One or two top naval generals, of course Liu Bei was very interested, because this was exactly the talent she lacked, after all, although the three of them were very good at water, they were not proficient in water warfare, even their master Yan Xu was the same, so naturally they would not miss this opportunity.

Zhang Bao is supportive of this, after all, the Zhang family's smuggling boat needs to pass through Erlongshan every time, and this toll is a lot, so it is naturally best to save it, not to mention that if you become your own person, this Erlongshan is a treasure land, and it is too wasteful to set up a card to collect money.

If you want to do it, Liu Bei left Guan Yu to look after the house, and took Zhang Fei and three hundred elites to take the Zhang family's sea boat to the mouth of Hezhou, not far away is Erlong Mountain, which is clamping the river with horns, and the terrain is dangerous, and it only needs a fleet to lock it up, it seems that it is not easy to capture Erlong Mountain.

On a small island with beautiful scenery in the canopy landscape, two Taoists, an old man and a young man, were sitting cross-legged on a boulder and drinking and playing chess.

"Daoyou has deep chess skills, and the old Taoist admits defeat. Lao Dao put down the chess pieces, shook his head with a smile and said to the young Taoist, he was not unconvinced by losing to the young man at all, and he was obviously very well cultivated.

The young Taoist is Yan Xu, and the old Taoist is not someone else, but a spiritual mist master who has had a relationship.

"I heard that the Venerable Master passed down the Inspired Teachings in Lingzhou, and the teachings were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people to open up the spiritual wisdom, and now is the critical time, and I don't know why I have the time to come to this river state, and I invite you to come again. Yan Xu didn't have time to talk to this old guy, so he asked directly.

"Lao Dao likes to be clean, although Lingzhou is good, but it is noisy, not as clean as this water. "The Venerable Master of Lingwu opened his eyes and said nonsense, this Tianpeng Mountain anti-thief and the imperial army are facing each other every day, and a big war may break out at any time, running here to hide is pure, it is purely a brain into the water, Yan Xu looked at the other party with the same eyes as if he had Alzheimer's.

The Spirit Mist Master is a person who is hundreds of years old, he has never experienced anything, he doesn't know what blushing is, and he is very calm under Yan Xu's gaze.

However, both sides are masters of the same realm, and you can't really treat others as fools, so I will say the purpose of this time.

"Lao Dao is also an idle character, here for a long time, but want to find something to do, not long ago I received a few registered disciples here to pass the time, I didn't expect these named disciples to be lonely, occupy this canopy of the mountains and rivers and grass for the coward, even the old Tao has to hide here all day to play chess to kill time, really a bunch of rebels. The Master of Lingwu sighed and shook his head, obviously taking his words seriously.

It's a pity that Yan Xu didn't bother at this, he understood it very well in his heart, to put it simply, this old man was unwilling to look at it on the side, and he was afraid of getting his hands dirty, so he accepted a few registered disciples to muddy the waters, and reaped the profits of the fisherman, showing his true nature of scheming.

And the meaning of calling himself here is that it is not easy for Lao Dao to make a living, so give Lao Dao some face, don't give these named disciples a disaster, and let his plan come to naught.

Obviously, this old man not only knew that he had settled in Peach Blossom Island, but also knew his own plan, and at the same time understood that it was only a matter of time before Liu Bei's three daughters sent troops to Hezhou, so he came to ask for favors, afraid that he would interfere in his calculations.

Yan Xu did not object to the preachers and apprentices meddling in the affairs of the world, he also did the same, but he did not agree with Lao Dao's approach.

The disciples are divided into three, six, nine and so on, the mantle disciple is closer to the master than the son, and can be regarded as a continuation of himself, although the inner disciple is a little worse, but he can also obtain the true inheritance, and the registered disciple is not good, the status is very embarrassing, generally speaking, it is not enough to accept the standard of apprenticeship, but there is also a little shining point, if it is not in the way, it will be accepted, in case it is a dark horse, it will be earned.

But the above explanation is used in times of peace, and the disciples who were accepted during the catastrophe were simply substitutes for the dead ghosts carefully prepared for themselves, and the registered disciples could not even be substitutes for the dead ghosts, they could only be said to be the substitutes or cannon fodder of the apprentices, which was so cruel and realistic.

At present, the catastrophe is slowly unfolding, and those who have a certain degree of cultivation or vision know that this is a catastrophe that affects the whole world, and no one can escape.

Therefore, the best choice is not to escape, but to actively participate in it to compete for advantages, like the Master of the Spirit Mist to promote the Great Tribulation with the help of a registered disciple, you can get some benefits, although in the process it will also provoke some killing karma, but it is not his own hand, so it is not contaminated.

What's more, as long as you find an opportunity to let the registered disciple commit murder and robbery and die, the karma of killing and robbery will naturally dissipate.

Yan Xu was disdainful of this, he accepted his apprentices just to teach his skills, to hold up a sky for his apprentices to shelter from the wind and rain, rather than letting them die, so he couldn't see the practice of the Spirit Mist Master.

However, although he was not used to seeing it, Yan Xu didn't show it, he just turned around and left after listening to the Master of Lingwu without making any promises.

After Yan Xu left, the Master of Lingwu pinched his long beard and was silent for a long time, his face was gloomy and uncertain, and finally decided not to conflict with Yan Xu for the time being, after all, although the other party was young, his strength really made him unable to see through, not to mention that he was not an idiot like Tian Leizi, he didn't want to provoke a strong enemy in vain, anyway, the chess pieces that fell in Hezhou were just idle chess, Lingzhou was his base camp, it was better to leave early, and there were so many incidents in the province.

What's more, Lingzhou is not very peaceful, Wei Xuewu alone can't suppress it, and this apprentice is sharp, and his strength is good, but his brain doesn't know how to turn, and he has to be in charge of Lao Dao himself.

The Master of Lingwu put away the chessboard, turned around and left the Tianpeng Shanshuibo, it seemed that he didn't plan to care about the affairs of Hezhou anymore.

Liu Bei parked the boat on the seashore and quietly came to the foot of Erlong Mountain with three hundred elites.

This Erlongshan is an important pass of the Hezhou Navy, and it is also the largest estuary, every year just to collect taxes can receive softness, but unfortunately the Hezhou Navy's greed, in addition to the taxes stipulated by the imperial court, the additional taxes of the state pastor, they added another layer on top, causing the merchants to be overwhelmed, have changed their routes, from serious businessmen to smugglers, so naturally there is no income, so it has long declined, otherwise Zhou Tai would not have been assigned here.

But after all, it was also glorious back then, Erlong Mountain was very extravagant to build a water village on both sides of the river, which could support each other, and now it is guarded by Ganning and Zhou Tai respectively.

It's just that now Hezhou is in a mess, there were originally a few merchant ships that could scrape oil and water, but now even these merchant ships are gone, and even their business transactions are affected, and now they can only scrape some sporadic oil and water from those smuggling dealers, naturally there are not so many people, only three or five clippers are wandering on the water, and the rest are in the stockade.