Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 594: Thirteen Years of Xingyue, Fruitful Results
Two years ago, when the Ruhe River embankment was being built, Yang Ziheng was not yet the Minister of Works, and he did not participate in the matter.

But now that the river embankment has burst, he, as the Minister of Works, cannot avoid being implicated.

What made him even more depressed was that he had just sent people to check the breached riverbank. How should I put it? Those people were too cruel and had absolutely no bottom line at all.

It would be bad enough if they just cut corners, but they actually sloppily did the job!

Repairing the river embankment now is equivalent to rebuilding it from scratch, and the money, food and labor required are more than two years ago.

Before Emperor Yanping could punish the criminal, Li Zhijie, the Minister of Revenue, came out and said, "Your Majesty, there is no more money or grain left in the treasury."

Is it true that the national treasury is out of money and food?

This is real!

Although the Imperial Merchants Bureau has provided a large amount of silver and money to the Ministry of Revenue in recent years, Darong has also spent money in many places in recent years, especially last year and this year.

Last year, the Wulianghu tribe invaded Beiyuan Town on a large scale. The court allocated a lot of money and grain to Beiyuan Town. As a result, most of this money and grain were robbed by the Wulianghu tribe.

After the Wuliang army retreated, Beiyuan Town had to be rebuilt, and the court allocated a lot of money and food. Now Beiyuan Town is a gold-devouring monster and almost sucked the Ministry of Revenue dry.

In addition to Beiyuan Town, the five southern provinces also needed famine relief. Just last month, the Ministry of Revenue scraped together 500,000 taels of silver and 30,000 shi of grain and shipped them to the south.

Now the Ministry of Revenue’s treasury and granaries are basically empty.

"Your Majesty, I impeach the Grand Secretary of the Dongke, Jiang Wei, for embezzling funds for the construction of the Ruhe River embankment!" Zhang Nanxing, Deputy Chief Censor of the Censorate, suddenly jumped out and said.

Cabinet assistant minister Jiang Wei is the former Minister of Works. It was he who presided over the construction of the Ruhe River embankment two years ago!

"Your Majesty, the breach of the Ruhe River embankment is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster. Dongge Grand Secretary Jiang Wei should bear the primary responsibility! The former river management governor Hong Fangjian and the left vice minister of the Ministry of Works Shen Yulou should bear the second responsibility!"

"I second the proposal!"

"I second the proposal!"

Before the main business was finished, a group of ministers jumped out of the hall and attacked Jiang Wei.

Seeing this, Liang Chu, who was standing in the military honor column, frowned and couldn't help but think of quitting the court.

The court is too chaotic nowadays, and the civil officials are almost fighting each other.

It is true that Jiang Wei was the former Minister of Works, and it was he who proposed the construction of the Ru River embankment. But the problem was that he did not go to the Ru River in person to build it. Everything was the responsibility of the river management governor Hong Fangjian.

Shen Yulou, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works, was even more wronged. Like Yang Ziheng, he had not intervened in the construction of the river embankment, but now he was dragged into the matter.

This is not accountability, this is criticism.

He doesn't care about right or wrong, he just wants to bring someone down.

I don’t know since when, the civil servants in the court became like this.

What made Liang Chu even more uneasy was that the military heroes were also fighting for power.

Zhou Mao has been retired at home, and Duan Rui was demoted due to the defeat in Beiyuan Town. Now the noble group has no leader anymore and has become a group of loose sand.

However, becoming a group of loose sand did not mean that these nobles would be content. On the contrary, because the noble group had no leader, these nobles began to huddle together for warmth and fight for their own power and interests.

The Marquis of Changping's Mansion has never participated in power struggles, but Liang Chu is now the Left Commander-in-Chief of the Central Military Governor's Office. Sometimes he will encounter things that he cannot control and will inevitably be involved.

According to the custom passed down by the Liang family, when the court was shaken, the Changping Marquis Mansion should withdraw from the court and act low-key. This is why the Changping Marquis Mansion has been passed down to this day.

