For this purpose, Yada Lin One Hundred Eighty-Two and the High Priest secretly conspired, selling off the treasures found in the royal mausoleum in batches to exchange for food and weapons. At the same time, they intensified the training of elite soldiers and auxiliary troops, and after two years, trained an additional five thousand cavalry and twenty thousand heavy infantry. Combined with the original fifty thousand Imperial Guard and one hundred twenty thousand auxiliary soldiers, they commanded an army purported to be five hundred thousand strong. Yada Lin One Hundred Eighty-Two personally led the forces, marching into the mist-laden lands beyond the dynasty.
This action, naturally, drew the attention of all the powers within the Lin Dynasty.