For the Blazing Star Colonial Council, which at this time did not know that the representatives from Central had decided to send troops to support them, the members who were holding a banquet were still lingering in a cheerful atmosphere, feasting on food surrounded by slave waiters of all races. The extravagant sight of unlimited blood, wine and delicious food made Gandar's eyelids twitch as he brought Jatu along to the banquet.
Fortunately, he had previously requested from Jia Tu, saying that the colonial council of the Fiery Star could not get much money out of the government due to poor management, so he hoped to give him money for the sake of the huge amount of arms they purchased, and also for his own sake. The Colonial Assembly offered a discount, making it cheaper.
Just when he was excited about saving tens of millions of imperial coins for the parliament, the parliament did not hesitate to spend millions of imperial coins to hold such a so-called "celebration banquet" to celebrate something that had not succeeded at all. This made Gandar feel that he had been humiliated in front of his old friends.
Fortunately, Jato didn't seem to mind the dirty deeds of these politicians. Instead, he looked at the many congressmen present with interest, and stuck out his tongue from time to time to express his cheerful mood.
"It seems that after you left the empire to travel, the outside world really changed you a lot."
Gandal, who couldn't escape the true fragrance theorem, also held up a glass of wine, and the plate in front of him was filled with all kinds of meat. He took a sip of the wine that was as colored as blood, turned around and asked curiously: "Do you really want to return to the army? It's not like you to return to the army that you have lost hope for a long time."
"Haha, Gandar, don't look at things so one-sided."
Jia Tu raised his head slightly and pointed with his chin at the speaker of the parliament who was exchanging glasses with other members and businessmen not far away. The gray-black scales should have made him look serious and serious, but his fat body made him look serious. The posturing seemed very funny.
"It's true that I have lost hope in the army, but that doesn't mean that I can't rekindle some other hopes in the empire, such as this business. Fiery Star has obtained arms and I have made money, so why not do it? ?”
Feeling that Jia Tu had some hidden meaning, Gandar looked at the other party deeply and said with a slightly worried tone: "If the inner circle knows about this, I'm afraid the emperor will not be happy about it."
"Whatever, don't forget that he threw us to die on that indigenous planet!"
After drinking the blood wine in the glass in one gulp, Jatu bumped his old comrade with his shoulder and reminded: "Gandar, there seems to be no one around that fat man, shall we go up?"
"Okay, come with me."
Gandar glanced at the gray-black fat mass, nodded and stood up, leading Jatu slowly to the speaker who was looking for the next "target".
"Ah, isn't this my dear consultant Gandar? I was just looking for you!"
I saw a sincere smile on the speaker's face that was slightly deformed due to obesity. He squeezed Gandar's arm with his free left hand and said, "Your business is doing well. I heard that the parliament has already placed a batch of orders." Has the goods arrived?”
It was estimated that Jatu had no intention of answering, so Gandar nodded naturally and said: "Yes, Your Excellency, Speaker Zorchi. Since the exoskeleton given to us Qien people needs to be specially customized, only some samples were sent this time. Also, There are laser rifles, electromagnetic machine guns and some vehicles, which are already in place. As for the exoskeleton, it is estimated that they will be given another month."
"Very good! Very good!"
The Speaker released his grip on Gandar's arm and praised excitedly: "I knew it was right to recruit you to be the military adviser of the Fiery Star, but who is this?"
Noticing Jia Tu's tall figure wearing a black robe and a mask, the speaker's eyes were a little dazed. Even though the Qien people rarely have a height lower than 1.8 meters due to their meat-eating tradition and overnutrition, Jatu's two-and-a-half-meter body is still full of oppression for ordinary Qien people like the Speaker.
Especially the strong muscles looming under the black robe, which made the Speaker secretly estimate whether the thickness of his thighs when he was young could be compared to Jia Tu's arms.
"This is my comrade in the army. It's just that his face was disfigured and his throat was damaged due to the war, so he wears a breathing mask all the time now. Please don't mind, Mr. Speaker."
Gandar's words immediately caused Speaker Zorchi's expression to change - he put down his wine glass, stepped forward, held Jia Tu's hand and said solemnly: "Sir, although I don't know your name yet, but Please allow me to express my highest respect to you on behalf of the empire. Without your efforts, there would be no current empire!"
