109 – I create my value (1)
As is the case everywhere, in order to get ahead, you have to work while others play.
To be more precise, after you become successful, you have to work even when others are resting in return for greater rewards…
Perhaps he wanted to prove that he was right, Captain Dalton called me out late at night while everyone else was resting.
“Captain Dalton, you crazy man. Sure, you drank the wrong amount of alcohol and suffered a hangover for a day.”
It’s a little far from the inn where the captain is staying, and since everyone is playing around right now, our mercenary group won’t be there…
I looked around to see if someone might have overheard.
‘If someone overhears you, buy them a drink to silence them…’
However, even though I activated my aura and listened closely, there was no sound coming from around me.
“Ha, f*ck. “I thought my liver was failing.”
I walked straight to the room where Dalton was staying without talking to myself or thinking about anything else.
“Captain Dalton, let’s go in.”
“Come in.”
When I went in after receiving the answer, there were a lot of documents lying on the captain’s desk.
Dalton looked at my face, raised one corner of his mouth, and asked sharply.
“Why are you so late? It’s been a while since I called you. “If it had been another executive, he would have arrived less than an hour ago.”
Didn’t he give me three months leave when he came back from the war?
He told anyone who wanted to stay in the mercenary army to do as they pleased as long as they didn’t leave the city, and then suddenly sent an administrator to come to his quarters tonight…
I don’t know why there are so many complaints.
“Well, I stayed at a lodging a bit far away because I was on a date with Lucia and Karin, and didn’t the captain and the others get together and play around with girls? “I heard that you made a lot of money this time and that the captain gave other executives a woman from the Changgwan, who only deals with nobles.”
“Huh, our Martin has grown up a lot?”
In the past, when I was a new recruit, I couldn’t even look Dalton in the eye, but now Dalton and I are almost at the same level in terms of sword skills.
There is an insurmountable difference in pay, treatment, and location between new recruits and centurion commanders. Of course it has grown a lot.
“The person who raised you like this is the leader. So why did you call me? “I want to go back and touch Karin’s breasts, so let’s get things done quickly.”
“Have you done anything with Lucia yet?”
No matter how much we are mercenaries, we do not speak directly like this when Lucia or Karin or the woman in her party are together.
But that’s because it’s common for men to tell dirty jokes to each other, or rather, openly.
If it were Korea, I wouldn’t have anything to say even if I had a straight face, but this level of s*xual harassment between mercenary men is a greeting at the level of asking ‘Have you eaten?’ Without exaggeration.
“I bought you a ring today, and I was so happy that you cried and fell asleep with it on your left hand. “How can you do that to a child like that?”
“…… The mercenary theme is so innocent. “To put it bluntly, if it were you, I could have 10 women with my money.”
Until I was a senior platoon leader, Dalton and I were not this close, but after becoming a centurion commander, our relationship grew closer rapidly.
When I shrugged, Dalton’s expression completely changed.
“Martin, you didn’t come along when I bought drinks with the other executives today, so you didn’t hear, but vacation is vacation. “Shouldn’t we at least decide where to go next?”
“Is this the answer from the imperial family for not continuing to provide standing mercenaries?”
“Baron Pappenheim was blown up, and the Rhine-Palatinate Empire is in a mess right now. The emperor fell, and the second prince temporarily became emperor. Discontent will soon erupt and a civil war is on the verge. Will the standing mercenary contract be renewed?”
When I heard that, goosebumps appeared on my body.
The reason why Margrave Estelle tried to recruit me by giving me the title of Baron of Pappenheim was precisely because of this civil war.
Depending on how active you are during this time, you will be given the opportunity to expand your life by earning the title of knight, a fallen person like me…
‘Am I finally getting a chance to turn my life around?’
Ah, the corners of my mouth keep going up.
“This career-crazy bastard. “Our mercenary corps executives were worried that it would be a bloody war, but why are you so excited?”
“After all, isn’t war all about risking one’s life, no matter how small or large the scale is? So, if you’re going to participate in the war, it’s better to play on a big stage.”
Dalton also listened to my story and nodded his head.
