Chapter 479 Five Years

Five years have passed in the blink of an eye!

It has been less than three years since the story of Xiaoao officially started.

However, with the butterfly effect created by Jia Huan getting bigger and bigger, it is doubtful whether the story of Xiaoao can be started normally.

At this time, Jia Huan is already 37 years old.

In the past few years, he was really impatient with the urging of the gang leader, the deputy gang leader, and some other elders, and married the second daughter of a Wudang outer disciple, and gave birth to a pair of children.

There is nothing to say, his wife's appearance is definitely better than the several female characters in the story of Xiaoao.

To be honest, she can be regarded as the daughter of a gentry, and she has also studied for a few years. At the same time, she has some martial arts skills, which can be regarded as a Jianghu existence.

The age difference between him and his wife is almost 20 years old, and it is definitely an old cow eating tender grass.

But he is famous, and the woman and her family still think they have taken advantage of him.

With Jia Huan's ability, it is not difficult to coax the little girl to be in a sunny mood every day, and naturally live a very comfortable life.

After having a pair of children, life became more comfortable.

Under Jia Huan's guidance, his wife's martial arts soon reached the third-rate level in the martial arts world.

The two children were not bad in qualifications. They had been carefully taken care of by Jia Huan since childhood. As long as they did not grow up crooked, they would be able to become the top masters in the martial arts world.

Soon it was time for him to go to the Fujian branch to take charge. He had already greeted the gang leader Jie Feng and the deputy gang leader Zhang Jinbie.

As he predicted, the development momentum of the Beggars' Gang in recent years has encountered a bottleneck.

There is no big problem in terms of momentum!

With the existence of "Wulin Monthly", the influence of the Beggars' Gang has been increasing.

However, the actual benefits obtained and the improvement in strength are not proportional to the increase in reputation. The top leaders of the Beggars' Gang have gradually noticed something wrong.

The main problem is still in various living materials and silver income.

Especially the income from silver, it seems to be stuck, and it can't cross a certain threshold.

This has a great impact on the Beggars' Gang!

After all, the operation of the gang, as well as the training of personnel and all aspects, all require silver support.

Because of the establishment of a large number of bases, the number of people in the Beggars' Gang has increased rapidly.

Although the economy of the Ming Dynasty is still good, the lives of the lower-class people are still difficult.

As long as they don't focus on prosperous towns, it is not difficult for the Beggars' Gang to gather enough fresh blood.

If you want to go further, you must deal with the government and local towns.

Isn't this a joke? Think about the greed of the gentry and landlords in the Ming Dynasty, and you will know that they are definitely not good partners for cooperation, especially the Beggars' Gang is still the so-called Jianghu.

Even if the Beggars' Gang has secretly supported many local scholars in recent years, the time is too short and the silver invested is limited. Even if a few of them pass the imperial examination, it will take decades to get their feedback.

Don't think that the Beggars' Gang is learning from the later Donglin Party. In fact, any force that has reached a certain level of strength is doing such things, but the scale and duration are large and small, long and short.

Yuelu Academy, one of the four famous academies in the world, is not far from Yuezhou.

In fact, Jia Huan is more willing to support the seed of reading that emerges from the Beggar Gang.

You know, there are hundreds of orphans under the Yuezhou branch alone.

The number of orphans under the other branches combined is probably thousands!

Regardless of other branches, Jia Huan basically forces orphans in the Yuezhou branch to learn to read and write as long as they are of the right age.

As I said before, not everyone has the talent for martial arts!

Being able to read and write will give you more options when you grow up!

Apart from anything else, it is not a problem to become the accountant of the Beggar Gang's industry after simple training.

Such talents are also the backbone of the Yuezhou branch, which will extend its tentacles to all aspects of the entire region.

During this period, good seedlings with good reading talents will naturally emerge!

Jia Huan would not waste their good talents. Such orphans and beggars, who had experienced the difficult pressure of survival, would not let go of any opportunity to change, and would never disappoint people in terms of hard work and diligence.

This is indeed the case!

Even if such a seed of reading is also talented in martial arts, Jia Huan would personally help them, plan their daily study and martial arts time, and strive to achieve the best of both worlds.

Others may not be able to do it, but Jia Huan can do it!

In this way, after nearly 20 years of training, the Yuezhou branch has cultivated one Jinshi and three Juren, and the number of Xiucai Tongsheng has reached dozens!

Compared with those well-known academies and long-standing scholarly families, the number of such talents produced is naturally not very good.

But for the Yuezhou branch, it is enough.

Not to mention the one Jinshi and three Juren, the rest of the Xiucai Tongsheng are all talents of both civil and military, and their abilities are quite good.

There is no way. Since they have shown a certain talent for reading, the branch and the Xiangtang below will give them certain things to deal with.

