The journey is long and the journey is long.

The Great Sui Empire had a vast territory, with 9,300 miles from east to west and 14,815 miles from north to south. And from Yangzhou to Liaoxiyingzhou outside the pass, it was also a full three thousand miles to choose the fastest and shortest route.

Three thousand miles away, looking at the end of the world.

If it were later generations, three thousand miles of flights would take an hour and a half, even if you drive on your own, it would be enough for a day. But after really following the team and traveling for several days, he deeply realized what transportation was like in ancient times. In this era, most people could only rely on their feet to travel, and a few wealthy people in business and travel could choose to travel by carriage and horse. How far can you walk a day? After all, you have to carry your luggage, and you need to arrange time to choose to stay in towns and other places at night. At this time, the roads were not asphalt, cement roads, or even wide and flat roads.

It is rare. The roads near the city are quite wide, but once they are far away from the town, the roads begin to be difficult to travel, especially in the rainy season in spring and summer, with abundant rainfall. During the flood season, the roads will not only be overturned, but also often have mountain torrents and floods, or even mudslides. The most convenient way of transportation in this era is not walking or riding a horse or riding a car, but taking a boat. Generally, convenient rivers are the expressways of this era. Most of the goods and goods are transported by water, and even long-distance passengers choose to travel by boat. It is safe, fast and comfortable.

Lingyun, a team of 31 people, also chose the most convenient waterway of the era. Instead of hiring ships, they directly had their own small fleet, composed of three not-so-large ships. Starting from Yangzhou, heading north along the Jiangou to Huaihe River, then from Qingkou to Sishui to Xuzhou, then heading east to Songzhou by land, then passing through the Bian River to Xingyang near Luoyang, transferring to boats from there, crossing the Yellow River to Hebei, and then heading north to Yingzhou. This is a complex itinerary schedule, and you have to change vehicles and ships several times along the way. However, it is mainly waterway boats, and land rides as a supplement.

They and more than ten other teams left Gaojiazhuang on the same day, faced the spring breeze, merged into Yangzhou, the center of Jiangnan, and were sandwiched into countless business trips, and finally parted ways.

At first, the journey from Yangzhou to Xuzhou was quite smooth. The waterways were almost connected, and the rivers, the Jiangou, Huaihe River, and Sishui were almost connected. They did not need to convert ships, so they arrived in Xuzhou. After arriving in Xuzhou, their ships could not continue to move north. They had to leave the ship in Xuzhou, and then took the horses from the boat to the west to Songzhou. After arriving in Songzhou, they could board the ship again, following the Bian River to the Biankou near Luoyang. The more they went north, the weather became colder. In the early April, the south of the Yangtze River had already bloomed, but the weather seemed to be in the early spring season after passing Xuzhou.

The northward, the more difficult the roads are. Although there are many rivers, it is difficult to have mutual connections. Moreover, when we reach the old land of Northern Qi north of Xuzhou, it is obviously not as prosperous as the south of the Yangtze River.

More than ten years ago, this place was once a military rank that was constantly fighting and fighting for the important military ranks. Even further forward, since the end of the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms have been in a war. After the brief unification of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains have been in a state of confrontation between the north and the south for a long time. The north and the south and the north are almost bound to fight in this area. The long-term war has made this Huanghuai River Basin and the prosperous plains of the Central Plains very desolate. Even the Sui Dynasty has pacified the world for many years, and even the old land in the south has recovered its prosperity and even become more prosperous, but this place has not yet improved.

It is hard to imagine that under the Great Sui Dynasty under the equal-field system, there will be many barren fields here. The war has continued, and the population of the people here has decreased a lot. Although after more than ten years of rest and recuperation, the land is still vast and sparsely populated. Here, there are some fields, and the key is that there is no people. Under the equal-field system, every family can get hundreds of acres of land, but many families lack strong labor and no oxen, so they cannot plow much. Even if there is a large area of ​​land, they can only barely feed and fed under thick tiles. This is still in the current prosperous era. It is not difficult to imagine that once there are major natural disasters and man-made disasters, they will inevitably be difficult to bear.

Since the supply of Xingyang, Lingyun and his team hired several boats at the Biankou of the Yellow River, and rode eastward along the water. After walking slowly on the Yellow River for three days, they had entered the boundary of Huazhou. Wang Bao, one of the eighteen cavalry of Yanyun in the White Horse Hall of the Tiger League, came to see Lingyun alone, "Sister, have you given the tiger, the order, the seal, and the book, right?"

Ling Yun nodded. The long journey made him feel a little unhappy. In the past few days, he had no mood to go up the bow of the boat to see the scenery along the coast. Every day, he only asked Qinglian and Mulan to play gossip with him, and sometimes he also fought against the landlord. He heard Wang Bao ask, he nodded, "Well, Qiangwei has handed over all these to me."

"Have Saburo read the roster?"

"These rosters are written in code words, and there are many green forest cuts in them. They seem to be too troublesome and have not finished reading them yet." Ling Yun shook his head and smiled bitterly. The green forest roster was really harder than the English-level exam that year. "What, is there any problem?"

"It's okay, but we just happened to be in the boundary of Huazhou, and there is Dongjun in front. There are a few of our friends there. I saw that Sanlang was a little bored after traveling all the time these days. Why not go ashore and take a break for a few days? In addition, we also meet old friends. Now Sanlang is in charge of the position of leader of the league, so we can tell the friends here by the way."

Ling Yun was slightly stunned. This is the boundary of Shandong. No, according to the Sui Dynasty, the area south of the Yellow River is considered Henan, and the area north of the Yellow River is considered Shandong. The power of the Tiger Alliance is not in the Yanshan area, but there are some forces in the Yinshan area. Why do even Henan have their friends now? The friends of the Green Forest heroes will definitely not be legitimate eunuchs and might be fellow men.

