The sky was overcast and the wind was howling.

Even with a face cover, Lin Yaohua still felt that his whole face seemed to be frozen, and he didn't belong to him at all.

But Lin Yaohua's waist was straight, his heart was hot, and his eyes fell on the tall back in front of him as casually as a leisurely walk, revealing a look of reverence and admiration.

At this time, it was already late November, and after Yue Buqun finished inspecting Zhoushan, he took Lin Yaohua and seven others and began to walk back to the mountain.

Because the weather was getting colder, I was worried that the heavy snow would cover the mountains when Shangluo arrived at Qinling, so I chose to take the flat route of the Central Plains.

Lin Yaohua and the others didn't care about the change in the weather, they hurried every day during the day and stayed overnight, and the seven of them seized every opportunity to ask the head for advice.

Before Lin Yaohua set off in October, he had already completed the hand Shaoyang Heart Sutra, and more than half of the fifth layer of the Huashan Heart Method was completed, only a little behind Liu Changan and Guo Sanshui.

But this is because Liu and Guo cultivated the Huashan Heart Sutra a year in advance, and even so, the time to cultivate the Hand Shaoyang Heart Sutra was only four months earlier than themselves.

Compared with the junior brothers in the same period, he is one of the fastest, thinking of this, Lin Yaohua showed a proud smile on the corner of his mouth.

Through the guidance of the head of the house, Lin Yaohua obviously felt that the progress of his cultivation was faster than in the first half of the year, and it was expected that in only six months, he would be able to complete the cultivation of the Hand Yang Ming Large Intestine Sutra, and his martial arts strength could be regarded as a good hand in the third rate.

This is eight months earlier than the original expectations of the uncles, and they can get a reward of eight contribution points.

In addition, in the past half a year, he has traveled to Zhoushan twice, and participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Demon Sect in Shaanxi, all of which are total, and he should be able to get about 30 cents and exchange for 300 taels of silver.

However, now up and down Huashan, almost no one is willing to exchange contribution points for silver, and the exchange of exercises is still insufficient!

Glancing at Yang Jian, who was dressed the same as next to him, wearing a gray and white robe, carrying a big travel bag, and covering his face with a face tolaker, only revealing a pair of black eyes, feeling Lin Yaohua's gaze, Yang Jian turned his head and seemed to be grinning, raised his head again, and looked straight ahead.

Lin Yaohua originally thought that he was a stinky and beautiful boy, and his mind would only be spent on showmanship.

Later, after getting acquainted, I learned that this kid practiced hard, no worse than himself, and his internal strength progress has always been on par with himself, and if he slacked off, he might be overtaken by him, and now he doesn't dare to despise this kid at all.

There are eight people in a group, except for Yue Buqun, who is more than five feet six tall, the other seven people are more than five feet four, Guo Sanshui and Liu Changan are even five feet five, and among the Ming people, they are all considered tall.

Although several of them were sixteen or seventeen-year-old teenagers, they were all strong and healthy, their faces were clouded, and they were no different from adults, carrying a travel bag more than three feet high, walking like flying, and soon put the Kaifeng Mansion behind them far away and entered Zhongmu County.

Yue Buqun looked up at the sky, and saw that it was still early, and although the cold wind was cold, it was not yet snowing, so he turned his head and said to a few disciples behind him: "Let's go for another hour and stay in Zhengzhou tonight." A few people shouted yes, so they increased their pace and strode forward.

As soon as the sky was dark, Yue Buqun and others had already entered Zhengzhou.

Liu Changan quickly inquired about the location of the best inn in the city, rushed to book a courtyard in advance, and the group stayed, washed up, had dinner, and asked Yue Buqun one by one as usual, and Yue Buqun patiently answered them one by one.

After the seven of them finished asking and said some interesting things on the road, Liu Changan suddenly asked: "Master, why do you attach so much importance to navigation? ”

Everyone actually has this doubt, although they make a lot of money in the open sea, but only deal with some second- and third-rate characters, it is enough to send a few inner brothers, if something big happens, at most let the uncle who is not a word come forward to deal with it, it is really not worth the head to go on this trip personally.

Yue Buqun knew that these young disciples knew almost nothing about the ocean, let alone the importance of the ocean to a country, so he just took the opportunity to instill some ocean concepts into these future elite disciples of Huashan.

At the moment, he beckoned everyone to sit down in the hall, Guo Sanshui saw that the head seemed to have a long talk, so he hurriedly refilled the tea for the head of the house, filled the teapot with water and put it on the water stove, and continued to boil.

Yue Buqun glanced around at the seven of them, and said slowly: "You have also read some history books, who will tell you what the territorial development of our Chinese civilization is?"

These are all children's class courses, seeing the head of the school, everyone raised their hands one after another, Yue Buqun looked around, and said to Lin Yaohua: "Yaohua, you come." ”

Lin Yaohua stood up and said loudly: "Yes, master! Our Chinese civilization originated in Shaanxi, and by the time of Emperor Yan and Emperor Huangdi, it had the Central Plains; by the Zhou Dynasty, it had reached Youzhou in the north and Xiangchu in the south; in the Qin Dynasty, it had entered Nanyue; in the time of the Liu and Han dynasties, it had reached Liaodong in the north and Jiaozhi in the south; and in the Tang Dynasty, it had reached the west of Broken Leaf City and the coast of Beihai in the north. ”

"After the Han Dynasty's strength declined, the territory gradually retracted, there was the Song Dynasty, lost the west of Shaanxi and the sixteen states of Yanyun; the Ming Dynasty established the system, recaptured the Great Wall, until Liaodong, but it is said that Jiaozhi rebellion, so far has not been king. ”

Yue Buqun stretched out his hand to let Lin Yaohua sit down, nodded and said: "That's basically the case, let's think about it, during the Qin and Han dynasties, the Chinese civilization had reached the north to the Great Wall, and after a thousand years, it continued to try to go north, but only the Tang Dynasty had a short-term advantage, and the other dynasties were unsuccessful, which was caused by the defects of agricultural civilization, and there was nothing to be done." ”

"But I can go south in Huaxia, why does it still stop at Liangguang, compared with the Qin and Han dynasties, the difference seems to be, what is the reason?"

Everyone raised their hands one after another, and Yue Buqun said, "Changle is coming." ”

Xue Changle was just about to stand up, Yue Buqun said: "Sit and say, this is small talk, no need to be polite." ”

Xue Changle bowed his head and said: "Yes, master! The land of western Guangxi, the mountains are vertical and horizontal, the jungle is dense, the miasma is pervasive, the roads are dangerous, and it is not suitable for living. ”

Yue Buqun nodded and shook his head, "Who else do you want to add?"

Liu Changan raised his hand and said: "The Yue people don't know etiquette and righteousness, and they don't accept Wang Hua." ”

Yue Buqun asked again, "Is there anything else?"

Lin Yaohua raised his hand and said: "It's too far away from the central court, waving the army on an expedition, working the people and losing money, and the gains outweigh the losses." ”

Yue Buqun asked again: "Is there anything else?"

The seven of you look at me, I look at you, and they all shook their heads.

Yue Buqun said: "What you said is reasonable, to sum up, because of various difficulties, it is difficult for the Han people to reach Jiaozhi, resulting in the scarcity and weakness of the Han people in Jiaozhi, and they cannot control the situation in Jiaozhi, which leads to constant recurrence." ”

The seven of them all nodded, yes, isn't it because of this, if there are more Han people, which barbarian dares to make trouble and not look for death?

Yue Buqun said: "With such and such difficulties, we don't have a good way to get to Jiaozhi easily?