Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

In the tenth year of Zhang He's retreat, the railway line from Ningjing County to Mingcheng, the headquarters of the Sun-Moon League, was officially completed and opened.

On this day, a train like a long black queue arrived in Mingcheng filled with specialties from various branches along the way.

That day, the road was crowded with monks and ordinary people watching.

In addition to taking a few breaths of cold air, ordinary people can only marvel at it and express their praises beyond words.

Some nobles in high positions saw huge business opportunities in it.

This thing called a train is made entirely of ordinary iron. Compared with expensive flying boats and the like, the cost of building a train is extremely low.

Traditional horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts cannot compare with trains in terms of speed and carrying capacity.

As for the flying boats in the world of immortality, they are fast, but the transportation cost is too high. Unless some valuable goods are transported, they cannot afford such transportation costs.

In the past, a batch of goods had to be transported from the place of origin to another place. The journey was tiring and time-consuming. The transportation cost often exceeded the cost of the goods themselves.

This time the train was loaded with specialties from various places along the way. It took only three days to travel thousands of miles from Ningjing County to Mingcheng.

If it were a traditional caravan in the past, it would take at least nearly half a year to travel with an ox cart. During this half year, the people would eat what the horses chewed, and the cost would be included in the goods.

When the train arrived at the Mingcheng terminal, hundreds of workers were hired to carry supplies from the train box to the outside.

Most of the goods have been negotiated with buyers in advance, and some are brought here to find buyers.

At this time, a group of workers carried bundles of swords and weapons from a vehicle and piled them randomly on the roadside.

A knowledgeable warrior approached and looked at the pile of weapons, his eyes gleaming.

"Excuse me, can I take a look?"

"It doesn't matter!"

A white-faced Blackwater Army soldier guarding the goods glanced at the warrior and said kindly.

The warrior pulled out a gleaming long knife from a bundle of weapons and held it in his hand for a while. The word "Ning" was engraved on the knife.

He flicked the blade with his finger again, and the long knife made a clanking sound.

"What a knife! What a knife!"

"Can I sell this knife?"

"Selling! A long knife costs 15 taels of silver, a short sword costs 10 taels, choose whatever you want."

"What!"

The warrior doubted his own ears. Such a fine hundred-smelted steel knife only cost 15 taels of silver, and he chose it casually.

The prices of swords and the like vary greatly depending on their quality. The cheaper ones cost one or two taels of silver, while the more expensive ones cost dozens of taels.

Warriors have been dealing with various weapons all year round, and they have their own way of identifying the quality of weapons.

Based on the quality of this knife, the general retail price is more than 20 taels of silver, and it can even be sold for 30 taels.

He pulled out several identical long knives from a push of weapons.

The quality of these knives is very good, and each one is similar.

At this moment, he really wanted to buy all these swords.

"If I want more, can the price be lower?"

The warrior now thought of a way to make money.

By trafficking these weapons to other countries, you can earn several taels of silver from each weapon.

"If you want more than 100, we can discuss it later." The white-faced soldier explained.

These weapons are produced in batches by foundries, and their main goal is to supply them to the armies of major forces.

The market has not yet opened, but we are still accepting some individual customers, and we can sell one or two handfuls of land.

"Well!"

The warrior was shocked by this figure. Based on this price, 100 would cost 1,500 taels of silver. Even if he sold his entire family's property, he wouldn't be able to get so much silver.

In the end, the warrior took out all his belongings, bought ten long knives from here, and sold them to other countries.

For him, earning dozens of taels of silver in one trip is already a pie-in-the-sky business.

Because the prices of the goods brought by the train this time are generally much cheaper than usual, the price difference for re-sale is relatively large, and there is a huge profit.

Mingcheng has a population of more than 1 million, and there are many smart people like this warrior.

They all used the money they had saved over the years to buy a batch of goods from the train station, and then sold them in groups to distant places.

The train stayed in Mingcheng for a month. A month later, the train was again filled with money and goods and returned to Ningjing County.

There are stations where trains stop at each branch along the way. Each branch made a small fortune with Ningjing Branch this time, and they all happily paid the fare when they got off the train.

Since the trains in Ningjing County were opened, they will go back and forth between the two places every two months.

During this period, they stayed in Ningjing County for one month and Mingcheng for one month.

The commodity economy of the Zhou Dynasty was extremely underdeveloped, and only a few nobles had spare money in their pockets to spend.

