"Everyone, stand up straight! Hands by your sides! Don't you remember anything? Do you even understand what organization and discipline mean?"
The winter wind howled across the training ground of the Imperial Academy Supervisor. A hundred or so young men and women in short-sleeved clothes stood pale-faced, their sweat soaking their garments, with the occasional uneven gasp breaking the silence. They had just completed a full hour of physical training and were on the brink of exhaustion.
Instructor Fang Qin of the Left and Right Guards stood crookedly under the shade, pointing his finger at the noses of these young people. Feeling the indignant glares of these impoverished scholars, he was filled with a kind of boastful satisfaction.
