Due to the unprecedented shortage of manpower in the sect, within half a year, Hua Bushi posted the recruitment list all over the cities in the two realms, just to recruit talents, but the results were somewhat unsatisfactory.

When it comes to the biggest gain, Hua Bushi personally recruited him from the door. It's just that this person is a weak woman who doesn't know martial arts, Miss Shu Feng, the owner of the Nanao Tangram Garden.

Hua Bushi invited Shu Feng to consider it.

The thirteen cities were established in separate rudders, and the "Evil Dog Gate" has become a big gang across the three provinces. Although the combat power of the sect needs to be improved urgently, it is also the most important thing to make profits and earn silver taels. The silver taels spent on the establishment of these rudders were all earned by the cargo trade in Okura Castle and the sale of weapons from the refined iron mined in the veins of Wuyang City, and if these rudders could not be made profitable, they would always rely on other industries in the sect to support them, and it would not be a long-term solution.

There are few talents who know how to operate in the "Evil Dog Gate". Hua Bushi himself is proficient, but he can't be separated when he has to take charge of the overall situation, Zhen Niang is also one, but he can only stay in the Hua family's mansion in Wuyang City, and Mo Wentian has already gone to Okura Island, and he can't count on it.

came to see Shu Feng, Hua Bushi's mouthful of rhetoric and coaxing methods worked again, and after promising generous conditions, he finally moved her. As a result, there was one more elder in the "Evil Dog Gate", and Shu Feng became the deputy hall master of the "Jujin Hall", in charge of the operation of all industries and territories in the thirteen rudders of Guangdong and Fujian.

Shu Feng is not only good at management, but also the descendant of Zhang Songxi, the senior grandmaster in the martial arts, has a wide range of contacts, and the best in the rivers and lakes have to sell her a little face, and Shu Feng will come forward to take care of the rudder matters of the "Evil Dog Gate" will also reduce a lot of trouble. Four months later, although the rudder of the Thirteen Cities had not yet begun to make money, its income and expenditure had gradually become balanced, and it would not have been consuming the sect's silver taels as it had done when it was first established.

The expansion of Guangdong and Fujian was initially completed, and Hua Bushi's next thought was Hubei, but this time it was extremely unsmooth.

Expanding territory shouldn't have been so dry. The accumulation of fame and strength of any sect is not a day's work, just like the practice of martial arts, you must first lay a good foundation before you can succeed. The "Evil Dog Gate" has just developed Shili to the two realms of Guangdong and Fujian, and if it takes a few years for the reputation of the sect to be established, the accumulation of assets, and the collection and training of enough masters, it is much more logical to expand the territory.

All the famous factions on the rivers and lakes have gone through decades or even centuries of development to achieve today's fame and achievements.

However, Hua Bushi can't use this step-by-step way to develop the "Evil Dog Gate", just because he has no decades to use, and there are only eight years left in the original ten-year covenant, and if he wants to achieve his ideals, he can only take a dangerous road!

Within a month, Hua Bushi successively visited many Baidao sects in Wuchang, Hanyang, Huangzhou, Chengtian and other state capitals, but none of them were willing to form an alliance with the "Evil Dog Gate", and even the tactics of smashing silver, which had been invincible in Guangdong and Fujian, were completely out of order.

After listening to the news with the ears and eyes of "Thousand Flowers", Hua Bushi quickly figured out the reason. And the reason is actually very simple, that is, the "Wudang faction" has issued secret posts to various sects, and the shili of the "evil dog gate" is not allowed to expand to Hubei territory. As one of the best sects among the "Seven Great Sects of the Central Plains", the "Wudang Faction" is the only leader of the White Dao in Hubei Province, and no sect dares to go against the decision of the "Wudang Faction".

Although the silver two are good weapons, what can really play a decisive role is still the strength of the sect.

The reason why the "Evil Dog Sect" can develop in the two realms of Guangdong and Fujian is because among the two realms, there is actually no sect of Shili that is strong enough to control the entire realm. Whether it is the "Southern Shaolin" or the "Wuyi faction", or the four major sects of Baidao in the Guangdong realm, at most they are only equal to the strength of the "Evil Dog Gate", and the "Evil Dog Gate" crosses the border to establish a rudder, and if they are tough on the confrontation, they will inevitably suffer heavy losses. Therefore, Hua Bushi took out the silver and made an alliance, and these sects weighed the benefits and disadvantages, and it was not difficult to make a choice.

Spending a huge amount of silver taels just makes the expansion of the "Evil Dog Gate" more rapid, but it can't actually change the essence of respecting the strong on the rivers and lakes.

Today's "Wudang faction" in Hubei is by no means comparable to the sects in Guangdong and Fujian.

After the "Wanyi Conference" a year ago, "Wudang" and "Kongtong" once clashed with the "Tangmen" and "Emei" in the southwest, and the two sides gathered hundreds of small and medium-sized sects to form an alliance to confront Changsha City in Hunan Province.

After a few battles, many small and medium-sized sects that formed alliances lost many masters and disciples, and even a few whole sects were wiped out and tended to decline, but the four famous sects were intact and only slightly injured their wings.

Seeing that the two sides were equal in combat strength, and that they could only lose both sides if they continued to fight, the four major factions began to negotiate and reconcile.

