The Yan family has not had a long history, and it was changed from the Zhuang family a hundred years ago.

During the Western Zhou Dynasty, Song Daigong was the ancestor of the Zhuang family. During the Warring States Period, a king of Chu named Lu, and after his death, he was posthumously named Zhuang Wang. The descendants of Chu Zhuang Wang took Zhuang as their surname and passed down from generation to generation.

According to legend, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Ming of Han called Liu Zhuang. He did not let others have the same name as his, so he ordered all the people with the surname Zhuang to change their surname to Yan.

The Yan family of Xichuan is said to be a descendant of Zhuang Qingzhai, the prime minister of the Western Han Dynasty.

Zhuang Qingzhai was the grandson of Wuqiang Hou Zhuang who was not a job. He inherited the title of Wuqiang Hou during the reign of Emperor Wen of Han. He served as the chief censor, the crown prince's young tutor, the prime minister, etc.

Later, Zhuang Qingzhai was involved in a fight with the powerful minister Zhang Tang. Even Zhuang Qingzhai, who had a cruel political struggle, adopted the countermeasure of "crawling rabbit three holes" for the safety of his family, so that some of his clan members could move to Xichuan to avoid disaster.

After the Zhuang family moved to Xichuan, they had extraordinary backgrounds and gradually gained a foothold. After changing to Yan family a hundred years ago, although they were not considered a prominent family in Xichuan, their foundation in Ba County was not weak. They were considered to be a famous local official family and had long been in office.

In Yan Yan's generation, there were no particularly outstanding talents among the younger generation. Yan Yan was handsome and born with divine power. She was highly valued by the family and was trained as the heir of the patriarch.

However, Yan Yan's qualifications for studying are mediocre. Although she is not a poor student, she is still far from being a top student. She is a family that is far behind, and she has basically no future to rely on studying.

Fortunately, Yan Yan has a good heart and is focused on training by his family. He has originally studied literature and martial arts since elementary school, and has laid a very solid foundation for martial arts practice. If he failed, he decisively abandoned literature and martial arts practice, and soon became famous in the local area because of his high martial arts skills.

However, in peacetime, the samurai status was not high and was looked down upon by scholars. Yan Yan took advantage of the family's beauty and finally got the position of a horse archer, but his status as a heir in the family was also in danger.

At that time, Emperor Ling of Han favored the Ten Constables, and instigated them to charge intensive taxes and sell official positions. Their fathers, brothers and children were spread all over the world, rampant in the village, harming the people, and no official dared to take care of them.

Those scholars from the Yan family, not to mention that they are just ordinary in talent, even if they are extremely talented, if they don’t have the money to break through the joints of the Ten Generals, they will still not be able to become officials, because no one is serious, and Yan Yan at least has a position as a horse archer, so the family puts aside the matter of choosing another heir.

Meng Da's father, Meng Tuo, bought an official position by using money to connect the Shi Changshi, which made him lose his fortune and made him famous.

After all, the Yan family was a famous minister and was disdainful to use money to go through evil ways. Moreover, their family did not have the economic strength. Among the older generation of the family, the only official was just a county magistrate, and soon reached the age of retirement.

But no one has grown up in the next generation, and no one has been recommended. There is basically no hope of becoming an official in accordance with the formal procedures.

The Yan family faced severe tests and almost failed to accept the career of the official family and withdrew from the ranks of the official family. If no one of the family members has been in office for a long time, they will soon decline.

Fortunately, there was also a rebellion of Ma Xiang's Yellow Turban Rebellion in Xichuan, and it was not favored by the family. Yan Yan, who had already obtained the position of Ma Gongshu, was recruited by the new provincial governor Liu Yan into the army to suppress the rebellion.

Because of his excellent martial arts skills, Yan Yan was directly promoted from a horse archer to a centurion.

After participating in several battles to suppress the rebellion, Yan Yan was not only extremely brave in the battle, but also well-versed in military tactics. He quickly stood out and won several consecutive military achievements.

After the rebellion was over, Liu Yan rewarded him for his merits and Yan Yan was promoted to the county magistrate.

The Ma Gongshu is an officer under the county magistrate. It seems that they are only one level apart, but in fact they are very different!

