In the estate of Count Meknejelina.

To be able to own a manor in the city of Constantinople, even a very small one, shows the ability of Count Meknejielina, not all women can enjoy such a luxurious life, even among the top officials of the empire, there is a manor in the city.

Meknezy Jielina, dressed in a bewitching dress, stood by the window on the second floor with a glass of red wine, watching the dignitaries and noblewomen carry out all kinds of dirty political transactions and collusion between officials and businessmen on the lawn of the manor, and the pride on her face was spontaneous, not all women are capable of doing such things, this manor has become the most secret but famous place in the city of Constantinople, and in fact, the dirtiest place.

"Lord Count, Captain Raymond has arrived!" One of the guards walked up to Mekne, and a short distance behind Gerina, bowed and reported.

Meknezylina came back to her senses and said, "Please, let him come!" ”

"Yes, Lord Count!"

The guards withdrew, and after a while they heard the sound of the guards inviting Raymond to come in from outside the door, Raymond was the captain of the permanent army in the gladiatorial arena, equivalent to the captain of a regular regiment, and he had five hundred men under him, including one hundred cavalry, one hundred archers, two hundred spearmen, and one hundred dagger shieldmen.

Footsteps were heard behind him, and then a rich man's voice sounded: "Your honorable and beautiful Count Meknejelina, your beauty can make the sun and the moon lose their brilliance. Eclipsing all the women of the world, your humble servant Raymond has saluted you, and has been invited to your manor and to meet you in person. It was Raymond's great glory! ”

Meknejielina turned around, looked at the man in front of her who bowed her head and bent over to salute, and raised her fingers: "Raise your head!" ”

Raymond slowly raised his head, this man had a full beard, but the aura of the army on his body was not very strong, although the temperament of a soldier still remained, but it was very rare. He is average-looking, and although he has a full beard, he is not the kind of plagiarism. Although his expression was cautious, there was an evil aura in his eyes, and it seemed that this person had put all his thoughts on studying the way of promotion over the years.

Meknezylina looked at Raymond for a moment and then complimented, "What a strong man!" ”

Raymond had long heard that this woman liked strong men, and the stronger she was, the more she liked it. This time I heard her praise herself. Why is he upset? He immediately saluted again: "Thank you, Lord Earl, for your compliment, Raymond will be happy to serve you!" ”

Meknejielina didn't bring Raymond to have a one-night stand with her, but for Qin Dong, she pointed to the chair and said, "Captain Raymond, please take a seat!" ”

Raymond thanked him again and again, sat down in his chair very carefully, Meknetjelina poured a glass of red wine and put it in front of him, then sat down on the chair opposite him, folded his right leg on his left leg and said, "Captain Raymond." Although this is the first time Lord Ben has met you, he has heard of Captain Raymond's name before. I know you very well, I think Captain Raymond has heard of me somewhat, I invited you today because I have a business I want to do with you, the time is not early, let's go straight to the topic, whether this business can be done or not, the beauties and wine that have been prepared are waiting for you to enjoy! ”

Before inviting Raymond here, Mekniejielina had already done an investigation on Raymond and knew his character well, this person was a complete villain, very greedy for money, but his favorite was promotion, and his kung fu was also first-class, but his luck has not been very good, and there is no backstage, so he is only a wing captain in his forties.

Raymond has long heard of the name of Meknejelina, this woman is calling for wind and rain in the city of Constantinople, even the emperor may not be able to do things, she can do it, doing business with her is basically a political transaction, or a big deal of collusion between officials and businessmen, Raymond has also heard of this, and now when he heard Meknezelina say this, he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly agreed: "Raymond is happy to serve the Earl!" ”

Seeing Raymond's expression, Mekniejelina smiled and said, "Okay, Captain Raymond is a cheerful person, I like it, it's like this, you have a death row gladiator in the gladiatorial arena, I admire this person, so I want to get him out!" ”

