Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

After the banquet, Yang Zhengshan returned to Anyuan City.

The Yang family has also received many gifts in the past few days. As Yang Mingwu and Yang Chengze became independent, they became real officials.

Every New Year and festival, they would send a gift to Yang Zhengshan.

The Yang family is growing and growing, and they are also growing.

Perhaps their growth rate is far less than Yang Zhengshan, but they are already in charge of the family alone. Today is different from the past. They are no longer young men, but real officials.

Looking at the letters sent by Yang Mingwu and Yang Chengze, Yang Zhengshan felt relieved.

These two people are Yang Zhengshan’s most proud descendants. Of course, Yang Chengxu and Yang Qinwu have also done well, but they are not as outstanding as Yang Mingwu and Yang Chengze.

Now under Zhou Lan’s command, the children of the Yang family have become a special group.

Yang Mingzhi, Yang Mingwu, Yang Chengze and others take care of each other and support each other. Even without Yang Zhengshan, they can protect their own interests.

With Zhou Lan's care, the children of the Yang family have a high status in Jianningwei, Jianzhou City, and Ningzhou City.

"The descendants of the Yang family are really talented!" Yu Qingyi leaned behind Yang Zhengshan and couldn't help but sigh after reading the letter.

She was not familiar with Yang Mingwu, Yang Chengze and others, but she had heard a lot about them in the Yang family. After all, she was in charge of preparing festival gifts every time.

She was happy and envious that the Yang family had so many outstanding descendants.

She was happy because she was now the mistress of the Yang family, and these people were also her descendants. She was envious because the Tianqing Sword Sect did not have so many outstanding descendants.

In the entire Tianqing Sword Sect, only Luo Feiyu could be compared with Yang Chengze, Yang Mingwu and others.

"That's because your husband trained well!" Yang Zhengshan said complacently.

This is true. Yang Mingwu, Yang Chengze and others were all taught by him. If it weren't for his arrival, Yang Mingwu, Yang Chengze and others would probably still be a group of farmers.

"I know, my husband is the best!" Yu Qingyi covered her mouth and laughed.

"Of course!" Yang Zhengshan stroked his beard, looking very proud.

The next day, people who came to the Yang family to give festival gifts continued to come one after another.

Yang Zhengshan was busy receiving waves of guests.

The one who came from the Yang family was Yang Minghui. Yang Zhengxiang was old and his health was getting worse. Now he could not go far away. In the past two years, Yang Minghui has taken over the affairs of the Yang family and is considered the new patriarch of the Yang family.

The reaction of the Yang family was very calm, because this was a matter of course.

As long as Yang Zhengshan did not fight for the position of patriarch, no one could threaten Yang Minghui's position as patriarch.

In the past two years, the Yang family has been growing continuously.

Although the number of younger generations in the family who became warriors has decreased, the rise of the Yang family has become a trend, and all aspects are developing and growing.

The establishment of the clan school gave the children of the Yang family the opportunity to study, and in terms of martial arts training, Yang Zhengxiang also specially organized warriors to guide the children of the Yang family to practice.

It was just because there was no help from Yang Zhengshan and the spiritual spring water that the number of Yang family members who became warriors decreased a lot in the past two years.

This is normal. The 100 people led by Yang Zhengshan at the beginning have almost all become warriors now, so the peak period of the increase in the number of warriors was the two years when Yang Zhengshan was in Yinghe Fort.

After the peak period, the probability of the children of the Yang family becoming warriors returned to normal.

However, even if it returns to normal, it will be much higher than before, because now the Yang family is getting richer and richer, and the corresponding resources are also increasing.

This will increase the chances of the children of the Yang family becoming warriors to a certain extent.

In addition, Yang Zhengshan will often take care of the Yang family. He cannot directly provide spiritual spring water to the Yang family, but he can mix some spiritual spring water into certain things.

For example, sometimes he will ask people to send some wine back, which is mixed with spiritual spring water, or send some medicinal materials cultivated in the spiritual spring space.

Although the number is small, it is also a little effective.

In the past two years, some Yang family members have come to Yang Zhengshan one after another. Of course, they were recommended by Yang Zhengxiang and Yang Minghui.

As for these Yang family members, Yang Zhengshan did not keep all of them, but let them train in Chengguanbao for two or three months. A small number of them will stay in the garrison camp, and most of them will be sent to Yang Mingzhi, Yang Chengze and Yang Mingwu.

Letting them train in Chengguanbao is to give them the spiritual spring water to improve their future potential.

Sending them to other places is also to let them have their own future.

If they all stay under Yang Zhengshan, Yang Zhengshan will not be able to arrange enough official positions for them.

It is better to let them disperse, so that they will have more opportunities, and they can support each other and go further.

In short, the Yang family is getting stronger and stronger now, and the Yang family has become a new prominent family in Anning County.

The day after Yang Minghui arrived in Anyuan City, people from the Lu family also came.

But this time it was not Mr. Lu who came, but Lu Qi.

The arrogant young man has now become a steady young man.

"Nephew greets uncle!"

When Lu Qi saw Yang Zhengshan, he bowed cordially.

For so many years, the Yang family and the Lu family have maintained a good relationship. Although Yang Zhengshan has never met the head of the Lu family, Lu Zhongdao, nor the eldest son of the Lu family, Lu Zhi, this does not hinder the friendship between the two families.

Yang Zhengshan stroked his beard and said with a smile: "My dear nephew, please sit down!"

The people he had the most contact with from the Lu family were Second Master Lu and Lu Qi.

"How is Second Master's health?"

"Second Uncle is still healthy, but he was busy this year, so he didn't pay New Year's greetings to his uncle!" Lu Qi said.

Second Master Lu is not a warrior, so his body is naturally not as strong as a warrior, but he is not very old, he just turned sixty this year.

"That's good, that's good! By the way, I brewed some medicinal wine recently, you can bring it back to Second Master when the time comes!" Yang Zhengshan said.

Yang Mingcheng had already sent the festival gift prepared for the Lu family, but there was no medicinal wine in it.

The medicinal wine he brewed is not bad now, so he gave it away less, only a few jars to Zhou Lan, Liang Chu and Liu Yuanfu in Kyoto, and he didn't even want to give it to Wang Bin.

Second Master Lu took good care of him in the past, and Yang Zhengshan thought of giving Second Master Lu some medicinal wine because of these feelings.

If Yang Mingcheng brought medicinal wine with him when he sent the festival gift, it would probably not reach Second Master Lu.

First, the festival gift was for the Lu family, not for Second Master Lu. Second, the Lu family might not necessarily value the gifts. If they treated his medicinal wine as ordinary wine, it would be a waste.

So Yang Zhengshan did not put the medicinal wine in the festival gift for the Lu family.

"Uncle, this medicinal wine is a good thing. Don't waste it for your uncle. You must hand it over to Second Master!"

Yang Zhengshan was afraid that Lu Qi would not pay attention to it, so he specifically told him.

Lu Qi nodded quickly and said with a smile: "Uncle, don't worry, I will definitely hand the medicinal wine over to Second Uncle in person!"

Medicine and martial arts are inseparable. Martial artists know some medical skills, and brewing medicinal wine is also a common thing.

Although Lu Qi did not know martial artists, he also knew that many of the medicinal materials used by martial artists were treasures.

He did not feel disgusted by this, but felt very happy about it.

This shows that Yang Zhengshan really cares about Second Master Lu and is concerned about Second Master Lu. It is not the kind of courtesy.

Lu Qi stayed in Anyuan City for one night, and went back with Yang Minghui the next day.

Yang Zhengshan also prepared two jars of medicinal wine for Yang Zhengxiang, and he didn't need to specifically tell Yang Minghui that Yang Minghui would take the things he gave to Yang Zhengxiang carefully back.

Time passed day by day, Yang Mingcheng returned from Anning County, and Yang Minghao also returned with Zhou Lan's festival gifts.

Zhou Lan was still as generous as before, but Zhou Lan's festival gifts were obviously not thoughtful, because the festival gifts she gave every year were basically the same.

The quantity was fixed, the things were similar, the types would change slightly, but the overall value would be fixed at a value.

In fact, this is normal. The large families have a fixed number of festival gifts, and basically there will not be much change. Now the festival gifts given by the Yang family are almost fixed in value, and they are basically purchased based on the festival gifts given in previous years.

Zhou Lan was alone in Jianningwei, and her family was not around. According to her personality, she would probably let her servants handle such things, so this festival gift became boring.

Of course, Yang Zhengshan would never dislike Zhou Lan's festival gift.

It was the Spring Festival again.

The Yang family was particularly happy during this year's Spring Festival, because there were several happy events in the Yang family this year.

First, Wang once again added a thousand pounds to the Yang family.

Second, Liang finally got pregnant, and the Yang family will have another child in April next year.

Third, Yu Qingyi was pregnant, which was probably the happiest thing for Yang Zhengshan.

Fourth, Yang Yunxue's marriage was settled.

And this year Li also came back to celebrate the New Year. Except for Yang Mingzhi, the whole family was considered to be together.

With a series of happy events and family reunions, the Yang family spent the Spring Festival in a cheerful atmosphere.

However, after the Spring Festival, the atmosphere in Chongshan Town suddenly became tense.

Although the news of the expedition to the Da Ling Dynasty has not spread completely, all the insiders in Chongshan Town are preparing intensively.

The collection of food and grass, the repair of weapons and armor, the mobilization of soldiers, one by one, all indicate that the war is coming.

As for the confidentiality issue, there is actually nothing to keep secret.

The expedition to the Da Ling Dynasty is a large-scale war. Darong will mobilize between 60,000 and 100,000 troops, and will also recruit about 100,000 civilians.

It is almost impossible to keep such a large-scale operation secret.

Of course, the specific tactics and strategies must be kept secret.

On the 20th of the first lunar month, the governor's office and the general's office summoned the generals of various departments to Chongshan Pass to discuss the expedition.

All the generals gathered together, and Yang Zhengshan didn't know what they discussed specifically, because he was a low-ranking official.

However, what they discussed was nothing more than the time of the expedition, the specific route of the expedition, and the tasks of each department.

This time, Chongshan Town’s expedition was obviously not just to cripple the Donghai Hu tribe. If it was just to cripple the Donghai Hu tribe, Liang Chu could have launched a pursuit after the battle of Chongshan Pass more than three years ago.

Lu Chongde and Liang Chu prepared for such a long time, with only one purpose, that is, to completely wipe out the Donghai Hu tribe and overthrow the newly established Daling Dynasty.

And to wipe out the Donghai Hu tribe, it is not a simple attack on Fushan City.

Although Fushan City is the gathering place of the Donghai Hu tribe, it is not the foundation of the Donghai Hu tribe. The Donghai Hu tribe is a hunting nation, and their foundation is those large tribes.

Only by completely eliminating those large tribes can the foundation for the Donghai Hu tribe to rise again be cut off.

So this expedition must not be a simple attack on Fushan City.