In the city of Assyria, the lights in the Duncan family meeting hall were on. Seven people were sitting at different seats. The leader was naturally the chief of the Senate, Qiyuan.

"Look, everyone, Nils' trip to Lovington was really worth it." Qi Yuan was obviously a little excited. His thin face was slightly flushed under the candlelight, as if he had been drinking.

He smiled and raised the letter in his hand. The letter was a report written by Nils. Along with the letter, the blueprint of a single-soldier crossbow was also sent back: "Nils successfully recruited Wuleglindo, and also got the blueprint and metal ratio of the small crossbow from Wuleglindo. With this, we can build enough crossbows in a very short time. After all the members are equipped, I wonder who can compete with my First Legion!"

"This is the favor of God Amon to my Duncan family." As soon as a person sitting on the left side of Qi Yuan said this, he was echoed by everyone. Of course, they flattered Qi Yuan even more.

"How come there isn't even one person among you guys who is optimistic about Nils?" Qi Yuan said with a laugh.

"Master, let me be honest with you. Looking at Nils's appearance, unless he is as wise as you, how can we tell that he has these abilities?" This was obviously another flattery, but Qi Yuan felt very comfortable listening to it.

"Okay, let's not talk about these empty things anymore. Let's hurry up and arrange the construction of the crossbow machine in the next few days." Qi Yuan said, "Now, let's discuss one thing. The condition for Nils to recruit Wuleglindo is to support him in building Salt Marsh Town. Of course, this support is not superficial. In principle, we will only provide a small part of the financial resources. If necessary, we will also secretly provide some manpower."

"And Wooleglindos will continue to do whatever he wants to do in Saltmarsh Town. We will at most interfere a little on the surface and show our attitude to Connor. When we choose to defend Lunvington, Wooleglindos will stand with us clearly."

"Of course, his conditions are more than these. Although this guy is young, he has great ambitions. Niels said in the letter that Wu Lei intends to rebuild the Sixth Legion and let him serve as the head coach. That's about it. What do you think?"

Everyone was silent for a while, and then a man sitting opposite Qi Yuan spoke up: "Master, I don't doubt Wu Lelindo's sincerity, but isn't what he wants a little too much?"

"If he wants it, do we have to give him enough?" Qi Yuan laughed and said, "Give him what he should give, and never give him what he can't give. Let's keep him hanging for now. As for Salt Marsh Town, the better it is built, the happier I will be. It will belong to our Duncan family in the future anyway."

Just as Qi Yuan and others were talking, a convoy consisting of 57 two-horse carts appeared on the road outside the city of Assyria. This convoy seemed determined to travel overnight. Instead of entering the city, it passed by the city of Assyria and headed straight towards Lunvington.

In the first car, Pompey was lying on the mattress and sleeping soundly...

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As Tours said, Woolley did not go to the demolition site because there was no need for that with Baker and 100 town managers taking the lead.

Baker's performance today made everyone look at him with new eyes. In the past, everyone thought he was just greedy, treacherous, cunning, and occasionally showed off. Now, one more thing can be added to his description - he was rude, almost exactly the same as Wu Lai.

Baker was determined to go all out. In order to make his aura look more powerful and intimidating, he not only asked all 100 town guards to wear armor, but also gave each of them a wooden stick as thick as a bowl and as tall as a person, and a silver coin as "consolation money."

Baker even gave a mobilization speech: "The armor is to give you more protection, because those ignorant guys might do something. The silver coins are a small token of my condolences to you on behalf of Lord Wu Lai. If you do a good job today, I will ask Lord Wu Lai for the reward! What do you think?!"

"Okay!" The 100 town managers responded loudly.

"Do you have confidence?!" Baker asked loudly. He copied this sentence from Wu Lai. Wu Lai would always say this two or three times in every meeting, especially when assigning tasks, it was basically a must-ask question.

"have!"

"Okay! Let's go!" Baker waved his hand, and the hundred town guards immediately put on their wooden sticks and rushed to the destination.

