Chapter 32: Chapter 32 Spring Comes
Hua Kai left nearly 300 people in Huajiabao at once, which means that the population of Huajiabao will increase by half this year. None of the eight major villages outside Guangxian City has done this.
"Kai'er, it's okay to take so many people, and it's okay to raise them at home. The key is what do we let them do? We can't just train in the village all day long!" Fourth uncle Hua Zihuan also disagreed with the village taking so many people.
"Fourth uncle, these people are very important to Huajiabao. As for what to let them do, it's actually very easy. Isn't there enough housing in the village this year? We can let them build houses for us. I think we should also expand the scale of the village. In the spring, we will organize people to move the city wall outward and build another city wall more than 6 meters high. When our caravan returns from Linhu grassland, there will be a place to put more horses. By the way, we have to train some horsemen in advance." Hua Kai insisted on leaving so many people, and no one else objected.
"Kai'er, when we said we wanted to expand Huajiabao, it was just talk. If we expand the city wall outward by 100 feet according to the plan, it would be difficult to take the city wall without 30 gold." The third uncle interrupted Hua Kai and let him know that the most basic thing to negotiate with the family is money.
"Don't worry about the money for now. I will find a way when the time comes. After the spring, we will start to build new houses. It's best to renovate our yard and build a new yard for the fifth uncle." Hua Kai looked at the fifth uncle who was beside him. He was also distressed recently.
The fifth uncle had been at home for more than ten days. Hua Kai tried everything to raise his loyalty to 90 points, but his name was still not on the crystal column of the [Family Secret Space]. The last step of raising it to 91 was difficult for Hua Kai. For the first time, he felt that raising a loyalty point was more difficult than the family facing a wild beast attacking the village.
Hua Kai has been looking for an opportunity to talk with Hua Zichen these days. The topic mainly revolves around how to improve Hua Zichen's cultivation, enhance the strength of Huajiabao, and let Hua Zichen marry Ji Le home as soon as possible.
Hua Kai already knows that his fifth uncle wants to stay in Huajiabao. His fifth uncle is indifferent and not suitable for joining a noble family. If he joins a noble family, there is basically no hope of marrying Ji Le. Duke Wen of Lu would never marry his daughter to a servant.
Huajiabao has changed a lot this year. The atmosphere of Huajiabao has also improved after Hua Kai became the head of the family. The whole Huajiabao is now full of hope for the future.
Although no one has explicitly said that the Hua family is becoming more and more like a noble family, everyone also has a faint expectation in their hearts that as long as the family can maintain its current development momentum, Huajiabao will become stronger and stronger. Hua Zichen wants to stay at home. In fact, he also has an expectation in his heart, that is, to help the family become a noble family. Every time he sees his nephew, the head of the family who is mature at a young age, he feels that the moment will not be too far away.
Hua Kai sighed as he watched his uncle leave. At the age of 24, his strength at the first level of Qidong Realm was only mediocre among the children of the great aristocratic families. Even if he was a Confucian student who could exert innate combat power for a short period of time, he was still far behind some of the geniuses of the aristocratic families.
So Hua Kai hoped that his uncle's strength would be broken through as soon as possible, narrowing the gap with the geniuses of this era, so that his uncle would be more confident in himself, which would have a great impact on his future marriage, strength, and ideological realm, and on the entire Huajiabao. Therefore, Hua Kai eagerly hoped that his uncle's loyalty would improve quickly.
The smelting of the beast bones in Huajiabao had entered the final moments, and more and more people were watching the smelting field. Huajiabao began to become lively. In the past few days, the city guards had begun to sweep the remaining wild beasts outside the county. The gates of Guang County had been opened, and winter was over!
The third uncle had informed everyone in Huajiabao of Hua Kai's decision, and some were happy and some were sad.
Hua Kai actually wanted to keep as many people as possible, so that Huajiabao would have more people and a larger family, and it would be easier to obtain luck value.
However, we should not only consider the present. The population of Huajiabao has increased by half this time, and Guang County may have begun to pay attention to it. He kept some people with high loyalty and gave up those who were not loyal enough. This would be more conducive to the stability of Huajiabao, and there was no need to worry about the secrets of the village being discovered by other families.
After practicing gun skills for an hour in the martial arts training field, Hua Kai brought two people to his main courtyard and let them enter the [Artistic Training Secret Realm] to improve their strength. Compared with the other two secret realms, this [Artistic Training Secret Realm] can really improve actual combat ability. With it, you can save a lot of hard training. In Hua Kai's opinion, the role is much more important than other secret realms.
