The Beast King's Harem (Bisexual/NP)
Chapter 14 Recruiting Plant-based Psychics
Jiang Chengyan (Ml5/concubine)
:Jiang Chengyan ripened the remaining corn.:
The mature old corn cobs were full of grains, bright in color, and golden, which made people feel comfortable.
The corn kernels were removed and ground into powder. The kitchen made cornmeal paste and mixed it with flour and cornmeal to make cornmeal cakes.
The spring cabbage that had just grown leaves was refreshing when stir-fried, and it was also fragrant when paired with a plate of scrambled eggs with leeks.
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
:After the meal, Yi Jin had nothing to do.:
Jiang Chengyan (Ml5/concubine)
:Jiang Chengyan was the Minister of Industry and was good at planting. With such a high official here, it was natural for him to arrange the promotion of corn for the people to grow.:
The next day, Jingzhou Prefecture posted two more notices.
The first one was to recruit plant-based psychics in the whole city, provide three full meals, and twenty cents, and report to the prefecture. The second one was to collect unknown plants, ten cents for each plant, and those that had been handed in by previous people would not be collected.
The people gathered in front of the city gate and talked about it.
Unimportant peraon
"Last time the state government recruited people with ice-related abilities to cure insect plagues for us, and this time they are recruiting people with plant-related abilities, which must be a good thing for us!"
Unimportant peraon
"That's right! The agricultural official in our town is from the plant-related department! It must be related to crops!"
Unimportant peraon
"Another three full meals a day, and twenty cents. Last time I heard from my neighbor that the three meals a day are all big white steamed buns, and we can eat to our heart's content! It's a pity that there is no one with plant-related abilities in my family, otherwise I could also sign up!"
Unimportant peraon
"It's okay, we don't have any at home, and there is a notice below, isn't there? Collecting plants, this is easy, there are wild grasses in front of and behind our house that we can't name, and there are several kinds of grasses if we just pick them up. Go, go, go, go back and dig the grass! Don't let others get ahead of you! It says that those who have already been collected will not be paid!"
Unimportant peraon
:As the man spoke, he turned around and ran home.:
Unimportant peraon
: When he got home, he picked up the sack and sickle and walked to the back door, digging the weeds behind the house.:
Unimportant peraon
The parents ran out curiously and asked, "What are you doing? Why are you digging those weeds? We can't eat them!"
Unimportant peraon
The man replied, "The governor of the prefecture is collecting weeds! You can help! Dig them all up! Ten coins for each kind!"
Unimportant peraon
"Is it true? How can weeds be valuable? They have grown for decades, and even cows won't eat them! What is the governor going to do?"
Unimportant peraon
"There are notices on the walls of the city gates, how can they be false? It's not a big deal anyway, what if I can really get money? There are several kinds here, and they add up to thirty or forty coins! If they don't work, just throw them away, and you won't lose anything."
The parents thought so too, so they all came to help. In the end, they found a total of six different kinds of weeds, put them in a sack, and hurried to the government office. As soon as they arrived, there was already a long line in front of them, all of whom came to hand in weeds, fruits, and seeds.
Some people got dozens of coins and left happily, while others didn't get any money, looked at the copper coins in other people's hands with envy, and planned to go out to look for them again.
Unimportant peraon
It was the man's turn. He handed in his bag. Several agricultural officials sorted the weeds. The inspector said, "You have six kinds here. Someone has handed in five kinds before. You can check and compare them in the basket next to you."
Unimportant peraon
"The other kind is new. I haven't seen it before. Here are ten cents for you. If you have other unfamiliar plants, fruits, etc., you can also send them."
:A clerk was registering on the side. He wrote down the man's name and address, and marked it at the back, saying that he had offered a plant and described the appearance of the weed in detail:
Unimportant peraon
:The man happily took the ten cents home and prepared to look for it on the edge of his own field. He had to be quick, otherwise someone else would get it first!:
The man behind him also handed in several kinds of weeds, and finally got ten cents and left happily.
:On the other side of the government office, there were plant-based supernaturals who lined up to report for the recruitment. Those with badges were given a seed to test those without badges.:
Those who could make the corn mature would stay, and those who were not capable would not be hired.
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
:Yi Jin's work all day is to sit in a specially opened study room, waiting for people to bring him the newly harvested plants.:
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
*He can't recognize many.*
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
*This is mainly to find the crops that Yi Jin knows and have economic value as quickly as possible.*
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
:Yi Jin feels that nothing is unusual in the Holy Beast Empire.:
In ancient China, corn and cherry tomatoes were both foreign species. Corn originated in South America, and so did cherry tomatoes.
:Since he could find these two things in the street shop, he might also be able to find other things such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, peppers, etc. The plant-based superpowers recruited are naturally to help them grow corn so that seeds can be collected.:
In fact, most of the people in the Holy Beast Empire are ordinary orcs without superpowers, and superpowers are a scarce resource.
If a child with superpowers is born in a family, no matter what superpowers they have, it will be a big happy event with drums and gongs, and relatives and friends will be invited to a banquet.
Children with superpowers should be well cultivated from a young age, and when they grow up, they will become officials, soldiers, apprentices in stores, apprentices in pharmacies, accountants, etc.
For example, if a child has plant-related abilities, as long as his abilities are not too low, he can find a job as a farm official in the town or county government when he grows up. He can get a salary from the government. Although he is not a real official, his status and identity are different from those of farmers.
As for the great farm officials in the prefecture, their abilities are even more powerful and their ranks are higher. They are the real officials appointed by the court and have a rank.
