Luo Ning sent Su Chuo and Lu Pianpian away and returned to the city lord's palace. The first thing he ordered was to recruit troops.
On the surface, they are recruiting 5,000 private soldiers, but in fact, they are recruiting... 10,000 people!
Five thousand were trained openly, and the other five thousand were trained secretly in the underground space mentioned by Xia Chanming.
The second important thing is to inspect the tribe!
Not only did he have to inspect every tribe, but he also had to seize the time to visit every manor and every town...
To be exact, more than one million subjects must be inspected!
Luo Ning's first purpose of doing this is of course not to improve public sentiment, but to select qualified monks!
He wants to use the magical power of the Lingdaozhu to identify cultivation qualifications, select all qualified people among the people, and then allocate resources to train them into his own team!
Mainly to train military officers.
Only when the officers, soldiers and monks of various countries are equipped to the highest level can they be considered truly elite.
For example, his three Tubo centurions were the real elite of Tubo, and all of them were monks.
The monks may only equip soldiers and horses with average combat power to the squad level.
The more monks there are in the army, the more powerful the battlefield can be, and the more powerful the army can be.
Luo Ning plans to form an army of 10,000 soldiers within three years, and equip the monks to the highest level.
Then, he will need more than a thousand monks to serve as officers at all levels of the new army!
Such a large monk gap seems to be an almost unsolvable problem.
Sang Buyundan and others assured him of giving him five thousand troops and two thousand horses. One of the reasons was... they didn't think Luo Ning could train an elite force.
In their view, the backbone of monks in Luoning's new army can only be equipped to the hundred-level commander level, and it is difficult to equip them to the squad level.
As for getting to the next level...it's absolutely impossible.
Among the crowd, the proportion of people with cultivation qualifications actually exceeds one thousandth.
But in fact, the number of monks is one in three thousand.
Shunzhou has a population of nine million, but only three thousand human monks.
In other words, less than one-third of the people with cultivation qualifications have become monks.
The reason is that most cultivation qualifications are hidden and difficult to discover.
Only the Spirit Appraisal Talisman or the Spirit Appraisal Pill can detect whether a person has qualifications, what qualifications he has, and what the qualification level is.
Every time a person with cultivation qualifications is screened out from the crowd, it costs an average of one thousand Spirit Appraisal Talismans or Spirit Appraisal Pills.
The cost of screening is simply too high.
Or let the great monks use their spiritual consciousness to check one by one. But how many great monks are there in the world?
Therefore, many qualified people at the bottom have no chance to test whether they are qualified.
If Luo Ning did not have the magical power of Ling Daozhu, he would have to screen out a thousand qualified people from the crowd, which would cost him one million Spirit Appraisal Talismans or Spirit Appraisal Pills.
Even if he sells all his resources, he still won't be able to buy one million spiritual elixirs or spiritual fortune-telling talismans.
But with Ling Daozhu, it's different.
After obtaining the Yin Pearl, Luo Ning's perception of the Lingdao Pearl became even more powerful. In addition, he was already a sixth-grade master, so he could sense other people's cultivation qualifications within three feet.
As long as he walks in front of a group of people, he can screen out qualified people!
It's very efficient, but it requires a lot of effort.
He has more than 5,000 yuan in savings and is fully able to implement this plan.
He wanted to complete this important task quickly before he became mortal.
Time waits not for us!
Luoning first started from Longcuo City.
"Send an order for all the people in the city to gather in each neighborhood. I want to meet with them and understand the public sentiment!"
Luo Ning was very fast. It took him two days to complete the "people-friendly meeting" with the people in the city. From among the 100,000 people, he selected 85 young monks who were qualified for cultivation and were still young.
Then, they were all sent to the city lord's palace in the name of training stewards.
Next, Luo Ning spent a whole month "observing the sentiments of the people" and traveled all over Longcuoling and Naixuebu.
By mid-May, a total of 1,200 qualified people were selected from among the subjects.
Among them, most of them have the worst seventh-level qualifications. Generally, they can only cultivate to eighth-level monks, but it is definitely enough to hold any position.
