Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

In late June, Yang Zhengshan received a reply to his memorial.

The emperor's reply was very simple, with only eight words, "It is known that we can trade with them."

It seems that the emperor has known the situation of the Li Sheng Dynasty for a long time, otherwise the reply would not be so calm.

After receiving the emperor's reply, Yang Zhengshan was relieved to trade with the Li Sheng Dynasty.

He met Cui Hongtao again, told him the result, and sent him away.

Cui Hongtao wanted to talk to him more, but Yang Zhengshan didn't want to have too much interaction with him.

Although the Silla Jin family has now controlled the Li Sheng Dynasty, without the emperor's canonization, Jin Shangjun is not the king of the Li Sheng Dynasty, and Cui Hongtao is not a left counselor.

On the third day after Cui Hongtao left by boat, Yu Tonghai and Sun Cheng came back. Their trip to the De Sheng Dynasty was very smooth and did not encounter any problems. Sun Cheng used the connections he had accumulated before to get in touch with several wealthy families in the De Sheng Dynasty and reached a cooperation intention.

In fact, there is a reason why it went so smoothly. The more than 20 warships were not for show. At least they could show their military power and prevent the forces of the Desheng Dynasty from having the intention to rob them.

With all three routes open, Tenglongwei's maritime trade entered a stage of rapid development.

At the end of July, Tenglongwei formed the third fleet, and the three fleets went to Jiangnan, Lisheng Dynasty and Desheng Dynasty respectively.

In early August, the fleet of Hengdaomen arrived at Tenglongwei Wharf for the first time.

At the end of September, the fleet of the Luo family was completed and went to Jiangnan for the first time.

In the following months, more and more fleets docked at Tenglongwei's wharf. The large number of fleets docked forced Yang Zhengshan to expand the wharf again, and at the same time built a large number of warehouses and camps near the wharf.

The arrival of the cold winter did not stop the merchants' enthusiasm for maritime trade. A large number of merchant ships docked at the wharf, and a large amount of goods were transported from Tenglongwei to various places in Liaodong, and even to Chongshan Town.

The prosperity of Tenglongwei Wharf also attracted more merchants and more fleets. For a time, Tenglongwei Wharf had a tendency to become the largest wharf in Liaodong.

As more and more merchants and fleets came to Tenglongwei, the originally barren coast gradually became a prosperous town.

April 20th, the 34th year of Chengping.

Three years passed in the blink of an eye, and Tenglongwei was already prosperous.

The small Weicheng was bustling with people, and there was a constant stream of traffic on the roads outside the Weicheng. Long teams were connected end to end, and there was almost no end.

Yang Zhengshan rode through the middle of the road, and many coachmen on the road looked at him with respect.

"Greetings, General!"

"Greetings, General!"

Many people saluted Yang Zhengshan with their fists, and Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly in return with a friendly smile.

The eyes of the people are sharp. Whether it is the military households of Tenglongwei or the guys who come to make a living from foreign enemies, they all know who brought the current Tenglongwei.

Yang Zhengshan walked along a long road to the west gate of the Weicheng, and then walked through the crowded streets to the yamen.

Back to the yamen, Yang Zhengshan let out a long breath.

"This won't work. Our Weicheng should be expanded!"

He said to Xie Yuan beside him as he walked into the main hall of the yamen.

"Yes, the city is too crowded now, especially every time the navy fleet returns, there is almost no place to stay in the city!" Xie Yuan said helplessly.

Tenglongwei has developed too fast, which makes many plans of the Weisi Yamen unable to keep up with the pace of development.

Even Yang Zhengshan did not expect that Tenglongwei would be so prosperous. He still underestimated the benefits and prosperity brought by maritime trade.

The Acropolis was not big to begin with. When Yang Zhengshan built the Acropolis, he never thought that it would be so crowded that there would be no place to stay. At that time, he also limited the number of houses built in the city. But now he realizes that he should have expanded the Acropolis directly.

Entering the main hall, an attendant immediately served tea to the two of them. Yang Zhengshan took the tea and drank it, saying: "Let the engineering department make a plan. The city will be expanded to the south and connected to the barracks in the south."

The camp of the Fifth Army Camp is in the south of the city, not far from the Acropolis, only two miles away.

In the past three years, the camp has been rebuilt several times and has almost become a garrison. Connecting with it can just bring the entire camp into the city.

Xie Yuan nodded slightly and said: "Okay!"

Yang Zhengshan turned and walked into his study. His study is divided into an inner room and an outer room. The inner room is his own study, and the outer room is the office of Lu Wenhua and Zhou Ren.

As soon as he sat down, Lu Wenhua came in with a wooden box, "Sir, this is a batch of telescopes that the glass workshop has just made!"

Opening the wooden box, Lu Wenhua handed a brass monocular telescope to Yang Zhengshan.

Yang Zhengshan became interested and took it to check.

The glass workshop has been established for three and a half years, but until now, it has not made a telescope that satisfies him.

It's not because the craftsmen in the glass workshop don't work hard, it's really too difficult to make.

The most difficult part is the glass with high transparency. The craftsmen don't know how many times they have experimented, but they can't meet Yang Zhengshan's requirements.

