Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 597: Entering the Dao, Space Changes

"Then we can only stay in this small valley and allow those corrupt officials to oppress the people?" Chen Buyu said.

He wanted to rebel, he hated the government, he sympathized with the people who were suffering from many disasters, and he wanted to save them.

But he knew he could do nothing on his own.

He needed Yang Mingzhao's support, and also looked forward to working with Yang Mingzhao to accomplish something big and spectacular.

Yang Mingzhao sighed, "This matter is not as simple as you think!"

"But!" Chen Buyu still wanted to persuade.

Yang Mingzhao waved his hand and interrupted, "Southeast of Bashu is Nanjiang Town, which has 100,000 elite soldiers. Nanjiang Town has the Duke of Xingguo, who is an innate warrior!"

"To the southwest of Bashu is Yunling Town. The current commander of Yunling Town is Pingjiang Hou Chen Yu. Pingjiang Hou was once the commander-in-chief of the imperial army and is very good at training soldiers. The soldiers under his command must be elite!"

"Let's put it another way. If the court dispatched elite troops from the two towns to Sichuan to quell the rebellion, do you think those rebels would still be able to get away with it?"

Chen Buyu said: "But haven't they ever entered Shu to quell the rebellion? It's been so many years, why haven't they entered Shu to quell the rebellion?"

Yang Mingzhao was stunned. Yes, why didn’t the court dispatch border troops to quell the rebellion?
The garrison troops in Bashu are useless, why not transfer border troops to quell the rebellion?
Yang Mingzhao was not very clear about this either.

After all, Yang Zhengshan has been away from the court for more than ten years, and Yang Mingzhao doesn't know much about the current court.

"What are you worried about, young master?" Chen Buyu seemed to see the concerns in Yang Mingzhao's heart.

Yang Mingzhao took a deep breath and said, "Wait a little longer, I'll go home and ask my elders first!"

Chen Buyu was silent for a while, then slowly stood up and knelt on the ground. "Sir, it's not that I want to use you, it's just that I can't stand it any longer."

"Thirteen years ago, there was a severe drought in Kuizhou Prefecture. My family's hundreds of acres of land had no harvest, but the Qianhu still collected grain from us. Not only did they take away all of my food, they also took away most of our savings!"

"My grandmother starved to death in order to save food for my little sister."

"My mother fell off the mountain while peeling tree bark and died!"

"More than ten of my people starved to death."

"In order to avoid starvation, we rushed into the county government office and hundreds of people died!"

"There have been no severe droughts in recent years, but the people still don't have enough to eat. They are becoming more and more unscrupulous. They are even starting to rob and force the people to sell their children."

"Sir, how innocent are those people?"

Chen Buyu knelt on the ground with red eyes.

He used to be a young man full of vigor and ambition, and he also wanted to make a name for himself, but reality brought him suffering and caused his family to be broken up.

Natural disasters cannot be avoided, man-made disasters cannot be forgiven.

It was not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster that forced him into his current state.

He hated those corrupt officials and those evil people who oppressed the people. He hoped that he could provide a foundation for those people and let them live a stable life.

Yang Mingzhao looked at him and felt a little touched.

Chen Buyu's hatred comes from his experience. Yang Mingzhao has not experienced those things, so he cannot empathize with him, but he can understand Chen Buyu because he has seen too much human suffering over the years.

He had seen groups of starving people, he had seen officials oppressing the people many times, and he had even seen someone boiling an arm.

He went through a lot of torment in his heart.

Yang Mingzhao helped Chen Buyu up and said, "I understand how you feel, but this matter must be considered carefully!"

"Young Master!" Chen Buyu was a little anxious.

Yang Mingzhao stood up and said, "Don't be in a hurry. Let's train our troops first, and then we need to find out the situation in each prefecture and county. Acting rashly will only put us in an irreversible situation!"

Chen Buyu's eyes lit up, "So the Master agrees?"

Yang Mingzhao did not answer. He did have the urge to do something, but he was still unsure.

"Lao Deng!"

"Young Master!" Deng Xing walked in from outside the door.

"Starting tomorrow, you will be responsible for training the young and strong people in the village, do you understand?" Yang Mingzhao said.

There are more than 5,000 people in the valley, but there are only 200 young and strong men in the stronghold. A small number of these 200 young and strong men are Chen Buyu's clansmen, and most of the others are strong men trained by Chen Buyu, who are specifically responsible for guarding the stronghold and preventing outsiders from entering the stronghold.

As for the strength of these young and strong men, they actually have some strength. After all, Chen Buyu comes from a military family and has a martial arts heritage. Although the young and strong men trained by him are not as good as the border army soldiers, they are better than ordinary farmers.

