Chapter 293 Return to Pingdingshan

As a master of Yin-Yang School, Hua Kai is very sensitive to luck and spiritual energy. He can feel that the area of ​​Gaoliu City is not good, with thin spiritual energy and not much water resources.

This place is not suitable for planting. If you want to plant, the land in the northeast, south, and southwest of Gaoliu County is very fertile. Those places can cultivate spiritual fields, allowing the Hua family to build bigger and better spiritual fields.

Hua Kai has always wanted to build a secret base that belongs only to the Hua family. The [Heavenly Horse Field Array] of the last main task six must be built in a hidden place. A low-level [Gathering Spirit Array] has already had such an effect. Hua Kai is looking forward to what kind of heaven-defying effect the [Heavenly Horse Field Array] can have.

In the past month, he has stayed in Baoyuguan for the construction of the Hua family's light cavalry regiment. Now the light cavalry regiment needs to enter the [Family Secret Space] for trial. The trial has almost been completed. The rest is to slowly train the soldiers and accumulate the family's luck value to forge [Gold Silk Soft Armor] and weapons.

"I will return to Gaoliu City in two days. Is there anything else? If not, everyone should leave!" Hua Kai said.

"Kai'er, there are two more things." Hua Zihuan said with some embarrassment at this time.

"What are they?" Hua Kai asked.

"The first thing is our material consumption. Because Gaoliu City has sufficient materials and the speed of new construction is far beyond previous expectations, our current reserve funds are insufficient. You once said that the funds of Gaoliu City belong to Gaoliu City's special funds. We will give the money to those civilians and servants, and finally all the money will go into the hands of the Finance Department and the affiliated families." Hua Zihuan said somewhat unhappily.

"Don't we also have income from transporting materials with [Lingbei]? This year, the profit from the grassland should be quite a lot, plus [Snowflake Salt], papermaking, printing, bookstores, and restaurants, the income should be good!" Hua Kai asked.

"Yes, except for the money from horses and slaves, the rest of the grassland income is exchanged for animal bones and furs. You require all noble families not to open shops in the outer city, but to build pavilions in the inner city to sell things. In this way, the number of shops in the inner city will become scarce, and the price of goods will naturally increase. The number of our shops will also decrease accordingly. Now we can only make some money by wholesale. The family spends money like water, and the construction of Gaoliu City is basically supported by us." Hua Zihuan looked at Hua Kai and said.

"Everything in the construction of Gaoliu Inner City must be carried out according to the plan. The noble families are not allowed to directly participate in the operation of the shops in the outer city. That is also because of me. Set up the shops selling elixirs and magic weapons as soon as possible! The family's economic situation will soon get better. I will give you 200,000 gold first, and continue to ask me for more after you use it up." Hua Kai said and took out 20 purple gold coins and handed them to him.

Although Hua Kai rarely took money from the family in the past few years, he made a lot of money from the trade division with the Sihai Chamber of Commerce. Now he has more than one million gold in his hands. It should not be a problem to support Gaoliu City through the most difficult start-up period. If it doesn't work, he can only do another elixir business with the Sihai Chamber of Commerce. The construction of Gaoliu City cannot be stopped.

After talking about the most important issue of Gaoliu City construction, Uncle Wu and Hua Mo talked about the new construction of Baoyu Pass and the expansion of the light cavalry regiment. Everyone was very relieved to hear this. When Xue Pan brings back the main force of 500 light cavalry regiments, the 2,200 Hua family light cavalry will become the nightmare of everyone on the grassland.

"When Xue Pan comes back, let the light cavalry regiment go to the grassland to sweep! Don't leave too far, just clear out the wolf pack outside Baoyu Pass, and have a chance to go to Beishan to put pressure on the bandits there. They will be afraid when we pass through there next year." Hua Kai said.

The next morning, Hua Kai just got up and heard a noise next door. He knew that Ji Le was about to give birth. Sure enough, not long after, a maid happily reported that Princess Ji Le had given birth to a pair of twin boys, and the whole Baoyuguan was boiling.

Hua Kai came to the yard of his fifth uncle, and his fifth uncle specifically asked the maid to bring the two children out for him to see. Such young children could not be found out.

The children were born, and the fifth uncle no longer had to worry, and he could visit the military camp frequently.

Hua Kai said goodbye to his fifth uncle and rode to leave Baoyuguan. He saw a middle-aged man at the door looking at him from a distance. He seemed to have something but did not dare to disturb him easily.

Hua Kai rode to the man: "Uncle, are you waiting for me here? Do you have something to say to me?"

"Master Hua! I am Zhang Fei! Zhang Fei of the Zhang family in Jicheng. Don't you recognize me when I lose weight?" Zhang Fei looked at Hua Kai and said carefully.

Hua Kai was shocked when he heard Zhang Fei's voice. No one could connect the person in front of him with Zhang Fei four months ago.

Zhang Fei has lost a lot of weight and his skin has become darker. He is wearing a coarse cloth with his arms exposed and a pair of straw sandals on his feet. He looks like an ordinary person. Who can connect him with the fat pig-like Zhang Fei four months ago?

"Zhang... General! Have you succeeded in losing weight? I didn't recognize you." Hua Kai said to Zhang Fei.

