Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

"Is the official seal of the prefect still there?" Lin Zhan pondered for a moment and asked.

"Yes, yes, yes." Zhang Yu quickly took out a burnt official seal and handed it to Lin Zhan, "Fortunately, those pirates didn't know where the official seal was. I searched for a long time before I found it."

Lin Zhan felt relieved. It was good that the official seal was still there.

If there was no official seal, it would be troublesome.

Official seals were made by craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry. If an official seal was lost, it would be very troublesome to reissue it.

And without an official seal, many things would be inconvenient to handle.

Lin Zhan took the official seal and looked at it. Although it was burnt black, the official seal was still intact and not damaged.

"Paper and pen!" Lin Zhan ordered Ding Lu beside him.

Ding Lu immediately found a pen, ink, paper and inkstone and placed them on the square table in front of him.

Lin Zhan wrote four official documents in a row.

"Dashi, you take people to Suzhou Prefecture immediately and ask the Dusi Yamen and the Provincial Administration Yamen to coordinate the dispatch of troops to clear the pirates."

Ding Lu is Ding Qiu's son and has always followed Lin Zhan.

And Lu Dashi is the guard of the Yang family. This time he led the team to follow Lin Zhan.

"Yes!" Lu Dashi stepped forward and responded.

Lin Zhan asked: "Did you bring the token of the Marquis' Mansion?"

"I brought it!" Lu Dashi said.

"If anyone neglects it, use the token of the Marquis' Mansion!" Lin Zhan ordered.

You don't need to think about the situation of the Yamen doing things. The King of Hell is easy to mess with, but the little ghosts are hard to deal with.

He, a prefect, sent people to the Dusi Yamen and the Provincial Administration Yamen to do things. Neglect is a minor offense and is likely to be ignored.

But Jing'an Marquis' Mansion is different. Yang Zhengshan is still the right governor of the Left Army Governor's Mansion and has the honorary title of Shaofu.

And the Jiangnan Dusi is under the jurisdiction of the Left Army Governor's Mansion. With this relationship, the Dusi Yamen should not ignore the official documents sent by Lin Zhan.

"Ding Lu, take people to the Shangwu Division of Haizhou Prefecture, and ask the Shangwu Division to dispatch personnel to clear out the pirates!" Lin Zhan handed another official document to Ding Lu.

Although the Shangwu Division of Haizhou does not have many people, the officials of the Shangwu Division are all warriors, and their strength is not comparable to that of ordinary soldiers.

Even if the Shangwu Division only sends 20 or 30 people, it is still a great help.

"Captain Li, please send someone to deliver this official document to the Haizhou Guard, and ask them to dispatch troops to Yuzhou to clear out the pirates as soon as possible!"

Lin Zhan handed the last official document to Li Boran.

Li Boran looked at the official document in his hand and hesitated.

Lin Zhan saw his hesitation, "I used to work in the Ministry of War, you can report it to your superiors!"

Serving in the Ministry of War is Lin Zhan's qualification, which means that he has connections in the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of War is in charge of the selection and examination of military officers. The officials of the guards cannot offend the officials of the Ministry of War the most.

Li Boran's eyes lit up when he heard this, "I will arrange someone to send it right away!"

After everything was arranged, Lin Zhan inspected the city again.

...

Kyoto, Jing'an Marquis' Mansion.

Yang Zhengshan is instructing the crown prince, Dai Wang and An Chenhui in their cultivation.

An Wang was named the crown prince last year, and Yang Zhengshan also has an official position as the crown prince's tutor.

The crown prince's tutor is the crown prince's teacher, while the tutor is the emperor's teacher and the emperor's assistant minister.

However, whether it is the crown prince's tutor or the tutor, they are actually empty titles and have no real power.

It is not even necessarily the crown prince or the emperor's teacher, but just an improvement in the official rank.

Of course, Yang Zhengshan, the crown prince's tutor, is real, he is really the crown prince's teacher.

In the yard, the crown prince was wearing a bright yellow suit, holding a long sword and dancing with it, his sword moves were chic and coherent, and each move was a bit fierce.

Yang Zhengshan nodded with satisfaction. When the prince finished practicing a set of sword skills, he said, "Not bad, the prince's sword skills have improved a lot!"

"This is all because of the good teaching of the master!" The prince smiled as gentle as jade.

For the past three years, he has been practicing with Yang Zhengshan. At the beginning, he did not have much interest in martial arts, but with Yang Zhengshan's teaching, his cultivation level has become higher and higher, and his understanding of martial arts has become more and more, which makes him more and more interested in martial arts.

In three years, his cultivation level has been raised from the level of force exchange in the body-building realm to the first level of the acquired realm, which is a big improvement.

Yang Zhengshan smiled, stepped forward and picked up a long sword, and said, "There is no problem with sword skills, but the prince is still far behind in terms of energy!"