So Liang Chu really wanted to quit.

The morning court ultimately failed to reach a conclusion, with many officials criticizing each other. Although Emperor Yanping was somewhat dissatisfied with Jiang Wei, he did not punish him in the end.

Because he still needs Jiang Wei to maintain the balance of the cabinet.

As for the disaster relief and river embankment construction, no one paid any attention to them in the end. After discussing for a long time, everyone actually forgot the topic of today's morning court session. It's ridiculous.

After the morning court session ended, Liang Chu returned home and sat in his study, frowning and thinking for a long time. After it got dark, he came to the Xiaoci Hall in the backyard of the Changping Marquis' Mansion.

"Grandfather!" Liang Chu stood outside the door and called softly.

In the hall inside the door, there were an old man and a young man standing. The old man looked to be in his fifties, lying casually on the Luohan bed with a book in his hand. The young man looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old, and was making tea for the old man.

The old man was Liang Chu’s grandfather Liang Shengze, and the young man was Liang Chu’s great-grandson Liang Qingyu.

"Grandfather!" Liang Qingyu quickly stood up when he saw Liang Chu coming.

Liang Shengze glanced and said, "Come in, what's the matter?"

When Liang Chu came in, Liang Qingyu quickly made him some tea.

"Grandfather, in the court..." Liang Chu briefly recounted the recent situation in the court.

Liang Shengze said indifferently, "If you want to quit, just quit. You can concentrate on your cultivation. You have eaten a Jade Dew Peach and three Three Yellow Plums, but you still haven't made a breakthrough. You are really useless!"

Liang Chu felt embarrassed. Let's just talk nicely. Why do you seem to be disdaining your grandson?

To be honest, Liang Chu did deserve to be scolded. At that time, Emperor Chengping was seriously ill and the former crown prince was acting as regent. Yang Zhengshan was offered a jade dew peach by the Gold and Silver Tower. After the Gold and Silver Tower was destroyed, the former crown prince gave the jade dew peach to Liang Chu in order to win him over.

After eating the Jade Dew Peach, it took Liang Chu several years to break through to the half-step innate level.

Then the Royal Offering House was established, and Liang Shengze could get a Sanhuang plum every year. In order to make Liang Chu a congenital warrior, Liang Shengze gave Liang Chu three Sanhuang plums in a row.

As a result, Liang Chu has not yet become a congenital warrior.

Seeing Liang Chu's embarrassed look, Liang Shengze said unhappily: "What? Shouldn't I say anything to you? If you don't concentrate on your cultivation, I'm afraid it won't be long before you'll be surpassed by your granddaughter-in-law!"

Liang Chu was shocked, "Yang is extremely talented, my grandson is far inferior to her!"

Liang Chu’s granddaughter-in-law is naturally Yang Yunxue. Now Yang Yunxue is in her early thirties and her cultivation has reached the eighth level of the acquired realm. Although she is still far from the innate realm, her progress is rapid.

"Then resign from your post and concentrate on your cultivation. You still have a great chance of reaching the innate realm!" Liang Shengze said.

"Yes, grandson will remember grandfather's teachings!" What else can Liang Chu say? Just be obedient.

Just like that, Liang Chu resigned from his official position and began to practice at home.

The fighting continued in the court, but hundreds of miles of swamps appeared on both sides of the Ru River.

But these have nothing to do with Yang Zhengshan.

In the spring of the ninth year of Yanping, Yang Mingcheng broke through to the innate realm and became the third innate warrior of the Yang family.

After the breakthrough, Yang Mingcheng immediately passed the title to Yang Chengye. Before the imperial edict of succession arrived in Chongshan Town, Yang Mingcheng took his entire family to Xingyue Island.

There were only a dozen servants left to guard the Jing'an Marquis Mansion in Kyoto.

Yang Zhengshan was also helpless about this. His adopted son was too filial and couldn't live without his adopted father for a single day.

Xingyue Island, inside the Yang family's main hall.

