They were two black slaves. They must have been doing this for a long time. They were covered in sweat. The pit was dug very deep by them. So they put the shovel aside and dug the two A body was thrown down.
Zhang Heng recognized that the two corpses were the two people who had performed a gladiatorial performance on the stage before. Among them, the guy with the scar on the left face was already dead, while the other one seemed to be breathing weakly even though his face was covered in blood.
The two black slaves picked up the shovel on one side and began to fill the hole with soil expressionlessly. They seemed to have noticed the movement here, and the man who looked like a supervisor next to them came over and lifted his pants.
"What's the matter, how many of you?"
"That guy should still have some breath." Zhang Heng pointed at the dirt pit.
"Oh, his nose bone has been broken and he is blind in one eye. He will no longer be able to perform gladiatorial performances in the future. Keeping him alive is just a waste of food. Moreover, the injury is too serious. It will take a lot of medicine to cure it. There is no fee, so Mr. Malcolm ordered me to deal with it directly." said the supervisor.
"Since you don't want him anymore, why not give him to me."
The overseer rolled his eyes, and the next moment a money bag flew into his hand. He opened it and counted it, and found that there were twenty silver coins in it. He was overjoyed, and without any hesitation, he said, "From now on He is yours, sir."
After saying that, he looked at the two black slaves standing aside and said, "What are you still doing? Move them to this gentleman's carriage."
However, this time the two black slaves stood there without moving and looked at each other.
The overseer's face suddenly darkened and he raised the whip in his hand.
A look of fear flashed in the eyes of the two black slaves, obviously recalling some bad memories, so they finally moved again and lifted the half-buried black gladiator in the pit onto the carriage hired by Billy.
Annie and Billy didn't think much about it, they just thought that Zhang Heng saved the other because he felt pity for the other, especially the latter, who was still thinking about Malcolm's words at night and looked a little worried on the way back to the city.
"It seems that the Black Business Alliance is preparing to take action against Karina. What should we do?"
"What do you think?"
"I don't like that guy." Anne snorted coldly and said straightforwardly, "His theory of order will probably be very popular in the colonies, but this is Nassau, the city of freedom, and we are not the black men in his manor. Slave, let him do what you want."
Billy smiled bitterly, "That's what I say, but the power of the Black Merchant Alliance on the island is indeed very large now. The powerful pirates in Nassau are all on their side, and those who support us are probably only some unworthy little pirates. I know those guys very well. Although there are many of them, their role is limited and they cannot be counted on at critical times. Once Karina cannot hold on, we will lose the only channel for monetization. At that time, we will have no other choice but to bow to the alliance. There are two options.”
"So we can't abandon her now to cooperate with the Black Business Alliance." Zhang Heng finally said, "Malcolm's ambition is not that simple. He founded the Black Business Alliance not only to establish a unified standard trading system. , increase profits, and also want to control the pirates on the island. If he really succeeds, who will be the captain of each ship in the future will only be a matter of his words. By then, there will be no one on the entire island. Can you resist him again?"
Zhang Heng paused and continued, "Actually, the Black Business Alliance is not without its weaknesses. We always regard it as a whole, which makes it look scary, but in fact its internal structure is not as strong as we imagined. , the core of the Black Business Alliance are Raymond and Malcolm, of which Raymond is the oldest and most powerful black marketeer on the island.
"Because of his intervention, the black market merchants on the island were able to gather together and finally discuss a distribution plan that everyone was relatively satisfied with. However, Raymond is already old. Although he serves as the president of the Black Business Alliance, in fact He only participated in the work of building the system and adjusting conflicts. Malcolm, the second-largest figure, was the actual person in power. However, he rose too fast in Nassau and offended many people in the process. Only when he formed the Black Business Alliance We must rely on Raymond’s prestige.”
Billy's heart moved, "Is there any conflict between the two of them?"
"I don't know." Zhang Heng said simply.
"ha?"
"As the number one and two figures in the Black Business Alliance, the two of them must maintain a harmonious relationship at least publicly, but how they are doing in private is not something outsiders can know. However, according to the news I have learned these days, Raymond I’ve known Malcolm since before he even came to the island.”
"So their relationship should be very good." Billy smiled bitterly.
"No, I think it's the opposite. Both Malcolm and Raymond are very successful businessmen. At their level, they rarely get emotional. Meeting Malcolm tonight basically confirmed my previous guess about him. He He is an extremely rational and confident person. Although he does not like us and thinks that we have brought trouble to the Black Business Alliance, he did not reveal any disgust in his words. In order to eliminate the negative impact we have brought as soon as possible, he is willing to choose Regardless of past grudges, for the same reason, he rarely considers the impact of friendship when dealing with a matter. Therefore, it is impossible that he and Raymond have not done anything sorry for each other in their relationship for so many years. What we have to do is Find them out.”
"You want to drive a wedge between Malcolm and Raymond and start a conflict between them?"
"It is difficult to break into a behemoth like the Black Business Alliance from the outside, but as I said before, they are not monolithic internally. Once the relationship between Raymond and Malcolm deteriorates, the Black Business Alliance will lose The stability it relies on exists, but this is not enough. In addition to creating internal chaos, we must also remain aggressive enough externally to accelerate its disintegration."
Zhang Heng said, "I will talk to Karina about this matter when she returns to the island, but the most important thing right now is how to separate Raymond and Malcolm."
Billy thought for a while, "If the things you mentioned really exist, they must be an absolute secret for the two of them. I'm afraid it will be difficult for outsiders to find out. Or should we just find a way to create a conflict between them?"
"This is also a plan, but I don't want to use it unless I have to. Raymond and Malcolm are both very smart people. If something is deliberately created, it will be easy for them to see through it at a glance, and it may be self-defeating." 166 Reading Network
