Qian Peng (Chen Yu) was somewhat taken aback when he received Li Yi's assignment to form the "Imperial Guard".
He infiltrated the Fire Seed Base and "advised" Li Yi, all in order to awaken the oppressed lower-level base members, destroy the base, and overthrow Li Yi and his inhuman exploiters.
Unexpectedly, Li Yi actually valued him highly, entrusting him with the task of building up his trump card.
Isn't Li Yi just asking for trouble?
Chen Yu sneered inwardly, but outwardly remained calm and solemnly accepted the task.
With this mission in hand, he will be able to more easily place the "militia fighters" from Tianyu Base into the base.
If the Christians rebel, he can immediately take control of the situation and ensure that no one can suppress the rebellious Christians.
With this in mind, Chen Yu immediately began to prepare a detailed plan for establishing the "Imperial Guard".
First, the warriors of the "Royal Guard" cannot be directly selected from the existing members of the Fireseed Legion. After all, the original purpose of forming the "Royal Guard" was to make it independent of the Fireseed Base. If members were selected from the existing legion, it would be difficult to guarantee that they wouldn't have entanglements with their former "comrades." Based on this consideration, other members of the base are not even considered. The newly formed "Royal Guard" will be recruited directly from outside, ensuring that they will not have any dealings with any management personnel of the base, thus guaranteeing their independence and loyalty.
In such a cold and harsh environment, the survivors outside who have no power to protect them are struggling to even get a meal. They are easily satisfied and are most in need of a place to settle down. Their loyalty is easy to establish.
Secondly, ...
at last,…………
Chen Yu handed his plan to Li Yi, who was very satisfied with it. Every point he listed hit the nail on the head, every sentence was reasonable, and every word was precious.
Li Yi approved Chen Yu's proposal on the spot and ordered him to start processing it immediately.
Of course, Li Yi wasn't completely unguarded against Qian Peng. After all, the Imperial Guard was one of the important forces he would rely on in the future, and he couldn't possibly hand it over to Qian Peng to control entirely.
Under the pretext of assisting "Qian Peng," he placed a private secretary by his side as a special envoy within the "Imperial Guard." While ostensibly assisting "Qian Peng," the real purpose was to check and balance "Qian Peng," keeping a close eye on his every move and reporting to Li Yi regularly.
To prevent the "special envoy" from colluding with "Qian Peng," he sent someone to monitor the "special envoy" at all times. The person monitoring the "special envoy" was also supervised and managed by a dedicated team.
He has invested a lot of people in developing this system.
Moreover, these people have another common characteristic: they all have a weakness (family members) who have been placed in the base's "nursing home" or "school".
The supplies needed by the Imperial Guards were also distributed by designated personnel in fixed daily amounts to prevent them from hoarding.
In addition, the firearms and ammunition of the entire "Imperial Guard" are strictly controlled. Each recruit is issued one person's own weapons and ammunition, and the amount of ammunition is strictly controlled to ensure that there will be no surplus of ammunition even in the most urgent situation, thereby preventing Chen Yu or others from using it to launch unnecessary rebellions.
Based on these three measures alone, Li Yi believed that even if Qian Peng were to develop ulterior motives someday, the Imperial Guards would not become a weapon of rebellion in his hands.
Of course, Li Yi also trusted his own judgment. He believed that Qian Peng's loyalty was beyond question. However, he always liked to prepare for the worst. After all, one can never be too careful. In this extremely cold and chaotic world where order had collapsed, one must be even more cautious and prudent.
While the Imperial Guard will be an important tool for him, he will not rely solely on it for his protection.
In his plan, the "Imperial Guard" and the "Fire Seeds" will be absolutely independent yet mutually restraining in the future, ensuring that both can exert their maximum effectiveness without posing a challenge to his authority on their own.
If one side is infiltrated, he can use the other side to suppress it in order to maintain his absolute rule.
Chen Yu paid no attention to Li Yi's ulterior motives.
If the other party wants to monitor him, let them monitor him. If the other party wants to send someone to take away his power, he doesn't care. Let alone take away power, what does it matter if he hands over the position of "Imperial Guard" commander?
As long as he is still in charge of establishing the "Imperial Guard," that's fine.
He began to build up the "Imperial Guard" with lightning speed. With Li Yi's support, he recruited a large number of idle people outside the base. In order to ensure that the "Imperial Guard" could quickly form combat power, he focused his main efforts on "incorporating" some "scattered armed forces" that had recently emerged in the Fire Seed Base's sphere of influence.
These newly emerging "freelance armed forces," I don't know what they eat every day in this extremely cold apocalypse, are all full of energy, as if they have inexhaustible strength. They are always causing trouble in the area around the Fire Seed Base, either robbing the Fire Seed Base's transport teams or harassing their outposts outside, which is extremely annoying.
Incorporating them into the organization would not only ensure the rapid growth of the "Imperial Guards," but also effectively reduce security risks around the Fire Seed Base, achieving two goals at once.
Qian Peng's actions once again earned high praise from Li Yi.
He also personally received the leaders of the various "scattered armed forces" who had been "recruited" by Chen Yu with high honors, promising generous rewards and a bright future. He also frequently encouraged and comforted the newly joined "Imperial Guard" soldiers, thus further winning their hearts and minds.
Chen Yu sneered inwardly at this.
Li Yi had a well-thought-out plan, but unfortunately, he went in the wrong direction from the very beginning.
These "freelance armed forces" are actually soldiers from the "anti-cold disaster relief militia" who have infiltrated the territory of the Fire Seed Base in the past month or so.
From the very beginning, they were Chen Yu's men.
No matter how hard Li Yi tried to win over people's hearts, the only person he listened to was Chen Yu.
This is why Chen Yu wouldn't care even if he had to hand over the leadership of the Imperial Guard.
The original purpose of sending this group of "anti-cold disaster relief militia" soldiers to infiltrate the territory of the Fire Seed Base was to coordinate with the base's lower-level inhabitants to ensure timely and effective suppression of Li Yi and his group when they rebelled.
Now, with this arrangement, these soldiers have been "reasonably incorporated" into Li Yi's "Imperial Guard" and stationed at the Fire Seed Base. It has to be said that Chen Yu feels his plan to destroy the Fire Seed Base has gone a little too smoothly.
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