Yang Zhengshan looked at Yang Mingcheng, "Do you dislike Kyoto so much?"

Yang Mingcheng smiled innocently and said, "It's not that I dislike Kyoto, it's that I can't bear to leave my father and mother. When my father is not in Kyoto, I always feel uneasy!"

The first sentence should be false, and the second sentence was the main reason why he hurried to Xingyue Island.

The court was in a state of chaos, and he, the Marquis of Jing'an, was living an uneasy life. People often came to him to talk about all kinds of messy things, which made him very uncomfortable, so he decided to run away.

Yang Zhengshan shook his head slightly and looked at Wang again, "Why don't you stop him? If he passes the title to Chengye, you won't be the Marquis's wife anymore!"

Wang laughed and said, "It's enough to be a daughter-in-law. Being a marquis' wife is not as good as being a daughter-in-law to my father and mother!"

Well, it's rare for the eldest daughter-in-law to say something so pleasant.

Yang Zhengshan smiled, "Well, since you are here, why don't you stay here? The yard next door is still empty, so you can stay there!"

In fact, he had been waiting for Yang Mingcheng to come to Xingyue Island. The three courtyards near this courtyard had always been empty, reserved for the three brothers Yang Mingcheng, Yang Mingzhi and Yang Minghao.

After Yang Mingcheng became a congenital warrior, Luo Jinsong also broke through in the winter of the ninth year of Yanping.

In the following years, everyone in the Yang family seemed to be lining up to break through.

In the summer of the twelfth year of Yanping, Ding Qiu broke through to the innate realm and became an innate warrior.

In the spring of the 13th year of Yanping, Wu Zhan broke through to the innate realm and became an innate warrior.

In the spring of the fifteenth year of Yanping, Wu Zheng made a breakthrough.

In the 16th year of Yanping, Yang Minghao and Yang Mingzhi broke through one after another, resigned from their posts and came to Xingyue Island. Then Yu Tonghai, Yang Mingwu, Yang Chengze, Yang Mingzhen, Yang Chengxu, Yang Chengche, and Yang Qinwu broke through one after another and became innate warriors.

Yang Zhengshan has been operating in this world for thirty years, and finally he has reaped great rewards.

The 20th year of Yanping was the 13th year of Xingyue.

The third day of June.

In the waters outside Xingyue Island, a small boat was floating on the sparkling sea.

Yang Zhengshan was sitting on the boat, wearing a bamboo hat and holding a purple bamboo pole while fishing.

Sitting next to him was a child of about seven or eight years old, lying in the cabin with a look of despair on his face.

"Grandpa, I need to pee!"

"Just pee while standing on the boat!" Yang Zhengshan said motionlessly.

The child pouted and stood on the bow of the boat and started peeing into the sea.

While peeing, he looked at the motionless Yang Zhengshan. Suddenly, his eyes rolled and his small body fell into the sea.

"Ah, Grandpa, help me!"

He shouted in panic, but before he could finish his words, he was already floating on the sea.

He did not fall into the water, but seemed to have fallen into a ball of soft cotton, floating lightly in the air.

"Boy, you are too young to play tricks on your grandfather!" Yang Zhengshan said unmoved.

The child climbed onto the boat with a giggle, "I knew Grandpa would save me!"

Yang Zhengshan ignored him.

He ran to Yang Zhengshan and hugged his shoulders, "Grandpa, let's go home, it's too hot here!"

"No!" Yang Zhengshan said.

"Go back. I promise I will never bully Shier again!" the child said flatteringly.

The child in front of him is Yang Mingzhao’s son Yang Cheng’an, and Yang Zhengshan’s grandson. He is his biological son, not a cheap one.

The Shier he was referring to was Yang Chengyou's daughter Yang Ruoshi.

Yang Zhengshan finally moved and looked at him, "Why did you bully Shi'er?"

"My grandson didn't bully Shi'er!" Yang Cheng'an quickly denied.

"You beat her until she cried, and you still say you didn't bully her!" Yang Zhengshan was speechless.

