Chapter 265 Return Home

The Hua family caravan is preparing to go home. This year, they are all traveling on horseback, without using carriages, and they may not use them again in the future.

Thousands of slaves with low loyalty were sent away, and several who wanted to stir up trouble among the slaves were killed directly by members of the Hua family. Hua Kai saw that all the slaves suddenly calmed down, and many slaves' loyalty values ​​increased a lot, and he was more confident about going home this time.

There are more than 14,000 slaves to be sent home this time, and the total number of horses exceeds 15,000. In this way, everyone has a horse to ride, and the Hua family still has more than 5,000 horses left in the Ordos tribal station.

Thousands of the most loyal ones were selected from the 14,000 people. The Hua family divided them into 14 large teams, each with ten squadrons, and each squadron with ten teams. This is the way the family members came up with to manage slaves.

This morning, hundreds of furnaces of elixirs were refined in the [Family Secret Space], and the family's luck value was consumed by him until it was close to the 5,000 red warning line.

Finally, all the elixirs needed by the Ordos tribe were replenished, and the trade with the other party this year was almost completed. After Hua Kai brought the Hua family back home, Xue Chen stayed to continue the remaining ordinary goods transactions.

After Hua Kai refined all the elixirs, he went to the king's tent of the Tiefa tribe leader to say goodbye to him.

When Hua Kai returned to the station, all the slaves who were going home were ready. If everything went well, they would be able to go back in about a month, because with Hua Kai here this time, they didn't need to bring too much luggage on the way home.

There were a total of 271 members of the Hua family who went home with Hua Kai, and there were only more than 50 people left in the Ordos tribe. The grazing work in the station was done by the slaves, and more than 50 of them were enough to manage the remaining 7,000 slaves. In the Ordos tribe, these slaves dared not make trouble.

In the evening, the Hua family held a bonfire party and invited all the captains of the slave teams to participate. It was the first time for these slaves to be valued by the Hua family so much that they all seemed very excited. Most of them were just ordinary people before, but this time they had a chance to be accepted by the aristocratic family, and they all seemed very cautious.

"We will go home tomorrow. All the slaves present here will get rid of their slave status and become servants of the Hua family. But before returning to Gaoliu City, you will all need to undergo tests.

Everyone will be assigned a horse when returning home this time. It must not happen that a slave escapes on horseback halfway.

If a small team of slaves escapes, the entire team will be executed. If the entire team escapes, all the people in the squadron will be executed. If all the people in the squadron escape, no one will be left alive in the large team.

As long as all your subordinates can return to Gaoliu City smoothly, everyone present will get a reward. The team leader will be rewarded with 2 gold, the squadron leader will be rewarded with 5 gold, and the large leader will be rewarded with 10 gold.

When you arrive in Gaoliu City, if you want to leave, everyone can leave freely by paying a ransom of 2 gold. If you still have relatives, the Hua family will also find a way to help you find your relatives and send them to Gaoliu City to reunite with you." Hua Kai stood in the middle of everyone and said loudly.

All the slaves listened attentively, and many of them showed excitement on their faces. As long as they can return to Gaoliu City smoothly, the reward from the Hua family is enough for them to redeem themselves. If they try to escape halfway, it will be risky and they may get lost on the grassland and be eaten by wolves.

The captains present all looked at the ten squadron leaders under him, and the squadron leaders looked at the ten team leaders under him. If they can return to Gaoliu City safely, they can get a large sum of money, which is money they could not earn in the past few years.

Hua Kai ignored everyone after saying this. He talked with all the family members about going home tomorrow. Nearly 10,000 slaves can travel by themselves. If they encounter a battle, it will not be of much use, so the safety of the road can only rely on their 272 people.

All the slave captains of each brigade gathered in a circle to discuss how to manage their members and prevent them from escaping. When they go back tonight, they must explain clearly to each slave. Everyone must supervise each other. Slaves who show signs of escape must be reported immediately. Even if they are killed directly, they must not be allowed to escape. If one person escapes, the other nine members of the team will be buried with him.

Seeing that the discussion among the 14 teams was getting more and more intense, Hua Kai and the Hua family all retreated and gave them the place. All the captains must have tried their best to seize such a good opportunity. For a person, the biggest motivation is nothing more than two things, one is to rise to prominence, and the other is to survive. When these two things come together, they have no choice.

The next morning, Hua Kai heard that there was already a noise outside the tent. He opened his eyes and it was still dark outside the tent.

The slave captains had already begun to organize the team and waited to receive their own horses. Some slaves who did not stand in a standard line would be whipped by the captain. If this slave turned over, it would be really unambiguous to attack his former companions.

When Hua Kai came out of the tent, he saw that the slaves were all in high spirits today. He didn't know what the slave captains said to them last night. Today, most of their loyalty points increased by more than 5 points, which is a considerable number.

After breakfast, Hua Kai came to his own horse farm. [Diluma] neighed happily when he saw Hua Kai coming. He jumped over the fence and came to Hua Kai, happily rubbing his head against Hua Kai's chest.

[Black Eagle] also saw Hua Kai coming. It jumped over the fence and watched Hua Kai running around him, but didn't dare to get close. I guess [Diluma] had beaten it up a lot.

[Diluma] had stayed in the Ordos tribe since returning from Tianshan. When he saw Xue Chen coming, he followed Xue Chen to the horse farm of the Hua family's residence. Hua Kai had only visited it twice in the more than ten days since he came back. After the last adventure, it became more dependent on Hua Kai.

