Time flies, and it’s Baijia’s fifty years in a blink of an eye.
On a vast plain, Yuan Zhen was working hard on today's work.
Yuan Zhen is a Qi practitioner and a real person. He was originally just a wild man, but by chance, he was discovered and trained by Zhao Yang, and later sent to Luoyang Academy to study.
When he returned from studying, Yuan Zhen was already a Taoist priest.
Later, Yuan Zhen has been serving the Zhao family for more than 6,000 years.
About four thousand years ago, Yuan Zhen followed the natural way and successfully became a real person. However, in order to repay Zhao Yang's kindness to him, Yuan Zhen has stayed in the Zhao family's territory to serve the Zhao family all these years.
Zhao Yang, on the other hand, provided Yuan Zhen with various goods and a large amount of resources. Without Zhao Yang's training and the large amount of valuable resources provided by Zhao Yang, Yuan Zhen would not have become a real person.
Life like this has always been good, and Yuan Zhen also thinks it's pretty good. Zhao will provide sufficient resources for every experiment. And I can do experiments in peace and observe the world.
Until fifty years ago, when Yancheng journals spread all over the world, Yuan Zhen was happy at the beginning because he had a place to discuss Tao. Yuan Zhen even wrote letters to heaven-level journals in person and published them. Live your latest achievement.
Yellow-level journals can be bought everywhere and sold all over the world, as long as you have money.
Xuan-level journals are a bit difficult to purchase.
The prefecture-level journals are no longer paper, but are pieces of magical artifacts, and the contents of the prefecture-level journals are stored in the magical artifacts.
As for heaven-level journals, every heaven-level journal is a magic weapon, or a special magic weapon for recording information. It is said that it was specially researched by Yancheng Academy. It can store mental power, personal knowledge, personal feelings, and even give information deep inside. You evolve.
Heaven-level journals have always been expensive, and production costs are high, so not everyone can buy Heaven-level journals. Generally speaking, except for allies in Yancheng, only people who have published articles in heaven-level journals can purchase it.
At the beginning, Yuan Zhen was really happy. At that time, he felt that people's future was bright. When reading journals, he often praised Jiang Hua and said that he did a great job.
At that time, when Yuan Zhen evaluated articles in heaven-level journals, the most common thing he said was: "This article is really good. Although it is just a train of thought, it saved me at least ten years of hard work. If I were alone, I would probably be able to work harder." It took me ten years to figure this out, but now, just one article inspired me and saved me at least ten years."
"The quality of this issue is not good. Taken together, it only inspired me once and saved me five years at most! Who is the editor-in-chief of this issue? I will write him a negative review."
"This issue of the journal is good. I actually had an epiphany and gave me inspiration six times. Taken together, I saved at least a hundred years of my life."
If Yuan Zhen does some calculations, he will find that the fifty issues of Tian-level journals published so far, added together, have saved him at least more than a thousand years of time.
It is generally difficult to improve the cultivation level of a real person. However, relying on the mutual exchanges in these journals, Yuan Zhen has made progress in fifty years that could only be achieved after about 1,500 to 1,800 years of hard work.
Therefore, speaking from the bottom of my heart, Yuan Zhen is very grateful to Jiang Hua.
To be precise, from a personal perspective, Yuan Zhen is very grateful to Jiang Hua.
From other perspectives, Yuan Zhen hates Jiang Hua.
His research was often in vain because of Jiang Hua, and often in vain because of Yancheng. For example, at this moment, Yuan Zhen is conducting research on spiritual rice.
Almost everyone with a brain knows the importance of spiritual rice.
However, Yancheng has slowly occupied the majority of the spiritual rice market through a series of means such as advanced varieties, advanced local treasures, and advanced planting methods.
In the past, spiritual rice rarely went abroad. It was a strategic material and the domestic spiritual rice was digested at home.
After eating spiritual rice and drinking spiritual springs every day, and then sending them to Yancheng Academy to study hard for ten years, the probability of birthing magic power can be as high as 90%.
But if instead of having a full meal, and then being sent to Yancheng Academy to study hard, the probability of birthing mana is only 20%. The rest can either take a foundation-building pill to help them generate mana, or they can't do it right and become an ordinary person.