Jia Tu, who had a strong feeling in his heart, did not hesitate, but pretended to be very moved, and said in a hoarse voice simulated by the mask: "Thank you for saying this, the excellent treatment of veterans by the Fiery Star government has always been in the Central Star Territory It is obvious to all, so I came here to find my old comrade Gandar. Also, you can just call me Sigris."
The acting skills of both of them have reached the point of perfection, and Gandar next to him was stunned for a moment - if he hadn't known what kind of existence they were behind the masks, it would have been really difficult not to be deceived.
After the mutual sympathy between veteran Gu Yifan and the politician, seeing that Jia Tu seemed a little embarrassed, Speaker Zorchi turned his head and asked curiously: "Advisor Gandar, is there anything you want to tell me, Mr. Sigris?"
Jatu, who finally understood what he was thinking, breathed a sigh of relief and handed the right to speak into Gandar's hands.
"Well, in fact, you are right. Sigris came to you this time, hoping to get a job in the Blazing Star government through war experience like me."
"That's it." After the fat on the speaker's face trembled slightly, he picked up the wine glass he had put down. After thinking for a while, he said with some embarrassment: "The Colonial Assembly's demand for military advisers has been saturated recently. After all, , with all due respect, there are too many veterans, and even the parliament cannot take care of everyone."
"No, no, no, you misunderstood."
Seeing that the speaker misunderstood what he meant, Gandar quickly waved his hand and explained.
It's true that a military adviser is a fat job. Not only does he have no job, but his salary is high. Even he himself managed to win over the others with his resume and experience and became an adviser to the Burning Star Council. Sigris, who had just arrived, was naturally not ignorant and wanted to take away jobs that should belong to other people based on recommendations from acquaintances.
In his opinion, isn't the slave-catching regiment formed by the Parliament lacking experienced officers and leaders? If you want to form a powerful slave-catching group, you need more than just arms and weapons. Without excellent organization and leadership, the gap between them and the Inner Ring Slave Catching Group will never be closed.
"In this case, I know what I can do for Mr. Sigris."
Speaker Zorchi grinned and said that this was not a problem at all - although the Slave Catching Corps was different from the army, the requirements for officers were not so high, but if there was a chance to be on an equal footing with the Inner Circle Slave Catching Corps, who would I want to give up.
So after some discussion, Jatu actually got a position that he had never been able to get in the army.
A captain of ten thousand men.
After learning that the first batch of arms and weapons capable of arming tens of thousands of people had been received by the colony staff at the space port, Zolchi, who was smiling from ear to ear, immediately ordered that the candidates who had been trained for months Fifty thousand members of the slave group were selected, led by a leader appointed by the parliament, with five captains under them. They were armed as quickly as possible and then took a transport ship to the nearby slave planet to capture slaves.
Jia Tu is one of the five captains of ten thousand men.
Shortly after the banquet, Jatu, who returned to the apartment with Gandar, still looked a little surprised - that was the Captain of Ten Thousands! They are not worthless centurions and ten-centurions, but the speaker actually gave them to him just as he said?
You must know that he had originally planned to start from the most basic level as a captain or even a soldier, but he did not expect that his current starting point was actually one level higher than his previous ending point!
Gandar, who saw Jia Tu's thoughts, said drunkenly: "Isn't this what the current empire is like? As long as you have connections and wealth, you can have whatever you want! Damn it, if I had had the power I have now, I wouldn't have Let me, sir, leave your homeland..."
Gandar fell asleep on the sofa as he spoke. Jia Tu glanced at him and covered him with a blanket. He went up to the guest bedroom on the second floor alone, took out the communicator and reported to Yang Tianyi that he was there. New progress made by Fiery Star.
"Just give it to a captain of ten thousand men when you come up?"
The black-haired young man in the projection touched his chin, showed a knowing smile and said: "It seems that the empire is more decadent than I thought. Maybe the Federation of People's Federation only needs to give it a hard kick, and the whole building will collapse." It collapsed.”
"Anyway, Jia Tu, you did a good job this time. In the days to come, you must pay attention to hiding your identity. The attention that a captain of ten thousand men gets is definitely completely different from that of an ordinary Qien."
"I understand, my lord."
After saying goodbye to Yang Tianyi and saying that he would keep in touch with the group, Jia Tu lay down on the soft big bed, looked up at the bright starry sky outside the sky window, and closed his eyes.
