Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 447: Chapter 424: The Pros and Cons of Marrying into a Family with Close Ties to Royalty - Part 2

Chongshan Town definitely needs more than a small amount.

With 150,000 military households, even if only a small part needs to replace farm tools, it’s not a trivial amount.

Moreover, Chongshan Town also needs to manufacture armaments.

Yang Zhenshan does not give the iron mines to the Governor’s Office because Chongshan Town currently needs iron mines everywhere to create armaments.

”Mr. Ning need not worry, even though there are no iron ores, the General Mansion possesses many old weapons, left behind by Prince Qing’s rebellion and Wuliang’s invasion, which caused many damaged armaments. Some of these can be allocated to the Governor’s Office,” Yang Zhenshan said with a smile.

”Marquis, are you mocking me!” Ning Qinghe looked at Yang Zhenshan somewhat displeased.

Damaged armaments are even better than iron ore, as they only need simple hammering to be turned into weapons and farm tools, and their quality is very high.

Yang Zhenshan chuckled, ”How could I? I also have a favor to ask of Mr. Ning!”

Ning Qinghe did not hold a grudge, and asked, ”What is it?”

”I would like to ask Mr. Ning to arrange for a group of blacksmiths for the General Mansion! You should also know that the General Mansion is forging a large amount of armaments right now, but the blacksmiths at the General Mansion are far from enough, and we urgently need more.”

The General Mansion has some blacksmiths, and most of the armaments of Camp are made by its own blacksmiths, but the demand for armaments in Chongshan Town is just too great now.

Camp lacks armaments, and the various Rescue Camps also lack them.

Relying only on the blacksmiths from the General Mansion and the various Assistant General Mansions, it is unknown when these many armaments can be forged.

Besides the General Mansion, each Assistant General Mansion and various city garrison offices in Chongshan Town also have artisan households, and so do many garrisons in other regions.

There are blacksmiths, carpenters, and stone masons in various garrisons.

A garrison might not have many artisans, but when dozens of garrisons come together, a few hundred blacksmiths can still be gathered.

Ning Qinghe hesitated.

Because garrisons also need blacksmiths for forging farm tools and repairing armaments, and these tasks cannot be done without blacksmiths.

Seeing his hesitation, Yang Zhenshan said, ”Mr. Ning, rest assured, the General Mansion is just borrowing them temporarily, only for the period between spring plowing and before autumn harvest, and the General Mansion will also pay these craftsmen a monthly wage and take care of all their living expenses!”

With that said, Ning Qinghe no longer had any reasons to refuse.

”Alright, I will arrange for the blacksmiths to come to Chongshan Pass after spring plowing!”

”Thank you, Mr. Ning!”

Yang Zhenshan cheerfully saw Ning Qinghe out of the General Mansion.

”Marquis, a letter from the lady!”

Right after seeing off Ning Qinghe, his personal follower handed him a letter.

Yang Zhenshan opened the letter, glanced at it, and then frowned.

The Yu family!

Relatives by marriage!

Indeed, forming a marital alliance with them is troublesome.

Once the families are intermarried, it equates to becoming political allies.

If a conflict arises over the succession to the throne in the future, the Yu family would definitely stand firmly with the prince born of the empress.

And the Yang family might have to follow suit.

Yang Zhenshan sat in his study and thought for a while, then finally took up his pen and wrote a reply to Yu Qingyi.

This matter has its pros and cons, but Yang Zhenshan figured it out; the Yang family neither needs to rely on the Yu family for profit nor fear being implicated by the Yu family in the future.

The benefits of marrying into the Yu family need not be mentioned further, at the very least, the future empress would hold a favorable view of the Yang family, which could provide some support within the palace.

But such advantages are not vital for the Yang family; what the Yang family possesses now is all earned through Yang Zhenshan’s military achievements, there’s no need to cozy up to the Crown Princess Consort.

As for whether the family will be affected by the Yu family in the future, that is a matter of decades later; by then, would Yang Zhenshan still need to fear?

Once Yang Zhenshan becomes an Innate Martial Artist, the Yang family’s position in Da Rong will be solid as a rock.