Chapter 69 Leaving

Hua Kai selected 149 slaves from the Black Water Tribe. If it weren't for the excessive number of slaves in the caravan, he would have wanted to select more.

Most of these slaves are young and strong men between the ages of 16 and 22. Their strength is in the Tempering Body Realm or Kaiyuan Realm. They will soon become combat power after joining the Hua family.

The Black Water Tribe has only 4 BMWs, and two horses that Hua Kai is expected to upgrade. The remaining more than 200 horses are all horses with more than 40% experience.

Even if the Hua family caravan does not destroy the Black Water Tribe, the caravan will take away all their good war horses and qualified slaves. The Black Water Tribe will be lucky not to be exterminated in the next few years, and the Black Water Tribe will be avenged.

"Master Hua, we still need 18,460 gold worth of goods. You can pick any of our tribe members. They will never resist my orders. The Black Water Tribe is willing to join the Hua family caravan. When you come to the Black Water Tribe next year, I will definitely find more spiritual medicines and strange stones for you. Please don't kill me!"

When the Black Water Tribe leader saw Hua Kai picking things, he ignored him. All the Hua family members looked at him unkindly, thinking that the other party wanted to kill him because his tribe couldn't produce anything. After all, he was no longer useful to the Hua family caravan.

"Master, what should I do? Or should I kill him now? I don't think anyone in the Black Water Tribe would say no." Yu Jun looked at the Black Water Tribe members who bowed their heads and kept silent in the distance, and asked Hua Kai.

The Black Water Tribe leader seemed to feel that his life was coming to an end. After all, there was no tradition on the grassland to conquer a tribe and keep the other tribe leader. He began to kneel on the ground and yell.

But no one in the Black Water Tribe paid any attention to him. The disaster that had befallen the tribe was all the brainchild of their chief. If the Hua family caravan could spare their tribe, it would be reasonable even if their chief was killed.

"Grandpa, what do you think?" Hua Kai turned his head to Hua Xing and asked.

Everyone looked at the old man of the Hua family silently, knowing that the life and death of the Black Water chief was all in his mind.

"Businessmen are based on honesty. Although the Black Water Tribe still has nearly 20,000 gold of goods to be replenished, he has also paid the price for his actions. I think we should put aside our past grudges and achieve win-win cooperation. I believe they will definitely repay all their debts next year."

Hua Xing said so, and the Black Water chief seemed to see his hope of survival. He knelt on the ground and begged to guarantee that he would collect 20,000 gold of goods next year.

Hua Kai also knew that his grandfather did not want the family to offend the Xiongnu Kingdom. Although the Xiongnu Kingdom was loosely managed, their killing of the Black Water Tribe was equivalent to destroying a medium-sized tribe of the Xiongnu Kingdom.

The tribes of the Xiongnu killed each other. The tribes of the Xiongnu Kingdom would not say anything. However, if the Hua family dared to destroy a medium-sized tribe, the tribes of the Xiongnu Kingdom would definitely notice the Hua family caravan, which would be very disadvantageous for them to come to the Xiongnu grassland for long-term business in the future.

"Since you think the Black Water Chief is trustworthy, then we will trust him for once. Yu Jun... let him go!"

After Hua Kai finished speaking, Yu Jun asked the Hua family members to release the Black Water Chief. The Black Water Chief finally saved his life and knelt on the ground to thank him without raising his head.

Hua Kai noticed that several flag owners of the Black Water Tribe showed disappointment. If the Black Water Chief died this time, they could easily pull out some herdsmen from the tribe to establish their own tribe.

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On June 21, there were still 9 days before the Guangxian Merchants Group agreed to gather.

Since the Black Water Tribe brought back a large number of slaves, horses, animal bones, and furs, the Hua family caravan began to reorganize after returning to the caravan.

Considering the harvest of this caravan, Hua Kai put all the more precious animal bones, furs, and strange stones into the space, leaving some ordinary goods worth about 2,000 gold on the carriages.

These goods were loaded with hundreds of kilograms on 18 carriages. If there were slaves who could not keep up with the pace of the caravan, it would not be a problem to put more than a dozen people on the carriages.

In case the caravan encountered a crisis, they could completely abandon some of the carriages. In this way, as long as most of the caravan members could return to the family, the Hua family would make a lot of money on this trip.

Because the number of slaves brought has reached 371, it is definitely not possible to bring all of them back to Huajiabao from such a long distance according to the usual method.

Moreover, the number of horses brought by the caravan has exceeded 600, most of which are fine horses. The Hua family members plus Han Jinsheng only have 53 people. If they want to return to Qi safely, they must think of another way.

Hua Kai divided all the slaves into 10 teams according to the number of people. The first to fifth teams are all young slaves over 16 years old. Hua Kai divides them into 5 teams according to their loyalty from high to low, with 40 to 50 people in each team. One team has a loyalty of more than 50 points, led by Uncle Wu and two caravan members. They can be used as the main force in battle.

The loyalty of the second and third teams is mostly more than 30 points, led by Butler Hua Fu and two caravan members. They can do some odd jobs of the caravan at ordinary times, and they can become the main force of the caravan in a short time if they are trained well.