"You know I don't remember anything about it before. I haven't finished reading the list yet. Just tell me who are our friends here?"

"Oh, if Brother Shan Er knew that Sanlang didn't remember who he was, he would definitely have to punish Sanlang for three cups of strong wine." Wang Bao shook his head and smiled.

"Brother Shan?" Ling Yun couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning. Dongjun, Brother Shan, friend on the Green Forest Road, please do I, this Brother Shan is not the one who is right?

"The second owner of Erxian Village, Dongjun, has a surname, name and name Xiongxin. He ranks second in his family. He is called Dan Er Ge on the road, but he is a well-known figure on Henan Road." Wang Bao introduced.

Ling Yun was shocked on the spot. He didn't expect that this second brother Shan was really the Flying General of the Five Tigers of Wagang, Shan Xiongxin. It was hard to believe. Could it be that Shan Xiongxin in the Romance was not entirely Romance, but that this fierce general at the end of the Sui Dynasty had really been on the road?

"The Shan family was originally a wealthy family in Yanbei. The ancestors were generals of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Later, they moved south to East County of Huazhou and built Erxian Village. They were famous charity people in a radius of hundreds of miles. They built bridges and roads, supported orphans and widows, and were truly great charity people." Wang Bao explained with a smile, but Ling Yun raised his eyebrows. Since the ancestor of Shan Erge was a military general of the Northern Wei Dynasty, he became a charity after moving south, and he was also a friend of the Green Forest Road, there was something tricky here. Could it be that the Shan Xiongxin family was a good family in Huazhou, but secretly had a secret relationship with friends in the Green Forest and did not do any business? When he said his thoughts, Wang Bao, a tough guy, was also shocked. He did not expect that after Ling Yun lost his past memory, he could guess the real identity of the Shan family with just a few clues.

"Sanlang is very knowledgeable. The second generation of Shan Er Ge's grandfather and the second generation of Shan Er Ge had secret contact with the Northern Green Forest. What they did was to help the Northern Green Forest sell dirty things in the Central Plains, so they had a great relationship with friends on the road. In the generation of Shan Er Ge, Shan Dalang was even more at home in the Green Forest with the prestige accumulated by the two generations of ancestors. When the old leader Murong integrated all the green forest forces in the north, Shan Dalang actively cooperated with the old leader, not only continued his original business cooperation with the heroes of the northern Green Forest, but also began to intervene in the Green Forest power in Henan. At the beginning, the old leader wanted to borrow the reputation and status of the Shan family and work together to integrate the Green Forest in Henan. As a result, the old leader went early and failed to see this day."

"That Shan family has integrated the green forest in Henan?"

"It's not so easy. At that time, the Shan family, with their many years of reputation and financial resources, and the reputation of the old leader Murong, only barely won over a part of Henan Green Forest. As soon as they made some appearances, the old leader Murong died, and then Shan Dalang died. It is said that he fell down and died. Alas, it's such a pity."

Ling Yun knew in his heart that Murong Ke did not die of illness, so Dan Tong would never have been accidentally fell and fell to death. The great possibility is that Brother Shan Xiongxin, like Murong Ke, was probably a member of the court that year. The court sent people to invade into the green forest, which must have been to better control them. As a result, they may be out of control, so they were killed by the court immediately. How could the court really make people build a powerful green forest alliance and be uncontrollable?

"At the beginning, the Shan family had a very good relationship with our Tiger Alliance, and Shan Erlang was always in our north. At that time, he had the best relationship with you, and he called you third brother all day long."

"How old is Brother Dan Er?" Ling Yun suddenly realized a problem.

"Well, Brother Shan is one year younger than you, this year, 17. After Shan Dalang passed away, Shan Erlang took over Erxianzhuang. The Henan Green Forest Alliance that Shan Dalang raised back then was now only an empty shell. Shan Erlang was nominally the leader of the Henan Green Forest Alliance. In fact, there were not many people who really listened to his orders, and only some of the pastors that were once favored by his father and brother still regarded him as the leader. Otherwise, the Henan Green Forest would have been gone long ago. However, Erxianzhuang is still operating the dirty sales transactions run by several generations over the years, so he has lived a good life, and they have always hidden their identities. In Dongjun, the Shan family in Erxianzhuang is a famous charity from far and near. Since we have reached the territory of Brother Shan, we have to go over to meet him no matter what. Otherwise, Brother Shan knew that we would not enter and would definitely chase you to the northern border to cause trouble."

I am the leader of Shan Xiongxin’s path, please do it!

"Old Wang, are there a few friends in Dongjun named Zhai Rang, Huang Junhan, and Xu Shiji?" Ling Yun couldn't help asking.

"I know the two of Zhai Rang and Huang Junhan mentioned by Sanlang. Zhai Rang is the county court and Huang Junhan is the county warden. They are both very close to the Shan family. In fact, they have always been doing underground business with the Shan family. They are friends on Baidao. I have never heard of Xu Shiji. However, there is a Xu Dashan man Xu Gai in Weinan County, Huazhou. He is also a business partner of Shan Erge and his fellow business. He has had some contact with our Tiger Alliance in the past and his relationship is OK."

Ling Yun felt a little dizzy. Xu Gai, was Xu Shiji his father? Xu Shiji, also known as Xu Maogong. Later, he avoided Li Shimin's name and changed it to a single name. Li Ji, one of the famous generals of the early Tang Dynasty, was given the surname Li. There was also Zhai Rang, who was later the founder and leader of the famous Wagang Village, and Huang Junhan. Later, he became the Shangzhu Kingdom, the general, and the Duke of the Li Tang Dynasty. They were all great people. Unexpectedly, they were all friends of him!

Now, he was really impatient to meet these friends!
Chapter completed!