The severity of this year's drought exceeded everyone's imagination, and the entire Qi country's grain output fell by more than 70%. In addition, Qi is not a big producer, and the food coming from southern China this year is less than 10% last year. This makes Qi famine inevitable.

Aristocratic families generally have the habit of storing food, and their survival generally does not cause any problems. In fact, the most common people are the ones who suffer in the end, and most common families follow the disaster!

"If it doesn't rain until the beginning of spring next year, then Qi will probably be in chaos by the end of next year.

Huajiapu must make a plan to stick to the village. Don't let people get close to the granary easily. The home must be arrested for protection and patrols. I heard that Bashu and other places were not troubled by drought. I plan to go to Shu to see if I can buy food! "

When the Chinese family’s current grains wait for the slaves to return this year, they can only barely have enough for themselves and their affiliated families. If the entire Guangxian city is not chaotic, the grain shops in the city cannot be stopped, and the pace of the construction of Washington can not be stopped. This way, most ordinary people. There is a source of food.

In the past six months, the affiliated families of the Hua family have slowly taken in some refugees to enhance their own strength. Even if they know that they are not enough food, they will still take them in when they see that some people cannot help. Environment family.

As the drought becomes more and more serious and the number of victims is increasing, if there is enough food at that time, whether it is the Chinese family or the affiliated forces and allies, the strength will not be weakened, but will be strengthened.

However, it is very difficult to go to the Kingdom of Shu. From ancient times to the present, there has been a saying that "the road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky." Generally, even the Xiantian realm may not be able to pass safely.

It is impossible to transport grain from Shu, but Huakai does not have to worry about transporting grain.

Informed the branch of the Chamber of Commerce of the Four Seas where Huajiabao was located, that he would have to help the Chamber of Commerce of the Four Seas if he wanted to go to Shu this time.

In the afternoon, Huakai came to Guangxian City. Everything here seemed to be pretty good. Huajia Food Shop had 2000 catties of low-priced food every day. Although it cannot guarantee that everyone in the city will have food, it can let the people in the city see a glimmer of hope. As for arousing too much public outrage.

Entering Guangxian City, many shops on the street have been closed. Only the human city and livestock market are still lively. Huajia Restaurant is still under construction. As a landmark building in Guangxian City in the future, it will not be completed in two or three years.

Many families in the inner city have already closed their doors. They already know the seriousness of the next disaster, so they plan to stay behind closed doors. For large families and aristocratic families, the most dangerous thing for a major drought is not to be hungry, but to looting by the hungry victims.

Huakai returned to Washington and saw that there were construction sites everywhere. The whole Washington saw ordinary people working hard. This year, the Hua family only took care of one meal, plus two catties of rice. This is the slum common people. Squeeze his head to come to work in China.

Huakai probably took a look at the number of busy workers here, which is close to 10,000, which is a very terrifying number.

After being married, Princess Ji Le stayed in Huafu, the city of Guangxian, so that the families of craftsmen, guards, and court ladies also stayed. The population of Washington has exceeded 5,000, which makes Washington now occupy about half of the population of Guangxian.

The Hua family, together with the families of the people working in the government, and various affiliated forces, about 70% of the population in Guangxian County rely on Hua Family Life, plus all the villages outside the city belong to the Hua family power, and the Hua family in the entire Guangxian area actually controls The population has exceeded 80%, which is not good news.

If the Guangxian Commercial Group returns this year, there will be tens of thousands of slaves. The Hua family in Guangxian will be responsible for feeding nearly 40,000 people.

"It seems that this trip to the Kingdom of Shu has to go. Now the food at home may not be enough for a year, and the plan can't keep up with the changes!" Hua Kai sighed.

Back in Washington, Hua Kai saw Wushu and Huafu’s butler, and talked about the current consumption of food at home. At this rate, the food at home will be exhausted in about a year. It is urgent to solve the food problem, otherwise it will only Being able to give up some affiliated forces, the Hua family would never do that as a last resort.

"Uncle Wu, Grandpa Fu! As long as we survive this time, more than 90% of the entire Guangxian city will depend on us. Even if the Han family is the ruler of Guangxian, this Guangxian city already belongs to the Hua family. It is also the time to expand the strength of our affiliated family. The problem is that we have a relatively large food gap." Hua Kai sat with the two to discuss the development of the family.

The family development manual left by Huakai was strictly implemented, but although this method was effective, it was beyond expectation. It was too food-consuming. Who would have thought that the drought would be so severe this year.

"Your grandfather will be back in about ten days. This time we brought back more than 6,000 slaves. The caravans in Guangxian also brought many slaves. If it doesn't work, we can only limit food consumption!" Hua Zichen Reminded Huakai.

"Most counties and counties in Qi have already had refugees. Only our Guangxian is okay. If we restrict the food supply, this Guangxian town will definitely be in chaos!" Huafu said with a sigh.

