Changsheng Xiuxian: I can see through everything

Chapter 252 Yuan Zu Shen Rice (Subscribe)

Wolong Island is as peaceful and leisurely as usual.

The information here is relatively closed.

Most of the cultivators on the island are independent cultivators in the Qi training stage and are not aware of the internal affairs of the Jinyang Sect.

All we know is that the Nangong family exchanged their territory and a new cultivation family named Chen came.

The collateral descendants of the Nangong family were all ordered to keep their mouths shut, doing their jobs well and not causing trouble, so as not to affect the relationship between the Nangong and Chen families.

In fact, it was just a burden thrown to Chen Xuan.

Chen Xuan knew this very well, but he remained calm.

These low-level monks have limited potential.

Even though it is not very useful, it is still easy to use to manage the island and maintain its operation.

Chen Xuan took Jiang Liguang and Jiang Yingxing on a tour around Wolong Island.

I have to say that the Nangong family has done a really good job over the past thousands of years.

The spiritual veins on the island have been developed to the extreme, and all kinds of spiritual fields and fertile fields have been cultivated.

Only a tiny bit of scraps remains, not worth much.

Even the Star Stone Mine has been almost fully developed, leaving only some veins of lower quality.

No wonder he is willing to exchange with the sect for a sacred mountain of the same level.

Chen Xuan had no complaints about this.

The disciples of the Battle Formation Hall accepted Chen Xuan's gift of consolation and worked with great enthusiasm.

On Wolong Island, the Wolong Market, built in the core area, is covered with notices to reassure the public.

City defense teams and law enforcement teams were established successively to maintain order in Wolongfang City.

The seven counties and seven mortal cities on the island made a smooth transition and no one dared to cause trouble.

Chen Xuan took inventory of Wolong Island.

A small, top-grade spiritual vein was used to build Longxing Villa for the family's monks to live and practice.

Two small medium-grade spiritual veins, one was built into Wolongfang City, and the other was built into a spiritual plant garden.

The remaining seven micro spiritual veins were all cultivated into spiritual fields.

There are about three thousand wandering cultivators living in Wolong Market, 60% of whom are spiritual farmers, 30% are spiritual fishermen, and 10% are engaged in market business.

There is no foundation-building cultivator, and most of them stop at the middle stage of Qi training.

Originally, there were two Foundation Establishment cultivators who, fearing suspicion from the new cultivator family, followed the Nangong family and withdrew.

The entire Wolong Island has opened up 12,000 acres of spiritual fields, of which only 500 acres are high-quality spiritual fields, 2,000 acres are medium-quality spiritual fields, and 9,500 acres are low-quality spiritual fields.

One acre of inferior spiritual field can produce two hundred kilograms of inferior chalcedony rice annually, which is worth seven spiritual stones.

A spiritual farmer generally rents about 20 mu of low-quality spiritual farmland, bears the cost himself, and pays 40% of the harvested spiritual rice to the Nangong family.

It seems that the income is more than 80 spirit stones, but after deducting the cost and paying the rent for the house in the market town, it is considered very good if the whole family can eat a meal of spirit rice every day.

If you have more children, you will have to go fishing and hunting during the slack season to make a living.

As for the spiritual fishermen, no matter how much fish they catch, they are not allowed to sell them privately. All of them will be purchased by the shops set up by the Nangong family in the market town at 60% of the market price and sold at a unified price.

Other shops opened in the market town have to pay taxes based on the proportion of their income in addition to paying shop rent.

Spiritual field rent, market rent, shop taxes, mineral income, etc.

In a year, the Nangong family can receive about 200,000 spirit stones.

It seems like a lot, but one has to pay a tax of 100,000 spirit stones to the sect every year, and also support the cultivation expenses of seven foundation-building monks and more than a thousand Qi-cultivating clansmen. In fact, it is barely enough to maintain the sect and is also stretched.

After reading the income and expenditure account book, Chen Xuan shook his head.

A month later.

The Jade-faced Queen Bee's people once again exceeded 100,000, forming a new army of poisonous bees.

