While they stayed in Liang for the winter, Emperor of Liang frequently invited him to banquets and tried to ingratiate himself with him, while Kabak dealt with him perfunctorily.
Later, during a drinking feast, Emperor of Liang took advantage of his slight drunkenness to ask a rather sensitive question...
"Commander Kabak, you have led the Mercenary Corps through quite a few battles, I imagine. You should have a fair understanding of the surrounding countries, shouldn't you?"
Kabak might not have been especially clever, but he was by no means a fool. How could he fail to hear that Emperor of Liang wanted to pry information about the surrounding powers out of him?
In fact, from Kabak's perspective, there was no need for the other party to beat around the bush. His Centaur mercenaries had always only cared about taking money and fighting battles. They did not concern themselves with anything else.
Keeping their employers' secrets was not within the scope of their business, either.
Of course, under normal circumstances, he would not go around blabbing his employers' intelligence.
But this time was different. Emperor of Liang had allowed them to spend the winter here, so to some extent, they owed him a favor.
With that thought, Kabak simply gave him the intelligence on his previous employer—in other words, Yan Sheng—as repayment for the favor.
Now that he had seen Emperor of Liang and observed his manner, Kabak knew that the other party had probably already gone to verify the intelligence. At the same time, he had formed a few guesses of his own.
"Why has Emperor of Liang summoned me this time?"
Seeing this, Emperor of Liang stopped beating around the bush.
"Commander Kabak, if I were to hire you and go to war with Huaxia, how much chance of