After a quick search, the results were extremely impressive. The gold coins alone were roughly estimated to be as many as 50,000, which was quite an exaggeration.

The financial resources of a Duke are truly enviable.

Seeing this scene, even Owen couldn't help but feel that before meeting Winster, Border Guard Town only had an annual revenue of more than two thousand gold coins.

Moreover, in order to maintain the normal operation of the town, a lot of supplies need to be purchased from outside, as well as fighting undead monsters, resulting in very high expenses.

Therefore, there will not be much surplus every year, and occasionally there will be a deficit.

In early spring, Owen set up some projects and invested a lot of money in them.

As a result, not long after, Clive came to the door eagerly and said that the treasury was in a hurry and would be empty soon.

Fortunately, by selling some specialty products of Border Guard Town and earning thousands of gold coins from President Masha, I was able to gain a temporary respite.

Duke Eddie was able to accumulate such a large amount of wealth. It can be seen that he was very good at extracting the wealth and support from his subjects.

However, with so many coins lying quietly in the vault, Owen felt sorry for them.

Only when money is invested reasonably in the development and construction of the territory and forms a virtuous cycle can it maximize its role.

Just stored in the vault, those coins are just a pile of precious metals.

These are the superficial things Owen learned about economics from Winster.

Now, with such a large amount of money falling into Owen's hands, Border Guard Town can finally bid farewell to the past days of being short of money.

He will never let this money continue to lie in the treasury, but will confidently and boldly invest it in various engineering projects to promote the economic development of Bianzhu Town and make the best use of this money.

In addition, Irving also knew very well that Duke Eddie definitely had more than just his apparent wealth, and there must be other hidden treasures.

Thinking of this, he turned to look at the pale Duke Eddie and asked, "You should have more than this money. Tell me, where have you hidden the other treasures?"

"what are you saying?"

Duke Eddie glared at Irving fiercely and said angrily: "That's all I have, the vault and underground warehouse have been stripped bare by you! What else do you want?!"

"Oh? You don't want to say that, right?"

Owen winked at Viscount Jarvis. The latter immediately understood and pulled out a knife to threaten Duke Eddie as he did last time.

"Then do you still want your fingers?"

"No means no!" Duke Eddie said stubbornly.

In this case, Owen could only nod and allow Viscount Jarvis to take action, while two soldiers controlled Duke Eddie from behind.

However, this time, Duke Eddie did not struggle as hard as last time. No matter how threatened by Viscount Jarvis, he refused to answer.

In the end, Duke Eddie actually cut off one of his little fingers, and he wailed in pain, and his voice almost spread throughout the Lord's Castle.

Even after achieving this level, Duke Eddie is still unwilling to reveal the location of his private treasure.

In desperation, Owen had no choice but to send someone to call Teresa and ask her to perform a healing spell on Duke Eddie to stop the bleeding.

Otherwise, Duke Eddie might have been crying and howling there all the time, making it terribly noisy.

The wound was healed, but Duke Eddie was forever missing his little finger.

He covered the missing part of his palm and said to Owen with a choked sob: "If I say no, it means no. Even if you kill me, there will be no!"

Tsk! I never expected Duke Eddie to regard money as his life so much. I'm afraid he wouldn't say it if he really threatened to kill him.

Since the villain could not force Duke Eddie to reveal his secret treasure, he had to adopt another method.

So, Owen called Yukina over and asked questions to first identify which floors contained the treasure.

"Let me ask you, is the treasure hidden on the first floor?"

"No matter what you ask, it's useless!" said Duke Eddie.

"Stop talking nonsense!" Owen scolded, "Answer me, yes or no?"

"No!"

"What about the second floor?"

He asked questions on each floor. When he asked about the third and fourth floors, Owen used Yuqina's ability to know that Duke Eddie was lying.

In other words, the treasure is hidden on those two floors.

Continue to ask questions to further narrow the scope.

After determining the general range, Irving asked the soldiers to escort Duke Eddie to the third and fourth floors, and asked him in every room in the range if the treasure was hidden in this room.

Duke Eddie naturally shook his head in denial.

Through Yukina's ability, Owen learned that Duke Eddie had lied three times in total, and quickly locked three suspicious rooms.

Next, Owen ordered several soldiers to conduct a rigorous and thorough search of one of the rooms.

While watching the soldiers rummaging through the room, Duke Eddie couldn't help but sweat break out on his forehead, and his face was full of worry.

"I told you there is no treasure hidden here." He said with a cry, "Why don't you believe me?"

Soon, the soldiers found a suspicious place, which seemed to be a hidden compartment.

Owen asked the soldiers to forcefully open it and found that it contained many crystal clear rare gems and other precious treasures.

Seeing this scene, Duke Eddie screamed.

"Ah - those are my gems, don't wow me!"

Then he went to the second room to search, and the soldier found another hidden compartment, which was also fruitful.

However, when searching the third room, the soldiers could not find anything suspicious.

There was no way to continue wasting time, so Irving had no choice but to use the emergency call to contact Winston and briefly explain the current situation to him.

[I see, I can’t find the treasure that guy hid. Please feel free to leave it to me, I will definitely help you find it.] Winster said with confidence.

【Then I'll leave it to you.】

After that, Owen followed Winster's request and went to the two rooms next door to check.

Through comparison and calculation, he discovered that there was a completely enclosed dark room space with no entrance or exit hidden between this room and the room on the left.

After hearing the news, Owen returned to the original room, raised his hand and pointed to the wall on the left, and ordered the soldiers to break open that wall.

The soldiers quickly found tools to break through the wall and violently smashed open the wall.

After breaking through the wall, I found a dark room filled with various expensive handicrafts, such as pure gold scepters, crowns, swords, etc., all of which were inlaid with precious stones, and each piece was priceless.

The last place where the treasure was hidden was discovered, and Duke Eddie was so angry that he jumped up and down.

"Marquis Aisen, you, you are going to kill me!!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he fainted on the spot.

At this time, all the treasures in the lord's castle were really stripped. Owen ordered the soldiers to put the unconscious Duke Eddie into the dungeon.

Since he passed out, his trial can only be postponed.

These looted treasures will be escorted by Owen's personal guards, and will be transported back to the castle in Bianzhu Town via the Border Guard for storage.
Chapter completed!