Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 359: Military Merit
Time passed quietly, and a few days went by in a blink of an eye.

In the few days after the Luozhou secular gods collectively descended on Wangfeng City, the Beiming Army did not take the initiative to clear out the starving ghosts around, but stayed quietly in the city.

After training, many soldiers would often gather together to communicate, wondering why they had not arranged to go out of the city to kill the starving ghosts recently.

You have to know that they had fought all the way from Bicheng to Wangfengcheng. Now that they have suddenly lived a peaceful and stable life for a while, some people are still feeling a little uncomfortable.

It was noon at this moment. After a morning of hard training, the soldiers took their meals in the fire tent with huge bowls, and walked out one by one, squatting outside to eat and chat.

The topic naturally turned to what had happened in the military in recent days.

For example, someone's family in Sheshan sent him something, or someone trained hard and got praised by the generals above.

Nowadays, Sheshan has basically become the main provider of logistics for the Beiming Army. Every few days, a team will come to Wangfeng City to deliver daily necessities, and will also take away damaged clothes and armor and replace them.

Many members of the Bei Ming Army settled their families in Sheshan, and they would take advantage of Sheshan's delivery of supplies to the Bei Ming Army to send letters and homemade items.

It can be said that if there were no such thing as starving ghosts, everything would be developing in a prosperous direction.

Zhang Luo and Xing Liang each held a large bowl in their hands. They lifted the tent curtain of the Fire Camp and came outside. After glancing around, they heard a voice shouting.

"Lao Zhang, Lao Xing, this way, this way!"

The two men looked up and saw that it was a familiar comrade in their team, so they immediately walked up to him.

"call……"

Zhang Luo sat down on the stone block next to him, not caring whether it was clean or not. He bent his legs, picked up the chopsticks that were late and started eating.

The lunch served to the Bei Ming Army today was two steamed buns plus meat and vegetables. You can add more after finishing the steamed buns, but you must not waste them, otherwise you will be punished by military law.

This was a military order specially issued by Lin Beixuan.

Although Sheshan can provide them with logistics at present, it is ultimately impossible to feed more than 10,000 people for a long time, so they still have to practice thriftiness.

Seeing that Zhang Luo and Xing Liang sat down and started eating without saying a word, the man who had just called him chuckled.

"Lao Zhang, I heard that your wife sent you a letter yesterday. How is the situation in Sheshan recently?"

"It's pretty good. Although all of us young and strong laborers have left, and the farm work in the fields is done by the women, it's not too tiring with the help of the immortals from Sheshan." Zhang Luo said as he chewed the steamed bun in his mouth and swallowed it.

"Alas, it's a pity that my wife's head was damaged during the famine years. She can't even speak clearly. Otherwise, she could have sent me a letter to tell me about the family situation. I'm worried that she is in poor health and can't take care of the two children at home."

“Don’t worry, Brother Deng. Since we left, Sheshan has made changes in its management, and basically every household has been properly resettled.

I heard from my wife in a letter that Sheshan is building a new school and seems to be planning to arrange for our children to study there."

"???"

"Sheshan has such a good heart?!" Deng Ya widened his eyes and said in disbelief.

In their minds, Sheshan was like the noble lords before the disaster, while they were just peasants working in the fields. It was impossible for them to go to school.

Zhang Luo shook his head: "This was not Sheshan's idea. It seems to have been arranged by General Lin. It seems that General Shen also went there on the day the school was built."

"So it was General Lin who arranged this!"

Everyone felt warm in their hearts when they heard this.

In ordinary families in the secular world, sending children to school has always been a big deal, and usually only those wealthy families with deep pockets can afford it.

If poor people want to go to school, the cost of buying books alone is beyond the reach of ordinary families.

Before the disaster hit Naju, most families' annual income was barely enough to make ends meet, let alone pay for education.

Lin Beixuan had met a white-haired tiger before. During his lifetime, the tiger used all his savings accumulated from childhood to buy two books. Even though the books were worn out, they were still kept as treasures.

Later, he passed the imperial examination and became a scholar at the age of thirty-six. However, on his way to the next examination, he was stopped by bandits and lost his life.

But even so, the character he had built during his lifetime allowed him to separate himself from an ordinary zombie and become a white-haired howler even after his death.

