Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

In the tenth year of Zhang He's retreat, the railway line from Ningjing County to Ming City, the main rudder of the Sun Moon League, was officially completed and opened.

On this day, a train like a long black dragon, full of special products from various rudders along the way, arrived in Mingcheng.

On that day, the road was crowded with onlookers and ordinary people.

Ordinary people, apart from gasping for a few breaths, can only marvel at it to their heart's content, the words are beyond words.

Some of the nobles in high positions saw huge business opportunities from it.

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

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

As for the flying boats in the world of cultivating immortals, the speed is fast, but the transportation cost is too high. Unless some expensive goods are transported, they cannot afford this kind of transportation cost.

In the past, a batch of goods had to be transported from the place of origin to another place. It took a long time and the cost of transportation often exceeded the cost of the goods themselves.

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

If it was a traditional caravan in the past, it would take at least half a year to travel with an ox cart. During this half year, people ate horse chews, and the cost was included in the goods.

When the train arrived at the terminal in Mingcheng, hundreds of laborers were invited to move supplies from the train box to the outside.

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

At this time, a group of laborers took out bundles of swords and weapons from a vehicle and piled them randomly on the side of the road.

A knowledgeable martial artist approached and looked at the huge pile of weapons, his eyes lit up.

Excuse me, can I have a look?

No problem!

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

The warrior pulled out a long knife with a cold light from a bundle of weapons, held it in his hand and looked at it for a while, the word Ning was engraved on the knife.

He flicked the blade with his fingers again, and the long sword made a Zheng sound.

Good knife! Good knife!

Is this knife for sale?

Sell! Long knife 15 taels of silver a piece,

A short knife costs 10 taels of silver, you can choose whatever you want.

what!

The martial artist doubted his ears a bit, such a high-quality hundred-steel-smelting sword only needed 15 taels of silver, and he chose it at will.

According to the quality of swords and the like, the price varies greatly. The cheap ones cost one or two taels of silver, while the more expensive ones cost tens of taels.

Warriors have dealt with various weapons all year round, and they have their own set of identification methods for the quality of weapons.

With 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 weapon.

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

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

If I want more, can the price be less?

The warrior now thought of a way to make money.

Trafficking these weapons to other countries can make a difference of several taels of silver for each one.

If you want more than 100, we can talk about it again. The white-faced soldier explained.

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

Now the market has not yet opened, and some individual customers are also accepted, and one or two parcels of land can also be sold.

Uh!

The warrior was taken aback by this figure. Using this price as a reference, 100 pieces would cost 1,500 taels of silver. Even if he sold his entire family's property, he would not be able to exchange for that 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 big business that falls from the sky.

Because the price of the goods brought by the train this time is generally much cheaper than usual, the price difference between the resales is relatively large, and there are rich profits in it.

Mingcheng has a population of more than 1 million, and there are not a few people as smart as this warrior.

They took out the money accumulated over the years to buy a batch of goods from the railway station, and then sold them to distant places in groups.

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

Each sub-rudder along the way has a station where the train stops. This time, each sub-rudder made a small fortune with Ning Jing, and they all happily paid the fare when they got off the train.

Since the opening of the train in Ningjing County, it will go back and forth between the two places every two months.

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

The commodity economy of the Great Zhou Dynasty was extremely underdeveloped, and there were only a few nobles who had spare money in their pockets and could spend it.

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

With the current consumption capacity, it is enough to deliver goods at this frequency.

After the opening of the railway, of course Ningjing County will benefit the most.

Now Ningjing County has built a steelmaking plant and a steel foundry.

The iron and steel foundry has branched out into many branches, some specializing in the manufacture of trains, casting rails and various steel equipment.

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

These many new factories need to recruit a lot of labor.

Many tenants entered the factory and became workers.

The wages in the factory are much higher than the income from farming.

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

Driven by these factories, the economy of the entire Ningjing County area is developing rapidly, and the living standards of residents are steadily improving.

The Central Plains area is extremely rich, but also relatively speaking, the rich belong to the aristocratic class, and the ordinary people should be poor, and they are still poor. There are also many people who die of cold and hunger every winter.

Now in Ningjing County, people rarely die of starvation, which is already a great improvement compared to tenant farmers in other places.

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

This is a much larger project, but with the previous experience as the basis, it is not too difficult to implement.

The main thing is to negotiate with Wu Guo. The weight of Ningjing County is not enough, so they may not talk to you.

Ningjing County is just a branch of the Sun Moon League, and it doesn't even have a Nascent Soul, so it is not qualified to negotiate on an equal footing.

After much deliberation and Zhang He's consent, he could only invite the elders of the Sun-Moon League to negotiate with Wu Guo in the name of the Sun-Moon League.

The three elders of the Sun Moon League agreed to this matter, but there are conditions. The railway line from Ningjing County to Wu Country must pass through Ming City. As compensation, the three elders will nominate Zhang He as the leader of the Sun Moon League. Fourth Elder.

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

He doesn't have a Nascent Soul himself, and the benefits of a cross-border railway are huge, which will inevitably attract people's envy. He might as well use 30% of the profit and hire three Nascent Souls as thugs, which is not a loss at all.

Zhang He went out this time only to get a general understanding of the situation, then retreated to the practice room and continued to retreat.

Now that he has reached a critical moment in his cultivation, he will be able to advance to the late stage of Jindan with one step forward, but he has been unable to take this step.

