"Your Majesty!" En Moy knocked on Jin's office as this was one of the rare times that he was able to find him in the castle.
"What is it? I thought I made it clear that no one is supposed to come in?" Jin said as he was not working at all but merely lying on his side couch and staring into the sky. If people did not know him, they would have thought it was slacking but those who were in the know that he had worked hard. Harder than a slave to be frankly honest.
It was so bad that the ministers had to take turns to remind Jin to relax even though they were the ones who were giving him much trouble, asking him to sign this and that. Jin honestly wants to throw all the authority back at the ministry now that they were a bunch of competent fools.
However, it was precisely that they were fools who had accepted Kraft's mind conditioning that he had to take charge once in a while. (That's a lie. He took charge almost every single time.)
"Just a quick report of the day now that it's close to your dinner time. And just to be sure, you are skipping dinner too, right?"
"Why? Did the chef complain that he had nothing to do since I had been skipping meals?" Jin asked as he beckoned En Moy to come in and have a seat.
"No, it's more likely the fact that he has been outside in capital training newbies that he wished that you could try his apprentice's food for a change."
"Oh... okay sure." Jin nodded as he did not have any qualms with such a request.
"Oh ...erm I honestly did not expect you would be okay with that. Shall I give a heads up to the chef first before we continue our report?" En Moy said and Jin nodded, telling him to find him at the dinner table.
"If that's the case, can I get Minister Topharm here as well?" En Moy asked, trying to hope that he could now get a meeting rather than just a report to Jin.
"You really know how to push your luck, eh?" Jin sighed and nodded his head once more. He guessed he could try learning what's the progress of the kingdom's expansion or what Topharm thought about future developments. "Oh but eh...tell the chefs to take their time since it comes to this. Have a proper meal, you two leading ministers deserved that much."
En Moy gratefully accepted it and he did not take long to inform the chefs before returning to the dinner table as soon as possible. "That's fast," Jin exclaimed and En Moy smiled a little.
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"I had more or less figured out the kinks of the training programme, so it should technically be faster. Just that most of the musclebrains do not have magic awakened in them at all. They probably need to be forcefully awakened just like how I did it for the government officials."
"Sounds fair. How long do you think it will take if that is the case?"
"About a month or so as well. But I might need to be harsher than them compared to the current rifle mages because of the forced awakening."
"That's fine. The result is all that was needed. After that, go for the volunteers who had signed up as well. Don't give them mercy but let them quit if they cannot handle it."
"That's kind of defeating the purpose of training if they are able to quit," Kraft argued.
"You are not wrong but we cannot force volunteers to carry on. That is why they are called volunteers, Mr Devil in a fox's suit. However, if it is a Lyrco volunteer army, then we might need to be stricter in the criteria for training. Perhaps, even a contract might be necessary to seal the deal." Jin said and Kraft nodded in agreement as well.
"What we need is something more than that. The Rifle Mages are excellent but their firepower is limited even though Lord Kraft had ensured that the products that came out from his training were of a standard variation.
"You do not have to worry about that. After the automation factory produced a sufficient amount of rifles for not only the military but also the public, we will proceed to create the Crystal Sherman Tank that we had driven around previously." Jin then stopped for a while and added on to his sentence. "Or the likes of it."
"Wait, before we go to the Crystal Sherman Tanks, did you just say public?"
"Aye. Everyone will go through basic gun training and survival training. The Rifle Mages will take turns to go to various schools to teach and test them. That is the most basic thing the citizens had to do." Jin was taking lessons on compulsory military conscription.
"Hmm..Considering the number of enemy kingdoms we might have to face, I guess that must be an inevitable choice." Topharm finally came in and En Moy greeted him. What was more surprising was not his comment but the guest that he brought along as well. Grand Sage Mex.
"This is a rare sight. I thought I had offended you badly Grand Sage Mex." Jin said as he stood up and shook his hands.
"Competition is competition. Saving the nation is another priority. Besides, I can already see that the effects of your work are starting to take shape. The people from the slums are fully employed despite the weak meager salary that they were given to."Grand Mex said. "So, I am here to come to help."