“Well, if I’m going to take the guys who have been with me in our mercenary corps from the beginning like you, Martin, and go into some family as vassals and give them a place… I guess it would be better to play on a big stage.”
“So the reason you called me was because you wanted to talk about what to do next? “Isn’t it better to get all the other executives together to do this?”
Mercenaries are a democratic group in their own way.
After the mercenary leader retires, the person who will become the next leader is elected, and the leader and other executives decide through discussion which battlefield to fight in the future.
But ignoring the others and deciding the direction with just me and the captain…
When I muttered and didn’t answer, Dalton grinned.
“Don’t worry about that. “The other guys said that since you were the smartest, we should leave it to you to decide.”
Has my position within this mercenary group risen to that level before I knew it?
Because it was a serious situation, I couldn’t be happy about it, but strength naturally came into my shoulders.
“What do you want to do before that, Captain? “After all, you’re successful, right?”
Dalton nodded his head.
“The reason we do this is because we don’t want to live like fallen knights or beggars who don’t even have the right to cultivate land. So, I want to take advantage of this opportunity.”
If they want to give a share to the others, they will have to join the ‘Rhine-Palatinate Empire’, which will try to buy them at the highest price…
“Do you want to sell our mercenary units at a high price to nobles who will participate in the civil war in the future? Then…”
I grabbed one that caught my eye among the documents on Captain Dalton’s desk.
“Let’s go on a rampage on the enemy side of the Rhine-Palatinate Empire.”
When Dalton heard what I said, he opened his mouth and asked.
“We have to fight on the side of the Rhine-Palatinate Empire, but what are you thinking of standing on the side of the Medici Republic? To do that, we have to prove how helpful we can be to them.”
“That’s right. That way, when a civil war breaks out in the empire, they will try to take us in with better conditions.”
When a company hires an employee, it considers how much benefit the person can bring to the company in the future and then gives the person a salary.
When hiring us, whether noble or state, they consider how active we can be in the war and sign an ‘employment’ contract.
Moreover, those who try to take us away by promising ‘title’ and ‘interests’ have no choice but to expect ‘more performance’ and hire them.
“Then shouldn’t we side with the Empire to prove how helpful we can be?”
I sighed at those words.
“That is in normal times. Think of it this way. Some crazy merchant is selling a cheap sword worth 7 copper coins for 30 gold coins. Would you like to buy that?”
Dalton clicked his tongue at the sudden Zen question-like words.
“Why are you talking so complicated? First of all, if it were like you, would you buy it? “I have to kill that merchant by twisting his head first.”
A person with even the slightest sense of common sense would never buy a product that is hundreds of times more expensive.
For that price, you can buy the same sword of much better quality, but 30 gold coins for a cheap sword?
The guy who wants to buy that is crazy.
I asked this time, placing my finger on the desk.
“Then, this time, enemies with similar skills as the captain are locked in the same room and forced to kill each other. The crazy merchant said he was selling the knife for the same price. Would you live your life crying and eating lemons? Or will you wring the merchant’s neck?”
Dalton’s mouth suddenly formed an evil smile.
“f*ck you, you crazy bastard. “This is why other executives are saying, let’s follow your opinion.”
Dalton was even clapping his hands.
“Yes, I have to buy it with the feeling of crying and eating lemons. “If I don’t, my head will be blown off, so what can I do?”
“The increase in our value now is similar to that. “In a civil war situation, where each other’s lives are at stake, we are being ‘ripped off.'”
It is as if a person who is dying of thirst has no choice but to survive even if he sells a bottle of water for a diamond.
“But isn’t that situation alone enough? So I’m going to show it directly. “If you turn our mercenary unit into an enemy, what a terrible thing would happen.”
People who have never eaten lemons do not salivate when they see them.
Because we don’t know how sour lemon is.
Like him, the Empire has never turned on us as their enemy, so wouldn’t they know just how terrifying the Whitebeard mercenaries would be?
Then I slammed Dalton’s desk down and asked.
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“How do you feel? Fighting on the side of the Medici Republic.”
Dalton heard my suggestion and immediately nodded his head.
“Let’s do that right now.”