The ostensible reason for this conflict is the murder of Weng Yibai, an elder of the "Kongtong faction", but in fact, the root cause behind it is the division of territory and industry between the two sides on the border between Hubei and Sichuan. In recent years, the "Tangmen" in Sichuan has continued to develop to the northeast, encroaching on a lot of territory in Shaanxi and Hubei.

After several rounds of negotiations, the heads of the two sides agreed on substantive matters such as the division of territory, Tang Zilanxiu, the deputy head of the "Shuzhong Tang Sect", admitted that the order to kill the "Kongtong" elder Weng Yibai that day was really a momentary miscalculation, and apologized to Fei Yunzi, the head of the "Kongtong faction".

In this way, the "Kongtong faction" fought for face, Weng Yibai's "grievances" were also revealed, his reputation was preserved, and Feiyunzi was magnanimous and no longer pursued, and this dispute that covered most of the Central Plains martial arts was over.

If the "Shuzhong Tang Gate" and the "Emei faction" can still be called the "Wudang faction" at the beginning, the "evil dog gate" is still too far away. And there are many aspects to the existence of such gaps.

In terms of disciples, not counting the side branch sects of the "Wudang Sect" distributed in various places, there are as many as 3,000 disciples who officially teach their art on Wudang Mountain, and the total number of disciples of the "Evil Dog Sect" in Wuyang City and the rudder of various places are all combined, and there are only seven or eight hundred people.

In terms of masters, the palace masters of the nine Taoist temples on Wudang Mountain are all characters who have been famous for many years and have reached the realm of martial arts. And the Tianzhu Peak Taihe Hall also has the "Liangyi Jianzhen" composed of seventy-two sword cultivation masters, not to mention the current head of Baoxuan Daojun, known as the "first sword in the world".

In the "Evil Dog Gate", only the head Hua Tianxiong is a little famous, but he is not young, and the "Evil Dog Five Littles" have only temporarily emerged on the rivers and lakes in the past one or two years.

Therefore, it is natural that the "Wudang faction" did not look at the "evil dog gate" in their eyes, and other sects in Hubei never dared to form an alliance with the "evil dog gate" for the sake of silver taels, so as not to offend the "Wudang faction".

The world of difference is the gap between the "Wudang Sect" and the "Evil Dog Sect" in the eyes of others, but in Hua Bushi's opinion, the comparison between the two sects is not so great.

In the eyes of this eldest young master, Qingyunwei and Thorn Tiger are both strong war departments, enough to confront Wudang's "Liangyi Jianzhen", and the martial arts of Yu Qianli and Zhu Hong are not necessarily much worse than those of the Nine Palace Palace Masters, and the real gap is only that there is no one in the sect who can compare with such a top figure as Baoxuan Daojun.

The lack of real top masters dooms the "Evil Dog Sect" to be only a second-class sect, and it will not be able to compete with the famous sects like the "Central Plains Seven Major Sects"!

Of course, Hua Bushi had expected this, after discovering Yang Jiangyi's talent potential, the eldest young master once pinned his hopes on her, which is why he traveled thousands of miles and did not hesitate to pay a heavy price to find a Buddhist internal strength method for Yang Jiangyi.

It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, this hope to zuihou is still in vain, although Hua Bushi tried his best to keep Yang Jiangyi by his side, but she is no longer able to practice the "Yijin Jing" internal skills, and it is difficult for martial arts to reach the top of the realm.

Hua Bushi thought of another way, which was to ask Miss Shu Yu to be a lobbyist, trying to persuade the principal of the "Wudang Sect" to give the "Evil Dog Gate" a chance to develop in Hubei.

However, this time even Shu Yu returned in vain, and Baoxuan Daojun bluntly refused, leaving no room for anything. Although Shu Yu's grandfather Zhang Songxi was the head of Wudang back then, it was not enough to give the favor of the predecessors when it was related to the current interests of the sect.

In desperation, Hua Bushi could only give up the plan to build a rudder in Hubei and returned to Hunan in a gloomy manner.

Back in Wuyang City, the eldest young master had an unexpected surprise, that is, Yujian's master "Medical Saint" Meng Wuming, who taught medical skills. Meng Yisheng is over seventy years old, he has traveled all over the world in his life, and he has no fixed place to live, since he left after teaching in Wuyang City for three years, Hua Bushi has never met him again, and it has been ten years.

Ten years ago, Hua Bushi was still a young man full of resentment towards the world, and once went to Miaojiang in search of the poison that could kill tens of millions of people, but now his heart has changed greatly, and the extremism of the past has long ceased to exist.

Meng Wuming has always been concerned about this disciple, this time he came to Wuyang, but Hua Bushi happened to go to the Hubei realm, he lived for a month before waiting for Hua Bushi to come back. During this month, Meng Yisheng originally lived in the Hua family's mansion, but a few days later he moved to the Vicious Dog Courtyard, but it was Sun Qiaoyun who served him.

After worshipping Hua Bushi's disciples, Sun Qiaoyun rarely got the guidance of her master, just because Hua Bushi didn't stay in Wuyang City much, she could only study the "Clumsy Hand Supplement Stone Collection" and the many medical books and classics in the "Pingong Pavilion" by herself, even if there was any doubt, no one pointed out. Now the arrival of Master Meng Wuming has given her a good opportunity to seek advice and solve her doubts.