Jia Zhengjin immediately swore that the entire team would not do anything detrimental to the king or even the Principality of Teros.
After he swore the oath, the bearded uncle felt relieved and said: "Okay! Since you have sworn to the gods and proved yourself, then come with me and I will take you to see the king!"
"Thank you!" Jia Zhengjin quickly greeted Tina, Perrin, Christina, Aipal and Vanessa, and followed the bearded uncle with the Tiger Bee mount.
In order to show goodwill, the mud jars that the bearded man used to store water were hung on the tiger bees so that they could carry them around to save energy.
"Where are the guests coming from?" The bearded man led the way, looking back at the tiger bees from time to time. "What's going on with these tiger bees? I've never heard of anyone being able to train tiger bees into mounts. Look.
She seems quite obedient."
"We are the mercenaries of Holy Dragon City!" Jia Zhengjin replied calmly, "Have you ever heard of the Holy Soul Mercenary Group?"
"Oh~ I've heard a little bit about it!" The bearded man nodded immediately, "No wonder, I just guessed that you have something to do with Holy Dragon City."
"Why?"
"I heard that you can tame Ruruto as a mount in Holy Dragon City, and you can even tame all kinds of monsters. In this case, it should be no problem to tame tiger bees." The bearded uncle smiled as he walked, "Besides, you guys seem to be very good at taming them.
I care about topics related to Holy Dragon City, so I can basically be sure that it's someone from there."
"Awesome!" Jia Zhengjin nodded, "I am Martin Payton of the Holy Soul Mercenary Group, a third-level priest. These are my wife, the third-level magician Conte, and Chris, who is also a third-level priest.
There is also a third-level warrior Lin. The other two are our companions Aipal and Vanessa. Aipal is also a third-level magician, and Vanessa is the most powerful fourth-level warrior among us!"
"Oh?" The bearded man glanced at Vanessa doubtfully, then smiled noncommittally, "That's right!"
"I haven't asked yet..." After Jia Zhengjin introduced himself, he directly asked the bearded uncle's name.
"Me?" The bearded uncle led them to the door of a huge wooden house, opened the door and made a gesture to invite them in, "Come in and talk."
"Aren't you looking for the king?" Jia Zhengjin asked curiously, but still led the team into the wooden house with him.
After arriving at the wooden house, I found that there were several soldiers guarding the entrance to the house. When I saw the bearded man coming in, I immediately saluted respectfully: "See Lord Platon!"
"No gifts!" The bearded man waved his hand, "Is Roman here?"
"Your Majesty is studying!" the soldier replied respectfully.
"Well! I'm bringing guests to visit His Majesty. Please don't disturb me during this time."
"yes!"
"Come with me!" The bearded man turned around and said to Jia Zhengjin with a smile.
Jia Zhengjin was a little surprised. He led the team behind him and entered the wooden house directly: "They called you Lord Platon?"
"Excuse me!" the bearded uncle said with a smile, "Platon is my name, and my current position is the Prime Minister of the Left of the Principality of Teros. I am also the uncle of His Majesty Roman."
"Holy crap!" Jia Zhengjin was frightened, "Prime Minister Zuo, the king's uncle? You, you actually sell water on the roadside? That's not right! If you are such a big official, why don't others react?"
"Because I'm used to it!" Platon said with a smile, "Our country is different from other places. There is not much difference between officials and civilians. In fact, on that street just now, there were at least thirty or forty high-ranking officials selling goods.
Water. Whether civilians or officials, they have to support themselves. There is no way."
"Destroy the three views!" Jia Zhengjin was stunned, because such a thing was unheard of.
"His Majesty Roman should be upstairs, please wait here for a moment, I will inform you first." When they arrived at the stairs, Platon turned around and said, asking them to wait, and then went directly to the upstairs along the wooden stairs.
A young-sounding voice soon came from above, talking directly to Platon.
Because there is no sound insulation effect, it can be heard clearly below. It was Platon who informed that a guest was coming and asked His Majesty the King to stop the book in his hand and receive the guest.
Rather than being said to be a conversation between the king and Prime Minister Zuo, it is more like an exchange between uncles and nephews in an ordinary family.
After a while, Platon said from above: "Pastor Martin, your majesty invites you to come up."
"Okay!" Jia Zhengjin immediately took the girls to the room upstairs.
As a king's room, it is really simple. In fact, it is just an ordinary residence, just a little bigger than an ordinary civilian's home. Other than that, it is nothing special.
In front of the window in the room, there was a young man in his twenties sitting, with a thick stack of books and a teacup on the table.
This young man should be the Roman king, but he is neither wearing a crown nor a king's robe. Walking outside, he would probably be thought of as just an ordinary villager.
Jia Zhengjin made sure that there was no one else at the scene, so he took the girls and politely saluted and said hello: "See His Majesty the King!"
"What do you want from me?" Roman looked at Jia Zhengjin and others curiously, then frowned and looked at his uncle, "They cover their heads and faces and don't show their true colors. Is there any problem?"
"Don't worry, Your Majesty," Platon said immediately, "the guests just now have sworn to the gods that they will never do any harm to you or the Principality of Teros!"
"That's good!" Roman breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at Jia Zhengjin, "Guests, the Prime Minister has just told me your identities. Mercenaries from Shenglong City, what do you want to say to me?"
"It's probably about the cement road!" Platon reminded softly from the side.
"That's right!" Jia Zhengjin nodded, "As for the cement road, the Lord of the City cannot omit any link in his plan, so..."
"A cement road?" Roman sighed with emotion, "I heard it's pretty good, but we can't afford it. The treasury of the Principality of Teros is empty... It should be said that there is no treasury at all. We are poor! Building a cement road will definitely cost a fortune.
With such a huge amount of money, I can barely support my own people, so where can I get so much money? Moreover, our country has scarce resources or even no resources at all, so there is really nothing we can do!"
"We will report this matter to the Lord of Holy Dragon City ourselves. It seems that there is no need to discuss it in detail with the mercenaries!" Platon interjected from the side.
"Actually, we can really discuss this matter!" Jia Zhengjin replied, "Actually, our mercenary group accepted the commission from the Lord of Shenglong City, and this time we went to the island country of Yilan to deal with the unwillingness to build cement.
The problem of roads is not limited to the island nation of Elan, but also applies to other regions. Therefore, the cement road construction project here is actually under my control!"
"Oh, there is such a thing?" Platon was a little surprised, "But even so, you can see the current situation of our country. There is really nothing we can do!"
"That's why I approached His Majesty the King, hoping to solve this problem!" Jia Zhengjin said, "I have an idea, and we can discuss the feasibility in detail!" (To be continued)