Yancheng also needs ordinary people!
There is nothing that can be done about it. The advantages of monks can be listed in seventy or eighty categories, but the disadvantages of monks are also obvious, that is, their fertility is weak.
These days, there are not a few Qi practitioners who are single until death.
Many Qi refiners, who have become alchemists, want to marry an alchemist wife.
However, the number of female alchemists accounts for less than half of the total number of alchemists.
Many female alchemists would rather become concubines or concubines of warlocks or Taoist priests than marry poor male alchemists.
Many poor male alchemists will only marry mortal women after accepting the reality.
This was quite obvious in the past.
When an alchemist and an alchemist get married, the childbirth period is usually ten months, but many alchemists are not willing to have children, or they do not want to have too many children.
The reason for this is very complicated and cannot be explained in a sentence or two, but the reality is that the speed at which monks have children is far behind that of ordinary people.
Ordinary people have one generation every twenty years. If they live a prosperous life, they can have three, four, or even five or six children in each generation. This kind of fertility rate is difficult for monks to match.
With such a birth rate, a large grassroots population can be provided.
With a large grassroots population, more alchemists can be cultivated.
As long as the country can afford to support them, the next generation will always have more alchemists than the previous generation, and the next generation will have more magicians than the previous generation. The same is true for Taoist priests and Taoist priests.
Even in the extraordinary world, a large population is still a symbol of national strength.
Therefore, spiritual rice has always been a strategic material and is prohibited from export. Of course, the great nobles can ignore national laws and smuggle at will. This is also the unspoken rule of various countries. After all, rules are made to make arrangements for those below, not to constrain superiors.
To be superior to others, you have to use Zhouli. It means that punishment is not as good as the doctor, but it means that everyone is a decent person.
However, the emergence of Yancheng broke this point.
In the past, smuggling of refined iron was strictly prohibited.
But now, the price of fine iron all over the world has dropped from one hundred yuan to one tael in the past to thirty yuan or one tael.
They are mainly production and life-related magic tools in Yancheng, and they are sold everywhere.
For many large-scale iron-smelting instruments, you only need to put the ore into it, and iron ingots made of fine iron will automatically come out one after another. The whole process is fool-proof, how convenient.
When you need iron ore, you use slaves to dig it. If too many slaves die and there is not enough iron ore, you go to the wild to catch savages. What a big deal?
Ever since this fool-like large-scale iron-smelting instrument was introduced, the price of fine iron in the world has been continuously decreasing.
And Lingmi is also Yancheng’s flagship product today.
Yancheng's Lingmi undergoes a renewal almost every year.
Today's Yancheng Lingmi is divided into many types according to categories.
The most widely sold one is the one in front of you. As long as you have spiritual energy and enough local treasures and water, you can harvest it like leeks.
However, this is only an external statement. In fact, after the first crop is cut, some special secret recipes must be used to process these spiritual rice rhizomes using some unknown gadgets. After processing, other secret recipes are used, and even the spiritual energy must be properly processed. changes so that a second crop can grow.
It is said that today's Yancheng has been able to harvest seven crops in a row.
Therefore, although the land area of Yancheng is not large enough, Yancheng's spiritual rice has gradually become a top product. This is a temptation that no prince or big noble can refuse.
No one can refuse Lingmi!
Yuan Zhen's mission is to study this kind of spiritual rice carefully and how to deal with it between the second and third crops.
As for the issue of how to deal with the first crop and the second crop, it has been resolved.
But the problem in front of him made Yuan Zhen couldn't help but pull his hair. It was too difficult.
After studying it, the young disciple ran over and shouted: "Master, the master invites you to come over."
Hearing this, Yuan Zhen suddenly felt a thump in his heart.
Many times in the past, Zhao Yang called him over like this. After passing by, tell him that the research at hand can be stopped now, blah blah blah...
As for the reason, sometimes it is because Yancheng announced the secret.
For example, the formula between the first and second crops of Lingmi was announced by Yancheng on its own initiative.
At that time, in order to research the relevant formula, Yuan Zhen led several Taoist priests and dozens of Taoist priests to study day and night for five or six years. As a result, just when he was about to make a breakthrough, Yancheng suddenly announced the relevant formula and even began to make it public. Recipes are on sale.
