Chapter 174 A Very Important Question

Yun Zhen bought a lot of pens, ink, paper and inkstone this time, and shrunk them down and put them into the ancient dimension.

The paper is the best quality Xuan paper. I didn’t have a suitable container at home, so I bought a few retro wooden boxes to store it.

Counting the number, there are 20 boxes in total.

The pens are naturally brushes, including rabbit hair, goat hair and wolf hair, in various models and sizes, and there are 20 sets in total.

The ink stick was given 100 yuan and the inkstone was given 20 yuan.

Yun Zhan was very happy to see this, and murmured, “Finally I can throw away the old bald pen.”

God knows, all the bookstores in Yuzhou City have been closed for a long time, and it is really difficult to buy some pens, ink, paper and inkstone.

If you want to purchase from a town far away, you have to wait until all the demands are counted and then choose a suitable time to send someone to buy them.

It is not worth the effort and financial resources to just buy one thing.

The old doctor was also very happy, as their medical department was also in urgent need of pens, ink, paper and inkstone.

I had promised to copy a book for Yunzhen, but I had to stop copying because of the lack of paper.

Now that I have the supplement, I can finally fulfill my promise.

“These are basically all the supplies, the rest is food.”

As soon as Yun Zhen finished speaking, the cooks who had been watching from a distance jumped out immediately.

“Here it comes! Oh, I didn’t expect there was food!”

“The little fairy is really considerate and thoughtful. Leave the rest to us!”

The chef came over with a chuckle. Seeing this, Yun Jin put on a stern face and pointed at him.

What I mean is that he should be more restrained and stop smiling so much. How disgraceful!

The chef nodded honestly, covering his mouth to suppress his smile, his eyes still sparkling as he looked up at the sky with great anticipation.

Yunzhen smiled, unpacked the pork jerky and beef jerky, and poured them into a ceramic plate.

It wasn’t scaled down, it was just given to them in a larger version.

They were also given a pile of unshrunken wax paper to use to wrap food.

Yunzhen took a bowl, beat a dozen eggs, stirred them lightly with chopsticks, and put them in the bookcase.

“Let’s fry all these eggs today as a side dish for everyone.”

Then they gave them 100 cartons of eggs, shrunk down to a size suitable for Lilliput, and stored them for them to use at any time.

In order to make the border guards self-sufficient, Yun Zhen supplied them with some poultry and livestock.

30 hens and 3 roosters, 30 ducks and 3 drakes, 20 castrated half-grown piglets, and the feed needed to raise these animals.

“You can take care of these slowly. You can keep the chickens and ducks for laying eggs, and slaughter the piglets for meat when they grow up.”

“The manure of livestock and poultry…can also be used as fertilizer for farming.”

We sent them a lot of fresh vegetables last time, and the border guards haven’t used them up yet.

This time, Yunzhen prepared some long-lasting food for them.

Soybeans, mung beans, black beans and yam, 500 kilograms each; ginger and garlic, essential for cooking, 300 kilograms each, all are reduced to their normal size.

“You can cook these directly or sprout them for planting.”

There are also 100 kilograms of dried vegetables, including carrots, cabbage, tomatoes, chives and dried fungus, all of which are huge and the raw materials are almost invisible.

“If you store dried vegetables in a place that is moisture-proof, dark and well-ventilated, and store them carefully, they can be kept for a year.”

“It can actually be kept for so long?!” the chef from the kitchen team couldn’t help but exclaimed, “That’s much more convenient than pickling vegetables!” With the climate in the northwest, such preservation conditions are easy to achieve.

Especially now is a period of extreme drought, so we are not afraid of moisture at all.

It is not enough to just provide materials without engaging in production.

Yunzhen shrunk the prepared wheat, upland rice, carrot and cabbage seeds and put them in, with only 100 kilograms of each, allowing them to plant and harvest themselves, leaving some way out for the border guards.

With wine and meat, and full warehouses of grain and vegetables, there is no better life than this.

“Even when food and grass were plentiful, we were not as wealthy and carefree as this!”

Everyone looked at the supplies scattered all over the ground and sighed in a trance.

“For the first time, I felt that life in the army was more comfortable and relaxing than at home.”

“If I could live like this every day, my whole family would join the army!”

Yun Jin laughed heartily, his face showing great satisfaction.

He has been fighting on the battlefield for decades, and this is the first time he has such abundant logistical supplies.

Yunzhen listened to everyone’s thanks with a smile and talked to them about the storage and usage of individual supplies.

It is a pity that sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn were introduced to Xia State too late. Otherwise, if we had sent a batch to our ancestors and taught them some sophisticated planting methods, it would have definitely been a magic weapon to strengthen the army, benefit the country and improve people’s livelihood.

Yun Zhan, who was always calm and steady, was also very excited, but he also thought of a very important issue.

“There is a shortage of water in the northwest now, so I’m afraid these grain and vegetable seeds will have to be put aside for now.”

“I hope the drought will pass soon so we can have some manpower to grow some food and vegetables.”

Speaking of which, that’s when Yun·Limited Time Dragon God·Zhen should make his debut.

She smiled and told the little humans:
“I can give you rain tonight, and every two days thereafter.”

“Let’s choose the time at the end of the evening, so that it won’t delay your training and meals.”

Upon hearing this, Yun Jin and his son were both shocked.

“Kid, can you really make it rain?!”

The guardian angel can call the wind and rain, which means he is a true god!

The descendants of his Yun family turned out to be so powerful that as ancestors, the father and son were both amazed and proud of it. They always felt a sense of unreality, like a dream.

“Don’t worry! I can indeed bring rain, but only within Yuzhou.”

“It should rain for an hour and a half. If you need water, just prepare buckets and put them outside the house.”

She had unlocked the entire map of Yuzhou three days ago, and this was the perfect time to tell them.

The two small ponds had limited water capacity, and it was still a bit difficult to supply the entire camp.

There are so many civilians living in this small town. By providing them with fresh water through the rain, many people in urgent need can be rescued.

At the same time, it can also irrigate dry fields, and the entire Yuzhou can be restored to life. Why not do it?
“Okay, okay! I’ll arrange it right away!”

Yun Jin suspended today’s military training and sent people to notify the entire city of the time of rainfall.

Of course, the matter of the patron saint could not be revealed to the outside world. They only said that it was predicted by the Imperial Astronomical Observatory’s night observation of the stars.

Tens of thousands of soldiers in the camp were mobilized, busy carrying supplies, packing food, and then they had to rush to build chicken coops and pig sheds.

The original warehouse was no longer sufficient, so they had to clear out a few soldiers’ dormitories to store the huge amount of supplies.

The soldiers who moved out first squeezed into other houses, and those who had families in the local area went back home to live for a while.

Wait until the new house is built, then come and live and train normally with other soldiers.