At such a young age, he has practical management experience and the ability to handle affairs. Among the scholars today, he is quite impressive.

In fact, the local officials and gentry in Yuezhou are jealous of the Beggars' ability to cultivate talents and have tried to test it several times.

According to the words of the confidants, these guys are too shameless.

They actually want the branch to make wedding clothes for them and participate in the school established in the branch.

No one is a fool!

The so-called participation is just talk, in fact, they want to send people to infiltrate and completely control it.

Want beauty!

The branch spent money and effort to cultivate, but the good seedlings cultivated were divided up by local officials and gentry. Whoever agrees is a big fool.

The brothers who manage the branch naturally did not agree, but the signals revealed inside are enough to explain many things.

The Beggars' Sect is not a soft persimmon!

Unless it is a real aristocratic family with great voice in the court, it is not so easy to make the Beggars' Sect bow down.

Although the Beggars' Sect does not have a psychopathic gunman, there are still some desperate criminals with good martial arts in the gang.

From this, it can also be inferred that the development of the Beggars' Sect has reached a considerable level.

Going further, it is necessary to participate in the real struggle for power and resources.

Jia Huan thought he was a doorman, but he was not the leader of the Beggars' Sect after all.

And no matter whether it was the dirty clothes faction or the clean clothes faction, they would not agree with the fierce interest struggle between the Beggars' Sect and local officials and gentry and tyrants due to the influence of traditional concepts.

Since ancient times, it has been said that the people should not fight with the officials!

Although Jia Huan has a great reputation and is the one who has the final say in the Beggars' Sect, the inherent concepts of the people are not so easy to break, and they must go through the baptism of blood and fire.

But the world is still peaceful at the moment. Neither Jia Huan himself nor the top leaders of the Beggars' Sect have the idea of ​​​​taking the initiative to stir up local chaos, let alone directly confronting the court.

Look, Yizhou Island, which Jia Huan presided over the development, shows that it is here again.

After five years of development, the Beggars' Sect has occupied a large area on Yizhou Island.

At the same time, more than 20 farms have been established!

Each farm has one or two hundred Beggars' Sect brothers and their families, and more are various refugees and tenants secretly recruited by the Beggars' Sect, and the number is several times more than that of the Beggars' Sect disciples.

That's the way the world is!

With the identity of the Beggars' Gang, it is really too convenient to recruit refugees and landless tenants.

As long as the number of recruits is not too exaggerated, the government and local tyrants will not even take a second look.

I have to say that Yizhou Island is really a good place!

When the farms there are on track, the annual grain output of three crops will be enough to supply the food needs of the entire Beggars' Gang, making the Beggars' Gang no longer so "beggar"!

As for the development of other aspects, under the command of Jia Huan, an experienced person, the development momentum is also in full swing. Don't forget what he did in the world of Red Mansions.

Apart from other things, the sugarcane of Yizhou Island is an excellent raw material for sugar production.

Let's not talk about it. After all, the Beggars' Gang is a gang in the rivers and lakes, and the most concerned thing is the affairs of the rivers and lakes.

In the past five years, there have not been many major events in the rivers and lakes, but various small things have never stopped. After all, where there are people, there are disputes, and where there are disputes, there are rivers and lakes.

Speaking of which, thanks to the "Wulin Monthly" hosted by Jia Huan, there have been many fast swordsmen in the martial arts world in recent years.

I don't know how they practiced, but after these fast swordsmen debuted, they set off quite a stir in the martial arts world.

It's not that they have any outstanding performance, but their combat effectiveness is indeed good.

The existence of the same realm in the martial arts world is simply not the opponent of these fast swordsmen.

As a result, when teaching their disciples to practice swordsmanship, various sects naturally require the sword to be drawn faster.

It has not yet formed a real trend, but Jia Huan seems to be not far away.

What really attracts the attention of the martial arts world are the new masters who have appeared in recent years.

They are really new martial arts, and each of them is not old, basically between 20 and 30, and they are absolutely the young generation in the martial arts world.

The most famous ones have even reached the first-class level of the martial arts world, not inferior to the old first-class masters of the martial arts world.

No one would have expected that among the best of them, there are actually two disciples of the Hengshan School.

That's right, they are the two true disciples of Liu Zhengfeng who played a supporting role in the story of "Swordsman", the eldest Xiang Danian and the second Mi Weiyi.

These two were forced to roll up by the Beggars' Sect and Wudang disciples, but in fact they did not disappoint the expectations of their elders and fellow disciples, and now they have grown into the backbone of the sect.

The "Returning Wind and Falling Wild Goose Sword Technique" has even reached the level of one sword to fall seven geese!

In terms of swordsmanship alone, it has completely surpassed his master Liu Zhengfeng!