Chapter 250: Boomerang of the Dignitary Meeting

Chapter 251 The boomerang of the noble meeting

"What nonsense are you talking about?" The steward of the Duke of Durford's manor looked at Scarface with an arrogant look, "The Duke has never known anything about grain reserves!

"This is the Duke's territory, you'd better leave quickly, don't wait for the army to come and arrest you all!"

The police intelligence agent on the side immediately turned around and shouted to the people:

"Did everyone hear that? They are guilty of their crimes and threatened to let the army arrest us!"

More than a thousand demonstrators suddenly burst into a roar:

"Beat this noble's lackey!"

"Don't talk nonsense with him, go in and get our food back!"

"Everyone rush in!"

The steward was frightened by the momentum. He only had ten guns here. If the rioters rushed up, the guards of the manor would not be able to stop them at all.

He hid his slightly trembling hands behind his back and shouted fiercely:

"You dare to threaten the nobles, this is a serious crime! "

A gang member in the crowd threw dirt at the butler:

"Those who steal food are criminals!"

Others were prompted, and various stones and garbage immediately flew over, almost drowning the guards at the door of the butler's manor.

The butler retreated into the gate and said to the guards in fear:

"Pick up your guns, and whoever takes another step forward will be shot to death!"

The police intelligence agent in charge of the Nice area signaled people to stop the attack and looked at the butler with a friendly face:

"You see, everyone says that the Duke has transported the reserve grain. If you can let us enter the manor to check, perhaps we can prove the Duke's innocence."

Scarface and his brothers also shouted:

"Yes! Enter the manor to check!"

"Prove your innocence! ”

According to the "boss's" rules, as long as you enter the manor, you will receive a bonus of 20 livres.

The housekeeper saw that some rioters were eager to climb over the wall, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded helplessly:

"You can take a look if you want. I have said that there is not much grain reserve here. But only three people can come at most."

Scarface immediately shouted:

"No! Three people can't check such a large manor at all. At least 20 people are needed!"

"That's right, only three people will be bribed!"

"It will take 30 people. I'm going to check!"

Finally, under the threat of everyone, the manor housekeeper brought 20 people including Scarface and the police intelligence agent into the manor.

The police intelligence agent first pretended to look in several cellars, and soon confirmed a stove burning garbage, and signaled to Scarface with his eyes.

The latter immediately ran to the stove according to the "script", picked up a piece of rag from the weeds behind, and shouted:

"Isn't this a grain bag from the grain reserve? "

The people who entered the manor immediately gathered around, and when they saw the half-burned cloth bag, they could no longer hold back:

"They are the ones who stole the reserve grain!"

"Here is the evidence!"

"These damn guys, they still say they don't have any!"

Scarface strode back to the entrance of the manor under the astonished eyes of the housekeeper and threw the "evidence" to the demonstrators:

"Look what we found? !"

Of course, this thing was thrown into the manor by the police intelligence agent last night. There are two more similar "evidence".

Scarface waved his hand vigorously to the crowd:

"What are you waiting for? Take back our food! "

His men immediately stepped forward and pushed down the guards as if they were familiar with the place - this was a trick taught to them by the Duke of Orleans's spies.

The angry demonstrators' eyes suddenly turned bloodshot, and they rushed into the manor screaming.

Everyone in the manor was trembling with fear, hiding in the corners and not daring to stop them.

Scarface led everyone to a cellar, smashed the door open, and gestured inside:

"Our food is here! "

Similar situations were played out in various parts of the manor. The thousands of people quickly dug out tens of thousands of bushels of grain from the manor's cellars or warehouses, and naturally concluded that this was stolen reserve grain.

Later, someone found other evidence, such as a half-torn grain reserve warehouse outbound receipt, which further confirmed Duke Durford's grain theft.

The old man looked at the mountain of grain in front of him, covered his face, and cried out:

"If there were these grains, my wife would not have starved to death..."

Others were immediately reminded of painful memories and began to curse Duke Durford loudly.

Scarface continued his mission, pointing to the luxurious villa in the middle of the manor:

"The things there were bought with the money from selling reserve grain, and we have the right to take them away!"

Immediately, someone echoed loudly:

"Yes! My sister's death should be compensated!"

"And my father!"

"And my twin sons! "

The crowd rushed into the villa and swept away all the valuable and worthless things almost instantly, and finally even took down the doors, windows and roof. They took what they could take away and smashed what they couldn't take away.

It was not until dusk that the revengeful people left the manor one after another.

Although the army stationed in Nice received more than a dozen people from the manor asking for help, they never sent out a single soldier. All their battalion commanders and above were in the Palace of Versailles to meet the king and had not returned yet. No low-level officer dared to mobilize hundreds of soldiers at will. Moreover, the army had heard about the Duke of Durfort stealing the reserve grain. Many of their relatives also died in the previous famine. If it were not for the restrictions of military discipline, they would even want to smash the manor.

The next day, the angry crowd came to the Duke of Durfort's manor again, and heard a man with a scar on his face shouting:

"The Duke of Durfort still has a villa in Villefa, we can't just let him go!"

People immediately responded with a roar:

"That's right! Go to Villefa!"

"Revenge for our relatives!"

"This devil must pay the price!"

More demonstrators than yesterday rushed to Villefa...

The riots caused by hatred swept across western and southern France, and similar situations to Nice were everywhere.

In Montauban, the three villas of the Duke of Muchy were burned to charcoal by the angry citizens...

In Auch, after smashing the villa of the Duke of Brissac, people shaved all the people there, both men and women, to vent their anger...

The worst were the Count of Dumoceau, the Duke of Noailles and other nobles who happened to return to their hometowns in the south to avoid the cold. They were caught by the mob and beaten to death at home. Some people were even killed by the angry crowd...

The nobles of these noble meetings probably never thought that the conspiracy they had painstakingly planned and the hungry people they created would one day turn into "monsters" and come back to devour them all!

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Northern Brittany.

Cmor.

Fouche's eyes were filled with excitement and madness. He stared at the bare tree trunks outside the car window and kept muttering in a low voice:

"Don't run away... Yes, you are here, waiting for me..."

Half an hour later, the carriage stopped in front of a small house in the northern suburbs of Cmor.

The officer from the police intelligence department who was in charge of welcoming the driver came forward and opened the car door attentively, and heard Fouché's impatient voice:

"Is he still there?"

The officer hurriedly leaned forward and said in a low voice:

"Yes, sir. The Duke of Orleans has been in that manor in recent days..."