Chapter 422: Another Way to Earn Merit

This high-yield crop is another channel to obtain merit in Ye Zan's plan. As for whether he can obtain merit, it has been verified in the small world of Asgard. Obviously, although many people call this era the "Dharma-ending Era" in today's Shenhua Domain, the human race is still the protagonist of the world. As long as it can be beneficial to the development of the human race, it seems that they can get corresponding merits from the way of heaven.

Due to the shortage of manpower for rail transportation, even if Ye Zan develops construction machinery that can be used by Jindan Grandmasters in the future, it is impossible to bloom everywhere in Shenhua Yuhua. After all, there are only five Nascent Souls in his hand, and he doesn't know when the mysterious forces will deliver them. As for catching other Yuanying Patriarchs... that would really fall into the devil's way, and the key point is "If people don't know, unless they do nothing", he can't afford the consequences.

Therefore, even if Ye Zan refines magic-level construction machinery, it is unlikely that there will be a big change in the manpower shortage of rail transit construction. At most, the construction personnel can be rotated, so that people will not complain.

Of course, in addition to these five Nascent Souls, Ye Zan also has four powerful Nascent Souls from mysterious forces that Daoist Cangquan helped capture. Moreover, he also asked Gou Chen Zhizun to help extract their primordial spirits.

However, the use of Yuanshen is not as easy as using Yuanying. The reason why the soul can be separated from the Nascent Soul is because the soul is just like living in the physical body, but it has become a sojourn in the Nascent Soul. But the primordial spirit is completely fused with the divine soul, even Gou Chen Supreme can't separate the divine soul from the primordial spirit.

Perhaps, only Xuanyuan Laodao, such an earth immortal Taoist ancestor, who has the ultimate grasp of the Dao, can separate the soul from the primordial spirit, and directly refine the primordial spirit into a elixir.

Ye Zan didn't have the ability of Xuanyuan's old way, and he couldn't bear to see a few primordial spirits that couldn't be used, so he thought of another way, using technology to erase the memory of the primordial spirits. As long as the primordial spirit loses its memory and becomes a blank sheet of paper, and then uses it for something, there is no need to worry about its backlash.

Moreover, even if Yuanshen is as easy to use as Yuanying, it is definitely a huge waste to use Yuanshen to refine the magic weapon of construction machinery.

Therefore, Ye Zan's plan is to erase the memory of Yuanshen, then transform Yuanshen into artificial intelligence, and add it to the humanoid mecha of little loli. In this way, little loli's humanoid mecha is equivalent to a portable soul power. In addition to being able to have various technological weapons, it can also cast magic powers of the soul.

It's just that this matter is only a good idea now, and there are still many problems to be solved slowly when it is really done. As far as simply erasing memory, Yuanshen's resilience is too powerful. The equipment here is constantly erasing memory information, but Yuanshen is constantly restoring the erased memory information.

Fortunately, these primordial powers from mysterious forces do not have too large a memory, so even if the speed of erasure is only a little faster than the speed of recovery, there will be a day when they will be eradicated. If it is replaced by real Yuanshen powers, especially those who have lived for thousands of years, the huge memory information will not be easily erased.

Therefore, in the final analysis, the construction of this rail transit is destined to be a relatively long project.

Although, with the completion of the construction of the rail transit in the Tang Dynasty, and the opening of the whole line in the Daning Kingdom, Ye Zan has already started to receive meritorious rewards. However, the speed at which this merit was acquired was still not satisfactory to Ye Zan, so there was a plan for this high-yield crop.

After this period of time, the planting in the small world of Asgard, originally not many crop seeds, increased countless times with a bumper harvest. And this means that these high-yielding crops,

Finally, he can push to the realm of Shenhua to exchange for more merits for Ye Zan.

Li Haoran had already seen these high-yield crops at Ye Zan's place before. It can be said that he has been looking forward to this day since he knew about these high-yield crops. Although he is already a cultivator now, but after all, he was born in the royal family of the Tang Dynasty, so he can naturally know what these high-yielding crops will mean to the Tang Dynasty.

The rail transit is to connect the east, west, north and south, so that the goods in the entire Tang Dynasty can be efficiently operated. This is of course very important to the improvement of the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also very effective. And these high-yielding crops seem to be not as tall as the rail transit, but their significance to the Tang Dynasty is no worse than the rail transit.

