SEC Chapter 229 Turbulent Times
Chapter 229 Turbulent Times
Chapter 229 A Stormy Era Begins (Part 5)
"Your Majesty, I have a small suggestion, I wonder if Your Majesty would be willing to listen to it?"
The old emperor's meaning was actually very simple: his goal was to eliminate any possibility of Shrek Academy profiting. However, a large number of people hoped to instead leech off Shrek Academy.
The exchange and learning process is inherently a process of mutual exploitation; it's just a matter of who exploits whom more.
"Speak," the old emperor said, yawning.
"As we all know, Shrek Academy's level of soul guidance is far behind ours, and our traditional Wuhan-style cultivation is also far behind Shrek Academy's. However, this gap is almost negligible under the powerful difference in soul guidance. In other words, we can stop exchanging and learning from each other. But what I fear is that the three great empires will unite under Shrek's instigation."
"If the three great empires unite under Shrek's encouragement, our casualties in future attacks on them will increase exponentially. Shrek knows that if we refuse to exchange and learn from each other, they are very likely to think that we will start a war. So we can continue to exchange and learn from each other, but we can also make some changes to the exchange and learning process."
As Luo Yu spoke, she took out a project plan from her storage soul tool.
After being examined by the titled Douluo, the old emperor's personal bodyguard, the plan was handed to the old emperor.
"Your Majesty, these are my personal views on this exchange and learning opportunity. If there is anything presumptuous on my part, I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."
This plan is actually a typical new policy of making things difficult. What seems like an exchange and learning is actually a political game between Shrek and the three great empires and the Sun Moon Empire. If the Sun Moon Empire flips the table, it means that the Sun Moon Empire will launch a war.
Interests are reciprocal; once the interests of Shrek Academy and the three great empires are harmed, they will inevitably become closely linked together.
"Tell me your plan. I heard that before the meeting, His Highness the Crown Prince asked you for your opinion on the Shrek Academy exchange program. Is this plan His Highness's idea?" the old emperor asked tentatively.
Luo Yu glanced at Xu Tianran out of the corner of his eye, and when he saw the latter's smiling expression, he nodded heavily, "I am grateful for His Highness's appreciation. I have indeed discussed this with His Highness, and this plan has also received His Highness's guidance."
The old emperor nodded with satisfaction, then passed the plan around and said, "Tell me your plan."
"As you command. To be honest, the three great empires have absolutely no idea what level our soul guidance technology has reached. However, it's possible that the Heavenly Soul Empire might know, since when Number One was stolen, the Body Sect might have passed its secrets to the Heavenly Soul Empire's royal family. But the Body Sect and the Heavenly Soul Empire would never admit to such a thing. In other words, apart from the Heavenly Soul Empire, Shrek Academy, the Star Luo Empire, and the Dou Ling Empire have absolutely no idea about our soul guidance technology."
"The fact that Shrek Academy is forcing us to exchange and learn from them shows that they have also realized the importance of soul guidance technology. Therefore, they urgently need to absorb our soul guidance technology because they know very well that the teaching of traditional soul masters requires a lot of experience, understanding of martial souls, and a lot of research. So even if we send people over to learn, we will not be able to bring back their complete system."
"Once they master our soul guidance technology, they can take it with them and even bring them new improvements. So what we need to do is to curb their desire to learn from the very beginning. As for how to curb it, we can implement a tiered and segmented approach. For the students sent by Shrek Academy for exchange studies, we can set up a separate branch to accept them. Externally, we can say that it is to prevent the conflict between Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Empire students from affecting their studies."
"Second, we will increase the difficulty of their entrance examination for Mingde Hall. We need to conduct examinations for our own students to enter Mingde Hall, so we need to make the examinations even more difficult for them. If Shrek has any complaints, we can tell them the rules of Mingde Hall. These are our fundamental rules, and we cannot break our own rules for the sake of Shrek students."
"Third, after Shrek students enter Mingde Hall, an area will be set aside for those students with exceptional talent to study with. In that area, the monthly assessments will be changed to weekly assessments, with the bottom performers being eliminated. Those who fail the assessments will be eliminated and will not be allowed to enter Mingde Hall for one month."
