Chapter 252: Chapter 160: New Village Plan
For the next three days, Cheng Zongyang either sat in a rocking chair at his doorstep reading the Celestial Human Scroll from the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor, or he worked on matters concerning the Gold Panning Workshop and a new Design Map.
Life was quite pleasant.
Of course, he was also calculating their grain reserves based on the village’s consumption rate.
The village had enough grain from what he’d brought back to last until the sumr harvest, no problem. But their reserves weren’t enough to support the County Town. This was a constant worry for him.
It wasn’t that he hadn’t considered providing fish, but there weren’t many large ones—not even enough for him to complete his own acquisition quota. The small ones were pointless. Who knew how many fish it would take to fill the bellies of thirty to forty thousand people?
Otherwise, would he have to do nothing else, and have Ma San and the others drop everything just to catch and gut fish?
’Impossible!’
Additionally, the rules and regulations for the Cheng Clan Public Property were more or less complete, just waiting to be rolled out after the sumr harvest. It wasn’t needed at the mont.
As for the bones of the Black-Horned Python from the Wilderness World, they caused another wave of shock when they were cleaned and brought back to the village.
They had originally thought the nearly sixty-foot-long giant python they had seen before was the largest Exotic Beast they had ever witnessed. They never imagined that compared to this new one—now just a skeleton—the previous one seed like a re child!
This instilled in everyone an even deeper reverence for Tianduan Mountain, and they no longer dared to enter it casually.
Cheng Guangshan, on the other hand, was ecstatic, already thinking about how to utilize the giant python’s skeleton—
making Growth dicine Liquid, steeping it in wine, concocting dicines, polishing it into tools and weapons, and so on...
On the fourth day, the twenty-third of the second month, the morning was bright and sunny—perfect for a journey.
Cheng Zongyang used the excuse of going to the County Town to check on things and once again left Cheng Family Village alone.
Ma San and his n had finished bundling the last of the rice seedlings, which were now waiting to be delivered. Because of this task, construction of the second fishery had been delayed by over ten days.
But this was the first and last ti they would have to prepare rice seedlings this way.
Once they overca the current crisis, it wouldn’t be necessary in the future. The people from the County Town would handle it themselves.
He traveled out of the mountains and soon arrived at the mountainside near Golden Bridge Village.
Gazing at the "ruins" of Golden Bridge Village, now covered in tender green shoots, Cheng Zongyang’s eyes shone brightly.
He had conceived a plan over the past few days: to take this opportunity, with its maximized use of manpower from the County Town, to build a new village!
He might not get a chance like this in the future.
He had created a new Design Map over the past few days specifically for the construction of this new, outer village. The farming itself no longer required a huge effort; after their daily watering and weeding, the farrs had free ti. The hundreds, nearly a thousand, professional farrs could easily manage the agricultural work.
Therefore, Cheng Zongyang planned to build a new, large village on the ruins of the several forr ones.
But with so many people, the work would be neither difficult nor slow.
Using ramd earth blocks and wood, and with the abundance of trees and bamboo in the Outer Mountain, they could quickly erect rows of empty houses.
Even the villages that had been burned down still had many of their ramd earth blocks left. The fire hadn’t destroyed them, so with a little repair, they could be used again.
He had already finished the Design Map; they just needed to follow it step-by-step.
This way, everyone would have work, ensuring they weren’t just eating without contributing.
Cheng Zongyang nad this village "Tiantuan Village." The aning was simple and direct: the village at the foot of Tianduan Mountain. In the future, this place would serve as Cheng Family Village’s "transit station" to the outside world.
County Town—Tiantuan Village—Cheng Family Village.
For the two-way transport of supplies and talent, Tiantuan Village would play a crucial role.
Furthermore, in the future, he could have the Mole Beasts dig a tunnel to Tiantuan Village, which would make entering, exiting, and transporting supplies much more convenient.
Collecting his thoughts, Cheng Zongyang strode quickly toward the site of Lin Family Village.
When no one was around, he quickly took out all the rice seedlings. This batch was enough for four to five hundred mu of land. Fortunately, they were tied in bundles, which made things much more convenient.
He then found a mber of Li Xian’s Gang and had him go notify the others.
Half an hour later, not only had Zhao the Seventh and Li Xian arrived, but Li Lu had co as well.
"Brother, thank you for all your hard work!" Li Lu said, overjoyed.
"The rice is growing steadily. Once those villagers learned they’d get to keep half the harvest, they beca incredibly motivated. We don’t have to urge them at all; they’re even more diligent about it than we are."
"That’s why these rice seedlings and dicinal Materials are all growing so well."
This made Li Lu and the others even happier. This represented future profits that would help them establish a firm foothold in the County Town!
Cheng Zongyang smiled. "It’s all for the sake of progress, so don’t ntion it. Have your n plant these seedlings quickly."
"Don’t worry, Sir."
Before Li Lu could even speak, the ever-perceptive Zhao the Seventh imdiately went to organize the farrs.
Li Xian and the others also hurried off to organize the workers.
Li Lu nodded in satisfaction and couldn’t help but say to Cheng Zongyang:
"Two days ago, when those four took their dicinal baths, every single one of them nearly died in the tub."
Cheng Zongyang heard this and imdiately guessed the reason. "They almost couldn’t endure it?" he asked.
Li Lu chuckled. "Exactly. To prepare, they even tried taking a hot bath to acclimate, but they couldn’t take it once the water got even slightly scalding. In the end, I had to lock them in bamboo cages and lower them into the dicinal soup. It’s a good thing they managed to endure that first phase. Otherwise, not only would they have failed, but they would have been scalded to death."
Cheng Zongyang was well aware of the nature of the dicinal soup. He asked, "And they didn’t have anything to say afterward?"
Li Lu snorted. "An ungrateful bunch. Even though they felt the benefits afterward, they’re now genuinely terrified of that soup. They said they’d rather stick to arduous cultivation."
Cheng Zongyang imdiately understood what Li Lu was implying. As they walked toward a wooden shed, he said:
"They aren’t young anymore. If they want to reach Entry Grade through arduous cultivation, it won’t be easy without top-quality ingredients or dicinal Materials to replenish their qi and blood."
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