The book that accompanied him throughout his life not only did not decay under the influence of the negative energy, but instead became a rare blue quality item.

No matter what era it is, studying is the easiest way for poor families to escape from class.

So when Deng Ya learned that Sheshan Hu Xian was willing to build a new school so that their children could study for free, his first reaction was not joy, but confusion.

It was not until Zhang Luo said that it was Lin Beixuan who arranged it that he showed a disappointed expression.

He has two children at home and can best understand Lin Beixuan's feelings about this policy.

Deng Ya put down his bowl and chopsticks, knelt down and kowtowed in the direction of Lin Beixuan's tent.

"General, I will repay you with my life!"

In fact, during this period of time, in addition to allowing children from Beiming Army families to go to school for free, Lin Beixuan also issued many other decrees.

For example, special living allowances and convalescence for disabled veterans of the Beiming Army, and future land allocations.

Almost every one of these decrees hit the hearts of the soldiers of the Beiming Army.

Deng Ya kowtowed and stood up. No one around him laughed at him for this. Instead, they all looked serious.

Xing Liang held a steamed bun in one hand and the side dish in the bowl with the other, with a smile in the corner of his eyes.

He recalled that when he was an executioner, his master also worried about the future of his children like Deng Ya.

A few people finished the food in their bowls, and just at this moment, someone ran over in a hurry.

"General Lin has issued another decree, which seems to be related to our future practice!"

As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the audience.

"Practice!"

Zhang Luo immediately raised his head when he heard this, with a hint of excitement in his eyes.

"Come on, let's go take a look."

Xing Liang was pulled up by Zhang Luo, and everyone put the used bowls and chopsticks back into the fire tent, and special personnel would come to collect and clean them.

Following the huge crowd, a few people came to a notice board. There happened to be a literate person standing in front of the board reading the decree that had just been posted.

"Starting tomorrow, the entire Beiming Army will begin to access the merit system. Initially, each person will have 0 merit points recorded in the book. Each person can obtain 5 merit points by receiving training on time every month. Killing ordinary hungry ghost minions can obtain 5 merit points. Killing intermediate hungry ghosts such as Tao minions can obtain 100 merit points. Killing high-level hungry ghosts such as Xie minions can obtain 500 merit points. Killing hungry ghost subordinates can obtain 5000 merit points..."

The content on the notice board was very long and difficult to read in a short time, but the people gathered here listened carefully, afraid of missing a word. Some even listened to it several times because they didn't quite understand the meaning, so they stood there and listened several times.

Among Zhang Luo's group, there were also many who had poor comprehension ability.

After the two people next to the notice board finished reading, they still looked confused and looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Do you understand what this means?"

"No, ask Lao Xing, he has a more flexible mind."

Therefore, Deng Ya and a few others looked at Xing Liang eagerly, hoping that he could give a more understandable explanation.

Xing Liang sighed helplessly, leaned against the wooden stake behind him with his hands folded, and said.

"Actually, I was confused when I heard it, so it might not be very accurate."

"General Lin's announcement this time should be a new system for the Beiming Army. The merit points in it should be like the silver we are familiar with, and can be used to exchange for something of great value."

Zhang Luo nodded repeatedly after hearing this: "I understand clearly what the merit is. It's about the things that can be exchanged. What's going on?"

Zhang Luo’s doubts were also everyone’s doubts, and everyone nodded.

Xing Liang rubbed his temple and rolled his eyes at Zhang Luo: "Let me talk slowly, I also need to organize my thoughts."

"To put it simply, the merits that each of us obtain can be used to exchange for rewards from the secular gods and generals in the Beiming Army."

"For example, if you have 100 merit points, you can use them to exchange for higher quality armor besides the Beiming Army's basic armor. If you have enough merit points, you can even ask Master Hu from Sheshan to tailor-make it for you."

Xing Liang was only halfway through his words when Zhang Luo couldn't help but interrupt: "If we can ask Master Hu to forge armor for us personally, then we will be the same as General Lin!"

“Shut up and let Old Xing finish his speech.” This time even Deng Ya couldn’t help it and covered Zhang Luo’s big mouth with his hand.

Xing Liang let out a breath, suppressed his anger, and continued.

