Chapter XXII Security Company
"Security company?!"
Max had lost hope that Jacob would be a sheriff. But when Jacob said he wanted to register a "security company", he didn't understand what a security company was, but he immediately knew that things had taken a turn for the better.
"That's right! A security company to be exact!"
Jacob smiled gracefully, his eyes narrowed with a glint of memories as he remembered many things from his past life.
There is a classic line in Wong Kar-wai's "East Evil and West Poison" that has been widely circulated - the person who knows you best is not your friend, but your enemy.
Jacob couldn't agree more with this line.
In the same way, what you know best is not your friends, but your enemies.
In almost all of Jacob's previous life, he was entangled with bodyguards, killers, and security companies, the most difficult of which were these security companies. Like Pinkerton's detective agency.
When it comes to security companies, everyone may talk about Blackwater. Blackwater is almost synonymous with mercenaries. This famous, or notorious, security company has dozens of planes, warplanes, tens of thousands of fighters, and operations all over the world. From providing life and property safety protection for individuals, companies, and groups, to training police, special forces, and the army for the government, and even contracting local wars!
But the infamous Pinkerton Detective Agency is actually more powerful than Blackwater.
Founded in 1850, the American Pinkerton Detective Agency was the world's first private detective agency, and for Americans, the word Pinkerton has become almost synonymous with American private detectives.
Alan Pinkerton, the founder of Pinkerton's detective agency, had a close relationship with President Lincoln and George McClellan, commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army. When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, Pinkerton assumed the pseudonym E. Brown. J. Allen, who led an organization for the Union Army that specialized in gathering military intelligence from the South. The organization later evolved into the U.S. Intelligence Agency. The Pinkerton Detective Agency has developed for nearly two hundred years, although the Pinkerton Detective Agency has a poor reputation. But those who know it know how powerful it is and how powerful it is!
With a flash of lightning in his mind about the feasibility of this matter, Jacob explained to Max that "one of the business contents of the security company is to provide security protection for individuals or corporate groups. For example, if you sign a contract with the company, how many dollars you pay the company each year, the company will send a private force to protect your safety. The range of services we can provide in terms of safety and security is particularly numerous and comprehensive. As long as you sign a contract with the company, the company can guarantee the safety of your life and property...... The same company can also sign such a contract with the hot spring town......"
A flash of inspiration flashed through Jacob's mind: What if I set up a more comprehensive company than Pinkerton? I can even set up an arsenal to produce weapons for future generations...... It has its own private army, its own arsenal of weapons, and the gold of the superstitious mountain...... I can even use security companies to secretly control the defense forces of western towns and cities...... If I had another piece of land of my own, I could have established an independent kingdom!
Thinking of this, Jacob was always so calm that his cold eyes were full of light. He couldn't help but clench his fists to hold back his excitement, and said to himself: In this borderland, I have a very good chance of realizing this idea!
Listening to Jacob's words, Max said thoughtfully: "Mr. Fry, the company you want to register is similar to the detective agency in Pinkerton. As far as I know, the Pinkerton Detective Agency now provides security services to several railroad companies, and he formed the Pinkerton Guard Patrol, which is responsible for providing night guards and patrols at railroad stations and depots. ”
"If Mr. Frye can also provide security for me and the hot spring town, as you say, then I can rest assured!"
At this point, Max breathed a sigh of relief and put his mind at ease. He looked at Jacob with a smile and asked with hope in his eyes, "By the way, Mr. Fry." When will your security company be able to provide us with security services? We can't wait to sign a contract with you......"
"No more than a week at most! I'll be back as soon as I get my bounty and deal with Sophie's affairs! I'll discuss the details of the contract with you in detail......"
"Another week?!"
Hearing that Jacob would not be back in Spa for another week, Max's Mediterranean-like head instantly became wet.
A week is not a long time, nor is it a short time, but it is definitely enough for the outlaws who heard the news of the destruction of the Borg Gang to attack Hot Springs Town. Maybe someone in the hot spring town is telling these people right now.
"Mr. Fry, do you think this is okay? give me the head of the Borg, and I will arrange for someone to collect the bounty for you...... Or ......" Max gritted his teeth and said with a tangled face, "Either I'll give the bounty! You sell me these heads! What do you think of this? We can negotiate the security contract now......
"Huh?!"
Before Jacob could reply, Jacob felt Sophie's little hand trembling in his palm, and looked down to see Sophie's pleading gaze. Her sad eyes were full of pleading, thinking of her family's unlost death, and thinking of Anthony Wade, the Hand of Death, who was still at large, and she didn't want to wait any longer.
"Don't worry! What I said will count! We'll be off right away!"
Gently holding Sophie's hand, Jacob looked at Sophie tenderly, and made a firm promise to Sophie.
If you don't kill Anthony Wade, the Hand of Death, within a week, he will be completely emasculated by the system! For the sake of sexual happiness in the future, Jacob can only fight. He cursed the system in his heart, but the system didn't move in the slightest.
Max seemed to see the thugs rushing into the hot spring town on horseback, laughing and killing people, setting fire and looting, the neighing of war horses, the sound of gunfire, the billowing of smoke, the bloody corpses all over the ground, the crying and screaming of women and children, and the laughter of the mob with pride...... It was as if his enemies had rushed into the pastures, tongues of fire raging, houses burning to the ground, mistreated slaves and miners in the gold mines rebelling, the gold he had hidden in the basement being robbed, and even his family lying in pools of blood......
"Mr. Fry......"
When Max heard Jacob's insistence on leaving, he couldn't help but plead with a bitter face, "After you leave, what if the bandits come?
"Hahaha...... I'm just away for a week, and I'll be back in a week. You all have guns, don't say that Hot Springs Town can't hold out for even seven days!" Jacob pointed to the sweaty Eve and said with a playful smile: "As long as you are half as strong as Eve, I don't think any outlaw will dare to come to Hot Springs Town......"
"Huh?! Eve...... Eve...... We are not like Eve, we are all ordinary people......" Max looked at Eve, who was covered in blood, and the corners of his eyes jumped.
"Alright then! I'll give you an idea. ”
Jacob pointed to the corpses all over the ground, "You had them crossed on the road outside Hot Springs...... I think as long as it's a bandit in his right mind, hesitating when he sees these corpses. Then you send a message to the outside world that Hot Springs is my Jacob Frye territory in the future! Whoever is not afraid of death will come ......."