Chapter 168: Chapter 168 The head of the Yao family comes to visit
Accustomed to the attack rhythm of the red wolf, with the protection of the city wall, as long as there are enough rolling logs, firewood and kerosene, the red wolf will become less of a concern.
Huajiabao seemed a little nervous in the first few days. After the third day, women and children in ordinary villages would go to the city wall to see what the red wolf looked like. After 13 consecutive days of wolf disasters, there was no wolf smoke in the eight major villages outside Guangxian City. All the young and strong red wolves left, and the remaining little red wolves posed no threat to the city wall. There were often naughty children in Huajiabao secretly playing with red wolf cubs on the street.
On the morning of the 15th day, the Huajiabao village protection team went out of the village to clear the little red wolf, and then in the afternoon, the children in the school took the weapons here and chased the red wolf that had just opened its eyes outside the city and chopped and killed it. At night, all the defense formations of Huajiabao were withdrawn.
On October 16, the spiritual field of Huajiabao began to become busy again. After more than ten days of seed screening and seedling cultivation, today is the time to plant the seedlings in the spiritual field.
Xu Hua, with more than ten of his students and more than 50 students from the Tianzi class of the academy, are helping in the farmland. The students who can enter the spiritual field are carefully selected by the academy. They are all young people who are focused on training by the Hua family.
The Lu family craftsmen who came from Linzi City also continued to lead people to expand the inner village. Hua Zichen told Hua Zijie that the caravan would bring back 2,600 new people this year, which would increase the number of members of Huajiabao from 2,000 to 4,600. In addition, Huajiabao has so many additional villages this year, and the population of the village may exceed 7,000 this winter.
The planned resident population of Huajiabao is 3,000. The population will exceed 7,000 before the house is built. The Lu family craftsmen can only change the design overnight and make new plans for the residential areas of the inner village and the outer village.
The expansion method of the inner village has not changed much, except that the courtyard suites designed for the servants in the past have become single rooms, and there are many more collective bunk rooms. All the houses in the servants' courtyards can be built, so that the planned resident population of the inner village barely reaches the standard of 5,000 people.
In addition, a residential area will be built near the Waicun market area, with hundreds of large courtyards. These courtyards can accommodate up to 100 people. These are all prepared for the affiliated villages that may stay in Huajiabao this year.
On October 19th, Hua Zichen told Hua Zijie, Hua Fu and others a good news early in the morning that the Hua family caravan has now left Hutuo Mountain and will be able to return home in about three days.
Several core members of the Hua family were very happy to hear this, and they are ready to arrange a welcoming ceremony for the caravan.
"Send someone to deliver the news to the Huang, Geng, Yue, and Chen families later. They must be very anxious after so long. The Jia family and the Tai family in the county also asked my second brother to deliver the news. I believe some people will be disappointed again." Hua Zichen said with a smile.
It is already the end of October. At this time of year in previous years, the goods returned by the Guangxian merchant group have been almost processed. This year, the Huang, Geng and other families are following the Hua family to the Xiongnu Kingdom for the first time. The success or failure is not only related to the future of these families, but also to the reputation of the Hua family in the entire Guangxian City.
The Hua family already has 14 Qi training realms, which is more than the number of Qi training realms of the Han family at the beginning of the year. In the past, the Hua family's attitude was to be tolerant, but now that they are almost the boss, it is impossible to keep a low profile.
Therefore, Hua Kai, Hua Zichen and Hua Xing decided together that the Hua family's strategy will change from this year.
The Hua family is still an ordinary family now. The seven major villages outside Guangxian City are already headed by the Hua family. The number of people directly affected by the Hua family in Guangxian City will reach more than 14,000, which is not much different from the total population in Guangxian City.
Therefore, Hua Kai set the family's future development route, winning over the aristocratic families in Guangxian City and cultivating the forces of various villages outside the city. The most important thing is to cultivate trustworthy family allies, and use the Sihai Chamber of Commerce and the Yao family as a springboard to establish good relations with more families.
The Geng family is one of the weaker villages among the eight villages outside Guang County. The head of the Geng family personally led the family caravan to follow the Hua family to the Xiongnu Kingdom for business. Everyone hoped that the head of the family could make a lot of money this time, so that the Geng family would have the opportunity to develop vigorously.
Since learning that there was a wolf disaster on the grassland this year, the entire Geng family began to panic, especially when the bad news came from Guang County again, which made the entire Geng family depressed for a while.
After finally getting through the wolf disaster, it was already the end of October. The Geng family did not dare to mention the family caravan again. In the past, the caravans that could not return on October 10th were basically difficult to return. The Geng family did not dare to imagine the consequences of the failure of this business trip.
On this day, Geng Peng was handling family affairs. The family had a lot of things waiting to be dealt with after the wolf disaster. The biggest problem was that all the wheat in all the affiliated villages was destroyed this year. How could they survive the winter without food?
Although the Geng family had a good harvest of grain this year, it was unable to support the consumption of thousands of affiliated villagers. In addition, some bad voices began to appear in the affiliated villages in the past few days. Everyone said that the Geng family caravan would not come back.
