Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

In the study room in the main courtyard, Yu Qingyi, wearing a sky blue back, sat behind the desk and was calculating.

"What are you thinking about?" Yang Zhengshan walked in and asked curiously.

Speaking of which, he didn't know how to use an abacus. He had learned it in elementary school in his previous life, but he had forgotten everything he needed to.

He had thought about learning an abacus before, but he gave up after only trying it for a little while. It is not difficult to learn, but it takes a lot of effort to become good at it.

Yu Qingyi said without raising her head: "I am calculating how much income our family has every year?"

"Uh, how many are there?" Yang Zhengshan asked curiously.

Yu Qingyi looked at the abacus, sighed, and said: "Except for the racecourse, the annual income is less than three hundred taels of silver!"

"..."

Yang Zhengshan was a little sweaty.

Three hundred taels is already a lot for ordinary people, but for the current Yang family, this was not enough to pay their servants monthly.

But this is normal, the Yang family's property does not have much to begin with.

In addition to the more than 100 acres of farmland in the racecourse and Anning County, these are the few shops that Yu Qingyi just bought in the past month.

"It's okay, the income from the racecourse is not low, enough to support the family's expenses!" Yang Zhengshan said.

Yu Qingyi stepped forward and helped him take off his coat, "But the racecourse has just been built, so there shouldn't be any profits this year!"

"There will be. You will know when the time comes!" Yang Zhengshan chuckled.

Under normal circumstances, it takes two or three years for a horse farm to be profitable after it is built, but the Yang family's horse farm is different. Yang Zhengshan uses Lingquan water to raise horses, and it only takes a few months to raise a group of good horses.

If Yang Zhengshan wasn't afraid of attracting too much attention, it would be easy for Yang Zhengshan to earn hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year by raising horses.

Not only the horse farm, but also a lot of medicinal materials in his space. Those prepared medicinal materials have not been sold yet, and the next batch of mature medicinal herbs is about to be harvested.

If he sells medicinal materials this year, he can earn several thousand taels of silver.

But when it comes to money, Yang Zhengshan thinks of the rockery in the backyard of Zhizhou Yamen.

There should be an underground space under that rockery. He was afraid of getting into trouble before, so he didn't go in to check it now.

Yang Zhengshan was wondering whether he should go and have a look!

What if there is silver in it?

"You prepare a set of night clothes for me in the next two days!" Yang Zhengshan said.

"Ye Xingyi! What are you going to do?" Yu Qingyi asked in surprise.

Yang Zhengshan grinned and said, "I won't tell you for now. I'll tell you when it's done!"

It wasn't that he couldn't trust Yu Qingyi, but he didn't know if there was anything in the underground space. What if there was nothing?

So let’s sell it first!

Yu Qingyi gave him a strange look, and that strange look seemed to tell you if you wanted to do something bad.

Yang Zhengshan was amused by her strange look, and couldn't help but step forward and hug her slim waist.

Bo~~

"Madam is so beautiful!"

Yu Qingyi's face suddenly turned red. She first glanced at Hongyun and Qingxia outside the door, and then pinched Yang Zhengshan hard.

"You are so old!"

"..."

Yang Zhengshan froze.

Never shy!

Never shy!

Never shy!

Madam, this is so heartbreaking!

Can we not mention the word ‘old’?

"How dare you say that your husband is old? How can I teach you a lesson?"

Yang Zhengshan moved his hands up and down for a while, but Yu Qingyi couldn't bear it anymore. After a while, her face turned red and her ears turned red. She slipped out of Yang Zhengshan's arms like a loach and ran out of the study.

Seeing her fleeing figure, Yang Zhengshan laughed heartily.

Listening to Yang Zhengshan's laughter, Yu Qingyi spat angrily.

The two maids, Qingxia and Hongyun, stood nearby, covering their mouths and secretly enjoying themselves.

"Don't laugh!" Yu Qingyi said shyly.

