Ming Dynasty: Summoning game players at the beginning

Chapter 50: Handsomeness is a good medicine for men
Three thousand kilograms of modern wheat seeds?
Li Mu couldn't believe his eyes. That was a fine variety that modern people had cultivated through decades of iteration!
He remembered that before he traveled through time, the wheat in his hometown could yield a thousand kilograms per acre.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the best-tended wheat fields could only yield two or three hundred kilograms, and most fields were lucky if they could produce less than two hundred kilograms.

The factors that affect agricultural output are soil, water source, farming methods, agricultural tools, good seeds, fertility...

The first few conditions could be met in ancient times, but chemical fertilizers and improved seeds are the core of modern agricultural innovation and the root cause of the world's population explosion.

If the yield per mu increases from 100 kilograms to several hundred kilograms, it will be more than enough to expand the population several times.

Of course, Li Mu also knew that this kind of good variety was bred through hybridization, and the seeds could not be kept for a long time, as they would degenerate in two or three years.

However, I was able to get wheat seeds by drawing cards, which means there will be opportunities in the future. It should not be a problem to hold on until Lijiazhai has sufficient food.

The stun gun and throwing props set are pretty good. If combined with a bulletproof shield in the future, it will be a good offensive prop.

The only thing is that the custom role-playing costumes don’t say anything about the costumes from specific movies, TV shows or animations, which makes people a little confused.

Li Mu clicked on the description of the prop. He was shocked when he saw it.

This is actually a special garment that can be customized once the wearer wants!

Anything like Gundam, Kamen Rider, Astarte, Ultraman, Master Chief, Skaven... can be realized.

The clothing itself has no protective or combat capabilities, it is purely for looking good, fun and cool.

Li Mu felt it was worth it alone. He even wanted to become a player himself and experience the coolness of attacking in "Gundam form".

But as a behind-the-scenes boss, he knew very well that only by rewarding his employees generously could he encourage his brothers to kill the enemy.

Wearing the clothes on him is just a momentary sensory stimulation, which will soon become boring after a shiver. But when wearing the clothes on five players, it will inspire hundreds or thousands of new players who will enter later.

"Cool props" will motivate them to work hard to earn merit points.

Showing off and looking cool in public is always the most satisfying spiritual climax for men.

Just imagine who wouldn’t want to wear a limited edition Gundam mech and lose themselves in a wave of flattery like “Dad, let me wear it”, “Ahhh, so handsome”, “Brother, please give me the link”, “It’s ugly, send it to me so I can modify it”, and the upturned corners of the mouth are harder to suppress than AK.

Li Mu's mind moved, and he made some changes in the system.

Well, just put these props in the "Main Mission Rewards" to motivate them to rack their brains to deal with the next superior enemy.

Hehe, Li Mu has already imagined how these players' faces would be affected by five sets of customized costumes.

He also wanted to see what the players' tastes were.

After these details were taken care of, more than 300 new players were able to enter the game.

It seems that players have created some popularity for "Late Ming Dynasty" offline, and more than 300 people have skillfully chosen their career focus.

Most players choose to fight, and the number of fighting players reaches 700. This new group will carry their equipment and quietly arrive at the county town in the early morning of the next day to meet up with the main force.

The second group is the farming players who engage in production and scientific research. The remaining places will be allocated to "village cadres", "free men" and "undercover agents".

In the previous week, Li Mu saw players disguising themselves and scattering one after another. There were 35 of them in total, and they were heading generally towards Runing Prefecture in the north, Wuchang Prefecture in the south, and Luzhou Prefecture in the east.

There were beggars, refugee families, vendors, boatmen, opera troupes, escorts, conscripts, fools...

Li Mu's strategy for these people was to rely primarily on intelligence, supplemented by assassination. If the undercover agents could reach high-ranking officials in the civil, military, and business circles, creating a situation where "every winery is undercover," that would be ideal.

Putting the players' affairs aside, Li Mu looked at the official report handed over by the old village chief.

Thanks to the "riot in heaven" caused by the Beggars' Army in the county, people from all walks of life flocked to the safe Lijiazhai. Villages within a dozen miles around heard of Lijiazhai's reputation and wanted to bow down to Li Mu and seek protection.

This brought not only population, but also food, gold, silver and jewelry.

The population of the village is expanding day by day. The buildings inside the village wall are being built up, and outside the wall there are hammering sounds everywhere as houses and shops are being built.

The trade network radiating from Lijiazhai is also expanding.

A river rushes down from the mountains and flows into the Huai River flowing eastward.

With the help of this tributary, Lijiazhai can sell the goods produced in the workshop to the Huaihe River Basin and even the Jiangnan area through river transportation without much effort.

With commercial interests, it is natural to strengthen armaments to protect profits.

The intensive training of the 300-member guard team was in full swing. According to Li Mu's initial plan, the army would advance on two fronts at the same time.

One is the elite route, which is to develop a smaller but well-equipped and well-mannered spearhead force based on the current retainer team, which can serve as the backbone of officers when necessary.

Another way is to train a large number of militias, just like the military service system during the Han Dynasty, where every adult was required to undergo several years of military service training so that they could be quickly armed and organized if a war broke out.

The combination of the two routes is to pair a small number of elite officers with a large number of trained militiamen, so that the strongest and most numerous troops can be formed in a short period of time.

Li Mu registered the population of every citizen under his protection. All males who were 100 years old or above had to undergo 30 days of complete military training for the first time, and then days of training every year thereafter, for a tentative period of seven years.

The number of people training in each militia session must not be less than one-fifth of the total number of local adult men.

Food and weapons during the training period were distributed by Li Mu.

Thus a large number of available militias were created.

The first batch of militia consisted of 1,500 people, and the daily food needs were astonishing.

However, Li Mu was not afraid at all, because he had food supplies secretly transported back from the county by the beggar army, as well as food looted from the gentry outside the county by the players.

Li Mu felt comfortable eating other people's food and supporting his own militia, and the people who needed nutrition also felt comfortable.

See, a world has been created where only one kind of person gets hurt.

By the way, the players in the equipment department are tinkering with new inventions every day. Wooden cannons with embedded iron pipes, iron barrels, compacted round gunpowder bags, stink bombs, long and thin hand guns, and "bazookas" that look good but are useless are all their masterpieces.

A few days ago, when the equipment department was extracting nitroglycerin, several players were killed in an explosion, so they had to move the experimental workshop two and a half miles outside the village to avoid harming innocent people.

Fortunately, the beggar army recently "kidnapped" some experienced craftsmen. With their technical guidance, combined with the blueprint theory searched by players, the metal cannon should be cast.

It doesn't matter if you fail, you have time to practice anyway. As for the cheap wooden cannon, even a dog wouldn't use it.

Just when Li Mu was thinking about expanding the production of firearms, a player who had just come online brought him a piece of news.

In the county town, some visitors wanted to negotiate cooperation with the "Beggar Army".

(End of this chapter)