"You guys follow suit!" Baker waved at the hundreds of strong men in the demolition team, "Do a good job, Master Wu Lai said there will be a reward!"

So, with a hundred town guards leading the way in front and more than a hundred strong men following behind, Baker walked steadily in the middle of the demolition team - as the protagonist, he naturally received this treatment, and it was also very safe.

When the young noble, who was the first household to be demolished, saw Baker's team coming in a mighty force, his face turned pale with fear. He thought, this scene is too exaggerated. Didn't Lord Tours say last night that Governor Wu Lei didn't have many people to use? And didn't he also say that Baker wouldn't come? Isn't the guy in the middle of the team looking around arrogantly Baker? While the young noble was leaning on the wall and thinking, a hundred town guards had lined up in five neat rows in front of his house, and Baker had already taken the loudspeaker handed to him by a construction bureau attendant.

"I'm Baker, the civilian tribune! I'm under the order of Lord Archon Woole! According to the reconstruction plan of Salt Marsh Town! This house must be demolished! Everyone in the house, please leave immediately! Everyone in the house, please leave immediately!" Baker climbed onto a large rock with the help of his men and shouted loudly.

"Baker! Are you really going to go that far?!" The owner's voice came from the top of the wall. "Then I'll say it again! This house has been home to me for seven generations! No one should even think about taking it! I don't care how Salt Marsh Town is built! Anyway, I will never demolish it!"

"But you have already promised to demolish the house! Going back on your word is not what a citizen should do! The entire Salt Marsh Town will be demolished and rebuilt! Don't stand in the way of the town's construction! You live a good life! The townspeople have a hard time! Now Lord Wu Lai is working tirelessly for the townspeople! Only then did he win the opportunity for Salt Marsh Town to rise again from the Supreme Council and the Temple!" Baker said this, raising his hand and pointing at the owner of the house, "You are the citizen ranked first for demolition! You take the lead in not demolishing! What will other citizens think? What will the townspeople think? Do you want to destroy Salt Marsh Town's plan and the happiness that the townspeople have been looking forward to with great difficulty?!"

The series of questions made the owner red-faced, angry and anxious. He was angry that Baker had put him on the wrong side of the town with just a few words, and he had no way to refute it. He was also anxious that Mr. Bill had promised to come to help, so why was he nowhere to be seen? Of course he was nowhere to be seen, because Bill couldn't come at the moment - he was held back by Woolley.

Detaining Bill was not a whim, but someone had informed Wu Lai before dawn that Bill would help to obstruct the demolition today. The person who came to inform was an follower of a minor noble, and also Gulu's spy - since arriving in Salt Marsh Town, Gulu had begun to recruit and train spies, and the purpose was naturally to serve Wu Lai.

In fact, Wu Lai did not mind Bill's obstruction, but it was better to have less trouble than more, so he found Bill early in the morning on the pretext of asking for the list of the militia. However, after Bill arrived, he did not mention the militia at all, but talked about how to deploy the town in an emergency attack. At the same time, he put on an appearance of sincere request for advice, which made Bill, who originally thought he had a lot of "military talent", indulge in preaching. Of course, he did not forget to refute Wu Lai's previous defense arrangements.

However, it would have been fine if he hadn't refuted it. After he refuted it, Wu Lai asked more seriously and carefully, and he looked like a layman. After a while, Bill forgot about the endorsement...

Seeing that the owner of the house remained silent, Baker raised the loudspeaker again: "I have one last piece of advice for you! Just open the door and accept the demolition! I can give you half a day to pack up your things and move out! If you don't listen to me! According to the order of Lord Wu Lai! We will directly destroy this house! Don't say that something fell and someone was injured! We will not be responsible at all!"

"Baker, don't scare people here! I'm not afraid to tell you! My house is protected by a big shot! Whoever dares to touch a brick in my house, I will make sure he pays for it!" The owner of the house shouted angrily, but his eyes were constantly searching, and he was secretly complaining in his heart.