In the afternoon, Hua Kai played with Xiaoqiang for a while after a nap. Now Xiaoqiang can go out of the house and play in the yard. Now it is still very timid. When he sees other people, he quickly runs back to the room. Hua Kai sees that his attributes have improved a lot.
Hua Kai was designing a house for Xiao Qiang in the yard. After winter, Xiao Qiang began to grow up and could no longer stay in Hua Kai's room, so he planned to build a small nest for Xiao Qiang himself. The little guy ate 2 kilograms of wild beast meat this morning and was running around behind Hua Kai.
Hua Kai was shoveling the ground, calculating the required wooden boards and was about to go to the weapon workshop to get wood. He heard Xiao Qiang start to cry. It turned out that Yu Jun went out.
Yu Jun has been in Huajiabao for two months. Recently, he has been shutting himself in the room in the morning to perfect his masterpiece. At noon, he came to the village to talk about books for everyone for half an hour, and then went back to the house to continue perfecting. In the afternoon, he came to Hua Kai with a lot of questions.
Hua Kai didn't want to say too much, but he couldn't resist Yu Jun's enthusiasm. Yu Jun was not the kind of person who chased after him. He was very skillful in asking questions. He knew that Hua Kai was very yearning for the world outside Huajiabao and was curious about the various schools of thought. Therefore, he often talked about people and things in other countries. Hua Kai would also often tell some strange stories, which was like a treasure to Yu Jun.
"Master!"
Yu Jun saw Hua Kai still bowing and worshipping. He did not lose a bit of respect for Hua Kai because he was only a 13-year-old boy.
"Why, no more reading at noon? Xiao Qiang... stop yelling!" Hua Kai touched Xiao Qiang's head, and the little guy stopped yelling and stopped behind Hua Kai to look at Yu Jun carefully.
"Master, Yu Jun is deeply indebted to you. I have no worries about food and clothing in Huajiabao. I feel deeply guilty. I hope you can..."
"Stop talking. You don't want to leave, right?" Hua Kai interrupted Yu Jun.
"Huajiabao and Hutuo Mountain have a deep hatred. Yu Jun has been tortured by Hutuo Mountain for more than three months. When Huajiabao goes to Hutuo Mountain to take revenge, Yu Jun is willing to lead the way to take revenge. After three months in Hutuo Mountain, he knows a thing or two about the defense of bandits on the mountain." Yu Jun knew that the whole Huajiabao was holding back a grudge, which was the death of Hua Kai's father Hua Ziming. When he said this, he felt that Hua Kai obviously hesitated for a moment.
"Master, I have decided not to tell stories from now on. I will not tell stories until I finish this novel. Then there will be no novelist left in Huajiabao. I am just an ordinary ranger. I hope the master will take me in." Yu Jun bowed and said seriously.
Yu Jun no longer spoke in a polite manner. He said this because he was completely planning to have a heart-to-heart talk with Hua Kai.
It is very difficult for a novelist to leave a masterpiece in his lifetime, and it is even more difficult to complete a long novel. Nowadays, those who can leave behind novels are all giants, and at worst, they are great novelists. Yu Jun saw a lot of things he pursued before in Hua Kai. He fully believed that his escape from Hutuo Mountain to Huajiabao was God's will and guidance. If he left, he would probably regret it for the rest of his life, so he was willing to give up his identity as a novelist and stay in Huajiabao. Many thinkers and even giants in this world have given up academic studies and returned to peace, but none of them retired before the age of 30. "Decide your own affairs!" Hua Kai took a look at Yu Jun's attributes and left on his own. Yu Jun: Qi Training Level 1
Qualification: A
Constitution: 40
Strength: 43
Will: 50
Novelist: Student
Mentality: Basic Copywriting Skills (Heavenly Rank Low-Level Mentality) Introduction
Martial Arts: Tianya Swordsmanship (Xuan-Rank Intermediate Swordsmanship) Minor Success
Loyalty: 81
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On the 29th day of the first lunar month, the snow outside Huajiabao melted, and Hua Kai came to the big vat behind the village where animal bones were boiled. This big vat had been burning for more than 20 days, and today was finally the time to harvest.
Hua Kai came to the cone under the big vat and pulled out a bone plug. Several villagers from Huajiabao lifted a special wooden board like an inclined washboard. A black liquid flowed through the board and fell into the small groove of the washboard and began to flow to both sides. The black impurities were filtered out slowly, and the golden liquid slowly flowed down from the board and soon fell into a special container.
"Master, there are many wild animal bones this year, and the gold is more than expected." The villagers on the side said happily when they saw the gold flowing into the mold.
The black liquid was flowing and suddenly turned silver-white. Hua Xing was quick to plug the plug quickly. At this time, the gold liquid had filled the two molds. A villager broke a mold and a 10-liang gold bar came out.
