Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

After he left the General's Mansion, he couldn't wait to open the book in his arms.

Eight Trigrams Dragon, Hunyuan Body Forging Technique, Tiger Guard Qi Technique, Bloody Sword Technique, Thousand Machine Hands, etc., almost all of them are martial arts techniques, including body techniques, body forging techniques, Qi techniques, sword techniques, etc.

For example, Thousand Machine Hands is actually a technique of throwing hidden weapons.

It was the first time that Yang Zhengshan saw so many martial arts techniques, and they all looked good, much better than those he bought in the bookstore.

These techniques should be similar to the Kui Niu Jin that Zhou Lan gave him. Although they are not magical secrets, they are also some uncommon techniques.

Returning to the small courtyard of Guancheng, Yang Zhengshan plunged into the study and began to carefully read the techniques in his hand.

At present, he has four techniques, Kui Niu Jin, Yang Family Spear Technique, Chasing Wind Sword Technique and Light Body Footwork.

However, his main focus was on Kui Niu Jin and Yang Family Spear Technique. He only practiced the Wind Chasing Sword Technique and Light Body Footwork briefly, which was barely an entry level.

Although the Yang Family Spear Technique was the foundation, it was a fighting skill on the battlefield, which was very practical for Yang Zhengshan.

In contrast, the Wind Chasing Sword Technique and Light Body Footwork were more like a seasoning for Yang Zhengshan when his practice was boring.

It was not that he did not want to practice other skills, but that he had not found a skill that was more useful to him, so he did not distract himself with practicing some messy things.

Now that he had obtained so many skills, he could choose one or two practical skills to practice.

Yang Zhengshan read through all the skills, understood the characteristics and features of each skill, and finally selected two skills suitable for him to practice.

He was a military officer, and the skills he practiced naturally had to focus on fighting on the battlefield. He should not choose some skills that were more particular about skills like those martial artists.

Of course, this does not mean that other skills are useless. As a martial arts family, the accumulation of skills is the embodiment of the foundation.

If Yang Zhengshan wants the Yang family to become a martial arts family, he needs a lot of martial arts techniques as a foundation.

The more techniques there are, the more choices the children of the family have.

So even if Yang Zhengshan can't use these techniques, he can keep them and pass them down to his family. When Yang Yunxue, Lin Zhan and others become martial artists in the future, they can choose the techniques they like or that suit them.

The two techniques he has chosen now are Hunyuan Body Forging Technique and Qianji Hand.

Hunyuan Body Forging Technique is not a technique for the body forging realm, but a technique for martial artists in the acquired realm to temper their physique.

Entering the acquired realm of martial arts cultivation does not mean that there is no need to temper the physique.

In fact, no matter what realm of martial arts cultivation, the physique is the most important foundation.

Because of the spiritual spring water, Yang Zhengshan's physique is far superior to martial artists of the same realm. If he practices Hunyuan Body Forging Technique, his physique is likely to reach an extremely exaggerated level.

As for the Thousand Machine Hands, this is a hidden weapon skill that focuses on training the strength and flexibility of the arms, wrists, and palms. At the same time, there are many techniques for using hidden weapons.

Yang Zhengshan did not want to practice any hidden weapons. He valued the fact that the Thousand Machine Hands could train the strength of the arms, wrists, and palms, which was very beneficial for his short gun throwing.

After determining the exercises to be practiced, Yang Zhengshan put away the other exercises, and then studied the Hunyuan Body Forging Realm and the Thousand Machine Hands carefully for a long time.

He did not stop until Yang Mingcheng and Jiang He came back.

"Dad, I bought a total of seven shops!"

Yang Mingcheng placed six land deeds in front of Yang Zhengshan.

Yang Zhengshan took a look and found that these shops were all in good locations, and each one was no worse than Luo Shang's cloth shop.

Seven shops were bought for 1,500 taels, and the average price of each shop was only more than 200 taels.

Yang Zhengshan did not pay attention to the prices of shops in Guancheng before, but he knew that such prices must be very cheap, because the shops in Anning County were more than this price.

How many people are there in Anning County?

