Chapter 43: Pressure from the Duke's side
Three whole days!
Except for a few meals sent in halfway, a large amount of blank paper, and charcoal, there was no news from the group leader. It wasn't until the morning of the fourth day, when Deputy Head Cohen had to report on the matter, that he met the head of the regiment on the roof, who looked like a demon, and opened the door to the conference room.
Ignoring the few deputy heads of the regiment with a concerned face, they came to the open space outside first, and after stretching a big waist in the morning sun, they turned their heads to look at the people present.
"Captain, are you okay?" Deputy Head Cohen asked with some concern.
"It's okay, that Gray, bring some breakfast, I'm hungry!"
Hearing that the head of the regiment wanted breakfast, Gray hurriedly said yes and ran to the kitchen. It's not okay for the head of the regiment to be hungry, if you are hungry and your head is not good, how will you increase your salary in the future.
According to his current income, he can save a few more years of salary income, and then he can go home and marry the daughter of the village chief's family justifiably.
In order to let the regiment leader have breakfast as soon as possible, Captain Gray even snatched a passing war horse halfway, and under the watchful eyes of thousands of soldiers eating breakfast, staged a big drama of ruffians making trouble in the kitchen of the mercenary group.
When he rushed back to the conference room not far away, he found that the head of the group had washed his face, hung his beard, and sat on a chair at the door.
And a few deputy captains were checking something in the conference room, it should be a very important document, Gray didn't think much about it, first put the breakfast in his hand for the head of the group, and signaled the head of the group to eat, if there is anything unpalatable, go grab it yourself, oh, no, go and get it again.
Fortunately, the head of the group should be hungry, and he did not refuse to come to the breakfast in front of him, a piece of bread in his left hand, a pot of oatmeal porridge in his right hand, and Xili snorted and ate very happily.
"Commander, is this the headquarters building you designed?" Love's deputy captains slipped out of the conference room, holding a sketch in their hands and looking at the captain who was fighting with breakfast.
Gray glanced at the design with curiosity, and was also shocked by the architectural sketches on it. It was a huge ring-shaped building. There is no superfluous shape throughout the body, and it looks like a five-layer design. It's a lot shorter than the elves' buildings.
Although it is a little shorter, compared to other buildings, it is found that this building occupies an extremely large area. It occupies the largest open space behind Taniguchi, and it can be said that when it is completed in the future, as long as it has passed through the castle wall of Taniguchi, it will be this giant that you will face.
"Commander, this is what you've been designing for the past few days?"
"Well, how's it going, okay?"
Anyway, it looks very powerful, as if a huge gold coin occupies one of the best places in the valley. You talk about the design style, but you can't talk about it at all. If you want to say luxury, everyone doesn't see it. The only thing that can be summed up is domineering. And it's that kind of arrogant domineering.
"Commander, didn't you design the interior details?" Love's deputy head looked at the sketch in his hand, and always felt that something was missing, and then he remembered that the problem was there, and the emotional group leader had designed an appearance in the past few days.
"Oh, Gray, send this drawing to the elves' construction site, and tell the three masters to design the interior as soon as possible. If the design doesn't make sense, I don't mind burying them again! ”
Well, the official level crushes people to death!
Gray was sent away, and the head of the regiment had just finished breakfast. Then it's time to get down to business. I've been in the conference room for the past few days, and there's definitely been a lot going on outside.
"Hurry up and say something, I'm going back to take a hot bath, I'm almost the same as Love after not taking a shower for a few days!"
"¥%......&*(" Deputy Head of the Mission, Love, opened his mouth to defend himself, but after thinking about it, he finally dismissed the idea. Playing tricks, the first person in the mercenary group is always the captain.
"Commander, our first batch of materials has been handed over, and the materials realized in the payment have also been settled in the past few days. In total, we have received 10,000 tons of oats, 5,000 pieces of cloth, and a small amount of industrial goods. ”
"Well, according to the ratio of three or seven, you will allocate it to each branch as soon as possible, and the remaining part will be calculated with Deputy Head Love, and report to me later!"
"Okay, Commander. In addition, the deposit for the second batch of orders was paid by the union in gold coins, and they said that it would take some time to mobilize food? ”
"Tell the mercenary union that we still need to pay with food, if we can't see food, everyone will be unmotivated, and it will be bad if we cope with errands!"
Lin He thought about it, and quickly guessed the intention of the mercenary union, the recent cooperation has been too smooth, some people feel that they should find something to do with the cooperation, this time to change the payment method, it should be a small temptation.
Those people are going to make trouble for their side, and they probably won't be in the union, because successful cooperation is only good for them, and not bad.
On the side of the city defense army, it is also unlikely, at least until the equipment replacement is completed, everyone is still on the same front.
The Fallen Leaf City Chamber of Commerce was jealous of itself, this was a bit possible, but Lin He quickly ruled it out. The reason is very simple, these guys who only care about interests can't put aside their money-making business and make trouble for themselves.
The only one who has the strength to do it with himself is the Duke of Bourbon. After all, this is on other people's territory, and according to the general rules of force survival, it should be that the strong eat meat, the weak gnaw bones, and the weak drink some soup.
The Bourbon family, represented by the Duke of Bourbon, is the oldest family in the Southeast. For hundreds of years, it has controlled six provinces adjacent to the 100,000 Great Mountains. The strength of the family can be said to have penetrated into all aspects of the province.
Before, the mercenary group was just an ordinary mercenary group, although it made more money than the average mercenary group, but it was still not in the eyes of others.
But now it's different, the trade joints of the 100,000 mountains have been opened, the monopoly market position is occupied, and combined with the indigenous tribes with a population of tens of millions, the duke has to have ideas.
The previous contact could only be regarded as a test between each other, so now, the duke has thrown out a big problem, it depends on how the mercenary group will accept it.
After analyzing these things, several deputy heads of regiments present were stunned. In addition to admiring the wisdom and martial arts of the head of the group again, it is more about worrying about the future. After all, the Bourbons are a lion, and they are now only jackals at best.
Now that the male lion has set his sights on his jackal, he has to weigh it carefully about what to do next.
"Cohen, please go to the mayor again, just say that I want to visit the Duke in the near future and ask him to arrange it on your behalf!"
"Commander, will the mayor arrange it?" Now Deputy Head Cohen is also a little unconfident.
"Don't worry, it will!"