Then the fourth and fifth teams are mostly slaves from the Black Water Tribe. They are all in charge of Er Zhuang. Now the main thing is to find ways to improve their loyalty.

The sixth and seventh teams are high-qualified slave teenagers, led by Hua Xuan and several highly loyal slave teenagers. They cannot help the caravan now, but if they are trained well, the Hua family will rely on them for development in the future.

The eighth and ninth teams are young female slaves. Like the young slaves, they have no possibility of resistance. Hua Kai appointed several female slaves with high loyalty as captains. They will have to do all the trivial things such as cooking for the caravan in the future.

As for the tenth team, they are all slaves with low loyalty, or slaves whose loyalty has never been very long. They will do all the dirtiest and most tiring work of the caravan, and will never be allowed to approach the caravan. If anyone moves, they can be killed first and then reported. For this reason, the Hua family sent three team members to watch over them. If their loyalty exceeds 30, they will be transferred to other slave teams. Of course, if Hua Kai finds that the loyalty of other slave teams is too low, they will also be sent here.

In short, after a day of rest, the Hua Kai caravan finally started.

Slaves with loyalty values ​​over 30 are allowed to ride and walk by themselves. Most female slaves sit in carriages, and a large number of slaves follow the horse team, driving the horses and following the caravan.

"This speed is too slow. It's hard to walk 60 miles a day. We still have to go to the Ordos tribe. How long will it take to get there?" Hua Xing rode beside Hua Kai, looking at the slaves walking slowly behind him, and said with some dissatisfaction.

"The most important thing now is to improve their loyalty to the family. As long as they start to recognize the Hua family, we can give them horses to travel. Otherwise, we only have 53 people and we will be in chaos." Hua Kai nodded and said.

"It's only more than 300 miles away from the Ordos tribe. If we ride horses, we can get there in one day. It's good to get to the Huhan tribe in 9 days with these slaves. Everyone follows your method to give lectures to the slaves three times a day, morning, noon and evening, and there is also a reward and punishment system, but they can't get on the horse without ten days to meet your requirements." Hua Xing said.

Hua Kai also knew that it was not easy to improve loyalty. Even if he tried everything, it was good for the slaves to increase their loyalty by 2 or 3 points a day. There were also some slaves whose loyalty did not increase at all for several days. This was related to the personality of each slave.

"How about this? Let's take some people to the Ordos tribe first, and leave some team members to take the slaves and move forward slowly. We will catch up with them after we deal with the Ordos tribe?" Hua Zichen suggested when he heard this.

Hua Kai's task of "helping the Ordos tribe's main account not to be breached by the Wuzhui tribe" is still there these days, which means that the Ordos tribe is still safe now. It is useless to take so many slaves and horses to the Ordos tribe. The most important thing is to rely on the Hua family's Qidong realm and above team members. The Ordos tribe is not short of slaves below the Kaiyuan realm.

"But if all our high-level fighters leave, it will be bad if the caravan encounters horse bandits. Most of these slaves are not willing to return home. If they encounter a battle, they can only become a burden to the caravan. I'm afraid we will be in danger by then!" Hua Kai said worriedly.

Several core members of the family were at a loss when they heard this. At this time, Han Jinsheng on the side spoke.

"Can we take some slaves who are difficult to discipline away, and leave obedient slaves to protect women and children?" Han Jinsheng suddenly proposed.

This idea gave everyone in the Hua family an idea.

"Okay, that's it! This time we mainly need some high-level fighters. Grandpa, you, Uncle Wu, and Yu Jun are better to participate. Let Grandpa Fu, Wei Baotou, and Han Jinsheng stay. Slave teams one, two, and three can all be used. We only take away slave teams four, five, and ten, which are burdensome."

Everyone also knew what Hua Kai meant. Taking away these 100 slaves was a complete relief for the Hua family caravan. As for taking the undisciplined ones with Team 10, everyone was calm in their hearts. The possibility of them coming back this time was not great.

Since the decision was made, the Hua family caravan quickly moved. All the slaves in the caravan were divided into two teams. Hua Kai brought 30 main members of the family with a horse each. These slaves who were assigned to support the Ordos tribe also had horses to ride.

After lunch, Hua Kai left under the watchful eyes of family members such as Butler Hua Fu.

Hua Kai was not worried about the caravan encountering any crisis. After all, a Qi training realm master had a relatively large deterrent effect on all the horse bandits. There were also a team of slaves, who had participated in the Black Water Tribe Chase, Wolf Pack Guard, and Black Water Tribe Conquest Wars with the Hua family caravan. Many of them had already considered themselves as members of the Hua family.

Even if they encountered an irresistible crisis, housekeeper Hua Fu could lead most of the main forces to escape.

This place was about 300 miles away from the Ordos Tribe. If they rode at full speed, they would definitely reach the Ordos Tribe tonight.

However, Hua Kai, his grandfather, his fifth uncle, Yu Jun and others rode for more than 10 miles, and saw that some people began to fall behind. Some of these fell behind because of poor riding skills, but some slaves did it on purpose. They deliberately distanced themselves from the crowd and planned to find an opportunity to escape.

"Yu Jun, you take 10 family members and follow me at the back." Hua Kai saw this and said to Yu Jun beside him.

Hua Xing and Hua Zichen knew that Hua Kai was going to be ruthless.