Chapter 196 The rights of aristocratic families

Hua Kai entered the advanced area of ​​Guangxian Academy, and then he began to have a comprehensive understanding of the thoughts of various schools of thought. Every morning, the academy would send a senior student to give lectures to everyone. The ten major schools of thought were Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism, Mohism, Famous School, Yin-Yang School, Diplomacy School, Miscellaneous School, Agricultural School, and Home.

Each school has its own unique ideological propositions. Hua Kai began to slowly understand the essence, connection, contradiction and conflict of each school's propositions. He read the works and mental methods of each school again, and his progress was much faster than before.

Three days after Dean Liang Hai finished his class, Hua Kai found that he had become a student of Mohism. This was the second mental method he had comprehended among the hundreds of schools of thought.

On this day, Dean Liang Hai happened to find him and asked him to give a home course to the students in the intermediate area next week. Hua Kai agreed!

Only by telling your own insights can you consolidate your knowledge, find your misunderstandings, and correct them and make progress. There is no end to academics. In order to become a great man in the future, Hua Kai needs to constantly summarize his own thoughts and theories, so that he can communicate with the masters and even great men of various schools of thought, constantly improve his own theories, and lay the foundation for the future.

Huajia students are constantly absorbing various knowledge in Guangxian Academy, and Huajiabao and Huafu in the city are already in the process of comprehensive reconstruction.

With the arrival of spring, the people in the slums began to look for work in the city again. Some people left the city and tried to join the small villages outside the city. Last year, there were no large groups of wild beasts, and many small and medium-sized villages survived. This year, they can continue to strengthen their villages, expand the scale of the villages, and wait for the challenges of the next winter.

Xiahe Village is now much more lively than last year. Last year, they bought a lot of slaves from the grassland, and some affiliated villages joined their village. Now the population of Huangjia is more than 600 people, becoming another great village outside the city of Huajiabao.

Huang Guangqi was sitting in the main living room with a frown on his face. This year, the houses in their village had to be expanded by more than double. In the past few days, the carriages made were constantly bought by others. The Huang family had already earned thousands of gold in profits for this. However, after hearing the news sent by the Hua family just now, he couldn't be happy.

"Brother, what did the Hua family say? Did something unexpected happen during the business this year?" Huang Guangwen looked at his elder brother and asked puzzledly.

Last year, the Huang family earned more than 3,000 gold from business, and the family had ten times more horses. The young people in the family had resources to cultivate. Now the number of people in the Qidong realm in the Huang family has approached ten. He wanted to go to the city Huafu to quietly buy some more pills today, but was called back by his elder brother.

"The Hua family sent news that there will be a severe drought this year, and the drought may last for 3 years. We must prepare in advance!" Huang Guangqi said in a low voice.

"Severe drought! Is this news accurate..." Huang Guangwen shut up as soon as he opened his mouth. The news came from the Hua family, so it must be correct. As the village with the most fields in Guang County, the Huang family knows the harm of the drought best. There is a high possibility that there will be no harvest this year, so everyone will have a problem eating.

"This news cannot be made public. The Hua family said that if we are short of food, we can go to Huajiabao to transport it. It is enough to plant 200 acres of wheat fields in the village this year. If people carry water every day, there will be some harvest in the fall. You should ask people to dig wells to store water now. If the drought is serious, the wells may dry up. We must be prepared to deal with long-term drought." Huang Guangqi said.

"What about business this year? We are all ready!" Huang Guangwen asked in a deep voice.

"The grassland countries are ready to launch a large army to attack the northern countries of the Central Plains... Business should not be affected. The Central Plains countries dare not cut off the transportation of goods in the grassland!" Huang Guangqi thought for a while and said.

The total population of the grassland countries is over 10 million. Without salt, tea and other scarce materials, they cannot survive. If the Central Plains countries cut off the supply of the grassland countries, they will force the other side to fight with themselves. The materials harvested by the Central Plains countries from the grassland every year are also astronomical. If the two sides end the trade, without the continuous arrival of horses, furs and oxen, the Central Plains countries themselves cannot bear it.

"Brother, Kai'er told us about this. The Hua family is in front of us to support us. We should just prepare for the business trip. Kai'er hopes that our Huang family will grow rapidly. As long as we come back from this business trip, our family will definitely grow several times stronger." Huang Guangwen said excitedly.

The Hua family privately sold pills to the affiliated families such as Huang and Geng, and the price was less than half of the usual price. They just asked them not to leak the news. In this way, Huang Guangqi is now at the 8th level of Qidong Realm, and Huang Guangwen is already at the 4th level of Qi Training Realm.

They quietly handed over the profits from this trip to the grassland to the Hua family, in exchange for the rapid improvement of the strength of each family. Now Huang Guangwen is focusing on how to make money to buy elixirs. Every extra elixir represents a hope for the family.

"I know this is a great opportunity. This year, the main combat power of the village is almost exhausted. Even the newly bought slaves last year have to follow the caravan. You go to Huajiabao in the afternoon and report our family's goods list and the number of personnel this year. Let's see what the Hua family says first." Huang Guangqi sighed.

