Li Shiming saw a village ahead and it was still early, so he removed the green light on his legs, slowed down, and returned to his normal state.
This is a village close to Zhongdu, but because this area is mostly mountainous, you can tell that the village is very poor and the houses are all thatched adobe.
"Liuzi's family is so pitiful. Their two acres of land were destroyed by the magic water. How can they survive?" As soon as I walked into the village, I heard some villagers talking.
"Who said it wasn't true? Not to mention Liuzi's family, even the fields of the neighboring families are in danger!" another villager lamented.
Farmers make their living from the land; losing their farmland means losing their livelihood.
"Old man, I don't know what this magic water is. Can you take me over to have a look?" Li Shiming's mind moved, and he performed Confucian etiquette to the old man who was speaking.
The old man looked up and saw Li Shiming in Confucian clothes. He bowed quickly and dared not speak.
Several villagers nearby also lowered their heads, trying their best to show their humility.
Those who can wear Confucian robes are at least scholars, and such a status is not something that ordinary farmers can access on a daily basis.
The closer the peasants get to Zhongdu City, the more they realize how terrifying the powerful are.
The Confucian etiquette that Li Shiming performed frightened the old man. If he had spoken in a condescending manner, it would have made the old man feel more at ease.
Although Li Shiming has a fusion of memories and emotions, deep down he still believes that everyone is equal in his previous life.
"Father, can you take me to see the magic water?" he asked helplessly again.
"I am not worthy of this. If you want to see the magic water, I will lead the way!" The old man reacted at this moment, bent over and replied helplessly with his hands folded.
The old man was not young, but his legs were very agile. He took Li Shiming to a farmland outside the village.
This farmland is a low-lying area of about ten acres, and the ground is full of large and small stones.
It can be seen that this piece of farmland was cleared out from the rubble by the villagers. The soil quality of these more than ten acres of farmland is very poor and the yield will not be good.
On the right side of more than ten acres of farmland, in the middle of two acres of fields, a large amount of thick black liquid appeared and gushed out from the ground.
Before I even got to the black box, I could smell a strong odor.
"It's oil!" Li Shiming thought to himself.
He thought of this possibility when the villagers mentioned the magic water.
Oil is not useless in this world. The raw material for pyrotechnics such as incendiary petroleum is oil. However, incendiary petroleum has always been a secret. Not to mention farmers, even most Confucian scholars do not know what oil is.
For the villagers, the land where oil appears will be contaminated by oil and lose the ability to grow crops, which is like a natural disaster that destroys their lives.
But for Li Shiming, oil means something completely different.
Oil makes a lot of things possible, such as diesel, gasoline, and plastics.
Oil is known as the blood of industry. With either diesel or gasoline, he can make more efficient generators and carry out many of his ideas.
"Father-in-law, thank you for leading the way!" Li Shiming took out a tael of silver and handed it over to express his gratitude.
After the old man took the silver with trembling hands, he turned and left the village.
There was no need for him to show up in person to purchase this place. When he returned home, he instructed Manager Zhang to handle the matter.
When the owner of the ten acres of farmland heard that someone wanted to buy it, he did not object at all. Instead, he agreed with gratitude.
Of course, the price Li Shiming offered was very high, which was enough for them to purchase the same amount of good farmland.
A day later, the first two barrels of oil were delivered to a residence outside the city, which was also purchased for storage purposes.
It is impossible to refine oil on a large scale in the computer room, but the advantage is that under the micro-manipulation of consciousness, using the most primitive equipment, several basic substances can be refined.
The oil produced in that village is of good quality, with the diesel rate reaching 40% and the gasoline rate reaching 20%.
Li Shiming was very busy every day after that.
Every day, most of the spiritual power is used for spell casting practice in order to speed up the casting speed.
Because among the basic conditions for making talismans, the more proficient and faster you are in casting the spell, the more helpful it will be in making talismans.
Oil refining causes a lot of pollution, so he has to go to residential areas outside the city to refine the oil every day. During the process of refining the oil, he constantly discharges toxic waste gas out of the machine room to avoid affecting the growth of spiritual rice and unknown spiritual plants.
In addition, he also needed to pay attention to the growth of the unknown spiritual plant. He didn't know whether he was lucky or the unknown spiritual plant was not destined to die. With the nourishment of the "Spring Breeze and Rain Technique" every day, the spiritual roots and grafted branches of the unknown spiritual plant survived.
From now on, it depends on when the spores on the branches of the spiritual plant can grow. Only when the spiritual plant has leaves can it have a basis for survival.
Manager Zhang didn't know what the young master wanted to do with the black and smelly water, so he followed orders and had people transport the black water to residents outside the city in truckloads every day.
He was also anxious, as the next spring examination was not far away, but the young master did not seem to take it seriously.
As a servant, he was unable to persuade the young master and could only hope that the young master would wake up in time.
Li Shiming, who was worried about by Manager Zhang, was shutting down the original steam engine.
A new diesel generator replaced the steam engine and the original generator, generating more power and more stability.
He stored part of the diesel refined from petroleum in two empty storage bags and placed them in the engine room, so as to save as much space as possible.
Although the space inside the storage bag is only one cubic meter, it only takes up a tiny bit of space in the computer room.
Most of his computer room space is now occupied by spiritual rice. Add in the IBM z15, uninterruptible power supply, diesel generator, electric arc furnace, and space for cultivating unknown spiritual plants, and there is really not much space left.
He placed more diesel in the basements of houses outside the city as a reserve resource.
Even if the oil in the fields is mined now, there is no need to worry about the diesel consumption next year.
I believe that after arriving at the sect, he will be able to find a way to convert spirit stones into electricity. This is actually mentioned in "Introduction to Runes", but he cannot create a spirit stone generator based on a simple description.
Li Shiming had a lot of gold and silver in his hands, and Mo Yan had not been idle during this period.
Because he would be joining the sect in the future, gold and silver would be of no use to him, so he used the gold and silver to let Mo Yan buy a large amount of various minerals.
Minerals without spiritual energy are not given due attention in this world. Many minerals that Li Shiming considers to be extremely rare are regarded as ores with impurities in this world.
It is possible that the existence of the immortal cultivation civilization has suppressed the civilization of this world. The most important things in this world are still metals such as gold and silver that can be used as currency.
Once the various types of ores reach Li Shiming's hands, they are processed in an electric arc furnace, smelted and decomposed into various metals.
As the days passed, he accumulated more and more resources.