Yan Jin City, the capital of Yan Kingdom, can be regarded as the most prosperous city in the entire Northland Kingdom.

The Yan State before Yijiazi was extremely strong with a series of military and political reforms in the country, and at its peak, it had the momentum of dominating the Northern Regions of the Warring States. It's just a pity that Bai Libin, who was known as the book of soldiers, did not live to the day when Yan completed the military and political reform.

Not long after Bai Libin's death, Zhao Zhen, the monarch of Yan State, Yan Mugong, also drove to the west.

First lose a virtuous minister, and then go to a Ming Jun, and the luck of the entire Yan Kingdom will fall in an instant.

Because the previous military and political reforms harmed the interests of most of the wealthy families in Yan State, after the death of Zhao Zhen and Bai Li Bin of Yan Mugong, these wealthy families could no longer hold back, and began to speak to Zhao Ping, the new successor to the throne of Yan Bai, demanding the abolition of Bai Libin's previous series of military and political reforms.

You must know that the financial expenditure of the Yan army that year accounted for nearly seventy percent of the entire Yan country's finances. Not to mention these giants, even the royal family is tightening the waistband to create the strongest military in the North.

Yan Baigong Zhao Ping is different from Yan Mugong Zhao Zhen, he has not loved military affairs since he was a child, but he likes literary and ink music, and he is a very elegant person.

For a long time, Yan Baigong Zhao Ping did not agree with the practice of forcibly pushing the military and government, and he wanted to raise the national strength of the whole country and build the strongest army by cutting down on food and clothing.

Now that he is in power, and so many wealthy nobles have come forward to take the initiative to demand the removal of the military and political reform system, he naturally has to go down the slope.

In less than a year, the Yan State cut three-quarters of the original 200,000 troops, leaving only 50,000 standing troops, and the military expenditure of these 50,000 troops was less than 30% of the past, and the military strength of the entire Yan State directly showed a cliff-like decline.

The cost of the army has been saved so much at once, and the pockets of those powerful people have also been plumped again. Including the royal family, they all quickly developed all kinds of arrogant vices.

The roads, which were originally quite wide, were often blocked by the chariots of the nobles.

It is some small nobles who go out of the door and use the same two-horse car to go out.

There used to be galloping all over the world, the incomparable Yan State Iron Army was deterred, and the surrounding big and small countries did not dare to act rashly, if Yan Guo did not attack them, they would all go home to the ancestral temple and go to the high incense, how could they have the courage to go to Yan Guo's head to brush their hair.

But now, the Iron Army no longer exists, and the strongest warriors in the past have been sent back to their hometowns to farm, and the swords, guns, swords, and halberds are either stored in the treasury, or simply melted down, and cast into all kinds of golden musical instruments and luxurious chariots. The war horses that once roared and galloped on the battlefield became the foot force of the magnates to travel and pull carts.

The entire Yan Kingdom is tantamount to abandoning its martial arts and removing the strongest armor.

Yang Chengwu's father was once a captain in the most elite iron army of Yan State, and his military exploits can be regarded as brilliant, and during the period of Yan Mugong, he had received the highest level of military merit awards many times, and the house where they lived was also given by Yan Mugong himself.

Although he was only a lieutenant lieutenant in the army, his official quality was not too high, but the Yang family at that time was definitely a big family with a head and a face in the entire Yanjin City.

Everyone in Yan Jincheng knows that in a major battle, Yang Chengwu's father led an elite army under his command to launch a surprise attack, with a force of less than 500 people, defeated the opponent's army of nearly 10,000 people, and captured a general in the opponent's army alive.

In that battle, Yang Chengwu's father lost a left arm, but he also made great contributions.

Slightly older people still remember that Yan Mugong pulled Yang's father's empty sleeves and cried bitterly on the street, and later ordered his younger brother Yan Jin Gong Zhao Qi's daughter Zhao Feiyan Xu to be married to Yang Chengwu.

Zhao Feiyan is the youngest daughter of Zhao Qi, the Duke of Yan Jin, and has loved her since she was a child and regards her as a treasure.

According to common sense, it is impossible for the Yanjin Mansion and the Yang family to get married, let alone marry the pearl in the palm of their hands, the class difference between the two families is too far. No matter how brilliant the old father of the Ren Yang family is, he is just a martial artist after all.

However, this is a marriage given by the lord, and Yan Jin Gong has no way to refuse.

Zhao Feiyan is nearly five years older than Yang Chengwu, and when Yan Mugong got married, Yang Chengwu was just a little doll of four or five years old.

Meng Juntong listened seriously to the vegetable vendor's brother explaining the background of the matter to her little by little, she had already eaten three cucumbers in the blink of an eye, and her stomach was a little swollen, she stood up and stretched her waist, and looked at Yang Chengwu, who was surrounded by everyone over there: "Look at this, the Yang family is in decline." ”

"Who said it wasn't," the peddler sighed softly: "This Yan Bai Gong Zhao Ping ascended the throne, as far as the ordinary people of our Yan Kingdom are concerned, it is a fortunate thing." Because of the massive reduction in the army, and military and political expenditures, our taxes have also been reduced a lot. But a few families were happy and a few were sad, the old man of the Yang family broke his arm and could no longer go to the battlefield, so he had to return home early. The sons of the Yang family have not become successful, the eldest is still in the army, and he is tepid, but this Yang Chengwu has been brilliant since he was a child, but he has never been on the right path, alas. ”

Needless to say, Meng Juntong was already able to guess what happened.

Yan Baigong Zhao Ping despised the military and politics, and naturally he would no longer respect and care for these meritorious veterans as much as Yan Mugong did when he was there.

The Yang family, which is already powerless and powerful, has lost the favor of the sovereign, so it will naturally lose the capital that attracts attention.

In this way, how could Yan Jingong marry his own pearl in the palm again. After the death of Yan Mugong, the Yan Jin Mansion basically completely cut off contact with the Yang family, as if there was no such thing as a marriage at all.

"Power, power, power, don't these ordinary people have some other pursuits? Meng Juntong complained, although she doesn't weave many dreams, but she has read a lot of dream books, and most of the world's obsessions and entanglements can't withstand power and wealth, but she personally prefers love and hatred.

The vegetable vendor looked at Meng Juntong in surprise, what she said just now was really strange, as if she was out of the world and not ordinary.

Meng Juntong realized something, and hurriedly changed the topic: "Little brother, that young lady from the Yanjin family, does she have a good impression of Yang Chengwu? Looking at Yang Chengwu's indomitable momentum, I'm afraid this should be a pair of infatuated children, if you change to a man with softer bones, such a thick stick, you will beat him away in two or three strokes." ”

"Where," the vegetable vendor slapped his thigh, and said with a bit of hatred: "This doesn't mean that there is something wrong with this kid of the Yang family, so how can Zhao Feiyan look down on this down-and-out hairy boy, these thugs are all raised by Zhao Feiyan and specially used to deal with Yang Chengwu." I don't understand, what a good young man, he went to the Yanjin Mansion again and again to beg for humiliation and fight, what is he trying to do!"