Chapter 623: Into the City
It was indeed a surprise to be able to obtain detailed information from insiders, but it was too risky to have his brother-in-law who had been captured by him to help with the assassination, and he was afraid that he would sell himself as soon as he entered the city gate.
Although he is not worried that the appearance of one hundred and eighty people equipped with flintlock rifles will pose any threat to him, Wu Liang does not want to make a big deal about it, and if it is too big, it will inevitably affect the innocent, if he is wanted in advance because of a big trouble, and his luck is almost caught red-handed by the old man Karp who came back to see Luffy, it will be completely finished.
If he wants to eliminate all the insiders without causing too much collateral damage, Wu Liang's best choice is to adopt sniper tactics and keep a distance of more than 500 meters from the target and run after the fight, anyway, it is enough for himself to stump most assassins---- transporting weapons into the city is the easiest thing.
Menqi and Sakura Reiko also sent back news separately, confirming what the brother-in-law said from some subtle aspects, the other two minions are not ordinary soldiers, but the most trusted ten-person squad leader under the brother-in-law, and even the two of them didn't understand why the brother-in-law hurriedly took them out of the city to find Richard and the thirty colleagues he took away, as for Richard's goal, it is even more impossible to know, They only came to the door by checking the tax districts that Richard was responsible for in the past.
This also ruled out the possibility that Richard's family knew about it.
According to the agreement, Wu Liang gave his brother-in-law a good time, but when this guy was dying, the previous breath of a single man suddenly disappeared without a trace, and before Wu Liang broke his neck, he was directly scared to pee his pants, so that Wu Liang had to dismantle the two contaminated floors and replace them with new ones, otherwise the smell of the stinking smell was too much!
In the middle of the night that day, Wu Liang returned to the old place, disposed of the three corpses in the same place, and sent his brother-in-law and brother-in-law to reunite in the sea king's stomach bag.
The opportunity to enter the city was easy to find, and the next morning Wu Liang said hello to the five girls, and then ran to the village chief's house, and found a random reason---- saying that he wanted to go into the city to buy more food and come back (in fact, he was telling the truth, but he entertained Luffy's big stomach more than a dozen times, and he had already consumed nearly half of the family's food reserves, and all kinds of commonly used seasonings had also consumed at least thirty percent, and he really needed to replenish a batch!) I wanted to borrow a horse-drawn cart for two or three days, hire a guide with a way by the way, and offer five thousand Baileys a day, which is a good pay, hoping that the head of Slap Village would recommend a personal option for him.
The village chief of Slap is still quite enthusiastic about Wu Liang, a new member of the village who is not short of money and quiet by nature and does not like to cause trouble, but when he sold the land before, the village also made a lot of money, and five million Bailey is a huge amount of money that can only be earned by three or five strong men in a year!
According to Wu Liang's request, the village chief of Slap was very happy to lend his own carriage, and at the same time introduced this good errand to his neighbor, a middle-aged man named Red, who looked very honest from the outside.
Hearing that Wu Liang wanted to go into the city to purchase a batch of ingredients and seasonings, Red patted his chest and said that he had a familiar grain store and seasoning shop, and he could help bargain when the time came.
Wu Liang, who was dealing with him for the first time, did not dare to give absolute trust to this man who was loyal on the outside but didn't know how to make a promise, but with the village chief of Slap as an introducer in the middle, he didn't think there should be any big mistakes, as long as he didn't interfere with his plans and didn't deceive himself with shoddy products, then it wouldn't be a big problem for him to make a little difference in the middle or get some rebates from the merchants.
Regardless of the character of this man, anyway, judging from his skillful way of setting the car, the skill of driving the car should not be bad, Wu Liang sat in the bare plate carriage that had just been cleaned but still had a faint fishy smell, (the kind of four-wheeled freight carriage with no roof, no seats, and only four-sided box boards!) I didn't feel any discomfort other than occasional jolting.
The village chief of Slap lent Wu Liang a five-year-old mare who was very docile and pulled up the cart quickly and steadily, and Red, who played a cameo role as a coachman, was also very familiar with the way into the city, and it only took more than two hours to pull Wu Liang to see the walls of the outer city of the capital of the Goya Kingdom.
I have to say that the rulers of the Goya Kingdom, which pursues a policy of hierarchical segregation, pay great attention to face engineering, even the outer city walls are built very neatly, and at a glance, you can see that they have put a lot of effort into maintenance, and judging from the clothes and outfits of the twenty city guards lined up at the city gate, they also pay great attention to their appearance and appearance, whether it is a weapon or a helmet and breastplate, they are wiped shiny, and they look very combative, no wonder it will attract the visit of the Celestial Dragons.
"Mr. Wu, when you enter the city later, you need to pay the city tax, five hundred baileys per person, one thousand baileys per carriage, and please prepare change in advance. You don't have to answer anything else, just leave everything to me! Before arriving at the city gate, Red, who was driving the car, suddenly turned around and said to Wu Liang.
"Got it, this is two thousand Baileys, everything will trouble you!" Wu Liang, who was leaning against Red, was lazy in the warm sun, and when he heard this, he took out two change bills from his trouser pocket and patted them, and then put on sunglasses and planned to be an uncle in the carriage of the car, not wanting to have any intersection with those city defense soldiers, so as not to encounter a bad killer in case of an emergency.
Red, who was driving the carriage, put away the two bills, got out of the car and led the halter to slow down and walk towards the city gate.
After putting the two banknotes on the table of an elderly man who looked like a clerk with a pen and paper in front of the doorway, Red briefly told the captain of the city gate who was sitting next to him his intention to enter the city, and then led the horse into the outer city without encountering any obstacles or difficulties.
Obviously, the news of the disappearance of thirty city guards and brother-in-law, the leader of the city gate guard, has not yet spread, otherwise the city guards should not say that they are scouts and cavalry searching everywhere, at least they should strengthen the investigation of entering and leaving the city, such a lax city defense force is undoubtedly a great thing for Wu Liang, who is about to set off a bloody storm in the outer city, and the success rate can increase by at least ten percentage points.