Chen Xuan took Jiang Liguang and Jiang Yingxing to inspect the farmland next to a mortal city.

The accompanying county magistrate was from the Nangong branch, named Nangong Lin.

Inferior spiritual roots, only at the Qi training level.

Even this first level of Qi training is built up with elixirs.

Seeing Chen Xuan taking him to the outside of the city to plow the fields, he looked nervous.

"Don't worry, I'm just checking in."

Chen Xuan asked gently, "Nangong Lin, do you know the yield of these farmlands?"

Nangong Lin breathed a sigh of relief.

"Your Excellency, Luoyang County has 1.2 million mu of arable land. Adult men are granted 40 mu, and women 15 mu. Each household is granted 55 mu. Each mu of good land can produce 200 kilograms of grain."

Chen Xuan nodded.

It has to be said that the Nangong family has been operating on this island for thousands of years and has a very organized system.

“Do the people have enough to eat?”

Nangong Lin said cautiously, "Wolong Island has a unified grain tax split of 50-50. If you're diligent, it should be enough."

An adult consumes only three to four hundred kilograms of food a year.

In theory, 5,000 kilograms of grain a year is enough to cover a farmer's expenses.

"Take me to the biggest field around here."

Chen Xuan brought Jiang Liguang, Jiang Yingxing, and followed Nangong Lin to the edge of a field.

This field is three hundred acres in size and is full of greenery.

"Elder Jiang, what do you think of this plowed field?"

Jiang Liguang was a spiritual plant husband. He just took a quick look, picked up a handful of soil, and put a little bit in his mouth to chew.

"It's not fertile enough to be considered good farmland. A yield of 200 kilograms per mu is already pretty good."

Chen Xuan glanced at the farmers working hard in the fields. They were all pale and thin, with their clothes barely covering their bodies.

Fortunately, he is in good spirits and doesn't have that kind of violent temper.

Perhaps, a good harvest is in sight?

The village elder came tremblingly, carrying a cane and accompanied by several young men.

Chen Xuan sighed softly.

Asked about the living conditions of the villagers.

As he expected.

It wasn't too bad, but it was enough to keep people fed and clothed. The government administration couldn't be said to be clean, but generally speaking, they didn't do anything too outrageous, and exploitation of them was limited.

Nangong Lin, who was standing by, looked nervous, fearing that the village elder would complain.

Chen Xuan asked, "Old man, you have lived here for many years. Have you ever seen wild rice fields?"

The village elder thought for a long time and told Chen Xuan that there seemed to be some wild rice fields growing in a mountain swamp thirty miles away.

Chen Xuan was overjoyed when he heard this.

He casually handed a bottle of spiritual honey to the village elder and told him to dissolve it in warm water before drinking.

He summoned the Cloud Piercing Shuttle, picked up Jiang Liguang, Jiang Yingxing, and Nangong Lin, and flew over.

The villagers were stunned and knelt on the ground, calling it a god.

Nangong Lin was also puzzled and asked, "What do you mean, sir?"

"I'm looking for a special kind of wild rice."

"Oh."

Nangong Lin said no more.

As for the special wild rice, I just feel that adults' thoughts are too wild and imaginative to be guessed by ordinary people.

He had served as county magistrate for many years and had always paid attention to farming. He had never heard of any special wild rice.

Soon, he found the mountain swamp that the village elder had mentioned.

Sure enough, there was a field of wild rice.

Compared with normal rice, the grains of this wild rice are few and small, and they fall off if touched.

Chen Xuan summoned a hundred thousand poisonous bees, which covered the sky and swept towards the wild rice field.

After half an incense stick of time, Chen Xuan's face showed joy.

He communicated with the Jade-faced Queen Bee through his divine mind, instructing her to mobilize 100,000 poisonous bees to search for naturally infertile wild rice.

In this wild rice field, four naturally sterile wild rice plants were found.

"Nangong Lin."

"The subordinate is here."

