Long Ye could understand the truth in their mouths, because he had personally experienced the whole process of Xiangjiazhuang's rise from scratch, and people's emotions were different at every stage.

The Xiang family was originally just an ordinary village in the Yanshan Mountains, with more than 20 families living on farming and hunting, relying on the post roads in the deep mountains, they could also exchange goods with caravans, and their lives were extremely poor.

The genealogy of the Xiang family can only be traced back to the early years of the Ming Dynasty, when the world was in turmoil at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty began official immigration from the south to the north that lasted for decades in order to restore the economy of the north.

Many families in Zhili, Shandong, and Shanxi wrote the first generation of their genealogy in Dahuaishu, Hongdong County, Shanxi, which was the last place where the Ming Dynasty officially organized immigrants.

A family who came all the way from the south to this place received a little money and food from the government under the big locust tree, and took the official household registration certificate to tell them that your family went to live in Zhengding Mansion, your family went to live in Yanqing County, and your family went to Cangzhou Mansion to immigrate.

From that moment on, a new family was born, maybe only three people, maybe only two husband and wife, they are the most ordinary people, few literate and can not remember the names of the ancestors of the last three generations, then their genealogy can only choose the big locust tree as the root of the family.

However, there are exceptions to everything, and many of the families who immigrated back then, some of them were literate, and even had a broken family tree, which is very rare, and they can trace their roots back to the Song or even Tang dynasties, and even to the distant Han Dynasty......

There has always been such a legend within the Xiang family, their genealogy can be traced back to the more distant Warring States Period, the people of the Xiang family have always claimed to be the descendants of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, and the Xiang family was a well-known nobleman of Chu back then, according to the rank of Zhou Tianzi, it is not much lower than the royal family of Qin.

For outsiders, this kind of legend is just a smile after dinner, maybe a few literati who are full of food will study it, but such a long history to be honest can not be verified at all, and in the end, those so-called literati are deceived to cheat some mountain goods and drink alcohol, and there is no follow-up.

But this legend is a heavy responsibility for Xiang Shaolong and other family members. The entire Xiangjiazhuang has followed the demon for generations, and there is always a ghost who has restored the glory of the family to bewitch them.

Even when Long Ye went out to learn martial arts, in fact, it was supported by all the families in Xiangjiazhuang, and the poor and rich martial arts were particular, and the money spent on cultivating a martial arts master was not lower than that of cultivating a lifter.

Long Ye fell into deep memories, he clearly remembered that when he first learned art, he did not complain at all about how much hardship he suffered from the master at that time, and the ideal at that time was also very simple, that is, he wanted to feed himself and the relatives of the entire Xiangjiazhuang.

There is wine and meat on the table, and every granary has two or three years of food in the granary that you don't have to worry about, and the stupid brother of your uncle's family can marry the stupid fat girl in the Liu family house village next door...... This was Long Ye's ideal at that time, very simple and down-to-earth.

But people will change, when he returns from his studies, when he gradually plays the name of the dragon lord of the Northland, the ghost that was originally hidden in his heart to restore the glory of the family came to interfere with him again.

Control the trade road, collect the protection fee of the caravans, make friends with the yamen dukes to deal with the grievances and grievances on the Jianghu Road, and widely accept disciples to perform martial arts every day to expand Xiangjiazhuang...... Long Ye himself didn't know why he was doing these things, but at that time, there was a voice that was confusing him, making him have to do it.

It wasn't until later that Weng Tonggong ignited the devil in his heart, and the head of Qingliu was going to vouch for him, to prove that their Xiangjiazhuang was really a descendant of the nobles of Chu State, and that the family was going to produce a real scholar, and Lord Weng's guarantee was not exchanged!

At that moment, let alone let him kill Xiao Letian, even if he asked Xiang Shaolong to sell opium to poison the Chinese, he would do it! Because at that time he was already lost in it.

Fortunately, he still has a little bit of good thoughts in his heart, fortunately he met Xiao Letian, who is clever and eloquent, and he keenly discovered the little bit of kindness in Long Ye's heart, and then grasped the flaws and focused on attacking, and finally surrendered Long Ye, a general, with his three-inch tongue.

And Xiangjiazhuang from that moment, followed by the east wind of Prime Minister Xiao Cheng, the current Xiangjiazhuang no longer exists, but Xiang has become a powerful force under Xiao Lotian that should not be underestimated.

Although this bodyguard team is nominally under the management of the CIA, everyone knows that this team is directly led by Long Ye, and Long Ye only listens to Xiao Letian's orders.

Now, the command of the Far Eastern Volunteers is in the hands of Long Ye, and after three or four years, there may not be a strong army, and once the Far East is founded, Long Ye's influence in this land will be terrifying.

There is also Xiang Ying, a child who is completely chilled by the imperial examination of the Qing Dynasty, has been reborn as a young naval officer, and the command of the first ironclad ship in the Ryukyus is in his hands.

Not to mention Xiao Letian's partiality, Xiang Ying's academic performance is there, and Xiang Ying's contribution in the war between Ryukyu and France cannot be ignored, and no one has any objections to reusing Xiang Ying.

The other Xiang clansmen also have their own careers, the Xiang family is still in charge of the two silver furnaces that minted silver coins in the Mongolian steppe, and a large rum distillery on Ryukyu Island, as well as a canning factory and sugar factory, are all the Xiang family's industries.

The Xiang family had already completed the accumulation of primitive capital and officially entered the ranks of the elite families of the Ryukyus, even in East Asia, the Xiang family had influence.

How many times Long Ye would wake up in a dream, he always had an equally repeated dream. In the dream, he killed Xiao Lotian and Hu Niu, there was a fire in the mountains, the new army was holding a musket to avenge Xiao Letian, and the old and young of Xiangjiazhuang were beaten into a sieve, and blood flowed everywhere like a stream.

Life is actually the few steps at the critical moment, and if you take the right life, your destiny will be rewritten, and if you go wrong, you will sink in this life......"

Long Ye sighed and looked at the samurai with embarrassed expressions, "Yes, I can understand what those little pride are thinking now, the stage they went through has also been ...... before"

"A family is the most stable and simple at the beginning of the grass and after it is finalized. On the road to entrepreneurship, people's hearts are warped at both ends...... At the beginning, I could struggle to have food and clothing, wine and meat, and I would smile from ear to ear, and after the family business was finalized, after discovering that a hundred years of wealth can be expected, people will naturally choose to be stable and even accumulate virtue and do good!"

"Only the period in the middle is the most painful! When the door of desire is just opened, and reality is full of all kinds of frustrations...... It's nice to say that breaking out of the cocoon into a butterfly, but you don't know how painful the process of breaking through the cocoon is!"

"Pig Hill Chip, you said that someone has died because of me, then take me over to see, I won't take your word for it......"