Chapter 104 Going to Buqi Market

After leaving Guang County, the Hua family went westward. Everyone was sitting in a carriage or riding on a horse, so the speed was very fast, and they could travel more than 30 miles in an hour. In one morning, they passed three checkpoints and arrived in Jimo County. They had traveled 150 miles.

At this speed, they can arrive tonight. The Hua family had lunch here and took a short rest, and then drove towards the Buqi Market again.

There were no wild beasts on the road, and no bandits were stupid enough to attack such a large caravan of the Hua family. In this way, everyone arrived at the Buqi Market as the sun set.

There were not many people in the Buqi Market at this time. More than a dozen caravans in the market were setting up tents, and some were building simple wooden houses. It seemed that they had just arrived today.

More than a dozen ships were waiting at the dock of the Buqi Market. Hua Kai found a place slightly closer to last year's horse market and asked the Hua family to start unloading the goods on the carriages. Everyone started to build tents and build wooden houses.

This time, the Hua family brought a lot of wood. The Hua family was going to stay in the market.

The more than 30,000 furs from the Hua family were easier to handle this time. Southern merchants liked to buy furs from the grassland, but more than 600 horses were not so easy to sell. Moreover, Hua Kai had money in his hands, so he had to make some purchases in the market.

One night, all Hua Kai heard in the tent was the sound of "whooshing" wind. He had to build a house to live here for a long time. The next day, when the sun rose, the Hua family had already started to build a temporary cabin. Hua Kai looked at the wood on the carriage, unloaded all the furs in the portable space, and rode with his uncle along the path for four hours back to Huajiabao. After filling the space with enough wood, they came to the Buqi Market again.

At this time, the Buqi Market was already very lively. Many caravans in the middle had already taken out goods to sell. The caravans next to the market had just arrived, and they were still setting up tents. It seemed that they all wanted to stay here for a long time.

Hua Kai returned to his caravan position. The Hua family had built more than a dozen cabins. Hua Kai entered a cabin and put out all the wood, and everyone got busy together.

As the sun sets, more than ten wooden houses are added to the location of the Hua family caravan. One of the wooden houses is several times larger than the other rooms. This is specially built by Hua Kai. When you enter the wooden house, you can see two circles of steps around it. A large funnel is hung under a large circle of hooks in the middle. There is a thumb-sized hole at the bottom of the funnel. This is the large funnel prepared for the [Baoguang Liuli Bottle].

Hua's family is ready. When it gets dark, a caravan comes to Hua's house to see horses. Most of Hua's horses are steeds. 15 BMWs are eye-opening for many people.

Generally, only large merchant groups can sell BMWs. BMWs are in short supply for all tribes on the grassland. More than a dozen merchants have been surrounding the Hua family's horse herd and are unwilling to leave. The other party asked about the price. Hua's family asked for 300 gold, but the other party did not bargain.

The Hua family didn't sell a single horse that night. He heard from the Buqi County Merchants that the market would open the day after tomorrow and the Southern Country Merchants would arrive tomorrow. Hua Kai was not in a hurry and asked his fifth uncle to arrange the patrols at night. The Hua family's more than 600 horses were still a big target in the market. He was afraid that some merchant caravans would have bad intentions! As a result, nothing happened that night. On the next morning, Hua Kai woke up and just walked out of the tent, he saw that there were suddenly hundreds of merchant ships in the distance. Merchant ships were docking and carrying things down. Hua Kai saw that one merchant ship was carrying grain down. He took his fifth uncle to find the person in charge of this ship merchant, and then he knew that the other party was the Chamber of Commerce of Zhoulai Country. Zhoulai Country is located in the south of Song Country and Xu Country. It is a relatively powerful second-grade country with fewer wild beasts and more abundant grain. Every year, a large amount of grain is transported to the north. "What are your prices? I want a large quantity." Hua Kai came to the person in charge of the grain merchant and asked. "The minimum amount of wheat is 328 bone coins per stone... How much grain can you ask for?" the person in charge asked. "The price is a bit high. How much grain did your Chamber of Commerce transport this time? How much can you sell us at most?" Hua Kai knew that these Chambers of Commerce were all under the business of the aristocratic families, and a large part of these grains were sent to the aristocratic families.

"We have as much grain as you want, but can you tell me why you buy so much grain?" The other party heard that Hua Kai was doing a big business, and came over and said quietly.

"We are the Hua family in Guang County. All the grain businesses in the county are now ours. This year, the grain harvest in many places in Qi State is poor, and so is Guang County. Shouldn't we prepare more grain here!" Hua Kai said.

The other party also knew that what Hua Kai said was not all true, but he said that the grain business in Guang County had become theirs, which should not be wrong. Everything can be easily found out as long as you ask a little bit.

"That's good. If you need more than 10,000 stones of grain, I can give you a slightly lower price, but the profit of grain is not big, and we also earn hard-earned money." The person in charge of the other party said with a smile.

"We plan to buy 50,000 shi of wheat, 30,000 shi of rice, and 20,000 shi of soybeans. I wonder when you can deliver the goods?" Hua Kai said.

