Winter is approaching, and everything is depressed.

On the road leading to Huashan, it is still full of cars and horses, and pedestrians are constantly coming and going.

Xue Changle led more than a dozen junior brothers to the town at the foot of Huashan Mountain after passing through three checkpoints.

Everyone entrusted the northwest products purchased for the mountains to the handymen of the Shuwu Hall to carry them, and each carried their own travel bags and happily entered the mountain.

As soon as you enter the pass, the scenery is very different from the outside.

The mountains and forests are lush and pleasing to the eye, and there is no desolation of cold winter at all.

The pine and cypress trees all over the mountains stand proudly, and the bamboo forests rustle in the valley, as if welcoming the return of disciples who have traveled far away.

Everyone stood at the mountain pass for a moment, greedily looking at the beautiful fairyland-like scenery of Huashan, and showed a smile of intoxication.

"It's still our best Huashan!"

Zhang Qiang, who followed Xue Changle back to the mountains from Nanhai Hall, sighed, and more than a dozen juniors nodded in agreement.

With the increase of formal disciples, many family members were brought to the foot of Mount Hua, and during the slack season, a large number of idle people appeared, and Yue Buqun asked the general affairs hall to hire them to plant trees, and planted evergreen trees all over the mountains and fields.

Not to mention, most of the disciples' family members are from peasant families, and when it comes to digging pits and planting trees, it is almost a profession, planting trees is very effective, and the survival rate is very high.

Moreover, in the mountain forest, there are many pomegranates, pears, persimmons, bayberry, plums, peaches, grapes, etc., and the fruits in the mountains cannot be eaten every year.

"I've seen Senior Brother Yile!"

When they arrived at the gate of Dehua Mountain, the disciples on duty saw Xue Changle and others striding towards and saluted one after another.

Over the past year or so, the disciples of various academies in Huashan have been frequently transferred, and the disciples of the Yizi generation in other places have appeared in the mountains, and the new disciples who stayed in the mountains have realized that there are still so many powerful senior brothers.

Xue Yile was transferred back to the Discipline Academy, although he was sent to the Western Regions a few days later to attend the conference held by the Kunlun Sect, but as a powerful figure who was rumored to be the leader of the Discipline Academy, he was well known to the disciples in the mountains in a short period of time.

Xue Yile saluted back to the juniors and disciples on duty at the mountain gate, and took a group of senior brothers to talk and laugh and go to the mountain.

Before he reached the foot of the Jade Girl Peak, he saw Shang Luo carrying a package from a distance and walking out quickly.

Xue Yile turned his feet sideways, greeted him, and greeted, "Senior Sister Shang, you are also back." ”

Shang Luo glanced at the tall Xue Yile, who was dusty, his face looked a little thin, but his big eyes were unusually bright.

"Senior Brother Xue is back, I went back to the mountain the day before yesterday, and I have something to send down the mountain. ”

Zhang Yiqiang and the others squeezed their eyebrows, walked past the two of them quickly, and looked back secretly.

Although Xue Yile didn't say much, he was strong in martial arts, steady in his actions, and extremely prestigious among the junior disciples, but everyone didn't dare to coax him, and quickly walked over.

Shang Luo wanted to say hello to these senior brothers, but he didn't bother to pay attention to their virtues.

Xue Yile was laughed at by the junior brothers, and suddenly forgot what he had thought of, he was a little embarrassed for a while, he didn't know what to say, he was so anxious that he sweated, and suddenly said: "I bought some small toys in the Western Regions, and I want to give them to Ling'er's little sister, and my junior sister will help me pick them, see which one Ling'er's little sister will like?"

Shang Luo glanced at Xue Yile and knew what he had in mind.

Now her martial arts are entering the stage of courage and refinement, and she has hardly thought about her marriage partner.

But during this time, she followed Ning Zhongze's side, and Ning Zhongze's busy focus was to match the marriages of those disciples who were over twenty years old.