Yang Zhengshan picked up the telescope, came to the window and looked at the city wall in the distance.

The transparency of the glass is already very good, unlike before when it always felt foggy, and there are no bubbles in the lens.

The magnification should be six times. The craftsmanship is not exquisite, but it has practical value.

Yang Zhengshan is more and more satisfied with it. "Very good, how much does it cost to make?"

"It costs about thirty taels of silver per piece!" Lu Wenhua said with some embarrassment.

Yang Zhengshan nodded, but he didn't think it was expensive.

In more than three years, he invested tens of thousands of taels of silver in the glass workshop. The number of craftsmen in the workshop has increased from more than a dozen to more than two hundred. The labor cost and material cost consumed every day are not a small number.

As for the cost of each monocular telescope, it should be because the qualified rate of the lens is too low.

The current craftsmanship level is still too low. It is completely a matter of luck to burn a lens with high transparency and no bubbles.

In fact, it is not impossible for a glass workshop to make a profit. Glass products should be very popular in Dayong. It is definitely profitable to make some ornaments, tea bowls and wine glasses made of glass and sell them out.

But Yang Zhengshan has never exposed the existence of glass to the outside world because he is afraid that the benefits brought by glass will be too great.

That's right, he is afraid that the benefits brought by glass will be too great.

There is nothing he can do about it.

Now Tenglongwei has salt fields, docks, and sea trade. Behind the prosperity, there are a lot of interests involved, and many of these interests are snatched from other places.

Tenglongwei Salt Field is snatching food from Liaodong Salt Transport Bureau, Tenglongwei Dock is digging the foundation of Jizhou Maritime Customs, and at the same time, it is also snatching interests from Jiangnan Maritime Customs.

For these two things, Yang Zhengshan has been impeached in the court in recent years.

Not only him, Zheng Xiao was also implicated because of the Tenglongwei Salt Field, and many senior officials of the Central Military Governor's Office were also impeached many times because of the Tenglongwei Dock.

Although Zheng Xiao and Ningguo Duke were suppressing both sides, in fact, Liaodong Salt Transport Bureau and the Central Military Governor's Office had great opinions on Tenglongwei.

Interests are moving!

Seeing that Tenglongwei made a lot of money from the salt fields and docks, who wouldn't want to get involved.

Fortunately, the old emperor still supported Yang Zhengshan, otherwise Yang Zhengshan might have been transferred from Tenglongwei long ago.

Officialdom struggles are not about fighting and killing, and there is no need to fight and kill. There are many ways for outsiders to seize the position of Tenglongwei commander. The simplest way is to transfer Yang Zhengshan from Tenglongwei and then let his own people come to pick peaches.

So a strange phenomenon has appeared in the past two years. On the one hand, Yang Zhengshan has been impeached by many officials, and on the other hand, there are all kinds of ways to promote him and let him leave Tenglongwei.

In such a situation, how dare Yang Zhengshan take out the glass to sell.

"Tell the glass workshop to make a batch as soon as possible and send it to the navy first!"

Yang Zhengshan said.

The telescope is most useful to the navy. It can not only help the navy observe the enemy situation, but also facilitate the transmission of orders within the navy.

"Yes!" Lu Wenhua responded and went to the glass workshop.

As soon as he left, Wang Yunqiao came in.

"Master!" Wang Yunqiao was wearing a black cotton armor, her hair tied into a simple bun, her figure was not as petite as before, her figure was slender and straight, her appearance had a bit more mature charm of a woman, but her temperament was heroic.

Now Wang Yunqiao is already the mother of two children, giving birth to two children in four years, this speed can only be considered qualified.

But she is still the leader of the women's training camp.

Well, this leader was appointed by Yang Zhengshan, but Wang Yunqiao actually did not hold any official position.

"Is there something?" Yang Zhengshan asked casually.

"Master, please allocate another 200 war horses to my training camp!" Wang Yunqiao rolled up the hair on her forehead and said gently.

"Didn't I give you 200 horses last year?" Yang Zhengshan was a little surprised.

The women's training camp was not in the organization of Tenglongwei. It was originally established by Yang Zhengshan to give the women of Tenglongwei a chance to stand out.

He did not think about training a women's army, but just hoped to improve the physique and ability of women.

In fact, the development of the women's training camp has not been fast in the past two years. Although the scale of training has been maintained at 1,000 people, only 200 people have actually joined the women's training camp.

Entering the training camp for training and joining the training camp are two concepts, just like ordinary soldiers will receive basic training. The first training of the women's training camp is two months. After the training, most women go home, and only a few will choose to stay in the camp and become a similar existence to the camp soldiers.

Most of the women who stayed in the camp were from the official families of Tenglongwei, Song Dashan, Xie Yuan, Wu Chongzhe, Yu Tonghai, etc. They all threw their girls of appropriate age to the training camp, and even the Yang family sent more than a dozen girls.

Only then did they gather 200 female soldiers who were stationed in the camp.

Two hundred people and two hundred war horses were enough. Others only needed to receive basic training and there was no need to practice riding.