The problems faced by the mortals of the Zhou family are indeed serious.
Zhou Yang valued mortals more than almost all Zhou family monks, so after hearing Zhou Xuankun talk about this, he immediately flew to the places where mortals lived in the Yuquan Lake Oasis.
After an on-site visit and investigation, he found that the number of mortals on the Zhoujia Yuquan Lake Oasis has exceeded 200,000, including as many as 30,000 to 40,000 mortals aged between one and sixteen years old!
Obviously, these mortals were all born in recent years.
According to the Zhou family's mortal growth data that he had seen before, the number of mortals born in the Zhou family every year would not exceed 800.
"Population!"
Zhou Yang sighed in his heart when he saw this scene.
In most countries in the Immortal Cultivation World of Liuyun Continent, each Immortal Cultivation Family is eager to increase the number of mortals in the family. The more the number, the better. They will even take the initiative to introduce some subsidy policies to encourage mortals to have children to stimulate population growth.
However, in the world of immortal cultivation in the boundless sea of sand, even the Zifu family, which occupies a large oasis like the Chen family, dare not let the mortals of the family let go.
The level of medical and health care in this world may not be as good as that of his previous life, but with the existence of immortal cultivators and the existence of various powerful elixirs, the mortality rate of infants born to mortals is not high.
If a mortal woman from the Zhou family is pregnant, she can greatly increase the chance of a smooth delivery by drinking a bowl of spiritual water soaked in spiritual energy before giving birth.
And this kind of spiritual water stained with spiritual energy has no cost at all. As long as it is the spring water on Yuquan Peak, it will have this effect!
Even the Zhou family will take out some "Golden Pearl Rice" every year and boil it into porridge in a big pot for pregnant women and babies. Pregnant women with this kind of white porridge only need to drink a small cup of porridge without rice grains, and the anti-fetal effect will not be at all.
It's no worse than those drugs in Zhou Yang's previous life.
Therefore, if no means are used to control the population, no Immortal Cultivation Family in the Boundless Sand Sea Cultivation World can support the increasing number of mortals.
"These mortals must move halfway. However, if we adopt traditional migration methods and let these mortals walk in the sea of sand by themselves, not to mention how long it will take to cross thousands of miles of desert, even the food and drinking water supplies on the way will be difficult.
It’s very difficult to solve.”
"Well, it seems that we can only wait for my great-grandfather to come back and study with him to see if we can create a desert vehicle similar to a train through weapon refining to move these mortals!"
Zhou Yang's thoughts were wandering in his mind, and by combining the knowledge of his previous life, he had vaguely found a feasible solution.
It’s just that whether this plan is feasible or not will not be known until it is verified.
Before that, he could only ask the monks of the Zhou family to cast spells on the mortals to make rain to promote the growth of crops and alleviate the food problem of the mortals to some extent.
Then Zhou Yang rode the gryphon to the Haoyang Mountain Spiritual Veins.
Since the spiritual vein level of Haoyang Mountain was upgraded, and the desert lakes created by the water demon's original waves, the area of the oasis has suddenly increased many times.
Zhou Yang originally told Zhou Xuanyan, the late elder of the Zhou family, to build a self-sufficient oasis that could accommodate 10,000 people within twenty years.
Although Zhou Xuanyan has passed away, she has fulfilled her promise to Zhou Yang and successfully created the oasis here.
"From now on, the name of this oasis will be called Siyan Oasis, to commemorate Ba Gu who created this oasis!"
Over the Siyan Oasis, Zhou Yang looked at the new oasis below with an area of hundreds of square kilometers and the small mortal town built on the oasis, and suddenly wanted to cry.
He thought of his eighth aunt. As the only water-based martial artist in the Zhou family, this eighth aunt was basically a marginal figure in the family for the first half of her life and was not taken seriously at all, even though her cultivation level had never been low.
How many other brothers and sisters.
However, creating an oasis gave her an opportunity to show off her talents, an opportunity to shine and contribute to the family, and an opportunity to prove herself to all her clan members!
Therefore, in order to fulfill the family's trust and prove her own worth, the eighth aunt, who was nearly a hundred years old, resolutely chose to stick to this yellow sand desert and quietly use her own hands to create a new oasis for the family.
Now that the oasis has been built, the eighth aunt Zhou Xuanyan who built the oasis single-handedly passed away before she could come back to deliver the task to him. Thinking of this, Zhou Yang's eyes suddenly became wet.
"Ba Gu, you can go with peace of mind. I will let everyone in the family know about your deeds. Let everyone know that not only those who have shed blood fighting for the family can be called heroes. People like you who are fighting at the rear can be called heroes.
Those who silently contribute to the family are also family heroes, and they are family heroes who are qualified to be listed on the family's tree of heroes!"
Small people can also make great contributions, Zhou Yang knew this in his previous life.
Many of the characters who were rated as touching series in the previous life were small people. However, among such small people, there are people who can persevere for decades, plant trees and create a forest, and achieve big things that many people dare not even think of.
