Chapter 197: Examination and Grain Purchase

That night, I met with my grandfather, fourth uncle, and fifth uncle in the [Family Secret Space]. The Zhizhi tribe army had a total of more than 50,000 people. They passed near the Ordos tribe and had taken more than 100,000 warriors from the entire Xiongnu Kingdom to Yiqiu.

Fourth uncle Hua Zihuan told Hua Kai the news that it would take them about half a month to enter Yiqiu, and the news of the war might reach Qi in a month.

Qi and Yiqiu have a long depth, and the borders of both sides are still rolling mountains, so even if Qin is defeated, it will not be defeated too quickly. Therefore, this time the grassland countries set their sights on Qin, the strongest country in the Central Plains, and Hua Kai is not too worried.

Fifth uncle, everything is fine on the way. Now we have passed Jiagu County and entered the territory of Lu. Everyone went a few days earlier. When they arrived at Changshao County on the north side of Qufu City, they would rest there for some time.

Grandpa told Hua Kai that there was news from the Sihai Chamber of Commerce. This year's drought has been known to many families and families in the world, and now the price of grain in the south has also risen very high.

Last year's wolf disaster only stopped north of the Yellow River, so many large producing countries in the south were not affected, and some regions were still willing to sell grain. The Sihai Chamber of Commerce paid 50% more and bought 60,000 shi of grain for the Hua family. In about half a month, the merchant ship of the Sihai Chamber of Commerce will be delivered to Buqi County, and the Hua family will send someone to receive it.

Hua Kai asked Er Zhuang to build a temporary courtyard and wooden house on the beach of Buqi County, and put the grain here when the merchant ship of the Sihai Chamber of Commerce arrives, and wait for Hua Kai to collect it when he has time.

The Sihai Chamber of Commerce helped the Hua family a lot this time. With these 60,000 shi of grain plus the more than 30,000 shi of grain in the [Baoguang Glazed Bottle], Hua Kai has nearly 100,000 shi of grain, which is enough for 20,000 people for three years. In this way, even if all the grassland slaves go home, the Hua family will not be afraid of not having enough food.

After adding 50% to the price, Hua Kai thought that the grain would be very expensive, but it turned out to be only 120 bone coins per shi. It is much cheaper than the normal price of grain in Guang County before, and more than 10 times the current price. This time, the Sihai Chamber of Commerce helped them a lot. If they want to make money, they must earn at least 5,000 gold by transporting 60,000 stones of grain.

Starting from February 20th, the senior class has already started the annual exam. In fact, only some students in the A-class are preparing carefully. Most of the students in the B-class feel that it is hopeless to go to the Jixia Academy for further study. They have already agreed with the academy to stay in the academy as teachers in the future. Only a part of the C-class can stay, and the D-class can only stay for the purpose of improving their strength. After all, the learning atmosphere is good.

After three months of hard study, Hua Kai's Spring and Autumn class can only be considered average. The exams in the senior zone A-class asked some relatively profound questions that required self-summary. Hua Kai had more than 30 years of experience in his previous life, so he could only let the teacher reluctantly agree.

In the Book of Songs class, Hua Kai's chanting and instrument playing were relatively good, but not outstanding.

In etiquette class, he was far behind the excellent students who had studied in Guangxian Academy for more than ten years. In martial arts, many students were over 30 years old and had already broken through the Qidong realm. One of them had even reached the Great Perfection of Qidong realm, which was higher than many teachers. Therefore, he did not have an advantage in martial arts.

His advantage was in arithmetic and erudition. The arithmetic teacher asked ten questions, and Hua Kai was the first to complete the exam, and the only one who got all the questions right. You should know that arithmetic is the most difficult course for all students every year. Generally, those who can answer three questions correctly are very good, and those who answer five questions correctly can at least stay in the academy. Hua Kai was confident that he could get the highest score.

Finally, there was the erudition class. Hua Kai was a great man, a student of Confucianism, Taoism, and Mohism. No one in the entire academy could compare with him in erudition, so Hua Kai estimated that his score for this exam should be above 1,000 points, and he had a great chance of being recommended.

After another month of study, Hua Kai would study in the other courtyard with all the students of the Hua family every night. He was also more assured of other students in the family. The junior district was promoted to the next district.

After the holiday, the entire Huafu was being rebuilt. The family members were either with Uncle Wu to welcome the bride, or busy with the construction and renovation of the restaurant, livestock market, and Huafu. There were no idle people in the mansion.

Hua Kai, Butler Hua Fu, mother and other important members of the Hua family returned to Huajiabao on the second day of the holiday. The family caravan was ready and would set off in a few days. Hua Kai, as the head of the family, wanted to send his grandfather and others off.

Tang Lei had gone to Buqi County to exchange Erzhuang back. Since Erzhuang got married and had children, he has become much more stable. Butler Hua Fu is in Huafu, Guang County. He is now the chief butler of Huajiabao. Hua Kai also intends to let him learn more about management.

When Hua Kai returned to Huajiabao, the first thing he saw was the villages outside Huajiabao that were busy expanding. These villages survived outside Huajiabao last year. This year, they were busy building walls and adding houses. While Huajiabao was still under construction, many people came from all directions to seek work. They could just expand the number of people in their villages. In this way, Huajiabao had actually played the role of a city.

