Under Yang Zhengshan's teachings over these years, the Yang Family had long since integrated the martial spirit into their very bones.
Everyone worked hard at cultivation, everyone wanted to cultivate to a higher realm, and everyone was striving toward the Innate Realm.
As long as one was human, one had selfish desires, and the Yang Family was no different. Their selfish desire was to let themselves, and their sons and grandsons, obtain more resources and cultivate to higher realms.
And the harmony within the Yang Family was not maintained entirely by affection, but by the two words "fairness."
Yang Zhengshan was impartial. He had established the Cultivation Salary, set down all sorts of rules, and everything was done according to those rules. If one wanted more resources, then one had to cultivate hard.
It was not only the Yang Family. The vassal families attached to the Yang Family were not all peace and goodwill either; among them, there were also differences in rank, strength, and weakness.
They were willing to follow closely in Yang Zhengshan's footsteps precisely because he could give them sufficient resources while also ensuring that they received fair treatment.
If there were no fairness, then resentment would inevitably grow in people's hearts. Once grievances piled up, even the best relationships would fracture.
So what maintained harmony within the Yang Family was not affection, nor Yang Zhengshan's prestige, but rules worth observing, fair treatment, and the Yang Family's constantly upward momentum.
With development came unity; with progress came motivation. And with a favorable trend of development, everyone could be twisted into a single rope, not to the point where internal conflicts kept intensifying.
There were so many vassals under the Yang Family's command that competition among them was inevitable, but their competition did not involve interests, because Yang