Chapter 106: The Advantages of the Immortal Kingdom
Liu Qing just left Lin Lang's body, and did not leave this place.
The current development of the Immortal Kingdom made him very satisfied, there were many pilgrims, and there were many believers, which he did without much management.
Now the rulers of the country have expressed their willingness to do everything in their power to develop incense for him, and of course he has to manage it with his heart.
Listening to Lin Youmeng's heart, he knew that Lin Youmeng wanted to help him expand the incense here to please him and gain his protection.
He was not disgusted by this.
It is best to ask for him, so that it is better to cooperate.
He didn't expect to save this woman, and this woman would immediately become his follower.
How could a person whose soul had been imprisoned for a hundred years and who had endured all kinds of torture and not succumbed to it become his followers so easily?
The willpower of a cultivator is not comparable to that of ordinary people.
Lin Qixian also recited the brainwashing scripture every day, and recited it more than 100 times a day, after half a year, he is now reciting it every day, and he has not become a believer in Liu Qing.
Lin Youmeng is much stronger than Lin Qixian, so it is naturally more difficult to become Liu Qing's believer.
The divine power provided by each believer is the same, and Liu Qing does not need to spend too much energy in order to obtain a certain believer, unless it is the kind of position that is critical and at the same time excludes cooperation with himself.
The Lin family not only does not reject cooperating with him, but also has a very proactive attitude, so of course he doesn't need to spend too much energy on it.
He was thinking about how to build this immortal kingdom into his own kingdom of faith.
There is no interference from the Dao Palace forces here, and it is the best place to develop.
Although they are in the middle of the mountains, with these cultivators here, they can still live a stable life.
One of the biggest problems here is that there is not enough arable land to produce food to feed too many people.
In the past, there was a shortage of food, so we had to start a war and grab it from Daqian or Ningguo.
Either you have to grab enough food, or you have to reduce enough people to reach a balance line, and then you can go back to the mountains.
In the past two years, he has not sought war, and when there is not enough food, Lin Qixian will go to neighboring countries to buy food.
They would make deals with the border army, and sometimes with the county government.
A lot of surplus grain in Little Golden State was sold to them.
This is also the fact that Lin Qixian, a cultivator, has a storage ring with a large space reserve, and it is very convenient to transport food.
There are no cultivators, and if you want to get food from the world outside the mountains, it's just a dream.
Bring in 100 catties of grain, and the food to be consumed on the road is more than 100 catties.
However, to further develop the population, Little Golden State does not have so much surplus grain to sell them.
As for going to other places to buy, whether it is in the interior of Daqian or Ningguo, there is not much surplus grain, and it belongs to the kind of place where a large number of people will starve to death in a famine year, and it is really too much to think about buying too much grain.
That is to say, the small golden state is vast and sparsely populated, and the land is fertile, so there is surplus food.
In addition, the local government can dispose of the surplus food independently, so that they can buy it.
But the extra food is also quite limited.
Unless the grain output of Xiaojin Prefecture can be increased, the new grain planting technology developed by Liu Qing will be used, which can double the grain output and feed an additional 10 million people.
Unfortunately, we can't make chemical fertilizers, so we can easily double the grain production and feed more people.
Liu Qing thinks that it is now possible to popularize new farming techniques and new breeding and seedling breeding techniques to all counties in Xiaojinzhou, so as to boost the grain output of Xiaojinzhou.
The Immortal Kingdom is not without advantages in this mountain.
At least the mountains in this large area already belong to their territory, and neither Ning Guo nor Da Qianguo dare to attack the idea of these mountains.
It is not good to grow grain in the mountains, but the mineral resources are quite abundant, and they have been used, including coal and steel.
The mining technology of mortals in this world is not good, and the discovery of large mines cannot be developed, and only the most superficial development can be done.
But cultivators can do deep mining.
Not to mention anything else, in terms of steel materials, the Immortal Kingdom can hang the big cadres.
Liu Qing used the ability of the godhead to learn some better smelting techniques, and there are no shortage of large mines in Daqian, but it is meaningless, because the imperial court does not allow private smelting at all, and iron is a substance strictly controlled by the imperial court, and smelting and sales are controlled by the imperial court.
But there is no such problem in the Immortal Country, no one can control the Immortal Country, they can make as much steel as they want, as long as there is such capacity.
It is completely no problem to take advantage of these advantages of the Immortal Country, barter, exchange steel for food, and feed some more people.
In this mortal world, steel is much more scarce than food.
Not to mention anything else, as far as the kitchen knives and woks that ordinary people can use, they all need iron.
Many families don't even have an iron pot.
There are also agricultural tools used by farmers, which also need steel to make them.
This aspect is also in short supply.
With more steel, more and better agricultural tools can be made, and the productivity of the people will also be improved to a certain extent, and more people can be fed.
For Liu Qing, population is the primary productive force.
All he needed was more incense, more faith.
There is a premise for this, that is, so that those people can survive, and they must not worry about food and clothing, so that they will have the strength to believe in him.
After inspecting the territory of the Immortal Kingdom for a few days, Liu Qing found Lin Qixian and talked with him for more than an hour, hoping that the Immortal Kingdom could increase steel production.
He mentioned the concept of exchanging steel for food, so that it would be possible to bring more food to the people of the Immortal Nation and feed a larger population.
Lin Qixian was a little embarrassed and said to Liu Qing:
"Great Emperor, our cultivators are indeed much more powerful than those mortals in smelting, but if we use magic weapons to refine steel, we either have to consume mana, or we have to consume spirit stones, and we can do it occasionally, and if we do this for a long time, we don't have so many spirit stones to consume."
Cultivators also need to consume energy to make steel, but the energy they consume is not coal, but mana or spirit stones.
In the past, when he was in the Jinshan Sect, with the support of Lin Youmeng, a refining elder, the Lin family had really accumulated a lot of spirit stones.
But they left the sect a hundred years ago, and they couldn't get spirit stones anymore, and they were eating their old books for a hundred years.
Fortunately, there are only a few dozen cultivators left in the family now, and most of them are not in the realm, and Lin Qixian is only one in the Jindan realm, and he can still eat his old book.
But now that Lin Youmeng has been rescued, he is ready to impact the realm of transforming gods, and cultivating in this place where there is no spiritual energy requires the consumption of a large number of spirit stones, so that cultivation resources are in short supply.
I don't have enough for myself, where is there enough to smelt steel?
Hearing Lin Qixian's complaints, Liu Qing smiled and said:
"You don't have to worry about this, I have a way to make mortals have the ability to smelt steel, as long as you make the steelmaking furnace and iron-making furnace well, you can use coal as energy to smelt steel, and the output is not worse than what you use to smelt with magic weapons."