Chapter 542 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Sui Xiong was not familiar with history, but that didn’t matter that because netizens understood history.

When chatting with netizens, he once heard a story. In ancient times, a tribe called “Miao” or “You Miao,” Sui Xiong couldn’t recall, did not obey the orders of its emperor. At that time, the emperor was Shun, but there were other leaders, Yao and Yu. Together, they were the three most famous tribe leaders in ancient China. He had sent a group of big men with axes and shields to a place near the tribe and conducted an armed exercise. After that, the tribe began to obey his orders.

The reference to this matter was called “Xiuwen de.” Sui Xiong still did not understand why the armed exercise was called “Wen” virtue. If an armed exercise could even be called “Wen” virtue, then what kind of killings could be considered “Martial” virtue?

When Sui Xiong heard the story at that time, he felt that the emperor’s practice was too pretentious, but he also thought this practice was a good way to make all the other tribes listen to him. Therefore, he had been wondering about how to implement this practice in his own kingdom. Hearing what Palin had said at the moment, Sui Xiong couldn’t help but think of this story and laugh.

After laughing, he supplemented Palin’s plan.

“We will not only display fine weapons and armor near the portal, but we will also send troops to train and exercise in the portal square… Oh no! The portal square is too small. Well, let’s put up a large projection there and show everyone the scene of our exercises!”

Palin was stunned for a moment and asked, “Exercise? What does that mean?”

Sui Xiong just remembered that there was no concept of “exercise” in this world. If someone wanted to train their armies, they could train them very hard in barracks. One could also find Magic Beasts or robbers and ask his armies to fight with those beasts and robbers. Of course, if conditions permitted, large-scale hunting could also be organized and used as a military exercise.

Generally speaking, their military concepts were quite backwards!

However, Sui Xiong didn’t know that in ancient times, similar military exercises were also used. The only reason why it seemed backwards was because there were not enough resources to afford military exercises like in modern times.

In military exercises, some people were inevitably injured. Ancient medical standards were far behind modern ones. The death rate of soldiers who were injured during military exercises was very high, so no one would conduct a military exercise.

But this was not a problem for the Northwest Republic because they not only had enough medical teams but also had Sui Xiong’s full support. Even if their soldiers were badly injured, Sui Xiong could cure them. With Sui Xiong’s help, it was not easy for the soldiers to die accidentally.

With reliable security guarantees, the Northwest Republic could certainly conduct military exercises. So Sui Xiong called together the military officials of the Northwest Republic and announced that he wanted to conduct a military exercise.

“No problem,” said the evil god Leonard. He was almost the chief military officer. “But it takes some time to mobilize and assemble troops from all over the country and to change their equipment. Until they are fully adapted to the new equipment, they can’t receive the relevant training. After training them for a period of time, we can conduct a military exercise.”

Sui Xiong frowned and asked, “How long will that take?”

“If we have sufficient equipment, it will take about two months.”

Sui Xiong certainly understood that Leonard was right, but he could not help but sigh.

It would take two months… Mortal armies were really inconvenient!

If they were Oracle troops, they would not need much time to prepare; they could receive training tomorrow. If Sui Xiong was really in a hurry, once he gave the orders, those Oracle troops would be able to start the exercise immediately.

But Sui Xiong also knew that the Oracle troops were totally different from mortals. Essentially, they were just the manifestations of magic power. It was not very meaningful to train those Oracle troops. For the Oracles of the elite level, the training would have some effect, but for those mass-produced Oracles, any training would be meaningless.