After finishing his communication with Yang Tianyi, Jia Tu packed up his luggage and hid his tall and strong body in a set of loose black robes. After putting on a casual hat that was very common in the Qien Empire to slightly cover his face, So he took a hovercar driven by a foreign slave and went to Gandar's home to visit.
As expected, this diligent and thrifty old comrade-in-arms, even though he has become a guest of the colonial government and earns a lot of imperial coins every month, he still lives alone in the colonial capital where he was exiled. A two-story apartment distributed free of charge by the Imperial Army in the outer city of Fiery City.
Not long after Jia Tu rang the doorbell, the yellow and white metal door was opened by the other party. When he saw Jatu's height of more than two meters and the black robe covering his whole body, Gandar was slightly startled, and for a moment he did not recognize his former commander.
"Hmph! Are you lackeys of the Inner Circle Consul still unwilling to give up on what happened back then? Let me say it one last time, Chief Jatu is not guilty, and I have no right to represent the Imperial Army in the Central Circle. Are you satisfied? Get out!"
Gandal spit out his tongue buried behind his sharp teeth and made a threatening hiss. Then he tried to close the door, but the door panel was held firmly by a big hand on the edge and remained motionless. A trace of surprise flashed in Gandal's eyes, and his arm muscles violently exerted force to close the door, but even though the door panel was slightly twisted by the two people's huge strength, Gandal still failed.
"Gandhar, it's me."
Without waiting for the other party to get angry, Jia Tu took off the hat on his head with his left hand and looked down at the pale yellow scales on Gandar's face and his angry eyes. In just one sentence, he let go of the relationship with him. Wrestling hands, the anger in his eyes dissipated.
"Sir? Is it really you?"
Although he was extremely familiar with Jatu's voice, while Gandar opened the door completely, he still looked at Jatu's tall body with suspicion, which was several heads taller than in his memory, and scratched his head as if he was of the same origin.
"Yes, it's me, your captain."
After receiving a positive reply, Gandar quickly welcomed Jatu into his home. There were no gorgeous furniture or servants. Except for a few tables, chairs and sofas wrapped in animal leather, the decoration of the living room on the first floor of the apartment was simply simple.
"Sir, why are you back? If the Imperial Court discovers that you are back, the most I can do is be sent to the outer ring to guard the border. You won't have a second chance to be exiled!"
Gandar, who was wearing an earth-yellow unlined upper garment, opened the refrigerator, took out a bottle of blood-colored Qin tribe specialty wine and placed it on the table. He poured half a cup into Jia Tu's cup worriedly, and looked at the other party's calm and calm posture. asked in confusion.
"Sir, what are you going to do when you come back this time? If you are worried about your mother-in-law, I and several other guys have not stopped remitting money over the years, and we will take turns to visit her in Chiennia. We will never let her suffer any injustice. .”
After hearing this, Jatu put down his wine glass, glanced at Gandar with grateful eyes, stood up and bowed deeply to him to express his gratitude. The sudden gift made Gandal quickly stand up and support the officer.
"Sir, what are you doing! If it weren't for you, I would have died in the hands of those damn natives! I will never be able to repay you for your life-saving grace and your kindness in finding me. Now I take care of your mother. It’s a matter of course, so there’s no need to thank me!”
Gandar, who was unable to lift up the officer with all his strength, was extremely anxious, but after a while, Jatu straightened up on his own, ready to discuss with the other party the business of his trip.
Jia Tu, who made his purpose clear in a few words, continued to drink - he was deeply taught by Yang Tianyi and naturally understood the truth that more words lead to mistakes. When the initiative is in his own hands, appropriate goodwill and commitment That's enough.
It is precisely because of this that he must first express his gratitude to Gandal for his kindness, otherwise in the subsequent negotiations, he is likely to cause losses to the group's interests due to his own personal reasons.
In this regard, sometimes Jia Tu, as a subordinate, is even more clear-cut between public and private matters than Yang Tianyi.
"So you have found your master in the ruins of Fenhabenis."
