Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

It took Zhang He ten days to completely absorb and refine the spiritual energy contained in the Peiyuan Pill, and the mana in his body also grew a lot because of this.

The ability to make such rapid progress is entirely due to the efficacy of that one pill. Now, relying on meditation to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it takes several days to refine a small strand of mana.

The efficacy of that pill is at least equivalent to his usual practice for a month or two.

I don't know where I can buy this kind of medicine pill, but he really wanted to buy some more and eat them as jelly beans.

After Zhang He practiced, his consciousness entered the space again, forming an illusory figure in the space.

Another batch of sweet potatoes is ripe in the space, and he needs to dig them out.

Growing sweet potatoes in space is really hard work. Every ten days, you have to dig it up and plant it again.

It's just that he doesn't have any better crops to grow right now. The yields of other food crops in this world are extremely low and they can't be paid for.

Fortunately, the power of his illusory figure in the space is getting stronger and stronger. I don't know if it is the result of training, or it is often the result of working in the space.

The medicinal herb obtained from the eldest son of the Wan family began to grow a new leaf after watering it for several days. On the tenth day, the fourth leaf finally grew very similar to the other leaves. Generally large.

Only then did he realize that it took ten years for this herb to grow a leaf, which was slow enough.

After practicing for ten consecutive days, Zhang He finally walked out of the room. Heishui Town still had a lot of chores to deal with.

Although old man Zhang is a little shrewd, he is an old tenant farmer and can understand very limited things.

As for Wei Peng, it's okay to be a dog-headed military strategist in charge of accounting, but not necessarily reliable in serious business.

At this time, thousands of refugees in the surrounding area were still gathering in Heishui Town, unwilling to leave, and it was not a solution in the long run.

And he couldn't forcibly evict him. When spring starts next year, he will need a lot of people to farm the land. He can't let all the fields under his control be abandoned.

"Hello, son!"

At this time, Fat Hu was carrying his big ring knife, which was squeaking loudly, and was guarding outside Zhang He's door. When he saw Zhang He coming out, he quickly put away the knife to say hello.

"Well, I'm going to recruit some people from the refugees. You can ask Wei Peng to come with me."

"Okay!" Fat Tiger agreed and ran away with his big knife on his back.

After a while, Zhang He led a few people to set up a table at the street entrance of Heishui Town, and prepared pen and ink.

A guard carried a gong and banged loudly inside the refugees, spreading the news that Mr. Zhang was going to recruit people.

Immediately, all the refugees gathered together. If the guards hadn't stopped him with their knives, Zhang He would have been squeezed out.

Zhang He only planned to recruit more than 100 people, but this time it came down to 8,000 or 9,000, and the competition pressure was indeed a bit high.

"Don't squeeze, step back and listen to me first."

Wei Peng stepped forward and shouted hoarsely.

"Zhang Gongzi plans to recruit some people who can write and read, as long as they meet the conditions, they will be recruited.

In addition, more than 100 guards will be recruited this time, only men under the age of fifteen.

Let's put the ugly words first. This is a job that may lead to loss of heads. Please consider it carefully. "

Wei Peng repeated the above words twice, most of the people should have heard it before they did it.

First of all, recruit those who can read and write. There are still many affairs to be dealt with in the future of Heishui Town. Wei Peng alone is definitely not enough.

The assessment method is quite simple. First, throw a book in the past, pick a random paragraph that can be read to the book, even if it is literate, then take the addition, subtraction, and remainder test, and then dictate a few paragraphs of sentences.

As long as you can pass these three items, you will be eligible for recruitment.

This level is similar to the fourth and fifth grades of elementary school.

Under such extremely relaxed conditions, only five people were recruited out of the eight or nine thousand people. One of them was a fortune-teller who often set up a street stall, and the other was a Tulangzhong who went to villages and alleys to sell plasters.

Zhang He could only shake his head. It seems that some talents will need to be cultivated in this area in the future. Otherwise, when the need arises, none of his subordinates will be literate.

In the life of the poor in the Great Zhou Dynasty, it was almost doomed from birth, and reading could not change one's fate.

There are no imperial examinations here. Some of the officials are hereditary, and some are introduced to each other by acquaintances and nepotism. There is no such thing as universal recruitment.

Moreover, children from poor families can help the family with their work from the age of three or five. Reading is a waste of time and has no income.

Reading, practicing martial arts, and cultivating immortals, these are only qualified to participate in the middle and upper classes of society, and reading is the least investment among them.

Next, the recruitment of the guards began.

There are more people who meet the conditions. Men who are healthy and under the age of 15 are fine.

Although it is dangerous, it is really rare in this era to have a chance to stand out. As long as the conditions are met, almost all of them will sign up.

However, there is no ID card here, the age is reported by himself, and Zhang He has no accurate method to determine the authenticity.

However, some false reports of age are too obvious, and they will still be excluded.

For example, at this time Wei Peng pulled an old man, "Master, you are at least thirty or forty years old like this, how can you be fifteen years old?"

The man grinned and lost several teeth inside. He quickly covered it with his hands for fear of revealing flaws, but he didn't know that his face was full of flaws.

"I'm really only fourteen years old this year. Others say I'm young and mature, but this haired man says I'm Shaobaitou."

"No matter how young and old you are, you can't have wrinkles on your face, you are not suitable, next!"

The man still wanted to defend a few words~www.wuxiahere.com~, but was taken away by the guards.

A thin man stepped forward quickly and reported his name and age.

"His name is He Xiaoyu, he is fourteen years old, and he lives in Qingshiba..."

The recruitment of the guards is a little more troublesome. After a screening, there are still seven or eight hundred qualified people.

There is only one more round of assessment. The assessment method is very simple. Each person carries a heavy load of 50 pounds, rushes from the street to the end of the street, and selects the best according to the ranking.

Some time ago, when they attacked Wanjiazhuang, ten of the guards died, and now there are only thirty people left.

Zhang He recruited another 170 people, and together they could organize a team of 200 people.

In addition, Wei Peng has registered the top 500 people in the assessment. When he needs to recruit people in the future, he can directly recruit these people.

After recruiting the guards, Zhang He posted another important message. He planned to hire a large number of coolies to work, with no wages, and to manage two meals a day, with an unlimited number of people.

This news quickly exploded among the refugees, and the response was stronger than the recruitment of guards.

After all, there are only more than 100 guards to be recruited, and most of them can't be selected.

However, it is anyone's turn to recruit coolies. It doesn't matter what the wages are, as long as they can have a bite to eat, as long as they can survive until next year's spring and summer harvest, they will be able to get through this disaster completely.

At present, there are more than one million catties of grain in stock in the village, which can barely feed the eight or nine thousand people in front of them until the harvest season next summer.

But it is absolutely impossible for so many people to directly distribute food. Relief for work is a good way.

While feeding these disaster victims, we can also let them do some work, do some post-disaster reconstruction, infrastructure construction, and if there is spare energy, we can reclaim some wasteland.