The Emperor is Above

Chapter 113: The Concept of the Alien Heavy Cavalry
"The Lord is going to accept an apprentice——"

The entire hill was boiling with the excited screams of a group of children.

After receiving the notice from Gongsun Wu and others, every household brought their children aged six to eighteen to the courtyard of the lord's house, a total of about two hundred people, both men and women.

Although I don’t know what skills Qing Yi wants to teach me, as long as I become the lord’s apprentice, I will not suffer any loss or be cheated.

"Children, be quiet and stop making noise!"

Although Dongmen Hu and Dongmen Bao had loud voices, they were still overwhelmed when facing more than 200 boys, girls and children, not to mention the hundreds of excited parents.

Finally, Gongsun Wu put on a stern face and pretended to be angry and scolded him harshly: "Only those aged six to eighteen should stay in the yard, and all other irrelevant people should retreat outside the yard."

Gongsun Wu, who had already established initial prestige, forced hundreds of villagers to leave reluctantly and gather in the distance to continue their excited conversation.

The more than 200 children and teenagers who stayed in the yard lowered their voices involuntarily. When Qing Yi and Da Niu walked in front of them, the field suddenly fell silent.

"Come on, pass out these bone charms, one for each person!"

Qing Yi pointed at the small box that Daniu was holding, which contained a bunch of small things he had prepared overnight.

Gongsun Wu picked them up and looked at them carefully. They were pieces of crocodile bones, three inches long and two inches wide, carved with many rune patterns that he could not understand.

With the cooperation of Gongsun Wu, the Dongmen brothers, Daniu, Chai Yong and others, the bone talismans were quickly distributed to everyone. Many young children looked confused when holding the bone talismans.

When everyone took a bone talisman, Qing Yi looked at them carefully. The ones he was most familiar with were naturally Xizi, Mengzi, and Huaimu. As for the other teenagers and children, there were familiar faces from Huaiqiu as well as newcomers who looked unfamiliar.

Holding up the bone talisman in his hand, Qing Yi said loudly and bluntly: "Do you know what a beastmaster is? He can control many ferocious beasts, and this bone talisman is used to test your qualifications.

Look carefully, everyone. We only need to prick your skin with a needle and drop a little blood on it, and we can tell whether each of you has the qualifications to become a beastmaster."

Children who grew up in the countryside had naturally heard of the reputation of the wild beast masters. When the Black Wind Tribe ambushed the Right Master, a large number of beast masters led their beasts to participate.

The older boys pierced their palms without hesitation and smeared the blood on the bone talisman. Soon the white bone talisman changed into various colors.

Qing Yi stood on a high place and carefully observed the bone talismans in everyone's hands. He asked Gongsun Wu and others to pick out the children. With their help, the young children also dripped blood on the bone talismans one after another.

"You, you, you, the rest of you, come and stand over here!"

Youngsters were selected one after another. When the selection was over, Qing Yi looked at the selected youngsters and children and said in surprise and joy, "More than 70 people were selected!"

Gongsun Wu glanced at the young men. Most of those who stayed were between eight and seventeen years old. There were boys and girls, and even more than a dozen children aged six or seven.

He couldn't help but whispered, "Master, do you really want to train all these young men and children to become beastmasters?

I have also heard in the capital that training wild beastmasters consumes a lot of resources. Training more than 70 people at once may be too costly. It is better to select only 10 to 20 of the most outstanding ones and train them carefully.

If you value talent, you can wait a little longer for those children under ten years old who are too young. It won’t be too late to train them in a few years.”

"Brother Gongsun, what you said is indeed a prudent approach!"

Qing Yi showed a mysterious smile on his face. "But I have my own ideas about training so many people to become beast masters. I don't expect them to have a high level of cultivation, nor do I ask them to subdue powerful beasts. As long as they subdue some eighth-grade blue rhinos as beasts, it will be fine even if they are not strong enough this year and can only subdue the lowest-level ninth-grade exotic beasts.

