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"I want to see what kind of spectacle he'll come up with this time?"

Bai E's position was as stable as Mount Tai, and even the generals who harbored continual resentment towards his origins as a man-made person no longer hoped to use such matters to pull him down from power. At most, they could only hope that after encountering difficulties, he would recognize the role of the original generals, so as to grant them a bit of actual authority.

In the military district, generals needed to have control over troops in order to have a say.

"Or how about we give him a suggestion? We say, let the soldiers who have completed his training exercise face off against our previous soldiers in a mock military exercise, and we won't bully him—we'll have one thousand of our men against his two thousand. If he can still bring those two thousand recruits back in one piece... how about that?"

"Good!"

"That's settled then!"

"We must make him realize that we are useful too!"