Forest trails go to sea, this is a plan that has been set for a long time.

Stone Beak and others have been preparing for killer whale training for several years, but there are always some deficiencies, and Lin Ji needs further guidance. Stone Beak and the others will set off in early summer, and Lin Rui can only go in winter to try to make their preparations more complete.

This trip is not like the last sneak run, there is more time for various preparations. But before leaving, things still seemed to be a mess. One of the questions is how many people should be taken out of the forest.

According to the opinions of the residents of Chaolin City, the king naturally brings as many people as possible when he travels. It is certainly safest to bring the city guards, the palace guards, and officials at all levels to bring them. The upper echelons of the kingdom were wiser and planned to let the forest trail take 500 men. The palace guards did not reach this number, so they filled it with other elite troops.

Naturally, Lin Ji did not want to travel with a large army. Not only would that be troublesome, but it would also be as slow as a turtle.

After much communication, Lin Ji finally confirmed that he only brought fifty guards. This is already the limit of what he can accept. Considering that the trip to the east was all the territory of China, the high-ranking officials of the kingdom reluctantly agreed. Just notify each place where the forest trail passes, and let another 50 people be dispatched to pick up and drop off the forest trail to ensure the safety of the forest trail. In this regard, Lin Ji can only acquiesce.

With this arrangement, the appearance of forest traces this time is very different from that of five years ago. However, there is also a similarity: Hu Yier became pregnant with a child again at this time. This is the third child. According to the estimates of the date, Lin Ji may not be able to return to Chaolin City before the birth of the child.

Lin Ji left Chaolin City after the Spring Festival in the eighth year of China. Fifty guards rode all of them, but only elephants and horses remained. Ghost Eagle brought his wife with him. Little White and Little Black accompanied him with two elephants.

The two elephants with the little white and black bands are the two elephants in the royal palace's captivity. The two elephants are close to adulthood and are exceptionally robust because they have never lacked food and have not experienced hardships in the wild. And because I grew up with Xiaobai since I was a child, I was not straddled by Xiaobai, and the weight was more powerful than other elephants, so there was no problem running around with Xiaobai. They became the mounts of the little white and the little black.

In addition, Blackie has a scarf around his neck. It was a weak cub it had just born. This little snow monster is the same as Xiaobai when he was a child, and he likes to hug his neck. It's usually too well-behaved. Because it has a little yellow hair on its back, it is called Little Yellow.

Lin Rui rode on a white horse. Hakuba was obviously happy about this trip. It had been locked up in Chaolin City for a few years, and now it had to return to nature, and it was so excited that it couldn't even snort. I wish I could just run away.

The ghost eagle and his daughter-in-law flew in the sky. The ghost eagle's daughter-in-law is not close to people, and it is impossible for it to fall into the team. In order to prevent the two goods from being accidentally injured, Lin Ji sprayed words under their stomachs again.

Xiaobai habitually follows Lin Ji's side, and Xiaohei only follows Xiaobai because he is more afraid of people. The two elephants behind them were quite curious about their surroundings, but they were old enough to become calm, and they just looked left and right, and did not run out of the group.

The group did not take the killer whale directly, but turned south and first inspected the villages and towns along the Yangtze River.

Five years after returning from the grassland, the forest traces have not even been out of the forest city, and they have not been inspected. It's hard to come out once, and it's also necessary to stop by and take a tour.

Walking along the ice surface of the canal in the south of the forest, the surrounding scenery is very different from the impression of the forest traces.

In the early years, when the canal was opened, this area was a place where swamps and forests meet, infested with wild beasts and not many people.

Over the years, the canal and its associated channels have been repaired several times to become wider and straighter. In order to enjoy the convenience of the canal, many villages have also taken steps to see their houses on the banks of the canal. On both sides of the canal, there are boundless fertile fields, chickens and dogs smell each other, and there are still the sound of Lang Lang's reading in some places, which is quite a feeling of the countryside in later generations. Except for a few ancient trees on the hills, there seems to be no trace of prehistory.

Thinking that these were all changes brought about by himself, Lin Ji couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart.

Hearing the news of Lin Ji's travel, many people flocked to the canal to watch. Some schools have also closed classes and organized students to come to the river to pay respects to the king. Lin Ji used to live in shadow puppets or promotional albums, but today when he finally saw the real person, everyone was quite excited.

Lin Ji waved and smiled at them all the way. I also keep an eye on their clothing and other conditions along the way.

He noticed that even the children with snotty noses were dressed in fur and fur, and no one came out naked, not even barefoot or straw sandals. They are all dressed roundly, their faces are full of flesh, and the shoes they wear on their feet are of various colors of fur and linen, and they are all very warm.

He thought about the days he had spent the winter before he came, and he felt that what he had done was very meaningful. At the very least, he kept most of the people fed and clothed.

