All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 323 Let the people live a good life with money in their stomachs
"Aren't you feeling unwell?"

On the way to Shannan Road, Chen Ran joked to Qin Qiong who was sent to follow him, "It's been a bumpy ride, don't hurt yourself."

Qin Qiong was speechless and could only smile bitterly.

He didn't know why Taoist Chen had such a strong prejudice against him.

In the past, I might have kept my thoughts deep in my heart.

But now, he asked directly, "Master, what are you dissatisfied with Qin? Please tell me directly."

"People who live in the underworld don't have to be loyal."

"But after receiving your brother's kindness, you betrayed him instead. This is despicable."

"You don't know, Taoist priest." Qin Qiong sighed, "Second Brother Shan is the son-in-law of the false emperor Wang Shichong, and he has served Zhai Rang, Li Mi, and Wang Shichong successively. Although Your Majesty only selects people based on their talents, you still look down on them."

"Not only do they look down on him." Chen Ran took over the conversation, "More importantly, this 'Little Mengchang' has a high prestige among you generals who came from Wagang. And he is a person who can serve anyone at will. If he is lured away by Li Jiancheng, it will be a heavy blow to the Tiance General's Mansion."

"I understand the whole story, but I just can't bear to see you trick him into surrendering and then kill him."

He raised his hand to stop Qin Qiong from speaking, and continued, "We have to sever our ties and fight on the battlefield. No one has the right to say a single harsh word."

"But what did you do? Li Er was about to be caught up and killed by Shan Xiongxin, and you came forward to persuade him to withdraw his troops, saving Li Er's life. Oh, I have a question for you."

Chen Ran changed the subject. "I heard from a monk that Li Er was being chased to the point where he had no way to go up to heaven or down to earth. Was it the Shaolin Temple that sent the Thirteen Monks to drive Shan Xiongxin away and save Li Er?"

"Fuck them!"

Qin Qiong was furious. "Which monk is so shameless as to dare to say such nonsense?"

"Whenever there was chaos in the world, the monks would close their doors and not dare to go out. When I followed Your Majesty to conquer the world, I never saw any monks!"

"And saved His Majesty? Tsk! Are they worthy of that!?"

"At that time, it was Lord Mao (Xu Shiji) who came forward to persuade Brother Shan to retreat. But later, it was indeed us, the Wagang brothers, who persuaded Brother Shan to surrender. There is nothing much to say about this. I thought we could share wealth and honor in the future, but I never thought."

Chen Ran asked with a smile, "Have you thought about how to compensate him?"

"I will try my best to take care of his descendants."

"Hey."

Chen Ran smiled but said nothing.

When he was in the world at the end of the Tang Dynasty, he met the descendants of Shan Xiongxin. The four brothers all joined Huang Chao's army and were known as the Four Heroes.

For the Shan family, who came from humble origins, becoming traitors has become a tradition.

We came all the way to Shannan Road, wandered in the mountains for a long time, and finally found the phosphate mine.

These are shallow deposits that are easier to mine.

But it cannot be used directly and needs to be processed.

Without industry, we can only use primitive methods.

Chen Ran taught the processing technology to the local people and stated that he would spend money to buy it, thus creating a new source of income for the local area.

"The Taoist priest is kind-hearted and has found a way to make money for the people in the mountains." On the way back, Qin Qiong exclaimed, "It is a great merit to benefit the people."

'Qin Qiong's modification has been completed, and rewards are now being issued.'

'Note: 200 white-feathered chickens will be distributed (half male and half female, highly disease-resistant and fast-growing).'

"White-feather chicken?" Chen Ran actually knew about this thing.

White-feathered chickens have a high feed conversion rate, a fast growth cycle, and a large egg production. They are an important source of white meat in the modern world.

“It’s not enough to just raise pigs, we have to feed chickens too?”

When we returned to Lanqiao Station, it was already spring and flowers were blooming.

The rapeseed planted before was in full bloom, and the entire Lanqiao Station seemed to be surrounded by golden rapeseed flowers.

This kind of scenery is really beautiful.

Not much to say, they were harvesting rapeseed flowers while making oil pressing equipment.

Rapeseed, the name of rapeseed contains "oil", so it is naturally used for oil extraction.

The oil content of rapeseed seeds is very high, even reaching 50%.

With sufficient fertilizer and plenty of water, the yield of rapeseed per mu is about two shi, which is close to about 70% of the average yield of rapeseed per mu in later generations.

As for the oil yield, one acre of rapeseed can produce nearly one stone of rapeseed oil.

"It's really a good thing produced by the system. The oil yield is very high."

As expected, upon hearing the news, Li Er put aside his tedious government affairs and hurried over.

When we arrived at Lanqiao Inn, it was lunch time. People in the Tang Dynasty usually had two meals a day.

It’s not that I don’t want to eat more, it’s just that there’s not enough food.

It is normal to eat a pound of rice in one meal.

As for the reason, it is naturally because there is no oil in the stomach.

“Smells so good~~~”

After becoming emperor, Li Er did whatever he wanted without any taboos.

After entering, he looked around, got himself a bowl of white rice, and sat down at the table where Chen Ran and the others were.

There were four dishes on the table, a fish, a plate of chicken, a plate of meat, and a plate of fried bamboo shoots.

