My Husband, a Marshal: Conquering the Stars with My Culinary Arts Chapter 591 - 199: Participation Matters, Heartache3

Even if those votes were added, it wouldn’t help the Military Departnt take first place, but they wanted to know the reason, the reason why the Minister of the Military turned a blind eye to the Military Departnt.

Iron-eating Beast and His Majesty Tosuo exchanged a glance and wisely decided to leave first. They originally intended to have a al from the Blue Star Empire together before departing, but at this mont, it was clearly not the right ti to discuss dining plans, so it was better they leave on their own.

The people around them had all left, and the field was empty, with no one else around. The Minister of the Military didn’t need to hide anything while talking to this old professor. It was the old professor who spoke first: "Minister, I don’t understand why..."

"You want to ask why I didn’t vote for your Military Departnt?" Without needing the old professor to elaborate, the Minister of the Military knew what he wanted to ask, so he interrupted the professor, his expression devoid of any smile and tinged with disappointnt. "Originally, I had a rather favorable impression of your Military Departnt because I saw a very hardworking young man in the Food Departnt. If he received good training, he would have been qualified to join my departnt in the future, even if he wanted to go under Ke Lian’s command."

"But unfortunately, if I hadn’t t him earlier, his life and dreams might have been ruined by your Military Departnt!" The old professor was elderly and shouldn’t be provoked, but the Minister of the Military couldn’t care less. He knew the status of this old professor and believed that only by making him realize the current problems with the Military Departnt could he prevent more talents from being ’cut short’ here.

The young man the Minister of the Military ntioned was the very one Du Xixi praised on the first day. His na was Lan Zhao, an orphan who relied on the support of kind-hearted people and the Empire to attend school. Thus, he was determined to serve the Empire and always aspired to be a great hero like Ke Lian.

Such a pure young man with a remarkable spirit was greatly admired by the Minister of the Military. On the first day, he lingered in the Food Departnt, and upon leaving, didn’t have ti to visit the Military Departnt, so he went there first thing the next morning.

He wanted to see just how many young n like Lan Zhao were hidden within the Blue Star Empire’s Military Departnt. He wished to discover them one by one, aiming to give them a bright future.

But regrettably, he had expected Lan Zhao to be a representation of most Military Departnt students. In fact, although Blue Star University’s Military Departnt had excellent staff, its teaching had beco "assembly line," producing students who were all the sa. While they might impress others, they wouldn’t survive long on a real battlefield.

This was the reason for the Minister’s disappointnt. He finally understood why the proportion of newcors from Blue Star University’s Military Departnt joining the Military Departnt was so low each year, and in so years, there were even none.

So promising talents studying in such an assembly-line style departnt... It was a complete disservice to the students!

On the second day, the Minister of the Military toured the entire Military Departnt and finally selected fifty students, including Lan Zhao. He made an exception by inviting them to study in the Military Departnt. He preferred to create a "Military Departnt" within the Military Departnt under pressure than to see good talents gradually buried within Blue Star University’s Military Departnt.

"Old professor, you’re getting on in years, your eyes and ears aren’t as sharp as they used to be. You should take a good look at the Military Departnt. Does the current Military Departnt really deserve to exist within Blue Star University, a top institution?"

"I didn’t vote because you simply don’t deserve my vote!"

With those words, the Minister of the Military turned and left without rcy. He wasn’t afraid his attitude might provoke complaints. More than how others felt about him, he cared about the future military strength of the Empire.

The old professor was deeply affected by the cold tone and disappointed look of the Minister for quite a while. Although the Minister had left long ago, he still stood there stiffly. Even when a few young professors from the Military Departnt ca over out of concern, he remained standing there dumbfounded, without speaking a word.

One of the professors couldn’t stand it any longer. Concerned both for the old professor’s health and curious about what the Minister had said, he gently touched the old professor’s shoulder and softly asked, "Senior, what did the Minister say?"

The old professor ca back to his senses but didn’t imdiately answer. Instead, he looked at the young professors surrounding him, and after a long while, his eyes suddenly reddened, and he burst into tears: "I, I have failed my teacher! I’ve misguided my students!"

The old professor was none other than the head of the Military Departnt, who had held this position for nearly seventy years. He had taken over this responsibility from his teacher, the forr head of the Military Departnt, and could still rember his teacher’s words to him back then.

’Young man, as soldiers, our aim is to protect our ho and country. You’re now going to be soone who trains soldiers. Always rember, you must train them to be real warriors! Warriors who can protect our ho and country!’

Protect the ho and country... protect the ho and country...

The old professor wept as he collapsed onto the ground. Despite the young professors’ attempts to help him up, he couldn’t stop crying and couldn’t stand. It was all because of him, because of his decades-long insistence on improving students’ skills and neglecting the real dangers of the battlefield, ignoring his teacher’s earnest teachings, leading to the current state of the Military Departnt... a ss.

The Minister was right; such a Military Departnt no longer deserved its place at Blue Star University. Without change, everything would be ruined, and nothing would have ti...

That night, the head of the Military Departnt voluntarily resigned and sent his letter of repentance to every school leader, including the Minister of the Military who had already returned to the departnt.