Chapter 209 Final Preparation

After entering the conference room, everyone discovered that the Hua family had only invited ten families, including the seven major villages outside the city and the Ren family, Tai family, and Zhou family inside the city. These ten families were the strongest families among the Hua family's affiliated forces except for the Jia family.

"Everyone must know that this drought may not be over next year or even the year after next. All our families must be prepared to deal with the drought in the long term.

You can also see that Kai'er and Lao Wu are not at home. They went to the south to find food this time. Everyone present here is the family with the best relationship with the Hua family, so I will speak frankly today.

The Hua family hopes that each family can be promoted to aristocratic family as soon as possible. The Hua family now has 23 people in the Qi training stage. It is certain that they will be promoted to the seventh rank or even higher in the future, so you must also improve your strength quickly.

Before leaving, Kai'er told me that he would fully support the development of the Hua family's affiliated forces. Now the entire Central Plains is full of refugees. If there is enough food, it is not a problem for the family's strength to double.

The Hua family can temporarily borrow 10,000 stones of grain from each family present in the next three years, but everyone needs to keep it confidential. If necessary, you can get it from Huajiabao and Huafu in the city, preferably at night when there are few people.

The Hua family can also provide a loan of 10,000 gold to the ten families. If you want to expand your village or mansion, go to Linzi City as soon as possible to invite some craftsmen. If you really can't invite them, the Hua family can also support some craftsmen.

The opportunity is right in front of us, and I won't say anything more! The other families will all be here later, and you ten families just remember what I said. "Hua Xing looked at the people sitting there and said slowly.

The ten heads of the families below were excited. If they had 10,000 stones of grain, they could at least feed 5,000 people. The Hua family supported them to grow with all their strength.

And if they buy pills with this 10,000 gold loan, they can buy nearly 100 pills if the Hua family sells pills at half price. This is enough for them to gather some qualified refugees to join their family, and then completely win over the hearts of the people, and the family's combat power will not be improved.

Hua Xing specifically mentioned the expansion of their village and mansion, which obviously encouraged them to take in more refugees. Today, the ten families are completely tied to the chariot of the Hua family.

The meeting was brief. The ten major families left the conference hall and stopped discussing anything related to food and expansion. They talked about the war in the north, the response to the drought, and some people tried to explore the possibility of marriage between the families. Everyone's face was no longer anxious when they first arrived. Everyone was actually thinking in their hearts, how to use so much food and funds to develop their own families faster.

At almost noon, more than 80 families in Guang County, including several villages with a population of more than 200 outside Huajiabao, sent their leaders. They went to the conference hall together to wait. All the affiliated forces of the Hua family gathered in Huajiabao. Everyone noticed that the Hua family had unconsciously ruled more than 60% of the forces in Guang County, and the entire Guang County was unconsciously under the rule of the Hua family.

After all the families arrived, Hua Xing came out to preside over the meeting.

He mainly talked about four things today. The first is the issue of water preparation for drought. All families must accumulate drinking water as soon as possible. As a porcelain supply family, the Geng family must increase the production of large-scale porcelain next, so that all families must store drinking water for more than two months.

The second thing is about food. All families report the amount of food they need to the Hua family. As for how much can be approved in the end, it depends on the Hua family. All families cannot sell a grain of food from today, otherwise they will be punished by the Hua family! The third is the management of refugees outside Guangxian City. All families must build their own soup kitchens to ensure that the entire Guangxian County does not get in chaos. If groups of refugees are found to gather to kill, burn and rob, each family will suppress them as soon as possible. If they cannot suppress them, notify the Hua family as soon as possible. The fourth is confidentiality and low-key. Food is transported at night. Now it is a drought, don't leave the village easily, don't let the villagers discuss the source of food too much, and don't follow the crowd. Each family should strengthen the education of villagers and organize villagers to practice martial arts. The strength of the Hua Family Academy is now only lower than that of the Guangxian Academy. Families with children who need to go to school can send their children here. The Hua family just wants to cultivate outstanding talents for the affiliated families, but all families think that the Hua family is reminding them to send hostages. Everyone patted their chests and promised to send the best young people of their own direct lineage. The main family wants a hostage, which is a kind of trust in the affiliated family. Basically, all families are not opposed to this. You get so much from the Hua family, and the first thing you need to pay is your loyalty. Otherwise, how much food can the Hua family give you this time?

The affiliated forces of the Hua family began to get busy. They began to prepare for the long-term drought. Some families began to secretly dig cellars. When the food was transported back from the Hua family, they would lock the village. Except for some main members of the family, others could not leave the compound or village before the drought ended.

However, some forces have their eyes on these refugees coming from the north. When they find young people with strength or good qualifications, they will approach them (ordinary people look at qualifications based on feelings, and the accuracy is not high). No one pays attention to whether these refugees finally leave or are taken in as servants.

