Li Shiming saw a village ahead, and it was still early. He canceled the cyan light on his legs, slowed down, and returned to his 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 and adobe houses.
"The Liuzi family is really pitiful. Two acres of their fields were destroyed by the magic water. How can their family survive?" As soon as they entered the village, they heard some villagers discussing.
"Who says it's not true? Not to mention the Liuzi family, the fields of the neighboring families are not safe!" another villager lamented.
Farmers make a living from their fields. Losing their farmland means losing their livelihood.
"Old man, I don't know what this magic water is. Can you take me there to have a look?" Li Shiming's heart moved, and he greeted the old man who spoke with Confucian etiquette.
The old man looked up and saw Li Shiming in a Confucian shirt, and he quickly bowed and did not dare to speak.
Several villagers on the side also lowered their heads, trying to show their humility as much as possible.
Those who can wear Confucian shirts are at least scholars. Such a status is not something ordinary farmers can come into contact with on a daily basis.
The closer they get to Zhongdu City, the more the farmers know how terrifying the powerful are.
Li Shiming's Confucian etiquette frightened the old man. If he spoke in a condescending manner, the old man would be more at ease than if he spoke in a condescending manner.
Although Li Shiming has the fusion of memory and emotion, he still has the mentality of equality in his previous life.
"Old man, can you take me to see the magic water?" He asked repeatedly helplessly.
"Young man, I can't afford it. If you want to see the magic water, I should lead the way!" Only then did the old man react, and he bowed and replied with helplessness.
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 in size, surrounded by large and small rocks.
It can be seen that this farmland was collected by the villagers from the rubble. 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, a large area of thick black liquid emerged from the ground in the middle of two acres of farmland.
Before reaching the black liquid, I smelled a strong smell.
"It's oil!" Li Shiming thought, and it turned out to be true.
When the villagers mentioned the magic water, he thought of this possibility.
Petroleum is not useless in this world. Raw materials such as fierce fire oil are petroleum. However, fierce fire oil is always a secret. Not to mention farmers, even most Confucian scholars do not know about petroleum.
For villagers, the land where oil appears will be contaminated by oil and 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 couple of silver and handed it over to express his thanks.
After the old man took the silver with trembling hands, he turned and left the village.
The purchase of this place did not require his presence. When he returned home, he asked Manager Zhang to handle the matter.
When the owner of the more than ten acres of farmland heard that someone wanted to buy it, he didn't object at all. Instead, he gratefully agreed.
Of course, Li Shiming's price was very high, which was enough for them to purchase the same amount of fertile land.
One day later, the first two barrels of oil were delivered to a residence outside the city, which was also purchased for storage convenience.
Refining oil in the computer room space cannot be achieved on a large scale, but the advantage is that with the micro-control of consciousness, basic substances can be extracted using the most primitive equipment.
The quality of the oil produced in that village is good, with the diesel production rate reaching 40% and the gasoline production rate reaching 20%.
In the days after Li Shiming, he was very busy every day.
Spend most of your spiritual energy on spell casting practice every day in order to speed up your spell casting.
Because among the basic conditions for making talismans, the more proficient you are in spellcasting, the faster it will be, and the more helpful it will be for making talismans.
Refining oil is very polluting. He has to go to residential houses outside the city to refine it every day. During the process of refining oil, toxic waste gas is continuously discharged out of the machine room to avoid affecting the growth of spiritual rice and unknown spiritual plants.
In addition, he also needs to pay attention to the growth of the unknown spiritual plant. Whether he is lucky or the unknown spiritual plant should not die, under the nourishment of the "Spring Breeze and Rain Art" every day, the unknown spiritual plant's spiritual roots and grafting skills have survived.
From now on, it depends on when the spores on the branches of the spiritual plant can grow. Only with leaves can the spiritual plant have a basis for survival.
Manager Zhang didn't know what the young master wanted the black and stinky black water for, so he obeyed the order and ordered people to transport the black water to the residences outside the city by carloads every day.
He was also impatient. It seemed that next year's spring would not be long, but the young master seemed not to pay much attention to spring.
As a servant, he couldn't persuade him. He only hoped that the young master could wake up in time.
Li Shiming, who was worried by Manager Zhang, was decommissioning the original steam engine.
A brand-new diesel generator replaced the steam engine and the original generator, with greater power generation and more stability.
Part of the diesel oil extracted from petroleum was stored in two empty storage bags and placed in the machine room space, so as to save as much space as possible in the machine room.
Even though the space inside the storage bag is only one cubic meter, it only takes up an insignificant amount of space in the computer room.
Most of the space in his current computer room is occupied by spiritual rice. With the IBMz15, uninterruptible power supply, diesel generator, electric arc furnace, and unknown spiritual plant cultivation space, there is really not much space left.
More diesel was placed underground in residential buildings outside the city as a reserve resource.
Even if the oil in the fields is extracted now, there is no need to worry about the diesel consumed next year.
I believe that after arriving at the sect, he will be able to find a way to use spiritual stones to convert them into electricity. This is actually mentioned in the 'Introduction to Runes', but he cannot create a spiritual stone generator with a simple description.
Li Shiming had a lot of gold and silver in his hands, and Mo Yan was not idle during this period.
Since gold and silver would be of no use when entering the sect in the future, he used the gold and silver to let Mo Yan purchase a large amount of various ores.
Ore without aura does not receive due attention in this world. Many ores that Li Shiming considers to be extremely rare are regarded as ores with impurities in this world.
Perhaps the existence of the immortal civilization has suppressed the civilization of this world. The most important thing in this world is still metals such as gold and silver that can be used as currency.
Once all kinds of ores arrive in 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.