Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

In the following days, Yang Zhengshan was still busy.

The banquet was over, but there were still many things to deal with in the clan.

Road construction, clan school building, clan property purchase, all these required Yang Zhengshan to express his opinion, after all, the eight hundred taels of silver were nominally paid by Yang Zhengshan.

After a few more busy days, Wang Pozi came to the door.

In the main hall of the Yang family, Wang Pozi said to Yang Zhengshan with a smile: "Master Yang, the young lady of Liang's cloth shop, the old woman has learned about it, she is a good girl!"

Since their family found tenants, Yang Zhengshan has been promoted to master.

At first, only the tenants called him that, and later some people of other surnames in the village followed suit, and now the villagers of several surrounding villages also call him that.

"Liang's cloth shop?" Yang Zhengshan looked at her in astonishment.

Wang, who was next to him, came over and explained: "Dad, my third brother likes the young lady of Liang's cloth shop!"

Yang Minghao looked at Yang Zhengshan eagerly.

Yang Zhengshan glanced at him.

No wonder this kid has been distracted these days, it turns out it's because of this matter!

"Tell me in detail!"

"Okay!" Wang Pozi responded with a smile, and then introduced the situation of the young lady of Liang's Cloth Shop.

The young lady is indeed the daughter of the shopkeeper of the cloth shop. She is fourteen years old this year, with a pretty face, and usually helps in the cloth shop.

In terms of personality, according to Wang Pozi, she is gentle and virtuous, well-educated, friendly, etc.

"I am not talking nonsense. In order to understand the situation of this young lady, I have been to Liang's Cloth Shop several times in the past few days and bought a lot of cloth in the cloth shop."

Wang Pozi also knew her reputation outside, and she also proved the credibility of her words.

Yang Zhengshan did not doubt Wang Pozi's words. Perhaps Wang Pozi's words were exaggerated, but he believed that Wang Pozi would not dare to lie to him.

Fourteen years old!

A little girl who is only fourteen years old!

He wanted to marry a 14-year-old girl, and he always felt that it was not authentic.

"Liang's cloth shop should not be in Anning County!"

"This old woman has also inquired about it. This Liang's cloth shop is the property of the Liang family in Jing'an Prefecture. The Liang family is a wealthy businessman in Jing'an Prefecture." Wang Pozi said a little nervously.

Rich businessman, it sounds very rich.

But in fact, the status of businessmen is not high.

Scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, and the military is the same as scholars.

If someone else came to her to talk about such a marriage, she would probably ridicule it.

Ordinary farmers can't climb the threshold of wealthy merchants.

But now the Yang family is no longer an ordinary farmer. She knows that Yang Zhengshan is going to be an official, and she also knows that Luo Jin and the second master of the Lu family came to the banquet two days ago.

So she is now very worried that Yang Zhengshan will look down on merchants.

Her worry is obviously unnecessary. Yang Zhengshan will naturally not look down on merchants. Yang Zhengshan thinks that people will look down on their Yang family.

Although the status of merchants is low, when wealth reaches a certain level, they can also influence power.

The Liang family can become a wealthy merchant in a prefecture, so there must be someone behind them supporting them, otherwise how can the Liang family keep so much wealth?

"Who is she in the Liang family?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"It is said that she is the legitimate daughter of the third branch of the Liang family! The shopkeeper of the cloth shop is the third master of the Liang family." Wang Pozi replied.

Yang Zhengshan was thoughtful.

This seems to be a little wrong.

The Liang family is a wealthy merchant in Jing'an Prefecture. It stands to reason that the children of the Liang family should not come to Anning County, a small place, to be a shopkeeper, let alone let an unmarried woman show up.

Why did the third master Liang bring his family to Anning County?

Did the Liang family split up?

If it was because of the split, the third branch of the Liang family got the property of Anning County, and the third master Liang had to come to Anning County, this explanation is reasonable.

But if this is true, it proves that the third branch of the Liang family does not have a high status in the Liang family, and the property obtained by the split is very limited.

Yang Zhengshan is not coveting the Liang family's property, he just wants to find a trouble-free marriage for the Yang family.

Just like the Wang family and the Li family are honest farmers, this is good.

And wealthy businessmen like the Liang family are involved in many power relationships behind them.

If the Liang family really splits up, it is not impossible for Mr. Liang San to split up from the Liang family.

Yang Zhengshan looked up at Yang Minghao.

"How many times have you seen that young lady!"

"Twice!" Yang Minghao's face was stained with a blush, and the boy was actually shy.

"Have you ever talked?"

"No!"