"The Gangfeng Jin that the prince practices, the Gangfeng Jin emphasizes a strong and fierce..."

Yang Zhengshan swung the long sword while talking.

"Strong and fierce is not swift, nor violent, but a kind of powerful and heavy force!"

The long sword chopped down, obviously not very fast, but it gave people a feeling that it was difficult to resist.

Kui Niu Jin emphasizes the burst, while Gang Feng Jin emphasizes a continuous and stable output.

Although the acquired Qigong methods are different, their essence is the use of Qi.

These methods are not good or bad, strong or weak, but only personal understanding and application.

Although Yang Zhengshan has never practiced Gang Feng Jin, this does not prevent him from using Gang Feng Jin.

The prince's temperament tends to be gentle and steady, so in the use of Gang Feng Jin, he tends to be steady, but also a little weak.

Stability is an advantage, weakness is a disadvantage, these are the advantages and disadvantages of his personality.

Personality will affect the way of using Qi, just like a person with a hot temper and a person with a lazy personality walk differently.

As for Qi cultivation, the advantages and disadvantages of personality have a great impact on Qi.

However, the advantages of character do not necessarily become advantages in the use of energy.

Just like calmness, this is undoubtedly an advantage in character for the prince, but if it is applied to the use of energy, being too calm is also a disadvantage.

Similarly, being too weak is a disadvantage of the prince, but in terms of energy, being weak is not necessarily a disadvantage.

The key lies in a degree.

The force is strong and heavy, soft but not weak.

This should be more in line with the prince's use of energy.

Yang Zhengshan instructed the prince patiently, and the prince would gesture from time to time.

Not far away, the king of Dai waved his spear and heard thunderous sounds.

Compared with the prince, the king of Dai has a better talent for martial arts, and he is also a martial arts fanatic, all his thoughts are on martial arts.

And the technique he practiced is Kui Niu Jin, and the use of energy is very similar to that of Yang Zhengshan before.

It can be said that the king of Dai's martial arts practice is most like Yang Zhengshan, more like Yang Zhengshan than the three brothers of Yang Mingcheng, Lin Zhan and Wang Mingzhe.

As for An Chenhui, it was another story. An Chenhui practiced Shanshui Jin, which was derived from the meaning of "the best is like water". The weapon he used was a two-handed straight knife with a round head, a slightly curved tip, and a length of four feet.

This knife is obviously an extremely sharp weapon, but An Chenhui practiced Shanshui Jin.

It seems to be mismatched, but in fact, contradiction is the characteristic of An Chenhui, because contradiction represents change, which means both offense and defense, and emphasizes adaptability.

In fact, An Chenhui's practice is more like An Yuxing. Although Yang Zhengshan has been teaching him for three years, his foundation was laid by An Yuxing, and Yang Zhengshan did not change his foundation, but learned from his strengths and weaknesses.

Again, there is no most powerful method, only the most suitable method for oneself.

In two hours, Yang Zhengshan instructed all three people.

Near dusk, the three apprentices said goodbye and left, and the younger generations of the Yang family also came back one after another.

Now Yang Chengye, Yang Chengmao, Wang Mingzhe, Jiang Ning and Yang Chengxian are all training in the guard camp outside the city. Although Yang Chengye has been trained for three or four years, Yang Zhengshan still did not let him stop.

Of course, they did not go to the guard camp for training every day, but trained for three days and rested for three days. The three days of rest were not really resting, but learning other things. For example, Yang Chengye and Yang Chengmao had to learn military tactics and reading, while Wang Mingzhe went to Sun Wanzhen to learn medicine and alchemy.

Anyway, Yang Zhengshan arranged them clearly. If you want to be lazy, don't even think about it.

As for the girls of the Yang family, don't think about being idle. Martial arts training is the foundation, and you can learn other things if you want to.

There is still a school in the Marquis's Mansion. In addition to the children of the Yang family, many children of the Yang family are also studying there.

Just when Yang Zhengshan returned to the main courtyard to prepare for dinner, Lu Shou hurried to the main courtyard.

"Marquis, the memorial sent from the palace." Lu Shou handed a memorial to Yang Zhengshan.

Yang Zhengshan was slightly stunned, "Who sent it?"

"The man claimed to be Li Shangxi, the eunuch in front of the emperor. He was in a hurry to go back and report, so I gave him a hundred taels of silver!" Lu Shou said.

Yang Zhengshan nodded, took the memorial and opened it.

He was very curious why the memorial was sent to him, but since it was sent, he would take a look.

When Yang Zhengshan finished reading the contents of the memorial, an ugly look appeared on his face, and he also understood that Emperor Yanping had asked someone to send this memorial.

This was a memorial impeaching him. It was said that there had not been a memorial impeaching him in the court for a long time. It seemed that no one had impeached him since he showed his innate cultivation.

