Chapter 314
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Chapter 314: News Spreads
The howling ferocious tiger’s massive body heavily crashed to the ground.
Luo Ji’s final arrow, shot directly into its mouth, delivered a fatal blow.
Scarlet blood slowly oozed from the fatal wound, quickly forming a pool.
After a while, confirming that the ferocious tiger was completely dead, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He had originally thought that relying on weapons and his warhorse, coupled with his current strength, the victory should have been relatively easy.
However, it turned out to be unexpectedly thrilling.
It seemed he still couldn’t underestimate the threat of wild beasts to humans, one absolutely couldn’t be careless.
At this thought, he couldn’t help but look up at Shadow, who was continuously circling in the air, then quickly rolled up his cloak so Shadow could rest on his forearm for a bit.
“Thank you so much this time.”
Luo Ji said with emotion while stroking Shadow’s feathers.
Shadow’s swift descent and blinding of the ferocious tiger’s eyes truly astonished him.
It had only recently been able to catch small prey like rabbits and birds.
Perhaps, just as Bai Ze and Burigude said, Shadow was indeed the descendant of a divine eagle from the plains.
Hearing this, Liaoyuan Huo beneath him directly snorted, expressing its protest, as if saying that even without Shadow’s unnecessary intervention, it could have handled it.
In response, Luo Ji chuckled twice, then patted Liaoyuan Huo’s mane to appease it.
“Thank you too, good partner!”
As they spoke, Guo Zhen and the others had already ridden up.
Upon seeing that Luo Ji was unharmed, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The moment that ferocious tiger counterattacked was truly terrifying for them.
Of course, putting that aside, the battle, which unfolded and ended almost in a single breath, could indeed be described as spectacular.
From Shadow blinding the ferocious tiger’s eyes, to Liaoyuan Huo’s rear kick, and finally to Luo Ji’s fatal arrow, the entire process was almost seamless, truly broadening the horizons of those who witnessed it.
It also made Guo Zhen look at Liaoyuan Huo and Shadow with even greater envy.
The largest prey had been hunted.
After the ferocious tiger occupied this area, it was unlikely there were any other animals left.
Ordering the accompanying soldiers to carry the ferocious tiger’s corpse, the group swaggered back to the city.
Some ancient emperors, even if they hadn’t accomplished great feats, would invent a few.
However, Luo Ji had genuinely shot and killed the ferocious tiger outside West Plains City, eliminating a menace for the people of West Plains City.
There was no reason not to promote it thoroughly, using this opportunity to further calm the emotions of the West Plains City people and win over their hearts.
However, despite calling it promotion, in reality, not much needed to be done.
Simply carrying the ferocious tiger’s corpse back to the city would naturally spread the news.
In just one day, the news of Luo Ji shooting the ferocious tiger had spread throughout West Plains City, becoming a significant topic of conversation among the people of West Plains City after meals.
Everyone spoke with great excitement, as if they had witnessed it firsthand.
This era was just like this.
People’s lives were a bit more comfortable now, but after a day’s work, there were basically no decent entertainment activities.
So, they could only gather in groups, drinking tea and chatting or bragging.
Luo Ji, after the successful research of printing technology, had actually considered publishing newspapers throughout the Myriad Worlds Civilization.
Newspapers were a good thing, arguably an important medium for information dissemination in an era.
More importantly, they could, to some extent, reflect and guide public opinion.
For example, in a war, if things were at a stalemate with the enemy, causing panic within the civilization, and then a few ill-intentioned troublemakers jumped out to mislead the public, saying they were doomed, that the enemy would invade, that they couldn’t defeat those enemies, then undoubtedly, the situation within the civilization would certainly become even worse.
Facing such a situation, with newspapers available, one could immediately send out a few representative generals for an exclusive interview, clearly telling their people that they had ample troops and full confidence, and that the enemy could not breach their civilization’s border defenses.
This was one method.
However, Luo Ji later thought seriously and realized that the timing was not right.
In his civilization, only a small portion of the population was literate at this stage.
In such circumstances, publishing newspapers would likely have little noticeable effect.
He was now focusing on popularizing culture for the next generation.
That’s why he had been busy building academies and printing books recently.
As for currently implementable methods, a thought struck him, and he indeed came up with one.
It’s fine if they can’t read the words, as long as they can understand what they hear, right?
At this moment, Luo Ji thought of an ancient profession in their Celestial Dynasty, the storyteller!
Once this idea clicked in his mind, Luo Ji felt increasingly confident in it.
On one hand, listening to stories could count as entertainment, to a certain extent occupying people’s leisure time and enriching their daily lives, perhaps even slightly increasing habitability.
On the other hand, he could use the storytellers’ mouths to convey the messages he wanted to convey.
For instance, some time ago, he spread rumors of his immortality.
If he had had a group of storytellers at his disposal then, telling this story of immortality through their mouths, the efficiency of information dissemination would probably have been higher than that of the Mirror Division.
At the same time, this incident of him shooting the ferocious tiger outside West Plains City could also be turned into a story, which would help him, the Emperor, establish his image.
Luo Ji even wanted to create several stories of heroic martyrs to encourage young people in his civilization to join the military.
Perhaps this could also somewhat alleviate his current predicament with conscription.
He also planned to spread ideas like, “Every man has a share of responsibility for the rise and fall of the nation” and “The virtuous shall obtain the throne, the benevolent shall rule,” encouraging his people to learn these spirits.
At this point, Luo Ji’s entire plan and steps became clear in his mind.
After quickly writing it down on paper, he handed this matter over to Luo Jin.
Luo Jin was to carefully select candidates for storytellers.
Once chosen, Luo Ji would personally review their attribute panels, ensuring everything was foolproof.
Furthermore, as Luo Ji’s spoils of war, how the ferocious tiger’s corpse should be dealt with was obviously up to him.
However, people of this era, when they caught a wild beast, seemed to have no other method of dealing with it besides eating it.
Thus, the meat would be eaten, the fur made into a coat, and the bones, according to his wishes, would be used to brew tiger bone wine.
Although Luo Ji himself was not a drinker, when he had nothing else to reward in the future, he could bestow this tiger bone wine upon his subordinates and officials.
This would simultaneously solve another headache.
