Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 470 Yu Qingyi feels that she can no longer manage this family!
"Greetings, Lord Yang!" Wang Zhongzhi walked over and bowed.

Yang Zhengshan looked him up and down, then looked at Lu Hua.

There was a hideous scar on Lu Hua's face, which made him look even more hideous. He used to give Yang Zhengshan the impression of being noble, but now he had turned into a sinister one.

That’s right, he was vicious, and the viciousness in his eyes was not concealed at all.

"I am about to prepare to return to Beijing!" Yang Zhengshan said directly without any politeness.

Wang Zhongzhi nodded, "I know, does Lord Yang have any plans for us?"

"There is no arrangement. If you want to leave, you can leave at any time!" Yang Zhengshan said lightly.

In fact, he didn't want to have too much involvement with the Secret Guards, either in the past or now.

In his opinion, the Secret Guard is synonymous with trouble. As long as you are involved with the Secret Guard, there will be a lot of trouble.

Wang Zhongzhi's expression changed slightly, "I would like to ask Lord Yang for a favor?"

"What's the deal?"

"Let me see His Majesty!"

"Well, you are not afraid of death!" Yang Zhengshan looked at him in surprise.

"I'm afraid, but I don't want to die without knowing why!" said Wang Zhongzhi.

In terms of loyalty, Wang Zhongzhi can be said to be loyal, whether to the former Emperor Chengping or the current Emperor Yanping.

He didn't want to question Emperor Yanping, he just wanted to be loyal to Emperor Yanping.

If Emperor Yanping wanted him dead, he was willing to commit suicide, but he hoped that Emperor Yanping could know his loyalty.

Yang Zhengshan didn't understand his thoughts, nor did he care about his thoughts.

"Sorry, I can't help you with this!" Yang Zhengshan refused.

He wasn't refusing, but he really couldn't help.

Wang Zhongzhi fell silent. Lu Hua stood beside him and didn't say anything either. As for Wei Cen, he was standing in the distance on guard.

Seeing that they were silent, Yang Zhengshan said helplessly: "Wait until I understand the situation in Kyoto. Give Ding Qiu a way to contact me. If there is anything, I will contact you!"

He really didn't want to deal with the Secret Guards, but now he had no choice but to do so because he had been dragged into it.

"Then I'll trouble Lord Yang!"

Wang Zhongzhi said this, and then winked at Lu Hua. Lu Hua stepped forward and told Ding Qiu a way to contact them in Kyoto.

Although Wang Zhongzhi and Lu Hua have now become stray dogs, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse. Wang Zhongzhi has been in charge of the Secret Guard for decades, and Lu Hua has been in charge of the Zhenbei Division for more than ten years. Now the power they hold in their hands is still considerable.

After they finished talking, Yang Zhengshan turned and walked down the mountain.

"See you later!"

He waved his hand and walked away.

Wang Zhongzhi looked at his back with a frown.

"Are you worried?" Lu Hua said in a deep voice.

"Well! Lord Yang has just arrived in Kyoto, and I'm afraid Nan Sheng will trip him up! If he falls into Nan Sheng's trap, he will be in danger!" Wang Zhongzhi said.

Although this was Wang Zhongzhi's first contact with Yang Zhengshan, he did not want Yang Zhengshan to get into trouble. After all, they still needed Yang Zhengshan's help now.

Lu Hua was silent for a moment and shook his head slightly. "Yang Zhengshan looks upright on the surface, but he is actually very cunning. Nan Sheng may suffer the consequences if he wants to deal with him!"

Wang Zhongzhi didn't understand Yang Zhengshan, but Lu Hua did.

Yang Zhengshan's style of doing things gives people the impression of being strong. He never hides his purpose and ideas in doing anything and likes to do things openly.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he is upright.

But those who truly understand Yang Zhengshan know that Yang Zhengshan is cold-hearted at heart, a cold person who can kill people without blinking an eye.

At the same time, Yang Zhengshan is a person who likes to make plans. He likes to plan everything in advance, and then realize his ideas step by step according to his plan.

This can be seen from his governance of Chongshan Town and Tenglongwei. Every time he would make a bunch of plans and let his subordinates implement them.

He was the same on the battlefield. In the Battle of Guanshankou, he stood in front of the Wuliang army. No matter what the Wuliang army did, he did not change his plan and was always waiting for the arrival of the northwest wind.

Act after careful planning, this is Yang Zhengshan's character.

