Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 543: First-class Marquis, Hereditary

They stayed in Jinhaiwei for two days, mainly to unload gold and silver. Boxes of gold and silver were unloaded from the ship and loaded onto horse-drawn carriages. When Yang Zhengshan left Jinhaiwei, he was followed by more than two hundred carts of gold, silver and other valuables.

There were no accidents on the way to Beijing, but when entering the city gate of Kyoto, many officials from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War came to greet us.

"Welcome the Marquis back to the capital!"

A group of officials happily welcomed Yang Zhengshan.

They are naturally happy.

If we win the battle, the Ministry of War will definitely get the credit.

Since Yang Zhengshan brought back so much gold, silver and other valuables, the Ministry of Revenue naturally kept a close eye on them.

However, Yang Zhengshan was too lazy to talk to these people. After a few simple polite words, he said, "I still have to go to the palace to see the emperor. After I discuss with His Majesty, I will deal with other matters!"

"Yes, please, sir!"

The officials had no objection and quickly welcomed Yang Zhengshan into the city.

When Yang Zhengshan entered the city, many people in the city also came to watch the excitement. They heard that the court had won another victory and that Marquis Jing'an had seized a lot of gold and silver. They all came to watch happily.

Looking at the carts of wooden boxes, the people were talking about it and guessing how much gold and silver were in the boxes.

Yang Zhengshan rode forward and couldn't help but smile as he listened to their discussions.

If you told people how much gold and silver he brought back, it would shock many people.

The amount of spoils seized this time was even greater.

No matter how poor the Xingyue Sect is, it is still a powerful force and a dominant presence in the southeastern waters.

Maybe they don't have much cash, but they have a lot of supplies of all kinds in stock.

In addition, Yang Zhengshan also wiped out dozens of pirate groups, each of which contributed tens of thousands of taels of silver, which was also millions of silver.

There are also the fifteen clans of Xingyue Sect. Just because Xingyue Sect has no money doesn’t mean these clans have no money. They also believe in distinguishing between public and private affairs.

When they arrived at the Meridian Gate, Yang Zhengshan asked the escorting soldiers to wait on the street, and then took Xue Changan, Deng Yuehe, Wang Mingjian and Li Chengzhang into the imperial city.

As for the others, the four sea navies have not been disbanded yet, including the Tenglong Vanguard, who are still in Zhaowu Guard. Xue Changan and Jinhai Guard took advantage of the fact that their base is relatively close to Kyoto, so they had the opportunity to go to Beijing.

An Yuxing and other innate warriors also came back, but they disappeared after arriving at Jinhaiwei.

Yang Zhengshan cannot control a group of innate warriors.

When they went to sea to fight, Yang Zhengshan could still command them. Now that the war is over, they no longer listen to Yang Zhengshan's command.

There's nothing I can do, he's a senior.

In the side hall of Taiji Palace, Emperor Yanping had summoned a group of important ministers to wait for Yang Zhengshan.

"Your Majesty, I, Yang Zhengshan, pay my respects to you and wish you the best!"

Yang Zhengshan, Xue Changan and others entered the temple to pay homage.

Emperor Yanping was all smiles, "Marquis Jing'an, you've worked hard! Haha, please stop being polite!"

Yang Zhengshan stood up and took out the account book. "Your Majesty, this is the property seized from the expedition against Xingyuemen. It includes 123,000 taels of gold, 3,480,000 taels of silver, 83,000 strings of copper coins, 189,000 strings of inferior coins, 84,000 kilograms of various medicinal materials, more than 104,000 pieces of weapons and armor, copper ingots, iron ingots, wood, grain, silk and other items. Please take a look, Your Majesty!"

The gold, silver and other valuables in the warehouse of Xingyue Sect were only a small part of the spoils seized this time. In fact, the bulk of them were in the mansions of the fifteen masters of Xingyue Sect.

The Xingyue Sect has been passed down for hundreds of years, and the wealth accumulated is actually all in the mansions of the fifteen main families. On the contrary, only a small portion of the wealth is inside the Xingyue Sect.

Among all the seized property, Yang Zhengshan not only took out 50,000 taels of gold and one million taels of silver to reward the soldiers, but also left some money and food for Luo Jinsong.

In addition, he also embezzled about two million taels of gold and silver, as well as many precious items.

Originally he planned to take less, but there were too many things and he couldn't control his hands.

Today a shipload of valuables arrived, and he picked out some of them. Tomorrow several shiploads of valuables arrived, and he picked out some more. After more than a month, the hillside in the Lingquan space was already filled with a mess of things.

The most important thing is that all the things Yang Zhengshan took away were good things, such as the Jade Dew Peach, which is worth a fortune.

There are also precious medicines. Yang Zhengshan harvested dozens of precious medicines that he had never had before, twelve of which can be cultivated in the Lingquan space.

Yang Zhengshan made a lot of money from this wave, and of course, Dayong also made a lot of money.

Everyone in the hall was shocked when they heard the number reported by Yang Zhengshan.

