Chapter 280: Le's Declaration of Emperorship (7)
Three days had passed since the prisoners were forcibly conscripted and organized into an army.
All the heroes in the martial arts world were very smart. No one chose to die. Instead, they chose to eat Le Yi's food, take Le Yi's salary, carry swords, and follow Le Yi in rebellion.
That night.
In the messy camp, Le Yi, Le De and a group of Le family sons were drinking happily in the central army tent. More than 20 famous girls recruited from the pleasure boats were laughing happily.
Outside the central army tent, teams of elite soldiers in heavy armor were patrolling back and forth, and personal guards such as Le Yi were standing guard in secret.
In the surrounding barracks, many heroes who had been imprisoned for who knows how long were breathing heavily and listening to the sounds coming from the central army tent.
Some experienced heroes in the martial arts world muttered to themselves: "With this kind of military discipline, I'm afraid we... have no future."
There were also some fierce-minded heroes who were so excited that they trembled: "What a wonderful life! Eating meat and drinking wine in big bowls, killing people and setting fires, robbing money, food and girls... These days are so happy! I can't wait to go to the battle!"
Lu Fu was appointed by Le Yi as the military commander, chief clerk and commander of the rear army.
The so-called rear army commander is actually the head of the logistics troops, who is responsible for the allocation and distribution of all food, wages, and supplies and other such matters.
Unlike the combat troops formed by desperate heroes, the logistics troops that Lu Yi was in charge of were all good family men recruited from the public. In the rear army camp where Lu Yi was located, the tents were built neatly and methodically.
In the tent of the rear army commander, a huge white jade basin was suspended in front of Lu Yi.
Lu Yi poured out a bowl of Xuanyuan divine water from the Guixu treasure bottle, as well as hundreds of medicinal herbs from previous years that had the effect of strengthening the body and nourishing the blood.
He chanted a secret spell and rubbed his hands gently, using the heat from his own essence and blood to bake the herbs dry. With a huge force, all the herbs turned into fine powder, which floated into the white jade basin.
Wisps of blood essence and true fire burned around the white jade basin. Lu Yi kept forming seals with his hands, and one seal after another attracted the spiritual power of heaven and earth, slowly seeping into the white jade basin. Accompanied by a faint herbal aroma, the mixture of Xuanyuan divine water and herbs in the white jade basin was wriggling like mud in a swamp, constantly emitting bubbles of various sizes.
After refining it for a long time, Lu Yi made a stroke with his right hand, and his fingernail cut the middle finger of his left hand. Three drops of blood essence flashed with faint golden light, and fell into the white jade basin with three "ding ding ding" sounds.
Lu Yu is now a master who has planted the Golden Lotus Seed. His body is particularly powerful. The blood energy contained in a drop of his essence and blood is tens of thousands of times that of an ordinary person.
Three drops of essence and blood merged into the white jade basin, and a rich and powerful essence and blood energy erupted like a volcano, ready to spread violently in all directions.
Lu Yi chanted a secret spell, and an invisible force firmly restrained the slightly trembling white jade basin, forcibly suppressing the essence and blood energy in the white jade basin.
The mixture of Xuanyuan Divine Water and various herbs gradually solidified, and eventually turned into half a basin of red, transparent crystals that were as clear as glass. This crystal was extremely dense, and a small half basin actually weighed tens of thousands of pounds.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Yi took out the crystal and with a flick of his finger, he turned it into extremely fine powder.
Standing up, Lu Yi swayed his body and quickly made a circle in the rear military camp.
Tomorrow morning, according to Lu Yi's order, the breakfast prepared for those heroes is big meat buns and egg drop soup.
The cooks of the rear army had already kneaded and fermented the flour to be used the next morning. Lu Yi easily sprinkled the powder into the prepared dough.
This is the secret technique of "Daoist Guardians" specially developed by the ascetics who lived in seclusion from the world in the Tai Shang Bei Ming Immortal Sect in order to guard the mountain gate and drive away poisonous insects, ferocious beasts, and idlers.
The medicine refined by Lu Yi will quickly cleanse and temper these heroes from body to soul.
Their bodies will gradually transform into 'Taoism weapons and methods bodies' with specific attributes, their souls will gradually become simple and pure, and all human distractions and desires will be quickly washed away by the secret method.
To put it more bluntly, this method is equivalent to the evil method used by the evil practitioners of the magic sect to create various zombie puppets.
They are nothing but the 'guardian Taoist soldiers' of the Supreme Beiming Immortal Sect. The refining method is more exquisite and profound, and the refined guardian Taoist soldiers are more powerful. The refining process is not so bloody and evil, and the guardian Taoist soldiers will not emit all kinds of poisonous flames, ghost fires, dark winds, and evil spirits as soon as they make a move.
Precisely because this method is a little inhumane...so Lu Yi suggested to Le Yi and others that they specifically select the heroes in Lezhou City to start with.
The next day, early in the morning, the heroes, driven by those elite soldiers in heavy armor, shouted slogans loudly, completed their morning exercises in sweat, lined up and received their breakfast.
Lu Yi stood with his hands behind his back, watching these unruly heroes with a smile as they swallowed the big meat buns with added fillings in big mouthfuls.
In the following days, every night, Lu Yi would prepare a pot of secret medicine for these heroes.
