Chapter 220 Ji Le returns to Lu

On the morning of April 14, more than 300 empty carriages of Huajiabao slowly drove out from the gate, followed by more than 5,000 servants of the Hua family. The Hua family almost used up all their manpower for this trip!

Hua Kai rode Lu Yilu to the gate of Guang County and saw Ji Le's carriage waiting outside the city. Thousands of Hua family guards followed behind the carriage, including the guards of the Lu family's dowry.

Seeing Hua Kai coming with so many carriages, Princess Ji Le got off the carriage.

"Kai'er, what is this?" Princess Ji Le looked at the empty carriage and asked in confusion.

"Don't worry about these, Aunt Wu. There will be food in Lu. It's getting late, let's set off quickly! Try to get to Lu within ten days." Hua Kai said.

Princess Ji Le didn't ask much after hearing this. Every family has unknown treasures. Hua Kai must have put the food in some treasure space. These are all secrets of a family. Ji Le got on the carriage and asked all the guards to set off. She also wanted to send the food to Lu as soon as possible.

Hua Kai and his men started on the road. The people of Guang County saw this and wondered what the Hua family was going to do. Only the Hua family had such a big battle in Guang County!

An empty carriage travels hundreds of miles a day. If it is a carriage full of food, it can only travel 50 miles at most. At night, everyone took out tents and set them up. Hua Kai saw that there were still refugees wandering here. Maybe they were going to Guang County, but whether they could reach Guang County depended on luck.

Princess Ji Le had already sent an envoy to Lu State, telling King Lu that she was going home to visit relatives, and also told the Hua family to send food to help Lu State through the crisis, so that he could make arrangements for the reception early.

King Lu was delighted when he heard this. He was very worried about the food problem recently. The food in Lu State had basically run out, and there were refugees everywhere. The noble families with surplus food were using food to build relationships. The voices of dissatisfaction with the Lu family in the country were getting louder and louder. This time, the support of the Hua family could be said to be timely help.

Although the King of Lu did not know how much food the Hua family could provide, he spread the news in Qufu City as soon as possible to appease the various families that followed the Lu family, and the food crisis would be solved soon.

Now whoever has food is the boss. Many people came to the Lu family after hearing that they had found food. Seeing this, the King of Lu could only tell everyone that the food would be delivered in ten days, and it would still be in time for spring ploughing and replanting this year. Let all families deal with the refugee problem and hold on for another ten days.

Although most families in Qi State did not believe it at all, many people were still waiting with hope. As long as there was food planted in the fields, they would be able to survive.

The news spread to various cities in Lu State in less than a day. Many people knew that the king had food, and they all went to Qufu City with their families to seek a way to survive.

When the King of Lu heard that more and more disaster victims were gathering outside Qufu City, he remained silent in the palace. He knew that this news was deliberately spread by some noble families, but now he could only bite the bullet and hold on. He only hoped that his daughter would bring more food this time, at least to make the disaster victims outside the city feel at ease, otherwise the Lu family would really have a hard time!

It took Hua Kai and Princess Ji Le only 8 days to reach 30 miles outside Qufu City. Here, skinny disaster victims could be seen everywhere, struggling to move towards Qufu City. There was their only hope of survival.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Hua Kai asked everyone to camp on the spot. He led the Hua family servants to build a large tent in the center of the camp. The area of ​​the tent was more than 200 square meters. Thousands of Hua family servants stood outside the tent to prevent people from approaching. Hua Kai used the [Baoguang Liuli Bottle] to fill the bags with food.

A carriage entered the tent and was pushed out in less than two minutes. When it came out, the wheels of the carriage had sunk deeply into the ground. This new-style carriage was loaded with 50 shi of grain, and it was difficult for ten servants to push it.

Princess Ji Le stood outside her tent and watched the carriages filled with grain neatly placed together. She was immediately excited. More than 300 carriages could at least have more than 10,000 shi of grain. At least Lu could save the country!

In the early morning of April 22, before dawn, more than 300 carriages of the Hua family filled with grain were neatly arranged in rows. The servants of the Hua family put horses on the carriages, but the horses were unable to pull them, so the servants could only help push them from behind.

After walking for more than an hour, more and more refugees were encountered on the road. Hua Kai began to arrange the carriages closer and asked all the guards to be careful not to let the refugees get too close to the carriages.

These hungry victims can do anything when they see the food.

The closer they got to Qufu City, the more refugees there were. When they saw the Hua family convoy was full of food, they all surrounded it involuntarily. The Hua family guards tried to stop them but still approached.

"Tell them that anyone who dares to approach the grain cart within three feet will be killed!" Hua Kai ordered decisively.

Hua Kai was also troubled by these disaster victims, but if he didn't let them mess around at this time, it would be more troublesome.

Although the Hua family servants kept shouting, the disaster victims outside seemed to have only food in their eyes. Some disaster victims began to fan the flames outside, saying that the carriages should not be allowed to enter the city, and the food would be divided by the noble families if they entered the city. The Hua family convoy was gradually surrounded. Although there were tens of thousands of these disaster victims, and there were still a steady stream of disaster victims coming from all directions, the 6,000 Hua family guards were not vegetarians. Whoever dared to be the first to go would surely die.

