Chapter 299 Decision

On February 20th, snow that had not yet dissipated could be seen everywhere on the grassland. Hua Kai explained all the things about Huacheng to his grandfather and left Pingdingshan on horseback.

He was accompanied by more than 200 Hua family servants, who were going to send more than a thousand horses to Baoyu Pass.

Uncle Wu was heading south, and the caravan was about to set off. The three cities were under construction, and now the Hua family was busy everywhere.

Looking at some wolves watching from a distance, Hua Kai knew that it was imperative to eliminate wolves in Gaoliu County this year. Uncle Si and Xue Pan often told Hua Kai that there were too many wolves in Gaoliu County, and the loss of cattle and sheep was too large. If the number of wolves was not eliminated, it would likely become a major obstacle to the development of the family.

Back in Gaoliu City, Hua Kai felt a little like returning to the Central Plains the moment he entered the outer wall. There were already many buildings on the streets, most of which were more than three stories high, and many people were busy in them.

Entering the inner city is another world. The population here is not as dense as the outer city, but it is taller and more ancient. Many families build their own courtyards with a tall and imposing style, especially those aristocratic families, whose houses are built in a magnificent style.

There are also some shops here, but these shops are different from the outer city. The shops are all several floors of exquisite pavilions, and there are exquisite maids and servants inside. If you are not a big family, you dare not enter these shops.

Now the Hua family has sent more than 10,000 servants to Huacheng and thousands of people to Baoyuguan. The affiliated aristocratic families of the Hua family have also begun to prepare to organize people to go to the northeastern border. They will protect the people of Yan State for the last year of building the Great Wall this year. There are only about 30,000 people left in the inner city of Gaoliu City.

There are 30,000 people in the inner city and about 110,000 people in the outer city, including more than 30,000 slaves. This is the current personnel composition of Gaoliu City. Hua Kai is not worried about the small number of people in the inner city. As long as the environment is stable, the family will grow very quickly. Hua Kai estimates that in at most 20 years, Gaoliu City may not be able to accommodate the six major families. By then, he will have to come up with a new development path for everyone.

After meeting his mother, Hua Kai came to his fourth uncle's yard, and his fourth uncle took out the list of merchants that had been prepared long ago.

"There are really many families going to trade this time. Basically, all the capable families in Gaoliu City have participated. The total price of the goods they reported is more than 400,000 gold. If it is transported to the grassland, it will probably be difficult to digest for a long time. Therefore, the Jia family sent these lists over, and I think I need to show you." Hua Zihuan looked at Hua Kai and said.

Hua Kai took the list of goods and found that the names of the six major families were written at the top. The value of the goods they brought was more than 10,000 gold. If a caravan is formed, it must be at least 200 fleets.

"Let them go if they want to go! Now the territories of the various families in Gaoliu City are newly built and are in a period of rapid development. They hope to purchase more horses, livestock, and slaves. We can let the Qinglong Legion escort them all across the Beishan Mountain. When they arrive at the Linhu Grassland, they can trade as they like." Hua Kai said.

"But... this may disrupt the price order of grassland goods and cause a sharp reduction in the profits of many southern caravans." Hua Zihuan reminded Hua Kai.

"Leopard Jade Pass will definitely be the fastest way to the grassland in the future. The impact on the price of grassland goods is inevitable. We can't suppress it. Since we can't suppress it, let it go." Hua Kai said.

By February 26, Hua Kai had determined the personnel of the Hua family going to the Ordos tribe this year. Wei Hong led the team and Hua Peng was the deputy. The entire Hua family had one Xiantian realm, more than 30 Qi training realms, more than 200 Qi dynamic realms, and 2,700 Kaiyuan realms. A total of 3,000 people formed this year's Hua family caravan.

They all rode to the Ordos tribe on horseback, and then took half a year to bring all the horses, slaves, and livestock back to Gaoliu City. It was not easy along the way.

After Hua Kai agreed to the business plan of the families in Gaoliu City, the entire Guang County City also started to move. They began to hire a large number of people from the outer city. As long as they were willing to follow their families to trade, they would first pay half of the hiring fee. This rule was set by the Hua family.

When Hua Kai received the list of goods and the number of personnel sent by all the families, he was also shocked. A total of 18,000 people in the business team, which was close to the total number of people in Guang County before. So many people were scattered on the grassland, and it was impossible to know how much trouble the grassland would cause in the end.

Hua Kai organized all the noble families and families together, and gave everyone suggestions on how to ensure their own safety. He had sent people to pay all the tolls for goods to the Linhu and Xiongnu tribes, which cost more than 20,000 gold in total.

Hua Kai opened up the grassland trade route, and the toll alone cost more than 20,000 gold, but his own gains were beyond everyone's expectations. Half of the total of more than 300,000 gold has been returned to the Hua family, and the remaining part needs to be paid by each family after returning from the grassland.

This is the benefit of being the lord of Gaoliu County. The income from business in one year alone is enough for the development and construction of three cities for half a year. The Hua family has started to have profitable projects this year, such as the sale of urban land and shops, transportation of building materials, elixirs, weapons, fine wine, snowflake salt, Huashi paper, printing, bookstores, etc. By this year, the shops in the inner city will be profitable.

