Chapter 976: From all over the empire
Once the sect recruitment was decided on, there was no time wasted at all.
The ministers did have their doubts, but they still followed Mu Bao Bao's orders in the end.
Especially after she revealed what had been found about the Wu Empire.
When the matters of the Wu Empire was revealed, the ministers took this matter much more seriously.
Though many of them had suggestions about what could be done about the Wu Empire instead.
However, when Mu Bao Bao revealed that this was how she decided to deal with the spies of the Wu Empire, they agreed to go along with this plan. Especially since they knew how hard it would be to find the spies of the Wu Empire in the first place.
They wanted to see just what kind of plan Mu Bao Bao had.
With the resources of the Wu Empire being used to its full extent, the effects were very good. In just a few days, the matter of the Love Sect's second sect recruitment was spread all over the Mu Empire.
At the same time, working with the different governors and city lords, they were able to set up stations that would test young people and bring them to the Love Sect.
This was something that was even being funded by the Mu Empire's government, so none of the governors and city lords held back at all.
There were many people that were heading to the Love Sect.
That was because the fame of the Love Sect had already spread far and wide across the Mu Empire.
With the different rumours about the Love Sect, it had already been turned into some kind of mystical place that all of the young people of the Mu Empire wanted to join. That was why there were many of them that took a chance going to the stations set up for testing.
That allowed for the discovery of many talents that would have normally remained hidden.
These were talented people that even the governors and city lords felt sorry about losing, but there was nothing that could be done since this was an order that came from the central government.
When the ministers read the list of the talented people that had been gathered, even they couldn't help feeling pain from having to send them all to the Love Sect.
There were some that wanted to try convincing Mu Bao Bao to take back her word, but she just said, "This is the plan if we want to find the spies of the Wu Empire."
So in the end, the ministers couldn't say anything.
They just had to rely on the fact that the Love Sect was so close to the Mu Empire to call on these talented young people in the future.
After all, the Love Sect could be half considered the training ground of the Mu Empire with the relationship that it had with the empress.
So they just comforted themselves like that.
While the ministers were paying attention to this, there was something else that Mu Bao Bao was paying attention to.
It was the list of young people from the noble families of the Mu Empire.
These were talented people, but there were also cases where they weren't as talented and still being sent to the Mu Empire. These were cases where bribes were made to the official in charge to make them turn a blind eye.
There were many officials that used this chance to fill their pockets, but Mu Bao Bao wouldn't pursue this.
After all, their plan had been counting on this in the first place.
The plan actually revolved around these children of noble families to a certain extent.
It was important that they actually got into the groups that were sent to the Love Sect's sect recruitment.
But of course, Mu Bao Bao wouldn't interfere in this matter since it would only raise suspicions if she started inviting the children of the noble families.
So the only thing that she could do was let the fame of the Love Sect do its work.
It was more than enough to bring in all of the children from the noble families.
They had heard enough about the Love Sect to know what kind of place it was and it was also a place that was great to create relations since the ones that were there were all high ranking people.
Especially the ministers that came from time to time.
That was more than enough honey to draw them all in. Enjoy exclusive chapters from My Virtual Library Empire
All that was left was for the sect recruitment to draw out the spies.
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"Look at all of these talented people that are being sent here."
"It really is different when we have the resources of the entire Mu Empire on our side."
"With all of these talented people, won't it be hard to choose?"
The elders of the Love Sect were excitedly looking over the list that had been sent over by the ministers.
When they saw all of the names and the talent that was listed there, they couldn't help feeling excited.
After all, this list was a collection of all the talented young people in the Mu Empire.
They were the people that could be considered the future of the Mu Empire and now they were all being brought to the Love Sect.
With the talent that was on this list, it almost seemed like it would be hard to choose who to accept into the Love Sect. After all, it wasn't as if they could just accept everyone since there were just too many names on the list in the first place.
Even if they wanted to, there just weren't enough resources.
So they had to narrow this list down somehow.
It could be said that they were spoiled by choice since there were so many choices that were placed in front of them.
As if to remind them of something, Lin Fan said, "Even if they don't join the Love Sect, that doesn't mean that there isn't a place for them to go. The Mu Empire has helped us quite a bit during this time, so don't you think that they would want to pick a few as well."
The elders had strange looks on their faces when they heard this, but they eventually nodded in agreement since Lin Fan was right.
Even if these talented young people didn't join the Love Sect, there was still a place that had plenty of resources to train them. In fact, it was a place that had even more resources to train them since it gathered all of the resources in the Mu Empire.
So it wasn't as if these talented young people would be losing out if they came to the Love Sect's sect recruitment.
While these elders were busy discussing this matter, Lin Fan suddenly pulled their attention back by asking, "What about the sects that will be sending representatives to attend, have we already prepared measures against them?"
The elders were immediately snapped back from their own discussions when they heard this.
After hearing this, they all came to attention and revealed serious looks.
After all, this was a serious matter.
Since they had publicly stated that they would be holding this sect recruitment, it meant that all of the other sects in the Mu Empire had also learned about the fact that the Love Sect was holding another sect recruitment.
As soon as they learned of this, the other sects immediately sent letters stating that they would be sending representatives to the Love Sect's sect recruitment.
Since the Love Sect was also the leading sect in the Mu Empire, that meant that they had a reputation to uphold.
It wasn't as if they could just ignore all of these sects since they were supposed to be the leader of all the sects. They had to accept the requests that the different sects made to send their representatives.
That was because last time, many of the sects had been able to pick up the scraps of the Love Sect's recruitment.
The Love Sect didn't mind this since it meant that those disciples that came were still going to a sect to cultivate, even if it wasn't in the Love Sect. But this time, they didn't want to give the other sects too many scraps since they wanted the Mu Empire to take the rest.
In the end, the Love Sect was the closest to the Mu Empire and would support it.
Or rather, it was better to say that the Love Sect was the closest to Mu Bao Bao and would support her.
So they would make sure that this resource was kept within their circle.
Senior Brother Ying was the one that replied.
"I've already talked to the people from the Mu Empire and they knew what to do. There shouldn't be a problem keeping the other sects too busy to try and take the ones that are rejected. However, even if they find some way, I've already worked with the ministers to get them a chance to talk to the kids early. With the benefits that the Mu Empire will offer them, it's very unlikely that the sects will be able to move them."
After a moment of thought, he added, "That is unless they take out the inheritance of their sects and give it all to them. In that case, it might be better to send them to those sects."
The other elders nodded in agreement to this since they knew what Senior Brother Ying had planned.
Lin Fan also gave a simple nod before saying, "Then make sure that nothing goes wrong. This is an important event for us."
All of the elders gave firm nods in response to this.