Chapter 8 In the Age of Cultivation, Do You Have to Start with Farming?

"The environment in this world is really good. ”

The air is fresh, the climate is warm and humid, the sunshine hours are extremely long, and the forest coverage is conservative at more than 90%.

The mountains are good, the water is good, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant.

Zhou Ming, who was holding a hoe in his hand and working in the field, was in a happy and cheerful mood when he was resting, listening to the ethereal bird chirping in his ears, and looking at the wildflowers on the hillside in the distance.

looked at the beautiful girl beside him again, hoeing the weeds in the wheat field, and looking at herself with affectionate eyes from time to time.

The woman next to the girl looked at Zhou Ming's work results and nodded with satisfaction: "Shanhe, your hoe is good, not to mention the cleanliness of the grass hoe, it is more than the aunt's hoe, you are still quite good at working." ”

Hearing Aunt Xia's words praising herself, Zhou Ming nodded lightly: "It's okay, it's okay, I haven't done this kind of work for a long time, and my hands are a little raw." "Otherwise, it's even better.

Aunt Xia smiled and shook her head, this kid is really not modest at all.

The girl's eyes emitted a brighter light, looking at Zhou Ming, her heart was beautiful, the mountains and rivers were doing farm work fast and well, which proved that he was even better than she imagined!

The villagers in the adjacent fields couldn't help but make a fuss when they saw this scene.

"Zhang Shanhe, didn't you say that farm work is done by women, why did you go to the field?"

"Hey, Zhang Shanhe, you're doing a good job, can you come to your aunt's field to help?"

"Zhang Shanhe, how are your injuries, are they all healed?" asked the girl in the other field.

"Zhang Shanhe, Tian Nier wants me to give you a message, telling you to forget her and don't go to her again!"

"Zhang Shanhe, there is more than one girl in this village, Tian Ni'er, I'm not bad with Qiao'er, why don't you marry my Qiao'er? Seeing that you are so handsome, my aunt will not accept your bride price. Another woman joked, which drew laughter.

"No, no, I saved the mountains and rivers, he is now my man, none of you are allowed to rob it!"

Xia Xiaoyan was anxious, glared at the woman, looking like she was guarding private property, and pulled Zhou Ming's hand, and said shyly: "Shanhe, I won't accept your bride price......"

Zhou Ming has a black line.

Squinting his eyes and looking around, in this hundreds of acres of land, there are all women and girls who like to gossip doing farm work, and there is not a single big man.

Ever since he appeared on the ground with a hoe on his shoulder, two of the three sentences of these old girls have been talking about themselves.

It's like a daughter country.

Why is this happening?

It is mainly related to the structure of the productive forces of the world.

Half hunting + half farming.

Men are mainly engaged in hunting, hunting animals in the endless vast forests, obtaining highly nutritious meat and fur to keep warm from the cold.

Women tend the fields at home, grow some grains and vegetables, occasionally go to the forest to pick some wild fruits, sew and wash some clothes, cook and handle food, and there are many miscellaneous things.

There are many food sources in this world, there are few natural disasters, and with the existence of Lingyuan, the general physique is good, and the survival pressure is not very great.

But that doesn't mean there aren't dangers.

On the contrary, there are many dangers, and the heartstrings must be tightened at all times.

One is the beast in the forest, there will be some strengthened mutated individuals, hunters call it "alien beast", the alien beast is extremely powerful, the whereabouts are weird, the attack power is large, the alertness is high, and it is extremely difficult to kill, the average hunter is not the opponent of the alien beast at all, and even a powerful alien beast will appear, slaughtering a village of tragedy, and finally have to ask the monk to come to investigate and eradicate it.

The second is the monks themselves, there are few secular political systems such as dynasties and empires in this world, and it is generally a powerful sect that controls dozens of surrounding cities, these big cities, manage the surrounding towns and villages, but they also belong to extensive management, there is no household registration, there is no perfect tax system, the army is there, but unless there is a large group of thieves with great destructive power, the general criminal cases are not managed at all, and the anti-theft and public security can only rely on the villages and towns to protect themselves.

And monks, there are decent monks, there are also evil monks, decent monks will not disturb the peace of those mortal villages, but evil monks are different, and many evil exercises, if you want to practice, you may need 10,000 baby hearts and livers or something. Or take 100,000 souls to refine magic weapons such as soul flags, and you will take countless lives at every turn, and there is no upper limit on the number of people at all.

Slaughtering a few small villages, in the eyes of evil cultivators, may only be regarded as a small fight.

In addition, those strong men who are not monks also slaughter a village when they are in a bad mood and vent their ...... In short, compared to the "people" whose mind is elusive and it is difficult to distinguish between good and evil, the threat of alien beasts is not even a threat.

But there is no way, who will let this world, respect martial arts, the weak eat the strong.

If you want to live longer and longer, and prevent all accidents from happening, you can only make yourself stronger.

According to his cultivation speed, the system estimates that he may be around 30 years old, and his cultivation can break through to the late stage of qi refining, and then it is quite difficult to progress.