The train runs once every two months, and the transaction volume it drives is already a large number compared to the past. It can at least increase the GDP of the Sun Moon Alliance by several points.

With the current consumption power, it is enough to transport goods at this frequency.

After the opening of the railway, of course Ningjing County benefited the most.

Nowadays, Ningjing County has built steel plants and steel foundries.

The steel foundry has many branches, including those specializing in manufacturing trains, casting rails and various steel equipment.

There are also those who specialize in casting swords and weapons, those who specialize in making armor, and those who specialize in making production tools such as kitchen knives and hoes.

These many new factories require the recruitment of a large number of labor forces.

Many tenants entered factories and became workers.

The wages and benefits in the factory are much higher than those earned from farming.

After these ordinary workers receive their wages, in addition to feeding their families, they occasionally have some spare money left over to spend on other items.

Driven by these factories, the economy of the entire Ningjing County region is developing rapidly, and the living standards of residents have steadily improved.

The Central Plains region is extremely rich, and in relative terms, the rich are the aristocracy, while ordinary people are still poor despite being poor. Many people die of cold and hunger every winter.

Nowadays, people in Ningjing County rarely starve to death, which is a great improvement compared to tenant farmers in other places.

After the successful opening of this railway line, Wen Sheng and Gu Liangqi enjoyed the benefits and were planning to build a railway from Ningjing County to the capital of Wu Kingdom.

This is a more ambitious project, but with previous experience as a basis, it is not too difficult to implement.

The main thing is the negotiation with Wu Guo. Ningjing County does not have enough weight, so they may not pay attention to you.

Ningjing County is just a branch of the Sun-Moon Alliance. It does not even have a Nascent Soul and is not qualified to negotiate on an equal footing.

After much thought and Zhang He's consent, we could only ask the elders of the Sun-Moon Alliance to negotiate with Wu Guo in the name of the Sun-Moon Alliance.

The three elders of the Sun-Moon Alliance agreed to this matter, but there were conditions. The railway line from Ningjing County to Wu State must pass through Mingcheng. As compensation, the three elders will nominate Zhang He to be the leader of the Sun-Moon Alliance. The fourth elder.

Zhang He also agreed to this, and also gave 30% of the benefits to the three elders so that they could participate in the operation of this railway line in the future.

He didn't have a Nascent Soul, and the benefits of a cross-border railway were huge, which would inevitably arouse people's envy. He might as well use 30% of the profits to hire three Nascent Souls as his thugs, and there would be no loss at all.

Zhang He only had a brief understanding of the situation when he left seclusion this time, then retreated to the training room and continued to practice in seclusion.

He has now reached a critical moment in his practice. If he takes one more step forward, he can be promoted to the late stage of Jindan. However, he has been unable to take this step.

It seems that I have encountered a training bottleneck!

After so many years of practice, this was the first time he encountered a bottleneck.

Regarding bottlenecks, he had learned something about them before. Usually, the foundation was not strong enough, or the level was advanced too quickly, and the magic power was not pure enough.

Zhang He knew that he had a golden elixir that surpassed the ninth level, and that he was expected to break through to the Nascent Soul in the future. His foundation was still very solid.

It should be that my magic power has been cultivated too quickly recently, resulting in a weak foundation.

There are many ways to achieve breakthroughs. You can use time to slowly grind and continuously polish your spiritual energy.

You can also use pills to break through. If you do this, the fundamental problem will not be solved, and the bottleneck will be more serious next time.

You can also find someone to fight with and break through at the critical moment of life and death.

This method is too dangerous. If he fails to break through at that time, he will be beaten to death. How many lives does he have to waste so much?

Zhang He chose a stupid method, constantly polishing his own magic power to make it more pure.

In this way, another ten years passed, and his realm was finally promoted to the late stage of Jindan.

From the middle stage to the later stage, the mana capacity in the body increases several times, and the Dantian becomes wider.

In the dantian, the golden elixir was originally the size of a goose egg when it was condensed. After two rounds of changes in the middle and late stages, it is now almost the size of a head.

Fortunately, the Dantian is equivalent to another dimension, otherwise with such a big lump in his belly, people would think he was pregnant when he walked out.

Zhang He had never heard of anyone whose golden elixir could grow so big before. If he told this, others would definitely think he was bragging.

He estimated that the total amount of mana in his body was no longer weaker than some ordinary early Yuanying monks, but in terms of the purity of the mana, it was still far behind the strong Yuanying masters.

