Shennong Sequence

Chapter 279: The conditions for immortality and deification; the monks’ war syndrome; meat, how can it be as delicious as merit!

Moreover, some monks may be beaten to the point of spiritual collapse, and may go astray, become possessed, decadent, hysterical, or experience hallucinations, etc.

Therefore, war syndrome not only occurs in ordinary people, but it is even more terrifying if it occurs in monks. They may even go crazy in an instant, collapse and not distinguish between enemies and friends, and start killing indiscriminately...

Therefore, there needs to be something to help the soldiers on the front line forget their worries for a short while and adjust their mentality.

Therefore, there are drugs such as tobacco and dream-intoxicating grass, which can have a certain invigorating effect on ordinary soldiers;

As well as other special spiritual plants such as magical grass, awakening grass, big dream flower, etc., which are special war materials that have certain stimulating and intoxicating effects on cultivators.

And these materials need to be allocated production capacity and produced by the Ministry of Agriculture.

Therefore, the allocation of materials this time was to report to the Border Continent War Headquarters in the Tianliu Military Boat that could float in the sky and was sent from the Great Zhou Dynasty. Then, it was dispatched to the Guihongzhou City to discuss the requests for increased rations between the Beidacheng Barracks and the Sinongjian.

Therefore, it is necessary to have some discussions with the Ministry of Agriculture.

Moreover, Jing Yuchan happened to come to the Tiangong Department of the Beidacheng Barracks to discuss a business deal. Naturally, Jing Yuchan could not just go back to the Dao Farm Workshop right after finishing the business.

So, after Jing Yuchan and the other two had just left the Tiangong Department, they were invited with a smile by someone who had been waiting on the side to enter the meeting hall of the Beida City military camp.

In addition, Jing Yuchan is the Grand Minister of Agriculture in the Ministry of Agriculture, Zhao Yun is the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, and although the other Lord Longze has concealed his identity, it is actually not important. After all, if he can be led by the two top officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, how bad can he be?

Besides, everyone is discussing serious matters assigned by their superiors, not conspiring to embezzle. What is there to be afraid of?

This makes all three of them important figures in this negotiation.

Naturally, Jing Yuchan, Zhao Yun and Longze Zhenjun, who were with him, were all brought into the meeting hall of the military camp, and then served with fruits, tea and snacks.

Zhao Yun also didn't expect that the incident of eating melon seeds would happen one after another!
After that, the conversation was straightforward and there was no beating around the bush.

Moreover, the general in charge of the Beida City barracks is named Bai Zhan, who is from a famous family in the alliance system of military honor families in the north of the Great Zhou.

Bai Zhan explained the specific situation here, and Jing Yuchan also understood the task assigned by his superiors, so he naturally had to accept it.

However, when the Ministry of War first started to deal with the issue of grain reserves, it had the vast majority of the Sinong officers in Zhoucheng, as well as those in the Sinong officers in the prefectures and counties below, change their fields to growing new crops in exchange for merit.

However, changes are now required, requiring the lower-level departments to start growing tobacco, magic herbs and other stimulant materials that can boost the morale of the front lines. Naturally, this will involve some troublesome changes.

And who would be willing to exchange the merits for some scattered spirit stones?

Merit is the most valuable thing in the entire Great Zhou system. When it reaches a certain level, one can be directly deified.

In addition, due to the end of the Dharma and the rampant five turbidities in the Yang world, most gods and spirits cannot stay here.

But in the underworld, the Great Zhou Dynasty still has territory. When the time comes, we can go to the underworld to obtain a number of immortality and be deified. It is also feasible to pursue immortality!

And immortality, immortality, who doesn’t want eternal life?
Therefore, this military honor naturally became something sought after by the vast majority of people!
However, although the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of War check and balance each other and are both official departments of the Great Zhou, the transaction of materials is still based on profit.

Things cannot be done in vain.

Jing Yuchan then said:
"Shou Bai, let me be frank. Previously, this was a very popular task that all the ministers of agriculture were eager to pursue."

"But now, you should also know why the higher-ups didn't send the specific notice to me, asking us to directly plant these materials... but instead delegated you to come here to discuss the specific reason with me."

"To be honest, the value of these tobacco and other materials to the farmers is not as valuable and direct as growing grain, and the merits are directly distributed by the Ministry of War!"