"Nowadays, the only places where you can buy food are in Bashu and Nanyue countries. Some big families must have thought of going to these places to buy food, but even if they have space to store their goods, they are certainly not easy to use. Let’s go now. It should not be too late to buy food.

I have already contacted the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce. When they get news, I plan to go to Shu Country. Uncle Wu, you will go with me when you come. "

After Huakai finished speaking, Hua Zichen nodded. If the catastrophe is dealt with well, Huajia's growth rate will accelerate several times. Huajia originally needed a five to ten-year development plan, and now it may be completed in three years.

What Huakai did not expect was that the next day the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce sent a responsible person to Washington to tell Huakai that although there was a drought in Shuzhong this year, it was not serious. Today, the increase in food prices is only 20%. If Huajia can solve it by itself The problem of transportation, the purchase of Million Stones of grain is not a problem.

Huakai couldn’t help but feel excited. Why could the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce spread the news so quickly? It must have its own special method of information transmission. He asked the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce to help Huajia buy food as much as possible, no matter what the price of the food is less than doubled. Acquisition.

All the wood, labor, management, maintenance, transportation and other expenses used by the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce to build the granary for Huajia are paid by Huajia itself.

After Huakai knew this incident, the world would definitely know that the Hua family had large storage treasures, but this was not necessarily a disadvantage for the Hua family.

The Hua family is now at a time when their strength is advancing by leaps and bounds, and this catastrophe may be able to help them confident of some of the attention of the family. Now if the Hua family can get food, the drought will pass three to five years later, and the Hua family will be confident that they will not be afraid of any family below the sixth rank.

Huakai asked Huafu butler to send 100,000 gold to the Chamber of Commerce of the Four Seas, telling them that they must purchase all the grains in place at the latest one month, and make a funnel according to the drawings drawn by Huakai, and when he goes, just put the grains in. 【Baoguang Glass Bottle】.

On September 2nd, Hua Kai and Hua Zichen set off. This will be the farthest place they have traveled.

From the city of Guangxian to the Kingdom of Shu, it has traveled thousands of miles and crossed the Qinling Mountains, the barrier of natural danger.

Eight hundred miles around the Qinling Mountains, even birds can't fly past dangerous places. In the erudite class, the most Demonic Beasts mentioned by the gentleman are in the Qinling Mountains, so those who can cross the Qinling Mountains are respected brave men. According to the current record, the chance of surviving through the Qinling Mountains is only about 30%.

Hua Kai rode Lu and Hua Zichen rode [Tianlongju], both of whom were Shenju all the way to the west. It took a long time to reach Acheng. The nearest road to Shu Kingdom had to cross Mount Tai County.

When he arrived in Acheng, Huakai had to visit Yao Mansion. He told everyone in Yao Mansion that Patriarch Yao would be back on September 10th. There were basically no casualties in the Yao family caravan this year.

Everyone in the Yao family was very happy to hear about this. Some family members have already gone to worship incense to their ancestors. They asked the owner who has been over a hundred years old to go to the grassland for business. The Yao family has reached an extraordinary period, so successful business is right For them, it makes a lot of sense.

After lunch, I came out of Acheng. Huakai and Hua Zichen continued to ride west. The Shenju is different from ordinary horses. It can easily jump more than ten steps. The hillside is several meters high without detours. Huakai rode on it. Lu immediately felt more exciting than riding a roller coaster, but they had walked more than 300 miles of mountain road in one afternoon, but the two horses were not weak at all.

At night, the two of them go to sleep in the tent, and there is no need to leave anyone on guard at all. As a spirit beast, Tianlongju has a much stronger sense of smell than human beings. It will deal with small troubles by itself, and will call Hua Zichen for help when it comes to big troubles.

The two woke up the next day and fed the two magical horses with concentrated feed prepared with [Spiritual herbs]. The two magical horses ate more than 40 catties before they stopped. Among them, the [Tianlong Horse] ate them. More than 30 catties.

Continuing on their way, they saw Tang Lei's village in the afternoon of the next day, but now only half of the population remained on the cliff, and the others had been taken to Huajiapu by Tang Lei.

At noon, they just took a break to add some fine ingredients to the horses. By the fourth day, they had already left the mountain, and the road in front of them finally became smooth.

[Tianlongju] Carrying Hua Zichen on foot, Luma and Huakai are relatively thin and fast. They can travel more than a hundred miles per hour at most, and they can walk more than a thousand miles a day. They are veritable mountain gods. Colt!

Leaving Mount Tai Road at a fast speed, the two passed through Zhao, passing through dozens of countries including Wei, Lu, Wei, Zheng, and Zhou, and finally entered the south of Qin.

It took 14 days for the two of them to travel more than 9,000 miles along the way. When they entered the Qinling Mountains, Hua Kai was startled by the road in front of them.

I saw some man-made stone steps on the cliff a few meters high in front of him. If you accidentally slide this stone step from the top, you will be seriously injured. Compared with this, the mountain road in Mount Tai County is not too easy.

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