Chapter 54 Heading North

After resolving a family crisis, Hua Kai saw that the family's luck value had increased by a few points, and it was almost 30 points now.

Hua Kai felt that he had to quickly understand the Huhan tribe and the entire Xiongnu country. After all, the Hua family would probably have to go to the Huhan tribe once a year in the future, and the Hua family knew too little about the entire Xiongnu country. Having such a guide was much more valuable to Hua Kai than the three golds.

"Our Hua family caravan came to the Huhan tribe for the first time, and we don't know much about everything here. As long as you do a good job as a guide for this month, the matter between us will be written off, and I will give you some compensation in the end." Hua Kai stood in front of the soldier Han Jinsheng and said in Xiongnu language.

"I... I'm just a soldier, and I don't know much about the tribe." Han Jinsheng said nervously.

"Haha! Don't worry, you don't need to reveal any secrets of the Huhan tribe. I just want to know about the annual transactions between the Guangxian Merchants and the Huhan tribe. And we want to go to other tribes in three days. Do you know much about the small and medium-sized tribes near the Huhan tribe..."

Han Jinsheng was relieved when he heard this. Sanjin was enough to buy his life, not to mention letting him be a guide. Hearing Hua Kai say that there is no need to reveal the secrets of the Huhan tribe, he was relieved and looked at Hua Kai with a much more friendly look.

"Our tribe is the largest tribe within a radius of 600 miles. If you want to leave, you need to wait until our market is closed. This is the trading area specially prepared for the caravan every year. Today, on the first day, only families above the flag owner can enter to trade, and others can come in in the afternoon."

Han Jinsheng talked about the caravan's transactions in the Huhan tribe. Hua Kai heard a lot of rules that most people would not tell him. It was really a good deal to hire a guide, otherwise the Hua family would suffer a big loss in this year's transactions.

Hua Kai asked someone to bring Han Jinsheng the cooked horse meat and gave him a glass of Guangxian wine, which frightened Han Jinsheng so much that his legs trembled.

As an ordinary soldier, there were more than 20 people in his family, including slaves, and they only killed a sheep once a week. It was said that it was impossible for grassland people to eat meat every meal, and it was very good for slaves to have broth to drink.

As the backbone of the family, Han Jinsheng had most of the meat in his stomach. His wife and parents took slaves to the grassland to find some wild grass and add it to the broth to cook a delicious meal.

"We still have 20,000 gold for this kind of horse meat. How do you think we can sell it quickly in the next few days? This horse meat has been there for 6 days!" Hua Kai saw Han Jinsheng eating horse meat happily, especially the Guangxian wine. He had never drunk such good wine in his life.

Han Jinsheng also saw clearly that the Hua family caravan was not very familiar with this trading method. The blood red flowers and cordyceps that the Hua family bought just now were obviously expensive. He patrolled this market every year and was very clear about the market prices.

"There is no shortage of horse meat in the Huhan tribe. If you don't eat horse meat for 6 days, it will go bad soon... If you want to sell 20,000 kilograms of horse meat quickly, you can only sell it at a lower price. If you are willing to barter, I can help you sell the horse meat." Han Jinsheng said.

Hua Kai handed the matter of selling horse meat to Han Jinsheng. When his grandfather Hua Xing knew about it, he couldn't stop laughing. He even regretted selling the horse meat too early on the road, because Han Jinsheng said that he could sell 5 bone coins per kilogram of horse meat as long as he bartered.

In Guang County, a kilogram of horse meat costs at least 30 bone coins. No one thought that one day he would be so happy because of his own horse meat that could be sold for 5 bone coins.

Han Jinsheng took the four carriages of the Hua family and left the market with 20,000 kilograms of horse meat. They came to the outermost ordinary herdsmen area of ​​the Huhan tribe. Here are the ordinary herdsmen at the bottom of the Huhan tribe. They have to go dozens of miles away from home to graze every day. When they saw the caravan carriages coming, they all gathered around curiously.

Unfortunately, there was no salt and coarse cloth that they urgently needed. Everyone felt strange to see a caravan selling horse meat.

Fortunately, horse meat at 5 bone coins per catty was already very cheap. A herdsman heard that he could barter and hurried home to take out his accumulated cow and sheep skins and bought dozens of catties of horse meat.

Once someone started, the horse meat sold very quickly and was almost gone in a short while. Hua Xing was so happy looking at the animal skins and wild animal bones from the trade that he couldn't stop smiling. These goods were worth at least 20 gold when brought back to Guang County.

"Excuse me, can you leave some of this horse meat for me? I still have a few cow skins at home." Han Jinsheng shouted anxiously when he saw that the horse meat was quickly divided up. He also wanted to buy some to take home for his family to have a good meal.

"Haha, thanks to you today! Otherwise, our horse meat would not be sold so quickly. There is not much horse meat left, so I will give it all to you!" Hua Xing was happier and happier he looked at Han Jinsheng. He spoke in the common language of the mainland, regardless of whether the other party understood or not, and happily patted his shoulder and said.

