Chapter 157: Chapter 134, What Trash is the Agent?_2
After hearing Dennison Henry’s report, Gu Hang mused, “So what do you need?”
“More arms, more powerful heavy equipment. The armed adventurers of Rubbish Town can’t keep using ordinary rifles to risk their lives fighting those Green Skin Orcs in the high tower ruins,” Henry said firmly. “The old Alliance’s equipment isn’t enough. We need G9 series rifles from your regular army, as well as cannons, and if there are armored vehicles, those would be excellent! Rubbish Town can trade anything for them; our future output can be supplied entirely to Revival City, with Revival City acting as the broker. We can also offer more discounts on the price, whether it’s metal raw materials or thermal ash stones!”
A splendid smile appeared on Gu Hang’s face:
“How about this, then? I give you twenty or so combat vehicles, a dozen tanks, over a hundred heavy guns, and eight thousand fully equipped sets of individual gear. What do you think?”
Henry was stunned.
He had been trying to bargain with Mr. Gu.
He knew that whether it was combat vehicles or cannons, the New Alliance Legion itself was still in the middle of reorganizing its forces, and every unit was short of supplies. Officers kept urging the logistics department to hurry up and provide the corresponding equipment.
He had never really expected to get those two items. He was just trying to bargain in a sky-high manner in the hopes of getting the more reliable G9 series rifles instead of the locally produced firearms.
With those weapons, they could manage to have a certain advantage when fighting the Green Skin Orcs with three to five times their numbers, rather than the current situation where they needed ten times the number just for a stable defense, and nearly twenty times the advantage to dare to attack.
Dennison Henry had seen the capability of the G9 series rifles: well-maintained, durable, adaptable to various environments, and more powerful than domestic arms—with the added benefits of being lighter and more precise.
Truth be told, in times of absolute necessity, even affixing a bayonet would make for a good long-handled melee weapon, more reliable than carrying an extra large knife.
His thoughts had been on securing one or two thousand sets of equipment, even willing to lower the price of various raw materials to sell, but Mr. Gu had started with eight thousand sets, plus heavy artillery and combat vehicles?
Was this a surprise?
More like a shock!
Suddenly, Henry wondered, was this Mr. Gu’s way of being sarcastic?
But instantly, the thought took a more alarming turn.
The amount of equipment Mr. Gu mentioned sounded an awful lot like an entire infantry division.
Of course, he wouldn’t know the specific details of the military reorganization, but he had heard some rumors.
Thinking of this, when he lifted his head again, his face was full of shock.
And Mr. Gu’s smile seemed filled with a chilling air to him.
Suppressing the unease in his heart, he asked, “Mr. Gu…we don’t really need that much armament…Rubbish Town might not be able to gather enough raw materials and supplies to purchase that all at once…”
But Gu Hang wasn’t planning to play any more guessing games, and his following words were quite straightforward:
“I know Rubbish Town can’t afford this, but I could reluctantly accept it if you use the entire Rubbish Town as compensation.”
As his guess was confirmed, Henry suppressed the unease in his heart and forced a cheerful smile: “Do you want to take over all of Rubbish Town?”
“Of course, what’s wrong with that?” Gu Hang said. “Rubbish Town is after all a member of the Alliance and an important raw material supply base. Now, it’s under serious threat from the Green Skin Orcs, and of course, I will not stand by and do nothing. By the way, I’ve always found Rubbish Town’s production methods and power structure to be less than ideal—it’s about time to bring them in line with Revival City.”
Henry’s mind was in complete turmoil.
I’ve toiled so hard for so many years, and it wasn’t easy to finally sit in the position of a proxy in Rubbish Town. Now, just half a month into my role, the town is about to be completely gone?
But could he resist?
Clearly impossible.
His position as a proxy was raised by Mr. Gu.
Even more so, Mr. Gu’s appointment of him as the proxy was clearly a preparation for the day when he would take over Rubbish Town.
He himself was well aware of this.
He just hadn’t anticipated that the day would come so swiftly that he hadn’t even managed to settle in properly.
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“Go back and think it over. I hope my army will only need to deal with those Green Skin Orcs when the time comes,”
Gu Hang gave him his last words.
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Dennison Henry didn’t stay in Revival City for long, he took the vehicle back to Rubbish Town that very day.
Two hundred kilometers, given the infrastructure between Revival City and Rubbish Town, it would take seven to eight hours. That’s if the road is clear.
But this was already a clear commercial route.
On the way back, Henry thought very carefully about the whole thing.
He quickly understood.
What was there to not understand?
He was just a newly appointed agent in Rubbish Town, relying on the goods supported by Mr. Gu, not even the biggest among the agents. On the contrary, by leveraging his relationship with Mr. Gu and gaining an entrance into the New Alliance Legion system, wouldn’t his position be much more significant than being a leader in Rubbish Town?
Besides, would the future Alliance still be as rotten as it was over the past ten years?
Judging by Mr. Gu’s demeanor, keeping the so-called “Alliance” shell was in fact centralizing power.
One could foresee that the New Alliance would rapidly expand outward. Mr. Gu had people, guns, money, and righteous cause at his disposal, with starship support from above… In the future, the authority of the New Alliance would grow stronger, directly governing more territory. Why wait and not ally with it at once?
Whether under the New Alliance system as a high-ranking official, or continuing in his current trade as a businessman, clearly, both options held much more promise than muddling along in Rubbish Town.
And besides, was this something he could stop?
No sooner had the vehicle left Revival City than he began to regret the way he’d presented himself before Mr. Gu.
Why did he take such a stance on Rubbish Town’s side when he spoke?
What was a Rubbish Town agent but rubbish?
He was clearly an advisor to the Commerce Department!
In his dismay, he quickly thought of a way to remedy the situation.
He exchanged a few words with the driver, and the vehicle swiftly turned towards the abandoned mining area of Weixing City.
There, Henry met with Patel, and through their old relationship, he got in touch with Perbov, found out where his camp was, and then hurried over.
In Sanchi Town, Henry saw Perbov, who had completed his mission of eliminating bandits.
He hadn’t known before that Sanchi Town was a den of thieves. At best, he knew it was related to plunderers, an important place for disposing of stolen goods and hiding, but he truly didn’t know that the whole town was a bandit’s nest.
He started off with a flurry of praise, saying that wiping out this place was a great thing. At least five to six thousand bandits perished in one battle, making the two hundred kilometers between Revival City and Rubbish Town much clearer.
When had Perbov ever been so flattered and praised? He was a bit embarrassed by all the adulation.
Seeing that the atmosphere was right, Dennison Henry smoothly extended an invitation.
It was for Perbov to move fifty kilometers to the northeast.
That’s where Rubbish Town was.
“You want me to attack Rubbish Town?” Perbov’s head shook like a rattle, “That’s impossible, without military orders, I won’t make such a big move.”
“Major Perbov, you misunderstand. I don’t want you to lead a charge on Rubbish Town, just to station your troops not far from there. Of course, I understand such an important action definitely needs Mr. Gu’s consent. My purpose in coming to you was also to use your military line to contact Mr. Gu,”
Perbov thought for a moment: “You want to use my soldiers to bolster your own authority?”
Henry clapped his hands, smiling: “Exactly. Mr. Gu intends to mobilize the army and take down Rubbish Town. I thought, if it comes to that, wouldn’t it mean we’ve been inefficient?”
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