Chapter 17 The Difficulty of Obtaining a Stable Income

"Village Chief Moriyu, Lord Moroboshi has ordered to send fifty farmers to assist Mori Village in reclaiming fifty acres of farmland." Kimura said with a smile to Moriyu, who was dressed in a shrine maiden's costume.

Kimura didn't know the other party's origins, nor did he know how a shrine maiden became the village chief, but he would not ask any questions. This was also the reason why he could live to this age. Therefore, after greeting the other party, he directed the farmers to reclaim paddy fields and farmland according to the direction of the river and the surrounding terrain.

Because rice is expensive, cultivating paddy fields is the most cost-effective. The problem is that not every place near a river can be reclaimed into paddy fields, unless there are tools such as water wheels that can reclaim tidal flats. Otherwise, we must rely on the natural terrain.

The situation here is pretty good. It is easy to reclaim thirty acres of paddy fields, which even Kimura is a little envious of.

You should know that it took so many years for Daogu Village to reclaim only 200 acres of paddy fields. Even so, it is proudly named after Rice, which shows how precious paddy fields are.

Before, Kimura knew that the terrain here was good and that a lot of paddy fields could be cultivated. Unfortunately, it was too close to the forest and wild beasts often appeared there. Therefore, he never dared to come here. After all, farmers could not defeat wild beasts.

So even though a lot of paddy fields can be reclaimed now, I don’t know whether it is good or bad for Mori Village.

If it were before, the Forest Ninjas would definitely not be able to take over this land, but with the tools and weapons provided by the master, they can completely turn this place into a dangerous place full of traps, so that they can defend this land that belongs to them.

Of course, it sounds simple, but it is not simple at all.

Not everyone knows how to set traps in the forest. Even if they can, they will be useless without tools and maintenance. Otherwise, what kind of ninjas would the Forest Ninjas be? They would just go into the forest to open up wasteland and cultivate the land. The exploited villagers in the village would have already run away to become savages.

At this time, at Zhuxing's house, Yan Xu had just finished his morning exercise, which included a 3,000-meter run, 50 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, and swinging a steel mace 100 times.

Even though the amount of exercise was not much, Yan Xu still broke out in a sweat and his arms felt a little sore. It seemed that he had to keep exercising, otherwise he would not be able to escape faster than his men.

As for why he didn't play extreme flow like the protagonists in novels and exercise thousands of times, it was because he knew there was a disease called rhabdomyolysis.

At the same time, unless you stop being a human being, you have to admit that humans have limits, especially when it comes to recovery ability.

Exercise itself is a kind of tempering or destruction of the body. It enhances strength, endurance and explosiveness through continuous recovery. So the more destroyed you are, the stronger you will not be. It depends on your recovery ability.

Just like modern sports, talent and hard work are only one aspect, while diet, massage and medical care are the guarantee of how far an excellent athlete can go.

Yan Xu wiped the sweat, changed clothes, drank warm water, and waited for his qi and blood to calm down before he started to eat.

Breakfast was rice porridge, fried eggs and pickles. We ate all the cooked food we brought as they are not easy to preserve. As for canned bacon, sausages and so on, they were reserves and we had to eat them sparingly.

But these are all temporary. Yan Xu brought some chickens and piglets. When they grow up, they can have meat-eating freedom. Anyway, the Japanese don't eat meat, so how much can he eat by himself?

But the most important thing now is how to obtain a stable source of income, and the issue of luck points.

Yan Xu spent money like water for this time travel. He would not be able to bear it again, so he had to make up for it.

The question is how to recover the blood.

Gold, silver and gemstones have the best value for money, and Japan itself is rich in gold and silver.

The problem is that the main currency in circulation among the people is not gold and silver. In addition to barter, it is copper coins from the Central Plains. Gold and silver are more like checks and are only used for large transactions. And this kind of transaction is either a big businessman or a big name. At present, Yan Xu does not plan to participate in it, at least to accumulate some strength.

Yan Xu knew very well that one could not expect everyone to do business honestly, especially in ancient times, strength was the guarantee of fair trade. Otherwise, why spend money to buy something when you could just rob it?

The most important thing is that even if you obtain a large amount of gold and silver, how to cash it out is still a problem.

Modern society is not the ancient world. Even in the ancient world, if you had no roots or sources and took out large sums of gold and silver, you would still get into trouble and get official interference.

If Yan Xu took the gold and silver back to the modern era, it wouldn't be a big problem to handle the small amount, but it would take too long to recover the money, which would be troublesome.

If he wants to sell in large quantities, and for a long time, he will definitely get into big trouble. Unless he opens his own gold shop, as long as he pays taxes honestly, there should not be any major problems.

But it is not so easy to open a gold shop. Different trades are like different mountains. You dare to jump in without knowing the whole business. Losing money is a small matter, but exposing the unknown source of large amounts of gold and silver is a fatal matter.

Yan Xu rubbed his brows. This matter must be postponed and considered carefully. After all, Hyundai is his base and there must be no problems. If he is wanted, he will be doomed.

After consideration, Yan Xu found that the most realistic ways to monetize are timber and seafood. The former has a large demand, while the latter can be digested by opening a restaurant. At the same time, the threshold for both is not high, at least not as high as that of a gold shop.

However, cutting wood requires manpower, and catching seafood also requires manpower, so Yan Xu needs more labor.

It is easy to recruit labor, but this will inevitably increase the pressure on Yan Xu, because the territory he occupies now cannot provide him with any feedback or help at all, and all expenses have to rely on the supplies he brings from modern times.

What makes Yan Xu even more worried is that transportation and storage are also a problem.

Once resources enter the system, they can only be used and cannot be turned back into supplies, which means they cannot be used as storage space, so he must rely on existing conditions for transportation.

Wood is easy to deal with, as the quantity won’t be too large at the beginning, and at most I can just ask my subordinates to work harder. But how to preserve seafood is a headache.

Yan Xu was very distressed by this because he had to be thrifty and maximize labor and profits.

These are just minor problems that Yan Xu needs to face. His real reliance is still the golden finger. If he wants to make the golden finger stronger, in addition to going to the next world to obtain a new golden finger, he needs luck points to strengthen it.

Asking his farmers to go to Sen Village to help was an attempt by Yan Xu, because he seemed to have found a way to obtain more luck points.

It is now certain that luck points can be obtained by killing monsters, and luck points can also be obtained by joining the Forest Ninja. In addition, luck points can also be obtained by occupying territory, and it is long-term.

The first two are one-time, but the territory is long-lasting and can increase his luck points every month. Although it is not much, it is a constant source and there is no need to take risks.

At present, Yan Xu has accumulated more than 80 points of luck value, and he only needs to gain a dozen more points to make a hundred. At that time, he can spend 100 luck points to return to the real world at any time.

Now that he has a fallback plan, he can be bolder in his next actions.

(End of this chapter)