It's a long way to go, it's a long journey.

The territory of the Great Sui Empire was vast, 9,300 miles from east to west and 14,815 miles from north to south. From Yangzhou to Yingzhou, Liaoxi, Guanwai, the fastest and shortest route is also a full 3,000 miles.

Three thousand miles away, looking at the end of the world.

If it is in the future life, the 3,000-mile road will take an hour and a half by plane, and even if you travel by car, you can be enough for one day. But after really following the team and traveling for several days, he deeply realized what transportation was like in ancient times. In this era, most people can only rely on their feet to travel, and a small number of wealthy business travelers can choose to travel by car and horse. How far you can walk in a day, a hundred miles is counted, after all, you still have to carry luggage, and you also need to arrange time to choose a good night in towns and other places. At this time, the road does not have asphalt and cement pavement, and even the wide and flat road is very rare, and the road near the city is quite wide, but once it is far away from the town, the road begins to be difficult to travel, especially in the rainy season in spring and summer, the rainfall is abundant, and the road will not only turn over the slurry during the flood season, but also often have mountain floods to flood the road surface, and even mudslides and so on. The most convenient way to get around in this era was not walking, horseback riding, or riding a car, but by boat. The generally convenient river is the highway of this era. The vast majority of goods and goods are transshipped by water, and even long-distance travelers often choose to travel by boat. Safe, fast and comfortable.

Lingyun's team of 31 people also chose the most convenient waterway in this era. They did not hire ships, but directly had one of their own small fleets, consisting of three ships that were not too large. Starting from Yangzhou, go north along the Kangou to the Huai River, then enter Surabaya from Qingkou to Xuzhou in the north, then take the land route to turn east to Songzhou, and then from there to Xingyang near Luoyang through the Bianhe River, from there transfer to a boat, cross the Yellow River into Hebei, and then go all the way north to Yingzhou. It's a complicated itinerary with several boat transfers along the way. However, it is mainly by waterway by boat, supplemented by land by car.

They and more than a dozen other teams left Gaojiazhuang on the same day, greeted the spring breeze, and merged into Yangzhou, the center of the south of the Yangtze River, sandwiched into countless business travelers, and finally parted ways.

At first, the road from Yangzhou to Xuzhou was quite smooth, all the way was a waterway, Zhanggou, Huai River, and Surabaya were almost connected together, and there was no need to change boats, so they arrived in Xuzhou all the way. After arriving in Xuzhou, their ships could not continue north, so they had to leave their ships in Xuzhou, and then take their horses from the boats and ride their horses westward to Songzhou, where they could board the ships again and go down the Bianshui River to the mouth of the Yellow River near Luoyang. The farther you go north, the colder the weather becomes, in the south of the Yangtze River in early April, it has already been the end of Fangfei, and after Xuzhou in the north, the weather still seems to stay in the early spring season.

The further north, the more difficult the road becomes, although there are many rivers, it is difficult to have a place to connect with each other, and to the north of Xuzhou this old land of the Northern Qi Dynasty, it is obviously not as prosperous as the south of the Yangtze River.

This place, more than ten years ago, was once an important place for the Northern Qi, Northern Zhou, and Southern Chen families. Even push further, since the end of the Han Dynasty Three Kingdoms, here is the land of war, after the short unification of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains has long fallen into a north-south confrontation situation, the north and the south, the south and the north expedition, almost inevitably in this place to fight endlessly, long-term war, so that this Huanghuai River Basin, the rich plain of the Central Plains, but very desolate. Even though the Great Sui has pacified the world for many years, and even the old land in the south has been restored to prosperity, or even more prosperous in the past, but this place has not improved.

It is hard to imagine that under the rule of the Great Sui under the Juntian system, there would be many barren fields here. The war has continued, and the population of the people here has decreased greatly, and although it has been recuperating for more than ten years, it is still sparsely populated. Here, there is a field, and the point is that there is no planting. Under the equalization system, every family can get hundreds of acres of land, but many families lack strong labor and do not have cattle, so they can't plough much at all. Even if there is a large area of land, it can only barely survive under extensive cultivation, which is still under today's prosperous times. It is not difficult to imagine that once there is a major natural and man-made disaster, it will be difficult for them to bear it.

