Time turns to late July.

After restoring sufficient food supply, Chen Sheng's martial arts practice took a big step into the sixth level of bone forging. He could grab a stone lock of 1,500 kilograms with one arm and hold on for three breaths without falling to the ground!

After the Seven Kills Sword was upgraded to the level of proficiency, its power also greatly increased. Chen Shengchang and Chen Hu were sparring, and Chen Hu, who was both at the sixth level of bone forging, couldn't even catch his three swords!

And after understanding the strength of the sword, which is as heavy as the light, the Eight-sided Han Sword that Chen Sheng spent a lot of money to build can be regarded as completely retired.

The bronze battle sword Ruidi given to him by Chen Ao was officially promoted to his main battle weapon.

Although he could use the sharp sword to fight enemies before, when he used it to use the Seven Kills Sword, he always felt like using a machete to cut into shreds of meat. He relied purely on brute force to use it.

Now that he has understood the power of a sword that is both heavy and light, the heavy and wide sharp sword is just right for him to use, and his strength is greatly increased with it!

By July 23, the 500 troops from each county under their jurisdiction arrived in Chen County one after another and were sent to Panlong Village to be handed over to Mr. Chen Sanye.

In addition to the ten county sub-rudders, fifty people from the Tiger Hall headquarters in Chen County, and more than eighty people under Li Zhong, a total of six hundred people.

These 600 people were divided into two 500-man brigades according to the Zhou army system, each with more than 300 people.

The five hundred masters are respectively held by Chen Qi and Li Zhong.

Mr. Chen Sanye, who had removed his armor for decades and returned to the top of the military, was so radiant that he felt like he had taken the wrong medicine every day, training the six hundred people to orgasm after climax, making them feel like they were in heaven.

What?

Can't bear this hardship?

Hurry up and get out of here, and make room for the hungry refugees outside!

Oh, by the way, the bedrolls are ours too!

It's okay, the door is over there, get out of here, I'll chop you to death if you look back!

Under the pressure of going back to starving and waiting to die if they don't work hard, these young people from Chen County who had nothing but a relatively clean family background, a relatively honest person, and a relatively strong physical foundation quickly faded away.

The ruffian's unruliness and frivolity move closer to a qualified soldier.

Anyway, Chen Sheng only took a look at Chen Sanye's training method of doing it to death as long as he couldn't die, and then immediately stopped moving to Panlong Village to eat, live and train with them in order to win people's hearts.

Thinking of this, he turned around and ran faster than a rabbit. Even though Mr. Chen was jumping and shouting, he couldn't stop him...

He can be considered a relatively self-disciplined person.

But his self-discipline is just to lie down better...

Rather than being self-disciplined for the sake of being self-disciplined.

Even with no other options, he could endure no matter how hard the days were.

But if there is a way, I want him to suffer that kind of inhuman suffering...

Phew, dreaming!

…

By the end of July, the grain harvest in the one hundred acres of land in Chenjiazhuang began to be harvested one after another.

After the Chen family subsequently invested a lot of manpower, rainwater and manure in remedial and intensive farming, the output of the more than 100 acres of paddy fields not only did not decrease compared with previous years, but also increased slightly.

The average grain yield per mu is about two shi, which is about 120 kilograms.

Everyone is happy!

The tenants who were busy harvesting grain in the fields were so happy and grateful!

The Chen family members, who were busy threshing and weighing grains in the fields, were as happy as chrysanthemums bursting all over the mountain.

Only Chen Sheng was shocked by this output.

In his impression, even if the grain output per acre is not a thousand catties, it must be at least four to five hundred catties, right?

One hundred and twenty pounds per acre?

Then isn't this more than 100 acres of land only 12,000 kilograms?

Not to mention how much the Chen family, a merchant, can get from this batch of grain, the grain he has hoarded is not short of this amount.

The key is.

With this little output, is it still a bumper harvest?

With this little output, the tenants in Zhuangzi used to have to pay 70% of the land rent to the Zhang family?

So what do they eat?

What do you live on?

He was extremely puzzled and asked the tenants in Zhuangzi sideways.

Finally getting the answer made him feel on pins and needles amidst their laughter.

In his eyes, or in the eyes of most people in the time and space of his previous life, only polished rice and flour are considered fine grains.

Other grains such as brown rice, corn, millet, wheat, etc. are all considered coarse grains.

Well, maybe the guys from the Chen family of Hongshang think so too.

But in the eyes of these tenants in Chenjiazhuang, all the grains that can be eaten normally are fine grains that are only eaten during the holidays!

What is the staple food in their daily life?

It's wild vegetable dumplings.

It's rice bran cake.

It's weed soup.

If you're lucky enough to catch a field mouse, it's all meat that must be saved for the little ones at home to chew on as a sacrifice!

As for the eggs laid by free-range chickens and ducks at home, you must not eat them!

You have to save up hard. When you save enough for a basket, you can take it to the market and exchange it for copper coins.

With copper coins, you can pay the court's taxes, build houses for your children, marry them, and have grandchildren...

Listening to the tenants' words that were taken for granted, even with a hint of longing.

Chen Sheng's heart was filled with an unspeakable sense of absurdity.

He suddenly understood the weight of the sentence "When prosperity occurs, the people suffer; when death occurs, the people suffer"!

I finally understood how Mr. Lu Xun could see the word "cannibalism" from the cracks in history!

People who eat people eat as a matter of course.

Those who are eaten are also eaten as a matter of course.

Oh, a broken society...

…

Chen Sheng returned home depressed and couldn't sleep all night.

He tried to recall all the information he had seen in his previous life on improving food production.

But I can only barely think of words such as "hybrid", "wild rice seed", and "artificial pollination".

I have absolutely no impression of the specific operating techniques.

For the first time, he felt that the ancient ranking of "scholars, farmers, industry and merchants" was so appropriate!

Force cannot bring peace to the country.

Literature cannot govern a country.

Even going to the fields, I can't grow any good food.

Sure enough, Grandpa Yuan fed them too much.

They actually take it for granted that one acre of land can produce thousands of kilograms of grain.

…

The next day.

It was still dark, and as usual, Chen Sheng got up to practice martial arts. As soon as he carried his sharp sword to the front yard, he saw Wu Guang from a distance, sitting on the steps in front of the hall.

"Stone."

He smiled and greeted from a distance: "When did you come back?"

Today, Wu Guang has become one of the twenty red sticks of the Tiger Hall. Although his martial arts skills cannot match his advancement, he is still a master of the third level of bone forging. Even if he is placed in the Chen family of merchants, he is not considered mediocre.

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However, precisely because he has become one of the leading figures in the Tiger Hall in Chen County, he is increasingly afraid to return to the Chen family compound easily.

Chen Sheng had not seen him for quite some time.

"Brother."

Wu Guang stood up quickly, clasped his hands and saluted from a distance, and finally replied: "I just entered the house."

Chen Sheng was surprised and said: "Come back so early...is there something wrong?"
To be continued...