Qingxia and Hongyun quickly looked serious, but the corners of their mouths that couldn't be suppressed revealed the smiles they couldn't help but smile.

Yu Qingyi didn't want to go back to the house. She was a little afraid that Yang Zhengshan, an old and shameless husband, would mess around.

But she suddenly remembered something, changed her mind, turned around and walked back to the study.

When Yang Zhengshan saw that she was back, he pretended to be serious.

"Ahem, madam, come sit here!"

"No, I have something to tell my husband!" Yu Qingyi said with a straight face.

Seeing her appearance, Yang Zhengshan couldn't help stroking his beard and looking at her.

Madam, is she angry?

Well, it looks so good when angry!

"What's up?"

However, Yu Qingyi seemed to be really not very happy, "What are you going to do with that person in Xiuchunyuan?"

"Xiuchun Garden!" Yang Zhengshan was startled, and then he remembered someone.

Yulu girl!

If Yu Qingyi hadn't mentioned it, Yang Zhengshan would have completely forgotten about this person.

He frowned, what should I do with this Yulu girl?

Keep it?

Obviously inappropriate.

Let go?

It doesn't seem appropriate either. Who knows if this girl is in trouble?

Sha Pingchuan has been imprisoned, and it is estimated that he will be interrogated and executed soon.

And is this Yulu girl also involved?

Yang Zhengshan thought for a moment and said, "I'll ask the secret military guards tomorrow. If there's no problem, let her leave!"

This Yulu girl is quite honest. After arriving at Yang's house, she basically never leaves the house and stays in Xiuchun Garden.

After Yang Zhengshan dealt with the two women last time, the women and maids around her became much more honest and no longer walked around.

"Let her go, are you willing to do it?" Yu Qingyi asked.

Yang Zhengshan looked up at her and said, "Madam, are you jealous?"

"What do you mean by jealous?" Yu Qingyi obviously didn't know what jealous meant.

Yang Zhengshan stepped forward and took her hand and said, "You don't need to care about an insignificant person!"

"If she doesn't have any other problems, you can deal with her when the time comes."

It was reasonable for Yu Qingyi to be unhappy. With such a beauty at home, any woman would feel uncomfortable.

Yu Qingyi was relieved to hear him say that.

Although Yang Zhengshan said that he would not take concubines, she still had such concerns.

"Yeah!" Yu Qingyi nodded and leaned on Yang Zhengshan's arms.

Yang Zhengshan put his arm around her waist. This time he didn't move around. Madam is easily shy and can't be too presumptuous.

...

The next morning.

Yang Zhengshan asked Ding Si, but Ding Si didn't know whether the girl Yu Lu was involved, so he could only send someone to send a message to Wei Cen and let Wei Cen check.

Wei Cen is still in Jiacheng. Although the adults in Kyoto came to Anyuan City first, the focus of this case is actually Sha Pingchuan, and Sha Pingchuan is now in Chongshan Pass.

As for why the adults in Kyoto came to Anyuan City first.

Why else, to confiscate the family.

There is only one Sha Pingchuan in Jiacheng, but Anyuan City has the Liang family, Lin Xuan and Hao Zhaoxian, as well as some officials involved.

If the family is confiscated, a large amount of property will definitely be seized.

Just as Yang Zhengshan was waiting for Wei Cen's reply, Wang Bin, the general of Jiacheng, also received Yang Zhengshan's letter.

When Han Fei arrived in Jiacheng yesterday, it was already late, so he waited until now to deliver the letter to Wang Bin.

Wang Bin fell into deep thought after reading the content of the letter.

Targeting Yang Zhengshan?

It was also something he did not expect.

However, he knew more than Yang Zhengshan, and had his own unique views on the court and officialdom.

"Targeting Yang Zhengshan, this person obviously doesn't know who Yang Zhengshan belongs to!"

"Not necessarily, maybe this person doesn't care about the Ningguo Mansion at all?"

"But what is this person's purpose?"

