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Chapter 1486: Fighting the Lower Limit (Part 1486) [Seeking monthly votes]

Rather than saying that Jimo Qiu's advice was addressed to Wu You, it would be better to say that it was addressed to the original Shen Tang. Wu You flatly refused in front of him, while the original Shen Tang was holding his chin and thinking about the key.

She would never admit that she was mentally ill, but as a monarch, she did need to pay attention to her mental state, lest she become insane without realizing it one day. At the celebration banquet, she asked in a low voice: "Wang Chao, do you feel uncomfortable with using [Indecisiveness] on a daily basis?"

Gu Chi was quite surprised to hear this.

What's surprising?
It's amazing that this lord who treated his subjects like beasts of burden actually had a change of heart and took the initiative to care about the problem of his subjects' excessive overtime work.

Gu Chi asked carefully: "Master, do you want to increase your salary?"

As long as it is not during wartime, the court of the King of Kang has many holidays, high salaries and benefits on weekdays. The key is that it is never delayed and is paid on time every month. This is something that many royal courts cannot do. It is common for officials' salaries to be delayed for three to five months or even a year or two, forcing many officials who rely on salaries to support their families to take the path of corruption. Of course, corruption is not something that can be eliminated by paying salaries on time or with high salaries and benefits. Supervision and deterrence are the top priority.

Gu Chi’s current salary is not low.

He went to war with the army, and his salary was several times higher as a reward for his military merits.

Although he is not short of money, he will not dislike a high salary. After all, he is half a family man. If he can be the main breadwinner, Gu Chi does not want to put the pressure of life on Bai Su. Save more money for the family, so that retirement can be easier.

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Shen Tang thought about his private treasury and the Kangguo treasury, and said guiltily: "We are poor. We can raise the salary after the treasury is full."

Gu Chi lost interest when he heard there was no hope.

However, answering all questions from the lord is a basic quality of a subject: "Except for being a little tired, there is nothing wrong. Ordinary people can only remember one period of time, and using [Three Minds and Two Determineds] will add two more periods, so it is naturally difficult for the brain to process it."

Any animal will get tired if it works too hard.

"Could he become schizophrenic? Or have his temperament changed drastically?"

"If you have anything to say, please speak directly."

Gu Chi said that there were no secrets between the monarch and his subjects. Over the years, he could basically understand all of his master's jargon. Even if she was mumbling a few popular Internet memes, he could still follow along.

"The high priest just advised me to use the Wen Qi Avatar less, worried that I would become mentally ill if I used it too much, but I feel good about myself."

Gu Chi: "..."

He slowly asked Shen Tang a question: "Who gave the master the illusion that the spirit of a scholar with a literary mind can be healthy?"

Shen Tang: "..."

At this time, Gu Chi, who was sitting at the head of the group, looked up at the people toasting each other and whispered, "Extremely passionate, extremely mad, extremely insane."

Isn't the word spirit [indecisive] schizophrenia?
However, this kind of division is something that individuals can control.

Let’s not talk about ordinary scholars of literary mind. Which of those scholars of literary mind who question their true heart and obtain the way of scholars does not go to extremes? Only with extreme paranoia, stubbornness, persistence and perseverance can one see the true nature of the mind. In this world, where is the boundary between crazy people and normal people?
One is selfish, the other is altruistic - if most people think you are crazy, then you are crazy; if most people think you are a normal person, then you are a normal person. When it comes down to it, it's just that gossip can melt metal and constant criticism can destroy a person.

Gu Chi smiled and took a sip of his drink.

“My colleagues are all kites. The reason they have not gone off track and gone to extremes and are barely keeping their human skins on and behaving like human beings is only because there is a string holding their remaining sanity.” Seeking the truth, isn’t it also a process of seeking to be entrusted with this string?
Some people get what they want while others get the wrong person.

"The Emperor of Heaven is the charcoal, the Earth is the furnace, and all living things are suffering." Because Shen Tang had finally released Gu Chi's restriction and allowed him to have a few drinks, he happily drank more, until his cheeks were red and tipsy, and he smiled, "It's rare to be confused, why spoil the fun?"

you are not a fish, how to know the joy of fish?
You are not a madman, so how do you know the joy of a madman?
As long as there are mental illnesses, there will be mental illnesses. As long as there are many crazy people in the world, it is still unclear who is a normal person and who is an abnormal person.

Shen Tang: "...So?"

Gu Chi smiled coldly, "Crazy, so be it. I've never heard of any scholar dying suddenly from overwork. There are so many government affairs and the treasury is so thin. If you rashly expand the royal court, you will not only not be able to pay salaries, but also have redundant staff. How troublesome is that?"

The kite string will not get out of control if it is held in the master's hand.

As long as it doesn't kill you, use it to death.

Shen Tang: "..."

In other words, except for her, everyone knows that they are mentally unhealthy, but the kite string is in the hands of reliable people, and they are not afraid of losing control of their mental state. So they simply put the mental problem behind them and don't worry about it at all?

