The Necromancer of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 46
The first auction in Taiyuan became Wei Zhen's special purchase.

It is equivalent to tens of thousands of hanging money, all earned from Cao Cao.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the imperial court stagnated in making money, and the purchasing power of copper coins far exceeded that of the past.

Tian Feng arranged manpower and went to various places to buy cattle and horses.

The farmers who received the rice seeds have already planted rice.

Farmers who raise chickens and ducks take good care of them every day.

Before I knew it, more than 20 days passed.

Yuan Xu sat in the study, and the ghost piano was placed on the table.

He was planning to use the second-level summoning technique to get some rice seeds, when the guard outside the door reported: "Young Master, Mr. Tian is asking to see you."

"Please come in." Yuan Xu ordered.

The door opened and Tian Feng bumped in.

He was full of joy: "Son, good news..."

"What is worth doing?" Yuan Xu asked with a smile.

"Chickens and ducks..." Entering the mansion, Tian Feng almost ran to the study, and he replied out of breath: "The chickens and ducks have grown up!"

"It's only been done in more than 20 days?" Yuan Xu stood up in disbelief: "Take me over there to have a look."

Tian Feng accompanied Yuan Xu out of the mansion and rushed to the village outside the city.

The nearest farmer is five miles outside the city.

Riding on horseback, five miles was not too far, and soon they came to the entrance of the village.

When the villagers heard that Yuan Xu was coming, they had been waiting at the entrance of the village.

Seeing him from a distance, all the old and young bowed and saluted.

In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was not fashionable to kneel down, but bowing down was considered extremely respectful.

At the entrance of the village, Yuan Xu raised his hand: "Stand up straight."

The villagers stood up straight, and an old man who looked like an elder stepped forward and looked up at Yuan Xu on horseback, his lips were trembling with excitement: "The chicken and duck cubs given by the government really grew up in more than 20 days, folks Everyone is saying that the young master is a god-man sent by heaven to save us."

Yuan Xu replied: "I'm not a god-man, I just have folks in my heart."

I thought that the fourth son of the Yuan family would treat others with arrogance, and he didn't look down on them rural folks at all.

Unexpectedly, he didn't feel like he was floating in the clouds when he spoke, and the villagers were suddenly moved again.

After getting off the horse, Yuan Xu asked the old man to accompany him.

Walking into the entrance of the village, he asked the old man: "How many people in the village raise chickens and ducks?"

"Two households." The old man replied: "When my son brought the cub back, I was worried about causing trouble and scolded him."

"Young people always think ahead, and they are not so stable in doing things, but they dare to do it." Yuan Xu said: "The old man is right to restrain, but sometimes he needs to let them go and let them do things according to their own ideas."

"Young master is right." The old man nodded in response.

Ji Ya grew up so fast that he could no longer restrain his excitement. Seeing Yuan Xu made him even more inexplicably happy.

Of course, he believed whatever Yuan Xu said.

Taiyuan has not been baptized by war, but the government has collected food year after year, and people everywhere are also hungry.

The chickens and ducks raised in the past can grow so fast, why worry about eating?

Just eat meat.

After entering the village, Yuan Xu saw many chickens with snow-white feathers strolling along the road.

Raised free-range in the village, these chickens are not afraid of people.

Yuan Xu and others came, and they were still wandering around, looking for something to eat on the ground.

The white-feathered chicken is huge when it grows up, and the ones in front of it can only be regarded as semi-finished products at best.

"Is this called growing up?" Yuan Xu asked Tian Feng.

Tian Feng was at a loss: "Have you grown so big, isn't it done yet?"

"Of course not." Yuan Xu said: "In ten days, at least it will be a circle bigger than it is now."

Although the villagers who followed behind did not dare to get too close, they could hear him clearly.

The villagers were inexplicably astonished, and some even whispered to each other, discussing how big the white-feathered chicken can grow.

The old man asked Yuan Xu: "It's true that chickens can grow so big..."

"This kind of chicken is called White Feather." Yuan Xu replied: "When it grows up, it will be bigger than a rooster in four or five years. Now it is only half finished."

The old man was stunned, and when he came back to his senses, he bowed to Yuan Xu and said, "If the young master hadn't given the chicken, we would not have known that there are chickens that can grow so fast!"

"How about ducks and geese?" Yuan Xu raised his hand to signal him to excuse him.

"They are all in the pond at the back of the village." The old man replied, "Although no chickens grow so fast, they are much faster than the ones raised by the villagers before."

"Take me to see."

After arriving at the village, Yuan Xu saw a pond.

It is said to be a pond, but it is actually not much bigger than a puddle.

There was no running water nearby, and the pond looked cloudy.

Dozens of ducks and geese are swimming leisurely in the pond.

The ducks had grown hard feathers, but the goslings still had pale yellow down.

"Why is the water so dirty?" Yuan Xu asked.

"This is stagnant water." The old man replied: "The villagers used to dig it out and use it to irrigate the fields during severe droughts."

"Then dig it bigger and breed ducks and geese. Such a small amount of water is not enough." Yuan Xu said: "In the future, if we raise some lotus root in the pond, the water will be much clearer."

"Lotus root?" The old man was at a loss.

The origin of lotus root is in the east and south, and Taiyuan is located in the northwest. It was rarely planted in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

The villagers seldom travel far, and almost no one knows that there is lotus root in the world.

"I'll understand what it is when I see it later." Yuan Xu didn't explain.

He turned around and shouted to the villagers: "You just saw that the chickens are growing fast, but you don't know how much the rice seeds are produced by the government. Whoever planted new rice seeds will know what is forever when they harvest in autumn. Will be hungry!"

The villagers would not have believed it when they heard these words a few days earlier.

Witnessing the growth rate of the chickens with their own eyes, they will believe everything Yuan Xu says at this time.

Yuan Xu looked at Tian Feng: "The chickens are about to grow, find a way to sell them, we can't let the folks just raise them but not earn any profit."

"We have already contacted them." Tian Feng replied: "Except for the breeding chickens left behind, people will come to the village to buy them."

There is no need to worry about selling the chickens and ducks raised, and the villagers are jubilant again.

"Agriculture is the foundation of the locality." Yuan Xu said: "As a local official, you must try your best to feed the people's stomachs. The people under the rule can't even eat, and they think about conscription and war all day long. Isn't it a mediocrity and a fool! "

He deliberately said these words to the villagers present.

Before Yuan Xu took charge of Taiyuan, some places were indeed in semi-famine.

Most of the food was conscripted and sent to the army, and it has long been a habit for the villagers to go hungry.

What he said touched the deepest desire of the villagers, and immediately aroused cheers.

"It's too early to cheer now." Yuan Xu pressed his hand, and the scene fell silent: "I will also provide you with seeds of wheat, corn, cotton and other crops. The village is rich, just around the corner!"

"Young Master from Heaven, bless me in Taiyuan!" Tian Feng raised his arms and shouted.

The villagers who have benefited are the easiest to agitate, and there are bursts of shouts in the village.

(End of this chapter)