Chapter 76 Preparing to Go Home

June 30th was the last day for the Guangxian merchant group to stay in the Huhan tribe.

All the caravans were busy exchanging the goods in their hands. If they were difficult to bring back, they would sell them to the Huhan tribe at a low price, so as to bring some things that were convenient for the caravan to transport.

The Hua family handed over 20 fine horses to the Jia family, and there were 17 slaves whose qualifications and loyalty were not high.

These slaves were good quality slaves that survived many battles in the elite slave camp of the Ordos tribe, and they were in high demand anywhere. The total price negotiated was 421 gold, which needed to be paid after returning to the Guangxian Jia family to deal with the goods in their hands.

This time, the Ren family also left the Huhan tribe to trade like the Jia family and the Hua family, but their luck seemed not very good. There was a small conflict with a medium-sized tribe on the grassland, and the income was not as high as last year when they stayed in the Huhan tribe.

Finally, the Qi training realm of the Ren family came to Hua Kai to buy some horses and slaves on credit from the Hua family. They had more manpower and could bring some fine horses and elite slaves back. This time the harvest would definitely be better than last year.

Hua Kai sent out more than 10 horses and slaves, and the Ren family owed the Hua family 240 gold.

The Hua family also hoped to build a good relationship with all the caravans of the Guangxian Merchants Group. Later, he sold hundreds of horses and more than 60 slaves, and the entire Hua family caravan suddenly became much lighter.

Because all the caravans are now in the period of carrying goods, there is less gold and silver on the grassland. Therefore, these money will not be paid until they return to Guangxian. This wave of operations has greatly improved the reputation of the entire Hua family in the Guangxian Merchants Group.

At noon, Hua Kai and his grandfather summarized the goods brought by the caravan. He sent all the precious items such as strange stones, elixirs, and wild beast bones into the portable space. Then put some emergency food and grass into the space and the whole space was full.

The remaining goods can basically be pulled by 12 carriages. If they are evenly placed on 18 carriages, the caravan can allow up to 100 slaves to travel by car. In this way, Hua Kai estimates that there will be no problem keeping up with the Guangxian Merchants Group.

In the afternoon, some worthless furs and dozens of strong horses with poor endurance were sold in the Huhan tribe. With 85 gold in hand, Hua Kai was a little amused. The Huhan tribe was too much of a bargain.

All the caravans of Guangxian Merchants have loaded all the goods to be transported onto the carriages, tied all the carriages with ropes, and all transactions have been stopped before dark. Hua Kai brought a week's worth of food and grass for the caravan, and all preparations were completed. They will go home tomorrow.

It has been four months since they left, and everyone is beginning to miss home. The entire Guangxian Merchants Group was shrouded in the joy of returning home. When night fell in the evening, Hua Kai was a little worried in the main account. Han Jinsheng went home yesterday, but he has not returned to the team yet.

"Master, why don't I go to Han Jinsheng's house to take a look? Last time we sold horse meat, many herdsmen knew him. We can find his home by asking more." Yu Jun said angrily.

Yu Jun knew that Hua Kai attached great importance to Han Jinsheng. Han Jinsheng's current Qidong Realm Level 2 cultivation was achieved by taking the Hua family's elixir.

"Don't worry, wait a little longer!" Hua Kai handed over the family's last 26 gold to Han Jinsheng when he returned home. It stands to reason that even if the other party could not reach an agreement with the Huhan tribe, he should have come to him to give a reply at this time.

At this time, all the people in the Guangxian Merchant Group went to rest early. The market was quiet, and only some horses occasionally lowered their heads to eat the grass under their feet.

Hua Kai and several core members of the family were all in the main tent without resting. At this time, a noise finally came from outside the tent.

"Master, I'm back!"

Han Jinsheng's voice came from outside the tent. He was followed by more than ten people, half of whom were women and children.

"Why are you back now? The merchant group will set off early tomorrow morning. If you don't come back, you can't leave." Hua Kai was still very happy to see Han Jinsheng.

"Hmph! Seeing that I was already at the second level of Qidong Realm, our flag master refused to let me go no matter what. Finally, seeing that I was insisting, he reluctantly agreed. Not only did he take all the 26 gold, but he also took away all our slaves, and the horse of the caravan... He also took it!" Han Jinsheng said angrily.

"These are all trivial matters, as long as you can come back, what are these?" Hua Kai pointed at the people behind Han Jinsheng and asked.

"These are my three younger brothers, they are all willing to join the Hua family with me, and these are my three wives... This is..."

Han Jinsheng introduced his family members. This time, the Huhan tribe not only took away all the slaves of their family, but also did not let them take anything out. Hua Kai looked at the thinly dressed women and children behind Han Jinsheng. They looked no different from ordinary slaves.

Nothing happened overnight. At three o'clock in the morning, the Guangxian Merchant Group had already started to organize the caravan. The Hua family heard the noise outside the tent and all got up, and began to feed all the horses with hay, prepare breakfast and clean up the tent.

Everything was ready, and the flag of the Han family caravan was finally hoisted again. Seeing that the Jia family had followed the Han family out of the Huhan tribe, the Hua family also harnessed horses to the carriage. They were finally going home.