To put it another way, it means being shrewd and calculating.

Since Yang Zhengshan is going to Beijing, how could he not consider the troubles he will encounter after arriving in Beijing?

"Haha, it seems you admire him very much?" Wang Zhongzhi chuckled.

He knew Lu Hua's character very well, the arrogance that came from his bones and the contempt for everyone and everything.

There are very few people that Lu Hua admires, or even none.

At least Wang Zhongzhi didn’t think that Lu Hua would admire him.

"Not really!" Lu Hua shook his head slightly.

Wang Zhongzhi smiled. It was indeed the expected answer.

Then he sighed slightly, "At this point, we can only take it slow!"

"Contact Kyoto first and have them keep an eye on the Imperial Guards and the Pacification Department! If Marquis Jing'an needs anything, have them be ready to take action at any time!"

Now they are bound to Yang Zhengshan. At least before getting rid of Nan Sheng, Yang Zhengshan is their most important ally.

……

The second year of Yanping, February 18th.

There was not a single cloud in the clear sky, and the towering mountains looked even more brilliant under the bright sunshine.

On the official road south of the city, a long team moved slowly southward. In front of the city gate, Zhou Lan, Pang Tang and others watched the convoy go away.

"I don't know what will happen after the Marquis comes to Beijing?" Pang Tang's face was a little solemn.

Zhou Lan's expression was calm, "Don't worry, Governor, the capital will not be in chaos!"

"Why?" Pang Tang was puzzled. Zhou Lan's lips curled up slightly, "Because the water in Kyoto is deeper than you and I imagined!"

Whether the water in Kyoto will be in turmoil does not depend on whether there will be shocks in the court, but on whether the foundation beneath the deep pool can calm the wind and waves.

Everyone thinks that the court is the foundation of Darong, but Zhou Lan knows that the court is just the appearance of Darong.

Be it the imperial court or the imperial city, no matter how turbulent the water on the surface of the deep pool is, as long as the foundation stone at the bottom of the pool remains motionless, there will be no major chaos in Kyoto.

Obviously, Zhou Lan knew much more about the court than Pang Tang did.

In the carriage at the back, Zhang Mingzhong was also looking at the receding team. There was a faint smile on his face, and he didn't show any worry at all.

In the team, Yang Zhengshan was sitting in the carriage chatting with Yu Qingyi.

There were as many as five or six hundred people who followed them into Beijing this time. First of all, there were the Yang family. Mrs. Li and Mrs. Liang stayed in Chongshan Town. They only brought two little girls, Yang Wanrong and Yang Wanning, with them. Everyone else followed Yang Zhengshan into Beijing.

Next are the servants and guards of the Yang family. Two hundred servants and one hundred guards will follow them to Beijing, while the others will stay in Chongshan Town to serve Yang Mingzhi, Yang Minghao and others, and manage the Yang family's industries in Chongshan Town and Liaodong.

Finally, there were Yang Zhengshan’s personal followers and guards. All twenty personal followers and two hundred guards followed Yang Zhengshan into Beijing. However, from today on, they were no longer soldiers in the army, but servants and guards of the Yang family.

In fact, Yang Zhengshan wanted the Royal Guard Battalion to stay in Chongshan Town, and even planned to divide them between Yang Mingzhi and Yang Minghao. Unfortunately, the soldiers of the Royal Guard Battalion were unwilling to do so. They were only willing to follow Yang Zhengshan.

This made Yang Zhengshan both helpless and moved, and in the end he had no choice but to let them follow him to Beijing.

However, this time they went to Beijing separately. The first group had already set out ten days ago, and they took most of the Yang family's property and went ahead.

There is another group behind. Wu Hai will bring the rest of the people to Beijing only after he has arranged the Yang family's affairs in Chongshan Town.

So Yang Zhengshan's team only has more than a hundred people.

Inside the carriage.

Yang Zhengshan sat lazily on the couch and said casually, "I remember that our family has a big farm in Wanping County."

"Yes, there is one, with more than 2,000 acres of land!" said Yu Qingyi.

"Only two thousand acres?" Yang Zhengshan asked puzzledly.

"Two thousand acres is not small. The land in Wanping County is much more expensive than that in Chongshan Town!" Yu Qingyi said unhappily.

These were all the property she bought, but Yang Zhengshan actually thought it was too little.

Wanping County is one of the two counties under the jurisdiction of Shuntian Prefecture. Many dignitaries in Kyoto would set up businesses in Wanping County. Yu Qingyi had people keep an eye on Wanping County for a long time and finally bought several farms in Wanping County.

