ACT015: Employment

Contrary to what Weiss thought, although Kabbalah took over the shady "black work", he was indeed a senior salesman of a serious large trading company. After all, goblins, a race known for their business, have always been "everything has a price", and in their eyes, it is a trivial matter that is not black or not, and good remuneration is the king.

Originally, after parting ways with Weis, Kabbalah had successfully reached the coastal Duchy of Nima (Weiss was glad that he was not born here), and was ready to sail back to Nakapansu there. But just as the passenger ship was about to depart, the local regional manager of Kabbalah's trading company suddenly approached him, hoping that he could help with an "urgent matter".

Kabbalah's trading company is called "Silver Phoenix", which is a very powerful group company in the Dwarven United Kingdom, with countless subsidiaries, from metallurgy and shipbuilding to catering and retail, involving a wide range of industries. Although the president is a goblin, he is a senator of the royal assembly, so the trading company also has a certain official background.

With such a large trading company, it is pure to say that there is no "dark side" of his innocence. Kabbalah's "Special Dispute Office" is a department that specializes in this type of "light death" affairs, and they are responsible for sending people to solve all matters that are inconvenient for trading companies to come forward.

Like the Weiss incident, it was because the trading company took a fancy to the mining right of a high-quality spar mine in the Principality of Baker, and while sending people to negotiate and negotiate, it also secretly investigated the situation of the duke's family, so as to prepare some small gifts that could "do what they liked". Therefore, when they found that the young master of the duke's family was almost not qualified to take any chess pieces, they sent Kabbalah to help him "change his life" so that he could sell the duke's favor.

It is a pity that Kabbalah not only messed up the matter, but even "blew it up"! Therefore, when the person in charge of the region said that there were 100,000 urgent and urgent matters, Kabbalah, out of the mentality of "making up for the merits," did not even ask what the specific matter was, but happily agreed to it, and then ...... What a tragedy!

The head of the region wanted Kabala to make a trip to the Duchy of Nadal, in the hinterland of Southern Fengzhou, to find an engineering regiment that had lost contact with them. The team consisted of 20 dwarven construction engineers and six bodyguards, with the aim of providing technical guidance for the expansion of the nation's capital. Because of the backward means of local communication, the person in charge can only maintain contact with the engineering team once every 5~7 days through the letter bird that regularly travels back and forth to various places.

Three weeks earlier, the visiting birds had not arrived in the principality of Nima, as they had been saying before, and soon after they lost contact with the area south of the Gore Mountains, no one knew what had happened on that side of the mountains. The person in charge had organized a search and rescue team to look for the engineering team, but the team disappeared like a stone in the sea after crossing the mountain, so he hoped that the Kabbalah, who was strong, could help him.

It seems like a simple task, but after getting to know it at a glance, Kabbalah realizes that things seem to be more tricky than expected. You must know that the 6 guards of the engineering regiment are all chess pieces, and there are also 8 of the search and rescue teams that set off later, so many masters have been planted in it, Kabbalah does not think that he can solve it alone. However, when he asked the person in charge for help, the other party said very helplessly that there was no one under him.

Fortunately, Kabbalah will find a way, after he arrived in the Principality of Nima, he has already learned the news of the fall of the fortress by Emperor Aaron [***] through the intelligence network of the trading company, if the other party wants to take further military action, it must have enough "excuses" to fight with the other two countries in order to maintain his "righteous image" in the eyes of the international community and the people, so what Kabbalah has to do is to take the initiative to ask the emperor [***] for help, and then exchange for the help of the other party.

At first, the Fourth Division was indeed very interested in Kabbalah's request, after all, the senate that relied on opposing the emperor to make sense of existence had been criticizing their military operation in the rear as a "barbaric move" that damaged the image of the empire's civilization.

The Southern Military Region, which belonged to the Emperor's faction, was eager to continue to increase its troops after the capture of the Principality of White Deer, so when Kabbalah, as a third party, asked them for help, they felt that they could take advantage of this opportunity to organize a "search and rescue team" to assist them in finding the missing persons...... There is no problem in sending 3 or 5 integrated divisions and regiments in the past!

However, when the excited Emperor [***] asked Kabbalah where their construction group was missing, the other party's answer was like a basin of cold water, which instantly cooled down their emotions not long after they had just gotten up.

The Duchy of Nadal, the hinterland in the southeast of Nanfengzhou, is more than 2,000 kilometers away from the Luoyue Fortress on its border alone, and the ideal depth distance for the first phase of the Emperor's attack is only 500 kilometers, which is greatly beyond the limit of their logistics.

In this way, Kabbalah was tragically "placed to play" by the emperor [***], and even Sean Reno, the commander of the Fourth Division, who greeted him with a smile at the beginning, turned him away on the grounds of busy military affairs, and he was already very embarrassed if he was not driven out of the fortress. However, just when Kabbalah was feeling lost, he happened to pass by the gate of the special prisoner of war camp and saw Weiss.