Huang Guangwen wants to do his family's best to go to the Xiongnu Kingdom this time. This time, the planned number of people participating in the trade has reached 104, which has already exhausted all the young and strong people in the family.

After the two brothers discussed, Huang Guangwen came to Huajiabao with a list of goods. He saw Hua Xing handing the list to the other party. Hua Xing looked at the list and found that they planned to bring 32 carriages this time. He only asked them if they were sure they would not fall behind, and did not say that they brought too much goods.

Hua Xing put all the lists of goods sent by all the families together, and there were more than 40 families. They had more than 600 carriages in total, and more than 2,400 merchants. If the Hua family and the Yao family were added, the number of people in this caravan would exceed 3,000, which could be considered a large merchant group.

In the evening, Hua Xing handed these issues to Hua Kai for decision-making. Hua Kai just asked the family to send the list of goods to Linzi City to see what the Qi family said.

The next day, two strong horses came to the Qi Palace. The official in charge of Qi's customs duties just took a look and stamped him with a big seal. As long as the Hua family paid the customs duties of various countries that should be paid for this business trip, this certificate would take effect, and Hua Kai could distribute these goods to everyone at will.

A total of 23,600 gold of goods, the Qi family collected 3,540 gold of customs duties, which made Hua Kai sigh at the huge profit of controlling the Guangxian City business trip.

More than 13,000 gold of these 23,600 gold goods belonged to the goods of the aristocratic families, and the Hua family could earn 30% of the [road permit fee], which is about 4,000 gold.

The remaining ordinary families may have about 6,600 gold. The Hua family will charge three times the [travel permit fee] on average, which is 20,000 gold.

In other words, the Hua family's income this year has exceeded 20,000 gold just from this business trip, which is enough for an eighth-grade family to develop rapidly.

Hua Xing asked someone to send the money to the Qi Palace. In the afternoon, the Hua family distributed the travel permits to each family and agreed that the date of this year's business trip would be March 1.

The first time the Hua family used the power of the family, they received favors from many families and more than 20,000 gold. This made everyone deeply feel the difference between the family and the ordinary family. This difference is like heaven and earth.

On February 15th, all the personnel arrangements for the Hua family this year were set.

Hua Zichen will go to Lu State to marry after February 23rd. This is a big event for the Hua family. Hua Kai decided to let Yu Jun accompany him. In addition to the two Qi training realm masters, Qing Geertai and the other 10 special-grade servants who followed Hua Zichen to the battlefield last year will all go with him. In addition, Hua Kai will organize a wedding party of 500 servants. The scene of marrying the princess cannot be small.

Uncle Wu will be back from Lu State in about half a month. By then, the Hua family caravan must have left. This year, the Hua family caravan is led by Hua Xing, including Xue Pan, Er Zhuang, Wei Baotou, Hua Yue, Han Jinsheng, etc., a total of 10 Qi training realm masters. In addition, the family brought 69 carriages, 167 Qidong realm masters, and 143 Kaiyuan realm masters. It can be said that the strength is huge.

In this way, the Hua family has a total of 18 Qi training realm merchants, 10 people, 2 people from the Ordos tribe, and Hua Zichen took away 3 people. The remaining housekeeper Hua Fu is in Huafu, Guangxian City, and Xu Hua and Tang Lei are in Huajiabao.

Xu Hua and Tang Lei will go home this year. The wolf disaster just passed last year, and this year they may encounter a severe drought. They must bring their families to the Hua family.

So when Hua Zichen and Yu Jun come back to pick up their bride, they will have to leave for a while, and Hua Kai has agreed to this.

On February 23, Hua Zichen rode the [Tianlongju], and behind him was a brand new bright red carriage, which Princess Ji Le would ride when she came back. The Hua family transported more than ten carriages of betrothal gifts, and began to drive south under the escort of a group of servants. It would take them about five days to enter the capital of Lu, Qufu City. The Hua family sent Hua Zichen 10 miles away before stopping.

The day after Hua Zichen left, the head of the Yao family brought 260 family members to the Huajiabao. They brought 60 carts of various spiritual woods. Although these spiritual woods were all low-grade spiritual woods, they were also worth tens of thousands of gold. The nearly ten thousand gold of goods money prepared by the Hua family for them was enough, but the [travel fee] needed to be supplemented after returning.

The whole Guang County City began to get busy when spring came. Many villages outside the city have already started planting wheat on arable land, but some families have planted very little wheat this year. The noble families have almost all known the news that the drought is coming, and they are all rushing to stockpile food. Ordinary small and medium-sized villages are irrigating farmland while waiting for rain. They finally saved some money last year without going to the city, so they have to farm well.

At this time, Hua Kai is still immersed in the ocean of knowledge. A few days ago, he gave a lecture to the students in the intermediate area. This morning, he gave a lecture to the advanced area Class A. He found that discussing with others is the most effective way to improve knowledge and make up for his own shortcomings.

A few days ago, he finally understood the most difficult Taoist mind method [Tao Te Ching]. Now he is experiencing everyone's mind method and studying the Legalist masterpiece seriously. I believe that in a few days, I will go to [Dream Visualization Method] to recall and study it several times, and it will not be far to become a Legalist student.