Strange mountains and rivers

In fact, Chen Huaisheng originally wanted to let other people in the mountain walk around the territory of Wei Huai Dao and investigate and understand the situation of the entire Wei Huai Dao in detail, especially the population, towns, commerce, spiritual materials, mineral veins, etc.

Population, spiritual materials and mineral veins are the foundation for a sect to survive. Although Dahuai Mountain now belongs to Chonghua Sect, as Chonghua Sect withdraws from Hebei, Dahuai Mountain will gradually evolve into a semi-independent state, and will eventually become completely dependent on itself to obtain various resources to maintain its survival.

Among the four states in Hebei, Yanzhou is the first, followed by Jinzhou, then Youzhou, and finally Yunzhou.

The situation in the six roads of Yanzhou is relatively balanced. According to the population, Fuyang and Zhaigu Road have the largest population, Zhangchi Road, Tangshui Road, and Wei Huai Road are about the same, and the least is Hanshan Road.

But even Hanshan Road has a population of more than one million. For example, the most populous Fuyang Road and Zhaigu Road have a population of more than 1.8 million, and the population of the other three roads is also more than 1.5 million.

The entire Yanzhou has a population of nearly 10 million, but its area is larger than the entire three eastern counties of Dazhao, and the population of the three eastern counties of Dazhao exceeds 20 million. This shows how vast the territory of Yanzhou is.

The current situation that Chen Huaisheng has mastered comes entirely from the intelligence of the old Lingyun Sect, but the situation has changed a lot in recent years. When Ma Daochun was stationed in Dahuai Mountain, he was purely stationed and hardly asked about foreign affairs, so the situation of Weihuai Dao can only be collected from the beginning of the year.

If the population, towns, and commerce are relatively easy to collect, but if you want accurate and detailed information about spiritual materials and mineral veins, you need to go into the mountain area to understand it. Considering the current situation of everyone in Dahuai Mountain, Chen Huaisheng dare not let them go casually.

Especially some special areas, such as Tongtianbo, which is the border area between Weihuai Dao and Jinzhou Tianjing Dao. Most of the waters are in Weihuai Dao, and a small part is in Tianjing Dao, but in fact no one cares about this. When Lingyun Sect was there, there was no real investigation of Tongtianbo.

In contrast, Yuelu Sect has a deeper understanding of Tongtianbo.

It should be said that Tongtianbo is the most valuable water in Weihuai Dao. It produces a wealth of spiritual materials and spiritual objects. The golden turtle is second, and the most famous is the Tongtian koi. There are also some other spiritual objects. It depends on whether you can use them.

Because of this, Chen Huaisheng decided to go to Tongtianbo.

From Dahuai Mountain to the southwest, it is about 600 miles to Tongtianbo, which is located at the intersection of Jinzhou Tianjing Road in the southwest corner.

Walking alone, there is also incomparable comfort and relaxation.

At this time, Chen Huaisheng realized that he had not traveled alone for a long time. In the past, such a long journey was either with Baolu, Qingyu or Chimei, or with Zhao Sitian, Tang Jingtian or Wu Tianen, Hu Delu and others. This time, he was traveling alone, and it felt very unusual.

Going west, 80 miles from Dahuai Mountain is the big city in the middle of Weihuai Dao-Huaiyang City.

When Lingyun Sect entered Dahuai Mountain, it also started from here, but was immediately resisted by the largest family in Huaiyang City, the An Family.

The An Family has nothing to do with the Yuelu Sect in Tianjing Dao, but from their surnames, we can know that they are descendants of the Beirong people, and they are also one of the few Beirong people who can take root and sprout in Hebei. Moreover, it took only more than two hundred years to grow into one of the top three families in Weihuai Dao, which shows that this family is not simple.

Dahuai Mountain is located in the center of Weihuai Dao.

There is Huaiyang City 80 miles southwest of it, Dongyuan Town 190 miles southwest of it, Weiheji 220 miles northwest of it, Luyanpu 240 miles east of it, Xiongyang Fort 280 miles east of it, close to Hanshan Road, and Taoyuan Town 160 miles southeast of Dahuai Mountain, which is basically a large town with a relatively concentrated population in Weihuai Dao.

The population of the six towns is about 70,000 to 80,000, plus the surrounding villages, which means that each town actually controls and affects a population of about 150,000 to 160,000, and the remaining hundreds of thousands of people are scattered in the plains and mountains on the edge of the surrounding areas.

The dispute between Lingyun Sect and An Family did not last long. An Family did not explicitly oppose Lingyun Sect's foothold in Wei Huai Dao, and its strength was not enough to confront Lingyun Sect. It just took a cold approach, so that Lingyun Sect, which had not yet established a firm foothold, could not take drastic measures against An Family all of a sudden.

After that, Lingyun Sect no longer had the energy to entangle with An Family. The challenge from Yuelu Sect made Lingyun Sect have no time to care about other things. In comparison, An Family's cold attitude was already good. Places like Weiheji in the west and Xiongyang Fort in the south directly adopted a boycott attitude towards Lingyun Sect. Of course, they had the support of Yuelu Sect behind them.