"Pass the order down. Find all the wild rice near Luoyang County and don't move it rashly."

Chen Xuan said with great joy, "Anyone who provides the location of wild rice will be rewarded with ten taels of silver."

"Yes!"

Nangong Lin didn't know why Chen Xuan valued that wild rice so much, but as a subordinate, he still carried out the first order from his superior with great vigor and determination.

Soon, Chen Xuan discovered more than a dozen wild rice fields near Luoyang County, and used an army of poisonous bees to find seventeen sterile wild rice plants.

"Only twenty-one, a little less. But it's enough."

Next, he directed Jiang Liguang and Jiang Yingxing to conduct hybridization experiments.

Twenty-one wild rice plants were placed in the experimental field and carefully cultivated.

Jiang Liguang continued to use the spiritual rain technique and the labor-inducing technique.

This kind of spiritual plant magic is more effective on lower-level spiritual plants.

Wild rice is just an ordinary plant.

In just one month, the twenty-one wild rice plants began to divide and became eight hundred plants.

After the eight hundred wild rice plants bloomed, Chen Xuan commanded the Jade-faced Queen Bee and his elite troops to pollinate these wild rice plants.

After more than ten days, eight hundred wild rice plants grew successfully and more than 100,000 precious rice seeds were harvested.

Three months later, the third-level island protection formation was completed, and Master Chu and Master Tian led their disciples to leave.

After the farewell banquet, Chen Xuan turned around and devoted himself to the cultivation of hybrid rice.

Under his guidance, Jiang Liguang finally matched the sterile, maintainer, and restorer varieties, and after many experiments, he successfully cultivated three-line hybrid rice.
Looking at the fruitful hybrid rice in the experimental field, Jiang Liguang felt full of a sense of accomplishment.

Jiang Yingguang had been taking notes nearby, and was now also curiously checking the fullness of the rice ears.

"Elder Jiang, look at these rice seeds. What is the yield per mu?"

"The yield per mu is at least 500 kilograms. Moreover, there is still room for improvement."

With Chen Xuan's explanation, Jiang Liguang has understood the principles of hybrid rice.

As long as we persist in the experiment, the advantages of the rice seeds we harvest will become stronger and stronger.

"Sir, making rice seeds is not easy."

While happy, Jiang Liguang was also a little worried.

"It's not difficult to do."

Chen Xuan told him that breeding fields and seed production fields could be set up separately, and the pollen of the restoration line could be transferred to the sterile line for hybrid seed production, thus producing hybrid rice seeds with hybrid vigor.

This seemingly tedious task is extremely easy for Chen Xuan, who has 100,000 poisonous bees.

Chen Xuan called Nangong Lin to promote hybrid rice in Luoyang County.

All wealthy families in the county must allocate 10% of their farmland to plant hybrid rice.

Nangong Lin didn't say anything about this.

All the aristocratic families in Luoyang County are collateral branches or married into the Nangong family. How can ordinary mortals resist the orders of a cultivation family?

"Please give this rice a name."

Jiang Liguang reminded.

He could predict that this rice would become popular in the world and bring immeasurable benefits.

Rice seeds that can increase rice yields three times, even if the taste is slightly worse or has a slightly strange smell, it is still white rice that can fill you up!

"Let's call him Yuan Zudao."

Chen Xuan said piously.

I will always be grateful to my grandfather who made immortal contributions to human cause.

"Yuan Zu Rice? Yes, sir, I will definitely promote this Yuan Zu Rice."

Nangong Lin did not understand the meaning of the name of this rice, but still obeyed obediently.

Chen Xuan smiled.

Patting Nangong Lin's shoulder gently, he said, "Nangong Lin, don't be nervous. Soon, you will become a famous minister who will be remembered for generations to come."

In a year at most, the yield of Yuanzu rice will shock the mortals on Wolong Island, and they will go from resisting to flocking to it.

After Nangong Lin left, Chen Xuan said to Jiang Liguang and Jiang Yingxing, "Are you ready? Our career has only truly begun now."

(End of this chapter)