Chapter 104: The Big Shot
The signing of the agreement with El Paso was a matter of course.
Perhaps there is no basis of interest between the Indian Union and El Paso, and even if the two are seriously traced, there must be a blood feud.
However, the emergence of the common enemy of the American Union Army was enough for the two to put down all the mustard and unite.
As for whether Neville Crockett is Texan or French, it's a trivial matter at all.
If the El Paso Legion wants to retake Louisiana in the future, that's the future—who doesn't have an uncertain future?
The only minor problem was that Old Crockett wanted the Union of Indians to send someone of sufficient weight to sign the deal, rather than a random representative.
Neville Crockett suggested that it would be best to sign it in person for fifteen dollars.
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Everyone knows that Fifteen Dollars is the war priest of White Rock, who holds all the war-related power of the Indian Union's economy, army, industry, etc. Under the unique and novel system of the Indian Union, the term 'high authority' is not enough to describe his status.
Everything related to the war, he can decide.
What is there in the world that is not associated with war?
Hera, the mother of the gods, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, could destroy Troyin for a single apple, Cromwell started the British Civil War because King Charles I had a long beard, and Emperor Napoleon sent troops to conquer Egypt because Egyptian merchants had chosen the British over the French in a deal......
War is nothing but a continuation of politics.
As long as the superior thinks, everything is war. Even if your own balloon accidentally floats to a neighboring country, it may become a pretext for a war.
Neville Crockett had done half an hour of research on the current system of the Indian Union, which was enough for him to become an expert on the Indian Union.
In short, it was a strange tribal alliance that constrained the people with the 'Eight Banners', centralized power with the 'priests', eliminated strife with the 'alliance', and forcibly pinched together with the 'personal prestige of the turtledove'.
It was hard for Neville to understand how so many strange things were stitched together, but it didn't matter, if you didn't understand it, you didn't understand it, but it existed.
- "Everything that is rational is realistic, everything that is realistic is rational", says Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
- Neville Crockett was once obsessed with 'science' and thought it was a weapon that would allow him to quickly open up the situation in the New World, but with his return from Washington, he had lost all hope for it.
- He turned to another kind of 'science,' and it was said that only the brightest minds were qualified to study such things. It's something that even Aristotle or Leonardo da Vinci can't get a full picture of.
The Union of Indians provided him with a different kind of sample.
The 'war priests' in this sample were even more powerful than the emperor in his jurisdiction.
Or it would be more appropriate to change his name - "God of War"!
Fifteen dollars is the 'god of war' of the Indian Union.
In no other system in the world does such a special equivalent exist.
This can be regarded as a little extra benefit that Neville Crockett used his special status to obtain for his uncle Crockett Sr. - the contract signed by the 'God of War' of the Indian Alliance, even if he wants to betray in the future, the cost of betrayal is much greater than that signed by others.
Yes, from the very beginning, Neville Crockett did not think that the contract would last forever.
There is no such thing as a pact that cannot be betrayed, and the pact itself is a form of deception.
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The so-called 'spirit of contract' also means 'the price of betrayal'.
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"Then I'll go!" The young man at the door said.
"No, I'll go!" Fifteen dollars rushed to say.
Neville Crockett was overjoyed, "It would be great if Mr. Fifteen Dollars could go in person!" ”
But the young man at the door waved his hand at the fifteen dollars, and the fifteen dollars bowed his head and retreated.
"Excuse me, are you ......?" Neville Crockett asked softly, with some trepidation in his heart.
"You're in charge of leading the way!" Behind the young man came a fat and a thin one, and the skinny one said to Neville Crockett.
Neville Crockett glanced at the skinny man, who smiled at him and said, "My name is Peso, and you can approach me directly for the next thing!" ”
The young man at the door went back into the house.
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At about 3 o'clock in the morning, three identical wagons departed from behind the Indian Union and headed for the El Paso barracks camp.
On both sides of the road, there were Indian soldiers, and they stood straight one by one, like a tree standing upright. As the carriage passed by them, the soldiers clung to the barrels of their guns in their arms, and held their heads high, as if they were going to break their necks.
It was Neville Crockett's fifth run of the night between El Paso and the Indians.
He had thought that he would be relieved once the matter of the entente was finalized.
Unexpectedly, the really tiring thing was the series of red tape that followed—the Indians were so serious that even in the midst of a hundred thousand urgent battlefields, they still did it meticulously.
There was even the sound of artillery to the south, maybe it was Geronimo or Juarez who was going to war, or maybe there was another military operation of Second Lieutenant Ulysses-Grant of the American Army...... But these Indians don't care!
It seems that the most important thing for them at the moment is to send the three wagons to Camp El Paso in peace, and then safely return from Camp El Paso.
Neville Crockett shuddered at the thought of a guy named 'Crescent' finding him before he left and showing him a note with the names and addresses of a large number of people related to him, including his wife, who was hiding on a Guatemalan estate.
Also engaged in intelligence, Neville Crockett felt that this crescent moon was a bit too much — he was too much of an American in Washington.
However, he was not surprised that the 'Crescent Moon' was able to obtain this information.
Crescent Moon is not like him, Crescent has its back to a powerful, highly centralized organization, and he is helpless, everything is on his own - he has five wives, and the 'Crescent' has a large group of brothers, and that is the only difference between them.
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On the way.
"Mr. Neville-Crockett!" Peso rode to his side and said to him, "Come with me, he wants to talk to you again at this time!" ”
Who is 'he'?
It didn't take more to say the name in Neville's mind.