Wang Bin pondered for a moment, and suddenly his expression changed slightly, he seemed to have thought of the key.

The root of officialdom struggle is nothing more than fame, wealth and power.

Yang Zhengshan is not involved in many officialdom, so there are not many reasons for people to target him.

After thinking of the key, Wang Bin wrote a few words at his desk, then sealed the envelope and handed it to Han Fei, "This is for your master, he should understand after reading it!"

Han Fei took the letter and said with a fist: "I'll take my leave!"

...

Han Fei left early, but came back late, Yang Zhengshan received Wei Cen's reply first.

Wei Cen's reply was very simple, Yu Lu was just a beauty cultivated by Sha Pingchuan, and was not involved in the case of treason.

Think about it, Yu Lu is just a plaything with some use in Sha Pingchuan's heart, how could Sha Pingchuan let Yu Lu know those secret things.

Since there is no involvement, it is easy to deal with. Whether to keep or release, Yang Zhengshan can decide for himself.

However, Yang Zhengshan left the matter to Yu Qingyi to deal with, so as to prevent Yu Qingyi from having wild thoughts.

Yang Zhengshan did not take the matter to heart. He said a word to Yu Qingyi and stopped caring about it.

Around noon, Han Fei came back.

Yang Zhengshan opened the letter and his expression changed slightly.

There were only six words in the letter.

Songzhou Guard Commander!

Putting down the letter, Yang Zhengshan fell into deep thought.

Songzhou Guard Commander!

He really didn't expect this to be the reason.

After Sha Pingchuan was arrested, the position of Songzhou Guard Commander has been vacant.

Does Yang Zhengshan have a chance to compete for this position?

Yes, but it will be very troublesome.

After all, Yang Zhengshan was just promoted to Commander-in-Chief last year.

Three years after coming to Chongshan Town, Yang Zhengshan has been promoted three times.

The first time, Zhou Lan directly gave him a trial centurion position. It was a piece of cake for Zhou Lan to arrange such a position for him.

The second time was to be promoted to a thousand households, and he was actually appointed as the defense officer of Yinghe Fort. At that time, he had military merits and Zhou Lan promoted him, so it was not difficult to be promoted to a thousand households.

The third time was the current commanding officer, and he was actually appointed as the garrison commander of Anyuan City.

Under normal circumstances, it would take at least three years for him to be promoted again, but because of Lu Hua's relationship, he was promoted again.

Now the position of the commander of Songzhou Guard is vacant. If Yang Zhengshan is interested, please ask Zhou Lan and Wang Bin to make some efforts, and then look for Liang Chu, maybe he can be promoted again.

However, Yang Zhengshan didn't want to do this because it was too conspicuous, and he would owe too many favors.

In order to get promoted, asking for help everywhere was obviously not what Yang Zhengshan wanted to do.

He would rather stay in Anyuan City for three to five years. By then, it would be much easier for him to be promoted, and he only needed Zhou Lan to help him.

Therefore, he had never thought of competing for the position of Songzhou Guard Commander, nor did he think that someone would target him because of this position.

After figuring out this connection, Yang Zhengshan still couldn't think of who would target him.

Songzhou Guard also has a commander named Tan Jingtai.

This Mr. Tan is 58 years old and has retired early. Although he holds the position of commander, he rarely manages things.

Perhaps this is why Sha Pingchuan can tolerate him staying in Songzhou Guard.

And Tan Jingtai obviously won't target Yang Zhengshan. He is too old and probably doesn't have the ambition to compete for the position of commander now.

Besides him, there are too many other people who can be suspected.

The commander of the guards is no longer an insignificant official position. It is a third-rank military officer. Many officials in Chongshan Town want to go further. This is undoubtedly a good opportunity.

The nobles in Kyoto may also be interested in this position.

Even officials in other border towns may pay attention to this position.

Yang Zhengshan still couldn't find the target, but knowing where the problem was, the rest of the things would be much simpler.

Since the other party dared to target him, don't blame him for making trouble.