The lifespan of ordinary people in this world can probably live to be 100 years old...... Only those who have cultivated to reach the "Gudan Period" will have a significant extension of their lifespan.

If you can't reach the Gudan period, try your best, and it is estimated that you will live for more than two hundred years.

With Zhou Ming's extremely unoptimistic qualifications, the probability of breaking through to the Gudan period is almost 0.

"So what to do?"

"What can I do in a hundred years?"

"Do you really want to choose suicide and get a new body quickly?"

This is when he was working in the field in the past few days, Zhou Ming ignored the discussions of the women around him, and he had been struggling with the questions he was thinking.

Looking at the rather dense and vigorous golden wheat seedlings growing in the field (golden wheat, a kind of wheat-like crop, the wheat grains are golden when ripe, so it is called "golden wheat"), never fertilized, never watered, only occasionally weeded, can grow like this, Zhou Ming is quite surprised.

I asked about the yield again, and Aunt Xia said: After the golden wheat is ripe, one acre of land can probably make five hundred catties of wheat.

The yield is a bit low, but it can be planted four times a year.

"Four...... Four times?"

Zhou Ming, who has a bit of the quality of an old farmer in his personality, opened his mouth wide and was extremely surprised on his face.

The annual output of four seasons, a season of 500 catties, the total yield per mu is 2000 catties, in this world of backward and underdeveloped agricultural development, this is done.

Wait a minute!

"If you plant like this repeatedly, the soil will definitely not be able to bear it, and you haven't applied fertilizer, so you have to exhaust the soil after a few years of planting, right?" Zhou Ming said.

"Do you know the power of the earth?"

Aunt Xia's eyes showed a strange look, and she heard this kid say some terms that she didn't understand, so she said: "Such a piece of land, if you plant it for five years in a row, you have to abandon it." ”

Five years?

Zhou Ming was even more shocked, and hurriedly asked, "Auntie, have you ploughed this land during the five years?"

"Ploughing, what is that?" Aunt Xia was puzzled.

"It is to let the oxen pull the iron plough and plough the deep soil to the surface to increase the supply of nutrients. ”

"No, the ox is precious, there are no two in the whole village, and what is the iron plow? Is it made of iron? Iron is even more expensive, ten catties of iron, you can exchange it for an ox." ”

Aunt Xia said.

The iron of this world is not the iron of Zhou Ming's world, but a very special substance, which is not only less abundant underground, but also difficult to smelt, and very expensive.

As everyone knows, as soon as Aunt Xia said that iron is very expensive, another word popped up in Zhou Ming's mind:

Large-scale steelmaking.

Find a large mineral deposit, use industrial smelting methods such as blast furnaces, and make iron and steel in large quantities.

Then it produces a large number of efficient and advanced agricultural tools, makes fertilizers, cultivates improved seeds, promotes semi-agriculture and semi-animal husbandry, and engages in large-scale planting...... and other measures to improve the mode of agricultural production, and set off an agricultural revolution in the world of cultivation.

The industry based on the iron and steel industry also has a lot to do here, which can mass-produce sophisticated weapons and build a formed army, or develop the chemical industry, research gunpowder, muskets, bombs, artillery and other weapons of mass destruction, and build a strong industrialized country!

Then attack everywhere, crush those sect forces, and unify this plane!

The system immediately stopped this thought: "Host, this plan will not work, the size of this plane is beyond your imagination, give you 10,000 years and don't want to unify this plane." ”

"Also, your main task is not to conquer this plane, but to assist the system in analyzing this plane, except for cultivation, the rest of the way can only be a waste of time. ”

Zhou Ming said: "Why waste time? When I destroy those sects one by one and collect all the pills, spirit stones, and superior exercises, won't I be able to speed up my cultivation?"

"Host, you underestimate the strength of those cultivators too much, to destroy a sect, it is not as easy as you say, according to the system's estimates, the strongest person in this plane, the strongest blow released, can destroy the moon of your world. ”

Destroy...... Moon.

One more blow?

Zhou Ming was dumbfounded, such a strong man can be called a humanoid self-propelled nuclear weapon.

It's even exaggerated!

This also dispelled most of Zhou Ming's idea of using industry to crush this plane sect.

But even so, the system still did not dispel Zhou Ming's idea of farming in this plane.

After all, the prospect is just too tempting!

"A piece of land, with only the initial soil strength, can make the golden wheat harvest 20 times in a row, the yield is quite high, and it can be planted for four seasons a year......"

"Is there anything more magical than this?"

"It's a waste not to engage in farming here!"

Thinking of this, looking at the swarthy land under his feet, the hoe in Zhou Ming's hand wielded more vigorously, and the farming experience in countless dungeon experiences had become a special factor flowing in his blood, causing him to feel an inexplicable kindness and joy in his heart every time he saw the land.

Looking at the host's hungry and thirsty performance, the system had to express helplessness, anyway, the host's disease is incurable, and it has reached the era of cultivation, so it has to start from farming?