Chapter 147: Strengthening the Team (II)

Unlike small towns near garrison bases, in Las Vegas, hiring escorts is not a buyer's market, but a typical seller's market.

Arriving at the Guards Employment Market, Stewart first went to pick up a license plate representing his employer. Since he didn't bring the caravan with him, Stewart hired a recorder from the market management center and rented a room for negotiation for a few silver coins.

According to the rules, after Stewart hung the number plate on the door, the free mercenaries or mercenaries took the initiative to negotiate with him.

Of course, before approaching the door, the free mercenaries and mercenaries will first go to the management office to inspect the situation of the caravan for each number plate, mainly key information such as the size of the caravan, the nature of the cargo, the destination, and the minimum commission offered by the caravan leader.

According to Chu Tianjiang's orders, the caravan information reported by Stewart was a large caravan with a scale of more than 2,000 people, mainly for the slave trade, and the destination was Denver. In addition, on the commission that freelance mercenaries and mercenaries are most concerned about, Stewart set a minimum of twice the market price.

It's just that Chu Tianjiang's arrangement backfired.

Chu Tianjiang didn't know that the higher the minimum commission offered by the employer, the greater the danger, and the lower the possibility that the guards would get the commission alive.

As a result, Chu Tianjiang and the others sat for half an hour, and still no one came to inquire.

Taking the opportunity, Stewart introduced some of the systems related to the hiring of security guards.

In a central trading city like Las Vegas, hiring security guards is a formalistic business, and there are very clear rules for the industry, and the content is much the same. For example, the employer and the employee must sign an employment contract under the supervision of the employing market personnel, and then the employer will hand over a deposit equivalent to about 50% of the total commission to the market side, which will keep it on behalf of the market, that is, the local separatist force, and the market side will issue two receipts for the employee and the employer to keep them. After completing the task, the employee will receive a receipt from the employer, and then together with his own receipt, he will find a market to get the deposit paid by the employer. In order to prevent employees from killing employers and stealing receipts kept by employers during escorts, the market will secretly agree with the employer on a code code, and the employer must write the code when handing over the receipt to the employee. In order to prevent the employer from maliciously deducting the employee's commission, after arriving at the destination, the employee can find the local employment market or the situation to issue a certificate of completion of the assignment to prove that the employer has been safely delivered to the destination, completed the escort task, and then return to the city of departure to collect the security deposit with the certificate.

After listening to Stewart's introduction, Chu Tianjiang was very emotional, Americans are indeed good at formulating the rules of the game.

Even in this troubled era, the Americans have not forgotten to set reasonable rules to restrain market behavior and form a good market environment.

With rules comes punitive.

If an employee kills an employer in an attempt to defraud the security deposit, the employee will be removed from the market, and the five major central trading cities in the western United States are linked to the hiring market for guards, and if they are removed from one market, they will also be removed from the other four markets at the same time. If an employer maliciously withholds an employee's commission, as long as it is proven, not only will the employer's chamber of commerce compensate the employee in full, but the employer's caravan will also lose the right to enter the employment market, and the chamber of commerce will often ban the employer's caravan captain.

This strict system has laid a good foundation for the growth of the security personnel employment market.

But one thing is certain: the employment market, that is, the power of local separatism, is the biggest beneficiary.

The reason for this is that if the caravan is plundered on the way and the employer is killed, the employee will not be able to get the employer's bond anyway.

In other words, in this case, the employer's bond will fall into the pockets of the employment market.

According to Stewart, one out of every three small caravans leaving Las Vegas fails to reach their destination, and the additional profits from the hiring market are staggering, with an average of no less than three million ounces of gold per month on margin.

After half an hour of waiting, when both Nichole and Rachel were a little impatient, the first employee came to the door, but it was a mercenary man.

After a few hasty conversations, Chu Tianjiang asked Stewart to send him away.

Chu Tianjiang's requirements are very simple, there are not many guards, they are not afraid of not listening to commands, they are only afraid of insufficient ability, so they are mainly free mercenaries.

Then came two more mercenary men.

Because there have been no free mercenaries coming to the door, Chu Tianjiang can only change his course.

It's just that after Stewart learned about the situation of these two mercenary groups in detail and the other party's asking price, Chu Tianjiang politely declined.

To put it bluntly, even large mercenary regiments are mainly idle tired people, and there are few who have combat effectiveness.

An hour and a half after arriving at the employment market, the first freelance mercenary arrived.