During the autumn harvest this year, there will definitely be wild people from the swamp coming to plunder. These trained beasts, as exotic beasts, can command ordinary beasts. No matter how many wild people and thieves there are, they can disrupt their formation.

Let's take advantage of this opportunity to cooperate with the private army and militia of Guqiu and rush over in the chaos. What kind of barbarians and thieves do you think can stop this series of attacks?"

"So this is what the Lord is thinking?" Gongsun Wu was stunned when he heard this, then his eyes lit up and he praised repeatedly.
"This idea is indeed brilliant, but it would be best for these young men to master certain martial arts and combat skills so that they can protect themselves in battle. It is too dangerous to charge into the barbarian formation first, and I'm afraid there will be casualties."

Reminded by Gongsun Wu, Qing Yi pinched his chin and fell into deep thought, saying slowly: "If the beastmaster apprentices have enough martial arts skills and are equipped with excellent armor, wouldn't they be heavy cavalry?"

Daniu's eyes widened when he heard this, and he asked in a low voice full of envy: "Master, do you think I can learn the skills of a beastmaster? I also want to be a heavy cavalryman riding a strange beast?"

Dongmen Hu and Dongmen Bao were already stunned: "Oh my God, seventy people riding on the eighth-grade exotic beast Qingxi, wearing heavy armor and holding long spears, only the king's black armor cavalry can resist it!"

Qing Yi smiled and shook his head: "How can it be compared with the king's black armor cavalry? Although their mounts are only eighth-grade red chestnut horses at the lowest, the soldiers of the black armor cavalry are at least sixth-grade upper-armored soldiers.

We are just taking advantage of the Green Rhinoceros' size to attack the mob of barbarians. We are not even worthy of holding shoes with the Black Armor Cavalry."

Even though Qing Yi belittled his plan in this way, Gongsun Wu, Daniu, and the Dongmen brothers were still shocked.

Gongsun Wu thought about it and suggested, "My Lord, since you want my mother to teach medicine, and you have such a strategy to train beast masters, if you want to train the children in the way of beast masters and practice martial arts and combat skills, why not build a school to teach them together?"

"Pah—well said!"

Qing Yi clapped his hands in praise, but he was actually feeling extremely ashamed. As a modern person who had received a complete education, he had actually forgotten the importance of universal education, and had to wait for Gongsun Wu to remind him.

Having realized this, they quickly chose a gentle slope on the west side of the solitary hill. More than ten spacious and tall thatched houses were built among the sparse woods and grasslands, which became the school under the name of Qing Yi, the solitary hill sergeant.

All teenagers and children under the age of eighteen and over the age of six in the entire Solitary Hill, regardless of gender, must attend school, and even if they do not have the qualifications to practice cultivation, they must learn cultural knowledge.

In addition to teaching the most basic literacy knowledge, children over ten years old also have to learn martial arts from Gongsun Wu, the Dongmen brothers, Chai Yong and others.

As the lord of Guqiu, Qing Yi also serves as the principal. He personally teaches the knowledge of beastmanship and rune cultivation, while Jiang Ji teaches the skills of pharmacist and is the most popular among girls.

Just on the first day of class, Qing Yi discovered that his fifteen private soldiers and the one hundred and fifty militiamen who were added later had all come to join in the fun and attend the class.

It turned out that after they learned about the lord's plan from Daniu, they were all very excited. It seemed exaggerated to charge into battle on exotic beasts, but this was the idea proposed by the lord.

Who doesn’t have a dream? What if it comes true?

Faced with 165 expectant eyes, Qing Yi reluctantly agreed that only those with the qualifications to practice could enter the school to study.

After some testing, it was found that more than twenty young people under the age of thirty were qualified. Da Niu was one of them. He simply put them together with the original group of teenagers and children who had the qualifications of beastmasters, making a total of one hundred people.

PS: I have to go to the hospital for a physical check-up in the morning, and go shopping in the afternoon. I will update one chapter in the morning, and come back to update the second chapter in the evening.

(End of this chapter)