It seems to have encountered a bottleneck in practice!

He has been practicing for so many years, and this is the first time he has encountered a bottleneck.

Regarding the bottlenecks, he also knew something about them before. Generally, the foundation is not strong enough, or the advancement is too fast, and the mana is not pure enough.

Zhang He knew that he possessed a golden elixir that surpassed the ninth rank, and it was hopeful that he would break through the Nascent Soul in the future, and his foundation was still very solid.

It should be that his mana has been cultivated too quickly recently, resulting in a vain foundation.

As for the breakthrough method, there are many ways, you can use time to grind slowly and continuously polish the aura.

You can also break through with the help of pills. If you do this, the fundamental problem will not be solved, and the next time you encounter a bottleneck, it will be more serious.

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

This method was too dangerous. If he failed to break through at that time, he would be beaten to death. How many lives would he need to squander like this?

Zhang He chose a stupid way, constantly polishing his mana to make it more pure.

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

From the middle stage to the late stage, the mana capacity in the body has increased several times, and the dantian has become wider.

In the dantian, there was a golden elixir the size of a goose egg when the elixir was congealed, but after two rounds of changes in the middle and later stages, it is now almost the size of a head.

Fortunately, the dantian is equivalent to another space, otherwise there would be such a big lump in the belly, and people would think he was pregnant when he walked out.

Zhang He has never heard of anyone whose golden core can grow so big before. If this is said, others will definitely think he is bragging.

He estimated that the total amount of mana in his body now was not weaker than some ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, but in terms of mana purity, it was still far behind the Nascent Soul strong.

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

Zhang He appeared in the space at this time, and the peach tree in the Spiritual Orchard of Space grew much taller again. The diameter of the trunk was at least ten feet in diameter.

He didn't intend to throw away the pruned branches. This is a peach tree that has been around for tens of thousands of years and has completely mutated.

These branches are all top-quality training materials, even if they are leaves picked from trees, he keeps them and gives them to the talisman masters of the research institute for making talismans.

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

Zhang He had picked and eaten this kind of two-thousand-year-old spirit peach before, and this big peach had played a big role in his smooth advancement to the Golden Elixir this time.

In addition to this peach tree, a large number of elixir has also been cultivated in the space over the years, and the collection of mature elixir has already filled a large storage bag.

He intends to use these elixir to expand the strength of his subordinates. Since he can't retreat for a long time, it is not convenient for him to take out these elixir.

After all, he couldn't get out of seclusion, and he spent all day taking out elixir, which seemed quite strange.

After leaving the customs, I can only go outside for a while, and then slowly dig out.

In addition, a batch of thousand-year-old elixir has also been intensively cultivated in the space.

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

For example, for the white jade ginseng used for healing, he has cultivated more than one hundred trees that are more than a thousand years old.

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

During his retreat and cultivation, all kinds of miscellaneous tasks in the space were done by the little skull.

There are skeletons like this, what more can I ask for!

Little Kulou's cultivation has not improved in recent years, but he didn't know how to fiddle with it, and he actually let himself grow a leg again.

His leg was still a long time ago, when he was robbed of the golden fruit branch in Lu Bo's mansion, he was blown off by someone.

Zhang He once helped Xiaokulou make a walking stick, but he didn't want to use it, and wanted to replace the bones for him, but Xiaokulou didn't like ordinary bones.

Until now, he has finally solved it successfully by himself, and he doesn't know how his skeleton body grows.

Owner!

Seeing Zhang He appearing, Little Skull happily brought a bunch of corn ears to Zhang He.

This string of grain ears is shaped like a dog's tail, more than a foot long, and full of full grains.

Zhang He still remembers listening to stories told by the old man in his previous life, saying that a dog rolled over in the sun-drying field of the gods in the sky, its whole body was covered with grains and fled to the mortal world, and hid in the grass, only showing a tail covered with grains Stretched above, brought food to the mortal world.

After taking this large bunch of ears of grain, he weighed them in his hands. This one is about a catty.

This is how he crossed the first-order Lingya rice with the second-order bloodshot seedlings, and after many generations of breeding, he finally got the new variety in front of him.

The newly cultivated Linggu plants are tall, and people can only show a little head when they walk into the grain field. Only 100 plants can be planted per mu, and each plant can grow about three to five ears of this kind.

That is to say, the output per mu can be three to five hundred catties.

The original second-stage bloodshot seedling rice yield was only a few tens of catties per mu, which is equivalent to a tenfold increase in yield.

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

The combination of the two has become a brand new second-order Lingmi variety, and it only needs five years of growth to mature.

Compared with the ten-year growth period of the bloodshot seedling, it 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 counted, it is equivalent to more than 7,000 years of continuous cultivation by the outside world to achieve this effect.

Except for a few God Transformation powerhouses, the lifespan of other monks is not so long, who would waste their limited lifespan on such things.

However, spiritual energy will not be produced for no reason. New varieties must absorb a large amount of spiritual energy while achieving fast growth and large yields.

Ordinary spiritual fields may not be able to provide enough spiritual energy.

Zhang He heard that Meng Tiantian and her team have been doing research in this area, and wondered if they could develop a spiritual fertilizer.

Constantly replenish spiritual energy for the spiritual fields, for the absorption of new varieties of spiritual grains.