"This... so much?" The person in charge of the other party was shocked. They had more than ten large ships and each time they transported less than 100,000 shi of grain. He thought Hua Kai could only transport 10,000 shi at most, because the Shen family only bought a few thousand shi every year under his control.

100,000 shi of grain is enough for 50,000 people to use for a year. The total population of Guang County is less than 30,000. This is enough for two years.

"Just store more in case of accidents! I don't know when 100,000 shi of grain will arrive." Hua Kai's biggest goal this time is to store more grain for the [Baoguang Liuli Bottle], and there is no fear of spoilage. With grain, the family has one more trump card, and he and the Ordos tribe will have more room for trading.

"I can give you a maximum of 50,000 shi now, and the rest will take about half a month to deliver. 50,000 jin of wheat is 325 bone coins per shi, a total of 1,625 gold. Rice is 465 bone coins per shi, 30,000 shi is 1,395 gold, soybeans are 290 bone coins per shi, 20,000 shi is 580 gold, a total of 3,600 gold, you need to pay half of the gold first!"

The other party calculated and said that Hua Kai now has more than 4,600 gold in his hand, which is enough to buy food.

"This price is a bit expensive, we send a car to transport the food ourselves, how about a total of 3,200 gold?" Hua Kai bargained.

"My young man, the profit of food is not as big as you think. I can only give you a discount of 20 gold at most, which is the limit!" The other party said with an embarrassed look.

Hua Kai bargained with the other party for more than half an hour, and the two sides finally reached a deal. All the food was transported by the Hua family themselves, and the total price was 3,510 gold. The Hua family purchased 100,000 shi of food.

Hua Kai paid the first payment of 2010 gold. From now on, 50,000 shi of grain can be transported.

Go back to the caravan station and drive all 30 carriages over. A Hua family carriage can carry up to 20 shi at a time, and 30 carriages can carry more than 600 shi. Hundreds of Hua family members began to transport grain from the merchant ship to the station. When more than 60 people arrived at the station, they all carried the grain into the big wooden house and poured it into the funnel. Hua Kai controlled the [Baoguang Liuli Bottle] to absorb it.

By noon, the 30 carriages had run 16 times, and they had only pulled 10,000 shi of grain.

Continue to struggle in the afternoon. More people began to gather in the market. By dark, they only moved less than 20,000 shi of grain. Hua Kai went back to the house to rest after the caravan left. When the caravan returned home, he controlled the [Baoguang Liuli Bottle] to absorb the grain. When he started to rest at night, more than half of the 50,000 shi of grain had entered the Hua family station.

Although the market was in a mess, Hua Kai was afraid that someone would find out, so he piled up dozens of stones of grain outside each tent, giving the illusion that all the grain was in the tents and wooden houses.

On the morning of October 23, the Buqi Market finally opened. The Hua family drove the carriage to the merchant ship to pull grain. The market was already crowded. Hua Kai asked Yu Jun to arrange for 200 horses to go to the horse market, and other personnel continued to carry grain.

Yu Jun found the leather caravan and asked about the price of leather. This year's leather price was lower than last year, and the Hua family thought it was better to wait and see.

Finally, various temporary restaurants and snack stalls were set up in the market. Everyone finally didn't have to worry about eating. When all the grain was moved to the Hua family's residence, Hua Kai saw the figures of various families in Guang County coming to the Buqi Market, including the Huang and Geng families.

The Huang family was led by Hua Kai's second uncle Huang Guangwen. He brought more than ten nephews and nieces to greet the Hua family when they saw the Hua family's residence. Hua Kai saw that his second uncle had reached the 9th level of Qidong Realm, and wondered if he had taken his [Breaking Barrier Pill].

"Second uncle, it seems that you are almost at the Qi training realm. When do you plan to advance?" Hua Kai said when he saw Huang Guangwen.

"I just broke through the day before yesterday. I have to stabilize my realm before I can try. It will probably take at most a month! I will try to break through!" Huang Guangwen said confidently.

Second uncle meant that he had not taken [Breaking Barrier Pill] yet, so the chance of his breakthrough this year is very high.

Without A- or higher qualifications, Qidong Realm is a hurdle. A-level qualifications have the hope of being promoted to Xiantian, but how many people can really be promoted to Xiantian? So Qidong Realm is already considered a master in this world. Most of the famous generals of various countries are also in Qi training realm, and Xiantian realm is already a special existence in this world.

"Then I won't bother my second uncle and all my cousins. If you need any help, just come to the Hua family's residence. The cattle and sheep market is over there, and the horse market is over there..." Hua Kai returned to his own residence after talking to his second uncle. Here, the Hua family was loading the carriage. They were going to transport some grain to Guang County tomorrow. Guang County needed to replenish the grain in time. Transporting some grain would make it look good. Otherwise, the residence would attract some attention if only people came in and did not leave. On the second day of the market, the fifth uncle led a hundred people from the family to drive the carriage team back to Guang County. Hua Kai followed Yu Jun, Er Zhuang and others to the horse market. There were at least 20,000 horses here. Merchants from the South Country kept wandering around the horse market to ask for prices, but there were relatively few people trading in the first few days of the market. Everyone was still exploring the bottom line of this year's horse trading.