The rivers and lakes are in flames, and the Songshan faction is shining and overwhelming with more than a dozen first-class masters.

The Huashan faction, which is obscure in Taoguang, has once again ushered in an exciting harvest.

Senior sister Ning Zhongze, after more than 12 years of hard cultivation, broke through the fifth layer of Mixed Yuan Gong, and her strength improved by leaps and bounds, and she stepped into the ranks of first-class masters in martial arts in one fell swoop, becoming the eighth first-class master of the Huashan faction.

Stimulated by this, seven days later, Cong Buqi also broke through the fourth layer of Mixed Yuan Gong and entered the fifth layer, adding another strong master to Huashan.

Li Yigen of Yan'an and Zhao Yishui of Zhoushan successively sent letters back to the mountain, saying that they had entered the five-layer realm of mixed Yuangong, and a month later, Ma Yiming also sent a letter, the Tao had entered the five-layer realm of Baoyuanjin, and the first-class masters of the Huashan faction reached as many as twelve.

Yue Buqun took the opportunity to check the cultivation of the inner disciples, and found that Liu Yikang of the Law Academy had cultivated to the peak of the fourth layer of the Mixed Yuan Gong, and the sword qi rushed to the Xiaotang Wei Yilin and Cao Yihui, and they were about to complete the cultivation of the ninth layer of the Huashan Mental Method, and they had already touched the edge of the first-class realm.

Within a year or two, Huashan will add three more first-class masters, counting Uncle Feng, the number of first-class masters in Huashan will reach fifteen, which is slightly less than the number of Songshan faction, but the combat power is not inferior at all.

In addition, it is gratifying that Zhang Yihu and Tong Yiwen and other three inner disciples have also entered the ninth layer of Huashan Mental Method, and their strength is not bad, and they will have the opportunity to enter the first-class ranks after a few years of training.

The other dozen or so adult old disciples of the inner sect have not yet broken through the seventh layer, it seems that the potential is about to be exhausted, and in their lifetime, at most, they will rely on water grinding kung fu to enter the eighth or ninth layer, and there is no hope for first-class.

Among the new disciples of the outer sect, Lin Yaohua and the other seven people broke through the fifth layer of Huashan Mental Law and entered the sixth layer realm.

The top six who were promoted to the outer gate last year have also entered the fifth layer of cultivation, surpassing the progress of some of the previous senior brothers.

In another six to eight years, if there are no accidents, these thirteen disciples will all be top-notch.

And Zhang Yihu and the other three inner disciples, after seven or eight years of cultivation, maybe one or two people can also enter the first-class.

By then, there will be nearly 30 first-class masters in Huashan.

This is not counting the genius Ling Hu Chong, as well as the genius disciples of Ling Hu Chong's contemporaries and subsequent sessions, if these disciples have grown up smoothly, at that time, Huashan can look down on the Shaolin faction.

But at this moment, the outside world still knows nothing about the true strength of Huashan, and the various factions in the rivers and lakes have formed a basic understanding, the strength of Huashan has dropped greatly, and at most five or six first-class masters are retained.

According to the analysis of Huashan's heritage, after ten years, three or five first-class masters will be produced, and two or three will die of old age, and their strength will barely exceed that of the Taishan faction, but it will be far lower than that of the Songshan faction.

The strength of the Huashan Sect can be so secret, and the most important thing is that it is due to the experience of elite disciples sent to the East China Sea, avoiding the eyes and ears of all the people in the rivers and lakes.

Moreover, more than two-thirds of all the adult disciples of the Huashan faction are not in Huashan all the year round, either working hard in the open sea, or sneaking into the south of the Yangtze River to clean up the local small gangs, or maintaining business in various places, and basically no one participates in the affairs of the rivers and lakes.

Most of the elite disciples cultivated every year have also been sent out, and very few have stayed in Huashan, giving the impression to the martial arts people who come and go to Huashan that they are new disciples of the Huashan faction, and some are not too talented.

Last year, the Huashan faction recruited more than 100 young miscellaneous disciples, which made people feel that the growth of the young disciples in Huashan was not ideal, and they had to enrich their interior with adults, and the evaluation of the Huashan faction was lower.

Yue Buqun received such rumors from the rivers and lakes, but he was secretly happy in his heart, and he had no intention of inserting willows, but he didn't want to kill two birds with one stone.

Good things come in pairs, Li Bushan sent news from Xianyang, through more than a year of getting along day and night, 35 of the 42 second-rate masters gathered by various small gangs in Shaanxi revealed the idea of extremely recognizing Huashan and intending to join Huashan.

Two years later, as long as it is carefully operated, this powerful force will be available to Huashan.

In the open sea, a year and a half have passed, and the Nujiao Gang has been strengthened by Huashan masters such as Cheng Buxian and dozens of elite disciples, and the expansion of the north and south is very smooth.

Donghaitang has gained a firm foothold in Shandong, and sent a letter asking for instructions, the Yellow River enters the sea through the Huai River, and now the Huai River Basin, Songshan and the Demon Sect are powerful, and they have been obstructed several times, and they have been obstructed, asking if they will go all out to manage the open sea and fight for the Yellow River waterway.

Yue Buqun realized that he had made a low-level mistake, and always thought that the Yellow River entered the sea through Dongying, Shandong, and did not want this to be a matter of later generations, so he replied to Cao Yihui, asking him to fully manage the northern open sea, suspend the entry into the Yellow River, and focus on the development of routes between Korea and Japan.

Tong Yiwen suggested that he should immediately start immigrating to the north of the Ryukyus, so as to enhance the strength of Nanhaido in the Ryukyu waters and provide a forward base for further purging the pirates along the coast of Fujian.

Yue Buqun immediately issued an order to the External Relations Department, asking that at least 500 households of immigrants be sent to Ryukyu within a year, and that the number of immigrants be accumulated and that the number of immigrants increase year by year.

Tan Xiuwen of Songjiang Prefecture reported that the weaving mill has been on the right track, and the textile machine has played a great role, but the weaving technology can not keep up, hindering the expansion of production capacity.

Yue Buqun remembered that the Jenny spinning machine was invented because of the birth of the shuttle loom and the spinning became the bottleneck of weaving, so he wrote a letter to explain the characteristics of the shuttle loom and asked them to develop the loom according to this idea.

Imitation of the successful group, can be awarded five hundred taels of silver, I believe that under the heavy reward, the ingenuity of these craftsmen will be brought into full play, the birth of the shuttle loom is a matter of time.

As soon as several affairs were carried out, the whole of Huashan entered a busy state again, and the 150 young handymen recruited last year were soon insufficient again.

After the Liaison Department carried out the immigration work for a period of time, it was found that it was really time-consuming and laborious, so Song Wen blocked the Taihuatang and asked for more manpower, otherwise there would be no need to do other things in order to be busy with these affairs.

Yue Buqun thought about it, immigration is a long-term and trivial matter, and placing it in the External Relations Department has indeed affected the normal operation of the External Relations Department, so a new immigration department was established, and Liu Yikang of the Discipline Institute was responsible for taking care of it, and Song Wen gave up.

Liu Yikang quickly formulated a series of practical regulations for the Ministry of Immigration, which established the structure of the Ministry of Immigration steadily and made the immigration affairs develop rapidly.

Everything is arranged, and at the end of the year, Yue Buqun has been in this world for thirteen years.