Farming Plans
After an incense stick's time, two more people came to his attention, one of whom possessed the blue talent [Spirit Incense Making].
Zhao Lingyue, an outer disciple, is skilled in selecting and refining incense materials, which can greatly improve the quality of the incense sticks she produces.
The other is Zhang Bing, a handyman, who is gifted in preaching. He has a natural affinity for people and can win the hearts of believers, thus multiplying the effectiveness of preaching.
Lin Xu's gaze swept over Chen Xuanli, Zhao Lingyue, and Zhang Bing. These three would become the core members of the Incense Offering Hall. Chen Xuanli would be in charge of refining incense and guiding the power of wishes; Zhao Lingyue would provide high-quality incense materials; and Zhang Bing would be responsible for expanding the believer base.
To ensure the continuation of the family line.
"These three can be considered protectors of the Dharma."
It was one thing to accept Zhang Bing, the handyman, but the other two were formal disciples of the Daoist temple, so they couldn't be forcibly recruited.
"These people can't stay at the Incense Offering Hall anymore. They all need to be transferred to the five villages to reclaim wasteland and quickly increase the production of the Daoist temple's basic resources." Lin Xu thought to himself, his gaze falling on the village management interface.
In addition to various functional buildings, the Incense Offering Hall is also responsible for the daily management of five affiliated villages. He opened the relevant panel for Peach Tree Village.
Peach Tree Village, a level 1 village (upgradeable), has resident disciples including Chen Yuanfu and Wang Yue, and 25 households with a total of 133 people. Among them, there are 56 false believers, 43 superficial believers, 31 true believers, and 3 devout believers. The village produces 284 incense points per month.
The village produces 2,500 catties of rice and 25 catties of spirit rice per month. Looking at the data on the panel, Lin Xu's gaze sharpened. "This data seems a bit off."
The hundreds of acres of farmland he developed weren't even included in the data panel!
After careful examination, Lin Xu suddenly realized. "The data panel shows the development status of resources such as village land and crops, but the offerings in the village need to be adjusted constantly—"
Because no one adjusted the system, the offerings collected in the village were calculated on a per-household basis.
"In that case, there's great potential!" A thought struck him. According to this calculation method, he could completely develop the village and pocket the rest, except for what had to be handed over!
On his first day in office, he was thinking about how to undermine the Daoist temple.
Of the five villages, the largest are West Willow Tree Village and Great Wang Village, which were also the first two villages to pay land rent to the Daoist temple.
The village has a population of over 1,000, with about 300 households, and is fully equipped with functional buildings. It has even developed local specialties and has long met the standards for village upgrading.
Judging solely from the incense offerings and land rent paid, either of these two villages would be worth 10 times more than Peach Tree Village.
More than twice.
"What a waste of such good conditions~" Lin Xu shook his head slightly as he checked the village's data.
The NPCs have absolutely no idea how to manage things. These villages could have been upgraded long ago, but no one has been managing them.
There is no development plan; it relies entirely on natural population growth, adopting a "go with the flow" approach.
Considering that there are dozens of villagers in Peach Tree Village who haven't been recruited, perhaps we can look forward to it.
"First, we need to deploy manpower to the five villages." Lin Xu glanced at the disciples and protectors standing in the main hall and quickly made a decision. "Meng Yaoguang go to West Willow Tree Village, Meng Yaohua to Great Wang Village, Chen A'niu to Chen Lineage Village, Liu Jiayao to Wang Family Village."
These inner disciples were newly recruited, and their thinking abilities were no different from ordinary NPCs. In terms of management skills, they were not even as good as the village chief.
On the contrary, those he kept by his side and nurtured have shown significant changes these days, making it easier for him to implement his will and facilitating their growth and transformation.
These people are his tentacles, enabling him to issue commands at lightning speed.
"Since we're going to farm, let's do it to the best of our ability!" Lin Xu glanced at the waiting crowd. "You all go and prepare. Once I've refined the spirit-patterned farming tools, I'll take them to the villages and distribute them."
To do a good job, one must first have the right tools. He got up and walked towards the Artifact Refining Hall.
"Greetings, Hall Master!" The disciple on duty in the Artifact Refining Hall bowed respectfully.
"Prepare all these materials and send them to the Refining Pavilion." Lin Xu handed over a piece of paper covered with lists of spiritual materials.
"Yes, Lord!" the disciple bowed.
As a high-ranking member of the Daoist temple, Lin Xu's authority increased significantly after being promoted to temple master. Not only did he receive a 30% discount on merit points, but he also had a free quota of tens of thousands of merit points to redeem each month.
Soon, a group of servants, led by the disciples in charge, piled up a large amount of spiritual materials in the weapon-refining room.
Compared to the simple weapon-refining room that Lin Xu built himself, the conditions here are undoubtedly much better.
The spiritual fire drawn from the underground fire vein can provide a continuous source of fire, and the Spirit Gathering Formation can draw in a massive amount of Spiritual Qi, which can support the weapon refiner to refine weapons for a relatively long time.
Moreover, compared to the Precious Radiance Spirit-Tempering Cauldron forged by Lin Xu, the cauldrons from the Artifact Refining Hall are undoubtedly more useful.
Qianyuan Artifact Refining Cauldron, Purple Excellent-grade Magic Weapon Effects: Refining success rate +35%, Refining quality +1, Mana consumption -30%
"Not bad, that's professional!" Looking at the "Refining Quality +1" data in the effect panel, Lin Xu nodded in satisfaction.
This data doesn't represent an upgrade in the quality of the crafting process, but rather a genuine improvement in its effectiveness.
For example, when using the same materials and techniques to refine magical artifacts, those refined using the Qianyuan Artifact Refining Cauldron are superior in terms of durability and power.
This time, he was going to refine spirit-patterned farming tools. Since he could carve inscriptions and magic arrays onto farming tools, there was no reason why he couldn't refine them directly using the same refining methods.
Under the burning of the spirit fire, the black iron quickly liquefied, and the impurities in it turned into slag and precipitated out. Even the trace amounts of other metals were separated and purified one by one.
When the liquid black iron takes shape, the liquefied copper essence and other materials solidify into seal script, which is distributed in a three-dimensional form within the black iron farm tools.
Once the spiritual fire dissipated, the high temperature within the magical artifacts was quickly extracted, and several artifacts appeared in Lin Xu's spiritual perception.
"The hoe for tilling the land, the soil-breaking machine for sowing, the seed drill, the water pump for irrigation, plus the fertilizer jars for composting—that's basically it—"
Lin Xu looked at the magical artifacts and farming tools that shimmered with spiritual energy, and a farmer's smile appeared on his face.
The "Azure Earth Artifact Refining Manual" contains a variety of agricultural tools and magical artifacts. Previously, lacking resources, he could only use rudimentary spirit-enchanted agricultural tools. Now that he holds the reins of the entire Incense Offering Hall, he naturally wants to refine them as soon as possible.
These magical implements and farming tools include both those commonly used by farmers and those with a Daoist or Daoist style. For example, the water-drawing wheel, which sounds like a water transport wheel, is actually a combination of magical implements.
Compared to a one-piece molded ritual implement, this modular ritual implement can be disassembled into multiple independent components.
Taking the water-drawing cart as an example, it can be disassembled into a wheelbarrow that can move on the water, a Spiritual Qi, a "nozzle" that releases Cloud Water Technique, and a mountain-watching device used to lock onto the target farmland.
Using a water truck to sprinkle water involves placing the magical artifact near the target farmland and then activating it to release Cloud Water Technique.