"Fourth, we need to secretly encourage our students to challenge Shrek students. We'll reward them for every win, and if they win many times, we can even increase the reward. This will significantly slow down the Shrek students' learning progress. To quell the Shrek students' discontent caused by their repeated challenges, we can publicly punish them while secretly rewarding them."
"Finally, regarding the duration of the exchange program, we can shorten the original two and a half years to one year. Furthermore, the same group of students cannot study abroad a second time, and we have the right to suspend students who fail multiple assessments. This way, we can ensure they will never have access to our core soul-guided technology. However, Shrek Academy probably won't agree to this, but we must insist on a one-year program. As for the later provisions, we can change the restriction from a second study abroad to a third, or impose a limit on the number of students."
After saying this, Luo Yu respectfully bowed to the old emperor.
His bow signaled the end of his speech, and the old emperor burst into laughter the moment his words fell.
"Master Jing, you've taken on a fine disciple. I'll consider your plan. Since His Highness the Crown Prince appreciates you so much, why don't you also analyze how we can turn Shrek Academy's advantages into our own?" The old emperor posed the question again, eager to know what Luo Yu's plans were regarding Shrek Academy.
If Luo Yu provides perfect answers to both problems, then all the issues will be greatly alleviated, which is the biggest worry for the Sun Moon Empire at present.
"I would like to ask you ministers first, what is the source of the strength of traditional Soul Masters?" Luo Yu asked, looking at everyone.
The strength of traditional Soul Masters lies in their powerful and rare Martial Souls and their exceptional talents.
There are also the martial soul fusion skills, the enhanced combat power from the stacked auxiliary amplification, the negative suppression effect that weakens the opponent, and finally the powerful suppression force formed by team cooperation.
However, the traditional Soul Master system also has obvious drawbacks, as it relies too heavily on individual talent.
Top-tier martial souls test individual talent, and researching top-tier martial souls also tests an individual's research into martial souls. In addition, there are rare and precious materials needed for a soul master to become stronger. With all these factors combined, the resources required to cultivate a soul master are far less than those required to cultivate a soul master. However, a soul master with top-tier talent can reach a level like Elder Mu, which can be considered the limit of human potential.
However, this limit is still below that of the Ming and the Second Ming dynasties.
The clamor of the crowd reached the old emperor's ears, and finally he spoke: "Having heard so much, tell me your plans."
"Yes, ma'am."
Luo Yu nodded and said, "As for how we can grasp Shrek Academy's training of traditional Soul Masters, the method is actually quite simple. We just need to use some methods similar to those of Soul Tools, such as dispatching different Martial Souls. Those students need to record which category they belong to in Shrek Academy, and at the same time, they need to record how Shrek Academy trains them, what analysis they have of their type of Martial Soul, and Shrek Academy's training methods."
"These are actually the best data. Our students don't need to spy on anything; they just need to study hard and keep good records. The stronger students have shown obvious changes recently, so we need to send some students who aren't very strong. As for those talented members, I suggest they continue to focus on Soul Tools. After all, very few people can cultivate both Martial Soul and Soul Tools. If they do, they won't achieve anything in either. So, before we've fully researched the fusion of Martial Soul and Soul Tools, I don't recommend that our strong Soul Tool students go to Shrek Academy."
"What we need now is the report that our academy will submit after they arrive. Ideally, this report should be as clear as the experimental data from the Soul Guidance Department. With this information, although we may not reach the level of Shrek Academy, we can at least have a deep understanding of Shrek Academy's Martial Soul system. Soul Guidance experiments are often verified through a large amount of data, and the same is true for Martial Souls."
After saying this, Luo Yu bowed to everyone present, which also marked the end of her speech.
However, these are just general introductions. The truly detailed introductions are all piled up in that thick plan book. However, the more the old emperor reads this plan book, the more he likes it. It explains many aspects. The old emperor knows that Xu Tianran was also involved in these plans, but he believes that most of them were created by Luo Yu.
Because many things in this plan were things that he and his court officials would find difficult to consider, even if Xu Tianran was involved, given Xu Tianran's tough methods, he would most likely not use such a scheme full of intrigue.
"Crown Prince, is there anything you wish to say?" The old emperor knew that he would eventually hand over the Sun Moon Empire to him, so he also intended to test Xu Tianran's true abilities.
"Father, I do have some solutions, but they are not in terms of communication and learning, but in another aspect."
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