There is definitely no first-class qualification for someone as amazing as Lu Pianpian. Nor is there any second-class qualification for a rare genius like Li Dingguo.
There are two young men with excellent third-level qualifications who can be called geniuses.
Those with good qualifications are the fourth class, and there are twelve of them.
The intermediate qualifications are fifth level, and there are more than 80 people.
The average qualification is sixth level, and there are more than 300 people.
The lowest qualification is level seven, with as many as 800 people.
It took Luo Ning a month and thousands of square inches of effort to complete this arduous task.
Fortunately, he was so attentive to people's sentiments and met people in every place at close range, so his prestige and popular support skyrocketed.
Almost everyone knows what their city lord looks like.
After a month, most of the energy consumed has been replenished.
All these 1,200 people were sent to the city lord's palace by Luo Ning, where resources were allocated and Yin Chu, Zhan Peng and others were taught the exercises.
People with excellent qualifications and good qualifications are given special treatment!
Not only that, Luo Ning was also very generous to Gu Yunxiao, Xia Chanming and others. He provided a large amount of high-end resources for everyone to use to practice breakthroughs.
Not afraid of spending money at all.
Even with money, he would increase everyone's strength and enhance Longcuo City's strength.
In order to increase everyone's cultivation speed, Luo Ning did not hesitate to take out 20,000 spiritual stones and arrange spiritual veins in the city's palace, making the spiritual energy of the entire city lord's palace extremely rich.
Burn money!
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May 18th.
Seems like a good day.
Lu Pianpian and Su Chuo have been away for more than a month.
Luo Ning looked at the rich spiritual energy in the City Lord's Mansion and sensed the fluctuations of the spiritual energy being cultivated by everyone, but felt extremely uneasy in his heart.
All in all, it was less than half a month before he would turn into a mortal at the latest.
In the next ten days and a half, he will definitely usher in a year-long period of mortal transformation.
Same as useless person!
Maybe it's better than being paralyzed.
Although Luo Ning was ready, he was still uneasy, a bit like a prisoner waiting for trial.
Just in case, he hid in a secret room under the pretext of seclusion.
In the secret room, there is food, water, books... everything except women.
Waiting is also painful.
Just that night, Luo Ning suddenly sensed the heart-stopping Taoist rhyme coming from Ling Daozhu, as if yin and yang had completely merged together.
Immediately afterwards, all four of his spiritual veins were sealed, and all the mana in his body was lost.
Ling Daozhu lost his senses.
Even the sense of the five senses is rapidly declining, and even the strength of muscles and bones is shrinking!
Mortal stage!
In the blink of an eye, Luo Ning became an ordinary person.
But it's not over yet.
His energy and blood seemed to have been drained, and his whole body became emaciated, his face was sallow and his muscles were thin, his limbs were sore and weak, and his energy was weak.
Like a heavy smoker! Or being drained by a drunken beauty.
He's so weak that he can't even beat an ordinary strong man.
"Fuck..." Even though Luo Ning was mentally prepared, he couldn't help but curse.
It is simply powerless to restrain a chicken!
Luo Ning stood up and walked around the secret room for a few times before feeling tired.
What a loser!
"With this body, I will be bullied by women." Luo Ning's face turned green, "Will it take a year?"
Fortunately, he is not paralyzed yet and can move.
July has arrived in the blink of an eye, and Luo Ning has been in the secret room for more than a month.
The days are like years.
What worries him even more is that according to the engagement agreement with "Lu Pianpian", she will personally terminate the engagement and divorce him after one year.
Counting it all together, it’s been just these few days.
Luo Ning sighed secretly, put down the books in his hands, and prepared to take a nap.
After becoming a mortal, his physical condition was extremely poor and he felt sleepy at every turn.
Just as Luo Ning lay down, a cold and melodious voice suddenly sounded: "How did you become like this?"
"Who!" Luo Ning suddenly woke up in a daze and sat up as if he had been stung by a scorpion.