Zhang Chen and Wang Xue are a couple. They were lucky enough to qualify for the sixth test and enter the game together.
Zhang Chen originally wanted to be an adventure player, but after fighting several times in the game, this frail scholar found that he was not suitable for the battlefield at all.
Zhang Chen decided to go farming with Wang Xue.
Wang Xue originally played Datang Fengyun as a farming game like "Harvest Story", but after entering the game, Wang Xue realized that if you want to become a lord, you need to contribute points.
Players like them who have taken six tests and seven tests have not saved enough contribution points to strengthen their own attributes, and they cannot save so many contribution points in just a few months.
Moreover, the contribution points required to become a li chief in Xizhou are twice as much as those required to exchange for a li chief in Shazhou. Nowadays, there are many players who want to become a li chief. Without contribution points, there will definitely be no chance.
But Zhang Chen couldn't ride a horse to fight, and the two of them had no business talent. They spent half a month in Shazhou like headless chickens, and couldn't save many contribution points.
However, Zhang Chen and Wang Xue both studied pharmacy. After reading the forum posts, they finally understood their use.
Leveraging your professional expertise is the best way to make money!
But Zhang Chen and Wang Xue both studied Western medicine. Should they read books on traditional Chinese medicine?
Now in Shazhou City, several players' medical clinics have been opened.
However, those doctors all studied traditional Chinese medicine. Relying on the relatively mature traditional Chinese medicine system of later generations, these players' medical clinics have a prosperous business.
But it was too late for Zhang Chen and Wang Xue to study traditional Chinese medicine. At this time, Zhang Chen suddenly thought of a famous drug-aspirin.
Aspirin is a broad-spectrum anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug with a very wide range of uses.
When aspirin first came out, this drug almost took the world by storm and became a life-saving miracle drug.
Moreover, Zhang Chen and Wang Xue also discovered that aspirin in modern industry is chemically synthesized, but in the early days aspirin was extracted from plants.
The main active ingredient in aspirin is salicylic acid, a compound found in willow and poplar bark.
The earliest aspirin was extracted from willow bark!
And through the videos shot by other players, Zhang Chen discovered that there are large willow forests on the edge of Gaochang City!
This is also the reason why Zhang Chen and Wang Xue came to Gaochang City. They planned to build a workshop in Gaochang City to extract salicylic acid from willow bark and make salicylic acid medicine.
The young lovers are still very mobile. After they arrived in Gaochang City, they found that such a large willow forest was within the scope of a village called Liulinli. The leader of this Liulinli was also a player and had just arrived at the Governor's Mansion.
Report taking office.
Zhang Chen and Wang Xue rushed to Liulin immediately, and they were surprised to find that the leader of the players in Liulin was actually the player they were riding in the carriage with.
As soon as Zeng Mu arrived in Liulin, he met two players who came to visit him.
Zeng Mu was also surprised. He had just taken over Liulinli and had not figured out the situation yet. He had originally planned to tidy up the village and then send a post to recruit players who wanted to open a workshop.
Unexpectedly, two players came to the door, and these two players would also come to Gaochang with Zeng Mu.
The fate is really wonderful. Zeng Mu asked: "What kind of workshop are you planning to open?"
Zhang Chen and Wang Xue were stunned for a moment, and then Zhang Chen said: "We want to open a pharmaceutical factory."
"Pharmaceutical factory?" Zeng Mu's eyes lit up. Pharmaceutical factories are making huge profits!
When I was in Shazhou, some areas in Shazhou knew how to grow medicinal materials, which was much more profitable than farming.
When he heard that Zhang Chen and Wang Xue were going to open a pharmaceutical factory, Zeng Mu naturally welcomed them.
He immediately said: "No problem, how much land do you want?"
land?
Zhang Chen thought for a while and said, "They are still in the initial stage. They will start with laboratory preparation and only need a few houses."
Approximately one or two acres of land is enough, right?
Zhang Chen raised two fingers.
Twenty acres?
Is twenty acres of land enough to grow medicinal materials?
But seeing that there are only two players, Zhang Chen and Wang Xue, Twenty Acres can let them try it out first.
Zeng Mu immediately said: "I'll give you twenty acres!"
Twenty acres?
Zhang Chen was frightened by Zeng Mu's words. He originally only needed two acres of land to build a laboratory, but Zeng Mu suddenly gave him twenty acres of land.
Wang Xue was the smarter one, and she immediately said: "Thank you very much, Mr. Zeng Li!"
Coming out of Zeng Mu's village office, Zhang Chen said: "Xue'er, why do we need such a big place? We can just build a laboratory."
Wang Xue said: "You are a nerd, but Zeng Li still thinks long-term. If our industry becomes bigger, we will definitely need industrial production. Giving us the land first will make it easier to build factories later."
Zhang Chen then nodded and said: "Yes, yes, Xue'er is thinking long-term, so let's quickly build the laboratory. As long as we can produce some laboratory products, we can expand the scale!"
Zhang Chen and Wang Xue's laboratories have relatively high requirements. Although a sterile environment is not possible in this era, after all, they are manufacturing drugs and they still need to be clean.
So Zhang Chen and Wang Xue contacted Qinchuan's construction company, and used their remaining contribution points to hire the player's construction team to build a two-story laboratory.
Afterwards, Zhang Chen and Wang Xue hired villagers to collect a lot of fresh wicker sticks.
While the two were tinkering with extracting salicylic acid from willow bark, Zeng Mu also ran through the entire willow forest to find out what was going on in the entire willow forest.
There are a total of 260 households in Liulin, which is twice the population of Yixiali.
Moreover, compared with Yixiali, where there were orphans, widowed mothers and young children, because Gaochang was a Shangjun, there were relatively sufficient troops, and the imperial court was not as ruthless as Shazhou in recruiting men to join the army.
Therefore, there are still many adult men in Liulin. As expected of the rich Xizhou, this start is much better than that in Yixiali.
The land in Liulin is relatively rich, so it should logically develop well.
But it just so happens that the people in this place have plenty of food to eat, and every family is too poor to open the pot.
After Zeng Mu's investigation, it was found that the poverty in Liulin was caused by the willow forest surrounding Liulin.
To get in and out of the willow forest, you have to pass through this willow forest, but this willow forest belongs to an old Gaochang noble in Gaochang City.
This willow forest was of no use to the nobleman. It was just a hunting ground for spring and autumn hunting and could only be visited a few times a year.
But if you want to get in and out of Liulin, you have to go through Liulin. Liulin wanted to build roads several times, but he was rejected by the noble man.
When caravans entered and exited the Willow Forest, they had to be exploited by this noble lord. Over time, there were no caravans in the Willow Forest, and it was inconvenient to enter and exit, so they became poor.