Only Taoyuan Town and Luyanpu were friendly to Lingyun Sect and in a relatively peaceful cooperative state. Unfortunately, Lingyun Sect was always at a disadvantage in the confrontation with Yuelu Sect, until it was finally destroyed and taken over by Chonghua Sect, and it never had the opportunity to establish its own influence in the surrounding areas.

After the battle with Yuelu Sect, Chonghua Sect did not pay attention to Wei Huaidao, so it was not until Chen Huaisheng brought this group of people to re-root in Dahuai Mountain.

Because of the two consecutive years of monster tide harassment, the local area was also in a state of panic, which made these local aristocratic families realize that without a powerful sect to rely on, relying solely on their own strength, they would be in a mess and suffer heavy losses in the face of even a second-level monster. If they encountered a third-level monster, it might be a battle to annihilate the family.

Take the An family as an example. The situation is similar to that of the Sun family in Baitapu, Fuyang Road, but it is still stronger in terms of strength.

The Sun family has only two or three strong people in the initial stage of foundation building, but the head of the An family, An Siyu, is at the fifth level of foundation building. Among his brothers of the same generation, An Sixiang and An Sishun are at the sixth and fourth levels of foundation building respectively. His son An Chengyuan is at the second level of foundation building. There are also two nephews who are also strong foundation building. The entire An family has more than 3,000 people, more than 30 cultivators, and more than 40 Dao seeds.

If we only look at the strong foundation building of the An family, in terms of strength, it is stronger than the current Dahuaishan. Although Dahuaishan now has ten foundation building, only Chen Huaisheng is in the middle stage of foundation building, and most of the others are at the first level of foundation building.

Of course, in terms of development potential, the An family cannot compare with Dahuaishan. Among the six foundation building of the An family, the youngest foundation building is over 60 years old, and the high-level Qi refining is basically over 50 years old. There are only a few young disciples with potential.

It is also because of this that when the An family was at odds with the Lingyun Sect, they also tried their best to exercise restraint, and tried their best to meet some of the Lingyun Sect's requests as long as they were not too excessive.

In fact, this is also the basic practice of the entire Wei Huai Dao clans, whether it is the Tianhe Sect in the north, the Yuelu Sect in the west, or the later Lingyun Sect, these clans are still willing to cooperate. As long as you can show enough strength, their obedience and cooperation will gradually increase.

Clans in places like Weiheji and Xiongyangbao are more like vassals to the Yuelu Sect. Basically, any request will be met, but a certain degree of autonomy is also retained. The Yuelu Sect also dared not go too far because of the covetous eyes of the Tianhe Sect in the north, and maintained a delicate balance.

When the Lingyun Sect entered, it actually made the clans and clans of Wei Huai Dao secretly happy for a while, hoping to introduce a more powerful force to balance the Yuelu Sect.

Because the main focus of the Tianhe Sect is still on Zhangchi Road, and they are determined to infiltrate Jinzhou and Yunzhou, and they have always had conflicts with the Beirong people, so it is difficult to give too much support.

Who would have thought that Lingyun Sect’s strength is limited, and it has begun to be indecisive before its foundation is stable. It has the desire to return to Dazhao in the south, and is very harsh on the locals, which makes the clans and clans on the Weihuai Road cold.

But even so, these local clans in Weihuai Road still gave Lingyun Sect a lot of support. This is why Chen Huaisheng wanted to come to Weihuai Road, because these local clans urgently need a force to help them share the pressure of fighting against Yuelu Sect, and re-entering Dahuai Mountain can get great support from all sides.

Chen Huaisheng had passed by Huaiyang City twice before, but he was in a hurry. This time, he had much more time, so Chen Huaisheng planned to settle down in Huaiyang City to take a look.

Since he had made up his mind to establish a firm foothold in Wei Huai Dao, he naturally had to understand the situation of the entire Wei Huai Dao.

Huaiyang City is a large city in the central region and the closest town to Dahuai Mountain. It is nominally a city, but in fact it is a small city with scattered villages outside the city. There are a total of 70,000 to 80,000 people, and there are only about 30,000 people in the real city, and the An family accounts for about 10%.

Chen Huaisheng has not dealt with the An family yet, but he knows that Zeng Guolin and Yang Husheng have come to Huaiyang City to negotiate with the An family, but from the feedback from the two, the An family's attitude is very cold, and they are even unwilling to deal with Dahuai Mountain.

The reason is also very simple. Dahuai Mountain is too weak, and it appears as an expatriate of the Chonghua School. What value and significance does it have?

"Is that Anyuan over there?" Chen Huaisheng noticed that the number of people wearing Beirong costumes in the entire Huaiyang City was much larger than that of Fuyang Road, and he was also a little surprised.

Although the Northern Rong ruled Hebei for more than 200 years and left a deep mark on Hebei, the Northern Rong left a deeper mark on Youyun Prefecture.

Yanzhou should have been the first to get rid of the control of the Northern Rong. There are not many Northern Rong people in Fuyang Road, especially in the three southern roads of Zhaigu, Hanshan, and Tangshui. But I didn't expect that Northern Rong people can be seen everywhere in Weihuai Road.

"Yes, that is the most famous Anyuan in our Huaiyang City. Anjia Street, Anjia Hengxiang, and Anjia Dam are all around Anyuan. There are people with the surname An." The shop owner looked envious and glanced over there.