Shen Tang's eyes suddenly became resentful.

"Oh, and where's my kite string?"

Gu Chi turned a little towards Chu Yao and said with a frivolous smile, "Master, have you ever seen Chu Shangjun walking his dog during his day off?"

Shen Tang: "...???"

She was stunned for a moment, then suddenly reacted.

He picked up an orange and hit Gu Chi on the forehead.

Gu Chi took it with both hands, peeled the skin, broke off two pieces and stuffed them into his mouth, while thanking in a strangled voice: "Thank you for the reward, Lord."

Shen Tang laughed at his shamelessness - Chu Yao's dog was old and very human, it would hold the leash and walk itself. If Shen Tang really had a kite string, she would hold it in her own hands. How could she not be angry when Gu Chi said that?
The others were a little drunk and either didn't notice what was going on here or noticed it but didn't take it seriously - as long as it didn't involve drawing swords and chopping off heads, all other actions were regarded as flirting between the monarch and his subjects.

The one who got hit was Gu Wangchao——

Luan Xin secretly regretted: [Why didn’t I smash him to death? ]

The king and his ministers enjoyed themselves while drinking and drinking.

Various rewards were distributed like water, and the most common soldiers could get half a catty of meat and half a jar of fine wine, and the rest could be converted into silver and sent back home. The morale of the whole camp was high, and even if the enemy attacked at this time, they would not be able to gain any advantage.

The Allied forces in the central part did not have the energy to launch a second surprise attack.

The trumpet mushrooms left behind by Wu You and Jimo Qiu were incredibly powerful. Shaking the army's morale was secondary. The most terrible thing was that the noise was so loud that it could bring out the demons in people's hearts. After all, even Gu Wangchao couldn't keep his composure under so much noise, let alone ordinary people who had never been exposed to so much noise? The Allied high-ranking officials were so excited that they lost all their rationality and ordered the noise to be dealt with.

A mushroom can have hundreds of millions of spores.

There are at least 100,000 trumpet mushrooms in the entire camp, if not a million.

As long as Jimo Qiu's remaining divine power has not been exhausted, it would be fine if the Allies did not move these mushrooms. However, once the trumpet mushrooms are moved, the spores on the mushrooms will spread in the air and multiply into trumpet mushrooms that are smaller in size and have higher-pitched sounds, which will be impossible to clean up.

"Burn! Burn it all!"

The trumpet mushrooms were too noisy, and the leader had to shout orders at close range to barely drown out the noise. From the leader to the sergeants, no one could stand such devilish noise. Ordinary means did not work, so they had to use fire, which was barely effective. However, the efficiency of fire was too slow, and it was easy to leak water if not careful, so the Allied forces had to use other emergency means.

For example, using the power of words to block hearing.

Orders are conveyed through words on flags.

It only treats the symptoms and not the root cause.

The Allied Forces could not block the hearing of everyone in the camp. What if the Kangguo troops took the opportunity to attack? Wouldn't they be finished? After some consideration, they only blocked a group of people to prevent them from being tortured by the noise, and ignored the lower-level soldiers and the large number of chores.

When the war really started, the help they provided was limited. They were used as consumables in daily battles.

Alliance Leader Zhao also knew that this move would shake the morale of the army, and he was even more aware that Kang Guo wanted to mess with the mentality and morale of the Allied Forces. However, he was even more aware that the core combat power of the Central Allied Forces lay in the middle and high-level ranks, not in these ordinary soldiers. Now he had to choose the lesser of two evils and give it up.

Lin Su could still hold on at first.

Unable to hold on any longer, he raised his hand to block his hearing.

The world fell silent, and the restless anger in his chest instantly subsided. He let out a long sigh: "Huh - it's finally quiet."

Kangguo’s interference tactics are too terrifying.

He had never dreamed that war could be played like this, and that noise could actually change from quantitative to qualitative. Even the saint couldn't stay rational in such a noisy environment. It was fine for a short time, but after a long time, he felt that his inner demons were about to be drawn out.

The determination for Taoism is shaken and the cultivation is ruined.

It makes people so angry that they want to vent their negative emotions through violence.

It's not that the Allies didn't think about abandoning the camp, but they seriously underestimated the horror of the trumpet mushroom. Mushroom spores were everywhere, and after one batch was burned, another batch popped up, like a lingering ghost.

The shadow mouthed the question: "Shen Youli can't launch a sneak attack?"

Lin Su: "How did she sneak attack?"

Qin Li and others were also curious about why Shen Tang suppressed the order to pursue the victory, when their morale was obviously high and this was a perfect opportunity to attack. According to the information obtained by the scouts, the allied camp was in chaos at this time, and fires were out of control from time to time. The opportunity could not be missed.

Shen Tang said: "I can't launch a sneak attack."

Noise attacks indiscriminately.