The Geng family masters all went to the Xiongnu Kingdom, leaving Geng Peng, a 9th level Kaiyuan Realm, to preside over the affairs of the entire Peng family. If the caravan could not come back, the Peng family might not survive this winter. Many affiliated villages have already thought about leaving.
A villager reported to Geng Peng that the Hua family had sent someone.
Geng Peng quickly sent someone to invite the Hua family in. It turned out to be a senior servant of the Hua family.
"The Fifth Master asked me to bring a message to the Geng family. The Geng family caravan has left Hutuo Mountain and will be back in about three days. If the Geng family wants to prepare, they can prepare now." This Hua family servant, who has reached the great perfection of the Kaiyuan Realm, said when he saw that Geng Peng was the current head of the Geng family.
"What? Already out of Hutuo Mountain? That's great. I wonder what losses our caravan suffered this time?" Geng Peng asked anxiously.
"Fifth Master didn't say the specifics. The entire Guangxian merchant caravan suffered some losses. But this time the merchant caravan brought back a lot of slaves!" said the Hua family servant.
Without waiting for the Hua family servant to leave, Geng Peng told the villagers the news that the family caravan was coming back. For a while, the whole Geng family was in a sea of cheers. The caravan must have made some money by bringing slaves back. The Geng family has begun to prepare for the family caravan to return home to celebrate, so as to strengthen the relationship with the affiliated villages.
On the afternoon of October 19th, the entire Guangxian City and its surroundings had already known the news that the Hua family was going to return.
This year, the Han family, the Shen family and other families failed in their grassland trips. In the end, it was the Hua family who led more than a dozen families in Guangxian to return home safely. This made many people sigh that the Hua family is getting more and more powerful. This time, they did better than the Han family.
Ordinary people don't know what's going on. They only know that an ordinary family can do better than the county master's family. The Hua family must be extraordinary.
When the news reached the Shen family, the head of the Shen family sat in the study for two hours without any movement.
"Can the news be confirmed?" The head of the Shen family said to a Shen family steward.
"The news came from Huajiabao. We can't confirm it. Maybe the Hua family doesn't have accurate news..." The Shen family steward said halfway and saw the family looking at him, so he lowered his head and said nothing.
"The time to go home can be confirmed to be three days later. The news should not be false. It is not good for the Hua family to spread such family news. Let's withdraw our people from the livestock market, grain shop, and teahouse first! Clean up the tail of the things we used, don't let the Hua family see anything. Now we can't confront the Hua family openly. The Hua family has grown up. The Han family should be worried. We just need to wait quietly!" After the head of the Shen family finished speaking, he gently played with the two walnuts in his hand, and the steward gently withdrew.
Yesterday, the head of the Shen family returned from Leling City with more than 30 members of the family. When the entire Guang County City left, there were more than 2,500 people, but this time only less than 1,000 people returned. Among them, the Han family suffered the greatest loss. After losing 3 Qi-training realm members, the Han family now has only 10 Qi-training realm members left. In the future, their dominance in Guang County City will definitely be reduced.
Now that the Hua family has returned from business, their strength will definitely continue to increase. I heard that the Hua family has built their own city outside Guang County City this year. The Han family will definitely not tolerate the Hua family continuing to grow stronger.
The entire Guang County City began to talk about the Hua family again. The livestock market of the Hua family in Guang County City has only been prosperous for a year, and it has become several times more prosperous than before. Now it has become one of the most lively areas in the entire Guang County City.
It is impossible for all the noble families not to be jealous. The annual income of such a market is unimaginable. They generally feel repulsive to the Hua family. After all, the Hua family has always been just an ordinary family. But slowly, many noble families have discovered that although the Hua family is not a noble family, it is much stronger than many noble families in many aspects, which is a bit strange.
The attitudes of all the noble families in Guang County towards the Hua family began to become more subtle. Everyone was waiting for the final attitude of the Han family. If the Han family did not give in, everything would be fun!
On the evening of October 19, a special guest came to Huajiabao. All the core members of Huajiabao actually went to the city gate tower to greet him in person. All the villagers were curious when they saw this.
"Meet Master Yao!" Hua Zichen led several core members of the Hua family and saluted Master Yao.
As a seventh-grade noble family, the head of the Yao family personally visited an ordinary family. The Hua family would not use a higher scale of reception. However, Master Yao was very enthusiastic when he saw Huajia and others, especially when he talked about Hua Zichen's deeds in Leling City this year.
"My friend Hua Kai and I hit it off at first sight. The relationship between the Hua family and the Yao family is unbreakable and as close as brothers. Everyone doesn't need to be so polite!" Master Yao first expressed his attitude.
Hua Zijie and others were surprised when they heard this. The head of the Yao family came to the Hua family in person and kept emphasizing the relationship between the two families. He also put the Hua family before the Yao family in everything. This means that the Hua family occupies a dominant position in the relationship between the two families. This is not simple.
Hua Zichen invited the head of the Yao family to the living room of the main courtyard. Although Hua Kai did not go home, the head of the Yao family must live in the guest room of the main courtyard. This is related to the future development of the relationship between the two families.
When a head of a family visits another family, he does not represent himself alone, so all specifications must be taken seriously.