Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

The next morning, Yang Mingzhi took a dozen cavalrymen to Jianningwei, but he returned that afternoon.

Zhou Lan only asked him to bring back one sentence to Yang Zhengshan, that is, he should not worry about those messy things and just focus on expanding Yinghebao.

Yang Zhengshan was relieved after getting Zhou Lan's reply. Since Zhou Lan said so, it means that Zhou Lan has already made plans in her mind and he doesn't need to worry about it.

Yinghebao's expansion speed is very fast. In just one month, the widening and heightening of Yinghebao's city wall was completed, and the rest was just the construction of houses and streets in the fort.

However, Yang Zhengshan still wanted to be faster, so he transferred a group of young and strong men from Sanshanbao and Xiangyuanbao to help.

Time passed slowly, and the whole Yinghebao was like a large construction site, and everyone was busy.

In the garrison, young and strong men with bare chests were building houses.

Outside the garrison, 300 cavalrymen were training by the river, a large number of women in the garrison were taking care of the crops in the fields, and on the hillside, Li Erhu was leading a group of people to plant trees.

The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the charcoal business had long stopped, but Yang Zhengshan did not let Li Erhu and others disband.

They still burn charcoal two or three times a month. Although they can't sell it now, they can store it first and sell it in winter.

In their spare time, they would go to the mountains to cut trees and plant trees at the same time. According to Yang Zhengshan's requirements, they would cut one and plant two.

If there was no more room on the hillside, they would plant on the wasteland below the mountain.

The trees they planted were mainly pine trees, and they also planted some chestnut trees, hazelnut trees, persimmon trees, red date trees, etc.

Pine trees were planted to make charcoal, and other trees were planted to give the military households more edible things.

If there were not too many seedlings, Yang Zhengshan would have wanted to mark out a piece of wasteland specifically for planting chestnut trees and hazelnut trees.

At that time, let people go to Guancheng to set up a few small stalls selling sugar-roasted chestnuts, which is also a good small business.

Under the management of Yang Zhengshan, Yinghebao is changing every day.

Unknowingly, time came to the eighth day of the eighth month of the twenty-fifth year of Chengping.

In nearly four months, Yinghebao completed the expansion, many military households have moved into new houses, and the commercial street planned by Yang Zhengshan also ushered in the first batch of merchants.

These merchants are military households in the garrison, and they are not businessmen.

As for whether anyone will pursue these, there is actually nothing to pursue.

Among the scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, merchants have a low social status, but military households are almost the same, or even worse than merchants, at least merchants have money.

For scholars, doing business is a taboo. For example, the court has a clear stipulation that the family members and relatives of officials are not allowed to do business, and merchants are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination.

However, in fact, which of those official families is not involved in business, but they do not participate in it personally.

Many people look down on merchants, but they do things that only merchants can do.

As for the military households, if someone were to investigate and change their status to business, they would probably worship this person as a bodhisattva.

Military households have to be drafted into the army, but business households do not.

The sons of military households have to guard the border and fight on the battlefield, while business households, although of low social status, do not have to fight.

So when Yang Zhengshan rented out the shops in Yinghebao, many military households in the garrison were tempted, and he did not need to make any effort, more than 20 shops were swept away.

Many people even felt sorry for not being able to grab the shops.

Of course, no matter how sorry they were, they did not dare to jump out and make trouble.

Now Yang Zhengshan's reputation in Yinghebao has reached an unprecedented level. As long as he gave an order, men, women, old and young in Yinghebao were willing to go through fire and water for him.

Today is the day when all the shops in Yinghebao are open. Everyone went to the commercial street of the East Gate to join in the fun, and even many people from the surrounding fire road piers and beacons came to join in the fun.

For a while, Yinghebao was bustling with people.

Yang Zhengshan went to the commercial street for inspection and then came back. Everyone felt uncomfortable when he was there, so he stopped being annoying.

When he returned to the government office, he brought back someone.

Luo Shang, the big boss of Yinghebao Commercial Street.

Although the shops in Yinghebao were rented to the military households in the garrison, most of the goods they sold were provided by Luo Shang.

With the support of Yang Zhengshan, Luo Shang's business is getting bigger and bigger.

Yang Zhengshan opened a needlework workshop in Linguanbao, and he helped sell cloth shoes and get orders.

Yang Zhengshan made charcoal in Yinghebao, and he helped sell charcoal, and even opened a grocery store for this purpose.

Yang Zhengshan bought the bottom of the shop in Guancheng, and he also bought the bottom, and bought more than Yang Zhengshan.

And Luo Shang did not forget his old business. He opened a cloth shop and an embroidery workshop in the West City District and South City District of Guancheng respectively.

He actually made the most money by doing business with Yang Zhengshan.

In just over a year, his business scale has increased more than ten times, and he is also a well-known businessman in Guancheng.

However, he is still respectful to Yang Zhengshan, because he knows that everything he has now is given to him by Yang Zhengshan.

People are afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being fat. The more assets Luo Shang has, the more famous he is, and the more people are watching him.

If he doesn't have a backer, he will soon be eaten up by others.

Yang Zhengshan is his backer. Although Yang Zhengshan is just a defense officer of Qianhu, there is Zhou Lan behind Yang Zhengshan, and he is also registered with Liang Chu.

"Sir, I heard that there is some unrest in Jianningwei!"

Entering the study, Luo Shang immediately served Yang Zhengshan tea and water.

"It's a little uneven, but you don't have to worry, no matter how uneven it is, it won't affect you!" Yang Zhengshan said nonchalantly.

