Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

Entering the back hall, Liang Xiu was standing in the hall, looking at the scroll on the wall. Hearing footsteps, Liang Xiu turned around and said, "My nephew greets his uncle!"

"Haha, what? You are interested in painting!" Yang Zhengshan laughed.

"No, I am just killing time!" Liang Xiu said.

Liang Xiu is now nineteen years old. When Yang Zhengshan went to Liang's cloth shop, he was only six years old. Thirteen years have passed in a flash, and Liang Xiu has grown up.

"Sit down!" Yang Zhengshan gestured for him to sit down.

The servant hurriedly served tea to Yang Zhengshan and also changed a cup of tea for Liang Xiu.

"How is your father's health recently?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"Dad's health is good, but he is old and not as good as before!" Liang Xiu said.

Yang Zhengshan calculated in his mind that Mr. Liang San is now forty-seven or eighty years old. He is not a warrior, and forty-seven or eighty years old is considered an old man.

"Well, I haven't seen your father for a long time. I miss him a little!" Yang Zhengshan said.

The two families are relatives. In the years after Yang Mingzhi and Liang Zhen got married, Mr. Liang San came to the Yang family to see his daughter, and Yang Zhengshan and him often drank together.

But as the years passed, Mr. Liang San seldom came to the Yang family. On the one hand, Mr. Liang San was old, and on the other hand, it was because the distance between the two families was far. Before, the Yang family was in Tenglongwei, and the Liang family had always been in Ningzhou City, more than a thousand miles apart.

"My father has always been thinking about my uncle. This time when my nephew came, my father also asked my nephew to bring a fur coat!" Liang Xiu said as he opened the wooden box next to him.

There was a green fur coat in the wooden box, but the fur was gray.

Yang Zhengshan reached out and touched the fur on it, "Is this lynx fur?"

"Yes, my father bought it by accident." Liang Zhen said.

The fur is thick, brown-gray, the leather is soft and thick, warm, solid and durable, and it is a relatively expensive fur.

Yang Zhengshan was not polite, he took the fur coat and put it on, feeling the softness on his neck, he shook his shoulders, "Yes, it's really warm!"

In fact, he didn't have any fur, Chongshan Town was rich in all kinds of fur, if he wanted any fur, it would be easy.

But after all, this was the intention of Mr. Liang San and Liang Xiu, he certainly couldn't look down on it.

Seeing that he liked it, Liang Xiu was a little relieved.

With the current status of the Yang family, the Liang family is really a world apart from it.

Although the Liang family is now a wealthy family, in the final analysis, the Liang family is just a merchant, not as good as the other two in-laws of the Yang family, the Wang family and the Li family.

The Wang family and the Li family are both farmers, and now the Wang family and the Li family have also become different because of the relationship between the Yang family and the Yang clan.

The children of the Wang family and the Li family all studied martial arts and literature in the Yang family. Although they have not achieved anything yet, they are no longer ordinary farmers.

Then Yang Zhengshan chatted with Liang Xiu for a while, but Liang Xiu obviously had something to talk to him about, and he didn't say anything several times.

Seeing him like this, Yang Zhengshan directly said: "Just say it if you have something to say. What else can't you say to your uncle!"

Liang Xiu was a little embarrassed, but Yang Zhengshan had already made it clear, so he could only stand up and bowed and said: "My nephew wants to ask for permission from your uncle!"

"What is it?"

"My nephew wants to do the glass business!" Liang Xiu bowed and said.

Yang Zhengshan looked at him and fell into deep thought.

In fact, Liang Xiu is a good person, but he is not good at doing business.

Mr. Liang San is not good at doing business. If it weren't for Liang Lin's virtuous wife, the Liang family would not have earned a family business in Ningzhou City.

Liang Xiu has been calm and mature since he was a child, but his calmness and maturity are not suitable for doing business because he is not cunning enough.

All businessmen are cunning!

Why Luo Shang was able to develop the Luo family into a wealthy businessman is because Luo Shang was cunning enough.