Li Er stretched out his chopsticks and picked up the fish. "Hey." Chen Ran greeted, "This is carp."

Li Er rolled his eyes and without any pause, picked up a piece of carp meat and put it into his mouth to chew.

"Good, really good." Li Er exclaimed and picked up another piece with chopsticks.

"Second brother." Li Yuanji said with a smile, "This is the fish I caught in the river."

Li Er nodded and said, "Life is pretty good here. We have fish to eat every day."

"Hey." Chen Ran sneered at this, "You've never eaten fish without oil, right? If you eat fish without oil for three consecutive days, I guarantee you'll vomit."

Li Er didn't say anything, picked up a piece of greasy bamboo shoots and ate it. "Okay."

Li Jiancheng, who was digging bamboo shoots, buried his head in his food and said nothing.

"Do you really think I've never suffered?" Only then did Li Er respond, "Of course I know that whether it's fish or bamboo shoots, they have to be cooked with heavy oil to taste good."

At this point, he looked at Chen Ran and said, "I heard that the oil flowers you planted produced oil? How much per acre?"

Before the Han Dynasty, people used to eat animal oil. During the Han Dynasty, castor was introduced to China, and the first vegetable oil, castor oil, was produced.

Therefore, the Tang people knew about vegetable oil and ate vegetable oil. It was not that they were unworldly.

"Yeah." Chen Ran responded casually, "It's not bad. One acre of land produces almost one barrel of oil."

'Snapped! '

Li Er, who could go to the battlefield with weapons in hand, was unable to hold the large bowl due to his shaking hands and it fell directly onto the table.

Looking at the rice spilled on the table, Li Er frowned and swept it all back into the bowl. "Food is earned through hard work by the people, and it should not be wasted."

"One oil? Can I eat it?"

Chen Ran pointed at the dishes on the table and said, "These are made with rapeseed oil. Do you think it's edible?"

Li Er put down his bowl and chopsticks, trying to digest the news.

After the baptism of corn and cotton, his psychological endurance is now obviously much stronger.

At least when I heard that one acre of land could produce one ton of oil, I didn't panic or start to believe it.

After a long while, he picked up the chopsticks again and picked up a piece of meat to chew.

"It tastes good, not like beef or mutton. What kind of meat is this?"

Chen Ran smiled. "Pork."

Li Er finally broke through his defense, full of disbelief, "How is this possible!?"

Without feed, scientific breeding, and professional cooking methods, pork really doesn't taste good.

It has a fishy smell and the taste is not good.

The Tang people did not know the castration technique and did not feed the animals with feed, so the meat was naturally not good.

The Northeastern pigs raised by Chen Ran are fed with the same feed, and all the pigs are castrated in advance before being slaughtered, so they naturally taste better.

It was the first time that Li Er ate such delicious pork, and he ate the whole plate without caring about his status.

After he had eaten his fill, he finally said, "I want to take the rapeseed seeds away, as well as the relevant information on planting, harvesting, and oil extraction."

"No problem. Promote it everywhere as soon as possible so that the people can live a good life with enough food in their stomachs."

“And the pigs raised here”

"No for pigs." Chen Ran simply shook his head. "It's not that we don't want to give them to you, but we haven't formed a scale yet. If we raise them to death, they will be gone."

In Chen Ran's opinion, the people of the Tang Dynasty would not feed grain to pigs as feed.

"We have to wait until corn is widely promoted and the yield is large enough to be surplus before every household can raise pigs and eat meat."

Li Er nodded and didn't dwell on the matter.

He looked at Li Jiancheng and his brother and said, "The Emperor's birthday will be celebrated in a few days. You should also go back to Chang'an and stay there for a few days."

As his control over the Tang Dynasty deepened, Li Er gradually reduced his vigilance against the two brothers.

Since you have chosen to keep them, you have to appear in front of everyone from time to time.

Otherwise others would think that their brother had committed suicide.

Li Jiancheng was shocked, but Li Yuanji was overjoyed. "Can I go home? I really miss my family!"

Chen Ran definitely doesn’t care about this. After all, he can go to any world he wants at any time.

Brother Li Jiancheng has been holding it in for so long, it's time to go home and let off some steam.

Especially Li Yuanji, who has been hanging around in the pigsty recently, which makes people feel very uneasy.

After dinner, the large number of people brought by Li Er quickly harvested the rape flowers. Not only did they pack them and load them onto trucks to take them away, they also took away the oil-pressing equipment.

The fields were empty, but they would soon be planted with corn.

In Chen Ran's view, corn is both a food and an important feed.

Rather than using it as food, it is more effective to use it as feed to raise pigs and chickens for meat.

Although the corn cobs we use now can be ground into powder and mixed with rapeseed leaves to be used as feed, there is always a gap in effectiveness compared to corn kernels.

When Li Jiancheng and his brothers were escorted to Chang'an City, Chen Ran asked Li Er for a large number of craftsmen and laborers.

First, all the original post stations were demolished, and then the area was expanded on a large scale, and large pig pens and chicken farms were built.

Although no significant effect can be seen now, as time goes by, the good things he provides will inevitably bring about a qualitative change in the poor lives of the people of the Tang Dynasty!
(End of this chapter)