Yang Zhengshan's mouth twitched slightly.

In other words, you are attracted by beauty?

He wants to marry someone after seeing her twice. Yang Zhengshan doesn't know whether to say that this boy is simple or ignorant.

Yang Zhengshan feels that he should go and see the girl in person. If it is really as he thinks, there is nothing wrong with marrying the girl home.

Thinking of this, Yang Zhengshan asked Wang Pozi to go back first, and said that if it was suitable, he would ask her to be a matchmaker. Of course, the reward money should not be less. Yang Zhengshan took out two coins of silver as a reward for Wang Pozi's several trips to the county.

After receiving the silver, Wang Pozi's smile became more kind, and she left happily.

The next morning.

After Yang Zhengshan finished his morning exercise, he rode Hongyun to the county.

Hongyun is a Hu horse outside Chongshan Pass. It is a good breed in the north. It is better than other breeds of horses in cold resistance and endurance, but its speed and explosive power are worse, not as good as the good breeds in the Western Regions of Darong.

But for Yang Zhengshan, Hongyun's existence brought him a lot of convenience.

It used to take more than half an hour to get to the county town by oxcart, but now it only takes two quarters of an hour to get there by horse.

And this is when Yang Zhengshan is not proficient in horsemanship. If Yang Zhengshan is proficient in horsemanship, it will probably take a little more than a quarter of an hour to get to the county town.

Riding on the horse's back, feeling the breeze blowing in his face, Yang Zhengshan is in a good mood.

Now I am also a car owner.

This BMW is not much worse than that BMW.

Riding into the city, even the guards guarding the city gate will look at him more.

After entering the city, Yang Zhengshan found an inn and deposited Hongyun in the inn.

The inn in the city also serves as a parking lot. Horses and carriages can be parked in the inn. Of course, this is charged. If you want to feed hay, there are additional fees.

Yang Zhengshan will naturally not be stingy and directly ordered a big meal mixed with beans for Hongyun.

After arranging Hongyun, Yang Zhengshan walked towards Liang's Cloth Shop leisurely.

In fact, he had been to Liang's Cloth Shop before. He bought cotton cloth and cotton at Liang's Cloth Shop before winter last year.

But at that time, he did not expect that Yang Minghao would like the girl, so he left after buying things without chatting with the shopkeeper.

It was still early at this time. All the shops had just opened for business and there were not many customers.

Liang's Cloth Shop was even more empty. Except for a middle-aged man in his thirties fiddling with an abacus, there was no other sound.

Yang Zhengshan walked into Liang's Cloth Shop, and the middle-aged man did not notice him.

"Ahem!!" Yang Zhengshan coughed lightly.

Mr. Liang raised his head, "What do you need, guest?"

"I want to buy some cotton cloth. I wonder how much you have here?" Yang Zhengshan tried to be more friendly.

Maybe he and Mr. Liang will be relatives in the future, so he naturally has to leave a good impression.

"Cotton cloth!" Mr. Liang San said in surprise: "There are a lot of cotton cloth in the shop, these are all cotton cloth, I wonder which one the customer wants?"

Yang Zhengshan looked in the direction of his finger, and then went forward to check the cloth.

He really wanted to buy some cloth.

It's spring now, and the family has added some spring and summer clothes.

In addition, he is about to take people to Chongshan Pass, and he plans to make a few clothes for those young men.

The other villagers in Yangjia Village are not as rich as the Yang family. Their clothes are almost all patched, and they are reluctant to buy a new set of clothes even during the New Year.

Since these people are going to follow him through life and death, he naturally has to take care of their food, clothing, housing and transportation, and solve their worries.

Yang Zhengshan chose three kinds of cloth from a pile of cloth and said: "Give me three pieces of this, five pieces of this, and three pieces of this, do you have it?"

In fact, the Yang family still has a lot of cloth, but they are all relatively expensive cloth, not suitable for a group of soldiers to wear.

Liang Sanye obviously didn't expect Yang Zhengshan to buy so much cloth. He said in surprise and joy: "Please come to the back hall and sit for a while. I will prepare it for you right away."

Eleven pieces of cloth are not a small business.

Generally speaking, customers who come to the cloth shop to cut cloth will buy two or three meters, which is enough to make one or two sets of clothes.

And one piece of cloth is thirteen meters. Yang Zhengshan buying eleven pieces of cloth is already a big deal for Liang's cloth shop.

Looking at the door curtain lifted by Liang Sanye, Yang Zhengshan walked in with a smile in his eyes.

His purpose was to go to the back hall to take a look and also to meet the young lady.