If Kangguo attacked, their military orders would be disrupted to the greatest extent, and the spores might spread further, which would be much more terrifying than the zombie virus. Rather than running over and getting beaten up, it would be better to wait until the allies were tortured by the trumpet mushrooms to the point of mental weakness, and then attack and reap the benefits.

Qin Li had never seen the grand scene of mushrooms growing in the Allied camp, so he naturally couldn't imagine that scene. How destructive could the noise be? The only person who could empathize with him was Gu Chi: "The Lord is right. It's better to wait five or six days than to take risks."

Judging from the master's description, the noise produced by this trumpet mushroom is more powerful than what Gu Chi could hear when he was surrounded by thousands of troops.

Even Gu Chi made gradual progress, and it took him twenty to thirty years to barely adapt to the ubiquitous noise of his inner voice. He is still physically weak and mentally deficient, let alone ordinary people.

Shen Tang: "Also take this opportunity to let the soldiers recover their vitality."

Only with high morale can we win the battle.

There are always people in the world who don't believe in superstition and privately want to see the so-called trumpet mushroom - how powerful can a little noise be?

They found Jimo Qiu.

Jimo Qiu smiled and picked a trumpet mushroom.

The thumb-sized trumpet mushrooms floated up and down in his palm. When someone approached, they suddenly let out a sharp and piercing scream that seemed to pierce the eardrum. Even if you covered your ears with both hands, you couldn't block it out. You could bear it for a while, but you couldn't bear it for a long time.

Wei Shou patted his ears and it took him a long time to recover his hearing.

He suspected that the trumpet mushrooms had shaken out the earwax.

"One flower is so noisy, what if——"

I felt a little sympathy for the Central Allied Forces.

If they don't get tortured to the point of going insane, they'll be tormented to the point of losing their morale. This is really vicious. I've never seen Jimo Qiu use this trick before. Jimo Qiu smiled and said, "I never thought of it before."

No normal person would think of using pranks on the battlefield.

Shen Tang did not move his troops, not only to give the Central Allied Forces time to deal with the trumpet mushrooms, but also to give the Allied Forces time to let their morale collapse. Once the morale of the army collapsed, it would be easy for the soldiers to flee. The ubiquitous noise torture would accelerate this process. When the scale of desertion reached a certain level, the Central Allied Forces would fall into a vicious cycle.

The more deserters there are, the more chaotic the army's morale will be.

The more chaotic the army is, the more deserters there will be.

As long as Kangguo is alert to the hidden tricks of the Allied Forces and prevent the spread of the zombie virus, it will basically be invincible. Shen Tang paid close attention to the front line. On the first day, the Allied Forces did not make any major moves. Starting from the night of the second day, the vanguard scouts frequently found deserters from the Central Allied Forces. On the third day, the number of deserters almost doubled. In addition to the lowest-level soldiers, there were also a large number of errand boys and cooks.

Shen Tang frowned: "That's all?"

There is no movement from the middle and high-level leaders of the Central Allied Forces?

No, aren’t these people too trusting of the Allies?

Aren’t you worried at all that one day you will be abandoned by your own enemies?
Or was it that the content played on Trumpet Mushroom was too obscure and these people misunderstood it? She was very skeptical about this.

The core of the Central Allied Forces, or the Central Branch of the Socialist Families, is the private soldiers of the families. If these people do not fight among themselves, it is not enough to rely on some low-level deserters to shake the foundation of the Allied Forces. On the fourth day, the high-altitude reconnaissance scouts sent back the latest news that the number of deserters of the Allied Forces reached a new high, and the entire camp was visibly empty.

The trumpet mushroom also withered due to the exhaustion of divine power.

"Something is wrong. A thousand things are wrong."

Shen Tang and others looked at each other, guessing that someone was hiding something from the public.

"Divide the troops into three groups, each with 5,000 elite soldiers to intercept them."

Shen Tang personally led his troops to attack the Allied camp. Although it was not the best time she expected, it was not too far off. It was just that she underestimated the Allied forces' bottom line and their shamelessness. This was not only a cover-up, but also a way to escape!
Under the all-out attack, the defense of the Allied camp was weak, and several lines of defense of the Kangguo side were defeated in just a quarter of an hour.

Shen Tang took the lead, and Lu Ji, who had rushed in earlier, hurried back.

"Oh - my Lord! Something terrible is happening!"

Our side discovered dozens of tunnels under the camp.

The Allied Forces transferred their elite troops under Shen Tang's nose, and also transferred some of the deserters. The excavated soil was hidden in the tent, so the scouts who were conducting high-altitude reconnaissance did not notice any movement.

Shen Tang: "..."

My goodness, are the Allies trying to retaliate in their own way?

She almost laughed out of anger: "Escaped? How many escaped?"

The Allied forces still have a lot of troops!

So many people were just abandoned?

The guards didn't act like they were covering an escape. Didn't you see the expressions on the faces of the captured enemy generals when Lu Ji reported back? Were they angry and ashamed? How come they didn't know that their own people had been digging tunnels to escape these days? Or were they just too good at acting?
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