The fastest run...

Long Hu never imagined that Long Long would judge who would stay based on their ability to escape.

If you think about it carefully, it is not unreasonable.

The first evacuation was definitely the easiest because the other side was not expecting it.

The second batch of evacuees will have their guards up, so the ability to escape will be higher. Leaving those who are good at escaping behind will definitely increase the survival rate of the second batch of evacuees.

Unexpected, right? The fellow Taoists of the Feather Clan on the list. Because you are not doing your job properly and are only studying how to escape, you have now been included in the second batch of evacuation lists.

While Longhu was still mourning, Longlong had already picked up the list and walked out.

As the list was announced, naturally some were happy while others were sad.

The monks who were included in the list of those who stayed behind naturally cried out in injustice and demanded that Long Long give a reason.

Those who were included in the evacuation list immediately stood on Long Long's side and expressed their support, as if they were afraid that Long Long would not be able to refute them and would be forced to announce that the list would be revised... How could such a thing be allowed to happen!

Dragon Fox was surprised to find that, because Long Long had decided in advance, the number of people who would evacuate and those who would stay behind was two to one. Therefore, the number of Feather Clan monks who supported Long Long far exceeded those who opposed him.

The latter was almost completely overwhelmed in terms of momentum, but he was stubborn and refused to admit defeat. After all, it was a matter of life and death, so how could he be easily persuaded? Even if it was unreasonable, he had to make some efforts.

As a result, Long Long only used six words to defeat all the Feather Clan monks, just like he had defeated the Dragon Fox before:

"You're good at running away."

Because he was good at running, he was assigned to the more dangerous second evacuation operation. This was such a logical reason that most of the opposition was silent.

A few monks tried to make a fool of themselves, claiming that the intelligence records were wrong and that they were not good at running away. They were quickly brutally suppressed by a large number of supporters - they had been comrades for so many years, who didn't know each other?

Then, Long Long used six more words to suppress the complaints of these people:

"I'll stay here."

The commander-in-chief has personally stayed in the second group of evacuees, and you little soldiers are still afraid of death. Is this acceptable?

The opponents can certainly say that this is "reasonable", but such unsubstantiated clamor is unconvincing. Now everyone knows that someone must stay in the city to confuse the enemy and create a favorable environment for the first group of people to evacuate. Either you stay or he stays, so why can't you stay?

On the contrary, reasons like "good at running away and high survival rate" are easy to understand and more difficult to refute.

So the matter was settled. When it was the turn of the first group of monks to evacuate, they were naturally grateful to Long Long. As for the monks who stayed behind, although Long Long also stayed with them, they did not have much of a good impression of him. They just kept silent and were depressed.

Before everyone could fully accept it, Long Long came up with a second resolution:

"Since the number of people left in the city has shrunk to one third, the pressure of dealing with the siege will inevitably be greater."

"Therefore, in order to allow the remaining monks to better complete their mission and create opportunities for the evacuated monks, I suggest that all the evacuated monks donate some magic tools and elixirs to the remaining monks."

As soon as these words were spoken, there was complete silence.

For the monks who stayed behind, it was certainly a timely help. But when they thought that it was Long Long who had made this happen, they suddenly felt unhappy.

For the evacuated monks, as long as they could save their lives, donating some magic weapons and elixirs as money to buy their lives was naturally nothing.

However, everyone has selfish motives. Since it is a donation, it is of course based on each family's wealth, the rich donate more, the poor donate less. So if I say I am very poor and just donate some scrap metal, is that okay?

So everyone started to cry poor. Before they could cry for long, Long Long said:

"Fox, go get everyone's gift list from last time."

Dragon Fox was slightly startled, then immediately reacted and said cleverly:

"It fell in the city garrison. I'll go get it now."

When the evacuated monks saw this, they were all dumbfounded.

Damn, is there really such a thing?

Judging wealth based on the gift list may sound a bit strange, but it makes perfect sense if you think about it carefully. Especially since the list had not been released yet, everyone was afraid that if they gave too little, they would be put on the left-behind list, so they all paid a lot.

As a result, Long Long returned the money and donated it to the monks who stayed behind. The former lost money to avoid disaster, while the latter took risks to gain wealth. The resentment of both sides was alleviated to a certain extent.

"I don't quite understand." Qin Lu asked Long Hu in a low voice, "If that's the case, wouldn't it be more direct to accept the gifts from the beginning and then distribute them to the remaining monks?"

"Of course not." Long Hu showed a subtle smile that said "I am the only one who understands him" and said confidently, "If you do that, it won't be a voluntary donation."

"We are the only ones who know how much we received and how much we distributed. Even if we distribute all the gifts we received, there will still be people who suspect that we kept some for ourselves."

"But if we let everyone take it home first and then ask them to 'donate it voluntarily', then there won't be any concerns in this regard."

Qin Lu suddenly realized and nodded, thinking that it was Long Long that my grandfather had high hopes for, and I still have a lot to learn in this area!

In fact, Longhu didn't say something: the reason why Longlong asked everyone to donate voluntarily was to "use power to pressure others."

Whatever I ask you to do, you just do it. No matter how much of it is voluntary and how much is forced by the general trend, it will form a mental inertia, and in the end everyone will give up thinking and just do whatever Long Long says. That is the so-called "prestige".

Of course, these things are too sensitive and it is not easy to tell Qin Lu - who knows whether Long Long will use this method to deal with the dragon clan in the future?

Qin Lu was thinking silently and returned to the City Guard Mansion. Suddenly, he noticed that a flying sword was carrying a letter heading straight towards him.

She stretched out her hand and summoned the flying sword. Looking carefully, she saw that Qin Chaocang was shocked by Long Long's armchair talk in the letter and asked whether what Qin Lu said was true.

If it is true, immediately order Long Long not to continue commanding, hand over his military power to Qin Sitong, and then quickly take him back to the rear camp. Never let him continue to make trouble.

Qin Lu almost vomited blood when he saw the letter. Grandpa, why are you so anxious? Can't you wait until my second letter arrives before writing this reply?

Not long after, the second letter arrived, with only four simple characters on it:

What's the meaning?

Qin Lu had a blank expression on his face, thinking to himself, how should I explain this?

He said that Longlong was just a strategy, in fact it was to test the movements of the defenders so as to facilitate the sneaking into Yuanjiang City... Not to mention the earliest infiltration, so many things happened later, and now the defenders of Yuanjiang City are completely in his hands. If he explains the strategy from who knows how long ago, will it feel like he is concealing the current situation?

But if I want to report the current situation, it won’t be done with just a few letters, and grandpa might have more problems.

My head hurts.