Actually, the cook was pretty cunning himself.
He didn't give Samir the 200 US dollars for nothing.
As soon as he started the job, he got Samir to help him recruit local mercenaries.
Although it wasn't difficult to recruit 60 local mercenaries in just a few days, since people here were desperately poor now, many joined various armed organizations just to survive, with some even becoming informants for those organizations to scrape by.
As long as the salary was reasonable, many locals flocked to the jobs. However, there was a critical issue with local security forces: the quality of individual soldiers.