He was able to judge the situation, win people's hearts, and know how to take advantage of the situation. Luo Shang also had a fierceness and dared to take risks.

Otherwise, even with the support of Yang Zhengshan, the Luo family would not have the current family business.

In comparison, the character of Mr. Liang San was far inferior to Luo Shang, which was why Yang Zhengshan did not support the Liang family.

Similarly, Liang Xiu was not suitable for doing business.

With the protection of the Yang family, he could do some small business in Ningzhou City. If he traveled around like Luo Shang, it would not work.

"You are not a qualified businessman!" Yang Zhengshan was not polite and said too much about himself, "Uncle does not recommend you to do business! Especially the glass business."

In the past six months, glass products have opened up a lot of markets in Dayong, and it has become a well-known thing that the glass business makes money.

Many people have come to Yang Zhengshan before, wanting to do glass business, but they were all sent away by Yang Zhengshan.

Wang Zhenze, Qi Ting and others were also under great pressure. If Yang Zhengshan had not supported them behind the scenes, they would have been devoured without leaving any bones.

With Liang Xiu's character and the strength of the Liang family, it was not a wise choice to intervene in the glass business.

"This~~" Liang Xiu hesitated for a moment and said, "Then my nephew won't do it!"

"Haha, what kind of business? If you don't mind, go to your brother-in-law and be a clerk!" Yang Zhengshan patted his shoulder.

Merchants are merchants after all, even if they are rich, they are just vassals of officials and dignitaries.

Yang Zhengshan has been helping the Luo family get rid of their merchant status, and now he doesn't mind helping the Liang family get rid of their merchant status.

However, the situation of the Liang family is more troublesome than that of the Luo family, because Mr. Liang San was born in the Jing'an Liang family, and the Jing'an Liang family had committed the crime of killing nine clans.

Although Yang Zhengshan helped Mr. Liang San get the amnesty order and pardoned the guilt of Mr. Liang San's family, it does not mean that the Liang family will not be implicated.

At least Liang Xiu's generation cannot be a high-ranking official. At most, he can only be a small official of the sixth or seventh rank.

This is why Yang Zhengshan did not let Liang Xiu come to Chongshanguan to work before.

"Is this okay?" Liang Xiu was surprised and happy.

"Why not?" Yang Zhengshan said: "You are now working as a clerk by Minghao's side for two years. After he opens his office, it is easy for him to arrange an official position for you."

Opening a government and building a ya, that is, the shogunate of the lieutenant general, when Yang Minghao is promoted to lieutenant general and takes charge of the shogunate, it is not a matter of a word to arrange an official position for Liang Xiu.

Liang Xiu is Minghao's brother-in-law, and he should take care of him.

"Nephew understands!" Liang Xiu smiled foolishly.

He himself did not like doing business, and this time he asked Yang Zhengshan for help because of his mother's idea.

Liang Lin was smart, so it was normal for her to want to do glass business, but she was just a woman after all, so it was normal for her to not think things through.

Compared to doing business, Liang Xiu was still willing to enter the government. Liang Xiu was well-read, so it was easy for him to be a clerk.

"Okay, you go talk to Minghao later and tell him my suggestion!" Yang Zhengshan said.

It was just a small matter, so there was no need for Yang Zhengshan to speak in person, Yang Minghao could arrange it himself.

"Thank you, uncle!" Liang Xiu said with a silly smile.

In the following days, many people came to the Yang family to send gifts, including Yang's relatives and Yang Zhengshan's former colleagues, such as Wang Bin, Lin Shoude, Xu Jin, etc., but no matter where they are now, they will send someone to send a gift every year.

However, the Yang family was different from the past, and it was impossible to arrange people to send gifts one by one, so they asked the people who came to send gifts to take the gifts of the Yang family back.

Lu Shou is in Kyoto, and he will send the Yang family's holiday gifts.

Yang Mingcheng will still return to Yangjia Village, but Yang Chengye will also return to Yangjia Village this year.