After this promotion, the strength of his spiritual consciousness has also been greatly improved, but it still has not broken through the level of the middle Nascent Soul, which makes him feel a little regretful.

Zhang He appeared in the space at this time. The peach tree in the space spirit orchard had grown much taller. The diameter of the trunk was at least one foot. After he pruned the branches, they looked strong and strong.

He had no intention of throwing away the pruned branches. This was a peach tree that was tens of thousands of years old and had completely mutated.

These branches are the best materials for weapon training. Even if they are leaves picked randomly from the trees, he will keep them and give them to the talisman masters at the institute for making talismans.

There are not many spiritual peaches on the tree, but each one is very big. The largest one is as big as a basin and has been on the tree for two thousand years, and the smaller ones are as big as a fist.

Zhang He had picked and eaten this two-thousand-year-old spiritual peach before. This big peach played a big role in his successful advancement into the Golden Elixir this time.

In addition to this peach tree, a large number of elixirs have been cultivated in the space over the years, and a large storage bag has been filled with mature elixirs.

He planned to use these elixirs to expand the strength of his men. Since he could not go out in seclusion for a long time, it was not convenient for him to take out these elixirs.

After all, he couldn't go out in seclusion, and he was still taking out elixirs all day long, which seemed quite strange.

You can only go outside for a walk after exiting customs, and then slowly dig out.

In addition, a batch of thousand-year-old elixirs have been intensively cultivated in the space.

These thousand-year-old elixirs are all relatively rare varieties, and each one is worth a lot of money.

For example, he cultivated more than 100 white jade ginseng trees that are used for healing and are over a thousand years old.

Zhang He strolled to the edge of the experimental field, where the little skeleton was working in the spiritual field.

During his retreat, all kinds of chores in the space were done by the little skeleton without complaint.

With a skeleton like this, what more could I ask for!

Little Skull's cultivation has not improved over the years, but he somehow managed to make himself grow a new leg.

One of his legs was blown off a long time ago when he was robbing the Ningjin Fruit branches in Lu Bo's Mansion.

Zhang He once made a walking stick for Little Skeleton, but he didn't want to use it. He wanted to help him get bones, but Little Skeleton looked down on ordinary bones.

Until now, he has finally successfully solved it himself, and he still doesn’t know how his skeleton body grew.

"Owner!"

Seeing Zhang He appear, the little skeleton happily held a bunch of ears of grain and sent it to Zhang He.

This bunch of ears of grain is shaped like a dog's tail, more than a foot long, and is filled with plump grains.

Zhang He still remembers listening to the old man telling a story in his previous life, saying that a dog rolled in the gods' grain drying field and escaped to the mortal world covered with grains. He hid in the grass and only exposed his tail covered with grains. Stretching above it, it brought food to the mortal world.

I took the big bunch of ears of grain and weighed them in my hands. This one weighed about a kilogram.

This is how he used first-level spiritual sprout rice, crossed it with second-level bloodshot seedlings, and then went through many generations of selective breeding to finally get the new variety in front of him.

The newly cultivated Linggu plants are so tall that only a little bit of the head can be seen when walking into the field. Only 100 plants can be planted per acre, and each plant can grow about three to five such ears.

In other words, the yield per mu can be three to five hundred kilograms.

The original second-level blood-threaded seedlings had a yield of only a few dozen kilograms per mu, which was equivalent to a tenfold increase in output.

The new variety Linggu inherits the advantages of the second-level blood silk seedlings in terms of quality, and inherits the advantages of Lingya rice in terms of yield.

The combination of the two forms a brand new second-level spiritual rice variety, and it only takes five years to mature.

The ten-year growth period of bloodshot seedlings is shortened by half.

It took him more than 20 years to cultivate this new variety of Linggu. If the acceleration effect of Lingquan water is included, it is equivalent to more than 7,000 years of continuous cultivation by the outside world to achieve such results.

Except for a few powerful gods, the lifespan of other monks is not that long. Who would waste their limited lifespan on such a thing.

However, spiritual energy does not arise for no reason. New varieties must also absorb a large amount of spiritual energy while achieving fast growth and large yields.

Ordinary spiritual fields may not provide enough spiritual energy.

Zhang He heard that Meng Tiantian and her team had been conducting research in this area, and wondered whether a spiritual energy fertilizer could be developed.

Continuously replenish spiritual energy for the spiritual field for new varieties of spiritual grains to absorb.

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