Chapter 221. The First Step to Being a Good Jinyiwei: Memorize the Book!
How could the men of the Great Qian Capital possibly be inferior to people from Jiangnan!
The others had just been about to answer with such confidence.
But then they suddenly recalled the process of rooting out the spy just now, and the words immediately lodged in their throats. No matter what, they could not say them.
“We...”
If they compared their ability to handle Jinyiwei affairs, those people were far more than several streets ahead of them. There was simply no comparison.
If they compared combat strength as martial artists...
Although these young lords of the Great Qian Capital had excellent cultivation methods and solid foundations, and held an advantage in direct combat at the same realm, those Jiangnan Jinyiwei all hid in the shadows like ghosts. Every time they walked out, they startled them.
If such people launched a sneak attack, they felt they would not be able to withstand it.
The problem lay here.
The combat method most suited to the Jinyiwei had always been to strike first and launch a sneak attack. Charging head-on was a military fighting style.
The young lords of the Great Qian Capital widened their eyes and discovered a terrifying fact in despair.
If one put it that way...
Was there nothing about them that could compare to those Jiangnan Jinyiwei?!
And the factor behind all of this... could only be Cheng Yu!
When he had been in Jiannan Circuit, he had painstakingly trained these Jinyiwei!
Seeing that everyone had finally realized it, Xiao Qi folded his arms and sneered.
“I’ve already said this much. You should understand what to do now, right?”
“Lord Cheng is an unbelievably thick super thigh. Once you cling to him tightly, not only will you get to follow him, eat meat, and earn merit, your personal abilities can also improve.”
“Maybe one day, all of us can even kick aside the heirs in our families and try what it feels like to hold our heads high.”
The moment these words came out, the defenses in everyone else’s hearts completely wavered.
There were brothers and sisters in their families with greater talent, and those people would inherit the family estate. They had no need to work hard, and no way to do so either.
At home, everyone found them annoying.
That was the reason they chose to amuse themselves with pleasure, and it was also the knot in their hearts.
They were all siblings with the same surname. Were they necessarily inferior to others?
Cheng Yu had ascended the Earth Ranking at the age of twenty and had already proven that he could take down a Ninth Rank martial artist. His talent was enough to Shake the Ancient and Illuminate the Present, and his future was bright.
He also cared deeply about his subordinates.
If they truly had a chance to try, they did not necessarily feel they could not cling to this thigh and give it a try!
Seeing that the expressions of the others gradually became firm and sharp, Xiao Qi nodded in satisfaction.
“In any case, I’m going to try. My family uses my elder brother to lecture me every day. It’s annoying to death. Isn’t it just that he was born ten years earlier than me? Does he really think he’s that amazing?”
He would cling to this super thigh right now and overtake them on a bend, so those people in his family could see!
The others nodded firmly.
They would do it!
Just then, Cheng Yu’s figure appeared on the platform of the Martial Practice Ground, standing before the gathered Jinyiwei.
He clapped his hands, signaling for everyone to quiet down first.
A terrifying pressure of Internal Energy spread out and pressed down on the Jinyiwei, neither too heavily nor too lightly.
Jinyiwei quality training was about to begin!
“All of you hold at least the office of Hundred-Household Commander or above, and you each have your own teams. Today is not only dedicated training for you, but also the transmission of the Jinyiwei’s quality-building methods.”
“You must learn how to train your subordinates after you return, and truly make the Jinyiwei ranks strong. Only then can you suppress all under heaven and share His Majesty’s burdens!”
The moment these words came out, the Jinyiwei below the platform could not help but suck in a breath of cold air.
Suppress all under heaven?
Lord Cheng had such great ambition and such a grand tone. The world belonged to the Jianghu now, and it would not be easy for the Jinyiwei to rise.
Unexpectedly, at that moment...
Xiao Qi stepped forward and began pounding his chest wildly as he shouted, “Suppress all under heaven and share His Majesty’s burdens!”
The other members of the little troublemaker clique widened their eyes.
Damn you, Xiao Qi. When you were slacking off, you slacked off the hardest, and now that you were no longer slacking off, you were also the most competitive!
