This chapter's epigraph comes from the famous poem "Song of Solomon" . It's a poem about a young man who goes to the city of Selden and saves the city from destruction. The young man, Solomon, is the hero of the poem. He's the one who saved Selden from destruction, and he's also the hero who saved all the other Seldenians. Solomon says that if it weren't for him, he'd never have joined the army, because he would never have risked his life to save a city like Selden. He also says that the only reason he joined was because of linxu. He tells the other men that they need to expand their army because the resistance army isn't strong enough yet. They need to bring faith in the people of Sel