman when delivering the letter at night;

So she stopped submitting and changed to the next one - she should not be disturbed at this time.

The next day, she asked around Sey's house and got relevant information.

Baron Hresei was really unfortunate. After losing his eldest son as the heir, his second son also left him - this time the reason was that his second son was defeated in the duel and died unfortunately under severe injuries.

The duel was Ward Rank, the strong man who had bought leather armor from Irey before - he was a straight-tempered man who could not stand the honor of his family being tainted by the slightest defilement;

However, the second son of the Sey family accused the Rank family of the methods of managing Baiyan City in public for having problems with one or another, which made Ward feel insulted - he could not tolerate the loss of the family's reputation, so he asked Baron Sey's second son to apologize;

But the second son did not apologize, but instead insulted the Rank family more and more. It is said that he was in a very bad mood during this period:

Some time ago, he lost his brother who had been with him since childhood, and then the family faced the destruction of the Rank family, and the burden of the heir fell on his shoulders - the higher the status, the greater the responsibility, and only when the second son was truly in the position of heir, he realized how tired he was;

Since I refuse to apologize, I can only solve the problem by a duel;

The result is obvious - the eldest son of Baron Sey's family, wearing all the plate armor, was easily killed by the Corey people, and the second son was naturally not very powerful;

Ward Rank was still very serious; if the people next to him hadn't reminded him to stop in time, he would have to kill the other party on the spot.

In the Kingdom of Fares, this is reasonable and legal. It is normal for a duel to cause death unless one party takes the initiative to admit defeat - but if the family admits defeat, the reputation of the family will be ruined.

Poor Baron Sey now has no adult male heirs, and the future of the family is in jeopardy;

In this regard, Earl Tad only gave condolences on the scene; he did not take the Sey family seriously, after all, the soldiers of their entire family were less than one-tenth of the Rank family... It really did not pose a threat.

In the future, if the Sey family has no one who can inherit the surname, their territory will be recycled, and then there will be another income.

Earl Taal did not attach much importance to the chaos in the city - anyway, he held absolute force in his hand and was not afraid of other families at all, not to mention that there were foreign players from the Hui family outside the city.

Alay felt that his rule would not last long - he was not in a position as good as the previous Earl David, but he had military power in his hands and no one dared to attack.

But once there is war, the troops will also change.

The Corey tribe showed no sign of activity recently, and it seemed that it had suffered heavy losses in the last battle;

You can't count on the nobles to fight... What a grudge?

And even when Marquis Lelan killed David, he didn't start fighting head-on with real swords and guns...

"Hey, have you heard of it! Dongjing and Wang Ling fought!"

The conversations of travel merchants caught the attention of Irey—these people were well-informed.

"Yes, I heard that Duke Richard was poisoned, and the successor Duke Phoenix and Duke Myrones fought..."

"Didn't it mean Phoenix killed his father?"

"Who can tell that kind of thing accurately..."

"I heard that the soldiers from the Central Realm have all been mobilized to the east!"

"Well, the Corey tribe just calmed down, and the nobles started fighting again..."

Central realm... King Leader... Eastern realm...

This is the northern border, and it is also the western part...

No matter how lively they fight, it has nothing to do with it...?
Chapter completed!