Chapter 371
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Chapter 371: Longing
3 days later, the military funeral ended.
After Luo Ji bestowed some simple rewards upon the generals and soldiers who participated in this battle within the Shangyuan City military camp, his subordinate generals, Liu Meng, Guo Zhen, and others, quickly returned to the cities they were responsible for defending.
At the same time, Luo Ji began to have another headache with the distribution of military strength.
This battle had cost him nearly half of his military strength, meaning some cities might face a shortage of troops.
He had to reasonably re-distribute the remaining troops.
This issue of troop distribution undoubtedly gave him a considerable headache.
His gaze then unconsciously fell upon the slinger soldier units.
Slinger soldiers, who usually only engaged in siege defense, had the city wall, the strongest cover in the cold weapon era, providing them with protection.
After several major battles, the casualty count for this unit naturally wasn’t very high.
However, after this major war, with troops scarce everywhere, the weakness of the slinger soldier unit, its lack of versatility, was once again clearly exposed.
With the development of the era and the increasing complexity of the situation, the disadvantages of this unit began to become more and more apparent.
Luo Ji was already considering reducing the total number of slinger soldiers, converting them into archers, or some other unit types.
Of course, such a conversion could not be completed in a short time.
After all, as an important defensive force for Luo Ji in the early stages, there were quite a few slinger soldiers.
He could only gradually begin to deal with the matter of unit conversion.
However, Luo Ji estimated that he could retain Zhao Pan’s slinger soldiers for a long time.
All the others would gradually be converted, leaving only Zhao Pan’s slinger soldier unit.
After all, Zhao Pan also had a gold-tier slinger soldier specialization skill.
Combined with his defensive characteristics, the slinger unit in his hands was fundamentally two completely different unit types compared to in the hands of other generals.
While Luo Ji was worrying about this troop issue, on the other side, it took a day to rush Luo Ji’s orders back to Mirror City.
Then another day to let the various storytellers familiarize themselves with the new story.
Now, they still took a day to spread the news of the great victory on the front lines and the capture of a large number of beastman soldiers throughout the entire Myriad Worlds Civilization, through the mouths of the storytellers!
In this era with virtually no entertainment, storytellers were incredibly popular.
Luo Ji’s move back then was truly too wise.
Just as countless people, filled with curiosity, were constantly thinking about when their Emperor would return to Mirror City, and also letting them see for themselves if the beastmen were truly exactly as described by the storytellers, in another room within Mirror City, another group of people was also going crazy thinking about Luo Ji, his secretaries.
“Ah…”
A low, slightly hoarse voice rang out in the office.
At this very moment, Shi Yaoshan, the Chief Secretary, was straining to keep his bloodshot eyes wide open.
One hand supported his heavy forehead, the other slowly flipped through the work report on the desk.
“I feel like my body has been hollowed out…”
“Where did you hear that? It’s really fitting.”
As he spoke, Liu Dong guzzled down the cup of hot tea next to him.
He said it was to refresh himself, but having worked overtime to this extent, he no longer felt any refreshing effect.
“I heard His Majesty say it earlier.”
Shi Yaoshan replied casually.
“More importantly, when exactly will His Majesty return to Mirror City? Seriously, I’m almost done for. I need a holiday! I need a break!”
Liu Xing, propping up his head, voiced his protest.
“If you have that much energy, you might as well use it to get to work quickly.”
As he spoke, Shi Yaoshan vigorously rubbed his temples.
“A battle just ended, there are so many things on the front line waiting for His Majesty to deal with. This isn’t a joke, you know?”
Liu Xing sighed upon hearing this.
They all understood the logic, but with His Majesty absent, nearly 90% of the documents and reports were all piled up in their secretary’s office.
It truly was painful!
“Hey, let’s talk about something, anything. If this continues, we’re all going to collapse.”
Liu Dong, who almost wished he could just stuff tea leaves directly into his mouth, said this in an extremely tired voice.
Hearing this, Shi Yaoshan unconsciously glanced at the other three people in the secretary’s office.
Then, looking at Lu Yang, who was propping up his head and seemed to be either awake or asleep, he couldn’t help but call out.
“Hey, Lu Yang, are you still alive?”
Hearing Shi Yaoshan’s call, Lu Yang’s head jerked violently.
“A-awake…”
As he spoke, Lu Yang vigorously shook his head again, and also scooped some cold water from a basin nearby to splash on his face.
Only then did he barely manage to rouse a shred of energy.
“Seriously, Brother Shi, is there any progress on recruiting people for our office?”
As soon as this question was asked, Liu Dong and Liu Xing next to him also pricked up their ears.
Shi Yaoshan vigorously shook his head.
He didn’t know if he was suddenly feeling sleepy and trying to wake himself up, or if he wanted to indicate ‘no progress,’ or perhaps both.
“Do you think just anyone has the qualifications and ability to sit here? How could recruiting for our secretary’s office be that simple?”
Shi Yaoshan’s words weren’t self-praise, but a statement of fact.
Look at the predecessors who came out of the secretary’s office. Sun Li and Bai Xu, for example, are each now influential city lord-level figures within their Myriad Worlds Civilization.
And the people in their secretary’s office could clearly be considered ‘city lord’ reserve candidates.
From this, one could imagine what kind of outstanding abilities were required to sit there.
At the same time, without sufficient work ability, even if they were reluctantly recruited, they would ultimately only hinder things, and it would be better to have no one at all.
As he spoke, Shi Yaoshan glanced at the remaining number of documents and reports beside him, then he looked at Lu Yang, whose face was somewhat pale.
Then, he heard him say.
“There aren’t many documents left. Lu Yang, if you really can’t hold on, you can call it a day.”
“Thank you.”
He showed no intention of declining, he was truly, genuinely at his limit.
After saying his thanks, there was a muffled thud as Lu Yang’s forehead made direct, zero-distance contact with the desktop in front of him.
Immediately afterward, a series of snores followed.
In response, the expressions on the faces of Shi Yaoshan and the other two in the secretary’s office remained essentially unchanged.
Because the truth was, during the period Luo Ji was at the front lines, the massive workload exhausted them daily to the point they didn’t even have the strength to go home.
Collapsing into sleep after finishing work was their normal state during this time.
