Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

On a barren hill more than ten miles away from Heishui Town, two to three hundred coolies were sweating.

They were originally refugees from other places, but they were recruited by the Wan family to reclaim the barren hills in Heishui Town. Now they can eat every day, and the days of homelessness are finally over.

Now they are very satisfied, especially when they heard that so-and-so's children were boiled, and how many refugees there starved to death, besides feeling lucky, they also have a little sense of superiority.

Finally finished the day's work today, and it's time for dinner again.

The meal they eat now is cornbread made of corn grass seeds and wild vegetables. Each person can get two per meal, which is already a good meal compared to the refugees.

One by one, the coolies carried hoes and knives to the hut where they ate. After eating, they had to practice in line for an hour or two in the evening. They didn't understand the use of such drills.

At this moment, a group of bandits came yelling from the mountain road, their aura was very scary.

Faced with this situation, many people's subconscious reaction is to run away, safety first.

As for resistance or something, it seems that there is no need for it. They don't have any property. If the bandits want to rob, they are also robbing the Zhang family's things. What's your business?

The two guards who were in charge of supervising on the mountain could only shout hoarsely, but to no avail.

Only a dozen or so coolies bravely followed the guards...

The news of the robbing of the land reclamation camp quickly spread to Heishui Town. Wei Peng and old man Zhang didn't know what to do, so they reported it to Zhang He overnight.

Zhang He glanced at the information, and the bandits took away all the food in the camp.

There were only 12 coolies fighting with the guards at the scene. One guard was hacked to death, the other was injured, and three coolies died in battle.

"To the families of the four war dead, each of them will distribute one hundred catties of corn as compensation."

"This...is this too much? According to the current grain price, fifty catties is enough."

Wei Peng asked cautiously, food is more expensive than people now.

"Although people are worthless, those who dare to work hard are very valuable. If there are battles in the future, let's implement them according to this standard.

In addition, all those who take the initiative to participate in the battle will be rewarded with another 20 catties of food.

For those coolies who ran away, half of their meals would be deducted, and they would return to normal when they dared to fight the bandits desperately.

Camp land reclamation and drills are still going on. "

After Zhang He made a simple instruction, he didn't plan to take care of it, and didn't give instructions on how to retaliate.

After Wei Peng went back, he could only implement it honestly.

The family members of the deceased were very contented to receive a hundred catties of grain in addition to being sad that their relatives had left. These days, life is precarious, and one life can be exchanged for one hundred catties of grain, which is already very good.

As for the coolies whose rations were deducted by half, many of them have fallen into regret, and now they only hope that the bandits will come back soon so that they can have another chance to perform again.

Five days later, another land reclamation camp belonging to Heishui Town was looted by bandits.

This time everyone learned a lesson, no coolie dared to escape, and fought a big battle with the bandits, both sides suffered casualties.

Another seven days later, a village under reconstruction in Heishui Town encountered bandits, who also led a counterattack under the leadership of the guards.

Twelve days later, a wasteland camp...

With the arrival of winter, the frequency of looting by bandit groups composed of refugees is getting higher and higher, and waves will come every now and then.

Especially in a town like Heishui, where coolies opened up wasteland camps everywhere, and flowers bloomed everywhere, they were the priority targets for bandits to plunder.

The coolies scattered all over the country could only wield weapons and fight the bandits again and again. Naturally, there were casualties. Wei Peng gave generous pensions according to Zhang He's instructions.

In battle after battle, the coolie's combat effectiveness rapidly increased,

From the initial loss, to a tie between the two sides, and then to being able to win the battle later.

Of course, the combat effectiveness of the bandits has also steadily improved in the constant looting, and those who can still survive now have few lives in their hands.

But the coolies in Heishui Town have a more scientific training method, as well as strict discipline and a neat array, which can better exert the collective strength.

Zhang He didn't know the extent of the disaster and how many people it affected.

Anyway, the area of ​​Dehua County is now in chaos.

Food resources are limited, and if you want to survive, you have to plunder and grab food from other people's mouths to be eligible to live to the end.

Except for the strictly guarded Dehua City, other places seem to be raising Gu, and those who can survive in the end are definitely the most vicious ones.

Apart from occasionally learning about news from various places, Zhang He is usually in meditation practice. Recently, his dantian is always swollen, and he feels that he is about to break through to the second level of Qi training.

Immortal cultivators at the first level of qi training are really useless, and they can't use a single spell, so they are stronger and healthier than ordinary people.

When you reach the second level of Qi training, you can cast some basic spells, such as fireball, entanglement, earth shield, water archery, etc.

But what he is most looking forward to is a rejuvenation technique recorded in "The True Explanation of Practicing Qi", which can heal illnesses and injuries.

The medical treatment of the Great Zhou Dynasty was too backward, and it was possible to die from a small injury. Only with a healing spell in the body can one feel safe.

Zhang He practiced continuously at the foot of Qifeng Mountain for two and a half months.

On this day, he felt that his dantian was swollen uncomfortably, and a sense of oppression rushed down.

Well, it feels a bit like having a baby.

At this time, Zhang He was running the mana in the dantian with all his strength, and a stream of mana quickly spun in the dantian, forming a small vortex.

Suddenly Zhang He's body trembled, and a burst of magic power rushed out from the dantian, and went straight down to the perineum.

Then this mana didn't stop there, but moved downwards and backwards, as if looking for a vent, and the swelling made the lower abdomen uncomfortable.

Finally, the airflow found a hole in the rear, and then flowed into it all at once.

Zhang He looked happy, his mana finally came out of the perineum from the dantian, and now it has flowed into the Changqiang acupoint of the Governor Meridian.

The Changqiang point is the first point of the Du Meridian, and penetrating mana to this point signifies that he has successfully entered the second level of Qi training.

Acupuncture points occupy only a quarter of the size of a fingernail on the body surface, but they are equivalent to lakes on the passages through which the meridians run mana, which can store a large amount of mana.

Now that his magic power has merged into Changqiang, the bulging feeling in his dantian disappeared, and his whole body became refreshed.

For the next few days, Zhang He continued to meditate to stabilize his realm.

Ten days later, he temporarily stopped practicing and went outside for a walk.

Now that it has entered the severe winter, the ground is frozen hard, and many coolies can only dig a small hole about an inch deep with a pickaxe.

Zhang He had just made a breakthrough, so he became very playful and broke the ice surface of the pond. He heard that fishing on ice is easier, so he wanted to try it.

Facts have proved that his fishing skills are really bad. In the end, he stabbed a small fish with a fishing rod and finally ate the fish.