As expected of a royal member surnamed Xiao.
Unwilling to fall behind, they hurriedly shouted after him, “Suppress all under heaven and share His Majesty’s burdens!”
The other Jinyiwei were completely dumbfounded when they saw this scene.
They had only gone out with Cheng Yu once.
And yet these young lords, who rested three hundred and sixty days a year and only came to the Jinyiwei to gild themselves, were suddenly this enthusiastic?
Driven by the atmosphere, they could only begin shouting sparsely as well.
“Suppress all under heaven and share His Majesty’s burdens!”
Cheng Yu raised an eyebrow and glanced at Xiao Qi and the others, then lifted his hand to signal for everyone to quiet down.
“Enough nonsense. The first project I will train you in today is—obeying orders!”
“Huh?”
The Jinyiwei were instantly dumbfounded. Were they not supposed to be training the Jinyiwei’s professional competence?
Why were they suddenly training obedience to orders?
Was this discipline to establish authority over his subordinates?
Even so, it could not be this obvious. He was not even putting on an act anymore.
Even the two brothers, Zhang De and Zhang Fen, knew not to do it openly. Disciplining subordinates depended on threats and incentives, suppression and checks.
“What are you saying ‘huh’ for? First, memorize all the contents of this book. No one is allowed to leave until you can recite it backward and forward!”
Cheng Yu sneered, then had the Jinyiwei who had come from Jiannan Circuit distribute thick booklets to everyone.
The Jinyiwei of the Great Qian Capital accepted them blankly.
Before they could recover from the shock of having to memorize a book, they were stunned by the title of the booklet.
《Jinyiwei Rules and Regulations (Great Qian Calendar Year 547 Edition)》
This was...
The Jinyiwei were dumbfounded. Cheng Yu not only wanted them to memorize the rules and regulations, but it was also the edition from four hundred years ago!
Why did this feel more and more like he was fooling idiots?
“Lord! Having us memorize this thing, is that not a little...”
Someone felt that something was truly wrong and took the initiative to ask, but before Cheng Yu could answer, Xiao Qi’s voice rang out first.
“If you’re told to memorize it, then memorize it. You don’t even understand how to obey orders!”
As he spoke, he actually began reading the contents of the book aloud. Although he did not know what they were supposed to do with it either, he would just memorize it first!
Seeing this, the other troublemakers panicked again. Xiao Qi had gotten one step ahead of them again!
If this went on...
If Xiao Qi stayed ahead step by step, inherited the position of Duke Zhongyi, and then looked down on them, his disreputable friends, that would be too embarrassing.
They hurriedly began reading and memorizing aloud one after another.
With them acting like this, a baffling competitive atmosphere immediately spread.
Most of the people still had not figured out why they had to memorize this, but they were infected by the atmosphere.
Who cared? They would memorize it first!
If they missed something and fell behind others, that would be bad.
And so...
The Martial Practice Ground, which should have been a place for fighting and combat, had now become a place filled with the clear sound of reading.
The Jinyiwei who had come with Cheng Yu from Jiannan Circuit also found it very strange.
That book...
They had never memorized it either.
One after another, they ran up to Cheng Yu and knelt before him. “Lord Cheng, why didn’t we memorize books back then? Did we do something wrong?”
They did not want to miss out on this kind of training and cultivation!
At that moment, Cheng Yu was listening to the pleasant voice of the system.
【The host has cultivated his subordinates, achieved progress in both literary and martial aspects, and built up the Jinyiwei ranks. Reward: one chest of Body-Tempering Pills!】
【The host... Reward: Internal Energy!】
【...】
Listening to the system notifications fill the screen with ding, ding, ding sounds, feeling his strength constantly grow, and watching various treasures pile up, Cheng Yu nearly let out a strange sound of pleasure.
These Jinyiwei from the Great Qian Capital might all take charge of a region in the future. The rewards from cultivating them far surpassed those from before.
“Lord! We were wrong. Please give us a chance to improve!”
Only then did Cheng Yu hear the voices of his old subordinates, and he raised an eyebrow oddly.
What? They were fighting to memorize books now?