"Two hundred brothers from the Royal Guards, plus Wang Lei, Li Chang and the others, a total of two hundred and twenty people! Each of them should be given at least fifty acres of land!"

"Oh, by the way, don't treat your ten fellow apprentices unfairly. Give them fifty acres of land when the time comes!"

Yang Zhengshan counted on his fingers.

Most of the Yang family guards were slaves of the Yang family. Their indentures were in the Yang family, so the Yang family could just pay them monthly wages.

But the brothers in the Royal Guard Battalion are not slaves of the Yang family. At most, they are guards hired by the Yang family. They definitely cannot be paid only monthly wages.

Each person was given fifty acres of land to accommodate their families and relieve them of their worries.

"Then we have to give away all three farms in Wanping County!" Yu Qingyi said after calculating.

"They are just a few farms. Divide them among them! When we settle down, you can ask people to help them bring their families over. Also renovate the houses in the farms." Yang Zhengshan said nonchalantly.

Yu Qingyi nodded, "Then how much should we give them per month?"

Yang Zhengshan was a little confused. This was indeed difficult to measure.

The officers and soldiers of the Royal Guard Battalion all have a high level of cultivation. If they were placed in the army, they could at least be a thousand-man commander. If they were placed in a garrison, they could be a deputy commander or a deputy commander.

They were willing to give up their official positions and follow Yang Zhengshan, so Yang Zhengshan naturally would not treat them unfairly.

But how much silver is appropriate?
"Pay according to Wu Zhan and the others' monthly salary?" Yang Zhengshan hesitated.

Yu Qingyi was depressed, "That would cost 48,000 taels of silver a year!"

The monthly wages that the Yang family paid to their servants were actually quite high. An average maid or servant got three or four taels of silver, and a guard got ten taels of silver. This was seven or eight times higher than the monthly wages that those wealthy families paid to their servants.

But if they were paid monthly wages based on their abilities, the Yang family would not actually give much, after all, most of the Yang family's servants were warriors.

It is obviously unreasonable to give a warrior, even one at the Body Tempering Realm, only a few taels of silver a month.

However, their indentures were in the hands of the Yang family, and they were trained by the Yang family. In addition, the Yang family had always been very close to them, so the servants of the Yang family had no dissatisfaction.

The servants of the Yang family can be given less monthly wages, but others cannot be given too little.

For example, Wu Zhan, Wu Zheng and others received two hundred taels of monthly salary every month.

The same is true for Yang Zhengshan's close followers.

Naturally, the brothers from the Royal Guard Battalion cannot be left out either.

The brothers in the Royal Guard Battalion alone would need nearly fifty thousand taels a year. If the other expenses of the Yang family were added, the total cost for the year would probably be more than seventy or eighty thousand taels.

Although the Yang family currently has many industries, their actual annual revenue is only about 20,000 to 30,000 taels.

We could barely maintain a balance between income and expenditure before, but we will definitely be unable to make ends meet in the future.

Yu Qingyi felt that she could no longer manage this family!
In fact, this is the norm for powerful and wealthy families. They may look prosperous with their large fortunes, but in fact, every family is worried about money.

Why are there so many corrupt officials? Isn’t it because there are many places to spend money?
It would cost thousands or even tens of thousands of taels a year to hire a few martial arts masters as bodyguards, and the cost of training martial artists was equally high.

So even though those nobles in Kyoto seem to be in a glorious position, they are actually not as good as the Yang family.

"It's okay. I still have some money here, which I'll use to help you with your household expenses! Also, when we get to Kyoto, find Luo Shang to decide on the share of the glass business. From now on, our family will own 30% of the Luo family's glass business."

Yang Zhengshan had no psychological burden at all about taking the Luo family's money.

In fact, the Luo family has given many gifts to the Yang family over the years, and many of the Yang family’s shops and farms were given by the Luo family.

"Will Master Luo have any objection?" Yu Qingyi asked.

Yang Zhengshan smiled and said, "Will he have any objections? He would be so happy!"

The Yang family is willing to take the Luo family's share, which is a way of taking care of the Luo family. This means that the Luo family's glass business will also be the Yang family's business in the future. Let alone 30%, even if it is 70% or 80%, Luo Shang will not have any objection, and will even happily offer the business.

"That's good!" Yu Qingyi said with understanding.

(End of this chapter)