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In the world of cultivation, the cultivation level of his eighth aunt Zhou Xuanyan, who is at the ninth level of Qi training, is really nothing.
However, through decades of perseverance, she created a desert oasis of hundreds of square kilometers from scratch in the vast sea of sand, achieving something that even the Golden Core monks could not accomplish at once.
Zhou Yang felt that if he didn't do something for this eighth aunt, he would be useless as the patriarch of the Zhou family and a son of man.
After he made a decision in his heart, he let the griffin beast carry him to Haoyang Mountain and met his adoptive mother Zhou Xuanyu who had been living in seclusion here to practice.
Originally, he should have brought Xiao Ying over to meet this adoptive mother, but the demonic monks, especially the demonic monks from the Blood Demon Sect, had a really bad reputation in the immortal world of Liuyun Continent.
He didn't know how Xiao Ying would view Zhou Xuanyu in her heart after learning the inside story, so he put the matter aside for the time being and planned to talk about it later.
Anyway, Zhou Xuanyu still has a long life, so he is not too anxious about this matter.
"You know how to find a Taoist companion by yourself. My godmother is also very happy. She also believes that your vision is not bad. That girl Ying'er must be a woman as beautiful as a fairy. If there is a chance in the future, I must take her with me.
Come and meet your godmother, this is what your mother specially told your godmother before she died!"
On Haoyang Mountain, Zhou Xuanyu looked very happy after learning that Zhou Yang had found a Taoist companion.
She had always treated Zhou Yang as her son. Seeing Zhou Yang find a Taoist companion was like seeing her own son find a wife. How could she be unhappy?
"Don't worry, godmother. After a few years, when Ying'er and the clan members are familiar with each other, I will find an opportunity to bring her over to see you."
Zhou Yang agreed wholeheartedly and chatted with Zhou Xuanyu for nearly an hour before riding the griffin beast back to the Yuquan Lake Oasis.
After several days passed like this, Zhou Minghan finally returned to the Yuquan Lake Oasis, and at the same time, he also brought back Zhou Guangxiang, who had tempered his character on the Baisha River Oasis.
"My nephew has met Uncle Ninth and Aunt Ninth!"
Zhou Guangxiang, who is in his twenties, looks somewhat similar to his father Zhou Bao. He seems a bit dull, but in terms of personality, he has completely inherited his intelligent mother's personality and is very smart.
"Haha, Guangxiang, you have a sweet mouth. Yes, Uncle Jiu didn't hurt you in vain!"
Zhou Yang looked at Zhou Guangxiang, who was only two inches shorter than himself, and smiled. Then he reached out and patted his nephew's shoulder. He finally enjoyed the benefits of being an elder and became an elder.
addiction.
Zhou Guangxiang's experiences are very similar to those of him in the past. He has been favored by many family elders since he was a child, and he is often called to teach and benefit him.
Of course it is a good thing to do this, but every time you go to meet the elders, you have to be polite and make fun of them like a child. Zhou Yang had a headache at that time.
Now, he can finally stand up and take charge of the family, and he can accept the courtesy of the talented younger generation as an elder.
Seriously, this feels really good!
"Okay, let's talk about old times later. Xiaojiu, please come with me first. I have something to tell you. Guangxiang, please go and inform the other tribesmen that in two hours, all the tribesmen on the mountain will be here."
I want you to gather at the newly built meeting hall."
Zhou Minghan did not give Zhou Yang more time to enjoy this feeling, and quickly interrupted their conversation with a wave of his hand.
When Zhou Yang followed him to his cave, he saw the old clan leader's face turned solemn instantly.
This made him look stunned, and he couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong? Did something happen to my great-grandfather when you went out this time?"
"Something big is happening!"
Zhou Minghan nodded, and then told the story of his trip.
"I went to Baisha River Oasis this time to spread the news. The response from various families was very good. Six [Xuanqing Pills] were ordered almost on the spot by several families and some casual cultivators, and many families sent messages saying that
, I want to come to the family to visit you, probably because I want to find out about the world of immortal cultivation in Liuyun Continent."
"It's just that when I visited the Chen family, Patriarch Chen heard that you bought the auxiliary materials for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill, and said that we didn't want us to repay the loan of 20,000 spirit stones, and instead used one to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Dan’s auxiliary materials were used to pay off the debt, and it was decided to hold the [Foundation Building Conference] in three years’ time!”
"Old Ancestor Chen is just raising the price! A set of auxiliary materials for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill, the cost price I bought is as high as 24,000 spirit stones. Even if he is jealous of my harvest this time, there is no need to be like this.
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Zhou Yang looked at the old patriarch Zhou Minghan with a shocked look on his face, never expecting that things would be like this.
"No, he is not raising the price, he wants to take this opportunity to beat us and tell us not to think that because we have some relationship with Patriarch Cao, we can compete with the Chen family in the Baisha River Immortal Realm. This
There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, and he has begun to fear our Zhou family!"
Zhou Minghan shook his head and worriedly revealed the true intention of the ancestor of the Chen family.
Zhou Yang fell silent immediately after hearing this.