Li Shiming saw a village in front of him, and it was still early. He canceled the blue light on his legs, slowed down, and returned to the normal state.
This is a village close to Zhongdu, but because it is mostly mountainous, it can be seen that the village is very poor, and the houses are all thatched adobe houses.
"Liuzi's family is really pitiful. The two mu of land was destroyed by the magic water. How can his family survive!" As soon as he entered the village, he heard villagers talking.
"Whoever says it's not, let alone Liu Zi's family, the fields of the neighboring families are hard to protect!" Another villager lamented.
Farmers make their living from the fields, and losing farmland is tantamount to losing their livelihood.
"Old man, I don't know what this magical water is, can you take me there to have a look?" Li Shiming's heart moved, and he gave Confucian courtesy to the old man who spoke.
The old man looked up and saw Li Shiming in a Confucian shirt, he quickly bowed down and dared not speak.
The few villagers on the side also lowered their heads, showing their humility as much as possible.
Those who can wear Confucian shirts are at least scholars, and such an identity is not something ordinary farmers can come into contact with.
The closer they were to the central capital, the more the peasants knew how terrible the powerful were.
The Confucian etiquette practiced by Li Shiming frightened the old man. If he spoke with an attitude of looking down, it would make the old man feel more at ease.
Although Li Shiming has a fusion of memory and emotion, he still has the mentality of equality in his previous life.
"Old man, can you show me the magic water?" He repeated helplessly.
"I can't afford to be a little old man. If you want to see the magic water, I will lead the way!" The old man finally came to his senses at this moment, bowing his body and replying helplessly.
The old man was not young, but his legs and feet were very flexible. He took Li Shiming to a farmland outside the village.
This farmland is a low-lying land, about ten acres or so, surrounded by large and small stones.
It can be seen that this piece of farmland was picked up by the villagers from the gravel. The soil quality of the more than ten acres of farmland is very poor, and the production will not be good.
On the right side of more than ten acres of farmland, a thick black liquid gushed out from the ground in the middle of two acres of fields.
Before reaching the black liquid, he smelled a strong smell.
"It's oil!" Li Shiming thought to himself.
When the villagers mentioned magic water, he thought of this possibility.
Oil is not useless in this world. The raw material of Menghuo oil is oil, but Menghuo oil is always a secret, not to mention farmers, even most Confucian scholars do not know oil.
For the villagers, the land where oil appears will be polluted by oil, and they will lose the ability to plant. This is like a natural disaster that destroys their lives.
But oil has a completely different meaning to Li Shiming.
With oil, there are many things, such as diesel, gasoline and plastics.
Petroleum is known as the blood of industry. With either diesel or gasoline, he can create more efficient generators, and many of his ideas can be carried forward.
"Old man, thank you for leading the way!" Li Shiming took a tael of silver and handed it over to thank him.
After the old man took the silver with trembling hands, he turned and left the village.
He didn't need to be involved in the purchase here, and he ordered Guanshi Zhang to handle the matter when he got home.
The owner of the more than ten acres of farmland heard that someone wanted to buy it, and he didn't object at all. Instead, he was grateful for Dade's agreement.
Of course, Li Shiming's price was very high, which was enough for them to buy the same amount of fertile land.
A day later, the first batch of two barrels of oil was delivered to a residence outside the city, where it was also purchased for convenient storage.
The refinement of oil in the space of the computer room cannot be scaled up, but the advantage is that under the micro-manipulation of consciousness, several basic substances can be extracted with the most primitive equipment.
The oil produced in that village is of good quality, with a diesel output rate of 40% and gasoline output rate of 20%.
In the days after Li Shiming, every day was very busy.
Most of the spiritual power is used for spell-casting practice every day, in order to speed up the spell-casting speed.
Because among the basic conditions for making talismans, the more proficient the spellcasting, the faster the speed, and the more helpful it is for making talismans.
Refining oil is very polluting. He has to go to residential buildings outside the city to refine it every day. During the process of refining oil, the toxic waste gas is constantly discharged out of the computer room space, so as not to affect the growth of spiritual rice and unknown spiritual plants.
In addition, he also needs to pay attention to the growth of Unknown Lingzhi. I don't know if he is lucky, or Unknown Lingzhi should not die. Under the nourishment of the "Spring Wind Transforming Rain Art" every day, Unknown Lingzhi's spiritual roots and grafting techniques have survived.
In the future, it depends on when the spores on the branches of the spiritual plant can grow. Only with the leaves can the spiritual plant have the basis for survival.
Zhang Guanshi didn't know what the young master wanted the black and foul-smelling black water for, he obeyed the order and ordered people to transport the black water to the houses outside the city every day.
He is also impatient, it won't be long next year, but the young master doesn't seem to pay much attention to Chun Wei.
As a servant, he can't persuade him, he only hopes that the young master can wake up in time.
Li Shiming, who was worried by Guanshi Zhang, was stopping the original steam engine.
A brand new diesel generator replaces the steam engine and the original generator, with larger and more stable power generation.
Part of the diesel oil extracted from petroleum is stored in two vacant storage bags in the computer room space, which can save as much room as possible in the computer room.
Although the space in the storage bag is only one cubic meter, it only takes up a small amount of space in the computer room.
Most of the space in his current computer room is occupied by Lingdao. With the addition of IBM z15, uninterruptible power supply, diesel generator, electric arc furnace, and space for cultivating unknown spiritual plants, there is really not much space left.
He put more diesel under the houses outside the city as reserve resources.
Even if the oil in the fields is extracted now, there is no need to worry about the diesel consumption next year.
I believe that after arriving at the Zongmen, 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 with a simple description.
Li Shiming has a lot of gold and silver in his hands, and the ink inkstone has not been idle during this time.
Gold and silver would be useless because he was going to enter the sect in the future, so he used the gold and silver to let Mo Yan buy a large amount of various ores.
Ores without aura have not received due attention in this world. Many ores that are extremely rare in Li Shiming's view are regarded as ores with impurities in this world.
Perhaps the existence of cultivating civilization has suppressed the civilization of this world, and the most important thing in this world is still gold and silver, which can be used as currency.
Once all kinds of ores arrived in Li Shiming's hands, they were processed in an electric arc furnace, smelted and decomposed into various metals.
As the days passed, he accumulated more and more resources.
(end of this chapter)