He couldn't help but complain. There were only about sixty people in his mansion, including his wife and the cook. Not counting the townspeople who were watching the fun outside the mansion, there were more than two hundred people brought by Baker alone. If they all swarmed in, how would he deal with them?

"You want to make someone pay for touching a brick of yours? You are so arrogant!" Baker raised his eyebrows, "I really want to try and see how you make me pay for it!"

After that, Baker threw the megaphone to his men, snatched a copper hammer from a member of the demolition team, and put it on his shoulder, stiffening his neck and raising his chin: "Everyone, make way for me."

After everyone separated as instructed, Baker walked to the courtyard wall with a hammer in his hand. He first glanced at the owner of the house on the wall above his head, then swung the hammer with his arm, and hit the courtyard wall heavily with a "bang".

Although Baker was over fifty and chubby, the power of this hammer was not small. Although his hands were numb from the shock, a brick on the courtyard wall cracked immediately after this full-strength blow...

"So what?! I knocked..." Baker raised his head proudly, but just when he said half of the words, his vision blurred and it seemed that something black fell down. Then, there was a sudden "bang" sound on his forehead and an unbearable pain spread to his whole body.

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Baker's body swayed, and he took two steps back, then sat down on the ground.

"Master Baker." Several town managers closest to Baker quickly gathered around and came over to support him.

After being helped up, Baker felt a headache and dizziness, as if there was something hot and sticky running down his face. He subconsciously raised his hand to touch it, and saw a bright red. It was bleeding! "Good! Good!" Baker was so angry. He thought, although I have not been lucky in my career recently, I am still an official of Yanma Town. I just cracked a stone in your house out of anger, and you actually cracked my forehead?

Baker was furious, but the homeowner was feeling at a loss for words. In fact, no one had ever done anything to Baker, but it just happened that the hammer Baker hit not only cracked a brick, but also shook off a carved stone slab used for decoration on the outside of the wall, and then hit Baker directly.

Baker was lucky in a sense, because this carved stone slab was only the size of a palm and a half, and only one finger thick. If it was a little bigger, Baker would probably be lying down by now.

"Brothers! Charge up! Tear it down!" Baker had no time to find out the reason at this moment. He was convinced from the beginning that he was attacked by the person on the wall. He shouted loudly and swung his right hand fiercely, pointing at the door of the house.

After some scattered but enthusiastic responses, nearly a hundred town management officers and over a hundred members of the demolition team charged forward with murderous intent...

After two loud "bangs", the door bolt was broken violently and screams were heard from inside the door and on the wall.

"Charge!" A town guard shouted loudly in the chaotic crowd, as if he was not demolishing the house, but rushing towards the enemy with weapons in hand.

There really were "enemies", namely the servants and slaves who took turns to climb onto the wall and pose. However, they were mortal after all, and when they saw more than 200 people rushing in, they dared not move. But the owner of the house was really anxious, and jumped off the wall regardless of anything, raising the whip in his hand.

But the whip had just been swung and before it could hit anyone, someone snatched it away...

Then, the owner saw the servants and slaves on the wall being dragged down by the "thugs" who rushed in. Some were beaten so hard that they cried...

Then, loud calls and dull sounds of wood banging were heard from both inside and outside the courtyard wall...

Then, screams of terror were heard from the inner house...

Outside the door, Baker covered his forehead and cursed loudly, with laughter and noise all around him...

When the faint noise reached his ears, Bill was suddenly startled. He took two quick steps to the window and looked out, then he was stunned.

After a while, he slowly turned around, frowning, with a chill in his eyes: "Master Wu Lai, you are so calculating!"

Wu Lai smiled slightly, folded the deployment map carefully, and gently put it back in the drawer. Then he stood up slowly and said, "Tribute Bill, I have a meeting this afternoon. Don't forget to attend. It's very important. Also, I hate it most when people don't take meetings seriously."

Bill narrowed his eyes, slammed the door and left.