Because the county magistrate is a serious official with a staff and salary in the court, while the horse archer is just an official, and the identity of a yamen runner is just like the difference between civil servants and agreed workers now.

Yan Yan obtained a serious official position. Although he was the lowest-level official, he could also be regarded as resolving the crisis of family decline. He became famous in the family, and many younger disciples were influenced by him and abandoned literature and practiced martial arts.

But in the peace era, warriors were not popular. Although there were times of turmoil in Xichuan, Yan Yan never got the chance to make contributions and wasted more than ten years as a county magistrate.

Yan Yan was born halfway through, abandoned literature and became a martial artist, and was no longer young when he obtained the position of Ma Gongshu. In a blink of an eye, he was nearly 60 years old, but he still had no way to get promoted.

Although Yan Yan's position is low, as the only official in the Yan family, he has clearly proved that he will succeed as the clan leader, and the number of children practicing martial arts in the family has increased a lot.

However, Yan Yan was frustrated and felt that the status of a warrior was low and it was difficult to make a comeback. He did not advocate his descendants to learn martial arts. The Yan family returned to their previous study style. However, because many disciples wanted to take shortcuts and gain fame from the army, it led to a situation where the Yan family's children could not achieve martial arts without success.

Just when Yan Yan was disheartened, he suddenly came to power, and he unexpectedly got the appreciation of Liu Zhang.

Yan Yan was old and had a unique vision. He knew that after Liu Zhang succeeded to the throne, he successfully supported him and saved his position.

When Liu Zhang ascended the throne, he was ambitious. He wanted to establish his authority and attacked Zhang Lu, who was in a semi-independent state. However, he kicked the iron plate and lost in the battle. Zhang Lu counterattacked Ba County.

As a county magistrate of Ba County, Yan Yan only had hundreds of soldiers and could not make any troubles, but because of his high respect, he was supported by many generals of Ba County.

Therefore, he performed very well in the battle with Zhang Lujun and successfully repelled Zhang Lujun. It can be said that he played an important role in the battle to defend Ba County.

Yan Yan's military talent was recognized by Liu Zhang and was quickly reused. He was directly promoted from county magistrate to county magistrate of Ba County. This took more than ten years to work, and in a blink of an eye he was nearly 70 years old.

Until a year ago, when Zhang Lu sent Ma Chao to attack Jiameng Pass, Liu Zhang was afraid that Ba County would be in trouble and wanted to use Yan Yan at a critical moment, so he won over Yan Yan first and promoted him to the prefect of Ba County.

If a civil servant is nearly 70 years old, it is the time when he is young and strong, and there is a great possibility of being promoted to prime minister, but military generals need to fight on the battlefield. "If you are old, you should not be able to benefit your muscles and bones!" If you are over 60 years old, few generals will go to the battlefield to fight with enemy generals again.

Yan Yan is nearly 70 years old and is long past the age of resignation. He still stayed in the important position of the prefect of Ba County, which also has his own difficulties.

On the one hand, it was because he was very skilled in martial arts and his energy was not declining; now, no one of the generals of Ba County, including their Yan family, has been able to win the big knife in his hand.

On the other hand, because no one in the Yan family can take over, he must shelter the family from wind and rain and cultivate talents, and help the family with a few of the capable materials on their horses and send them to their journey.

Shortly after Yan Yan became the prefect in Ba County, he heard that Liu Zhang sent Fa Zheng to ask Liu Bei to lead troops into Sichuan to resist Zhang Lu, and sighed with pain:

"This is what is called sitting alone in the poor mountain and leading the tiger to defend itself!"

Later, when he heard that Liu Bei killed Yang Huai and Gao Pei, he was furious and wrote letters repeatedly to ask for troops to go to Fushui Pass to fight Liu Bei, but none of them received a response from Liu Zhang.

Although Yan Yan is not weak, he is nearly 70 years old after all. If there is any other way, Liu Zhang doesn't want to use him to fight.

Moreover, Ba County can connect Hanzhong and Jingzhou, and its strategic position is very important. He dare not transfer Yan Yan easily. Of course, Yan Yan himself did not dare to leave his post without permission.
Chapter completed!