Chapter: 3647

"Furthermore, all peripheral members of the Ye family must hold a report meeting in Yanjing once every three months to detail the past three months' operations and submit reports to the main house. Similarly, no one is allowed to skip it! Do you all understand?!"

As far as Ye Chen was concerned, these peripheral family members would only come to pay their respects once every twelve years. This frequency was indeed too low, and it was precisely because of this that they had no loyalty to the Ye family, nor did the Ye family have any actual control over them.

However, from now on, everything must undergo a thorough transformation.

Let them come to pay their respects once a year and report every three months, which is intended to strengthen the main house's control over them.

If we were to compare the Ye family to a feudal dynasty, what Ye Chen was doing now was to enhance central authority, weaken local autonomy, and firmly grasp these scattered branch families that had been spread across different regions!

No one thought that Ye Chen would directly change the ancestral ritual, which used to be held once every twelve years, into an annual event.

To be honest, the ancestral ritual was extraordinary in significance, but it was also a labor-intensive and costly affair.

As a result, some older members of the peripheral family branches spoke up, saying: "Ye Chen...the ancestral ritual is only held once every twelve years, as decreed by our ancestors. You're changing it to an annual event, which is too frequent! I personally think that this frequency will disturb the peace and tranquility of our ancestors' spirits. What if they don't approve? That would be a grave disrespect to our ancestors!"

Ye Chen looked at him coldly and said: "It's precisely because it used to be only once every twelve years that you folks have forgotten about your ancestors, forgetting them so much that they're now nothing more than a distant memory! Others say that someone is trying to dig up your ancestors' graves, but you folks are still fleeing from Yanjing at night, and you don't even respect your ancestors! Do you?"

The old man's face turned bright red and he quickly closed his mouth.

Ye Chen asked him, "Why won't you speak up? You were just so good at speaking a moment ago?"

After that, Ye Chen pointed to the ancestral tomb behind him, asking coldly, "Come, explain yourself in front of our ancestors. How do you respect your ancestors?"

The old man hung his head in shame and said, "I... I was wrong..."

Ye Chen said coldly, "Don't talk to me! Go out there and tell it to our ancestors!"

The old man could only walk out from the crowd, facing the dozens of ancestral tombs, saying shamefully, "Our ancestors are above. As for my family's wrongdoing, may our ancestors forgive us!"

Ye Chen let out a cold sneer and ignored the old man, continuing to speak sternly to the hundreds of distant relatives, saying, "Don't think you're just distant relatives. As the head of this main house, I'm making demands on all of you, and it's not bullying!"

After that, he pointed at Ye Changkong, Ye Changyun, Ye Feng, Ye Hao, and others who were kneeling beside him, speaking coldly, "Open your eyes and take a good look at these people! They're all members of our main family! There are my maternal uncles, paternal uncles, paternal aunts, and my cousins... they've made mistakes, but they still have to kneel here for three days and three nights!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Changkong and other members of the main family bowed their heads in shame, while the hundreds of distant relatives were left staring with their mouths agape!

It was only then that they realized that Ye Chen's iron blood wasn't just targeting them.

He was even harsher on his own family members!

Ye Chen continued to say out loud, "Moreover, I'll tell you, most of them will have to stay at Ye Ling Mountain for three years to mourn our ancestors from now on!"

"For the next three-year period, no matter how severe their illness is, they are not allowed to leave even a single step away from Ye Ling Mountain!"

"Not even if someone wins the ICU, I'll build an ICU for them right here at Ye Ling Mountain!"

This group of relatives affiliated with the Ye family listened and started to look worried. They had thought that Ye Chen was already very ruthless in making his own family members kneel here for three days and three nights, but they didn't expect him to be even more merciless!

At this moment, Ye Chen gazed coldly at them, continuing to say, "So, each of you listen carefully: from now on, if any of you dare to betray the Ye family or bring loss to it, you'll have one less person, and your outcome will be even worse than theirs!" JrNovels.com