There are 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers in Guancheng alone, and there are so many government offices and official residences. Each government office has a large number of officials and servants, and each official's residence has a large number of relatives and servants.

There is no need for the prices of these shops to return to the original level. As long as they return to 70% or 80% of the original level, Yang Zhengshan can make hundreds of taels of silver.

"Very good!" Yang Zhengshan nodded with satisfaction, "You go and have a rest first, we will go back after lunch!"

"Okay!"

Yang Mingwu responded and left the study with Jiang He.

Lunch was bought by Wu Da, a servant beside Yang Mingwu, at the restaurant. After a simple meal, they left Guancheng.

On the way back to Guancheng, Yang Zhengshan inspected the fire road piers and beacon towers along the way.

After the spring plowing, a new round of training began again.

The new soldiers still went to Yinghebao for training, but the old soldiers would stay in the fire road piers and beacon towers for training.

Yang Zhengshan also encouraged the veterans to practice, and also formulated a series of reward standards. In particular, becoming a warrior not only can get a reward, but also increase the food and salary.

Therefore, everyone's enthusiasm for practice is very high now.

After walking two fire road piers and six beacon towers in a row, Yang Zhengshan felt very satisfied.

When he returned to Yinghebao, it was already dusk.

"Grandpa, Grandpa~~"

As soon as he stepped into the backyard, the little boy Yang Chengye ran over with a happy face.

Behind him was a meat ball Yang Chengmao.

As the living conditions of the Yang family became better and better, everyone's figure became more and more plump.

It's better for adults, because Yang Zhengshan requires everyone to practice cultivation. Except for Wang, everyone else can only be considered strong, not fat.

The child is different. Not only does he grow very fast, but his body shape also develops laterally.

Especially Yang Chengmao and Yang Qingwan, these two little guys are as fat as the lucky dolls in the New Year paintings.

But no matter how fat they were, Yang Zhengshan could still hold them.

One in each hand, Yang Zhengshan lifted them up from the ground and held them in his arms.

"Have you been obedient today?" Yang Zhengshan asked as he walked towards the main room.

"Grandpa, my brother and I have always been very good!" Yang Chengye pouted and said.

Yang Chengye and Yang Chengmao are indeed very well-behaved. Although they have the nature of children to play, they also like to practice martial arts. They practice martial arts with Yang Yunxue and the others for half an hour almost every day.

Although they just looked a little funny waving small wooden guns, they practiced very seriously.

"Haha, you are all good children!" Yang Zhengshan said with a smile.

Entering the main room, Yang Zhengshan took off the baggage behind him and put the exercises inside temporarily in the bedroom. He would put them into the Lingquan space at night.

In addition to the exercises, he also brought back some snacks, all for the children.

Looking at the snacks, the two little guys couldn't take their eyes away immediately.

"Grandpa~~" Yang Chengmao looked at Yang Zhengshan eagerly.

Yang Zhengshan carried him onto the seat and said, "Eat!"

Seeing the two little guys eating happily, Yang Zhengshan did not forget his eldest granddaughter and young apprentice. He went out and brought Yang Qingwan and Wang Mingzhe over again, and let the four little guys eat snacks together at the dining table. They prepared some spiritual spring water to drink.

As for his three-month-old grandson, Yang Zhengshan named him Yang Chengxian. However, the grandson was still too young and he always carried him in the house. Yang Zhengshan couldn't go to Xikuoyuan to see him every day.

And his grandson, Yang Zhengshan took a snack and asked Jiang He to take it back to little Jiang Ning.

By the way, Yang Yunyan is pregnant again!

While Yang Zhengshan was fighting hard at Linguanbao, Yang Yunyan was diagnosed to be two months pregnant.

In other words, Yang Zhengshan will have another grandson or granddaughter this year.

Fortunately, Yang Zhengshan has adapted to it now. Let alone one more person, even if there are ten or eight more people, he feels it is normal.

The dinner was cooked by Wu Hai's daughter-in-law Li. Wu Li's cooking skills are much better than Wang's.

One meal includes boiled fish, braised fish, soy sauce pig trotters, braised pork, scrambled eggs with fungus, and a crucian carp tofu soup.

