Of course, everyone knows this is just an excuse. The truth is that the majority of the officers and soldiers in these guards have family members now working for enterprises under the Red Peak Consortium. Although they still rely on the food from the Viscount Nan Jiu Mansion, deep down, they have long been people of the Red Peak Consortium.
Even the situation within the private military fleet of the Viscount Nan Jiu Mansion was the same, so the order by Grue's brother to bombard the planet's surface was instantly rejected.
