Early in the morning, Zhang Yan asked his younger sister Zhang Huiyuan to take him for a walk in the fields outside the city.
"The land in front of the second brother belongs to our family!" Zhang Huiyuan was jumping up and down with joy. Zhang Yan's return made the burden on her shoulders lighter by half, and more importantly, the psychological pressure was reduced a lot. She also returned to her usual playful appearance.
Following Zhang Huiyuan's guidance, Zhang Yan saw a large piece of land with a wooden sign from a distance. According to Zhang Huiyuan's gestures, he roughly estimated in his mind that the two military fields were not small at all, covering almost thirty acres. look like.
According to the farming output in the Wild Sky Territory, generally speaking, it takes at least four acres of land to feed one person, so their current ration for a family of four requires the output of at least sixteen acres of land. Now the extra fourteen acres will make the family's life much easier.
Nowadays, Wang Lanping is no longer busy spinning. Even if she does spin, she just spends her time spinning some for home use and rarely sells it. And Zhang Huiyuan no longer works as a female celebrity day and night, but only takes some big jobs to supplement the family income.
And now that Zhang Yan is back, the Zhang family will definitely get better and better under his management. His first idea now is to expand his family's sources of income.
The simplest, most direct and most reliable source of increasing income is the military field in front of you.
Military merit field is a very special kind of real estate in the wilderness. Its ownership is not in the hands of the local government like other farm properties, but in the hands of the military. However, the military does not have direct management rights over the military merit fields, but is managed by the local government. The two sides form a mutually restrictive balance.
Unless the military merit field is given away, neither the military nor the local government has the right to buy or sell it. However, official grain can be grown on unowned military merit fields. Farmers are assigned by the local government and are paid according to their harvest, which is also an important subsidy item for local farmers.
If there is insufficient military land, the army will buy back and stockpile it near the city, or negotiate with the local government to reclaim new land.
This policy regarding military fields has been in place for hundreds of years. After continuous improvement, it has become very mature and effective. But if you study carefully, you can actually find some ways to make money behind the military field. Zhang Yan heard Hua Gou talk about some of these things when he was at Yubei Mountain. These are actually not secrets everywhere, and Nanyuan Kingdom has never issued any prohibitive laws on this, which seems to be a deliberate loophole.
This resulted in the fact that high-quality fertile land such as military merit fields was often bought from military meritorious officials at high prices, and then kept in their hands, waiting for the military to pay a higher price to repurchase it. It’s not uncommon for income to double over time.
The army also increased the selling price of hard goods such as demon tendons due to the soaring prices of military merit fields. This not only raised the threshold for exchanging tendons and bones within the army, but also increased the price of those sold outside. And Junwu is the largest shipper of demon tendons in Nanyuan Kingdom. When they increase their prices, the amount of demon tendons on the market will naturally increase accordingly.
So who loses in the end?
Of course, the latter part was deduced by Zhang Yan’s own analysis and was not said by Hua Gou. But this is also the current reality in military fields.
This is why Zhang Yan thinks that Xiao Chongwen and others came together to ask the Zhang family to sell these two military fields. Mostly they want to get some benefits out of it.
But as long as the Zhang family doesn't sell it, these two pieces of military merit land are ironclad and no one can take them away. It is an estate that can be passed down.
And compared with other means to increase family income, changing the harvest in the fields is the most acceptable method and will not attract covetousness.
Zhang Yan had already figured this out clearly on the way back from Yubei Mountain.
"Second brother, what is this? Is it a wild boar? It looks so strange!" Zhang Huiyuan, who was jumping up and down, saw her brother suddenly take out four three-inch stone sculptures from his arms, and curiously took them and put them away. Examine it in your hand.
The stone carving is more than three inches long and one inch high. The overall look is very delicate and looks like a strange animal.
It looks like a wild boar, but with two big ears standing up, thick hair all over its body, a long tail, and four big teeth sticking out from its mouth.
"This is not a wild boar, it's called Dangkang."
"Dangkang? Second brother? What is Dangkang?"
"Haha, it's a magical...monster that can make crops in the fields harvest abundantly."
"Ah? Is there such a powerful monster? Then it is a good monster!"
"Yes, it is a good monster. We will bury its statues in the four corners of the field. This year's harvest at home will be greater than in previous years. But this is a secret, only we two know it, do you understand?"
"Yeah! Second brother, I won't tell anyone!" Zhang Huiyuan shrank her neck with a smile, tightly covering the small stone sculpture in her hand, as if she was afraid of being seen, and finally couldn't help but asked curiously: "Second brother , is this also the skill that the magical old man taught you?" Although Zhang Huiyuan is more strong-tempered and sensible, she is still only a teenager after all. Her curiosity and her second brother's magical experience combined with her belief in the so-called magical monsters. No doubt.
"Haha, yes, that magical old man taught me this. Let's go, let's hide two each, okay?" Zhang Yan said and gave another stone sculpture to his sister, and then the two of them walked away separately, carefully hiding the little ones. Stone sculptures are buried into the four corners of the field.
It was not an ordinary small stone sculpture, but a small magic weapon with Zhang Yan's spiritual energy inscribed with a talisman on it. It can also be regarded as a minimalist and weakened version similar to the Bean Soldier. It does not have the ability to evolve concretely, but it has a mild gain power. It is also a product of the combination of Shinto and martial arts.
There are actually many similar things in Daomen. In fact, it is not complicated. The only threshold required is the cultivation level of the caster and the concentration of spiritual energy around it.
According to Zhang Yan's estimation, the four Xiaodangkang stone sculptures can be connected together to form a piece after being placed on the ground to supplement the crops in his own field. Even if the harvest is imminent, the yield can be increased by at least 10% during this period. Next year, we can increase production by at least 20% throughout the year. This is equivalent to the normal harvest of at least six more acres of land, which is already a lot for the Zhang family today.
After that, Zhang Yan followed his younger sister and said hello to the farmers who happened to be working there, and got to know each other. These farmers are the people who actually manage the Zhang family's military merit fields. They are all farmers with good skills, otherwise they would not be selected by the local government to work on the military merit fields.
On the way back, Zhang Huiyuan was still very excited about the small stone sculptures.
"Second brother, do you think that with those small stone carvings, how much more can our harvest be this year?"
"I guess an extra 10% will be fine."
"Wow! Is he so powerful?! By the way, second brother..." Zhang Huiyuan stopped abruptly and tugged on the hem of Zhang Yan's clothes. "Brother, look over there, it's Xiao Chongwen and the others!"