The eldest son and grandson are enough to represent the Yang family.

As the New Year approaches, Yang Zhengshan is busy with the official duties of the General's Mansion while busy receiving guests who come to visit.

In this way, New Year's Eve came unknowingly.

On New Year's Eve, after the lively family dinner, Yang Zhengshan stood in the yard in a daze, looking at the dim night sky.

His face was a little ugly, uglier than ever before.

"What are you looking at?" Yu Qingyi asked as she walked out of the house without knowing why.

"Nothing!" Yang Zhengshan shook his head slightly, but did not go back to the house, but looked at the night sky in the south with a solemn face.

He was of course not in a daze, he was really sensing the meteorological changes in the next year.

As his cultivation broke through to the innate realm, his perception of weather and meteorological changes became more accurate and had a wider range.

In the past, he could sense weather changes within a hundred miles, but now he can sense weather changes within a thousand miles.

Of course, the farther the distance and the longer the time, the more vague his sense will be.

Yu Qingyi looked at him and guessed that he was thinking about something, so she didn't ask any more questions.

Yang Zhengshan looked at the night sky in the south and exhaled heavily.

There will be a severe drought in the whole Liaodong in the new year.

His sense was a little vague, but it was certain that Liaoyuan and Pingyuan would be the hardest hit areas.

From February to October, there was almost no rain in Liaoyuan and Pingyuan. As for the situation after winter, it was too long and he couldn't sense it clearly. But he felt that this drought might last for a long time.

At the same time, the situation in Chongshan Town was not very good. Although it was not a hard-hit area of ​​the drought, there was not much rain except for a few light rains.

This drought was much more serious than the one Yang Zhengshan experienced when he first came to this world.

The main disaster area of ​​the drought was the Northland outside the Great Wall. Although Chongshan Town was also affected by the drought, it was not too serious.

However, the areas hit hardest by the upcoming drought are Liaoyuan and Pingyuan provinces, and the drought may be even more serious.

Under the drought, there will be thousands of miles of barren land, no harvest, and millions of people will become starving. This is undoubtedly a terrible disaster.

Yang Zhengshan thought a lot in an instant.

This may be an opportunity for Chongshan Town, allowing a large number of people to migrate to the Northland and develop the Northland, but Yang Zhengshan does not want such an opportunity.

But even if he doesn't want it, he can't do it. He can only predict weather changes, but can't change them.

So the only thing he can do next is to prepare for the upcoming drought.

"Food!"

Yang Zhengshan murmured softly, then turned and walked back to the bedroom.

He still has time, at least half a year.

This half a year is enough for him to make a lot of preparations.

...

This New Year's Day is the most uncomfortable New Year's Day for Yang Zhengshan.

The disaster was coming, and he had no intention of paying attention to other things. Even when the children greeted him, he seemed to be a bit perfunctory.

Everyone in the Yang family also saw that something was wrong with him, but no one dared to ask more.

After the lively New Year's greetings were over, Yu Qingyi couldn't help but ask: "Did something happen?"

Yang Zhengshan shook his head slightly and said: "Nothing."

He really couldn't explain the matter of sensing weather changes.

Yu Qingyi held his hand, "If you have anything to do, just do it. I will take care of everything at home!"

She could feel that Yang Zhengshan was worried. If he didn't want to say it, she wouldn't force him.

No matter what happened, she would help Yang Zhengshan take care of the family and let him have no worries.

Yang Zhengshan felt her care and worry, and reached out to hold her in his arms, gently stroking her back.

"Madam, don't worry. It's a big deal, but it has little to do with my Yang family. I will handle it!"

"Well, I believe in you!" Yu Qingyi said softly.

Yang Zhengshan looked at the gentle person in his arms, and his heavy mood was relieved a lot, and his expression was no longer so serious.

He also figured it out. Since the drought was inevitable, he should actively respond, make all preparations, do his best, and just ask for a clear conscience.