Calling the vote now, sorry for the really long wait. Summer heat is just killing me

>>6247943
And with

>>6247984
>>6249390
these two votes taken into account, raising the final total to 10

And the final count of

Cultivating the skills/ talents of the best of the first crop of recruits to make them officers: 10

Dae-Hyun and co's request for martial tournaments: 4

Dai Niu's mock siege plan: 2

The crushes some of the boys have on Meixiu: 4

And by rule of one less than half

Lieren will primarily focus on honing and personally cultivating those boys he sees as having the highest potential of the aspirants, while also preparing/allowing a few of them to compete in martial tourneys and keeping an eye on the lovelorn youngsters

Writing now