However, there was a severe shortage of weapons in the valley. Apart from a dozen long swords, there were no other decent weapons.

It would take several months to train them into soldiers.

"Young Master, should we ask the head of the family for permission regarding military training?" Deng Xing asked vaguely.

Yang Mingzhao shook his head slightly, "You stay to train the troops, I'll go home."

"Buyu, you will cooperate with Lao Deng in training the troops. First, train the young men in the fortress, and then select 800 young men from the villagers to gather a total of 1,000 strong men for training!"

"Old Deng is the chief instructor for training, and you are the logistics officer. You must follow Old Deng's orders regarding training. He has experience in training!"

Chen Buyu looked at Deng Xing in surprise. He knew that Deng Xing was very powerful, but he didn't expect that Deng Xing could actually train soldiers.

Deng Xing and Han Lin were both among the earliest guards of the Yang family. The most thing they did in Kyoto before was to train the Yang family's servants. When it comes to training, all the guards of the Yang family are professionals.

"I obey your command!" Chen Buyu responded quickly after being surprised.

Deng Xing sighed in his heart and could only say, "I obey your command. But sir, if you want to train those young men, you must ensure that they can eat meat!"

What can a group of young men who can barely get enough to eat achieve?

To train, you have to eat meat.

Yang Mingzhao had a headache. He didn't have much silver on him, only a few hundred taels in total.

I have already spent a lot of money on this journey, and I will have to spend a lot of money on the way back, so there is not much money left to spend here.

"Lu Bo, go to the county town to find Li Dagui and ask him to buy some livestock and poultry for the people in the valley to raise!"

"How much silver do we have left?"

Lu Bo said: "There are still 120 taels left. Li Dagui should have some more!"

"Leave fifty taels and exchange the rest for livestock and poultry!" said Yang Mingzhao.

"Yes!" Lu Bo said.

Things have to stay like this for now. It's not that Yang Mingzhao doesn't want to do something else, but he really doesn't have much money or supplies, so he can't do anything else.

In the following days, Deng Xing began to train the young and strong men in the fortress, while Yang Mingzhao began to plan seriously.

Plan before taking action, this is what Yang Mingzhao learned from Yang Zhengshan.

No matter what you do, you must make a plan first. Maybe the plan cannot keep up with the speed of change, but it is always better to act according to the plan than to act recklessly.

However, Yang Mingzhao thought about it for a long time and finally decided to go back to Xingyue Island first.

There is no way. He has too little capital now. If he wants to do something big, he must rely on the resources of Xingyue Island.

So this time Yang Mingzhao only stayed in Three Arrow Valley for half a month and left with two guards, Han Lin and Yang Ze. As for Ma Yan, Lu Bo, Li Dagui and Deng Xing, they were left in Three Arrow Valley.

The three of them traveled light, first heading to Jiujiang Prefecture, then taking a boat from Jiujiang Prefecture along the Song River all the way east to Jiangnan, and finally waiting in Jiangnan for the ships of the Yang Family Trading Company and the Tenglong Guard to head to Xingyue Island.

……

In the Lingquan space.

Yang Zhengshan squatted by the pond and looked at the blooming lotus flowers, speechless.

It's been ten years!
It's been ten years!
Those unknown lotus flowers in the pond are still blooming!
A lotus flower actually bloomed for ten years, which made Yang Zhengshan a little impatient.

He originally thought that within a year or two, these lotus flowers would bloom, then wither and grow lotus pods. However, who would have thought that ten years had passed and these lotus flowers had not yet produced lotus pods.

"It should be soon, the petals have already started to fall!"

Yang Zhengshan picked up a pink petal from the water and put it to his nose and sniffed it.

Suddenly his eyes lit up and he put the petals into his mouth. As soon as the petals entered his mouth, a sweet scent filled his mouth.

Yang Zhengshan chewed the petals gently and the petals entered his stomach. Then he felt a cool breath spreading throughout his body, and his consciousness and thinking became extremely clear.

"This is?"

Yang Zhengshan was surprised and happy.

He felt something unusual, something very mysterious.

This feeling was very mysterious, as if something vaguely connected him with the heaven and earth.

What is it?
It’s the meaning of Tao!
He suddenly looked up at the sky.

The gray sky was shaking, and there seemed to be faint twinkling stars.

Yang Zhengshan stared straight at the sky, his eyes brighter than the stars.

"The way of nature! The way of heaven and earth?"

Suddenly, the sky became bright, and a bright light appeared in the sky. It was the sun!
Immediately afterwards, a light breeze blew, clouds rose into the sky, and above the nine heavens, dark clouds changed.

Gray clouds blocked out the sunlight.

Click!

Thunder roared, dazzling lightning flashed, and rain fell heavily.

"It's raining!" Yang Zhengshan said in surprise.