"So if we want to delegate these things to lower-level departments to produce them quickly, as you know, this is a situation that most departments are unwilling to face... It is very likely that they will just mess around and randomly produce some low-quality materials."

"So if we want to change this situation, we need to change the spiritual stone compensation for this batch of supplies. More importantly, we need to change the compensation in terms of military honors!"

"Besides, let's talk about conditions. I don't want much here, and I don't want to be polite. I just want to exchange half of the original spirit stones for military honors, and distribute them in the form of half spirit stones and half military honors. I think no matter how much of these tobacco, magic herbs, etc. you want, I can grow a large amount of high-quality ones for you in a short period of time, enough to meet the needs of the soldiers on the front line!"

What Jing Yuchan said here is true.

On weekdays, the Minister of Agriculture in the Ministry of Agriculture basically does not do the ordinary tasks such as growing crops himself. He basically delegates the tasks to the various military guards and military fields. He lets these people slowly grow crops according to three seasons a year, which is enough to meet the food consumption of the soldiers of an entire continent's legion.

But look at it now, the current grain production involves military honors, and all the agricultural officials have been mobilized!

They even used seeds of fast-growing rice that had been cultivated before to carry out rapid cultivation.

Moreover, within five or six days, a batch of mature grains can be cultivated, and the merits can be realized quickly...

Therefore, the speed at which the Sinongjian produces materials is actually proportional to the profits.

If the benefits are not enough, then we can ask the ordinary people below to do the work and slack off;
When the benefits are great, not to mention Zhao Yun, even Jing Da Si Nong will roll up his sleeves and get to work...

So the supplies that the Ministry of War wants are easy to come by. As long as the resources are in place, we can produce any quality goods for you.
But when resources are not available, and there is another conflicting project issued by the Ministry of War to purchase the current grain and give it to meritorious service, it may happen that even if some farmers are assigned such a task, they will just do it perfunctorily and produce some low-quality things as long as it can be acceptable.

Therefore, there is still some gap between being perfunctory and taking things seriously. It depends on whether the Ministry of War can meet the needs.

After thinking about it, Bai said:

"Brother Jing, to be honest, if the Ministry of War agreed to the ratio you mentioned, they would not let me be the middleman and let us negotiate here."

"To be honest, I don't make any money from this, and I won't handle this batch of supplies. I'll just tell you the lowest price given by the Ministry of War. It's like doing you a favor. You decide."

"The price that the wartime command center of Tianliu Bingzhou can offer is 70% of the spiritual stones, plus 30% of the military honors. If this ratio is higher, I can't negotiate; if it is lower, I guess you won't be able to push it. So I have given you the final negotiation trump card given by the Ministry of War, and the rest depends on how you think..."

And honesty is often what touches people's hearts.

So, the conversation came to this point directly, and the other party directly gave the lowest price given by the Ministry of War. Since this task could not be shirked, the only way to allocate it was according to the lowest price finally given by the Ministry of War.

Of course, even at this reserve price, there is still some profit to be made.

I think there are many Si Nong who are not registered Si Nong in the four fields of A, B, C, and D, and who cannot receive the tasks assigned by the fields of A, B, C, and D in the Mission Hall. Therefore, those Si Nong who have no work to do, who watch others make money, and who have no military honors to earn, are very happy to do this.

Of course, this is the case in Guihongzhou City, and the situation is also the same in the prefectures and counties below.

By then, these tobacco, magical herbs and other special stimulant materials will be handed over to the idle farmers in the entire Beiliang border continent for planting, and their production capacity will be huge!

By then, it will be enough to get the job done.

As for these special stimulant materials such as tobacco and magical herbs, they were not directly handed over to the Ministry of War by the people from the Ministry of Agriculture in the prefectures and counties below.

When the time comes, the Sinong officials in the prefectures and counties below will gradually hand over these materials they have grown to the Sinong Supervisory Headquarters in Guihongzhou City.

And it will be submitted here by the headquarters of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

As for the subsequent meritorious services and so on, since they are all confirmed projects with the Ministry of War, when the rewards are harvested by the Ministry of Agriculture below, the Ministry of Agriculture Supervisors of each prefecture and county can first allocate the rewards.

When the time comes, the final result will be handed over to the Ministry of War from Zhoucheng, and then transferred to the general ledger of the Sino-Foreign Affairs Commission of each prefecture and county for settlement.