The reason there are so many fish is that the soldiers in the camp caught a lot of fish in the Yinghe River yesterday, and Yang Zhengshan took the initiative to distribute them to everyone, and his family also got a lot.

The pigs are raised by the villagers themselves. One pig is killed every ten days and sold in the village at a relatively cheap price. The same is true for chickens, eggs, and sheep.

Nowadays, although the military households in Yinghe Fort cannot have meat every meal, they still have no problem eating meat every few days.

After dinner, everyone dispersed, but Yang Mingzhi stayed.

"Is something wrong?"

Yang Zhengshan asked.

"Dad, Brother Mingwu said that the preparations for the expansion of Yinghe Fort are almost complete. Can we start construction?" Yang Mingzhi said.

Originally, this matter should have been discussed in the official office, but Yang Zhengshan went to Guancheng this afternoon and did not come back until the evening. Yang Mingwu could only ask Yang Mingzhi to ask for help.

"Then choose an auspicious day to start construction!" Yang Zhengshan said casually.

Yang Zhengshan had the idea to expand the fort a few years ago. In the past, there were only about a hundred military households in Yinghe Fort, and the inside of the fort was quite spacious. However, now there are more than 300 military households in Yinghe Fort, and there are also a large number of military households. Buildings such as stables, pig pens, and chicken coops were crowded.

There was even a special camp built outside the fort as a cavalry camp.

Yang Zhengshan thought about expanding Yinghe Fort so that it could accommodate at least 500 households, so that the cavalry from outside could also live in the fort. Even if their families were not brought over, they would be able to live more comfortably. .

"Well, the money and food may not be enough!" Yang Mingzhi said.

"Not enough!" Yang Zhengshan was slightly surprised, "How come it's not enough?"

Yang Zhengshan still kept a thousand taels of the silver reward that Zhou Lan had brought, and there was still a lot of grain left after he bought it last year.

In addition, I also made a lot of money selling charcoal this winter.

Logically speaking, Yinghe Fort now needs money and food.

"Dad, Brother Mingwu and I did some calculations. If all the labor for the expansion of the camp is hired, it will cost about 1,500 taels of silver. In addition, we have to take care of the food, which will also consume a lot of food."

"Currently there is enough food, but when it becomes available we will pay every grain!"

Yang Mingzhi explained.

Yang Zhengshan really has not calculated how much food it will cost to expand Tunpu.

But since Yang Mingzhi and Yang Mingwu had already calculated it, there was no need for him to do it again.

He taught Yang Mingzhi, Yang Mingwu and others arithmetic, so he knew the abilities of Yang Mingzhi and Yang Mingwu very well.

"Then sell some horses! Sell all those messy things too!" Yang Zhengshan said, thinking about the trophies piled up in the warehouse.

They got a lot of spoils in the Battle of Yinghe and the Battle of Linguan Fort.

There are more than two hundred war horses, as well as various weapons, armor and some small items. Many things are useless if you keep them, so it is better to get rid of them.

"Dad, are you selling war horses?" Yang Mingzhi was a little reluctant to part with those war horses.

"Sell it. General Zhou promised to give us another 300 war horses." Yang Zhengshan said with a smile.

Before the training last year, Zhou Lan said that as long as he could train 300 elite cavalry, he would give him another 300 war horses.

Although the cavalry under his command suffered serious losses, their performance on the battlefield before was enough to be called elite cavalry.

"That's good!"

Yang Mingzhi was immediately happy when he heard that Zhou Lan would give them another 300 war horses.

"Then let your eldest brother pick some and raise them in the horse farm. It will be considered as our family borrowing them from the government office temporarily." Yang Zhengshan said.

This is considered to be abusing public power for personal gain, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

He made great efforts in both battles, so he should get more spoils.

Besides, he didn't want to take it for free, but just borrowed it temporarily. After raising those war horses for a few months, he would sell them from the horse farm.

He just wanted to make a profit from the difference in price, and he would use silver to fill the hole at that time.

If he didn't have any money, he could have made all the war horses his own.

"Okay! I'll talk to my eldest brother and ask him to pick the horses tomorrow." Yang Mingzhi said.