On the first day of March, tens of thousands of teams gathered outside Gaoliu City, and various carriages pulled all kinds of items, such as ceramics, cloth, salt, and paper. Some people even brought books, sweets, and elixirs from Gaoliu City. Some of their families were doing business for the first time, and their goal was just to pass the Beishan Mountain. They would make as much money as they could. The goals of the six major families and the Hua family were the Xiongnu Kingdom and even the grassland countries further west. They began to move towards Baoyuguan in a mighty manner.

When they reach Baoyu Pass, the Qinglong Corps will escort them through the Beishan area, and then when the Hua family caravan returns around September this year, the Qinglong Corps will pick them up from the west side of Beishan. The only dangerous part of this trade route is the section from Baoyu Pass to Beishan. After Beishan, all the horse bandits are no problem for them.

Hua Kai watched countless caravans heading northwest. He knew that the Hua family would encounter great difficulties in surviving in this grassland, but difficulties were not terrible. As long as everyone had a goal, Gaoliu County would become stronger and stronger.

The next day, Hua Kai learned from the [Family Secret Realm Space] that the caravan had arrived at Baoyu Pass. The entire Baoyu Pass became extremely prosperous because of the arrival of such a large caravan. Various inns, teahouses, restaurants, and hotels continued to rise, and the entire Baoyu Pass showed a thriving appearance.

Hua Kai stayed in Gaoliu City for ten days, and he and his uncle sent all the things related to the Sihai Chamber of Commerce to Gaoliu City.

The Sihai Chamber of Commerce took hundreds of Hua Kai's precious pills. Counting the profits of [Hua's Paper] last year, Uncle Wu gave Hua Kai more than 1.4 million gold, and also got a lot of spiritual medicines and spiritual woods from the Sihai Chamber of Commerce. These spiritual woods are used to build Huacheng [Tianma Field].

Uncle Wu is contacting many students from Jixia Academy, and they will return to Gaoliu City with Uncle Wu in a month.

Because all the [Golden Silk Soft Armor] and weapons of the Qinglong Corps have been equipped, Hua Kai finally doesn't have to forge [Golden Silk Soft Armor] every day when he has luck points. He has refined nearly a thousand furnaces of pills in the past few days, and distributed the first quarter of this year's pills to the Qinglong Corps, and then distributed thousands of pills to the members of the Hua family, and handed the rest to the pill shop in Gaoliu City, which will help the Hua family to collect the funds of the entire Gaoliu City.

In this way, although the Hua family gave up a large part of its rights in Gaoliu City, in the end, all the economic, military and even cultural rights were still in the hands of the Hua family, and the Hua family used these funds to fully develop the three cities. This was what Hua Kai was most happy to see.

That morning, Hua Kai woke up from the [Big Dream Visualization Method] dream space, and he entered the [Family Secret Realm Space] to check the family attributes.

Huajiabao: Sixth-rank family

Prosperity: 26095

Combat power: 14211

Agriculture: 4286

Animal husbandry: 7990

Commerce: 11023

Culture: 839

Overall strength: 64444

Allies: Ordos Tribe (fifth rank), Yao Family (seventh rank), Ujumchin Tribe (second rank), Lu Family (second rank), Sihai Chamber of Commerce (fourth rank)

Subordinate forces: Huang Family (ninth rank), Ren Family (ninth rank), Jia Family (ninth rank), Yi Family (ninth rank), Tai Family (ninth rank), Yue Family (ninth rank)

Hostile forces: Donghu Kingdom (second rank), Beishan Bandits (sixth rank), Zhao Tian Family (third rank), Linzi City Bu Family (seventh rank)

Funds: 42 purple gold coins, 162040 taels of gold, 810521 taels of silver, 102384 bone coins

Luck value: 8023

Portable space: 6 cubic meters

The family's comprehensive strength has exceeded 60,000. Since migrating to Gaoliu County, the Hua family has been vigorously building three cities, and the prosperity value has begun to increase continuously. Now it has reached the requirement of 50,000 comprehensive strength for promotion to a fourth-grade family.

However, the biggest difficulty of the main task eight is only one from Hua Kai's point of view, that is, all family attributes exceed 5,000 points.

Other attributes are easy to say. After the spiritual fields of Hua family agriculture are opened this year and spiritual rice is planted in September, it is easy to exceed 5,000. Only this cultural value is the most difficult for the Hua family.

Hua Kai is originally a small ordinary family. In seven years, it has developed from a scale of 200 people to more than 100,000 people, occupying an entire county. The cultural heritage is much worse than many seventh-grade families.

Although Hua Kai has been working hard to promote its own for so many years, so that various specialties of the Hua family can be sold all over the world, and trying every means to enrich everyone's life, but culture is a habit, a cognition, and it cannot be accumulated in a short time. This time, the purpose of Hua Kai's vigorous development of Gaoliu County College is to enhance the cultural attributes of the Hua family.

Another thing Hua Kai discovered was that the Beishan bandits were actually considered a sixth-grade force by the system. A few days ago, he noticed that they were still fifth-grade. Some unknown things must have happened in Beishan in the past few days, which greatly reduced their strength. This is what the Hua family hopes to see.

After breakfast, Hua Kai was about to go to the seven major departments for inspection. As the master of Gaoliu County, he still had to inspect all management departments once a year to let everyone know who he was working for. This would also increase everyone's loyalty to Hua Kai and recognition of the Hua family.

At this time, a servant came to report that someone from the Fang family in Shuocheng, Yuyang County had come.