Han Jinsheng knew that Hua Xing was a master of Qi training, and his body almost fell apart after the slap. He also gradually understood the situation of the Hua family. As long as he worked hard for the Hua family, he would not only be fine, but also gain a lot of benefits for himself and the family.

After thinking this through, Han Jinsheng went home and asked his brother to bring slaves to get horse meat. He and Hua Xing continued to come to the Hua family caravan. At this time, the market was open, and all the herdsmen families entered the market in groups. They all asked about the prices of goods one by one.

"Master Hua, those who are asking for prices everywhere are all dealers. They will pick some things and go to small and medium-sized tribes on the grassland. Small tribes buy less, but they often sell at very high prices." Seeing those people coming, Han Jinsheng kindly reminded Hua Kai.

"There are so many small and medium-sized tribes affiliated with the Huhan tribe. Why don't they come to the market to trade by themselves?" If all the affiliated tribes of the Huhan tribe can trade with the Guangxian merchant group together at a fixed time every year, the scale of the transaction will certainly be expanded several times.

"This is impossible... The middle tribe is fine, but if people from small tribes dare to take goods out of the tribe, they will most likely be robbed on the way. Every year, most of the goods of the merchant group are purchased by the tribe, and several large tribes in the entire Xiongnu Kingdom have to purchase goods from here." Han Jinsheng said that Hua Kai gradually got some understanding of the situation of the grassland forces.

In one afternoon, the Hua family only sold more than 10 gold worth of goods. Some caravans have already sold most of their goods. Starting tomorrow, they will go to the market to buy what they need. After all, the Guangxian merchant group came to the Huhan tribe to exchange for precious horses, animal skins, and wild animal bones.

And Hua Kai was not in a hurry at all. He was also slowly getting familiar with the prices of goods in the Huhan tribe market these days. Most of the prices of all merchant groups are different. Basically, everyone keeps the price between 8 and 15 times the price. Hua Kai found that the Jia family has always been the highest. They are determined to go to the Urad tribe, so there is no need to sell goods at a low price here.

In the evening, the Han family sent someone to deliver the ransom of the last captives to the Hua family caravan, a total of 160 gold. Hua Kai didn't know who the Han family sold these captives to in the end, and how the 160 gold was calculated. Hua Kai had no right to know these things now, so he just had to pay and take it.

The next day, the trading market in Huhan tribe became more and more lively, but the Hua family only sold some weapons and fine wine. The Hua family sold fine wine for 15 silver per catty, which was almost the price of a horse here, but there were still many people coming to buy.

The Hua family traded fur and wild animal bones. As for these goods, the Han family had clearly stated that they could help each caravan exchange them for gold, which showed how strong the Han family was in Huhan tribe.

On the third day, the market in Huhan tribe was still hot, and the caravans in Guang County had already started to purchase things to take home. The Hua family also sold more than 200 gold of goods in the past three days. He sold all of them to the Han family at 90% of the price, and exchanged them for gold to roam in the market.

Although the market of the Xiongnu Huhan tribe was not as large as the Aohan tribe of the Linhu Kingdom, the quality and price of the goods were much better than those of the Aohan tribe.

A strong horse costs 60 silver, which is the price of 4 catties of fine wine. A fine horse costs only 5 gold, and all caravans can choose a few if they are willing.

Hua Kai took a fancy to two fine horses that can be upgraded to BMWs, and selected more than 20 strong horses that are one step away from upgrading to fine horses. In the end, it only cost more than 40 gold, which makes people sigh at the profit of business.

Hua Kai selected 9 spiritual herbs in the market, among which he could make up the main medicine of 3 furnaces of [Rejuvenation Pill]. Since the main medicine is complete, Hua Kai is thinking about how to make the auxiliary medicine of [Rejuvenation Pill].

The Huhan tribe calls the doctor a priest, who can not only treat people but also tell fortunes, a bit like the Yin-Yang school and the doctor of the Central Plains school of thought. Hua Kai gathered all the medicinal materials for refining the Rejuvenation Pill here.

The total cost of 9 spiritual herbs and the auxiliary medicine of [Rejuvenation Pill] is less than 200 gold, and Hua Kai still has more than 200 gold in his hand. The Hua family has also tried the feeling of spending money like water in the past few days.

Coming to the slave market here, the slave market of Huhan tribe opened Hua Kai's eyes. There are several times more slaves here than in Aohan tribe. A slave in the middle stage of the Tempering Body Realm only costs 5 gold, and a slave in the late stage of the Tempering Body Realm can be taken for 15 gold.

There are very few slaves above the Kaiyuan Realm. Hua Kai found 5 slaves with qualifications above A- in the market, including 3 teenagers and 2 young people in the late stage of the Tempering Body Realm, and spent a total of 110 gold.