Huajiabao has rich experience in boiling animal bones. After the gold processing is completed, the silver is also slowly solidified into different molds according to the method of gold. When the silver water flows out, everyone pushes the big vat to the ground together.
Pieces of bone coins as white as jade fell from the big vat. Each of these bone coins is as big as an ordinary fingernail and looks very beautiful. Everyone counted all the harvests and cheered happily.
This winter, 62,379 bone coins, 537 liang of silver, and more than 24 liang of gold were harvested from boiling animal bones, with a total value of about 36 gold.
This is a very good harvest. I remember that the harvest in Huajiabao last winter was less than 5 gold. This was largely due to the fact that Huajiabao had a master of Qi training.
February 2 is a special day. The city guards of Guangxian City have cleared the wild beasts three times near all official roads. People have begun to appear on the road. After the winter, the wild beasts retreated and everyone will start to be busy for the new year.
Huang Shuyun returned to Xihe Village early in the morning. After the winter, it was time to visit relatives. Hua Kai, as the head of the family, was too busy to go with his mother. He asked the housekeeper Hua Fu to accompany and protect him, and by the way, he paid back his uncle's money.
Ordinary people live like this. After finally surviving a winter, they have to show off when they go back to their mother's home. The horses in the stables of Huajiabao were booked early, and even all the oxen were gone. The villagers would bring various gifts according to their family strength. Huajiabao also had more villagers who came to visit relatives in bright clothes.
Every year, around the beginning of March, when spring ploughing is completed, it is time to go on business. Hua Kai must make plans early and notify the villagers who are going on business in advance. If the other party is willing to go with you, now you can practice the strategy of arranging a battle array to deal with the enemy early. Hua Kai has already decided to lead the team himself this year, and the preparation for going on business must be put on the agenda.
The first thing is to bring goods. This year, Hua Kai's focus is on the portable space, so he does not plan to bring too much goods this year. In addition to his own two carts of weapons, he only plans to bring some fine goods to match the supporting products sold in the space, such as refined salt, silk, white sugar, and tea.
In previous years, selling grain would take more than a dozen carts, which would make people tired to death and not make much money. He will not do that this year.
Grandpa said that he must go with Hua Kai this year because Hua Kai wants to sell refined salt. Yu Jun has already relied on Hua Kai to go with him, so that two masters of Qi training will lead the team with high-end combat power.
The other Wei leaders must go. Er Zhuang, as a talented young man in the family, is now only one step away from the Qidong realm, so Hua Kai will also take him. Hua Kai plans to take only those above the Kaiyuan realm. Huajiabao has nearly 40 more Kaiyuan realm people this year. It's time to take them out for a trial.
After making the decision, Hua Kai began to select people. After half a day of picking and choosing, a total of 26 people were left. As for the fifth uncle, he was still waiting to be determined. The Princess of Lu was still in Huajiabao. These days, she followed behind Hua Zichen and was unwilling to leave. Although the fifth uncle repeatedly said that he would go on this grassland trip, how could he leave Ji Le alone in Huajiabao to take risks!
The people were decided, and the next step was to bring goods. At this time, the only way to buy goods was to go to Guang County. There were still 23 fat horses in the stable of Huajiabao. These were good horses that had been raised for a winter after Hua Kai's secret realm improved their strength. Except for 5 horses with particularly high spirituality, Hua Kai planned to sell all 18 of them and see if there were any strong horses that could be purchased in the county.
In the afternoon, my mother came back very happy. Huajiabao helped Xihe Village this winter, and the villagers of Xihe Village were very grateful. This time, Huang Shuyun was welcomed by the whole Xihe Village when she returned to her mother's home. Many people in Xihe Village hoped to marry their daughters to Huajiabao, because Huajiabao had masters in the Qi training realm.
By the evening, Fourth Uncle had revealed Hua Kai's selection of merchants. Some people who were not selected came directly to Huakai, which made Huakai very difficult for a while.
The business road is full of dangers. If you can go three years without any accidents, you are lucky. Generally, a village needs a large amount of silver to gather enough people for business, but Huajiabao started to compete for the quota of business.
This made the old people in Huajiabao smile when they saw it. Young people are not afraid of taking risks, which shows that Huajiabao is becoming more and more powerful. Huakai plans to reduce the list. Hua Kai was thinking about the announcement of the traders after all the goods were purchased. He heard Xiaoqiang in the yard calling twice. When Hua Kai heard Xiaoqiang calling, he knew that his fifth uncle had come.
His fifth uncle rarely took the initiative to look for him. At this time, Princess Ji Le usually accompanied him. Hua Kai estimated that his fifth uncle also came to look for him for the business!