The unrest in Jianningwei was all caused by Zhou Lan.

This woman is really cruel.

In just a few months, she almost plowed through Jianningwei.

She drove away the commanders of the Jianning Guards, Liu Qiong and Ye Zhaoquan, the guards at Chishan Fort at Qiu Town, and the guards at Ruizhou City at Guan Shanhe.

Even when Xie Shanhe went to her to help Guan Shanhe, she pushed him back.

It is said that King Qing also wrote a letter to her, but nothing was written in the end.

Some people even tried to impeach her in court, but the result was nothing.

In this regard, Yang Zhengshan can only say one thing: awesome.

As for Duan Heshun, who was targeted at him, he was imprisoned on the third day after Yang Mingzhi sent the letter. He was charged with withholding food and wages, killing good people for taking merit, embezzling military rations, etc. Anyway, it was enough to be beheaded.

Originally, Yang Zhengshan was worried that Zhou Lan would not be able to cope with it, but the result once again refreshed his understanding of Zhou Lan and Duke Ning's mansion.

Zhou Lan does have the confidence to run rampant in Chongshan Town.

Luo Shang felt relieved when he heard what Yang Zhengshan said.

He is not afraid that Jianningwei's affairs will affect him, but he is afraid that it will affect Yang Zhengshan.

Because he believed that even if he was eaten clean by others, as long as Yang Zhengshan was still there, his whole family would not starve to death. But if Yang Zhengshan fell, he would be eaten clean by others soon.

This is the trust he has in Yang Zhengshan's character since he has known Yang Zhengshan for more than a year.

"Have you had any difficulties recently?" Yang Zhengshan asked casually.

Nowadays, whether it is Linguan Fort's needlework workshop or Yinghe Fort's charcoal business, Yang Zhengshan does not need to worry about it, so he and Luo Shang no longer talk about business matters.

Luo Shang thought for a while and said, "Sir, I really have a problem here!"

"What's the difficulty?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"It's about cloth. You may not know that the cloth in my cloth shop is provided by the Luo family in Qizhou City. I used to have only one cloth shop, and the cloth provided by the Luo family was enough for me to sell. But now I have three cloth shops. Zhuanghe’s two embroidery workshops, the Luo family didn’t give me enough cloth!”

Luo Shang briefly talked about the difficulties he encountered.

In fact, there is insufficient supply.

"Who is the Luo family in Qizhou?" Yang Zhengshan asked curiously.

Qizhou is located in the south of Jing'an Prefecture, at the tail of Changqing Mountain, where the back mountain of Yangjiacun is located, and the Qi River flows through it.

Due to its special geographical location, Qizhou City has become a gathering place for water and land transportation in Liaodong region.

Merchants traveling from north to south almost have to pass through Qizhou City if they want to enter or leave the Liaodong region.

Therefore, Qizhou City has become the most prosperous city in Liaodong region.

Yang Zhengshan knew about the prosperity of Qizhou City, but he had never heard of the Luo family in Qizhou.

"The Luo family of Qizhou and I are related, but the Luo family has a big business and a relative like me cannot reach them. I have a cousin who manages business for the Luo family. He has been helping me transport cloth these years. !" Luo Shang explained.

A big family and a big business!

That is, a wealthy businessman.

If it is an official family, then it should be said that it is a scholarly family; if it is a martial arts family, it should be said that martial arts are prosperous.

As for clan relatives, this relationship is actually very unreliable.

For example, all the people with the surname Yang in Yangjia Village are his relatives, but there are some people he can't even name.

Another example is that Lu Zhou is still a relative of the Anning Lu family, but Lu Zhou can only work as a blacksmith in the blacksmith shop.

"Built of cloth!" Yang Zhengshan thought for a while and said, "I can contact you about this, but I'm not sure if I can contact the source of the supply."

Speaking of cloth, the first thing he thought of was Mr. Liang.

Third Master Liang is his in-law. After getting engaged to the Liang family, Yang Zhengshan has not ignored this future in-law for more than a year. He will give him a gift during every festival.

Similarly, Mr. Liang did not forget him and often wrote to him.

Third Master Liang has a way to bring peace to the Liang family. Although he is the bastard of the Liang family, he should have no problem helping to transfer some supplies from the Liang family.

This is also a good thing for the Liang family.

If the Liang family's path doesn't work, he can also ask the Lu family.

Although the Lu family is not in the cloth business, they are local snakes in Anning County. They are inextricably linked to many aristocratic families.

Maybe Mr. Lu can find a source of cloth.

"Then it's troublesome, sir!" Luo Shang did not refuse or refuse, and naturally accepted Yang Zhengshan's help.

Now he and Yang Zhengshan have reached a tacit understanding. Yang Zhengshan will be his backer and he will work for Yang Zhengshan.

There is no need to explain this relationship explicitly, Yang Zhengshan and Luo Shang already understand it in their hearts.

For example, this time in the commercial street of Yinghebao, Yang Zhengshan just asked Yang Minghao to go to Guancheng, and Luo Shang knew what he should do.

Then Yang Zhengshan wrote a letter and asked Luo Shang to take it away.

After Luo Shang returns to Guancheng, he will give this letter to Shopkeeper Lu, who will then give the letter to the Lu family's caravan, who will take it back to Anning County and hand it over to Yang Zhengxiang. Finally, Yang Zhengxiang sent someone to deliver it to Mr. Liang again.

Although Guancheng is only more than 300 miles away from Anning County, it takes at least four or five days to send a letter.