After walking for two days, they crossed the ice of the Yangtze River and arrived at a place called Jiangkou Town on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Jiangkou Town is on the edge of the Yangtze River, with two flags, dragon and tiger. The inhabitants of this town consisted of part tiger barbarians, part local tribes and slaves of the deer. With the establishment of Huaxia for a long time, they gave up the third totem flag of their own, and they slowly regarded themselves as Huaxia.

Conditions here are worse than on the North Shore, but there are still schools and hospitals, and the children's clothes are just shabby and warm.

Most of the residents here have never seen the forest trails, so they are even more excited when the forest trails appear.

The old man's representative took Lin Ji's hand and chattered about the changes over the years, enough food to eat, warm clothes, the house is not afraid of rain and snow, there is no need to go out hunting desperately, the child is not so easy to die, and the doctor has saved the old guy and so on.

The elderly are actually more realistic than the young. If they know how to be grateful and have a peaceful attitude, then they must be doing well. If they live a calculating life and will repay it, it must be a bad life. Bear Claw was aimed at the forest everywhere back then, and that was really because Ji Lin had to count every chestnut to eat, otherwise he would have to starve to death in winter.

The old man pulled Lin Ji and kept talking, it was indeed because they were living much better now than in previous years. Otherwise, they will have to take out their bows and arrows when the forest trail appears.

After chatting with the old man, Lin Ji also chatted with the grassroots officials and listened to the progress of their various work, which was regarded as doing a grassroots research.

When the kingdom was founded, schools and hospitals were built in most of the towns around Chaolin.

The school only has an elementary school, but there are already students who have graduated. Some of these students were sent to Chaolin Middle School, and some stayed to become clerks in various places, responsible for reading and writing documents, and so on. At this time, the conditions were limited, Chaolin City could not even print the students' textbooks on a large scale, and the quality of the students was not very high, but fortunately, these students were all selected smart children, and they also had a sense of sacredness and were more employed, so the basic reading and arithmetic after graduating from primary school was not a problem.

The conditions of the hospital are still extremely limited, and only Chinese herbal medicines and a small amount of afterlife drugs can be used, and at most they can treat some trauma and abdominal pain and brain fever, but it is much better than the power of herbs and totems used in the past. Sanitation in the town has also improved. As a result, the survival rate of newborns is much higher, and the elderly can live longer.

In terms of agriculture and breeding, Jiangkou Town's output is enough to support taxes and its own use, and because they are close to the river, they also surround the lake for fishing, which is also very effective. Lin Ji ate the fish they had just caught that day.

When asked what else they had at the end, the mayor of Eguchi said that there was no problem. It's just that Lin Ji's eyes flickered a few times when he saw him at this time.

There are many towns like Jiangkou Town along the Yangtze River. The forest trail crossed the Yangtze River several times, and after watching a few in a row, I was satisfied. It's just that he also noticed that some people were a little worried on their faces, and Lin Ji didn't stay in each place for a long time, but he didn't figure out the situation.

A few days later, they arrived at the county seat of Hulinban. The county magistrate of Hulinban had to take fifty garrisons to meet thirty kilometers away.

Wude is a very capable person, he has performed brilliantly in dealing with the chaos in Maoshi Village, and has been promoted all the way in the past seven or eight years, and now he has become the county magistrate of Wupin. He is one of the few young officials who have risen from the grassroots level.

"I've been here to see a few places along the way, and everyone seems to be a little worried, what's going on?" Lin Ji directly asked the question in his heart after greeting him.

In the past few years, Wude has entered the forest several times to study with the forest traces, and he is more familiar with the forest traces.

The grassroots officials had many concerns in their hearts, and Lin Ji couldn't ask anything. It shouldn't be a problem to ask the more familiar Wude directly.

Wu De smiled and said, "I know this, and it's not a big problem." In spring and summer, some short-haired elephants and rhinoceros will run to the Yangtze River. Some will even cross the river. Crocodiles also appeared in the Yangtze River, which were not large in size but were quite numerous. Sometimes it is inevitable that some people will get hurt. In addition, it has been observed that even in winter, the number of ice cracks on the ice surface of the Yangtze River is increasing...... Some people say that this is a sign of some kind of calamity. ”

Wu De said that he glanced at Lin Ji at the end, and brushed over the specific words.

Lin Ji didn't care about that look, but raised his eyes to look around and muttered, "Could it be that the weather is warming up?" ”

The Ice Age experienced an ebb and flow between 13,000 and 8,000 years ago. Between 8,000 and 5,000 years ago, the temperature reached its highest peak in 10,000 years. It was such a warm time that short-haired rhinos and short-haired mammoths appeared in the Yellow River Valley.

Lin Ji guessed that he was about 10,000 years prehistory, but there was no way to tell at what specific point in time. The temperature during this time may fluctuate, and it is difficult to estimate how much and how intense the fluctuations will be. However, Lin Zhi knew that the widespread floods in later myths and legends were caused by the rapid rise in temperature and the rapid melting of ice and snow on the high mountains of the plateau.