Everyone, including Xue Changan, was shocked.

Although these things were transported back on the ships of Jinhaiwei, the soldiers of Tenglong Vanguard were actually responsible for the loading. The things were sealed after they were loaded on the ship. Xue Changan and the soldiers of Jinhaiwei had no idea how many things were in them.

The only ones who were not shocked were probably Wang Mingjian and Li Chengzhang, because they were more familiar with the background of Xingyue Sect, and their two families also contributed a lot of these gold and silver treasures.

Yang Zhengshan was already very generous and left them a lot of property, but most of their property became Darong's spoils.

Zhang Mingzhong came over, took the account book and handed it to Emperor Yanping. Emperor Yanping looked at the contents of the account book and smiled happily.

"Good, good, good! Marquis Jing'an is loyal and brave. I will reward him well!"

Emperor Yanping looked at Yang Zhengshan with a smile on his face, as if he was looking at his beloved lover, which made Yang Zhengshan feel a little embarrassed.

Your Majesty, that’s enough. We don’t like this!
"Mingzhong, announce the decree!"

Emperor Yanping said.

Zhang Mingzhong, who was standing by, immediately took out the imperial edict and read it out: "The Emperor of Fengtian Chengyun decrees that I have heard that Yang Zhengshan, Marquis of Jing'an, is praised for his virtue and reward for his talent. He has spread virtue and grace, kept his integrity and used friendship to ensure the safety of the country. I highly commend him. You are successively conferred the title of Marquis of Jing'an of the first rank, and are granted a red-lettered iron certificate, which is hereditary and will last forever, and you will live and die with the country..."

Yang Zhengshan couldn't help being a little surprised when he heard the contents of the imperial edict.

Being promoted from a third-class marquis to a first-class marquis is nothing; it is a matter of time.

Granting a red-lettered iron certificate is nothing special. In fact, it is not of much use. Its symbolic significance is greater.

The only surprising thing is that the family can be inherited without interruption!

This means that the Yang family will be a glorious first-class marquis for generations to come, and will live and die with the country.

Of course, it is still difficult to prosper with the country. At the beginning of the dynasty of Emperor Taizu Darong, he conferred the title of 18 hereditary marquises, but now only the Changping Marquis family is left.

So just listen to it and don't take it to heart. If you make the emperor unhappy one day, you will be stripped of your title and beheaded.

"I thank your majesty for the reward!"

Yang Zhengshan thanked him.

“Hahaha~~” Emperor Yanping was really happy. He walked up to the stone steps and came in front of Yang Zhengshan. “My dear ministers, please go away first. I still have something to talk to you!”

As he said this, he actually pulled Yang Zhengshan out of the side hall. Yang Zhengshan turned around and winked at Xue Changan, who then led Deng Yuehe and the other two out of the Taiji Hall.

Arriving at the imperial study, Emperor Yanping casually asked Yang Zhengshan to sit down, and then the two of them chatted while drinking tea.

Yang Zhengshan gave a general account of the expedition against Xingyuemen. After listening, Emperor Yanping asked, "How does Marquis Jing'an think we should deal with Deng Yuehe and the others?"

Yang Zhengshan took out another memorial from his sleeve, "Your Majesty, these are some of my ideas and suggestions, please take a look!"

Emperor Yanping took the memorial and began to read it.

He had submitted a memorial before, proposing how to deal with Deng Yuehe and others.

In fact, Yang Zhengshan’s idea was to split up the Lu family, Wang family and Li family, and then distribute them among the nine naval forces.

However, in addition to these, Yang Zhengshan proposed in this memorial to establish four major naval forces.

The original four navies were divided into the North Sea Navy, the East Sea Navy, the South Sea Navy and the Jiujiang Navy.

The North Sea Navy is mainly composed of the Tenglong Vanguard, and then the Tenglong left, right and rear guards are incorporated into it, making all four of the Tenglong guards become the navy.

The East China Sea Navy is mainly composed of Haizhou Left Guard, and then the Jiujiang Back Guard is included, and then two more guards are selected to make up the four guards.

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The South China Sea Navy is mainly composed of Leizhou Guard and Quanhai Guard, plus Zhaowu Guard and one selected guard to make up the four guards.

The Jiujiang Navy is composed of the remaining four guards of the Jiujiang Five Guards.

In this way, the four navies, each with more than 20,000 soldiers, can protect the safety of the sea or inland rivers.

Of course, Yang Zhengshan had selfish motives in making such a proposal. The organization of the Tenglong Vanguard has restricted the development of the Tenglong Navy. If the other three guards were also brought in, the strength of the Tenglong Navy could be increased several times in a short period of time. In this way, the Tenglong Navy would have enough strength to intimidate Dayong's Liaohai, East China Sea and Southeast China Sea.

As for why Jinhaiwei is not among them, it is because Jinhaiwei is stationed near Kyoto and is a navy specially established to guard the eastern coast of Kyoto, so Jinhaiwei needs to be retained and cannot be easily transferred.