After Xingyang's supply, Lingyun's team hired a few boats at the mouth of the Yellow River and loaded horses to the east. After three days of slow travel on the Yellow River, it has entered the boundary of Huazhou. Wang Bao, one of the eighteen horsemen of Yanyun of the White Horse Hall of the Tiger League, came to see Ling Yun alone, "The eldest sister has already given the tiger, order, seal, and book to San Lang, right?" ”

Ling Yun nodded, the long journey made him a little sluggish, these days he didn't even have the mood to go to the bow of the boat to see the coastal scenery, every day he only asked Qinglian and Mulan to play backgammon with him, and sometimes fight the landlord. Hearing Wang Bao ask, he nodded, "Well, Rose has already given me all of this." ”

"Did Saburo read the roster?"

"These rosters are all written in codes, and there are a lot of green forest cuts in them, which seems to be too laborious, and I haven't read them yet." Ling Yun shook his head and smiled bitterly, this green forest roster is really worse than the English passing exam back then. "What, what's the problem?"

"There's no problem, it's just that we just arrived at the boundary of Huazhou, and in front of us is Dongjun. There are a few of our friends there, and I see that Saburo is also a little bored with the continuous travel these days, so it is better for us to go ashore and rest for a few days, and in addition, to meet old friends. Now that San Lang is in charge of the position of the leader of the alliance, he can just say to his friends here by the way. ”

Ling Yun was slightly stunned, this is the boundary of Shandong, no, according to Sui Shi, the area south of the Yellow River is considered the Henan region, and the area north of the Yellow River and east of Taihang is the Shandong region. And the forces of the Tiger Alliance are not in the Yanshan area, there are also some forces in the Yinshan area, why do they have their friends even in Henan now? The friends of the heroes of the green forest will definitely not be some legitimate eunuchs, maybe they are like-minded people.

"You know I don't remember anything before, and I haven't finished reading the roster yet, so you just say who our friends are here?"

"Oh, if Second Brother Shan knows that San Lang doesn't remember who he is, he will definitely have to punish San Lang for three glasses of spirits." Wang Bao shook his head and smiled.

"Second Brother Shan?" Ling Yun couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, Dongjun, Second Brother Shan, a friend on the Green Forest Road, I'll rub it, this Second Brother Shan won't be the same him, right?

"The second owner of Erxian Village in Dongjun, surnamed Xiongxin, ranks second in the family, and is called the second brother on the road, but he is a well-known figure on Henan Road." Wang Bao introduced.

Ling Yun was shocked on the spot, he didn't expect that this second brother Shan was really the Wagang Five Tiger General Flying General Shan Xiongxin, it was simply unbelievable. Could it be that Shan Xiongxin in the romance is not exactly romance, but that this fierce general at the end of the Sui Dynasty really used to mix in the road?

"The single family was originally a wealthy family in Yanbei, the ancestor was a military general of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and later moved south to Huazhou East County, built Erxian Village, is a famous good man within a radius of 100 miles, repairing bridges and paving roads, supporting orphans and widows, and a real great good man." Wang Bao explained with a smile, but Ling Yun raised his eyebrows, since this second brother ancestor was a military general of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but after moving south, he became a great benevolent person, and he was also a friend on the green forest road, so it was a little boring. Could it be that this Xiongxin family is a good family in Huazhou on the surface, but secretly he secretly came to Lulin with his friends and couldn't do any business. Speaking of his thoughts, Wang Bao, a fierce man, was also shocked, he didn't expect that after Ling Yun lost his previous memories, he would be able to guess the true identity of the Shan family with just a few clues.