Shang Luo wanted to find an excuse to refuse, but when he saw the look of hope in Xue Yile's eyes, somehow, the words of refusal were a little difficult to speak, and he said at the moment: "Then tomorrow afternoon, I am free, you bring all the toys to the cafeteria, and I will help you pick two." ”

Xue Yile was overjoyed, forced to calm down, and said, "Okay, good, tomorrow Shen Shizheng, I'll wait for you in the cafeteria." ”

Shang Luo nodded, said goodbye to Xue Yile, and walked out with the package.

Xue Yile looked at Shang Luo's slender and upright figure, his heart was a little thumping, and he waved his hand vigorously, until Shang Luo turned the mountain road and disappeared, then he turned around and ran quickly towards the Jade Maiden Peak.

On the mountainside of Jade Girl Peak, Taihua Hall, Yue Buqun stared at the list of Huashan disciples in front of him, and was falling into thought.

Now the head of the Huashan Academy, the term of office has been more than ten years, such a long term of office, will indeed make people slowly slack, this time the matter of the industrial and commercial bank, is a wake-up call.

The 20-year term of office considered at that time was indeed somewhat taken for granted and needed to be appropriately revised, and perhaps 10 years would be a more acceptable time.

Again, Li Bushan and others, who were originally promoted, are also close to sixty years old, although it is not surprising that those who practice martial arts have a lifespan of seventy or eighty, but too many elderly managers have occupied the top level of Huashan for a long time, which is not conducive to the development of Huashan.

Yue Buqun must maintain a certain degree of liquidity in the Huashan faction, so that the Huashan faction can be more energetic, and the momentum of vigorous development will not slow down.

After returning from Liudaoshan in Shandong, Yue Buqun was thinking about the affairs of each courtyard and when he would be the successor, and was ready to use five years to let Huashan complete the replacement of the old and the new.

Today's Huashan faction, after continuous adjustment, separation, and addition, has greatly increased the number of first-level institutions in the academy.

Sword Qi Chongxiao Tang is the strongest in Huashan, Feng Buping's term of office is eight years, and he has proposed several times that he wants to step down from this position and want to transfer to the Taoist Academy to cultivate, but he was stopped by Yue Buqun, so he had to do it for another two years and let his successor take over.

Yue Buqun screened the new generation of disciples one by one, and finally selected Yang Jian, well, it was Yang Yijian, it happened that Yang Yijian was going back to the mountain to get married, and after he came back, he didn't have to go to Nanhai Hall again.

The precept hall is Xue Yile, and it was already decided when he was transferred back to the mountain.

Cong Buqi will have to stay in the Inspectorate for at least five years, and then Sun Yi (Gong) Cheng will take over.

The general affairs part is the general affairs hall and the degree branch hall, the junior sister temporarily manages the general affairs hall, and after a few years can be transferred to the degree branch hall, Yang Jingjing as the assistant of the junior sister, to help manage the finances of Huashan.

Zhang Aiming is now managing the branch hall as Zhang Yi's assistant, and after a few years, he can be transferred to the general affairs hall.

The development of the information hall has also been excellent in recent years, Zhang He has done well in recent years, and when He Yong retires, he can take over, Zhang He was originally responsible for the liaison affairs related to officialdom and the army, and Feng Shaojie will take over.

The outreach part is Zhiketang and External Affairs Hall, and Zhiketang is in charge of Cong Buqi, and it can be done for at least another ten years, and there is no need to arrange a successor for the time being.

The Foreign Affairs Hall is now managed by Cao Yihui, and Gu Le is the next head of the Foreign Affairs Hall prepared by Yue Buqun.

The Tibetan Academy remains unchanged, and Senior Brother Zhao is doing quite well, and his status as a preacher also means that this position needs to be old.

Yue Buqun separated the personnel function from the Taihua Hall and established the Examination Gong Hall, and now Zhang Deen is the director, responsible for the personnel management and evaluation of Huashan.

Guo Sanshui was in the Ryukyus, with remarkable achievements in management and education, and returned to Huashan to manage the Huashan School.

The Ministry of Immigration changed its name to Anjutang, Liu Yikang's health became worse and worse, and Yue Buqun transferred Liu Changan to take over this time.

