The Legend of the Condor Heroes: From Being Expelled from Peach Blossom Island

Chapter 296 Planting the flag
At this moment, Wu Chengyu was already determined to plant his first flag at the border between the Western Xia and the Jin Dynasty on the Ziwu Ridge.

He had truly decided to do something. He had witnessed so much injustice along the way, especially the brutality of cannibalism, and wandering the world was no longer what he longed for.

Even if it's just protecting a piece of land and making this world one less place where people eat each other, Wu Chengyu feels that his time travel has been worthwhile.

He wanted these children to grow up, even if they choked to death while eating, fell to their deaths while walking, or choked to death while drinking water, or even if they died as adults on the road to battle or in battle against the Jin cavalry, it would be better than them becoming food for those demonic beasts at a young age.

Currently, the Jin forces in Shaanxi are focusing their attention on suppressing the rebel army. The rebel army is now lying low and accumulating strength in accordance with Wu Chengyu's strategy.

Meanwhile, the Jin spies in Shaanxi had just been severely damaged by Wu Chengyu. Both of the Jin spies' deputy commanders, Heshi Lie Liangping and Wanyan Lin, had died at Wu Chengyu's hands, and so many skilled men had been lost. They certainly wouldn't be able to regroup in a short time.

Therefore, at present, the Jin state's territory in Shaanxi is in a relatively peaceful and tranquil state.

The Ziwu Ridge area has always been remote and outside the sights of Jin spies. Moreover, it is a place where many forces are mixed together. With Wu Chengyu's abilities, he can definitely establish a base here.

Then Wu Chengyu looked at the people in front of him. There were about a hundred children, the oldest of whom was twelve years old. They were all malnourished. There were also more than twenty slaves who had been tortured to the point of being skin and bones. They were exhausted from traveling and carrying things yesterday and probably wouldn't recover for several days.

Those craftsmen were somewhat useful: a blacksmith, two carpenters, three bricklayers, and a stonemason. They were very useful, but unfortunately, there were only seven of them.

Thinking of this, Wu Chengyu suddenly felt that he had been too pretentious before. Back then, at the rebel base, the Yan family father and daughter had painstakingly managed the area for many years, there were thousands of well-trained elite soldiers who could fight ten men each, and the Yue family army was supporting them from behind. They had no shortage of weapons and food.

Wu Chengyu doesn't even need to do many things himself; as long as he lies low for a few years, he will inevitably become a powerful force.

Most importantly, he had a dashing and valiant fiancée, Hong Niangzi, who was completely devoted to him, by his side. But he made a foolish mistake and, for the sake of so-called freedom and his dream of roaming the world, he ran away from his engagement.

Now look what's happened. Wu Chengyu has run off to this remote mountain forest to start all over again. He has nothing, and the people under his command need his constant protection. He has to act as both a nanny and a bodyguard. This is just asking for trouble.

However, Wu Chengyu did not want to go back to the old ways. He now wanted to see if he could cultivate an army that everyone feared and that was invincible under his management.

The next day, when everyone had recovered some of their energy, Wu Chengyu gathered them all together.

“I have thought it over. I can stay temporarily and find you a place to settle down and make a living. I will teach you skills so that you will no longer be pitiful creatures that everyone bullies, no longer food for those evil people, and you will have the ability to control your own destiny.”

This process may be very difficult, and my requirements are very strict. You may even lose your lives because of it, but you must listen to me and obey all my orders, even if I ask you to die. Can you do that?
However, if you fail to meet my requirements, shirk your duties, and prove incapable of improvement, I will turn around and leave you to fend for yourselves in this chaotic world. Do you understand?

When Wu Chengyu spoke these words, he used the subconscious control ability of the art of verbal persuasion. Every word carried a special fluctuation, gradually penetrating their subconscious and influencing them, making them willing to submit to him from the bottom of their hearts and be loyal to him without any doubt.

Now that they have just escaped a great calamity, they feel the most insecure, but at the same time, they have the most faith in Wu Chengyu. Whether it is gratitude or fear, they dare not resist Wu Chengyu in the slightest.

To control someone's subconscious mind with talk-no-jutsu, you must be able to break through their psychological defenses. The reason why we were able to deal with Qiu Qianchi was because she was love-struck and coveted Wu Chengyu.

Therefore, now is the time when verbal persuasion is most effective. If we wait until these people's lives improve and they become more capable, the effect of using verbal persuasion will inevitably be less satisfactory. Human hearts are the most unpredictable thing. Who knows if these people will become ambitious or stab us in the back once they have power and influence?

Wu Chengyu may not have seen much of the wickedness in people's hearts, but he has at least watched enough movies and read enough novels, so he has a basic sense of vigilance.

So everything was done in advance, and coincidentally, Wu Chengyu also had the skill of persuasion, which could bewitch people's hearts, so everything was just right.

Controlling these people won't be a matter of a day or two. In the future, Wu Chengyu will continuously lecture and brainwash them.

Before long, these people will be extremely loyal to him. Perhaps nothing in this world is absolute, but to achieve this, Wu Chengyu's control over his subordinates is certainly unmatched by other commanders.

Those below, hearing Wu Chengyu's words, looked slightly dazed under the influence of ultrasound, but quickly responded without hesitation.

For them, Wu Chengyu was willing to protect them, feed them, teach them skills, and most importantly, enable them to control their own destiny.

Strictness and harshness are not to their liking. Isn't suffering and torment what they have always been destined for and what they have always endured?

All eyes were on Wu Chengyu, their gazes respectful yet resolute, waiting for him to give them orders.

"The first step now is to eat. Who among you can cook?"

Several of the slaves raised their hands, and Yang Laosan spoke up.

“Master, although we are not professional cooks, we can still make some food to fill our stomachs on ordinary days, and at least it won’t taste bad.”

But are we really just supposed to eat and do nothing? We need to be given something to do.

"What can your bodies do now? You've been severely depleted in the past. If this continues, none of you will live long. You'll all be plagued by illnesses and die within a few years."

And these children, who are clearly ten years old, look only five or six. They're not growing any taller. What use are they to me?
The only thing I need to do now is to help you recover so that I can confidently teach you my skills.

The grain we brought this time weighs over a thousand kilograms. Eat it without worry; I'll figure out what to do with it after we've finished.

However, don't eat too much at first, as your digestive system won't be able to process it.

Ou Dachui, you and the other craftsmen build two stoves outside the cave. Didn't we bring two big iron pots from the fortress?

First, cook porridge with some wild vegetables and salt. You can also add a little bit of chopped cured meat. At first, no one is allowed to eat too much. Three meals a day: two bowls of porridge for adults and one bowl for children. Once you've recovered a bit, you can eat more nourishing foods.

(End of this chapter)