Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

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

He wanted to rebel, he hated the government, he sympathized with the people who suffered so much, and he wanted to save them.

But he knew that he could do nothing by himself.

He needed Yang Mingzhao's support, and he also looked forward to doing something big with Yang Mingzhao.

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 a congenital warrior!"

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

"Let alone, if the court transfers the elite soldiers of the two towns to Shu to quell the rebellion, do you think those rebels can still get away with it?"

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

Yang Mingzhao was stunned. Yes, why didn't the court transfer the border troops to quell the rebellion?

The guards of Bashu are useless, why don't they transfer the border troops to quell the rebellion?

Yang Mingzhao is not very clear about this.

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 stood up slowly and knelt on the ground, "Sir, it's not that I want to use you, I just can't stand it anymore."

"Thirteen years ago, there was a severe drought in Kuizhou Prefecture. My family's hundreds of acres of land were barren, but Qianhu still collected grain from us. They not only took away all the food from my family, but also took away most of our savings!"

"My grandmother starved to death to save a bite of food for my younger sister."

"My mother fell off the mountain while peeling tree bark on the mountain and fell to death!"

"More than ten people in my clan starved to death."

"In order not to starve to death, we rushed into the county government and hundreds of people died!"

"There has been no severe drought in recent years, but the people are still hungry. They are getting more and more unscrupulous. They actually started to rob and forced the people to sell their children."

"Sir, how innocent are those people?"

Chen Buyu knelt on the ground with red eyes.

He was once a young man full of vigor and vitality. He also wanted to make a name for himself, but reality brought him a hardship that destroyed his family.

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

It was not natural disasters, but man-made disasters that forced him to what he is now.

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

Yang Mingzhao looked at him and was touched.

Chen Buyu's hatred came from his experience. Yang Mingzhao had not experienced those, so he could not empathize with him, but he could understand Chen Buyu because he had seen too many human sufferings over the years.

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

His heart had been tormented again and again.

Yang Mingzhao helped Chen Buyu up and said, "I can understand your feelings, but this matter must be considered in the long run!"

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

Yang Mingzhao stood up and said, "Don't worry, let's train the 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 young master agreed?"

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

"Old Deng!"

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

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

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

To say that these young and strong are strong, they are actually quite strong. After all, Chen Buyu was born in a military household and has a martial arts heritage. Although the young and strong trained by him are not as good as the border soldiers, they are also better than ordinary farmers.

However, there is a shortage of weapons in the valley. Apart from a dozen long swords, there are no other decent weapons.

It will take several months to train them into soldiers.

"Sir, should we ask the head of the family about the training?" Deng Xing asked vaguely.

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

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

"Lao Deng is the chief instructor of the training, and you are the logistics officer. You must follow Lao Deng's orders for 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 Deng Xing to be able to train soldiers.

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

"Sir, obey the order!" Chen Buyu quickly responded after being surprised.

Deng Xing sighed in his heart and could only say, "Sir, obey the order. But young master, if you want to train those young and strong people, you must ensure that they can eat meat!"

What can a group of young and strong people who can only barely eat enough to cultivate?

To train, you must eat meat.

Yang Mingzhao had a headache. He didn't carry much money, only a few hundred taels in total.

A lot of money has been spent along the way, and I have to spend a lot of money when I go back, and there is not much money I can use here.

"Lu Bo, you also 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 money do we bring?”

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

"Leave fifty taels, and replace the rest with livestock and poultry!" Yang Mingzhao said.

"Yes!" Lu Bo said.

The thing can only be done first. It’s not that Yang Mingzhao doesn’t want to do anything else, but he really doesn’t have much money or supplies, and he can’t do anything else.

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

Yang Mingzhao learned from Yang Zhengshan.

No matter what you do, you must make a plan first. Perhaps the plan cannot keep up with the changes, but it is always much better to act according to the plan than to do it.

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

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

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

The three of them traveled lightly and simply, first heading to Jiujiang Prefecture, then took a boat from Jiujiang Prefecture along Songhe and went east to Jiangnan, and finally waited for Yang Family Store and Tenglong Guard's sea boat to Xingyue Island in Jiangnan.

...

In the spiritual spring space.

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

Ten years have passed!

It's been a full ten years!

The unknown lotus flowers in the pond are still blooming!

A lotus flower has bloomed for ten years, making Yang Zhengshan a little terrified.