"The person who read the notice said that the merit exchange is divided into a living section, a cultivation section, and a treasure section."

"In the life section, we can exchange our merits for the silver, incense money, and toll money we are familiar with, as well as some rare jade and gems, which we can take outside the Beiming Army."

"The cultivation area is strictly prohibited from being brought outside except within our Beiming Army, and cannot even be disclosed to one's family members."

Hearing this, they all looked at Xing Liang with wide eyes in excitement.

Because Deng Ya covered his mouth, Zhang Luo could not speak and could only make a humming sound to express his excitement.

Nowadays, some basic methods of practicing "questioning fate" have begun to be popularized in the Beiming Army. Regardless of whether they have talent or not, everyone is actively trying it.

For Zhang Luo and others who were once just ordinary people, this kind of practice is extremely attractive to them.

Because this means that they will have a better chance of surviving the battle with the starving ghosts in the future.

Xing Liang looked towards the notice board not far away, his eyes gradually becoming deep and solemn, and said.

"The cultivation section contains many things, which are extremely precious and rare even for those in the outside world who have their own cultivation methods."

"It is divided into three stages. The first is to open a mansion and ask for fate, which corresponds to the Qi refining and creation, and to open up your own Tianmen Mansion. There are talismans, magic and other alternative ways of cultivation that can be exchanged for merits."

"In the second stage, after opening the palace, the path of cultivation has been finalized and cannot be changed. You start to burn incense and invite gods, which corresponds to the realm of inviting gods. Here, you can also use merits to exchange for the required talismans and magic, but there is another thing in it."

Xing Liang took a deep breath and narrowed his eyes slightly to calm his violently beating heart.

Because what he described next was so exciting that even he couldn't contain himself.

"The extra things in the second stage are the simplified methods by the secular gods, which allow us to understand the familiar paths in advance."

Zhang Luo broke free from Deng Ya's hand, tilted his head and asked, "What is a path?"

For those of them who have not even seen the threshold of opening a prefecture, the path is indeed something that cannot be reached or understood.

Xing Liang actually didn't know much about the ways. Although he was in the Kaifu realm, he hadn't even prepared the inner scenery yet, let alone those rare ways.

However, he still patiently said, "Path is something similar to ability. For ordinary people like us, it is already very remarkable to be able to obtain one or two paths before burning incense and praying to the gods."

"Because the source of the path is not only the cultivation path you have learned, it is too difficult to obtain the ability of the path from the outside world. It is not like those magic methods, but more like a perception of power."

"What about the third stage?!" Zhang Luo asked.

This time Deng Ya did not stop him because he himself was eager to know.

Xing Liang said calmly: "The third stage is actually very difficult for us to reach."

"In addition to the things I mentioned before, in the third stage, the path simplified by the secular god is changed into the complete secular god path, and there is one more thing - the divine organ!"

Seeing that Zhang Luo was about to ask what the divine organ was, Xing Liang shook his head and spoke in advance to block Zhang Luo's words.

"I don't know much about divine organs, but I vaguely heard my master mention it."

"He once said that the divine organs were treasures that dropped from secular gods. If a cultivator possessed them, he would ascend to heaven in one step. If an ordinary person possessed them, he would die."

"Because ordinary people can't defend it at all!"

Everyone was frightened by Xing Liang's words. They subconsciously held their breath and dared not speak.

Xing Liang said calmly: "That's why I said that the third stage is actually very difficult for us to reach."

"As for the last treasure section, it's relatively simple. It contains all kinds of elixirs and magical instruments. The more merits you have, the more powerful the elixirs and magical instruments you can exchange for. It also includes what I mentioned before: I can ask Master Hu of Sheshan to forge armor for you personally."

After finishing the call, Xing Liang took a breath and felt his mouth was dry.

When everyone saw his expression, although they still didn't understand something, they didn't dare to ask any more questions.

However, this newly released military system really attracted the interest of everyone in the Beiming Army.

Now, in addition to saving Luozhou and improving their military ranks, everyone seems to have many more pursuits.

At first, everyone was confused about why their own army did not pay soldiers like traditional armies, but now they can completely understand it.

The merits awarded under this new military system are far superior to the traditional military pay.

The so-called military pay is just a simple military pay, but this merit can bring them so many things.

(End of this chapter)