Raymond was not stupid, he immediately understood who Meknejielina was trying to get out, and asked, "Count is trying to get Bull Thirty-Seven, right?" Since the Earl is so sincere, I'll tell you the truth, if it is to get the others out, I can do it by any means, but it is very difficult to get Bull Thirty-Seven out, I don't think you know the true identity of this man, right? ”

Meknejielina's heart moved, and she asked, "Oh? Captain Raymond, does this Bull have some hidden identity? ”

"Of course!" Raymond said in a low voice: "Lord Earl, he is Qin Dong who killed eight hundred city guards more than a month ago and injured more than five hundred people, he was originally locked up in the prison dungeon, and then transferred to our gladiatorial arena, this matter was personally ordered by His Majesty the Emperor, if something goes wrong, I'm afraid it will be light!"

Meknejielina didn't expect Qin Dong to be that person, at that time, Qin Dong's movement was too big, and the entire empire was alarmed, not to mention her Meknejielina, even if she was a three-year-old child, she didn't know Qin Dong's name, and it could also add convincing power to Qin Dong's other identity from this aspect.

She smiled: "It turned out to be him, if that's the case, I want to get him even more, I'm afraid this matter is difficult for others to do, but for Captain Raymond, I don't think it should be a problem, I don't need you to get him out, I just need you to secretly open the door of the dungeon, the rest will naturally have others to do it, you don't need to do it yourself, you can find a reliable person, if it is the person you trust the most, even if it is discovered, you will have time to extinguish it, if Captain Raymond agrees, I'm going to get you a legion commander, if you don't want to be a military officer. I can also get you a position as county consul, as long as this is done, within a month. Captain Raymond can achieve what he wants, my reputation, Captain Raymond should be trustworthy, right? In my case, there are at least eight transactions at each gathering, and millions of gold coins are involved."

"Of course, of course, Raymond's credibility with Lord Earl is absolutely trustworthy!" Raymond nodded hurriedly. After thinking for a while, he asked, "When does the Earl want me to do it?" ”

Obviously, Raymond was tempted, and there was no oil or water at all to be the head of the guard in the gladiatorial arena. It's worse than the cell boss in the prison, which is why he has been staying in the position of wing captain and has not moved, if he wants to be promoted, can he do it without money? Three-year-old children know that without money to pave the way, it is basically impossible to develop in their careers.

Now Mekne, Gerina, promised him that he would be a legion commander or a county consul. Either one was a hundred times stronger than his current head of the guard. The legion is the largest standing army of the Eastern Roman Empire in this period, if there is a fixed station, a legion commander has many ways to make money, there are more than 6,000 soldiers and horses under his hands, which can be regarded as holding heavy troops, but the co-captain of the gladiatorial arena can not earn anything except military salary, no one gives gifts and money, and life is tight. Nothing can be done.

And then there is a county consul, which is the highest local official at the lower level of the province. Combining military and political power, he can make money as much as he wants, this is not at all comparable to the head of the guard in a gladiatorial arena, there is nothing to consider, Raymond agreed without thinking too much.

Meknetjelina had long expected that Raymond would be tempted. Confused and agreed, but she didn't expect him to agree so crisply and cheerfully, but this is a good thing for her, she thought about it and said, "Do you think it will be okay tomorrow night?" ”

"Tomorrow night?" Raymond didn't expect Meknejie Lina to be so anxious, and said in his heart that you can't think of a man as a monkey anxious, there are so many men in this world, you can just find a few men to deal with it these days, you can't wait for so many days?

Although he thought so in his heart, Raymond couldn't say that, he thought about it for a while, and then said: "Lord Earl, the time of the day is too short, do you think it will be done the night after tomorrow?" Give me an extra day to prepare! ”

"Okay, then the night after tomorrow!" Meknezylina agreed, she was mainly worried that Qin Dong would be in danger if he stayed in the dungeon of the gladiatorial arena for too long, and the longer the gladiators on death row in the gladiatorial arena stayed in the dungeon, the higher the danger, and there were many old men in Constantinople who had lost money to figure out how to control the gladiators and control the outcome of the game, and there were also people who bribed the insiders of the gladiatorial arena to poison the gladiators, so that the original duel that was bound to be won was lost in the end, and there are countless such things.

