Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

Peach Blossom Fairy ran back and forth several times this time, and moved all the food in the periphery of Jishui County.

As for the properties near the City Lord's Mansion, he never dared to set foot again.

The grain storage in a county is enough for all the residents of Heishui Town to eat and drink for several years.

After this period of time, the selection of the guard team had already ended. Of the 500 guard members, only 400 were qualified and passed the selection.

Among the 100 people who were picked out, some were poorly qualified, and some were not diligent enough.

However, these people are also subordinates who have spent a lot of money to train them for several years, so naturally they cannot just abandon them.

The 100 people who were eliminated were all assigned to various villages. After that, they will be responsible for the drills of the village soldiers, and Fugui will be in charge of the drills of the militia.

The remaining 400 people will be focused on training as elites.

Ma Gan served as the captain of the guard team, and under it were divided into four hundred-man teams, with Fat Hu, He Xiaoyu, Huya, and Qiu Gu serving as the small captains.

Fat Tiger has now grown into a half-sized man, and he is the strongest in the guard team. He should have no problem leading 100 people.

Huya was the boy who killed himself to tease the zombies. He was bitten by the zombies and almost turned into a zombie. After he was cured by Zhang He with the rejuvenation technique, he still retained two fangs.

Qiu Gu's parents and relatives all died in the last homeless riot. After he went to Heishui Town alone, he successfully joined the guard team. After the guard team learned to write, he gave himself such a bitter and bitter name.

He Xiaoyu was also a refugee. Zhang He's spiritual sense scanned He Xiaoyu's body and found something unusual.

""Fu Mo Zhen Yang Qi Gong" has been handed over to the few of you, and after you learn it, you will be responsible for passing it on to the whole team.

Alright, He Xiaoyu will stay, and the others will step back for now. "

He had asked Wei Peng to copy several copies of "Fu Mo Zhen Yang Yi Qi Gong" in advance, and gave them to several captains, Wei Peng, Fu Gui and others, one copy each, and then they would pass it on to the 400 guards.

He Xiaoyu was left alone by Zhang He, with his fingers twisted together, feeling a little nervous.

"Why do you want to dress up as a man?"

After all, the real identity was seen through, and He Xiaoyu felt much calmer in her heart, and no longer had to hide it.

"My lord, please forgive me. This subordinate didn't intend to deceive me, it's because I have no choice but to..."

It turned out that before He Xiaoyu signed up to join the escort team, she was mixed among the refugees. She was a little girl in her teens, and she really didn't feel safe, so she always dressed like a man.

After joining the escort, she has been hesitating whether to confess her identity.

Zhang He understood He Xiaoyu's behavior after listening to He Xiaoyu's explanation.

After all, he can also guess what is going on among the refugees. A helpless little girl is a fat sheep in the eyes of others.

Being caught and sold, raped, etc. are relatively light, and it is very possible to be eaten by others.

"Okay, from now on, it's up to you to decide whether you want to dress up as a man or return to the body of a daughter."

After Zhang He understood the situation, he no longer planned to pursue the matter.

As for He Xiaoyu's true identity, or whether other forces are undercover, Zhang He has no delusions of being murdered yet.

His identity is just a small landlord, the only difference is that there is a master who is a cultivator, who seems to be more benevolent than other landlords, there is no need to spend so much effort to come undercover with him, and he has been undercover for several years.

And if he was strictly investigated, most people in Heishui Town would not trust him.

At this time, there was no ID card, and most of them were recruited refugees. Who knows what they used to do.

"Thank you for your forgiveness, my lord!"

He Xiaoyu hastily saluted and thanked her, these years she was a woman, mixed with ordinary rough men, it was very inconvenient, even taking a bath was difficult.

She has already decided that she will appear as a daughter tomorrow, and let's see how the rough guy who usually talks nonsense in front of him will react.

In the next period of time, the guard team began to practice "Fu Mo Zhen Yang Yi Qi Gong", and everyone's strength was rapidly improving.

Fat Tiger's aptitude training speed is still much faster than others, so Zhang He simply called him aside and taught him the "True Explanation of Qi Training".

Having one more immortal cultivator under his command can also provide him with a lot of help.

While the strength of the guard team is improving rapidly, the appetite is also increasing rapidly, and it seems that Zhang He will be exhausted.

In order to lay a good foundation for these people, Zhang He asked Wei Peng to arrange meat, and each person could eat a catty of meat per day, which was already the maximum output that Heishui Town could provide.

In addition to the guards, during this period of time, Wei Peng and his team have completed the planning of the canal to be built.

Since the opening of recruitment in Heishui Town, villagers from neighboring towns have come to vote one after another, and thousands of people have been recruited so far.

These people have not settled down in Heishui Town, they are only hired workers, helping Heishui Town to work, taking care of food and lodging, and receiving a salary of dozens of dollars a month.

Some of these thousands of people have been transferred to burn bricks.

In addition, some people were selected to brew wine in Heishui Town. The wine brewed here is no different from ordinary wine in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and there are not many secrets.

Now Zhang He has put the craft of distilling high-grade wine on Qifeng Mountain.

Directly use sweet potatoes to make wine there, and then distill it into high-grade liquor, which is stored in large pottery jars for later use.

Freshly distilled baijiu has more impurities and a sharper taste, and it will get better after a period of time.

Most of the sweet potatoes produced on Qifeng Mountain last year were shredded and dried for storage, and there are still a lot of them that are not used up.

In addition to brewing wine, Zhang He also taught the farmers in Qifeng Mountain to cook maltose from sweet potatoes. Sugar was considered a luxury in the Zhou Dynasty and was expensive.

Sweet potatoes contain a lot of starch, which will be converted into maltose and water under the catalysis of amylase.

In fact, when people eat every day, the amylase contained in saliva can break down starch into glucose for easy digestion and absorption.

The more you chew the rice, the sweeter it is because amylase converts the starch in the rice into sugar.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhang He to spit in the sweet potato boiled sugar now.

After wheat or rice germinates, amylase will be produced. Grind the malt or grain sprouts, mix them with the cooked sweet potato paste, and keep the temperature at more than 30 degrees. After a few hours, the starch in the sweet potatoes will turn into sugar.

Then the paste is filtered to remove the slag, and some dark red sugar water is obtained, and then the sugar water is boiled dry with fire, which is the finished maltose, also called maltose.

If the maltose is pulled repeatedly, it will become that white maltose.

The high concentration of sugar can inhibit the growth of bacteria, and if it is sealed in a jar, it will not go bad for decades. If there is a famine or a march or war, this is the best energy supplement.

The process of making sugar from sweet potatoes is not complicated. Zhang He quickly taught several farmers, and let them be responsible for boiling sugar in the future.