Again, ordinary people are easy to be satisfied, but those who can have a chance to survive, they will not be willing to take the risk of turning around to rebel. And what is the way to survive? To put it bluntly, it means "sufficiency and clothing". As long as they can not die of cold and starvation, there is basically no soil for rebellion.

Even if there are some ambitious people who want to sit on the dragon chair in the Golden Luan Hall, they still need to have soldiers in their hands. Throughout the ages, no matter which world it is in, common people have almost never succeeded in rebelling, but those successful rebellions are inseparable from the support of the common people. And the common people will support it, mostly because they can't survive, so they can only go to the army to make a living. Only a very few have any lofty ideals and ambitions.

Therefore, for the ruling class, these high-yielding crops are equivalent to adding a solid insurance to their rule. At least in the Shenhua domain, no one would have thought that when the common people have no worries about food and clothing, there will be more pursuits in other aspects, such as political appeals. Of course, having political appeals does not mean rebellion, which may also give a certain impetus to today's social system.

When Li Haoran heard that those treasure bags contained the high-yield crop seeds he had been looking forward to for a long time, his expression immediately became quite excited. He didn't go to take those treasure bags immediately, but knelt down on the ground with a "plop", kowtowed to Ye Zan and said, "On behalf of the billions of people in the Tang Dynasty, I would like to thank my master and uncle!"

Indeed, not to mention rebellion, with these high-yielding crops, countless people in this world will be saved from the tragic fate of being starved to death.

Although this is a world of cultivating Taoism and civilization, due to the backward productivity of secular mortals, the living standards of most mortals are still very poor. Even in the Tang Dynasty, an unknown number of people died of hunger every day. If there is any natural or man-made disaster, it is not so uncommon to see starvation everywhere.

"Get up, it doesn't have to be like this." Ye Zan said lightly, and when Li Haoran stood up, he said with a bit of warning: "These seeds are not just for the Tang Dynasty, you'd better see your father after the emperor , explain the matter clearly to him, and don’t restrict the flow of seeds to other countries, otherwise, if there is any benefit next time, it won’t be his turn.”

Ye Zan wanted to use these high-yield crops to gain merit for himself, so the wider the spread of these high-yield crops, the better. However, if you want to think about it from the side of the Lord of the Tang Dynasty, you must want to hold these things tightly in your own hands, so that it is in the interests of the Tang Dynasty.

Although, for things like seeds, no matter how strictly the Tang Dynasty controls them, it is impossible that none of them will be able to flow out. However, it will definitely affect the speed at which these crops spread, which also means affecting the speed at which Ye Zan can obtain merit. Therefore, while Ye Zan handed over a few treasure bags to Li Haoran, he also asked Li Haoran to send a warning to the Lord of the Tang Dynasty.

"Uncle master, don't worry, the disciple will definitely bring the words to you!" Li Haoran assured Ye Zan very solemnly after taking several treasure bags with both hands.

"Well, let's go." Ye Zan nodded.

"Uncle Master, this disciple will leave!" Li Haoran put away the seeds, turned around and left Ye Zan's place.

In fact, even if the Tang Dynasty really set up some obstacles in the promotion of high-yield crops, Ye Zan would not be able to do anything to the Lord of the Tang Dynasty. However, even though Datang is not the only one, from thousands of miles of sound transmission to rail transit, it has also benefited a lot from it. Therefore, regarding Ye Zan's warning, the Lord of the Tang Dynasty did not dare to take it seriously. What's more, it's not that Ye Zan doesn't have high-yield crop seeds here, and some can be separated from the small world of Asgard, and promoted to other countries in the realm through other channels. If Datang really plays any tricks, it will only ruin the relationship of this cooperation, and it will not get any benefits at all.

Li Haoran left Yu Qingzong, took the rail train, and soon came to the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and brought the seeds of these high-yield crops and Ye Zan's warning to his father, Emperor Li Shude. After listening to Li Haoran's introduction, Li Shude immediately got up and faced Yu Qingzong's direction, bowed three times very solemnly, and then called a group of ministers to discuss the promotion and planting of this high-yielding crop.

Among the ministers, those who were only thinking about the interests of the Tang Dynasty naturally immediately thought of holding these crops firmly in their own hands. You must know that in this world, food is not only food, but also extremely important military supplies. The so-called "soldiers and horses have not moved, food and grass go first" refers to the importance of food and grass. In many cases, the military strength of the two countries is similar, and the fight may be logistics, or to put it bluntly, food and grass.

