Although Liu Qing has now split into two, each of his divine power is much stronger than when he left Gumu County.

You can separate two clones, and at the same time, you can merge them together, and when you think of it, even if there are thousands of clones scattered in the heavens and worlds, you can merge them together in an instant, which is very convenient.

Back in Gumu County, it's already spring again.

Two selves, in two different places, is a fresh feeling again.

After adapting to it for a few days, he gave some technical guidance to several workshops of the Liu family in Gumu County, and also talked to Xu Qingfeng about the northern barbarians wanting to exchange steel for grain with them, saying that someone would come to trade at that time, and asked Xu Qingfeng to be prepared.

Gumu County needs steel, Xiaojinzhou also needs steel, and even the entire Daqian needs steel.

If you want to have good farming tools, you need better quality steel.

There is a blacksmith shop in Gumu County, with dozens of blacksmiths, their main task is to make farm tools for the farmers here, and in the event of an enemy siege, there is another task, that is, to build weapons for soldiers.

They belong to the control of the county government, and they obey the orders of the county government to build any tools.

The steel of the county government was transported by the imperial court, and the amount of steel transported by such a large county in a year was tens of thousands of catties, most of which were still inferior iron, and there was not much to build farm tools.

Most farmers don't even have an iron pot at home, they just use clay pots to cook rice and vegetables.

Scrap metal is quite expensive here.

Whether it is a hoe or a sickle, if you want to use it until you can't use it anymore, you can use it to buy new farm tools in the county seat and hand over the scrap iron, which can deduct part of the money.

Relying on the little steel stock of the government, it is not enough to build agricultural tools for local use.

Caravans sometimes sell some farm tools at a higher price, but the farmers who need them still have to buy them.

The Liu family opened a workshop here, specializing in the production of all kinds of new agricultural tools.

It's just that the Liu family doesn't have the qualifications to do this kind of large-scale steel transaction, and if An is charged with rebellion, it will be troublesome.

In this regard, the county government has such an advantage, originally the government of Xiaojin Prefecture has a certain degree of autonomy, and the use of steel can also be used to build agricultural tools under the supervision of the government, so there is no need to worry about being blamed by the imperial court.

Last year, Gumu County had a bumper grain harvest, and there was a lot of surplus grain, and it was of course good to be able to exchange grain for steel.

Xu Qingfeng readily agreed.

The county government just happened to have surplus grain, and it didn't need to be mobilized from the people, so it could be traded.

After obtaining steel, you can build agricultural tools and sell them to farmers in Gumu County to exchange for more food.

There is no loss in such a deal.

Liu Qing had doppelgangers in both places, so he notified Lin Qixian at that time and asked him to come over with steel to trade grain.

The price set was 30 catties of grain for one pound of steel, and 15 catties of grain for 1 pound of iron.

This price is much cheaper than the price of steel in Daqian.

With Daqian's smelting technology, this is not even enough for the cost.

However, for the Immortal Kingdom, which has mastered advanced smelting technology, they still have a lot of money to make by trading at such a price.

If all the steel in their hands were traded at this price, the grain obtained by tens of thousands of miners smelting steel would be able to feed tens of millions of people in the entire Immortal Country.

Lin Qixian brought 50,000 catties of steel and 100,000 catties of iron this time.

That's less than a day's worth of their capacity.

But just this steel was exchanged for three million catties of grain from Gumu County.

That's all the surplus grain that the county government has in its hands, and if it wants to trade in the future, the county government will have to exchange the manufactured farm tools for more grain from the peasants, and then make such a deal.

The main reason for making such a deal is that Lin Qixian has a storage ring with a lot of space, which can put three million catties of grain into it at a time.

If it is transported to the mountains through the strength of ordinary people, the one million catties of grain will not be enough to eat on the road.

Liu Qing also thought about whether to build a spacious avenue between the mountains.

It was a very difficult thing to do, but with the power of the cultivator, things would be much easier.

But after thinking about it, there is no need.

The greatest value of the Immortal Kingdom to him was that it was hidden in the deep mountains and would not attract the attention of the Dao Palace.

If it is connected to the outside world, a country with a population of tens of millions, maybe the Dao Palace will intervene, and his Immortal Emperor Temple will have to be promoted as an obscene shrine.

This is something he can't accept.

Before his strength was not enough to compete with the Dao Palace, he could only develop obscenely and make a fortune in a muffled voice.

If the transportation is inconvenient, then you can only work hard for a cultivator like Lin Qixian.

However, he could help the Immortals connect their interiors in the future, building a road in the mountains that connected the villages.

That can also improve the happiness of the people over there and make their economy better.

Lin Qixian not only makes deals with Gumu County, but also with the rest of the counties in Xiaojin Prefecture.

Although the Immortal Kingdom often waged wars here, they had always had contacts with the top leaders of the border army.

It's just that it used to be a sneaky exchange.

Later, he discussed peace with the big cadres, and it was even more open-minded.

Take some steel to trade grain, and you will not be ostracized by the government here in the Little Golden State.

Even from the point of view of safety, it is better for people to trade their own steel for food than to make steel into weapons and steal food from them.

The other side needs food, they need steel, and each takes what he needs.

Moreover, every time the northern barbarians start a war, the main reason is that there is no food.

By allowing them to obtain sufficient food through such a trade, the risk of war can also be reduced to a certain extent.

Whether it's for the border army or for the government, it's worth it.

Such a thing, the local government did not hide it from the imperial court, and the governor of Xiaojinzhou reported this matter to the imperial court, and made a positive evaluation.

This can be regarded as preparing a case with the imperial court to legalize such a transaction.

The inspector sent by the imperial court also came to Xiaojinzhou to inspect the production situation in various counties of Xiaojinzhou, and praised the production situation of this year, saying that since the elimination of bandits the year before last, it has become a safe place, everyone has more time to spend on production, and grain production has also increased to a certain extent.

In particular, he praised Gumu County, saying that since Xu Qingfeng, the magistrate of the county, took office, he has eliminated bandits, taught the people to produce, and built water conservancy, so that Gumu County's grain output has taken a big step forward, and the people have also praised him as an official who loves the people like a son, and the people here have surpassed most of the peasants in the hinterland, although they are all guilty of being relocated.

This is a very high evaluation.

In another year, Xu Qingfeng's term of office as the magistrate of the county will expire, and now the officials have begun to think about how to promote him at the right time.

Whether to transfer to the capital as a Beijing official, or continue to be a magistrate, and promote him to the position of prefect or governor.