Not only the formula related to Lingmi, but also many other key technologies.
Whenever someone is about to make a breakthrough, or has just made a breakthrough, Yancheng will immediately announce a big price cut or simply announce the formula directly, with the euphemistic name of benefiting the public and bringing welfare to the world.
Yuan Zhen has encountered this kind of thing twice. The first time, he just felt that he was unlucky and did not think that this was Yancheng's routine. But the second time, Yuan Zhen was so angry that he didn't eat for three days. As for the moment, Yuan Zhen suddenly had a bad feeling. This might be the third time!
Thinking of this, Yuan Zhen couldn't help but cursed: ***********
After Yuan Zhen opened his mouth, the other disciples were stunned for a moment, then reacted, and then started scolding him together.
However, after scolding, life has to go on. Thinking of this, Yuan Zhen went to Zhao Yang's mansion in frustration.
"My lord, I'm here."
The master in Yuan Zhen's mouth is none other than Zhao Yang, a tall and elegant man who makes people feel good just sitting here. However, only a few people can see Zhao Yang's smile. In the eyes of most people, Zhao Yang is a serious and unsmiling person.
"Yuanzhen, please read this news first."
Yuan Zhen took the Yancheng official newspaper handed over by Zhao Yang, glanced at the title, and couldn't help his anger: "Haha, that's really nice to say. In order to benefit all people in the world, Yancheng took the initiative to publish the second to fourth crop. The general principles between three crops, and then only need to spend 100 million yuan to permanently obtain the relevant principles..."
"That's it again!"
"That's it again!"
"Back then, in order to study the secrets between the first crop and the second crop, countless manpower and material resources were used..."
After hearing this, Zhao Yang silently calculated in his mind that if all manpower and material resources were converted into money, it would be about one trillion yuan, which is already a lot. The Zhao family only has a total of more than a hundred counties. Although these more than one hundred counties have been managed by the Zhao family for many years, the ground lines in them have long been sorted out, and the aura inside them has long been marked with the Zhao family's mark. Every plant and tree has been sacrificed and refined by Zhao.
The entire Zhao family has become a whole. Within this whole, it is easy for the head of the Zhao family to increase his power to a higher level.
Each county has a large number of spiritual fields and spiritual springs, which are far from comparable to the poor mountains and rivers in the south.
But even so, one trillion yuan is not a small amount for Zhao.
The bigger the territory, the more power there is, and the more places you need to spend money.
The income of each county of the Zhao family is not much, including grain income. On average, a county only has about 40 million acres of fertile land. Even with the use of Yancheng's improved seeds, local treasures, and advanced planting technology, the average yield per mu is now only ten million acres. Five stones, it is said that there are already twenty stones in Yancheng.
A county's annual grain output is 600 million shi, which is 60 billion yuan. However, after deducting many costs, the final amount obtained is only 30 billion yuan. After dividing it with the local governments, the amount handed over to the Zhao Center will only be about 20 billion.
Zhao's total annual grain income is only about three trillion.
Although the Zhao family and other Central Plains countries have developed land for a long time and have many spiritual fields and spiritual springs, their income may only be six to seven trillion.
Even if you add in other miscellaneous and shameful income, as well as income from breeding and selling war horses, Zhao's total annual income is at most 20 trillion.
It sounds like a lot, but this year is already Baijia's fiftieth year, and this income is not even as good as that of Yue State, which has strong support from Yancheng, let alone compared with Yancheng.
Twenty trillion sounds like a lot, but how much money can be spent on researching new technologies?
The original research on the secrets between the first and second crops of Lingmi cost the equivalent of one trillion yuan, but in the end it was all in vain...
"Today, in order to study the secrets between the second and third crops, countless manpower and material resources have been spent..."
It's also about one trillion, Zhao Yang thought silently.
"There is also the Xuanjia that was studied at the beginning. Now the Xuanjia in Yancheng has been developed to the eighth generation. This eighth generation Xuanjia is very thin and light. Wearing it on the body is like wearing a gauze garment, and it is very It's soft and waxy, just like Shayi in this aspect, and even has some small spells attached to it..."
(End of chapter)
