roccoschili Chapter 404 The Royal Council
Chapter 404 The Royal Council
with the dawn of the new day, the whole capital city was talking about a single thing. a rumor had spread throughout the whole city that something happened inside the royal estate.
"did you hear about what they are saying?"
"i heard someone decided to infiltrate the royal capital in broad daylight without the knowledge of the royal guards."
"not just that, they even say that the man was able to defeat all the captains of the royal guard, and the security of the royal palace had been questioned."
seated on the benches beside the stands of a dumpling cart, a few people shared their own version of the rumor.
"i think it's all fake." suddenly, a small boy working at the stall as a waiter interrupted them. "there is no way someone has the balls to do something like that in the presence of our emperor."
he spoke up with a prideful look on his face as if he was the emperor himself. hearing his words, the adults seated at the table laughed out loud.
"what a crude mouth you have, boy!" a burly man with a bushy beard slammed his hands on the table, laughing at the boy for the way he spoke. living on the streets, it was natural for the kids to pick up a curse word or two from the adults.
"hmph! i am already ten, i am not a boy! i will crush your balls one day if you don't treat me like an adult!" the small boy harrumphed before he walked away from the table to the stall, which was being managed by an old man.
"did you hear that, old li? that kid will crush your balls!" the others seated at the man's table started laughing at the bearded man while he ignored them and started shoving the dumplings one after another down his mouth in anger.
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"the reason i chose to have this exercise was also the reason i called this meeting today." wuhan shifted the air of the room as he said those words.
"ever since i have taken over my position as the emperor, i have made a lot of changes in many departments.
all of these changes have yielded great results. we have come a long way from the empire of the past, but it comes to my attention that i have not been focusing on one of the most important things of any empire...
our army!" as soon as wuhan started talking, everyone in the room forgot about the incident. they never thought that wuhan would suddenly say something like that.
standing in the corner of the hall, noah, who was in his disguise, smiled hearing wuhan's words. no one in the room had even realized that someone was standing there in that place.
"we need new hot blood in our army ranks. i know that we get new recruits every year joining us, but how long has it been since we had someone with good talent join our ranks?"
"your majesty, the generals have the right to get talented disciples to train," one of the officials asked.
"they do, but do you think that four talented disciples are enough? what if they decide to leave the army? what if they die on the battlefield?"
seeing that no one had any answers for him, wuhan continued, "all the talented youngsters decide to join the major sect instead of us. why is that?"
hearing about the major sects, all the officials sighed in unison.
"your majesty, joining the sects gives them the security of advancing without taking the risk of joining a battlefield and risking their lives." shi tzu came forward and answered. while speaking about the major sect, there was a hint of contempt in his voice.