When the first ray of sunlight on the morning of July 1st shone on the Huhan tribe, the Guangxian caravan had all left the tribe. 5,000 Huhan tribal cavalry followed behind the Guangxian caravan to escort it. Many Huhan tribal herdsmen walked out of their tents and waved goodbye to the caravan. The next time they met would be next year.

After leaving the Huhan tribe, the Han family caravan walked very fast, and the other 11 caravans followed closely, because each caravan had at least hundreds of horses, and the caravan had been pulling out more than a thousand meters away.

When the caravans increased their speed, the distance between the caravans became even greater.

The 5,000 cavalrymen of the Huhan tribe had been sent out for more than 40 miles before turning back. Hua Kai rode on his horse and watched the happy laughter of several female slaves on the caravan carriage. Hua Kai had dealt with most of the slaves with loyalty values ​​below 30 in the caravan, and the atmosphere of the slaves in the entire caravan suddenly changed.

Compared with other caravans, the slaves of the Hua family caravan were more confident. They did not seem to be aware that they were slaves, and their freedom was much greater than that of other caravans. Look, Er Zhuang rode a horse and led a team of slaves from the back of the caravan.

"Master! The Han family asked us to send the "Vanguard Emergency Team" to report to the front. Let me lead the team this time!" Er Zhuang is now at the 7th level of the Qidong Realm and has the strength to enter the "Vanguard Emergency Team" as a leader.

"Okay! Take Han Jinsheng and Jigertai with you. The three of you are in the Qidong Realm. I believe the Han family will not say anything." Hua Kai thought for a while and said.

The Hua family still needs to rely more on young people now. When this group of young people in the family reach the Qidong realm, the Hua family will have the strength to compare with the aristocratic families. Otherwise, everything depends on the Qi training realm, and it will be difficult for the middle level to rise.

Because the caravan had many horses to go home, everyone was either riding horses or sitting in carriages. By noon, the caravan had walked more than 120 miles. The sun shone on the grassland and made people hot and irritable. The Han family stopped the caravan and started to set up camp. All the caravans had adapted to this rhythm at this time. They all stopped near the caravan in front to set up camp and waited until the sun was not so scorching in the afternoon before continuing on their way.

After lunch at noon, Hua Kai continued to talk about his "Three Kingdoms". Now that "Three Kingdoms" has come to an end, the Sima family has mastered most of the power of Wei, and Wu and Shu are crumbling under the powerful offensive of Wei.

Everyone has guessed the final outcome of the Three Kingdoms, and Hua Kai has already prepared more than 300 pages of parchment manuscripts for the Three Kingdoms. When the Three Kingdoms is finished, their stories will be complete, and he can compile them into a book when he returns home.

In the afternoon, the Guangxian merchant group only walked more than 80 miles and stopped more than ten miles away from the rocky beach. Hua Kai saw some caravans in the west slowly approaching the rocky beach. Some of these caravans were large caravans that went to the Qiang last year.

Some were caravans that went to the Xiongnu, Dayue, Xiaoyue and other countries this year. Now is the day for the caravans to return. They are all like the Hua family caravan, with heavy goods in their carriages, and a large number of horses and slaves. The rocky beach is a road that all caravans traveling east must pass through.

This is also the area with the most horse bandits. Hua Kai still remembers the battle between the caravan and the horse bandits when they came. I don't know what will happen this time.

The caravan had dinner early in the evening. In order to deal with the possible crisis tomorrow, Hua Kai gave Grandpa, Uncle Five, Yu Jun, and housekeeper Hua Fu one [Small Huandan] each. If they encounter horse bandits, they will definitely need them to drive them away.

Because it was still early to go to bed, after the caravan sent out the guards, they all sat by the campfire and listened to Hua Kai's talk about "Three Kingdoms". This time many slaves also came together.

Hua Kai checked the loyalty of everyone. Just a few days later, there were 17 slaves in the caravan with loyalty exceeding 70, and 102 slaves with loyalty exceeding 60.

After the talk about "Three Kingdoms", Hua Kai gathered everyone together. In front of everyone in the caravan, he accepted 17 slaves as official members of the Hua family, and accepted 102 slaves with loyalty exceeding 60 as reserve servants.

The title of reserve servant was also Hua Kai's way of setting up a buffer for the slaves to improve, so that the slaves can see the hope that the loyalty value can be improved faster.

The reserve servants have the same rights and obligations as the formal servants in the caravan, except that they have to stay with the slaves and have no right to command them.

In this way, the Hua family now has 83 formal members and 104 reserve members, and the total number of slaves is only 377.

The personnel structure of the entire caravan suddenly became much more reasonable. Hua Kai asked all the new formal members to learn the family's mental methods and martial arts together with the reserve members, and several masters of the Qi training realm personally gave them guidance.

On the second day, everything seemed to become much simpler in the Hua family caravan. The new formal members who joined the Hua family were working hard, and they were very active in patrol warning and martial arts learning. The reserve servants were even more active. They were already learning the Hua family's mental methods and martial arts. Hua Kai had promised that as long as they could get started with the mental methods and martial arts, they could become the official servants of the Hua family.