[Black Eagle] wanted to take it for a trial because Hua Kai was too busy, but he didn't have time. He was very angry when he saw Hua Kai was occupied by other horses, but he didn't dare to show it in front of [Diluma]. In this horse farm, [Diluma] is a true horse king as a divine horse.

It seemed very excited to ride [Diluma], perhaps because it felt the change in Hua Kai's strength. Now that Hua Kai has entered the Xiantian realm, it will be even better to cooperate with it. When encountering mountains, it will really fly all the way through. It will become very simple to walk in the air.

Hua Kai watched all the slaves lead the horses out of the horse farm. Under the leadership of the team leader, a hundred people stood together in a squadron, and a thousand people were arranged neatly in a brigade. He led 200 members of the Hua family on horseback, 50 members of the Hua family rode at the end, and the remaining 20 led the way in front of the slave team, so it was basically impossible for the slaves to leave quietly.

Xue Chen and other members of the Hua family who stayed behind sent the family members out of the Ordos tribe. Prince Chaganbala was waiting for them outside the tribe with more than 3,000 cavalrymen.

Recently, the leader of the Tiefa tribe was at an important moment to discuss cooperation and alliance with other tribes, so he could only send Prince Chaganbala to see Hua Kai off.

Prince Chaganbala sent them out for a hundred miles, and watched the Hua family of more than 14,000 people riding east before turning back to the tribe.

Hua Kai walked in the front to minimize unnecessary trouble for the slave troops behind him. Although the number of Hua family members escorting this time is not large, among the 271 family members, there are 12 in the Qi training realm, more than 100 in the Qi dynamic realm, and the rest are in the late Kaiyuan realm, but they are all well-equipped, and everyone rides a war horse, so they are not afraid of encountering a team of thousands of horse bandits.

On the grassland, horse bandits rarely attack caravans like theirs. Now with Hua Kai, a Xiantian realm, the safety of the Hua family caravan is even more guaranteed.

Seeing the shadows of Xue Chen and Prince Chaganbala gradually disappearing in the sky, Hua Kai divided the 200 guards into 20 teams and scattered them around the large team to let everyone hurry on their way.

More than 14,000 slaves, tens of thousands of people are riding only strong horses. Everything in the grassland has been recovering in the past few years. It is very rare to collect so many horses in a year.

Until noon, the sun rose high, and everyone was in squadrons. Hua Kai took out a dozen prepared super-large tents and asked family members to send them to each slave brigade.

It's called a tent, but it's just a piece of cloth. There's only one tent roof. The slaves use weapons, sticks and other things in their hands as support. Once a simple big tent is successfully built, thousands of slaves can escape the heat.

The sun is very hot at noon on the grassland in June. It's not good to have a tent to cool down. Although Hua Kai's portable space can't carry thousands of tents for everyone to live in, it can still hold more than a dozen large cloths.

On the first day, all the slaves had enough physical strength. By the time they set up camp at night, they had walked 400 miles and had left the territory of the Ordos tribe.

The next day, Hua Kai woke up before dawn. 15 piles of supplies needed for this year's caravan were divided in the horse tent, one pile for each of the 14 slave teams, and one pile for everyone in the Hua family.

The slaves mainly eat wheat, and some coarse grains are used to replenish the physical strength of the horses. It is estimated that only the captain and above can taste the two slaughtered sheep in the slave team.

The supplies of the Hua family members are much richer, 200 people, 10 sheep, and a lot of various grains, most of which are for the horses.

After delivering the food and other supplies needed for the day, Hua Kai soon saw the smoke rising from the cooking areas of the various teams. Everyone had to eat breakfast before they could set off.

After breakfast, Hua Kai looked at the red clouds in the sky. They were now heading east, which was different from the previous route taken by the Hua family caravan. They did not need to pass through the Huhan tribe and went directly east to the border of the Xiongnu Kingdom. When they reached the border, the caravan needed to go north for another thousand miles, cross the northwest of the Dongling Mountains, enter the northern part of the Linhu grassland, cross the entire Donghu Kingdom, and finally enter the Baoyu Pass and reach Gaoliu County.

When they came, Er Zhuang and Xue Chen had already visited various tribes along the way. They had already discussed the tolls of the Hua family caravan with the major tribes along the way. Only the major tribes on the grassland had the right to collect tolls. There has always been a tacit understanding between the standard merchant group and the major tribes.

After breakfast, all the luggage was packed, and all the tents were sent back to Hua Kai to be stored in his personal space. First, the Hua family leader and the family servants ordered the first brigade to follow them, and the entire Hua family team finally set off again.

Hua Kai and 200 members of the escort team rode horses to the front and gathered. Within an hour, they found that there were tribal patrol cavalry watching them. Not long after, a cavalry team of 1,000 people appeared in front of them.

This was a large tribe of the Xiongnu Kingdom, and it would not make it difficult for the Hua family to pass. Hua Kai gave them 10 fine horses and 40 strong horses, and they quickly let them pass.

Originally, it was most appropriate to trade with goods when they went there, because the Hua family caravan did not bring any goods when they went there, so they could only pay tolls when they returned home. The extra horses brought by the caravan were prepared to pay the tolls. Horses are generally the hard currency on the grassland.