Chu Tianjiang could see at a glance that this guy was a veteran. Although he is not burly enough to be strong, his eyes and demeanor indicate that he has a wealth of combat experience, has also killed people, and is shooting enemies within visual range with a gun.

It's just that this guy's asking price is not low.

After Stewart proposed that the caravan would stay in Salt Lake City for a while, with the possibility of expanding its size, and then go to Denver, he demanded two hundred ounces of gold.

Because he was the first free mercenary to come to the door, Chu Tianjiang did not refuse.

According to the rules, the market's recorder registered the free mercenary's number plate, the main content of the verbal agreement. His personal information is only provided after the formal agreement, i.e. the employment contract, is signed, and the verbal negotiation process is checked against the notes taken by the recorder. If an employee provides false information that affects the commission during the oral negotiation, the employer has the right to rescind the contract and the employee will be warned by the market. If the circumstances are particularly serious, the employee may even be removed from the market.

After a verbal agreement is reached, the employee does not leave, but waits outside to sign an employment contract with the employer.

With the first freelance mercenary coming to the door, there is also the second.

What's more, Stewart boldly agreed to the employee's asking price, and the news that there was no counteroffer spread quickly, attracting more freelance mercenaries.

In the next half hour, Stewart reached a verbal agreement with four freelance mercenaries, and none of them bargained, two of them had their own small team, to be precise, they came to negotiate as team representatives, and it was the team's price that was negotiated.

Subsequently, there was an endless stream of freelance mercenaries.

In order to speed up, Chu Tianjiang personally came forward and asked three questions to every free mercenary who came to the door, and it was three very critical questions, and then decided whether to hire them. After Chu Tianjiang decided to hire him, Stewart reached a verbal agreement with him.

By the time it got dark, Stewart had already made a verbal agreement with more than a hundred freelance mercenaries.

Because many of them represent the entire team, more than 300 freelance mercenaries have actually been hired.

It was also at this time that Chu Tianjiang's brows suddenly jumped a few times.

"Husband......" Nicol also sensed it.

Rachel stood up directly, and she also sensed the signal that Maya sent with the energy ring.

"It's fine. Rachel, sit down. Chu Tianjiang let out a long sigh and said to Stewart, "You go and see how many free mercenaries there are outside." ”

When Stewart came out, Nicol immediately said, "Maya, they ......"

"Don't worry, it's okay." Chu Tianjiang smiled, because the recorder was still in the room, so he told Nichol and Rachel through his consciousness that he had agreed with Maya on a code, and the signal he began to sense indicated that a large number of enemies were attacking the manor, but there was no serious threat.

Nicol and Rachel didn't know that Chu Tianjiang and Maya had agreed on a code, so they naturally didn't understand the meaning of the signal.

"There are more than a dozen."

"Let them all in, we're going back to dinner."

Because Chu Tianjiang had said that Perez's men would attack the manor after dark, Stewart didn't ramble anymore and immediately went to call in the last batch of free mercenaries.

After a brief inquiry, Chu Tianjiang asked Stewart to reach a verbal agreement with them.

It's just that signing an employment contract is a hassle, and it's more than a hundred contracts. Thankfully, Maya never sent a red flag.

Although Stuart had tried to simplify the procedure as much as possible, he still tossed for more than an hour.

Leaving ten twenty-carat colorless diamonds as a security deposit and making a pact with the hired freelance mercenaries to report to the estate tomorrow morning, Stewart left the hiring market. Chu Tianjiang had already driven the off-road vehicle and was waiting for Stewart at the door.

"Lao Chu, what's wrong?"

"I don't know what to do, but I have a very strong premonition." Chu Tianjiang smiled reluctantly and said, "Perez's men couldn't stop us on the road, but they definitely know that we have come to the employment market. If I were him, he would send someone to the employment market to spy on us. ”

"And then attack the manor while you're away?"

Chu Tianjiang nodded, indicating that this was what he meant.

", it's over."

"What's the end?" Chu Tianjiang has always believed that Stewart is not only timid, but also seriously lacking in energy. "If Perez can take out my men so easily, will I dare to fight him? Besides, Clara is also in the manor, and I am not afraid, what are you afraid of? Big deal, you drive away overnight, go to Phoenix, and then back to Houston, will Perez still chase you? Stewart, you have to understand that to do great things, you have to have enough courage, and you have to have enough good psychological quality. If you can't get rid of the habit of being timid and can't let go of anything, I'm afraid our cooperation will end in Denver. ”

Stewart sighed to himself.

Although Chu Tianjiang said that he was useless, he did not refute it, because he was indeed timid, and he did lack the psychological quality to be in danger.