At night, there are constant carriages coming in and out of Huajiabao. They quietly pull carts of food from Huajia. The villagers of Huajiabao don't know how much food the Hua family has, but they feel distressed every time they see this. Now food may save lives!

No one noticed that the villages outside Guangxian were quietly expanding. Some of them even learned from Huajiabao and built outer city walls. The population in the village was increasing every day. The number of refugees outside Guangxian began to increase. Some fled to Lu State and heard that the drought in the southern countries was also very serious. They returned to Guangxian City. Although they were not full here, at least they were not starving to death.

When Hua Kai returned to Guangxian City on October 19, he saw that Guangxian City had been surrounded by tens of thousands of disaster victims. Some disaster victims simply built simple houses outside the city and just lined up every day to drink porridge.

When I arrived at the city gate tower, I found that there were dozens of porridge sheds all distributing porridge. The heads of each family found that the disaster victims were strong or smart and went forward to negotiate with the other party. If they were lucky, those refugees could become new servants and didn't have to worry about starving to death again.

Hua Kai arrived at the gate of Guangxian City and asked his fifth uncle to take people back first. I needed to go to Huajiabao to quickly take all the spiritual trees out of the space. For more than 20 days, my fourth uncle and grandfather have been taking turns to guard these spiritual trees!

After passing through the nearly 10,000 refugees who were blocking the gate, Huajiabao now has 20 porridge jars for distributing porridge, and there are thousands of servants maintaining order outside the village. Entering the village, it seems like another world. The commercial area in the village is still prosperous and lively. The villagers are still working, practicing martial arts, continuing education, patrolling, and the children are carrying their schoolbags to study in the school.

Hua Kai found Xu Hua in the spiritual field and took out all the spiritual trees and handed them to him. Some spiritual trees have died in the past few days. It is better to hand these things over to professionals.

Fourth uncle was released from the space. Hua Zihuan came out of the inner village to find Hua Kai, and Hua Xing also came. They saw that Hua Kai's skin color had changed a lot in less than two months, and their hearts sank.

Many 15-year-old boys in the family are still studying in the school and don't know anything. Hua Kai has saved the family from danger many times. The future of the entire Hua family is on his shoulders!

"Grandpa, Fourth Uncle! How is the situation at home now?"

Although everyone has been communicating in the [Family Secret Space], Hua Kai couldn't help but ask when he saw the growing refugee group outside the village.

"In just ten days, the more than 30,000 stones of grain stored in the family have been transported away. If you don't come back, our family's remaining grain can only last for 5 days. Yesterday, a family of affiliated families quietly asked me if the Hua family had no food!" Hua Xing said.

"Food is no longer a problem now. The family must take good care of the slaves outside the village. As the disaster continues to worsen, the number of them gathering will increase. These days, many people have been staying in Huajiabao and won't leave. This won't work..." Hua Kai frowned and said.

"How about this! Set up a few refugee camps tomorrow and put all those who don't want to leave in them, all the young and strong together, parents and children together. There are 1,000 people in each refugee camp, give them some work to do, let them build roads and repair farmland outside Huajiabao!" Hua Kai thought for a while and said.

Huajiabao might cultivate a group of parasites. Without the pressure of survival, they would have no motivation to work hard. The Hua family has been supporting them and hurting them.

After Hua Kai finished talking to his grandfather, he came to the granary of Huajiabao. After several expansions, the granary of Huajiabao could only take 300,000 shi of grain. At night, the Hua family notified the affiliated families and the grain transportation started again.

Hua Kai bought more than 1.8 million shi of grain from Bashu and other countries this time. The granaries of Huajiabao and Guangxian Huafu could only hold less than 500,000 shi in the end. These grains are enough for 100,000 people to eat for three years. It should be enough for the Hua family to deal with this drought!

The core members of the Hua family finally got together. On October 25, the Hua family held a grand wedding for Hua Zichen and Princess Ji Le again. All the families with good relations with the Hua family came to congratulate. On this day, Chu Yuncheng, the president of the Sihai Chamber of Commerce, came in person and gave Hua Zichen a very generous gift.

In the evening, Hua Kai invited Chu Yuncheng to the main courtyard. Today, the Sihai Chamber of Commerce sent thousands of spiritual medicines. Every year, the private spiritual medicine and pill transactions between the two companies brought them rich profits and connections. He asked someone to take away all the medicine boxes. Hua Kai took out an exquisite jade box.

"This year, the Sihai Chamber of Commerce collected food for the Hua family. The Hua family will not forget this kindness. This spiritual medicine is a thank you gift this time." Hua Kai took out a pill and placed it in front of Chu Yuncheng.