NovelEnglishWhat was that supposed to mean? The soldiers had just won two battles in a row and they were in high spirits right now.
Wasn't shifting camp going to demoralize the troops? "That's right, Young Master Li. We've already won the Purple Moon Mercenary Army, so nobody in this region would dare to offend us anymore. If we build ourselves up well, we'll definitely be the kings of this place!" "That's right. We're doing well here, so why should we move?" Many of them didn't understand.
They didn't understand why Li Genhong suddenly made this decision.
"This place is too small," replied Li Genhong calmly.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtHe glanced at all of them. "You mean, you're happy with this tiny place?" Everyone went quiet.
Li Genhong sounded very calm, but they could hear the ambition in his words! "Young Master Li, please elaborate!" said the commander of Troop Five.
"Fine, I'll tell you now." Li Genhong walked to a map and drew a circle around a patch of wasteland. The bright red circle on the map instantly stood out to all of them.
"I want this area!" he said loudly. Then he used the spen to draw a smaller circle within that first large circle. "I want to build our campsite here, and it should be able to take around 3,000 people!" That was huge! The circle he had drawn was more than ten times bigger than the campsite they had now. Even though it was wasteland, it wasn't going to be easy to take control of it.
After all, nobody liked to see another party gain territory.
"I want to build a hospital here!" Li Genhong continued without waiting for any responses. "I want any injured soldiers to get medical help as soon as possible! It's fine if my soldiers die in battle, but I refuse to let them die just because they couldn't get medical help in time!" All the men who wanted to protest earlier felt their throats turn moist and their noses wrinkled up as they all stared wordlessly at Li Genhong.
"Over here," Li Genhong drew another circle. "I want to build a school." WOONG.
Everyone felt their hair stand on end.
They felt like they had been struck by lightning.
A school? Was Li Genhong kidding? They were in a battlefield! Who on earth built a school in a battlefield? He must have gone crazy! "I hope that your children will grow up to have the ability to change this place. Even if they can't change this place, at least they will have the chance to leave this place in search of a better life outside." "I want them to have the chance to be educated, to becliterate, to understand what the world outside is like, to beckind people, and not to end up following in your footsteps..." Li Genhong stretched his hands out and looked at them. "I don't want them to be tainted with the stench of blood and die fighting for their own lives!" All ten commanders felt tears cto their eyes.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmTheir children! The most important people to them were their families, and most of all, their children.
They didn't want their children to grow up to becmercenary m soldiers like themselves. They didn't want their children to becsacrifices in war or killing machines. Li Genhong was saying that the Li family was willing to groom and educate these children so that they could improve their lives!
It would be best if they could change this place, but they knew that was really too difficult. But everüf they ve couldn't change this place, at least they could get the chance to leave this region and move to a bigger and better world out there.
"This part here!" Li Genhong continued to draw another circle as he wrote another word on the map. "I hope that we can build our homeland here!" S'a'ch Th| FindNI.n't website on Gøøgle to access chapters of early and in the highest quality. KABOOM! All of them immediately felt emotional. It had been such a long tsince they heard or even mentioned the word 'homeland'.
This place was no longer their homeland. It was hell for them now.
But now, Li Genhong said he wanted to build their homeland in that circle he just drew! X
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