This way you won't be owing money to the people working for you for a long time.

Moreover, these regulations will be sent out in a unified and large-scale manner to all registered Si-nong in the entire Beiliang Border Continent in the form of the Treasure Mirror of Heaven and Earth by the General Office under Zhoucheng Si-nong Supervisor Jing Yuchan, the Assessment Department under Xiang Ruiyuan, and the Mission Hall under Zhao Yun, to ensure that every Si-nong knows the specific details!
It also ensures that in the process, the reward ratio will not be arbitrarily changed due to some people's tricks, leading to some corruption!
After all, every Si Nong receives a salary, and there is a certain amount of material loss at each level. These alone are enough to allow those who handle them to make a fortune.

If he continues to engage in corruption and makes his subordinates, the Sinong Supervisor, miserable, how can the entire Sinong Supervisor department have cohesion in the future?

Therefore, we still follow the usual loss ratio. Small greed is acceptable, but big greed is a phenomenon that must be eliminated from the top.

After all, what the superiors want is stability, and the small fortunes that the managers below want are also given. Everything is equipped as it should be, and it is enough to just make some money.

Of course, the first thing discussed at the Beida City military camp was the procurement task for the border corps issued by the commander-in-chief of the Ministry of War who was in charge of the Northern Barbarian invasion war in Tianliu Bingzhou.

The second thing to talk about is some supplies purchased by the Beidacheng military camp.

Previously, it was requested to purchase 5000 Xingluo pigs from the Beast Taming and Meat Bureau under Zhao Yun, but now only 5000 have been received, and the other will take some time to be delivered.

In other words, the production capacity of the Beast Taming Meat Bureau is still a small problem.

Also, the Beida City barracks now needs more meat to start training the soldiers.

This naturally requires discussing the expansion of production with Zhao Yun, the Zhao Jianling, and Jing Yuchan, the Jing Da Si Nong, and other responsible persons.

The cheapest meat is the Xingluo Pig, which is also a spiritual animal.

Therefore, if we want to expand production, we need to purchase more spiritual crops to serve as part of the feed.

However, if these spiritual plants were purchased from the ordinary market, there would definitely not be enough quantities, so they need to be cultivated within the Sino-Agricultural Administration.

In addition, it is impossible to feed all of these carnivorous Star Pigs with spiritual plants.

We need some basic food crops.

But the problem is that now all the grain grown in the Sino-Agricultural Bureau is exchanged for merit with the Ministry of War!

And use this grain to feed livestock?

Stand aside...

Meat, that has a meritorious aroma!

As for purchasing food from the outside world... as early as when the northern barbarians broke through the border, all the cities had done a plan to build strong defenses and clear the walls.

The food outside is furry!

The food supply for all the people and livestock in the entire Beiliang Border Continent is entirely guaranteed by the rapid grain production of all the agricultural supervisors in Beiliang Border Continent.

After all, producing a batch of grain in five or six days is terrifying!

Therefore, the internal grain was reluctant to be used, and the external grain could not be collected. In addition, the Ministry of War had also started the issue of wartime planned grain. How could they get feed to raise pigs?
Expanding production capacity? What the hell!

You can't let pigs eat air and grow meat in the wind, right?

Therefore, when Zhao Yun was asked to expand the production capacity of the Beast Taming and Meat Bureau but it couldn't solve the food problem, he would not easily agree to it.

Jing Yuchan also avoided this question, saying that he had to go back and sort out the specific situation before determining how much production capacity could be expanded.

Moreover, the front line will soon encounter an attack from the combined forces of the Northern Barbarian Royal Family, the remaining six Golden Horde tribes, and the various small tribes below!

At that time, the border troops would definitely order large quantities of meat, wine and other supplies.

Therefore, a temporary increase in meat production capacity is necessary.

But we also need to proceed based on the actual situation.

In addition, it is necessary to carry out corresponding communication and coordination work with the animal taming departments in the Sinongjian of each prefecture and county.

Therefore, the specific increase in meat production capacity is not just the work of the Zhoucheng Municipal Agricultural Supervision and Beast Taming and Meat Bureau, but also requires a coordinated statistical process among all departments.

Of course, there will also be another special situation.

That is the main force army coming from the Northern Barbarians. In their initial state, they will carry a large number of livestock and other supplies.

(End of this chapter)