In the next few days, it was obvious that these heroes were much stronger in spirit and energy than before. They were all energetic and moved like the wind. Their physical strength, speed, reaction, etc. were all improving rapidly.
They no longer swear or cheat, and they can complete various training programs very well.
In just five or six days, these heroes seemed to have completely changed into different people. They obeyed orders and their every move had an elite feel.
Young masters like Le Yi didn't feel much about this.
However, the officers they borrowed from Lehe to help them train the new soldiers were all amazed by this.
In this way, time quickly came to October 18th, the 19th year of Jiayou.
It's an auspicious day, and everything goes well.
These days, the Le family has been making constant moves, big and small, especially in the north of Lezhou City. They mobilized a large number of laborers and built a high platform made of five-colored mud in just a few days.
Early in the morning of that day.
Young masters such as Le Yi and Le De bathed, changed their clothes, put on brand new gorgeous clothes, dressed up like embroidered pillows, and came to the northern suburbs of Lezhou City with a large group of guards, with great interest.
In Lezhou City, the sound of loud bronze bells could be heard from time to time.
Countless citizens of Lezhou City were "asked to leave" their homes before dawn, and came to the northern suburbs in groups, waiting in line several miles away from the Five-Colored Platform.
Teams of Le family's private soldiers were roaming around in all directions.
Inside and outside the city, the Le family's private army was on high alert.
Lu Yu followed Le Yi and Le De to a place only a few dozen feet away from the Five-Colored Platform. The area here had been demarcated, and the Le family members were lined up neatly according to their seniority.
As a "retainer" of the Le family, Lu Yi got a position at the back of the Le family's ranks.
The bronze bell kept ringing.
Under the five-colored high platform, nine three-legged round tripods several feet high were placed in the nine directions. Teams of servants in gorgeous clothes ran back and forth, pouring baskets of fine spices into the big tripods like dumping garbage. The incense from the big tripods rose hundreds of feet high, and the rich, slightly suffocating aroma enveloped the whole area, making people cry.
"Is this smoked bacon?" Lu Yi complained to himself.
He looked around.
The members of the Le clan standing
Standing next to Lu Yi were all kinds of people who had close ties with the Le family. Their expressions were so wonderful that it was simply indescribable.
Some people's faces turned red with excitement.
Some people looked worried.
Some people looked pale.
Some people were fidgeting.
Lu Yi even heard someone in the crowd whispering to himself: "It's over, it's over... We're on this pirate ship, our property is going to be confiscated and our clan is going to be exterminated... Our property is going to be confiscated and our clan is going to be exterminated!"
"Bang, bang, bang!"
The sound of loud gongs rang out, and a ceremonial guard snaked out from the north gate of Lezhou City and headed straight for the five-colored platform.
The crowd all around suddenly started to make noise.
“Here it comes, here it comes!”
Someone was chanting: "The achievement of following the dragon begins today."
Someone was crying out: "The confiscation of property and extermination of the clan begins today."
All around, the people who were "invited to leave" Lezhou City formed a black mass stretching for dozens of miles, standing there trembling, and no matter how Le's private army shouted, cried, made noise, and made inexplicable clamor, they could not suppress it.
The large guard of honor approached rapidly.
Lu Yi raised his eyebrows and silently gave a thumbs up to the former queen mother and the former general: "Amazing! They have only escaped from Haojing City for a few days, but they have prepared a full set of imperial ceremonial guards! Moreover, the workmanship is exquisite, just like the original ones. The effort and thought put into this is incredible."
Lu Yi secretly complained in his heart, could it be that Le Wu had already been preparing for a rebellion?
The emperor's ceremonial objects of Dayin are of various types and complex workmanship. Many of them, such as the emperor's chariot, cannot be made in just two or three years.
But the procession before him was so complete and well-prepared that it seemed as if the Le family had been prepared for it.
A large guard of honor came.
During the following scenes, Lu Yi was in a daze the whole time.
It was none other than Zhu Chong and others who were kidnapped from the capital city of Hao by the old man Blood God. They represented culture and education and scholars all over the world, and they listed how Yinzhen and Yinyuan, father and son, were cruel, licentious, immoral and unethical, which made the country unstable and the people suffer .
The Empress Dowager Le was a rare virtuous woman in the world, just like the legendary female saint who could repair the collapsed sky with one hand. It was her repairs that allowed Dayin, a huge ship with countless holes in it, to survive the storm until today.
The incompetent and tyrannical ruler Yinzhen has now committed atrocities, causing the people to suffer misery and leading to wars and smoke everywhere in all provinces, prefectures, and counties across the country.
Zhu Chong and others obeyed the will of heaven and the will of the people. They knelt down and kowtowed to Le, crying bitterly and begging her to ascend the throne as empress to save the people of the world.
In short, this is a trick that has been played out to bits in history.
Lu Yi yawned as he watched.
However, Le, Zhu Chong and others were very serious and performed this scene to perfection.
The climax of the drama was when thousands of white-haired "folk elders" rushed out of the crowd, knelt in front of Le and kowtowed desperately, until their foreheads bled, and wailed and begged Le to ascend the throne as emperor.
From sunrise to noon, they pretended to fool around.
Le, who was already sweating profusely due to the hot autumn weather, finally nodded. She was "absolutely unwilling", but "had no choice" to agree to the request of Zhu Chong and others.
"Ai Jia, it's not for the sake of greed for power."
"It's just for the sake of all the people in this world."