Gandal's tone seemed very solemn, because every true Qien warrior is willing to spend his whole life looking for a master worthy of his allegiance. This has a lot to do with their martial tradition.
If the Sazha royal family is the nominal emperor and leader of all Qien people, then the Lord is the spiritual sustenance of Qien warriors.
In order to prevent the powerful warriors from losing themselves due to strength and becoming fighting machines that only know killing and violence, the Lord will serve as their spiritual sustenance. While enjoying the services of the Qien warriors, the Lords must take on the responsibility of guiding the way and tell the story. The Qien warriors under his command, why are they fighting?
Gandal has not yet found his master, so he is very envious of the old commander who already has Yang Tianyi - from the fact that Jia Tu is more powerful than before, it is not difficult to see that the mysterious master must treat him well.
But envy was envy. After thinking for a long time, Gandar came up with some ideas regarding Jatu's request.
"Sir, you also know that although I am the military advisor of the Blazing Star, when the garrison is controlled by the emperor, I do not have any real power. At most, I can only train some police or militia. Although some of them are the same as me. He is strong, but has not experienced the training of blood and fire, and his combat quality is definitely not a little bit worse than that of the slave-catching group in the inner ring."
"But you also have many invisible advantages. This proposal to organize a slave-catching group on your own was put forward by the parliament of the Fire Star Colony. Many of them are completely tired of the insatiable greed of the Slave Traders Guild. Such a mentality will Make it easier for them to accept failure and not give up easily.”
"That is to say, even if the Fire Star Slave Catching Group is still defeated after being equipped with the weapons you provided, the Council will not immediately give up its investment in you. Of course, this depends on whether the purpose of your trip is to simply make money or If you ask for too much power, I’m afraid my influence on the parliament will not meet your requirements.”
Jatu heard the implication of Gandar's words, so he stuck out his tongue and said with a smile: "Haha, you don't have to worry about the quality of the weapons. I will definitely let the master prepare the best goods, and I don't want to do anything in the empire. A coup or an armed seizure of power. This time, I’m just trying to make money.”
Gandar breathed a sigh of relief and filled Jatu's glass with blood wine again. After clinking the glasses, he stuck out his tongue and said confidently: "If you just want to get the weapons order from the slave-catching group, this is not a problem at all. "
When the old emperor Sazha XXI was still on the throne, he would certainly not be so confident.
However, due to the suspicious nature of the current emperor, almost all the colonial planets in the inner ring that have established complete military industries have received a large amount of capital from the royal family and slave trade guilds, resulting in many colonies in the middle and outer rings being no longer able to pass to the inner ring planets. They obtained enough high-quality weapons by placing orders, and the empire's new constitution did not allow them to develop their own military industry.
Coupled with the fact that the Empire's Outer Rim Fleet, which had received huge bribes, ignored the increasingly rampant smuggling, the young emperor might inevitably have to reap the consequences in the near future.
The scale of the slave-catching group that the Fiery Star Colonial Council wants to form this time is beyond Jatu's imagination. According to Gandar's internal information, this time the Council will adopt a method of selecting from the police, militia and civilians to form a team of ten people. A slave-catching group of about ten thousand people.
Considering that they have to face hundreds of millions of slaves on a slave-producing planet and a well-equipped inner-ring slave-catching group, one hundred thousand people will only be the beginning.
If the Fire Star's demand for arms exceeds Jatu's imagination, then the arms that the Star Group can provide also exceeds Gandar's imagination.
"Full-caliber laser and electromagnetic individual weapons, exoskeleton armor tailor-made for us Qien people, light and heavy armored vehicles, nuclear missiles! A two-hundred-meter-class frigate!?"
As he flipped through the list of foreign trade weapons that Jatu carried with him, Gandar's eyes became more and more surprised.
"Ahem, sir, if there is a chance, does your lord still lack manpower?"
When Gandar raised his khaki head again, the eagerness in his eyes made Jatu shrink back and said vaguely: "Here, let's finalize the weapons order first. Bar......"
