News that the Tracking Mercenary Group had been mobilized for the subjugation campaign spread everywhere through Senior Soldier Bulsheben. Of course, War Merchant Panfanel was able to hear it too.
"Phew."
He breathed a sigh of relief. Panfanel had deliberated so long over one gold coin that it had taken serious thought. Giving a gold coin to a mercenary group whose income was mostly silver coins was something that made you think that hard. How much money he had wasn't the basis for judgment.
If it were, everyone would be walking around with gold coins.
Only narrow-minded and selfish greed could lower someone else's value. Even if it meant throwing in a haunch of salted venison as a sweetener, loosening the purse strings for subordinates wasn't the right call. Once they feel satisfied, they start getting other ideas.
It was a ruthless way of thinking, but thirst was the best method for managing people.
'Almost would've been in big trouble if I hadn't given it.'