Kabbalah, who knows the "inside story", knows that the other party will be a poor country boy with no background, and he will be arrested in a special prisoner of war camp, and eighty percent of it is related to the identity of the owner of his chess pieces and the "incorrect" direction of escape. Since he is in need of a helper, if he can be "fished out", it is at least more reliable than recruiting those ordinary mercenaries. So when Weiss was still hesitating to sign, Kabbalah appeared in front of him at the right time.

"Major, can the old man talk to this kid alone?"

"Do you know him?" the officer in charge of solicitation gave Kabbalah a suspicious look.

"Yes, the two of us have met in the Principality of Baker, because he got the chess pieces as a commoner, so he was ostracized by the local nobles of the countryside, so the old man helped him find a way to leave the Principality of Baker and go to Xiyanzhou to develop. I thought I might not be able to meet again, but I didn't expect to be in such a place......"

Half-truths and half-truths told a small lie, Kabbala showed the qualities of an old fritter in the rivers and lakes, and his expression was calm and natural, as if all he said was genuine "facts", while the major seemed to resonate with Weiss's "civilian background", and his attitude suddenly eased a lot. However, he quickly thought of some eye-catching "notes" in Weiss and Ling Lan's information, and asked with a subtle expression.

"Speaking of which, master, since it was you who gave them the trick to defect to Xiyan Continent, could it be that you gave them the idea of holding Lieutenant General Lekoxi hostage?"

"The old man doesn't understand what you're talking about?" For a moment, Kabbalah felt as if he had heard something unpleasant, so the major explained it to him a little, and the little goblin old man suddenly lay down in his heart. He never thought that he hadn't seen him for a few days, and this thing had kidnapped another lieutenant general, and he was so fat that he was crazy!

"Uh...... Is it too late for me to say I don't know him now?"

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In the end, Kabbalah still came forward and vouched for Weiss and Ling Lan, who had lost his passport, in the name of the trading company, and the headquarters seemed to be overwhelmed by some "difficult things", and did not care about a small problem of "swordsmen" and "spearmen", and hastily approved, and the two were released inexplicably.

"I really didn't expect that you have such a face, master. ”

"It's not me who has face, it's our trading company. The main action of the Aaronic Empire's army in recent years is to strengthen their navy, and the main project of our trading company is the shipbuilding industry, so the cooperation with the imperial officials is very close. Speaking of which, you're not a simple kid! I haven't seen you for a few days, and you've kidnapped such a clever girl, and you can still ask someone to play with you to kidnap tickets, you are very skilled!"

β€œ...... I said let's talk about what you're trying to do with us, and if it's too difficult, I think it's too late for me to go back now. ”

"Of course it's not difficult, I just want you to accompany the old man to Nadal...... Damn, listen to me first!"

As soon as he heard that he was going to Nadal, Weiss turned around and went back to the prisoner of war camp on the spot. With a fairly good knowledge of geography, he knows very well that starting from Bailu, it is almost inevitable that he will have to go through Baker if he wants to go to Nadal. He finally escaped from that hellish place, and said that he would not dare to go back, so Kabbalah's persuasion for a long time was to no avail.

"Don't go, don't go, just don't go! Master, I'll sign a contract as magic...... No、When the emperor [***] go。 ”

"Okay! If you want to go to the 'Western Meat Grinder' to die, then the old man won't stop you, so you can't be sent away!"

"Wait a minute, what did you just say?Western Meat Grinder!?" Hearing the other party say a very bloody term, Weis, who was about to walk back, stopped and looked back at Kabbalah with a puzzled expression, while the other party sneered and explained to him.

"Don't you think that contract is particularly lucrative and exciting? The empire is like a stupid Γ— who commits a crime, going up to the pole to find an uncle to serve? Let me tell you, there is no free lunch in the world, and three years of service does not seem to be a long time, but when they send you to the Western Front, whether you can survive the first three months is unknown. Shaking three fingers exaggeratedly, Kabbalah poked Weiss in the stomach (he couldn't reach his shoulder) with his fingers, and then explained to him.

The Oth Mountains, which are the most complex mountainous areas in Xiyanzhou, are also the conflict zone where the forces of the three kingdoms are intertwined. Because they did not have the geographical conditions for large-scale mechanized troops to fight, the three countries deployed around it were all elite mountain troops mainly with chess piece owners, and brutal skirmishes continued every day. The most exaggerated record is that the Three Kingdoms once killed a total of 150 chess piece owners in a week, hence the name 'meat grinder'.

"If the Aaronic Empire wants to draw troops to continue the southern invasion, it must send those surrendered chess pieces to the Western Front to fill the vacancy, do you want to be high-level cannon fodder, bet on whether your character can last for three years, or go with the old man Nadal, and then change a Ramses ID card, pick it yourself!"