Cultivation: Start with Inviting Gods

After dinner, Jiang Nanhe chatted with Village Chief Zhang about some family matters, and then took out the things he needed to trade. He took out some dried meat, some herbs, and a very soft cloth woven from the wool of a general's lamb from his luggage and put them on the table. "Village Chief Zhang, these are all I have. See how much you can exchange. If the exchanged materials are too few, I can exchange some with you with my special ointment. My ointment is very effective in treating injuries such as bruises, sprains, and broken bones. You should be able to use it." Village Chief Zhang was a little surprised when he saw the things Jiang Nanhe put on the table. These things were already very precious in their village, especially the cloth that Jiang Nanhe took out, which looked particularly soft. Although the cloth is made by weaving, it is more like a thin blanket, but it can also be made into clothes. The coarse cloth clothes worn by farmers are similar to that cloth, and are all woven in this way.

The most important thing is that the cloth looks particularly soft, and the white cloth seems to be shining in the sun.

Village Chief Zhang touched a small corner of the cloth with his fingers, and then spoke with some amazement.

"The cloth that Jiang Xiaoshen took out is really extraordinary! Not only is it very soft, but it also feels very comfortable to the touch. It is a good material that keeps you warm in winter and cool in summer.

If we sell this cloth in the city or town, it will definitely sell for a high price, but our village is really not rich. We can only get three jars of large salt to exchange for this roll of cloth."

Jiang Nanhe tilted his head. The jar that Zhang the village chief was talking about was a very large jar, taller than Jiang Nanhe, and relatively large for an adult. If it was filled with salt, it should be more than ten pounds. Three jars of more than thirty pounds are enough for Jiang Nanhe to eat for almost two or three years.

However, this salt still contains some impurities. If Jiang Nanhe minds, he will have to ask them to refine it into fine salt. There will definitely be some loss in the middle, and the fine salt obtained in the end is estimated to be relatively small.

However, this is relatively expensive. Salt was expensive in ancient times. The reason why they could take out so much at once was because there was a salt mine nearby. This salt mine was called official salt, but in fact, there was still a lot of smuggling. After all, the country did not crack down on this aspect very much. Isn't the world in chaos?

As for why Village Chief Zhang exchanged so much salt for this cloth, it was not because he wanted to use it. No one in the whole village could afford it. He wanted to give it to the officials in the county.

As the saying goes, the third-rank official in front of the prime minister, who can become a village chief, has some connections and prestige. His son is looking for a job in the county, and he thinks that this cloth should help him to move up a level.

Jiang Nanhe thought about it for a while, nodded and agreed. This cloth is not very long. The cloth is one meter wide and four meters and four meters long. If it is made into clothes, it can barely make a set that is not too big. The reason why the cloth looks special is all due to the wool of the lamb.

"Okay, then I'll exchange it for three jars of salt. As for the remaining herbs, you probably won't need them, right? Do you want to exchange these smoked meats? If so, I need to exchange them for some seeds of crops and vegetables. I wonder what crops are grown in our village?"

Hearing Jiang Nanhe agree to the exchange, the village chief's eyes lit up and he carefully picked up the cloth.

He called a young man behind him and asked him to move the salt jar. He took the cloth back and handed the remaining work of exchanging food to another old man.

The old man stepped forward and looked at the smoked meat and other things that Jiang Nanhe took out, and finally gave a positive answer.

A smoked rabbit can be exchanged for three kilograms of wheat seeds, and a smoked chicken can be exchanged for four kilograms of wheat seeds.

Jiang Nanhe didn't understand that chickens were more valuable than rabbits, after all, rabbits had more meat, but he didn't understand it, and he agreed with what the old man said.

There are still a lot of seeds of crops in the village. Jiang Nanhe didn't know why. There were all kinds of crops in this dynasty in ancient times.

He found sweet potatoes, potatoes, and a crop he didn't recognize, but it was also very large. The villagers called it pink taro.

He even saw cabbage and carrots. The weirdest thing was that he exchanged a kind of vegetable called red fruit from the villagers. They said that the plant can grow to more than one person tall, and the fruit it produces changes from green to red. It tastes sour and sweet. It can be used as both a vegetable and a fruit. The more Jiang Nanhe listened, the more he thought it looked like a tomato.

There are also some ordinary green vegetables, some of which are called village

The villagers didn't know, so they called them green vegetables, which were their staple food in winter. Jiang Nanhe also exchanged some beets from them. He had heard of them before, but had never seen them. The whole root of the beet was red, and the food cooked was sweet and could produce sugar.

Jiang Nanhe was coaxed by the seeds of various crops provided by the villagers. Wow, many crops that have only developed in modern times are available here, so why are they still living so miserably?

Thinking of this, Jiang Nanhe also asked. In his opinion, since the resources here are so rich and so many crops can be grown, the problem of food and clothing should be solved well.

In response to Jiang Nanhe's inquiry, the old man who exchanged things with him also answered truthfully that it was because of the land. Although they had rich resources, the land was not easy to produce grain.

These seeds were planted on the ground, and the harvest was pitifully small every year. They also tried some other methods, but there was no way to improve it.

The land here is not suitable for growing these crops and vegetables. If they are planted, the seeds they harvest each year are also small. Moreover, the more fertile land is planted with grain. If there is not enough grain, they will be beheaded.

Although these vegetables are abundant, there is no extra land for them to grow. This is very different from the situation in Jiang Nanhe's memory of the countryside in his own dynasty, where any corner of the country where vegetable seeds can be planted can germinate.

But it is also normal. After all, the world's climate is changing all the time. The climate here is not suitable for the growth of these crops, or they can only grow and grow healthily on fertile land. It should be relatively normal, right?

Jiang Nanhe was skeptical, but he exchanged a lot of these seeds. It is said that there are a lot of them, but these seeds are actually only two sacks when they are piled together.

Jiang Nanhe was very surprised that he could exchange so many seeds for smoked rabbits, smoked chickens, and other smoked meats. These are not for eating. If they are used as food, there must be not much, but if they are used as seeds, they can already plant several acres of land.

Jiang Nanhe has little space on the top of the mountain, and he and the general haven't reclaimed much land. These vegetables are relatively rare, so they can be planted in the general's blessed land.

A large part of the space in the blessed land is used by Jiang Nanhe for Chinese herbal medicine, but there is still a large part of it empty, after all, there are not many herbs on the mountain.

So it is necessary for Jiang Nanhe to plant some vegetables and enrich his daily meals.

Moreover, this year he and the general have reclaimed some land, including some vacant land on Qinshan Mountain, and are ready to plant these wheat. Planting more wheat is a must, and Jiang Nanhe can't wait to eat pasta.

It would be better if there were rice seeds here, but unfortunately there are none here.

Jiang Nanhe thought with some regret, and he tied the two sacks of seeds. The seeds were large and small. In Jiang Nanhe's opinion, the two sacks had completely solved his physiological needs for many years to come.

Moreover, some vegetables, such as beets, can replenish the body's sugar content, and their reddish color can also be used to make dyes. Jiang Nanhe has decided to practice martial arts in the mountains in the next few years. These crops are enough for him to live.