However, Li Shude still took Ye Zan's warning seriously, so he rejected the minister's proposal without hesitation. Since there is no need to strictly control the outflow of seeds, it actually saves a lot of work. There is no need to design a special system, no need to arrange any control institutions, etc. The last thing left to consider is how to promote it and how to let the common people plant it with peace of mind.

Some people may think that these high-yielding crops have so many benefits that it should be easy to promote them. But in fact, this is really not an easy task. It's not that the people are ignorant, but that the people can't afford it. The common people are used to growing those traditional crops. Although the yield may be very low, at least they know that they can grow food for export. As for a crop they had never seen before, asking them to move out of the ration field to grow it was like gambling with the lives of the whole family.

Therefore, in terms of planting these crops, Datang Kingdom has issued a lot of preferential policies, such as the government and businessmen guaranteeing that if the people fail to plant, they will subsidize the rations of the people. There are also promises to purchase crops at high prices, as well as tax relief and so on. It seems that Datang may suffer a bit at the beginning, but when these high-yield crops have gained a reputation among the people, even if there are no preferential policies, the people will take the initiative to plant them.

This is why Ye Zan gave these crop seeds to the secular imperial power for promotion.

There is no need for Ye Zan to worry about the promotion of high-yield crops. I believe that within a few years, these high-yield crops will spread throughout the entire deified realm. As for the social impact of these high-yielding crops on the entire Shenhua Domain, although they have not been thoroughly verified by experiments in the small world of the Immortal Palace, they will definitely not cause any major troubles.

After all, these high-yielding crops only enrich people's food types, and will not lead to the elimination of traditional crops. As some grains that are different from traditional crops, high-yield crops may also have a certain impact on grain prices, but neither farmers will be unemployed nor grain merchants will go bankrupt.

And as the Tang Dynasty began to promote high-yield crops, Ye Zan also reaped a lot of merit. Although the amount is not so alarming, it is just the beginning.

At the same time, in the various sects of the Shenhua Domain, spiritual rice, a crop that subverts the common sense of ascetics, has also been strictly verified by the great powers of various sects, and has been unanimously recognized by the ascetics. Although this spiritual rice was promoted by the Tianbao Sect, it is not an ordinary food after all, but is used to assist cultivation, so each sect has to be extremely careful.

Fortunately, these ascetics don't think about the influence of genes, otherwise, I'm afraid they will be the same as the first genetically modified crops in the technological world, and it will be useless to prove their safety. You say it is safe to eat now, but he will say who knows what will happen in the future. If you say nothing will happen in the future, he will say who knows what will happen to future generations. Even if you can prove that after eating genetically modified crops, the offspring will be fine, he can also say who knows what will happen after ten or a hundred generations.

These ascetics are not so extreme. After proving that eating spiritual rice can really assist their cultivation, they immediately asked Tianbaozong to buy more seeds. Of course, while buying the seeds of the spiritual rice, there are also some small tricks behind the scenes, such as finding out the real origin of the spiritual rice, using the harvested spiritual rice to plant again, and so on.

On Tianbaozong's side, no matter how much they kept it secret, the news that Lingdao came from Yuqingzong was quickly known by all sects. After all, at this stage, the seeds of spiritual rice are still relatively limited. Even if Tianbaozong didn't intentionally raise the price, the price of spiritual rice seeds would soar all the way. At the same time, various sects also sent envoys to obtain a sufficient amount of spiritual rice seeds from Yu Qingzong.

Of course, Yu Qingzong would not dismantle the partner's platform, and indeed he could not come up with more seeds, so he could only explain it to the envoys of various sects with good words. For a period of time, envoys from various sects came to Yu Qingzong almost in an endless stream, some made friends, some offered high prices, and some wanted to overwhelm others. Regarding these envoys from various sects, Wu Changsheng, who is the head teacher of the Yuqing Sect, really exhausted his lips and said good and bad things countless times.

"Teacher, how do you feel? Even the top sects don't have the same treatment as you." Ye Zan is completely a hands-off shopkeeper, he doesn't care about everything when he throws things away, so he still has the mood to make fun of Wu Changsheng.

When Wu Changsheng heard Ye Zan's words, he rolled his eyes helplessly, and said, "My lord, why don't you come and be the head teacher?"

"Haha, even if I am the head teacher, I will definitely leave this matter to you." Ye Zan laughed rascally.