Raymond enjoyed himself in Mekne's manor, and knew that he was reluctant to leave late at night, and when he walked out of the manor and was about to ride his horse away, a fat man happened to come out of it, and this person was the chief officer of the gladiatorial arena, Kebro.

Kebro watched Raymond get on his horse and leave, touching his chin and muttering to himself, "How did this guy end up here?" It's impossible, if he had a way, he wouldn't have stayed in the gladiatorial arena for more than ten years, no, I have to keep an eye on him! ”

Compared with Raymond, Kebro's position is another fragrant dumpling, a real fragrant dumpling, the gladiatorial arena is not only responsible for buying and selling slaves and death row prisoners, but also collecting tickets and opening gambling handicaps, tickets or anything are small money, the real big head is to open a gambling handicap, this is a huge cake, although Raymond and Kebro are at the same level, but the status and income are very different.

The gladiatorial arena opened a gambling handicap, and there were many high-level bigwigs of the empire standing behind them, they all wanted to get a piece of the pie from here, but the money flowing into the treasury was not much, most of it was secretly divided by the high-level bigwigs of the empire, only by feeding these bigwigs, Kebro could sit firmly in this position, although he had not been here for a long time, but he had long been familiar with it, and the relationship between all aspects was also very good, feeding those bigwigs, and he himself secretly fished a little bit from it, just a little bit, It was enough to eat him to a round belly, so he had no way to keep this position, just now he saw Raymond appear in Meknejielina's manor, he immediately felt the danger, he thought that Raymond was going to attack his position, otherwise how could he appear here? What are you doing here? No one thought that they were really here to have fun, and Raymond must have figured out the channels here to take his official position as the master of the gladiatorial arena.

The next morning, Raymond called one of his most loyal centurions, Nemo, into his room, one of his centurions a few days ago, Apple, was transferred, this person made him very annoying, he always didn't like Apple, always looking for trouble with Apple, but Applel was a regular soldier, doing things at a glance, basically not making any mistakes, so that he couldn't find an excuse to fix Apple, a few days ago Apple's transfer away, for which he was happy for several days, But who knew that the news came later that Applee was promoted to the captain of the first wing of the city guard, and there were more than 1,000 people in this wing, and they stepped on his head at once, which made him so angry that he almost vomited blood, and he was also worried that Applee would find trouble with him in the future, because the city guard is in charge of security and city defense, and the security of the gladiatorial arena is naturally under the jurisdiction of the city guard.

"Nemo, I have a very important thing for you to do!" Raymond looked at Nemo and said that Nemo was his centurion and his slave, and he had the power to kill Nemo.

Nemo saluted and said, "My lord, Nemo is here for you!" ”

"Come here!" Raymond pulled Nemola to his side and whispered a few words in his ear, and finally said: "If this matter is done, I will be transferred to be a county consul, and if you want me to go, I will let you be the captain of the county security wing, if you are willing to stay, I will recommend you to be the captain of the wing here, and my position is yours!" ”

Nemo lowered his head and thought for a while and said, "Yes, my lord, my subordinates are my lord's slaves, and I obey my lord's orders!" ”

"Very good, don't worry, even if something happens to you, I will take care of your family, come, I tell you what to do ......."

Not long after, in Kebro's room, a person reported to Kebro: "My lord, the villain has been staring at Raymond since he got your assignment, the villain just found out that he was looking for Nemo, the two talked secretly in the room for more than an hour, Nemo was dodgy when he came out, it was very abnormal, the villain suspected that they must have something unsightly!" ”

Kebro's face was gloomy, he took out a few gold coins and threw them on the table and said, "You did a good job, the money is yours, continue to stare at the two of them for me!" ”

"Understood, understood!" The man was so pleased that he grabbed the gold coin and agreed. (To be continued......)