The two sides were deadlocked. Princess Ji Le got out of the carriage and shouted loudly to the disaster victims outside, saying that porridge would be provided to everyone when the food arrived in Qufu City, but the disaster victims would not listen.

Just when the Hua family servants could not help but take action, a huge army came out of Qufu City. They were wearing armor and were obviously the regular army of Lu State. The refugees slowly made way when they saw this.

"Brother King!" Princess Ji Le shouted when she saw the middle-aged man riding a horse in front of her.

"Ji Le, it's really you! You really brought us food! I didn't believe that my father said you would bring food back recently, but I didn't expect it to be you!"

This middle-aged man looked much older than Princess Ji Le, but his eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to those of the King of Lu. He saw Princess Ji Le and walked up with a big laugh.

"Brother King, this is Hua Kai, the head of the Hua family... Kai'er, this is my brother!" Princess Ji Le introduced Hua Kai.

After the two saluted each other, the Qi army sent each other and the Hua family convoy slowly entered Qufu City. After entering Qufu City, Hua Kai saw that the people here looked pale, but when he saw the food carts coming, he just watched from afar. At least his life was better than the refugees outside the city.

Escorting the Hua family carriage into the gate of the Qi Palace, Hua Kai saw an old man waiting at the gate of the palace surrounded by people. He looked at the other person and knew that the other person was the King of Lu!

"Master Hua, thank you for the help of the Hua family. Please go to the palace to rest first!" King Lu performed the courtesy of a friend to Hua Kai.

"Meet King Lu!" Hua Kai performed the courtesy of a monarch.

Hua Kai and Princess Ji Le entered the Palace of King Lu, and King Lu hosted a banquet for them!

"Lu has been suffering from famine for more than three years. Please don't mind, Master Hua!" King Lu invited the queen and several princesses to welcome Hua Kai and Ji Le.

Princess Ji Le saw the dishes on the table and couldn't help crying. More than ten kinds of dishes were mostly meat. If you look carefully, these meats are all wild beast meats. Many of these meats are sour and people usually don't eat them.

"Thank you King Lu for your hospitality. It's good to be able to fill your stomach with food in the year of famine, but there is no food available in the Palace of King Lu. This is hard to believe!" Hua Kai sighed.

"The palace originally had some grain in reserve, but it has all been used to make wheat seeds. Lu is a country with a large grain supply. To restore its national strength, it is still necessary to restore farming. If we eat one less grain, the people will have 100 more grains this autumn, and Lu's national strength will be restored as soon as possible!" King Lu looked at Hua Kai and said.

Hua Kai tasted the dishes on the table. Although the meat was exquisitely cooked and the chef's skills were pretty good, the faint sour taste in the meat could not be hidden. He stopped eating after a few bites!

Ji Le also stopped eating after a few bites. When the princesses of the Lu Palace saw the two stop eating, they also stopped eating.

"I once asked Princess Ji Le and learned that the Lu family needed 100,000 stones of grain to survive the current crisis?" Hua Kai talked about business.

King Lu waved his hand to signal all the princesses to leave. Soon, only Hua Kai, Ji Le, the queen, and King Lu were left in the hall.

"One hundred thousand shi can barely solve the current crisis in Qufu City. Leaving wheat seeds so that half of the people in Lu can replant spring wheat. If you want to solve the crisis in Lu, you need at least 300,000 shi of grain. Now most of the families in Qufu City have run out of food." King Lu said.

Hua Kai pondered why Lu, as a grain-rich country, suffered a more serious famine than Qi. Qi began to have refugees since the wolf disaster, and now nearly half of the lowest-level people in Qi have died.

Although Lu seemed to be in a more serious disaster, they did not have many victims who starved to death. Many families were willing to take out their own grain reserves to save the lives of civilians, because Lu and Qi had different national customs.

Qi was the hometown of Confucius Zhisheng. Most of the students here were Confucian students, and all the families also advocated Confucianism. In terms of loving the people, the Lu family should be the best, but this is not necessarily a good thing for the development of a country.

"If 300,000 shi... Hua family can help, this grain is considered to be lent by Hua family to Lu family, but it will have to be repaid in the future." Hua Kai said.

If you don't say it's a return, it's a conditional help. After all, brothers have to settle accounts. When Princess Ji Le and Queen Lu said they wanted to return, they smiled.

"This king thanks the Hua family on behalf of Lu. Today's 300,000 shi of grain will be returned tenfold in the future!" King Lu stood up and saluted Hua Kai. He was thanking the Hua family on behalf of the people of Lu, and Hua Kai gladly accepted it.

Hua Kai released more than 400,000 shi of grain from the [Baoguang Glazed Bottle] to his family twice. Now there are more than 500,000 shi in the [Baoguang Glazed Bottle]. This time, 300,000 shi was left for Lu. This is a good relationship for Hua Kai to make for the Hua family. If the Hua family encounters a crisis in the future, Lu will have to help them because of today's relationship. The most powerful family that the Hua family can contact now is the Lu family.