Goddess Atlas, Starting from the Queen

Chapter 24 Distinguishing Loyalty from Treachery

Hearing Lu Ming's words, everyone was stunned.

important things?
What's important?

Seeing everyone looking at him in confusion, Lu Ming continued, "You'll know when the time comes."

"I am feeling a little unwell, so let's leave it at that for today."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Ming was about to stand up. Su Wanyun hurriedly supported Lu Ming, fearing that Lu Ming would fall if he did not stand firmly.

Then, with the help of Su Wanyun, Lu Ming returned to his bedroom and continued to practice.

Su Wanyun originally wanted to ask Lu Ming what the important matter was, but when she saw Lu Ming's tired face, she had to swallow her words.

After Lu Ming returned to his room, he did not continue practicing. He asked the maid to go to the study to bring paper and pen, and he was alone in the bedroom writing something.

The biggest difficulty facing the palace right now is lack of money. He must help the palace out of the predicament as soon as possible. When the time comes, after using the "Telepathic Technique" to identify whether the servants in the palace are loyal to him, he can take out some money-making things.

A few days passed quickly.

In the early morning, except for the guards who were guarding the Xiaoyao Palace, the servants of the Xiaoyao Palace came to the martial arts training ground early in the morning.

They were all very curious about what the important thing Lu Ming was talking about was. Before Lu Ming arrived at the training ground, the entire training ground was buzzing with discussion, just like a vegetable market.

"Hey, what exactly is the important thing that the king is talking about?"

"Who can guess this? We'll know when the king comes."

"I think the palace is going to dismiss the servants."

"How can this be?"

"What's impossible? Now that the cloth shop is closed, the palace has completely lost its source of income. There are still so many people in that manor outside the capital who need to be fed. I guess the palace is running out of money now."

……

Even though the servants present had been frightened by the execution of those cloth shop traitors by the palace a few days ago, they were not really afraid of Lu Ming, the King of Freedom who was about to die.

Even these servants dared to openly discuss the affairs of the palace in such an occasion. After listening to the discussions of these servants in the martial arts training ground, Li Yunfan's face became more and more gloomy.

Even though he also looked down on King Xiaoyao, King Xiaoyao was still King Xiaoyao after all, and it was not something these servants could discuss.

Li Yunfan could no longer bear it and shouted angrily, "Shut up!"

As soon as Li Yunfan finished speaking, the martial arts training ground instantly became quiet. The servants' faces changed slightly. Compared with Lu Ming, they were more afraid of Li Yunfan, the commander of the palace's personal guards.

King Xiaoyao seldom managed the affairs of the palace, but when Li Yunfan tried the traitor, he really meant beating to death when he said he would.

For a moment, the entire training ground was silent.

After the servants calmed down, Li Yunfan thought to himself that their speculations were not unreasonable. The current Xiaoyao Palace could no longer afford such a huge expense. The big thing that King Xiaoyao mentioned was most likely to dismiss some servants and reduce the expenses of the palace.

Just when Li Yunfan was distracted, a guard's voice came, "The king has arrived!"

Soon, Lu Ming appeared in the martial arts training ground. Li Yunfan took the lead and saluted Lu Ming, saying, "Greetings, Your Majesty!"

Seeing that Li Yunfan, the commander of the guards, saluted Lu Ming, the servants in the martial arts training ground also saluted, "Greetings, Your Majesty!"

Lu Ming glanced at the more than 2,000 people in the martial arts training ground.

He turned to look at Li Yunfan and asked, "Are all the servants from Xiaoyao Palace here?"

Li Yunfan replied, "Everyone is here." Lu Ming said, "Okay, let's begin. According to the palace's roster, line up and come before me one by one."

"Those I have circled on the roster will stand on the left side of the training ground, and those not circled will stand on the right."

Hearing this, Li Yunfan and Su Wanyun thought at the same time, are they really planning to dismiss the servants?

However, judging from the current situation, dismissing the servants is indeed the best way to reduce the expenses of Xiaoyao Palace. After all, there are more than 2,000 servants in Xiaoyao Palace alone, not to mention the tens of thousands of servants in the manor outside the city. The current Xiaoyao Palace really cannot afford to support so many people.

only……

If you want to dismiss servants, why not just dismiss them according to their importance? There is no need to go before King Xiaoyao one by one.

No one present could understand what Lu Ming was doing.

However, people still lined up as Lu Ming said.

Then the first servant came to Lu Ming. Lu Ming glanced at the roster. The servant was named Feng Rui. He was in his fifties and was considered an old man in the palace. He had served his father before. Although he had no position, many servants listened to him.

Lu Ming then used the "Telepathic Technique" on Feng Rui.

Ok?
The next moment, Lu Ming frowned, he felt murderous intent from Feng Rui's emotions.

Immediately afterwards, a text box with keywords appeared in front of Lu Ming.

【Contempt, disdain, murderous intent, confusion】

Lu Ming calmed down, raised the brush in his hand, and circled Feng Rui's name on the list.

Then the maid next to Lu Ming directed Feng Rui to stand on the left.

Immediately afterwards, another servant came to Lu Ming. Lu Ming once again felt contempt, disdain, and malice from the servant's emotions, but this time there was no intention to kill. However, Lu Ming did not hesitate at all and drew a circle directly.

As the servants came to Lu Ming one by one, the emotions Lu Ming felt from those servants were basically contempt and disdain, which made Lu Ming too lazy to draw circles and directly drew a line through their names.

At this time, the maid looked at the horizontal bar on the list in confusion. She didn't know whether to let the servant in front of her go to the left or the right.

Lu Ming said calmly, "The horizontal bar represents a circle."

Hearing this, the maid immediately asked the servant in front of her to go to the left.

In this way, Lu Ming held up the brush and drew lines on the list of servants for a whole day. Fortunately, after using the "Telepathy Technique" many times, the spiritual energy he consumed in using the "Telepathy Technique" became less and less, and the speed of sensing the other party's emotions became faster and faster. Basically, when he saw the servant later, he could quickly perceive whether the servant had any ill will towards him.

The sun gradually set and the lights came on. After Lu Ming had finished identifying the last servant to see if he had any ill intentions towards him, he was already exhausted.

It is indeed a big challenge for Lu Ming now to identify whether more than 2,000 people have malicious intentions towards him at once.

Originally, he wanted to divide the work into several days, but when he thought that the people who poisoned the food were hiding among these servants, Lu Ming felt uneasy. He suppressed his tiredness and finished the work within one day.

Then Lu Ming's gaze fell on Li Yunfan.

【Contempt, disgust, suspicion, slight loyalty】

Lu Ming thought to himself that it was similar to what he thought. Li Yunfan was loyal to the Xiaoyao Palace and had no good feelings towards him.

However, even though Li Yunfan looked down on him, Lu Ming had no intention of driving him away. He was a rare second-grade warrior in the palace, and there were still many things that needed to be done by Li Yunfan.

Lu Ming then looked to the left, where there were already more than 1,200 people.

(End of this chapter)