Seeing his hesitation, Morgan immediately guessed his concerns.
Then he seemed to have been prepared and took out a film. The thing on it was his own contract for hiring an extraordinary entourage...
His "honesty" was simply unacceptable to Gray Linte.
what is this?
If I give you a handle of my own, you don't have to worry about me using the same handle to blackmail you?
This can certainly reassure Graylingt.
However, it was very difficult for him to understand Morgan's behavior of actively "teaching people to take control".
But no matter what, Morgan's frankness still left Glalint with no reason to refuse. He quickly signed a contract with Shirley, then handed over 1,800 pounds and signed two documents related to the sealed artifact.
The reason why he did not pay the full amount directly was because Gray Lint had less than 2,000 pounds in cash, and he had to withdraw the remaining amount from his account to pay.
In addition, he also signed an ordinary servant employment contract with Shirley without extraordinary powers. The main function of this thing is to give Shirley a reasonable identity on the surface and prevent her existence from affecting Gray Lint's marriage.
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"Captain, I also want to attend the Extraordinary Party and buy some materials."
"I wonder if you have any connections?"
After accepting the photo that Morgan volunteered, Gray Linte quickly gained a lot of recognition for him. After all, both of them had violated the laws of the kingdom.
Therefore, he showed a certain amount of trust frankly.
It's a pity that Morgan gave two secret extraordinary gatherings, one on Monday night, and the other is an irregular gathering. Neither of them are today, today is Friday.
In addition to the extraordinary gathering, he also inquired about the location of the local secret slave market.
The Kingdom of Loen has actually abolished slavery a few years ago, but there are still a large number of prisoners of war in the colonies that are difficult to deal with. There will be such slave markets secretly, but they are often not protected by the laws of the kingdom, and they cannot appear in the open.
On the surface.
As a person who has traveled through modern society, Graylingt still has some sympathy for the oppressed people in the colonies, the natives and slaves. However, he does not consider himself to be a "chosen one" who can change the world.
Therefore, it is often just superficial sympathy and no real desire to change everything.
Just like the 2,000 pounds of income he now enjoys every month, isn't that all obtained by exploiting ordinary laborers as a bourgeois? But as a vested interest, he himself is unwilling to change.
After reading the original work, he was of course very sympathetic to those workers at the bottom, especially those "faceless men" in Backlund who were buried by the smog, but he would not stand up and change everything!
At most, they can just beat the drum in secret and make some insignificant influence within their own capabilities.
Similarly, he would not face "Ince Zangwill" head-on for Dunn or Klein.
Yes, he does like these original characters, but that's only in the book. And the objective fact now is that he has no friendship with them. No matter how much you like a character in a book, you will be willing to give your life for it.
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In any case, Gray Linte was unwilling to do so.
Morgan did not ask Glerint about the purpose of finding the slave market, but directly gave the specific location and connection method.
After asking about the location of the slave market, Gray Lint continued to ask:
"I wonder how I can get the 'briber's' potion formula?"
In addition to the other potion ingredient Jim needs, the "Heart of the Mutated Rawa Octopus," the thing that Gray Lint desires most at the moment is the "briber" potion formula.
Morgan did not answer directly, but Athena shook her head and said:
"I could sell it to you right now, but it doesn't really make much sense."
Without waiting for Gray Lint to ask, she took the initiative to explain:
"Normally speaking, potion formulas and potion main ingredients can only be exchanged by accumulating merit. However, because the upper management does not prohibit members from purchasing formulas and materials privately to complete promotions, many of our internal members sell formulas to each other at low prices.
, after all, there is no cost.”
"It is precisely for this reason that there are many members in the entire southern continent who know their next, or even the next two or three sequences of potion formulas. And because most of our members are 'lawyers' and 'arbitrators'
' way, so the materials of these two ways are very difficult to purchase in the colonial area. Because we usually encounter such materials in secret gatherings, whether we need them or not, we will buy them directly, and there will definitely be a lot of members who will buy them in the future.
Willing to buy it at a premium."
This was not beyond Gray Lint's expectations.
But no matter what, he still bought the "briber" potion formula from Athena at a super low price of 500 pounds:
Extraordinary materials: one "Cry Baby" flower, strange-faced marijuana crystal. Auxiliary materials: 5 drops of golden datura juice, 5 drops of black datura juice, 4 drops of psychedelic grass essential oil, 80 ml of red wine.
As for the higher-sequence potion formula, he did not try to buy it from Morgan. This was because he did not need it now, and the second reason was that he could exchange it for some knowledge from Klein later, so there was no need to spend extra money for it.
In addition, he also spent 100 pounds to buy the "Assassin" potion formula from Morgan.
After all, Shirley is still just a semi-finished "assassin" now...
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In the evening, Gray Lint withdrew 2,000 pounds from the bank, and after completing the remaining payments, he took Shirley back to the hotel—from the moment the contract was signed, Shirley was considered his.
The next day, he chose to learn about housing and hire servants.
At the same time, he gave Shirley a task, which was to go to the slave market and buy two or three young slaves. His goal was to train two to three Beyonder followers, and now Shirley was the only one.
The reason why he is unwilling to choose slaves by himself is that on the one hand, Gray Lint still has to rent a house, and on the other hand, he is unwilling to face the kind of transaction that goes against social civilization.
It is quite ridiculous to say that on the one hand, he is keen on buying slaves and cultivating followers, but on the other hand, he feels that this is not civilized enough and is unwilling to take the initiative to face it.
When renting a house, Glalint considered that his current status was mainly "Major" and no longer "Viscount". Therefore, he felt that he could not use an overly luxurious mansion, so he simply rented a three-story house.
The rent for a garden house is only 127 pounds per year - this also includes the use of a full set of wooden furniture, which can be said to be quite cost-effective.
At the same time, compared to Backlund, hiring servants here is also very cheap. He hired a chef, a housekeeper, two male servants and two maids. The combined annual salary of the six people was only 96 pounds.
Of course, the service capabilities of the servants here are definitely incomparable to Backlund.
Although Gray Linte doesn't like overly attentive service, he is still completely acceptable to hiring servants. Otherwise, he would not be able to complete the cleaning work of such a large house by himself.
Joan, who was traveling with him, originally wanted to rent a house, but when she saw that there were many free rooms in the house rented by Gray Lint, she simply asked Gray Lint to sublet two free rooms. In this case,
She also saved herself the cost of hiring many additional servants.
Since she only sublet two rooms, Glerint only charged her 5 soles per week for rent.
As for the increased workload of the servants, Joan also gave the six of them a total of 6 soles per week for additional services.
In fact, it's perfectly fine not to pay extra. After all, when Graylingt hired them to provide services, they were paid according to the workload of serving a family.
The information Morgan gave was quite reliable. In the afternoon, Shirley brought back a pair of indigenous slave brothers and sisters who looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old to Gray Lint.