Apex War God Chapter 0022: Greatly Ominous Place

After bathing and dressing, Yang Wu looked young, sprightly, and elegant once more. Though his skin had darkened under the harsh sun, it shone like smooth bronze. With his slender, well-proportioned build, his noble air gained an unruly edge.

Wan Lanxin gazed at him appreciatively, silently praising, At last, the little virgin boy has grown up.

“Let’s talk about you now. What happened to the Yang Clan? With Uncle Yang’s status as a count, causing trouble for your clan shouldn’t have been easy.” The lady got straight to the point.

Yang Zhennan had been more than just a count; he had also been a scholar general. He had held an official fourth-class position, and his father had been a third-class official. The family had served the empire for generations. Aside from the imperial clan itself, who could possibly take such a prominent family down?

[TL Note: The importance and paygrade of ancient imperial court officials were determined by their grades since Emperor Qianlong (1736–1796) of the Qing dynasty. The lower the grade number, the more authority that official had. The imperial court had two kinds of official posts, civil and military. Civil officials had a total of nineteen grades, from upper-first grade, lower-first grade, upper-second grade, and so forth until lower-ninth grade, and ungraded. Military officials had twenty grades; they had the same structure as civil officials with one additional grade above upper-first grade: transcendent grade. Being a scholar general, Yang Zhennan was likely considered both a civil official and a military official. An upper-fourth grade civil official would be something like a deputy minister of justice or one of the major deputy ministers. A lower-fourth grade civil official would likely be a chancellor for one of the academies. As for the upper-fourth military officials, a deputy commander of a division or brigade is one of the possible positions and likely the position Yang Zhennan held.]

Indignant, Yang Wu snarled, “It was that bitch, Tang Jiaoyan!”

“Are you talking about

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