"San Lang is very knowledgeable, the second brother and grandfather of the second generation have a secret connection with the northern green forest, and what they do is to help the northern green forest sell dirty business in the Central Plains, so they have a very good relationship with friends on the road. In the generation of the second brother Shan, Shan Dalang relied on the prestige accumulated by his ancestors for two generations, and he was even more comfortable in the green forest. When the old boss of Murong integrated the green forest forces of all parties in the north, Shan Dalang actively cooperated with the old masters, not only continued the original business cooperation with the green forest heroes in the north, but also began to meddle in the green forest forces in Henan. At the beginning, Murong Lao was in charge of the family, and he wanted to take advantage of the prestige status of the single family in the rivers and lakes to join hands to integrate the green forests of Henan, but in the end, the old master went early and failed to see this day. ”

"That single family integrates the green forests of Henan?"

"How can it be so easy, at that time, the Shan family, with their many years of fame, status and financial resources, coupled with the prestige of the old head of Murong, only barely attracted a part of the green forest of Henan to come out, and just made a little appearance, but the old head of Murong died, and then Shan Dalang also died. It is said that he fell off the horse and died, hey, it's a pity to die. ”

Ling Yun knew in his heart that Murong Ke did not die of illness, so it was impossible for Shan Tong to accidentally fall off the horse and die. It is very likely that Brother Shan Xiongxin, like Murong Ke, is very likely to be from the imperial court back then, and the imperial court sent people into the green forest, definitely to better control them. As a result, they may get out of control, so they were immediately killed by the imperial court. How could the imperial court really allow people to build a powerful alliance of green forests, and it was not controlled?

"At the beginning, the Shan family had a very good relationship with our Tiger Alliance, and Shan Erlang was still stationed in our north, and he had the best relationship with you at that time, calling you third brother all day long."

"How old is Second Brother Shan?" Ling Yun suddenly realized a problem.

"Well, Second Brother Shan is one year younger than you, seventeen this year. After Shan Dalang died, Shan Erlang took over Erxianzhuang. The Henan Green Forest Alliance that Shan Dalang pulled up back then is now only an empty shelf. Shan Erlang is nominally the leader of the Henan Green Forest Alliance, but in fact, there are not many people who really listen to his orders, and only some cottages that have been favored by his father and brother still regard him as the leader of the alliance. Otherwise, this Henan green forest would have been gone a long time ago. However, Erxianzhuang is still operating the dirty business that the original generations have operated over the years, so they are doing well, and they have been hiding their identities. Since we have arrived at the realm of Second Brother Shan, we have to go over to meet us no matter what, otherwise, Second Brother Shan knows that we will pass through the door and not enter, and then we will definitely chase to the northern Xinjiang to find you trouble. ”

I am the leading brother of Shan Xiongxin, I wipe!

"Lao Wang, do you still have a few friends named Zhai Rang, Huang Junhan, and Xu Shiji in this Dongjun?" Ling Yun couldn't help but ask.

"I know that Zhai Rang and Huang Junhan are the county Fa Cao, and Huang Junhan is the county warden, both of whom are very close to the Shan family, and in fact, they have been doing underground business with the Shan family to share a piece of the pie, and they are friends on the white road. I haven't heard of Xu Shiji, but there is a Xu Dashan Xu Gai in Weinan County, Huazhou, he is also the second brother and their business partner, and we have some contacts with the Tiger Alliance in the past, and the relationship is okay. ”

Ling Yun felt a little dizzy, Xu Gai, that is Xu Shiji's father, Xu Shiji is also Xu Maogong, and later avoided Li Shimin's name and changed it to a single name, and was given the surname Li Li One of the famous generals of the early Tang Dynasty, Li Ji. There is also Zhai Rang, who will later be the founder of the famous Wagangzhai, the bearer, and Huang Junhan, who later became the Shangzhu State of the Li Tang Dynasty, the general, and the Duke of the country. All of them are glittering cows. Unexpectedly, they were all his friends!

Now, he really can't wait to meet these friends!

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