The problem of impeaching him was that his family education was not strict and his family style was not right. It was said that the son of Jing'an Marquis molested a good girl in the street.

The memorial was submitted by Zhou Ningwei, the imperial censor of the West City in Kyoto, and the good girl who was molested was also Zhou Ningwei's youngest daughter, a ten-year-old girl.

According to Zhou Ningwei, his daughter was hugged by a teenage scoundrel when she was visiting a friend yesterday. This scoundrel came out of a bookstore. After the servants asked, they found out that he was from the Marquis of Jing'an Mansion.

In broad daylight, he molested a decent girl on the street!

This happened in the Marquis of Jing'an Mansion?

Yang Zhengshan didn't believe it, but he had to believe it.

After all, this matter concerns his daughter's reputation. As long as Zhou Ningwei is not stupid, he can't lie about this matter.

"Go and call Chengye, Chengmao, Chengxian, Chengyou, as well as Jiang Ning, Mingzhe, and Mingzhao."

Yang Zhengshan thought about it and ordered.

These are the only teenage boys in the Yang family.

"Yes!" Lu Shou responded and went to call people.

About a quarter of an hour later, all seven people came to the main courtyard.

Chengye is the oldest among them, he is already 21 years old, and Mingzhao is the youngest, only 11 years old.

If we talk about teenagers in their teens, Chengxian, Chengyou, Jiang Ning and Mingzhao are the most suitable. The others seem a bit old!

Yang Zhengshan looked at the boys standing in a row and asked, "Who of you flirted with a decent girl outside yesterday?"

They were stunned at first, then looked confused, as if they didn't understand flirting with a decent woman, but then they turned their heads to look at Chengyou with curiosity.

Yang Chengyou was sweating profusely, "What are you looking at me for? It's not me, I didn't!"

Among the children of the Yang family, Yang Chengyou is definitely the most mischievous.

From childhood to adulthood, this kid is the most noisy.

Yang Zhengshan is a little suspicious of Yang Chengyou. He thinks that Yang Chengxian is the most likely to become a dandy.

Although Yang Chengyou made some noise, he was not a bad person and did not grow up to be a bad person.

As for the others, Chengye, Chengmao, Chengxian, Jiang Ning, and Mingzhe should have gone out of the city to train in the Guard Camp yesterday. Only Chengyou and Mingzhao did not go.

Both of them are eleven years old this year and are not warriors yet, so they do not need to go to the Guard Camp for training.

"Where did you go yesterday?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

Yang Chengyou said nervously: "Grandpa, I, I didn't go out yesterday."

"Really didn't go out?"

"Really didn't go out. My grandson practiced with my uncle yesterday morning, studied in the school in the afternoon, and didn't go out until the evening!" Yang Chengyou explained.

Mingzhao said: "Dad, Chengyou didn't lie, we have been together all the time!"

Yang Zhengshan nodded, but he didn't doubt that they were lying.

Chengyou might lie, but Mingzhao wouldn't.

This kid has regarded himself as a little uncle since he was a child. He is quite majestic among his nephews and will definitely not protect Chengyou.

Yang Zhengshan looked at Chengye and the others again, and Chengye said, "Grandpa, we are all together, no one is acting alone!"

If they go to the guard camp outside the city for training, they all ride out of the city together and ride back together. They went to the guard camp outside the city yesterday and today.

Yang Zhengshan thought about it and felt that the children of the Yang family would not do such a thing as molesting a girl in the street.

Except for the few in front of him, the other boys in the family are less than ten years old.

He picked up the memorial and looked at it again, and said, "You go back first!"

"Oh!"

A group of boys left after hearing this.

"You are too bad, why do you all suspect me?" Yang Chengyou said aggrievedly.

"You are the one who loves to make trouble on weekdays. If I don't suspect you, who else can I suspect!" Yang Chengxian laughed, and the people next to him smiled.

Yang Chengyou heard this and pouted, "Fortunately, my uncle testified for me, otherwise I would die unjustly today!"

"Haha~~ You have done too many evil things, you deserve it!"

Several people left the main courtyard with a fight.

Yang Zhengshan took the memorial to the study and replied in the memorial: "I have asked, it was not done by my family's descendants."

It was just a small matter, Yang Zhengshan did not take it seriously, and asked someone to return the memorial the next day, and he forgot about it.

However, he did not expect that the Shuntian prefecture governor actually came to his door on the third day.

This matter is not a big deal. There are countless dandies in Kyoto, and there are also some who molest women in the street, but in general, some silver compensation is enough.

But this time the one who was molested was Zhou Ningwei's youngest daughter. Zhou Ningwei was the imperial inspector of Kyoto, who was responsible for inspecting all officials. Moreover, the one who was molested was his own daughter, so Zhou Ningwei naturally could not let it go.