If you don't want to be an agricultural official, you can go to a pharmacy to learn medicine. Even if you don't have a talent for medicine, it's no problem to identify medicinal materials with your plant-based psychic ability. You don't have to worry about having no way out.
But that was in the past. It's not possible now.
The Holy Beast Empire has been plagued by natural disasters and man-made disasters for years. It's not a prosperous time. The people don't even have land to plant. What do they need agricultural officials for?
It's because there are many epidemics and doctors are in urgent need. But the years are not good, and the medical families don't have extra money and energy to accept too many disciples.
Business is not good, how many shops have closed down? Not to mention joining the army, the soldiers of the state government have almost all run away.
So most of the psychics who were popular in the past are now unemployed and can't find a way to make a living.
If it weren't for this, it would be really difficult for the state government to recruit people so openly.
Tian Yong's family fled from Yuzhou to Jingzhou.
Yuzhou and Jingzhou are adjacent to each other. They have suffered from drought and floods for two consecutive years. The situation is not much better than the locust plague in Jingzhou. Qi County, where his family lives, was originally a large county. Although life was tight in the early years, Tian Yong worked as an agricultural official in the town, and his family was relatively smooth.
Later, because disasters continued throughout the country, the court had no energy and could not manage the lower levels. The county magistrate of Qi County pretended to obey but secretly disobeyed, and he was a local emperor in the county.
Taxes were higher every year. The people planted the land all year round, harvested the crops, and paid taxes. The remaining grain was just enough to feed the whole family, and there was no money left.
Even so, everyone still cared about their hometown and refused to leave.
In Tian Yong's village, there was a family whose family was sick and had just given birth to a baby. The family had to take care of the patient and the child, so they naturally couldn't take care of the fields. In the end, there were several acres less grain than in previous years.
But the grain collectors didn't care about that. They calculated taxes based on the land area. If your family had ten acres of land, you had to pay ten acres of tax. If you couldn't pay, you would be beaten with a stick!
This family was old and young, how could they afford to be beaten with a stick? If they were beaten with a stick, no one would work at home, and the medicine money was another.
They could only pay with gritted teeth. If they paid, they would have no food to eat.
They had to drink porridge and eat wild vegetables every day.
Tian Yong (Farmer)
:Tian Yong saw it with his own eyes. Although the family was not beaten with a stick, they were not much better off. Within half a year, they starved to death:
Such things happened many times in Qi County. People starved to death every day.
Tian Yong saw that he couldn't live like this, so he took his whole family, including his parents, wife, brothers and sisters, and ran away.
They actually planned to go to Yangzhou.But when they passed the territory of Jingzhou, they heard that Lord Jiang helped them to cure the locusts, and the state government also lent them seeds without interest. They would pay back as much as they borrowed. There were plenty of wastelands, and anyone with hands and feet could plant them!
His family had been planting land all their lives, and the land was their roots.
Although Tian Yong's family is still poor and often hungry, they have land to farm. Occasionally, they can catch some game in the wild and fish in the river to supplement their meals and avoid starvation.
The court was originally tax-free, but which local official did not add some taxes privately? Only the governor of Jingzhou was kind-hearted and did not add any taxes.
Just wait for the wheat in the field to ripen this year, and his family will get better and better.
Tian Yong went to the city to sell firewood today. He saw the notice at the city gate, saying that people with plant-related supernatural powers were recruited. He came without thinking.
Last time, the state government recruited people with ice-related supernatural powers to treat locusts.
This time, the recruitment must be another big event!
As long as it is for the good of their people, he will do his best!
Tian Yong has a supernatural badge, level three, and he passed as soon as he signed up, and then followed a minor official to the farm.
He was one of the early ones, but there were already a few people in front of him. Including his batch, there were exactly ten people.
I don't know what food was cooked in the farm, but the fragrance can be smelled from far away.
Tian Yong was so greedy that he swallowed his saliva. He looked at the others and saw that they were all smacking their lips secretly.
Master Zhang (official)
:The agricultural official who led them was named Zhang, and everyone called him Master Zhang.:
There were several large tables in the yard. After a while, the servants carried out the food and placed them on the tables one by one.
Unimportant peraon
:The food was orange and exuded the fragrance they had just smelled!:
Master Zhang (official)
Master Zhang asked everyone to taste it, "This is called corn, a newly discovered grain. You can all eat it freely. What we have to do later is to plant this corn, ripen it and harvest the seeds."
Tian Yong (Farmer)
:Tian Yong, like other superpowers, couldn't help it. He picked up a bowl of cornmeal paste, blew it, and drank it directly without fear of the heat.:
Tian Yong (Farmer)
*It smells good!It smells really good!Drinking the paste, there are also cornmeal cakes to eat with pickles.This cake is also fragrant!In addition to the cakes, there are also freshly cooked tender corn cobs.
This is also fragrant!*
A group of people didn't say anything, and they all buried their heads in eating.
Unimportant peraon
After eating, someone couldn't wait to ask, "Master Zhang, this corn smells so good! How much is the yield per mu? When to plant it? Is it easy to get insects?"
Master Zhang (official)
Master Zhang said, "I don't know, so I recruited you. From now on, you will all be agricultural officials of the prefecture. When the time comes, you will send the seeds to the villages for the people to plant. Each of you will be responsible for several villages. From planting to harvest, how to plant, how many days it takes for it to germinate, how many days it takes for corn to form, how to water and fertilize, etc., etc., please record the whole process for me and submit it in due time."
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