In addition to these courtyards in the mountains, there is also a big head, which is a variety of gangs that Huashan secretly controls outside.

The first one is the Nujiao Gang, Wei Yilin is just an excess, after two years, Ma Yiming can be transferred over, and he has been in the Dahe Gang for a longer time.

Below the Nujiao Gang, there are five major parts: Dinghai Hall, Donghai Hall, Nanhai Hall, East China Sea Fleet, and South China Sea Fleet.

Yue Buqun traveled twice, had contact with all the disciples from the outer seas, and basically determined the candidates for these three halls.

Xie Qingchi will take over Dinghaitang, Lin Yaohua will take over Nanhaitang, Qi Baozhu will take over Donghaitang, Zhao Sixi will be in charge of the East China Sea Fleet, and Shen Yang will be in charge of the South China Sea Fleet.

The Dahe Gang was succeeded by Liu Changqing, and Yue Buqun sent more than a dozen outstanding disciples to the Dahe Gang, preparing to let the Dahe Gang develop all the way along the Yangtze River to Sichuan, so the nature of the Dahe Gang must be changed and turned into a gang alliance of the Yangtze River waterway.

Son Zhengyi went undercover in the Cao Gang, if nothing else, a few years later, he will be the leader of the Cao Gang.

Chang Jin was in the Tianhe Gang, and his strength was weaker, and Yue Buqun was ready to send Meng Xiaoming over to assist him.

Then, there were thirty or forty disciples stationed in cities along the Yangtze River, along the canals, and along the southeast coast, and Wu Dong was responsible for liaison and coordination.

There is also the Taoist Academy that Yi Yangzi is in charge of, and there are more and more Taoist priests, but there is a specialization in this art industry, and it can only be slowly promoted from the inside, and it is not good to casually place people outside to enter.

The rest is the commercial part, mainly the three major banks of the Northwest Bound, the Four Seas Bound, and the Industrial and Commercial Bank.

Together with the Nujiao Gang, they brought hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to Huashan every year, not only feeding nearly a thousand Huashan disciples, but also using interests as a link to tie up a large number of alliances for Huashan, and also strengthening the strength of the Huashan faction on the side.

Yue Buqun's attention to them is a little less, but there are the Discipline Institute and the Inspectorate in there, but he is not afraid of them messing around.

As for the old people who have retired, they will either be appointed as the elders of the Sword Qi Chongxiao Hall, or they will be promoted to the elders of the Taihua Hall, and the Taishang Elder Feng Qingyang will manage them, mainly to refine the martial arts and Taoism, and improve the high-end strength of Huashan.

And because he couldn't figure out the power to intervene, Yue Buqun renamed all the institutions in Huashan as the hall, and the person in charge was called the chief officer, and there were deacons and engaged in the following, and the strength was promoted to the first-class disciples.

In this way, the Huashan faction is divided into six levels.

The first level is the head of the family, and the Supreme Elder is equivalent to this level.

The second level is the elder of Taihuatang.

The third level is the head of each hall, the boss of the Nujiao Gang, the Master of the Three Seas Hall, the Great River Gang, the two fleets, the three major lines, etc., and the Huashan disciples whose strength has advanced to the first-class strength are all awarded the status of the elder of the Sword Qi Chongxiao Hall, and the status is also equivalent to this level (cancel the personal disciples).

The fourth level is the deacon who is in charge of various affairs under the hall, the gang leader of small gangs in various places, and the inner disciple whose strength has reached the level of a second-rate expert, and he is at the same level.

The fifth level is the disciples who are engaged in each compartment, that is, the disciples who actually do things, and all the outer disciples and the shopkeepers of each shop are at this level.

Sixth level, school disciple, handyman.

Yue Buqun carefully combed through the top and bottom of Huashan, and was somewhat satisfied with the achievements he had made in the past 18 years.

After eighteen years of hard work, cultivating disciples, opening up business routes, and secretly developing power, all the seeds have been planted, and the rest will be left to time to test.

Yue Buqun is confident that according to this development trend, in another ten years, even Shaolin, Wudang, and the Huashan faction will dare to touch them.