Recruiting so many people at once turned training into a major problem. The instructors could only be drawn from the army, and whether they were qualified was simply not a consideration.
The broad-entry, strict-exit selection standards meant that this was destined to be a rough-and-ready training program. Aside from teaching cultivation methods and sharing some cultivation experience, there was no need to force a bunch of rough men to lecture, instruct, and answer questions.
Not to mention officers born to serf families—even officers from minor noble families were not particularly well educated.
With limited resources, many minor noble families only focused on raising their eldest sons, while the rest received only the most basic education.
For brothers like Hudson and his siblings to all receive noble education, complete basic knight training, and even obtain Life Essence afterward, their family could already be considered well-off.
The noble world was already this cruel. One could imagine the state of training for the Knight Order reserves.
So-called focused training really just meant eating a little better, having sufficient nutrition for training, and being subject to stricter daily management.
As for more cultivation resources, there was no point dreaming about them. Hudson was not generous enough to provide cultivation resources for more than twenty thousand people all at once.
It was not merely a matter of money. No one would sell such a massive quantity of cultivation resources in the first place.
Cultivation resources on the market appeared only in scattered amounts, and they were not cheap either.
Backed by the Black Stone Mountain Range, Mountain Territory could produce some cultivation resources as well. But wild resources were too scarce, while artificial cultivation required time.
Though cultivation resources were scarce, Hudson benefited greatly in terms of manpower from the Coslo Family's widespread marriage alliances.