Chapter 509
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Chapter 509: A True Man Adapts
Half a month after the blizzard stopped, the temperature within Myriad World Civilization clearly began to rise.
Outside the civilization, the snow that Luo Ji had deliberately left uncleared also slowly began to melt.
This made Luo Ji a little melancholic, as it meant his days of acting unilaterally and as he pleased were coming to an end.
Once the snow on the outer borders melted, the deployment of defensive forces and resisting invasions from other players would become a problem he had to face.
He could no longer be like before, where he didn’t need to worry about his civilization’s defenses at all, just taking a single unit and rampaging through other players’ territories.
Before the temperature completely rose and the ice and snow fully melted, Luo Ji quickly fought two more invasion battles, plundering two waves of resources.
Then, he silently activated his truce token.
A true man knows when to bend and when to stand tall.
When it’s time to back off, one must back off.
Myriad World Civilization was currently in a period of widespread revitalization.
He had to worry about matters in all sectors.
And there were also the grasslanders.
He wondered if the blizzard had wiped them out.
If they had all perished, that would truly be a great help to him.
However, such thoughts were just that, thoughts.
Luo Ji wasn’t that naive.
If it were that easy to eliminate them, how could the grasslanders persisted throughout the history of the Celestial Dynasty?
There’s a saying in nature, “survival of the fittest.”
This phrase, undoubtedly, refers to adapting to the living environment.
As the wisest of all creatures, humans have continued from ancient times to modern society, clearly embodying “survival of the fittest” to the extreme.
No one can deny the almost tenacious adaptability of the human race.
Returning to the main topic, at the beginning of winter, Luo Ji had considered sending troops to the grasslands to conquer the grasslanders, to make those who had been raiding his supply convoys before winter behave themselves.
Although spring hadn’t arrived yet and food hadn’t been fully stockpiled, it was time to start tackling these matters one by one.
To conquer the grasslanders, intelligence gathering was undoubtedly an important task.
Otherwise, even with a massive army, where would you strike?
Or would you even know where their camps were?
These matters clearly required thorough reconnaissance.
He immediately wrote a handwritten order, instructing the garrisons of the three grassland cities to begin reconnaissance.
In this other world that was almost identical to reality, fighting a war wasn’t as simple as in a game, where you just moved a mouse and pressed keys.
The series of pre-war preparations, such as enemy reconnaissance, stockpiling provisions, and deploying troops, could take a month or two quickly, or even a year and a half slowly, which was not uncommon.
These tasks were naturally all entrusted to Guo Jia, the military’s chief of staff, to prepare.
Now, with Lu Yang on his left hand and Guo Jia on his right, Luo Ji found handling government affairs much easier, not just by a little bit.
However, the workload didn’t seem to decrease.
Especially these past few days.
Throughout the winter, while Luo Ji was out raiding every now and then, Lu Yang, who was acting as temporary administrator, was utterly swamped.
Now, Luo Ji, being relatively considerate, gave him a short holiday and also rewarded him with many items, telling him to rest well.
Of course, the result was that he inadvertently burdened himself…
He drained the strong tea in his cup.
With renewed spirits, Luo Ji had just finished arranging work for some of the people who had been disabled in the accident.
He tried his best to assign them jobs they could do.
To be honest, it was quite exhausting.
But no matter what, it was finally arranged.
At the same time, considering their physical condition, Luo Ji also issued a new political decree.
Disabled workers could receive a disability subsidy for the first 3 months.
To put it bluntly, he was worried that their work efficiency wouldn’t be high enough for them to earn a sufficient wage to support themselves.
However, this subsidy couldn’t be issued indefinitely.
Luo Ji’s Myriad World Civilization did not have such abundant resources, especially at this critical juncture when resources were needed everywhere.
So, after some deliberation, Luo Ji set a 3 month limit.
For those with leg disabilities, Luo Ji naturally wouldn’t assign them to jobs like mining or logging.
Instead, he would choose to arrange some manual labor for them.
If, despite being able to perform the work, someone still couldn’t adapt to the new job after 3 months, it was likely an issue with their work attitude.
Besides that, another troublesome issue was the children…
More precisely, the children who had lost both parents in the blizzard and became orphans.
Faced with this problem, what else could he do but build orphanages?
Luo Ji, with no other choice, could only add new workload to the Architectural Engineering Department.
“Hang in there, old Director He!”
Meanwhile, the events of this snow disaster and Luo Ji’s decisions naturally had to undergo a series of operations.
Luo Ji’s decision to save people at that time was out of his genuine compassion.
However, after saving them, as the Emperor of Myriad World Civilization, he naturally had to consider maximizing the value of this event.
Thus, this decision would undoubtedly spread throughout Myriad World Civilization through the mouths of storytellers.
This was the perfect time to win over the hearts of the people, especially after enduring the snow disaster and amidst the current turbulent situation.
And at the same time, on the other side, with the relighting of each forging furnace, the temperature around the Armament Forging Department began to steadily rise.
While the furnaces were heating up, the artisans of the Armament Forging Department were also not idle.
They quickly opened the department’s internal warehouse.
The warehouse doors had been sealed for an entire winter, and it felt like the contents inside were almost molding.
The artisans dared not delay, quickly moving cartloads of weapons and equipment out of the warehouse.
Liu Shu, the head of the Armament Department, stood by, flipping through a small notebook, shouting loudly.
“Everyone move quickly! Before noon, confirm and check the quantity of weapons and equipment sent over by the military!”
The weapons and equipment of Myriad World Civilization’s army, after a certain number of uses, were regularly sent to the Armament Department for re-polishing or even remelting, to ensure their quality and sharpness.
Before the blizzard hit, the military had just replaced a batch of weapons and sent them to the Armament Department. However, the blizzard then started, and all departments and factories within Myriad World Civilization essentially ceased operations.
The Armament Department was no exception.
As such, the artisans’ work at hand had naturally been delayed until now.
At this very moment, after everyone had finished counting and verifying, Liu Shu, the department head, had his eyebrows furrowed tightly.
“Are you sure the numbers aren’t wrong? Are there any weapons left in the warehouse that haven’t been moved out?!”
Everyone’s expression first froze upon hearing this.
Then, one of the artisans quickly ran back into the warehouse to double-check.
It turned out that everything in the Armament Department’s warehouse had been moved out, with nothing left behind.
This answer made Liu Shu’s heart sink.
“Then count and verify it again! This is very important, everyone be careful!”
Without even time for lunch, everyone finished counting again.
Looking at the numbers reported one by one, Liu Shu’s heart completely sank to the bottom.
“The numbers… don’t match…”