As for how many of these villages would be left next year, Hua Kai was not sure. Huajiabao could stand outside Guangxian City for decades without falling. That was because the terrain for building the village was good. It only needed to focus on defending one side of the city wall. These villages would have to take care of the four walls when the wild beasts became large.

Entering Huajiabao, the inner village was almost completed after a year of reconstruction, and the reconstruction of the outer village had just begun. The village was full of large and small construction sites, and the commercial area was being demolished. Hua Kai went home to see his grandparents first.

When he returned to his main courtyard, Xiaoqiang was happy to see him back and wagged his tail around him. As more and more things happened at home, Hua Kai cared less and less about Xiaoqiang. Xiaoqiang was a spiritual animal. Before it grew up, he didn't want more people to know about it, so he couldn't bring it with him.

After playing with Xiaoqiang for a while, Hua Kai saw the head of the Yao family coming from a distance.

"Hua Xiaoyou is back!" The head of the Yao family saluted.

"Head of the Yao family, how are the goods prepared?" Hua Kai asked with a smile when he saw the head of the Yao family.

"A total of 48 new carriages, most of the goods are cloth, weapons, brick tea, etc., about 8,600 gold goods, and we will settle the road permit fee when we come back!" The head of the Yao family said with a smile.

"These are all goods that are in short supply on the grassland. This year, the Hua family will discuss with the Ordos tribe and let the Yao family try to contact the new big tribe. By then, the Yao family will have a fixed trading partner, and it will be much easier to trade in the future." Hua Kai said.

"Then thank you, Master Hua. This is the first time the Yao family is going out to do business, so the Hua family needs to take care of everything!"

As they talked, they came to the spiritual field area. Recently, the Sihai Chamber of Commerce helped the Hua family collect some spiritual trees, but they were all of lower grade and not many in number. The Hua family's agricultural value increased by less than 100 points. Hua Kai was thinking whether to plant the [Crystal Persimmon] spiritual tree in the spiritual field now. [Crystal Persimmon] is a second-grade spiritual fruit, and its value is much higher than the seventh-grade spiritual wood [White Wax Jade Tree]. These ordinary spiritual trees may not be taken seriously by ordinary people, but the Hua family will definitely be noticed by all forces if they have a spiritual tree that can produce second-grade spiritual fruits.

After thinking deeply, it's better to wait. The Hua family still needs to develop in a low-key manner, although it is already ostentatious enough now!

In the spiritual field, Xu Hua was leading more than 50 students to water the spiritual field. Because the scale of the spiritual field has expanded, he has accepted a group of students. Hua Kai saw that there were more than 10 students who had learned the introductory [Shennong's Herbal Classic]. Spirit trees were planted around the courtyard. Hua Kai's heart calmed down when he entered the spiritual field.

"Meet the master!" Xu Hua, like an ordinary old farmer, came forward to greet Hua Kai.

"How are the spiritual rice seedlings growing? It hasn't rained this year. Will it affect the growth of spiritual rice? And these spiritual medicines and spiritual trees!" Hua Kai looked at Xu Hua and asked.

"Every few days, I will ask students to irrigate the spiritual field. Our spiritual field is not large, and we can still take care of it. These newly transplanted spiritual trees are also alive. The growth of spiritual medicine is a long process. Although the spiritual medicine in our spiritual field grows fast, it will take at least 4 years before it can be used as medicine." Xu Hua replied.

The Hua family's spiritual field is now the most important industry of the family. The value of tens of thousands of gold spiritual rice each year is no lower than that of business, and it also affects whether the main task six can be completed, so Hua Kai has always attached great importance to the spiritual field.

Went to the village school to give a lesson to all the teenagers. Many young slaves brought back from the grassland two years ago have grown up slowly. Some of them are over 16 years old and have entered the Kaiyuan realm. They are very happy to see Hua Kai, and Hua Kai also smiled back at them.

Checked the learning content of the students in the school. Now they have added courses such as Spring and Autumn, Etiquette, Book of Songs, Erudition, and Arithmetic. Because some children from affiliated villages also study here, there are more students in the school.

Returning to the inner village workshop area to check it out, Hua Kai put all the fine wine and snowflake salt stored in the wine cellar into the [Baoguang Glazed Bottle], and asked the workshop not to stop working. The more these things are accumulated, the stronger the Hua family's foundation will be.

Leaving the workshop, Hua Kai saw his grandfather looking for him. It turned out that the Yi family sent the animal bone money belonging to the Hua family.

Hua Kai also handed over the work of boiling animal bones last year. The animal bones worth more than 40,000 gold were boiled for a whole winter before they were completed. A total of gold, silver, and bone coins worth more than 80,000 gold were obtained. The Yi family earned more than 4,000 gold just by taking the order from the Hua family this year. Although this job is tiring, the profit is no worse than the business of cloth, tea, and carriages in Guangxian.

After the evening training, Hua Kai took the time to send some family members into the family space secret realm for trial. He now has fewer and fewer opportunities to go home, and the family's combat power is increasing more and more slowly, but this is normal. If the Hua family wants to reach the strength of a sixth-grade family, this is a slow process.