Chapter 542

Sui Xiong was not well versed in history, but as an internet addict, it did not matter if he himself knew nothing about history—as long as the people online did.

While chatting with them in the past, he had heard an anecdote: in ancient times, there had been a tribe called either "Miao" or "You Miao" that refused to obey the Son of Heaven's commands. The Son of Heaven at the time was Shun, one of Yao, Shun, and Yu. So Shun sent a group of burly men carrying axes and shields to a place near that tribe and held an armed military exercise—whereupon the tribe obediently fell in line.

This was known as "cultivating civil virtue." Even now, Sui Xiong did not understand why an armed military exercise counted as "civil" virtue—if this was civil virtue, then did slaughtering an entire family count as martial virtue?

When he had first heard the story, he had felt that the stunt was both pretentious beyond belief and badass beyond belief, and had long admired it deeply. Hearing what Palin said now reminded him of that anecdote, and he could not help bursting into laughter.

After laughing, he added to Palin's plan.

"Not only should we display fine weapons and armor near the teleportation gate, we should also send troops to train and conduct exercises in the teleportation plaza... No, the place is a bit too small; they might not be able to spread out... Fine, then we'll set up a huge projection there and let everyone see the exercises!"

Palin was instead taken aback. "Exercises? What are those?"

Only then did Sui Xiong remember that this world had no concept of military exercises. Here, if one wanted to train an army, aside from drilling tirelessly inside the barracks, one had to