Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

It took Zhang He more than a month to refine dozens of medicinal materials into Zhuji Pill.

But the high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill he really needed only produced one piece, and as for the low-grade ordinary Foundation Establishment Pill, he got 85 pieces.

Mei Yingxue had warned him earlier that it is best to use the top-grade foundation-building pill to build the foundation.

Although low-grade foundation building pills are relatively cheap, their success rate is low, and if the foundation building fails, it will damage the foundation of cultivation.

Some injuries are irreversible and cannot be restored for life.

Zhang He was not sure that he would not fail with a low-grade Foundation Establishment Pill, so he saved dozens of elixir and vowed to refine a high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill.

Fortunately, he succeeded. In the penultimate furnace, a top-grade foundation-building pill appeared.

After refining all the foundation building pill materials, I don't plan to open the furnace for alchemy for the time being. Next, I should practice to the tenth level of Qi training as soon as possible, and then prepare for foundation building.

Zhang He put away the alchemy furnace and walked outside the alchemy room. After three years of growth, the sweet potatoes in the spiritual field in the courtyard have matured even without watering the spiritual spring water in the space.

Find a hoe from behind the door, carry it to the spiritual field and start digging.

He dug up more than 500 catties of sweet potatoes in half an acre of Lingtian, and he boiled them and dried them into dried sweet potatoes.

He has already experimented that this kind of aura sweet potato can also be dried into dried sweet potato, which is easy to store and more convenient to eat.

Except for a small part of the sweet potato vines harvested for cuttings, there are still hundreds of catties left.

These sweet potato vines also have a strong aura, and Zhang He has also fried some of them, and they taste very good.

He can't eat so much himself, so he can sell it, but sweet potato vines can also be used for breeding, so it's not worthwhile to sell them as ordinary spiritual materials.

After thinking about it, he had already thought of a solution.

Set up a big pot in the kitchen, throw these sweet potato vines into it and steam them, then take them out, put them on a charcoal fire on a wooden shelf, and dry them over a low heat.

The dried sweet potato vines are taken to the zombie mill and ground into powder.

During the grinding process, he found that zombies are also very interested in this kind of sweet potato vine with aura. It turns out that zombies also like food with aura besides bloody ones.

These spiritual sweet potato vine powders can be mixed into some food in the future, not only for immortal cultivators, but also for martial arts practitioners.

After dealing with these sweet potato vines, he left the small courtyard on the top of the mountain.

Now it is another autumn harvest season, and according to the expansion of these years, the Qifengshan sweet potato base already has 5,000 mu of arable land.

It is already a limit to be able to expand to this number. After all, he only has one town in total, and there is only so much wasteland here.

This 5,000 mu of arable land is estimated to be able to harvest 20 million catties of sweet potatoes this year, and these sweet potatoes alone can fully feed the entire town's residents.

Therefore, Zhang He never needed to squeeze the tenants to make a fortune.

In recent years, the land rents of other villages and towns have risen one after another, while the land rents of Heishui Town have remained 50% unchanged.

Thirty percent of the collected 50% of the land rent was to be handed over to the City Lord's Mansion, and Zhang He still had 20% left.

The 20% he got was not used for enjoyment, but was used for the infrastructure construction of Heishui Town.

After three years of construction, the water network of Heishui Town has finally been completed. Now, within two hundred steps of any piece of cultivated land, there must be a canal leading from the Heishui River.

At this time, Zhang He had already arrived at Heishui Town on horseback. On the outskirts of Heishui Town, the prototype of a city wall appeared.

At present, the foundation of the city wall has been dug, and piles of bricks and stones are piled up next to the foundation. Some craftsmen pulled the line above the stone foundation and began to lay the first layer of bricks on the periphery.

This is a big project, and with the current manpower, it will take at least two or three years to complete it.

Heishui Town is very popular now. There are more than 15,000 tenant farmers in this town, plus thousands of foreign hired workers, it is already a big town with a population of 20,000.

It turned out that one street could no longer meet the daily transactions of so many people, so now a cross street has been added.

In addition to the shops on both sides of the street, there are many small processing factories in the town.

There is a zombie mill that provides the most basic services. These zombies have worked hard in Heishui Town day and night. It has been seven or eight years since Zhang He has not paid a penny except for feeding grass.

There are also factories for making tofu, oil factories for pressing soybean oil, and wineries.

The output of ordinary water wine brewed in Heishui Town is very high, but the sales volume is not high, because the small Dehua City really can't sell much.

Zhang He also occasionally asked the guards to send some to Zhaoling City for sale, because their wine was not very special, and they couldn't sell much.

As for the very special high-grade wine, it was sold by Peach Blossom Fairy, and it had nothing to do with Zhang He or the whole Heishui Town.

Zhang He has never met Peach Blossom Fairy in person, let alone this girl.

In addition to these factories, there is also a large school in the town.

The school is a new thing for the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it has never existed before.

Poor people don't need to go to school, they can count and write their own names are considered talents.

As for rich and noble families, they will invite someone to come to their home as a tutor, just to teach some practical characters, and most of them will not delve too deeply, because reading is really useless in this world.

Zhang He has lived here for more than ten years, and he has never seen literary works such as poetry. There are only a few lyrics sung by prostitutes in the brothel, and many of them are in plain language.

Because the Great Zhou Dynasty did not have scientific research and did not admire these things, no one would be proud of it.

This school was naturally run under the leadership of Zhang He himself.

For the tenants, all the children over the age of three in the family are laborers, so naturally they are reluctant to send them to the school to learn the culture of Na Laoshizi.

It is enough to learn how to write your own name when you are reading and practicing calligraphy. Learning too much is a waste.

When the school first started, even if the tuition was free, it still only recruited one student.

It was Blacksmith Niu's little girl, Niu Huahua, who didn't want to learn blacksmithing, so she sneaked out from home. After only half a day of school, Blacksmith Niu and his wife snatched her away by the ear.

"If you don't work hard, what book should you read?"

In the end, Zhang He could only be tempted by profit, and each child who came to school was given three grains of corn bread every day.

All of a sudden, the school was full of students, almost all the children in the town came, and they all loved learning, and they couldn't be driven away with a stick.

As a last resort, the school had to be expanded, and more than 20 teaching buildings were built in the end.

There are not enough teachers, so they are temporarily transferred from the guards. Anyway, they have learned a long time ago, and now they can all read.

There is no teaching material, so Zhang He compiled it now.

The first lesson of the textbook "My family lives in Heishui Town".

The second lesson "I love Heishui Town".

The third lesson "Students are from Heishui Town".

Lesson 4 "The Kind Master Zhang".

Lesson 5 "The Wise and Martial Mr. Zhang".

Lesson 6 "Mr. Zhang's...".

Lesson Seven……

When compiling these textbooks, Zhang He also blushed and felt sick.

He would like to introduce some ideas that the people are the masters of the country, but this is obviously not in line with this era.

In this kind of world where individuals can have great power, it is almost impossible to want everyone to be equal. It is impossible for the strong in a dominant position to think about being equal to the weak all day long, and to bend down to serve the weak without this awareness.

Instead of letting them dream about some unrealistic things and die, I might as well give these ordinary people a chance to become strong, and it depends on whether they can grasp it.

The school he established is a place to cultivate talents, but the premise must be his own talents, and he can't cultivate them through hard work, and eventually become an enemy.