Chapter 42: Little Tricks
"Your Highness, are you going to join the Logistics Army?" Vidi must have received the news from the Prime Minister, and hurried over to find Cage.
"Yes."
"Your Highness, you must be careful of General Scapechi of the Logistics Army. He is the Fourth Prince's man, and he will definitely make things difficult for you this time."
"So that's how it is." Cage probably understood Stand's idea. Using his position in the Logistics Army, as long as he sued for delaying time and affecting military operations, it would be enough for him to get into trouble. It seems that Stand should have thought of this. "Vidi, thank you!" Cage was still very grateful that Vidi could tell him these things at such a time.
"Your Highness, why don't you just quit this position? I can ask my grandfather to think of a way." Vidi still has a lot of feelings for Cage. Over the years, Cage has given him a lot of benefits.
"Haha, I think these should not be difficult for me, there should be no problem. But Vidi, I want to ask you for something?" Cage suddenly looked at Vidi seriously.
"Your Highness, you said that as long as I can do it, I will do it for you."
"After I leave, you must help me take good care of the house and don't let other forces take this opportunity to make trouble. Help me bear it first, and wait for me to come back. I will definitely accept your favor." Cage's expression at this time was very serious and completely different from before.
"Okay, Your Highness, as long as I, Vidi, am here, I will definitely help you withstand all the pressure until I can't bear it anymore."
"Okay, Vidi, I will remember your words. When I come back, I will definitely give you a lot of wealth." Cage patted Vidi's shoulder. Vidi even had an illusion that Cage's expedition would happen something earth-shattering this time, and His Highness Cage was definitely not as simple as he seemed.
Cage prepared all his clothes and came to the headquarters of the logistics army with House.
"Stop, what are you doing."
The guards at the door stopped Cage and House on horseback. House took out the military supervisor token given by the king, and the guard knelt down in fear.
"I'll go in and report now." The little guard ran to the main account quickly.
After a while, a middle-aged man of medium build, wearing the Monte armor unique to the third-level general, came out with a group of logistics generals to greet Cage. Most of these people are fat and big-eared, and it seems that there is a lot of money. The logistics army has always been the most comfortable place for the army.
"Welcome, Your Highness, welcome to the military supervisor." The middle-aged man should be Skippy, who greeted him with a smile on his face. Cage got off the horse and helped him to kneel down. Skippy stood up, and it seemed that he was not sincere.
"I just came to see the generals, and I will need your care in the future." Cage also smiled.
Most of these generals had hypocritical smiles on their faces, while some of them were dismissive. In their opinion, Cage was just here for fun. There were seven golden eagles standing on the magic horse's horse rack behind him, and there was a magic bear lying behind House's buttocks. What did this prince think of this place? Was fighting a holy place for fun? Every pet was wearing a funny vest.
Spechi led Cage into the big tent and ordered people to serve wine and food to welcome Cage in the big tent.
"General Spechi, when will our logistics army set out?" Although Cage didn't understand military affairs, he also knew the principle of food and grass before troops and horses moved.
"No hurry, we will set out two days after General Cato's army sets out. Now there is a problem that needs your highness to solve." Spechi laughed and looked at Cage with a smile.
"Tell me!" Cage would not put everything on himself.
"There is still a large gap in the collection of military rations. I hope Your Highness can use your influence to order some from these merchants."
"Is that so? I can only talk about it, but I am not sure that I can get it all." Cage smiled slightly. It seems that this is the first move.
"Your Highness, military rations involve the life and death of our hundreds of thousands of troops. You must get it."
This is the beginning of using the big to suppress the small, and making the responsibility big, as if the military supervisor will bear a lot of responsibility if he fails to do it, but Cage is too clear about this kind of responsibility-shifting. "Is that so? The general's task is heavy. If he can't get it together, Marshal Cato will probably not let the general go. Since the general is so embarrassed, I can only think of a way. If it doesn't work, the general may explain it to Marshal Cato himself. At that time, I will also help you explain the situation here."
After hearing this, Scapeqi was depressed to death, and easily pushed the responsibility back, as if he did this thing and he owed him a great favor. It seems that Cage cannot be viewed as young.
"Haha, that's right, that's right. Your Highness, please, drink, drink." Scapechi laughed and said he was not bad at changing the subject.
The group drank until very late, and Cage said he had something to do and left first.
The next day, a large group of merchants came to the military camp with food to sell rice. This was Cage who contacted Vidi specifically and told them how to do it.
In such a hot scene, the quartermaster could only tell Scapechi. After Scapechi gave the order to the quartermaster, he did not show up.
"Everyone, thank you for your generosity, but we don't have much money to pay for everyone's military rations at the moment, so we can only owe them first."
"It doesn't matter, sir." One of the short and fat merchants came out, "When the empire is in trouble, it is also right to do a little for the empire. We can provide food first, but we need to ask Lord Scapechi to use his seal to stamp the list of food we provide, and just write an IOU."
The quartermaster did not expect these merchants to become so easy to talk to, but he did not dare to make the decision, so he went into the big tent to report. After hearing this, Scapechi thought about it carefully and asked the quartermaster to come out again.
"Everyone, our master said that there is no such procedure. You can write an IOU, but you can't use this seal. Everyone, go to whoever told you to use the seal."
"Mr. Quartermaster, do you want to delay the collection of military rations? Do you want to delay the action of our troops?" At some point, Cage came on horseback, and a group of people saluted hurriedly. "Go tell Mr. Scapechi that I have written to His Majesty the King and Marshal Cato about this matter. I guess there will be a reply soon. If Scapechi refuses to execute it, he will be charged with treason."
Cage's words scared the quartermaster and he hurriedly went in to report to Scapechi.
"General, something bad has happened."
"What happened?"
The quartermaster immediately told Scapechi the whole thing. Now Scapechi was in a dilemma. If he didn't approve it, His Majesty the King would kill him, and the four princes would definitely not be saved. His life was more important. There would be many opportunities in the future. He would take his time.
The quartermaster who came out agreed to the requests of the merchants, and a group of people immediately started to hand over the military rations enthusiastically.
Perhaps Scapechi didn't know that it was not easy for Cage to ask them to write an IOU. Cage even agreed to pay them a 5% handling fee and signed a long-term purchase and sales contract with them. If the army didn't pay when he returned to the imperial capital, he would personally advance the money. The guarantor was Vidi. Merchants were all profit-seeking. Since His Highness had paid them 5% of the benefits, even if they paid some money at night, it would not have much impact on them, the big merchants. The most important thing was to get on the line with Cage.