"Hey... Master Hua! It's November now. Can I go back to Yan? Don't worry, I will only take my wife, concubines and children with me, nothing else. I won't say a bad word about the Hua family when I return to Jicheng. I have thought a lot in the past four months. Master Hua, you are a wise leader. If I have a promising future, I will definitely come to you for help." Zhang Fei said to Hua Kai.

"Haha! Since it's November, if you want to go back to Yan State, just go! Seeing how much you've changed in the past few months, it's really amazing. This is 100 gold as a reward for your contribution to Baoyu Pass in the past few years!" Hua Kai handed a small gold brick to Zhang Fei and left. He knew that it was not easy for Zhang Fei to survive in Baoyu Tian in the past few months. Although he was not afraid of the other party's revenge, he had a great responsibility for the other party to get to this point. Give him some compensation so that he can return to Jicheng with dignity!

After leaving Baoyu Pass, Hua Kai arrived at Gaoliu City in just over an hour. If it was a normal BMW, it would take less than two hours to travel more than 200 miles, and a horse could run for more than two hours in one breath.

This is why Hua Kai wants to expand the light cavalry regiment. It can easily support any place in Gaoliu County within a day. It only takes two hours from Baoyu Pass to Gaoliu City.

Outside Gaoliu City is the Gaoliu County regular army that was newly formed last month. They are training outside the city with 5,000 people. Gaoliu County's standing army is a mixed force, with 1,000 cavalry, 2,000 spearmen, 1,000 sword and shield soldiers, and 1,000 archers. The 5,000 troops are based on the main combat forces of the six major families, plus some of the Hua family's servants and other family members. They are practicing the deployment and transformation of the military formation outside the city, commanded by a special Hua family servant.

Hua Kai walked into Gaoliu City and saw patrol soldiers on the city wall. It seemed that Gaoliu City had only established them last month. Now that the four major legions of Gaoliu City have been established, other people can be freed up to participate in the construction. Gaoliu County is now at an important moment of rapid development.

Gaoliu City is much more lively than it was a month and a half ago. Now the streets are full of people wearing fine cloth or even brocade clothes. Some shops are being built. Looking at the four-story wooden frame, the owner of this shop must be a big family.

When he came to the inner city wall, he saw people being forced to work everywhere. These people were captives. Now they were doing the heaviest work in Gaoliu City. He had only been away for a month and a half, and the model of the inner city wall of Gaoliu City had been built. Although it was not tall and majestic, it was built entirely of stone and had a unique flavor.

Entering the inner city, Hua Kai saw construction members working on many street corners, and slaves carrying materials everywhere. Hua Kai followed the new construction sites to Huafu.

Returning to the main courtyard, Hua Kai saw his mother leading a group of maids to clean up the garden. He told his mother that Princess Ji Le had given birth to twins.

"I will tell your grandmother and fourth aunt about this happy event now. Tomorrow we will go to Baoyuguan to see your fifth aunt and the two babies." Huang Shuyun said happily after hearing it.

Seeing his mother leave happily, Hua Kai saw that the [white jade wax tree] planted in the garden at home looked half dead. This Gaoliu City is indeed not suitable for planting spiritual objects. He plans to go to Pingdingshan with Xu Hua today to see if it is suitable for the Hua family's secret base.

Just as he was thinking about Xu Hua coming to the main courtyard to find him, Hua Kai told him what he saw when he passed by Pingding Mountain last time.

"The Hua family really needs a secret place to dispose of these spiritual objects. If they want to keep the [Spirit Gathering Array] from being noticed by others, it is better to open up a new place. But I have never been to the Pingding Mountain you mentioned. As for whether it is suitable for planting spiritual objects, I have to see it first." Xu Hua said after listening to Hua Kai's description of Pingding Mountain.

Hua Kai had just returned home for a while, and he and Xu Hua rode out of Gaoliu City again. They drove all the way to the southwest.

Although Xu Hua rode a BMW with the help of innate spiritual energy, the speed of the BMW was indeed much worse than that of the divine horse. The two spent nearly three hours running for more than 400 miles, and they finally came to the foot of Pingding Mountain.

After more than two hours at the foot of Pingding Mountain, they did not find the way up the mountain. Xu Hua riding a BMW could not cross the mountain peak, and could not ride a [Di Lu horse] to run freely in the mountain stream like Hua Kai.

For this reason, Hua Kai could only let Xu Hua wait at the foot of the mountain. He rode up Pingding Mountain and searched around Pingding Mountain. Pingding Mountain is more than 300 meters high, with a vast grassland on top. The terrain is oval, with a diameter of more than 20 miles from north to south and more than 50 miles from east to west, covering an area of ​​about 40,000 acres.

Hua Kai found more than a dozen places similar to mountain roads along the top of Pingding Mountain and checked them all. He found that there were only two roads leading to the bottom of the mountain.

One is on the southwest side of Pingding Mountain. The mountain road here is relatively flat. The road more than two meters wide is obviously built by people. There are some abandoned checkpoints halfway up the mountain. This should be the only road leading to Pingding Mountain.

The other road is in the northwest of Pingding Mountain. It is a mountain road that can only accommodate one person. Hua Kai saw some abandoned caves in the mountain stream. To the west is the Dongling Mountain Range area. Perhaps some wild beasts and wild beasts may go up the mountain from here.