Family Ascension: Starting as a Grandfather
Chapter 701

The Tree Falls and the Monkeys Scatter

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Just as Yang Zhengshan learned the news about Yang Mingzhao, a major event occurred in the Capital of Da Rong.

The impact of this major event on Da Rong was absolutely explosive.

Jian Chengfeng had defected from Three Mountain Valley. That was right—defected.

Jian Chengfeng had once served as commander of the Imperial Guard, rising to Left Governor of the Front Military Governor's Office and Grand Tutor to the Crown Prince. In the fifth year of Chengping, he retired from office and lived in seclusion in Three Mountain Valley.

He had a disciple named Jiang Zhen, who had risen to the Left Military Governor's Office, General Who Guards the North, and Regional Commander of Chongshan Town.

The Battle of Heiyun Mountain that Yang Zhengshan's predecessor had once experienced had been fought under Jiang Zhen's command.

After that, Chongshan Town's decline had also been due to being implicated by Jiang Zhen.

During Emperor Chengping's reign, Jiang Zhen was a taboo, an existence no one dared mention.

And Jiang Zhen had been Jian Chengfeng's most valued disciple, a disciple dearer to him than his Own Son.

Precisely Because Of Emperor Chengping killing Jiang Zhen, Jian Chengfeng had lost all heart and retired into seclusion.

Although more than fifty years had already passed since that matter, Jian Chengfeng had never been able to forget it.

Jian Chengfeng had already been dissatisfied with Emperor Chengping and extremely dissatisfied with Emperor Yanping as well. Now that Da Rong was weak, the Imperial Court rotten, and wars were breaking out everywhere among the people, he was even more dissatisfied with Emperor Jianxing.

In his eyes, all three generations of emperors were faithless, cold-hearted men without virtue.

Seeing that troubled times had already begun, Jian Chengfeng finally made up his mind to flee Three Mountain Valley, to

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