The Imperial Students in Action
"Sir, a thousand mu is an understatement; in good areas, it can even reach fifteen hundred mu!"
Upon hearing this, Old Man Liu's eyes widened like copper bells.
After thinking about it for a moment, he sighed.
"Sigh, this old man is just grasping at straws in his desperation! Even if such a good thing really existed, it wouldn't happen to me!"
After saying that, he turned and walked towards the fields without looking back.
But as soon as he turned his head, someone grabbed his arm.
"Don't go, sir! You don't believe me? Look at this!"
Suddenly, the young man found himself holding a handful of Seed.
The Seed were plump and full; even Old Man Liu, who had farmed all his life, had never seen Seed like them before.
"This... this is..."
Seeing Old Man Liu's stammering manner, the young man simply took out a small bag of Seed from behind him and handed it to him.
"Sir, it's yours. You can try it. If the output is less than a thousand, I'll compensate you for the shortfall!"
Seeing that the old man still didn't believe him, the young man quickly explained, "Sir, to tell you the truth, I am a student of Prince Ning. I am acting on Prince Ning's orders, traveling throughout Blazing Sun to help the farmers!"
Although Old Man Liu was still somewhat skeptical, he had heard of Prince Ning's reputation.
"Prince Ning? Is he the 125th prince who recently rendered meritorious service to the Immortal Kingdom? I heard that the Liang Empire was able to join the Immortal Kingdom entirely thanks to Prince Ning!"
For these ordinary people, whether you are this prince or that prince, it has absolutely nothing to do with them.
However, during their leisure time, these princes, who were contenders for the throne, would still become the subject of their conversations.
Zhuo Ning, in particular, who has recently risen to fame in the Immortal Kingdom, is known to everyone.
"That's right, sir. Prince Ning is worried about your farmers' harvest, which is why he sent us students here!"
Having said that, the young man nodded to the enormous steel giant behind him.
The giant, who had been motionless, slowly stood up.
Looking at the enormous creature that stood nearly five meters tall, Old Man Liu had completely lost the ability to speak; he simply stood there with a look of terror on his face.
The young man looked at Old Man Liu with an expression that said, "I knew it."
"Grandpa, isn't that your land over there?"
Seeing the young man point to the spot he had just come from, Old Man Liu nodded subconsciously.
Before he could react, the enormous steel giant headed straight for their field.
After a series of changes, it transformed into a strangely shaped machine.
And then it started moving back and forth on his property, doing something unknown.
Old Man Liu was naturally shocked to see this.
His family's fields depend on this year's harvest. What if that behemoth causes something and affects this year's yield?
Thinking of this, Old Man Liu could no longer control the young people around him and hurriedly ran towards his own land.
But when they got closer, they froze.
Is this really my own land?
It was only early spring, and every household was plowing their fields, making preparations for the upcoming planting season.
Because of what happened at Old Man Liu's house last year, he acted much earlier than others.
One-tenth of the family's fields have already been plowed.
It will take at least another half month to plow all the remaining land.
But what lay before Old Man Liu were rows of plowed land.
The neatness of it all seemed impossible for a human to achieve.
Just as Old Man Liu was gazing appreciatively at his land, a series of exclamations came from not far away.
"How is this possible?"
Perhaps because the strange machine formed by the steel giant was too frightening, the villagers all ran away from the fields to the side.
Those standing not far away naturally noticed the machine's achievements, hence their exclamations of amazement.
It turned out that in just a short while, this giant machine had plowed all of Old Man Liu's farmland.
It has now run into someone else's field.
Hearing the exclamation, the young man thought his machine had malfunctioned and quickly stopped it.
"The immortals have appeared! The immortals have appeared!"
As the giant machine came to a stop, everyone rushed to the young man and knelt down in worship.
Old Man Liu then recalled the young man's words and naturally believed them wholeheartedly.
So, Old Man Liu quickly walked up to the young man and said, "Young man, you said you were sent by Prince Ning?"
"That's right, sir!"
"What about the Seed from before...?"
Seeing Old Man Liu's shy expression, the young man handed over the small bag of Seed without saying a word.
Seeing the confusion in the eyes of the others, the young man smiled slightly and repeated what he had said before.
Unfortunately, the young man said that the bag of Seed was the only one he had.
After giving it to Old Man Liu, he had no grains left.
However, he told everyone not to rush.
He waved at the huge machine that had stopped in the field.
The machine transformed back into the steel giant it had been before and appeared before the young man.
The young man pointed to the steel giant behind him and said with a smile, "Don't worry, everyone. Even if Prince Ning has extraordinary abilities, he can't possibly provide every household with Seed for spring planting! However..."
"But what?"
Seeing the young man's smiling face, some villagers quickly asked him questions.
"You can give me the Seed you've prepared for planting at home, and I can increase your Seed yield!"
Upon hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up.
"Is it as tall as the one you gave to Old Man Liu?"
Unfortunately, the young man shook his head. "That's impossible. What I gave that old man was something I brought from the Southern Frontier."
Seeing the disappointed expressions on everyone's faces, the young man continued, "However, doubling it shouldn't be a problem!"
"Ah?"
"Really?"
"Hurry up and get the Seed!"
No one knows whose reminder it was, but everyone scattered in a panic, eager to go home and get the Seed.
Just kidding, you should know that their average grain yield per mu in previous years was only a little over 400 jin.
Now it can double! That's something I never even dared to dream of.
They didn't believe it before because subconsciously they thought it was impossible.
But isn't it impossible to finish plowing a field that would take them more than half a month in less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn?
Isn't that now possible?
Of course, some timid villagers were worried that there might be a trap, so they did not go forward and chose to wait and see.
For a time, the same situation occurred in many villages in the Immortal Kingdom.
Under Zhuo Ning's orders, agricultural students from the Imperial University of Xia Kingdom are traveling between various villages in the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom.