Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

"There are seven star halls in Xingyue Gate, namely Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Yaoguang Seven Stars. Each star hall has four heads and many swordsmen."

"Huang Yifu is the swordsman of Yuhengtang, one of the Seven Stars Hall!"

Wu Zhan explained simply.

Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly. He knew Xingyue Sect and Qixing Hall.

Xingyue Gate is divided into inside and outside. There is the April Flag inside and the Seven Stars Hall outside. The four flags of the April flag are the new moon, the first quarter, the full moon and the last quarter. The seven stars are the Qixingtang mentioned by Wu Zhan.

Well, that's all he knows, and he doesn't know much more in detail.

"So you mean swordsman?"

"Well, to put it simply, swordsmen are the thugs of Qixingtang. They usually have a group of people entrenched in the mountains and forests."

Yang Zhengshan nodded, "So it was this Yuheng swordsman who robbed our cotton cloth!"

"Well, Huang Yifu has been entrenched in Qingfu Mountain. He has more than two hundred bandits under his command. He usually makes a living by collecting money from merchants."

"Normally, they won't rob caravans. This time, for some reason, they actually robbed our cotton cloth!"

Wu Zhan said.

Qingfu Mountain is located in the south of Jing'an Prefecture and is the remnant of Changqing Mountain. Well, it is Changqing Mountain where Yangjiacun is located.

The official road at the foot of Qingfu Mountain is one of the important passages to Jing'an Fucheng, and Huang Yifu relied on this official road to make a living.

Yang Zhengshan stroked his beard and looked calm, but he was secretly smacking his tongue in his heart.

Quietly, this bandit did it, and he was actually entrenched in the mountain to collect tolls.

Tsk tsk, this is much easier than robbing homes and homes!

"Are the people in the team okay?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"A few of the bodyguards escorting the convoy died!" Wu Zhan said.

Yang Zhengshan's face suddenly darkened.

Among the three batches of cotton cloth, except for the first batch which was escorted by Wu Zhan personally, the remaining two batches were escorts hired by cloth merchants in Jing'an City.

Just robbing things, but actually killing people!

This is a little too much!

Yang Zhengshan stood up and paced back and forth in the study.

Liaodong is different from Chongshan Town. There are ruffians and rebels in Chongshan Town, but there are no bandits.

Bandits have no place to survive in Chongshan Town. We can't let bandits rob the army.

However, the rebels in Chongshan Town used to be more hateful than the bandits, but later they were rectified by Lu Chongde and Liang Chu, and there were no more rebels in Chongshan Town.

However, there are many bandits in Liaodong, and there are many ferocious bandits in Changqing Mountain.

Back when Yang Zhengshan was still in Yangjiacun, didn't he fight bandits?

But the bandits he fought were nothing compared to this Yuheng swordsman.

The cotton fabric was robbed, do you want to take it back?

It stands to reason that the cotton cloth has not been shipped to Tenglongwei yet, and he has not paid for it. It has nothing to do with him being robbed.

But this is what he wants, the cotton cloth that military households need.

Now there are many military households in Tenglongwei waiting for this batch of cotton cloth!

And without this batch of cotton cloth, it would be difficult for Jingan City to collect so much cotton cloth.

"We have to snatch it back!"

"Fuck~"

Yang Zhengshan couldn't help but uttered a curse word. They were just a group of bandits. How could he, the majestic commander of the Tenglong Guard, be afraid of him?

"Master, those from the Xingyue Sect are not to be trifled with!" Wu Zhan said in a deep voice.

Yang Zhengshan grinned, "What? Are the officials in the court easy to mess with?"

Jianghu forces are Jianghu forces. Compared with the imperial court, Jianghu forces are nothing.

Of course, this does not mean that Jianghu forces are not powerful. In fact, there are many awesome Jianghu sects in Jianghu.

But then again, Darong Chaotang does not allow too powerful Jianghu sects to exist in its territory.

Therefore, the bases of many powerful forces in the world are not within the territory of Da Rong.

For example, the Xingyue Sect is based on an island in the southeastern waters of Darong, but Qixingtang is within the territory of Darong.

This is also the reason why the court did not target the Xingyue Sect, otherwise the Xingyue Sect would have disappeared long ago.

"Is this general still afraid of these bandits?"

Yang Zhengshan's expression turned cold, and then he called out the door: "Come here, send me an order, order Song Dashan to gather a hundred cavalry and follow this general out of the city!"

Xie Yuan was responsible for the specific affairs of the government office and was regarded as Yang Zhengshan's deputy, while Song Dashan was responsible for commanding the remaining two hundred cavalry and responsible for the defense of the city.

Two hundred cavalry were not needed to deal with a group of bandits. Yang Zhengshan felt that dispatching a hundred cavalry would be overkill.

If he hadn't felt that the soldiers were too busy in the acropolis these days, Yang Zhengshan would have wanted to take twenty of his followers to pick out the Yuheng Swordsman's cottage.

All right!

In fact, Yang Zhengshan was also feeling uncomfortable holding back.

A few months ago, he was on the battlefield, killing all directions and traveling thousands of miles. It was really enjoyable, but now he was asked to sit in the study all day long and deal with these tedious official duties. Alas, this day was really incomparable, so he also wanted to Go out and get some air.

People are like this. When they are busy, they want to find some leisure, but when they are really free, they feel uncomfortable.

When I was on the battlefield, I spent all day wallowing in mountains of corpses and seas of blood, thinking that when the war was over, I could go home and have my wife and children warm on the kang.

I have been holding my wife and children at home all day, and I can't help but feel restless.

Following Yang Zhengshan's order, Song Dashan quickly gathered a hundred cavalry outside the city gate.

"Sir! Where are we going?"

Seeing Yang Zhengshan coming out of the city with his personal entourage, Song Dashan quickly stepped forward and asked.

"Go kill people!"

Yang Zhengshan grinned.

Song Dashan's eyes lit up when he heard this. He has been so idle lately.

There is no way. He is honest and simple, and he does things in a methodical way. He will do whatever he is asked to do seriously, but whether he can do it well is another matter.

Compared with him, Xie Yuan is undoubtedly better at handling the chores of the government.

So Yang Zhengshan uses Xie Yuan as his deputy, and Song Dashan can only be responsible for some simple affairs.

On weekdays, Song Dashan's most work is patrolling in the city and inspecting the city defense. Apart from that, there is nothing else to do.

"Let's go!" Yang Zhengshan raised his hand and led 120 riders to gallop towards the south.

Qingfu Mountain is located in the south of Jing'an Prefecture, more than 100 miles away from the Acropolis. If you ride a horse, you can get there in about two hours. If there is no snow on the road, you can get there in about one hour.

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Jing'an Prefecture, Shang Family.

Wang Zhenze, a big cloth merchant, ran into the lobby of Shang Family with sweat all over his head, and his fat face was full of anxiety.

"Master Shang, please help me!"

"That's 4,000 pieces of cotton cloth, which is most of my wealth!"

"Master Shang, Master Shang!"

Wang Zhenze looked at Shang Mingde pleadingly.

Originally, Shang Mingde was the one who came forward to mediate the matter, and Wang Zhenze also thought it was a good thing. It didn't matter who he sold the cotton cloth to, and he could get to know Yang Zhengshan by selling it to him.

But he never expected that his cotton cloth would be robbed by a group of assassins not long after it left Jing'an Prefecture.

It would have been fine if the cotton cloth was robbed, but more than a dozen of the guys and escorts who were transporting the goods were killed or injured.

Such a huge loss was already a serious injury to him. Of course, it was a bit exaggerated to say that it was most of his wealth. After all, he was a big cloth merchant in Jing'an Prefecture, and his wealth was at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Shang Mingde felt a little headache. This matter made him, a person who was purely kind to help, suffer such a thing, and he felt very uncomfortable.

"Brother Wang, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's just that I can't help you!"

"You know who Huang Yifu is, and my Shang family really can't afford to offend him!"

If it was just Huang Yifu, his Shang family would not be afraid, but Huang Yifu is a Yuheng swordsman, and behind him stands Yuheng Xingtang.

The Shang family has been passed down for hundreds of years, but it is far inferior to Yuheng Xingtang.

Not to mention Xingyuemen.

"But, but this~~" Wang Zhenze said with a sad face, "Then, what about General Yang?"

Shang Mingde was even more helpless, "Your goods haven't been delivered to Tenglongwei, you can't let General Yang give you silver for nothing!"

The agreement they had with Wu Zhan before was to pay on delivery, and after the first two batches of cotton cloth were delivered to Tenglongwei, Tenglongwei also paid the silver very readily without delaying a bit.

Shang Mingde felt that Yang Zhengshan was a man of integrity, but he didn't think Yang Zhengshan would be kind enough to help Wang Zhenze, after all, it was not Yang Zhengshan's fault.

"Is there really no way out?" Wang Zhenze couldn't help but feel disappointed.

He lost thousands of pieces of cotton cloth in vain, which made him feel very distressed.

He wanted to kill Huang Yifu and his gang, but he was just a businessman, and he had no way to deal with people like Huang Yifu.

"Hey, just think of it as losing money to avoid disaster!" Shang Mingde comforted.

Wang Zhenze had no choice but to leave the Shang family with a heart full of grief and indignation.

Compared with Wang Zhenze's grief and indignation, the mountain village on Qingfu Mountain was full of joy at this time.

"Hahaha, boss, this time our brothers don't have to suffer the cold anymore!"

"Yes, with this batch of cotton cloth, we can spend the winter comfortably this year!"

In the rough lobby, a group of fierce mountain bandits laughed triumphantly.

In the main seat, Huang Yifu, who was nearly 40 years old, wore a black mink coat and a gray rabbit hat, grinning.

"Hahaha, brothers, prepare wine and food, and don't go home until you are drunk tonight!"

The heroic voice sounded in the lobby, and immediately caused a group of bandits to cheer.

They are not short of money, and the caravans coming and going have to pay them tolls, but they are short of supplies, food, cotton cloth and cotton clothes, wine, meat, etc., these are what they lack.

After all, they are thieves, and they can't go into the city to buy things openly, and the merchants in the city are unwilling to do business with them.

So they can only disguise themselves and sneak into the city to purchase some supplies.

But in this way, the supplies they purchase will not be too much, and they can only buy some daily necessities each time.

Huang Yifu is a smart man. He knows the difference between a full meal and a full meal, so he has always insisted on collecting tolls and not robbing caravans.

This time he was also forced to do so.

The village lacks cotton cloth for the winter, and in order to prevent his brothers from freezing, he can only take the risk of robbing once.

In fact, they had long been eyeing several large cloth merchants in Jing'an City. They originally wanted to rob them in the city, but before they could start robbing, most of the cotton cloth from several merchants was transported out of the city one after another.

For the sake of caution, they did not rob the first and second batches of cotton cloth, but first found out where the two batches of cotton cloth went before robbing the third batch.

They knew that the first two batches of cotton cloth went to Tenglong Guard, but they did not know that Yang Zhengshan was now the commander of Tenglong Guard. They thought that Tenglong Guard was still the same as before and was controlled by the Lan family.

Huang Yifu naturally understood the Lan family. He knew the nature of the Lan family very well. He knew that the Lan family liked to bully the weak and fear the strong, so he did not care about offending the Lan family.

As for Yang Zhengshan, well, he probably had never heard of Yang Zhengshan's name.

After all, these people hide in the mountains all day long, and their sources of information are relatively backward and closed. If it is news from Jing'an City or several surrounding counties, they can pay more attention to it.

Outside Jing'an Prefecture, they have no channels for news sources.

So now they can still happily eat meat and drink wine.