This is the first time it rains in Lingquan Space.

In the past, there was wind and fog in the Lingquan space, but it never rained and there was never sunshine.

But it rained today!

The Lingquan space has evolved again?
With the drizzle falling, the plants in the space seemed to become more colorful, and the animals were looking for a place to take shelter from the rain.

The breeze blew again, and the raindrops gathered into a piece.

"I see, I see, hahaha~~"

Yang Zhengshan burst into laughter.

He thought of the lotus in the pond, walked directly into the water, picked up all the lotus petals still floating on the water, and ate them.

Every time he ate a petal, he could feel a wisp of mysterious Taoism emerging in his mind.

The sky was still shaking, and the earth seemed to be shaking as well.

The pond was actually expanding silently. No, it should be that the entire space was expanding silently.

A mountain suddenly appeared in the north, and a cliff suddenly appeared in the south.

The pond turned into a lake, the spiritual spring was hidden beneath the water, and a river extended from the south side of the pond, slowly and silently flowing into a barren land.

A small hill appeared again on the east side, and a high mountain appeared on the west side.

Yang Zhengshan looked at the changes around him in astonishment; he was a little overwhelmed.

Finally, his eyes were fixed on the high mountains in the northwest. They were really high, and there was even thick snow on top of them.

The wind and clouds dissipated and the sun shone brightly.

Yang Zhengshan's face was full of confusion.

The space has become so big?

He hesitated for a moment, then flew towards the mountains in the northwest.

Walking out of the orchard, there is a dark land. After walking for another ten miles, you will arrive at the foot of the mountain.

No, not at the foot of the mountain, but on the mountainside.

Because there is a very deep ravine below.

The space he was in before was not on flat ground, but on a high mountain!
Looking towards the south, as far as the eye can see, there are continuous mountains.

Without hesitation, Yang Zhengshan first climbed up the mountain and then flew towards the west.

After flying for more than an hour, he finally saw the familiar gray border.

Yang Zhengshan suddenly turned around and looked at the snow-white peak. "This is probably about a hundred miles away!"

Afterwards, he continued to fly along the border until the sun set, the moon rose, and the sky was filled with stars, then he returned to the pond again.

No, now it should be called a lake!
The lake is still round, but its diameter has expanded to more than three hundred feet, or more than one thousand meters.

The medicinal fields, orchards, tea gardens and grasslands have all become much larger.

The yard is still there, and the spiritual fruit trees are intact, but the distance between the spiritual fruit trees has increased.

Yang Zhengshan squatted on the ground and studied for a long time, and found that the animals and plants in the space were intact, but the area of ​​the ground had become larger.

The originally lush grass and woods have become much sparser.

“What a miraculous change!”

Yang Zhengshan couldn't figure out how this change happened and could only sigh that it was magical.

As the cold moonlight shone down, Yang Zhengshan looked towards the surrounding mountains.

The mountain to his northwest is the highest. Apart from that, there is the mountain under his feet, and there are many large and small mountains around it.

The entire space is still circular, but the diameter should be around two hundred miles. Yang Zhengshan has no way of measuring it exactly.

There are rocks, fertile soil, rivers, and waterfalls between the mountains. Other geographical environments should be formed, but the rivers do not flow through them yet.

At the very least, a larger pool of water should be formed at the foot of his mountain. As for where the river will flow next, it depends on the terrain.

"It shouldn't be called Lingquan Space now. It should be called Lingquan Heaven and Earth? Lingquan World?"

Yang Zhengshan felt a little unbelievable.

The space had undergone major changes before. When his cultivation reached the innate realm, the space also expanded a lot at once, but the change was not as huge as this time.

As for the reason for the change in space, Yang Zhengshan already knew it.

Because his cultivation has improved qualitatively.

Enter the Tao!

No, to be precise, it is re-entry.

Over the past ten years, he has actually mastered the Tao. Although it is only a little bit of the Tao of martial arts, it is the real Tao.

Simply put, he had already entered the Tao a long time ago.

It is the meaning of Tao that was realized from the thunderous shot.

Yang Zhengshan called it the Way of Martial Arts.

This is a kind of egoistic idea, where man and gun are one. I am the gun and the gun is me. Everything in the world is born because of me.

To put it simply, I am the foundation of this world and the center of this world. Because of my existence, everything in this world exists. If I no longer exist, everything in this world will disappear.

This is a very extreme Taoist idea, and it is precisely because of its extremeness that people and guns become one.

From another perspective, it would be more appropriate to say that it is an ultimate Taoist idea.

The ultimate in guns and martial arts.

Apart from me and martial arts, nothing else in this world matters.

Therefore, Yang Zhengshan called it Weiwu, which means only martial arts.

(End of this chapter)