He thought that in one or two years, these lotus flowers could bloom, then wither and grow lotus pods, but who knew that ten years have passed, and these lotus flowers have not yet produced lotus pods.

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

Yang Zhengshan picked up a pink petal from the water and placed it on the tip of his nose to sniff it.

Suddenly his eyes lit up and he put the petals into his mouth.

As the petals entered the mouth, a sweet breath suddenly filled the mouth.

Yang Zhengshan chewed it lightly, and the petals entered his abdomen. Then he felt a cool breath spread throughout his body, and his consciousness and thinking became extremely clear.

"This is?"

Yang Zhengshan was both surprised and happy.

He felt something unusual, something very mysterious.

This feeling is very mysterious, and there seems to be something that connects him with the world.

What is it?

It's the meaning of Tao!

He looked towards the sky suddenly.

The gray sky was trembling, and starlight seemed to be flashing in vaguely.

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

"The way of nature! The way of the world?"

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

The sky suddenly appeared, and a bright light suddenly appeared above the sky, it was the sun!

Immediately afterwards, the breeze blew by, the clouds rose into the sky, and above the nine heavens, the clouds changed.

The gray clouds obscured the sun.

Click!

Thunder exploded, dazzling lightning flashed, and the drizzle of rain fell.

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

This is the first time it has rained in the Lingquan space.

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

But it actually rained today!

The Lingquan space has evolved again?

The drizzle fell, and the plants in the space seemed to become more vivid, and the animals were looking for places to shelter from the rain.

The breeze blew again, and the raindrops were transformed into pieces.

"So that's it, so that's it, hahaha~~"

Yang Zhengshan burst into laughter.

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

Every time he eats a petal, he can feel a mysterious Taoist meaning coming into his mind.

The sky was still trembling, and the earth seemed to be trembling.

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

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

The pond turns into a lake, and the spiritual spring is hidden under the water surface. A river extends from the south of the pond, slowly, silently flowing into a barren land.

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

Yang Zhengshan looked at the changes around him in shock, and he was overwhelmed.

In the end, his eyes were fixed on the high mountains in the northwest, which were really high, and there was actually thick snow on the mountains.

The wind disappears and the clouds disappear, and the sun shines.

Yang Zhengshan's face was full of confusion.

The space has become so big?

He hesitated for a moment and flew towards the high mountains in the northwest.

When he walked out of the orchard, there was a dark land. After walking for more than ten miles, he came to the foot of the mountain.

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

Because there was a deep gully below.

His previous space range was not on the flat ground, but on a high mountain!

Looking towards the south, as far as his eyes could see, there were 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 saw the familiar gray border.

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

Then, he continued to fly along the border until the sun set, the bright moon rose, and the sky was full of stars, and he returned to the pond again.

No, it should be called a lake now!

The lake is still circular, but its diameter has expanded to more than 300 feet, or more than 1,000 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 increased.

The originally dense grasslands and woods have become much sparser.

"What a magical change!"

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

The cold moonlight fell, and Yang Zhengshan looked at the surrounding mountains.

The peak to his northwest is the highest. In addition, there is the peak under his feet, and there are many large and small mountains around.

The entire space is still circular, but the diameter should be about 200 miles. Yang Zhengshan couldn't measure it exactly.

There are rocks, fertile soil, rivers, and waterfalls between the mountains. There should be other geographical environments, but the river has not flowed over yet.

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

"It should not be called Lingquan Space now. It should be called Lingquan Heaven and Earth? Lingquan World?"

Yang Zhengshan felt a little incredible.

The space had also undergone major changes before. When his cultivation reached the innate realm, the space also expanded a lot at one time, 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 been qualitatively improved again.

Entering the Tao!

No, to be precise, it is entering the Tao again.

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

In short, he has entered the Tao a long time ago.

It is the Tao that he realized from the thunder shot.

Yang Zhengshan called it the Tao of martial arts.

This is a kind of Taoism of only me, man and gun are one, I am the gun, the gun is me, everything in the world is born because of me.

To put it simply, I am the root of this world, the center of this world, because of my existence, everything in this world exists, if I don't exist, then everything in this world will disappear.

This is a very extreme Taoism, and it is precisely because of the extreme that people and guns become one.

From another perspective, it is more appropriate to say that it is an extreme Taoism.

The extreme of guns, the extreme of martial arts.

Except for me and martial arts, nothing in this world is important.

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