After reading the memorial, Emperor Yanping thought for a moment and said, "It will cost a lot of money and food to build three powerful navies!"

Yang Zhengshan said: "Your Majesty, the cost of the navy can be fully covered by the taxes collected by the Maritime Customs. The navy can not only deter pirates, but also crack down on smuggling trade among the people and increase the taxes collected by the Maritime Customs."

"Take the Tenglong Navy for example. The reason why the maritime trade in the Liaohai Sea was able to develop is because they escorted merchant ships. Similarly, the Liaoan Maritime Customs collected such high taxes because they ensured that there were no smuggling merchant ships and cargo ships in the Liaohai Sea!"

Emperor Yanping nodded slightly, "I will submit your proposal to the Cabinet and the Ministry of War for discussion. If they have no objection, then it can be implemented!"

In fact, Emperor Yanping has already agreed to Yang Zhengshan’s proposal, but this involves the adjustment of many guards, so Emperor Yanping needs to consider it carefully.

"Your Majesty is wise!" Yang Zhengshan praised.

……

It was almost dusk when Yang Zhengshan came out of the imperial city.

The convoy in front of the Meridian Gate had already left and was taken away by people from the Imperial Commercial Bureau.

Why is it Huangshangsi?

Because the money went into the Imperial Commercial Bureau, Emperor Yanping could get 30% of the treasury, but if it went into the Ministry of Revenue, Emperor Yanping would not get a single cent.

When allocating money and grain to the four naval navies, Emperor Yanping took out a lot of silver from the treasury. Now he naturally has to take it back with interest.

Deng Yuehe and his people also left, and the court would naturally arrange food and lodging for them, and would also reward them.

These things have little to do with Yang Zhengshan anymore.

The expedition against Xingyuemen has come to an end, and the Zongli Yamen of the Four Seas Fleet should be abolished. Yang Zhengshan basically does not need to intervene in the rest of the matters.

Yang Zhengshan didn't want to get involved because there were a lot of troubles involved.

With so much money and valuables, all the ministries and government offices would definitely fight for it. I guess the cabinet would also fight for it, and Emperor Yanping would also fight for it. Now Emperor Yanping is very greedy for money and would try every possible way to get money into his own treasury.

Yang Zhengshan had already taken what he deserved and received all the rewards he deserved, so Yang Zhengshan planned to keep a low profile during this period and avoid getting involved in the struggles in the court.

When Yang Zhengshan returned to the Marquis' Mansion, Yu Qingyi had already prepared a family dinner for him.

In the evening, the whole family had a lively family dinner.

It was really a big family, with four tables sitting together.

Including Jiang He's family of six, Liang Jinyan's family of five, Lin Zhan was not in Kyoto, but Lin Zheng also came with her three children.

There are also Wang Mingzhe's family of three, Lu Wenyuan's family of five, and An Chenhui.

A group of children were playing in the yard, the adults were chatting in the hall, and the whole family was sitting together having a great time.

The family dinner did not end until the hour of Hai. After everyone left, Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi returned to the back hall.

Qingxia brought tea, Yang Zhengshan leaned back and relaxed on the Arhat bed, while Yu Qingyi read the imperial edict over and over again.

"Haven't you seen enough?" Yang Zhengshan said with a smile when he saw her like this.

"From now on, I will be the wife of a first-class marquis!" Yu Qingyi said happily.

Yang Zhengshan did not have much feeling towards this first-class marquis. In his eyes, the first-class marquis and the third-class marquis were the same. As for the hereditary title, he did not take it seriously.

But Yu Qingyi likes these very much. This is related to her background. She comes from the underworld, so naturally she values ​​these empty titles more than Yang Zhengshan.

"When is Wanqing's wedding date?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

He has been away from Kyoto for half a year, and Yang Wanqing's marriage procedures should be completed.

"April 18th! I deliberately set the date a little later because I wanted to wait for you to come back!" Yu Qingyi said.

Yang Zhengshan's lips curled up slightly, "Duke Xingguo is not in a hurry?"

"Hehe, how can you not be anxious? Duke Xingguo wanted to get married before the New Year, but it was me who kept dragging it on until now!" Yu Qingyi said with a smile.

"You did the right thing. When Wanqing gets married, I must personally send her off!" Yang Zhengshan said.

The Mansion of Duke Xingguo is in Nanjiang Town, so the wedding will naturally be held in Nanjiang Town. At that time, Yang Zhengshan will definitely go to Nanjiang Town in person.

He wanted to visit Nanjiang Town, and at the same time he also wanted to support his eldest granddaughter to prevent Wanqing from being bullied in her husband's family in the future.

Yu Qingyi looked at Yang Zhengshan with beautiful eyes and said with a smile: "I knew you wanted to marry Wanqing off!"

"Well, your cultivation hasn't broken through yet?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"It's almost there, I always feel like it's almost there, but I just don't know what it is!"

When it comes to cultivation, Yu Qingyi feels a little depressed.

Yang Zhengshan reached out and took out a jade box, "Eat this!"

(End of this chapter)