At this point, Ye Chen looked at his father's handsome face in the portrait and choked up, "Dad ...... I know that you always wanted to carry the Ye family forward and make the Ye family stand at the top of the world, now, my son has decided to carry your banner back then, and one day, I will definitely make the Ye family the top of this world! One day, I will make the Ye family the best family in the world."
After saying that, Ye Chen looked at his mother's portrait again and said in shame, "Mom ...... they all advised me that I should go and meet my grandparents, I'm sure you also want me to go and see them, but it's just that I really have little contact with my grandparents, and now that you are also gone, I really don't know how to face them both, so this matter may not be possible for the time being, so please can you forgive me ......"
Subsequently, Ye Chen bent down and kowtowed three times in front of his parents' tombstone.
Immediately afterwards, he said, "Dad, mum, my son will keep you two company today, tomorrow I may have to return to Jinling, right now my son is not ready to disclose his identity, so it is not advisable to stay in Yanjing for a long time, but I will make time to come over to see you guys from now on ......"
After saying this, Ye Chen added, "When my son officially opens his identity to the world in the future, I will definitely bring your daughters-in-law with me, so that you can see my son's other half and feel more at ease."
At this point, Ye Chen's heart was filled with melancholy, and tears slipped silently from his eyes.
For the next few hours, Ye Chen did not speak again, but knelt long and silently in front of his parents' spirit, not saying a word.
The Ye family could only see a shadow of his back from below, and no one knew that this man, who had just subdued the Ten Thousand Dragons Hall and, with his own strength, completely changed the pattern of the Nordic royal family, was already in tears in front of his parents' grave.
Several hours later, most of the members of the Ye family's side lineage had knelt all the way to the bottom of the pagoda on the hill.
Seeing a host of Ye family first cousins also kneeling here, each one was a little dumbfounded.
Before they could figure out why the full members of the Ye family were also kneeling on the ground, they were chided by the generals of the Ten Thousand Dragons Hall to kneel down again one after another.
As more and more people came up, the bottom of the Ye Lingshan pagoda was almost full of people kneeling.
At this time, the sky was getting late and the golden sunset was spreading over the whole Ye Ling Mountain, making the Chinese white jade carved tombstones on Ye Ling Mountain look particularly eye-catching.
As the setting sun reflected on Ye Chen's back in the sky, everyone watched with rapt attention, waiting for his next instruction.
Only, this back was kneeling there, motionless for hours, as if it were a carving.
Just as the sky was reflecting fiery red clouds of fire, Ye Chen slowly got up and looked back, watching as the Ye family knelt and slowly walked down from the mausoleum.
The core members of the Ye family, as well as the members of the side lines, all turned their eyes towards him, the vast majority of them acting very apprehensive, except for Ye Zhongquan and Ye Changxiu whose expressions carried full anticipation.
Ye Chen came to stand in front of the crowd, looked around and said in a cold voice, "From today onwards, the Ye Family Ancestral Ritual will be changed from once every twelve years to once a year! All forms can be kept simple, but everyone must come to Ye Ling Mountain to pay respect to their ancestors in person on the day of the Qingming Festival, and no one may be absent!"
"In addition to this, all members of the Ye family's side line must come to Yanjing every three months for a debriefing meeting to report in detail to the main family on their operations over the past three months, again no one is allowed to be absent! Do you all understand?!"
In Ye Chen's opinion, these side clan kings of the Ye family only came over to pay their respects once every twelve years, this frequency was too low, and because of this, they could not talk about any loyalty to the Ye family at all, and the Ye family had no real control over them.
However, from now on, this must all be changed completely.
By making them come to pay homage to their ancestors every year and report every three months, it is to strengthen the Ye family's control over them as the main family.
If the Ye family was compared to a feudal dynasty, what Ye Chen was trying to do now was to strengthen centralised power and weaken local decentralisation, and to hold these scattered vassal kings in his hands to the death!