"I didn't mean to hit her!"

"Not intentional?"

"Hmm~~" Yang Chengan lowered his head, "I just wanted to tease her, who knew she would cry so easily!"

Yang Zhengshan was speechless for a while.

This kid is really restless.

"Let's go, go and apologize to Shi'er when you get back!"

"Ah, you still need to apologize. Isn't Shi'er my grandson's niece? How can an elder apologize to a younger generation?"

"You still know you are the elder!"

"Of course!"

"Since you know you are an elder, you should act like an elder and correct your mistakes when you know them!"

"Grandpa, is it okay not to go?"

Yang Zhengshan was a little amused, "Then we won't go back, let's go back after dark!"

"But I'm hungry!"

"Then I'll give you a peach!" Yang Zhengshan took out a peach and handed it to him.

Yang Chengan looked at Taozi with a bitter face, then looked at Yang Zhengshan, "Let's go back, I'm going to apologize to Shi'er!"

"Hahaha, if you dare to tease Shi'er again, grandpa will take you out fishing every day!" Yang Zhengshan said.

Fishing is not a fun thing for an active child, especially fishing in such a small boat, it is no different from being in jail.

"I won't tease Shi'er anymore!" Yang Cheng'an said fearfully.

Yang Zhengshan stopped teaching him and said, "Do it, let's go back!"

As he spoke, he rowed the boat towards Star-Moon Island.

The small boat was drifting slowly on the boundless ocean, and the Star-Moon Island in the distance was just a tiny shadow.

Yang Cheng'an looked at the tiny black shadow, eagerly.

"Grandpa, can't we just fly back?"

Yang Zhengshan laughed, "I'm just teasing you!"

"..."

Yang Cheng'an looked at his grandfather in distress. He felt that his grandfather was even more childish than himself.

Yang Zhengshan stretched out his hand and put the boat into the Lingquan space. Holding Yang Chengan, he sped across the sea as if walking on flat ground.

His figure was like a streak of green light on the sparkling sea, and in the blink of an eye he had flown several miles away.

In just a few breaths, he had arrived at the Star-Moon Island.

"Wow~~ That's fast!"

Yang Chengan, who had a bitter face just now, shouted excitedly.

"Grandpa, fly a little longer!"

"No more flying, go home!"

Yang Zhengshan didn't indulge him at all, he just put him on the ground and said, "Go back by yourself!"

Yang Chengan pouted again.

Yang Zhengshan ignored him and walked slowly towards Xingyue City with his hands behind his back.

The sun was shining brightly, and the little person followed him sighing.

It took the two of them two quarters of an hour to reach Xingyue City. Today, the city walls of Xingyue City have been demolished, and there are many more buildings in the city, which has expanded outward for a large circle.

It would not be appropriate to call it a city, it is more like a big town.

The population on the island has increased a lot, mainly because many people have moved to Xingyue Island in recent years and many people have purchased properties on the island.

In addition to the Yang family, Xie Yuan, Han Cheng and Wu Chongzhe also moved to the island. They had resigned from their official positions long ago and are now living out their retirement on the island.

In addition, Yu Tonghai, Song Dashan, Lu Wenhua, Lin Zhan, Yang Mingwu and others also bought houses on the island, saying that they would come to the island to live in their retirement in the future.

They haven't come here to take care of them yet, but they have sent many of their children and grandchildren here.

Therefore, there were not enough houses in the city, and Yang Zhengshan had to ask the government to build some new houses.

The streets in the city were very busy, with many villagers from nearby coming to buy some daily necessities.

Yang Zhengshan was walking on the street with Yang Cheng'an, and many people bowed slightly and greeted them when they saw him.

Now everyone on the island knows that he is the owner of the island, and the people respect him very much. At the beginning, many people knelt down when they saw him, which made him afraid to go out.

Later, he had to force everyone not to kneel when they saw him, and only allowed them to bow slightly, so that he could go out easily.

(End of this chapter)