He spent more than 100 gold in his hand to sell 14 young slaves with qualifications above B level. Their strength is at least in the middle stage of the Tempering Body Realm. Hua Kai was very satisfied with this trip. After this trip, even these 49 slaves have made the Hua family fully recover their investment. These 49 people will have a large number of Kaiyuan Realm in less than 3 years.

In 10 years, most of them can practice to the Qidong Realm or above. If they are trained by the Hua family, they may enter the Qi Training Realm. What a powerful force this will be!

The accumulated 460 gold was quickly spent, but Hua Kai didn't feel bad at all. He was not a miser. It would be best if the funds could be converted into family strength.

Being able to buy what he wanted so quickly was largely due to Han Jinsheng's contribution. Every time Hua Kai asked, Han Jinsheng always gave Hua Kai the best advice in the first place.

Hua Kai personally bargained for the spiritual medicine he liked, which made Hua Kai realize how cheap the spiritual medicine was in the hands of ordinary herdsmen.

On June 1, the fourth day of the Guangxian merchant group's arrival in Huhan Tribe, five caravans including Jia, Ren, and Hua set out in the morning. They left Huhan Tribe and drove northward.

There were no weak caravans that could trade independently in Huhan Tribe. The Hua caravan followed the Jia caravan and counted the remaining goods of the caravan.

There were only two large jars of 500 kilograms of wine left out of the total 5,000 kilograms. About 60% of other goods such as salt, tea, cotton cloth, silk, and sugar were left, which were in short supply on the grassland.

Hua Kai roughly calculated that the remaining goods could be sold for at least 1,900 gold. All the goods sold along the way from Guang County City could earn about 2,800 gold. The cost plus the pass fee was about 600 gold, and the profit for one trip was about 2,200 gold. If all were exchanged for Xiongnu goods, the profit for one trip would be at least 6,000 gold.

This does not include the goods hidden in Hua Kai's personal space.

Of course, no caravan can really make half of the theoretical money. The caravan is limited in size and the amount of goods it can carry is fixed. All caravans will try their best to collect spiritual medicine, strange stones, wild animal skins and other valuable items that take up little space.

As long as the spiritual medicine is well preserved and brought back to Qi, it can be exchanged for elixir from the alchemist. If it doesn't work, eating the spiritual medicine directly can also improve strength. The strength of a family mainly depends on whether its military force is strong.

Purchasing strange stones depends entirely on fate.

A weapon above level 5 needs to be forged by a professional weapon refiner. Refiners (above Xiantian Realm) are even more scarce than alchemists in the Central Plains. In addition to having a special understanding of various strange stones, different strange stones have different refining methods, and it takes a long time to make them into weapons. Some refining masters sometimes spend years to make a magic weapon.

As long as the strange stones collected by the family are favored by the refiners, and the refiners are willing to sell them, the family can have an extra 5th-level weapon, which is sometimes more useful than an extra Qi training master. After all, Qi training masters will die one day, and high-level weapons can be passed down in the family.

Therefore, most of the caravans that can come to the grassland to trade have transformed the goods into the strength of the family, such as buying slaves and high-quality teenagers, so that the family will become stronger and stronger in the future.

After leaving the Huhan tribe for a day, the five caravans separated, and the Hua family continued to follow the Jia family's pace towards the Urad tribe, which was the end point of the Jia family's annual trade.

They encountered some small tribes along the way, all of which looked at the Jia and Hua families with caution. Few outsiders came to these places every year, and the Jia and Hua families would not easily provoke them. They went north all the way to the Urad tribe in the afternoon of the next day.

The leader of the Urad tribe led several major clans of the entire tribe to welcome them together. Seeing them warmly hugging the leaders of the Jia family, Hua Kai knew that this was not the place for the Hua family caravan to stay.

The next day, when the Jia family was setting up their stalls, the Hua family caravan only stopped in the Urad tribe for one night and left the Urad tribe to continue northward. Hua Kai planned to go to the Ordos tribe mentioned by the Jia family first. This tribe was only 200 miles away from the Urad tribe. The Hua family caravan had few goods, light vehicles and sufficient horses, and could easily arrive in one day.

"Guide Han, tell us about the Ordos tribe! I heard that their tribe does not have a fixed trade caravan, so how do they trade tribal goods every year?" Hua Kai sat in the carriage, feeling the breeze blowing by his ears, and asked Han Jinsheng beside him.

"Of course we go to the Huhan tribe to trade. Although the salt, tea, silk and brocade of the tribe are more expensive, the nobles in these tribes can still afford them. There are also some traders wandering between small and medium-sized tribes. The lives of the nobles of the tribe will never be worse than those of the herdsmen. We must be careful when we enter the Ordos tribe." Han Jinsheng introduced the situation of the Ordos tribe to Hua Kai. The population of the Ordos tribe exceeds 50,000, and there are nearly ten masters in the Qi training realm. It is much stronger than the Urad tribe. It is adjacent to the Wuzhui tribe among the ten major tribes of the Xiongnu. There are wars and conflicts with the Wuzhui tribe every year. Therefore, the people here are more warlike and may be more difficult to get along with the caravan.