klisemfg Chapter 297
Chapter 297
There was no other way. The livestock and poultry in the new military camp had not only eaten the grass in the Junior Preceptor's fields but also the grass in the imperial estate.That smell...
Speaking of this, Wei Shouyi could brag about it for a year. That day, he had been caught in the rain following behind. After realizing the wondrous effects of the rainwater, he went to Emperor Mingxi and offered to help pull weeds at the imperial estate.
Emperor Mingxi agreed on the spot. He had to agree; the ten thousand acres of fertile land on the imperial estate could never be managed in time by the estate workers alone.
These ten thousand new recruits were considered reliable and easily controllable strong laborers.
As a result, the chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, sheep, and other small animals benefited greatly.
"Junior Preceptor, please go first."
"Let us go together, together."
The group listened to Wei Shouyi's highly professional explanation of animal husbandry and soon arrived at the drill ground.
Ten thousand men stood in a dense, orderly formation. Apart from the fluttering banners rustling in the wind, there was no other sound. Setting aside everything else, at the very least, their military discipline had been well-trained.
Yue Fuguang took the lead without hesitation, stepping up to the commanding platform that was much taller than her. The wind caught the hem of her skirt, making it bloom like a flower.
At this moment, her expression was calm. She looked up at the drill ground, her gaze sweeping over the dense army of ten thousand men below. She was not at all intimidated by the aura of the fully armed army, which felt like a drawn sword.
Instead, wherever her gaze, carrying an innate supreme coercion, fell, everyone bowed their heads.
It wasn't that Yue Fuguang had a protagonist's halo, nor did she possess a natural kingly aura. It was all because she had equipped the item 'Intimidation' that she had previously bought from the system shop.
She had stocked up on it long ago, just waiting for this day!
While she was observing the men below the platform, they were also subtly observing her.
The name Yue Fuguang had long spread throughout Great Yan along with the potatoes that yielded a thousand catties per acre. Leaving aside other places, in the prefectures near the capital, she was known to absolutely everyone.
The soldiers standing in the drill ground knew a bit more than the commoners. They knew that the brand-new, shiny armor they were currently wearing,
and the incredibly sharp swords they held in their hands, were among the best equipment in the Great Yan army. Their treatment also far exceeded that of other troops.
All of this, whether it was the craftsmanship used to forge their weapons and armor or their food, clothing, housing, and transportation, stemmed from the demands of the nine-year-old Junior Preceptor standing on the commanding platform.
She was the true person in the Great Yan Dynasty who was beneath only one person and above tens of millions!
The crowd looked at her exquisite and tender face, which was dignified without being angry, carrying a hint of divinity that they could not comprehend.
An inexplicable urge to kneel appeared in their minds.
Yue Fuguang, equipped with the Intimidation item, was completely unaware of her true power at this moment. Seeing the soldiers looking at her with faces full of reverence,
she thought it was entirely due to the item.
"I am Yue Fuguang."
Her voice was faint, and she didn't even intentionally raise her volume when she spoke, but even those standing a hundred meters away could hear her clearly.
She continued, "I have not come today on imperial orders to muster troops. Therefore, anyone who wishes to withdraw may step forward now.
I can guarantee that you will be pardoned of any crime, and it will not affect your future promotions."
Sancha Land did not seem like a good place to go right now, and it was hard to guarantee that some of them truly didn't want to go.
A forced melon is not sweet; she would absolutely never force others to do what they did not want to do.
She waved the roster in her hand but did not immediately open it. "You have ten breaths of time to consider. If you miss this chance, I will begin calling names. Those who are selected will have no chance to back out, otherwise, they will be dealt with according to military law!"
As Yue Fuguang's words fell, the formation of ten thousand men remained silent. It looked as calm as water, but some people, without moving their heads or bodies,
were darting their eyes left and right, wishing they could grow an eye on the back of their heads.
They couldn't help it. Choosing one out of two, they were terrified that the Junior Preceptor wouldn't favor them and they would be eliminated!
Therefore, they still hoped in their hearts that someone would voluntarily withdraw.
Most of these people were soldiers who were close to the dandies like Wei Yan, Cai Bing, and Huo Sui.
They had seen with their own eyes how hard the young masters had worked to curry favor with the Junior Preceptor's second brother.
Logically, these people had comparable statuses and shouldn't all have to suck up to one person. After asking around, they learned that they were all currying favor with the Second Young Master because they wanted to go to Sancha Land.
With their shallow knowledge, they naturally couldn't see what was so good about Sancha Land, which was thousands of miles away.
But foolish people also had their own ways of survival, which was to follow the smart people. It didn't matter if they didn't understand it themselves, as long as the path was right.
One day, they would know why they had chosen this way.
There are no walls in the world that don't leak wind. The dandies' little tricks, without being deliberately hidden, slowly spread throughout the military camp.
Some wanted to follow the smart people, and some were just following the crowd. Therefore, at this moment, more than half of these ten thousand men genuinely wanted to go or were not opposed to leaving their hometowns.
Because it was said that even if they went to Sancha Land, the food would not be any worse. So, for those who couldn't get enough to eat at home, their simplest thought was that eating rations anywhere was still eating rations.
"System, sort by affection level."
Yue Fuguang still felt that she needed to let the data speak. She wasn't picking the strongest, only those who could be loyal to her in the future.
This affection data from the first meeting was very genuine.
Yue Fuguang looked at the flickering affection values going up and down on the system panel and curled the corners of her lips slightly. Leaving the others aside, the bottom five were completely motionless!
Ten breaths had passed. Yue Fuguang looked calmly at the crowd below the platform, her voice still carrying a faint sense of distance and an almost imperceptible pressure.
She didn't plan to take the approachable route to win people's hearts. Her people only needed to respect her, fear her, be loyal to her, and follow her!
It was still the same saying: she didn't make friends, she only gathered believers!
She said, "Since no one has chosen to withdraw, I will begin calling names. Ren Erniu, Fang Daping, Ge Sanqi..."
Yue Fuguang still did not open the roster. Instead, like she was taking a stroll, she walked around the commanding platform while calling out one name after another.
Calling names was also a physical task, let alone calling the names of five thousand people. For the sake of this damned sense of ceremony, and perhaps because this was the only time she would directly connect with these people, she gave it her all.
After all, having been personally selected from her mouth, emotionally, they would naturally feel different.
If it weren't for the fact that no one could replace her for this job, and if she hadn't taken a Body Strengthening Pill and a Throat Soothing Pill in advance, she might have actually held the thick roster and crossed out names.
And the people below the platform who were personally called by Yue Fuguang shouted loudly as they stepped forward half a pace, unable to hide the excitement and honor on their faces.
Yue Fuguang glanced over. Not bad, some people were grinning from ear to ear. It seemed that the overt and covert promotional efforts of her second brother and his dandy friends these past few days had been quite effective.
It was indeed true that Cai Bing, Wei Yan, and the others were currying favor with Yu Boming because they wanted to go to Sancha Land.
But if it weren't for those few deliberately leaking the information, how could those ordinary soldiers have found out the purpose behind the dandies' flattery?
Everything was an overt plot they had set up to recruit people for Yue Fuguang, without delaying their own affairs.
Whether to follow or not was entirely up to their own judgment.
They remembered the Junior Preceptor's words: she doesn't play with fools.